Adenauer Says John Deserted From West Germany
Chancellor Adenauer said Otto John deserted as security chief and defected to the Reds. He called the act terrifying and urged reassurance that damage may be less than first feared as John vanished July 20 into East Berlin amid investigations of intelligence services. West Berlin police cited a separate report that Karl Tiemann, an agent with unknown Western ties, defected to the Soviet zone with information from Johns office.
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Red
West Berlin
B-Z
Tiemann
West Zone
FBI
Red Security
East
East Germany
Soviet Zone
Stocks Take Severe Drop In Midday Market Rout
Stocks fell sharply on Friday with a broad selling wave, leaving the ticker five minutes behind quotes. Chrysler cut its dividend in half after Thursday's close, and shares slid about a dollar an hour before closing. Steels aircrafts and railroads led the losses with many shares down more than $3.
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New York
Chrysler Corporation
New Anti Ulcer Plan Suggested
New York report outlines a proposed ulcer treatment involving lifting part of the stomach through a surgical incision, bathing it in X rays, and returning it to the body. Dr Matthew Talmadge Moorehead notes that X rays may permanently reduce stomach acid secretions, but poses risk to adjacent organs from exposure.
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New York
Matthew Talmadge Moorehead
Tornado Injures Two as Rain Drenches Kansas Point
Ottawa A P reports a tornado injured two people Thursday night as storms swept eastern Kansas. The report notes heavy rainfall from eight inches in the area and widespread thunderstorm activity across the eastern half of the state.
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Ottawa
Kan
Nape
Daring Work Enables Safe Plane Landing
Flight engineer Clifford Adams of Miami earned credit for a safe landing of an Eastern Air Lines four engine Constellation at National Airport after mid air repairs on a stuck nose wheel. Adams diagnosed a hydraulic leak and spliced a spare tube to restore pressure then used an emergency hand pump to lower the nose wheel. Captain Frank Bennett and Co pilot Dick Litsey, both of Miami, completed the final approach with 72 passengers and crew of five onboard.
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Washington
Clifford Adams
Miami
Eastern Air Lines
Frank Bennett
Dick Litsey
Constellation
National Airport
Adams
Emilie Dionne of Quintuplets Dies
Emilie Dionne aged among the Quintuplets died Friday in St Agathe Quebec. The death marks another sorrow for the Canadian family and raises questions about the fate of the remaining siblings in the famous brood.
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Emilie Dionne
North Bay
Ont
Canada
St. Agathe
Quebec
Cops Halt Boys Spree After Found Silver Stash
Newark AP report says eight boys discovered bags of silver and loose coins at a vacant lot and at Asbury Park amusement venue. detectives traced $981.65 tucked between wasp and bee nests to a missing $3,900 from a Trenton vending firm. Names and ages were not released.
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Newark
Asbury Park
Trenton
Pro Eisenhower Ally Denied U N Delegate Seat
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee refused to recommend Wright F. Morrow for an alternate U N General Assembly delegate. Senate Minority Leader Johnson opposed, following senatorial courtesy, while nine other U N nominees gained approval.
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Washington
INS
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Wright F. Morrow
Texas
Dwight Eisenhower
Hoover Birthday Celebration At West Branch Prominent Guests
West Branch Iowa readies for a large Hoover birthday event Tuesday featuring President Hoover and family along with Vice President Nixon former Secretary of War Hurley Admiral Strauss General Groves Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Jr and many senators governors publishers editors and business leaders from across the United States. TV crews newsreels and photographers will cover the event as West Branch provides bands parking and food for thousands at the Hoover birthplace cottage and amphitheater park.
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Hoover
West Branch
Iowa
Nixon
Pat Hurley
Admiral Strauss
General Groves
Atomic Energy Fame
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Carlton K. Smith to Be Brigadier General of Guard
Cedar Rapids Col Carlton K Smith of Cedar Rapids will become brigadier general and assistant division commander of the Thirty fourth Red Bull Nowa Nebraska national guard division on Sept 1 Announcement was made at Camp Ripley Minn where the division trains for two weeks Col Smith succeeds Brig Gen Warren C Wood of Gering Neb who moves to the division top post replacing Maj Gen Ray C Fountain of Des Moines who retires Wood becomes major general Smiths service goes back to 1919 when he joined as a private He later commanded the 133rd infantry regiment in the division and currently commands the regimental battalion located in eastern and northern Iowa His regiment is the largest unit in the division during training at Camp Ripley his command is the largest among the three regiments including the First battalion commanded by Lt Col Robert D Vernon of Cedar Rapids Smith served as a tank destroyer battalion commander in World War II earning Silver and Bronze stars He graduated from Fort Benning infantry school and rose from second lieutenant in 1922 to lieutenant colonel in 1943 He helped develop tank destroyer aids and tactics during the war
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Cedar Rapids
Carlton Smith
Red Bull
Nowa-Nebraska National Guard
Camp Ripley
Minn
Smith
Warren C. Wood
Gering
Neb
Wood
Ray C. Fountain
Des Moines
Col.Smith
Twelfth Avenue SE
Guard
Col. Smith
Camp Riley
Robert D. Vernon
Infantry School
Fort Benning
German Red Zone Accepts U. S. Aid
East Germany surprised by accepting President Eisenhower's aid for flood victims in the Soviet zone. The United States had offered food and other emergency assistance for victims in Western Germany and Austria, but the East German Communists declined then and later accepted the aid.
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Bonn
East Germany
Eisenhower
Soviet Zone
Europe
Germany
Austria
U S To Admit Churchmen From Behind Iron Curtain
The World Council of Churches adds 11 clergy from behind the Iron Curtain to its official delegates for the Evanston assembly opening Aug. 15. Cz echoslovak and Hungarian ministers gain entry with U S consent after approval by State and Justice departments.
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Chicago
World Council of Churches
Council
Evanston
State Department
Justice Department
John Peter
Reformed Church of Hungary
U.S
New York
Hungary
Laszlo Dezsert
Peter Lajos Veto
Lutheran Church
Music Festival Objections May Block Jet Base
Frankfort residents demand the removal of plans to locate a new eight million dollar air defense jet base near Interlochen. Dr Joseph Maddy founder of the music camp opposes Homestead Township as the site citing disruption to Chopin and Bach. Local druggist Charles Didrickson scornfully criticized Maddy while calling for national defense.
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Frankfort
Mich
Interlochen
Joseph Maddy
Homestead Township
Sylvan Glen
Charles Didrickson
Dr.Maddy
Vinton Sweet Corn Day Queen Named Joyce Offt
Joyce Ann Offt, 17, daughter of Mr and Mrs Milo Offt of Keystone, selected as Vinton Sweet Corn Day Queen from 12 candidates at the Benton county fair. She will reign at Vinton's Sweet Corn Day on Sept 6 and is a 1954 Keystone high school graduate.
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Vinton
Joyce Ann Offt
Milo Offt
Keystone
Eight Die in Auto Crash at Plains Kansas
Eight people from two families died in a head on collision at a highway junction in Plains Kansas. The victims include Gene Elliot 25 his wife Vern 25 and their children Connie Jean 4 and Marc Allen 1 along with Boyd Boyer 26 his wife Grace 23 and their children Edward 2 and Cynthia 5 weeks. Truck driver Raymond Porter 43 was in critical condition and his passenger L L Clark was seriously hurt. police did not know who was driving.
Fire Varies Ilagan Trading District in Manila Blaze
A Friday fire in Ilagan's trading district in Manila caused about 1.5 million dollars in damage and left 2,000 people homeless. The AP report notes rapid spread through commerce blocks and extensive reconstruction needs.
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Manila
Ilagen
Former sheriff candidate goes on shooting spree in Tennessee
In Lexington Tennessee AP report ex Sergeant James A Cogburn 33 armed with another man opened fire after losing sheriff race. Patrolman Arthur Gurley 50 killed Police Chief Clovis Stanfill 34 wounded. Cogburn fled on foot after car wreck. He had been involved in an Enoch Arden style marriage dispute with his wife who remarried Hern after Cogburn’s return and divorce.
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Lexington, Tenn
Isaac McHagen
James A. Cogburn
Enoch Arden
James Hern
Cogburn
McHagen
Arthur Gurley
Clovis Stanfill
Hern
Cogb
Moss Denies Seeing Communist Membership Book
Annie Lee Moss denies ever seeing a Communist Party membership book cited by the Army security screening board. Her lawyer says the new filing adds only one charge about Moss allegedly being reported to have been given Book 37269 for 1943.
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Washington
Annie Lee Moss
Army Signal Scorps
George E. C
Hayes
Army
Moss
July unemployment steady as summer shows no usual rise
Washington reports July civilian employment at 62,148,000 up 50,000 from June but 972,000 below a year earlier. Unemployment stands at 3,346,000, essentially unchanged from June, with the jobless rate at 5.1 percent the highest for July in the postwar era except 1949.
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Washington
Commerce and Labor Departments
Sonal
Peeriod
Watkins Heads Probe on McCarthy Censure
Senator Watkins was chosen chair of a special senate committee to study McCarthy censure proposals with Senator Johnson as vice chair. The panel, in a closed session with Vice President Nixon, rejected live TV or radio coverage and weighs whether press access or transcripts will be allowed. Hearings likely after next week as the Senate completes its legislative program.
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Watkins
Utah
Senate
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Johnson
D-Colo
Stennis
D-Miss
Nixon
Douglas Curfew for Office Help After 9 P.M. Enforced
Washington AP Capitol police were startled by Sen. Douglas to clear his office by 9 p.m. nightly with force if needed. Five aides were removed after Douglas ordered a strict curfew and the memo warning that doors shut at nine and no one stays late. The incident followed an all night session and an earlier memo asserting staff must leave at nine.
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Washington
Capitol
Sen
Douglas
D-Ill
Gordon S. Huff
Huff
Senate
Tuition Hikes approved for Iowa state colleges
Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls Iowa State College in Ames and the University of Iowa will raise basic annual fees from 120 150 156 to 159 198 204 respectively beginning fall term 1955. Dwight G. Rider cited rising costs and stressed access through scholarships and a nonpartisan approach.
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Ames
INS
Iowa
Dwight G. Rider
Fort Dodge
State Board of Education
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Iowa State College
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Rider
McCarthy Claims Army Report Names Officers In Peress Case
Senator McCarthy says a secret army report lists 30 officers including a general and four flag officers who aided in granting Major Irving Peress an honorable discharge. He claims the Pentagon document names high ranking officers and will be used to compel sworn testimony.
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Washington
McCarthy
R-Wis
Irving Peress
Peress
New York
Senate Investigations
Army
Pentagon
Boy Suffocated in Rubber Mask at Fort Worth Pool
Charles Hailey 14 suffocated Thursday night after his rubber and glass swimming mask airtightened over his nose and mouth. His body was recovered from three feet of water as medics cut the mask from his face.
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Fort Worth
Charles Hailey
Charles
Gilliland Confirmed to Foreign Claims Post
The senate confirmed Whitney Gilliland of Glenwood Iowa to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. Gilliland, a former Iowa Republican chairman, was appointed by President Eisenhower last December and previously served as an assistant to Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson.
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Washington
LLP
Senate
Whitney Gilliland
Glenwood
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
Gilliland
Iowa
Eisenhower
Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
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