Iron Clad Agreement Advised by Ridgway In Cease-Fire Activity
General Ridgway, on a South Korea visit, urged an iron clad cease-fire pact while noting uncertainty about current proposals. He warned against a bill of goods and highlighted intensified Chinese air and ground actions. Front fighting remained severe with a shelved cease-fire mood, UN bombardments continuing at Wonsan and along the 38th parallel amid cautious U.S. scrutiny of Malik’s plan.
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Syngman sKuce
U.S
Ridgeway
Tokyo
Wonsan
Inde
Reds
Kumwha
Peiping
Russia
Dacob Malik
Korea
Washington
Malik
Paraliet 38
38Th Paraliet
Red North
South Korea
Matik
South Kome
North
South
Blast Shakes Ohio Capital
A mysterious explosion rattled Columbus just before 2 00 pm yesterday while reports of a similar blast in Cincinnati clouded the picture. Residents recalled past similar incidents linked to jets, including April 1956 Dayton blasts and a windy sensation felt by some Columbus men yesterday.
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Columbus
Cincinnati
Ohio
Kentucky
Air Force
Dayton
Telegraphers Strike Set for Monday
Federal mediators try to avert a nationwide walkout by 35,000 Western Union telegraphers. The AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union seeks a 25 cent hourly wage increase under a two year contract clause allowing wage negotiations on July 1 in wartime. The union argues the Korean crisis constitutes a limited war triggering the clause.
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Washington
Western Union
AFL
J. R. Mandelbaum
New York
The
Conciliation Service
CTU
Price Right Compromise Is Sought
Washington AP Senator Douglas seeks to limit price rollbacks while Senator Williams proposes withdrawing price supports if any ceiling applies. House debate looms with 100 plus amendments. leaders consider extending the current controls law. CIO threatens to boycott stabilization unless a more favorable program is approved as Emil Rieve denounces the plan.
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CIO
Congress
Senate
House
Douglas
Williams
R-Del
Willams
Emil Rieve
Big Labor Organization
Committee On Economic Policy
Wage ‘Stabilization Board
Rieve
Archbishop backs legal betting shops in Britain
Canterbury archbishop urges legal cash betting shops for horse players, arguing that gambling will occur regardless of law. He calls for regulated gambling as part of national policy, signaling a shift in church stance on betting.
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Canterbury
England
Church of England
Seid Sittee
Building bustle and bargain lumber ad sparks quick sale
An Athens Messenger Want Ad for ROTCH LUMBER-Garage materials draws rapid interest. Drensen H Goldaberry reports the garage vanished before he could read the paper, illustrating how inexpensive ads produce results in a busy building market.
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Premiixes
Drensen H
Goldberry
Death penalty sought for nine churchmen in Hungary
Budapest Hungary State Prosecutor Gy ny i Alap demanded the severest punishment, apparently the death penalty, for archbishop Josef Groesz and eight others being tried for conspiring to overthrow Hungarys Communist government. The case targets a successor to Cardinal Mindszenty as the Catholic Church faces suppression.
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Hungary
Gynia Alap
Josef Groesz
Mindszenty
Anot
Senate Fights Over Social Security Relief Increase
Senate debated whether to stand by a proposed federal share rise for social security relief payments totaling 253 624 000 annually. The move would boost monthly payments for the aged blind and disabled and add 3 for dependent children. The clash focused on a Taft motion to reconsider last week’s approval. Oscar R Ewing signaled a push to secure hospital care for about 7 000 000 people within forthcoming Congress actions.
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Senate
Taft
R-Ohie
Oscar R. Ewing
Congress
Senate MacArthur probe ends as senators remain divided
Washington dispatch reports the 42 day Senate inquiry into General MacArthur’s ouster concluded with clear partisan splits. Senators McMahon and Brewster labeled the Truman administration and its critics, while other members eyed positions between the two. Maj. Gen. Emmett O’Donnell testified the UN forces erred in not bombing Manchurian bases earlier yet warned such strikes could threaten future leverage against the Soviets.
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Senate
Uglas MacArthur
Truman
MacArthur
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
McMahon
Senator Brewster
Brewster
Emmett
Rosie) O'Donnell
O'Donnell
15Th Air Forca
Far Eastern Bomber Command
United Nations
Korea
Russia
Reds in Foxholes Rally After Bugle Call
In Korea, Turks slipped through Chinese lines and captured a machinegun crew. Sgt Melamed Varma spotted a prisoner with a bugle and ordered a blast to assemble. Reds emerged from fox holes as Varma and his Turkish squad closed in, rounding up 56 enemies.
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Tokyo
Korea
Melamed Varma
Vurma
Schools Get $26,500,000 on New Bill
Columbus reports new figures showing the education bill would add 26.5 million dollars to subsidies over the next two years starting July 1. The plan would provide about 20.5 million for the coming period, with total education funding rising from 182 million to a projected 207 million, per state figures and bill sponsors. Governor Lausche has not yet stated whether he will veto or sign before July 2.
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Columbus
Iert Gore
Frank Lausche
Youth Tells Of Addiction in Senate Hearings
A 17 year old treated for drug addiction at a federal hospital told Senate crime investigators he quit school to earn money to feed his dope habit. He said he began with marijuana at 14 and later moved to harder drugs. The testimony was shown only by hands, not televised, amid warnings of an epidemic from a U S Public Health Service official.
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Washington
Federal
Senate
Ealoak
U. S. Public Health Service
Fall From Cliff Fatal To Noble County Man
Mike Kerastas, 40, of near Caldwell died at St. Francis Hospital after a 175 foot fall from a cliff last week. He was walking home when the ground gave way beneath him and he plummeted to the bottom. He succumbed to injuries Sunday.
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Cambridge
Mike Kerastay
Near Caldwell
St. Francis Hospital
Kerastas
Rites set for Harley Pickett in Gallipolis air crash
Funeral arrangements are announced for Harley Bert Pickett Jr. 40 of Gallipolis killed in a Darwin area plane crash Sunday alongside Donald Duffy 3. Services Friday at 2 p.m. at Ewing Funeral Home in Pomeroy with Rev. L. A. Donnally officiating. Burial at Wella Cemetery near Downington. Military rites by Gallipolis VFW post. Pickett was a former Air Transport Command pilot and Air Reserve member, a Grange and Modern Woodmen member, and a Buckeye Branch Rural Electrification Co. bookkeeper. Duffy was a radiotech. Both men died when the plane piloted by Pickett crashed near his mother's home.
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Gallipolis
Darwin
Donald Duffy
Mr. Pickett
Ewing
Pomeroy
L. A. Donnally
Grace Methodist Church
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Wella Cemetery
Downington
Jackson Road
Air Transport Command
Pickett
Air Perce Reserve
Grange and
Modern Woodmen of America
Buckeye
The
Rural Electrification Co
Duffy
Tornadoes Strike Across States, Causing Massive Losses
Tornadoes and windstorms battered four states injuring at least five people and causing over 1 million dollars in damage. In Iowa and Nebraska communities suffered heavy losses with Duncan wrecked and Crystal Lake town fully damaged as storms moved through rural areas.
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Nebraska
Colorado
Minnesota
Duncan
Crystal Lake
Color Television Goes On Commercial Basis
NEW YORK color television moves to a commercial basis as the Columbia Broadcasting System airs an hour show with seven sponsors paying 1000 dollars each for one minute of advertising. The color system had been in dispute with RCA Victor and reached the Supreme Court prior to this broadcast.
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New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
Afl
Rca-Victoria
Supreme Court
Wards Lose 500000 In Series Of Thefts
New York police disclosed goods worth 500000 stolen from Montgomery Ward and Co mail order house over 30 months. Investigators questioned two truck drivers and a housewife. no charges filed.
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New York
Montgomery ‘Ward and Co
Extended Forecast for Columbus Ohio Five Day Outlook
Five day forecast for Columbus Ohio shows temperatures 4 to 8 degrees above normal with highs near 81 and lows around 60. Temperatures rise slowly becoming warm and humid by Friday while precipitation averages about half an inch with scattered thundershowers likely in the evening and overnight periods.
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Columbus
Ohio
Assembly Chieftain Leads Study of Moscow's Terms
United Nations President Nasrollah Entezam takes charge of UN efforts to probe Moscow's terms for ending the Korean War. He plans to meet Chief Soviet Delegate Malik promptly as Western diplomats weigh Malik's call for cease fire and possible armistice with withdrawals at the 38th parallel.
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N.Y
General Assembly
Nasrollah Entezam
Moscow
Korea
Entezam
Washington
Jacob A. Malik
Malik
38Th Parallel
Britain Orders Cruiser To Iranian Oil Port
Washington reports Secretary Acheson warned the Iran oil crisis moving toward disaster. Britain orders cruiser Mauritius to Abadan area as Anglo Iranian Oil Co tankers face Iran clearance refusals. Ten ships loaded but refused clearance. captains told to pump off if needed. Iran’s Mossadegh appeals for oil workers to stay, while Britain warns Iran of international responsibility.
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Washington
Acheson
Oif
London
Mauritius
Abadan
Herbert Morrison
House of Commons
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co
Iran
Morrison Sa
Persia
Mohammed Mossadegh
Francis Shepherd
Mossadegh
Francis
Anglofranian Oil Company
U S Civil Defense Lags Behind Russia
New York dispatch reports civil defense chief Millard Caldwell says the United States trails Russia in preparedness. He cites 20 to 40 million Russians trained as civil defense workers versus 15 million needed in the U S, with under one million Americans volunteered.
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New York
United States
Millard Caldwell
Caldwell
U. S
Caid
Phone Rate Hearing Held in Columbus with Ohio Bell
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission meets with Ohio Bell and city law directors to discuss a rate increase. The session targets a 2 percent rise sought three years ago, not the 16 cent raise previously requested. The commission aims to gauge how far apart the cities and the company are on an acceptable increase.
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Columbus
State Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Ohio
Ohio Bell
The
Telephone Co
Te Ae Ee
Ohio Supreme Court
PUCO
Proson
Public ‘Utilities Commission
Eighteen Freight Cars Derailed on B&O Line Near Edgefield
Eighteen cars of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed yesterday near Edgefield, about 15 miles northwest of Washington Court House. No injuries were reported and authorities investigated the incident.
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B&o
Washington Court House
Baltimore & Ohio
Edgefield
Here
Taft Rejects Bipartisan Foreign Policy Claim
Senator Taft says Truman's assertion of a bipartisan foreign policy is false. Speaking at Tulahoma Tennessee he accuses the president of a smear campaign and warns Republicans have not consulted since 1948. Taft cites Vandenberg on China policy and defends GOP independence.
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Taft
Washington
Ohie
Truman
Senate Republican Committee
Tullahoma
Tenn
Ohioan
United States
Ohio
Vandenberg
China
Arthur Vandenberg
Amt Mander
Nes
Ach Perstns
Defense
Marshall
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Acheon
Newark Police Chief Aims To End Local Gambling
Police Capt. James Cree led a raid on a Newark pool hall and arrested eight men on gambling charges. Chief Arthur Jones said after the raid that, since the last grand jury, some Newark residents think sidewalk gambling may occur, but pin says there will be no gambling in Newark.
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James Cree
Cree
Arthur Jones
Lince
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