Rhee Says RO K War Entry on Armistice Terms
South Korea's president declares the U N command would withdraw and go solo if a truce is signed on current terms. He demands immediate mutual defense with the United States, a three month post armistice conference, and a plan for war resumption if no accord is reached. General Clark says Rhee would discuss such action with him but time has not come.
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South Korea
U. N
Syngman Rhee
CBS
Rhee
Columbia Broadcasting System
Far East
George Herman
U. N. Command
Mark Clark
Clark
AP Tokyo
Robert Bunson
U. S
O. W
Korea
United States
Rebellion in East Germany as unrest spreads
In Berlin and major East German cities refugees report mass protests against Soviet repression. Farmers withhold produce as martial law widens, while arrests rise and a high execution toll shocks observers. Adenauer mourns the dead and vows Germany’s return to freedom.
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Berlin
Hanger
Germany
West Berlin
Leipzig
Dresden
Demnitz
Ejisenagh
Otto Grotewohl
East Berlin
Red Army
anti-Red Underground
East Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Soviet Zone
Free World
Death of Nehru rival sparks Delhi riot and unrest
In New Delhi Syama Prasad Mookerjee died in custody in Kashmir prompting police clashes as 1 000 demonstrators attacked and 20 arrests followed four officers being seriously wounded Hindu extremism and Jan Sangh supporters blamed Nehru government Mookerjee had defied a ban and died of a heart attack after pleurisy and transfer to a nursing home Officials said Nehru seen as political beneficiary amid turmoil with risks of broader violence and potential leadership shakeup
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New Delhi
India
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Jawaharalal Nehru
Mukerjee
Srinagar
Kashmir
Jan Sangh
Punjab
Mookerjee
Nehru
Krishna Kriplani
Maulana Abul Azad
Unmasked Bandit Robs Bank of Warwood in Wheeling
An armed unmasked bandit, described as about 38 to 40, 200 pounds in a dark suit and white shirt, held up the Bank of Warwood in Wheeling and escaped in a green car with a single bag of cash and checks. Brinks guard R H Templeton delivered three bags totaling 6736.47 dollars, but the robber took only one bag containing 589.38 in cash and unknown checks. Police pursue a lone suspect believed to be acting alone, with a roadblock sighting prompting a hasty retreat toward Independence, Pa. The bandit walked with a limp and fled after forcing five bank employees and two customers to the rear.
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Wheeling
Bank of Warwood
Brinks
Bethany
Independence
R. H. Templeton
Templeton
American Oil Co
West Virginia Weather Outlook and Temps
Clear tonight with low 55 to 60. Wednesday fair and warm, near normal temps for five days. Warmer Thursday, cooler by Saturday. Scattered showers likely Friday from Ohio Valley, rainfall 0.25 to 0.50 inch. Normals: north 73, south 74. Highs yesterday around 84 at Oak Hill and 80 at Glade Creek. Rivers near normal stages. some reservoirs noted.
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Ohio Valley
West Virginia
Oak Hill High
Glade Creek
Bellepoint
Bluestone
Greenbrier
Belle seeks third class city status in Kanawha County
Belle residents filed a petition to incorporate their town as a third class city with a July 14 hearing set. A 1949 attempt was voided due to a missing state statute for new incorporations of towns over 2,000 population. Market conditions prompt American Viscose to close Nitro plant for 10 days starting July 3, affecting about 1,000 workers. Marshall College groups buy large homes near campus. Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni Inc pays about $22,500 for the Fifth Avenue house while Tri-Sigma pays $40,000 for a nearby residence.
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Charleston
Belle
Kanawha County
Supreme Court
NITRO
W. Va
American Viscose Corp
Huntington
Marshall College
Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni, Inc
Fifth Avenue
Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority
Tri-Sigma
White House hosts Lewis and notable guests social dinner
President Eisenhower hosted a White House dinner last night for John L. Lewis Bernard Baruch and 12 others. Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty called the affair purely social and barred newsmen from speaking to guests as they arrived and departed.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
John L. Lewis
Bernard Baruch
James C. Hagerty
Memorial Airport Plan Proposed by AFA-Linked Engineer
Robert L. Davis, the county court’s consulting engineer on Memorial Airport, submitted a five year operating plan aimed at self support within five years. If accepted, he and his engineering firm would run the airport replacing the current arrangement. the court had planned to abolish four airport jobs by month end to cut costs. The plan follows Davis’s long advocacy of improved air transport locally and precedes talks on installing night lighting.
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Robert L. Davis
Memorial Airport
Davis
Beckley
Air Force Association
E. van Dorsey
Ester Thorne
Thorne
AFA
Dorsey
Anderson
Little Beaver Park
Dem Unity Blocks New Controls Bill
The Senate rejected the administration economic controls bill 47 to 42 signaling Democrats hold sway over major GOP era legislation. Forty three Democrats joined three Republicans and an independent to send the measure back to conference with the House, opposing a GOP push to create a new Small Business Organization to back loans up to 100000, arguing it was patronage to aid Republicans.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
House
Langer
North Dakota
Williams
Delaware
Young
Sen
Morse
Ind-ore
GOP
Smal Business Organization
SBA
Smaller
Defense Plants Administration
SDPA
Taft
Ohio
Kaiser Blames Fairchild Over C-119 Delays and Prices
Henry Kaiser told the Senate Armed Services subcommittee that Fairchild Engine and Aircraft dragged its feet on providing technical assistance for the C-119 cargo planes at Willow Run Michigan. He offered to build cargo planes at a fixed price and argued cost advantages if his firm had the contract, noting Fairchild’s tooling delays and questioning the integrity of Kaiser Motors in earlier hearings.
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Washington
Henry J. Kaiser
Fairchild Engine and Aircraft Corporation
Fairchild
Kaiser
Willow Run
Mich
Senate Armed Services
Air Force
Kaiser Motors Corp
Kaiser Motors
Hagerstown
Fairchild’s
NAACP Shifts Goal Toward Total Integration
ST. LOUIS The NAACP now seeks total integration of Negroes and other minority groups Walter White executive secretary states speaking at a news conference yesterday White says progress toward equal educational opportunities for all races especially in the South led to abandoning the separate but equal theory He notes many people are awakening to the cost of equal but separate education for the races
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ST. Louis
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Walter White
Association
White
South
NAACP
Russians Relax Travel Ban For Foreign Visitors
Moscow reports a broad loosening of travel restrictions for foreigners with unrestricted access to large areas of European and Asiatic Russia. Mrs. Perle Mesta, Truman’s Luxembourg envoy, becomes the first beneficiary, while many regions remain restricted.
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Moscow
Russia
Perle Mesta
Truman
Luxembourg
Washington
U.S
U. S
State
Defense Department
New York City
NATO
Mesta
Zaborozhe
Ukraine
Dnieper
European
Siberia
Hearing on Douglas impeachment set for Tuesday
A House judiciary subcommittee scheduled a Tuesday hearing on a resolution to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Rep Wheeler called for impeachment after Douglas granted a stay of execution to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a stay overruled by the Supreme Court, and the Rosenbergs were executed Friday. The subcommittee, led by Rep Graham, will hear Wheeler at the session.
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Washington
House
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Rep
Wheeler
D-Ga
Douglas
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Rosenbergs
Graham
Blood program in county doomed without funds
Red Cross blood collection in Beckley faces closure within weeks unless $2,500 is raised via popular subscription. Local chapter says past fund drives left finances critical, limiting offices to next March and risking stopping the bloodmobile. Officials urge community support and expanded donor recruitment to resume services.
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Red Cross
William F. Watts
A. H. Wilson
C. C. Lewis
Beckley
Lewis
Tourist Truman Enjoys Free Lance Washington Visit
Former President Harry S. Truman, now 69, travels without Secret Service, savoring a life free of official restraints. He attends luncheons with White House staff and cabinet members and plans a fundraiser luncheon with Washington supporters for a Truman library at Grandview, Missouri. He also has a Philadelphia speech planned Friday.
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Washington
Harry S. Truman
Secret Service
White House
Grandview
Philadelphia
Cost Of Living Rises For Third Straight Month
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 0.3 percent rise in the consumer price index from mid-April to mid-May marking the third consecutive monthly increase. All major living costs edged up except transport, while city family prices stood at 114 percent of the 1947-49 average as of May 15, up 0.9 percent from May last year and 12 percent above June 1950.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Bureau
Brother Eisenhower Starts Wide Goodwill Tour
President Eisenhower sent his youngest brother Dr Milton Eisenhower on a goodwill mission to South America. At National Airport the president bade farewell as Dr Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State College, boarded a U S Air Force Constellation with Secretary of State Dulles and the diplomatic corps looking on. He planned to reach Caracas Venezuela later today.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Milton Eisenhower
South America
National Airport
Pennsylvania State College
Secretary of State
Dulles
Diplomatic Corps
U. S Air Force
Caracas
Venezuela
Tri-State Greeks Open Cincinnati Convention
The 25th district convention of the Order of Ahepa met in Cincinnati with Andrew G. Mehas elected convention chairman and Angelo Marrigan named vice chairman. Resolutions call for Cyrus island to be returned to Greece by Great Britain and for Congress to amend immigration rules to admit 20,000 more Greeks. The district covers Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia.
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Cincinnati
The
Order of Ahepa
Cyrus
Greece
Great Britain
Congress
United States
Andrew G. Mehas
Angelo Marrigan
Youngstown
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Former West Virginia Senator Canterbury Dead at 59
O C Canterbury 59 of 102 Russell St Beckley former state senator for Raleigh County died at 4 am today after a long illness He was born July 8 1893 and served in the state senate in 1934 1935 A Democrat active in county and state party work he was a grocer and a native of Red Sulphur Springs Survivors include his wife four children three brothers a sister and one grandson Funeral arrangements are pending at Williams Funeral Home in Sophia
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O. C. Canterbury
Russell Sr
Raleigh County
Red Sulphur Springs
Thomas J
Lou E. Heslop Canterbury
West Virginia
Democratic Executive Committee
Beckley
Indian Creek Lodge No. 72
A. F
A. Masons
Greenville
Ruby Mae Canterbury
O. C. Canterbury Jr
Dayton
James deVenny
Miami
Fla
John Bauguess
Ida Mae Canterbury
W. C. Canterbury
C. B. Canterbury
Frank Canterbury
W. T. Lowe
Williams Funeral Home
Sophia
New York Stock Market Edges Up Early Trading
Small advances hold a slight majority in early stock dealings with oils and certain majors rising while steels ease. The market opens active then turns mixed. railroads motors distillers and electrical equipment show mixed results as several companies advance including Pacific Western Oil Phillips Petroleum and General Motors, while Bethlehem Steel and U S Steel fall. Government bonds and volume details incomplete.
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New York
Texas Pacific Land Trust
Pacific Western Oil
Phillips Petroleum
Kern County Land
American Viscose
Industrial Rayon
Gamble-Skogmo
General Motors
American Telemoan
American Cyanamid
Dy American Tobacco
Southern Way
Southern Pacific
Can Airlines
Bethlehem
Ke Steel
Studebaker
U. S
International Harvester
K Westinghouse
Internationa Baltimore & Ohio
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Earl Mann
Fred Henley
Harry Anderson
Dem Unity
Plane Firm
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