Allen Johnson Wins Middletown Opti-Derby Championship
Allen Johnson wins Middletown Opti-Derby with his Blue Jet racer to become champion as about 6 000 spectators watch on East Central Avenue. The event aims to bring boys and fathers together and featured extensive city support from Engineer Sam Boeke and Chief Blackmore.
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Champ
Allen Johnson
William Johnson
Eaton Dr
Journal
Bill Werth
Dave Regan
Louis Rossi
Optimist
Middletown
Joe Blackmore
East Central Avenue
Eaton
Bill
Big Johnson
Johnsons
Allen
Sam Boeke
Public Service
Bleak Budget Picture Threatens Tax Revision
Washington AP Congress faces a bleak budget outlook as the House Ways and Means Committee nears the end of hearings on tax reform promised for next year. Proposals favored by lawmakers would slash revenue, risking a clash between tax justice and a balanced budget while defense and foreign aid may face cuts to meet fiscal goals.
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Charles F. Barrett
Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Eisenhower
Daniel A. Reed
R-Ny
Ways and Means Committee
Dulles Reports To Eisenhower On Rhee Talks
President Eisenhower received a full report from Secretary Dulles on talks with South Korea's President Syngman Rhee. Dulles said Rhee pledged no violation of the three week old truce, following a flight from the Far East to Colorado. The briefing occurred at Lowry Air Force Base with Ambassador Lodge and Walter Robertson present.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Secretary of State
Dulles
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Far East
Honolulu
Rhee
Lowry Air Force Base
John F. Doud
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U. S
United Nations
Walter S. Robertson
Washington
Colorado
Iran Soviet-Iranian Commission to Meet in Tehran
Radio Moscow said the Soviet Iranian commission to strengthen friendly ties with Russia and Iran will meet in Tehran. The talks aim to improve relations and discuss oil-rich southern neighbor cooperation.
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London
Russia
Secon
Tehran
Radio Moscow
Vandalia Weather Forecast Sees Fair Skies With Showers Possible
Vandalia forecasters expect mostly fair conditions tonight and tomorrow with a slight chance of showers. Temperatures will run cool tonight, warm up by Tuesday, and a high of 80 yesterday with a 62 degree low earlier. The Armco East Side Main Gate weather record notes today’s low around 63 degrees.
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Armco
AFL Threatens To Oust Its Dock Workers Union
Chicago AP The AFL Executive Council eyed ousting the International Longshoremen's Association amid charges of criminal elements within the East Coast waterfront union. Joseph Ryan faces indictment for stealing union funds as the council weighs purging the ILA before the St Louis convention. States of New York and New Jersey enacted a compact to license dock workers. Congress approved. The ILA's purity plan faces AFL skepticism while Meany aims to discipline the union as trials are proposed.
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Chicago
AFL Executive Council
Joseph P. Ryan
AFL International Longshoremen's Association
ILA
AFL Council
AFL
Ryan
George Meany
William Green
Meany
New York
New Jersey
Congress
New York State Crime Commission
New York and
St. Louis
Russia hints at hydrogen bomb test to spark tense alert
AP reports a formal warning from Soviet Premier Malenkov that the United States no longer monopolizes the hydrogen bomb. Dr. Ralph Lapp of Washington suspects a small scale Russian H bomb test occurred late last week, with confirmation delayed by radioactivity detection timelines.
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Washington
Russia
Ralph Lapp
Washington, D. C
Nagasaki
Lapp
United States
America
Nevada
Iron Curtain
Georgi Malenkov
Free World
Malenkovs
Rep
van Zandt
R-Pa
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
Malenkov
Hinshaw
Soviets
Beria
Rhee Pledges Armistice Training For Possible Offense
President Syngman Rhee said South Korea will use the armistice period to train for an offensive if needed. He warned that if the postwar conference fails to unify Korea in 90 days the UN powers will back efforts to achieve unification by other means.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Korea
United Nations
United States
New York
Red
South Korea
Rhee
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Honolulu
Dulles
Liberals Poised To Extend Rule In Canada Election
Canadian voters cast ballots in a campaign seen as likely to give Louis St Laurent’s Liberal party a four to five year stretch in power. Opposition leader George Drew and the Progressive Conservatives faced a difficult path to oust the incumbent premier.
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Ben Bassett Torop
Canada
Louis St. Laurent
Liberal Party
Progressive Conservative
Tory
St. Laurent
Uncle Louis
House of Commons
George Drew
Drew
W. L. Mackenzie King
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Commons
St. Laurent’s
Returning POWs report 30 progressives among US camp prisoners
Freedom Village reports say 30 of 306 men from Camp 5 Pyoktong on the Yalu River plan to preach communism in the United States. Cpl Leslie E Scales and others describe these men as No 1 progressives, some talking of joining the Communist party and a reunion in San Francisco.
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Jim Becker
Freedom Village
U. S
United States
Cpl
Leslie E. Scales
Folsomville
Ind
Pyoktong
Yalu River
Inchon
Reds
Scales
America
Ex-Pows For Peace
Veterans For Peace
Seales
Communist Party In America
San Francisco
Harold Wilson
Mobile
Ala
Panamajom
Iowa
Cal L. Reeder
Waukon
Carl J. Raup
Franklin
Raup
Camp 5
No Sympathy as Parking Tickets Hit City Officials
Oneida New York May or Victor P. Tarry received a $1 overtime parking ticket while inspecting a city construction project. City Judge Willam C. Olcott also faced a ticket for his automobile parked nearby.
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Oneida
N. Y
Victor P. Tarry
Willam C. Olcott
Beria Purge Approved as Trial Is Set for Malenkov Ally
The Soviet parliament approved Berias ouster for criminal activity and sent his case to the USSR Supreme Court. The move sets the stage for a trial of Lavrenty Beria, once top deputy to Malenkov and head of Stalin’s secret police, amid broader shifts in Moscow.
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London
Lavrenty P. Beria
Kremlin
Supreme Court
Supreme Council
Moscow Radio
Georgi M. Malenkov
Stalin
Beria
U.S.S.R. Supreme Court
America's 1st Woman Envoy Sworn In for Switzerland
Frances Willis, 54, of Chicago, becomes the United States first woman envoy to Switzerland after a 26 year climb from teacher to diplomat. She is the third female U.S. ambassador in history, following Eugenie Anderson and Clare Booth Luce.
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Washington
America
Switzerland
State Department
Frances Willis
Metropolis
Ill
Vassar College
U. S
Eugenie Anderson
Denmark
Clare Boothe Luce
Italy
Ex POWs Return as 3 Nations Repatriate in Korea
Seventeen disabled U.S. veterans leave Tokyo for home joining 328 Americans from Inchon and 1,800 Marines aboard the Gen. Nelson M. Walker ship. Over 3,000 more are expected as the prisoner exchange continues at Panmunjom amid mixed moods and shifting schedules.
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Panmunjom
Tokyo
United States
Inchon Harbor
U. S
Nelson M. Walker
Air Force
Haneda
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Bob Curry
Robert Davidson
Bob
H. W. Starick
Howard Kramer
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Francis Carmody
Charles Lickliter
Iran
Dock Workers
Covess
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Lavrenty Beria
U.S
Frank E. Carey
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le Mars
Kenneth Darrow
Charles City
Jerry W. de Wesse
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Neutral Nations Advisory Commission
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