Batchelor Stays in Tokyo for Final Prisoner Review
Cpl. Claude Batchelor said U S Army will keep him in Tokyo past the armistice deadline to ensure 21 pro-Communist war prisoners he left behind have their final chance to return. He plans to register his 1949 marriage to Kyoko Araki and weigh future in Japan or the United States. He says no indication of prosecution and that letters to fellow prisoners may or may not be read.
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Tokyo
Claude Batchelor
U.S. Army
Kyoko Araki
Reds
States
Japan
Kyoko
Tokyo Army
Nudist Film Sets Fire to Capital City Theater Equipment
Oklahoma City firemen reported that the film "Ten Days in a Nudist Camp" overheated the projector during a screening, igniting and causing about 35000 dollars of damage to the theater's fireproof projection apparatus.
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Oklahoma City
Name the Lawton Hotel Readers Invite Suggestions
Construction of the Lawton Community hotel at Fourth and E avenue is progressing and expected to finish in December 1954. Directors invite the public to submit a suggested name by sending the coupon to Lawton Community Hotel Inc. at the Chamber of Commerce in Lawton Oklahoma.
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Lawton
Fourth and
E Avenue
Lawton Community Hotel, Inc
Chamber of Commerce
Oklo
AEC Plans Huge Atom Smasher for Brookhaven Lab
The Atomic Energy Commission seeks a tenfold power boost with a $20 million, half mile around circular magnet driven collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton Long Island. Construction will take about six years to speed subatomic bullets toward nuclei and gain more usable nuclear energy from fission.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton
Long Island
Two South Korean POWs Change Minds Twice
PANMUNJOM Two South Korean war prisoners who asked Indian guards to move them to a neutral country have been returned to the north camp. An Indian spokesman said two other former soldiers still seeking repatriation to a neutral country in eastern Europe remain segregated from the pro Communist prisoners.
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Panmunjom
North
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Miss Universe Wed To California Man
Miss Universe Christiane Martel aged 17 married Ronnie Marengo 21 in Stockton California. The groom is son of a department store owner and will manage a suburban store branch. They planned a Palm Springs honeymoon and will return in two weeks to a ranch style home with a pool.
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Stockton
Calif
California
Ronnie Marengo
Christiane Martel
Palm Springs
Scout Executive Chronister Named for Choctaw Area
Charles E. Chronister will be the new executive of the eastern district of the Choctaw Area Boy Scout Council. He will reside at Po teau Oklahoma, and assumes duties soon.
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Mcalester
Okla
Charles E. Chronister
Choctaw
Kean Proposes Compromise on Corporate Income Tax
Washington Rep Kean proposes keeping the corporate tax at 52 percent through 1954 and lowering to 50 percent on January 1 1955 as a compromise amid House tax writer debate. Eisenhower urges keeping taxes steady for another year and opposing April 1 cuts. Reed and other GOP leaders oppose further reductions.
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Washington
Kean
Eisenhower
Keans
Congress
Capitol Hill
Ways and Means
State of the Union
Daniel A. Reed
Sliding Hill Forces 34 To Leave Homes
ASTORIA Oregon officials watched a water soaked hillside slide since last Tuesday forcing 34 families to evacuate. The Red Cross labeled the slope a disaster area and Governor Patterson ordered an investigation to assess need for federal aid.
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Astoria
Ore
Oregon
Red Cross
Paul Patterson
Fire hall fire destroys Montana town station
Fire of undetermined origin gutted Medicine Lake Montana’s fire hall, leaving the small community without its firefighting equipment and services. No injuries reported as investigation begins.
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Medicine Lake
Mont
Paratrooper Finds Skiing Is Dangerous
Salt Lake City report about former World War I paratrooper J Dell Kingston who survived a dangerous jump in Korea and later suffered severe injuries skiing near Brighton Utah. Kingston, 27, fractured a leg and suffered a broken bone after a double fracture en route to hospital. Army officers who awarded him a rescue citation noted his ongoing injuries and perilous sport.
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Salt Lake City
Cpl. J. Dell Kingston
Korea
Oita
Kyushu
Japan
Satana
Brighton
Utah
Ag Group Leaves On Southern Tour
House Agriculture committee members depart to sample grass roots sentiment in the Southwest and mid-South on the Eisenhower farm program. President Eisenhower will outline his flexible price support plan as the panel tours Enid Oklahoma and continues a 16,000 mile nation-wide trip noting broad backing for a fixed high price support system overall.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Southwest
mid-South
Eisenhower
Congress
Enid
Oklo
New England
Southeast
Midwest
Far West
Waco
Tex
Memphis
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