West Germany rising as Bonn shifts from occupation to power
Forty six million West Germans face a new start as Bonn prepares to host a revived state with a mobile police force and greater self rule. Adenauer backs restraint as allies plan a western European army and easing of occupation controls. Officials in New York foresee a German role in a new Atlantic force.
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Daniel DE Luce
Frankfurt
Germany
Bonn
Rhine
Europe
New York
U. S
Paris
London
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Volkspolizei
People’s Police
West Germany
Gerhard von Schwerin
Russia
African
Ruhr
Allied Military Security Board
Western Europe
United States
Britain
France
Dean Acheson
Atlantic Council
Meteor lights sky from Paducah to Memphis explodes in air
A bright meteor flashed west of Nashville and apparently exploded over western Kentucky and western Tennessee. Reports traced the blast from Paducah to Memphis, with witnesses including a railroad dispatcher and an American Airlines pilot noting a brilliant, multicolored flare and a possible ground impact near Hatchie Bottoms.
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Nashville, Tenn
Here
Paducah
Memphis
Tenn
Ilinois Central Railroad
Covington
Fred Denton
Tennnessee Central
Shelby County
Hatchie Bottoms
Millington Naval Base
American Airlines
H. J. Garman
Dallas
Tex
Garman
Washington
Nashville
CAA
Albert K. Yancey
Yancey
Nash
Attlee Government Survives Narrow Vote On Steel Nationalization
In London the Labour government retained power after a tight Commons vote 205 to 300 on a motion by Winston Churchill opposing steel nationalization set for Jan 1. The result preserves Attlee's ministry though with a slim majority in the new Parliament elected last February.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Commons
Labor
Clement Attlee
Stock Market On Narrow Range
New York stock market moved within a narrow price path today with most issues up or down 50 cents or less. Gains and losses were mixed as Lowenstein rose on word of an extra stock dividend and Thompson products spiked after merger news with Perfect Circle Corp among other movers noted.
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New York
Lowenstein
Thompson Products
Perfect Circle Corp
J. I. Case
Colorado Fuel
Kern County Land
American Telephone
Western Union
American Smelting
Coolidge And Wiley Win Nominations
The 1950 primary season ends as Wisconsin and Massachusetts select their November candidates. Wiley wins a third term bid in Wisconsin. Fairchild opposes him. Kohler seeks Wisconsin governor with Thompson as Democrat. In Massachusetts Coolidge easily secures the governor nomination, facing Dever. McCormack and Martin are renominated in Congress.
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Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Alexander Wiley
Thomas E. Fairchild
Walter J. Kohler
Carl Thompson
Kohler
Arthur W. Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
Louis E. Denfeld
Naval Operations
Coolidge
Paul A. Dever
Wolves and Hyenas Terrorizing Lucknow
Hindustan Times reports Lucknow is terrorized by child eating wolves and hyenas in northern India. A seven year old girl was carried away and found murdered nearby, and a one year old baby was snatched from its mother by a hyena.
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New Delhia
India
Hindustan Times
Luknow
Bradley Calls Korean War a Significant Military Milestone
Detroit September 20 1 General Omar N Bradley chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the Korean campaign ranks among the most significant in military history It marks the birth of armed action by the United Nations He warned that Cold War rhetoric misled Americans and that defense prep will consume a large share of income and effort The war he called a military miracle showed for the first time that piecemeal forces could defeat a moving hard striking enemy
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Detroit
Omar N. Bradley
Bradley
America
Four Killed In Plane Crash Near Dismal Mountain Virginia
A Beechcraft with four aboard crashed in a swampy meadow near Escamitchell farm two miles from Mechanicsburg after departing Raleigh to transfer the wife of a Marine major to DeKalb Illinois. Victims include Lymon Sebree 44 DeKalb Dr William Clark 39 DeKalb and Margaret Longton 35 DeKalb, plus Jannette Acers 32 Vallejo California. Witnesses say engine miss fired then conked out as it approached the meadow and flipped on soft ground.
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Mechanicsburg
Lymon £. Sebree
Wiliam Edgar Clark
Margaret M. Longton
DeKalb
Jannette Barbara Acers
Vallejo
Calif
Acers
North Carolina State Hospital
Raleigh
Cherry Point
N. C
Marine Corps Air Base
Sebree
Pearlsburg
David H. White
Mitchell Farm
Large rush of World Series ticket applications to Phillies
In Philadelphia on September 20, about eighty five thousand applications for World Series tickets were sent to the Phillies at Shibe Park. Office manager Andy Clarke noted many arrived in 17 fat sacks carried by the post office truck.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Phillies
Shibe Park
Andy Clarke
Thirty Three Navy Men Killed In Plane Crashes
Pearl Harbor reports a four engine navy transport crash near Kwajalein lagoon killed 26 crew and passengers out of 19 and seven aboard. The R5D plunged into the sea minutes after takeoff en route to Seoul area operations. Debris and search efforts continued as officials expressed no survivors and described the disaster as one of the worst in the Pacific.
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Navy
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Kwajalein Lagoon
Hawaii
Seoul
Kwajalein Field
Secretary Helen Maciolek Dies in Suspected Suicide
Hooksett New Hampshire authorities believe 25 year old Helen Maciolek secretary to Dr Hermann N Sander died by her own hand. Her body was found in a ravine near her home after an disappearance lasting 24 hours. Autopsy results awaited. No external wounds noted.
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Hooksett
N H
Helen Maciolek
Hermann N. Sander
Dr. Sander
Raymond K. Perkins
Perkins
Lindsay Rice
U S Carrier Midway Arrives with Support Flotilla
The U S aircraft carrier Midway and 12 smaller ships of the Mediterranean fleet reached Cagliari Sardinia from Algiers today. They are scheduled to stay several days for refitting and rest in port.
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Cagliari
Sardinia
U. S
Midway
Algiers
Matthews On Way Out Says Paper
The Spokesman-Review reports Navy Secretary Francis Matthews is expected to resign soon. Harold Stassen is offered the job and weighs the Truman administration’s proposal. An unnamed business figure abroad echoes Matthews' bitterness over the administration’s repudiation of his preventive war speech.
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Spokane
Wash
Spokesman - Review
Navy
Francis Matthews
Harold Stassen
Stassen
Truman
the Review
Washington, D. C
New York
Asheley Holden
Matthews
Russia
University of Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Tax Bill To Be Ready By End of Week
A Senate House committee worked to finish a tax increase bill, raising the expected annual revenue to 5 billion dollars. A 10 percent withholding tax on corporate dividends was approved, aimed at covering slips in treasury estimates, with finishing touches expected today and a White House submission by week’s end. The package could lift total 1951 taxes by about 12 billion dollars, affecting individuals and corporations into 1950.
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Washington
Senate
House
Truman
Treasury
Congress
Harkers Island Faces Phone Privacy Woes
RALEIGH September 20 The residents of Harkers Island report phones removed after conversations were intercepted by radios. REA Director Gwyn Price told the advisory budget commission that carrier wave transmission over power lines allowed spying, and he urged elimination of the issue to restore private conversations.
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Raleigh
Harkers Island
REA
Gwyn Price
Advisory Budget Commission
Price
Marines Drive Toward Seoul in New Inchon Front Push
Thousands of Marines moved from Han River positions toward Seoul under heavy fire. General MacArthur's communique says two armored columns converge on Seoul as U S tanks cross toward river banks and hill positions. Marines land at Samchok and Inchon naval guns pound Reds in a broad southeast operation.
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Tokyo
Han River
Seoul
MacArthur
U. S
Washington
Samchok
Inchon
Southeast Korea
Daring U S Scouts Swim Han River Under Fire
A 14 man scouting party swam the Han River eight miles northwest of Seoul under heavy fire, returning with two wounded. Navy Ensign Judah Siegal and Capt. Kenneth Houghton led the perilous operation as two civilians swam ahead to confirm the north shore.
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Russell Brines
Seoul Warfront
Korea
Han River
U.S. Navy
Judah
Jack) Seigal
Parkside Ave
Philadelphia
Siegal
Seoul
Siegel
Navy
Kenneth Houghton
San Francisco
Ernest Defacio
Athol
Mass
James E. Anderson
Honolulu
Riv
U.S. Rushing Arms Aid to Threatened Indochina
U.S. officials disclose accelerated arms shipments to Indochina while ruling out American troop involvement. France houses the Vietminh fight as China trains and equips rebels across the border. A French carrier ferries U.S. planes. 12 battalions of Indochinese troops are now equipped with American arms.
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U.S
Indochina
C. Yates McDaniel
Washington
United States
Southeast Asia
China
France
Korea
Truman
Pacific
U.S. Navy
U. S
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Associated Press
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Douglas MacArthur Barrow
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Mediterranean
Inchon Port
Missouri
Pohang
Don Whitehead
Whitehead
Anthony Kent
Salina
Kas
Kent
Fifth Regiment
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