Rioters try to halt free food aid in West Berlin
In West Berlin more than 6,000 Communists attacked food stations to stop American aid for East Germany. Police and U S forces repelled the raids with clubs and water guns, arresting about 150, including seven women, as reinforcements fanned out in Neukoelln Kreuzberg and Wedding. High Commissioner Conant invited Soviet proposals to unfreeze East German funds for relief food.
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Berlin
West Berlin
East Germany
West
Neukoell
Kreuzberg
Wedding
U. S
James B. Conant
Vladimir Semyonov
Russia
East Zone
Germany
Conant
Volkskammer
Otto Grotewohl
Eisenhower
New Gadget Has Memory Details Unveiled
In Chicago Dr Jan A Rajchman of RCA described a high speed electronic memory at a symposium on automatic computers. The device stores 10000 bits at once and recalls a bit in a few millionths of a second using a 100 by 100 grid of magnetic cores.
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Chicago
Jan A. Rajchman
RCA Laboratories
Argonne and Oak Ridge Laboratories
Atomic Energy Commission
Rajchman
State patrolman named SBI agent to boost strength
A.Ray H. Garland, 30, of North Wilkesboro, a State Highway patrolman, is appointed as an agent for the State Bureau of Investigation. SBI Director James W. Powell said Garland will begin training Aug. 10 with other new agents, expanding the SBI to a 24 agent staff. Garland is a native of Avery county and a World War II bomber pilot.
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Raleigh
A.ray H. Garland
North Wilkesboro
State Bureau of Investigation
SBI
James W. Powell
Garland
Avery County
Nurse Slaying in Charlotte Stuns City
Charlotte police pressed motive inquiries in the stabbing death of 48 year old nurse Helen Diggs Swink found on a sidewalk two blocks from her home. She died at Presbyterian Hospital after being stabbed. Three Black men were arrested. one released after providing an alibi.
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Charlotte
Helen Diggs Swink
Presbyterian Hospital
Wayne County road worker charged with murder in sniper slaying
Verlin Gunter, 42, has been charged with murder in the fatal sniper attack on fellow worker Bob Ford, 22, who was shot five times Friday night in Mount Sterling and died Sunday at a Newport Tennessee hospital. A second victim, Pearl Sutton, was shot eight times and listed in fair condition at Newport Hospital.
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Waynesville
Verlin Gunter
Bob Ford
Ford
Mount Sterling
Newport
Air France plane rescues 38 survivors after Greek crash
An Air France DC4 flew to Rhodes to pick up 38 survivors from a Constellation that crash landed off Turkey. Four passengers died. survivors include 30 passengers nine injured and all eight crew. Captain Raymond Terry belly landed near Fethiye after engine loss. Among the rescued is Mrs Marjorie Clark Yahyavi of Portland, Oregon, and her child returning to Tehran.
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Athens
Greece
Air France
Fethiye
Rhodes
Marjorie Clark Yahyavi
Portland
Ore
United States
Tehran
Knowland elected Senate majority leader in GOP conference
Republican senators at a closed door conference chose William E Knowland as Senate majority leader to replace the late Robert A Taft. Homer F Ferguson of Michigan was named chairman of the Senate GOP Policy Committee to succeed Knowland. Forty nine percent turnout approved the new leaders in the 46 member caucus.
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Washington
William E. Knowland
Senate
Robert A. Taft
Homer F. Ferguson
Michigan
GOP
Knowland
White House
Eisenhower
House
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Sen
Morse
Ind
Judiciary
State, Commerce and Justice Departments
Ohio
Ee Ae
Taft Buried in Hometown as Nation Reflects
Senator Robert A Taft was buried in Indian Hill Ohio after a state funeral in Washington He died Friday in New York of cancer About 200 attended the private service at the Indian Hill Church while 15000 viewed the casket in a downtown Cincinnati funeral home A memorial service and public remembrance were held at Christ Church in Cincinnati with no eulogy per family wishes
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Cincinnati
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Indian Hill
Christ Church
Sen. Taft
Washington
New York
Indian Hill Church
Luther Tucker
Farm leaders oppose utopian price supports in hearings
Amherst Mass UP Farm Bureau official Carleton Pickett tells the House Agriculture Committee that farmers reject utopian price supports and insist on independent, businesslike operation. Observers note testimony from northeastern dairy poultry and potato farmers as the panel begins hearings on renewing farm price support laws expiring in 1954.
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Amherst
Mass
House Agriculture Committee
Carleton I. Pickett
Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation
Pickett
Congress
Northeastern
House
University of Massachusetts
Caribou
Washington
South
Southwest
Midwest
Far West
POW Exchange Opens as 400 Allied Prisoners Return Home
Forty hundred Allied prisoners start returning from Korea in the first wave of Operation Big Switch. 74,000 Reds demand captives in exchange, including 12,763 prisoners with 3,313 Americans. First groups include sick and wounded, with Americans flown to Inchon then home, others to Liberty Village and Camp Britannica for processing.
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George A. McArthur
Panmunjoma
North Korea
Red Cross
Panmunjom
U. N
Reds
Freedom Village
Munsan
Camp
Britannica
Liberty Village
Inchon
Seoul
Korea
Japan
United States
Dulles Arrives in Seoul Hopes for Lasting Peace
Secretary of State Dulles lands in Seoul after a 13 hour stormy flight and vows to transform the Korean armistice into an honorable lasting peace. He will meet President Syngman Rhee at 10 a.m. Wednesday to discuss post armistice relations and mutual cooperation.
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Seoul
Dulles
Washington
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
Seoul City
North Pacific
Aleutian
Shemya
Eisenhower
Korea
Mayock admits paying fee for favorable tax ruling
Mayock, former counsel for the Democratic National Committee, disclosed to reporters he gave $30,000 of a $65,000 cash fee to obtain a favorable Treasury tax ruling for William S. Lasdon of Nepala Chemical Co. Lasdon testified he paid Mayock cash after the lawyer took the case on a contingent basis. The House Ways and Means subcommittee investigates alleged undue influence by Treasury officials.
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Washington
Welburn
Mayock
Democratic Party
Treasury
Democratic National Committee
House
Ways and Means
William S. Lasdon
Katonah
N. Y
Lasdon
John ‘Tobin
Subcommittee
Democratic ‘National Committee
Nepala Chemical Co
Yonkers, N. Y
Soldiers Will Not Swap Guns For Shovels
The White House states that using the Army to aid Korea’s reconstruction does not require combat troops to abandon weapons. Senator Kefauver and others warn against forced labor, while officials say U.S. forces will provide technical assistance and training to speed rehabilitation without placing troops on labor duty.
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Washington
White House
Korea
U. S
State Dulles
Free World
Senate
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Murray Snyder
Eisenhower
Inoculation To Start In Avery County
Avery County launches a two day mass inoculation against polio for children under ten. Clinics set for Cranberry Riverside and Newland schools run 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Newland with Cranberry and Riverside open only Thursday. 17 polio cases, latest in Donald Brown of Cranberry. Dr Cameron McRae oversees the effort with gamma globulin arriving from New York and supplies from Raleigh. Caldwell and Catawba counties ran similar campaigns reaching over 26,000 children last month.
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Newland
N. C
Avery County
Charles M. Cameron
Raleigh
Tri-State
Johnson City
Tenn
New York
Cameron McRae
Cranberry
Riverside
Cameron
Donald Brown
Asheville
Caldwell
Catawba
Lawmakers Leave Behind Long List of Measures
The Republican 83rd Congress ended with a mixed record as it left a long list of measures for the second session starting Jan 6 or a possible fall special session. Many hot issues, including President Eisenhower's recommendations, were shelved or sent to study commissions for scrutiny.
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Washington
83Rd Congress
Finis
Eisenhower
Opened Markets Show Mixed Prices In North Carolina Belt
Raleigh area flue cured markets opened with an average of 53 dollars per 100 pounds as light sales predicted. Quality improved versus last year with more utter quality. 5 to 10 percent of baskets to the Stabilization Corp. Details cover prices by grade including cutters lugs primings and nondescript across several towns and states.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
U. S
Fairmont
Clarkton
Fair Bluff
Chadbourn
Whiteville
Tabor City
Lamberton
Fayetteville
Tissues Stretch Polio Victims Freed From Iron Lungs
Boston reports advances in stretching lung tissues to free polio victims from iron lungs. Harvard researchers display new devices and breathing techniques to wean patients, including an automated sigher and tailored patterns. The March of Dimes funds the pioneering $10,000 device, one of ten respiratory centers.
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Boston
Harvard University School of Public Health
Children’s Medical Center
National Foundation For
Kenneth Landauer
Foundation
Landauer
Benjamin Greeley Ferris Jr
March of Dimes
Weather Snapshot Foretells Warm Tomorrow
Low tonight 70 degrees and high tomorrow 92 degrees. Daytime high today was 85 with a low last night of 70. Sunset today at 7:22 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow at 5:30 a.m.
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