Prison riot on Koje Island leaves 3 POWs dead and 57 wounded
Reports from South Korean witnesses describe an April 10 uprising at Koje Island prison complex 95. Three North Korean prisoners and four Korean guards were killed, with 57 Reds wounded as guards opened fire. Captain Jack J. McGuire was among the wounded. U.S. officials withheld comment pending investigation.
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Koje Island
Korea
Associated Press
William Jorden
Tokyo
U. S. Eighth Army
Eighth Army
Red P.o.w.s
Jorden
U. S. Army
Jack J. McGuire
Koje
Japan
U. S
P.o.w.s
Aut Uloadedh
Weather Summary for Crab Orchard Lake Area
Partly cloudy west and cloudy east with light rain or drizzle tonight. Temperature little changed. Sunday partly cloudy with low 55 to 60 tonight and high 72 to 78. Low agarady morning today 67. Precipitation 0.03 inches yesterday to today. Humidity 75 percent at noon. Winds averaging 30 miles per hour between 7 a.m. yesterday and 7 a.m. today. Crab Orchard Lake one inch above spillway today. Little Grassy Lake noted.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Daily Free edition notices and publication details
The Daily Free edition of Southern Illinois Publications, Inc. is produced in Carbondale Illinois. It operates evenings except Sundays and holidays and is entered as second class matter at Carbondale under the 1878 act.
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Southern Flivation
Southern Miinois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale
Minois
Illinois
Risks of bombing Manchuria cited by Ridgway in Senate
General Ridgway warned senators that U N bombing Manchurian bases could raise the risk of drawing Russia into the Korean war. He testified in a heavily censored session noting air superiority concerns and Russia's implacable hostility toward the United States amid ongoing tensions.
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Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
United Nations
Manchuria
Russia
Senate Services Committee
Richard R. Russell
D-Ga
Ridgway
U.N
Asia
Wayne Morse
R-Ore
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
Far Eastern Command
Morse
Korea
Japan
Korean Peninsula
Allied Trucers Relax Until Tuesday Meeting
Munsan Korea May 24 The Allied Korean war truce team relaxed with travel horseshoes and volleyball as negotiations pause until Tuesday. The U N delegation seeks a three day recess while North Korean Gen Nam Il pushes for deadlines on the prisoner issue, which Allies call their final roadblock to an armistice.
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U.N
Nam Il
Red Build-Up Tip-Off Alert To U S Allies
The State Department said it warned 16 Korean allies and UN members about possible renewed Communist aggression ten days earlier. The notice corrected Secretary Acheson’s later remark that no warning had been sent to the Philippines over Far East threats. President Quirino reportedly received a copy of the warning and raised concern.
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Washington
United States
Korea
State Department
United Nations
Dean Acheson
Philippines
Far East
Elpidio Quirino
Allied Plane Losses Mount as Seoul Air War Rises
Allied air forces reported a severe two day attack near Pyongyang destroying 460 buildings and damaging 163 in a bid to cripple North Korean industry. The week marked one of the worst for U N pilots with 12 Communist and 4 Allied aircraft downed.
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Air Force
U.N
Pyongyang
U. S
Adlai Campaigner Named Springfield Downstate Chairman
Donald Funk of Sangamo Electric Co. in Springfield was named Downstate chairman of the Sevenson for Governor committee yesterday.
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Donald Funk
Sangamo Electric Co
Springfield
Koje probes continue as generals demoted
The Senate armed services committee keeps Koje island inquiry open after two brigadier generals are demoted and a one star officer reprimanded. Dodd and Colson are reduced to full colonel. Yount receives an administrative reprimand. Gen Clark ordered to curb disorder on Koje.
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Senate Armed Services Committee
Koje Island
Harry Byrd
D-Va
Rancis T
Dodd
Charles Colson
Mark Clark
Tokyo
Pentagon
Byrd
Colson
Paul F. Yount
Pusan
Clark
Kose Island
Pace
Kose
U.N
Young
Oursler, Creator of The Greatest Story Ever Told, Dies
Fulton Oursler aged 59, author of The Greatest Story Ever Told and Mymer, newspaper man and magazine editor, died in his Hotel Navarro apartment of a heart attack. He formerly served as vice president and editorial director of MacFadden publications and edited Liberty from 1931 to 1942. He later became a senior editor at Reader’s Digest.
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Oursler
New York
Fulton Oursler
Mer
Navarro
MacFadden Publications
Liberty Magazine
Reader’s Digest
Illinois Supreme Court Sticks With Higher Truck Fees
The Illinois Supreme Court refused to rehear its ruling upholding higher truck license fees. The 1951 law sets fees at 20 million dollars for this year and eight million dollars in 1954, despite six small truckers seeking a rehearing. Plans to collect the old fees will be stopped immediately.
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Springfield
Illinois Supreme Court
Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Pina
Edward J. Barrett
Joppa Threatened by Three Strikes This Week
A three day series of minor walkouts threatened More work stoppages at the Joppa power plant this week. On Monday millwrights and pipe fitters walked out for 90 minutes over who should handle steam pipe and then returned after signs were removed. Tuesday laborers and iron workers argued over tarpaulin placement and briefly stopped work as they moved to the brass house. Wednesday pipefitters and warehousemen clashed over moving supplies with a five minute shutdown.
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Joppa
Soviet road closures threaten Bonn peace talks and German reunification
Soviet forces closed three inter zone roads and ordered two more shut tomorrow in a maneuver seen as pressuring West Germany over the Bonn peace contract. West German Communist leader Max Reimann urged mass strikes. the British high commission condemned the move as a violation of Berlin blockade agreements.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Russia
West Germany
Bonn Republic
Bonn
Max Reimann
Ruhr
Berlin
British High Commission
West Berlin
France Blocks West Germany Pact in Bonn Talks
In Bonn on May 24, France barred signing of the peace contract and the European army treaty until Paris approves French demands. The conditions include stronger guarantees on European Defense Community ties, revised Allied financials, Indochina considerations, Tunis and Morocco policies, and continued Allied controls on German industry. Talks involved Konrad Adenauer after delays as Eden and Acheson participate.
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Bonn
Germany
France
Robert Schuman
European Defense Community
Europe
Indochina
United States
Britain
Tunisia
Morocco
E.D.C
Paris
Konrad Adenauer
Schuman
Anthony Eden
Dean Acheson
Rutgers panty raid at New Jersey College campus
About 125 Rutgers men staged a panty raid on the New Jersey College for Women campus in New Brunswick. Most raiders entered the gates but were repulsed by a small police force with no panties taken.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Rutgers University
New Jersey College For Women
French Red Carpet Laid Out For Ridgway
Five police were injured and 186 persons arrested last night in violent outbursts staged by Communists aimed at Ridgway. The disturbances peaked at St. Lazare railway station as crowds shouted Ridgway assassin and Ridgway go home.
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Paris
Matthew B. Ridgway
Dwight D. Eisenhower
St. Lazare
Ridgway
SIU student suspended after party raid findings
A Southern Illinois University student was suspended for inflicting bodily injury on a sorority member amid a Carbondale party raid investigation. Robert D. Francis of Granite City was fined for disturbing the peace and unlawful assembly, with two youths called for hearings as a faculty-student board reviews raid events.
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Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
SIU
Robert D. Francis
Granite City
Facancis
John Gilbert
Lee Davis
Jackson County
Roy Carter
Clark Davis
J. K. Johnson
Noble Kelley
the Cours
Edna Travis
Anthony Hall
Leah Farr
Jacob Bach
Department of Education
Robert E. Smith
Administration Scrutiny of House Cuts to Foreign Aid
A high administration official warned that House reductions in President Truman's foreign aid bill would cripple Europe’s defense and threaten NATO’s 50 division goal unless the United States offsets the shortfall. The House passed 6.16 billion in authorizations, 1.74 billion less than requested, with Taft faction cuts dominating.
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Truman
Europe
United States
W. John Kennedy
Mutual Security
House
Senate
Foreign Affairs Committee
Kennex
M.S.A. Olksene
Robert A. Taft
Rohio
Far East
Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sam Rayburn
Russia
Immigrant to Midtown Restaurateur Freeman Chum Story
Freeman Chum born Lieu Hoy Chum in Canton around 1900 rose from a Wyoming chuckwagon to own a Manhattan Chinese restaurant. He earned the nickname Cowboy Charlie, built wealth, studied while working, and later opened a Chinatown spot in 1935 moving uptown to cater to Americans fond of Chinese food. He later faced a blackmail scheme involving a Red China relative and publicized the racket.
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New York
Freeman Chum
Lieu Hoy Chum
Canton Province
America
Midtown Manhattan
Chum
New World
Wyoming
Charlie
Freeman
Chicago
Chinatown
Baltimore
Alger
Pell Street
Red China
Telegraph Pact Rejection Rumors Sweep Local Unions
Within hours after a strike settlement between Western Union and the A F L C T union, five locals including Cleveland reported plans to reject the pact. Local votes were incomplete at closing time as headquarters awaited fuller returns from about 30,000 affected employees.
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Washington
Western ‘Union
A. F. of L. Commercial
Cleveland
Western Union
San
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Seoul
North Korea
South Korea
Yonchon
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Adlai
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J. Lawton Collins
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Ot Syne
Schenectady
Rochester
Freeman Chom
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