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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1953
Page
1
In Berlin East German rail bans on West Berlin food stations ease as thousands of Soviet xgoners and East Berliners line up for rations. Rail tickets appear at some stations despite no official announcement while workers smuggle parcels and some commuters travel around the ban by bike or hitchhiking. Distribution reaches 1.6 million parcels after ten days.
Sen John Marshall Butler leads a Senate Judiciary probe into Communist influence in labor unions. The task force will hold hearings in Washington this fall with top CIO and AFL leaders including George Meany and Walter Reuther, and will question former CIO expelled officials from the 1949 50 period.
A Greyhound bus and a car pulling a house trailer collided on a bridge west of Hydro Oklahoma on U S 66 killing four and injuring about 20 to 30. Emergency crews from nearby towns responded as the vehicles plunged into a 25 foot ravine.
Two Air Force B47s flew nonstop from England to Florida and Georgia in a display of the bomber’s range. One aircraft covered 4450 miles from Fairford to Tampa in 8 hours 52 minutes at altitude up to 42,700 feet, averaging 545 miles per hour.
Columbus report says 16 000 Ohioans served in the Korean War with the Ohio Military District noting that about half had prior reserve affiliation before activation.
Communists announce a fresh prisoner exchange starting at 9 am Panmunjom time. They will return 400 Allied prisoners including eight Americans and release 250 South Koreans 25 British 25 Turks 12 Filipinos and seven Colombians.
U S officials deem Moscow note on Big Four talks weak and possibly designed to test Western positions. The note ties Austrian treaty timing to progress on Germany, a move seen amid East German uprisings and political pressure shifts.
In Cleveland area ruling Judge Charles J. McNamee bars police from arresting book sellers over alleged obscenity without court review. Police Chief Edward J. Allen may arrest but a court must decide obscenity. The New American Library challenged Youngstown's ban on obscene and immoral reading matter, and the ordinance was upheld.
The United States demanded compensation from Russia for the July 29 shoot down of an American B-50 bomber over the Sea of Japan. Washington rejected Moscow's account and called for an exhaustive investigation into the 16 missing crewmen, delivering the note to the Russian Foreign Office in Moscow.
Americans and South Koreans freed from captivity describe beatings burnings death marches and starvation by the Red captors in Korea detailing horrific conditions and casualties among fellow prisoners.
Lt Col Thomas D. Harrison, the highest ranking American officer to return in the two day swap, arrives on crutches with one leg missing. He recounts starvation, suffocation attempts, and cigarette jabs to elicit information. He cites 60 other officers who were ill and should have been exchanged earlier. He says Reds kept him back for using rank to influence others.
The report notes 70 Americans were released at Panmunjom while about 2000 to 3000 more prisoners may remain. It describes harrowing conditions of returning POWs, including torture accounts, and quotes Lt. Samuel E. Massinberg on wartime brutality and indoctrination attempts. General Clark discusses prisoner numbers and future plans for forces in the region.
Panmunjom reports recount 392 Allied war prisoners released by the communists. Two Americans are dead and many others gaunt as 70 are ill or wounded. 42 are sick, with more to be sent back tomorrow. South Koreans and U.S. officials questioned treatment and delays amid ongoing exchanges in Korea.
Washington reports U S battle casualties at 141705 nine days after the Korea cease fire. The weekly total rose 1159 from last week as notifications to families through Friday were counted. Pentagon notes the total may not include all dead wounded or missing before armistice and a further summary is possible with delayed reports.
The body of Harvey Dillon, 40, of Columbus, was found Wednesday in a car wreck in a grove along Ohio 327, three miles west of Wellston. The State Highway Patrol said Dillon was apparently killed in the accident on Tuesday.
In Oklahoma City a dispute over 15 cats in a yard led to a police hearing. Judge Mike Foster ordered Ada Rowan to reduce her cat population within two weeks. As she moved the cats to a humane shelter, two crates spilled and about a dozen cats escaped, prompting neighbor concern about reoccurring feline visitors.
British and American search forces scoured the North Atlantic after a RB-36 bomber crashed south of Iceland. Twenty three crewmen were aboard with four survivors and three bodies recovered as ships assisted in the hunt amid fog and expected clearing weather.
Inchon Korea prison camp release details show POWs eligible for back pay based on allotments, rank, and time in captivity. Capt Joseph C Bowman of Ringgold Ga notes one Red prisoner returned with $5400 back pay, highest so far.
Frederick Maryland state police report John Joseph Hoffman 53 a tenant farmer killed himself with a .22 rifle at the family dinner table Wednesday as wife and sons pled for him not to. He had been despondent since his brother James killed himself last Saturday.
President Eisenhower delivers a nationwide radio address on Congress and his administration's progress. The 8:30 to 9 p.m. EST broadcast will be carried by the four major networks.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and President Syngman Rhee in accord on a U S Korea mutual security pact mapped plans for reconstruction of war torn South Korea. Talks focused on defense details and a $200 million rehabilitation fund with potential later expansion toward unification.
A Langley Air Force Base crash boat rescued 30 people from the sailing yacht Anna Helen after it ran aground two miles northwest of Wolf Trap Light Station in Chesapeake Bay. The yacht was towed to an anchorage at Tangier Island and the group, a Canton YMCA father and sons fishing party bound for Annapolis, Md, was returned to Langley by 4:35 a.m. The vessel reported damage and dragging anchor, with Coast Guard vessels assisting under orders from Norfolk Coast Guard headquarters.
Ossining New York Joseph P Francell the man who operated the electric chair for the Rosenbergs last June 19 has resigned as Sing Sing Prison executioner. Attendants cite threats to his life and dissatisfaction with the 150 dollar per execution fee. Francell says he has carried out 137 executions in 14 years at Sing Sing and about one in New Jersey Connecticut Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
A thousand volunteers searched the C. E. Jentzen ranch in Hammon Oklahoma for 3-year-old Mike Brazil who vanished from a pickup. After six hours he was found asleep in a plowed field about 20 miles away and unharmed.
A distraught mother in Arab Alabama killed her three children with a razor and then attempted suicide. Pearl Griffin, 26, told coroner Aubrey Carr she had a nervous disorder and had urged family to send her to a mental institution. The victims were Rickey, 6, Ronnie, 4, and Rosalind, 3, found at the Oleander home.
Senator Robert A. Taft's will, dated June 12, leaves all estate to wife Martha in two funds with 49 percent for life income and 51 percent for life income. Upon Mrs Taft's death the assets go to their four sons. Taft died in New York last Friday.
Elyria mayor Henry W. Ault denounces the Ohio Turnpike Commission for not moving the route north, vowing a legal roadblock. He calls chairman James W. Shacknessy a man who believes the agency can operate above state law and predicts prolonged litigation.
A truck driver testified he was shadowed at midnight by a man in a white hood driving a Ford with New York plates. The incident adds a lead in the Pennsylvania Turnpike slayings of two sleeping drivers as investigators probe possible cross state connections. Authorities also exam a bullet from New Jersey in the Wilcox case seeking links to the turnpike killings.
James Roosevelt refused to comment on reports of separation from his wife Romelle Theresa Schneider. The Roosevelts were connected to the Mayo Clinic visit in 1938 when Franklin D. Roosevelt's eldest son served as a Marine colonel ill in Rochester Minnesota.
Three Ohio families react with happiness and lingering worry as their sons Pfc Francis E. Kohus Jr. Cpl Jennings R. Channell and Pfc Anthony Ludwig are among 70 American POWs released by Communist Korea. Mothers speak of relief, fear and prayers for a safe homecoming.
Two West Virginia soldiers were released in today’s second prisoner of war exchange. The men are Cpl Jun Rh. Rose of Morgantown and Pre ames H. Montgomery of Weston. A UN spokesman said two names on the master list were regarded as mental cases and have not been positively identified, with no date for public release.
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