Draft To Take 85 000 More In Few Months
Washington reports Selective Service chief Major General Lewis B. Hershey expects additional draft calls in coming months possibly exceeding 85 000, in addition to 100 000 slated for September and October. He testified Aug 1 before the House appropriations committee and noted potential 185 000 inductees for the current fiscal year amid pending bills for family allowances to servicemen.
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Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Armed Forces
House Appropriations Committee
Hershe
Hershey
House
Senate Armed Services Committees
Congress
Defense Department
Army
Tydings
Armed Services
Senate
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Colorado National Guard
Denver
Irving O. Schaefer
Johnson
LA Man Dies Jumping From Burning Office
William J. Compton was killed when he leaped from the second story of a burning office building in San Antonio. Firemen attempting rescue were driven back by flames.
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LA Man
San Antonio
William J. Compton
Atom bomb pales next to earthquake in energy release
The Atomic Energy Commission says a Hiroshima type bomb is a relative piker compared with an underground explosion that could release energy comparable to Tuesday's earthquake. Estimates place the quake at magnitude 4.4, with larger bombs causing more damage but not proportional area.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Hiroshima
Death by own action ends Cra ig F. Cullinan life in Houston
Craig F. Cullinan 55 prominent Houston oilman was found dead in his home with a bullet wound to the heart. Justice of the Peace W C Ragan ruled suicide after a 45 caliber pistol was found near the bed. Cullinan, former president of American Republics Corporation and first chairman of the board of Texas State University for Negroes, had been in ill health and despondent since his wife’s death last November. His son Craig Jr, a Houston Post police reporter, discovered the body on the third floor. Funeral tentatively set for Tuesday afternoon.
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Houston
Craig F. Cullinan
Justice of the Peace
W. C. Ragan
Cullinan
American Republics Corporation
Texas State University
Craig Jr
Houston Post
B. M. Squyres
J.S. Cullinan
Yale University
English cricket joys and wartime headlines collide
A royal baby announcement interrupts UK sports pages while war news dominates. The piece notes reactions to England versus West Indies and reports a Carswell Air Force Base hospital recounting a B29 crash near Fort Worth. It mentions a judge sentencing a boy in New York and comments from Joe Davies in Houston.
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England
West Indies
Carswell Air Force Base
Fort Worth
Mern
Mystery quake center sparks global seismology debate
A massive 8.4 magnitude earthquake rattled from the Afghanistan–Burma border toward China and the Pacific, with seismographs worldwide registering chaotic data. Experts weigh origins in Turkey, the Caspian region, or the East Indies as alarms about tsunamis fade.
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Istanbul
Turkey
India
Coast and Geodetic Survey
China
Burma Rder
Tokyo
Afghanistan
Tibet
Tibet. the Coast and Geodetic Survey
Elliott Roberts
The
Geodetic Survey
Assam
Roberts
Burma-China
Daniel Linehan
Boston College
Weston
Mass
Boston
Caspian Sea
L. Don Leet
Harvard University
Harvard
East Indies
Joseph Carroll
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Wis
Pacific
Japan
Central Meteorological Observatory
Texas Iron Lung Patients Saved As Power Fails
Three polio patients in iron lungs were kept alive by hand by volunteers after a power outage caused by a lightning strike on the Tuco plant. Guardsmen, police, firemen and Public Service Company workers aided at the Plainview hospital. Patients Willie N. King, Louann Graham, and Maxie Pugh were aided as power failed across Plainview and surrounding towns.
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Lubbock-Plainview
Southwestern Public Service Company
Tucco
Lubbock
West Texas
McLean
Maxie Pugh
Perryton
Littlefield
Muleshoe
Levelland
Silverron
Public Service Company
Stassen Urges Kremlin Attack Policy On War Spread
Harold Stassen urged direct action against Soviet aggression using a congressional resolution and UN General Assembly, warning that further communist advances could force war on Moscow. He called for a $35 billion annual armament program and a $10 billion tax hike with $7 billion yearly defense cuts, attacking the Truman administration's record.
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Harold FE. Stassen
Russia
United Nations General Assembly
Staseen
University of Pennsylvania
CBS
Moscow
United States
Kremlin
United Nations Assembly
Indo-China
Burma
Greece
Turkey
Germany
Austria
Urals
Ukraine
Stassi
Stassen
Truman
Bomb Raids Mass Red Forces Near Taegu
Nine hundred sixty two tons of 500 pound bombs blasted Red troops massed for an impending attack on Taegu in South Korea. Nearly 100 US B29s dropped bombs across a 21 square mile sector north of Waegwan, aiming to disrupt the enemy timetable and aid ground troops.
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America
Taegu
South Korea
Waegwan
Naktong River
Eighth Army
Korea
Naktong
Emmett “Rosy” O'Donnell
Far East
Air Force
Ralph Teatsworth
United Press
Associated Press
Hal Boyle
Japan
Okinawa
Leif Erickson
First Cavalry Division
Climbers Locate Reynolds Body on Mt Whitney
The body of 11 year old Christopher Smith Reynolds son of Libby Holman was found on Mt Whitney near the 11,500 foot level. It was lowered by ropes and will be removed by a sheriff's posse. Steven Wasserman 17 was found deceased Sunday in a crevasse at the same altitude, companion on the ill fated ascent.
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Lone Pine
Calif
Christopher Smith Reynolds
Libby Holman
Mt Whitney
Sierra Club
US Air Force
Hamilton Field
Steven Wasserman
Reynolds
Wasserman
William S. Wasserman
Whitney
Shouting clash delays control bill to next week
In Washington a battle over amendments to the economic mobilization bill delays final action. Mundt and Ferguson pressed the Communist issue as debate triggers voting extended to Monday, with final passage uncertain. A separate security bill is being prepared per Truman recommendations.
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Senate
Mundt
R-S.d
Ferguson
R-Mich
Korea
Truman
Lucas
D-Ill
Whery
GOP
Munda
Johnson City Convict Escapes Jail Through Roof Hole
A 25 year old burglar, Jack Daenor, escaped Johnson City jail by cutting a hole in the roof with eating utensils and rappelling to the ground. He had been serving a 12 year burglary sentence from Travis County and was unaccounted after the exit, with authorities scouring the area. Daenor has ties in Austin and Ohio and was last seen near the jail vicinity.
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Johnson City
Jack Daenor
Daenor
Travis County
State Penitentiary
Blanco County
Frank Shelley
Shelley
Austin
Ohio
Women Invited to North Austin Civic Club Meetings
South Austin Civic Club maintains an all male policy while North Austin Civic Club opens its meetings to women. North Austin president Paul Pfeifer notes equal gender participation, with 275 members and one woman officer, secretary Mrs George Francisco. Mrs Bess Beeman leads a six woman committee seeking authentic membership for South Austin women, who may join as an auxiliary or not at all.
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Lorraine Barnes
South Austin
North Austin
Paul Pfeifer
Pfeifer
George Francisco
Burnet Woman Learns of Son's Battle Injuries
Mrs. Ethel A. Fry of Burnet learns her son Lieutenant Louis C. Fry wounded in Korea and hospitalized in Yokohama Japan. He served with the 24th Infantry Division and is one of six brothers who served in World War II. he is married to Janet Piper of Austin and their son is with him in Japan.
North Korean Forces Cut Almost in Half since Korea War Start
U S intelligence officers in General MacArthur's HQ estimate the North Korean army of more than 60 000 has been halved by casualties since invasion of South Korea two months ago Red army losses are put at about 40 percent and higher The six foreign trained divisions led major battles and were trained by Chinese and possibly Russian officers
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Tokyo
South Korea
MacArthur
Korea
Europe
Texas Heat Increases Across State With 97 Expected In Austin
Tuesday brought hot weather to Austin and much of Texas with a forecast for a higher high on Wednesday. The AP notes 102 in Presidio 101 in Cotulla 99 in Laredo and other 90s statewide. Showers were reported in Amarillo Victoria El Paso and Houston.
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Texas
Presidio
Cotulla
Laredo
Associated Press
Amarillo
Victoria
el Paso
Houston
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