M Arthur Shakes Up Korea Command and A Bomb Ultimatum Call
Congressional leaders press for an atomic ultimatum to North Korea. Rep Bentsen demands that Truman warn the North Korean commander a list of principal cities would face atomic attacks if withdrawal is not completed within a week. Johnson urges immediate mobilization of guards and reserves to add 832,000 more men.
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Texas
Acheson
Free World
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Yugoslavia
United States
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Korea
Rep
Bentsen
House
Truman
North Korea
Brewster
R-Me
Douglas MacArthur
Humphrey
Minnesota
Congress
Johnson
Senate Armed Services Committee
Marine Corps
Gen. MacArthur
South Korea
Senate
Bataan
Billion dollar request drawn for Korean War funding
Senate defense panel chair Elmer Thomas said the administration will seek a billion dollars or more in new funds to finance the Korean War. Defense Secretary Johnson said spending has risen to support the Korean operation and noted Air Force maintenance funds are being redirected for aircraft withdrawal and overhaul.
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Washington
Elmer Thomas
D-Okla
Senate
Defense
Louis Johnson
Johnson
Thomas
Senate Appropriations
Air Force
Congress
Truman
Ated
Styles Bridges
R-Nh
FBI
Bandits Hold Up HEB Store at 10 P.M. Closing
Two armed men robbed the HEB supermarket on South Congress forcing five employees into the vegetable vault at gunpoint. They took a portion of the day’s receipts in paper sacks as witnesses described a black coupe fleeing toward the San Antonio highway. Police broadcast a general description to local and state authorities.
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HEB
South Congress
Jess Mabry
Floyd Fogle
Austin
T. E. Hillegist
San Antonio
Johnston Victory Margin Widens in South Carolina Primary
Virtually complete returns show US Senator Olin D. Johnston leading Governor J. Strom Thurmond by 178,088 to 153,554. Johnston won renomination as Byrnes secured the governorship. Thurmond conceded. Primary nomination secures November election.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina
Olin D. Johnston
J. Strom Thurmond
Johnston
Thurmond
James F. Byrnes
Elizabeth’s Expected Second Baby This Summer
British court circles say Princess Elizabeth’s second child will be born at Clarence House in London around August 20. The report places the birth at the Princess’s London residence and notes the event is anticipated in court circles.
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London
INS
Elizabeth
Clarence House
Tall Cross Burns On War Memorial
Vandals placed a seven foot flaming cross on the Travis County War Memorial at 11th and Colorado Streets Wednesday night. Patrolman Bill Walton investigated after a nearby woman saw two teenage youths near the scene. The cross, seven feet high, was built from two sticks wrapped with kerosene soaked rags and set alight.
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Travis County War Memorial
11Th
Colorado
Bill Walton
Job Guaranteed Back For Those Joining Up
Washington reports that under the new draft law effective July 9, employees must be restored to their jobs after draft enlistment or active duty from a reserve unit. Labor officials say this constitutional reemployment right remains unchanged from 1948.
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Washington
Secretary of Labor
Tobin
Bureau of Veterans
Labor Department
Flying saucers over Arkansas spark radar chase
Report describes two fliers and a radar operator tracking a helmet shaped object on radar for about eight miles over Arkansas. The exchange reflects ongoing public interest in unidentified flying objects and related sightings.
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Arkansas
Driver Flanks Test With Two Car Crashes
In Chicago on July 12 William Preikshat Jr. drove into a city auto testing lane and rear ended Cleo Thomas, pushing her car into Albert Miller’s vehicle. Examiners failed Preikshat’s brake test.
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Chicago
William Preikshat Jr
Cleo Thomas
Albert Miller
Preikshat
Texas Tideland Fight Reopens With Capitol Meeting
Hundreds of Texans gather at the Capitol to plan the tidelands defense. The Texas Property Defense Association leads a campaign to keep or regain tidelands as public school revenue, with speakers including Governor Shivers and Attorney General Daniel.
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Capitol
Texas Property Defense Association
Herbert Y. Cartwright
Calveston
Guy C. Jackson
House of Representatives
Allan Shivers
Price Daniel
Robert Lee Bobbitt
Tidelands Committee
State Bar of Texas
Durwood Manford
J. E. Sturrock
Texas Water Conservation Association
Atty
Daniel
Tidelands
Texas
United States Supreme Court
Congress
Property Defense Associa
Tion
Galveston
Cartwright
Gulf Coast
Jackson
Judge Jackson
W. F Heavey
Houston
Byrd Harris
Corpus Christi
W. H
Liner Franconia Aground Near Quebec With 780 Aboard
The 20 175 ton passenger liner Franconia carrying 780 passengers ran on a reef in the St. Lawrence River near the Island of Orleans, one mile below Quebec. Witnesses heard a loud bang as it struck and hotel watchers moved cars fearing damage. No word on injuries or cause.
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Quebec
Franconia
St. Lawrence
Orleans
Cunard-Donaldson
Belair's
John T. Ellis Sr. Dies at Lockhart
John Taylor Ellis Sr., 82, prominent lawyer and four term Texas legislator, died after a brief illness in a Lockhart hospital. Funeral at First Methodist Church San Marcos Friday at 10 a.m. with Masonic burial at Lockhart City Cemetery. Survived by widow, three sons A R Ellis Houston, T Ellis Weslaco, Robert R Ellis Washington D C, three daughters Margaret Cage Reedville, W H Grebe Del Pie, Mary Elizabeth Ellis Reedville, and a sister Annie Carothers Decatur Ga.
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Lockhart
John Taylor Ellis Sr
Caldwell County
Ellis
Texas
First Methodist Church
San Marcos
Allen G. Roe
J. Troy Hickhaan
Lockhart City
Reedville
A. R Ellis
Houston
J. T. Ellis Jr
Weslaco
Robert R. Ellis
Washington, D. C
Margaret Cage
New Korean Front Formed South of Kum River
General MacArthur named Lieutenant General Walton Walker to command American ground troops in Korea. U S and Australian air forces mounted 229 sorties with 38 tanks destroyed as fronts shifted south of the Kum River near Taejon.
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Korea
Kum River
Douglas MacArthur
Walton H. Walker
Williams F. Dean
MacArthur
Taejon
Kum
High Command
US Army
Air Force
Walker
Eighth Army
South Korea
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
George Patton
20Th Armored Corps
France
Germany
Austria
Han River
Tanyang
Hamchong
Fallen Chungju
Wolpo
Penang
Bulgarian Army Races Toward Slav Frontier
Belgrade reports motorized Bulgarian units are moving toward the Yugoslav frontier with guns medical supplies and personnel. Romania and Hungary impose frontier curfews and emergency measures while Borba warns the Cominform stirs war fears among Bulgar Romanian and Hungarian peoples.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tanjug
Romania
Hungary
Marshall Tito
Cominform
Borba
Sofia
Matyas Rakosi
China Red Troops Moving Northward Reported
Hong Kong dispatches say heavy Communist troop movements northward from the mainland continue at night. Gasoline and medical supplies are shipped northward, transport in Canton is strained, and trains and trucks are mobilized to move troops from Hainan Island under General Lin Piao’s forces.
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Hong Kong
Canton
West Station
Hainan Island
Lin Piao
Hainan
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