Europe Debates Postwar Defense as Assembly Opens
The European Assembly in Strasbourg debates how to respond to West Germany rearmament after France rejected the European army. Leaders including Mendes France Adenauer and Piccioni may address the two week session as Eden tours Western capitals. The committee weighs substitute defense options and Southeast Asia policy alongside Baar Valley issues.
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Strasbourg
France
European Assembly
West Germany
Assembly
Pierre Mendes- France
Konrad Adenauer
Attilia Piccioni
Anthony Eden
U. N. Assembly
New York
United States
North Atlantic Council
John Scott MaClay
House of Commons
Georges Bohy
Southeast Asia
Baar Valley
Germany
GOP in South Seen Fading
Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge says the Republican party has lost considerable strength in the South after the Supreme Court banned school segregation and due to GOP farm policies. He defends Eisenhower’s war record while criticizing federal force to desegregate Georgia schools and rejects Communist propaganda concerns.
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Washington
INS
Georgia
Herman Talmadge
South
Supreme Court
Talmadge
Eisenhower
Earl Warren
Three Yanks Freed by Red China Says
Peiping Radio reports three American nationals freed after over a year in Communist China. Richard Applegate, Don ald Dixon, and Benjamin Krasner were deported from Kwantung province aboard the yacht Kert. They had intruded China’s territorial waters and were held by coastal forces. their release date and location were not given.
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London
China
Peiping Radio
Richard Applegate
Hong Kong
National Broadcasting Co
Donald Dixon
International News Service
Benjamin Krasner
Chinese Ministry of Public Sesecurity
Kert
Kwantung
Applegate
Dixon
Krasner
Medford
Ore
United Press
New York City
U. S. Leaders Meet to Chart Anti-Red Plan
President Eisenhower convened top policy makers including the National Security Council the FBI chief and the attorney general at Lowry Air Force Base for a three phase discussion. Officials will weigh Far East tensions including the Quemoy shelling and the collapse of the European army project and review home front measures under new postwar anti communist statutes.
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Eisenhower
Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Denver
National Security Council
FBI
White House
Lowry Air Force Base
Far East
Russia
Red China
U. S. Navy
Quemoy
83Rd Congress
United States
Communist Party
Dulles
Red Berlin Police Seize U S Couple
Berlin authorities report that two Americans believed to be a doctor and his wife were seized by East German police near the Dreilinden checkpoint on the Autobahn outside the U S sector. The same location had seen two American brothers arrested last Tuesday.
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Red
Berlin
Tor
Can Brothers
U. S
Dreilinden
People’s
U.S
Compmunist
William
Henry Starr
James
Westville
N.J
West Berlin
Thurs
West Ber
Col
Alin
Reds Sentence Yank as Spy Reds Sentence Yank as Spy
Tokyo dispatch reports Peiping Radio announcing life imprisonment for Hugh Francis Redmond of New York and five others for spying for the United States. The same broadcast listed two others as sentenced to death and noted prior U.S. claims that Redmond, a businessman, was arrested in Shanghai on April 26, 1951. The report adds details of other cases of missing Americans and allied citizens in Europe and Germany.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio
Hugh Francis Redmond
New York
U.S.A
Shanghai
United States
U.S
William F. Knowland
Redmond
Huge Iwo Jima Statue Construction to Begin Today
Sculptor Felix de Weldon starts assembling the largest bronze statue depicting the Iwo Jima flag raising. The 100 ton memorial, costing 850000, will rise 75 feet from a Swedish granite base atop a bluff near Arlington, with dedication planned on the Marine Corps birthday.
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Washington
Felix de Weldon
Iwo Jima
Rhodes
B. C
Marine Corps
Bob Considine
Potomac
Motta
Ming
Arlington National Gazette
Brooklyn
de Weldon
Navy
Joe Rosenthal
Associated Press
U. S
Mt. Suribachi
Mel
Typhoon 12 Threatens Southern Japan Densely Populated Areas
Typhoon 12 moves toward Kyushu and Shikoku with 100 mph winds and 50 mile per hour gusts on Okinawa. Evacuations occur in coastal villages as ships are warned away and lowland residents brace for flooding and tidal waves amid forecasts of potentially severe damage.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kyushu
Shikoku
Okinawa
U.S. Air Force
Formosa Sets Naval Patrol
Nationalist China Navy set up a 168 mile patrol and bombarded Tungshan Peninsula seventy miles south of Quemoy. Units protected Quemoy from invasion spread out to search for Communist craft from Swatow to Chin Chu Bay. Nationalist planes struck Amoy area for a seventh day as 110,000 Red troops were reported concentrated. Peiping Radio acknowledged the raid claiming 12 bombs dropped and two Nationalist planes shot down.
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Taipeh
China
Tungshan Peninsula
Quemoy
Swatow
Chinchu Bay
Amoy
Peiping
Dulles Says U S Could Not Help Formosa Invasion
Secretary of State Dulles said the United States would oppose a Communist assault on Formosa and that air power and naval protection depend on military leaders. He noted no public decision to defend Quemoy yet and stressed the 7th Fleet’s role rests with military chiefs.
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Denver
Dulles
Hisen
Formosa
United States
Quemoy
Far East
William C. Chase
Mosa
U.S
China
Taipeh
Ian Seeten
Mander
Liu Yurehuang
Etary
Yu Tawei
National Defense
Peiping
Forrmosa
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Mrs. F
Gazette
U. S. 7Th Fleet
U. S
7Th Fleet
Flannery Rules Out Tax Cuts in Next Session
House Speaker William E. Flannery told the West Virginia Association of Retail Grocers that the economy must guide the next legislature and he cannot count on tax reductions due to declining revenues. Cecil Underwood joined the roundtable discussion criticizing fiscal prospects.
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William E. Flannery
Eden and Adenauer discuss Bonn role in anti-Communist bloc
British foreign secretary Anthony Eden meets Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn to map West Germany’s place in the anti-Communist alliance. They consider how West Germany should be armed and aligned within NATO and seek a broader conference with smaller Western European nations.
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Bonn
Germany
Anthony Eden
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Adenauer
NATO
Brussels
Luxembourg
Eden
East Shivers In Cool Front
A cool air front moved east from the Plains cutting temperatures by up to 17 degrees in New England. Meanwhile the Upper Mississippi Valley saw readings rise 5 to 12 degrees in 24 hours as heavy rains drenched the coast with Edna dissipating. Portland Maine logged 7.10 inches, Caribou 5.86, Boston 4.76 inches.
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Associated Press
Plains States
New England
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Maine
Portland
Boston
Submerged Car Rescue Ends in Tragedy in Unity Maine
A family of ten was rescued from a nearly submerged car as floodwaters rose during a hurricane like storm. Two adults, Ruth Brockway and Alton McCormick, died in the seven hour rescue near Unity, Maine. Fire Chief Maz Fortier and other responders aided the effort as the stream overwhelmed the vehicle and traffic was redirected.
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Unity
Maine
Ruth Brockway
Buffalo
NW. Y
Alton McCormick
Rockies
Lakes
Grand Marias
Mich
International Falls
Minn
Reno
Nev
New York
Cleveland
Chicago
Denver
Los Angeles
Allania
Miami
Fred Brockway
Albion
Waldo County
Maz Fortier
Fortier
McCormick
Kenneth Tozier
Irving Judson
Marshall J. Dick
Allston
Mass
Brockway
George W. Edwards
Arlene
Pownal
Rita T.e Bretton
Clin
Car Occupied By Doctor Leaves Patient Punch Drunk
A report notes a car incident in which a physician, described as healing a broken bong, appears to have affected the patient, leaving the situation unclear and the iPatient broken.
Edna Winds Through Maine Dying in Hurricane Toll
Hurricane Edna devastates Maine and parts of New Brunswick as 18 die, eight in Maine, with millions in damage. Florences weakens inland in Mexico. power outages hit Portland and southern Maine. A rescue tragedy unfolds in Unity, where a child and rescuer perish during a seven hour flood incident.
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Portland
New England
Maine
Massacachusetts
Gulf of St Lawrence
Canada
Yarmouth
Edna
Bay of Fundy
New Brunswick
Florence
New Orleans
Carol
Burton M. Cross
Civil Defense
Cape Cod
Mass
Bangor
Bar Harbor
Unity
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