Allied war prisoners freed in Korean exchange mood brightens
Four hundred Allied captives ride Russian trucks from North Korea toward freedom as the five week prisoner swap continues. About 12 763 UN troops including 3313 Americans are exchanged for 74000 Reds with 392 more prisoners to be released tomorrow.
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Panmunjom
North Korea
Freedom
U. N
John Daulat
Richmond
Calif
U. S
Daulat
Freedom Village
Washington
Pentagon
State Department
Greece
Australia
Canada
Belgium
South Africa
Red
Bomber Plunge Into Atlantic Leaves 23 Missing
A U S Air Force RB36 with 23 crew members crashed into the North Atlantic early today. One survivor and one body were recovered 420 miles west of Prestwick Scotland, as search ships and planes combed wreckage masses 285 miles apart. Sgt Robert W Gibbs of Cleveland named among crew.
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London
North Atlantic
Manchester Shipper
Prestwick
Scotland
Pawn Mofe A PH
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Robert W. Gibbs
Cleveland
Weather Turns Cooler After Extended Middletown Heat
Middletown experiences a drop from heat as cooler conditions prevail. Forecasters predict continued cool weather tonight and tomorrow with cloudy skies. Yesterday's high reached 87 at 3 p.m. and a 76-degree low at 6 p.m. Today's low was 72 degrees by 11 a.m.
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Middletown
Armco East Side
Seventy Americans Reach Freedom Village Korea
Seventy ex-prisoners freed from Communist camps arrived at Freedom Village Korea, flown from Panmunjom by four helicopters. Eight men were stretchered, interviews limited by censors, and officials noted prior harsh reporting about the war.
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Robert Eunson
William J. Waugh
Freedom Village
Korea
Panmunjom
War Department
U. S
Seoul
Coed Attacked On Miami University Campus in Brice Hall
A 21 year old married Miami University coed was assaulted at 6 45 a m in Brice Hall Oxford. She was found semi conscious at Holmes Hospital Cincinnati with a possible fractured skull. A large man with a Southern accent attacked her after entering through an open door or window. Police found a 12 inch wirecutter and a geology sack used as a weapon. The victim, a special student married to a former Miami worker, was aided by three coeds and house mother Mrs Arretha Sheriff. University President John D Millett promised full cooperation with police.
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Oxford
Miami University
Holmes Hospital
Cincinnati
Brice Hall
Arretha C. Sheriff
University Hospital
Miami
Fernald Atomi
County Officials Learn They Own Graveyard
Bernalillo County commissioners were startled when a resident offered to buy an old graveyard they unexpectedly own. The county did not realize ownership existed, creating potential revenue and clarification needs.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Bernalillo County
West to Meet Soon to Answer Soviet Note
Washington reports that the United States Britain and France will consult promptly on Russia’s note about a Big Four meeting on German reunification this fall. Western diplomats plan a conference date and place while weighing Red China participation and the Kremlin approach amid talks on a negotiated German peace.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Moscow
Red China
Junketing Season Opens Congressional Travel Across Continents
Lawmakers prepare vast itineraries from the Congo to California as part of the junketing season. The House Agriculture Committee travels across farm regions to inform new price laws while Foreign Affairs groups tour the Far East Europe and the Americas. Senate and House AEC teams eye uran ium mines in Belgian Congo and Alaska statehood as a travel impetus.
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Senate Foreign Relations
House Foreign Affairs
House Agriculture
House
Far East
Near East
South America
Europe
Senate
Latin America
Middle East
House Atomic Energy Committee
Belgian Congo
Asia
United States
Alaska
Interior Affairs Committee
POW Also In Bataan March POW Also In Bataan March
Cpl. John L. Dixon 32, freed by Communists yesterday in the Korean POW exchange, survived the Bataan death march. A Ventura High School graduate, he enlisted in 1939, endured four years in Japanese coal mines, then served with the 24th Division in Korea before his capture on January 3, 1951.
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San Jose
Calif
John L. Dixon
John A. Dixon
John
Ventura
Bataan
Korea
East German Desertion In Mass Flight To West Berlin
Thirty seven East German soldiers and policemen fled to West Berlin in the second large mass desertion of Red forces this year. The group included one officer and came from the Soviet Zone food block area around Berlin. Twenty were Red Army, seventeen from the People's Police, adding to a 1953 total of 2,555 defectors.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Red Wehrmacht
People’s Police
TB Rate High Among Returned POWs Says Hospital Chief
Freedom Village Korea AP reports the hospital head says a high percentage of tuberculosis and lung diseases are found among returning U N prisoners of war. Col Seymour notes over 30 of 60 entry early evacuees show active pulmonary lesions and most are Americans. Most will fly to Tokyo rather than sail home from Inchon.
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Freedom Village
Korea
U. N
Fred W. Seymour
Seymour
U. S
Sanboud
Tokyo
Inchon
Extra Session To Be Decided September 25
Senator Knowland said congressional leaders will meet with President Eisenhower and Secretary Humphrey to decide on a special session around September 25 to raise the national debt limit. The House backed the proposal for a 15 billion increase, while the Senate Finance Committee tabled it 11-4, with timing tied to tax receipts due after September 15.
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Washington
Sen
Knowland
Calif
White House
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Congress
Senate
Seattle
House
Senate Finance Committee
Denver
Opening of Parliament in Moscow Sees Big Nine Leaders
Premier Georgi Malenkov leads 600 deputies in the Supreme Soviet in Moscow for the first session since Beria's ouster. Molotov and top officials Kaganovich Khrushchev Voroshilov Saburov Pervukhin attend as the Council of The Union meets to set the 1953 budget and confirm interim positions.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Georgi Malenkov
Russia
L. P. Beria
Malenkov
V. M. Molotov
L. M. Kaganovich
N. S. Khrushchev
K. E. Voroshilov
M. Z. Saburov
M. G. Pervukhin
Council of the Union
Council of Nationalities
Russians claim nerve gas threat discussed by physicians
Dr. Harry R. Mendelson of Cincinnati warns at a coroner meeting that a fast acting nerve gas from Russia could kill in 30 seconds to two minutes, rendering gas masks ineffective as victims drown from bodily fluids filling lung spaces.
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Columbus
Ohio
Harry R. Mendelson
Cincinnati
Mendelson
Emergency Medical Service
Hamilton County Civil Defense Organization
National Association of Coroners
Reds Spurn U S Protest Over B 50 Incident
The United States demanded compensation after a U S B 50 bomber was shot down over the Sea of Japan on July 29. Moscow radio reported that the Soviet Union rejected the protest and had no knowledge of the 16 missing crew members.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Sea of Japan
London
Moscow Radio
Soviet Union
Siberia
Moscow
U. S
Hope Fading For Fast Vote On Senator Taft's Succession
Columbus reports the Ohio Legislature nears a delay in changing election laws to speed the selection of the late Senator Robert A. Taft's successor. Republican leaders in both chambers plan to decide tomorrow after a Washington huddle led by Sen. John Bricker and GOP Chairman Ray Bliss.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Senate
C. Stanley Mechem
Nelsonville
Frank J. Lausche
Taft
Bliss
Mechem
Saxbe
Washington
Bender Considered Likely Senate Candidate After Taft Death
Washington reports Rep. George H. Bender of Ohio 23rd district is described by reliable sources as an almost certain candidate for the Republican nomination to the Senate seat left by the death of Sen. Robert A. Taft. Friends predict he will seek the nomination though Bender would not comment.
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Washington
George H. Bender
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Bender
Defense Department lists 106 more Korean War casualties
The Defense Department announced adding 106 casualties from the Korean fighting ending July 27. The new list No. 871 records 14 killed 73 wounded 13 missing in action and 6 injured.
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Washington
Defense Department
Giant eight engine bomber crash sparks transatlantic rescue race
Reports say the world’s largest bomber on a training flight from Travis AFB to England ditched after an engine fire near the sea. Ninety rescued crew members and nine officers were aboard with U S and British rescue planes rushing to the scene as waves reportedly reached eight to ten feet.
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Britain
France
Ireland
Tenacious
Ruislip
Dulles and Rhee Agree on Talk Agenda in Seoul
U S Secretary of State Dulles and President Rhee reach quick agreement on four day four point agenda for the post armistice talks. Topics include the Korean political conference by late October a mutual security pact and American economic aid of 200 million dollars. Dulles will meet daily with Rhee through Saturday and seek unity on North South Korea unification.
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Seoul
U. S
Dulles
Eisenhower
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
United States
South Korea
Congress
Dulley
U. S. Senate
North
Nudist Fashion Show Opens Convention in California
The 22nd annual nudist convention of the American Sunbathing Association opens at Oakdale Ranch in San Bernardino with about 1,000 delegates. Events include a fashion show as Jim Grant of Oakdale notes models may wear earrings beads bracelets or fancy shoes.
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San Bernardino
Calif
American Sunbathing Association
Oakdale Ranch
Jim Grant
Oakdale
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