Record Rate s Production Is Reported
The Commerce Department reports a record second quarter for goods and services, with inventories surging from 2.9 to 8.8 billion. personal income up in April to June, farm income down, and defense spending maintaining a 14 percent share of output. Wages rose, personal consumption climbed, and the economy shows high manufacturing activity especially in durable goods.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Department
Defense
Office of Business Economics
Rep. McCormack
Massachusetts
House
Bloodhounds, Officers Sweep North Georgia for Two Killers
Posse, bloodhounds, and more than 100 officers cordon off an Adairsville area in a manhunt for two federal prisoners who killed Deputy Marshal Sam E. Vaughn and fled with another guard. Vaughn, 54, was fatally shot on a highway as the trio headed to Atlanta to begin a five year term for transporting a stolen car. The escaped men, Eugene Juelich and Woodard Larson, were inmates in Nashville and were handcuffed and ironed when taken from the Nashville jail to Atlanta. A third man, George Hightower, is believed travelling with Vaughn to guard the prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adairsville
U. S
FBI
Adenrsville
Sam E. Vaughn
Murfreesboro
Tenn
North Georgia
Vaughn
Eugene Juelich
Butte, Mont
Woodard Larson
St. Paul
St. Paul, Minn
Atlanta
Nashville
Lss
Sam Holcombe
Bartow County
George Hightower
Davidson County
Nagasaki Survivors Pray On A Bomb Day
More than 250000 Nagasaki residents prayed for peace on the eighth anniversary of the second atomic blast. Memorial services were held at Nagasaki Peace Park with messages from leaders of Ceylon Denmark West Germany Thailand and Switzerland. Similar ceremonies occurred in Hiroshima three days earlier.
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Tokyo
Nagasaki
Kyodo
Ceylon
Denmark
West Germany
Thailand
Switzerland
Hiroshima
GIs Repatriated As Reds Release More POWs Than Expected
Wm Dillon of Bluefield Virginia and Estel McComas of Otsego appear among 125 Americans freed in the sixth day of the post armistice exchanges. The total liberated reaches 2,474, with 550 Americans in the first six days. Prisoners arrive in good health, with some carrying personal mementos as South Koreans show greater hardship. Turn to Page 3.
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Wm. Dillon
Bluefield
Estel McComas
Otsego
Panmunjom
Freedom
United Nations
Senet
U. N
Inchon
Navy
Haven
South Korea
Tokyo
United States
Republic of Korea
Area Families Rejoice As POW Returnees Made Known
News of two area prisoners of war released from camps brought joy to families in Virginia and West Virginia. Cpl William Kenneth Dillon of Bluefield noted his mother Mary Ellen Dillon tears of happiness as phones announced his release after capture in 1951. Estel H McComas of Wyoming County learned of his release by relay telephone, prompting a day of prayer.
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Mary Ellen Dillon
Route 1
Bluefield
Cpl
William Kenneth Dillon
Rufus B
Leyte Island
Philippines
Dillon
WHIS
Boissevain
Anawali
Wyoming County
Estel H. McComas
Burrell McComas
Otsego
Mullens
Estel
Shad Whitt
McComas
Estel McComas
Korea
2000 Mile Walk Helps Roofer's Wife Lose 110 Pounds
Los Angeles August 9 2000 mile trek from Fresno to the Mexican border and east deserts shrank Helen Fedorowicz 42 by 110 pounds. Her husband John 59 a roofer led the endurance journey with camping rain squalls desert sandstorms and many refusals of rides. She now weighs 155 pounds and hopes to keep it off.
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Los Angeles
Helen Fedorowicz
John
Fedorowicz
Fresno
Piccioni Promises To Form Cabinet In Italy
Rome Aug 9 Attilio Piccioni agreed to form a new government after Alcide de Gasperi was ousted by a no confidence vote. Piccioni met President Luigi Einaudi at the summer residence and pledged to establish a cabinet within days.
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Rome
Italy
Attilio Piccioni
Alcide de Gasperi
Chamber of Deputies
de Gasperi
Piccioni
Christian Democrat Party
Luigi Einaudi
Must Cut Defense Costs Says Solons In Talks
Washington August 9 influential congressmen said Eisenhower must cut defense costs next year to keep a balanced budget. Republicans and Democrats agreed 1954 tax cuts would require further reductions, mainly from military and foreign aid. Debate split on feasibility with Congress to reconvene in January for an election year.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
McCormack
Short
R-Mo
House Armed Services Committee
Oak Hill Man Drowns While Fishing in Biscayne Bay
Joseph S. Lewis III of Oak Hill West Virginia drowned in Biscayne Bay Miami while fishing with his son Joseph IV and L Chandler. Lewis jumped overboard to retrieve a skiff broke loose from Chandlers sailboat. Despite efforts of his son and Chandler Lewis could not be revived. He directed Amherst Coal and Amherst Fuel Co Charleston West Virginia and was a partner in New River Insurance Oak Hill. He was 49 and survived by his son.
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Miami
Fla
Joseph S. Lewis III
Oak Hill
W. Va
Biscayne Bay
Joseph IV
L. R. Chandler
John Bordeaux
Lewis
Chandler
Helr
Ben Sheppard
Amherst Coal Co
Amherst Fuel Co
Charleston
New River Insurance Agency
West Virginia
Joseph Lewis
Lawrenceville, Md
West Virginia University
Kentucky Military Institute
Fort Hunt Resident Killed On Highway
Ernest Johnson a Fort Hunt Virginia resident aged 54 died last night after being struck by a car on U S Route 1 six miles south of Alexandria Virginia Authorities said he was struck while on the highway and died at the scene The incident occurred on a stretch of U S Route 1 near the Fort Hunt area hence the local notice
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Alexandria
Ernest Johnson
Fort Hunt
Here
End Of The World Predictions By Kenneth Heuer
The piece previews The End of the World by Kenneth Heuer, arguing fears of planetary collision and cosmic disaster are less likely than human self destruction. It notes past apocalyptic beliefs, from Nero to the year 1000, and frames science as revealing a powerful, final danger to Earth.
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Kenneth Heuer
Mr. Heuer
Royal Astronomical Society
Rinehart & Co
Nero
Rome
Janc
Holy Land
Chapter One Prophets of Doom Opens Novel Excerpt
The passage presents a medieval tone with proclamations about the end of the world. It introduces a religious atmosphere and hints at apocalyptic themes resonating through royal declarations of the era. The text foregrounds a dramatic, cautionary mood and sets up conflict between prophecy and authority.
Knack Of Making H-Bomb Mastered By Uncle Sam Year Ago
Washington report notes Rep Hinshaw says the United States mastered hydrogen bomb production and all aspects a year ago, while Rep Van Zandt cautions that Russia’s claim warrants doubt. The AEC has limited statements to thermo nuclear research and Truman hinted at a new era of destructive power from Eniwetok tests.
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Uncle Sam
Hinshaw
Frank Carey
Prporter
Washington
Russia
U. S
Georgi Malenkov
United States
Soviet Union
Eniwetok
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
Malenkov
D-Calif
van Zandt
R-Pa
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Truman
State of the Union
Congress
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Cole
R-Ny
Joint Atomic Committee
Nevada Proving Grounds
Hungry Stymied By Power Guns
Berlin reports show Communist police with automatic weapons blocking rail ticket stations to Berlin. East Germans swarmed for free American food parcels but enforcement reduced arrivals. thousands still traveled by bike or on foot. The rail blockade, now airtight, coincides with a record low food distribution of 98,704 parcels, 66,000 to East Germans.
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Berlin
Potsdam
Bernau
East Germany
Two Die In Crash At Christiansburg
A 1953 Virginia traffic toll rose to 509 as Archer Ward Grayson 46 of Christiansburg and James David Roop 29 of River died in a collision near Christiansburg on State Route 8. Albert Turner Hopkins 25 of South Boston died in hospital from burns from a Friday crash on U S 1 near Carmel Church. Ernest Johnson 54 of Fort Hunt was killed when struck by a car on U S 1 near Alexandria.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Christiansburg
Archer Ward Grayson
James David Roop
River
Burg
Montgomery County
Albert Turner Hopkins
South Boston
Richmond
U.S. 1
Carmel Church
Hopkins
Ernest Johnson
Fort Hunt
Alexandria
Air Force Base Baseball Team Plane Crashed Into Mediterranean
A U S Air Force C119 Flying Boxcar carrying 24 aboard crashed off Tripoli while en route from Udine to Wheelus Air Base. Reports say five survivors were found. wreckage sighted north of Palermo but not confirmed. NATO clarified the flight was under Wiesbaden control and not NATO. Rescue units found nothing further in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Rome
Mediterranean
Tripoli
American Armed Services
Udine
Italy
Wheelus
North Africa
U. S
Europe
Air Force
North African
Naples
Malta
Wiesbaden
NATO
E. R. Cassady
Tyrrhenian Sea
Palermo
Sicily
Unions Agree Not To Raid Each Other In Labor Pact
Washington August 9 two major unions the CIO United Rubber Workers and the AFL International Association of Machinists announced a no raid agreement pledging to respect areas already organized by the other The leaders said the pact lays down common sense rules to avoid disrupting existing bargaining relationships and to focus on organizing unorganized workers
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Washington
AFL
CIO
United Rubber Workers
International Association of Meshinists
Machinists
United Auto Workers
L. S. Buckmaster
The
Rubber Workers
al Hayes
Newsman In Line For Housing Post
Washington August 9 A West Virginia newspaperman is in line for a staff director post with a new federal housing commission. Herb Welch editor and coowner of the Delta Buckhannon is in Washington studying the job. Administrator Albert M Cole recommended Welch for ten thousand dollars a year with a commission drawn from housing industry segments. Welch worked with Cole during Eisenhower campaign and helped set up press radio and TV coverage.
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Washington
West Virginia
Federal Housing Commission
Herb Welch
Republican Delta
Buckhannon
W. Va
Welch
Albert M. Cole
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Cole
Eisenhower
International prize awarded to Sibelius in Helsinki
Sibelius wins the first International Wihuri Foundation musical prize worth 21250 dollars. Antti Wihuri foundation, established by Finnish millionaire, announces the award in Helsinki on August 9.
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Sibelius
Helsinki
Finland
Jan Sibelus
Wihuri Foundation
Antti Wihuri
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