Reds Given Ultimatum On Parleys
The Korean armistice talks resumed as communist protests over Koje Island bloodshed returned. UN commander General Clark endorsed the UN walkout, while Maj. Gen. Harrison said no progress on prisoner exchange and Nam Il condemned Allied actions, with Reds rejecting joint prisoner screening.
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Munsan
Korea
Koje Island
United Nations
Mark Clark
UN Far East
Kim Il Sung
Peng Teh-huai
Clark
United Nations Command
Panmunjom
William K. Harrison
Nam Il
British Deny Spy Passing Atom Secrets
The British government rejected a Daily Express claim that Klaus Fuchs, the atom spy, had been moving secret materials in and out of prison. Fuchs, 40, is serving 14 years for passing atom secrets to Russia after 27 months.
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London
Atom
Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs
Russia
The
Daily Express
Stafford
Birmingham
Pentonville
the Express
Weather Outlook Delivers Heat Across South Midwest Cools
The Associated Press reports hot and humid conditions for most of the southern half of the country, while cooling is seen in the Midwest and eastern regions. Showers and 30 to 40 mph winds extend from the Dakotas to Minnesota and Western Wisconsin with small craft advisories posted on Lakes Superior Huron and Ontario.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
North Central
Lakes Superior
Huron
Ontario
Communist Prisoners Massacre 15 Fellow Reds at Koje Island
POWs in Compound 77 killed 15 comrades during a night of terror then surrendered to UN troops for dispersal to smaller stockades. American guards reported hammering sounds in compound 66 and found eight to nine bodies in wells and trenches. Eleven other Americans were injured as 6288 North Koreans faced dispersal amid fierce resistance by 76. The operation left 28 POW deaths and about 150 wounded overall.
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KOJE
18Th
Kose Island
Koje Island
United Nations
Compound 76
Compound 77
Haydon L. Boatner
187Th Airborne Combat Team
Army
Boamer
Congress To Get Details On Savage Prison Fights
A House subcommittee will hear more about Red uprisings in the Rose Island prisoner of war stockades. Gen. Clark described a 1951 campaign to control inmates, with 144 prisoners killed and 313 wounded, including Americans and Koreans. Rep. Sikes praised Brig. Gen. Boatner’s Koje command leadership.
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Washington
House
Congress
Rose Island
Mark Clark
United Nations
Tokyo
Sikes D-Fla
Army Appropriations
Secretary of Defense
Lovett
J. Lawton Collins
Clark
Sikes
Haydon L. Boatner
Koje
Rural Land Boom Slows Amid Higher Farm Costs
The Agriculture Department reports the farm land boom is slowing as buyers struggle to assemble funds for purchases and equipment. Average U.S. farm value runs about 17 000 to 18 000 dollars, excluding machinery and livestock, with prices up 2 percent in the four months to March 1, and 9 percent higher than a year ago.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S
Korea
Department
Contributions Rise in Ohio Methodist Churches
Lakeside Ohio report shows contributions excluding building funds grew from 1.45 million in 1941 to 5.67 million in 1942, averaging 22.90 per worshiper as active membership increased from 225,372 to 246,840, per District Superintendent M Ingmire at the Ohio Conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakeside
Ohio
Joner
M. Ingmire
Saat
Ingmire
Opera Star Patrice Munsel Marrys Schuler In Manhasset
Metropolitan opera star Patrice Munsel aged 26 and television director Robert Charles Carroll Schuler aged 31 were married in Manhasset New York on Tuesday according to local notices.
Experts See Near-Record Wheat Crop
The Agriculture Department forecast a wheat harvest of 1.326 billion bushels, near the 1947 record and about a third larger than last year. The report notes the surplus could exceed domestic and export needs and grow reserves beyond a prudent level amid a volatile international situation.
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Agriculture Department
Department
Katharine Brush Dies Renowned Short Story Writer
New York and 49 year old Katharine Brush, novelist and short story writer, died Tuesday at St Luke's Hospital after months of illness. Her best known works Young Man of Manhattan and Red-Headed Woman were adapted into films. She previously wrote movie columns for the Boston Traveler and was married to Thomas Stewart Brush until their divorce in 1929.
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New York
Katharine Brush
St Luke's Hospital
Manhattan
Brush
The
Boston Traveler
Thomas Stewart Brush
Ohio
Cage fixers face lengthy prison on bribery charges
Three key fixers in the college basketball scandal pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy. They face eight to eleven years in prison plus heavy fines at sentencing before General Sessions Judge Saul S. Streit on July 2. The proceedings followed a judge’s previous critiques of the sport’s corrupt practices.
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New York
General Sessions
Saul S. Streit
Kentucky
Bradley
Streit
Joseph Benintende
Kansas City
Jack West
Retired firefighter dies in Circleville area
Martin L. Stuart aged 65 died at his Ashville home on Tuesday. He served as president of the Association of Retired Firefighters.
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Circleville
Martin L. Stuart
Ashville
The
Association of Retired Firefighters
Body Armor Cuts American Casualty Totals in Korea
Army doctor Lieut Col Robert Holmes told the American Medical Association armor trials show promising results. A chest and belly vest of fiberglass and nylon under test by Marines and Army could reduce casualties and support preventive medicine for armed forces. He noted Korea enemy losses estimated 19 to 40 to our one due to artillery and air cover, with progress in combat medicine lowering the parasite rate.
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Ame
Korea
Amercan Medical Association
Robert Holmes
Army
Holmes
Army Medical Corps
AMA
Taft Hartley debate shapes Truman steel seizure plan
Washington AP reports President Truman may turn to the Taft Hartley labor law as he seeks to restore steel production. Senate Republicans and southern Democrats push for anti inflation Defense Production Act powers while Taft argues Congress acted. Officials note Truman’s appeal signals possible use of seizure powers despite court rulings and industry stoppage since June.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
House
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
White House
Taft
Congress
Supreme Court
Stross
MacArthur To Keynote Convention
Taft forces control key convention posts as Chicago gears for July 7. MacArthur will keynote, with Hallianan temporary chair and Millikin platform chief backing Taft. Martin named permanent chair. Delegation fights loom with 209 of 1193 contested or uncommitted delegates.
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Robert Taft
Convention Arrangements Committee
Chicago
Douglas MacArthur
Taft
GOP
Dwight Eisenhower
Walter 8. Hallianan
West Virginia
Eugene Millikin
Colorado
Joseph W Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
MacArthur
South
Fisenhower
Associated Press
Eisenhower
Texas
Louisiana
Georgia
Mississippi
Arrangements Committee
Army
Friends
Paul Dever
Albert Wedemeyer
Televised Major Surgery Seen By Public On NBC Network
A 60 year old patient underwent stomach surgery shown to a national audience in a six minute broadcast. The program aired on a four station NBC network during the American Medical Association annual meeting and was sponsored by Smith Kline and French Laboratories. Surgeons demonstrated clamps threads and needles as they began suturing the incision.
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Chicago
National Broadcasting Company
American Medical Association
Smith, Kline and French Laboratories
Philadelphia
Noted speed pilot rescued after Wonsan Bay ditching
Lt. Cmdr. Cook Cleland, 1951 National Air Races winner, was rescued Tuesday after ditching his crippled fighter in choppy Wonsan Bay off Northeast Korea during a strike from the carrier Valley Forge. Four Navy pilots ditched successfully in two days, Navy said. Cleveland university offers five week civil defense course for $42 starting next Monday.
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Tokyo
Cmdr
Cook Cleland
Cleveland
Wonsan Bay
Northeast
Korea
Cleland
Navy
Wonsan
Valley Forge
Mak
John Carroll University
Dial Phone Service Set For Letart Falls and Racine
Letart Falls and Racine will get 100 dial lines each soon, replacing manual systems. Racine will be a sub-office of Pomeroy with no toll between Racine and Pomeroy subscribers, as work begins in September for Letart Falls and October for Racine, with new steel buildings from Armco and Leich Electric equipment ordered since 1951.
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Pomeroy
Letart Falls
Racine
W. RK. Kretter
Ohio Associated Telephone Co
Jackson
Kreiter
Pomeroy Exchange
Djid
Deport
Letart Falla
Leich Electric Ca
Genoa
Nil
Armco Steel Corp
Middletown
Ohio
Kereiter
Sabres Down Three Enemy Jets Near Sinuiju
A US Fifth Air Force report says Sabre pilots shot down three MiG-15 fighters near Sinuiju on the Yalu River border as 12 Sabres tangled with 18 MIGs in the same flight. in Korea UN ground troops repelled a Chinese attack on a hill on the Western Front with 123 killed out of 200 attackers.
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Seoul
Sinuiju
Yalu River
Korea
Manchuria
Fifth Air Force
United Nations
Wetern
Eighth Army
Chorwon
Crosby and Hope Video Marathon Set for June 21 TV Debut
New York reports Bing Crosby will make his television debut with Bob Hope in a 14 hour charity marathon for the American Olympic Committee. The CBS NBC joint program starts at 10 p.m. EST on Saturday June 21 across national networks.
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New York
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Columbia Broadcasting System
National Broadcasting Company
Eisenhower Adviser Attacks Taft Convention Tactics
Paul V. Hoffman, adviser to Eisenhower, denounces the GOP convention arrangements committee for selecting Douglas MacArthur as keynote. Hoffman calls it a pro Taft maneuver aimed at steamrolling the convention and says the nomination should not be decided by machine tactics.
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New York
Dwight A. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
GOP
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Paul V. Hoffman
Citizens For
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Taft
Hoffman
Veteran Sergeant Criticizes General Faces Court Martial
Sgt. C. Dean Chase of Salt Lake City 24 was charged with disrespect to a superior officer and ordered court martialed in Monterey California for writing Gen Mark Clark about his handling of the Koje prison camp incident. Chase criticized Clark calling the promises of Brig Gen Colson extortion by the Reds and said the state of the Union depends on sworn word.
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Monterey
Calif
Army
Mark Clark
C. Dean Chase
Salt Lake City
Chase
Clark
Sixth Army Headquarters
San Francisco
Charles Colson
Bose
Francis Dodd
Kole Island
Korea
Far East
Colson
Reds
Chases
Taft Backs Byrd Amendment in Steel Dispute Vote
Senator Taft of Ohio joined the majority to back the Byrd amendment 49 to 30 and opposed the Humphrey amendment 17 to 32. The 52 to plan to seize reel plants failed while Bricker was listed as voting for Byrd and against Humphrey though he was not paired.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate
Sen
Monromey
D-Okla
John W. Bricker
Naval flier recalled. Kinkade wired to active duty
Jobin M. Kinkade 28 Democratic candidate for Muskingum County prose cutor has been recalled to active duty as a naval flier.
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Zanesville
Jobin M. Kinkade
Muskingum County
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United Steelworkers
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Us, Steel Co
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Giouster - Logan
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Point Pleasant
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