Week of May 14, 1952

CIO steel workers threat a renewed steel strike after getting a new Truman

administration ally in Secretary of Labor Tobin. They warned that workers

wouldn’t stay on the job indefinitely without a pay boost.

Addressing a joint convention of the Michigan Legislature, General Douglas

MacArthur asked “and if an uneasy ‘cease-fire’ eventually does come in Korea

what then? No answer has been forthcoming but, the dreadful fear is growing in

many patriotic hearts that the decision will finally be ‘scuttle the Pacific’ - a

yielding to the Iron Curtain of all of our traditional friends and alliances and the

raw resources of that half of the globe so vital in the balance of power”

Airborne Regimental Combat Team to Korea from Japan to bolster the guard

over rebellious Communist war prisoners on Koje Island.

has asked the Army to investigate reports that Communists

at the stormy Koje Island prison camp have committed

atrocities against non-red fellow prisoners.

President Truman said the nation must be “alert and ready’

for a possible Communist double cross in Korea - even for

the renewal of large-scale fighting. The free world, Mr.

Truman said, has the atomic and other weapons needed to

strike back at aggression and will use them if necessary.

“The plan fact is that the Communist have utterly failed in

their objectives in Korea… The Communist aggression failed to shatter the

United Nations. Instead, the Communist attack has made the United Nations

stronger and more vigorous and has demonstrated that it can and will act to

defend freedom in the world.”

up of Russian military strength in the Far East and

said the Communist “potential” in Korea is the greatest

ever.

President Truman denounces the controversial

Tidelands Bill, approved this week by both the House

and Senate. The Bill would give rich offshore rights

back to the States - rights to oil-producing lands

offshore. He said the bill was “stealing from the

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people.” Mr. Truman vetoed a similar measure in 1946. He’s likely to do the

same. “The minerals that lie under the sea off the coasts of this country belong to

the federal government - that is to all the people of this country. That ownership

has been affirmed and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Those rights may be worth as much as $40 million to the people of this country.”

London newspapers report that weary British business has decided to abandon

its (almost $1 billion) worth of investments in Communist China and get out for

good.

Mrs. Ann Davison, a 38-year-old widow, sets out from Plymouth England to

Florida aboard a 23-foot yacht with 10 weeks’ supply of food and the

determination to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic alone.

A 15-year-old girl from California writes to Dr.

Study at Princeton for a solution to a plane

geometry problem neither her nor her classmates

could solve. By return mail, he sent her back a

diagram of the problem, sketched on the back of

her letter, indicating the method of solution,

although not giving the explicit answer. He signed

the diagram A.E. without further comment. The

letter to Dr. Einstein indicated that he might know the girl’s grandfather, Professor

Frank Mankiewicz of C.C.N.Y.

The government tells sausage makers they can resume mixing horsemeat with

the processors must clearly mark their product as containing horsemeat, which

hardship on processors who have special machinery for making sausage-

containing horsemeat.

The OPS issues a price order which it says will mean a boost of several cents a

can in many stores for the most popular canned vegetables, fruits and juices.

After expressing his great confidence in the outcome of the

world’s search for peace and security, General Eisenhower

(The Supreme Allied Commander In Europe) bids farewell to

Britain’s Queen and to her people, ending a military

association that began 10 years ago.

Week of May 14, 1952

Bronx Bull, wins a unanimous 10-round decision over

Gene (Silent) Hairston at Mt Olympia Stadium in

Detroit.

National League homerun king Ralph Kiner probably

will be out of the Pittsburgh Pirate line-up for about five

days with a back ailment. So far this season, Kiner is

batting a weak .215. He smashed 42 homers last

season, but has hit only two this season.

Barred from leaving United States soil, left-wing baritone Paul Robeson sings

and speaks across the Canadian border to a crowd of some 4500 persons. He

stood on a platform at the International Peace Arch in the international territory.

Loud speakers carried his voice to Americans on one side and Canadians on the

northern side.

Hollywood news -

a heart attack in his New York apartment.

Veronica Lake (29) files for divorce against Screen

Director Andre DeToth (37). She complained that for

some years past, her husband has subjected her to

“grievous mental and physical anguish.”

George Liberace, music arranger for his brother,

Pianist Liberace, tells police his home had been looted

while he and his wife were attending a show. Burglars

took clothing and jewelry valued at $10,000.

Ann Francis marries Bamlet Lawrence Price Jr. Bamlet is working on his PhD at

Sunday mornings in New York, don’t miss “Joe Dimaggio’s Dugout” over WNBT-

TV Channel 4.

Week of May 14, 1952

“Frost-Free” is the new big thing in refrigerators

Week of May 14, 1952

Monday night television in larger cities

CBS - Lux Video Theatre, Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts, I Love Lucy, Claudia,

Studio One

NBC - Vivian Blaine, John Cameron Swayze News Caravan, Paul Winchell

Show, Lights Out, Robert Montgomery Presents, Dangerous Assignment

ABC - Hollywood Screen Test, Spotlight To Stardom

Pop music this week in 1952 -

BLUE TANGO - Leroy

WHEEL OF FORTUNE - Kay Starr

A GUY IS A GUY - Doris Day

THE BLACKSMITH BLUES -

Ella Mae Morse

KISS OF FIRE - Georgia Gibbs

I’M YOURS - Don Cornell]

FORGIVE ME - Eddie Fisher

ANY TIME - Eddie Fisher

I’LL WALK ALONE - Don Cornell

WHAT’S THE USE? - Johnnie Ray

BE ANYTHING (BUT BE MINE) - Eddy Howard

PERFIDIA - Four Aces

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - Guy Mitchell

CRY - Johnnie Ray

TELL ME WHY - Four Aces

PLEASE, MR. SUN - Johnnie Ray

At the movies -

Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey

Lawford, Finlay Currie, Richard Boon

Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian

Vittorio DeSica

Week of May 14, 1952