Senate Moves Quick Action on One Year Draft Extension
Senate leaders called for rapid passage of a one year draft extension giving the president power to call up draftees and reserves. The House approved 315 to 4 and conferees removed safeguards, enabling call ups to 21 months if needed to reach military strength.
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Senate
House
Truman
Tydings
D-Md
Senate Armed Services Committee
Korea
Congress
Kem
R-Mo
Senate House
Rep
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D-Ga
Armed Services Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Rep. Short
GOP
Marcantonio
Al-Ny
Crawford
R-Mich
Crosser
D-Ohio
Feighan
Dohio
Mobilization Plans Ready If Needed
Washington reports that 20 title bill from the National Security Resources Board outlines a wartime mobilization plan for Congress. It would authorize President Truman to freeze prices wages manpower and materials and convert phantom orders into real contracts for weapon production.
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Congress
National Security Resources Board
Truman
NLRB
W. Stuart Symington
Defense Department
Bankruptcy Referee Considers Lustron Asset Sale Block
In Columbus Ohio Referee Wallace Streeter weighing whether to dissolve a court order that blocks the Reconstruction Finance Corp from taking Lustron Corp assets. Judge Sullivan asked for evidence and a recommendation after RFC bought Lustron assets at a public auction last month.
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Chicago
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Lustron Corp
Columbus
Ohio
Wallace Streeter
Philip Sullivan
RFC
Lustron
Young Wins renomination in North Dakota primary race
Fargo ND United States Senator Milton R. Young Republican led the field in early returns yesterday as North Dakota voters chose candidates for renomination. Early tallies suggested Young maintained a strong lead in the GOP contest.
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Young
Fargo
N. D
U. S
Milton R. Young
North Dakota
Pacific Task Force Formed To Meet Far East Crisis
Pearl Harbor heads the plan for a new 27 000 ton carrier centered task force to back the Seventh Fleet and defend Formosa. The Valley Forge will lead ships including Grumman Panther jets and support cruisers destroyers and supply units under Rear Adm. Walter F. Boone.
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Formosa
Valley Forge
General MacArthur
U. S
Far East
Hong Kong
Formosan
Pacific Fleet
Philippine Sea
Pearl Harbor
Walter F. Boone
Seventh Fleet
Seventh
Manila
Moore
Maddock
Cabazon
Wantuck
Guam
Subic Bay
Sangley Point
Philippines
Arthur D. Struble
Honolulu
Washington
South Korea
Rochester
Tube Co. weighs resuming operations after one day strike
A one day strike by 300 plant railroad workers was called off and National Tube Co officials must decide today whether to resume operations immediately. The action involved labor unrest at the Lorain plant with potential impact on production schedules.
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UPI
National Tube Co
Attlee offers British navy to aid U.S. in Korea
Prime Minister Attlee announced in the House of Commons that Britain will place its naval forces in Japanese waters at the disposal of the United States to support American actions in Korea. Churchill and Attlee stressed unity and a shared duty under the United Nations.
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MacArthur
Defense Johnson
Omar Bradley
John Foster Dulles
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Far East
Formosa
London
Attlee
Britain
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Japan
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Churchill
Southeast Asia
Malaya
Russia
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U.N. backs arms use in Korea
The United Nations Security Council voted 7 to 1 to authorize military force to back a cease fire in Korea, marking its first use of U.N. military sanctions. The decision alarms the Soviet bloc's boycott as Russia remains absent. President Truman praised the move as a safeguard against communist aggression.
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India
Egypt
Yugoslavia
Mr. Truman
U.N
Russia
U.S
Red China
China
Truman
Formosa
Seventh Fleet
Pacific
Japan
United Nations
South Korea
General Assembly
Jakob A. Malik
Malik
Andrei A. Gromyko
Council
Two American Newsmen Injured in Tokyo Explosion
Two American reporters were lightly injured when an explosion damaged the Han River bridge near Korea while crossing. Burton Crane of the New York Times and Frank Gibney of Time were flown to Japan for treatment. Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News was unhurt.
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Fia Korea
U. S. Army Public Information Office
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New York Times
Frank Gibney
Time Magazine, Inc
Japan
Keyes Beech
Chicago Daily News
Coast Guard reports fishing vessel sinks near Cape Charles
Coast Guard said a fishing vessel with 23 crewmen sank about five miles off Cape Charles Virginia but all aboard were rescued by a second fishing boat.
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Cape Charles
The
Coast Guard
FBI Plans For Security Put in Action
President Truman ordered direct military aid to Korea triggering long planned U S internal security measures. The FBI, under J Edgar Hoover, issued an immediate alert and tightens surveillance. The plan relies on dossiers and continued vigilance to deter sabotage in key industries.
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Truman
Korea
United States
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau
Hoover
Winds Sweep Across Three Midwest States and Vermont Hail Storm
Strong winds up to 90 miles per hour struck parts of Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma early today with the Russell Kansas area recording the highest velocity. Vermont experienced hailstones as large as table tennis balls during an electrical storm in Bennington, followed by a 15 minute cloudburst.
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Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Vermont
New England
Russell
Kans
Kansas City
Bennington
Rep. Brehm Seeks Aid For Flood Victims
Rep Walter E Brehm of Ohio introduced a resolution directing President Truman to use 25000 from the disaster fund to aid flood victims in Crooksville Ohio.
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Rep. Brehm
Washington
Walter E. Brehm
Ohio
Logan
Truman
Crooksville
Lausche Won’t Call Special Session on Ballot Law
Governor Frank J. Lausche announced no special legislative session will be called to amend election laws for the new office type ballot. He cited lack of necessity and time constraints for immediate action.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Korea Crisis Drives Debate on Tax Cuts in Congress
Senate Leader Lucas said the fate of a billion dollar excise tax cut depends on developments while Truman actions in Korea draw mixed reactions from U S officials. Reports from Tokyo Canberra and Formosa describe geopolitical moves, military shifts and Allied responses in the Korean crisis.
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America
Far East
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
House
Protest Clips Plan to Abandon DT&I Passenger Rail Line
More than twenty opponents from Bainbridge Ohio spoke at a public utilities hearing in Greenfield objecting to the Detroit Toledo and Ironton Rail Road passenger service abandonment between Springfield and Jackson. Attendees included Springfield city attorney Hodges and Jackson solicitor Carlile. The DT&I case drew concerns that loss of mail service could follow if the line is shut. Two daily trains operate on the single track, mainly freight with a rear mixed car.
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Jackson
Public Utilities Commission
Greenfield
Thomas E. Hodges
D.t.&i
Russell Leasure
Transportation Brotherhoods of Ohio
M. M. Carlile
C. C. Straube
Harold A. Johnson
Adjournment Plans Still Stand for Lucas Senate Seat
Senator Lucas said the July 31 adjournment of Congress still stands despite approval of Truman’s order to aid South Korea. He expressed confidence the United States and Russia are not headed for war and discussed the situation with reporters.
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Senate
Lucas
U. S
Russia
Congress
Ilinois
Truman
South Korea
Cleveland-County Common Pleas Bails Fired for Insolence
Fifteen common pleas judges in Cleveland fired a woman jury bailiff for insolence and insubordination toward a sitting jurist. The decision cites disrespectful conduct observed during court proceedings.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
Couple Plan Air Wedding Over Chicago
An Ohio couple aims to wed in flight over Chicago as part of the Merrill C. Meigs Field dedication ceremony. Miss Lillian M. Smith, 37, of Frankfort, and Stanley A. Jones, 43, of Chillicothe Route 7, asked Chicago Public Works Commissioner Oscar Hewitt to arrange the airborne wedding.
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Ohio
Lillian M. Smith
Frankfort
Stanley A. Jones
Chillicothe Route 7
Jones
Oscar Hewitt
Chicago Public Works
Merrill C. Meigsield
Man Pleads Innocent In Slaying of Girl 18
George Doty 28 a Bellaire tax driver pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to a first degree murder charge in the lover’s lane killing of Alma Montag 18. He asked trial before a three judge court and July 10 was set as a tentative date.
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St, Clairsville
George Doty
Lover’s Lane
Alma Montag
Doty
Bellaire
Seoul Falls To Northern Communists
Jakarta AP report details the first American air and ground actions in Korea as Seoul falls to North Korean forces. U S airmen destroy six Russian tanks, two planes crash, and the first Signal Corps ground unit deploys to set up a field HQ.
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Uijongbu
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Korea
Kimpo
John J. Muccio
Japan
Munsan
O. H. P. King
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Associated Press
A. E. Shook
Clovis
N. M
Formosa
China
Truman
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