Round-world B-29 Crash Sees One Survive
An American B-29 part of a globe-circling trio crashed into the sea off Aden after takeoff from the south Arabia port. One survivor, Sgt Gustafson, was rescued and hospitalized by the RAF, with two other planes returning to Aden. The mission marked the first around-the-world flight by B-29s, with 19 of 20 crew members reported lost on the ill-fated ship.
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Globe
Arabia
Gustafson
Percy H. Kramer
Davis-Monthan Field
Tucson
Ariz
Sigger R. Gustafson
Norwood
Mass
Stanley L. Fleming
Downey
Calif
Public Information Office
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Air Force
MacDill Field
Tampa
Fla
Lagens Air Base
Azores
Eellus Field
Tripoli
Gerald M. Hay
J. O. Hay
Easy Ave
Pointed Cross
Associated Press
Berlin crisis deepens with money riots and talks planned
Breakout chaos in blockaded Berlin as thousands of Germans crowd banks to swap for new currency. Marshall and Western powers outline next steps toward a separate western German government while Britain, France, and the United States discuss general European settlement with Russia. Mayor Louise Schroeder resists a Russian order to fire deputy chief Johannes Stumm, amid Western advice to reject Soviet moves to dissolve the city government and place Berlin under Communist control. (Continued on Page A-12, Col. 5.)
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Germany
Louise Schroeder
Johannes Stumm
Stumm
Paul Markgraf
Schroeder
Paul Letsch
Dep
Republicans move to outlaw poll tax in Senate plan
Senate Republicans decided to form committees to study President Truman’s housing and anti inflation proposals and to push a bill to outlaw the poll tax. Chairman Millikin said the effort would press the measure to a decision, despite Southern Democrats threatening a filibuster that could block other actions.
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Washington
A.P
Republicans
Truman
Millikin
R.-Cole
Republican Conference
House
Flames Ravage Ludwigshafen Plant Killing and Wounding Hundreds
A massive explosion at the IG Farben chemical plant in Ludwigshafen in the French zone led to 500 to 600 deaths and about 1,400 injuries. Flames and smoke covered a half mile square as rescuers struggled to reach victims amid shattered windows and telecommunication lines.
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Ludwigshafen
Germany
U. S
Frankfurt
I. G. Tarbenindustrie Chemical Trust
Three Airmen Die in Plane Crash in Japan
Tokyo reports three U.S. airmen killed when their B-26 crashed into the sea near Yokota during maneuvers. The bomber failed to pull up and struck the water. Bodies not recovered, names withheld pending kin notification.
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Tokyo
Yokota
Eight hurt by bomb in Jewish Quarter
A bomb thrown at a four story building in the Jewish quarter of Beirut last night wounded eight persons and caused damage. Two persons were arrested.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Five Pickets Hurt In Dayton Plant Clash With Police
Dayton Ohio July 28 five pickets were hurt none seriously during a renewed clash between police and the back to work contingent at Univis Lens Co plant. Police used clubs to clear a path for 340 nonstriking workers. Police said the fight broke the backbone of picket resistance though union leaders denied surrender. Since Monday nineteen pickets, all CIO United Electrical Workers Local 768 members, have been arrested as police opened lanes into the plant with about 150 officers on duty.
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Dayton
Ohio
Univis Lens Co
C.I. 0
Bill Snoots
Montgomery County Industrial Union Council
C.I.C
Jim Kraft
General Motors Delco
National Labor Relations Board
C.I.O. United Electrical Workers Union
Univis
Ladies' Day: Women Drivers Hit Man in Portland
In Portland on July 28 Fred English, 43, was struck by two women drivers in a unusual collision that left him with a crushed nose and a broken wrist. Police released the women who were allegedly involved, citing an arrest of English for jaywalking.
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Portland
Ore
Fred English
English
Comic book clean-up sought by Christian Church convention
Heavy iron ore shipment through Long Beach Harbor under way through the day.
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Christian Church Convention
Long Beach Harbor
Official assails Japa and on curth
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Marshall forms panel to review UN entrants for security
Secretary of State Marshall announces a three citizen panel to investigate whether the United Nations brings persons a danger to American security into the United States. The panel will review all UN related persons including foreign delegations reporters and UN agencies staff. Marshall says no concrete cases found yet and panelists to be named later.
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Tearful Search Grieving Jap Seeks Yank Samaritan
In Tokyo on July 28 a grieving Japanese father seeks the American soldier who drove him and his dying son to a hospital. Hisao Koyama wrote General MacArthur describing the driver in a khaki beautiful motor car and signing as your faithful Japanese man.
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Tokyo
Hisao Koyama
Gen. MacArthur
Pastor Kills Man Caught Rifling Desk
In Philadelphia a pastor shot and killed a man found stealing $50 from a desk at New Light Tabernacle Baptist Church. The victim was Robert Winters, 25, killed instantly after five bullets struck him as he tried to flee. Rev. Theodore Bullock, 39, was charged with homicide.
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Philadelphia
Robert Winters
New Light Tabernacle Baptist Church
Theodore Bullock
Bullock
Slavs See Trieste Plot and United Nations Action
Yugoslavia charged that the United States and Britain plotted to absorb the western zone of Trieste into Italy and asked the U.N. Security Council to declare the move a threat to world peace. The Yugoslav delegation said economic and fiscal pacts would give Italy control over western Trieste and that the western Allies’ zone might join the Marshall Plan. They urged the council to call the actions open violations of the peace treaty and likely to endanger international peace and security.
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U.P
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United States
Britain
Trieste
Italy
United Nations Security Council
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Dmitri Z. Manuilsky
82 000 Californians Facing First Draft
Sacramento report says about 82 000 California men aged 25 will be subject to the first draft call. Col Kenneth H Leitch state director of Selective Service estimates this group and notes the 25 year olds will be drafted first. National director Lewis B Hershey announced in Washington that the 25-year-olds head the draft.
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Sacramento
California
Kenneth H. Leitch
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Washington, D. C
Leitch
Seventeen? Korean flood toll rises to 27 dead
Seoul July 28 The Korean Pacific Press reports 27 people drowned and 254 missing in flash floods in South Cholla Province after days of heavy rain. More than 7000 homeless as torrents poured down treeless mountain slopes.
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Seoul
Cholla
Woman fires at fleeing convicts. kills teen on Torry Island
In Belle Glade Florida a lone woman Mrs Mable Foy on Torry Island fired a random shot at four escaping Negro convicts after they hijacked a car and fled. She fatally wounded 15 year old Roy L Williams with a .22 rifle while the others surrendered or fled. Williams was under a life sentence for armed robbery. Bloodhounds found the body about a block away. The shooter said she saved one bullet.
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Belle Glade
Fla
Torry Island
George E. Tedder
Mable Foy
Roy L. Williams
Roy Whitlock
Williams
Whitlock
Typhoon in Orient Leaves Nine Dead
Hong Kong reports nine dead and nine injured after yesterday’s typhoon. Seventy-five mile per hour winds damaged four war‑damaged buildings. Cheung Chau Island described a tidal wave destroying 50 large junks and grounding one police launch. Two people remained unaccounted for.
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Hong Kong
Cheungchau
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