U S Challenges Red Figures As Prisoner Exchange Ends
U S counters Red claims as Operation Big Switch ends with 111 Americans released, including crews of a B29, and 8 Britons 4 Turks 1 South African 1 Japanese. UN spokesman disputes missing Capt Harold Fischer Jr of Swea City Iowa. Totals show 12 752 Allies repatriated including 4 910 Americans and 7 842 South Koreans and Chinese and North Koreans. The exchange completed at 10 50 a m EST Saturday with last Allied prisoner Air Force Lt Btn R Harris of Van Nuys Calif.
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Panmunjom
U.N. Command
Harold Fischer, Jr
Swea City
Iowa
U. N
U.S. State Department
Red
China
Red China
Air Force
Btn R. Harris
van Nuys
Education Crisis Looms For Nation
A Mercer-Wa gton report warns that rising birth rates and enrollment push will strain U S schools. With record enrollments looming and facilities strained, educators debate curriculum scope and teacher freedom as the education system faces a long term surge. The piece notes peak enrollments forecast for 1959 60 and 1964 for elementary and overall school attendance.
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America
National Education Association
Boards of Education
Bermuda Braces as Hurricane Bypasses Island
Bermuda eyes a near miss as the hurricane tracks 100 to 150 miles west. Fifty-foot waves lash shore roads while Kindley Field planes head home and King’s Point seaplanes evacuate. Miami forecaster Norton says U.S. coasts unlikely to feel impact.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Atlantic
U. S. Air Force Base
Kindley Field
United States
Navy Air Station
King's Point
Gaid
Census Finds Shortage of Eligible Bachelors Among Youth
Washington report shows 21 22 year old eligible civilian men per 100 women 18 19 fell from 89 in 1950 to 61 in 1952 after barracks and draft effects. For ages 23 27 there were 0.94 men per woman, and 25 plus groups had 115 men per 100 women though willingness to wed varies. Married persons rose to 76.4 million in 1952.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Inside Page Classified Ads and Editorial Snippets
The page overview lists sections including Classified Ads on pages 9 to 12 and 18B, Editorial on page 1 and 4A, Sports Radio-TV on page 6A, Women's News on pages 8 to 13A, and Weather on page 8A. It appears to be a contents index for a newspaper.
Eisenhower Treated for Elbow Bruise in Denver
President Eisenhower received treatment for a bruised right elbow from his personal physician Dr. Howard M. Snyder in Denver. The injury, caused by a bump at the White House, has somewhat hindered his golf and fishing. an osteopath visit followed, with further treatment administered.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Howard M. Snyder
White House
Murray Snyder
Snyder
Were Babies A Heart Tugging Look at the Quintuplets
An exclusive six day picture story revisits the Dionne Quintuplets early years as the four younger sisters begin to separate from their famous siblings in a historic family moment.
US Fliers Describe Tortures Behind Repatriation
Freedom Village reports that about 25 American fliers say they were coerced into false germ warfare confessions by Communist guards. One 24 year old lieutenant from Kansas recalled maggot ridden wounds and daily questioning since July 17 1952 before release.
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Freedom Village
North Korea
Freedom
Richard G. Voss
Osborne
Kan
China
Strong Earthquake Shakes South Greece Near Pyrgos
An earthquake centered near Kilini close to Pyrgos shook Athens and southern Greece. Loutraki residents fled in panic as Ionian islands Cephalonia Zante Ithaca suffered August shakes killing 381 and injuring 768.
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Greece
Killini
Pyrgos
Zante
Ionian Islands
Loutraki
Ionian
Cephalonia
Ithaca
Senate probes stockpile operations reveal potential fraud
Senate Government Operations Committee Chairman Bridges says investigations show possible fraud and mishandling in the four billion dollar stockpile program since 1946. He cites secrecy in GSA purchases of metals and materials for jets and missiles and concerns over noncompetitive bids and lax specifications.
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Senate
Alations Committee
Bridges
R-Nh
Day
General Services Administration
Aera
GSA
High Point Mother Weeps. Son Freed
A High Point mother cried with joy when she learned her son, Sgt. Paul Portee, was among the final group of returned prisoners of war. Portee had been a POW for 29 months after being captured in April 1951 and arriving in Korea in January 1951.
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United Press
Joe Enterprise
Lillie Portee
Portee
Gful
Holiday Starts Over 130 Dead
The Labor Day weekend saw at least 138 deaths nationwide in the first 30 hours. Traffic crashes caused 101 fatalities, 18 drownings, and 19 other accident deaths, with notable pileups on the New Jersey Turnpike near Elizabeth injuring 19. An overload of arrests and statewide safety drives paced by Massachusetts motorists also featured in the tallies.
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New Jersey
Elizabeth
National Safety Council
Germans Vote In Crucial Elections
Bonn Germany Sept 5 Europe faces a pivotal West German vote to choose a new 484 member Bundestag. Adenauer backs a pro Western alignment with U.S. support amid Socialist opposition seeking neutrality. Dulles endorsement sparks heated debate as Germans weigh rearmament and postwar policy.
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Maack Curry
Bonn
Germany
Europe
Bundestag
Lower Nouse
West Germany
United States
Russia
John Foster Dulles
Konrad Adenauer
Christian Democratic
Adenauer
Dulles
Free Western World
Georgi Malenkov
West Europe
Socialist Party
Moscow
U.S
Erich Ollenhauer
Heat Wave Ends as Cooler Air Forecast Coast to Coast
Cool air and showers moved into the Atlantic seaboard ending the nation’s worst heat wave in 20 years. Forecasters expect a pleasant Labor Day across regions as the East cools from 90s to high 80s and 70s elsewhere. Suffolk County estimates crop damage at least one million dollars to Long Island vegetables.
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Weather Bureau
Chicago
Central Plains
Atlantic
Washington, D. C
Midwest
Plains
Rockies
Southwest
New York City
Long Island
Suffolk County
Walter G. Been
Southern Furniture Market optimism amid North South showings
High Point anticipates strong October informal showings at the Southern Furniture Mart with solid advance bookings. Leo J. Heer of the Southern Furniture Expo Building Co. says northern markets may cut into local attendance while South manufacturers report rising national share amid steady consumer income and high home construction. Sales data show 1951 volumes near 1950 with 1952 figures due soon. wooden furniture stock adds significant value to total shipments.
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High Point
Furniture Row
Southern Furniture Mart
Leo J. Heer
Southern Furniture Exposition Building Co
Heer
Chicago
Jamestown
American Furniture Mart
SFMA
Ryan
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