Mechanical Fault Halts Atomic Test
The AEC warned pilots not to fly within 200 miles of Las Vegas as the Desert Rock exercise proceeds. Officials note weather could delay the blast beyond noon. The test uses Army troops for the first time and studies heat radiation, animals, and building effects. About 150 animals and 100 rats are at Yucca Flat for data on casualty treatment.
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Totar
AEC
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Las Vegas
Desert Rock
Commission Laboratories
Yucca
Congress Advances Tax Increases and Civil Service Pay
Congress rushes to adjourn as three major measures clear the Senate in a brisk session. The pay raise bill boosts civil service to 10 percent with a $300 minimum and $800 cap, aiding about 1.5 million workers and 0.5 million postal staff. The war-ends with Germany resolution moves toward White House pending final approval.
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Civil Service
Senate
Congress
McFarland
Ariz
Germany
House
Special Air
President Truman
Ag Direein
Roswell S. Gilpatric
New York
Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
Paris
U.N
United States
White House
Toledo Auto-Lite strike idles 6000 in Ohio
Six thousand CIO unionists walked off five Electric Auto-Lite Co plants in Toledo Ohio over wage disputes affecting 270 workers. Picket lines formed at all plants with no violence reported. John Bors, CIO-United Auto Workers chair, announced the strike citing contract breaches. Other tax office misconduct hearings and indictments were noted in the same session.
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Toledo
Ohio
CIO
Auto-lite Ca
John Bors
Cio-United Auto Workers
John B. Dunlap
St. Louis
Boston
Prihery
Boston Tax Office
Marris Boorky
Worcester Steel Treating Corp
Worcester
Martin P. Higgins
Adrian David
Howard McGrath
A. Devitt Vanech
Justice Department
King
Dy Calif
Miller
Boorky
Daniel Friedman
Estate Research Bureau, Inc
Boston Internal Revenue Office
British Troops Seal Off Suez Canal Zone
British forces sealed the canal zone with entrenched positions along the Cairo Suez highway and near Netisha. Egyptian and British units faced limited clashes, with the first major exchange at El Ferdan Bridge, while both sides fortified crossings and prepared for potential further action. Public order actions included a note of protest from Egypt and moves by Sudan officials.
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Suez Canal Zone
Canal Zone
Sinai Peninsula
Canal
Fayid
Ismailia
Egypt
Cairo
Suez
la Bourse Egyptienne
Sudan
Robert G. Flowe
Khartoum
Britain
Abdel Fattah Bisheri
Mohammed Abdul Hadi
Ment
Farouk
AL Balagh
Legislative Assembly
Persian Gulf
Trieste
Netisha
Iof
el Ferdan
Port Said
Chinese Slow Drive in Blazing Battles
In a day of hard fought combat, Allied forces repelled two week long charges as Reds withdrew from a ridge line. U N actions continued with heavy air and naval strikes while ground forces advanced northward amid renewed truce hopes. FEAF said 1000 sorties targeted rail lines and bridges, while fighting touched Kumsong and surrounding ridges with green Chinese replacements and coastal skirmishes near Kansong.
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U. S. Eighth Army
U. N
Kumsong
Pyongyang
Chinnampo
Hamhung
Far East Air Force
FEAF
Heartbreak Ridge
Kansong
38Th Parallel
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American’ Ave
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Aly Fores
John A. McCune
Gilpatric
Air Force
Beck
Recorder of Deeds
District of Columbia
Senate District
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Ambbassador
Phillip C. Jesstup
Connally
D.-Tex
Ffull Foreign Relations Committee
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Toledo Auto-Lite
Belmont Park
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Pine Avenue Park
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Freie
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