Mortar shells kill eight at Camp Lejeune
Two defective mortars exploded during a routine training at Camp Lejeune North Carolina. Eight Marines were killed and 25 wounded as the forward group of Companies A and weapons company suffered the blast. Commandant Clifton Cates ordered a board of inquiry and investigators inspected the damaged shells.
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Russia and China Sign New Trade Treaty
London reports Russia and China sign a new trade pact to boost exchange of goods between the two Communist powers. The agreement was announced in Moscow and Beijing with aims to strengthen economic ties and cooperation.
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China
London
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Tax Provisions Expand Depletion and Life Insurance Rates
The draft tax bill would extend depletion allowances across oil and gas wells and raise coal depletion to ten percent. Nonmetallic minerals like borax receive a 25 percent rate, with sand and stone at five percent. Life insurance tax treatment would extend through 1951, and several technical changes would close loopholes in controlled and one shot corporations and dealer security accounts.
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U.S. Pushes Effort to Release Newsman Oatis
Secretary of State Acheson says the United States continues in every possible way to obtain the release from Communist Czechoslovakia of Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis.
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Acheson
United States
Czechoslovakia
Associated Press
William N. Oatis
Primitive War at Bangbanglang Sees Limited Firepower
Manils dispatch reports on Mount Bangbanglang where Fenging Malayan tribesmen clash with rival groups using blowgun darts and spears, supplemented by two machine guns. The conflict yields occasional bangs as both sides exchange terse volleys amid a sparse arsenal.
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Mount Bangbanglang
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Water project restricted by assembly on Feather River plan
Sacramento June 21 The Feather River project faced cuts as the Assembly committee revised the bill to remove provisions delivering water hundreds of miles to Southern California and the Santa Clara and San Jose valleys. The Senate approved measure would authorize main dam and reservoir construction funded by bands, a smaller dam and plant, and a channel to Sacramento San Joaquin delta with $100,000 appropriated for pins and specifications. A Ways and Means clearance is still needed and a hearing was scheduled late today.
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