Blaik Keeps Army Coaching Chance Amid Honor Probe
Army coach Earl Blaik told a press crowd at Leone's Cafe he plans to stay as head coach despite a school honor code scandal that has placed up to 45 cadets on dismissal watch. He defended Army recruiting amid new criticism over six prep players invited for a six week expense paid visit this summer.
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Blaik
United States Military Academy
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Leone
48Th
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Hollywood
West Point
Tatent
The
Chicago Tribune
Duncan MacDonald
Flint, Mich
Academy
Congressmen Demand Truman Gives Up Presidential Yacht
Republican congressmen urge President Truman to lead by example by relinquishing the presidential yacht and airplane. Rep. Auchinlike of New Jersey says self denial would set a good example, while Rep. Scrivner notes about 500 thousand dollars of the 56 billion defense bill funds yacht operations at Williamsburg.
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Truman
Auchinless
R-Nj
House
Scrivner
R-Kan
Walliamsburg
Dickenson County Man Charged With Abduction
A 31 year old Dickenson County man is charged with abduction in the disappearance of 16 year old Dorothy Ann Kiser of Coeburn. She appeared at a Hazard Kentucky restaurant where she worked as a waitress and later returned home with Sheriff Harold L. Fleming and her father.
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Dickenson County
Dorothy Ann Kiser
Coeburn
Hazard Ky
Harold L. Fleming
New York Crime Hearings Set by Senate Committee
The Senate Crime Committee announced it will hold hearings here next Wednesday to investigate criminal conditions in New York City. The move targets NYC crime and police response amid growing public concern.
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Washington
Senate
Gary Cooper Undergoes Hernia Operation in Santa Monica
veteran actor Gary Cooper aged 50 is reported resting at St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica after an operation for hernia. The news notes his condition is comfortable and he is expected to recover.
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Calif
Gary Cooper
St. John’s Hospital
Cowpens Officials Arrive To Reclaim Morgan Body
Cowpens officials arrive with reinforcements to exhume General Morgan's body from Mt Hebron Cemetery after Winchester authorities refuse, with Moseley and Polisakov acting under Cowpens mayor's orders to move the body to its resting place in Cowpens.
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Floyd
General Morgan
Mt. Hebron
Oscar Harry
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Poliakoff
Roy C. Cash
Moseley
VFW Post to Donate to Disaster Fund in Winchester
At the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2123 meeting held last night at John Fosbrink’s home on Woods Mill Road the group voted unanimously to donate 25 to the Red Cross Disaster Fund. Commander Elwood Willey presided. Plans included an Armistice Day dance on November 10 at the Winchester Armory and Armistice Day church services on Monday November 12 led by Chaplain Bill Dorsey. A membership committee of Douglas Butler Nat Brown and Jim Himelright was formed to urge dues payments. The evening closed with a barbecue.
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Woods Mill Road
Red Cross Disaster Fund
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Home Building Committee
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Winchester Armory
Bill Dorsey
Douglas Butler
Nat Brown
Jim Himelright
Willey
Butler
Enemy Position Abandoned Again Near Pyongyang
U N troops entered Pyongyang for about an hour finding Communist forces had abandoned the iron triangle again. Allied patrols and brief fights occurred around Kumsong Chorwon and toward Pyongyang as carrier planes and B 26 bombers attacked air fields and roads in western Korea amid a renewed neutralization effort.
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Korea
United Nations
Pyongyang
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Iron Triangle
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38Th Parallel
Kumsong
Chorwon
Poliomyelitis Uptrend Persists Nationwide
Public Health Service reports an overall rise in polio cases during the week ending August 4 with 1,203 new infections nationwide, up from 900 the previous week. Compared to 1949 and 1950 weekly totals, 2,446 and 1,185 were reported. The seasonal low came last March, with a cumulative total of 5,631. decline appears under way in Louisiana.
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Public Health Service
Louisana
Morgan Would Object To Morgan Remains Move To Cowpens
Lucy Allen, Winchester Evening Star correspondent, argues General Daniel Morgan should remain in Frederick Virginia, not be moved to Cowpens South Carolina. She notes Morgan lived and died in Virginia and honors Winchester’s Mt Hebron Cemetery landmark.
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Berryville
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Winchester
Mt. Hebron
D. C
Virginia
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Ancy
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South Carolina
Morgan
Frederick County
Pearl Harbor Plot Known to Reds and Spy Hearings
testimony before House and Senate panels showed Mitsusada Yoshikawa said Russia knew of the Pearl Harbor plan a month ahead. Maj. Gen. Charles Willoughby testified he tried to unmask Sorge ring members in 1949 but was overruled. Yoshikawa cited a Moscow message from October 1941 predicting attacks if talks failed. Smedley and Stein named in a report Willoughby said officials quashed as libel threats and indirect repudiation ensued.
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Pearl Harbor
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Britain
Pacific
House Un-American Activities Committee
Mitsusada Yoshikawa
Special
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Senate
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Charles Willoughby
Yoshikawa
Sorge
Moscow
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America
Singapore
Sumatra
Willoughby
Douglas MacArthur
Internal Security Subcommittee
Tokyo
Guenther Stein
Agnes Smedley
Smedley
Texas Heat Wave Kills 15 in Double Digit Temperatures
The Associated Press reports the August heat wave across the Southwest continues with Texas tallying 15 deaths from the heat. Presidio hit 114 degrees while San Francisco reached 66, and forecasts offered little relief as water shortages and drought pinched cities and crops?
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Presidio
Tex
San Francisco
Houston
South Plains
Panhandle
Mississippi's Former Governor Heads to Gubernatorial Runoff
Former Mississippi governor Hugh White led the first primary with 84,321 votes out of 367,652 as no candidate won a majority. Paul Johnson Jr holds 77,612, Sam Lumpkin 16,466, and Ross Barnett 73,007 as late totals keep a runoff likely in the August 28 gubernatorial race.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Hugh White
White
Paul Johnson, Jr
Sam Lumpkin
Ross Barnet
Army Captain Describes Coercion in Cadet Cheating Scandal
Army Captain elect Harold Loehlein of West Point recounts being pressured under threat of prison to reveal teammates in the exam cribbing scandal at the U S Military Academy. He says he would not name others and corroborates he checked twenty names on a cheating sheet.
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N. Y
Harold Loehlein
Army
U. S. Military Academy
Kimball, Minn
New York Journal American
House Panel Mulls Billion Cut in Foreign Aid Plan
Washington reports the House Foreign Affairs Committee tentatively agreed to cut more than one billion dollars from Truman's foreign aid package and move both economic and military aid under a new presidentially appointed administrator. The plan, aiming to appease Republicans, would place oversight with the President and keep close State and Defense Department coordination. Debate also centers on Formosa military and economic aid with Sen Knowland backing the administration's Formosa program.
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House
Truman
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Senate
State
Defense
Acheson
Congress
Fornosa
Connally
Senator Knowland
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Formosa
Asia
Knowland
De Gasperi Wins Confidence Vote in Stormy Italian Parliament
In Rome Premier Alcide de Gasperi secured a 291 to 175 confidence vote for his seventh postwar government after a tense session. A clash erupted as Communists and Christian Democrats clashed. no injuries were reported. De Gasperi denounced both fascists and Communists in a fiery address.
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Alcide de Gasperi
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de Gasperi
Ord
Dé Gasperi
Italy
Back Creek Voter Acknowledges Election Support
Notice from Ellsworth Dodson thanking Back Creek voters for their support in Tuesday's election, expressing gratitude for their backing.
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Ellsworth Dodson
West Point recruitment policy defended by Col Jones
Col Lawrence Jones says he visited Senators and Congressmen to urge appointing good football players to the U S Military Academy and saw no rebuff. He notes lawmakers often consider players he recommended and defends recruiting high school athletes as common across colleges.
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Lawrence (Biff) Jones
West Point
U. S
Jones
Congress
Earl Blaik
Louisiana State
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Blaik
Hoey
D-Nc
Senate
Special
East German youths defect to West Berlin festival chaos
West Berlin reports over 60 East German Communist youths were arrested by Red police for deserting the World Youth Festival. Officials were fired amid supply and organization breakdowns as youths crossed into West Berlin, some using buses to evade guards, with meals short for many.
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West Berlin
Berliner Zeitung
Reds Claim UN Planes Attacked Communist Truck
The Communist cease fire delegation accused Allied planes of attacking a Red supply truck between Kaesong and Pyongyang. U N senior delegate Joy denied the charge as invalid and noted the attack area lay east of the main road, questioning the Red use of white markings. The Reds had not properly notified the UN of the truck’s route and timing.
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U. N
Kaesong
Pyongyang
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Nam Il
Joy
United Nations
Barr Packing Case Is Dismissed by Judge Rice
Trial Justice John W. Rice dismissed the Barr Packing case this morning without trial. He cited Section 3512 of the State Code showing a person not party to packing grading or marking apples cannot be prosecuted. Barr stated he hopes future packers are not embarrassed by untrue charges.
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E. W. Barr
Rice
Barr
Railway Freight Rate Boost Gets Approval
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission approved nine percent rate increases for the Mississippi River region and areas north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers. Elsewhere in the nation six percent increases were authorized. The change is expected to raise the annual freight bill by about 548 million dollars.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi River
Ohio
Potomac Rivers
McCarthy Names Aides Charged With Disloyalty
Senator McCarthy began naming State Department officials he says have divided loyalties. He cited John Carter Vincent and William T. Stone as examples and indicated their cases would be reviewed by the State Department loyalty board.
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Washington
McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
State Department
John Carter Vincent
Tangiers
Switzerland
William T. Stone
Department of State
Promise Sunday Violations Will Not Be Repeated
Tokyo reports relay a Communist pledge to maintain neutrality around Kaesong and resume armistice talks only if Ridgway accepts no new violations. The UN commander demanded firm guarantees, while Reds accuse Allies of zone breaches and question the truck white flag incident and related protest timing.
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Matthew B Ridgway
Ridgway
Kaesong
United Nations
Peiping
Red Guards
Kim I] Sung
Peng Teh-Huai
U.N
U. N
Sen
Hsinhua
Nam Il
Pyongyang
C. Turner Joy
Joy
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