Joy and grief mark first POW release in Korea truce
Repatriation of 70 American POWs from Panmunjom brings mixed emotion to homes across the United States. Families celebrate the return of loved ones while recalling losses, with stories from Fresno, Evanston, Queens, and Texas illustrating joy, sorrow, and ongoing hope for the disappeared.
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Panmunjom
Nora Bingham
Raymondville
Tex
Sgt
Jesse H. Bingham
Jimmie
Korea
No Peace Yet in Grocery Rift
Four Austin supermarkets closed by a 100 worker strike of Local 578 CIO plan a meeting in Austin this afternoon. The strike began July 24 with stores closed since July 27. Union seeks higher wages, shorter work week, and new vacation schedule. earlier settlements ranged from four to eight dollar wage increases plus reduced hours and extra vacation.
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Austin
Sayers
Strong Protest Sent to Russia Over Bomber Shootdown
The United States demanded compensation from Russia for the July 29 shootdown of an American four engine B 50 bomber over the Sea of Japan. Washington rejected Moscow’s version and sought an exhaustive investigation into the crew losses. The note to the Russian Foreign Office also seeks payment for the aircraft and any crew fatalities.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Sea of Japan
Moscow
Cape Gamov
What Congress Said It Did in 1953
A summary of remarks from the 83rd Congress session highlighting partisan views. Rep Halleck credits the first session with keeping faith with the American people. Rep Cannon contends the Congress fell short of pledges on which it was elected.
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Congress
Washington
Rep. Halleck
House
Rep. Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
U S Plane Blazes Into North Atlantic During Training Flight
A ten engine U S Air Force RB 36 bomber plunged into the North Atlantic with 23 crew aboard during a training flight from Travis AFB California toward England. Survivors and bodies were recovered by a British ship 420 miles west of Prestwick as search vessels scoured the area.
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London
North Atlantic
Manchester Shipper
Prestwick
Scotland
Uruguay
Travis Air Force Base
California
England
U.S. Air Force Aircraft Control Center
Ruislip
Brown elected Grand Chief Engineer of BL E
Guy L. Brown was elected to the position of Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, acting in the role since the death of James P. Shields on June 29.
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Cleveland
Guy L. Brown
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
James P. Shields
Dulles and Rhee Set Rapid Four Day Talks Ahead of Conference
U S Secretary of State Dulles and President Rhee agree on four days of talks in Seoul to outline an international post armistice Far Eastern conference between Oct 1 and 15. They aim to focus on Korean questions unresolved by the war and discuss a possible Korea unification stance alongside potential security treaties.
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Seoul
U.S
State Dulles
Syngman Rhee
U.N. Assembly
Rhee
Dulles
Korea
United States
South
Henry Cabot Lodge
U. S
United Nations
Walter S. Robertson
Eisenhower
Ellis O. Briggs
Carl McCardle
War Department
B47 Stratojets Set Jet Flight Distance Records
Two Air Force B47 Stratojets demonstrated jet bomber range with non stop flights from England to Florida and Georgia. One plane covered 4,450 miles to Tampa in 9 hours 53 minutes at 42,700 feet average 454 mph. The second, 4,151 miles to Savannah, GA, in 9 hours 26 minutes at 440 mph before diverting due to fuel.
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Macdill Afb
Tampa
Fila
Air Force
Hunter Afb
Savannah
Fairford
Congress Junkets Reach Congo to California
Congress plans a busy junket season with committees touring from the Congo to California. Members of the House Agriculture Committee seek grass roots insight for next year’s farm price laws while Foreign Affairs panels travel to the Far East, Near East, Europe and Latin America.
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Washington
Congo
California
House Agriculture Committee
Senate Foreign Relations
House Foreign Affairs Committees
House Agriculture
House
Far East
Near East
South America
Europe
Senate
Latin America
Middle East
House Atomic Energy Committee
Belgian Congo
Asia
Senate Public Works
United States
Alaska
Interior Affairs Committee
Korea
Freed Prisoners Return From Korea Amid Censorship
Seventy Americans freed from Communist camps arrive at Freedom Village Korea aboard helicopters from Panmunjom. They describe captivity briefly under censorship and recall harsh treatment, hunger, and indoctrination before resuming normal life with attending doctors, meals, and a celebratory reception led by Gen Maxwell D. Taylor and other officials.
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William J. Waugh
French Phone Telegraph Workers to Strike Over Ouster Plan
Premier Laniel said France's finances look easier as the Socialist Union led a strike by PT T workers. The Force Ouvriere order calls for an unlimited walkout to protest reorganizing the PTT and seeks a pay raise and a year end bonus of about $57. Other unions may join.
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Paris
Joseph Lanjel
France
Post, Telephone and Telegraph
PTT
Force Ouvriere
Lanier
East German desertions. 37 flee to West Berlin
In Berlin today thirty seven East German soldiers and policemen fled to West Berlin, the second largest mass desertion this year. Among the fugitives were one officer, with 20 from the Red Wehrmacht and 17 from the People’s Police, amid a Soviet blockade around the city and hunger relief efforts for 18 million East Germans.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Red Wehrmacht
People’s Police
Free Jurists League
Zossen
Free German Youth
FDJ
Mollen Lake
Free Jurists
East Berlin
Russia Ready for Big 4 Talks
The Soviet Union signals readiness for a Big Four meeting on Germany and calls for a wider parley including Communist China. Moscow counters with four topics for discussion and urges broader talks on Asia and international tension.
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Russia
Moscow
Soviet Union
Germany
July 2 Fatalities Lift Iowa Traffic Toll to Record Level
Iowa records show 76 traffic deaths in July making it the second worst month in state history behind August 1941 with 80 fatalities. The Department of Public Safety released the figures on Tuesday noting the grim toll.
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Des Moines
State Department of Public Safety
Prisoners of war begin long Korean War exchange
Four hundred Allied captives freed from North Korea ride Russian trucks toward freedom as 12,763 U N troops including 3,313 Americans swap for 74,000 Reds. Maj. Gen. William F. Dean among missing Americans, while Maj. John Daulat reports sentences for instigating peace. Seventy more Americans may leave in the next day.
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Panmunjom
Maxwell D. Taylor
8Th Army
U. S
John Foster Dulles
U. S. Army
Robert Stevens
Pfc
Albert Chicckine
Bloomfield
N. J
Chicckine
North Korea
Freedom
U. N
Maj
John Daulat
Richmond
Calif
Reds
Washington
Pentagon
State Department
Greece
Australia
Canada
Belgium
South Africa
Freedom Village
Camp
Britannica
Camp Britannica
Camp Liberty
Inchon
Korea
Japan
William F. Dean
Taejon
Czechs Fear Germans More Than Commies
A Sudeten German refugee in West Berlin says Czechs fear Germans more than Communists. He describes the June 17 revolt as widening fears of a German revival and confirms Czech distrust of their rulers. Helmut fled Prague on a bicycle, crossing 400 miles of controlled territory, and is now under questioning by American intelligence agents.
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Berlin
Sudetenland
Helmut
Prague
West Berlin
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