USAF Awards Contract For Atomic Plane
The United States Air Force awarded a development contract for an atomic powered airplane with frame work to be built at Consolidated Vultee in Fort Worth Texas. Engineers expect a lightweight 100 ton power unit and discuss possible steam or mercury turbine propulsion with high speed potential surpassing the B 52 and B 36.
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Washington
Air Force
Consolidated Vultee Corporation
Fort Worth
Texas
General Electric Company
Lockland
Ohio
Auto Price Hike Set For Oct 1
Washington reports a six to eight percent factory price rise for new cars expected, with an official order due Friday. The increase, driven by higher labor and material costs since the Korea war, may be followed by a dealer markup and possible later adjustments under indirect costs provisions.
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Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Senator Capehart
R-Ind
Truman
Congress
Capehart
Worship Site Sought For Fire-Razed Church
Clarksburg West Virginia September 5. The First Methodist church board met to plan a new worship site after a 750000 fire destroyed the church. Fire Chief J J Martin said the blaze started in a basement from an undetermined cause.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
First Methodist Church
J. J. Martin
Ridgway urges new site for Korean armistice talks
Gen. Matthew Ridgway proposes selecting a new venue near Panmunjom to resume armistice negotiations with North Korea and China after Kaesong talks were suspended. He accuses the Reds of provocations and insists there were no UN violations, delivering a stern rebuke.
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Ridgway
Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Reds
Kaesong
Panmunjom
Senate approves 10 percent depletion for coal and gambling tax
Washington reports a Senate finance committee plan to tax gamblers at 10 percent and to raise about 5.97 billion annually in the revised revenue bill. The bill doubles coal depletion allowances, adds home sale capital gains rules, and taxes bookmakers, with penalties for nonpayment. pari mutuel bets and certain games are excluded.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Monay
Indian Receives Hero's Burial at Arlington
Sgt. John Rice, an Indian from Winnebago Nebraska, was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery eight days after a prior Sioux City halt. President Truman’s honor guard, Gen Palmer, and an array of dignitaries attended as the Korean War veteran’s coffin was carried by a black caisson to the grave, with rifle volleys and taps concluding the service.
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Arlington
Army
John Rice
Winnebago
Arlington National Cemetery
Sioux City
Edward Ryan Cassidy
New York
Truman
John F. Orzel
Rutland
Rice
Korea
Charles B. Palmer
Lamie Davis
Ft. Myers
Gillette
Down
Butler
Neb
John R. Beishline
Arlinton
Calvin Fisher
Wheeling
W. Va
Company A
Third Infantry
Presidential Honor Guard
Scientist Is Freed In Guinea Pig Deaths
Vermillion, Sept 5 A coroner s jury found no felonious intent or culpable negligence in the University of South Dakota human guinea pig deaths. It ruled two university employees Jack Clifford and Ardys Pearson died Aug 15 from an overdose of methadone given by Dr Louis Michalek in the medical school laboratory. The jury said there was no evidence of culpable negligence and the deaths were not felonious.
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University of South Dakota
Jack Clifford
Ardys Pearson
Louis Michalek
University
Medical School
Seven Navy Fliers Die In Flames At Sea
Seven navy fliers died when their twin engine P2V bomber crashed into the sea during an exercise with a submarine off Quonset Point R I The crash was witnessed by the submarine crew who said the plane showed distress before plunging and exploding The navy said search was abandoned with no bodies found and the cause remained unknown
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Quonset Point
R. I
Navy
Degfaces Win Bloody Ridge In Long Fight
United States forces of the Second Division rout the Bloody Ridge position in eastern Korea after a 17 day battle. The final assault captured the ridgeline with light opposition, leaving only scattered remnants of a North Korean regiment. The victory advances the Allied limited offensive five miles.
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Eighth Army
Korea
Russian Tanks Reappear On Korean Front
Allied infantry on the Western Front and Korea report the first appearance of Russian type tanks on the Korean front since last winter. An official disclosure notes 700,000 Reds including Caucasian Soviet puppet troops are massing for a possible offensive. Two T-34 tanks approached a UN outpost west of Yondon but did not engage.
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Korea
United Nations
Yondon
Bloody Ridge fight continues near Yanggu and Punchbowl
Allied forces pressed the hill battles north of Yanggu as prisoners were taken in a final push. Reports say a third of a million observers found the struggle for Bloody Ridge ten times tougher than Fools Mountain, with Reds defending two crests and stiff resistance near the Punchbowl. South Korean troops faced counterattacks and marine patrols pushed beyond the line while Australian meteor jets tangled with Communist MIGs in northwestern Korea.
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Yanggu
Lago
George McArthur
Fifth Air Force
Royal Australian Air Force
Korea
Two Hurricanes Rise In Atlantic As Fox And Easy Form
Miami Sept 5 Two hurricanes dubbed Fox and Easy churned the Atlantic with 135 mph winds. Fox formed 1,700 miles east of Antigua and Easy, found by a hurricane hunter, centers at 135 mph with gales to 80 miles. A third disturbance weakened to 40 mph squalls.
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Miami
Fla
Atlantic
Caribbean
Antigua
British West Indies
Grady Norton
Miami Weather Bureau
Norton
Federal Judge Halts Copper Industry Strike Nationwide
A federal district court order halted a strike crippling copper lead and zinc production. The Taft Hartley act restraining order runs until Sept 15 at 2pm MST with a hearing a day earlier. Big Four producers Kennecott Anaconda Phelps Dodge and AS&R named along with 31 operators.
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Denver
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Ind
Coeur d’Alene
Idaho
Kennecott Copper Corp
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
Phelps Dodge Corporation
American Smelting & Refining Co
Government slashes key metals allocations for consumer goods
Washington reports a sharper cut in October allocations for steel copper and aluminum to producers of stoves refrigerators radios and other household appliances. Auto production will keep a 60 percent allowance for the fourth quarter while the third quarter stood at 65 percent.
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Washington
Defense
Manly Fleischmann
Pennsy Teachers Pay Row Strike Spreads
A strike by 161 teachers demanding back salaries spread to three more Pennsylvania districts in Schuylkill and Northumberland counties as schools opened. Some districts owe one and a half to six months of pay due to tax collection issues in coal regions, with talks suggesting possible end in sight for two other districts.
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Cass
Schuylkill
Northumberland
Pottsville
Pennsylvania
Kansans Again Face Floods
In Kansas City and Topeka the Kaw river rose anew, threatening flood damage after the costly July disaster. North Topeka evacuated 3,000 residents as a precaution while Kansas City industrial districts brace for renewed overflow. A forecast crest near noon would approach but stay short of July records as merchants move goods to upper floors.
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Kansas City
Topeka
Kansas
Argentine
Armourdale
Central
Four Laurel Creek miners killed by flood blamed on mismanagement
Federal Mine Inspectors faulted Laurel Creek Coal Company for improper precautions after four Fayette county miners died August 13 at Laurel No 1 mine when water from abandoned workings flooded an entry. Inspectors recommended bore holes 20 feet ahead within 200 feet of abandoned passages and closer coordination with federal and state authorities.
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Laurel Creek
Hall
Federal Bureau of Mines
State Mines Department
United Mine Workers District 29
Bureau of Mines
West's Envoys Solidly Back OFUS Britain
San Francisco dispatch reports Andrei Gromyko attacking the Japan peace conference draft as a Western bid to bind Japan to U.S. military aims. He argued the pact would allow U.S. bases in the Far East and fail to curb Japanese militarism. Britain’s Kenneth Younger and Dulles defended the treaty as China absent.
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San Francisco
Russia
Andrei Gromyko
America
Britain
Gromyko
Far East
Japan
U. S
Red China
Dulles
Kenneth Younger
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Acheson
John Foster Dulles
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Cass Township High School
Curt
Degfaces
Roks
Hubert Reeves
Beverly Jean Hall
Wilmington
Joliet, Ill
U.S
Alfred P
Murrah
Oklahoma City
Jess H. Rosenberg
Pennsy
Tim
West
Ofus
Dean Acheson
China
Saelktee
Comuna
S. R
Formosa
Pescadores Islands
Family of Nations
MacArthur
Younger
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