Reds to Release Gen Dean Soon As Prisoner Exchange Progress Reported
Panmunjom reports indicate the Communists and United Nations Command will complete the prisoner exchange by Sunday. Maj. Gen. William Dean, held for weeks near Kaesong, may be repatriated soon, with Burchett stating Dean is in good health and gaining weight in captivity.
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Reds
Gen
Dean
Panmunjom
North Korea
Freedom
William Dean
Lawrence V. Bach
Grand Forks
N. D
United Nations Command
Kaesong
Burchett
Red China
Peiping Radio
U. S. 24Th Division
Taejon
Aldrich Zacherle
Tacoma
Wash
Des Moines
Iowa
Zacherle
UN Chief Won’t Reinstate Four U.N. Employees
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold says he will not rehire four American employees ousted amid U.S. loyalty probes, despite a UN tribunal ruling for reinstatement. He will refer all 11 cases to the General Assembly, noting the assembly has authority over funds and decisions. The tribunal had ordered damages and back salaries for the other seven.
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United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
U. S
Hammarksjold
Stnate
Supreme Court
General Assembly
Tri
Hammarskjold
Assembly
Legion Group Attacks Air Force Budget Cuts at Convention
American Legion delegates prepared to wind up their national meeting as Col Roscoe Turner charged the Security Committee stripped his Aeronautics Committee report of impact. Turner sought region policy input versus top leadership pronouncements. His panel had urged reestablishment of a 143 wing, but the plan was pared to 120 wings by the budget cuts.
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Louis
Eisenhower
American Legionnaires
Roscoe Turner
Legion’s Aeronautics Committee
Security Committee
Turner
Postal Clerk Accused Of Shorting Postage Fee
Denver postal clerk Hubert Leo Hutt, 31, released on $500 bond, faces a federal charge he collected 65 cents for a parcel post mailing but placed only 58 cents in stamps. U S district attorney Charles Vigil said the arrest stems from the incident at Fort Collins Colorado.
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Denver
Hubert Leo Hutt
Fort Collins
Colo
Charles &. Vigil
U. S
Truman to Appear on Ford TV Show in NBC Bid
Former President Harry Truman slated for first commercial TV appearance on September 20. He will be paid about $8000 to discuss American opportunities and the Point Four aid program on Excursion, a Ford Foundation program over NBC aimed at younger viewers.
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New York
Variety
Harry Truman
Ford Foundation
NBC
America
Fire crews quell trash fire at county fairgrounds
Firemen were dispatched to the Athens County Fairgrounds around noon Thursday to prevent a trash fire from spreading near horse barns. The blaze was extinguished without further incident.
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Athens County Fairgrounds
710-Pound Man Freed
Tulsa reports the 710-pound Fred Pebley freed from his trailer after six men used moving gear to transfer him to a bed at the county home. Doctors cited an overactive pituitary gland as the cause of his weight. Pebley, 38, left his trailer for the first time in 12 months and said, I’m free and happy.
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Tulsa
Okla
Fred Pebley
Kansas
Pebley
Confessed arsonist found dead in county jail
Franklin County officials report Wayne Siders, 29, of Columbus, hanged himself in the county jail while awaiting arson trial. He had confessed to setting three fires near his home.
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Columbus
Ohio
Franklin County Sheriff's Office
Wayne Siders
Siders
Lima State Hospital
Cold front to cool Ohio Valley as heat wave persists
A Canadian cold front is moving toward Ohio Valley with visibility of cooler air by Friday. The 101 degree high in Athens tops several years while Parkersburg records 106 in August 1918, and Ohio cities report around 100 degrees. Thunderstorms possible tonight with more showers Friday.
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Canada
Weather Bureau
Minnesota
I.s
U.S
Washington
Athens
C. L. Colmer
Ohio
Parkersburg
Ohio Valley
Point Pleasant
Gallipolis
Columbus
Clark County
George Rogers Clark State Park
Clinton County
Cleveland
Portsmouth
Cambridge
Dayton
Springfield
Jurist Rules GIs Arrest Was Illegal
District Judge Alexander Holtzoff ruled former Airman Robert W. Toth was illegally removed to Korea to face a military court on a murder charge. He ordered Toth released from Air Force custody and set a $1000 bond for his return to Pittsburgh.
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Washington
Alexander Holtzoff
Robert W. Toth
Korea
Holtzoff
Toth
Pittsburgh
William A. Kehoe, Jr
U. S
Girl Garners Fair Honors at Ohio State Fair
Bellefontaine 14-year-old Barbara Brackney sees her Hereford steer win grand championship in the all breeds division. The 1025 pound animal likely fetches $3 to $5 per pound at today's fair auction. Governor Lausche leads Governor's Day events with Bricker and former governors Herbert and Cooper touring the grounds. American Aberdeen Angus Show and first national Southdown show also open.
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Columbus
Ohio
Barbara Brackney
Bellefontaine
Frank J. Lausche
John W. Bricker
Thomas J. Herbert
Myers Y. Cooper
Former Communists Testify At Ohio Hearings In Columbus
The Ohio Un-American Activities Commission opened its first public hearing of the year and reviewed a 12 year Communist presence in the Akron rubber area. Four former members testified they joined at various times between 1936 and 1948 and later left the party. Mitri cited 300 to 400 dues paying Akron area members over the period.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Un-American Activities Commission
Akron
Chistian
A. Probst
Mae
Vani Mitri
Ralph J. Kerns
Cuyahoga Falls
Statehouse
Mutri
Mitri
Lamb Tipped For Dem Post
Edward Lamb of Toledo Ohio is reportedly under serious consideration for the next treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. A source said Lamb would likely accept the job as a party obligation. He is publisher of the Erie Dispatch and owner of WTOD Toledo and WMAC TV Canton Massillon.
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Washington
Edward Lamb
Toledo
Ohio
Democratic National Committee
Lamb
Democratic National
Erie
Wmac-Tv
Canton- Massillon
Nine Ohioans Freed In Today's Trade
The official list of American war prisoners freed by the Communists today at Panmunjom includes nine Ohioans: Sgt. 1c Everett M. Phillips Chrey Toledo Sgt. 1c Lester Bell Rossford M Sgt William G. Myers Dayton Sgt. 1c Donald B. Cunningham East Liverpool Pvt Thomas F. Swinehart Upper Sandusky Sgt James L. Stengel Anna Pfc Edward N. Soltis Cleveland M Sgt Kenneth G. Baldwin Cincinnati.
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Cleveland
Kenneth G. Baldwin
Cincinnati
Police Probe Death of Barberton Youth
Police investigate the death of 11 year old Leo Killinger in Barberton Ohio found mortally wounded at home after an older sister heard a shotgun blast from the father’s gun. Family suspects the boy may have shot himself to avoid returning to school.
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Barberton
Ohio
Leo Killinger
Martinsburg 175th Birthday Party Turns On Kangaroo Trial
Martinsburg, West Virginia staged a mock public trial as part of its 175th birthday celebration. Councilman W. H. Perry faced a supposed bank robbery charge and was ridiculed at the pillory, with Mayor Carlton B. Stuckey also subjected to the spectacle.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
W. H. Perry
Carlton B. Stuckey
Boat capsizing kills twenty soldiers at Fort Bragg lake
Twenty Army basic trainees, most unable to swim, drowned when a two 14 foot assault boat carrying dozens of men capsized during an orientation ride on a lake at Fort Bragg. Only two survivors were hospitalized, both in critical condition. The 406th Engineer Brigade members were pulled from 10 feet of water as medical personnel attempted resuscitation.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
Post Public Information Office
406Th Engineer Brigade
Otto Edwards
Army
Washington
Edwards
PIO
Wainwright Dies at 70
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, 70, dies at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio after a long war career. Leaders including Gen. Matthew Ridgway and Gen. George C. Marshall praise his courage and duty in World War II. Funeral plans move forward as tributes pour in.
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San Antonio
Tex
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Wainwright
Brooke Army Hospital
Corregidor Fortress
Pacific
United States
Heat Snarls Lift Bridge and Tanker in Troy
In Troy New York on the Hudson River the lift bridge between Troy and Green Island jammed in 100 degree heat. A 200 foot oil tanker waited as operators tried to raise the span to allow passage but the hot metal would not budge.
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Troy
N. Y
Green Island
Hudson River
Hermit Identified After Heat Prostration Collapse
In Worchester Massachusetts a man near 75 to 80 years old collapsed from heat prostration as temperatures neared 100 degrees. Officials say he wore five suit coats a vest a heavy work shirt trousers and woolen underwear and identified himself as Thomas Moynihan a hermit with no regular address.
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Worchester
Mass
Thomas Moynihan
Plane crashkills 19 soldiers near McChord Air Force Base
A Regina Airlines DC-3 with 19 soldiers from Fort Ord and two crew members crashed in western Washington. Fifteen bodies were found initially. the wreckage lay in 3000-foot timber at a site about 100 miles north of Portland and 40 miles short of McChord. No survivors were reported.
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Mcchord Air Force Base
Wash
Washington
Regina Airlines
Ft. Ord
Calif
Portland
Ore
McChord
Centralia
Toledo Airway
Pioneer Educator W. L. Johns Dies in Missouri
BONNE TERRE Mo Funeral services for W J Johns 76 a pioneer St Francis County educator who died Wednesday will be Friday He leaves a widow and two sons Delos C Johns president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis and Burdette T Johns chief of bureau for the Associated Press at Columbus Ohio.
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Bonne Terre
W. J. Johns
St. Francis County
Delos C. Johns
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Burdette T. Johns
Associated Press
Columbus
Ohi
Enlistments Rise Sharply After Korean War Truce
Army enlistments jumped 75 percent in the month after the Korean truce was signed. From July 27 to August 27, 11,600 men enlisted, above the 12 months prior. Officials cited no clear reasons and said it was too early to predict continued gains.
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Washington
Sugar Ration Ends in Britain After Fourteen Years
Britain ends sugar rationing this month for the first time in 14 years. Only margarine cheese bacon and meat remain on ration, signaling a broad easing of wartime controls.
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London
Britain
West confronts Russia with ultimatum on German treaty
The United States Britain and France urged Moscow to attend a Big Four foreign ministers conference in Lugano on October 15 to discuss Germany and Austria. They rejected Soviet ideas for a proffered provisional government and any inclusion of China, insisting on free elections and German unification through an all-German, people-led process.
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Washington
Russia
Moscow
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Germany
S&s
V. M. Molotov
Austria
Lugano
Switzerland
U. S
United States
Britain
France
West
China
Red China
W German Youth Gird For Battle
Bonn reports West German youth mobilized to confront Communist agitators amid elections. Police claim 7000 saboteurs caught from the Soviet East zone with more infiltrating. government says two large youth groups volunteered to help counter a Kremlin plot. Officials allege cross border orders to raid votes and harm officials. The crackdown aims to protect the CDU led Adenauer regime and allied defenses.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Soviet East
Kremlin
Heat Death Toll Surges Across Eastern States
The blistering heat persisted across the eastern half of the nation with more than 100 deaths linked to heat prostration and heart strain. Illinois tops the tally with over 3 dozen fatalities as Chicago records 16 more, while Pennsylvania 17, New York 8, and several other states report additional losses amid the historic one day heat wave.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Illinois
Chicago
Mercury
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New York
Maine
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Texas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
New Jersey
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
Missouri
Vermont
Ohio
Rhode Island
Gallia School Vacancy Filled
Lawrence Hineman was elected principal of Mercerville High School at a special Guyan Local Board meeting. Madge Shahan was chosen as home economics teacher. The votes fill the Gallia County school system trust vacancies. Board members are Pleasant Houck, Buell Swain, Truman Sheets, Roy Daniels and Lewis Sheets.
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Gallipolis
Lawrence Hineman
Mercerville
Guyan
Madge Shahan
Gallia County
Pleasant Houck
Buell Swain
Truman Sheets
Roy Daniels
Lewis Sheets
Aging picket loses job as Chicago strike ends
Alexander Scotty Orr, 69, who walked an estimated 40 000 miles over 12 years on the Petersen Chevrolet Co picket line, leaves after the AFL Auto Mechanics Union settlement ends Chicago long strike. Orr plans a quiet future in a rocking chair and foot soaking.
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Chicago
Alexander
Scotty) Orr
Petersen Chevrolet Co
AFL Auto Mechanics Union
Orr
Blaze Sweeps Grain Stores Near Sandusky
The Fangborn Milling Co. grain elevator 12 miles southwest of Sandusky burned, holding 15 000 bushels of wheat oats and corn. Loss estimated at 100 000 dollars due to spontaneous combustion. Pennsylvania Railroad rushed a locomotive and water tender from Bellevue to aid firefighters from Fremont Bellevue Clyde and Castalia. The blaze destroyed a hardware and implement store operated by the company.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Fangborn Milling Co
Here
B. Dillon
Bellevue
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fremont
Clyde
Castalia
Minimum Sentences Imposed in Slaying
Kenton Ohio judge Arthur D Tudor imposed indeterminate terms of 1 to 20 years for Lawrence Sawyer 31 and James Tatum 25 both of Fort Wayne Indiana in the first degree manslaughter of Richard Burchiel 24 of Kenton on June 9 Sawyer to Ohio State Penitentiary Tatum to Mansfield Reformatory
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Kenton
Ohio
Arthur D. Tudor
Richard Burchiel
Lawrence Sawyer
James Tatum
Fort Wayne
Ind
Sawyer
Oho State Penitentiary
Tatum
Mansfield Reformatory
Truck Mishap Fatal in Newark
Forrest Lenhart of Newark, 32, was killed when a tow-chain broke on Wednesday, throwing him from the truck cab as a cement barrel toppled from the load and struck him.
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Newark
Ohio
Forrest Lenhart
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Secretary of Defense
George C. Marshall
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W. L. Johns
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