POWs Crush Communist Flags in Island Camp
Korean American infantry and tanks on Koje Island knocked down and burned Russian, North Korean, and Chinese banners in three POW pens, freeing leaders while suffering no shots. Seventeen anti-Communist prisoners were rescued and 75 others moved. Brig. Gen. Haydon Boamer led the operation, with tanks destroying flagpoles and huts as guards retreated, and he warned more banners could appear Thursday.
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Koje Island
Haydon
Boamer
Cop Fells Two Robbers With a Single Bullet
Pittsburgh tale reports Patrolman William Baker felling two youths as they fled a tailor shop robbery. Coppler 13 and Hart 18, both of Pittsburgh, were struck by a single bullet: it passed through Coppler and hit Hart in the thigh.
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Pittsburgh
Rge Coppler
John ‘Hart
William Baker
Doppler
Hart
Strike in Paris Fails as Police Stand Firm
Premier Antoine Pinay mobilized thousands of police and gendarmes to quell a Communist led strike in France. Despite the arrest of Jacques Duclos, the General Confederation of Labor saw about three million members return to work, leaving industry and transport largely normal by mid afternoon. The move marks a major setback for the Communist movement west of the Iron Curtain in years.
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Paris
General Confederation of Labor
Jacques Duclos
Communist Party
Duclos
NATO
Matthew B. Ridgway
Transport systems largely on schedule amid port facilities strikes
The report notes that a two hour sit down targeted transport, with buses subways and trains mostly running on schedule except for a few instances. Port facilities also felt the strike impact with only isolated cases observed.
Air Force Plans Limited Flight Training in Olathe
The Air Force will resume reserve flight training at Olathe Naval Air Station Kansas on a limited scale. Olathe is one of 22 locations where reserve training restarts after suspensions this fiscal year due to aircraft shortages. Training begins July or early in the first quarter of the new fiscal year starting July 1.
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Washington
Air Force
Olathe
Kas
Naval Air Station
Joihe
Paroled man sent back to jail after not leaving town
Kansas City Missouri resident Willie Starks was paroled from a one day sentence to the Lawrence jail with the agreement to depart town after a police court drunkenness conviction. When he failed to leave, Judge Wayne Allphin ordered the jail term carried out at today’s court session. The American Bible Society distributed more than 16 million Bibles in all.
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Willie Starks
Kansas City
Lawrence
Starks
Wayne Allphin
American Bible Society
Two Men Held in Bell Music Co Burglary Case
Lawrence police and the county sheriff detain William Orville Tipson and Louis Glenn Brummett in connection with the May 25 Bell Music Co burglary at 925 Mass. St. Instruments valued at 1600 dollars were stolen and later recovered in good condition. Investigators say the pair admitted the theft and face burglary and larceny charges. The two men, from Kansas City, were traced after attempting to sell items in St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Douglas County
Bell Music Co
Mass. St
William Orville Tipson
Kansas City
Louis Glenn Brummett
Eudora
Lawrence
John Ingalls
Travis Glass
St. Joseph
Milton P. Allen
Ingalls
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