Stevenson Set for Major Cleveland Address Tonight
Gov Adlai E Stevenson plans a key Cleveland speech at 9 p m EST broadcast by CBS and Mutual after a Buffalo rally. Campaign manager Wilson Wyatt says the talk will attack smear tactics and address Communism and the Hiss case amid Stevensons push through Dunkirk Erie Ashtabula Youngstown Ravanna Akron and Cleveland for a nationwide initiative.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Buffalo
N. Y
Ohio
Wilson Wyatt
Cleveland
Cleveland Arena
Dunkirk
Erie
Ashtabula
Youngstown
Ravanna
Akron
Wyatt
Eisenhower
Kremlin
U N Boss Forms Panel After Firing Aides Over Security Questions
United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie initiated a jurists panel to examine how U N employees are questioned by U S congressional investigators. He fired Stanley Graze and suspended Joel Gordon after refusals to disclose alleged espionage activities per the Senate Internal Security Subcommitee hearings.
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National Jurists
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Lie
McCarran Committee
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Stanley Graze
U. N. Technical Assistance Administration
Joel Gordon
Economic Affairs Department
Hags
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
New York
United States
Kesselring Freed From Life Sentence For War Crimes
Former German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, 67, granted clemency by British authorities in Bonn due to cancer. He was sentenced to death in 1947 for complicity in the Ardeatine Caves massacre of March 1944. he led German forces in Italy at the time. He has been confined at the War Crimes Prison in Werl since July 15 for private treatment.
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Albert Kesselring
Kesselring
Italy
Ardeatine Caves
Wer
Hodgson and Brown
Former Gov. Tuck Rejects Stevenson-Sparkman Ticket
Former Virginia governor William M. Tuck repudiates the Stevenson Sparkman Democratic ticket and denounces the Truman administration. He endorses Eisenhower as closer to traditional Democratic principles, notes he will not endorse Stevenson, and warns of a dire future under Truman policy.
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Stevenson-Sparkman
Ike
Danville
William M. Tuck
Eisenhower
Democratic State Central Committee
Adlai Stevenson
Truman
Harry F. Byrd
Gov
Stevenson
South Boston
Virginia
Sen
Byrd
State Pan Dowdy Contest Saturday in County School
Five county winners will compete in the All Eastern six state contest including Virginia West Virginia Pennsylvania Maryland New York and North Carolina open to 4 H and FHA girls ages 13 to 21. Winners will be guests of hort icultural societies in Washington D C next Thursday and Friday during Apple Week with prizes a GE mixer Betty Crocker cookbook and a protective garment uniform. Runner up receives a state camp scholarship. third place gets Foley Food Miles. Apple pan dowdy origins traced to Europe and Hungary.
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West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
New York
North Carolina
Washington
D. T
Appalachian Apps- Service
Betty Crocker
Protection Garment Company
Europe
Hungary
England
United
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Dr Selman Wakeman
Stockholm reports the 1952 Nobel prize for medicine goes to Dr Selman A. Wakeman 64 of Rutgers University for co discovering streptomycin an antibiotic against tuberculosis.
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Stockholm
Selman A. Wakeman
Rutgers University
Five Children Die in Fire in Tyrone Home Tragedy
Five children of a railroad worker died in a house fire in Tyrone Pennsylvania as parents Edwin T. Smith and his wife escaped with their eight month old infant. Smith, employed at Pennsylvania Railroad Altoona shops, said the family barely fled the blaze.
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Tyrone
Edwin T. Smith
Pennsylvania Railroads
Altoona
Winchester Census Shows Women Outnumber Men by Large Margin
The 1950 Census lists Winchester population at 13 841 with 7 420 females and 6 421 males. White residents total 12 689 and 1 452 are Negro, with a median age of 31.9 years and 65 plus making up 8.9 percent. Household count reaches 4 201 with 3.20 persons per home. labor force 6 587 in 14 plus with 84.4 percent of males and 41.1 percent of females employed.
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Winchester
Bureau of the Census
Henry Grunewald Indicted on 22 Contempt Charges
Henry W. Grunewald known as the Dutchman faces 22 counts of contempt of Congress in a federal indictment tied to a House inquiry into tax frauds. He refused to answer questions about IRS officials or tax cases, once testified that he was born in 1892. If convicted on all counts he could face up to 22 years in prison and a $22,000 fine.
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Trumans
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Americans For Democratic Action
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CIO Political Action Committee
WTEC
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Ways and Means
Internal Revenue Bureau
Abraham Teitelbaum
Chicago
Capone
Teitelbaum
T. Lamar Caudle
Caudle
Charles Oliphant
Teite
Truman Denounces Nixon as Anti-Labor in West Virginia Swing
President Truman denounces Richard Nixon as anti-labor and says the Taft Hartley Act could wreck the American labor movement. He accuses Eisenhower of choosing anti-labor allies and warns in Wheeling West Virginia that GOP leadership hates unions. He campaigns across West Virginia Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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Richard M. Nixon
Ernest B. Vaccaro
West Virginia
GOP
Wheeling
W. Va
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
House of Representatives
California
Eisenhower
West Vv Ja
Pennsylvania
Mary
Adlai Stevenson
Britain Tests Atomic Bomb On Hull Ship Plym Off Australia
Prime Minister Churchill announced Britain’s first atomic bomb test occurred on the frigate Plym at the Monte Bello Islands near north west Australia on October 3. The ship disintegrated and a massive vapor cloud followed as Britain seeks further atomic development and hopes US information will resume.
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Churchill
Britain
Monte Bello Islands
Australia
Plym
House of Commons
United States
Labor
Sparkman to Leave Hospital Tomorrow
Senator John Sparkman the Democratic vice presidential candidate will be released from Bethesda Naval Hospital tomorrow his office said today in Washington D C.
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Sparkman
Washington
John Sparkman
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Subscribed to Community Chest Totals $17 238 in First Report
Campaigns in five divisions yield 1 042 subscriptions totaling 17 238 dollars as twenty clubs and industries begin canvassing. Frank Armstrong Jr says results are encouraging though well short of last year's total. Advance Gifts division leads with 204 contributions for 13 293 dollars. Next report set for Tuesday at 4 pm.
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Community Chest
Frank Armstrong
Advance Gifts Division
J. T. Kremer
Advance Gifts Group
ao‘Meite
Corpora
Quartet on Kidnapping Spree Terrorizes Tennessee and Indiana
Police comb three states for a four man gang led by a self described three gun maniac after a highway kidnapping and robbery spree that left at least 10 captives. Victims include David Rennan Harold Hilbert and Don Walker from Indiana and Norval Broome and John Tucker in Tennessee. Two captives remain unaccounted for as ground and air searches continue.
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Tenn
Pistol Point
Cumberland Plateau
Houston
Charles Johnson
James Horton
Chattanooga
Here
Jasper
David Rennan
Harold Hilbert
Don Walker
Hagerstown
Ind
Nashville
Indiana
Manchester
Cooksons
Norval Broome
Broom
Typhoon Toll Soars Across Asia with Hundreds Dead
Manila reports 370 dead and 200 missing as the cyclone sweeps from the Philippines into the South China Sea toward Indochina. Injuries mount and communication lines hinder casualty tallies amid widespread devastation and looming tidal threats.
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Philippine Red Cross
Red Cross
South China Sea
Indochina
Saigon
Phan Thiet
Philippines
B26 Credited With Destroying 29 Communist Trucks Near Haeju
Lt. Russell Baker of Medford, Mar., piloted a B26 that destroyed 29 Communist trucks near Haeju, western Korea, in a single bombing run. He reported “fantastic” explosions that rocked the aircraft as the convoy was struck and sent up in a chain of blasts.
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Seoul
North Korea
Russell 8. Baker
Medford
Mar
Haeju
Korea
Farmer assets continue to rise in value in 1952
The Agriculture Department reported farm assets valued at current prices totaling about 172.1 billion dollars, including financial assets. This marks a 2 percent rise from January 1, 1951, less than the 12 percent gain of 1950 and 9 percent in the prior year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U N Troops Needed In Korea as Long as Chinamen There
Gen James Van Fleet says U N troops must stay in Korea while Chinamen remain. He clarifies he spoke only of the ROK army not holding the battleline without U N support. William Foster notes Seoul asked for more aid and possible extra South Korean divisions on the line. Foster doubts ROK could fully replace U N forces soon.
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James A. van Pleet
United N‘ations
Korea
Eighth Army
van Fleet
Republic of Korea
William C. Foster
U. S
United States
Foster
Syngman Rhee
U. N
Davis Plans Support for Eisenhower in 1949 Senate Race
John W. Davis who ran as a Democratic candidate in 1924 announced his support for Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. He previously backed John Foster Dulles for the U S Senate in 1949 special election, a bid that was defeated by Herbert H. Lehman.
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John W. Davis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Davis
John Foster Dulles
GOP
U. S. Senate
Dulles
Herbert H. Lehman
Lib
Earthquake Strikes Adana Area in Turkey Killing 18
An earthquake in the Adana region of Southern Turkey killed at least 18 people and injured 40, with the tremor lasting about five seconds and causing significant damage in the city of 150 000. Communications breakdown delayed full details and warned the toll could rise.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Adana
Eisenhower Campaign Attack Tops Dewey Speech in Troy
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and Gov Thomas E Dewey campaigned together in Troy New York where Dewey assailed Truman calling his campaign unholy and filthy while Eisenhower warned inflation weakens the economy and risks national security as he faces a cross state tour from Albany to nearby cities. The crowd numbered about 10000 at the RPI Field House as Dewey and Eisenhower framed the race as a battle against inflation and the Truman administration.
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Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
GOP
Albany
N. Y
Eisenhower
Troy
House
Adlai BE. Stevenson
White House
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
New England
Hartford
Stickers Delay Mails Crimp Scrape Lawsuit Allegation
A garbled note references stickers delaying mail and a claim of illegal scraping. The fragment hints at legal tension surrounding obstruction and unlawful activity, with no clear names or dates.
Sgt Wounded Twice in Korea Front Battle
Sergeant First Class Piles was wounded by mortar fire in the thigh and foot while back at the front in Korea. His wife Mrs. Douglas of 23 W Piccadilly St. was notified. The injuries occurred on October 17.
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Douglas Files
W. Piccadilly St
Piles
Best Sat
H. B
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