Border clash raises questions on captured U S soldiers
Bavarian border police reported one of two U S Army men captured by Czech guards on a suspected espionage mission. The army denied covert role, stating the officer wore civilian clothes as an interrogation officer. The incident, in Hof area, follows two earlier border clashes with East German and Czech patrols.
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Marktredwitz
Germany
U. S S. l Army
Iron Curtain
U. S. Army
Czechoslovakia
U.S. Army
Heidelberg
Army
Hof
U. S. Zone
U. S
Prague
Associated Press
Breach Within Democrats Shakes Stevenson Kickoff
Indianapolis AP dispatch reports a bitter intraparty clash as Stevenson faces a split Democratic machine ahead of his congressional campaign kickoff. National chairman Stephen A. Mitchell says printing of the formal program was halted to replace Stevenson’s picture with that of former President Truman. Stevenson, 1952 Democratic presidential nominee and former Illinois governor, still remains the featured speaker despite the dispute.
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Jack Bell
Indianapolis
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Democratic Organization
Stephen A. Mitchell
Truman
Illinois
Frank McKinney
Mitchell
National Committee
McKinney
Paul M. Butler
Indiana
South Bend
Tibetans Rising Against Reds in Eastern Tibet Clashes
Reports from Kalimpong describe fatal clashes as Tibetan natives oppose Communist Chinese occupation in eastern provinces. Red Chinese troops declared a state of emergency and reinforced positions amid ongoing turmoil. The Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama reportedly met in Peiping, while Tibetan resistance echoes prior tax protests. Travelers report casualties on both sides as violence spills along Himalayan routes. The UN had previously heard Tibetan appeals without intervention.
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Calcutta
Tibet
India
Dalai Lama
Peiping
Kalimpong
United Nations
China
Weather Outlook Partial Clouds Tonight and Sunday
Partly cloudy weather expected tonight with a low around 62 to 65 degrees. Sunday will be slightly cooler with a forecast high near 85 degrees and less warmth.
Escape Line Put To Delayed Use
Atlanta authorities say four prisoners escaped from the federal prison in two days using a 20 inch sewer that had stood unused for 52 years. George Evans and Charles R. Perry crawled through the sewer to woods outside the walls but were recaptured within about 10 hours. The two bank robbers Charles Stegall and George Ellis had used the same sewer earlier and remained at large.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Federal Prison
George Evans
Douglasville
Charles R. Perry
Memphis
Charles Stegall
Louisville
George Ellis
Chicago
Communist China urged purge over lawless officials
Peng Chen, deputy head of the Communist Party political and legal affairs committee, warned at a congress drafting a constitution that some officials see themselves above the law. He singled out cadremen as a key target, saying a cadreman who breaks the law cannot enforce it on subordinates.
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Tokyo
China
Peng Chen
Communist Party
Peng
Warmer Weather Returns to Iowa
A Cedar Rapids report notes warmer air returning to Iowa after a split with cold air earlier. It records 88 degrees in Cedar Rapids at 2 30 PM and a Friday high of 90 with forecasts of cooler Sunday and possible scattered showers in eastern Iowa tonight.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Mercury
Burlington
Mason City
Giants Triumph Over Phillies 9-1 Behind Park HRs
In New York the Giants crushed the Philadelphia Phillies 9-1 as Willie Mays and Don Mueller hit inside the park home runs. Mueller added a sixth inning single for his 200th hit of the season.
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NEW York
New York Giants
Willie Mays
Don Mueller
Philadelphia Phillies
Brooklyn Dodgers
Mueller
Wrens of WRNS Strike Over Navy Food
About 200 Wrens of the Women's Royal Naval Service in Lee-on-Solent staged a hunger strike to protest a lunch menu they deem too fattening. They object to bean puree, sausages, fried onions, boiled potatoes, suet pudding and treacle, arguing the meals are planned by men who do not know what women want to eat to stay fit.
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Lee-On-Solent
England
Royal Naval Service
Cedar Rapids man facing armed assault charge after shooting
A 23 year old Cedar Rapids man, Earl Roy Decker, was jailed on a going armed with intent charge after firing at a car carrying two men, Dean Gibbs and Cletus Burns. Decker admitted shooting. his wife Mary Decker later testified and removed the gun from the car. Several shots struck Gibbs’s car. eight shells were found. Decker was apprehended after radar clocked him at 48 mph.
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Earl Roy Decker
Cedar Rapids
Decker
Detective Bureau
Roy Walker
John Kuba
Earl Decker
Mary
Heigs
C Street
Charles Penningroth
Dean D. Gibbs
Fourth Street
Cletus J. Burns
Tenth Avenue SE
Iowa
Kuba
Hiawatha
Gibbs
Burns
Charles McGinty
Center Point Road
Shaver Road
Lincoln Avenues
Fox
Johnson
Dmitryk
Mary Decker
Eddy
Nixon Caps Trumanism as Big 1954 Campaign Issue
Vice President Nixon framed Trumanism as the central 1954 campaign issue at a St Louis fundraiser. He urged Republicans, Democrats and independents to vote for a Republican Congress to restore the Eisenhower record and end what he called a domestic cancer of inflation and controls.
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ST. Louis
Nixon
Eisenhower
White House
Korea
Asenanes
Court Orders Patinos Return Infant to Dad
A Paris court ordered 4 month old Isabela Goldsmith returned to her father James Patino amid a custody dispute with his grandmother and the Patino family. Judge Jean Russet ruled the child should go to James immediately after inspecting the Goldsmith apartment.
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Paris
Patino
Isabela Goldsmith
James
Jean Russet
Tribunal
Seine Department
Isabela
Antenor Patino
Isabela Patino
Versailles
Africa
Charges Facing Union Official And Two Locals
Gerald P. Connelly, secretary treasurer of AFL Local 548 and AFL Local 194, and two locals were indicted by a federal grand jury on Taft Hartley act bribery charges. Bond set at 3500. arraignment expected early next month. Local 194 allegedly mishandled 1281 welfare funds and Local 548 2440 welfare funds. funds diverted to Connelly. He allegedly accepted 300 from Rutmans and St Vis Oil Company of St Paul.
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ST. Paul
Gerald P. Connelly
Federal Grand Jury
Connelly
AFL Teamsters
AFL General Building Service
Minneapolis
Local
Joe Rutman
George Rutman
St-Vis Oil Company
Federal jury can't reach verdict on AFL officials
A U.S. federal court jury trying labor racketeering charges against three AFL officials was discharged Friday after failing to reach a verdict.
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ST. Louis
ULP
AFL
Spaak warns West Europe over U S pullout threat
Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Spaak told the I Council of Europe assembly in Strasbourg that the United States may pull out of Europe, asserting that defense may require German rearmament and lamenting Europe’s shuttle between NATO and the EDC amid postwar security doubts.
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London
Europe
U. S
Spaak
Consultative Assembly of the
I Council of Europe
Strasbourg
U.S
NATO
EDC
Radiation Helps Cancer Sufferer
In Philadelphia, a six month old Salisbury Md boy with cancer has shrunk to half its size after radiation from cobalt therapy. Doctors say he is improving after a period that had threatened blindness and death. his parents, Mr and Mrs Louis Hickman, now hope for his survival.
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Philadelphia
Salisbury
Louis Hickman
Ulysses
Ted
Murphy Receives 30 Day Sentence in 144th Columbus Arrest
Francis Patrick Murphy, 64, labeled the most arrested man in Columbus, was sentenced to 30 days on a drunkenness charge. This marked his 144th arrest.
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Columbus
Ohio
Francis Patrick Murphy
Zwicker Campaign Ribbon Suggested in New Jersey
New Brunswick New Jersey AP reports businessman William H Baumer of Johnson and Johnson proposed a blue and black campaign ribbon for Bri Gen Ralph W Zwicker. The idea was floated at a farewell luncheon for Camp Kilmer commander reassigned to Japan.
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New Brunswick
Bri
Ralph W. Zwicker
Sen
McCarthy
William H. Baumer
Johnson and Johnson
Camp Kilmer
Japan
Wisconsin Editor Forms Push to Oust McCarthy
Leroy Gore, editor of a Wisconsin newspaper and founder of the We Must Go club, announces a new bid to unseat Senator Joseph McCarthy. He plans a petition drive and public campaigns to challenge the senator’s seat.
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Chicago
Leroy Gore
Wisconsin
McCarthy
Petion
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