MacArthur Urges United Front Against Communism in Asia
General Douglas MacArthur plans to tell W Averell Harriman in Tokyo that U.S. Korea policy fails without a broad Asian anti-Communist push. He advocates backing Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists on Formosa, the British in Hong Kong, and free peoples in Indo China Siam and Burma to deter aggression and uphold free nations.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
W. Averell Harriman
America
Korea
United States
Asia
Harriman
Truman
MacArthur
Gentralissmne
Chiang Kai
Gen. MacArthur
Heat Hits Mexia With Record Temperatures Friday
Friday brought extreme heat across Texas with Mexia reporting 96 degrees per Miss Josie Newman and local observer Joe Ganaway noting 104 from his station. Other cities reached up to 105 at Cotulla and 100 in Dallas and Fort Worth. Guadalupe Pass saw the heaviest shower of 6.66 inches in 24 hours ending 6:30 am Saturday. Overnight lows ranged from 79 at Galveston to 70 at Mexia.
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Mexia
Josie Newman
Weather Observer
Joe Ganaway
Ie Mexia Daily News
Joe
Josie
United Press
Dallax
Fort Worth
Waco
Cotulla
Guadalupe Pass
Galveston
Palacios
Guadalupe
Mexin
Explosive cargo plane crash lands near Oklahoma City
A military transport plane carrying explosives made a wheels up landing near Tinker Air Force Base and exploded minutes after touchdown. The six crew members escaped injury as the high octane cargo detonated, drawing thousands of spectators during a 90 minute sequence.
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Oklahoma City
Mielane Corps
Telecaust
Cherry Point Naval Air Station
Muffett Field
Califo
Tinker Air Force Base
Tinkerfield
Texas Farm Prices Jump Five Percent in July
The July price index for Texas farmers rose five percent from June, the sharpest monthly gain since April 1948, reaching 303 percent of the 1910-14 average. Mid July hog prices averaged 22.20 per hundred pounds, up 3.70, while lint cotton rose 3.3 cents and cottonseed climbed to 52. Corn fell three cents.
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Austin
Texas
United States Department of Agrculture
USDA
First Family Court Set Up in Texas
Potter County appoints F H McGregor as judge of the first family relations court in Texas. McGregor, an Amarillo attorney, will head the new court. The brief notice confirms the landmark establishment in Amarillo.
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First Family Court
Texas
Amarillo
F. H. McGregor
Potter County
McGregor
Oklahoma Governor Recap Under Full Ballot Recount
Oklahoma ballots are being recounted after a court decision to order a complete statewide recount of the governor race. Chief Justice Denver Davison presides as 40 district judges and 77 election boards prepare to work through Sunday to finish tallying votes from the July 25 runoff. The contest pits Walfram O. Coe against Johnston Murray with disputed results and fraud claims.
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Oklahoma City
Magates
Oklahoma
Rovorrat
Denver Davison
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Walfram O. Coe
Pool to Open on August 7 in Mexis City
The Mexis Municipal swimming pool will reopen for business this coming Monday. Operator Ty Bain says the pool was closed during his attendance at the Texas coaches meeting in Austin.
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Mexis
Ty Bain
Texas Coaches Meeting
Austin
President Signs Return of Mexican War Flags
President Tuman approved sending 66 flags captured by the United States in the 1848 Mexican War back to Mexico. The banners, kept at West Point’s Army academy, are to be returned as a gesture of goodwill.
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Washington
Tuman
Blexico
Army Academy
West Point
Raw Cotton Values Fall After Six Weeks of Rises
New York reports raw cotton prices declined this week after six straight gains. At week end the price settled 124 to 178 points lower, about 6.20 to 8.90 a base, with some bale losses exceeding 11 dollars from recent seasonal highs. Private crop estimates range from 10.5 to 11.49 million bales, well below last year’s 16.13 million. Some observers expect tighter yields if growers plant closer together with heavy fertilization.
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New York
Cotton Growers Oppose Acreage Allotment Bill in Congress
Delegates from the Southwest Four State Cotton Growers association adopted a resolution opposing House Resolution 9109 amid provisions limiting cotton to 45 percent of a farmer’s acreage. The group includes cotton growers from West Texas New Mexico Arizona and California as the bill advances in Congress.
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EL Paso
Southwest
State Cotton Growers Association
West Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Senitte
VFW Mexia Post Plans Barbecue Sunday to Celebrate Drive
Members of the Mexia post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a barbecue at 5 p.m. at the clubrooms this Sunday to celebrate completing their summer membership drive.
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Mexia
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Glasgow Conductor Volunteered for Korea War
Public Glasgow sheet car conductor John Symington volunteered for service in Korea. He joked that Koreans could not be more offensive than the Glasgow public, reflecting wartime sentiment and personal enlistment.
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Glasgow
Scotland
John Symmington
Korea
Western Auto Opens New Store Building
Crowds visited the new Western Auto Associate store at Commerce and McKinney streets for the opening day. J. G. Coman of Mexia Chamber of Commerce praised the Perkins brothers Woodrow and Wallie for promoting business and civic growth in the city.
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Western Auto Associate
Commerce
McKinney Streets
J. G. Coman
Mexia Chamber of Commerce
Perkins Brothers
Coman
Woodrow and
Wallir Perkins
FBI Names Dallas Escaped Convict As Most-Wanted Man
FBI declares Fred Whitaker ex-Oklahoma convict the southwest region’s top fugitive. He appeared in Fort Worth with a woman identified as his wife Madge, age 30, after a jail escape aided by smuggling a pistol and assault on a guard during the breakout.
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FBI
Dallas
Fort Worth
Fred Whitaker
Oklahoma
Southwest
Whitaker
Ft. Worth
Madge
McAlester
Okla
Texas Oil Wells Rise to 250 Completions in Week
Texas oilmen completed 250 wells last week, per the Texas Railroad Commission, boosting total completions this year to 6,288 and outpacing 1949's 5,321 for the same period. During the seven days, 66 wildcat wells were reported, with 49 dry, 34 producing, and three gas wells.
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Texas Oil
Austin
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
Well-Equipped Marines Set To Fight In Korea
The piece portrays Marines in Korea facing uncertainty about the war’s purpose while noting their elite status. It describes their confidence, nerves, and esprit de corps, praising their equipment and training and recalling past American victories as motivation.
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Korea
Getpan
Tsiawa
Iwo Jima
War in Brief Highlights from New York to Korea
Customs agents searched the Polish liner Batory in New York as part of a wartime probe for atomic weapons and Communist personnel. The day also covered Russia’s Korea withdrawal plan, tank-killing shells for 90 mm guns, draft postponement for student draftees, casualty lists in Korea, warnings on civilian defense, Navy aircraft purchases rising, and a universal enlistment freeze for volunteers.
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New York
Batory
Gerhart Eisler
United States
Frew
Washington
Army
Korea
Speed Up Tax Plan For Corporations Is Approved
The Senate Finance committee backed a speed up for corporate income tax payments boosting annual federal revenue by about 700 million dollars for five years. The plan, already cleared by the House, shortens the period for payments without altering tax rates and would shift payments to within six months after earnings.
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Washington
U. S. Senate Finance Committee
House of Representatives
Truman
Uncle Sam offers food bargains for foreign governments
The United States proposes to sell large quantities of meat at five cents a pound, butter at 15 cents, and cheese at seven and a half cents, but only to foreign governments that are United Nations FAO members. Soviet Russia is ineligible. The move aims to reduce perishable farm stocks, with most bargains funded by price support programs.
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Washington
U.S
United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization
Soviet
Russia
Agriculture Department
Fever Record Reported After Dallas Woman’s Crisis
Mrs Can della Barrientos, 25, is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital after recording a fever of 108.4 degrees Friday night. Doctors say she suffers from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix.
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Dallas
Candella Barrientos
World War I Flier Fights With 45 Cal Pistol Fire
Two American pilots in unarmed T-6 observation planes strafed a North Korean tank and troop column with a .45 caliber pistol and claimed they stopped the enemy. Maj Gen. Earl E. Partridge ordered 20 gauge machine guns on all T-6s after the incident.
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U. S. Air Force
Kores
Earl E. Partridge
Sth
F. Brown
Tampa
Fla
Kumechon
Reds Reported Regrouping to Make Big Drive
American forces report limited counter attacks along the Nakong river and repulsed assaults near Taegu and Chinju. MacArthur says the Reds regroup and may shift main weight to southern sector to disrupt Taegu Pusan lines as 50,000 troops mass for an all out attack. heavy air and artillery action continues plus sinking of a 10,000 ton freighter at Inchon.
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Tokyo
Nakiong River
Douglas MacArthur
Chinjgu
U.S
MacArthur
Taegu-Pusan
Usame
Tne
Srtillery
Mnthe
Inchon
Seoul
Naktong
Taegu
Chinju
Sth Ase
Forcr
Ung Cith Wis
Almont
Norul-Tong
Korea
Yorcilok
Truck Wreck Claims Limestone Man at 39
A Friday afternoon accident on the Fallons Mexia road killed Preasley Gabson 39 native of Limestone county. He fainted while helping haul on his father s farm then drove alone to Mexia in a pickup after reviving. The truck rolled over three times and plunged down an embankment. Funeral services are set for Sunday at East Prairie Church at 3 30 p.m. Rev G B Evans will lead. He is survived by his wife and four sisters along with his father John Ditson and stepmother.
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Preasley Gabson
Limestone County
Gibson
Mexia
Dows
Embankment
East Prairie
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