Tenth Prisoner Trade Under Cloud
AP dispatch from Panmunjom reports 400 more prisoners freed as the Red army warns it may withhold Allied captives. The batch includes 75 Americans 75 British and 250 South Koreans from Camp 1 at Chongsong, with Dulles urging full return of all POWs. Peiping claims Geneva protections allow detention for criminal proceedings.
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Panmunjom
Reds
Chongsong
Ryoktong
Yalu
Red China
U. S
Dulles
UNC
Peiping
Red impostor rulers exposed in North Korea purge
A South Korean intelligence officer says Kim Il Sung and Nam Il use borrowed names from historic North Korean figures. Peiping radio reveals Kim Il Sung was titled Hero of the Republic of Korea, likely an imitation of Russia's hero title. Nam Il, Panmunjom negotiator, is also named after a prominent North Korean, signaling a shift to pro Russian control after recent purges.
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SEOUL
Kim Tl Sung
Nam Il
Red China
Peiping Radio
Kim
People’s Republic of Korea
Supreme People’s Assembly
Russia
Soviet Union
North Korea
Korea
Nam Li
Panmunjom
Kim Chang Man
Nam II
Kim I] Sung
Wheat Belt Votes Hold Quota Keys
National Farmers Union and National Grange report east of the Mississippi hold the key to a national economic vote on 1954 wheat marketing quotas. The referendum requires two thirds farmer support, with possible effects on price supports if defeated. Ohio's 1942 quota tally is cited as context.
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Washington
Mississippi River
National Farmers Union
National Grange
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Court Gives Water Fuss
The City of Niles and Ohio Water Service challenge the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District ruling at the Ohio Supreme Court. They contest a special common pleas court approval of an appraisal report for a proposed expansion, arguing it ignored lands outside the district that would benefit. The district serves Niles and Youngstown. appeals were dismissed and cases moved upward.
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Columbus
City of
Niles
Ohio Water Service Co
Mahoning Valley
Special Common Pleas Court
Youngstown
Supreme Court
Next To Last Korean Casualty List Issued
The Defense Department announced a new total of 142,294 U S battle casualties in the Korean War. It includes 2,542 battle deaths and, compared with last week, shows a rise of 589. The weekly summary notes changes in prisoners and missing personnel, with 35 fewer current missing and 166 fewer known prisoners.
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Washington
Defense Department
U. S
Wrecker Electrocuted in Columbus Accident
Columbus man Hamer Fields age 48 was electrocuted Wednesday while cutting insulation on a plastering job. The incident occurred in Columbus Ohio and the man was employed as a wrecker.
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Wrecker
Columbus
Ohio
Hamer Fields
Auto Stops Falls Apart on Raleigh Street
An ancient automobile slowed near Patrolman Sam Clarkson who signaled a stop. The bumper fell off the moment it halted, the radiator collapsed, a tow damaged the car causing the trunk door and a fender to detach. The driver was charged with drunken driving after the car was towed to a garage.
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Sam Clarkson
Clarkson
Navy Plane Crashes At Westover AFB Four Dead
Four Navy personnel died in a takeoff crash of a R6D Douglas Liftmaster from Naval Air Transport Squadron 6 at Westover Air Force Base Massachusetts. Officials said there may have been a fifth person aboard and that there were no survivors.
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Westover Air Force Base
Mass
Naval Air Transport Squadron 6
Prisoner Trade Too Late Ends in Death for Soldier
The Korean War prisoner trade news includes the death of Pfc. Joseph H. Eckhart Jr in a Red Camp, while four Ohio families learn their kin were released. Among those freed are Pfc. Rados Dudukevich, Aldine Rudy Dudukevich, Prentald J. Riley, and Richard F. Marsh, with Marsh listed as from New Kensington, Pa.
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Chioan
Red Camp
Associated Press
Cleveland
Pfc
Joseph H. Eckhart, Jr
Joseph W. Pet
Ohio
Dudukevich
Lorain
Rados Dudukevich
Anna Milovich
Rudy
Goldie
Riley
Toledo
Pre
Nald J. Riley
James Brinegar
Dayton
Lucian
Richard F. Marsh
Columbus
Marsh
New Kensington
Elmer Marsh
Pennsylvania
Blaze Hits GM Transmission Plant Wrecking Detroit Suburb
A 35 million dollar fire ravaged GM Transmission and Instrument Plant in Livonia near Detroit, killing two and injuring more than twenty. Authorities say welding sparks ignited oil, the blaze lasting about three hours. Production in Cadillac, Oldsmobile and Pontiac lines may be disrupted, with about 45,000 workers potentially laid off temporarily. Fire crews evacuated 3500 workers as the fire broke out just before 4 p.m.
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General Motors Corp
Livonia
Cadillac
Oldsmobile
Pontiac
Pact To Tie Spain to West Pact With U S Bases
Spanish Cabinet approved a pact granting U S forces use of Spanish naval and air bases in exchange for military and economic aid. The agreement would tie Spain to the Western alliance against Communist aggression. Sources said Franco ministers okayed the plan after a long meeting, with a communiqué offering no past details.
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San Sebastian
Spain
Carpenters Union QUITS AFL Over Merger Bid
The 822000 member Carpenters Union withdraws from the AFL amid a merger push with the CIO. Maurice A Hutcheson opposes the AFL CIO no raids pact while George Meany defends it as a step toward an AFL CIO merger. John L Lewis of the United Mine Workers criticizes the AFL leaders’ approach.
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AFL
Chicago
CIO
Acerene Lee
Carpenters Group
Jin
Carpenters
Maurice A. Hutcheson
Hutcheson
George Meany
Meany
Afl-Cio
San Francisco
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Carpenters’ Action
AFL Executive Council
Television traps two radio tube thieves in LA raid
Police used RCA television to trap two gang members accused of stealing 44000 dollars worth of radio tubes from a leading electronics firm. At a cost of 8000 dollars, two cameras and receivers let detectives watch the footage as Alamio Mason, 45, allegedly ferried cartons of tubes to a car driven by Fred Porter, 22, who was later arrested. Two stock clerks faced grand theft charges.
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Los Angeles
RCA
Alamio Mason
Fred Porter
Film Writer To Wed Daughter of Ex-Wife
HOLLYWOOD Borden Chase 49 says he will marry Mrs Pat Stamm Moore 27 daughter of his former wife this weekend. Moore is the daughter of Leah Keith Chase who divorced the writer in 1949. Pat was seven when I married her mother Chase says there was never a romance and my wife nearly ruined me in the picture business with her insinuations.
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Hollywood
Borden Chase
Pat Stamm Moore
Truman News Reported As Possible University President Candidacy
In Kansas City on Wednesday Harry S. Truman offered no comment on a Baltimore based report that he is under consideration for the presidency of the University of Maryland. The Baltimore News Post cited the university board chairman as indicating Truman may have been recommended by a board member.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
University of Maryland
Baltimore News-Post
William P. Cole Jr
Truman
Ex Mayor Frank Reed Found Dead in Lockland
The 67 year old former Lockland mayor and city auditor Frank Reed was found shot, a .38 revolver beneath him, on a Wednesday. Police reported the death as a likely suicide.
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Cincinnati
Frank Reed
Lockland
Soviet Boss Overwhelms Party Foes
Premier Georgi Malenkov and the Soviet Communist Party appear to dominate the Supreme Soviet, sidelining the Army and its leaders. Khrushchev and Kaganovich loom large as Malenkov leads with a tight inner circle, while Molotov Bulganin and Mikoyan follow in the party's evolving power structure.
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Kaganovich
V. M. Molotov
Nikolai Bulganin
A. I. Mikoyan
K. EF. Voroshilov
Stalin
Mikoyan
Bulganin
M. Z. Saburov
M.G. Pervukhin
M. Shvernik
New Versions of B 47 Jets Constructed
Boeing announces delivery of two new B 47 reconnaissance variants to the Air Force. The RB4ATE is built ground up in Wichita as the fastest long range photo ship. The RB47B is a converted standard model for photo reconnaissance or high altitude bombing.
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Wichita
Kan
Boeing Airplane Co
Air Force
Boeing
PWs Offered Red Refuge in Korea Confessions
Cpl. John Narvin of Cleveland Ohio says a Chinese instructor at Pyoktong prison camp urged him to go to Russia after the armistice. Narvin recalls two private chats and another official speaking to him near release. He was captured January 3 1951, about 120 miles north of Seoul with the 25th Division.
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Inchon
Korea
Russia
John Narvin
Cleveland
Ohio
Pyoktong Prison
Narvin
Seoul
Guardsmen Capture 2 Fugitive Slayers in Georgia Woods
A four day manhunt in northwest Georgia ended when two fugitive killers of a U S deputy marshal surrendered to a National Guard squad. A guard hostage they seized was present but unarmed. no shots were fired as the suspects yielded Wednesday near Adairsville GA.
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Adairsville
Georgia
U. S
National Guard
September Draft Calls Issued by Ohio Selective Service
The Ohio Selective Service Commission issued an induction call for 1224 men for September, 74 fewer than August. Col. W. Goble notes a national total of 25,000 to be inducted that month. County figures include Muskingum ten, Washington seven, Perry four, Gallia four, others.
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Columbus
Ohio Selective Service Commission
W. Goble
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Lawrence
Meiga
Morgan
Muskingum
Perry
Vinton
Washington
Reds Prepare Another Large POW Exchange Friday
The Reds promise to free 409 American prisoners on Friday as part of a larger swap. Thursday saw 84 Americans, 74 British, 1 Canadian and 250 Koreans returned, bringing Allied losses and redeployments to new totals. One returning truck overturned near Kaesong but without serious injuries.
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Munsan
Atee
Reds
U.S
UNC
Kaesong
Three Month Coma Ends in Ravenna Recovery
In Ravenna Ohio 26 year old school teacher Helen Foster regained consciousness July 18 after a three month coma from an auto accident near Seattle Washington. She can speak some words and spells out unclear phrases as she improves noted her mother Mrs Lewis Foster. The April 10 accident occurred when the car skidded on ice and struck a guard rail.
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Ravenna
Ohio
Lewis Foster
Helen
Bishop Werner and wife to study Korea mission work
Ohio Methodist bishop Hazen G. Werner and his wife departed by air for Korea to study local needs and observe Methodist work in Formosa and Hong Kong. He plans to report findings to Ohio pastors and laymen at a meeting here on October 9.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hazen G. Werner
Korea
Formosa
Hong Kong
NATO Nations Rush Aid To Fire Ravaged Greek Islands
Farth tremors persist into day five and fires worsen conditions on Ithaca Kefallinia and Zakynthos. Ships shuttle hundreds of injured to Patras hospitals as officials scramble to estimate dead amid widespread ruins and unknown casualties.
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Greece
Ionian Sea
Patras
Ithaca
Kefallinia
Zakynthos
Million in French Walkouts and Island Earthquakes
French workers stage a mass walkout led by four million strikers to pressure Premier Laniel over an economy program. While a core bloc stays out, mines railways gas and electricity halt operations as authorities resist demands. Separately earthquakes devastate Zakynthos and Argostoli, triggering evacuations, with aid ships rushing to shore and wrecked towns smoldering.
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Paris
Joseph Laniel
Eisenhower Creates Fair Hiring Commission in Denver
President Eisenhower ordered a new 14 member government contract committee to prevent hiring and firing discrimination on jobs covered by federal contracts. The Atomic Energy Commission, Commerce, Defense, Justice, General Services, and Labor Departments will be represented, with eight public members to be named by the President.
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Eisenhower
Truman
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Justice Department
General Services Administration
Labor Department
Dulles Questions Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Claim
Secretary of State Dulles expressed skepticism about Soviet Premier Malenkov's claim that Russia has mastered hydrogen bomb production. He noted no independent U S evidence of a Soviet hydrogen bomb test and said no bomb explosion had been detected in the Soviet Union before or after Malenkov's statement.
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Washington
Dulles
Malenkov
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
Five Missine Children Found Dead in Ice Box Tragedy
In Proctor Arkansas an old country store ice box was found on a farm porch containing five siblings aged 2 to 9. Deputy sheriff and coroner ruled death due to accidental entrapment with no foul play. Children identified as Edward 9, Wesley 7, Odie 4, Tommy 4, Barbara Ann 2.
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Proctor, Ark
Edward Hallman
T. H. McGough
Crittenden County
J. W. Hallman
Billy Williams
Odie
Tommy
Edward
Wesley
Barbara Ann
Smother
Woman Seen As UN Head
Indian sources say the United States will back Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit for president of the eighth United Nations General Assembly starting September 15 in New York. Support grows as Commonwealth nations and Asia Arab group back her. Soviet bloc expected to vote yes. The sole other candidate is Thailand's Foreign Minister Prince Wan Waithayakon.
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United Nations
N, Y.P
United States
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
India
Nehru
United Nations General Assembly
Pandit
Prince Wan Waithayakon
Thailand
Court to decide if engaged woman may keep ring
A district court in Okmulgee will rule whether a girl who accepts an engagement ring may keep it if she later does not marry. Mrs. Hilda Helen Grant sues Mrs. Dorgethy McCrindle, a divorcee, alleging the ring was wrongfully retained after her son Harold became engaged. The ring is a one carat diamond given by Harold McCrindle.
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Okmulgee
Okla
Hilda Helen Grant
Dorgethy McCrindle
McCrindle
Divorce details involve dog custody in district case
In the Oklahoma district action Elmer Adams and Floyd Swabb mutually assess visitation for Swabb to visit a Boston bull terrier heretofore awarded to the wife. Visitation may occur in three day intervals.
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Elmer Adams
Floyd Swabb
Ntervals
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