Armistice Talks Progress Amid Korean War Tensions
Panmunjom delegates recessed indefinitely after a 23 minute session as staff officers work out final armistice details. Despite policy settlements, mobs in South Korea and international pressure cloud prospects. President Rhee may push for a hard line, while Switzerland hesitates over repatriation roles.
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Panmunjom
Republic
National Assembly
Peiping
Eisenhower
South Korea
Bern
Switzerland
Snngman Rhee
Washington
Tokyo
U.N. and Communist Patrols Clash in Narrow Skirmishes
In the early morning darkness U N and Communist patrols staged small actions as negotiators edged toward a truce in Korea. Allies reported only two brief clashes on the Western Front and light artillery fire. The South Korean 12th Division said it recaptured two outposts near Lake Gook's Castle from the Reds, retaking positions lost last week.
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Seoul
U. N
W U. N
Lake the Gook's Castle
Inmate Drowns Wading in Missouri River
The 22 year old convict John Shore, jailed for burglary and larceny, drowned while wading in the Missouri River near the Missouri River Bridge. Prison officials and Cole County authorities investigated. no autopsy planned. Shore entered the penitentiary April 15, 1951. his mother in St Louis was identified as a relative.
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Missouri River
Ralph M. Eidson
Penitentiary Church Farm
John Shore
St. Louis
Shore
Penal Institution
State Highway Patrol
Eidson
Jefferson City Land Company
Highway Patrol
Cole County
James G. Bruce
Bruce
Missouri Heat Wave Tops 90s Across State
Jefferson City and Central Missouri sweltered in 90 degree heat as the temperature reached 96 at 3 p.m. Humidity worsened conditions with a low of 77 after midnight. Kansas City hit 98 tying a June 8 record, while St. Louis neared 99 as 30 telephone operators walked off the job seeking relief from the heat. The weather forecast called for continued hot and humid days with highs in the 90s.
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Jefferson City
Central Missouri
Mercury
Missouri
Kansas City
St. Louis
Senate backs foreign aid plan as House weighs cuts
Washington June 9 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee tentatively approved all major items in President Eisenhowers five point four seven billion dollar foreign aid program. In the House the Foreign Affairs committee rejected delaying action until December. Chairman Wiley said the Senate group made no cuts in its first full day behind closed doors. Some Republicans in the House talk of substantial reductions up to two billion dollars. Administration leaders seek to head off these proposals.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Eisenhower
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Wiley
Senate
Weather Update for Missouri Continues Hot and Fair
The forecast notes continued hot and fair conditions in Missouri with a high near the 90s today and again Thursday.
President Eisenhower backs prayer day for peace
In Washington on June 9, President Eisenhower said he was eager to gauge young people's reaction to a plan to set aside a day, possibly July 4, as a day of prayer for peace. He spoke after a Tulsa Oklahoma group presented him a scroll urging about 12,000 signers to pray for peace in Korea.
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Eisenhower
Tulsa
Okla
Korea
Exit visas granted to wives of Americans in Moscow
U S Embassy says Soviet government plans exit visas for the Russian wife of AP Moscow chief Eddy Gilmore and for the Russian wife of Kansas City translator Robert Tucker. Gov a case for two Balashova children, with more wives of Americans under consideration. Gilmore, in Moscow 11 years, to leave with Tamara Cherna shova. Tucker and family also to depart.
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U. S
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
Robert Tucker
Kansas City
Ethel Balashova
Los Angeles
Charles E. Bohlen
V.M. Molotov
Bohlen
Foriign Ministry
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Gilmore
Tucker
Balashova
New York
Frank J. Starzel
Tuckers
Russia
Joint
Eugenia Pestretsova
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Cherna‘shova
Professors in Red Query Refuse Communist Ties
Chicago June 9 Two Midwestern university instructors refused to state whether they belonged to the Communist Party while doing special scientific work in World War II. Six witnesses from Midwestern universities cited the Fifth Amendment, arguing against party affiliations and privacy invasion. Ralph W. Spitzer of the University of Kansas City testified about work with the OSS during the war on underwater explosives and shock waves. Horace B. Davis, assistant professor of economics at the same university, also declined to disclose party membership.
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Chicago
Senate
Internal Securities Subcommittee
Ralph W. Spitzer
University of Kansas City
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Communist Party
Horace B. Davis
Spur Horse Show Ticket Sales Spark Jaycee Meeting
Jefferson City Junior Chamber of Commerce officers named teams to sell tickets for the Jaycee Cole County Fair horse show. The winning team will be treated to a free beer party. Sunset Lake hosted the Jaycees meeting with 22 members and 4 guests. IL C Carpenter of Trenton spoke on subsidy impacts for farming, especially dairying, if subsidies are dropped.
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Jefferson City
Traffic Cop Says Farewell As Signals Arrive
St Louis traffic officer Winston H Weseloh, 42, bids farewell to his Twelfth Boulevard and Washington Avenue corner as city signals go live. For eight years he greeted drivers and pedestrians with jokes and a cheerful whistle, offering a pep talk on service and courteous enforcement before the electronic age shifts control to signals.
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ST. Louis
Winston H. Weseloh
Weseloh
Twelfth Boulevard
Washington Avenue
Twelfth
Washington
Brazito Man Sentenced On Trespassing Charge
Herman Hager about 60 of near Brazito was sentenced to 60 days in the Cole County jail and pay court costs after pleading guilty to trespassing. He was charged with entering the home of his divorced wife Helen Hager after being ordered to stay away.
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Herman Hager
Brazito
Cole County
Hager
Helen Hager
Michigan Ohio twister toll hits 140 dead
Flint and Cleveland faced mounting losses as nine storms ripped across Michigan and Ohio. The toll climbed to 140 with 1,000+ injured and millions in damage. Flint bore the worst blow with 112 killed, hundreds displaced, and hospitals crowded. State police and guardsmen aided relief as disaster declarations followed.
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Mich
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Ohio
Cleveland
Detroit
Tawas City
Brown City
Ann Arbor
Erie
Elyria
Ceylon
Wood County
G. Mennen Williams
Way clears for Korea armistice says Churchill
London June 9 Prime Minister Churchill declared the way to an early Korean armistice is clear. He warned South Korean opposition could jeopardize final peace and urged completion of necessary administrative arrangements. He avoided committing Britain to admitting Red China to the UN and criticized Syngman Rhee’s stance during the talks.
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Churchill
Korea
House of Cominons
Britain
Red China
United Nations
Syngman Rhee
Clark
Harrison
Cole County Cerebral Palsy Group Meeting Tonight
The Cole County chapter of the Central Missouri Palsy Association will meet at 8 p m today in the Chamber of Commerce board rooms at the Governor Hotel. Officials said a report on the last cerebral palsy clinic held here about a month ago will be given tonight. The meeting will be the last until this fall.
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Cole County
Central Missouri Palsy Association
Chamber of Commerce
Governor Hotel
69 Killed as Twister Rips Massachusetts
Tornadoes across the United States this year have killed about 420 people and caused extensive damage, with the latest Cen tral Massachusetts twister claiming at least 50 lives in Worcester and surrounding areas. The tally includes numerous states and describes patterns of destruction across Alabama Texas Ohio Michigan and more.
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Massachusetts
Associated Press
United States
U. S
Mich
Weather Bureau
Missouri
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Tennessee
House Votes Against Standby Control Powers
Washington June 9 The House voted heavily against standby control powers over wages prices and rents and then passed a watered down defense production act renewing for one year government authority to allocate scarce defense materials and give priorities to military goods makers. It also renews government financial aid through loans loan insurance or guaranteed contracts for expanding defense facilities. The old act expires June 30 and the bill now goes to a Senate House conference committee for adjustments.
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Washington
House
Aear
Senate House Conference Committee
Service Girls Club names 1953 officers and plans events
The Service Girls Club announced committee chairmen for publicity decorating entertainment food hospitality transportation and membership. Jean Wood as president listed new 1953 officers Loretta Luebbert Mary Emma Schmutz Evelyn Shackleford Betty Fleming and Dorothy Weaver. A formal dance is set 8 to 12 p m Saturday at the Service Club Madison Ave and McCarty St with tentative dances planned at Ft Leonard Wood in cooperation with the post's special services.
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Service Girls Club
Betty J. Roberts
Louise Allen
Mary J. Weaver
Bernie Krieger
Doris Ann Roling
Jo Ann Roberts
Miss Jean Wood
Miss Wood
Loretta Luebbert
Mary Emma Schmutz
Evelyn Shackleford
Betty Fleming
Dorothy Weaver
Madison Ave
McCarty St
Condemnation Suit Filed for Span Link
The State Highway Commission filed a condemnation suit against Tom C Strong Rubie D Strong and the Cities Service Oil Company to clear the path for the new Missouri River Bridge right of way. The petition says the defendants and the Commission cannot agree on proper compensation.
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The
State Highway Commission
Tom C. Strong
Rubie D. Strong
Cities Service Oil Company
Missouri River Bridge
Blood donor pledges top 215 for local Bloodmobile
Local Red Cross officials report 215 pledges for the upcoming Bloodmobile visit at Methodist Church. The drive aims to collect 600 pints of blood over Thursday Friday and Saturday with pledges received by KWOS and mail. Donors are offered free T-bone steaks from Saw Mor Market. Hub Miller offers free admission to his Highway 50 Drive-In for pledgers today and tomorrow.
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Red Cross
KWOS
Powell Phelps
Hub Miller
Bradshaw Named To District Lions Post
JOPLIN June 9 selection of district governors and cabinet secretaries closed the three day Missouri Lions Clubs convention. Elected governors and secretaries include W H Bradshaw Jefferson City District B, J P Morgan Chillicothe District C, Richard Hamra Senath District D, Floyd Billingsley Clearmont District F, plus other district leaders. Eugene S Briggs Enid Oklahoma spoke as principal morning speaker.
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Smith
Rolla
Floyd Billingsley
Clearmont
Don Robey
Maryville
Eugene S. Briggs
Enis
Okla
Lions International
Edina Resident Appointed Public Administrator for Knox County
Gov. Phil M. Donnelly named Catherine Schlenphort of Edina public administrator of Knox County yesterday. She succeeds Beulah M. Ennis of Edina who resigned from the post.
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Phil M. Donnelly
Catherine Schlenphort
Edina
Knox County
Beulah M. Ennis
London Youths Lose Some Cockney Accent
London June 9 The Cockney is losing his accent A London County Council teacher training manual notes younger East Enders drop initial H less and preserve vowels and consonants less, yet some sounds still vary The guide says early schooling can curb social and economic disadvantages for youths by fostering better speech habits
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London
London County Council
East
Bow Church
Worcester Storm Ravages Central Massachusetts
A devastating New England tornado ripped through 11 central Massachusetts towns near Worcester, killing 69 and injuring 738 with 2,500 left homeless. Gov. Herter declared a state of emergency as Guardsmen and Red Cross aided rescue, blood supplies, and disaster relief from Holden to Worcester and beyond. Debris reached Boston suburbs as Exeter NH reported extensive damage but no deaths.
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Mass
New England
Massachusetts
Ohio
Michigan
Holden
Shrewsbury
Christian A. Herter
Norton Company
Fitchburg
Boston
Red Cross
Marjorie Collette
Holden Hospital
Washington
Exeter
N. H
Here
Woman Awarded 82 Dollar Judgment in Rent Suit
Thelma Wilson won a $82.27 judgment against William and Glada Decker doing business as Decker Realty Company of Jefferson City in a rent control case. The jury denied her $1,062 claim for overpaid rent on the apartment, but awarded the $82.27 for improvements she installed with no reimbursement from the defendants.
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Thelma Wilson
William and
Glada Decker
Decker Realty Company
Jefferson City
Liquor Sale on Boats at Lake of the Ozarks Ruled Illegal
Missouri Attorney General John M. Dalton ruled that liquor and beer cannot be legally sold on boats on navigable streams even non intoxicating varieties. The issue arose after Hollis M. Ketchum of the Department of Liquor Control sought guidance on an excursion boat operator on the Lake of the Ozarks.
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John M. Dalton
Missouri
Hollis M. Ketchum
Department of Liquor Control
Ketchum
Lake of the Ozarks
Here
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