Ike open to naming a Negro to cabinet
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower campaigned in Illinois to win Black votes and hinted he would name a qualified Negro to the cabinet. He spoke of Taft leading a key campaign section and urged unity with Cook County workers as a potential voting hinge for Illinois.
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Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Robert A. Taft
GOP
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Cook County
Eisenhower
United States
Sen
Taft
Ohio
No Trace Found of Reported Sub
The Navy hunted for an unidentified submarine off Toms River New Jersey using planes and boats but found no evidence to substantiate the report. Eastern Sea Frontier discontinued the search after two similar efforts in three days. Earlier reports of a possible contact in Alaska were deemed inconclusive with no further action planned.
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New York
Toms River
N. J
Eastern Sea Frontier
Navy
Washington
Alaskan
Bozeman Patrolman Struck, Thrown 75 Feet on Highway
Bozeman patrolman W. O. Tornby was hit by a car 11 miles east of the city while checking lights on a car and was hurled 75 feet. He suffered a broken leg cuts and shock and was taken to a local hospital. The other driver, Elizabeth Ireland of Bozeman, was uninjured.
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Bozeman
W. O. Tornby
Here
Thornby
U. S. Highway 10
Highway Patrol
Elizabeth Ireland
Hurricane Holds Position Offshore near Cape Hatteras
A severe Atlantic hurricane, located about 300 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras, remains stationary. An Air Force plane pinpointed its center at 35.2 N 71.0 W as forecasters warn small craft off North Carolina and Virginia to stay clear until it passes.
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Miami
Fla
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Air Force
North Carolina
Virginia
Atlantic
Gray Norton
Miami Weather Bureau
Middle Atlantic
New England States
New Radium Needle Treatment for Bladder Cancer Reported
Dr. Raymond Darget of Bordeaux described a radium needle therapy that targets bladder tumors while shielding healthy tissue with a lead balloon. In a 200-patient trial about half survived five years with the bladder intact, a significant improvement over removing the bladder.
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Chicago
Raymond Darget
Bordeaux
France
International College of Surgeons
Darget
Man Kills Estranged Wife Then Himself in Hooks Texas
Houston man W C Hadlock shot and killed his estranged wife at her aunt’s back door, critically wounded the aunt, then shot himself. City coroner Spencer Reed ruled the killings murder and suicide with no motive established.
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Hooks
Texas
Houston
Friday
Spencer Reed
W. C. Hadlock
Bowie County
Texarkana
Ark
Reed
Hadlock
Two Soldier-Sons Killed Seeks Release of Third
Henry Betz, grieving father of two fallen sons in Korea, said he will seek the release of his third son from military service. He said, if an American family loses two sons, they would feel the same.
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ST. Louis
Korea
Henry Betz
Fowler Named to Head Mobilization
Henry H. Fowler aged 44, an attorney with prior government posts, was named to lead the Office of Defense Mobilization. He will supervise price and wage controls and allocation of scarce materials, taking over from John R. Steelman. He will also remain Defense Production Administrator until a merger decision.
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Washington
Henry H. Fowler
Office of Defense Mobilization
Fowler
President Truman
Defense Mobilization
Charles E. Wilson
Truman
John R. Steelman
Defense Production Administration
ODM
White House
Egyptian Premier Reshuffles Cabinet
Premier Aly Maher shakes up his army backed cabinet ousting two ministers and naming five new members. He keeps foreign affairs interior war and navy while creating reconstruction and rural affairs ministries tied to land reform and rural issues in a tense domestic shakeup.
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Cairo
Egypt
Aly Maher
Maher
Mohammed Naguib
Naguib
Farouk I
Farouk
Fuad
Enrollment rises in Butte schools for 1952 53 term
Butte schools report 9 013 students in the first week of the 1952 53 term, 564 more than last September. Girls Central high lists 380, Boys Central 340, St Patrick's parish school 375, parochial enrollment 2 508, public grade schools 4 173, and Butte High 1 612 students.
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Butte
Butte High School
British Labor Calls for Major Boost in Trade With Russia
The Trades Union Congress in Margate unanimously adopts a resolution urging Britain to greatly increase trade with Russia and its satellites. The move aims to rejuvenate Britain's lagging exports and is backed by the 8,000,000-member labor federation.
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Margate
Eng
Britain
Russia
Trades Union Congress
Labor Party
Poles Soldier Won’t Be Deported to Poland
The Justice Department on Friday indefinitely postponed deportation proceedings for Sgt. Bronislaw Marek, a Polish citizen who fled Communist Poland and fought in Korea. Officials said they hope to secure his permanent residency in the United States if possible.
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Washington
U.P
Justice Department
Korea
Poland
Department
Bronislaw Marek
United States
US Planes Shatter Red Supply Center Near Hamhung
U P dispatches report B 29 Superforts unleashed a major air strike on the Hamhung supply complex in North Korea early Saturday. Eleven Okinawa based Superforts dropped 100 tons of bombs on 170 buildings as part of a renewed Allied aerial campaign.
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Tokyo
U.P
Hamhung
James A. van Fleet
van Fleet
Hindu Pilgrims Reported Killed in Himalayan Storm
New Delhi reports state more than 350 Hindu pilgrims died in a high Himalayan snow storm at 18000 feet during the Mani Mahesh festival in Himachal Pradesh. Survivors say many are missing or exhausted after seeking shelter in caves along the return trek.
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New Delhi
Himachel Pradesh
Himalayas
Caudle Testimony Under Scrutiny by House Probers
In Washington Caudle provided documentary proof about his 1948 ouster from the Justice Department tax division at the height of tax scandal exposure. The House subcommittee, led by Chelf and Keating, probes possible corruption or undue influence in federal law enforcement.
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Washington
U.P
T. Lamar Caudle
House
Justice Department
Frank L. Chelf
Caudle
Truman
Department
Kentucky Democrat
Kenneth B. Keating
RN. Y
Airborne Marines Take Hawthorne Airfield in Nevada Drill
Two thousand airborne Marines moved by air to seize Hawthorne Airfield on Walker Lake in a simulated Korea like terrain. The exercise used conventional aircraft helicopters and seaplanes to outflank entrenched positions on Mt Grant. Marines from Camp Pendleton and El Toro joined the Third Marine Division in the Nevada invasion drill.
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Hawthorne
Nev
Korea
Marine Corps
Walker Lake
Mt. Grant
Third Marine Division
Camp Pendleton
el Toro Marine Base
Santa Ana
Ike Stevenson to Speak at Farm Demonstration Event
Stevenson and Eisenhower plan speeches at the soil conservation demonstration near Kasson Minnesota. An expected crowd surpasses 100000, with planned handshakes and coordinated appearances around farm displays and a chicken dinner for Eisenhower at Henry Snow’s farm.
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Kasson
Minn
Soil Conservation
Minnesota
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Henry Snow
Charge Red Radio With Distortions
The United Nations command radio accused Pieping of propagandist distortions by attributing a germ warfare threat to Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison at a truce negotiation meeting. The U N counter blast said the Red broadcast misinterpreted Harrison remarks while urging relief from Chinese prisoners and highlighting North Korea’s suffering.
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Tokyo
U.P
United Nations Command
Pieping
William K. Harrison
North Korea
Harrison
U. N
General Harrison Receives Recess Appointment to Lieutenant General
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr., chief of the United Nations armistice delegation in Korea, has been granted a recess appointment by the President to the rank of Lieutenant General.
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Washington
William K. Harrison Jr
United Nations
Korea
Presimos
Condon Testifies in Chicago Before House Probers
Dr. Edward A. Condon former NBS head and critic of extreme security faced the House Un-American Activities Committee in his first sworn testimony. He cited a rejected Los Alamos offer and called security emphasis morbidly depressing while defending a cautious stance on atomic research.
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Chicago
Edward A. Condon
Condon
National Bureau of Standards
House on-American Activities Committee
Atom Scientists of
Los Alamos
N. M
Francis Tavenner
Robert Oppenheimer
Mayor Bowron Involved In Courtroom Punch Incident
California Mayor Fletcher Bowron punched John Hogga outside Superior Court amid a heated housing dispute. Hogga, opponent of a $110 million project Bowron supports, had taunted the mayor. the encounter ended with Bowron delivering the blow while aides intervened.
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Los Angeles
Fletcher Bowron
Hollywood
Superior Court
Bowron
John J. Hogga
California Supreme Court
Ed Davenport
Ed Roybal
Hogya
Jonathan Club
Joe Stalin
Stalin
Lloyd Taber
Mountain Climbers Found Dead in Colorado Crevasse
In Aspen Colorado two Williams College students Gordon Schindel 19 of Kansas City and Larry Hackstaff 20 of Denver were found after vanishing Wednesday. Schindel was dead and Hackstaff gravely injured unable to give details of the accident.
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Aspen
Colo
Rocky Mountain
Lorain Herwick
Pitkin County
Gordon Schindel
Kansas City
Herwick
Schindel
Larry Hackstaff
Denver
Hackstaff
Maroon Bells
Williams College
Williamstown
Mass
Prosecution Completes Case in Communist Conspiracy Trial
The government finished presenting evidence in the conspiracy trial of 15 second-string Communist leaders on Friday, four months after the trial began. The defense now prepares to respond and present its hand.
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New York
Stevenson Blasts Eisenhower's Campaign Tactics
Gov Adlai E Stevenson sharply denounces Eisenhowers attacks on corruption as he campaigns in the West. He declares he is better qualified to fight government rascality and promises swift exposure of crooks while defending his Illinois record. The speech opened a nine state tour before 1100 at the Hotel Shirley Savoy. The event, aired nationally, drew independents, Republicans and Democrats.
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Denver
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stevenson
Illinois
Eisenhower
Federal Service
East Berlin Reds Seize West Berlin Storefronts
East Berlin authorities closed all West Berlin owned shops in their sector and confiscated goods and delivery vehicles. The West Berlin group Against Inhumanity said it was informed of the seizures by local merchants reporting the confiscations by the people's police.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Butte and Montana Weather Table Forecast
Butte fair Saturday forenoon with increasing clouds in the afternoon. Cooler with a low of 39 and high of 72. Precipitation trace. West of Divide fair Saturday forenoon then increasing clouds and thundershowers in the afternoon. High 68 to 78. Showers and thundershowers until Saturday night then clearing Sunday morning. East of Divide partly cloudy Saturday afternoon with clouds increasing west and thunder showers west and central by midnight dissipating by Sunday morning. High 68 to 78. The table.
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Montana
Divide
Western powers invite Russia to London talks on Austrian peace
The United States Britain and France offered to meet Russia in London on September 29 to discuss a new draft peace treaty for Austria. They agreed to limit Austria's armed forces to 53 000 and to include guarantees for basic freedoms and free elections in any treaty.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
London
Austria
Moscow
State Department
Japanese War Criminals Parole Controversy Deepens
Former chief of the Japanese war crimes parole board asserts a well financed Japanese group is trying to move heaven and earth to free inmates at Sugamo prison. He cites Japan’s peace treaty obligation to accept war crimes judgments and uphold sentences.
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Crookston
Minn
Japanese War Crimes Parole Board
Heaven and Earth
Tokyo
Sugamo
Japan
War Crimes Court
George T. Hagen
Hagen
Heruo Fukuchi
Okinori Kaya
Wholesale prices show decline in early September
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a two tenths of one percent drop in wholesale prices for the week ended Sept 2. Declines appeared in vegetables, eggs, cows, hogs, and live poultry, while cotton, grains, steers, and fresh fruits rose. Meat prices fell nearly one percent, led by pork, with cheese coffee and flour higher. the index stood at 11.8 percent of the 1947-49 average.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Defense watchdog probes losses at Carswell Air Force Base
A spokesman for the Senate preparedness sub committee said the defense watchdog group is investigating heavy losses and aircraft damage at Carswell Texas air force base this week.
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Washington
Senate Preparedness
Defense Watchdog
Carswell
Texas
Air Force Base
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