Nation celebrates released POWs as families rejoice
Shouts of happiness and tears filled homes of 70 families nationwide as loved ones freed from Communist prisons returned. Many others faced anxious waits for POW rosters while some mothers spoke of prayer and relief. In Washington Marine Sgt Barbara Barnwell to receive Navy Marine Corps Medal for heroism. Nearby, Lt Cmdr Ray Hawkins survived a high altitude bailout after Blue Angels jet malfunction. Also reports of unusual incidents and local curiosities across the country.
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Pacific
Francisca Serna
Los Angeles
P. Dein
Elmwood Park
Ill
New York
Barbara C. Barnwall
Lerouel C. Shepherd Jr
Marine Corps
Sgt
Barnwell
Barnwall
Armed Services
Cmdr
Ray Hawkins
Corpus Christi
Texas
Hawkins
Navy
Blue Angels
Sewart Air Force Base
Smyrna
Tenn
Pickens
Miss
Memphis
Chicago
Milwaukee Line
Harley Stevens
Stevens
Dulles and Rhee Agree on Four-Day Talks Agenda
U S Secretary of State Dulles and President Syngman Rhee reached quick agreement on topics for four days of talks in Seoul. They expect an international post armistice Far Eastern conference between Oct 1 and 15 to be convened by the U N by Aug 17 with the conference to start by Oct 27. Key items include Korean political issues left from the war, a possible U S South Korea security pact, and American aid totaling 200 million dollars. Dulles planned daily sessions through Saturday as his party meets South Korean officials to finalize policy details.
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Seoul
U. S
Dulles
Syngman Rhee
U. N. Assembly
Rhee
Eisenhower
Korea
United States
South Korea
Congress
Yoshida to Meet Dulles in Tokyo This Weekend
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida announced a discussion with U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles scheduled for Saturday or Sunday in Tokyo Yoshida said Dulles, in Korea for postarmistice talks with President Syngman Rhee, is expected to visit Tokyo on his return and may be urged to back Japanese participation in the Korean truce conference.
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Rokyu
Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Yoshida
Dulles
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Tokyo
Kyodo
Horror of Prison Camps Behind Seventy Returnees
Seventy Americans liberated from Communist prison camps in Korea arrived at Freedom Village near UB Seventy had been escorted by helicopters from Pansainom. Ex-prisoners described fear and confusion amid censorship while detailing limited discussions allowed by officials. Ambulances rushed eight litter patients to hospital as one man, too weak to stand, clung to a Bible.
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Freedom Village
Korea
Pansainom
War Department
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