Czechs Seize Air Liner Free Reds in Frankfurt Landing
At Bonn news conference General Conant described a Prague to Brno flight where a Skoda mechanic and his wife organized an escape with Miroslav Slovak and a TV engineer aboard a C-47. They diverted to the U S zone after signaling for asylum at Rhine Main, while 23 passengers remain at the airport awaiting return to Czechoslovakia. Thirty-two of the last westbound escape train sought asylum in 1951.
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Rhine-Main Air Base
Skoda Armament Works
Miroslav Slovak
Prague
Brno
Lta
Iwest
U. S
Maimi¢h
Skoda
Frankfurt’s Rhine-Main
Tir
Czechoslovakia
Jaroslav Kovalinka
Reopening of Ordnance Plants for Ammo Seen
SHREVEPORT LA. Reopening of many World War II ordnance plants was forecast by Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens. He said reports of ammunition shortages in Korea helped speed plans to build a 600,000 shell plant at Minden Louisiana and that output is intended to build reserve stocks as other plants are reopened.
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Robert Stevens
Stevens
Korsa
Minden
Korea
New Medical Therapy Promises Pain Relief in Long Beach
A local practitioner advertises a new medicine hat and O-dimension M-rays to locate nerve pressure causing heart ache, arthritis, torticollis, and other pains. Dr Harrison Goldstein of Ione Beach claims the method removes pressure painlessly using scientific technique. consultation offered via phone.
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Long Beach
Harrison Goldstein
Ione Beach
Palmer
San Antonio
Ores
One-A-Day Multiple Vitamins Ad in Muffin Tin Idea
An advertisement promotes One-A-Day Multiple Vitamins with a baking tip to bake in muffin tins for appeal. It claims vitamin shortages affect children’s pep and urges daily use to correct or prevent deficiencies, touting B-12 inclusion and the “SLUE” package.
Sutter Becomes Mayor Following Chace Departure
Former councilman Sutter succeeds Chace as mayor amid a council meeting row over election participation. Born June 14 1906 in Burlington Iowa he trained at Monmouth College and Harvard Law School. A long public service career includes prosecutor wartime Army service in New Guinea the Philippines and Japan with Bronze Star honors.
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Fletcher
Wagner
Joseph B. Lamb
Themayor
Lamb
Sutter
Jowa
Burlington
Town
Monmouth College
Monmouth
Harvard Law School
New Guinea
Philippines
Bataan
Japan
Long Beach
Carleson
Tong
14 Year Old Mom to Six Tots Killed
In Van Buren Arkansas 14 year old Wanda Blount who cared for six young relatives died after a moving truck's tail gate collapsed and she was thrown from the vehicle. Several others were injured though only lightly. The sheriff noted the children's parents died in 1948 and that Wanda lived with her siblings near their uncle Bill Blount. The guardian feared some children may be placed in a home.
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Aric
Wanda Blount
C. Z. Bushmier
Wanda
Planes Over Blast Scene in Desert Test
Bright blue tinted flash rises from ground zero as 53 AEC scientists and military observers watch. The civil defense explosion, equivalent to 15,090 tons of TNT, is described as stronger than last week with a clearer split plume moving northward. Navy drone plane and AD-2 fighter join the effort, seen from Los Angeles 250 miles away at dawn.
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AEC
William C. Bullock
Foxhales
John J. Ballantine
Navy
Air Atlantic
Harold M. Martin
Air Pacific
Atest
Los Angeles
Yanks in Savane Battle for Baldy
Allied forces repelled or regained most positions on the western front while Old Baldy held after Red regiments rearmed. Casualty estimates reach 52 killed and 146 wounded, with figures likely to rise. Other hills hit included T-Bone Alligator Jaw and Porkchop amid six hour clashes.
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Comst
T-Bone
Alligator Jaw
Porkchop
White Horse Mountain
Chorwon
Singapore Tightens Shipping to Reds
Singapore announces a March 31 clampdown on all British ships sailing to Communist China or North Korea. The order requires licenses from London or Singapore to dock at ports in those countries, following a Washington agreement between Eden and Dulles.
Seattle Man Get OK as Governor of Guam
The Senate Interior Committee unanimously approved President Eisenhower's nomination of Seattle attorney Ford Elvidge to be governor of Guam. He said he did not seek the job but accepted it to serve while young men were drafted, noting no option to refuse.
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Senate Interior Committee
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Ford
Elvidge
Seattle
Guam
Armed Services
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