U S Replies to Red Cross on Koje Island Riots
The State Department released a five month old reply defending U N forces handling of the Koje Island riots on April 10 in which three Communists and four ROK guards were killed and 64 wounded. It argues U N actions were appropriate, notes prisoner transfers to 500 man compounds, and explains changes in prisoner training and political orientation after the incident.
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Washington
State Department
Red Cross
United Nations
Koje Island
Republic of Korea
International Committee of the Red Cross
U.S
Robert E. Ward Jr
U.N
Ward
Prisoner Shot On Koje Island For Refusing Halt Order
A prisoner of war was fatally shot by a South Korean Army guard on Koje Island after leaving his barracks in darkness and failing to halt when challenged in his own language. He died on arrival at Kose hospital, with United Nations personnel reported injured.
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Koje
Tokyo
Koje Island
Kose
United Nations
U N Delegates End Long All Night Assembly Recess
United Nations delegates, exhausted after the longest all night session in UN history, recessed the seventh General Assembly until late February to decide the next step in disarmament. The body rejected Russia’s charge of mass killings of communist prisoners on Pongam Island, by a 45 to 5 vote, as Lester B. Pearson declared the session adjourned at 3 45 a.m. EST.
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A. J. Goldberg
United Nations
KN. Y
U.N
General Assembly
Korea
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
L. N. sAssembly
Russia
U. S
Pongam Island
Court Keeps Steelmen On Nickel Plate Jobs
Federal Judge John Knight extended an indefinite temporary injunction allowing striking CIO Steel workers to resume nickel plate pipe production for the Atomic Energy Commission. The court did not comment on the CIO challenge to the 30 day cooling off provision of the Taft Hartley Act.
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Buffalo
CIO
Atomic Energy Commission
John Knight
U. S. District Court
One Dead in Plastics Plant Blast in Bound Brook
An explosion at a Union Carbide plastics plant in Piscataway Township damaged a dust bin and wrecked a 100 acre site. One man, Herman Ellis of New Brunswick, was killed and 27 others injured, eight in serious condition. The blast sent debris across Bound Brook streets and prompted a multi-town firefight and rapid ambulance response.
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Bound Brook
N. P
Herman Ellis
New Brunswick
N. J
Daniel Migulio
Union Carbide and Carbon Corp
Piscataway Township
William R. Wheeler
Main Street
Somerville
Plainfield
Alex Eber
Middlesex County
Burglars Take $45 From California Laundry Company
Police report burglars entered the California Laundry Co at 827 W Seventh St early Monday. They stole $43 from a desk drawer and a suit of clothes from the office.
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California Laundry Co
W. Seventh St
Shipwrecked crew saved as Quartette rests off Midway
A wireless report says the Quartette, a 7196 ton freighter, ran aground 431 miles east of Midway Island while en route from Galveston to Fusan. All 33 crewmen have been removed and are safe aboard a Navy patrol craft awaiting a rescue tug from Honolulu.
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Honolulu
T.H
Mulhacs
Galveston
Texas
Quartette
Fusan
Korea
Frontenac Victory
Oy Mackay Radio
San Francist
Duareite
Frontenac I
Frontenac
Midway
Crippled Maple Cove Limps Toward West Coast Harbor
The storm damaged freighter Maple Cove struggles toward the west coast under reduced speed as the battered vessel battles heavy seas and a malfunctioning rudder after the Pacific storm.
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Vancouver
Maple Cove
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