Inferno Beneath Raiders A 98-B29 Air Assault Over Korea
AP reporter Hal Boyle describes a massive August 16 air strike from a Fifth Air Force B-29 raid over WaeGwan Korea. He notes 98 bombers dropping ten tons each, startling nearly 40 000 North Koreans massed near Taegu, with vivid imagery of the smoke and fire, a mountainous hammering that reshapes the landscape below.
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Waegwan
Korea
Here
Taegu
James R. Young
Lowell St
Denver
Colo
Korean Troops Panic After Major B 29 Bombing
Tokyo reports say Red Korean troops retreated in panic across the Naktong as 98 American B 29s saturated a 26 square mile target near Waegwan. First Cavalry Division tanks scouted ruined Waegwan while North Koreans attempted to hold hills north of the city under artillery fire.
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Tokyo
Naktong River
Waegwan
Taegu
Hal Boyle
First Cavalry Division
Boyle
Naktong
United States
New York
Manhattan Island
GOP Plans Red Ban to Control Home Front
Senate Democrats faced an uphill fight as they try to block a Republican bid to add an anti subversion amendment to a bill granting President Truman broad home front controls. Democratic strategy divisions and strong sentiment for tough curbs on communists complicate the effort.
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Oliver W. D. Wolf
Washington
Senate
Truman
Weather and local notices from Decatur area events
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Thursday with scattered afternoon thundershowers in interior and south Tuesday through Thursday. Local residents admitted or discharged include Hoyt Springer at Decatur General and Mrs E K Sloan discharged from Baugh Wiley clinic. Several families visit relatives in Tullahoma and Dayton. All-Star selections named with Roy Freeman and Marvin Hill as co captains for Northern forces. South squad captains to be announced. Religious services canceled tonight at Memorial Drive Methodist. joint services planned at Central Methodist. Jervis transferred to Omaha from Detroit. Mrs Conrad Strickland Sr. ill at home. Home Demonstration club picnic Friday at six at the sub station. Coach Shorty Ogle returns from Nashville after Peabody summer session. See DIARY On Page 2.
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Roy Freeman
Tuscaloosa
Marvin
Buster) Hill
Huntsville
Associated Press
Over-Persuasion Of Negro Hitch-Hiker Lands Man In Jail
An elderly negro man, 68, was jailed in Morgan county after hitchhiking with a rod extended over Highway 31 near Cedar Lake road intersection at midnight intending to go to Flint. Sheriff C B Humphrey said highway patrol arrested him on vagrancy charges.
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Morgan County
C. B. Humphrey
Highway 31
Cedar Lake Road
Flint
Rail terminal walkouts set five day strike at three terminals
A spokesman for a major rail brotherhood said a five day strike will begin Monday at 6 A M at three strategic terminals Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad Louisville Minnesota Transfer Railway St Paul and River Terminal Railway Cleveland Yardmen seek a 40 hour week while preserving 48 hour pay Seizure option discussed but President Truman says no seizure plans.
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White House
Truman
Railroad Brotherhood
William P. Kennedy
The
Brotherhood of Railroad
Brotherhood
Kentucky and
Indiana Terminal Railroad
Louisville
Minnesota Transfer Railway
St. Paul
River Terminal Railway
Cleveland
Kennedy
Roy O. Hughes
Moulton Youth Traffic Victim Dies in Texas Crash
Charles A. McGill Jr., 18, of Moulton, was killed in a traffic accident in Tyler, Texas, while en route to oil field work. He had left Atlanta with friends, was visiting his aunt Mrs. Oscar B. Terry, and planned to return. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Brown with body shipped to Moulton.
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Moulton
Texas
Charles A. McGill Jr
McGill
Oscar B. Terry
Atlanta
Detroit
Decatur
Tyler
Burk- Walker-Daniel Funeral Home
Brown
Charies
Lightning Claims Two Adults in Harris Family Tragedy
A severe electrical storm yesterday left two dead and at least three injured in Hartseller after a bolt struck Mrs. Davie Harris in her storm cellar at about 4 PM. John Harris, 74, died instantly. Her son Jay, 17, and Johnny, 8, suffered non fatal injuries while a second adult, Goldman Harris, was at a Lawrence county saw mill. The storm dropped about two inches of rain between 2:30 and 3:45 PM causing outages to telephone and electric services.
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Johnny Harris
Jay
Johnny
Daily
TVA
John Harris
Davie Harris
Hartseller
House restores city mail to two deliveries daily
Washington report notes the house passed a bill directing the Post Office Department to cancel the April 17 order cutting city home deliveries to one daily and curtailing services. A senate committee has approved a companion measure, but President Truman could veto. The vote followed 218 signatures removing the bill from the rules committee.
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Washington
House
Senate
Post Office Department
Truman
Rules Committee
Senators Mundt and Ferguson push GOP on page two
The political issue heated up yesterday as Senators Mundt of South Dakota and Ferguson of Michigan led a GOP push. Details appear on page two.
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Mundt
R-S. D
Ferguson
R-Mich
Hurricane Now Picks Up Force
Hurricane now intensifies with winds near 135 to 140 mph in the Atlantic wall about 700 to 725 miles east of Miami. A Navy hurricane hunter aircraft reports the eastern quadrant exceeding 120 knots and drifting westward slowly as Grady Norton notes the storm has become severe and is moving west with a slight drift.
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Miami
Fla
U. S. Weather Bureau
Navy
Grady Norton
Norton
Fatal Alabama car crash claims mother of two
Mrs. W. P. Spellman Jr., 25, mother of two, was fatally injured in a traffic accident on a West Birmingham street. Her car skidded, hit a truck, crashed into a utility pole, and she died hours later in a hospital.
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Birmingham
Ala
W. P. Spellman, Jr
Crews Hopeful After Korean War Raid Over Waegwan
B 29 crews report returning from their largest raid of the Korean War. They say they hope they helped the ground forces, striking a 26 square mile corridor northwest of Waegwan containing about 60 000 Red soldiers. The target aimed to halt a Communist move toward Taegu and the Southeast before it began.
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Japan
Waegwan
Taegu
Officials Probe Mystery of North Alabama Fish Kills
State and federal health and wildlife agencies study thousands of dead fish found since Sunday in small North Alabama streams. Poison suspected from boll weevil control methods washing into waterways. investigation underway led by Alabama Department of Public Health, with Coy Stevenson of Hartselle Water Department first to seek examination.
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North Alabama
Alabama Department of Public Health
Coy Stephenson
Hartselle
Health Department
North
Alabama
Flint Creek
I Caeie
Daniel Cadlian Chaity Foomd
Contract Signed For Construction Of Gas System In Decatur
Decatur city officials moved to bring natural gas to the community after more than two years of talks. Mayor H. R. Summer signed the $799,266.23 contract with C. E. Adams and Company Inc. of Birmingham during a Tuesday adjourned city hall meeting. The deal relies on unit costs and may adjust with price changes. A unanimous council resolution ties the contract to revenue bonds worth $1,050,000 to back the project. if bonds are not sold at auction on Sept. 15, the contract becomes nonbinding and work would not start until bonds are sold.
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Decatur
H. R. Summer
Summer
C. E. Adams and Company Inc
Birmingham
John Caddell
Quake Area Is Not Fixed Yet
Seismologists remain unsure about the epicenter of a likely Himalayan earthquake described as one of the greatest on record. Boston College expert Rev. Daniel Linehan suggested Eastern India as probable, while British and German scientists weighed Tibet, Burma, or Tibet as possible origins. The tremor was noted as the institute's strongest in 50 years.
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Himalayan
Tibet
India
Burma
Daniel Linehan
S. J
Boston College
Weston
Mass
Himalayas
Germany
Geophysical Institute of the University of Goettingen
Expectant Mother Shoots Man in Cafe Defense
In downtown cafe last night an expectant mother shot and killed James Clinton Ree after he threatened her husband with a knife. Witnesses say Mrs. Chin Yen knocked him to the floor and fired twice, wounding him fatally. No charges were filed.
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Birmingham
Ala
James Clinton Ree
R. A. MacMurdo
Chin Yen
Yen
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