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Cook County, Ill, unit hears Pres Truman; gives him citation revg achievements as Pres
W Schepmann, last leader of SA, is Refugee party candidate in communal elections, Gifhorn, Lower Saxony; many other ex-Nazis and ex-members of Socialist Reichs party active in pol; W Ger Govt and local police reptd cracking down on neo-Nazi movements; 61 Rightist orgns raided, Hanover
Md players T Cosgrove, J Scarbath and F Navarro reveal $1,400 bribe offer from student L L Glickfield; Coach Tatum comments
Chinese retake Pinpoint Hill with heavy arty and mortar support; lesser action elsewhere
Eisenhower, in radio-TV s, quotes from Van Fleet Oct 10 lr to Maj Gen Mood saying use of more SK Divs would relieve US divs and that he got 'little encouragement' on training SK troops
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]