Ike Meets NATO Commander For Top-Level Talks
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther arrives in Denver to meet President Eisenhower at Lowry Air Force Base for top level talks on European armaments and the London nine nation conference. The White House confirmed Gruenther’s visit as part of ongoing anti corruption efforts.
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Alfred M. Gruenther
Eisenhower
Europe
Gruenther
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
London
Lowry Air Force Base
Denver White House
Lowry
White House
Murray Snyder
Re-Neutralizing Formosa Faces White House Debate
The administration weighs a return to Truman Acheson policy that would guarantee Formosa under Chiang Kai-shek. Eisenhower aides have not decided, with talks at a Denver NSC meeting and after Dulles' nine power conference input. Radford argues for strengthened forces to deter Red seizure.
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Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
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Giants Dominate Indians 6-2 For Third Straight Win
In Municipal Stadium 71,555 witnessed the New York Giants sweep to a 6-2 victory over Cleveland. Ruben Gomez held the AL champions to four hits through 7 2/3 innings, with Hoyt Wilhelm closing, as Dusty Rhodes tied the series record with his third pinch hit. Willie Mays added three singles and an RBI, while Jim Rhodes drove in two runs in the pivotal third inning.
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Dusty) Rhodes
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It Was My Voice Lanza Declares Denial of Old Record Use
Mario Lanza denied claims that the voice heard on his comeback shows was from two years earlier while he was fired from a Kollywood studio. He insisted the voice was his present one and noted he earned forty thousand dollars for the TV program, which went to taxes.
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MGM
Betty
Grable
Harry James
CBS
Lanza
Local Man Helps Capture Oakland Bandit
Hayward man Richard Figerold helped chase and recover money after Oak land bandit Edward Cunningham robbed the Tone D theater box office and fled. Cunningham, unemployed, was found hiding at a rear stairs and arrested for robbery.
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Hayward
Richard Figerold
Fagundés Street
Edward Cunningham
10Th Street
Broadway
Virginia Bender
9Th Street
Cunningham
Allies Reach Sovereignty Pact For West Germany
London sources report the United States Britain and France plan a declaration of intent to restore West German sovereignty after a nine power conference. The Big Three will limit use of occupation laws to ease Germany’s path to independence, with NATO armaments controls and new authority over troop deployment to be enforced.
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London
United States
Britain
France
Germany
Conrad Adenauer
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Czechs Agree To Free Two U.S. Soldiers
Washington reports the State Department says Czechoslovakia will return two American servicemen, 1st Lt. Richard Dries and Pfc. George Pisk, seized Sept. 17 near the German-Czech border. They are to be handed over at Rozvadov and Widhaus at noon local time tomorrow. The U.S. embassy in Prague had pressed for release while Prague warned the men were accused spies.
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State Department
Lincoln Waite
Prague
Richard ‘Dries and Pie
George Pisk
Rozvadov
Widhaus
Bavaria
White
Batchelor Guilty Gets Life Term At Hard Labor
Cpl. Claude J. Batchelor was found guilty by a Korean War court martial of collaborating with Chinese captors and tattling on fellow prisoners during eight months as a POW. He received life imprisonment at hard labor. the court took 2 hours 14 minutes to convict and 30 minutes to decide the sentence. Batchelor’s wife cried as she spoke of taking him home. He built a high school, lied about his age to enlist in 1948, and faced six specifications including collaboration and propaganda work. he was acquitted on one tattling charge. He is the third American convicted of collaboration in North Korea.
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Jel Begen
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Mae
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Winkler County News
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Antehelor
First Cavalry Division
North Korea
Union butchers strike threatens meat supply in Bay Area
Union butchers rallied in San Francisco and Alameda counties on a weekend strike against meat jobbers, aiming for higher pay. By Monday supply may run short as 15 firms were picketed and employers offered limited wage increases, with retail shops and hotels affected.
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Safsway
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Maxwell
One Dies In Solvent Explosion At Crown Zellerbach Plant
In San Leandro a 29 year old Castro Valley man Carmine V Speranza died in an Oakland hospital from third degree burns covering over 96 percent of his body after a drum of highly flammable solvent exploded at Crown Zellerbach’s wax paper division. Fellow worker Earle Hale escaped unhurt minutes before Speranza’s death as his wife Carye Speranza waited nearby in the company lot. The blast occurred in a small corrugated iron building. cause undetermined. Coroner ruled death from burns and Speranza’s body was released to Castro Valley mortuary for services.
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Castro Valley
Carmine V
Mike Speranza
Louise Court
Oakland
Speranza
Crown Zellerbach Corpora
Wliams Street
Earle Hale
Shirley Street
Heyward
Sperling
Carye
Hale
Cecil Dilling
Leandro Man Killed In 80 mph Auto Crash
Oakland police reported a one year old business executive Leandro Man Southall Jr of San Leandro died in a high speed crash on High Street. His brand new Cadillac crashed into a tree after clocking around 80 mph and struck a parked car before the impact. The cause remains undetermined and witnesses described a roar before the fatal wreckage.
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Oakland
Arthur N. Southall, Jr
Estudillo Avenue
San Leandro
Irene
Southall
High Street
Allendale
William Mitten
Mitten
Boy, 12, Hit by Car Suffering Leg Fractures
A 12 year old boy suffered a compound fracture of the lower leg and a possible upper leg fracture after being struck by a car on Foothill boulevard near 168th avenue yesterday afternoon. Treated at Fairmont hospital and later transferred to Hayward hospital. Witnesses said he failed to see the eastbound car operated by William V. Court.
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168Th Avenue
Fairmont
Hayward
Terry McChesney
Colby Street
San Lorenzo
Wreos
William’ V
Court
Strobridge Avenue
Two Top French Admit Leak to Communists
Paris reports two senior French officials confessing responsibility for leaking top secret military information to the Communist party. Interior minister Francois Mitterrand announced their arrest after Jean Dides was suspended for unauthorized possession of classified material. A warrant was issued for Andre Baranes, a Communist editor linked as a tipster to Dides.
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Communist Party
Moscow
Interior Ministry
France
National ‘Defense’ Ministry
Ros Ger LaBrisse
Civil Protection Department
Pierre Mendes- France
Jean Dides
Turpin
LaBrusse
Francois Mitterand
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National Defense Committee
Baranes
Dides
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