35000 Expected St Louis Booked Solid For Legion Convention
St Louis prepares for the American Legion national convention with 35000 members expected and 5000+ rooms in private homes to house overflow. Notables include Vice President Nixon and Cabinet members, with a 10 hour grand parade Tuesday featuring about 100000 participants and 250 bands. Preconvention events include Sen McCarthy speaking Friday and security measures by a 410 member service committee.
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ST. Louis
American Legionnaires
Legion
Richard M. Nixon
McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
Foreign Affairs
Missouri Highway Patrolmn
St. Louis County
David H. Fleischer
St. Louis Legion Convention Corp
Nixon
Secretary of the Navy
Robert B. Anderson
Secretary of
John Foster Dulles
Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Couple See Colored TV Without Help
In Long Beach California a couple claims their black and white TV shows color for three years. A servicing technician calls it an optical illusion while friends report only black and white images. The Billingers, ages 78 and 72, attribute the phenomenon to their eyes and sight changes across three locations.
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Long Beach
Calif
Federal Communications Commission
W. G. Billinger
Billinger
Carmel, Calif
Food Poisoning Hits Campgrounds In Circleville
Thirty people were admitted to Berger Hospital after food poisoning at Mount of Praise campgrounds yesterday. Twenty two others had minor cases. Officials believe chicken salad sold on the grounds caused the illness.
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Circleville
Ohio
Berger Hospital
Mount of Praise
U.S. Coal Output Per Man-Day Tops Japan For One Month
The article notes that average per-man-day coal production in the United States exceeds that of Japan for a single month. It highlights efficiency differences between the two nations and provides context on industrial output during the period.
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United States
Japan
Famous Walk in Albuquerque Bricks Scuttled for Platform
The brick walk in front of the Santa Fe depot is being torn up for a concrete platform. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Taft, royalty from Belgium, and Prince Leopold walked there. Dan Patch the racehorse was also exercised on the path.
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Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Kings
Queens
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Albert
Queen Marie
Belgium
Prince Leopold
Dan Patch
Sleepy waitress trapped in trance eyed by hypnotist
A 19 year old waitress Betty Black from Nelson B C lies in hospital after slipping into a sleep trance at a Banff performance by an itinerant hypnotist called The Great Dr Zomb Police seek the lecturer to end the spell She awoke speak and walk but kept drifting back to sleep refusing food during the following day at work authorities report
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Banff
Alta
Betty Black
Nelson
B. C
Dr. Zomb
POW claims POWs used as targets by North Korean troops
Pvt. Harry J. Addesso of Brooklyn, a repatriate who survived a 1950 Taegu to northward march, testified that North Korean trucks plowed into prisoners with hands bound, and soldiers on the vehicles fired at them as they passed, often targeting the larger men. He did not report any confirmed injuries or deaths.
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Freedom Village
Korea
Harry J. Addesso
Brooklyn
Taegu
Women Questioned by Chinese Interrogator in POW Camp
Pvt. Robert D. Falminio, 18, a prisoner of war freed today in Newark New Jersey, was questioned by a 19-year-old Chinese woman about how women in the United States dressed. The brief exchange touched on gender norms and wartime captivity dynamics.
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Freedom Village
Robert D. Falminio
Newark
N. J
United States
Record U.S. school enrollment set for 1953 54 year
U S commissioner of education Lee M Thurston says a new high of 36 949 700 will enroll in schools and colleges for 1953 54, with private and public elementary schools enrolling 26 931 000 and colleges 2 500 000. He notes severe shortages of classrooms and teachers and warns overcrowding will worsen by 1960.
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W. Joynes Macfarlan
Washington
Lee M. Thurston
U. S
Thurston
United States
Polio Strikes Again In Salem Ohio
Salem reports a third 1953 polio victim Daniel Kensierski an 18 year old high school football player taken to Cleveland City Hospital for treatment Columbiana County total polio cases rises to seven this year.
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Salem
Ohio
Daniel Kensierski
Cleveland City Hospital
Columbiana County
Man Burned To Death in Gasoline Tank Incident
Cincinnati police report Louis Gardner a 48-year-old road worker was fatally burned yesterday when a gasoline sprayed clothes ignited. A second worker was injured as a gasoline tank vented due to excessive pressure on a road-paver worksite.
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Cincinnati
Louis Gardner
Gardner
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