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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1952
Page
5
House investigators summoned top leaders from both major parties for first hand accounts of rising campaign costs in the television era. A newspaper publisher and a veteran Republican strategist were set as the initial witnesses before the special committee.
MUNSAN Korea Communist truce negotiators accused the U N of bombing a Red prisoner of war camp at Sunchon on November 26 wounding three U N prisoners two seriously They said U N planes dropped flares and bombs on Camp No 9 amid conspicuous markings while Panmunjom officers received their note.
A three jurist panel endorsed Secretary General Trygve Lie’s power to fire any UN staffer who belongs to the American Communist Party or who refuses to answer grand jury or Senate subcommittee questions about subversion. The opinion, prepared for the McCarran subcommittee, cites US law and UN staff rules. Entities cited include Trygve Lie, William de Witt Mitchell, Sir Edwin Herbert, Paul Veldekens, and the International Monetary Fund.
An Alaska rescue operation maps Mt Gannett for a 12 man party to recover 52 bodies from the C124 Globemaster crash. Ground and air teams will reach the 8000 foot Surprise Glacier site, with recovery expected to take about two weeks after the Nov 22 accident.
Police seek motive and weapon after the beating death of 30 year old New Orleans socialite Mrs James L Cooper found in her uptown apartment. Coroner Dr Nicholas Chetta says tests will determine if rape occurred and notes the woman appeared choked and struck with a blunt instrument. Her six year old daughter Allison Trelles found her body in the nursery.
Asahi reports in Sasebo a tanker explosion and fire crippled the U S Navy vessel Ashtabula. Japanese police listed two confirmed dead with a missing crewman and nine others unaccounted for, while the Navy initially cited two dead and one missing.
A 21 year old Marine, newly stationed in Korea, died after a Communist mortar shell hit his bunker. He had been writing a letter to his wife when the blast struck, severing his jugular vein and destroying his last message. Three other Marines were injured, with names withheld.
Georgia forecast calls for increasing cloudiness and cool conditions this afternoon. Occasional rain and cooler tonight with rain likely in the west and north late tonight through Tuesday.
AFL Flight Engineers International Association members walk out against Eastern Air Lines grounding Constellation planes east of the Mississippi. About 160 engineers halted four engined Constellations with smaller DC-4 and Martin 404 backups pressed into service amid widespread cancellations from St Louis to New York and Boston to Miami.
President elect Eisenhower moves to appoint agencies to streamline non military purchases. The Defense Department will transfer buying and distribution of office furniture supplies paper and cleaning products to the General Services Administration as part of a Hoover Commission recommendation.
U S Sabre jets scored at least 23 to 4 against Russian type MIG-15s in November air battles. Fifth Air Force reported it destroyed 28 MIGs, damaged 16, and lost 16 aircraft overall with some downed by ground fire and other causes. Ground fighting near Sniper Ridge remained light with sporadic clashes along a 156 mile front. Marines hit a road bridge and four buildings on the west coast.
Labor secretary Maurice Tobin urged the AFL CIO to negotiate a rapid merger to present a united front to the incoming Republican administration. He warned that gains of the past 20 years could be jeopardized and cited internal CIO splits over a new president as delegates debated between Walter Reuther and Allan Haywood factions.
Mrs Eisenhower visits Mrs Truman at the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue to inspect the 54 room mansion ahead of the Eisenhower move in January. Reporters chronicle fashion and moments as the two first ladies meet, with attention to Mamie’s hat color and attire.
A tornado flattening a mud and brick squatter settlement near Alberton s Ville on the edge of Johannesburg killed about 35 people and injured more than 400. Witnesses describe a wind like an atomic blast as houses collapsed and trapped residents unable to escape.
French officials report Vietminh rebels in northern Indochina have begun a violent political campaign against about half a million Roman Catholics. Msgr Duc, bishop of Vinh, was arrested and brought before a popular tribunal on November 9, with unclear results. Several hundred Catholics and priests are said to have been arrested for hostility.
The Associated Press reports six Georgians killed in traffic accidents over the weekend and two more died in a fire. Victims include George Davis Buie 63 Mamie Buie 76 of Savannah W L Thompson 60 of LaGrange M Owens Fort Valley and William Fletcher Sumner near Gray Howard N Pair 40 of Atlanta Carrol Lawton Berrong 15 of Hardwick Joe D Martin 27 of Cumming and others in accidents around Milledgeville and on routes near Athens and Atlanta.
Seven Georgia 4 H Club members earned national honors at the 4 H Club Congress in Chicago. Eddie Folds Hancock County won a $300 scholarship in conservation. Roger Hagan Bulloch County and Eleanor Inman Ware County taking $300 scholarships in field crop and recreation arts and George Warren Barrowes County won in clothing achievement.
In unofficial returns, the leftist National Union for Democratic Reform URD led with 172 votes to 91 for the pro government Independent Front and 67,598 for COPET. The URD platform opposed army intervention in government. About 2,116,000 voters were eligible.
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