2200 Marines Witness Nuclear Test at Yucca Flat
About 2,200 Marines crouched in trenches as a 300 foot tower detonation produced a brilliant flash and rosy after glow. Ground troops from Camp Pendleton and Camp Lejeune advanced toward a mock enemy while helicopters delivered additional Marines in a tactical exercise amid the Yucca Flat test. No casualties reported and observers noted no shock wave or loud blast in Las Vegas area.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Brig
Los Angeles
Atomic Energy Commission
Yucca Flat Proving Ground
Air Force jets sweep Western Korea as 7790 sorties logged
U S Sabre jets claimed 18 Communist MiGs in a week of high tempo air battles over North Korea. The Air Force said 7790 sorties were flown in the week ending Friday, the busiest of the war, with nine Allied planes lost to ground fire or mechanical issues.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
North Korea
Air Force
Soldiers Safe As Train Jumps Track In West Virginia
A Nevada-bound Army troop train derailed near West Union West Virginia with seven of ten cars off the track. The engineer Ira W. McDowell of Parkersburg was crushed under the locomotive as it plunged into a creek from a 40 foot embankment. fireman Gerald E. Marshall escaped with bruises and scalds. The railroad spokesman said no soldiers were seriously injured.
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West Union
W. Va
Ira W. McDowell
Parkersburg
Gerald E. Marshall
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
28 Known Dead In Chicago Fire
Firemen found another body in the remains of a four story factory, raising the confirmed dead to 28 from Thursday's blaze. Officials warn the toll could reach 33 as five Haber Corp workers remain missing. Fire crews recovered 11 bodies Friday and paused operations at night due to unstable walls. The latest discovery brings the total to 28 victims, including 17 men and 11 women, with four unidentified.
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Chicago
Haber Corp
Gasline Explosions Torch Farmland near Gladewater
Two pipeline blasts in Gladewater Texas burned a large area to ash and sent an elderly couple to a hospital. Fire crews from Gladewater Greggton and Longview fought flames as gas was cut off from a six inch line and a 16 inch line. W. W. Warden badly burned while working in his garden and his wife Mrs. Warden hospitalized with heart trouble.
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Gladewater
Tex
Texas
United Gas Company
Greggton
Longview
L. D. Honeycutt
W. W. Warden
DPs Reach New York
Sixty one refugees, mostly from Iron Curtain countries, arrived by plane yesterday from Germany. Most escaped from Communist dominated lands before 1948.
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New York
Germany
POW Transfer Set as Armistice Talks Resume
United Nations and Communist staff officers tentatively agreed on a schedule for the first exchange of sick and wounded POWs at 9 a.m. Monday in Panmunjom. Liaison officers will meet tomorrow to set a date to resume full armistice talks. Three convoys of Allied prisoners have arrived at Kaesong, with a train of 100 Chinese and 400 Koreans heading to Munsan for Panmunjom transport by ambulance.
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Exchange Point
Panmunjom
Kores
Edward Austin
NEA
Munsan
Korea
U. N
Harrison
U. N. Command
John C. Daniel
United Nations Command
China
Chou En-lai
United Nations
Switzerland
Nam Il
Red
U.N
Nnld
Kaesong
North Korea
Freedom
Pyoktong
Yalu River
Pusan
Budget Cut of 6 Billion Proposed
Senator Ferguson urges a six billion dollar slash in arms and atomic spending as Eisenhower hints at a slower Western defense buildup. Symington argues U S strength lags Russia, while Dulles prepares a national speech on NATO and defense strategy. Ferguson says a trimmed 46 percent military program could reduce costs without hurting combat power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
Eisenhower
Ferguson
Senate Armed Service Appropriations
Sen
Symington
D-Mo
U. S
Russia
Dulles
American Society of Newspaper Editors
American Broadcasting Company
National Broadcasting Company
H. Alexander Smith
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Editors’ Society
Truman
Michigan
Western storms spread dust ice fire across six states
A spring storm from Canada disrupted the Southwest with dust clouds up to 20 000 feet and ice and fire. Fires raged in New Mexico and Arizona as winds gusted to 60 mph. More than 1 000 firemen battled 13 440 acres in Lincoln National Forest while 14 vehicle pileups occurred on U S 66 near Grants New Mexico killing one person and injuring many.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Canada
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
Wyoming
Big Piney
Wyo
Lincoln National Forest
Forest Rangers
Weather Bureau
Coronado National Forest
District Weather Bureau
Alamosa
Colo
Beatrice Marie Brooks
Pacoima
Calif
U. S. 66
Grants
Paul
Patsy
Paul de Moss
Springfield
Ohio
Denver
Watkins
Presidential Yacht Williams burg Placed In Mothballs By President
President Eisenhower ordered the Williamsburg out of service and into the mothball fleet citing luxury concerns. The Navy will store it by June 30, and it will be used for twice weekly veteran cruises until then. Estimated annual operating cost is about 600000, with most expense from crew salaries.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Augusta
Eisenhower
White House
James C. Hagerty
Williamsburg
Potomac River
Chesapeake Bay
Hagerty
Truman
Rene Mayer
Korea
Navy
Bath
iThe Navy
Real Life Caper During Friday Night Movie
In Huntsville Alabama two hundred theatergoers watched a real cops and robbers incident unfold at the Lyric Theater. A tall unshaven bandit robbed the manager Fritz Thomas and cashier 18 year old Barbara Cobb then fled before police could capture him. The film shown was Blue Gardenia.
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Huntsbille
Ala
Lyric Theater
Fritz Thomas
Barbara Cobb
Gardenia
Games Postponed Nationwide Due to Weather
Chicago at Cincinnati, Philadelphia at Pittsburgh and Milwaukee at St. Louis all postponed because of snow and cold conditions across the nation.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Guards Use Guns To Break Yoncho Island Prison Riot
Allied guards on Yoncho Island, near Koje, fired shotguns to quell a riot by die-hard Communist POWs. Four prisoners were killed and 45 wounded as barricades and rock throwing continued despite concussion grenades and irritants. No guards were seriously harmed.
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Pusan
Korea
Yoncho Island
U. N. Prisoner of War Command
U.N
Yoncho
Koje
U. N
Dope Pusher Nabbed in Arizona Opium Bust
Federal state and city narcotics officers seized 3642 pounds of opium in 57 cans worth 146500 at a Phoenix motel a bar and a home. Paul James Sutton 39 part owner of the bar was arrested while handing over opium to an undercover buyer who offered 11000 value. Sutton claimed the narcotics were his and had been brought from Nogales in a suitcase.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Earl Smith
U. S
Arizona
Smith
Paul James Sutton
Sutton
Nogales
Mexico
Posse Seeks 3 Year Old Lost in Mojave Desert
In San Bernardino California a posse of about forty men with torches and flashlights searched the Mojave Desert in cold conditions for a missing 3 year old girl who wandered from her grandparents' Hawthorne ranch while playing outside. The child is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Woodruff of Hawthorne California. The grandparents arrived at the ranch yesterday with the child. They are on vacation and unaware she was missing.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Mojave
Walter Woodruff
Hawthorne
C. B. Woodruff
Weeks Keeps Astin On As Temporary Bureau Director
Dr. Allen V. Astin remains temporary director of the National Bureau of Standards amid assurances of continued government employment and integrity. Weeks will have a special committee evaluate bureau operations while Astin stays on for months, with no guarantee of permanent retention.
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Washington
Allen V. Astin
National Bureau of Standards
Astin
Secretary of Commerce
Bureau
Bureau of Standards
Dr. Astin
Weeks
National Academy of Sciences
Academy
Congress
Red POWs End Fast In Prison In Korea
In Pusan Korea disabled Chinese Red prisoners in a hospital ended a hunger strike due to restrictions on cooking. The U N Prisoner of War Command reported the fast ended at noon with meals provided daily, and the Red Cross official noted prisoners receive hospital rations. Colonels Reece Boerem and Dr Lehner spoke on the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pusan
Korea
U. N. Prisoner of War Command
Col
Franklin W. Reece
Scranton
Otto Lehner
International Committee of the Red Cross
PW Hospital
Richard D. Boerem
Ontario
Calif
Mom Admits Killing Daughters in Meanness at MSU Barracks
East Lansing police report Mrs Helen Strieter 25 admitted fatally harming her two daughters Sandra 4 and Rhonda 2 then attempted suicide in a campus barracks apartment. She told officers IT did it cause Im so mean and was found in a blood pool after slashing wrists and throat. The children were discovered in the apartment shower with likely strangulation.
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East Lansing
Mich
Helen Strieter
Michigan State College
Saundra
Rhonda
Faculty Ask Indefinite Delay in Darling Case
The Ohio State University faculty chapter of the American Association of University Professors with 400 members requests no action on Byron T. Darling’s case until all facts are available to the president, board of trustees and faculty. Trustees meet to consider President Bevis’ recommendation to dismiss Darling for refusing HUAC questions on Communism citing lack of candor and subordination to policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Byron T. Darling
Ohio State University
American Association of University Professors
Howard L. Bevis
Darling
House Un-American Activities
Bevis
Strike by 500 workers halts 1100 at Steel Car Corp
The United Steelworkers Union calls a Thursday strike affecting about 1100 employees at the Steel Car Corp in Niles, protesting the removal of lunchroom benches. The action follows a labor dispute over seating arrangements.
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Pork Chop Hill
Pork Chop
U.S
Eighth Army
By Robert B. Tuckman
William K. Harrison
Ar Glenn
Japan
Monae
Douglas M. Cairns
U. Oe
Gillette
Iowa
Society Thursday
Kremlin
State Department
Moscow
Augusta National Golf Club
Howard Snyder
South Korea
Mojave Desert
Edward LE Breton
Thye
R-Minn
Senate
Small Business Enn
Humphrey
D-Minn
Morse
Ind-ore
Small Business Committee
Craig Sheaffer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James R. Gillian
MIT
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