Freed Airmen Describe Red Torture During Spy Trial
Ten of eleven U S airmen held in China faced months of physical and mental torture to force spying confessions. Col John Knox Arnold Jr led the group in Tokyo detailing beatings, restraints, and starvation while others denied China involvement. They face homeward flights via Travis or Honolulu with 30 day convalescence.
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John Knox Arnold Jr
Tokyo
Maj
William H. Baumer
Lewisburg
U.S
Hong Kong
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Alaska
Mc.Chord Air Force Base
Wash
Honolulu
Travis
Arnold
China
Silver Spring
North Korea
Peiping
Manchuria
S581st
Pacific
Elmer F. Liewellyn
Missoula
Mont
Liewellyn
Korea
Yalu River
Red China
Baumer
Air Force
Harry Benjamin
Worthington
Minn
Eugene Vandi
Clayton
N.Y
Wallace L. Brown
Banks
John W. Buck
Armathwaite
Tenn
Steve E. Kiba
Akron
Ohio
John W. Thompson
Orange
Howard W. Brown
St.Paul
Daniel C. Schmidt
Portland
Ore
Wife Of Airman Takes Son And Leaves In California
Una Schmidt Fine, 20, moved off with her young son in Nevada City California amid marital split with her husband Airman Schmidt, presumed dead after a 1953 B 29 crash in Korea. Schmidt, released from a Chinese prison, plans to return to America and discuss the matter. Fine hopes she will stay.
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Nevada City
Calif
Una Schmidt-Fine
Una
Alford B. Fine
Daniel C. Schmidt
Schmidt
Tokyo
America
Harold Berliner
Berliner
Red Cross
Danny
Orient
Fine
Portland
Ore
Nellie Peters
California
Red China
Far East
Geneva Talks Open Amid China US Civilians Stalemate
The United States and Red China enter the second week of secret Geneva talks with no progress on releasing 40 American civilians held by Peiping. Officials expect eventual repatriation needs, while disputes over 4 000 Chinese students in the United States persist. Johnson and Wang seek a workable formula as discussions resume after a four day recess.
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GENVA
United States
Red China
Peiping
U.S
A. Alexis Johnson
Wang Ping-nan
Johnson
Wang
China
America
State Dulles
Weather contains cool relief after heat wave now easing
A cold air outbreak from Canada brings temporary relief with thundershowers. The official forecast calls for sunny and cool weather today with a slight warm up by Tuesday. Overnight readings ranged from 60 to 65 degrees, with Grand Marais at 42 and Wausau at 54.
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Canada
Grand Marais
Mich
Wausau
Wis
2500 Russians Take Communion in Moscow Sermon
In Moscow a Baptist preacher from Virginia administered the Lord’s Supper to 2,500 Russians Sunday night, the first such ceremony by an American Protestant since the Bolsheviks rose to power. Dr. Theodore F. Adams of Richmond led the service with three other Baptist clergymen, praising the devotion of the worshipers.
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Moscow
Virginia
Theodore F. Adams
First Baptist Church of
Richmond
Soviet Union
Nine U S Soldiers Injured In Renewed Korean Riots
In Pusan clashes last night nine U S soldiers and four Koreans were injured as protests against MSC inspectors intensified. The U S 8th Army denied bayonet reports while Korea pushed for all MSC teams to leave by Saturday amid further demonstrations in Pusan Inchon Kunsan and Taegu.
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Pusan
U.S. 8Th Army
U.S
Joyce
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
Inchon
Kunsan
South Korea
MSC
Switzerland
Sweden
Pro Comunist
Poland
Czechoslovakia
ROK
North Korea
8Th Army
Kim Chang Heung
National Police
Kangnung
Tan Army
Army
U.S. Army
Hialeah
Taegu
UNSC
Wolmi Island
ROK Army
ROK Cic
Korea
Kyunghyang
Panmunjom
87 Year Old Woman Injured by Car in Los Angeles Run
Mrs. Essie Madsen, 87, suffered minor cuts and bruises after being struck by an automobile while running to catch a streetcar in Los Angeles. The incident reports indicate her injuries were not serious.
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Los Angeles
Essie Madsen
Madsen
Sex Maniac Hunted In Slaying Of Mrs. Allen
The nude body of 34 year old socialite Mrs. Wilma Aren Allen was found in a pasture southwest of Kansas City. Police suspect a sex motive though robbery is not ruled out. An autopsy was inconclusive.
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Kansas City
Wilma Aren
Here
William R. Allen
Missouri
Kansas
Union Station
David S. Long Jr
Death Toll Climbs As Ohio Roads See Multiple Fatalities
A weekend on Ohio highways claimed 14 lives in traffic accidents across the state from Friday to Sunday. Four others drowned after a heat wave lull. Notable incidents included three airmen killed near Cambridge when their car hit a dump truck, another Lockbourne serviceman killed near Lancaster, a marine dead in a vehicle plunge into the Maumee River at Napoleon, a fatal ambulance collision near Port Clinton, a single engine plane crash at Harrison Airport, and additional injuries and fatalities in surrounding crashes.
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Ohio
Lockbourne Afb
Columbus
Cambridge
Lockbourne
Lancaster
St. Marys
Maumee
Napoleon
Port Clinton
Mercy
Harrison
Two Ohio Men Drown in Unmarked Lake Area Near PA Border
State police identified two Ohio men who drowned in an unguarded area of Pymatuning Lake near the Pennsylvania Ohio border. The victims were Robert McFall, 18, of Lowellville and Eugene Wilson, 26, of Youngstown.
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Meadville
Ohio
Pymatuning Lake
Pensylvania-Ohio Border
Robert McFall
Rt 1
Lowellville
Eugene Wilson
Youngstown
Happy Bats 1000 In Kentucky Race
A. B. Happy Chandler appears to lead in the Kentucky Democratic gubernatorial primary with 146,961 votes from 1,955 of 4,074 precincts, a 15,596 vote edge over Bert T. Combs. Edwin R. Denney leads the Republican nomination with 29,492 votes as James L. Clay and John Sherman Cooper trail.
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Happy
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Kentucky
Ben
Versailles
Louisville
A. B. Happy Chandler
Chandler
Bert T. Combs
U.S
Earle C. Clements
Senate
Lawrence Wetherby
Alben W. Barkley
Combs
Jesse N. R. Cecil
Louisville i Courier-Journal
US. Dist. Atty
Edwin R. Denney
Denney
James L. Clay
John Sherman Cooper
India
Top Chemist Dies in Midland at 79
William J. Hale, 79, Dow Chemical Co research consultant and leading organic chemist, died today after a brief illness in Midland Michigan. Hale, hailed as a pioneer in his field, served as a key figure in chemical research and education.
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Midland
Mich
William J. Hale
Dow Chemical Co
Chem
Fiery Soviet airliner crash kills 25 near Voronezh
A Soviet airliner en route from Stalingrad to Moscow crashed near Voronezh, killing 25 people including 10 Norwegian women. Five crew members and Russians also died. Norway received official condolences and indemnities were promised. The Tass dispatch said the plane caught fire in flight.
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Moscow
Provida Today
Russia
Communist Party
Saturady
Voronezh
Tass
Pravda
Stalingrad
Daytonian Dies In Plane Crash Near West Union
Mrs Julia Dynes 32 of Dayton Ohio died when a single engine plane piloted by her husband Charles crashed on a hillside about 20 miles northeast of West Union West Virginia. He received minor injuries as heavy rain delayed an emergency landing attempt. The craft struck a tree after a downdraft ripped off a wing during the flight to a private pilots breakfast in Clarksburg.
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West Union
Julia Dynes
Dayton
Ohio
Charles
Here
Dynes
Clarksburg
Bhabha Predicts Peaceful Fusion Power Within 20 Years
Indian scientist Homi J. Bhabha opened the International Atomic Energy Conference in Geneva predicting that hydrogen fusion energy will be harnessed for peaceful use within two decades. He cited fission power plants and noted no basic obstacle to controlled fusion, despite formidable technical challenges.
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Geneva
Homi J. Bhabha
Bhabha
Hiroeshima
Palace of Nations
Eisenhower
U.N. General Assembly
Atoms-For-Peace
International Organization
Lewis L. Straus
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
America
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Clash Over 84th Congress Ends as Partisan Blame Lingers
Washington observers recap the 84th Congress nearing adjournment with Democrats led by Speaker Rayburn praising legislative record and Republicans led by Senator Knowland and Vice President Nixon contrasting support for the President’s program. Each side cites successes and roadblocks, with Highway program as a sore point.
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Congress
House
Rayburn
Texas
Nixon
Senate
White House
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Johnson
Executive
Leonard W. Hall
84Th
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