Truman declares nationwide railroad strike after assurances
President Truman announced that the nationwide railroad strike was called within an hour of assurances there would be no walkout. He indicated he would issue a statement later and did not confirm seizure. Union leaders ordered a broad strike of 300,000 members on 131 lines after White House talks failed to resolve wage and hour conflicts.
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Washington
Truman
Rwoo
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Order of Railway Conductors
White House
Three Columns Moving Up New Threat Along Corridor to Port City
North Korean forces push east in three columns toward Pusan and Masan area interests as U S and South Korean troops brace for renewed fighting along the Masan front. The 25th Infantry near Masan and Sobuk Ridge engage in bitter combat while air strikes target approaching units.
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Port City
TOKYO
Pusan
Same SA Milae
OVI VV
Taegu
Stan Swinton
Chinju
Masan
U. S
Seventh Division
Sobuk Ridge
U. S&s
Pohang-Kigye
Odok
Kigye
Hunghae
Fast Action On Controls Is Sought
The House Un-American Activities Committee sought early floor action on a sweeping bill to curb home front Communists. Rep. Nixon predicted the rules committee would send the measure to the floor for a Monday debate and Tuesday final passage, with provisions including registration of Communist and front organizations, job and defense work bans, passport denial, and propaganda labeling.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Rep. Nixon
R-Calif
Rules Committee
UN- American Activities Committee
Nixon
House
Un-American Activities Committee
Truman
Congress
United States
Communist Party
U.S. May Put GOP Majority in UN Group
President Truman may appoint three Republicans to the five permanent U N delegates for the November United Nations Assembly session. Connally says Warren Austin remains chief representative with John Foster Dulles and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as likely additions. Democrats Eleanor Roosevelt and John Sparkman expected to join, with Acheson heading the delegation.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations Assembly
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.n.’S
Warren R. Austin
John Foster Dulles
Republian
State Department
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Massachusetts
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Sparkman
Alabama
Acheson
John Ross
Austin
John Sherman Cooper
Benjamin Cohen
Edith Sampson
Labor Federation Endorses Conveyor Plan Linking Lakes
The Ohio State Federation of Labor endorsed a proposed conveyor belt system to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River. The convention adopted a resolution claiming thousands of construction jobs will be created by the project.
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Columbus
Lake Erie
Ohio River
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Federation
Columbus Receives Emergency Blood Call
The Red Cross blood center in Columbus received its first call for whole blood for the Korean battlefront. Officials called the situation an emergency and urged all blood donors to respond.
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Columbus
Red Cross Blood Center
Red Cross
Trieste Troops Ready for Possible Yugoslav Crisis
Ten thousands of British and American troops are trained and equipped on the Yugoslav Italian border guarding Trieste. They are combat ready but the Italian army is weak to help. observers think a Soviet invasion of Tito’s Yugoslavia would trigger a rapid Allied reinforcement, as seen in Korea.
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Yugoslavia
Rome
Kremlin
Tito
U. S
Korea
Bricker Foresees Terrific Squabble Over Wage-Price Controls
Senator Bricker predicted a fierce fight over any move to sever the linkage between wage price controls and the Senate home front mobilization bill. He warned that removing the tying provision would spark a major controversy on Capitol Hill.
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Washington
Bricker
Senate
Dynamite blast tears through Shaffer Music roof in Columbus
An early explosion blew a 20 inch hole in the Shaffer Music Company roof in Columbus. The firm distributes juke boxes and no injuries were reported. Authorities investigated the blast as a possible dynamite incident.
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Columbus
Shaffer Music Company
Senate to Vote on Universal Military Training Soon
Senator Tydings of Maryland forecast the Senate will take up universal military training for a vote within two weeks. He predicted the measure would reach the floor shortly, signaling a potential major policy vote.
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Washington
Senator Tydings
D-Md
Senate
Fire guts plant at Massillon drilling company
A fire destroyed a one story section of the Quo Drilling Co plant in Massillon early today. Fire crews fought the blaze but caused extensive damage to the building and its contents. No injuries were reported as crews worked to contain the flames.
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Massillon
Quo Drilling Co
Glani
Father admits drilling holes in boy's chest
In Danbury Connecticut Joseph Korczynski 36 admitted boring two chest holes in his four and a half year old son Joey Korczynski with a drill press. The boy remained critically ill after emergency surgery and told nurses I want my daddy as authorities held the father without bail awaiting trial for assault with intent to murder.
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Danbury, Conn
Joey Korczynski
Danbury Hospital
Joseph Korczynski
Bridgeport
Allen Haines
Ridgefield
Joey
Fox Hill Inn
Joan
Korzynskik
Sergt
Louis Marchese
Leo F. Carroll
State Opens Prison Camp Near Green Springs
Ohio opens its second camp for trusted inmates to aid natural resources work. Welfare Director Lamneck says the camp near Green Springs in Sandusky County includes a nursery run by the Natural Resources department. A first camp near Marietta has been in operation about three months. Plans seek more nursery camps and studies of sites in Zaleski State Forest, Scioto Trail Forest, Shawnee Forest, and Hocking State Forest in several counties.
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Columbus
Ohio
John H. Lamneck
Green Springs
Sandusky County
Department of Natural Resources
Marietta
Ohio Penitentiary
Lamneck
Natural Resources
A. W. Marion
Corrections
Arthur L. Glattke
Zaleski State Forest
Vinton County
Scioto Trail Forest
Ross County
Shawnee Forest
Scioto
Athens
Hocking State Forest
Hocking County
Franco Loses Bodyguard in Fatal Boat Capsize
In Vigo Spain authorities probe a boating accident that killed more than 50 members of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's body guard. The guards were traveling to a football game when their craft capsized during a vacation trip.
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Vigo
Spain
Francisco Franco
Sea Scouts Missing In English Channel
British coastal command planes searched the English Channel today for 10 London sea scouts missing since Sunday in a 27 foot sailing whaleboat. The boat left Calais on a channel cruise from its London base. Sea scout headquarters asked the Admiralty and Royal Air Force to search when they deemed the party overdue.
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London
British Coastal Command
English Channel
London Sea
Calais
France
Sea Scout
Admiralty
Royal Air Force
Jackson Oak Hill Soldiers Casualties
Two southeast Ohio soldiers are listed in the Defense Department Korean casualty reports. Pfc. Jack E. Cruse of Jackson Route 3 is wounded, while Cpl. Charles E. Wilson of Oak Hill is missing in action.
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Southeast Ohio
Defense Department
Jack E. Cruse
Blamey Swaney
Jackson Route 3
Charles E. Wilson
Margaret Wilson
Oak Hill
Potato Patch Cooked by Lightning In New York Field
Springwater New York reports a potato grower named Joseph Nichol digging spuds once vines withered overnight he finds lightning struck the patch cooking the potatoes in the ground until they are soft enough to mash the incident described as ready baked despite being in the ground
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Springwater
N. Y
Livingston County
Joseph Nichol
Malik Ends Final Week as Korea War Delays Persist
Malik heads into the fourth week of his Security Council presidency in Lake Success amid continued fighting over Korea. He has used delaying tactics to stall Western proposals and propel Soviet lines in the council while observers weigh which side influences Asian opinion more.
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Russia
Jakob A. Malik
Security Council
Council
Malik
U. N
Two Ohio Trainmen Die As Locomotive Explodes
A Norfolk and Western freight locomotive exploded near Batavia Ohio killing engineer Carl D. Clark and fireman R D Aldred both of Portsmouth. Brakeman Paul Keys of South Shore Kentucky survived with a sprained ankle after being blown from the coal tender cupola. The blast damaged lines three cars derailed hogs died and rails were torn up blocking traffic.
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Batavia
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Here
Williamsburg
Clermont County
Carl D. Clark
Portsmouth
R. D. Aldred
Paul Keys
South Shore
Keyes
Senate lowers tax estimate ahead of debate
The finance committee told the Senate the new tax bill would yield about 4.508 billion annually, down from 5 billion. Revenues come from individuals, corporations, charitable trusts, closing loopholes, life companies, and excises on televisions and appliances. Chairman George resisted adding an excess profits levy, warning the bill would fail without it.
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Washington
Senate
George
D-Ga
Finance Committee
Murray Coal Company Loses Its Appeal
The Murray Coal Co. of Murray City, Hocking County, lost its appeal from a ruling granting unemployment compensation to 31 miners in 1949. The Board of Review of the State Bureau of Unemployment Compensation rejected the firm's petition after an April hearing and a July 7 referee decision.
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Columbus
Murray Coal Co
Murray City
Hocking County
Board of Review of the
State Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
James P. Mallett
EUB Bishop Praises UN for Spiritual Order
Bishop John Stamm of Harrisburg told the Southeastern Ohio Conference that outside agencies are needed to meet mankind’s spiritual needs. He cited the United Nations and its Security Council as necessary to express spiritual order in living and to provide a forum for world leaders to debate and plan.
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Logan
John Stamm
Harrisburg
Southeastern Ohio
Evangelical United Brethren Church
United Nations
Security Council
The
Stamm
Canton Soldier Alvin Norwood York Reported Missing in Korea
Pvt Alvin Norwood York, second cousin of famed World War I hero Sgt Alvin York, is reported missing in action in Korea. The York family’s ties to the Tennessee legend are noted as officials search for him.
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Canton
Alvin Norwood York
Sgt
Alvin York
Korea
Yanks Face Tough Time Near Taegu Front
AP dispatches report U S 27th Wolfhound Regiment commander Col Michaelis warning Abbey style defense, while 50 000 allied troops shift eastward around Taegu. Red forces aim to break through before August 31 deadline as clashes and casualties mount amid Korean front line changes.
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Don Whitehead
John
Mike) Michaelis
U. S
Kim I Sung
Taegu
Japan
Optimistic Collins Tours Front After Narrow Escape
Gen J Lawton Collins Army chief of staff visited the front and spoke of high Allied morale after a near miss with Red roadblock fire north of Taegu. Adm Forrest Sherman accompanied him as forces pressed the Kumhwa Taegu corridor amid mixed skirmishes and patrols.
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J. Lawton Collins
Army
Tokyo
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
U. S. Naval
Collins
Taegu
Taft Questions Korea War Strategy in Uhrichsville Speech
Senator Robert A. Taft demanded answers from the Truman administration in a campaign stop at Uhrichsville High School. He asked why a mobile fighting force was not ready for Korea why so many American lives were sacrificed and why North Korea could push South Korea so far.
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Uhrichsville
Robert A. Taft
Truman Administration
Korea
North Korea
South Korea
Taft
Uhrichsville High School
Elephants Present Free Columbus Show
A derailed circus train car released six elephants near Columbus attracting curious residents. No injuries reported as Clyde Beatty Shows workers unloaded the uninjured elephants for safe inspection while repairs continued on the derailed railcar bound for Newark.
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Columbus
Columbus 4
North Side
Clyde Beatty
Newark
War Briefs from Front Lines Across Asia
War updates report Randolph Churchill wounded by a mortar burst during a Naktong River crossing operation with a U S patrol in Korea. Nehru doubts Korea war will trigger a world war soon. British troops learn Bazooka impact as they sail to Korea. South Korea’s Syngman Rhee rejects universal conscription. UN forces to receive 2000 Dutch infantry in Korea. U S Marines claim 300 North Korean Reds killed near Taegu in a rocket and strafing attack.
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Caver
MacArthur
Michaelis
Kumhwa-Taegu
U.S
Waegwan
Naktong River
Hyonpung
First Cavalry
U. S
24Th Infantry
Naktong
25Th
Eighth Army
Korea
Randolph Churchill
Winston Churchill
Tokyo
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