Expansion Of Security Plan Voted
The House approved a compromise social security bill by a 374 to 1 vote to raise benefits and expand coverage. It moves to the Senate for action. The measure increases average monthly benefits, extends coverage to about 10 million more workers, and raises payroll taxes after 1954 reaching 3.75 percent in 1970.
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Washington
House
Rep
Byrnes
R-Wis
Senate House Conference
Senate
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
Truman
Bombing Run By 101 B 29s Breaks North Korean River Conflict
Washington reports 101 B 29 Superfortresses dropped 1 000 tons of bombs in a mass raid aimed at cracking a 60 000 man North Korean buildup along the Naktong. Red troops retreat across the river as American air power soaks a 26 square mile zone in quarter ton bombs.
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Washington
Air Force
Tokyo
Naktong River
U. S
New York
Manhattan Island
East Side
West Bank
Naktong
Eighth Army
Hay Boyle
Waegwan
Earle E. Partridge
U.S
Fifth Air Force
Erickson
Hyonpong
Taegu
Red
Changnyong
U. S. 24Th Infantry
U. S. First Cavalry
Tuksong
Draft calls total 185000 this fiscal year
The selective service director disclosed to a House committee that 50 000 men may be called in November and at least 35 000 more over the next seven months, adding to 100 000 already ordered for September and October. He warned world conditions may require more than 185 000 inductions this year.
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Washington
Selective Service Boards
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
House Appropriations Committee
Hershey
Armed Services
Hershel
Army
Navy
Air Force
House Votes to Restore City Mail Deliveries to Two Daily
The House approved a bill to force the Post Office Department to cancel an April 17 order cutting city home deliveries to one daily and curtailing other services. The roll call was 264 to 108 and a Senate committee has approved a companion bill despite doubts of a Truman veto.
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Washington
House
Senate
Post Office Department
Truman
No Occasion for Alarm After All
Two amateur photographers seeking harbor shots near a Baltimore pier were seized by police after a customs officer alerted authorities. In pre-dawn fog, the men moved with a small instrument, talked excitedly, and were detained as officers closed in.
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Baltimore
Myrna Loy Files Uncontested Divorce from Gene Markey
In Cuernavaca Mexico Myrna Loy filed a divorce application Tuesday charging mental cruelty. Attorney Francisco Lopez Figueroa said Loy filed personally and Markey is not contesting. The couple married January 3 1946 and have no children. Loy was previously married to John D Hertz Jr. Uncontested divorces are usually granted in about two weeks.
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Mexico City
Myrna Loy
Gene Markey
Cuernavaca
Francisco Lopez Figueroa
Markey
Miss Loy
John D. Hertz, Jr
Chicago
Polio Theory Links Wounds To Disease Surge
Washington doctor Dr James G Cumming proposes that infantile paralysis requires a wound to allow the polio virus to invade the nervous system. He cites summer injury rates and wound-related disruption of nerve fibers, noting many fatal bulbar polio cases followed tonsillectomies and other wounds.
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Washington
James G. Cumming
Cumming
Farm Luck or Oil Dreams in Early Morning Work
A light note on farming as a path to fortune only if oil is struck. The joke suggests long hours and hard work may pay off when oil appears, mixing rural labor with speculative wealth.
Linn County approves $2 million budget for 1951
Linn county board of supervisors unanimously approved the 1951 budget totaling $2,055,873 with $1,373,750 to be raised by taxation. Cedar Rapids levy set at 7.06 mills, countywide rate near 60 mills overall, and outside Cedar Rapids 9.32 mills. Tax valuations rose to $125,640,000. Also authorized $331.70 for an electric typewriter for Court Reporter Arthur Bye.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Board of Supervisors
State Tax Commission
Arthur Bye
Yardmen Strike Called at Three Rail Terminals
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen ordered yardmen to begin a five day strike at three terminals Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Louisville Minnesota Transfer St Paul River Terminal Cleveland. Action follows White House failure to curb a looming national rail stoppage and talks breaking off Tuesday night with Steelman to craft a renewed negotiation basis.
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Washington
Brotherhood of Railway
Kentucky and Indiana
White House
Truman
Brotherhood
John R. Steelman
Charles G. Ross
Steelman
Navy Neptune Ditches Off Korea In Yellow Sea Rescue Underway
A U S Navy Neptune patrol bomber ditched in the Yellow Sea near Ongjin northwest of Seoul. The seven crew were afloat in rubber rafts as Grumman rescue planes with Mustang fighters and an American destroyer moved to the scene to aid in the rescue.
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U.S. Fifth Air Force Headquarters, Korea
Yellow Sea
Ongjin
Seoul
Grumman
Thailand Accepts 4000 Troop Offer for Korea
The United States and United Nations accepted Thailand s offer to send 4000 combat troops to Korea. The acceptance was disclosed Wednesday after a brief meeting between Defense Secretary Johnson and Prince Wan Waithayakon Thai ambassador.
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Washington
U.N
Thailand
Korea
Defense
Johnson
Prince Wan Waithayakon
All Iowa fair program features stock car trials and dramatic wreck
The All Iowa fair stock car events open Thursday with 100 mile time trials at 10 a.m. and a 100 mile race at 2 p.m. on 1940 to 1950 models, followed by an 8 p.m. grand finale. Wednesday saw a motorcycle time-trial accident injuring Jerry Smith of Ottumwa. Attendance peaked at 2,400 midafternoon, with a 26,854 on-the-grounds figure reported for Tuesday.
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All- Iowa Fair Revue
Jerry Smith
Ottumwa
Smith
American Motorcycle Association
Gazette Carrier
Ala Ming
Vic Hyde
All Iowa fair revue draws crowd after strong show
Tuesday crowd sizes topped 2300 for the afternoon horse races and about 5000 for the All Iowa fair revue. The revue continues nightly at the fair. The Mar-Vels delivered a full teeterboard act after a hiccup Monday.
Tibet Quake Rocks Roof of the World
A major earthquake struck eastern Tibet Tuesday night. No casualties reported yet, but hundreds may have died. Shocks were felt across India and Pakistan with some buildings cracked in the region.
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New Delhi
Tibet
India
Pakistan
Patient Proves Surgery Success at Lawson Veterans Hospital
Former Pvt Lawrence Smith of Decatur Alabama, blinded in the army seven years ago, underwent a vision restoration operation at Lawson Veterans Hospital. When bandages came off on a Tuesday the staff gathered as he blinked and exclaimed My God you re beautiful, signaling a successful result.
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Atlanta
Lawrence Smith
Decatur
Ala
Lawson Veterans Hospital
G.I
Move of 40 000 To Korea Listed
Washington reports more than 40 000 military personnel moved from the United States to Korea since the invasion. A navy spokesman said the Military Sea Transport Service moved over 1 500 000 tons of cargo and more than 2 000 000 barrels of petroleum, detailing Pentagon briefings.
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Washington
U.S
Korea
Navy
Pentagon
Military Sea Transport Service
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