New Weapon for Attacks on Field Forces
The Air Force plans to put into operation the B-61 Matador pilotless guided missile built by Glenn L. Martin Co. It will form the first pilotless light bomber squadron at Cocoa Florida on Oct 1 for training. Officials call it a tactical expendable guided weapon with unknown range speed and payload.
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Washington
Air Force
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Missile Test Center
Cocoa
Fla
London
English Channel
Navy
Aerobee
Truman
Navy grounds Alaska squadron for morale reasons
Washington sent word that a naval air squadron in Alaska has been grounded for morale reasons following multiple crashes. A special board of inquiry headed by a rear admiral will investigate, with confidentiality due to the squadron’s patrol duties between Alaska and Russia.
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Washington
Naval Air
Alaska
Navy
Rep
Mitchell
D.wash
Francis P. Sentienall
The
Avy
Whitehair
Patrol Squadron 9
Alaskan Sea Frontier
Pacific Fleet
Alaskan
Russia
Allies Bar Czech Air Flights Over West Germany
West Germany bans all Czech airline flights in a joint Allied move with the United States Britain and France. The ban, effective last Tuesday midnight, cites retaliation over the Oatis case but provides no explanation. The CSA routes over West Germany will be detoured by Czech carriers, a government monopoly.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Allied High Commission
West Germany
High Commission
United States
Britain
France
William Oatis
Associated Press
Washington
State Department
U. S
Oatis
U.S
Berlin
Czechoslovak Airlines
CSA
Truman
de Jease
Superpriority Established to Expedite Vital Arms
Washington reports the National Production Authority created a DX priority to fast track urgent military and atomic programs. The emergency, limited-use rating speeds tanks, parts, and materials by granting factory preference over standard defense orders. A special NPA unit will grant the DX symbol when needed to ensure completion of highly-critical munitions contracts.
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Washington
National Production Authority
NPA
Army
New Yorker Denies Politics Dewey Seeks Pacific Alliances
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, after a 10 minute White House meeting with President Truman, urged closer political and military alliances among free nations in the Pacific. He had just returned from Korea and the Orient and stressed aid and advisers for the Far East, while denying any domestic political talk or plans for Eisenhower in 1952. He said discussions covered the strategic situation in the Pacific including the Philippines and insisted there was no talk of him joining Truman's cabinet.
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Dewey
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
White House
Far East
Associated Press
Washington
Pacific
Korea
Orient
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Philippines
United States
Influence sought for RFC loan on Ford firm
A witness testified that the head of American Lithofold Corp pressed for White House help to secure RFC financing. E. J. Toole, former Lithofold treasurer, identified diary extracts showing RIB and Cecil Green discussed urging White House intervention to speed loan approval, with other RFC officials said to cooperate.
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Washington
American Lithofold Corp
White House
E. J. Toole
Litheford
St. Louis
Senate
William M. Boyle Jr
RFC
Toole
RIB
Cecil Green
Green
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
R. J. Brauner
Big Three push unified European army plan
The Big Three foreign ministers led by Eisenhower agreed on a plan for a unified European army that could include German forces. They also moved toward a peace contract offering independence to West Germany in exchange for cooperation in Western defense. Secretary Acheson, Morrison, and Schuman aimed to complete the German contract and then tackle Italy's treaty liberalization, Oatis from a Czech prison and the U N base bid in Spain.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
Europe
Free World
Dean Acheson
Herbert Morrison
Robert Schuman
Italy
Associated Press
William Wii. Oatis
Czech
U. N
Spain
Weather forecast with clouds and clearing by noon
Low clouds tonight and tomorrow, clearing by late forenoon. Sunny and warmer tomorrow afternoon, with a clear sky. Winds tonight shift to west or southwest, about 18 miles per hour, increasing tomorrow afternoon.
Forest fires rage in four California national forests
An alarmingly large series of fires in Plumas Mendocino Klamath and San Bernardino national forests in Northern and Southern California prompted evacuations of at least 200 residents and left one bulldozer operator dead. The Mii Ranch fire covered about 16000 acres destroying 30 million feet of timber valued at 750000 dollars. BLAZE started Tuesday night from old railroad ties.
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California
High Sierra
Dames
Ernest L. Baxter
San Francisco
Plumas
Mendocino
Klamath National
San Bernardino National Forest
Madoc National Forest
Bobby Markleroad
Ukiah Pine Lumber Co
Boardman Ridge
Upper Lake
Lake County
Mendocino National Forest
Mii Ranch
Plumas National Forest
Feather River Canyon
Baxter
Buck's Lake
Camp Beale
Marysville
Pony Peak
Klamath National Forest
Rouge
Millard Canyon
Riverside
Willow Creek
Aiden
Lassen County
Modoc
National Forest
Britain Buys Russia Grain in Large Purchase
Britain announced a contract to purchase 1,060,000 tons of grain from Russia. Deliveries start shortly and the mix includes wheat 200,000 tons, barley 425,000 tons, corn 300,000 tons, and 73,000 tons of other grains.
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London
Britain
Russia
Food Ministry
Truce Talks Might Resume If Reds Admit Violations
In Tokyo a Peiping Radio cue suggested resumption of Korean truce talks would hinge on Allied admission that Red charges are true. UN command rejected most charges, admitting only the accidental strafing of the Kaesong neutral zone. The Reds claimed talks could restart if the Allies accepted responsibility for neutrality violations.
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Tokyo
Peiping
United Nations Command
Kaesong
Peiging Radio
U. N. Command
U. N
U S Agents Bust Red Dollar Money Ring in Orient
U S postal authorities cracked a huge money racket that diverted 32 million dollars from U S dollars to buy war materials in Communist China. Inspector R Frank Ogden spent eight months undercover in the Orient exposing the operation and tracing counterfeit and altered money orders, forged Treasury checks, and military payment certificates through Manila Hong Kong banks.
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Honolulu
Smaashed
China
R. Frank Ogden
Orient
Afoatin
Manila
Ogden
U. S
Treasury
Hong Kong
Hey
Classifieds and sections listed by page in Beyle guide
A notice enumerates where to find sections in the newspaper including Bridge on page A-17, Classifieds on C-8, Comics on B-10, Crossword A-15, Editorial A-16, Financial C-6 and C-7, Obituaries C-7, Radio TV A-4, Shipping C-7, Sports C-3, Theaters C-2, and Tides/Temps C-T with Women's activities in Section 3.
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Beyle
British Ban Ships From Iran Ports
London reports Britain has halted deliveries of cargoes to Iran with ships diverted for carrying scarce materials. The move follows a treasury statement canceling financial concessions amid stalled Anglo Iranian talks over oil nationalization. Immediate effects include sugar trails and railroad sleepers being blocked.
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London
Britalny
Iran
Board of Trade
British Treasury
Tehran
UN infantry drive in Korea reaches five miles
United Nations forces led by U S Marines and allied troops advanced up to five miles across eastern western and central fronts amid intense fighting near Pyongyang Sin Kumson and supply routes. Night air sorties by the Fifth Air Force supported the drive with heavy jet and bomber activity.
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Eighth Army
Korea
United Nations
United States
Fifth Air Force
U. N
Pyongyang
Kumsong
Yank
Air Arm
Sunan
U S
Salton Sea Range Used in Atom-Weapons Tests
The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed that its Salton Sea area range in Southern California is used for ballistics tests of weapons including atomic bombs. The Los Alamos spokesman noted the facility near Brawley has housed tests since 1944, with a 1949 reconstruction program costing over 3 million dollars to upgrade plant and housekeeping facilities.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Salton Sea
California
AEC
Los Alamos
Brawley
Calif
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