Kore an truce talks pause over prisoner issue at Panmunjom
In Panmunjom eight day Allied recess ends with a secrecy veiled session. South Korean delegate Maj. Gen. Choi Duk Shin misses the meeting amid dispute over a new proposal on 48,500 prisoners refusing to return. U N commander Mark Clark meets President Rhee in Seoul as talks resume with possible new proposals and a political conference to resolve the prisoner exchange.
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Panmunjom
United Nations Command
Choi Duk Shin
Choi
Munsan
North
South Korea
Mark Clark
U. N
Far East
Syngman Rhee
Seoul
Washington
Milton Herr
Red
Panmunom
Kaesong
William K. Harrison
Commission
U. N. Command
Floods Move Southward In Louisiana Coast towns brace for water
Three flooding rivers drive muddy crests toward the Southwest Louisiana coast threatening Cameron and oil fields 40 miles south of Lake Charles. The Calcasieu River floodwaters have left 15,000 homeless and $15,000,000 in damage. Weather officials forecast street floods up to three feet in Cameron within 48 hours. Local oil firms say wells can be shut off. residents brace for rising waters and marsh-fill to the Gulf.
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Lake Charles
Louisiana
Calcasieu
Air Force Base
Cameron
U. S. Weather Bureau
Lee Welch
Vincent and Welch, Inc
Lake Charies
O. B. Carter
Calcasieu Lake
Sabine River
Texas-Louisiana
Calcasieu River
Mermentau
Gulf
Jmarshes
Second American Back In Korea For Trial
A second American, Airman 1st Class Thomas L. Kinder of Cleveland Tennessee, flown to Korea, faces murder charges in the 1952 slaying of Bang Soon Kil on a Korean air base. Authorities say a third suspect, an Air Force officer, will also be arrested.
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Seoul
Air Force
Korea
Thomas L. Kinder
Route 6
Cleveland
Tenn
U. S
Japan
Robert W. Toth
Pittsburgh
Taegu
Bang Soon Kil
The
Jerome L. Lowenberg
Fifth Air Force
Kinder
Toth
Tokyo
Anthony R. McGrath
U. S. Supreme Court
Morse Bid For Old Jobs Up For Vote
Washington Senate floor showdown set today as Sen Morse seeks to regain his seats on armed services and labor committees. Sen Knowland predicts no change to January rejection. Morse argues the vote tests Senate discipline for independence while facing a rules committee defeat.
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Washington
Senate
Morse Ind-Ore
Armed Services
Labor
Knowland
R-Calif
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Morse
Oregon
Battle over VA cuts sparks House clash in budget hearing
Washington veterans groups watch as Congress opens hearings on the Veterans Administration budget of about 4.295 billion with proposed cuts over 280 million dollars. The major reductions target hospital construction medical care and administration as Edith Nourse Rogers summons VA officials to present facts before floor action.
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Congress
House
Veterans’ Affairs
Appropriations
Veterans Administration
Truman
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Edith Nourse Rogers
R-Mass
Rogers
House Appropriations Committee
Light quakes rattle California towns in brief series
Three small earthquakes rattled communities along a north south line in California late Sunday. Hollister felt the first at 5 23 52 p m local time, Bakersfield and Los Angeles area the second at 8 24 59 p m, and Ukiah the third at 9 08 27 p m. A seismologist called the sequence coincidental and not serious.
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San Francisco
California
Hollister
Bakersfield
Los Angeles
Ukiah
Women Attack Mrs. Roosevelt in Tokyo Incident
About 20 Japanese women led by an American-born wife of a Japanese man pulled Eleanor Roosevelt from her car outside the Labor Ministry building in Tokyo. She was uninjured as guards halted the attack after she refused an interview. A guard was slapped.
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Tokyo
Eleanor Roosevelt
Labor Ministry
Yomiuri
Roosevelt
Heap Of Living In 75 Happy Years Of Married Life
Denver report on Paul A. Gashurst and his wife celebrating 75 years of marriage in Lead, M. D. They wed in a log cabin soon after the town's founding. Gashurst, who says he feels no pain, looks ahead to his 100th birthday on August 21. his wife is 92.
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Denver
Paul A. Gashurst
Lead
M. D
Gushurst
Pravda Urges Big Four Meet Over Big Three Plan
Pravda editorial outlines Soviet policy favoring a Big Four conference and opposing any East West talks that exclude the USSR. It condemns Eisenhower’s proposed tripartite meeting with Churchill and a French premier, while praising Churchill’s calls for top level talks without preconditions. The piece argues Germany must be reunified but militarism prevented and says the USSR will not attend any meeting if the West imposes conditions in advance.
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Moscov Fi
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Pravda
Communist Party
Eisenhower
Churchill
Korea
Austria
Dulles
England
Germany
Russia
East
First Atomic Annie shell blast lights up desert tests
LAS VEGAS AP The nations first atomic shell blasted from Atomic Annie the Army 280 millimeter cannon at 1 30 a m EST. The fire produced a white ice capped cloud visible 75 miles away over the desert proving grounds as troops observers and officials watched from strategic positions. The test fused 500 feet above a target area seven to eight miles north northeast of the gun with a 45 ton locomotive and other military equipment within the model battlefield. Secretary of Defense Charles E Wilson General J Lawton Collins and nearly 100 congressmen attended while 2 525 troops and 575 observers held positions behind trenches awaiting radiation clearance to attack.
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Las Vegas
Desert Proving Grounds
52Nd Field Artillery Group
Ft. Sill
Okla
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
J. Lawton Collins
Army
W. Sterling Cole
R-Ny
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
Annie
Fort Sill
Snyder Called To Tell Probers Of Tax Cases
Washington reports say House tax fraud investigators probe possible top Treasury interference in IRS cases. Former Secretary of the Treasury L. Livingston Snyder named among those involved as hearings near summer windup. Grunewald case remains unresolved with contempt sentence set for Thursday.
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Snyder
L. Livingstone Washington
House
Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
John Tobin
Tobin
Resiue
Henry W. Grunewald
Washington
Grunewald
Federal District Court
Congress
ROK Soldiers Repel Chinese Raid on Eastern Front
U.N. and allied forces repelled a three hour Chinese assault near Outpost Texas with hand grenades and close range fire. About 60 Chinese were killed or wounded, with additional Communist probes defeated across 25 points on the 155 mile front.
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Seoul
Roks
Texas
U.N
Eighth Army
North Korea
Fifth Air Force
Northwest Korea
Haeju Peninsula
Red
Sinmak
Sukchon
Korea
Boxer
Phillipine Sea
Chongjin
Rosenbergs Lose Bid for Hearing in Spy Case
The Supreme Court refused again to grant a hearing to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Their only escape route now is to reveal espionage secrets to the government to avoid the electric chair. Paris reports Andre Diethelm declines to form a new French Cabinet. A Convair liner of KLM crashes near Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, killing a bystander and a child and injuring about 20 passengers.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Paris
Andre Diethelm
Charles de Gaulle
Amsterdam
Netherlands
KLM
Schiphel
Bus Borrowed For Picnic Stolen From Queens Garage
Police reported a 36 passenger bus was stolen from a Queens transportation company Saturday. The missing vehicle was located Sunday in Brooklyn with picnic litter found inside.
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Queens Transportation Company
Queens
Brooklyn
Meal Little Late Sparks Brutal Domestic Assault
Mrs Jennie Grabowski a 51 year old mother of children says her husband Stanley 59 tied her to a I beam kicked and blackjacked her into unconsciousness after she failed to serve his favorite meal sauer kraut and potatoes. He is held on felonious assault and weapons charges in Queens hospital condition reported.
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New York
Jennie Grabowski
Stanley
Grabowski
Queens Hospital
Story Book Wedding Turns Into Navy Briga Night
Gilbert Mills a 19 year old sailor from Compton California rushed from Norman to Oklahoma City to marry before the license bureau closed. His car wreck delayed him and shore patrol arrested him for failing to report the accident but allowed him to marry after his father in law intervened. He will report back to base police today.
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Norman
Okla
Gilbert Mills
Compton
Calif
Norman Naval Base
Here
Oklahoma City
Mills
Navy
Naval Law
Joe T. Franklin
Sp’s
Brig
Breaks Seen in Auto Strike Wave With Budd Settlement
Detroit AP reports 8,000 Budd Co workers returned to jobs after a dispute but walked out again hours later. Settlement began easing a layoff wave affecting about 44,000 Chrysler workers, while Ford Canton and Warner Gear Municie plants kept thousands idle or on short shifts. Union officials criticized actions at mass meeting before votes to resume work. Chrysler aimed to restart DeSoto and other divisions. Plymouth unaffected. Ford laid off 85,000 last week due to Canton disruptions. Warner Gear hit Studebaker, Nash, and General plants.
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Detroit
Budd Co
Budd Company
Chrysler
Canton
Ford Motor Company
Warner Gear Company
Muncie
Ind
CIO
United Auto ‘Workers
UAW International
International
The
DeSoto
Dodge
Plymouth
Ford
Warner Gear
Studebaker
Willy Nash
General
UAW
Five Sailors Die As Storm Capsizes Dutch Ship
Five sailors perished when the 50 ton Dutch ship Toos capsized in a wind storm off Norway's west coast near Neway. Two other ships abandoned after separate collisions in the English Channel with one life lost. Ternefjell sank after colliding with Dotterel. Dotterel rescued all crew. Andaman abandoned after collision near Goodwin Sands. lifeboat Dov picked up survivors.
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Oslo
Norway
Toos
Neway
English Channel
Ternefjell
Dotterel T
Ensa
Andaman
Goodwin Sands
Dov
Dulles Arrives in Istanbul During Asia Tour
Secretary of State Dulles and accompanying officials arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, by air from Pakistan for a one day stopover as part of a broad East tour. The stop is noted as a regional leg in the diplomatic mission.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Dulles
Pakistan
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