Cain Demands UN Bomb Fee Over Border
Senator Cain of Washington urges UN forces in Korea to fight with total effort until a peace acceptable to the United States is secured He backs Gen MacArthur’s plan to bomb Red China bases and criticizes the State Department for limiting air power He calls for allied troop contributions and accuses foes of buying friendship with dollars The Senate inquiry may end tomorrow night if no further witnesses are called
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Washington
Cain
R-Wash
U.N
Korea
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
Russell
D-Ga
MacArthur
Red China
Manchurian
State Department
Russia
Jacob Malik
Manchu
Emmett
Rosie) O'Donnel
Red
China
McMahon
D-Conn
W. Averell Harriman
Malik
38Th
U. S. State Department
U. S
Willin
Department
U. N
Kefauver Attacks House Gambling Tax Plan
Senator Kefauver denounces a $50 annual occupational tax on professional gamblers as a quasi legalisation of gambling. He favors the crime committee's approach to tax measures aimed at driving professional bettors from the business, while Senator Wiley notes the need to avoid federal sanction of state illegal activities. The House bill also imposes a 10 percent levy on gross receipts, with projected revenue near $400 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
House
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate
28 Bodies Recovered From Plane Wreckage
In Monrovia Liberia on June 24 Pan American Constellation crash victims were recovered. Twenty eight bodies were taken to Sonyeh Lutheran station for burial after the loss of 31 passengers and nine crew members in a jungle mountainside crash during a flight from Johannesburg to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monrovia
Liberia
Pan American
Sonyeh
Johannesburg
South Africa
New York
First Soldier To Die In Korea Buried With Full Military Honors
Beckley honors Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick 19 as the first U S foot soldier killed in the Korean War. He died July 5 after firing a bazooka at tanks near a muddy Korean graveyard. His mother Lucille Weeping dad Theodore attend the service as ministers and choir offered prayers and hymns.
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U. S
Shadrick
Korea
Beckley
United Nations
U.S
Pvt
Kenneth Shadrick
Lucille Shadrick
Theodore
Alvin J. Cook
Beckley First Baptist Church
Sojong
Ken
Gene Brown
Brown
Whispering Hope
Lucille
Kenneth
Parents recall son Kenneth Shadrick at Korea funeral
Beckley West Virginia June 24 Kenneth Shadrick 19 died in Korea while firing a bazooka. His parents Theodore and Lucille Shadrick described their thoughts during the 43 minute service and spoke of peace and fear over future losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Shadrick
Beckley
W. Va
Theodore Shadrick
Kenneth
German Defender of Brest Out Of Jail
Gen. Hermann Bernhard Ramcke, the German defender of Brest in World War II, has been released from a French prison and returned to Germany. A Paris court sentenced him to five years for war crimes on March 23 after five years of confinement without sentence. he escaped in January and reported to French police two months later.
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Paris
Hermann Bernhard Ramcke
Brest
Germany
Ramcke
Controls Showdown Opens in Senate Over Price and Rent Limits
Washington reports the Senate will open debate on a White House warned disaster if Congress delays controls. The House plan would extend pay, price and rent controls beyond June 30. CIO President Walter Reuther says the watered down bills will raise prices by about 12 billion dollars yearly. National Grange head Herschel Newsom seeks looser farm price rules, opposing annual parity limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
White House
Congress
House
Walter Reuther
CIO Auto Workers Union
Herschel D. Newsom
National Grange
Newsom
National Marble Tourney Starts Today
Asbury Park N J June 24 Fifty marble shooters from across the country begin play tomorrow in the 27th national marbles tournament. The event runs through Friday to crown the national champion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
N. J
Acheson Sees Victory For UN In Korean War
Secretary of State Acheson declared the Korean conflict a UN victory and warned that Communists talk of peace while planning for war. He said aggression was repelled, alliance unity strengthened, and the free world remains vigilant against false Soviet peace proposals. He emphasized readiness to end fighting only with ironclad guarantees against future aggression.
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Washington
Acheson
Malik
U. N
Korea
U. S
Woman Found Dead in Trunk of Estranged Husband Car
Birmingham June 24 A 37 year old woman Eunice Pitner was shot four times and found in the trunk of her estranged husband D L Pitner 38 who was shot once in the chest and is under police guard in hospital. Deputy Coroner James O Buller said Pitner will be charged with murder if he recovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
James O. Buller
Eunice Pitner
Butler
D. L. Pitner
Pitner
Mrs. Pitner
Mercury Misses Lemonade in Heated Bluefield Day
Bluefield sweltered in near ninety degree heat as the official thermometer hit 89. The government observer, C. K. Caldwell, reported a mid afternoon reading near 67.5, just shy of lemonade temperatures. Today’s forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and a high of 88.
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Mercury
C. K. Caldwell
Caldwell
Bluefield
Two Poles In Plane Escape Communists
Two Polish men landed near Passau in an old biplane claiming to be fugitives from a Communist homeland. They were taken into custody near an American troop encampment and held while the U S army intelligence investigates. Identities were not released.
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Passau
Germany
U. S
Here
U. S. Army
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Truman May Answer Malik In Foreign Policy Speech
President Truman prepared a major foreign policy address in Blair House, weighing Malik’s Korean truce proposal and possible terms. He planned to fly to Tennessee to dedicate the Arnold Engineering Development Center, with advisers debating changes after Malik’s speech stirred questions.
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Truman
Malik
Washington
Tennessee
Russia
U.N
Jacob A. Malik
38Th Parallel
Blair House
Tullahoma
Tenn
Arnold Engineering Development Center
Henry H
Hap) Arnold
Teuman
U. N. Assembly
Nasrollah Entezam
New York
U.N. Good Offices Committee
Pr Enteram
U. N
U. S
Alan Kirk
Moscow
Peilping
Ridgway Says USSR Won't Arm China To Win Korea
Gen. Matthew Ridgway, marking the war's first anniversary, stated he does not believe the Soviet Union intends to supply China with the arms needed to win in Korea. He warned that such aid would strengthen China militarily and threaten Manchuria, insisting Chinese leaders know that U.N. forces will continue to resist.
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Ridgway
Ussr
China
Tokyo
Matthew B Ridgway
Russia
Korea
Manchuria
United Nations
Korentury
U.N
US Needs Cited In Air Defense
Newburg New York June 24 The eastern air defense force ended a three day 19 state test stressing army navy and civil observer cooperation in air defense Maj Gen Frederic H Smith Jr EADF commander said radar and fighters cannot stop every attacking aircraft and called for the 200000 man ground observer corps He noted need for antiaircraft guns for close in defense and navy radar and fighters for sea based heavy attacks The exercise covered northeastern states from Minnesota to the Carolinas as part of a nationwide maneuver at Colorado Springs Colorado
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburg
Eastern Air Defense Force
Frederic H. Smith, Jr
EADF
Stewart Air Force Base
Smith
Navy
Minnesota
Carolinas
Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Colo
Dr J C King Dies At Radford Virginia
Dr J C King 80 longtime superintendent of Southwestern State Hospital at Marion and founder of St Alban s sanatorium died in a Radford hospital. He was charter member of Southwest Virginia Medical society and had 50 years in State Medical society. Surviving are wife two daughters and two sons. Funeral Tuesday 2 from residence. Entombment in Sherwood Abbey Salem.
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Radford
J.C. King
Southwestern State Hospital
Marion
St. Alban's
Radford Hospital
Southwest Virginia Medical Society
State Medical Society
Fannie Price King
Clara K. Dickinson
A. A. Brown
Lexington
John Cameron Fins
James P. King
Radord
Nine Year Old Boys Drown While Fishing
Two nine year old boys from Willoughby Ohio drowned while trout fishing in Elk county Pennsylvania. Jeffry Kneen and David Caldwell fell in deep water. Caldwell tried to aid him and both disappeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's
Ohio
Elk County
Jeffry Kneen
David Caldwell
Willoughby, O
Caldwell
U N urges talks for cease fire immediately
United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie urged an early cease fire in Korea and called for negotiations on military terms to halt fighting. He noted political issues would follow at the UN and raised questions about China’s role and future government for Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N. Y
U. N
Trygve Lie
Russia
Jacob A. Malik
Lie
Oslo
Norway
38Th Parallel
Korea
Malik
Red China
Formosa
Peiping
China
South Korea
U.N
Price of Peace
North Korea
Moscow
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Salem
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