Red-Swayed Yanks Enter Truce Zone
Panmunjom report says 359 prisoners handed to Indian troops in the demilitarized zone. Among them 23 Americans and 1 Briton, with 335 South Koreans, some refusing repatriation. Prisoners sang Internationale while South Koreans jeered U.S. reporters. Allied explainers to address prisoners about their right to choose home or stay.
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Panmunjom
Neutral Nations
U.S
Skinner
Akron
Burchett
Reds
Kaesong
Explosions Injure 27 and Kill Ten at New York Plant
In Tonawanda New York the district attorney ordered an investigation after a series of blasts at the Lucidol division plant of the Novadel Agene Corp killed at least ten workers and injured twenty seven. Fire officials fear a higher death toll as searchers probe the ruins of a one story brick building. Company president Franciscus Vissar't Hooft said a batch of material apparently ignited triggering the explosions. The exact cause remained undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonawanda
N. Y
Lucidol Division
Novadel-Agene Corp
Franciscus Vissar’t Hooft
Dulles Calls AFL for World Communist Myth Fight
Secretary of State Dulles urged a closer partnership with the American Federation of Labor in a worldwide campaign to explode the Communist myth of worker oppression behind the Iron Curtain. He said Reds use the myth to extend Soviet power and praised the AFL for exposing it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Dulles
Reds
AFL
U S Discards Action Against Girl Sailor
The federal government dropped a charge of illegally wearing a Navy uniform against 18 year old Joan Garrison who stowed away aboard the heavy cruiser Los Angeles last summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Joan Garrison
Navy
You Owe Carrier Not The Messenger
A brief notice from the Athens Messenger warns customers that the carrier relies on timely payment to keep weekly profits intact. It cautions that delinquent accounts can jeopardize the carrier’s earnings and urges prompt payment at week’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Messenger
Logan and Athens Telephone Firms Plan Merger
Logan Home Telephone Co and Athens Home Telephone Co announce a proposed consolidation into Commonwealth Telephone Co of Ohio. The merged entity will hold assets over 2.5 million dollars, serve about 12 000 subscribers across 13 exchanges, with Athens as main office. Final steps require Logan shareholders' ratification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Logan Home Telephone Co
Athens Home Eveen Co
Barton A. Hall
Howard C. Slusher
Hall
Slusher
The
Commonwealth Telephone Co of Ohio
Athens
Athens Home Telephone Co
A. F. Holmes
Albany
C. L. Jones
Logan Company
Hocking County
Dr. Holmes
Dr. Jones
Dr Holmes
Logan Clay Products Co
AFL Sounds Battle Cry On Taft Hartley Law
The AFL hearing Eisenhower’s message says the Taft Hartley Act is essentially sound and administration aims to keep key provisions while proposing amendments next January. Nixon read the message. Dulles Hobby and Truman spoke as Truman planned to attend memorial services for William Green.
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ST. Louis
AFL
Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Congress
Jin
Dulles
Welfare
Oveta Culp Hobby
Truman
Banker Hails Fiscal Policy By Eisenhower Admin
Everett D. Reese president of the American Bankers Assn says he is highly pleased with the administration’s handling of the national debt and taxes. He notes careful decision making and support for balancing the budget and tax reductions. Reese, 55, became ABA president at the close of its 79th convention.
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Washington
Everett D. Reese
Newark
Ohio
The
American Bankers Assn
Reese
Association
Park National Bank of
Airline Seeks Service Extension in SE Ohio
The Civil Aeronautics Board will investigate Piedmont Airlines request to extend service beyond Charleston West Virginia to Columbus via Parkersburg West Virginia and Marietta Ohio.
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Ohio
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Piedmont Airlines
Charleston
W. Va
Columbus
Parkersburg
W.va
Marietta
Rita Hayworth and Dick Haymes Marry Again in Las Vegas
Rita Hayworth, 34, and Dick Haymes, 35, renewed vows in a simple Sands Hotel Gold Room ceremony in Las Vegas. The affair featured photographers and reporters outnumbering invited guests, with Hayworth wearing a blue linen dress and a toast-colored hat.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Rita Hayworth
Dick Haymes
Sands Hotel
Prince Aly Khan
Miss Hayworth
UN Demands Honest Accounting for Missing Allied POWs
Gen. Mark Clark said Red answers to UN demands for missing Allied soldiers held as prisoners are wholly unacceptable. In a Panmunjom letter he urged the immediate return of UN personnel still in Communist hands and an honest accounting for others identified as captives. The Sept. 9 demand listed 3404 men, including 944 Americans, later revised to 3421.
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Tokyo
Mark Clark
Red
Panmunjom
United Nations Command
Reds
Wiley Admits Revenue Need But Spurns Sales Tax Plan
Wisconsin Senator Wiley cautioned that defense spending must rise while dismissing a national sales tax as politically unviable. He noted the Eisenhower administration may consider tax ideas but warned such tax proposals risk Congress rejection and political backlash.
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Wiley
Green Bay
Wis
Sen
United States
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dean Warns Soviet Could Erase Nation
Gordon Dean former AEC chairman warned at Wentworth by the Sea that within a year or two Russia could destroy the United States if she moves first. He urged rapid world opinion mobilization to stop the Soviet threat and feared a future war would involve new or greatly improved weapons beyond tanks and artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wentworth-By-The-Sea, N. H
Gordon Dean
Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
Dean
National Assn. of
Northern Textile Assn
Korea
Pennsylvania Jurist Seen as Court Choice
Philadelphia report says Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice John C. Bell Jr. is recommended to President Eisenhower to fill the late Chief Justice Vinson seat. Bell, a Philadelphia native and former state governor and lieutenant governor, is endorsed by Senators Edward Martin and James Duff and Governor John S. Fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
John C. Bell, Jr
Eisenhower
Fred M. Vinson
U. S. Supreme Court
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Inquirer
Bell
Edward Martin
James H. Duff
John S. Fine
Agreement reached in pottery industry
Labor management negotiations in the pottery industry ended Wednesday with a six month extension of the contract from Oct 1 to April 1, 1954. Frank Hull president of the AFL International Brotherhood of Operative Potters announced the agreement. The union represents about 28,000 members in 11 states and the firms make about 70 percent of the United States dinnerware.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Hull
AFL International Brotherhood of Operative Potters
United States
Top Defense Chiefs Meet For Nuclear Era Remake
The White House and Defense Department convened an unusually large National Security Council session with 26 participants including Joint Chiefs of Staff and six special consultants to chart a new look for the armed forces. The aim is to remodel forces and prepare budget guidance as hydrogen bomb prospects rise and Cold War pressures grow.
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Washington
Pentagon
National Security Council
Joint Chiefs of Staff
America
White House
Defense Department
Armed Services
Continental
Harold W. Bull
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Fisenhower
Wilson
Joseph M. Dodge
Joint Chiefs
Russia
United States
North American
French Join Mop Up Against Vietminh Ambush Capital
Dawn operation by French Union forces supported by planes armor and naval units drives Vietminh units from the Red River delta near Huygen thirty miles southeast of Hanoi. High command says several battalions possibly five thousand troops are advancing to clear the ambush capital after months of Vietminh ambushes.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Red River
Huygen
Mother Claims Son Held Against Will in Korea Repatriation Row
Mrs. Howard L. Rush of Marietta says Sgt. Scott L. Rush 21 is on a Communist list of Americans who refused repatriation in Korea. She notes every letter from Scott spoke of coming home and plans after homecoming.
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Marietta
Ohio
Howard L. Rush
Sgt
Scott L. Rush
Korea
Scott
Probe Bares Immoral Conduct at Madison Home
State Welfare Director John Lamneck reports homosexual relations among certain girl inmates at the Madison Home in Lake County. The facility serves elderly relatives of veterans and now houses 38 residents.
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Columbus
Ohio
John Lamneck
Madison
Lake County
Crash Kills Baby in Ohio Two-Car Wreck
Five week old Donalyn Elston of Fairborn died in a two car collision at the U S 36 and Ohio 69 junction one mile west of St Paris Champaign County. Parents Donalyn Elston and Harold Pence of St Paris were injured along with the Elstons.
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Piqua
Ohio
Donalyn Elston
Donald Elston
Fairborn
U. S. 36
Ohio 69
St. Paris
Champaign County
Harold Pence
U S campus murder probe yields love letters evidence
Officers find two letters to Cynthia Pfiel in the Roy Schinagle case, one to be used at trial as proof of planned murder. Prosecutor plans first degree charges for the 19 year old suspect who allegedly strangled his bride to be and beat her with a pipe before dumping her body near Delaware.
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Upper Sandusky
Ohio
Roy Schinagle
Dean McAllister
Wyandot County
Cleveland
Cynthia Pfiel
White Plains
N. Y
McAllister
Schinagle
Delaware
Mayfield Heights
Ohio Esleyan University
The
Plain Dealer
Schinagie
Harold Roth
Ohio Wesleyan
Ohio County
Upper
Sandusky
Schinagile
McCarthy Says Lamont Faces Senate Contempt Counts
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy announces plans to ask the Senate to cite Corliss Lamont for contempt over refusal to answer questions before the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee. Lamont challenges the committee’s legality and asserts loyalty to the United States. Lamont testifies to his innocence and plans to testify again next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
Corliss Lamont
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Lamont
McCarthy
Communist Party
Boy 3 Drowns After Wandering From Home
Dayton Ohio deputies report Philip Hess aged 3 wandered about a mile from his Shiloh home on Wednesday and drowned in a two foot deep fishpond.
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Boy
Dayton
Ohio
Sheriff's
Philip Hess
Shiloh
Piqua Pioneer Gries Dies at 76 Former Hoover Public Works Chief
John M. Gries a longtime associate of seven U S presidents and former chief of public construction under Herbert Hoover died Wednesday at his home near Piqua. He was 76 and remembered for his public service career and influence in construction policy.
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Piqua
John M. Gries
Hoover
Here
Two Canton men admit armed robbery at Zanesville grocery
Acting Police Chief Henry Richardson said yesterday that Canton residents Milton Schneider 22 and Sam Munteau 18 admitted participating in the armed robbery of a Zanesville grocery store in August.
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Zanesville
Henry Richardson
Canton
Milton Schneider
Sam Munteau
Youth vanishes in Massillon three-state search
A three state hunt was under way for Vernon Walters 13 son of David Walters who disappeared last Thursday from Brewster Detectors followed leads in Ohio Indiana and Michigan as authorities sought any clue to his whereabouts.
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Massillon
Vernon Walters
David Walters
Brewster
Rescue on Skyscraper Ledge At Tribune Tower
TV viewers watched a dramatic rescue as Millicent Armin, 36, of Chicago climbed a 20th floor ledge at Tribune Tower and threatened to jump. Police firemen a priest and office workers urged her to come inside for over an hour before she was pulled to safety after reaching to pat her dog.
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Chicago
Tribune Tower
Wbbm-Tv
Millicent Armin
Republic Steel cuts Canton and Massillon output sharply
Republic Steel Corp said it trimmed production at its Canton and Massillon plants to 66 percent, laying off about 12 workers. The cuts affect stainless steel output while the rest of the company’s six plants run normally. The reductions stem from inventory readjustments, reduced defense demand, and the General Motors Livonia fire, which disrupted supply of transmissions using Republic alloys.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corp
Canton
Masslion
Two
Ponte
Republic
General Motors
Livonia
Mich
British Support for Lodge on Peace Parleys Plan
United Nations General Assembly nears midpoint as Britain signals strong backing for U S views on Korea peace conference makeup. London opposes reopening debate on expanding a four Asian neutral front, while supporting Turkey for Security Council and noting Philippines candidacy for the council with Arab-Asian bloc backing.
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Lodge
United Nations
N. Y
UN General Assembly
U. S
Lloyd
Assembly
Britain
Russia
Andrei Vishinsky
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Turkey
Security Council
Greece
Philippines
Council
United States Offers to Return MIG 15 to Owner
The United States proposed returning the MIG15 flown into American lines by a North Korean pilot to its rightful owner, while the Far East Command withdrew a prior $50,000 offer for undamaged MIGs during armistice talks. The pilot would receive $50,000 for the plane plus a $50,000 bonus per Clark statement.
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Washington
United States
Far East Command
Clark
Tokyo
United States of America
MI6
Dayton
Ohio
Journal Herald
Air Force
United Naiions
Mark Clark
Korea
Air
Ruling Cuts Deputy Staff Across Ohio
A state industrial commission ruling may strip about 10 000 special deputies in Ohio. The decision revokes 700 commissions in Franklin County, threatening liability for damages in deaths of any person holding a special commission and affecting private and auxiliary police, investigators and other security staff statewide.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Industrial Commission
Franklin County
Ralph J. Paul
Paul
Buckeye
12 Persons Injured In Hunting Mishaps
The state wildlife division reports at least 12 people injured and one killed during the first week of the squirrel hunting season in Ohio. A Marion boy was wounded by his own rifle while cycling to hunt.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Wildlife Division
Guthrie, Wildlife Division
Marion
Gene E. Krawczyk
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