Missing U N prisoners list to be handed to Communists
The United Nations seeks an accounting of missing Americans from Operation Big Switch. Capt Harald Fischer of Iowa was believed captured after his April 7 1953 mission over North Korea. A list of missing men will be given to the Communists with demands for their return or explanation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
U. N
Harald Fischer
Swea City
Fischer
North Earta
Peiping
Holiday Death Toll Reaches 431 in Labor Weekend
During a 78 hour Labor Day weekend, 431 deaths were logged in accidents and other causes. National Safety Council estimates 440 traffic fatalities were expected. drownings and misc. accidents also contributed. Marine Col Frank Schwable offered stark choices as POWs returned with a two week Pacific trip ahead.
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Fran
Uts Ag
Sonia
Act
National Safety Council
Midwest
Teraturn
Rita Hayworth and Dick Haymes Wedding Plans
Rita Hayworth told friends she will marry Dick Haymes once he completes Nevada divorce proceedings, with a Sept. 23 or 24 potential wedding date after the six week residency requirement ends Sept. 20. Haymes faces possible deportation action over re entering the United States after visiting Hayworth in Hawaii last May. Storm threat to New England rises as a hurricane looms with high winds and seas, prompting maximum precautions along Nantucket and Cape Cod.
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Rita
Quick Haymes
Las Vegas
Rita Hayworth
Friends
Dick Haymes
Nevada
Mora Eadington Flynn Haymes
Hollywood
Haymes
Argentina
Miss Hayworth
Hawaii
AIPA
Israel
Boston
Atlantic
New England
Bermuda
Nantucket
Cape Cod
The
Weather Areau
Tito Offers Trieste Deal With International Control
Yugoslav President Tito proposed placing Trieste under international control while Yugoslavia would gain the rest of the disputed territory. He spoke to a crowd of over 260 000 near the Italian border saying the Italy Yugoslavia stalemate could be settled by negotiations. Previously he urged joint administration with Italy and Yugoslavia, with details to be worked out between governments.
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Okraglitica
Yugosavia
Yugoslavia
Tito
Trieste
Italy
Albert
It Wasn't Fault Of Parents They Didn't Meet PW
In East Moline a mother and stepfather were sent to California with $465 raised by locals to meet Benjamin Ferguson, a repatriated prisoner of war. They learned from a cablegram he sent that he would not be home yet, as he re-enlisted and planned to stay in Japan, and the army would not permit their meeting before his return.
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Slick
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Army
Korea
Reds
U.S
Air Force
Zalu
Pic
Benjamin Ferguson
William Shoemaker
East Moline
Ferguson
San Francisco
Benjamin
Chicago
California
Japan
Eas
Brown
John Brown
Tom
Katherine
Margaret
Bobby Kehl
Two POWs Return Home to Warm Cedar Rapids Welcome
William R. Brown of Victor and Robert Kohl of Lisbon, two Iowa prisoners of war from Korea, arrived at Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport to joyful reunions. Families hugged, officials greeted them, and locals celebrated with parades, photos, and cheering crowds as the pair began homecoming at last after more than two years in captivity.
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John Robertson
Cedar Rapid
WAL
Pie
William R. Brown
Victor
Robert T. Koht
Lisbon
Reds
Korea
San Francisco
Pe. Kabl
Denver
United Air Lines
Cedar Rapids
Pte
Kohl
American Legion
Charitolier of Commerce
Cal
Pfc
Robert T. Kohl
Municipal
George Kohl
Bobby
Eloise
Don Minert
Lisbon Legion
Glenn Plattenberger
Phe
Sarrtle
Cre Franke
Brown
Municipal Airport
Robert Kohl
Margaret
John Brown
Tom
Katherine
Fire Kills 14 in Chicago Tenement Blaze
A Chicago South Side fire killed at least 14 people early Monday in a four story tenement. Most victims were on the upper floors with seven children among the dead. Firefighters battled the blaze amid collapsed walls as investigators searched for additional victims and possible causes.
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Chicago
Aevearch
Polien
Marishal John J. Haberkern
William Martin
Sinc
Fireamen
Haberkorn
Frank A. Phillips
Phillips
President and Dulles Tackle Major Issues on Holiday
Denver dispatch reports President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles reviewing a ten item foreign policy docket spanning Indo China to Germany. Dulles arrived Sunday night aboard a specially provided Air Force plane for the discussions with the President on a holiday.
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Y Merriman Smith
Denver
Elsenhower
Dulles Momlay
Indo-China
Germany
Dulles
Air Force
Adenauer landslide reshapes West German election
Bonn AP reports Konrad Adenauer and pro Western Christian Democrats won a landslide four year term. Eisenhower and Dulles amid friction rumors linger as the White House denies displeasure over German unity talks. Voters 27 million cast ballots amid Soviet threats and Western alliance stakes.
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Bonn
West Germany
America
Konrad Adesnauer
Thaumuh
Germany
Christian Democrats
Adenauerener Dulles
More
CPUS
Europe
Tno
Sunaday
Adenauer
Christian Democrat
Bundestag
Stole Dales
Malenkov
Bois
East Germany
Police Continue Investigation into M Vozenilek Accident
Cedar Rapids police hold George Vozenilek 34 on an open charge as they press their probe into the fatal pickup crash that killed his former wife Dorothy Vozenilek. Witnesses said the speeding truck plunged off Otis Road SE and she was pinned under the right side, dead on arrival at Mercy hospital.
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Codey Rapids
Cedar Rapids
George Vozenilek
Fifteenth Avenue SE
Dorothy
Vorenilek
Thirteenth Avenue SE
Otis Road SE
Mercy Hospital
Iowa
Chris Jewell
Butchinson
Minn
Whittemore
Richard Pierce
Anita
Atlantic
Wayne E. Cronk
Waterloo
Eagle Grove
Harald Smith
Davenport
Travenport
Jehildren
Marlowe Dean Millard
Maurice Millard
Lockridge
Mane Scheckel
Millard Scheckel
Preston
Ed Hamilton
Plano
Mark Halder
Law
Hong Kong
Reds Encounter Tomato Barrage In Aachen Rally
In Aachen Germany youths pelted a Communist election eve rally with tomatoes. The incident left streets splattered as the last layer of tomatoes was cleaned away on Monday.
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Aachen
Germany
Chill 33 at Elkader as cold front cools Iowa
The morning reading in Elkader dropped to 33 degrees as Canadian air spread over Iowa. Temperatures ranged in the 30s across Spencer Waterloo Cedar Rapids and Davenport with a cold front bringing cooler weather and chances of scattered thundershowers. The Weather Bureau forecasts a brief cool spell then a rise in temperatures and another front midweek.
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Owl News
Elkader
Lowa
Spencer
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Reading Edge
Burlington
Ottumwa
Davenport
Weather Bureau
Eso
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Fos
Rod “Ed
Yalu River
Thames Barbour
Travis Public Information Officer
Woawnus
Richard G. Voss
Osborne, Kan
Col
Frank Schwable
Schwable
Pws
Gen. PL. Howze
Inchon
Kores
Pacific
George
Frambachan
Pfe. Kohl
Maynor Glenn Plattenberger
Mila Kalman
Chamber of Commerce
Dan Minert
Legion Post
Pfcl Brown
Iowa County
United States
Today's Index
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Eisenhower
Tealy
Quiles
White House
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Paul White
Highdrive SE
John Hanna
Vozenilek
Dayton
Forrest Wilson
South Haven
Mich
Weir-Cook
Indianapolis
Wilson
William T. Tebow, Jr
Quintica
M. Gish
Cherry Point
Free Democrats
Kremlin
Communist Party
Fouzh Max Heimann
Republic
Redident
German Reich Party
United States of Europe
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