Reinforcements Rushed To Taegu Sector In War Updates
Allied forces hold the Pohang airstrip as North Korean forces mass up to strike Taegu. U S Marines and infantry near Chinju guard the southern front while U S and South Korean troops push to hold key crossings on the Naktong. Reinforcements from the 25th Division move to aid the 24th Division amid heavy fighting along the central front.
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Associated Press
Pohang
Red
Taegu
Naktong River
Gen. MacArthur
Tokyo
Naktong
Changnyong
Waegwan
MacArthur
Chinju
U. S
Eighth Army
United States
Hal Boyle
Pusan
Sinam
U. S. First Cavalry Division
8Th Army
Ex-Convict Held For G Slaying In Georgia Border Region
Ex-convict Curtis Shedd, 30, was held on murder charges in the shotgun death of John Boyter, 38, a GI student near Walhalla. Boyter’s two daughters, eight and 14, who vanished Aug 3 with their father, remain missing as mountain search resumes. Sheriff Lamon Queen noted Boyter and Shedd were seen together the day of the disappearance and Shedd was questioned about the girls.
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Clayton
Valhalla, S. C
Lamon Queen
John Boyter
Walhalla
Curtis Shedd
Rabun
Shedd
Boyter
J. C. Green
Queen
Long Creek Academy
Oconee County
Walhalla Highlands
N. C
Georgia Line
Topcoat Weather Up North Today
CHICAGO Aug 12 Temperatures fell in the northern tier from the Dakotas to New England as a mid August cool wave moved across the Ohio valley and into the North Atlantic states. Grand Marais Michigan reported 30 above zero while most of the south and west stayed near normal. Some rain fell in the Middle Atlantic states and sections of Wyoming Montana Nebraska Kansas and western Iowa. North Platte Nebraska recorded four inches of rain yesterday.
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Chicago
Dakotas
New England
Michigan
Ohio Valley
North Atlantic States
Grand Marais
Mich
Lake Superior
Middle Atlantic States
Wyoming
Montana
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
North Platte, Neb
Smith Melville To Build Dairy Plant
RALEIGH August 12 Smith Melville Dairies Inc has bought a three and a half acre site along the Durham highway for a new dairy processing and distributing plant The purchase price is listed at more than 15000 A H Scott manager announced plans yesterday no start date for construction was set and the existing plant here will likely be kept as a storage center after the new plant is built
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Raleigh
Smith-Melville Dairies, Inc
Durham Highway
A. H. Scott
Mrs Kasenkina Plans Novel The Red Devil About Stalin
Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina marks her second anniversary since leaping from a third floor window at the Russian consulate. She says she is writing a novel titled The Red Devil about Josef Stalin, asserting the red devil is Stalin and noting her escape from return to Russia.
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New York
Oksana Kasenkina
Josef Stalin
Air Force Calls Up 50 Thousand More Reservists
Air Force and Army announce large reserve activations. A total of 59,444 more reserves are ordered to active duty, bringing the combined figure to 121,444 within two and a half months. The Air Force expects 8,000 officers and 42,000 enlisted by early fall as an initial requirement, while the Army orders 9,444 male reserve officers to active duty by October 6.
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Washington
Army
Air Force
Far East
United States
Maritime Administration
Navy
Leyte
Lake Champlain
Rep
Towe
R-Nj
Truman
Congress
Charles Ross
Malik Gets In Last Word In Council Debate
The U N Security Council ends its second week amid Korea row as Malik asserts U S blame and seeks seating for both Koreas and Red China. Britain’s Jebb criticizes imperialism while Russia rebuts Western charges as Austin defends UN action.
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Malik
North Korea
South Korea
United Nations
Gladwyn Jebb
Asia
Jebb
Austin
Security Council
Korea
Iowa
Colorado
Chinju
U. S
MacArthur
Russia
Utilities Commission Grants Hatteras Manteo Bus Line Permit
The Utilities Commission has authorized the Hatteras Manteo bus line to haul general merchandise as well as passengers along the Outer Banks via Manteo.
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Raleigh
the Utilities Commission
Hatteras-Manteo
Manteo
Floods in Central Luzon Drown 15. Dysentery Fears Rise
Fifteen people drowned as floods drenched Central Luzon Island for ten days. Red Cross reports warn of potential dysentery outbreaks from contaminated water in lowlands north and south of Manila.
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Eifteen Crown
Manila
Luzon
Red Cross
Briefcase Thief Slashes Wrists in Jail
William Ralph Wakeham, 35, charged with stealing a briefcase of British atomic secrets, slashed his wrists in his jail cell. He was hospitalized with non serious injuries, delaying a preliminary hearing on the theft. The case involves a theft from Frank M. Greenless of the supply ministry's atomic energy division at a Risley Lancashire plant.
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London
Wiliam Ralph Wakeham
Frank M. Greenless
Supply Ministry
Atomic Energy Production Division
British Atomic Plant
Risley
Lancashire
Masefield Progressing After Appendicitis Operation
Oxford dispatch says John Masefield Britain's 72 year old poet laureate is recovering favorably after an operation Wednesday for appendicitis.
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Masefield
Oxford
Eng
John Masefield
Britain
Propaganda Counter Offense Against Red Claims Launched
State Department officials push a counter offensive to expose Soviet stalling at the United Nations and support for North Korea. Acheson cited three charges against Russia and Malik, urging a campaign of truth via Voice of America while maintaining diplomatic relations and seeking peace in Korea.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
State Department
Russia
Korea
United Nations
Voice of America
Moscow
U. N
Acheson
U. N. Security Council
Jakob Malik
Security Council
Malik
Council
Truman
United States
Warren Austin
Lake Success
Congress
Knowland
R.-Calif
U. S
Man Accused Of Fatally Slapping Infant Daughter
Walter Dorn 25 faces homicide charges in felony court after allegedly slapping his nine month old daughter Deborah, who was found dead in her crib. Dorn admits the act. the mother Bernice Dorn 21 pleads his innocence as the case proceeds to a hearing on August 25.
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New York
Walter Dorn
Deborah
Bernice Dorn
Harold Birn
Dorn
Churchill May Be Drafted For New Western Defense Role
DeWitt Mackenzie notes Churchill's push at the Strasbourg European Consultative Assembly for a unified European army under democratic control. He cites Paul Reynaud's hint of a single defense minister and suggests Churchill could be a prime candidate to lead a united Western defense, with emphasis on coordinating Germany's postwar role and securing German safety alongside Western powers.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Churchill
Britain
European Consultative Assembly
Strassbourg
West
Russia
Paul Reynaud
Europe
Dra
House of Commons
Western Europe
West Germany
Germany
France
Gany
Reynaud
Army denies concealing Korea casualty facts
The army says it has not hid casualties and provided Congress with flash figures higher than public totals. It explains unconfirmed figures are not released to avoid alarm and enemy advantage. The last published summary, up to Aug. 6, listed 2,616 casualties including 1,590 wounded and 873 missing.
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Washington
Army
U. S
Korea
Congress
Congressional
Bridges
R.-N.h
Congressional Appropriations Committee
Clude
Department of the Army
Reynolds Heir Missing on Mt Whitney Sparks Search
Two 17 year old heirs Christopher Reynolds and Stephen Wasserman are reported lost on Mt Whitney while hiking from Cerro Gordo. Local undersheriff notes cold nights and past fatalities as four searchers cover trails by horseback and on foot. they had two days rations and had not signed the mountain top register.
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Lone Pine
Calif
Christopher Smith Reynolds
Stephen Wasserman
Mt. Whitney
United States
Reynolds
Libby Holman Reynolds
Zachary Smith Reynolds
Wasserman
New York
Cerro Gordo
Inyo County
Arthur Jewett
Young Reynolds
Zachary Reynolds
Christopher
Woman Held In Atom Spy Case
The seventh American and second woman arrested in the Klaus Fuchs atomic espionage ring is charged with conspiracy to commit espionage. Mrs Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg, wife and sister of two others accused, allegedly helped persuade her brother to reveal A bomb secrets to the Soviet spy network.
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New York
Klaus Fuchs
Korea
U. S
Miles J. Lane
Edward Woe
Los Alamos
Aleady
Rosenberg
Greenglass
Would Be Comical Were It Not So Serious Now
Washington dispatch notes President Truman repeatedly sought standby price controls and rationing from Congress as prices rose after the OPA was dissolved. Despite multiple requests from 1946 to 1949 Congress consistently ignored or rejected his pleas, though it now appears ready to grant the power.
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James Marlow Washington
Truman
Congress
Korea
Congressional
GI's Not To Pay Federal Income Taxes
The Senate Finance Committee agreed that GIs fighting in Korea would pay no federal income tax, while officers would see tax reductions. The plan includes a hostilities exemption, higher individual rates starting Oct 1, a corporate tax rise, and closing tax loopholes as President Truman seeks a $5 billion annual package for Korea rearmament.
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Washington
Congress
Korea
Truman
America
Senate Finance Committee
George
D.-Ga
Millikin
R.-Cole
Senate
White House
Finance Committee
Power Failure Dims 60 Maine Cities Across Southern Region
A widespread power outage darkened 60 towns in York Cumberland and Oxford counties affecting about 150 000 residents. Officials investigated possible causes from a short circuit to transmission interference. Hospitals mills and Scarborough Downs were hit. in Biddeford Trull Hospital a delivery room scene saw a woman give birth to twins after power returned.
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Biddeford
Maine
York
Cumberland
Oxford
Maine Power Company
Scarborough Downs
Trull Hospital
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Pohang Airport
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U. S. Army
Taegu Sector
State Dept
Winston Churchill
Atom
OPA
Mr. Truman
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