UN Reveals Questions to Red POWs
The UN truce delegation at Panmunjom released a screening questionnaire used on captured Reds to decide repatriation. It lists questions about willingness to return to China or North Korea, insistence on repatriation, family impact, time at home, UN promises, and possible actions if repatriation occurs.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations
China
North Korea
Fogr
United Nations Temmeani
United Nations Command
Deserter Navy Guardsman Jumps to Reach Pregnant Wife
Coast Guardsman Baren C. Wimp, 20, testified at a court martial that he jumped from a cutter near Point Concepcion to reach his pregnant wife Mary Lou 18 who might lose their child. He said Red Cross promised care but left him no option but to flee at sea. he was rescued hours later by a freighter. His wife later lost the expected baby in March.
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Long Beach
Coast
Patrolmen Sit On Job To Nab 250 Pound Calf
Houston officers Joe O Rourke and N Free halted a fleeing Brahman calf by sitting on it until a paddy wagon could remove it. The pair were praised by police for their unusual restraint and quick response downtown yesterday.
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Houston
Tex
Joe O’rourke
N. Free
Higashi village tests men for marriage eligibility
In Higashi village northern Honshu Japan fifty young men in their twenties underwent a bridegroom qualifying test. They completed a marathon race rice bag carry chin ups and ploughing before a panel of women who then tested their intelligence. All fifty failed and were deemed unfit for marriage. The men retaliated by planning tests for the maidens.
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Tokyo
Higashi
Honshu
P.S
BBC Lets Paris Showgirls Televised With Limits
The BBC agreed to televise a Paris based show featuring semi nude showgirls only if produced in Paris. BBC will send its own camera crews to select filming angles while preserving the Parisian atmosphere and not disrupting the show.
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London
British Broadcasting Corporation
Paris
BBC
Britain
Inmate Ulrich Forde Fatally Stabbed at Attica Prison
Attica State Prison inmate Ulrich Forde, 32, was stabbed to death yesterday. Fellow prisoner Eric Grice, a cell block porter, was questioned by District Attorney Charlotte Smallwood and Sheriff Thomas Kennedy. No charges were filed. the case will go to the grand jury next week. A sharpened table knife was the weapon, found outside a window and handed to a guard.
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Attica
Ulrich Forde
Charlotte Smallwood
Wyoming
Thomas Kennedy
Smallwood
Eric Grice
Forde
Sentencings Expected in St Lawrence Gambling Case
Herbert S. Myers former Ogdensburg police chief and Charles J Brooklyn Livingston, a slot machine distributor, face Saturday sentencings after a Supreme Court jury found them guilty of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The case stems from a state probe and alleges Myers pressured action on slot machines and Livingston raised his cut to cover costs and protection payments.
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Canton
Herberts. Myers
Ogdensburg
Charles J. “Brookly
Ston
Supreme Court
Myers
Livingston
St. Lawrence County
Herbert S. Myers
Yale Alumni Fund To Get Gift in 2002
The will of Nathaniel R. Potter, dated recently, provides for a bequest to Yale on the 100th anniversary of his graduation. Potter died May 3 at 73. He also arranged a similar bequest to Phillips Academy in 1999. Estate valued at about $5,000 in personal property and $5,000 in other assets.
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Enru Teren Rm Treva Wee Disci
Isity
Nathaniel R. Potter
Yale
Fotter
Phillips Academy
Andover
Mass
Farmer Explains Flood Cause In Letter to Engineers
Davenport dispatch reports a farmer attributes spring floods to winter ice not being cut, causing more ice to melt in spring per the letter to U.S. Engineers. The remark highlights a folk explanation for flood dynamics.
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Davenport
U.S
Senators Seek Review Of Atomic Expansion Program
Washington AP says top defense planners asked Gordon Dean to reexamine President Truman’s 5 billion atomic expansion with the National Security Council before requesting new funding. The council includes Truman and key cabinet members. Censored portions hint lawmakers doubt funding can be afforded amid other military needs.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Gordon Dean
Atomic Energy Commission
National Security Council
Congress
Barkley
State and Defense
National Security Resources Board
Thief Seeks Left Foot Shoes In Local Heist
John Madsen reported nine left shoe samples stolen from his parked car. Police noted the odd theft involved only left footwear.
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Troy GP
John Madsen
Angler George Bass Tops Bimini Tuna Tourney
George Bass of Birmingham Michigan led the Nassau Bahams tuna tournament with six tunas totaling 2700 points.
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Nassau
Bahamas
George Bass
Bass
Birmingham
Mich
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