Heroic Navy Hospitalman To Receive Highest Medal
Navy hospitalman John Edward Kilmer 22 of San Antonio will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for rescue efforts under heavy shellfire Aug 13 in Korea. He repeatedly administered aid to the wounded, shielded a Marine with his body, and was mortally wounded. his sacrifice under fire reflects the highest naval traditions.
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Washington
Navy
John Edward Kilmer
San Antonio
Pentagon
Secretary of the Navy
Anderson
Lois B. Kilmer
San Anne
Robert Kilmer
Maines
Kilmer
Highland Park
Houston
Tex
Marine Rifle
United States Naval Service
Saboteurs Said Active in Red Zone Amid East German Uprising
Berlin reports say Russian tanks blown up and factories set afire as East Germany endures rebellion after the June 17 revolt. East German border closures persist. refugees fleeing to West Berlin provide the only information amid arrests and fighting near Erfurt Dresden Magdeburg and Schwerin.
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Red Zone
Berlin
East Germany
Neues Deutschland
East Berlin
Poland
Neisse
West Berlin
der Abend
Erfurt
NKVD
Secret Service
Niederschlitz
Dresden
Magdeburg
Hermann Matern
Schwerin
Train kills couple on Missouri trestle during fishing outing
In Beverly Missouri a 46 year old woman and her 47 year old husband died when a Burlington passenger train struck them as they attempted to cross Bee Creek trestle. The couple from Kansas City were on a holiday fishing trip when the accident occurred. Their elderly mother witnessed the tragedy and coroner Roland Giffee said both victims were killed instantly.
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Beverly
Burlington
John Calorino
Catherine Calorino
Kansas City
Bee Creek
Burlington Railroad
Roland Giffee
Survey Shows Drought and Pestilence Ravage Farms
United Press report finds drought and pestilence as the worst in two decades across the Midwest South and East. Army cutworms grasshoppers and tornadoes cripple crops while some regions receive rain. Texas Oklahoma and Kansas show heavy losses with cattle pastures and wheat yields collapsing and prices falling.
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Chicago
United Press
Soutern Plains
Midwest
South
East
Tennessee
Nebraska
Ohio
Colorado
Plains
Texas
Oklaho
Allan Shivers
Kansas
Oklahoma
Buford Thomas
Okla
Lawrence George
Ochiltree County
Exploit Unrest in Red Lands Aims of Ministers
U S officials say Big Three foreign ministers will seek to exploit unrest behind the Iron Curtain. They view the Moscow crisis as a major global development since World War I and expect Stalin’s death to trigger long term repercussions and power struggles in the Kremlin.
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Washington
Kremlin
Eisenhower
Josef Stalin
Moscow
Russia
Stalin
Newsmen and Sea Captain Still Held by Reds
American officials remain mystified over the fate of three U.S. nationals seized off Hong Kong more than three months ago. Richard Applegate Donald Dixon and Capt. Ben Krasner are believed held in Canton, but no proof or acknowledgment from Peiping exists.
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Washington
U.S
Brooklyn
Hong Kong
Canton
Peiping
Richard Applegate
United Press
Donald Dixon
International News Service
Ben Krasner
Kong
Macao
Applegate
Red
China
United States
Air Force unveils McDonnell XFS88B twin-jet test plane
The Air Force announced a new McDonnell XFS88B twin-jet aircraft with a turboprop engine for high speed propeller testing. The aircraft, a modified XFS88A, will be flown at Lambert Field for a month then to Langley Field for a joint turboprop research program.
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Washington
Air Force
Lambert- St. Louis
Langley Field
Westinghouse
Air Research and Develment Command
Navy
National
Ee Committee For Aeronautcs
West Berlin Paper Claims Martial Law Has Been Declared in Poland
West Berlin’s Sunday Telegraf reports martial law in Poland to crush a workers revolt with Polish partisans fighting Soviet and Polish forces in Silesia and Warsaw. Refuges cite rail and gas sabotage and factory strikes as unrest spreads to Czechoslovakia. reports unconfirmed by other sources.
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West Berlin
Poland
Berlin
Telegraf
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Warsaw
Cracow
Silesia
Czechoslovakia
Koenigshuette
Eee
Silesian
Beuthen
Gleiwitz
Kattowitz
Breslau
Tarnowitz
Dabro
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Heroic Navy
Guilford
N. Wrenn
Leonard Cleaners
Missouri
Koonts-Mcghee Drug CO
S. Main
Postoffice
New York City
Midtown Manhattan
Charles Holler
Frankie
Michael McHale
Tony
Carl Ellis
First National Bank
Perryton
McDale
Rembrandt
Iowa
Tennnessee
Getti
Arkansas
Mexico
Red Lands
Reds
Vern Haugland
New England Mutual
George D. Davis
C.L.U
N. Main ST
C.1.u
High Point
Pension Piamaing
Germany
Ost-West Kurier
Grace Flower Shop
N. Wrenn & Howell
Las Cana
WMFR
Optometrist
High Point, Greensboro & Winston-Salem
Gelad News
Dan River
Handiva
Seersuc
Hosiery Package Store
North Main
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