No End Seen To Big Debate Overshadows MacArthur Hearings
A lull in the MacArthur ouster saga eases as Gen Marshall and the Russell committee steer questions. Testimony from Dean Acheson could renew sharp exchanges. Joint Chiefs’ remarks may repeat Marshall, while Acheson faces tighter scrutiny. The inquiry aims for 30 minute rounds per senator, leading to a Senate report with a possible Republican minority note.
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President Truman Heads Out On Long Potomac Cruise
BrEd Creagh reports from Washington that President Truman will cruise the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay aboard the yacht Williamsburg for about four days, with a White House party including Secretaries Short and Hassett and Aide Dawson. The trip, veiled in secrecy, recalls past voyages and the reporters’ tough conditions aboard the Vagabondia III.
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Kansas City and Chicago Livestock Prices May 29 Report
Kansas City wholesale cattle and hog prices show fed steers $29.00 to $37.75 with top dealers $34.00 to $38.00, calves and sows down, sheep and lambs mixed with spring lambs at $35.50 to $75 and Texas shorn lambs around $27.38 to feed lots. Chicago livestock totals list hogs $21.40 to $21.75 for 190-240 pounds, cattle $33.00 to $39.25 for prime to good, bulls $28.00 to $32.00, sheep steady with lambs at $36.00 to $37.00 and slaughter kins around $18.50 down.
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Texas
Chicago
Collins In Germany Inspection Tour Begins In Frankfurt
General J Lawton Collins US army chief of staff arrived by air in Frankfurt to visit American troops and planned stops include Salzburg Trieste with travel dates this week, signalling a broader inspection tour.
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Trieste
Fragmented Local Item Reflects Ongoing Community Events
The readable fragments indicate a local public notice about community activities. Names, dates, and places are incomplete, but the context suggests civic organization and scheduling within a town or neighborhood. Further detail is unavailable from the fragment.
Avert Bus Strike At Wichita Falls
Wichita Falls drivers and mechanics for the Wichita City Lines won a 10 cent per hour wage increase. The raise brings pay to $1.12 1/2 per hour for about 60 workers after days of tense talks. Negotiations had stretched over more than a month to avert a strike.
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Wichita Falls
Wichita City
McAllen and Pharr sign the same Lapland border claim
Two Texas Rio Grande Valley towns McAllen and Pharr, three miles apart, have city limit signs within each other. Both assert the shared boundary area where their zones meet is called Lapland.
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McAllen
Pharr
Lapland
Explosion Entombs 79 Miners in England Pit Disaster
Easington coal pit eruption traps 73 miners after a May 29 blast. Eight bodies recovered and one injured man brought to surface. Rescue crews battle rock and debris 900 feet underground while fresh air is pumped to reach those remaining. Relatives wait at the pithead as officials assess likely outcomes.
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England
George Williams
Matthew Williams
North Sea
Carnival by Dick Turner ends with POW capture scene
A fragment describes a wartime scene where the narrator drives into a POW stockade and shoves a laughing prisoner into an S-2 tent for interrogation. The piece closes with a market note that says all U S markets will be closed for Memorial Day on May 30 in New York.
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New York
United States
Passenger transfer story from a roadside encounter
A writer recounts an escape or misdirection during travel, noting a permanent passenger and a brief exchange where one MP directs to take him to the rear. The narrator continues a short way down the road and passes a region.
Convicts Escaped as Blood Hounds Aided Hunt
Prison officials announced a plan to use bloodhounds to track Burden and Strother after an alarm spread. Authorities said Burden and his companions were at large and appeared to be evading capture as the search intensified.
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Burden
Strother
Burden's Escape Plan and County Jail Burglary Case
Potter County officers report Burden and James Farris plotted a break from jail, cut through steel bars with concealed saws, and fled unseen. Farris promised to turn state's evidence in a supermarket burglary. he is in state prison after a revived plan. Burden received a suspended three and a half year sentence in 1949, later revoked. he then drew two years in Hutchinson County with the two sentences to be served consecutively. Burden has a long police record and Amarillo ties.
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Potter County
Burden
James Farris
Farris
Amarillo
States
Pleasant Valley
Henry S. Bishop
Hutchinson County
Bishop
London Talks Open as Iran Crisis Prompts Mediation Hope
The article notes a threeway gathering linked to a nationalization program with Grady offering mediation. In London, Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison urged Iran to pursue negotiations in good will, warning of dangerous potentialities and seeking a constructive, informal path toward formal talks.
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Grady
London
Herbert Morrison
Iran and Britain oil concession ends sparks nationalist surge
The Tudeh Party called for a major turnout marking Iran's 18th anniversary since the 60 year oil concession allowed Britain to control Iran's deposits. Parliament recently voted to end the concession amid nationalist fervor.
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Tudeh Party
Britain
Iran
Vandenberg Contrasts Air Power View With MacArthur Plan
Vandenberg testified that air power would be relatively ineffective under certain conditions. He recalled informing MacArthur that a Joint Chiefs study from January, which echoed parts of MacArthur's Korean strategy, remained tentative. MacArthur cited the document to show JC Chiefs shared his views, noting moves such as air reconnaissance over Manchuria and Red China, blockade of the China coast, and Formosa based Nationalist forces.
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Gen. J. Lawton Collins
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Joint Chiefs
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Red China
China
Formosa
Hill battles erupt as patrols probe Yonchon front
War patrols moved Monday through Yonchon six miles north of 38 and 35 miles north of Seoul. Tuesday infantry advanced to hilltops where Communist fire opened with 76 mm guns and artillery. AP correspondent John Randolph says Reds seem to block Americans from Chorwon assembly area as nasty hill fights wage along the front.
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Seoul
John Randolph
Chorwon
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