McClellan Outlines New Push to Free U S Captives
Sen. Len McClellan reports a renewed approach to free American prisoners held by Red China after a Senate subcommittee session with State and Defense officials. He cites UN involvement and a reduced prisoner total now at 481 military and 40 civilian cases, while criticizing the president's handling of the issue as delicate and not fully resolved.
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McClellan
Washington
Len McClellan
D-Ark
State Department
China
Gene McClellan
Senate Investigations
15Th
Defense Department
Red Chinese League
United Nations
Wcto
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Hisenhower
This Guy Surely Should Have Known After 86 Years
Bernarr MacFadden, 86, physical culture pioneer and health publisher, jailed in Jersey City on a writ to stop him leaving the state amid his fourth wife Johnnie Lee’s alimony suit. She seeks $600 monthly support. she says they wed in 1948 and he left in 1952. Bail set at $20,000. He remained jailed overnight at the Earle Hotel. He commented, You know how women are.
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Jersey City
N. J
Bernarr MacFadden
Johnnie Lee
New York
MacFadden
Earle
Reds Hit Matsus For First Time
Madame Chiang Kai-shek disclosed that Matsu Island was heavily shelled from the mainland last week for the first time as big coastal guns were reported emplaced. She and Chiang Kai-shek visited the island 120 miles northwest of Formosa and said Nationalist forces would defend the Matsus with or without help.
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Formosa
Matsu Island
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Matsu
Madame Chiang
Matsus
Showers and Heat Smash Records Across the Nation
A warm to hot day spread across the country with Chicago reporting a new high for the date at 83.3 nudging historic records. Readings remained in the 80s in Illinois Indiana Iowa and the South while a band of showers and storms moved toward the Great Lakes and spread to Virginia Maryland and the West Coast.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Diinois
Indiana
Iowa
South
Great Lakes
Virginia
Maryland
West Coast
Hungary Names New Premier Amid Purges
Vienna reports Hungary's Parliament appointed Andras Hed beter to replace Imre Nagy as premier. Hed beg a long career in the Communist ranks and may act as a front for Matyas Rakosi. The party central committee expelled its veteran leader, accusing him of anti Marxist positions and stalling heavy industry.
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Vienna
Austria
Hungary
Andrasedus
Imre Nagy
Hegedus
Nagy
Communist Party
Joseph Mekis
Hungarian Trade Union Council
Russia
Georgi Malenkov
Matyas Rakosi
Nikita Khrushschevosi
Mihaly Farkas
Farkas
Arkas
Transportation Study Points to Deregulated Transport System
A presidential advisory committee urged relaxing government controls to boost competition among rail, air, truck, and water carriers. The report calls for relying more on market forces in rate making to modernize policy and reduce costs for carriers shippers travelers and the public. The Cabinet endorsed it but final policy awaits Eisenhower’s approval and possible congressional action.
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Washington
Transportation Policy Committee
Sen
Magnuson
D-Wash
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Bricker
Ohio
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
Rea
Comitee
Commerce Department
White House
Eisenhower
Congress
United States
Theda Bara Leaves Estate To Sister In Will
Star Theda Bara, silent screen vamp, wills most of a $100,000 estate to her sister Mrs Lori Lara of Los Angeles. Filed today in Superior Court in Santa Monica, the actress died April 7 of cancer. her mother Pauline L Bara is not named in the will.
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Calif
Theda Bara
Silent Screen
Lori Lara
Los Angeles
Superior Court
Pauline L. Bara
Lori Bara
Miss Bara
U S Army Drives Against Black Market In Germany
U S Army cleans up black market activities in Heidelberg and surrounding areas as West German sovereignty nears. Civilian and military offenders face punishment while German officials question tax losses. Several wives and German workers were fined or carded for selling post exchange items and cigarettes.
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U.S
Germany
Heidelberg
U. S
U. S. Air Force
Bitburg
Army
Mercer County Receives Salk Serum Allotment
Mercer County received the Salk polio vaccine allotment and will begin inoculations today. Only 3,510 vaccine doses are available for 4,040 eligible first and second graders, with clinics to be allocated by 84 percent eligibility and conducted on a first come first served basis. The first clinic opens at Mercer School in Princeton at 1 p.m. for 393 eligible students. additional clinics will follow within a week, pending admin and medical confirmation.
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John Yost
Bluefield
John Seaver
Mercer County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Lon Savage
Mercer School
Princeton
Oney Gap
Cedar Cliff
Dunbar
Yost
County Board of Education
Mercer County Medical Society
Club Ramon
Fairfax County
Harold Kennedy
Richmond
Rpecere
Henrico
Chesterfield
Alexandria
Roanoke
Indonesia Sets Dates For General Election
Indonesia plans its first general election with voting on September 29 for Parliament and December 15 for a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution. The panel will convene in Bandung to form the body replacing the current appointed assembly.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Central Elections Committee
Bandung
State Distributes Vaccine Shipment Across Virginia
State Health Director N. H. Dyer said all 106 100 cubic centimeters of the Salk vaccine received in Charleston were distributed to every county. Monroe County began vaccinations with 296 first and second graders as school buses delivered children to the clinic.
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Charleston
N. H. Dyer
Indianapolis
West Virginia
Dyer
Monroe County
Union
Roanoke
Alexandria
Public Health Service
Virginia R. Singleton
Washington Street
First Baptista
Carolyn Sue Starkey
Copenhaver Wins Second Term as Charleston Mayor
In Charleston April 18 Republican John T. Copenhaver was elected to a second four year term in a tight race. He led Democrat Robert A. Robertson 13 247 to 12 543 with a 704 vote margin and carried the 24 member city council 14 to 10. Shank reelected city treasurer 12 693 to 12 666 over Burkhart. McWhorter won municipal judge 13 158 to 12 285 over Andrews. About 60 percent turnout in sunny weather signals broader GOP momentum for 1953.
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Charleston
John T. Copenhaver
Copenhaver
Robert A. Robertson
Donald C. Shank
William A. Burkhart
James A. McWhorter
Larry W. Andrews
Ga- Robertson
Kanawha County
R. Carl Andrews
Copenhaven
Thomas
House of Delegates
Kanawha
Andrews
Donal A. Shank
Wiliam A. Burkhart
Eden Faces Dilemma of British Tax Slash
London April 18 Prime Minister Eden's government faces a key choice on tax cuts as a general election looms in six weeks Britons await the 1955 56 budget to be presented by Chancellor R A Butler before the House of Commons.
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London
Eden
United States
R. A. Butler
House of Commons
Einstein Dies at 76 in New Jersey Princeton
Dr. Albert Einstein, renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, died in Princeton New Jersey at 1 15 a m after a year of ill health. He left his brain and major organs for study his body cremated and organs to Princeton Hospital.
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Princeton
N. J
Albert Einstein
Princeton Hospital
Einstein
Harry Zimmerman
Montefiore Hospital
New York
Thomas S. Harvey
Eisenhower
Ike
Vote Fraud Trial Again Postponed
Federal Judge A D Barksdale delayed the vote fraud trial of three Russell County men to August 29 because four defense witnesses were ill. Ten others indicted will be tried May 23. The defendants from Dante face absentee ballot mishandling in the 1952 election. others face charges of impersonation and forged ballots in Lebanon and Honaker precincts.
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Abingdon
A. D. Barksdale
Russell County
Frank E. Hart
Clinchfield Coal Co
Everett T. Dishman
United Mine Workers
Dante
Chester William Stapleton
Fred Greear
Norton
Barksdale
Honaker
Lebanon
Robert Ferrell Runyon
Robert van Dyke
Elbert Patton Dye
Henry Dexter Rickman
Conley Trigg Fields
Letha Fields
Paul S. Gilmer
Luther Compton
Kirby Smith
William F. Deel
Honaker and
Monroe Sailor Falls From Boat Off North Carolina Coast
Seaman Second Class Delford Weikle, 24, of Union Monroe County, drowned after falling from a naval vessel into the Atlantic near Coijack Bridge at 5:15 p m Saturday. Weikle, four years in the U S Navy and nine months in Korea, is survived by his wife Dana and parents plus siblings. body to be sent to Portsmouth for military rites.
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Delford Weikle
Union
Monroe County
North Carolina
Elbert C. Weikle
Coijack Bridge
Coijack
N. C
Weikle
Navy
Portsmouth Naval Base
Portsmouth
Korea
Dana Weikle
Betty Cook
James Weikle
Sandusky
Ohio
Elbert C. Weikle Jr
Broyles
Western Foreign Policy Experts Meet In June
Western policy experts from 14 nations will hold a non governmental conference in Oslo June 13 21 to study how the West might ease global tension. Sponsored by the Norwegian Nobel Institute and financed by the Ford Foundation the gathering will end with a comprehensive report.
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Oslo
Norway
Nobel Institute
Alfred Nobel
Ford Foundation
Refugee Relief Funds Approved by UN Refugee Agency
Geneva April 18 funds totaling about five million dollars were authorized for refugee relief and assistance under the United Nations Refugee program for the current year.
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Arkansas
United Nations
Geneva
Switzerland
U. N
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Summerfield
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Rowland R. Hughes
Arthur W. Page
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Columbia University
Brookings Institution
Rush
Tom Seaver
South Charleston
NFIP
Princeton Bank and Trust Co
NY 404
Monroe Health Center
H. H. Hancock
Bank of Monroe
Peterstown
GOP
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Ash D. Holt
Jos Thomas
Robertson
J. Horner Davis
Ree
Republican Daily Mail
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Nagasaki
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Institute For Advanced Study
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George Hanna
Monroe Sailor
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