American Correspondent Tells of 1953 Red China Captivity Ordeal
Donald Dixon IN S recounts 18 months in Communist prisons after, with Richard Applegate NBC and Ken Krasner, sailing on Applegate’s yacht the Kert toward Macao. He details time as a prisoner and his release in Hong Kong, urging readers to understand the risks faced by those abroad.
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Hong Kong
Donald Dixon
International News Service
Richard Applegate
National Broadcasting Company
Ken Krasner
Applegate
Dixon
Krasner
Korea
INS
Japan
America
Europe
Asia
Macao
Dick Applegate
NBC
Merchant Marine
Ben Krasner
Kiwanians Pledge Last $100 To Camp Good Health Drive
Cedar Rapids Kiwanis club pledges the final $100 of the season's Camp Good Health fund. Once $341.09 more is received the group will contribute the remaining $100, aiming to finish this week. Checks may be mailed to Camp Good Health care of The Gazette.
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Cedar Rapids Kiwanis Club
Camp Good Health
Gazette
Cedar Rapids Fertilizer Plant To Be Built On Rock Island Yards
Darling and Company of Chicago will buy a 16 acre Rock Island yard parcel in Cedar Rapids for a new fertilizer plant costing a quarter to a half million dollars. The project includes remodeling the old roundhouse, construction of a causeway to Shaver road, and a production facility with up to 150 workers. Plant startup aims within a year, with initial three to four workers in the roundhouse warehouse. Work begins soon under O. F. Paulson Company, with Iowa Electric Light and Power providing dirt for the causeway joint project. Pricing and detailed plans await drawings. fertilizer will be shipped from East St. Louis until Cedar Rapids production begins. The sale followed a 1945 inquiry and a 1952 revival aided by local rep Arthur C. Nelson. a title cloud tied to a Rock Island settlement was resolved prior to closing.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island Railroad Yards
Rock Island Roundhouse
Darling and Out of
Chicago
Roundhouse
O. F. Paulson Company
Shaver Road
Highway 150
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Rock Island Railroad
Darling and Company
East St. Louis
George Greene
City
Board of Adjustment
Chamber and Company
West Germany to join defense talks in London September 28
The United States and Britain call a nine power parley in London around September 28 to discuss West German rearmament within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Dulles stresses no substitute for the European Defense Community but urges best efforts despite French concerns. United States Britain and France will meet West German Chancellor Adenauer to discuss sovereignty and ending occupation.
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Britain
West Germany
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Foreign Office
U. S
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Churchill
Canada
France
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxiembourg
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Dulles
Bonn
Europe
Anthony Eden
Brussels
Rome
Paris
Paul‘Henri Spaak
European Assembly
Strasbourg
Stevenson Opens Fire On G O P
Stevenson denounces Republicans at a $100 plate Indianapolis dinner as defaming, deceitful, and power seeking. He accuses the GOP of give away government and drifting for 20 months while urging a Democratic march to control Congress and a fresh start for America.
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Indianapolis
Adlai E. Stevenson
Congress
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G.O.P
America
McKinney
Truman
Mitchell Organization
Python Escapes From Texas Zoo Alarms Fort Worth
An 18 foot python named Pete escaped from the Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth Texas police and zoo workers cleared nearby areas while a sound truck warned the public. Pete previously lived in a box near the snake pit and could travel across the Trinity River. The incident coincides with ongoing Democratic campaign maneuvers and fundraising totals, including ticket sales that could bolster campaign coffers.
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Fort Worth, Texas
Pete
Harry Jackson
Zoo
Forest Park
Jackson
Trinity River
Here
Dallas
Iowa Pythians Convene in Cedar Rapids Today
Nearly 500 Iowa Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters gather in Cedar Rapids for the eighty fourth annual convention. DOKK sessions ongoing at the Montrose hotel with 200 attending. A memorial service begins the program with registration Monday at 9 AM and grand lodge at 10 AM.
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Iowa
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Pythian
Dramatic Order
Knights of Khorassan
Montrose Hotel
Pythians
Dokks
Order
Crystal Balhroom
The
Montrose
Grand Lodge
Amana
Frank D. Sheppard
Sisters of Pythias
Bess Gailbraith
Fred Ratliff
Marion
Ind
Julius Markert
Monay
Delbert Anderson
Charles City
Maude Main
Pythian Sisters
Reformatory Escapees Caught Near Anamosa
Two escapees from the local reformatory were recaptured within 24 hours. Leo Teer age 25 from Los Angeles serving five years for larceny was nabbed by Sheriff L M Dreibelbis and Probation Officer Oscar Story in a cornfield about 10 miles northeast of Anamosa. Stephen Penrod age 23 from Quincy serving 10 years for car theft was rounded up by a posse in the same area. Warden Ray Purcell said a chain with a hook helped them climb the north wall and they escaped before guards reported for duty.
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Anamosa
Leo Teer
Los Angeles
Polk County
L. M. Dreibelbis
Oscar Story
Here
Stephen Penrod
Quincy
Scott County
Ray Purcell
Hospital Controversy Aired on Editorial Page
A four part Gazette series examines implications of the dispute between Iowa hospitals and pathology radiology doctors. Part one outlines the dispute and its significance to Iowans. later parts trace background, legal moves, and medical viewpoints on hospital changes.
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Iowa
Gazette
Nine Found Dead From Gas Fumes
In Queensferry Wales seven children and their parents were found dead in a gas filled house in a suspected mass murder suicide following a family quarrel. Only 15 year old Sheila survived in critical condition. Police said a gas pipe was sawed and some victims had other injuries. Neighbors said the King family had quarrelled Friday night.
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Queensferry
Wales
Leonard King
Sheila
J. W. Edwards
Flintshire
King
London
Storm Lorna Pounds Southern Japan Killing and Flooding
Typhoon Lorna battered southern Japan, killing 11 and flooding more than 20 000 homes. Police tally eight missing and 31 injured in coastal areas as the storm veered to sea south of Tokyo with fringe winds under 30 mph. Osaka and Kobe areas escaped the worst.
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Japan
Pital
Osaka
Kobe
Benny Benny Discloses True Character in Tax Dispute
Hollywood comedian Jack Benny testified for hours in Los Angeles at the U S tax court defending a million-dollar back tax claim. He argued his Amusement Enterprise Inc deal produced capital gains instead of personal profit and described forming a corporation to secure future work while noting his real-life generosity to writers.
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Hollywood
INS
Jack Benny
U. S
Los Angeles
Amusement Enterprise, Inc
CBS
NBC
the Tobacco Company
Belng
Decline Reported In Jobless Pay Applications
A Cedar Rapids area report shows employment steady with a drop in new unemployment claims. August totals reach 25 591 workers with 8453 women. 148 new claims vs 224 in July and 320 last August. firms expect 703 hires by mid December, mainly in retail and food industries.
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Cedar Rapids
H. J. Berhart
Iowa State Employment Service
Eberhart
Nixon appoints Robert L. King to top administrative post
Vice president Richard Nixon announced the selection of St. Louis attorney and Southern fort Corp. executive Robert L. King to be the White House administrative aide. King, 41, previously served as a San Francisco FBI field supervisor and will take a $10,000 yearly post after Don Nixon noted his wartime FBI experience shaping views on subversion.
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ST. Louis
INL
Richard M. Nixon
FBI
Robert L. King
Southern Fort Corporation
San Francisco
Don Nixon
King
Three Injured in Collision North of Mt. Vernon Iowa
Three injured and a fourth unharmed after a car rear ended a tractor on Highway 261 five miles north of Mt. Vernon. Edward Clark 72 and his grandson Eddie Clark 2, both hospitalized at St. Luke's in Cedar Rapids, along with Paul Ostergaard 58, were treated for injuries. John Clark 30 escaped injury.
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Edward Clark
Eddie Clark
Paul Ostergaard
Clark
Ostergaard
Charles Fels
James Gildroy
John Clark
Martelle
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