Air Force Cites Caution in Enemy Casualty Claims
At Korea’s Fifth Air Force headquarters pilots report enemy killed after missions, but interrogators compare four pilot accounts with aerial and ground data and often reduce totals by up to a third. The Eighth Army sometimes says air claims are too low or too high, as shown by cases where ground results exceed air tallies.
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New Yorker Gives 100 Dollar Gift To War Amputee
Mrs. Martha Reynolds, in her sixties and a multiple widow, donates 100 dollars to Pfc. Robert Smith the Korean War's first quadruple amputee. She says she loves to give and has given about ten thousand dollars over 15 years to cancer and other charities. Her mother Ernestine Schaffner famed as Tombs angel inspired her generosity. Pfc. Smith, twenty, from Middlebury, is hospitalized at Walter Reed in Washington.
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Iran plans three new fruit packing plants to boost exports
Tehran announces three new facilities to pack dried fruits. Two plants will be built in Azerbaijan at Rezieh and Maragheh to dry and pack raisins, apricots and peaches. A third plant will be built in the south to dry and package dates.
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Camp rejected for housing deported aliens in Manila
Secretary of Finance Pio Pedrosa rejected a plan to establish a deportee camp. The Bureau of Immigration had proposed the camp to house those ordered deported for immigration violations, citing many Chinese detainees who could face persecution if returned home. Pedrosa said the government could not allocate funds for such a camp.
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Pio Pedrosa
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Moonshin ers Raid Hits Illicit Distillery in Singapore
Revenue officers raided a bi illicit distillery in Singapore. They seized five large stills, 742 gallons of fermented rice, and 24 gallons of another liquor.
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Ants Could Help Control Termites, Says Visiting Scientist
Harvard entomologist Dr. William Brown, on a traveling fellowship in Australia, notes no known research on using ants to control termites. He cites ants as termites’ main enemies and studies obscure Australian ant groups.
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William Brown
Australia
Harvard University
Brown
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