Reds Free 100 More Americans
A batch of 140 Americans 24 British 25 Turks and 250 South Koreans were released in the seventh day of the Korean war prisoner exchange. Nine Americans ill were flown to Honolulu for rest before continuing homeward while 642 Americans have returned from the 3133 Reds claim to hold.
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Inchon
Nelson M. Walker
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Honolulu
Travis Air Force Base
About & Am
U.N
Russia Demands Pay After Soviet Plane Shot Down
The Soviet foreign office delivered a note to U.S. Ambassador Bohlen demanding compensation for a Soviet transport plane shot down last July 27. Moscow says the attack occurred on Chinese frontier, killing 15 passengers and six crew. Washington denies it happened over Chinese territory and says the incident occurred about eight miles from the Yalu river inside Korean territory.
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Russia
United States
Bohlen
Moscow
Yalu’ River
Rural Letter Carriers Open 50th Convention in Chicago
National Rural Letter Carriers Association began its fiftieth convention in Chicago as members discussed Civil Service retirement and mileage allowances. The group focused on nine cents a mile for car upkeep, with carriers earning about 1800 dollars annually plus the mileage rate.
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Chicago
Associaion
RFC
Lester D. Fullerton
Coulterville
Tfl
Sloan Granted Civil Divorce From O Dwyer
MEXICO CITY AP reports Sloan Simpson filed for civil divorce from former New York mayor William O Dwyer after a February 18 filing alleging irascibility. The decree dated June 3 ends their marriage. O Dwyer says church authorities will decide on any civil action and remains silent on the case.
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Currnavaca
Sloan Simpson
O'Dwyer
New York
William,o'dwyer
O'Dwyers
Luis Maria Martinez
Mexico
Tal J
Excelsior
Cuernavaca
Sloan
Soviet and British Chiefs Arrive For U N Park
The heads of the Soviet and British delegations to the United Nations arrived in New York for the sessions planning a Korea political conference. Andrei Vishinsky, smiling yet uncommunicative, came aboard the Queen Mary, while Selwyn Lloyd arrived on a British airliner and spoke freely of upcoming meetings. Vishinsky declined questions about Red China admission or Soviet energy proposals.
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United Nations
U.N
Korea
Andrei Vishinsky
Queen Mary
Selwyn Lloyd
Vishinsky
Stomin Energy
Strange Tale of U S Flyer And His Soldier Forebears
A long-worn saga ends as Henry Brady becomes a U S citizen in Washington D C. The third generation in a military family plans an Air Force career and a future commission despite a history spanning Spanish American War through Korea. The story traces grandfathers and relatives who fought for the United States while living in the Philippines and China, amid postwar U N and Cold War tensions.
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Washington
Henry Brady
U.S
Altman
Brady
U.S. District Court
Walter M. Bastian
Air Force
Bataan
Military Air Transport Service Public Information Division
Philippines
Grandpa Brady
Grandpa
United States
China
Lloyd
Red China
U.N
Great Britain
Chicago
Redjurban
Korea
Broadview
Westchester
Item
San Antonio
People's
Red Chine
Lucas
Jier Carl Spohr
River Grove
Tesident
Jacksonville
Eisenhower Urges Broad Spending Cuts to Avert Debt-Ceiling Session
President Eisenhower directed department heads to cut expenditures and submit substantial fiscal 1956 reductions to avoid a special congressional session to raise the federal debt limit. He announced an economy campaign during talks with Admiral Radford and asked for tighter budget controls across agencies.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Prose
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Radford
Arithur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Omar Bradley
Mats
Brady
Philippines
U.S
Madford
Bar
Jaan
Ment
Bolgan
Osaka
Manila
Joseph W. Dodge
Hagerty
Vanderbilt Wife Seeks Public Aid in New York
Mrs Cate rnelius Vanderbilt Jr applied for public relief claiming destitution with only two pawn tickets, a mink coat, and no shelter for her and her 21 year old daughter. Her lawyer says the split with husband is a mail order divorce not recognized by New York, and she faces a non support warrant and a pending separation appeal.
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New York
Caternelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Vanderbilt
Patricia
Piccioni Forms Italian Cabinet Amid Crisis
Attilio Piccioni reportedly crafted a new Italian cabinet with predecessor Alcide de Gasperi still serving as foreign minister. Piccioni, deputy premier, aimed to present the government to President Luigi Einaudi, seeking to end a two week crisis as de Gasperi’s eighth postwar government collapsed amid left right opposition.
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Rome
Attilio Piccioni
Alcide de Gasperi
Piccioni
de Gasperi
Luigi Einaudi
Atlantic Pact
Union approves nationwide strike against Southwestern Bell
The Communications Workers Union votes to strike 50,000 members across Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Kansas Missouri and parts of Tennessee against Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
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FHONE
Washington
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri
Southern
Tuinolé
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Seven Killed in Santa Maria Auto Collision
An AP report says seven people died in a head on crash on U S Highway 101 about 22 miles south of Santa Maria California on Monday night. One family member was among the dead and another relative was critically injured.
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Santa Maria
Calif
Here
U.S. Highway 101
Former Teacher Marks Five Year Escape From Soviet Consulate
Oksana Kasenkina the Russian former teacher celebrates five years since she climbed from the Soviet consulate in New York and leaped to freedom. She attends church, then to her Jackson Heights apartment to toast her Americanization. She hopes for swift citizenship approval and gratitude to the United States for saving her life.
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New York
Oksana Kasenkina
Jackson Heights
Two More Iowa PWs Released by Communists
Cpl Richard A Holmquist 28 of Boone and Pte Melvin E Kammrad 24 of Sheffield were freed in the seventh day PW exchange group. Holmquist said informers ran the Pyoktong camp and warned against speaking out or risk Chinese discovery within minutes. Release brings ten Iowa PWs liberated so far in the current exchange.
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Iowa
North Korea
Richard A. Holm‘quist
Boone
Melvin E. Kammrad
Sheffield
Holmquist
Pyoktong
Kammrad
Pwa
Chicago Housing Authority's Trumbull Park Riot over First Negro Tenant
Police cleared about 1,000 people from Trumbull Park Homes on Chicago's South Side after a crowd jeered and attacked the first Black resident Donald Howard. Windows shattered, nine seriously injured, and arrests made as protests surrounding CHA's nondiscriminatory housing policy escalated.
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Chicago
South Side
Donald Howard
Chicago Housing Authority
Trumbull Park Homes Project
Howard
Trumbull Park
Lss
Up ‘O
CHA
Prospector Held in Death of Three Bear Hunters
Wilbert Coffin a 37 year old prospector is held for questioning as a material witness in the deaths of three Pennsylvania bear hunters Eugene Lindsey 45 his son Richard 17 and Fred Clanr 20 in the Gospel wilderness Quebec police report Coffin important witness at an inquest Police declined to reveal details of violence uncovered in Montreal last week and to confirm reports of revolver and belongings found during a search in a Montreal home
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Montreal
Wilbert Coffin
Coffin
Eugene Lindsey
Richard
Fred Clanr
Quebec City
President jokes with newsmen at Brown Palace
In Denver the President teased reporters posing with him near the summer White House. He asked where they stay, they replied the Brown Palace, a luxury hotel. He quipped about bosses, saying we cant afford 44, and clarified remarks are on the record.
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Denver
White House
Brown Palace
Brown
P.S
the Brown
Lowry Air Fore
October Draft To Call 23 000
The army issued a draft call for 29 000 men in October bringing September 1952 totals to 1 538 430 drafted or earmarked for induction. The Defense Department plans to sustain calls at this rate until Korea stabilizes. Iowa will enlist about 90 men in October.
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Washington
Army
Defense Department
Iowa
Des Moines
R. A. Lancaster
Selective Service
Earthquake Kills 200 in Cephalonia and Ithaca
Reports from Athens say about 200 people died and at least 25 injured in powerful earthquakes striking Cephalonia and Ithaca on the western Greece coast near the Ionian Sea. Most fatalities were from Cephalonia.
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Athens
Greece
Cephalonia
Ithaca
Gulf of Corinth
Cephatonia
Church Ice Cream and Cake Social Rescheduled
Church bulletin notes an ice cream and cake social in the city park on Saturday afternoon, but rain shifts the event to Saturday morning. The notice specifies a change in timing due to weather.
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