03 Aug 1950
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1950
Page
1
The text describes Marines planning an extensive response backed by their aircraft and available weapons and equipment. It highlights reliance on air power and carried gear as part of their strategy for potential action.
An unsettled UN effort to broaden public understanding of UN action in the Korean crisis is outlined. UNESCO's executive board emergency meeting, called by the US National Commission for UNESCO, convened July 22 with 100 American leaders, informing Ratisa via ER Evans.
A U S force broke deep into the Reds line in a roaring road battle, seizing enemy documents and Russian equipment while four Sherman tanks and four armored cars were abandoned four miles southwest of Chunjam, about 40 miles west of Pusan. The withdrawal followed enemy actions and a Reds counter move.
The Unesco executive board, drawn from 16 nations elected by the general conference of 59 members, urged an emergency session. The American group pressed for a strong U N Korea action statement and a special general conference session to approve a similar declaration.
Washington Aug 3 Democratic Leader Lucas declared there will be no profiteering at the expense of the G. He called, We are going to take the profits out of war, as Congress moves to a sizable tax bill around 5 billion dollars. The Senate Finance Committee rewrote the House plan, boosting excise taxes on furs, jewelry, cosmetics, and movie tickets, and adding levies on television sets and home freezers with a higher slot machine tax to raise revenue ahead of a broader wartime tax push.
Governor McMath plans to resume duties Saturday after a Texas vacation following renomination in the July 25 Democratic primary. An office statement said he would leave Galveston for Little Rock and hold a news conference at 3 p.m. Saturday. The report notes Joseph Conrad's full name as Joseph Theodore Conrad Korzen" Howsld.
American forces fought to regain their main defensive position near Wongungni after repelling a tank assault. Crews Braved counterattacks and rescued wounded, two tanks were recovered, and dawn brought renewed fire as Reds tried to reach artillery positions. About 175 attackers were killed or wounded.
Isadore Uzey Berenson, seller of the Communist Daily Worker, sues Detroit after police removed his newsstand as a public nuisance. He claims his constitutional rights were violated and seeks an injunction and damages, with a federal hearing set for next Monday before Judge Theodore Levin.
Postmaster General James A Farley welcomed a grandson born yesterday in Detroit at Jennings Memorial Hospital. The newborn weighed seven pounds three ounces and both mother Ann Farley Hickey and child are reported well. Insecticide advice notes spraying effectiveness on sheep when wool is short.
Allied troops withdrew in parts of the west and north to a self chosen line along the Naktong river near Wonbung village, ten miles northeast of Chinju. Maj. Gen John E. Church praised the timing of the joint tank attack as it halted the enemy advance while U S forces reorganized with fresh divisions arriving.
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