Easter egg hunt attracts 16000 at Armco Park 1953
The 30th annual Easter egg hunt drew an estimated 16 000 attendees at Armco Park with Middletown children filling the scene as the Middletown Retail Merchants Association proclaimed it the largest turnout yet. Jimmy Davis, 12, won the $5 golden goose egg found under a tree stump at 4 05 p.m., the President J Howard Smith Special Golden Egg.
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Bobby Allen Davis
Armco Park
Bobby
Arnold Ferguson
Luke C. Davis
Pine St
Franklin
Bill Weith
John Fleming
Middletown
Middletown Retail Merchants Association
Amanda School
J. Howard Smith
Merchants Association
Hunt
Police Traffic Bureau
Young Davis
Ed Cohn
Hunt Committee
Gale Trowbridge
Jack Trowbridge
Baltimore St
UN and Reds outline plan for exchange of POWs in Korea
United Nations liaison officers reported progress in first Panmunjom talks toward a quick exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of war. A nine-point program set steps to begin within seven days and deliver 500 prisoners daily, with grouped nationality and serial- number records, while negotiating category rules and potential repatriation.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Redsen
U. N
Reds
Panmunjom
John C. Daniel
Lee Sang Cho
Daniel
Adenauer Lands U.S. On Arrival
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer landed in New York aboard the United States for talks with President Eisenhower and U. S. officials about European unity, Soviet peace moves, and German rearmament. He praised American generosity toward Germany and planned 13 days in the United States with university visits and a trip westward.
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New York
West Germaia
Konrad Rednauer
America
Germany
Adenauer
United States
Eisenhower
Adenhauer
Washington
Chicago
Greenwich
Conn
James B. Conant
U. S
Bonn
Dulles
Christian Democratic Party
France
Saar
Kremlin
Moscow
Georgi Malenkov
Man jailed after fire at McDonald Lumber Co
A $19,500 blaze damaged the McDonald Lumber Co. in Valleyview Sunday. Deputies arrested a 44 year old Athens man, described as a transient, on involuntary arson investigation. He was found lying near the railroad tracks beside the yard.
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Columbus
McDonald Lumber Co
Valleyview
Athens
Young Slayer Faces Murder Charge In New York Case
Fred Eugene McManus 18, accused slayer of five in a cross country crime spree, held for grand jury on first degree murder charge. Returned to New York from Iowa eight days after the death of William Braverman Hobart College freshman. Also present: 16 year old Bobby Soxe and wife Diane Marie Waggel, ward of Monroe County children's court. The trio were flown back by plane from Dubuque after Tuesday arrests.
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Canandaigua
N.Y
Fred Eugene McManus
Awol Marine
New York State
Iowa
William A. Braverman
Hobart College
Bobby Soxe
Diane Marie Waggeland
Monroe County Children’s Court
Dubuquela
Mom Drowns Three Tots In Quarry
In Gastonia North Carolina a 26 year old mother confessed to pushing her three daughters a 9 year old 3 year old and 8 month old Pauline Hullett into a water filled quarry A 27 year old husband Eu gene Hullett textile worker disputes the motive Sheriff Hoyle Efird held her without formal charge pending autopsies and reports indicate she attempted suicide but gained the nerve to tell her husband about the act.
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Gastonia
N. C
Hoyle Efird
Idrea
Merger Talks Open Between AFL and CIO Leaders
Washington reports new discussions to merge AFL and CIO begin here with AFL President George Meany and CIO President Walter Reuther leading. Officials caution that old conflicts persist and early success seems unlikely despite the talks starting tomorrow.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
George Meany
Walter Reuther
Florida Police Seek Six Escapees in Miami Manhunt
A state wide manhunt is under way for six fugitives who escaped Saturday night from the Dade County jail in downtown Miami. At large are Joseph Albert, 20, and William Chapman, 25, both life-term killers for the death of Dr. Clifton Springmyer during an attempted robbery of his clinic.
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Florida
Miami
Fla
Dade County
Joseph Albert
William Chapman
Clifton Springmyer
U S Editors See Moscow Life From Theater to Kremlin
U S editors touring Moscow visit Bolshoi Theater to meet ballerina Ulanova after Swan Lake and Red Poppy performances. They tour the Kremlin behind guarded doors, Assumption Cathedral, czarist rooms, and a trophy jewel museum, with limited photography.
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Moscow
Bolshoi Theater
Ulanova
Kremlin
Spasso House
U. S
Jacob Beam
Assumption Cathedral
Pravda blames obscure deputy minister in fake doctors case
Pravda accuses former Deputy Minister Ryumin and others in the former Ministry of State Security of fabricating charges against 15 doctors, who were freed after new Internal Affairs Ministry action. It criticizes former Minister S Ignatiev and a medical commission for gullibility and incorrect conclusions.
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Moscow
Pravda
Security Ministry
Communist Party
Ryumin
S. Ignatiev
Ane
Internal Affairs Ministry
L. P. Beria
Ignatiev
Semyon Ign
Andrei A. Zhdanov
Alexander Shcherbakov
Beenalsey
Ministry of State Security
Lev Mikhoels
M'khoels
Jis
Hundreds Watch Pilot Land Big Bomber At Hickam
Air Force Capt Robert B Man cib crash landed a USAF 29 Superfort at Hickam AFB after circling four hours with a locked landing gear. All 11 crewmen were not aboard when it landed on its left and nose wheels, pancaked, veered off the runway, and did not catch fire. The bomber belonged to the 307th Bomb Wing of SAC and was en route to the Far East from Travis AFB northeast of San Francisco.
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Honolulu
Air Force
Robert B. Mancib
U. S
Hickam Air Force Base
307Th
Strategic Air Command
Travis Air Force Base
San Francisco
Dulles To State Stand On Treaty Curb Proposal
Secretary of State Dulles testifies on a constitutional amendment to curb treaty making. The Bricker proposal would require federal legislation to render treaties or executive agreements effective and limit their reach, with opposition from the State and Justice Departments and a Catholic group.
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Dulles
Senate
House
John Chadwick
Washington
Senate Judiciary
Eisenhower
Clarence Mannion
Notre Dame University Law School
Atty
Gen. Brownell
Defense Department
Mutual Security
Harold E. Stassen
State and Justice Departments
Bricker
United Nations
Catholic Association For International Peace
Bandit Loses Gun Battle With Police
Police officers confronted Charles L. Bay, a former convict, during a holdup at a drugstore. Bay disarmed Cpl. Charles Klug and forced Det. Robert Walker to surrender, then opened fire but was shot dead as Klug and Walker recovered guns and returned fire. The suspect had taken about $200 from the register.
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Louis P
Charles Klug
Robert Walker
Klug
Walker
Charles L. Bay
Cincinnati Woman Denied Appeals In Murder Case
Cincinnati judge denied a new trial bid for Betty Butler 24 convicted of first degree murder without mercy. Weber also rejected a sentence reduction and will likely set a death penalty later this week. Butler slain Evelyn Clark 32 at Sharon Woods Lake on September 6. if carried out she would be Ohio’s first Black woman executed by electric chair.
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Cincinnati
Criminal Court
Charles E. Weber
Betty Butler
Weber
Butler
Evelyn Clark
Sharon ‘Woods Lake
Ohio
Seniority Quip Sparks Courtroom Arrest in South Bend
Patrolman Glenn Zubler found Herbert Leary aged 63 hiding behind the judge's bench in city court after his latest arrest on intoxication charges. Leary protested I ve got seniority here indicating a claim to deference in the courtroom.
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South Bend
Ind
Glenn Zubler
Herbert Leary
Zubler
Leary
Four Youngsters and Mother Die in Edinborn Fire
A 35 year old mother Ruth Johnson and four of her nine children Rebecca Carolyn Catherine and Robert died when an oil stove exploded in their duplex in Edinborn Uniontown. The father Carter Johnson rescued the remaining five children with a neighbor aid. All survivors suffered burns and shock.
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Uniontown
Edinborn
Ruth Johnson
Rebecca
Carolyn
Catherine
Robert
Carter Johnson
Explosion at Formosa ammunition dump kills dozens
A blast five miles south of Tripeh Formosa leveled an ammunition dump. A 12 man team removing TNT from a World War I Japanese aerial bomb triggered the explosion, killing 43 and wounding about 500.
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Tripeh
Formosa
Here
Bils
GE Strikers Return to Work at Evendale Plant
Hundreds of UAW CIO and IAM AFL members who walked out at GE's jet engine plant in Evendale three weeks ago are back on the job, a company official said. Albert Busch Local 647 CIO UAW denied any break in the strike front.
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Cincinnati
Uaw-Cio
International Association of Machinists
AFL
General Electric
Evendale
Albert Busch
CIO
United Auto Workers
AEC Tries Daylight Atomic Test at Yucca Flat
A daylight atomic blast was set off at 10:30 am at Yucca Flat proving grounds. The test appeared as if dropped from a plane. Earlier, AEC announced mice and monkeys would be flown through the resulting cloud.
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Las Vagas
Nev
Yucca Flat Proving Grounds
AEC
Flemming Nominated For ODM Post by Eisenhower
President Eisenhower nominated Arthur S. Flemming to be director of defense mobilization where he is currently acting director. He also sent to the Senate the nominations of James P. Mitchell and John Slezak as assistant secretaries of the Army, with Mitchell from Westfield New Jersey and Slezak from Sycamore Illinois.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Arthur S. Flemming
Flemming
Senate
James P. Mitchell
West Field
N. J
John Slezak
Sycamore, Ill
Army
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