General Clark reports Reds may hold more prisoners
Gen Mark W. Clark told a Pentagon briefing that Communist forces hold 2 060 to 3 000 more American prisoners than the 3 333 they claim to exchange. He said thousands more South Koreans are unaccounted for and that if truce violations occur, he favors using any weapon. Clark plans retirement Oct 31 after 40 years in the Army. He noted the 3rd Marine Division heads to the Far East, stationed in Japan.
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Washington
Mark W. Clark
Far East
Pentagon
Clark
United Nations Command
South
Republic of Korea
North Korea
United Nations
Korea
Roks
Syngman Rhee
Clark J
Four drownings spark Tennessee river tragedy wave
Four deaths attributed to drownings across Tennessee and nearby areas in two Watauga Lake and Watauga River incidents and a Powell River drowning near La Follette. Victims include Johnson City residents Evelyn Sanders, 57, Joe Pickle, 15, and Beverly Hampton, 18, with further questions into Middlesboro linked deaths. Authorities search Powell River for missing companions and possible foul play.
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Tennessee
Watauga Lake
Watauga River
Middlesboro
Powell River
la Follette
Carter County
Evelyn Scott Sanders
Joe Pickle
Beverly Hampton
Johnson City
Associated Press
Pearl Moore
Ball's
Rosalee Mason
Guys Harrell
Harrell
Ray D. Johnson
Dulles and Rhee Map Korea Reconstruction Plan
U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and President Syngman Rhee met in Seoul to align on rebuilding war torn Korea and a mutual security pact. Talks covered 200 million dollars in rehabilitation funds and a broader 900 million over several years with strands on defense and possible unification to be debated later. Dulles noted the talks progress and suggested a Senate ratification would follow, with further discussions slated before his Tokyo visit.
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Seoul
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Syaoman Rhee
South Korea
U. S. Senate
Dulles
Washington
Rhee
Congress
Army
Robert Stevens
Defense Department
Tokyo
Channel Whips Four British Girl Stays in Channel
Four swimmers quit the English Channel attempt as Margaret Feather, a Yorkshire girl, pressed on with fiancé’s encouragement. The lone remaining swimmer among seven starters started at dawn with others fading, nine miles from Dover after nine hours and twenty minutes in the rough seas.
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Cap Gris Nez
France
Margaret Feather
Margaret
Dover
Eisenhower Opposes Theater Tax Relief Bill
President Eisenhower declined to sign a bill exempting motion picture theaters from the 7 percent federal admissions tax. He issued a disapproval message saying the government cannot afford the revenue loss and it would be unfair to single out one industry for relief at this time.
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Washington
Eisenhower
UMW Organizer Slain Near Hyden Kentucky
Charles Vermillion a 44 year old United Mine Workers organizer was found shot to death in his parked car on the Hyden Manchester Road five miles west of Hyden Kentucky Passersby located the body at dawn Police and coroner were at the scene an autopsy was planned for later today Vermillion from Hazard had been active in the union drive to organize the Clay Leslie County coal fields amid rising violence blamed on both sides.
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Hyden
United Mine Workers Union
Clay-Lesle County
Charles Vermillion
Hazard
UMW
Hyden-Manchester
Kentucky
Dwayne Walker
Child Killed in Father's Driveway Death
A 17 month old boy, Andrew Leon Pickle, was fatally struck by a car driven by his father Dan P. Pickle as the vehicle entered their home at 1337 East Sullivan Street Kingsport. The accident ends a 679 day record without a traffic fatality in the city. Funeral services are set for 2:30 Friday at Hamlett Dodson Funeral Home with ministers Leon Lane and Clyde Griffin officiating. The child is survived by his parents a brother Donald and three sisters Janice Connie Sue and Joyce Ann plus paternal grandmother Mrs Mattle Blakley and step grandfather Marj tle Blakley of Indian Springs.
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Kingsport
Andrew Leon Pickie
Dan P. Pickle
East
Sullivan Street
Pickle
Charles K. Marsh
U. S
Hamlett-Dodson Funeral Home
Leon Lane
Clyde Griffin
Donald Pickle
Janice, Pickle
Connie Sue Pickle
Joyce Ann Pickle
Mattle Blakley
Marjtle Blakley
Indian Springs
Dick Haymes Faces Deportation Order
Atty General Herbert Brownell Jr said Immigration Service agents in Los Angeles arrested singer Dick Haymes for deportation to Argentina. The 34 year old actor was charged with obtaining wartime military service exemption as a citizen of a neutral nation Argentina.
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Washington
Herbert Brownell Jr
Immigration Service
Los Angeles
Dick Haymes
Argentina
TV Road To Ruin Distrusts Western TV For Kids
Hollywood dispatch reports the National Association for Better Radio and Television led by Mrs. Clara Logan seeks to bar Westerns and space shows from children's viewing. They fault Cisco Kid Gene Autry Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers for crime violence themes and urge broadcasters to reject such programs.
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Aline Mosby
Hollywood
Hoppy
Roy Rogers
Space Patrol
National Association For Better Radio and Television
Clara S. Logan
Logan
Happy
Cisco Kid
Gene Autry
Hopalong Cassidy
Believed Moscow Note Draws Questionable Conclusions
U S officials view Moscow note on a Big Four meeting as weak and possibly reflecting Kremlin pressure shifts amid East German uprisings. The note, sent in response to a July 15 Western bid for a foreign ministers session on German unification and Austrian independence, arrived in Washington London and Paris late Tuesday. State Department opened consultations with Britain and France as Dulles, in Seoul, remains informed. a Western reply is not expected until his return next week. Ministers’ meeting on unification expected later this fall or winter.
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Washington
U. S
Moscow
Germany
Kremlin
East Germany
London
Paris
State Department
Dulles
Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Tourist on deluxe motorbike stirs seaside street scene
A graybearded sun tanned elderly man rides a deluxe motorbike loaded with travel gear along a highway. Two young women debate attending an air conditioned movie house as an outdoor type man in feminine sunglasses watches nearby.
Fear 14 Airmen Beyond Help In Atlantic Crash
London reports two more American airmen recovered from the RB36 bomber crash in the Atlantic. Five bodies have been found. four men were rescued. Fourteen crew members remain missing as searchers cover a 200 to 500 mile sea area west of Ireland amid high winds and rough seas. A Swedish freighter and a British weather ship located bodies. radio messages indicated possible survivors, but weather and garbled messages hinder clarity.
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London
Atlantic
Monica Smith
India
Ireland
Manchester
Highway 81 Traffic Maze To Get Signals
City plans a traffic light for the busy Highway 1 underpass intersection at Long Island Drive East Sullivan Street Birch Street and nearby Lincoln Street. The signal, designed after years of study, will be installed September 22 to ease evening bottlenecks from Eastman Co traffic on Horse Creek Road and Long Island Drive.
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Highway 1
D. W. Moulton
Long Island Drive
East Sullivan Street
Birch Street
Lincoln Street
Horse Creek Road
Tennessee Eastman Co
Sullivan Street
Eastman
Probe of Union Reds Teen-age Crime Slated
The Senate will probe juvenile delinquency focusing on narcotics addiction teen gambling and youth gangs. Sen Hendrickson named chair to foster public support for state and local action. The fall hearings in Washington will feature top labor leaders including Meany and Reuther.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Hendrickson
R - Nd
Senate Judiciary
John Marshall Buller
R-Md
Senate Judiciary Committee
Butler
Welker
Idaho
McCarran
Dnew
Internal Security Subcommittee
Judiciary Committee
Washton
CIO
AFL
George Meany
Walter Reuther
Polio Cases Rise at Local Hospital Network
Dan Robert Stine 13 of Blountville and two Johnson City youngsters were admitted with polio as Washington County reports ten polio patients under treatment. Stine’s condition remains good along with the others, while only one case exists in Kingsport city units. The latest admissions include Carilton Jones eight and Jennifer Lynn Williams three, both in Johnson City, amid ongoing polio coverage.
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Dan Robert Stine
Blountville
Route 2
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Kingsport City
Johnson City
Carilton Jones
22 Negro Boys Escape Peonage In Yankee Land
New York reporting that 22 African American youths aged 14 to 17 were lured from Brooklyn to a upstate farm near Wayland New York and forced to labor in peonage before returning home. Police and officials search for the farm and those who recruited them. The incident began July 22 when two men offered high pay to work on a Long Island farm, then transported the boys across multiple states.
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New York
Brooklyn
New York World-Telegram
Sun
Wayland
Newcpaper
Williamsburg
Long Island
New Jersey
Broken Wrecks Of Men Tell Horror Stories From Prison
Americans and South Koreans freed by the Communists described beatings burnings death marches and starvation at the hands of Red captors. Lt. Col. Thomas D Harrison arrived on crutches with one leg missing and testified of hunger smothering and cigarette-jab revival. No Tennesseans were released. Harrison noted at least 60 officers were too ill to be returned earlier. He is cousin to Lt Gen William K Harrison and was among 70 Americans freed at Panmunjom.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Lucy B. Hendrix
Everett
Pfc
Ray B. Hendrix
Hendrix
Atlanta
Hertha E. Miller
Anniston
Ala
James H. Barber
Freedom Village
Thomas D. Harrison
Harrison
Clovis
N. M
William K. Harrison
Corporal details brutal NK camps death toll in 1950 51
Corporal Russell P. James of Auburn Washington says he helped bury more than 1500 American prisoners in North Korea during winter 1950 51 at Death Valley camp. He recounts relentless burial details 50 men daily and dire conditions with freezing cold starvation and brutal guards as officials tightened control.
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Jim Becker
Freeikaom
Korea
U. S
North Korea
Cpl
Russell P. James
Auburn
Wash
James
Gies
Death Valley
Four Die in Okla. Bus Crash on Bridge West of town
A greyhound bus and a car pulling a trailer collided on a narrow bridge west of Anadarko Oklahoma plunging into a 20 foot canyon. Deputy Lewis said at least four killed and more than 20 injured with many in critical condition. The bus carried 28 passengers and the driver Bill Pratt of Oklahoma City was badly hurt. Among the dead were a small baby and an elderly man and woman.
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Bydro
Okla
Here
BE. W. Lewis
Lewis
Wallace Kidd
Anadarko Daily News
Bill Pratt
Oklahoma City
Eisenhower Speech to Be Broadcast in Kingsport
President Eisenhower’s nationwide address will be aired tonight on WKPT radio in Kingsport from 9 30 to 10 o clock. The broadcast highlights the president’s plans and national address to the public.
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Eisenhower
Kingsport
WKPT
Solunar Tables and Lake Level Notice
Fragmented OCR shows a Solunar table with weather and fishing notes and a lake level reading for Watanaa Lake. The entry includes dates and times such as 4:35, 18, 8:08, and a lake level around 61.4 feet with references to Boone and toursday. The text is garbled but indicates daily sports and water level data.
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Watanaa Lake
Boone
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Road To
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Eugene W. Reid
Marjorie Ann Heid
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Pie
Rosene Roark
Herman Roark
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