Move toward a unified Western European army gains support
North Atlantic allies push for a supreme Western Europe defense command with an American commander favored by France and others. Britain, Italy and nine nations back Churchill plan for a United European army under a defense ministry. Council of Europe debate notes limited powers and Atlantic pact conditions.
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Washington
Europe
Britain
United States
West
Atlantic
Strasbourg
France
Winston Churchill
Council of Europe
Churchill
Assembly
European Defense Ministry
Georges Bidault
Paul Reynaud
Foreign Office
Paris
Canada
Italy
West Germany
Turkey
Greece
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Saar
Alcide de Gasperi
Labor Party
Pro
Council
General Affairs Commission
Bidault
Carlo Sforza
North Korea massed forces north of Taegu as push looms
Report indicates about 60 000 Reds moving into attacking positions along the Naktong river front north and near Waegwan Taegu. Tanks and artillery rumble on a 20 mile front while supply routes are cut 25 miles southeast of Taegu.
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Tokyo
South Korea
Naktong River
MacArthur
Waegwan
River Town
Taegu
Naktong
Pusan
U.S. First Cavalry Division
U. S. 25Th Infantry Division
Pohang
O Nee Man’s Land
Chinju
Kean
Changnyong Bulge
Support for UN Ground Troops Grows Quietly Worldwide
UN members press forward with ground troop support in Korea. Sixty percent of members now back the campaign despite Security Council deadlock. The effort collects offers of fighting men ships planes and supplies, with transport hurdles noted. Col Alfred Katzin says morale among UN troops is high as frontline operations continue. Two British correspondents and Col Unni Nayar killed by a land mine near Taegu raising war casualty counts.
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U. N
Theu. N
Douglas MacArthur
X Country
Col
Alfred G. Katzin
Cordier
Katzin
Unni Nayar
India
U. N. Commission On
Korea
Taegu
Naval
Christopher Buckley
London Daily Telegraph
Ian Morrison
London Times
Buckley
William Moore
Associated Press
Record air evacuation tops prior ocean flights
Sixty four patients plus attendants were flown from the Pacific to the United States in a single C-74 Globemaster, the largest water air evacuation to date. Seventy four patients included 35 wounded in Korea, with four attendants and 10 crew aboard. another Globemaster carried 73 patients earlier.
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Washington
United States
Military Air Transport Service
Honolulu
Fairfield-Suisun
California
Westover Field
Massachusetts
Brookley Field
Alabama
Korea
Army
Navy
Pacific
Globemaster
Mats
Body of One Missing Youth Believed Found
The search leader for Mt Whitney rescue efforts reports belief that at least one body is located in a snowbank near East Face Lake. Harold Gates spotted a coat at the northeast base and Sierra club climbers move toward the site as Ralph Adams and others plan to reach the crevice where the bodies are believed buried. Reynolds and Wasserman are sons of Libby Holman Reynolds and Zachary Reynolds, heirs to tobacco fortune.
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Calif
Mt. Whitney
Christopher Smith Reynolds
Stephen Wasserman
Harold Gates
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Alabama Gate
Sierra Club
Gates
Ralph Adams
Cerro Gorda
Young Reynolds
East Face Lake
Adams
United States
Reynolds
Libby Holman Reynolds
Zachary Reynolds
Wasserman
William Wasserman
Boston
New York
Border Leaf Average Is Up in Carolina Flue-Cured Belt
Tobacco prices rose in the second week of sales in the Carolinas flue-cured belt with a weekly average of 56.84 dollars per hundred pounds and record highs. Volume increased as green lugs and primings led the gains while quality was noted as inferior and receipts stayed around two percent of gross sales.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
U. S
N. C
Bright Belt Market Schedule Change Voted Down
Raleigh news reports the Bright Belt Warehouse Association board voting 21 to 13 to keep the current opening dates for bright belt tobacco markets. The resolution to alter the schedule was defeated and the group continued to meet without further action on opening dates.
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Raleigh
Bright Belt Warehouse Association
Bright Belt
Immediate Price Control Called Military Necessity
Senator Lyndon Johnson urged immediate price controls as a military necessity citing rising costs on military goods and reduced purchasing power of defense dollars. He cited Army Navy and Air Force officials and linked action to upcoming mobilization measures in Congress.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Dtex
Johnson
Texas
Army
Navy
Air Force
Reds miss best weather window for Formosa invasion
Forecaster John Kain Fogg, a 27 year old from Ocean City New Jersey, says Communist forces have passed the best period to invade Formosa and face a potential window in May and June or late September to early October, with October as a deadline before likely delays.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
John Kain Fogg
Fogg
Claire L. Chennault
Ocean City
N. J
Formosa Strait
View Of Manpower Situation Here
Washington August 12 brief look at the reservists and National Guardsmen called to active duty. An undisclosed number of units smaller than a division are being called, with 9 444 officers in reserve training programs involuntarily called. Ground forces include four divisions and two regimental combat teams ordered into service. Air units have no call up yet for Air National Guard units.
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Washington
Medical and Service Corps
Dental Corps
Veterinary Corps
Nurses Corps
Wacs
Army
28Th Infantry
Pennsylvania
Fortieth Infantry
California
43Rd Infantry
Vermont
Connecticut
Rhode Island
45Th Infantry
Oklahoma
196Th
South Dakota
278Th
Tennessee
Air National Guard
Censorship Proposal Sparks U S Battle Over News Access
Washington reports Gen. MacArthur's headquarters demand that Korean war zone censorship apply to U S news gathering. Pentagon officials push for tighter security while clarifying rules on disclosures of troop movements and naval shipments.
Hosiery Workers Seek 20 Percent Wage Increase
The American Federation of Hosiery Workers asks full fashioned hosiery workers for a 20 percent wage rise to restore pay lost after a April 1950 arbitration. The demand targets wage reopening clauses in contracts with the America Inc. union cites market improvements and urges good faith from manufacturers to remedy 20,000 members affected.
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Philadlephia
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Manufacturers Association
Alexander McKeown
U S Progress In Atomic Weapon Field Impressive
Washington Aug 12 The official book The Effects of Atomic Weapons surveys American progress in the atomic field. It outlines air bursts as most destructive, discusses radiological warfare and underwater/ subterranean blasts, and notes differing effects on cities built on rock versus deep soil. It also covers underwater bursts against ships and the tactical use against troops in the field.
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Elton C. Fay
Washington
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
New York
Bikini
War Widow Pregnant With Farewell at Haneda
A seven year old girl awaits departure with her mother at Haneda airport as her father is reported killed in service. Red Cross volunteers assist families being sent home from the Orient, handling luggage, papers, money and infant needs amid the somber departure.
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Daddy
Red Cross
Tle
Japan
Haneda
Orient
G. R. Winters
Los Angeles
Arlene Parton
Salt Lake City
Corene McClelland
Beaumont
Tex
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