Air Defense Center reports surge of unidentified objects
Colorado Springs reports two weeks of saucer and unidentified object sightings. Interceptor planes are kept ready for immediate sortie as radar picks up fast, Wright Patterson analyzes results. ADC notes radar can misread ionized clouds weather balloons and flares as solid objects.
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Air Force Air Defense Command
Ent Air Force Base
ADC
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
New York
Missouri
California
Flying saucers seen by Canadian destroyer in Korea
A Canadian destroyer Crusader reported radar finds of two flying saucer like objects on July 10 near Korea and Japan. Forty crew saw them at two miles high seven miles away before dawn. later dismissed as Jupiter. A prior sighting was by bombers over North Korea and Tokyo also reported a saucer sighting.
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Seoul
Korea
Japan
Navy
Crusader
Far East
Fifth Air Force
Jupiter
North Korea
Tokyo
Kosuke Miyazaki
Central Meteorological Observatory
Fugitive Wins Car Return Over Police Action
Walter King sought his automobile after police arrested a woman for driving it on a larceny charge dated June 27. Judge Joseph Sloan ruled the fugitive’s constitutional rights protect his property and ordered the car returned despite the initial seizure.
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Philadelphia
Walter King
King
Joseph Sloan
Sloan
Reporters Go Hunting Saucers
A group of reporters and photographers flew over Washington in a chartered airliner to spot flying saucers for a We the People program. Despite radar reports of strange blips over the capital, the chase yielded nothing during the planned hour long broadcast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vern Haugland
Washington
National Broadcasting Company
We the People
George Skinner
Washington National Airport
Skinner
Senator Green Predicts No Southern Democratic Bolt Over Civil Rights Plan
Rhode Island Senator Theodore Francis Green, aging 83, says Northern and Southern Democrats differ on the civil rights plank but should unite for the November vote. He helped draft the platform in Chicago and expects the two-phase compromise to prevent a 1948-type defection. Southern and Northern Democrats debate wording while supporting continued Democratic political participation and procedural reforms. The split view underscores the party’s effort to avert a split on a civil rights issue in the upcoming election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Theodore Francis Green
Rhode Island
Green
Chicago
Senate
House
A. Wiss Robertson
Virginia
York
Hubert Ee
Minnesota
Democratic National Committee
Florida
Richard D. Barker
McKinney
Barker
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Kentucky
U. S
Thomas R. Underwood
John Sherman Cooper
Man Blames Pies For Broken Ankle At Base
Dayton fireman Wilbur Sager 44 blamed cherry pies for his broken ankle after he slid down a fire pole at Wright Patterson Air Force Base while baking three pies when a fire alarm sounded. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Wilbur Sager
Sager
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
ANZUS Conferees Warned Of Tough Going Ahead
Honolulu dispatch reports early arrivals for the ANZUS conference face a tough path amid IPR findings that deep Pacific non Communist tensions hinder security cooperation. Japan’s economic ties and Australia New Zealand Britain trade links frame the key issues as U S Secretary Acheson prepares to join discussions.
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Anzus
Honolulu
Institute of Pacific Relations
The
Pacific
New Zealand
U. S
Dean Acheson
Denver
Percy Spender
Free World
Leslie K. Munro
Korea
Munro
Australia
IPR
Institute
J. B. Atherton
Japan
Southeast Asia
Britain
Acheson Plane Forced Down On Hawaii Trip
Secretary of State Acheson was forced to land overnight after an engine failed on the military aircraft carrying him to Hawaii. The four engine Constellation landed at Lowry Air Force Base for repairs, with no passenger injuries reported and Acheson resting at Fitzsimons Army Hospital.
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Denver
Acheson
Hawaii
Lowry Air Force Base
Honolulu
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Fitzsimons Army Hospital
Brad Connor
Brown Palace
Dwight Eisenhower
Staff Officers Near Agreement On Peace Draft
In Munsan Korea UN and Communist staff officers signaled agreement on the wording of all but two paragraphs of a Korean armistice draft. The thorny prisoner exchange issue remains unresolved and will be tackled after a week-long recess. Col. Duncan Somerville said progress was made in firming up most paragraphs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munsan
Korea
P—U. N
Duncan Somerville
U. N
Mussel Bound Lumine Delayed Sail to Hawaii
The Lumine, a luxury liner bound for Hawaii, was six hours late after spending time in Los Angeles harbor to clear an accumulation of mussels from its plumbing. The ship finally departed after 10 p.m. with crews finishing the mussel cleanup in the outer harbor.
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Los Angeles
Hawaii
Reds recapture Old Baldy after 12 hour battle
U N infantry on Old Baldy repelled a ferocious shelling and two Chinese counterattacks. More than 3 000 rounds were fired as U N troops held the hill west of Chorwon. The hill was retaken in a 12 hour engagement with heavy support, while floods crippled bridges on the Chinese side and fighting subsided elsewhere.
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Robert B. Tuckman
Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Old Baldy
Chorwon
U.S. Eighth Army
U.N
Associated Press
Milo Farnell
Yakkok
North Korea
Bank Robbery in Lyons Nets Estimated $45,000
Four gunmen robbed the Bank of Lyons in a three minute daylight holdup in suburban Lyons Illinois. They herded 17 people including 12 workers into a rear room while a fifth man collected cash from cages into a sack. The robbery occurred before payroll time and the loss was put at about $45,000.
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Chicago
Lyons
Bank of Lyons
R. C. Belasick
New Highs In Prices Predicted By Stabilizers
Washington AP report says government stabilization chiefs foresee another rise in the cost of living by month end. Food prices hit a new two week high, up 1.2 percent through July 15, 1950 levels up 16 percent since Korea war began.
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Washington
Ellis Arnall
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Roger L. Putnam
Putnam
Arnall
Congress
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Corp
Weir
United States Olympic team defeats Russia 36 to 25 for title
The United States Olympic basketball team rallied past a stubborn Russian squad 36 to 25 to retain its Olympic crown. Russia finished second in the final tournament standings as tensions rose in Berlin amid calls for lifted East West trade limits.
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Helsinki
United States
Russia
Berlin
West Berlin
Germany
Drought Deemed Economic Disaster By U S Agriculture Officials
Agriculture Department officials called the South and New England drought one of the nation's worst economic disasters. The disaster area covers eight states and large Arkansas Missouri regions, enabling federal loans. Nine state meeting in Nashville called for emergency action with possible railroad hay rate cuts and expanded livestock aid.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
South
New England
Department
South Carolina
Massachusetts
Maine
Arkansas
Missouri
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
Tennessee
Knox Hutchinson
Nashville
Tenn
Raub Snyder
Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner
Wisconsin
Railroad Men Discussing NYC Tie Up
Cleveland report on a potential New York Central strike east of Buffalo. J. P. Shields and union chiefs for Firemen Trainmen and Conductors weighed delaying action under the Railway Labor Act as mediation steps, with a 72 hour postponement in Syracuse cited to aid the National Mediation Board. No notices yet in New York Central yards.
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Cleveland
New York Central
Buffalo
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
J. P. Shields
Truman
Shields
T. J. Harkins
New York
Syracuse
N.Y
National Mediation Board
New York City
Amateur Driver Takes Bus With 12 Passengers
A man drove off with a bus carrying 12 passengers after the regular driver left to check an overheated engine in St Louis. Kenneth D. Gorham, 41, was later booked on suspicion of careless driving and grand larceny of a bus. Police reported no injuries.
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ST. Louis
Kenneth D. Gorham
Ike and Stevenson Run Independent Campaign Frames
Gov Adlai Stevenson moves campaign headquarters to Springfield Illinois and names Wilson Wyatt as personal manager. Gen Dwight D Eisenhower asserts no single boss will direct the campaign with final responsibility his. both campaigns emphasize coordination with party organs while pursuing aggressive national stumping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stevenson
Washington
Springfield
Wilson Wyatt
Louisville
Gen. Eisenhower
Denver
Eisenhower
Wyatt
National Committee
B. Russell
Georgia
Eren Harriman
Kansas City
Truman
Richard M. Nixon
California
United States
Americans For Democratic Action
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Rich
Mutiny at Montreal Bordeaux Jail Ties Up City
Police used tear gas and gunfire to quell a riot at Montreal's Bordeaux jail. About 700 inmates fought with 200 officers, ignited 17 fires, looted the canteen, and damaged locks and plumbing. Injuries included at least 12 prisoners and Chief Emile Drapeau, hospitalized after an iron bar strike. Quiet returned after midnight.
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Montreal
Bordeaux
Emile Drapeau
Montreal Fire Department
Inland Steel Signs Two Year Pact With Union
Inland Steel Co and the CIO United Steelworkers sign the first complete post strike agreement in the basic steel industry. The two year contract covers about 16 000 workers at Indiana Harbor and Chicago Heights Indiana and Illinois with a wage raise and six paid holidays. It runs to June 30 1954 and permits reopen negotiations after one year.
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Chicago
f—Inland Steel Co
CIO United Steelworkers Union
Inland
Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel
Possi
Washington
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Chicago Heights
Head found in pool linked to Yukon slaying
Oklahoma City police trace a 13 or 14 year old victim killed in a revenge slaying. A blue jeans shirt and dismembered hands and head were found beneath a South Canadian River bridge near Union City. No progress reported on the slayer who carved the word rat on the victim’s stomach. The hands and head were miles southwest of the main body found near Yukon last Wednesday.
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Oklahoma City
Union City
Yukon
Peasant Revolt Reported in Lohang Township
Hong Kong based Kung Sheung Jih Pao cited a Communist dispatch from Kukong claiming a June 21 peasant uprising in Lohang, Central Kwangtung. The report says 12 Communist fighters were killed as troops suppressed the revolt.
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Hong Kong
Lohang
Kwangtung
Kung Sheung Jih Pao
Kukong
Red China
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Colorado Springs
Colo
United States Coast Guard
Air Force
Coast Guard
Seaman Shell Alpert
Salem
Mass
By Edwin B. Harkinson
Man
Pies
By Leif Erickson
Dillon Graham
Bulletins
Columbus
Theodore J. Kauer
Ohio Turnpike Commission
Frank J. Lausche
Samuel ©. Linzell
Roy Bishop
Fayetteville
Bishop
Department of Agriculture
Nyc
Ike
Frank E. McKinney
Sacramento
Salt Lake City
Utah
Walter K.granger
Marriner S. Eccles
Arthur V. Watkins
U .H
Inland Steel
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