Agonizing story of 24th Division in Korea battle
The Chicago Tribune reports the 24th Division’s first 19 days in Korea, under Maj. Gen. William Dean, with 30 percent losses 94 KIA 901 WIA and 2562 evacuated. Recounted from Eighth Army sources, the unit faced shortages of vehicles and antitank guns, used obsolete weapons, and fought near Taejon and Chongju before withdrawing.
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TOO MANY PETS Limit to Family One Day One Cat
Newark officials study an ordinance to require households to own no more than one dog and one cat. City health officials support the proposal for sanitary reasons. Public hearing and final adoption set for August 23 with penalties up to a fine and possible jail.
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Cate
Houehold Peta
City Health Department
Costa Rica arrests halt rebellion plot
San Jose reports government under President Otilio Ulate said it nipped a revolutionary plot with about 200 people arrested including Communist leader Manuel Mora. Special patrols guarded power plants and Ulate said the situation is under control. No martial law declared.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Otilio Ulate
Pisti
Manuel Mora
Ulate
Bombs Attack Belgian Communist HQ in Brussels
A jamal bomb was hurled at the Belgian Communist party headquarters in Brussels early today. The front was damaged and several windows were broken as the incident disrupted the building.
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Brussels
Belgian Communist Party
Arkansas Gazette reports new $200 million hydrogen bomb plant
The Arkansas Gazette says Arkansas will get the new hydrogen bomb plant after Washington officials tentatively selected Arkansas for the site. Congressmen Mills and Trimble told President Truman of assurances of power and labor, with MP&L Co. president Moses corroborating in DoD and munitions board talks. A congressional source cautions no site decision has been reached and many possibilities remain.
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Arkansas
the Gazette
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Arkansans
Mills
Trimble
Truman
C. Hamilton Moses
Arkansas Power and Light Co
Department of Defense
Munitions Board
Congress
Rep
Freck
Sen
Fulbright
Tte Atomic Affairs
Governor Warns Legion Conclave on Preparedness
SACRAMENTO August 12 Governor Warren urged California Legionnaires at their state convention not to be caught short in civilian defense or home front protection amid ongoing Korean conflict and global tension. He praised the Legion for community leadership and said they would lead in defense programs. Navy commander Lewis K Gough Pasadena state commander urged backing a resolution to outlaw the Communist party, proposing penalties for aiding subversive policy.
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Warren
California
Legion
Society
Communist Party
Lewis K. Gough
Pasadena
Siate
Gough
Indianapolis
The Teletype Bulletin Highlights Pages and Sections
A terse index lists sections in the newspaper including Churches on several pages, Classified ads, Comics, Financial, Sports, Theaters. It notes titles on AZ and directs readers to pages A-7 through B-4 for various content.
B-29 Fleet Bombs Najin Near Ratified Border Clash
US B-29s bombed Najin, a North Korean port city near the Russia border, dropping 500 tons and flying within 17 miles of the Soviet frontier. The raid marked the closest American air strike to Vladivostok, with waves of fighters and bombers supported by naval patrols.
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Najin
Vladivostok
North Korea
Manchuria
Soviet Russia
Japan
Okinawa
Land Railway Center
Sea of Japan
Wonsan
Musudan
Fifth Air Force
Pohang
Yongnok
United Nations
Naktong River
State's Draftees Will Enter Army Late in September
Col Kenneth H Leitch California selective service director says draftees will not enter the Army before late September Induction quotas will be announced between Sept 10 and 15 with at least ten days after notices before induction Sept 20 earliest He said not worried about physical exam turnout but concerned about changes in draft status and few names referred to FBI for action Draft officials t
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Kenneth H. Leitch
State Selective Service
California
Army
Leitch
Col
Jee
FBI
15 Feared Dead in Luzon Floods
Manila reports at least 45 people drowned as floods lingered in central Luzon for 10 days. Red Cross cautions fear of dysentery from contaminated water in lowland areas north and south of Manila.
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Luzon
Manila
Red Cross
Yanks Rushing Units to Meet Growing Peril
North Korean forces pushed reinforcements across the Naktong River on the central Korean front. A MacArthur communique cited a POW’s report of three Red fourth division regiments crossing near Changnyong and Waegwan. U S 25th Division moved north from the southern front to counter.
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Tokyo
Naktong
Miryang
Changnyong
Pohang
Man's” Land
Leif Erickson
Eighth Army
Associated Press
Max Destor
Destor
Naktong River
Crash at Victorville Kills Co-Pilot and Hurts Pilot
A B28 bomber of the 452nd Bomber Wing based in Long Beach crashed during a routine training flight near Victorville. Co pilot identified as non in i iniwood was killed, pilot Capt. Robert D. Clark seriously burned. Plane struck runway end during a steep bank. both occupants were aboard. An investigative board has been appointed.
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452Nd
Long Beach
Robert D. Clark
Ata
Monica
Victorville
735Th
Nun
Air Force
Clark
March Air Force Base Hospital
Crowds await word of royal birth outside London home
Fans camp outside Clarence House as Princess Filzabeth’s baby news fuels long vigil. Prince Charles, 20 months, rides with his nurse while a detective guards the scene. Royal doctors predict timing. speculation swirls about heir and details.
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Ondon
Filzabeth
London
Prince Charles
Clarence Parebeth
Buckingham Palace
Willam Gilliatt
Two Youths Missing on Mt Whitney Search Underway
Two 17 year old climbers Christopher Reynolds Reynolds and Stephen Wasserman disappeared on Mt Whitney after starting an ascent Sunday. A three-man search party joined four earlier volunteers, with a plane flyover failing to locate them. Mirros Lake base camp set at 11,500 feet as sheriff notes cold nights and perils of high altitude. Miss Holman Reynolds's whereabouts uncertain in Europe.
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Lone Pine
Mt. Whitney
United States
Christopher Smith Reynolds
Libby Holman Reynolds
Stephen Wasserman
New York
Sheriff's Office
Bob White
Harold Gates
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Mirros Lake
Cerro Gordo
Inyo County
Arthur Jewett
Stamford, Conn
Miss Holman
Europe
Maraeliles
France
Land Mine Kills Indian U.N. Man and Two British Newsmen
An Indian UN delegate Col Anni Nayar and British reporters Christopher Buckley and Ian Morrison were killed when a land mine exploded their jeep in the Waegwan front sector in Korea. Nayar, 38, was the first UN official killed in the Korean fighting. The deaths were reported to Lake Success, New York, by Captain Alired Katin, South Korea’s representative to the UN.
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N. Y
United Nations Commission
Korea
Waegwan
U i
U. N
Col Anni Nayar
India
Washington
Christopher Buckley
London Daily Telegraph
Ian Morrison
London Times
Jet Plane Crashes Near Victorville
A U S air base reports an F-25 jet fighter crash near Victorville Hesperia on August 22. The fate of the pilot was not known and a crew was dispatched to the scene.
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Victorville
Hesperia
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