Russians Claim Reds Warships Earth’s Fastest
Soviet Navy leaders plus Pravda declare ships the fastest and most invulnerable with great firepower. Reports note hundreds of new first class warships in 19 years and shipyard push to build faster as Navy Day is celebrated with parades and demonstrations.
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Earth
Moscow
S. E. Zakharov
The
Coastal Artillery
Golovko
Pravda
London
Radio Moscow
Soviet Union
Pyongyang
Korea
Russia
Korea War
Forrest P. Sherman
United States
Supreme Soviet
Mrs FDR Inherits From Godmother Inheritance Revealed
New York July 23 A banker's widow left jewelry silver and a quarter of a substantial estate to her godchild Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt The will filed in Surrogate's Court also bequeaths to Anna Roosevelt the late president's daughter a cameo and diamond pin and to Sumner Welles a Chinese cabinet and dishes The amount of the estate was not disclosed
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Susan Ludlow Farish
Anna
Sumner Welles
Parish
Roosevelt
Anna Hall Roosevelt
Navy Jet Fighters Strike Korea Oil Refineries and Rail Hubs
Jet planes from carriers off Korea launched first combat missions and claimed their first casualty this week. Admiral Sherman praised the jets' performance as strikes hit Inchon and Wonsan refineries, depots, rail yards, and bridges. Lieutenant Wendell R. Muncie died heroically strafing a highway, while other pilots reported fires and heavy smoke from refinery targets and rail tunnels as anti air fire intensified around Kimpo and Seoul.
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Korea
Forrest Sherman
Naval Operations
Washington
Inchon
Seoul
Wonsan
Kimpo
Wendell R. Muncie
San Diego
Calif
Muncie
Peter Cane
Hearts
St. Albans
England
G. C. Onion
Christ
Church
Hampshire
North Korea
William Pittman
Tampa
Fla
Midway
Pittman
David Booker
Ariington
Texas
South Pacific
Booker
Navy Skyraiders
Charles Darrow
Antioch
Coronado
Adm
Sherman
Navy
Rey
John E. Ford
Brookfield
Mass
Ford
Richard E. Downs
Whittier
Kosong
William Henry
Bakersfield
Carrier Air Group
Harvey Lanham
Temple City
Lanham
James R. Pavelle
Lima
Ohio
Robert G. Aldrich
Eugene
Ore
Air Force
William W. Fincher
Bethlehem
13Th
Seventh Fleet
Bazookas and Guns Repel Red Armored Drive in Korea
Allied reports describe a Red tank assault near Taejon repelled by American ground and air forces. US forces including First Cavalry (Infantry) Division and F 51 Mustangs attacked advancing tanks, with several vehicles and hideouts destroyed. A Boxer aircraft carrier arrived with warplanes, while Major General William F. Dean remained missing.
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Pyongyang
William F. Dean
Dean
Taejon
Associated Press
Leif Erickson
Eighth Army
O. H. P. King
Erickson
Taejon-Yongdong
First Cavalry
Pohang
Yongdok
Yongdong
Reds
Pusan
Taegu
Hameochang
San Francisco
Japan
Pacific
Korea
F&o
Kum
First
Jet pilots praise speedy Shooting Stars F80 in Korea
In Tokyo a group of American pilots from bases in Japan extol the F80 Shooting Star after missions over Korea. They report success against tanks trucks and equipment, with pilots like Coffin Works Locke and Eager praising range altitude and combat effectiveness alongside Gen Stratemeyer’s figures showing F80s accounting for most sorties and vehicle losses.
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Tokyo
Japan
Korea
Robert A. Coffin
Indianapolis
Albert B. Works
Dallas
Texas
Works
William Locke
Enfield
N. C
Eager
Eighth
Pacific
George E. Stratemeyer
Far East
Stratemeyer
Rationing Reminders Thief Steals Gasoline
Police investigate a theft at 519 East Seventh Street where J. T. Haygood reports 40 to 45 gallons siphoned from three gas trucks. Authorities consider a restart of rationing as a possible context for the loss.
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J. T. Haygood
East Seventh Street
Haygood
US to withdraw from Bluie West Eight Greenland base
Copenhagen reports that US airmen at Bluie West Eight on Greenland will be replaced by Danish soldiers soon under a new agreement between Denmark and the United States. Bluie West One personnel will stay for now. both bases date from World War II on Greenland coast.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Berlinske Tidende
Greenland
Durbin Injured in Car Collision at Sixth and Lamar
John R. Durbin aged 33 of 1506 South Third Street suffered head lacerations and multiple broken ribs after a two car crash at Sixth and Lamar Sunday. He received treatment at Brackenridge Hospital. The other driver was Roger J. Allard, per patrolman Bert Gerding.
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John R. Durbin
South Third Street
Sixth
Lamar
Brackenridge Hospital
Bert Gerding
Roger J. Allard
North Korean tanks blown by U.S. daisy chain trap on Korean highway
On the Taejon Yongdong highway in Korea a North Korean tank is blown by a roadside mine trap laid by American engineers led by Lieutenant Raymond Whelan. The first tank detonated over a daisy chain of mines, killing its crew. a second tank was destroyed around a bend. Mustang fighters circled above as the two tanks burned.
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Taejon-Yong-Dong Highway
Korea
Raymond Whelan
Laird
Whelan
Wayne Harris
Rolla
Garnet Cramer
Michigan
John T. Stevens
New Boston
Ohio
Whelans
Japan
Moosup
Conn
William C. Thomas Jr
Jacksonville
Fla
Wrong Way Charlie Hooks Back from Taejon Front
Private First Class Charles Ferguson of Narrows Virginia walked behind enemy lines after his convoy was shelled and his truck wrecked. He used a compass a straw hat and a watermelon to survive with Korean help then slipped toward the American lines after a night on the mountains and a North Korean village encounter.
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Taejon Front
Taejon
Charles Ferguson
Narrows
Ferguson
Joe
Emmel
Lad Injured in Leap From Driverless Car
An eight year old boy named David Messer was injured when he leaped from a driverless car that rolled from his home on Newning. Police said the car moved about 100 feet, jumped a curb, and rolled 80 feet across a vacant lot before hitting a brick wall. He was treated at Stackenridge Hospital and released. Patrolman C Dipprey investigated.
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David Messer
L. R. Messer
Newning
Stackenridge Hospital
Leland Street
C Dipprey
Sheriff Probes North Austin Accidental Shooting
The sheriff's department investigates the accidental shooting of Daniel Smith age 45 at 1014 San Marcos Street. Smith was struck in the right leg late Saturday near the St. John's addition just outside the city limits north of Austin. Chief Deputy Bob Baker confirms Smith's account of where the incident occurred.
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Sheriff's Department
Daniel Smith
San Marcos Street
Smith
Bob Baker
St. John’s Addition
Austin
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