Chinese Replace Russ As Masters Of North Korea
A returning POW reported Chinese Communists now control North Korea, saying there is no North Korea and the Chinese run everything. Corporal Lester E. Williams and 74 other AWS captives freed bring total freed in Operation Big Switch to 1,186. Williams cites Chinese volunteers as rewards for their Korean war role, with North Koreans treated as subordinates.
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Korea
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Cpl
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Williams
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Texan
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Georgi M. Malenkov
Josef Stalin
South Korea
United Nations
Kojo-Do
U.N
Pilot Killed In F-86 Crash Near Yellow Springs
Dayton dispatch reports Wright-Patterson officials confirming 2nd Lt. Gerald L. Carlson, 23, of Chicago, died in an F-86 crash on Edwin Lee farm at Yellow Springs during a routine training flight from Wright-Patterson to Camp Atterbury. The collision involved four F-86s. Carlson and the other planes were attached to George Air Force Base in Victorville, California.
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Dayton
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Gerald L. Carlson
Chicago
Edwin Lee
Yellow Springs
Wright-Patterson
Camp Atterbury
Fnd
Carlson
George Air Force Base
Victorville
Calif
Weather outlook for Southern California coastal valleys
August 18 1953 forecast notes mostly clear conditions tonight and Wednesday with night and morning fog in lower coastal valleys. Some high clouds, little temperature change. Highs near 97, lows around 57 to 61. Also includes light humor and a Siberia pun at the end.
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California
Manion To Head Study Of Federal-State Relations
President Eisenhower names Clarence E. Manion to chair the Commission on Inter-governmental Relations to study federal state overlap in taxation and authority. The 25 member panel includes 13 presidential appointees and will probe FBI intrusion charges, roads, schools, and aid programs. Manion, 57, practices law in South Bend.
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Denver
UPI
Eisenhower
Clarence E. Manion
Notre Dame Law School
Commission On Inter-governmental Relations
Manion
White House
FBI
Manson
South Bend
Ind
Democratic National Committee Calls Meeting in Chicago Return Rally
Chairman Stephen A Mitchell issued a formal call for a DNC meeting in Chicago on September 15. The gathering, the first since November’s election, coincides with a two day rally to welcome Adlai E Stevenson home from his world tour. Stevenson will address a nationwide radio television broadcast from the rally.
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Wastington
Stephen A Mitchell
Democratic National Committee
Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
Three Explorers Trapped In Europe Deepest Cave
In France three explorers and their Franco Spanish team probing the Pyrenees cave were trapped 1,254 feet below the entrance as a steel cable jammed on debris blocking rescue efforts. Robert Levi Norbert Casteret and Dr Andrew Matrey await freeing as rescuers face dangerous depths and collapsed mouth.
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Pirfare ST. Martin Caverss
France
Europe
Robert Levi
Norbert Casteret
Andrew Matrey
Pyrenees
George Trouthard
France Faces Mass Walkout Amid Back to Work Order
Nearly two million French workers defied Premier Laniel by staying off the job as the government mobilized tanks and riot police in the Paris area. He warned force may be used against recalcitrant leaders and workers, while unions pressed for a special session to challenge economic measures.
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Paris
Joseph Laniel
Fremier Laniel
National Assembly
Lanier
Assembly
Laniel
Former Democratic Committee Chief Ed Flynn Dies
Edward J. Flynn died at 61 while vacationing in Ireland. A longtime confidant of Franklin D. Roosevelt, he chaired the Bronx Democratic organization for 30 years and led the Bronx executive committee for a sixteenth two year term. He suffered a heart attack in May 1950 and had remained active in politics and his Manhattan law firm.
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Edward J. Flynn
Democratic National Committee
Bronx County
Democratic Organization
Ireland
Franklin B. Roosevelt
Charles Buckley
D-Ny
Chicago
Manhattan
Flyon
Bronx
Democratic Committee
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Wetback 13 to Be Returned With His Dog
In Monrovia a 13 year old Mexican boy Ramon Gonzales was taken into custody after attracting suspicion at a service station. He wandered with four cents, odd jobs for meals, and a white shepherd dog that accompanied him from Mexico City. Police pledged to reunite boy and dog even at personal cost.
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Mexico City
Ramon Gonzales
Young Gonzales
Mexico
Grant Peterson
Ramon
Dog
Briton Sanders says he was brainwashed in Hungarian jail
British business man Edgar Sanders described his 3 1/2 year jail term in Hungary as a result of false spy charges. He said interrogation at length left him mentally numb and led to a 1950 confession. Sanders was pardoned and expelled, with Britain lifting the embargo on trade with Hungary. Vicenzo Sciotto accompanied him to the border. Sanders had been Standard Electric Company representative when arrested in 1949.
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Vienna
Edgar Sanders
Elizabeth II
Joseph Stalin
Sanders
Foreign Office
Britain
Hungary
Vicenzo Sciotto
Sciotto
Bank Robber Steals $200000 From New York Bank
In Floral Park New York a gunman seized cashier Eric Gronwall as he left home and forced him into the Franklin National Bank vault. He threatened violence and fled with an estimated $200,000 as FBI agents sealed the bank and began investigations. Local guards and bank staff cooperated while examiners tally the final take.
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N.Y
Franklin National Bank
Eric Grenwall
Gronwall
Bellmore
FBI
New York City
Mineola
Nassau
Government Printing Office worker suspended after refusal to talk
Washington report says Edward M Rothschild a 42 year old GPO bookbinder refused to answer Senate investigators about Communist ties stolen secrets or espionage. Deputy Public Printer Philip L Cole suspended him without pay pending congressional action. Other GPO workers linked to the case include Isadore Kornfield Sillers Irving Studenberger and Bertha Lomax.
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LLP
Senate
Edward M ' Rothschild
Joseph R. McCarthy
McCarthy
Etd Rothschild
Philip L. Cole
Rothschild
Printing Office
Printing Office Loyalty Board
Communist Party
Communist Party Board
Fred Siliers
James Phillips
Phillips
Rothschild and Sillers
GPO
Isadore Kornfield
Sillers
Polio Claims Long Beach Housewife's Life
A Long Beach housewife died of polio, bringing the county toll in 1953 to 18, double last year's figure. Mrs Barbara Kaufman passed away within a day of admission to Geneva hospital's polio ward as about 213 polio patients were being treated in county hospitals.
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Los Angeles
Long Beach
Barbara Kaufman
Geneva Hospital
Supreme Court fight looms over school tax ruling
A three judge Alameda County panel ruled Proposition 3 did not extend tax exemption to non profit elementary and high schools, prompting appeals to the state Supreme Court. The decision could force Oakland and Alameda County assessors to tax nonprofit schools, with briefs due in 10 days and a written opinion to follow. Local Redlands figures and Catholic groups weigh in as counties await the final outcome.
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Supreme Court
Alameda County
Alfred J. Lundberg
The
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California Taxpayers Alliance
California
Ludberg
A. J. Woolsey
Cecil Mashbacher
Lundberg
James R. Agee
Los Angeles County
J. Francis Cardinal McIntyre
Los Angeles
Redlands
Tarr Whaley
Seventh Day Adventist
Strel
Redlands Christan School
Church Street
Redlands Protestant Christian School
Clay Street
Sacred Heart (Catholic
Eureka Street
Alameda
Russia proposes 11 nation slate for Korea parley
United Nations officials report Russia proposed a broad 11 nation slate for the Far Eastern political conference including the United States Britain France the Soviet Union Communist China India Poland Sweden Burma and both Koreas. The move prompted a sharp U S rejection warning it would let the Communists dominate the talks and undermine the armistice terms.
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N.Y
Russia
United States
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
India
Britain
France
Soviet Union
China
Poland
Sweden
Burma
North
South Korea
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Vishinsky
Lodge
U. N
Korea
Switzerland
Czechoslovakia
Republic of Korea
Mass. GOP Leader Henry Noel Shot in Holyoke Home
Henry I Noel a long time Holyoke alderman and Republican State committee member was killed by a masked burglar surprised in his living room early today. Mrs Anna Noel witnessed the slaying and police have no suspect identified.
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Holyoke
Mass
Massachusetts
Henry I. Noel
Republican State Committee
Anna Noel
Churchill presides as PM returns to cabinet duties
London report says Prime Minister Winston Churchill presided at a cabinet meeting for the first time since forced rest began nearly two months ago. He drove from Chartwell to London to conduct the session.
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Winston Churchill
Churchill
Chartwell
Prime
Ptomaine poisoning hits 260 Mexican farm workers in Merced
Nearly 260 Mexican laborers were treated for ptomaine poisoning after eating meat sandwiches left in the sun while harvesting peaches, apricots, melons and cantaloupes in the Los Banos area. Hospitals in Merced flooded with patients. 217 at Merced General, 42 at Mercy hospital. Two in critical condition and 15 seriously ill.
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Calif
Merced General Hospital
Mercy Hospital
Los Banos
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