Red forces push seven miles east of Naktong River
Reports from Tokyo say Red troops with tanks broke the Nak tong line below Changnyong and drove seven miles east into South Korea. Casualties mounted as U S 24th Infantry clashed with Reds while Taegu remained a key objective amid fighting and delays in field reports.
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Tokyo
Naktong
Changnyong
U. S. 24Th Infantry
MacArthur
Nis
Taegu
South Korea
Korea
Japan
U. S
Aeid
Changnyang
South Republic
Waegwan
Tuksong
Pohang
Yaktong
Imam
Chinju
North Korea extols Soviet aid and vows to fight on
A North Korean official told Pravda that the Soviet Union supplied war material and equipment during the postwar period. Kim Do Bon praised Stalin as liberator and ally, while claiming 800,000 volunteers, supported by wives and sisters, stand ready to confront American imperialists in a Communist-led war.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Pravda
Kim Do Bon
Supreme Peoples Assembly
Stalin
Korea
Kim
Elizabeth Has Girl New Princess Third in Line for Throne
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip welcomed a six pound girl at Clarence House. The daughter is the couple's second child and third in line to the British throne, after Charles and Elizabeth's sister Margaret remains fourth. Birth time was 10:50 p.m. local. both mother and baby healthy.
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Aarnape
Prince Charles
Clarence House
Buckingham Palace
Elizabeth
Philip
Princess Margaret
Long Beach
Prince Philip
Champagne
King George
Balmoral Castle
Scotland
Lad Keeps Vow Shoots Father in Detroit Family Tragedy
In Detroit on August 15 a 14 year old boy shot his father in Warren Township after vowing to kill him for beating the boy's mother. Lyle L. Griffin Jr. expressed remorse, while the father was wounded and taken into custody. The mother, Mrs Mabel Griffin, remained hospitalized with head injuries.
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Detroit
Lyle L. Griffin
Lyle G Jr
Mabel Griffin
van Dyke Memorial Hospital
Michael Helminger
Griffin
Warren Township
Helminger
Lyle
Heiminger
Sgt. Helminger
Burbank Rent Ruse Off Woods Reveals
Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods announced the end of rent controls in Burbank California today. He said action followed locally adopted decontrol resolutions.
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Burbank
Woods
Washington
Tighe E. Woods
Calif
Legion Demands Acheson Ouster at California Convention
Delegates at the 32nd state American Legion convention in Sacramento called for the resignation or impeachment of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and for Russia's expulsion from the United Nations. Fifteen thousand delegates backed the anti-Acheson measure, urging dismissal of aides Hugh Butterworth and John Service, outlawing the Communist party, and praising Judge Harold Medina for his handling of the 11 Communist leaders. The resolution also commended Attorney General J. Howard McGrath for aiding the bail revocation of Longshoreman Harry Bridges.
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Sacramento
The
American Legion
Dean Acheson
Russia
United Nations
Wild Quake Records Sweep Across Regions
The most violent earthquake in years baffled seismologists as records from Caltech Berkeley Honolulu London Boston and Seattle offered divergent origin guesses from north Turkey to the South Pacific. Observers noted a massive jolt with readings around magnitude 8, while some stations warned of possible tidal waves.
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Associated
Preas
Turkey
South Pacific
D. T
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
C. F. Richter
Philippines
Central Asia
Caltech
Honolulu
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Barbers Point
South China Sea
London
H. V. Shaw
Boston College
Weston
Boston
Daniel Linehan
Caspian Sea
Philip R. Berger
Harvard University
Harvard
Mass
Pacific
Seattle
University of Washington
Tokyo
Central Meteorogical Observatory
O'Dwyer Named Ambassador to Mexico by Truman
President Truman nominates William O'Dwyer mayor of New York to be ambassador to Mexico City. O'Dwyer, a WWII Army brigadier general, would resign as mayor around September to take the post, with a mayors’ election likely in New York this fall.
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Ashington
White House
Truman
William O'Dwyer
New York City
O'Dwyer
Charles G. Ross
Senate
Ross
New York
O’dwyer
Mexico City
Walter
TourEtons
Thurston
Mexico
Th.o'dwyer
Fiorella HL la Guardia
County Mayo
Ireland
United States
Way Cleared for House to Call Up Postal Cut Repeal
Rep. John R. Walsh arrived late but returned from Green Bay to back a bill to restore full postal service by canceling Postmaster General Donaldson’s curtailment. The measure, placed under a special rule after 218 members signed to bypass the rules committee, faced a tense moment on the House floor.
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Washington
John R. Walsh
D-Ind
Donaldson
Walsh
Green Bay
Wis
House
Rules Committee
Full Mobilization of Industry Urged
Sen. Myers of Pennsylvania pressed President Truman for immediate all-out mobilization of the industrial economy due to the Korean war. Senate Republicans demanded clearer information on policies, debated production control, taxes, and appropriations, and urged a policy statement on whether the nation faces only war in Korea or broader mobilization.
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Ashington
Sen. Myers
Pennsylvania
Senate
Truman
Myers
White House
Ulnel Oicac
Millikin
Colorado
Congress
Republicans
Vision of Virgin Appears to Backcountry Farm Woman
A farm woman in Necedah Wisconsin said at noon the Virgin Mary appeared to her and urged prayer as a large crowd estimated near 100000 gathered under blazing sun. The event drew about 60 priests and 3 nuns, with hundreds of horses and trains arriving, as a rosary was recited and roses crowned a statue.
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Necedah
Wii
Virgin Mary
Mary Anna van Hoof
Mother of God
Preston Mukvoy
Jo Ann
Mia
van Hoof
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