Allied carriers hit oil refinery near Russian border in Korea
In a bold strike approved by the Joint Chiefs, Navy planes from carriers Boxer Princeton and Essex bombed the Aoji synthetic oil plant 12 miles from Russia, near Northeast Korea. They also hit Musan iron mine and hydrogen plant, plus facilities at Chongjin. In all, 164 Navy planes took part and total sorties reached 822.
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Seoul
Korea
Russia
Soviet Union
Aoji
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Boxer
Princeton
Essex
Musan
Manchurian
Chongjin
Sea of Japan
Four Iowans Dead In Holiday Mishaps
The Iowa Labor Day weekend accidental death toll rose to four with two traffic fatalities a drowning and a tunnel cave in. Victims include Cecil Pollock 19 Waterloo drowned Cedar River near Cedar Falls. Floyd Potter Sioux City suffocated in a tunnel collapse. Sheryl Jennings 4 Bethany Missouri struck by a car at Ruthven. David Whittenmore 5 Davenport killed after running in front of a Davenport car.
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Iowa
Cecil Pollock
Waterloo
Cedar River
Cedar Falls
Floyd Potter
Sioux City
Sheryl Jennings
Bethany Mo
Ruthven
Richard Miller
Violet Griffin
Spencer
David Whittenmore
Davenport
Authoriies
Richard Freund
Cecil Pollack
Weather Outlook Des Moines Iowa Partly Cloudy
Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday with cooler conditions. Lows near 46 to 52 and highs around 62 to 70, cooler in the north. Wednesday looks mostly fair and not as cool.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Cordell Hull Near Death in Bethesda Hospital
Cordell Hull, secretary of state through much of the Roosevelt era, is critically ill at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. A hospital spokesman says the 80 year old statesman suffers cerebral thrombosis and remains in very poor condition after recent severe attacks. Hull, who left the Senate in 1933 to join Roosevelt’s first Cabinet, has a long record in public service and has been hospitalized twice in the past two years.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Loosevelt
Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Hull
Les
Naval Hospital
Tle
U.S. Senate
Roosevelt
Million Dollars In Polio Aid In Iowa Expected
Iowa officials estimate NFIP aid may exceed one million dollars as polio cases rise to new highs. Through last Thursday 1 389 cases were reported, surpassing 1950’s record 1 099, with admissions rising after the Labor Day weekend. The foundation supplied 56 respirators hot packs and trained staff to Iowa facilities.
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Des Moines
Iowa
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Ralph Heeren
State Health Department
National Foundation
Face Crushed When Tire Rim Breaks Loose
Ken neth Colglazier 22 of Columbus Junction suffered severe facial injuries when a tire rim broke loose while he inflated a tire at a Farm Service station. He was taken to Bellevue hospital Muscatine then moved to University hospital Iowa City. Colglazier, a July graduate of Iowa State College, planned to enter the Army on September 22 after marrying JoAnne Kennedy and starting a family.
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Columbus Junction
Kenneth Colglazier
University Hospital
Iowa City
Colglazier
Bellevue Hospital
Muscatine
Iowa State College
JoAnne Kennedy
Mike
Army
Plan Lem Guy Services For 2 p.m. Wednesday
Brighton mourns Lem A. Guy 82 who died at his home after a year of ill health. Funeral set 2 p.m. Wednesday at Brighton Presbyterian Church with Dr. Grossheim officiating. Burial in Sandy Hook Cemetery. Omar Hoskins Funeral Home in charge. Survivors include wife Annie, a daughter Verna Stacy, three sons James Laural and Robert, one stepson, 19 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. He was a Presbyterian, Modern Woodman and Odd Fellows member.
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Rbrighton
Lem A. Guy
Brighton
Brighton Presbyterian Church
W. 4
Grossheim
Washington
Sandy Hook Cemetery
Omar Hoskins
Mr. Guy
Washington County
Sam
Nancy Ellen White Gary
Omama
Mary Ann Hesseltine
Oklahoma
Guy
Annie Young
Verna Stacy
James
Laural
Robert
West Frankfort
Conn
Tom Guy
Boone
Jennie Churchill
Nebraska
Bertha Statler
West Chester
Presbyterian Church
Modern Woodman
Odd Fellows Lodge
Tablecloth Heist Tied to Household Helper
In Memphis, police linked a missing 175 tablecloth to Annie Jackson, the home maid of Mrs. Nicola Rispoli, who used the fabric to entertain friends at her own house after the item vanished.
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Memphis, Tenn
Nicola Rispoli
Eleven coworkers repaint county clerk's home after funeral
In Detroit eleven coworkers of the late county court clerk Thomas Schemanski volunteered to paint his house after serving as pallbearers. The gesture followed observations that the home looked shabby, prompting the community to pitch in.
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Detroit
Thomas Schemanski
Caveman Tactics Give Him 10 Day Jail Term
A Des Moines man began a 11 day jail sentence after being sentenced by Judge Harry Grund on charges related to dragging his former wife down the street by her hair.
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Des Moines
Foward
EF. Williams
Williams
Harry Grund
Truman Speech Slated Tonight in Milwaukee
President Truman arrives in Milwaukee for a Labor Day address seen as aiding Leonard Lehmann in Wisconsin GOP primary against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. He travels by train from Washington and will speak about 25 minutes at 8 30 p m in the Milwaukee arena. The event is carried nationally by CBS radio.
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Milwacker
Urs
Truman
Leonard Lehmitt
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin
McCarthy
Milwaukee
Washington
Arena
Labor's
V Political League of
Milwaukee County
Afl-Cio
CBS
County Doubles Quota In Cancer Campaign
1952 Cancer Crusade receipts show Iowa ACS raised more than any state. Montgomery County led Iowa with 41 percent of its quota. Washington County and others more than doubled their targets. County quota was 2820 with 3566 contributed.
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Mason City
Iowa
American Cancer Society
Iowna
Montgomery County
Washington County
Mel James Birney
Washington
Man Admits Slaying Of Wisconsin Girl
William M. Gardner confessed to bludgeoning Agnes Jaeger, a 24 year old Fond du Lac telephone operator, in a farm field west of Fond du Lac on August 1 to ease strain on his family and clear others. He said he was responsible to protect his family and avoid suspicion.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
William M. Gardner
Gardner
Agnes Jaeger
Ield
Paul George Injured in Unusual Car Start Attempt
Paul George son of Mr and Mrs Marion S George sustained a slight head wound around 830 PM Sunday after an attempt to start his car following services at Union Church. He tried to blow into the gas tank when gasoline entered his mouth and lines causing him to fall. A doctor treated the back of his head after the incident in front of the United Presbyterian church.
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Paul George
Marion S. George
George
United Presbyterian Church
Wayland Hobo Breakfast Raises Funds for Legion Post
Bain-Hulme American Legion post in Wayland held a hobo breakfast at 5:30 am with bacon eggs pancakes all you can eat. Comrade Watsonsky presided over the people’s court as 150+ patrons consumed 240 eggs 25 pounds bacon and 15 pounds pancake mix to fund Legion rooms and activities.
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Wayland
Bain- Hulme American Legion
American Legion
Tobo
People's Court
Comrade Watsonsky
Bs. Watson
Watsonsky
Legion Rooms
Acm
Wayland Hobos
Legion
People’s Court
Liobo Fatso
Bill Thoma
George Haberman
S. B. Watson
John
Hobo Cleaver
Martin
Presbyterian Church Officers Meeting Postponed
The Presbyterian church officers meeting scheduled for tonight has been postponed to next Monday night.
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The
Presbyterian Church
Eisenhower Denounces Kansas Campaign Threats on Post Workers
Eisenhower angrily denounced a reported push by a Kansas Democratic leader to extract 100 campaign contributions from postal workers under threats of job loss if Republicans win in November. Senator Carlson displayed a letter alleging the tactic, which Carlson said targeted Rural letter carriers and postmasters. Eisenhower vowed no postal workers would be fired under a Republican victory.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kansas
Kenneth T. Anderson
Emporia
Ban
Anderson
Marding
Frank Carlson
R-Kan
Carlson
Eisenhower
Thirteen Die When Racer Hits Stands
In Germany a racing tragedy at the International Grenzland track near Aachen left fifteen dead after a car veered off a curve at over 120 miles per hour. Fourteen others were injured. four of the 31 seriously hurt died in hospital, including four schoolboys, three women, and two men.
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Aachen
Germany
International Grenzland
Arnall calls for stronger price controls amid inflation fears
Arnall, retiring head of the Office of Price Stabilization, urged a stronger law and a special congressional session to tighten controls. He warned against waiting for the next regular session and cited looming inflation risks and international trouble.
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Blowing Rock
N. C
Cup
Ellis Arnal
Arnall
Congress
Carolinas
New Hurricane Alert Sails From South Atlantic
The Miami Weather Bureau reports a possible tropical storm forming far south in the Atlantic while remnants of the season's first hurricane bring squalls and rain to a wide area near Washington. A hurricane may be brewing about 1,450 miles east-southeast of Miami with winds up to 35 mph and heavy rain as a hurricane-hunter plane is dispatched from San Juan to investigate.
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Charleston & C
Miami Weather Bureau
South Atlantic
Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
Fridtjof Nansen
Miami
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Washington Lodge to Perform Third Degree Wednesday
Washington Lodge No. 26 A F and A M will have work in the third degree Wednesday September 3 at 8 p m Visiting brothers welcome.
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Washington Lodge No
Funeral services for William A McIntyre held in Jones funeral home
Funeral services for William A McIntyre were held at 2 o clock Friday afternoon in the Jones funeral home with Rev T C Polk in charge. Pallbearers were fellow workers at Mt Pleasant John Boyt J A Cullum Guy Arnold Ethridges
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William A. McIintyre
Jones Funeral Home
Rev.t. Co. Polk
Mt. Pleasant
John Boyt
J. A. Cullum
Guy Arnold
Ethridges
Labor Day Toll Rises On Highways And Fires
A grim Labor Day weekend tally shows at least 260 highway deaths since Friday with 37 more fatalities in various accidents and 10 plane crashes. Five killed in a two car head on near Bensonville Illinois and multiple drownings and fires including Chicago children who perished in a beds fire. The NSC warns deaths will rise as travelers head home with darkness fatigue and rapid driving cited. A dam flood drownings and a canoe accident near Cedar Falls Iowa add to the toll along with a hurricane’s coast impact across the Carolinas Virginia and New England.
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Bensonville
Ill
James W. Rigsby
Daveton
Ohio
Chicago
Alfred Renquist
Pike Lake
Minn
Carlton
St. Louis
Jay Cooke State Park
Floyd Arky Vaughan
Lost Lake
Eaglesville
Calif
Miller and Joritz Burial Noted at Elm Grove Cemetery
George Miller and Herman Joritz are interred at Elm Grove cemetery as recorded in the notice.
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Kew
George Miller
Herman Joritz
Elm Grove Cemetery
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