Three Americans to be freed by Red China in Korea carry aloft
London dispatch reports that three American war prisoners who had embraced Communism during the Korean war have reversed their stance and will be released along with two Belgian deserters. The five men, all dishonorably discharged, include Otho Bell of Olympia Washington former corporal William Cowart of Monticello Arkansas and former corporal Lewele Griggs of Jacksonville Texas. They join two Belgians Roger Devriendt and Louis Van Dycke who also sought repatriation. The release follows a Chinese Red Cross statement noting wartime crossovers and their difficulties adjusting to life in Communist China while British and U.N. efforts on East West talks continue.
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Red China
G.I.’s
United States
Otho G. Bell
Olympia
Wash
Jewell
Cpl
Wiliam A. Cowart
Monticello
Ark
McCarthys
Army
Chines Red cross
Peiping
Jong Red Cross
Lin Shuozhuiao
Bell
hur
U.S
Washington
United Nations
India
Molotov Heads to UN Anniversary Meeting in San Francisco
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov boards a train in New York bound for the United Nations tenth anniversary gathering in San Francisco. Geорgi Zarubin, the USSR ambassador to the United States, accompanies him and met Molotov at the dock.
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V. M. Molotov
New York
United Nations
San Francisco
Georgi Zarubin
U.S
Molotov
Molotov Arrives in San Francisco
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived at the Oakland railroad terminal with 50 Russians at 1:20 p.m. and entered a Soviet waiting car after a brief greeting to about 200 spectators. Police blocked access at Hillsborough mansion as Molotov prepared for UN conference duties. crowds carried placards denouncing Soviet actions while photographers captured his arrival.
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Calif
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Southern Pacific Railroad
PDT
Molotov
San Francisco
U. N
Hillsborough mansion
Denver
1.S.S.R
Mr. Molotov
Soviet Union
Eisenhower Announces San Francisco Trip Schedule
The White House released President Eisenhower’s travel plan for the San Francisco visit for the UN anniversary. He departs Sunday at 3 p.m. EDT aboard Columbine WIL, arrives about 12:54 a.m. PDT Monday, stays at the St Francis Hotel, and hosts a 10:30 p.m. PDT reception Monday with Gov. Knight and Mayor Robison. A Monday lunch in his suite features Hammarskjold, Van Kieffens, Dulles, Lodge, Stassen, Rockefeller, and Hagerty.
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WASHINGTON
White House
Eisenhower
San Francisco
United Nations
Columbine WIL
St. Francis
California
William S. Maillard
J. Arthur Younger
Charles S. Gubser
Hubert B. Scudder
George P. Miller
James C. Hagert
Nelson Rockefeller
Maj
Walter Tkach
Richard M. Nixon
William F. Knowland
Thomas H. Kuchel
St. Francis Hotel
Goodwin Knight
Elmer E. Robison
Americans Seek Austrian Wives Jump in June Applications
In Vienna 216 American soldiers sought permission to marry Austrian women during the first 16 days of June, a sharp rise from 30 in the same period last year, according to the U S Army.
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VIENNA
Austria
UPI
U. S. Army
Boost Defense Funds in Senate Becomes Elusive Bid
Washington June 18 Senate Democrats shelved hopes to enlarge President Eisenhower s defense budget as the 31.8 billion military appropriation faces the Senate. The appropriations committee rejected proposals to avert Army and Marine manpower cuts, signaling a tougher fight on defense funding. Johnson voiced optimism that Congress would finish its work by next month, while options on labor law, social security, and the Taft Hartley act remained unsettled.
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WASHINGTON
Senate
Eisenhower
appropriations committee
House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Congress
Johnson
Eisenhower plea stirs drive to revive reserve bill
In Washington on June 18 a fresh appeal by President Eisenhower spurred new congressional efforts to revive the administration's compulsory military reserve bill. The measure had stalled in the House after a controversial amendment tied to racial segregation in the National Guard. Chairman Carl Vinson of the Armed Services Committee said the amendment would doom the bill and withdrew it from further consideration.
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WASHINGTON
Eisenhower
Congress
House
National Guard
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House armed services committee
Strikers Served Summons Over Queen Mary Mutiny
Authorities issued court summonses to 49 striking British sailors for wilfully disobeying lawful commands to prevent the Queen Mary from sailing to New York last Thursday. The Southampton magistrate court filed the action for Cunard Lines. The ship remained stranded in port as a wildcat strike halted 10 transatlantic liners. Detectives served the summonses this morning. hearings set for June 28 in Southampton.
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LONDON
New York
Southampton
Cunard Lines
Rear Admiral bans short shorts at Charleston base
Rear Adm. G. C. Crawford banned abbreviated costumes worn by Navy wives and daughters at the Charleston Naval Base but allowed pedal pushers slacks and Bermudas. He said he did not want to see any more short shorts.
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CHARLESTON
S. C
G. C. Crawford
Three State Area Hit by Storms
Storms battered Kansas Oklahoma and Texas causing severe property damage and flood threats. Twenty tornadoes were counted with ten in Oklahoma seven in Texas and three in Kansas. Wellington suffered a twister that destroyed a furniture store and damaged homes while no injuries were reported.
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WELLINGTON
Tex
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
highway patrol
Cheyenne
Hammon
Washita River
Oklahoma City
Weather Bureau
Will Rogers
The
Edmond
Ohio
Gary
Waldo Payle
Bob Lynn
New York
Colorado
Wyoming
Rocky Mountain
Critics Fire Back at Hobby and Vaccine Plan Voices
Washington critics Senator Morse and Senator Humphrey denounced Health Secretary Hobby as incompetent and urged replacing her with a woman doctor amid attacks on the polio vaccine program. Humphrey tied Hobby’s testimony to politics with free vaccine plans, highlighting alleged back door socialism. In Hollywood Robert Taylor and Ursula Thiess welcomed their first child, a son born weighing seven pounds eleven ounces.
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WASHINGTON
Wayne L. Morse
D-Ore
Oveta Culp Hobby
Eisenhower
Morse
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
Humphrey
Hobby
HOLLYWOOD
U.P
Robert Taylor
Ursula Thiess
Board Fights Selection Fight Over Reno Police Chief
Reno's five newly elected city councilmen clashed with Mayor Len Harris in an hour long meeting and blocked the mayor from appointing Rudolph Hoganson former deputy sheriff to head the Reno police department. The session included sharp language outbursts and ended with a 5-1 vote against the appointment.
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Reno
Len Harris
Rudolph Hoganson
Harris Defies Council Over Hoganson Police Chief Nomination
Mayor Harris announced the appointment of Hoganson as chief of police and urged council confirmation. Five new councilmen resisted, demanding more time to review over ten applications, leading to heated exchanges and Harris leaving the chamber. Only Councilman Cowen supported confirmation. Maffi led opposition amid tense negotiations. Harris denounced the delay, insisting the appointment aimed to keep politics out.
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Hoganson
Harris
Charles Cowyen
First Ward
Ben Matfi
Maffi
police
Clergymen Freed On Peron's Order
In Buenos Aires on June 18, federal police released Catholic priests detained after Peron's abortive revolt. Police said the churchmen invited to stay for safety were freed and escorted home, with the number involved not disclosed. Police guarded sieged areas to prevent looting and violence amid ongoing tensions.
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BUENOS AIRES
Villa Devoto
national penitentiary
Juan D. Peron
Bower bo
Leaders captured as Argentine revolt collapses in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires June 13 reported two of the three principal leaders of Thursday's revolt were arrested. The independent La Razon said Anibal Olivieri, dismissed as navy minister, and Rear Adm. Samuel Toranzo of the Marine Corps were seized. Marine Vice Adm. Benjamin Gargiulo shot himself in his navy ministry office after Ioval forces crushed the uprising.
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BUENOS AIRES
WAA
Thursaday
La Razon
Anibal Olivieri
navy
Samuel Toranzo
Argentine
Marine Corps
Benjamin Gargiulo
Ioval
Overthrow attempt and regional reactions to Peron revolt
Reports from official Argentina declare the revolution ended while rebel broadcasts in Montevideo claim naval and police uprisings. Battleships Pueyrredon and 28 De Mayo cited as rebels yet not seen in Uruguayan waters. border alerts and city garrisons mentioned in Rosario Cordoba Corrientes Entre Rios. Travel and communications remain disrupted with ports closed.
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Tuan D. Peron
Argentina
Montevideo
Uruguay
Peron
Buenos Aires
Pueyrredon
28 De Mayo
River Plate
Puerto Belgrano
Atlantic
Rosario
Cordoba
Corrientes
Entre Rios
Welfare ignored says California attorney targets federal official
An attorney for California water agencies accuses Federal Reclama tion Commissioner W A Dexheimer of ignoring the welfare of 6 000 000 Californians dependent on Colorado River water and power He spoke at a Rotary Club meeting in Washington D C where he warned that Upper River storage project proposals threaten the region.
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LOS ANGELES
California water agencies
W. A. Dexheimer
Ely
Washington, D. C
Rotary Club
Congress
Coeds Posed and Probers Told of Nude Photo Ring
Los Angeles testimony before Senator Kefauver’s juvenile delinquency panel alleges UCLA coeds were used as nude models in a lucrative nationwide smut operation. Mary Dorothy Tager described partners earning 3,000 to 4,000 daily from 1948 to 1951, with many models drawn from UCLA and 60 percent of participants being doctors or professionals. She quit in 1951, but her former husband and partner allegedly banked 750,000 shortly after.
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LOS ANGELES
uPi
UCLA
Estes Kefauver
Kefauver
Mary Dorothy Tager
Balboa
Calif
Tager
subcommittee
James H. Bobo
Admit Ouster From Moscow Amd Officers Expelled
United States officials confirm Russia expelled three U S Army officers attached to the American embassy in Moscow. The State Department said they were asked to leave and have departed, declining to provide further details.
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WASHINGTON
State Department
U. S. Army
Moscow
Russia
London
Russians to Return Small Naval Craft to U S Navy
Sixteen Soviet landing craft and mine sweepers arrived at Maizuru Japan to be returned to the United States Navy. The vessels, part of 186 ships lent to Russia during World War II, were requested back by Washington seven years ago. Another seventeen are set to arrive by Russian crews on July 4.
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MAIZURU
Japan
Russia
United States Navy
Washington
Navy Pilot Killed in Jet Crash Near Port Columbus
A Navy Panther jet crashed and burned near Port Columbus in Columbus Ohio, killing a naval reservist pilot. The incident occurred today as the aircraft went down in the vicinity of the airport.
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Ohio
Navy Panther
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