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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1950
Page
4
British engineers remotely detonated a 1 000 pound dud bomb found near Berlin’s Soviet War Memorial after three days of talks with Soviet authorities. The blast occurred about 350 yards away, causing no damage to the monument and prompting continued negotiations over responsibility and safety.
Allied and enemy reports say six North Korean divisions moved toward Kumchon a key hub on the Pusan supply route. U S forces halted advances as First Cavalry withdrew to stronger lines after heavy fighting near Yongdong and Taejon. Navy carrier planes joined Air Force strikes across southern, western, central and east coast fronts.
Fort Worth publisher Amon G. Carter bought the 2,155 acre former airport site near Everman from the city for 685000 cash. The sale takes effect Sept. 1. The city had acquired the land in 1946 for 628699 as an airport site but it was never developed. Carter plans to develop an industrial area at the site.
The body of William Lyon MacKenzie King lay in state as thousands mourned in silent lines along the route from Parliament to the church he attended for years. Mourners stood five deep and paid respects in the streets during the former prime minister’s funeral rites.
GEORGETOWN July 26 Methodist Bishop William C. Martin of Dallas Fort Worth urged change in the pulpit during the Pastor's School golden anniversary at Southwestern University. He warned that religion is in transition and that the world can be changed if enough men are truly changed. He criticized tampering with trifles and neglect of the heart of the Christian message.
A slight earthquake struck Mexico City for a few seconds on Wednesday. The National Observatory detected the tremor at 11:41:28 am CST. It was strongest in Tacubaya, a suburb, with the epicenter about four percent miles away. No damage was reported.
A B50 bomber dropped a non explosive blockbuster size bomb near Cuthbert Georgia by accident during a Wednesday mission. A Chatham Air Force Base spokesman cited a mechanical failure in the release mechanism. The inert bomb weighing between 3000 and 5000 pounds buried into a farm field as salvage crews moved in to recover it.
Senator Sparkman of Alabama and Representative Patman of Texas drafted a bill to form a Small Defense Plants Corporation. It would loan credit to small businesses and help them produce war materials, modeled after the WWII Smaller War Plants Corporation.
Reports from refugees and travelers in Mexico City say an open revolution is imminent in Guatemala City. Demonstrations have led President Arevalo to suspend constitutional guarantees and place the country under military control amid new disturbances.
W H Johnson and Frank Young tied in the Corsicana first primary for justice of the peace Place 1. Each had 2 269 votes with Johnson leading unofficially by 34. county tabulations show Young gaining 34 votes. They advance to the August 26 runoff.
Chicago reports Karol Heys, 23, of Washington Indiana, weighed 331 pounds and stood six foot three. Despite carrying 120 pounds too much by Medical Corps standards, doctors called him a good specimen and approved his enlistment.
Orange County Sheriff announced four men arrested Tuesday at Victor in connection with an assault on Newton County game warden Dempsey Leonard of Deweyville. Leonard, who was investigating cattle thefts, was knocked unconscious and left on a logging tramway last Thursday.
UN Secretary General Trygve Lie forecast that a UN backed defense against the Korean invasion would avert a third world war. Britain, Australia, New Zealand joined Thailand and Turkey in offering ground forces as part of a growing Allied expeditionary force. US Ambassador Warren Austin praised rising confidence in UN peacekeeping as morale and reinforcements mount. The tone among non Communist officials was elated over the rapid build up of allied troops. A senior UN official summarized the sentiment saying patience yields good news.
MT. CARROLL Illinois July 26 Four year old Sandra Holmquest wandered away from home that day. The sheriff organized a search party but to no avail. A neighbor suggested the Holmquests fox terrier Skippy might help. Unleashed Skippy bounded away and fifteen minutes later returned with Sandra.
Washington reports an Army spokesman says individual reserve officers not in recallable units are not being drafted now. The service studies whether reserve medical officers will be ordered to duty, noting only 15 of 3,000 responses volunteered so far. The Army needs 254 reserve medical officers with more to follow while probing obligations of WWII trained doctors. The Navy seeks about 400 medical officers as roughly half of 4,200 WWII medical graduates hold naval reserve commissions. The Air Force will recall only needed reserve medical officers and will release residents to duty before any voluntary recalls.
Six airmen were killed when a twin engine B25 bomber crashed in a thunderstorm near Oakley Kansas. The plane departed from Scott Field Illinois en route to Lowry Field Colorado and originated from Randolph Field Texas. Victims' names were to be released by Scott Field. The wreckage lay in a pasture about 300 yards from H A Hauschild’s farm, 12 miles southeast of Oakley.
George Bernard Shaw, aged 94 at Ayot, Astounds staff with strict birthday ban yet reveals a new seven day play The Lady She Would Not. He pens letters claiming near top status among playwrights and political thinkers while secretary Blanche Patch notes vast word output over a lifetime.
Bandleader Henry King, who suffered a heart attack two weeks ago at the Shamrock Hotel's Emerald Room, showed improved condition on Wednesday. Doctors said he remains seriously ill but may spend portions of each day without an oxygen tent as he recovers in Houston.
Gerald F. Dunne, executive director of the Metropolitan Package Store Association, urged against panic buying of liquor. He said sales scares hurt the industry and noted aging whiskey stocks are at record levels, over 100 million gallons more than at the start of World War II.
President Truman signed a 1.22 billion foreign arms aid bill with a warning that freedom loving nations will stand together to thwart aggression. Acheson disclosed use of ECA funds to speed military buildup and potential expansion to more nations as needed for American security.
Texas Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline Company has completed about $120 million in financing for a natural gas pipeline from the Texas Gulf Coast to Chicago. The affiliate of Peoples Gas Light & Coke signed to sell $90 million of first mortgage bonds to 16 insurers, took $12 million for interim notes, and its stockholders bought $17 million more of common stock.
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