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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1953
Page
1
A C-124 Globemaster crashed near Tachikawa Japan carrying 128 Americans to Korea with 60 identified bodies. The transport carried 121 Army engineers and airmen, seven crew, no survivors. Witnesses described a dramatic, winded plummet as the plane somersaulted and exploded in a muddy rice field.
Pakistan and the United States signed a pact to convert about 100000 acres of Sind jungle into farm land. The U S will contribute $500000 and Pakistan will provide a similar amount before next January.
A record 5 percent million dollars was contributed to the 1953 March of Dimes. Basil O’Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, reported today. The total was 24 percent higher than the record set last year.
North Korea's Syngman Rhee opens four POW camps amid armistice talks. Officials warn his defiance could delay the truce while UN and Communist sides rush to finish the document and arrange prisoner exchanges. Observers note potential delays in returning 13,000 UN prisoners and possible signing site construction at Panmunjom.
Byron T. Darling, former Ohio State University professor, again invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer a congressional committee about communist connections. His wife Barbara Anne Darling repeated the stance, declining to respond to 22 questions including whether she is or has been a member of the Communist party.
About 25 000 anti red North Koreans fled Allied prison camps as South Korean guards left their posts in a revolt against the UN command. President Syngman Rhee ordered the prisoners freed, turning anti-truce threats into action. Nine prisoners died and 16 were wounded as UN troops recaptured 971 others.
In Alaska at Whittier, wind driven fire and explosions wiped out three new warehouses and several docks in under four hours. Casualties include an Alaska Railroad yardmaster and three others in a boiler blast. Officials say losses run into millions of dollars and the port facilities are unusable. Security prevents full reporting as the blaze raged from 545 PM.
South Korean forces counterattacked after heavy pressure from Chinese troops. Four hundred Chinese troops overran parts of M-1 Ridge near Christmas Hill at dawn, but ROKs retook the height by noon after fierce fighting. Similar clashes south of Finger Ridge left the ROKs momentarily driven back before regaining the position. U S Sabre pilots claimed four MIGs destroyed and four damaged in high speed dogfights along the Yalu River.
The Rev. David N. Roller, new moderator of Ohio's Presbyterian synod, selects the Rev. James F. Bolenor of Newark as vice moderator. Roller announced the slate after Tuesday's election. Bolenor serves at Mansfield First Presbyterian Church, with the Newark Second Presbyterian as home church for the vice moderator.
Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin announced a government operations committee investigation into alleged gross discrimination against small business enterprises bidding for defense contracts. The probe aims to uncover unfair practices affecting small suppliers.
Soviet forces tighten control around East Berlin amid bloody anti communist riots. Reports from multiple cities claim 23 to 38 dead, with a German detainee executed in East Berlin for alleged antiregime activities. Curfew imposed and rioting reported along the Berlin to West Germany corridor. Western capitals see it as a setback to Soviet claims of a workers paradise and a sign of waning Red influence in Eastern Europe.
The House begins work on a $4.998 billion foreign aid bill for next year with Rep. Lawrence H. Smith proposing further cuts of about $1 billion. The measure sits $476 million below Eisenhower’s recommended minimum and $2.602 billion below Truman’s. Debates over deeper cuts and an amendment to withhold more than $1 billion in military aid to Europe until an international army is approved are anticipated.
Former FBI undercover agent Mazzei testified he heard a Pittsburgh Communist boast last December that Lou Bortz was picked to kill Sen. McCarthy. Mazzei described Bortz as a leader of Pittsburgh goon squads and quoted him as eager to carry out the assignment when time comes.
Sen Knowland calls a postal rate hike a probability for action this session. Postmaster General Summerfield finalizes details of the administration bill which would lift out of town letters from 3 to 4 cents per ounce and air mail from 6 to 7 cents, with major increases for newspapers magazines and packages. Opposition is anticipated on both sides of the Capitol.
Baltimore runs a report that Col Alius L Amoss heads a private intel service and says rumors spread in satellite states that Georgi Malenkov has been slain. He notes no public confirmation and cites agents in Eastern Europe claiming a power struggle and non natural death.
Alex Kallimanis a 25 year old former Greek army corporal who fought in Korea faces an immigration hearing in Columbus on charges he illegally entered the country. He married Barbara Beaver after exchanging letters and worked at a Lancaster lens factory.
The Ohio Senate received two House approved measures to curb subversives and prepared Friday votes on the state budget and school subsidy bills. A third highway tax bill may move next week after caucus. The Finance Committee backed a $100000 disaster relief line item.
In Los Angeles police action, Garrison Harris was removed from a juror panel for his own grand theft case. Patrolman P B Le Page noticed a familiar face in court. Harris admitted he is a defendant facing trial next Wednesday. The trial proceeds with 11 jurors remaining.
In Long Beach California Edward Gutman 32 was arrested on a drunk count after he claimed command of a log blocking a freighter in the channel between San Pedro and Terminal Island. Coast Guard cutters beached the log and Gutman was taken into custody.
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