Koje Island Shakeup Names Boatner Commander
Br. Gen. Charles F. Colson is removed as Koje Island commandant after a deal with Red POW leaders drew Pentagon scrutiny. Br. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner is named new Koje commander, with Gen. Mark Clark directing a rapid report to Washington. Dodd and other leaders are reassigned as Koje’s 80,000 inmates remain under tense guard.
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Seoul
Korea
Charles F. Colson
Koje Island
Koje
Joint Chiefs of State
Francis T. Dodd
Colson
Dodd
Mark Clark
Far Eastern
Pentagon
James M. van Fleet
Haydon L. Boatner
New Orleans
Boatner
1St Corps
Trigger-Happy U S Feared More Than Red Army Says Dulles
John Foster Dulles warns that fear of a trigger happy United States may provoke nuclear war more than the Soviet Army. He spoke at the National Conference of Christians and Jews award dinner and received its gold award for interfaith work.
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U. S
Red Army
Dulles
New York
United States
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Republican Party
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Virginia Sets July Draft Quota at 839 Men
Virginia Selective Service Director Capt Thomas W White announced the July draft quota is set at 839. The figure will be filled from men aged 20 and older as required.
Best Buy In Baler Twine From E Earl Shade
E Earl Shade offers remaining first grade baler twine at 14 50 cash per bale. Contact phone numbers 3881 or 7156 for purchase.
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E. Earl Shade
Indicted for Murder Wood Arrested in Clarke County Case
Master Sergeant Elmer H. Wood of Front Royal was arrested at Fort Myer for the February 1 murder of his wife Bettie Lee Wood. A Clarke County grand jury had indicted him for feloniously killing Bettie Lee Wood on or about February 1, 1952. The missing wife’s remains were found in a charred Shenandoah River cottage ruin near White Horse Rock.
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Elmer H. Wood
Front Royal
Fort Myer
Bettie Lee Wood
Shenandoah River
Wood
Clarke County
Loring C. Kackley
W W. Smallwood, Jr
J. R Wilson
Virginia State Police
White Horse Rock
Route 50
Godfrey Mann
Edward McC. Williams
Commonwealth
Nothing Illegal In McCarthy Payment Says Strandlund
Senate hearings on an oust-McCarthy resolution feature Carl G Strandlund denying any illegal payment to Sen. McCarthy for a 1948 housing article. He criticizes Walter L. Dunham’s 1949 memo alleging he had powerful friends, while Lustron’s RFC loan collapse and bankruptcy court involvement are noted.
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McCarthy
Strandlund
Washington
Carl G Strandlund
Congress
Lustron Corp
Senate Elections Subcommittee
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Sen. Benton
Dconn
Wisconsin
Subcommittee
Benton
Strandland
Walter L. Dunham
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Lustron 37
Columbus
Ohio
Lustron
Chicago
Dunham
Nominations Sought For Festival Officers
H B McCormac Jr president of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival asks for nominations for 1953 officers directors department heads and committee workers and financial contributors. Nominators are urged to include constructive criticisms on the reverse of the nomination sheets and festival workers are thanked for their cooperation and assistance in this year’s festival.
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H. B. McCormac, Jr
McCormac
Virginia Income Tax Refunds Reach 29.5 Million
Refunds totaling 29.533 million dollars have been mailed to date to federal income tax payers in Virginia. Internal Revenue Collector Stuart L. Crenshaw said the refunds have gone to about half of the more than one million Virginians who filed returns, with others still awaiting mailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Internal Revenue
Stuart L. Crenshaw
Clearance Sale of Spring Suits and Coats at Hodgson Shop
Margaret L Hodgson Hat and Dress Shop announces a clearance sale on spring suits and coats for miss and women sizes including juniors. Prices highlighted for Misses and Women junior items. Includes details from lp-b-13-2t listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret L. Hodgson
WSB Moves Toward Oil Strike Talks in Washington
The Wace Stabilization Board ordered informal talks to settle a two week oil strike affecting about one third of U S production. Chairman Fein singer urged settlement through collective bargaining as unions warned they would not return to work without an agreement. About 90 000 oil workers in refineries and pipelines are on strike and President Truman weighs invoking Taft Hartley provisions including an 80 day injunction.
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Washington
Wace Stabilization Board
WSB
Nathan L. Feinsinger
Feinsinger
J. J. McKenna
McKenna
O. A. Knight
CIO Oil Workers
Union Coalition
Truman
Ridgway Arrives In California
Gen Matthew Ridgway arrives from Tokyo at Hamilton Field California on his way to Paris to command Western Europe defenses. Lt Gen Joseph Swing leads the welcome as Ridgway and family disembark the Constellation plane and share a greeting with the Sixth Army. The party plans events at the Presidio and a private dinner with Swing before a visit to his mother in San Diego.
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San Francisco
Mathew B. Ridgway
Tokyo
Paris
Europe
Hamilton Air Force Base
D. T
Pacific
Honolulu
Joseph M. Swing
Sixth Army
General Ridgway
General Swing
Joe
Ridgway
Matt Jr
California
Presidio
William T. Sexton
Sixth
San Francisco Bay Area
San Diego
Matthew Ridgway
Haneda
United States
Delegates Rally Murray Attack on Steel Industry
Philip Murray at the CIO United Steelworkers convention accuses the steel industry of violating decency by refusing to bargain a new wage contract. About 3,000 delegates from 1.1 million members rose to cheer as Murray warned of possible strike action and outlined reasons for the stalemate including inflation concerns and Taft-Hartley Act limits.
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Murray
Philadelphia
Philip Murray
America
CIO
United Steel
United States
Indnery
USW Oj
Te Union
Taft Battle For GOP Delegates Heads To West Virginia
The Taft Eisenhower fight for GOP delegates tightens after Rhode Island and Wyoming results and moves to West Virginia where a half million ballots are expected in the primary. Taft backers seek all 16 Republican delegates while Eisenhower supporters call even one delegate a victory. Democratic choices remain silent.
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Rhode Island
Wyoming
West Virginia
Congress
Chicago
Robert Taft
Ohio
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Dwight Eisenhower
Taft
State Organization
Eisenhower
Stassen
Sen Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Wasp Skipper Replays Maneuvers Before Disaster
Captain B C McCaffree testified with television cameras rolling as he charted the Hobson and Wasp moves before the April 26 collision. The destroyer minesweeper sliced in two with 176 men lost while Hobson attempted to avoid the crash.
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Bayonne
N. J
Wasp
Hobson
Naval Board of Inquiry
B. C. McCaffree
McCaffree
Crack
Edward A. Michel, Jr
Rodman
Michel
Robertson Sees Russell as Best Chance to Beat Ike
Senator Robertson predicts Dwight Eisenhower will secure the Republican nomination and argues a Russell candidacy could deny Ike by capturing key states. He lists electoral paths through border and large states, noting potential Dem pickups from Minnesota Maryland New Jersey Ohio Colorado Montana Nevada Utah and Wyoming.
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Richmond
Robertson
Eisenhower
Russell
D-Ga
Virginia
Taft
Taf
He -Ould
South
Kentucky
Oklahoma
West Virginia
Georgia
Arizona
Missouri
New Mexico
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Illinois
California
Washngton
Minnesota
Maryland
New Jersey
Ohio
Colorado
Montana
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
Bandit Captured After Holding Up Bank of Salem
A lone bandit held up the Bank of Salem for about $30,000 and fled in a taxicab with a cashier and the driver as hostages. In a brief gun fight the taxi driver William Gordon Akers was shot in the neck but not seriously wounded. C. L. Richards, 31, a construction worker from Norfolk, was captured in Roanoke by State Trooper C. T. Garber and jailed at Salem.
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Salem
Bank of
C. L. Richards
William Gordon Akers
Akers
Frank Booze Jr
C. T
Mike) Garber
Richards
Roanoke
Here
Norfolk
Carl H. Givens
Augusta County Declared Disaster Loan Area
The Agriculture Department designated Augusta County Virginia as a disaster loan area after drought and hailstorms harmed the 195 crop. The designation allows affected farmers to qualify for loans from the Farmers Home Administration when other credit is unavailable to aid this year's crop.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Augusta County
Virginia
Farmers Home Administration
Weather Outlook For Midweek Into Weekend
Fair weather with rising temperatures Wednesday through Friday. Showers likely Saturday possibly starting late Friday. Temperatures trend little change Saturday and Sunday. Period averages will be a few degrees below normal with afternoon highs around 70 to 75 and early lows from the low forties in the mountains to the mid fifties in southern and eastern counties.
Slayer Of Four On Bus Faces Murder Charge
Cleveland AP reports Lawrence Goldsby 20, unnamed suspect, admitted firing on 60 passengers on a Euclid Avenue bus killing Patrolman Eugene Stinchcomb and three white passengers, including Miss Annabelle Frankie. he claimed he shot to scare and later could not stop. He was charged with first degree murder and remanded to Municipal Court. the incident followed allegedly hair singeing by Goldsby.
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Cleveland
Lawrence Goldsby
Goldsby
Eugene D. Stinchcomb
Stinchcomb
Stindhecomb
Euclid Avenue East 105Th
Annabelle Frankie
William J. Powers
Chicago
Washington
Federal Constitutional Law Association of Detroit
Powers
Grand Rapids Mich
William Dudley Pelley
Noblesville, Ind
Silver Shirts
Pine Bluffs
Ark
New York City
Berlin Helmstedt Autobahn Bottled Up by Russians
Soviet forces blocked both ends of the Berlin to Helmstedt Autobahn preventing Allied patrols from entering in either direction. Five days of restricted entry persisted at the Berlin express with western routes briefly maintained. Eastbound traffic was turned back at the Helmstedt checkpoint while regular convoy operations continued from Berlin.
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Berlin
Berlin-Helmstedt Autobahn
Helmstedt
United States Army
110 Mile
School Official Resigns in Independence Virginia
Everett B. Stanley, county superintendent of schools in Independence Virginia, has submitted his resignation. He asked that it become effective July 1.
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Independence
Grayson County
Everett B. Stanley
Reds Claim Allied Plane Killed Truce Delegation Member
North Korean General Nam II accused an Allied plane of strafing a Red truce convoy and said prisoners of war are being treated barbarously. U N Command Vice Admiral Joy dismissed the charges as propaganda and urged for a real armistice, while noting the need for voluntary repatriation and addressing the ongoing prisoner issue.
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Reds
Sam Summerllin
Munsan
Korea
U. N
Adm
C. Turner Joy
U.N
Nam II
Nam
Francis Dodd
Kote
Joy
Weather Across East Cold and Rainy With Warm West
Cool, rainy conditions dominated the eastern half of the country while the western states remained warm. Rain fell in the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi Valley as a storm tracked from western Quebec. Showers touched extreme South Florida. Northern New England and the Pacific Northwest were cloudy. Top temperatures reached 104 at Yuma and Blythe.
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Associated Press
Cuntry
Great Lakes
Io Valley
Quebec
Florida
New England
Pacific Northwest
Middle Atlantic States
Great Plains
Pacific Coast
North Central States
Yuma
Ariz
Blythe Call
Main Arguments In Steel Seizure Case Completed
The Supreme Court heard the final arguments on presidential power to seize steel mills during wartime. The administration argued seizure was necessary to protect national production, while the steel industry contested Truman authority. Justices questioned Perleman as the hours wore on, with no clear ruling date set.
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WASI_.GTON
Jackson
Supreme Court
Washington (P
Truman
Philip B. Perleman
John W. Davis
Trueman
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Perlman
U. S
David A. Pine
Arnall Signals Higher Food Price Ceilings Soon
Cleveland briefing reports Governor Arnall confirming forthcoming increases in OPS margins on a broad list of grocery items. He says higher earnings for supermarkets justify price rises, while noting the public will face small weekly increases despite competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ellis Arnall
Arnall
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Super Market Institute
Price Enter
High Ops
Washington
City and County GOP Mass Meetings Set
Winchester and Frederick County Republican mass meetings will be held at the Frederick County courthouse next week. The city session is at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the county courtroom and the county vote session at 7 30 p m Thursday at the same location. Delegates to the Virginia State Republican Convention in Roanoke May 31 and to the Seventh District Convention in Staunton June 7 will be chosen. Robert Grim chairs the city group and Howell M Bond heads the county party.
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Winchester
Ederick County
Frederick County
County
Roanoke
Staunton
Robert Grim
Howell M. Bond
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U.S. Eighth Army
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Smallwood
Robert F. Carter
G. Milton Kelly
By Lee Linder
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The
Sen. Robertson
Ike
Weather Outlook
Ridgways
Japan
Berlin-Helmstedt
United Nations Command
Bulletin
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