Two Troop Ships Are Casualties
Allied forces claimed a 48 hour toll of 11 000 casualties inflicted on Red Koreans as they tried to break the UN battleline by August 31 Reds built up forces on central and southern fronts for a final push Two Red troops and ammunition ships were knocked out of the war by South Korean naval units off the southern coast Casualties were heavy but not numbered A South Korean Navy official said one ship was sunk and the other damaged by gunfire
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Tokyo
United Nations
Taegu
ISTC Road Signs Put Up
Road signs welcoming Indiana State Teachers College Indiana Pennsylvania have been installed on six main approaches to Indiana. The project was a Chamber of Commerce and College collaboration with landowners donating site use. Dr Orval Kipp designed the figure and lettering while officials from Indiana Coca Cola Bottling Co aided with placement and metal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Indiana State Teachers College
Chamber of Commerce
College
Orval Kipp
Indiana State Teachers College Art Department
Indiana Coca- Cola Bottling Company
Kiski Enters Its 63rd Year at Kiskiminetal Springs
Kiskiminetal Springs School at Saltsburg opens its ard year on September 10 with 84 more boys able to enter thanks to a new dormitory. Last year’s graduates were accepted at 29 colleges including Harvard Yale MIT Carnegie Tech Amherst Stanford Princeton Michigan. Mayfair dress clearance announces big bargains.
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Kiskiminetal Springs School
Saltsburg
Kiski
Harvard
Yale
Carnegie Tech
Amherst
Stanford
Princeton
Michigan
Radio Relay System Opens Sept 1 In New York
New York Aug 21 AP the world s longest chain of radio relay stations will go into operation Sept 1 to improve telephone and television service between New York and nearby regions existing stations extend the relay network as part of a nationwide expansion of communications infrastructure with the new system expected to enhance long distance calls and broadcast quality.
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New York
New Ie
Pittsburgh
Johnstown
Cleveland
Toledo
American Telephone ‘and Telegraph Co
Chicago
Omaha
Denver
San Francisco
Torrance Youth Enlists in U S Army Engineers
Dale B. Dunlap of Torrance Pennsylvania enlists in the Corps of Engineers Regular Army for three years. He will report to Fort Knox for processing, joining brothers in military service, with the family noting his prior work at Torrance State Hospital.
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William IL. Eldridge
U. S. Army
U S. Air Force
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Dale B. Dunlap
Corps of Engineers
Regular Army
Recruit Dunlap
Malcolm Dunlap
Torrance
Torrance State Hospital
Third Armored Division
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Pvt
BE. H. Dunlap
Marine Corps
W. T. Dunlap
What Next Joe Reds Must Anticipate Loss
Washington dispatch analyzes Soviet decision timing as North Korea falters. It weighs Moscow choosing late engagement in Asia versus delaying war until Russia expands its army, bombs, and submarines. Officials consider two to five years before a broader conflict and assess Soviet capabilities.
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Washington
Russia
Midwest Chill Holds Overcast Autumnlike Weather
The Associated Press reports a cool Midwest with temperatures well below normal from the Rockies to the Appalachians and as far south as the Ozarks. Chicago saw a third straight day in the 40s including 46.8 degrees, while Gladwin Michigan hit 37. In contrast the South and West stayed warm to hot. Meanwhile the New York metropolitan area faced two inches of rain with high winds from a coastal hurricane, adding to Friday’s rainfall that boosted reservoir levels already low.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Chicago Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Appalachians
Ozarks
Chicago
The
Mercury
Gladwin
Mich
New York Metropolitan Area
Long Islands
Two Collisions in Baro Indiana Borough Police report two minor crashes
Indiana Borough police logged two minor crashes on Saturday with total damage of 105 dollars across four vehicles. Dorothy McKelvey of Indiana and John Joseph Henkel of Iselin collided on Philadelphia Street near Speedway Market at 1:45 pm. A second crash at Sixth Street and Gompers Avenue involved Margaret Strang of Homestead Hospital Homestead Pa and Robert Ackerson of RD 2 Clymer at 9:30 pm. No injuries were reported.
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Indiana
Dorothy McKelvey
John Joseph Henkel
Iselin
Philadelphia Street
Speedway Market
Gompers Avenue
Margaret G. ‘Strang
Homestead Hospital
Homestead
Robert Ackerson
Clymer
Blimp Attracts Indiana Campaign Crowd
Indiana people showed strong support for the municipal airport weekend crowds exceeded 5 000 with many driving 250 cars to the site. Advertising blimp drew closeup views as Rev. campaigns and local shops advertise prices on produce and fabric at nearby stands and shops.
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Indiana
Indiana Municipy
Key Rail Terminals Are Struck By Unions
Three midwest rail terminals Cleveland Louisville and Minneapolis St Paul were struck by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors in five day token walkouts over wages and hours. Similar actions will hit Elgin Joliet and Eastern and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroads, disrupting steel production and impacting national economy. Detroit negotiators rejoin talks to end the Packard strike while New York World Telegram workers weigh settlement terms.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Cleveland
Louisville
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Brotherhood of Railroad
Order of
Elgin, Joliet
Packard Motor Car Company
CIO New York Newspaper Guild
New York World- Telegram
Ta Yale
Five Year Old Boy Struck By Car Counts Injuries
A five year old Indiana R D boy suffered brush burns and minor injuries when struck by a car Sunday at 4 10 pm. He was treated and discharged after an overnight stay. James BE Leasure, son of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Leasure, was hit by a car driven by Anna Anis of New Kensington on Route 40 south in Indiana. The boy darted into the road from the highway edge. The driver transported him to Indiana Hospital.
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Indiana R. D
James Be, Leasure
Lloyd Leasure
Anna Anis
New Kensington
Indiana
83 year old man claims third set of teeth growing
William Schweitzer of Perch River, Watertown, aged 83, says he has never visited a dentist and is growing a third set of teeth. His daughter Mary Phillips noted he is uncomfortable yet pleased by the unusual dental development amid a local summer scene.
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Watertown
N. Y
William Schweitzer
Perch River
Schweitzer
Mary
B. Phillips
Schowl
Atrocity Hill Infamous In U S Military Lore
A Korean War battle on hill 303, later dubbed Atrocity Hill, marks a brutal four day clash with mass executions of American prisoners by Red Guards. The episode remains a stark memory among veterans and is tied to siege warfare and high ground strategy.
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Elton C. Fay Washington
Russia
Mooseow
United Nations
United States
U.S
Tunisia
Troina
Sicily
Monte Cassino
Haly
Mount Suribachi
Iwo Jima
Sugar Loaf Hill
Okinawa
Atrocity Hill
Red
Willats
Another Hurricane Is Cited in Atlantic Ocean
A smaller dangerous hurricane formed overnight in the South Atlantic while another powerful storm in the same area lashed toward the Canadian Maritime Provinces. The new disturbance near Antigua has 100 mph winds, a 40 mile diameter, and is moving north northwest at 8 to 19 mph, with warnings from Guadeloupe to St Marks and in the Virgin Islands. The older hurricane, 10 days old, approached the Bahamas and Florida, with offshore heaviest winds and alerts along the coast from Cape Hatteras northward. It is about 1,500 miles south of the Florida coast.
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Miami
Fla
South Atlantic Ocean
Canadian
Maritime Provinces
Antigua
Leeward Island
Leeward Islands
Guadeloupe
St. Marks
Virgin Islands
Grady Norton
Miami Weather Bureau
Bahamas
Florida
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Indiana Marine Wounded in Korea Named Catherman Jr
Bruce Catherman and his wife report their son, Sergeant Bruce Catherman Jr., of Indiana, has been wounded in Korea. He is with the First Marine Division and was injured August 1 with neck and left arm wounds. He was in a front line hospital in Pusan and later to be moved to a Japanese military hospital. He joined the Marines in 1948 after Indiana High School graduation and has served in Guam, the United States, and Korea.
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Bruce Catherman
Ninth Street
Indiana
Set
Bruce Catherman, Jr
Catherman
Department of Defense
Cathermang
First Marine Divisinn
Pusan
Japan
Sgt
Marines
Indiana High School
Guam
States
Korea
Visiting Korean Likes Indiana Farm Life
Kyung Ho Lee, a 22 year old Korean Penn State chemical engineering student visiting Marion Center, praises Indiana County farm life during a Saturday interview. He recounted crossing rivers in North Korea with his family, former roles in government, and his father’s position as Minister of Agriculture before the Red invasion, while noting his family’s safety and hope if UN forces hold.
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Indiana County
Kyung Ho Lee
Mit
Robert T. Oliver
Penn State
Oliver
Lee
Korea
Kerevan
Seoul University
North Korea
Pyongyang
North Korean Democratic Party
United Nations
Blairsville Girl Wins Trustee Scholarship to GW Law
Miss Edna A Asper of Blairsville received a trustee scholarship to George Washington Law School as announced by the Pittsburgh Alumni Association. A University of Pittsburgh graduate with highest honors, she plans government work or practice in her brother Joseph’s Washington, D.C. law office after completing law studies.
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Edna A. Asper
Blairseville
George Washington Law School
Pittsburgh Alumni Association
Asper
University of Pittsburgh
George Washesington Law School
Washington, D. C
Miss Asper
Joseph
Alverda Soldier Wounded in Korea Returns to Japan
Sgt. 1st Class Leroy C. Wolf 33 of Alverda was wounded by shrapnel on August 7 while serving with American ground troops in South Korea. Now in a military hospital in Japan, he was previously stationed in Korea after reenlisting in 1947. His wife Mary Katherine Pickup Wolf visits daily.
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Indiana County
South Korea
Leroy C. Wolf
Alverda
Wolf
Mary Katherine Pickup
Al+ verda
Forrest Wolf
Stafford
Robert Nelson
Green Township
Commodore
Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corp. Mines
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REDS
Chinju
Page ‘L'Wo
ISTC
Mayfair
Registration Commission
Smokeless
East Wheatfield Township
Steele Clark L. C. Rosensteel
W. F Wildebrand Registration Commission
Saltsburg R.D
Doyle Billings
Saltsburg R. D
Adrian
Punxsutawney
Glen Campbell
Billings
Bernard Egnatowski
Egnatowski
John Brish, Jr
Nancy Brickford
Cherry Tree
Kiski Prep School
Saltsbury
Sipos
Engineers
Dth Street
Propa
Flanda Taeke
Baro
U. S. No
U. S
Shorty's
Wayne Av
Curtain & Linen Shop
North 6Th St
Senate
Truman
House
CIO
CIOJ
Hat. Boyle Tawgu
Indiana Farm Life
Gazette Office
Blairsville
Ghorty’s
Wayne Ay
Cadillac
North Street
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