Armistice City Truce Meeting Opens Near Kaesong
Allied and Communist delegates edge toward a preliminary truce session at Kaesong just south of parallel 38. A three-man UN delegation reportedly travels from Seoul as immunity from air attack is granted on the Pyongyang Kaesong highway for safe convoy passage.
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Tokyo
INS
Kaesong
U.N
Pyongyang
Phoenix
F. W. Moorman
Matthew B. Ridgway
Moorman
Pyongyang-Kaesong
Communist High Command
Ridgway
Kae- Turn
Kidnaper of Stepdaughter Triggered Westwide Search
A manhunt spread across the West for Frank W. Kristy a 48 year old painter who abducted his stepdaughter Betty Jean Hansen 20 after bursting into the home and threatening to kill anyone who interfered. Kristy held his wife and their daughter at gunpoint and forced Betty into a car promising to drive her out of town and shoot if police pursued. The motive cited by the wife was an obsessive love for her daughter.
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Downey
Calif
Frank W. Kristy
Betty Jean Hansen
Helen
Margaret Kristy
Kristy
Betty
Raymond
Kristys
Tanker Plane Crashes in Scottish Glens Killing 11
A U S Air Force KB-29 aerial tanker based at Lakenheath crashed during navigation training near Carsphairn in Kirkcudbrightshire. Nine bodies were recovered with 2 still missing as fire raged for over two hours. local residents described a deafening explosion and a seven roll before the dive.
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Prestwick
Scotland
Carsphairn
Kircudbrightshire
USS
Third Air Force
Ruislip
London
Lakenheath
England
United Kingdom
Strategic Air Command
Heart Attack Fatal To Mrs. Dan Garvey Former First Lady
Mrs. Dan Garvey wife of the former governor died at 9 12 a m in St Josephs Hospital. Death attributed to a heart attack after a tonsillectomy on which she entered yesterday. Native of San Bernardino California she moved to Tucson at age 3 with her parents. She attended Tucson schools and the University of Arizona. She left college to marry Mr Garvey 39 years ago and served as Arizona first lady during her husbands two terms. She active in Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and Red Cross work during the war. She resided at 501 Wilshire with her husband and son Dan Jr daughter Mrs Charles I Smith also lives here.
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Dan Garvey
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Garvey
San Bernardino
Calif
Tucson
Zach Vail
University of Arizona
Arizona
Riots Over Iran Oil Leave About 100 Injured
In Tehran a Communist led protest by about 10,000 youths erupted after Iran rejected an ICJ ruling on oil fields. The crowd chanted Down with British imperialism as demonstrations followed Britain’s acceptance of the decision.
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Iran
Tehran
INS
International Court of Justice
London
Vandenberg Warns of Red Air Build-Up
London July 7 AP Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg warned that despite hopes for a Korean armistice the Communist air strength in Manchuria is rising He said 150 new planes joined the area last month including 120 jet fighters bringing total aircraft to about 1150 and urged Western nations not to fall into self complacency.
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London
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Manchuria
San Francisco to Host Jap Peace Treaty Conference
Washington reports a Japanese peace treaty signing conference planned to open September 4 in San Francisco with about 50 nations invited. Mayor Elmer Robinson announced the Opera House site, with Acheson and Dulles likely to lead the U.S. delegation. President Truman’s attendance uncertain.
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San Francisco
Washington
U.S
Great Britain
Japan
Elmer E. Robinson
Opera House
Acheson
John Foster Dulles
Robinson
Dulles
Pickets Flare Into Violence At Hospitals
In Minneapolis on July 7 angry pickets at ten hospitals manhandled doctors nurses and non striking workers. Police formed flying squads to separate sides as hospitals sought an injunction in district court to end a two day AFL service workers strike. A nurse’s aide Lorraine Yager was on the line when her daughter was rushed in after an arm injury from a wringer.
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Minneapolis
D. E. LaBelle
AFL
Fairview Hospital
Lorraine Yager
Senate panel probes open numbers and horse gambling in Atlantic City
The senate crime investigation committee held the second day of hearings in Atlantic City on an organization said to protect open numbers and horse gambling, described by its counsel as a very perfect operation.
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Atlantic City
N. J
INS
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Enlistments extended for those due for discharge
President Truman extended enlistments for 300000 to 400000 servicemen due for discharge within the next year. Draftees not affected. enlisted reserves may be recalled after 17 months post Korean War outbreak. Defense officials offered no specific reason beyond maintaining armed forces levels. Draft calls reduced. July at 15000, August at 22000.
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Washington
Truman
Defense Department
Pentagon
Armed Forces
Far East
Europe
Triple Road Crash Kills 3 Injures 30
A high speed three vehicle crash on Triple Road near Memphis killed three California residents and injured 30 others including 25 cotton choppers en route to Arkansas. The dead are Eugene W. Franklin and his son Gene of Oakland and Mrs. George Mae Swofford of San Pablo. Injured include Mrs. Francis Franklin Arthur Franklin and Nancy Swofford. Franklin attempted to pass a Proctor Ark driver as left fenders struck a truck. Foster and his pregnant wife and 25 cotton laborers were injured.
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Memphis
Tenn
California
Arkansas
Eugene W. Franklin
Oakland
Calif
Gene
George Mae Swofford
San Pablo
Francis Franklin
Arthur Franklin
Nancy Swofford
Eugene Franklin
Sherman Foster
Proctor, Ark
Franklin
Planes Smash Anew At Enemy Convoys
U S war planes hit Communist convoys for a second day pouring men and supplies from Manchuria toward Korea. Fifth Air Force night raids destroyed at least 100 enemy vehicles along a 95 mile highway from Sinaiju to Sinanju boosting two day toll to 175. Allied patrols moved toward Pyonggang as cease-fire talks loomed.
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Eighth Army
Korea
U.S
Manchuria
Fifth Air Force
Sinaiju
Manchurian
Sinanju
Pyongyang
North Korea
United Nations
Kaesong
Chorwon
Kumhwa
Pyonggang
U.N
Pyong- Turn
Dr. James Redden Dies in Norman Hospital
Dr. James Elmer Redden 69 died of a heart attack in Norman Hospital after entering only hours earlier. A longtime Casa Grande physician of about 45 years born July 19, 1881 in Santa Rosa California, he leaves his wife Elsie Redden a son James Ellis Redden of Tempe two stepsons Gary Redden at home and Charles L. Williams of Casa Grande and a stepdaughter Joy Williams of Tempe.
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Casa Grande
James Elmer Redden
Norman Hospital
Dr. Redden
Santa Rosa
Calif
Elsie Redden
Prescott
Redden
James Ellis Redden
Tempe
Gary Redden
Charles L. Williams
Miss Joy Williams
Crop-Duster Killed When Plane Struck Tree
L. C. Larry Spain, about 50, died when his crop-dusting plane hit the top of a tree and crashed in flames in a Yuma Valley cotton field. He was approaching for a dusting run and apparently failed to see the tree. Spain lived at Welton and owned a flying service and managed Yuma County Airport.
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Yuma
L. C
Larry” Spain
Yuma Valley
Spain
Welton
Yuma County
Hillings Urges DiSalle To Register As Lobbyist
Representative Hillings of California urged today that Price Stabilizer Michael DiSalle register with Congress as a lobbyist for the federal government.
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Washington
Hillings
Calif
Michael DiSalle
Congress
Father Hears Oatis Broadcast Convinced Czech Testimony
J Ross Oatis, father of AP correspondent William N. Oatis, heard a Czech espionage trial recording broadcast on KTAR. He said parts sounded like his son but others did not, and believed his son was forced to testify. Oatis, 37, was sentenced to 10 years in Prague.
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J. Ross Oatis
E. Garfield
Associated Press
William N. Oatis
National Broadcasting Company
KTAR
Oatis
Phoenix
Czechoslovakia
Daniel de Luce
Frankfurt
A. 1
Goldberg
Prague
Free World
Nathan Polowetzky
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Molly Campbell
Vandenberg
Oklahoma City
Stevie Miser
Woolsey Madden
Max Hamilton
Harold Sanford
Harold
Sky Harbor Station
CNA
Foster
Travel
Republic and Gazette
World Travel Service
East van Buren
Pioneer
DiSalle
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