Clark urges quick armistice signoff and prisoner issue stance
Gen Mark W Clark urged a fast signing of the Korean armistice and told China’s Peng Teh Huai that recapturing 27,000 escaped anti Communist North Korean prisoners was impossible. He said the UN will seek cooperation from the Republic of Korea to observe armistice terms and noted escaped inmates may return home after the truce. Meanwhile Chinese forces pressed four key outposts guarding the Seoul invasion corridor, repelling daytime counterattacks by South Korean troops.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Mark W. Clark
Reds
United Nations
Syngman Rhee
Clark
Kim Il Sung
Peng Teh- Huai
Chinese People’s Volunteers
Republic of Korea
Kim Tl Sung
Peng Teh-Huai
Chinese People's Volunteers
Eisenhower
Walter Robertson
Rhee
Munsan
Seoul
Bak
Queen
Hannah
27 Texans Expected To Lose Lives Over July 4 Weekend
De partment of Public Safety forecasts 27 traffic deaths in Texas during the July 4 period. Heat wave and record car travel are blamed for higher fatalities than 1952. Chief statistician N K Woerner notes only two days count toward the toll. drowning and other causes will add to casualties.
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Austin
Department of Public Safety
Texas
Homer Garrison Jr
Department
N. K. Woerner
Woerner
Col. Garrison
Russia moves troops to quell Czech unrest in 1948
Soviet divisions reportedly reinforced Czech border areas to suppress anti Communists as East German workers revolt leads Moscow to curb civilian control in Germany. Informants say MVD troops joint with the Soviet high commission under Vladimir Semyonov now oversee Czech actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Russia
Securiy
Czechoslovakia
Germany
East Germany
MVD
Pilsen
Pllsen
Josef Stalin
Klement Gottwald
Soviet Russia
High Commission
Vladimlav Semyonov
Ptt
Gan
Mexia Lions to Install Officers Tuesday Evening
Mexia Lions plan a July 1 start for the 1953 64 fiscal year with a banquet for members and wives at the J and W Cafe. Gordon Tyner will be installed as president succeeding Paul Cary with Thurman Kerr Jack McKenzie C W Teel Maurice Robinson and James Stanford as officers and M M Jackson re elected secretary treasurer. Directors named are Leon Flatt D F Smith J D Whitcomb and R Noles. The installation team from the Waco Lions club led by Roger Conger will direct the program.
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Mexia Lions
Te J&w
Gordon
Snapper
Tyner
Paul Cary
Thurman Kerr
Jack McKenzie
C. W. Teel
Maurice Robinson
Lion Tanner
James Stanford
M. M. Jackson
Leon Flatt
D. F. Smith
J. D. Whitcomb
R. Noles
Waco Lions Club
Roger Conger
Graham Revival Draws Record Crowds in Dallas
Officials reported more than 75 000 attended Dr Billy Graham’s final Cotton Bowl revival last Sunday night with total attendance for the four week series estimated at 513 500. Church officials counted 4 891 conversions including 1 500 on the final Sunday.
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Dallas
Billy Graham
Cotton Bowl
Graham
Fire Destroys Key Hamilton Mill Complex Worth 400000
A Hamilton fire partially destroyed the Hamilton Mill and Elevator Co. square-block plant with damage estimated at 400000 dollars. The mill and grain storage warehouse were wiped out and the feed warehouse suffered heavy damage in the blaze reported yesterday.
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Hamilton
Hamilton Mill and Elevator Co
Mexican youth Preston Goad returns from Korea duty
Corporal Preston Goad of Mexia is expected home this week after 18 months in Korea as a military policeman. He was honorably discharged from the Army at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio. He is a former student of Mexia High School.
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Preston Goad
Preston Good
Mexia
Korea
Army
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Corpisos
Mexia H High School
Benson Vows Swift Drouth Aid to Texas Farmers
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson returned from a southwestern tour promising immediate federal relief for drouth areas in Texas and Oklahoma. He outlined four emergency actions including lower freight rates for feed and cattle, emergency credit to keep foundation herds, stepped up meat purchases, and distribution of emergency feeds across the drought zone.
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Washington, D. C
Ezra Taft Benson
Drouth
Benson
Texas
San Antonio
Lubbock
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eisenhower
Oklahoma
J. H. Ashby
Kyushu Flood Kills and Displaces Thousands in Japan
Floods across Kyushu Island left about 457 dead 815 injured and 646 missing as 1,000,000 Japanese evacuated. US forces offered aid after floods swamped northern Kyushu 1,448 dike breaches and landslides buried homes leaving many feared dead.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kyushu
U. S
Mark W. Clark
U.S
Kyushua
New Jersey
Moji
Legion Calls for US Withdrawal from UN If Commies Admitted
Brownwood AP The Fifth Division American Legion adopts a resolution demanding the United States leave the United Nations and urge relocation of UN headquarters if Red China or any Communist country gains future UN membership. Karl Tate of Brownwood elected fifth division commander. Odessa site chosen for 1954 convention. Mrs. Albert Morrow Morton elected Fifth Division auxiliary president.
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Brownwood
American Legion
United Stttes
United Nations
United States
Red China
Karl J. Tate
Eerie
21St American Legion
Tate
E. L. Jackson
Cisco
Odessa
Albert Morrow
Morton
Fifth Division
H. E. Campfiela
Canyon
Gelets
Airman Convicted of Murdering Girlfriend Sentenced to Die
Vernon, UP report states airman Walter E. Whitaker Jr., 21, son of a Wethersfield, Connecticut family, was convicted of strangling Joyce Fern White, an 18 year old Lubbock High school senior. Jurors recommended execution by electric chair. defense plans an appeal. This marked the first death sentence in the area in over half a century.
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Vernon
Walter E. Whitaker Jr
Whitaker
Wethersfield, Conn
Burton Burks
Lubbock
Joyce Fern White
Lubbock High School
Eisenhower seeks swift extension of excess profits tax
President Eisenhower asks Congress for a last minute extension of the excess profits tax, aiming to raise about 800 million dollars in revenue for the 1954 fiscal year. House session opens early. vote expected late today with Speaker Martin confident of sufficient votes. Daniel A Reed opposes with committee bottling fears and rules committee bypass. The tax, enacted during the Korean war, would expire at midnight tomorrow.
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Washington, D. C
Eisenhower
Congress
Todlay
House
Joseph W. Martin Jr
White House
Rep. Martin
Rule Committee
Ways and Means
Martin
Reed
Former Locker Boy Accused of Evading Large Tax Bill
A federal jury resumed deliberations in the income tax evasion trial of C. A. Dupree, a former River Oaks Country Club locker boy, charged with evading about $39,000 in 1946 to 1949. Dupree testified that the money cited by prosecutors came from prior years and stored up to $125,000 in an iron box at home.
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Austin
C. A. Dupree
Dupree
Houston
River Oaks
Mexia Serviceman Dies in Auto Crash Sunday
Pvt. Douglas A. Azbell 21, of Mexia, stationed at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, was killed in an automobile accident Sunday morning. Survived by mother Mrs. Bill Azbell and two sisters, Peggy Azbeil and Alice Buzhbee. burial pending Ridgle Funeral Home.
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Mexia
U. S. Army
Fort Leonard Wood
Pvt
Douglas A. Azbell
Bill Azbell
Ridgle Funeral Home
Azbell
Mexia High School
Ragland
Watford
North Dakota
Peggy Azbeil
Alice Buzhbee
Houston
Mexia Student Wins Will Rogers Scholarship at UT
Paul Kirton of Mexia, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kirton, earned a $260 Will Rogers scholarship to the University of Texas. A junior pre law student, he belongs to the Men Independent Campus association and Phi Eta Sigma. He is in Uvalde County on an archaeology field trip with excavations planned in a cave site west of San Antonio.
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Austin
Spl
Paul Kirton
Roy Kirton
Mexia
Will Rogers
University of Texas
Men's Independent Campus Association
Phi Eta Sigma
Uvalde County
San Antonio
Young Texas Farmer Plans City Move Amid Farm Crisis
In Cooke County Texas 34 year old Jack Sanders says he will quit farming to survive as drought and low prices cripple the family operation. He and his father run a 380 acre farm with beef and dairy cattle and plan building trade work while awaiting relief.
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Texas
Gainesville
Jack Sanders
Sanders
KS. Sanders
Cooke County
Southwest
Fort Worth
Sue
Sherman
Seven Texans Die In Car Wreck And Airplane Crash
A Meadow Texas family of 11 aboard a car collided with another vehicle east of Muleshoe killing three Martinez children and injuring the mother father and others. In a separate Houston area crash near Tomball a couple and their 17 year old daughter died when a light plane went down.
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Muleshoe
Tex
Bailey County
Mugh Freeman
Pascual Martinez
Erastia Martinez
Close
Suzanna Martinez
Tomball
D. D. Ault
Carol
Houston
Waco
US to Drop Point Rotation System After Truce
The Army plans to end the rotation paint system in Korea and set a standard 16 month overseas tour for soldiers after a truce is signed. The plan, outlined to the Senate Appropriations Committee, followed by Gen. Mark W Clark, and would replace the 90 day post truce rotation window for soldiers with enough credits.
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Washington, D. C
Korea
Senate
Mark W Clark
Army
Dave Hinchcliffe Dies in Shiloh Community
David James Hinchliffe aged 78 of the Shiloh community died in a local hospital at 10 30 this morning funeral arrangements are pending at Riddle Funeral Home. He was a lifelong resident of Limestone county.
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Dave Hinchliffe
David James Hinchliffe
Shiloh
Riddle Funeral Home
Mr. Hinchliffe
Linestone County
Rainfall Eases Drought Across Texas After Severe Storms
Heavy storms drenched East and Central Texas with up to 4.22 inches in 25 hours, easing drought in some areas while West Texas remained dry. Rain fell in Dallas, Austin, Beaumont, and Houston regions as temperatures dropped from record highs and a disaster relief program was announced. Three deaths were reported in the Houston coastal area and dust storms blew across parts of New Mexico and the Panhandle.
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Texas
Houston
West
Mexia
Ezra Taft Benson
Washington
U. S
U. S. Weather Bureau
Dallas
Fort Worth-Austin
Palacios
Salt Flat
Abilene
San Antonio
Louisiana
Weather Bureau
Lufkin
College Station
Riverside
Long Lake
Austin
Beaumont
Dallas Weather Bureau
Fort Worth
Fouston
Dan Clinton
Benson
New Mexico
Panhandle Country
Kansas
Colorado
Plainview Meteorites Found Together After Split Fall
In Plainview Texas two crusted meteorites found about a half mile apart fit together perfectly indicating they originated as one body that split during the fall.
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Plainview
Tex
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Denver
Colo
Chuckie
Texas University
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Nagor
Chicago
San-Times Syndicate
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