Seoul Feels Red Resistance As South Mountain Is Captured
American Seventh Division troops seized South Mountain linking with First Marines in Seoul while 32nd Infantry Regiment returned to the city. Korean Seventh crossed the river to cut the Chunchon escape route as Marines pierced Communist lines near the parliament hill. General Walker declared victory near sight as spearheads reached Chongju with unconfirmed reports of a cut on the Pusan Seoul highway at Chochiwon.
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Chunchon
Seoul
Parliament Building
MacArthur
Amer
Walton H. Walker
Inchon-Seoul
Eighth Army
Pusan
Chongju
First Corps
Pusan-Seoul
Chochiwon
Forces seal off escape routes as Seoul battle expands
United Nations forces cut the last practical escape route for fleeing Communists and launched an American assault on Seoul. The 32nd Regiment of the Seventh Division crossed the Han River from the southeast, joining two Marine regiments in a three way push toward the city. Marines from the west and north moved within rifle shot of central districts as first Marines neared the Duksoo palace and French consulate grounds. Seventh Division units pressed a ridge northeast of Namsan.
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United Nations
Seoul
38Th Parallel
North
South Korea
Seventh Division
Han River
Duksoo Palace
Marines Fight Through Mountain Environs In Korea
American forces face light resistance in the morning as Fifth Marine Regiment engages stubborn enemy in the northwest districts on the mountain slopes. Reinforcements arrive with a full combat unit flown into Kimpo airfield near the city, bringing guns for the ongoing battle.
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Fifth Marine Regiment
Kimpo
Connelly Home Burglar Charged in Amarillo Crime
Tom Connally home at 2000 Julian looted during their absence in Lubbock. Frank Elmer Brown, 31, rear apartment at 310 West Third, arraigned before Justice of the Peace C. W. Carder held on $1,000 bond. Loot recovered at Brown’s home and car. break in via smashed north window latch lifted from inside. Connally items include seven or eight suits and shirts. glove found in basement.
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Tom Connally
Julian
Frank Elmer Brown
West Third
Justice of the Peace
C. W. Carder
Connally
Carl Hill, Jr
Connally Bearing Co
Mr. Connally
King
Connallys
Globe
J. L. King
Thick smoke from Canadian fires blankets a large region
A dense smoke layer about 30000 feet thick drifts over the northern United States from the Great Lakes to the seaboard and as far as the Ohio Valley. Forecasters expect temperatures to return to autumn norms as sun returns while lights illuminate baseball and college games. The plume originates from northern Alberta and the District of Mackenzie in Canada, moving seaward at roughly 35 mph with top altitudes near 17000 feet.
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Associated Press
Atlantic Ocean
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Seaboard
Ohio Valley
New York
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Detroit
LaGuardia Field
Alberta
MacKenzie
Canada
Central
Northern
Plain States
Pacific Northwest
Kentucky
Corbin
Evansville
Indianapolis
Ind
Phillipsburg
Greensboro
Albany
Burlington, VI
Caribou
Boston
Duluth, Minn
Joliet, Il
Chicago
Amarillo Board Discusses Negro Applicants to College
E M Blackburn says a minority plan may allow Negro students to attend junior college at Carver High School. Five of seven trustees attended an informal meeting where Negro applicants from prior years were discussed and referred to the full board. Reverend Hines and other leaders voiced disappointment over past rejections.
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E. M. Blackburn, Jr
Amarillo Independent School District
Amarillo College
Blackburn
New Carver High School
R. H. Hines
J. L. Langston
Church of God In Christ
J. W. Wade
Jenkins Chapel Baptist Church
J. O. Wyatt
White
Hines
Dallas Pipefitter Dies After Street Attack
Vern Shepherd, 51, a Dallas pipefitter, died from a skull fracture after an unidentified man struck him on a downtown Fort Worth street while leaving a cafe. Police said the assailant made uncomplimentary remarks to Shepherd’s wife before the attack.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Vern Shepherd
Dallas
Shepherd
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Nearby Areas
Partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon in Amarillo and vicinity. Cloudy tonight and Tuesday with clearing Tuesday afternoon and a continued rise in temperatures. Highs near 80 today and 85 tomorrow, beyond 77 for the 24 hour period ending 6:30 this morning. Precipitation measured at .62 of an inch. Also reports considerable cloudiness in West Texas with scattered thundershowers, and partly cloudy conditions in New Mexico with showers today becoming more scattered Tuesday. Warmer in the north and east portions.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
South Plains
Bailey County
Grover
Dumas
Berger
Spearman
Vega
Claude
Dimmitt
Hereford
Lubbock
Plainview
Panhandle
Clarendon
Crosbyton
Miami
Perryton
Shamrock
Tulsa
Clovis
Clayton
Des Moines
Tucumcari
Roswell
Boise City
Okla
Guymon
H. C. Winburn
Amarillo Air Terminal
Winburn
News Tip Prize Awarded to John W Sherwood
John W. Sherwood of 3618 North East Ninth won the $5 first prize in The Globe News News Tips for reporting vandalism at Forest Hill School. Second prize went to Mrs. Frank Farris for a rattlesnake sighting, with Bobby Haley earning $2 for a covey of quail sighting. several others submitted tips from local addresses.
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John W. Sherwood
North East Ninth
Globe- News
Forest Hill School
Frank Farris
Pierce
Bobby Haley
Bellaire
France Opposes German Rearming in Western Defense Plan
Paris reports quote a foreign office spokesman saying France remains hostile to rearming Germany and that the Big Three ministers did not decide on German divisions joining a unified Western defense force at their New York meeting. The spokesman denied any agreement to such a principle amid speculation in Paris papers.
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Paris
Foreign Office
France
Germany
New York
Helicopter Rescues 16 Airmen From Labrador Crash
US Air Force and Canadian forces coordinated a rescue after a B 50 bomber crashed in Labrador. Sixteen crew and passengers, 12 crew and 4 others, were located near a shelter. They will be flown by amphibian plane to Goose Bay once weather permits.
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Halifax
United States
Labrador
Fort Pepperell
US Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
Goose Bay
Tucson
Ariz
Arizona
Air Force
One Dirty Look Wrecks a Tank
Lt. James E. Alvatore of Red Bank New Jersey flies a small unarmed aircraft used to spot targets for American artillerymen in Korea. He made a frightening facial display toward an enemy tank crossing a bridge causing the crew to lose control and the tank to plunge off the structure. His unit commemorated the incident by painting a tank on the plane’s fuselage.
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Korea
New Jersey
James E. Alvatore
Red Bank
Alvatore
Airman Patrick Landon Found Dead in Texas Home
Pfc Patrick R Landon 17, on furlough from Lackland Air Force Base, was found dead with a bullet wound in his right temple at his parents home in Dallas. A pistol and a note to his father were nearby.
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Dallas
U.P
Patrick R. Landon
Lackland Air Force Base
Time mix up after clocks fall back in Long Beach
In Long Beach California on September 25 the switch from daylight saving to standard time caused confusion at Robert Beavers home. Shirley Beaver set clocks back an hour and then Robert did the same, making them an hour early for church and later an hour late. He discovered the error only the next morning at his aircraft job.
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Long Beach
Cal
Robert Beaver
Shirley Beaver
Beaver
Tickets On Sale At Paramount For Summer and Smoke
Box office opens today at the Paramount Theater foyer for the stage play Summer and Smoke with Dorothy McGuire John Ireland and Una Merkel leading. The Oct 6 performance offers seating in multiple price bands with mail orders directed to the Paramount Theater Amarillo Tex. Rainfall reports and an Amarillo lunar eclipse forecast follow, noting totals across Panhandle towns and a Dallas park executives convention opening Sept 25 with about 500 officials expected.
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Paramount Theater
Paramount
Amarillo
Tex
Smoke
Dorothy McGuire
John Ireland
Una Merkel
Dallas
The
American Institute of Park Executives
Indonesia Bids for UN Membership
Flushing New York September 25 The United States of Indonesia applied formally for membership in the United Nations today. L N Palar who represents the young East Indies country presented the application to Trygve Lie at the secretary general office.
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Flushing
United States of Indonesia
United Nations
L. N. Palar
Young East Indies
Trygve Lie
Thieves Have Taste For Finer Things
Dallas police reports show burglars hit a Lawton Oklahoma couple by stealing a white silk Chinese nightgown two pink bed jackets a black satin Japanese jacket and a silver mandarin coat from their car A supermarket loss included caviar cheese and pickled onions totaling 250 dollars The incidents occurred over the weekend.
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Dallas
Lawton
Okla
Red Mortar Rougher Than a Rodeo Steer
Globe-News war correspondent recalls Marine Pfc Billy J Campbell from Tokyo on September 25 as he describes a walloping he took from a steer at the 1948 Will Rogers Range Riders Bank rodeo event.
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David Rasco
Globe-News
Tokyo
Pfc
Billy J. Campbell
Will Rogers Range Riders Bank
Marines Private Campbell Recalls Mortar Wound Tale
Private Campbell, from Gladewater, Texas, recalls a mortar attack in the Taegu sector that wounded him in the left leg and hand after a series of moves. Evacuated to Tokyo General Hospital, he remains in a crowded room, determined to recover and return home to the Panhandle. He had earlier chased a steer and endured hard knocks before the clash with the Reds. He later rode the rodeo circuit before joining the Marines.
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Campbell
Taegu
Army Point
Korea
Tokyo General Hospital
Gladewater
Panhandle
Buetler brothers and Campbell reflect on home States
In Amarillo, a Texan fighter named Campbell laments missing the Panhandle and the old States. He recalls Elk City’s Buetler brothers who run horse and Brahma shows and once made Amarillo their base in 1948. A foster-brother, Richard Burk, works as an interior decorator for Fred Seale Co. Two roommates join in, expressing homesickness and longing for familiar places. Campbell hopes to return to the States after injuries.
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Buetler Bros
Elk City
Okla
Amarillo
Richard Burk
Fred Seale Co
Panhandle
Campbell
States
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Ican
Namsan
Jas
Texas Tech
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US Weather Bureau
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R. B. Cochran
North Polk
E. D. Tage
Cline
Bill J. Bogard
West Eleventh
Myrtle Lee Gidden
Gables
W. E. Duke
Park Plaza
M. B. Darby
Monroe
Dewey Morris
Polk
George Sullivan
North Lincoln
Floyd Sikes
John
Ireland
Muleshoe
Indonesia
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