Mass air strike on Korean rail center by 50 B-29s
Nearly 50 B 29 Superfortresses launched the mightiest air blow of the Korean campaign, dropping 500 tons on a rail center north of the 38th parallel. All planes returned safely as North Korean air opposition was light. reports also note tank and truck losses in continued operations. The invasion shifted toward the central front northeast of Taejon with two divisions driving southward, threatening Taejon and Pusan lines.
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Kum River
Associated Press
OKYO
U.S. west coast
38th parallel
Chochiwon
Kongju
Suwon
Tanyang
Chonan
Yoju
Royal Gardener Given 8 Years For Palace Break In
A royal gardener was jailed for eight years after pleading guilty to knifing and beating two Queen Mary housekeepers during a June 24 burglary attempt. The judge indicated life imprisonment could have been possible. The case tied to a palace security breach and a violent home invasion in London.
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LONDON
Gerald
har
Alice Knight
Ralph
Orleans
Cunard Donaldson Line
Quebec
Franconia
St. Lawrince
Quebec harbor
Pointe Au Taureau
Bull’s Head
Halifax
Girl Names Uncle In Mystery Attack
Mary McIntyre a 25 year old advertising worker named her uncle Douglas Carapata 45 as the man who bludgeoned her with a hammer in a June 4 basement assault in San Francisco. He was arrested and to be charged with assault with intent to commit murder after she identified him in a police interview following weeks near death and three weeks unconscious. The motive was not clear though they had an argument.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Mary McIntyre
Douglas Carapata
Carapata
Miss McIntyre
Vancouver
B.C
Quebec Electrification Drive Expands Power Reach
Premier Duplessis lauds five year program of Quebec Electrification Office. Since 1945 the initiative has moved power growth at a formidable pace with 10.4 million dollars advanced to co-operatives and over 11 thousand miles of lines built serving about 18 thousand farm families. Horsepower in production or planned totals 1,090,090.
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Ontario Hydro
Quebec
Duplessis
Ducharme Appeal Dismissed by Supreme Court of Canada
Ottawa July 13. Justice J. W. Estey of the Supreme Court dismissed the application for leave to appeal Frederick Ducharme's murder conviction. The 37 year old Vancouver millworker faces execution Friday for the drowning death of Blanche Fisher, 45, whose body was found November 9 in False Creek. Defense argued admissibility errors and improper juror instructions but Estey found no legal point warranting appeal. Crown opposed, stating no substantial legal question.
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OTTAWA
J. W. Estey
Supreme Court of Canada today
Frederick Ducharme
Vancouver
Ducharme
Blanche Fisher
False Creek
British Columbia
Dugald McAlpine
Justice Estey
T. G. Norris
Supreme Court of Canada
Estey
high court
McNaughton Named Chair of Joint Commission
Ottawa reports A G L McNaughton to head the Canadian section of the International Joint Commission replacing the late John A Glen. J Lucien Dansereau of Montreal named to the commission to fill McNaughton’s post. The body handles cross border water issues and flood control, notably the Red River flood risk in Manitoba.
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OTTAWA
A. G.L. McNaughton
International joint commission
St. Laurent
Gen. McNaughton
John A. Glen
J. Lucien Dansereau
Montreal
Dansereau
federal
department of pubic works
Dansereau I
La Presse
La Patrie
Red River
Manitoba
Winnipeg Records Coldest July 13 Temperature
Winnipeg set a record low for July 13 as the public weather office reported a morning reading of 37 degrees. The cooler start marked the coldest July 13 temperature ever recorded in the city.
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WINNIPEG
Dominion public weather office
Train wreck injures 40 on Soo Line trip to Canada
A Soo Line special carrying 225 eastern vacationists sideswiped a freight near Aynesville Minnesota. About 40 were injured, mostly cuts and bruises. five or six severe. Passengers were treated on board or at local doctors offices. The train headed for Banff en route to a hardware association convention in Seattle.
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AYNESVILLE
Minn
Soo Line
Canada
Minneapolis
Ohio
Atlantic seaboard
Banff
Alta
National Retail Hardware Association
Seattle
c. S. Pope
Paynesville
John Jaros
Pleven Forms New French Cabinet for Compromise
Premier Rene Pleven announces a center of the road cabinet aimed at binding all party groups to a workable compromise. The move signals a broad reform effort to steady governance and unify rival factions under a pragmatic program.
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Central Press
Rene Pleven
P.M. Plans No Changes In Cabinet
Ottawa reports fade of cabinet shuffle rumors as Prime Minister St Laurent plans a summer vacation in Quebec. He will depart with no current plans for cabinet changes while Trade Minister Howe acts as premier. Several ministers travel or on leave, including Gardner Claxton Winters and Harris.
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OTTAWA
St. Laurent
Quebec
Abbott
Mayhew
British Columbia
Riviere Du Loup
Howe
Agriculture
Gardiner
Defence
Claxton
Winters
Harris
Newfoundland
Defence dept speeds up equipment buying in Korea era
Ottawa July 13. The defence department will accelerate its equipment purchasing program this year, expanding the $125,000,000 budget. Higher orders for fighter planes and other gear will be placed sooner than planned as Korea fears drive rapid expansion, with supplementary estimates to Parliament and new fighter squadrons expected within 12 months.
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OTTAWA
defence department
Korea
RCAF
Czech Army To Be Reorganized Under Gottwald Order
Prague July 13 Reuters President Klement Gottwald commander in chief ordered rapid completion of the Czechoslovak army reform. The overhaul follows a Russian model under Defence Minister Cepicka as disclosed by the army paper Obarnda Lida. Brig Gen Lastovicka urged daily improvement in training and political education.
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PRAGUE
Reuters
Klement Gottwald
Czechoslovakia
Alexei Cepicka
Gottwald
Obarnda Lida
B. Lastovicka
Moscow
army
people’s democratic army
Demand A Bomb Threat Index To Growing Seriousness
Congress presses for a bold atomic threat to North Korea as a test of policy and resolve. Floyd Bentsen urges Truman to list North Korean cities for atomic strikes if they refuse to withdraw.
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WASHINGTON
United States
house of representatives
Floyd Bentsen
Dem. Tex
Truman
Korea
Big plane crashes in Arizona spark mass of flames
Wreckage of an unidentified military plane and three survivors were sighted in the Bassett Peak area of the Galuro Mountains. A rancher reported the crash and explosion as two Civil Air Patrol planes reported the scene from about 46 miles northeast of Tucson. Parachutes lay on a ridge as search crews comb rugged terrain.
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TUCson
Ariz
Bassett Peak
Galuro Mountains
Arizona
public information office
Davis-Monthan air force base
Civil Air Patrol
Clifford Stahl
Stahi
Red Infantry Moves Toward Kum River Front
North Korean infantry advanced under heavy rain into positions on the Kum River north bank east and west of the main highway bridge south of Chichiwon, a sector held by American troops, as front line reports reached. Prime Minister Nehru sent a personal message to Stalin, delivered in Moscow by the Indian ambassador. Rene Pleven won parliamentary approval for a new middle ground cabinet in Paris amid a split vote. The U.S. defense department said three Aleutian air bases will stay operational, reversing earlier closure plans. In Prague, President Gottwald decreed the wiping out of pre-war Czech army regulations in favor of Soviet-inspired rules. Attlee and Commonwealth high commissioners to discuss Korea and global situation in London. The U.S. carrier Valley Forge, 27,000-ton Ever x class, remains afloat despite rumors of sinking.
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OKYO
Taejon
Kum river
Taejon bulge
Pusan
Korea
United States
Europe
Far East
Asia
Chichiwon
NEHRU
STALIN
MOSCOW
India
S. Radakrishnan
Andrei Gromyko
PARIS
Rene Pleven
De Gautlists
Georges Ridault
PRAGUL
Czechoslovakia
Klement Gottwald
ATTLERK
LONDON
Reuters
Attlee
U.S
VALLEY FORGE
TOKYO
United States navy
United State navy
Pacific
Washington
navy department
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Clifford Myre
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DEFENCE DEPT
ALEUTIAN
United States defence department
Aleutian Wands
Shemya
Cold Bay
Adak
Warren Magnuson
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