16 Aug 1950
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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1950
Page
1
President Truman spent twenty minutes reviewing Korean War developments with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Omar Bradley, chairman, briefed him on battlefield progress. The article notes a large Navajo population compared to the Spanish Conquistadors era.
Two American men, William Jesse Newton and Howard C. Bell, were taken by British police from the Polish liner Batory off Southampton and handed to immigration authorities. The ship’s master offered to carry them back to New York on August 30. Newton, a 26 year old from New York, arrived in a seaplane several days earlier. Bell, a stowaway from Des Alpes, was detained to await possible return to the United States. An American consular attache accompanied the officers. The exact charges were not disclosed.
New York reports describe the hydrogen bomb as vastly more powerful than the A bomb. It predicts a fireball far larger and hotter, with a deadly flash over a wide area and a blast that could topple many structures from Manhattan to Newark, with widespread destruction and fires.
A head-on car crash near Mosby on U S highway 69 killed Oliver 41 and his wife Hazel 38 and Harold Lee Carter 21 all Negroes. Oliver's old daughter Frances 9 was injured. The other driver Jesse A Crower 34 of Lathrop also injured and taken to Excelsior Springs hospital. Police say the Oliver family lived in North Kansas City and Crower may be from Cleveland Ohio.
H. H. Walker was fined 15 pounds and costs by Magistrate Foster S. Wheats for careless and reckless driving. He was arrested Saturday on Highway 50 west.
Washington August 16 AP expected draft calls to exceed the 185000 authorized for the year. Selective Service head Maj. Gen. Hershey said needs rose with the world situation and Congress removed size limits on armed services. He urged possible calls for 50,000 more in November and December and noted shortages of doctors and other professionals.
WASRINGTON Aug 16 AP Radio Moscow advocates large scale advertising to sway Russian buyers. Monitored Soviet broadcast says co operatives boast production but fail to push consumption. It urges trading bodies to introduce new goods to raise demand and shape public taste.
A sculptor is believed to have made a lamp from asbestos in 450 B.C., marking what researchers say may be the oldest known use of the mineral in art or daily objects.
In Fredericktown a canoeing accident on the St. Francis River 18 miles away left 25 year old Martin McHugh a seminary student from Perryville dead. W J Discom 27 was with him as the boat capsized during fishing. Search for the body continued.
An advertisement touts Lifebuoy Health Soap as the only soap that cleanses every part of the body, claiming it stops body odor and protects 13 trouble spots. It extols the product as milder, safe for babies, and features Lifebuoy’s coconut oil for a rich lather, from Lever Brothers.
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