Turncoat Numbers Fall and GIs Return Home Names and Fates
In Louisa Kentucky Grandma Sprouse, 88, and her husband Shorty, 60 years younger, celebrate ten years of marriage amid simple living and pension life. Across the globe, reports note several American Korean War defectors returning or seeking repatriation, detailing individuals such as Cpl Edward Dickenson and Cpl Claude Batchelor, with others rumored to consider return and one death.
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Louisa
Grandma” Sprouse
Shorty
New York
Grandma
Martha Mattie Lyons Large Sprouse
Delbert
Cat Hollow
Graft Probe Expands as Lev Faces More Questions
Senate Investigations subcommittee orders Chicago hat maker Harry Lev to testify further amid graft inquiries in military clothing procurement. Air Force charges Captain Raymond Wool with falsified vouchers and improper gifts while Ferdinand Tartaglia of the Quartermaster Corps is suspended.
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Washington
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Chicago
Harry Lev
Tho
McClelland
D-Ark
Lev
Air Force
Raymond Wool
New York
Wool
Dayton
Army
Ferdinand Tartaglia
Quartermaster Corps’ Clothing Purchase Division
Philadelphia
Leo
Tartaglia
Natick
Mid-City
British Rail Strike Talks End Without Breakthrough
London negotiators for unions and government met two hours in first full talks to end Britain's crippling 12 day rail strike. Adjournment until Friday leaves chance of progress intact as Jim Baty of the ASLEF says no material development has occurred.
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London
Britain
Jim Baty
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Car Folk See Peace From Talk
Detroit reports confidence that General Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers will reach a contract settlement before midnight strike deadline. Talks were secret but in good humor as Ford workers had already agreed to a three year deal with a modified guaranteed wage plan. About 25,000 GM and 5,000 Ford workers remained idle as negotiations continued.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Neo Nazi Influence Questioned in Argentina by Spellman
New York Cardinal Spellman told a Fordham University graduation that anti Catholic measures in Argentina suggest a renaissance of Nazism and a hidden influence behind the violence. He warned that tyranny is descending on American life and blighting Argentina, a predominantly Catholic nation.
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New York
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Argentina
Edinburg farmers cash in as first 1955 cotton bale tops market
Jerry Block and Will Wallace earned a likely $2000 windfall from the Rio Grande Valley first bale of 1955 cotton. Block, 50, says half the auction proceeds will help pay prior crop losses from corn and tomatoes blamed on drought and poor markets. They planted January 23 and harvested a drought tolerant paymaster cotton variety.
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Harlingen
Tex
Jerry Block
Rio Grande Valley
Block
Edinburg
Wallace
Texas
Keep Trying To Free GIs
SWEA CITY Iowa Captain Harold Fischer Jr home after two years captivity says Americans should continue to work for the release of men still held in Red China He spoke at a gala with about seven thousand people greeting him The four airmen released by the Reds included Lt Col Edwin Heller 1st Lt Ron Parks and Lyle Cameron Efforts aim to free 11 more American airmen captured in the Korean War
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Swea City
Iowa
Harold Fischer, Jr
China
Jet Ace
North Iowa
United Nations
Edwin Heller
Wynnewood
Ron Parks
Omaha
Lyle Cameron
Lincoln
Red China
Swedish Tanker Burns After Collision Near English Channel
The Swedish tanker Johannishus caught fire and was abandoned by its 42 crew after colliding with the Panamanian freighter Buccaneer in the English Channel. By dawn 24 survivors and one dead were recovered by nearby ships midway between Ramsgate and the Belgian coast.
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Ramsgate
England
Here
Belgian
Classified Ad Says Sold Items After Posting
Mrs Beeman of 164 North Lancaster Street ran a Want ad offering to sell extra items. She now asks to stop the ad and notes she has sold everything advertised, urging readers to dial 21343 to place or cancel ads.
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Messenger
Wandering Old Couple Found After Five Days
Two elderly residents of Saunders Rest Home in Marion Township eloped Saturday and were found separately Wednesday evening after five days of wandering. Bert Hill, 72, was located in a wooded gulley about three miles from the home and taken to Hocking Valley Hospital for examination. Lulu Joy, 81, was found in a hillside pine thicket a half mile away. They had a bag of carefully hoarded food. Mrs Joy’s corncob pipes were found nearby.
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Logan
Saunders
Marion Township
Wang
Bert Hill
Lulu Joy
Hill
Britain plans first transocean telephone cable
Britain moves to lay the world’s first transocean telephone cable linking the United States, Britain and Canada with 96 circuits, reducing voice fading and disturbances. The Monarch, a British cable-laying ship with 130 crew, is to depart for Michigan to begin the undersea work this June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Atlantic
Canada
England
United States
Sim- Wire and Cable Co
Forville
Mid
Fire destroys beachfront businesses in Seaside Heights
Fire driven by a stiff northeast wind leveled a four block area of beachfront concessions in Seaside Heights New Jersey. Damage was estimated at one million dollars as 1500 firefighters fought the blaze for about two and a half hours. Four firemen suffered smoke inhalation but were not in serious condition.
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Seaside Heights
N. J
Two More Steel Firms Line Up Against CIO
Pittsburgh report notes two more of the Big Six steel producers joined the bargaining lineup as CIO United Steelworkers seek wage gains. USW President David J. MacDonald continued to lead the negotiations with the firms including American Bridge and Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
USW
David J. MacDonald
Pene BA and Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Engineers Reject Idea of Merger
Engineers reject the merger plan warning it would force governance by any power that seriously threatens the sovereignty of the nation itself.
Queen Opens Parliament in Crisis Era Speech
Queen Elizabeth II opened a new session amid Britain's severe industrial crisis and a 12 day railroad strike. She pledged Commonwealth resources for peace and said Britain will work with the United States and seek a peaceful settlement in the Formosa Strait. She urged fruitful negotiations with the Soviet Union and discussed consultations with other governments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Elizabeth II
Britain
Soviet Union
Formosa Strait
Miss Europe pageant faces Finland weather woes
In Helsinki Finland a cold bug bites the crowd as contestants prepare for Miss Europe judging in two days Italy's Vandela Guida Turkey's Luna Soley and France's Monique Lambert stand among the participants amid siffies sore threats from treacherous Finnish weather.
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Helsinki
Finland
Siffies
Italy
Vandela Guida
Turkey
Luna Soley
Monique Lambert
France
Chinese coast raid by Nationalist planes kills two
Peiping radio reported four Nationalist Chinese planes attacked the northeast coastal area north of Quernoy on Monday. Two fishermen were killed and five wounded in the raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Peiping Radio
China
Quernoy
Polio in Post Vaccination Group Reaches 103 Cases
The Public Health Service reported 103 confirmed poliomyelitis cases among family and close contacts of Salk vaccine recipients, up 43 from the prior week. Most cases were paralytic. vaccination often prevented illness, with totals for the disease year and past weeks outlined alongside regional patterns.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Uires
District of Columbia
Wea Wong
Hunt Planned for Hulk of Sunken Steamboat
West Memphis Arkansas lumberman A P Dacus plans a hunt for the sunken Sultana steamboat, saying silt has shifted the Mississippi river bend four miles east of the 1865 wreck site. He aims to raise the hulk, restore it to wartime condition, and display it publicly.
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Memphis
Ark
A. P. Dacus
Soree
Sultana
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Dacus
Singapore Faces Labor Strife and Walkouts
Sympathy strikes by 70,000 factory transport and dock workers threaten Singapore as the government pushes to end three walkouts and curb Communist inspired rioting. The 40,000 member Singapore and Shipworkers Union plans to call a strike within 48 hours unless the 1,300 Singapore Harbor Board clerks dispute is settled.
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Singapore
Singapore and Shipworkers
Singapore Harbor Board
Geveland Union to Resist CIO Merger Absorption
Earl Heaton of the AFL United Auto Workers says the union will oppose any move to be absorbed into the CIO United Auto Workers in the planned AFL CIO merger. Heaton states the union will stand firm against the integration into the broader CIO affiliate.
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Geveland
Earl Heaton
AFL
United Auto Workers
Sys
CIO
Afl-Cio
Senate Censure Debate Over Flag Ratifies Public Verdict
The article discusses Senator Estes defending the Senate's 1954 censuring of a prominent official while criticizing the Senate for not taking more decisive action. It notes Senator Kefauver’s unsuccessful bid and cites McCarthy’s 1954 censure related to televised Army hearings. The piece argues the public already decided on censure and that the Senate merely ratified it.
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Kefauver
Dem- It
Joseph McCarthy
Wis
Senate
Army
McCarthy
Munist
House
Russians Face Permanent East West German Split
U S officials think Moscow may accept a lasting division of Germany. If true, this could shape the Geneva Big Four talks next month. The debate grows as Moscow invites Adenauer to Moscow to discuss diplomatic ties while trade drives a Western German shift from the United States.
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Joan M. Ichtower
Washington
State Department
Germany
Geneva
Russia
Konrad Adensner
Moscow
East
Inf
Yugoslavia
Funds Sought To Accelerate A-Plane Atomic Work
Washington report says the Atomic Energy Commission seeks 14 million dollars for accelerated reactor and weapons programs. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss hints at a new approach and says results warrant intensified efforts. The proposed budget includes a 33 percent boost to reactors and a 10 percent rise for atomic weapons funding to 271 million dollars.
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Washington
Atomic Energy
Building Atomic
House Appropriations Subcommittee
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
Strauss
ABC
Commission
Adenauer Says Ready To Meet Reds In Moscow Option
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is prepared to meet Soviet leaders but the venue is not fixed. A government spokesman says talks between West German and Russian experts are ongoing, with possible meetings in Paris or Geneva as a neutral site for normalization discussions.
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Bonn
Konrad
Moscow
Adenauer
Paris
Heinrich von Brentano
Kremlin
Geneva
Enen
Tie
Heve
Refugee Plan Gets Boost
Secretary of State Dulles appoints Pierce J. Gerety as head of the refugee relief effort with McLeod retaining security authority. State Department confirms Edward Cors will be reassigned after his 1964 immigration problems remark and notes past refugee program failures. The plan aims to admit 214000 refugees by end of 1966 with previous admissions dating to 1944.
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Washington
Dulles
Pierce J. Gerety
Counc Sel
Civil Service Commisson
State Department
Mcleod
Department
Securiy
Edward Cors
Corsi
United States
Missing Man Case Draws Sheriff After Newspaper Lead
Sheriff Ehman visiting Charleston for his ailing mother reads a front page report on amateur sleuthing that cracked a forgery racket in Charleston. He contacts police to hold McClure after juvenile suspects and alleged fence activity linked to bad checks. Municipal Judge Janes previously bound Alvin Angel, 19, of Gallipolis Route over to trial.
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Gallipolis
Sheriff Ehman
Charleston
Laura Ehman
Phylis Crawford
City Mail
West Virginia
McClure
Crawford
Ehman
Alvin —— Angel
Wali
Jan
W Janes
Angel
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Edward S. Dickenson
Big Stone Gap
New Cumberland
Claude J. Batchelor
Kermit, Tex
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Batchelor
Chinese Red Cross
Rufus O Douglas
San Angelo
R. C. Howard
Texan
Sal
Albert C. Belhomee
Ashland
Scott L. Rush
Marietta
Ohio
James G. Veneris
Hawthorne
Calif
Harold H. Webb
Fort Pierce
Jacksonville
Fla
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Fort
Marvin S. Rubin
Bender
Leon M. Levy
Carina
Spellman
Burns
Lancaster
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru
Nikolai Bulganin
By Clpon Tucker
Athens
Chauncey
Galltpolis
McArthur
Polio
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Mergor
Estes
U.S
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