Submarine sightings near Kenai Peninsula alarm Alaska military
Anchorage reports a joint Army Navy Air Force inquiry into sightings of submarines described as definitely not American off the Kenai Peninsula within 160 miles of Anchorage. Two Fish and Wildlife witnesses, including Donald Cross and Tom Costello, described a long cigar shaped object and a diesel powered sub in Cook Inlet and near Dick Arm, raising questions about foreign submarine activity.
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Anchorage
Alaska
U.S. Army
Navy
Air Force
Kenai Peninsula
U. S. Fish and Wild Life
U. S
Donald Cross
Fish and Wild Life Service
Army-Navy-Air Force
Dick Arm
Cross
Cook Inlet
Tom Costello
Elgin Island
Kalgin Island
Costello
Fellowes
Don Cross
Castello
Senate Votes Next to Highest Tax Increase
The Senate completed action on a general revenue boosting measure with final passage by a 19 to vote after nine days of debate. The plan raises personal income taxes by about 2.994 billion dollars effective Nov 1 and adds a 0 percent levy on individual taxes. excise raises apply to autos, gasoline, cigarettes, liquor, and more. The bill would also cut excess profits levies by about 600 million dollars and shift corporate top rates to 52 percent.
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Washington
Senate
J. House
House
Truman
Koea
Seven Areas Declared Critical in Housing Crisis
The Defense Department and the Office of Defense Mobilization certified seven areas near military installations as critical housing areas. This allows relaxing real estate credit controls to spur private housing for defense workers and personnel, while rents remain tightly controlled. Affected areas include Anchorage and Fairbanks Alaska Fort Leonard Wood Missouri Camp Cooke and Camp Roberts California Valdosta Georgia Tooele Utah and Huntsville Alabama.
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Washington
Defense Department
Office of Defense Mobilization
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Alaska
Fort Leonard Wes
Laclede
Phelps
Pulaski
Camp Cooke
Camp Roberts
San Luis Obispo County
Judicial
Santa Barbara County
Calif
Valdosta
Lowndes County
Tooele
Utah
Tooele County
Great Salt Lake Desert
Salt Lac
Huntsville
Ala
Madison County
Moslem Rioters Held for Murder Trial in Kasur
A Kasur district magistrate in Punjab Pakistan ordered 72 Moslems held for murder trial over the killing of 11 Christians in a Matta village communal riot months earlier.
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Lahore
Pakistan
Kasur
Punjab
Matta
Strike Cuts into Copper Stockpile
Washington announced that President Truman ordered withdrawal of 30 000 tons of copper from the no vena stockpile to cover production losses from a strike. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said this is the second withdrawal to ease a copper shortage, following a release of up to 25 000 tons last August.
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Washington
Truman
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
Marine Corps expansion drives record draft surge
Defense officials disclosed 55,900 draftees will be called in November and December with 29,000 to the Army and 10,000 to the Marine Corps. A third Marine division is planned, boosting overall strength as Adm Fechteler indicated a possible expansion. December inductions total 16,900 with 9,900 to Marines and 7,000 to the Army.
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Washington
Defense Department
Marine Corps
Anna Rosenberg
Army
Fechteler
Korea
United States
Red China warns of US amphibious landings in Korea
Peiping radio claimed the United States wrecked truce talks and plans amphibious landings on both North Korean coasts. The broadcast asserted five more divisions would be trained to drive Koreans to the Yalu, and to bomb bases in northeast China as Bradley and Ridgway met to discuss mutual military matters.
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Tokyo
Red China
United States
Kaesong
North Korea
Peiping
Yahi River
Noth Korea
Manchuria
China
Omar WN. Bradley
United Nations
Matthew B. Ridgway
Bradley
U.S
Joint Cliefs Af
Ridgway
Karsong
No Man's-Land
Songhyon
Yalu River
National Guard
Japan
40Th
California
45Th
Oklahoma
Korea
Five of Family Die in Home Fire in Eton New Hampshire
A fire destroyed a frame dwelling near Eton New Hampshire, killing five members of the Newton family while they slept. The dead include Nellie Newton Sally Newton Judy Newton Wayne Newton and Douglas Newton. The father Raymond Newton and son Raymond Newton Jr and daughter Rena Newton were seriously burned. Police believe an oil burner explosion started the blaze.
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Eton
N. H
Annisters
Nellie Newton
Sally Newton
Judy
Wayne
Douglas
Raymond Newton
Raymond Jr
Rena
Newton
Alice
Harrie E Nelson
Classifieds and notices listed by page sections
The snippet lists where to find various newspaper sections and pages including Churches, Classifieds, Comics, Financial, Obituaries, Radio and TV, Shipping, Sports, Theaters, Tides and temperatures across pages A-4 to B-5. It serves as a contents navigation note for the edition.
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Tcomica
Weather Update Mostly Clear With River Fog Patches
Mostly clear tonight with local early morning fog patches tomorrow. Temperature little changed tomorrow. Light variable winds shift to north to northwest 12 to 20 mph tomorrow afternoon.
Superfort in Fiery Crash at Carswell AFB
A B29 bomber crashed and burned at Carswell Air Force Base while attempting a forced landing. The four engine plane went down on a runway at L159. Details on casualties were not immediately available. The aircraft was en route from Pyote to Meridian, Georgia, and had been recently demothballed at Pyote.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Carswell Air Force Base
Pyote Air Force Base
Meridian
Pyote
Killer Dies by Firing Squad at Utah Prison
Ray Dempsey Gardner, 29, was executed at dawn by firing squad at the Utah state prison at Point of the Mountain for the 1940s rape and murder of Shirley Gretampor, a 19 year old Ogden Sunday School teacher. He confessed the killing and faced last words as five rifles fired from about 25 feet. the event drew about 30 witnesses, including Montana officers.
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Point OF the Mountain
Utah
Ray Dempsey Gardner
Shirley Gretampor
Ogden
Montana
North Dakota
Mac Wade
Gardner
New
Utah State Prison
Wade
Air Force C-119 transport missing in Japan with five aboard
Stewart Air Force Base reports a C-119 transport vanished over Japan after takeoff from Tachikawa Airfield on Thursday. Five crew members were aboard. no trace has been found.
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Stewart Air Force Base
Tenn
Air Force
Japan
Tachikawa Airfield
Walkouts Hit Key National Defense Work
National defense projects slowed by strikes as 535 members of the plumbers union and other workers walk off. Iron miners in Minnesota staged a spontaneous outage while General Electric and CIO International Union of Electrical Workers sought federal mediation in New York to avert a broader 48 plant walkout over contract terms including wages pensions and cost of living adjustments.
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Unies
General Electric
L Alamos
N. M
Atomic Weapons Center
al Paducah
Mesabi
Vermillion
Minnesota
General Electric Co
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
New York
Funeral Ship Bears 579 Yank Bodies
The SS Hoosier State arrived in San Francisco Bay bearing 579 American war dead from Korea. Caskets, draped with flags, were lowered at Oakland’s Avrey dock as military escorts accompanied each to the burial site chosen by the next of kin.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Avrey
Oakland
Zady
Anglo Iranian Conflict Heads to UN Security Council
London and Tehran disclosed that Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb will plead their cases before the U N Security Council next week over the oil dispute. The clash pits a seasoned British diplomat against a frail veteran Iranian politician as Britain warns the issue threatens world peace.
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London
Lyan
Mohammed Mossadegh
Britain
Gladwyn Jebb
U. N. Security Council
Tehran
Britin
U N Fliers Hit Communist Vehicle Convoys in Korea
Allied warplanes struck an estimated 109 Communist trucks in predawn raids across the Korean front from Sariwon to Pyongyang. Heavy rain and low clouds limited air operations while ground fighting diminished to scattered skirmishes as UN forces recaptured territory near Kumhong and held a two day battle line with Chinese troops.
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Korea
Sariwon
Pyongyang
Yangdokan
Wonsan
Fron
Air Force
United Nations
Tratosie Hill
Kum
U.N
Unfamiliar Couple Weds Then Seeks Annullment
In Edinburg Texas Judge Milton Richards faced a peculiar case as a Latin American couple, brought by a foster mother to obtain a marriage license, ended up married with no prior introduction. They later argued over a small matter and sought annulment after a priest questioned the license. Until a District Court filing, they remain married.
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Edinburg
Texas
Milton Richards
Tdige Richardson
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