Red Bazookas Stop Allied Tank Task Force Front Clash
TOKYO June 1 Communist troops fighting along the east Korean front forced an Allied tank infantry task force back with bazooka fire. Allied advances slowed as reserves fought stiff resistance near Kumsong and Kumwha. US and UN bases at Inchon and Kimpa were bombed by a mystery bomber, with no casualties reported.
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U. N
Tokyo
Comunist
North Korea
Kumsong
United Nations
Seal
Kimpa
Inchon
South Korea
Mps
Suwon
Seoul
Iron Triangle
Kumwha
An Yn
Congress S put to public pressure for stiffer curbs
Washington June 17 Increasing consumer pressure and a June 30 deadline spurred House and Senate Banking Committees to push a beefed-up controls law by week’s end. Chairmen Maybank and Spence warned it will be tough. Some lawmakers favor a stop-gap extension of current price wage rent and production controls. President Truman opposes temporary action. Mobilization Chief Wilson and Economic Stabilizer Johnston plan last-minute push at a Monday meeting. Mail flood followed Truman radio TV appeal for public support of controls.
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House
Senate Banking
Sen
Maybank
D-S.c
Ren. Spence
D-Ky
Truman
Wilson
Johnston
Housing policy charged as sabotage by critic
Representative Albert Cole of Kentucky accuses the Truman administration of sabotaging private housing in crowded cities and defense zones to push socialized housing through direct government building. He cites the Defense Production Administration slow action on relaxing housing credit rules for private builders and claims roadblocks are meant to force federal building programs.
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Washington
Albert Cole R-Kasi
Cole
Truman
Tru- Tan
Defense Production Administration
Congress
Defense Housing Mill
DPA
Sreas Cormmi
You Can Beat the Atom and Survive Hiroshima
A report from New York describes survival of 1200 Japanese beneath a atom bomb in Hiroshima as a sign of hope. Dr. L W Tuttle of the US Atomic Energy Commission notes some structures withstood blast in the zone of total destruction. The article follows with remarks by Rep. Melvin Price and a Senate House committee staff report on dispersing American industry to defend against atomic attack.
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New York
Jean
Hiroshima
L. W. Tuttle
Biology and Medicine
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Institute of Food Technologists
Hotel New Yorker
Melvin Price Dili
Eniwetok Atoll
Melvin Price
D-N
House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Washington
INS
Government vows tough curbs on executive salaries
The Government announced it will apply the same strict standards to approving executive pay raises as for workers. Joseph D. Cooper, head of the Salary Stabilization Board, said the aim is equal treatment under law for executives and rank and file workers. The board will name its three members soon, with Cooper leading temporarily. A Labor Department report warned that housewives form the nation’s largest potential labor reserve in the ongoing manpower crisis, predicting a rise in women workers beyond WWII peaks and outlining community facilities, housing, transportation, and training needs to mobilize this pool.
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Joseph D. Cooper
Salary Stabilization Board
SSB
Eric Johnston
Wage Stabilization Board
Cooper
Johnston
State Department
INS
Labor Department
Department
United States
Labor
Tobin
Women’s Bureau
Frieda Miller
Ices
German Soldier Emerges After Six-Year Bunker Entombment
A German soldier buried alive for six years in an abandoned bunker near Gdynia resurfaced with a knee long beard and hair to his ankles. He was hospitalized in serious condition after emerging with other survivor and a man who died of a heart attack during deliverance. Officials gave few details.
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Warsaw
Gdynia
Berlin
Woman Dies Man Hurt In Pistol Duel At Home
Thelma Foster, 38, was killed in a pistol duel at the Wevaco home, with husband Samuel badly wounded in the lower abdomen. State police report he is in serious condition at Kanawha Valley Hospital. Troopers Burner and White said Mrs. Foster died from a neck and left chest wound after lurching to the yard. The affray began after she returned from church service. motive not determined. A neighbor said Foster was insanely jealous.
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Foster
Price
Aster
Yugoslav Border Guard Kidnapped by Bulgarian Troops
Belgrade radio reported Yugoslav border guard Osyan Kapic kidnapped by Bulgarian troops three nights earlier along the tense frontier. Seven empty machinegun shells and signs of a struggle were found near his post, with broadcasts blaming Bulgaria for border provocations.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
OsYnan Kapic
Kapic
Tanjug
Monopolistic ruling targets Atlas and Standard Oil firms
Washington June 17 71 government trial examiner Haycraft found five Standard Oil companies and Atlas Supply Co guilty of monopolistic practices in battery and auto accessory sales. The ruling bars joint actions to secure preferential treatment and would ban certain price discounts to competitors unless justified by cost differences. The decision, filed with the FTC, becomes final unless appealed or reviewed in 50 days.
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Washington
Standard Oil
Atlas Supply Co
Everett
Haycraft
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Atlas
C O Engineer Halts Train and Dies in Charleston
Talman, 39, a veteran C O railroad engineer from Hinton, collapsed dead as he stepped to the ground in Charleston at about 2 40 a m after piloting the George Washington into the Charleston depot. He had been filling in for J E Payne on the Washington to Cincinnati run. Body at Meadows Mortuary.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
George
Charleston
Washington
Cincinnati
the Meadows Mortuary
Hinton
Talman
Weatherman’s Father’s Day Ode to Clouds and Sun
Los Angeles on June 17 reports hundreds of calls to the Weather Bureau after a cloudy Father’s Day. Forecaster Emil Kuirtz, upset as a father, writes a teletype poem defending clouds and rain over sunshine. The verse laments overcast skies and notes clouds bring rain and rivers.
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Los Angeles
Weather Bureau
Farher
Emil Kuirtz
Shaw
JAINA
Ruling French Parties Hold Election Lead
France's ruling coalition led as 10 million votes counted in Sunday's national election. Communists faced losses and may drop multiple seats in the 627 member National Assembly. Coalition totals incl: Communists 2,432,700. RPF 2,227,748. Popular Republicans 1,717,110. Socialists 164,272. Redistributions favor coalition under complex seat system.
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Paris
France
de Gaullists
National Assembly
RPF
Communists
RGR
Red Ring Lures Chinese Youth From Singapore
Singapore reports undercover rings enticing Chinese students to return to China. Police say the exodus began after Communist takeover, with promises of patriotic leadership and education. Four girls seized in Hong Kong cannot return without shown remorse. others under 18. Rings coordinate passage money and northbound routes for eager youths.
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Singapore
China
Hong Kong
Palict
Bagdad Police Seize Arms at Spy Center
Bagdad Iraq June 1 Police announced seizure of a large cache of machineguns bombs and ammunition at the former name of a Jewish executive described as a Zionist sabotage and spying center. Many persons were arrested. The raid targeted Advocate Salita Murad Abia's former home once secretary of the Jewish community in Baghdad.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Iran
Israel
Issrael
Salita Murad Abaia
Rift Unhealed MacArthur Hearings Enter Fourth Day
Washington reports the Senate MacArthur hearings move into a fourth day with predictions of deep splits between pro and anti Truman forces. Sen Bridges and Sen Knowland foresee no dispute over the president's right to dismiss MacArthur, but anticipate multiple points of possible agreement as final testimony nears. The committee plans to schedule last sessions and possibly invite MacArthur back to testify. A spokesman said MacArthur has not decided on reappearing. Separately, the Nitro American Viscose plant strike entered its fourth day with little hope for quick settlement as unions and management discuss arbitration and grievances amid work-load disputes.
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Bridges
Special Investigating Committee
Sen
Knowland
R-Cal
MacArthur
New York
Texas
GOP Committee
American Viscose Corp
Nitro
Textile Workers Union of America
Wiliam S. Davis
Saurday
Mont Ray
Philadelphia
National
Bill A. Hager
Nitro Vocal No. 7
Twins Born Joined at Head Face Survival Hope
Doctors in Homberg Germany report twin girls born last Friday with their heads joined have a chance to live. They believe the brains are separated as one sleeps while the other stays awake. The babies weighed 8 pounds at caesarean delivery to the wife of a postman.
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Tiina
Homberg
Germany
Veterans Chip Bradley Over 29th Division Invasion Tale
Baltimore June 17 Angry 29th Division Veterans accuse Gen Omar N Bradley of insult to their dead and denounce his Life Magazine condensed book A Soldier's Story for ignoring the 129th Infantry Division's role at Omaha Beach. They call for public explanation by the Joint Chiefs of Staff chief.
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Div. Assoc
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Omar N. Bradley
Maryland Department of the Association
Bradley
Europe
Life Magazine
Thereson
Omaha Beach
129Th Infantry
Bodies of Seven U S Soldiers Found in Korea
An Allied patrol northwest of the Hwachon reservoir in central Korea recovered seven U S soldiers killed in a brutal attack. The dead, fully dressed, showed multiple bullet wounds and one beaten with a pick axe. Personal effects were scattered as the hillside bodies lay in two clusters.
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U. S
Sherrard
Sherard
State Woman Is Charged In Shootings
Indianapolis June 17 Special to The Gazettes Reba Szyuch 26 of Fayette County West Virginia identified as James Szyuch’s wife was jailed on murder charges after fatally shooting Rufus Grubbs and wounding his brother Burnell in a home dispute. She said the acts followed a drinking party and reported threats. her husband claimed she feared guns. Arraignment set in Municipal Court. neighbors described her as a good woman.
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Indianapolis
Burnell Grubbs
General Hospital
Grubbs
Rufus
Iis
Lucille
Reba Szyuch
Acme
Ind
Hope
W. Va
Indiana
James
Fayette County
W. Vashareff
Rufue Grubbs
Burnell
Michael Michaelis
Carl MccKeighan
West Virginia
Reba
Mt. Hope
Fayette
Harts
Passenger Ships Frozen at Piers By Contract Row
New York June 17 An official of the CIO National Maritime Union with 60000 members says no American passenger ships carrying tourist trade will move from piers until contract demands are met. The stoppage affects 65 ships across 23 major ports as mediators fail to reach a settlement.
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New York
CIO National Maritime Union
M. Hedsey Stone
NMU
CTO Rnions
Marine Engineers Beneficial Assoe
Radin Asene
ARA
Aartime
Pacific Maritime Assoc
Harry Bridges
International Longshare
Prayer for Peace Reflects Christ’s Quiet Mind
A brief devotional prayer asks for the peace that passes understanding through Jesus Christ. It expresses gratitude for God's will and seeks hearts aligned with faith, inviting all to realize true serenity comes from Christ and trust in Him.
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Nave
Asien
Tad Bester
Paste
Ejkvicu Baptist
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