Red Waves Roll On Despite Huge Loss
Amid a massive Chinese offensive in Korea, field reports describe heavy fighting, enormous Red casualties, and continued penetration toward central fronts. U.N. forces, including American units, conduct orderly withdrawals as Allied air and artillery seek to blunt the assault, with censorship limiting exact fight locations.
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Can
Korea
Red
Manchuria
James A. Fleet
U.N
Geysnery
Harboe
Karee
Uiganeba
Othel
Seoul
Inje- Honcchon
Fron
Nate Polowetzky
George McArthur
Red Korea
Inje
Sea of Japan
Chunchon
Thje
Hongchon
Hangye
Hongcehon
Polowetzky
Eighth Army
Barnard
Central Front
United Nations
U. NS
Earle E. Partridge
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Matthew B. Ridgway
U. N
Tokyo
van Fleet
U. S
Red Losses in Korea Put at 904,788
Washington May 18 Army estimates Communist losses in Korea through May 7 total 904,788. Chinese and North Korean battle casualties reach 631,?7. noncombat losses 125,880. Prisoners of war numbered 147,301. North Korean casualties 539,702 of the total with 319,818 battle and 76,066 nonbattle losses and 143,818 taken prisoner. Chinese total 365,086 with 311,789 battle, 49,814 nonbattle, and 3,483 prisoners.
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Washington
Korea
Trains Crash in Philadelphia Suburb. Dead and Injured
A derailment disaster near a Philadelphia suburb left one person dead and sixty injured as two other cars derailed. Rescue teams aided by two priests from Mother of Good Council Church, Bryn Mawr, searched for the dead and assisted the injured. Officials noted automatic block signals and indicated the Red Arrow may have been traveling below normal speed.
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Philadelphia
PRR
Mother of Good Council
Bryn Mawr
John Tuohy
George McNamara
Helen Kincade
Thas
Ridgway
Public Information Office
Korea
United Nations
U. N
U. W
U. S
Eighth Army
NAM Pushes Harder Price Controls in Democratic Action Speech
The speech for the Americans for Democratic Action urged a stiff pay price law with ceilings labeling and quality and price line maintenance. NAM warned that inflation rackets have cost the public about 15 billion dollars as pressure mounts on wage and price controls amid Senate hearings on the Defense Production Act.
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CIO
Ameri
Democratic Action
Carey
Scott W. Lucas
Ilinois
Senate Democratic
Senate Banking Committee
Lucas
American Finance Corporation
Henry J. Kruse
Seattle
Wash
Western States Meat Packers Association
CLO Auto Workers
NAM
Senate
House Banking Committee
Truman
Retail Volume Up During Past Week
NEW YORK May 18 UP Retail unit volume in the week ended Wednesday was up slightly from the previous week helped by promotions in many areas of the nation Dun and Bradstreet reported today Aggregate dollar volume of consumer spending was about steady and compared with a year ago was somewhat increased
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Business Reporting
Train Crash Near Yard Sparks Nighttime Rescue Efforts
Eyewitnesses describe two trains moving slowly before a collision that left cars scattered on tracks. Fire threatened as ground slopes and underbrush hindered access, electric flash seen, current shut off to stop flames. This wreck marks a second NY Detroit River disaster after 1997 Altoona crash.
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PRR
New York
Detroit Fiver
Express
Altoona
Front Line in Korea Reported South of 38th Parallel
Tokyo May 18 The entire front line in Korea was reported south of the 38th Parallel about 25 miles from the line on the eastern approaches to Seoul. Dispatches placed the battle area from Vijongbu to Toksa and Masogu with positions near Kapyong Chunchon Hangye and surrounding areas.
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Tokyo
Korea
Seoul
Vijongbu
Toksa
Masogu
Changgong
Kapyong
Chunchon
Hangye
Junior Red Cross Camp Scheduled at Bluff Lake
A Pacific area Junior Red Cross leadership training camp will be held at Bluff Lake in August. Long Beach representatives will attend. Don Legg, assistant director, visited Long Beach to arrange the camp and discuss youths patriotic services. Planning conference with Roger Case, Roland Bach, and George Geiger.
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Pacific Area
Red Cross
Bluff Lake
Long Beach
Don Legg
Junior Red Cross
Lege
Roger Case
Roland R. Bach
George Geiger
U.N. Votes Arms Ban against Peiping and North Korea
The United Nations calls for an embargo on arms and war materials to areas under Peiping or North Korean control. The move, advisory and nonbinding, is supported by most members as a moral obligation, while the Soviet bloc nations refuse to commit to compliance.
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Russia
Jacob A. Malik
U.N
Iti
Soviet Countries
Maternity ward calves born aboard Pacific voyage
A Matson freighter sailing from Wilmington on May 7 arrived in Honolulu with 150 cattle including 50 calves born at sea. The ship, outfitted as a floating maternity ward, carried five carers to tend the animals. Cattle are destined to restock Hawaii dairy farms.
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Matson
Hawaiian Farmer
Wilmington
Honolulu
United Press
Hawaii
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