Truman Still Favors Milder Controls Plan
President Truman continues to back his proposed mild economic controls while Congress weighs broader measures. Speaker Rayburn indicated Truman would not veto a bill granting extra authority for price and wage controls and rationing. Democratic leaders and Senate figures discuss standby powers as talks move on a wider home front mobilization bill.
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Trumen
Truman
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Texas
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Ilinois
House
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Massachusetts
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Senate Banking Committee
Primaries Center on Truman Landon Boosts
President Truman and former Governor Landon promote primaries in Missouri Kansas and states around. Truman backs Senator Emery Allison for Democratic Senate in Missouri opposing Donnell while Hennings manhandles Pendergast charge. In Kansas Landon backs former secretary Willard Mayberry for governor as Arn runs against Car son Darby slate. West Virginia Virginia and Tennessee also vote for House seats amid Reece and Holt races. Kentucky voters pick Senate nominees as Clements Hatcher contend.
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Associated Press
Truman
Alf M. Landon
GOP
Missouri
Kansas
Emery W. Allison
Donnel
Allison
Thomas C Hennings, Jr
Virginia
West Virginia
House
Enn Hatcher
Senator Withers
Russian Officers Aid North Korea in War, POWs Say
North Korean prisoners report Russian officers with four to five commanders per division aiding Red units. Capt. Welter Clarke of Fort Worth Texas leads a U S team questioning captives and notes consistent accounts of Russian advisers with divisions including the First to Fifth Infantry.
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Korea
Welter CC Clarke
Ft Worth
Tex
Clark
Clarke
North Korea
Tobin Takes Manpower Job In War Production Drive
Washington AP Secretary of Labor Maurice J Tobin ordered the Bureau of Employment Security to assure the fairest use of the U S Employment Service and state services to meet defense plant manpower needs He urged employers not to hoard workers and asked cooperation with local offices to ease the labor market tightening in defense work.
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Washington
Maurice J. Tobin
Tobin
America
Bowton
Memochusetts
Truman
Bureau of Employment Security
U.S. Employment Service
MacArthur In Wear Council With Chiang
Gen Douglas MacArthur and top commanders flew to Formosa for a war council with Chiang Kai-Shek at his Taipei retreat. An informed source cites a possible renewed offer of 33,000 Nationalist troops to fight in Korea and a push for a more active role against Communist China.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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Korea
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U. S
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MacArthur
Chi
Korea at a Glance Troops land as battles rage near Chinju
United States Second Infantry Division arrives in South Korea with armor at a port, while North Korean forces push toward Chinju and threaten Pusan. Chinese communists seek mediation paths. President Truman asks Congress for 4 billion dollars to arm anti-Communist nations. Fifth Air Force claims hundreds of tanks destroyed or damaged. B 29s strike a chemical explosives plant. MacArthur meets Chiang Kai Shek in Formosa amid fears of a Communist invasion.
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Kumechon
Chinju
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Pusan
London
Washington
Truman
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Fifth Air Force
South Korea
Formosa
MacArthur
Chiang Kai-Shek
Bellevue Man Dies in Convertible Crash at Crossing
SANDUSKY AP Thomas M Shannon 30 son of Bellevue ex mayor was fatally injured when his convertible overturned at a railroad crossing. He was pinned under the car. his Dashhund dog survived. Shannon died hours later at Providence Hospital after transport.
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Thomas M. Shannon
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Bellevue
al Motors Corporation
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Seasons of Life Reflected in a Driver’s Changing Cars
An essay traces life as seasons, from youth to old age, using car choices as a barometer. It follows a man’s shifts from a flashy convertible to a chrome hard top, the station wagon phase, and finally a cautious, conservative late style, ending with winter gray.
Fliers claim 302 red tanks destroyed in Korea
U S Eighth Army headquarters in Korea reported the Fifth Air Force destroyed 302 North Korean tanks and damaged 240 since the war began. Maj Gen Earle Partridge said American air forces flew 6388 sorties in five weeks, with 44 enemy aircraft destroyed and 11 damaged, amid 43 American plane losses.
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Korea
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Fifth Af
Partridge
MacArthur
Tokyo
King Offers To Step Down In Favor Of Crown Prince
BRUSSELS AP Premier Jean Duvierueart said King Leopold II offered to temporarily delegate royal powers to Crown Prince Bau douin if the Socialists withdraw demands and pursue them in parliament. The move followed exile return chaos with civil war threats, strikes, and marching troops as leaders warned against rebellion.
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Baudouin
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Max Buset
Lel
Laeken
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Leopold
Inal
Milk Drivers Set To Strike In Cincinnati
In Cincinnati a potential strike by 1800 milk wagon drivers and dairy workers could halt much of the milk delivery in the greater area at midnight. Local 98 AF of M W D E and 60 dairy companies resume talks with Federal mediator James McNamara guiding proceedings. The union seeks a five day week and about six dollars per week in wage increases while emergency deliveries to hospitals and institutions are planned if a walkout occurs.
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Cincinnati
Greater
AFI
James McNamara
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
James Luken
Ng Business Agent
Board of Health
Radios For Reds Plan Narrowly Feasible, Sarnoff Says
David Sarnoff suggests mass producing tiny radios at $20 each for sale to Russia and satellite nations to receive the Voice of America. He argues such devices would give iron curtain peoples personal reception and be safer than home radios, broadening access to broadcasts.
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New York
David Sarnoff
Russia
Voice of America
Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
Atom-Busters Hit New Peak
The Atomic Energy Commission reports record production of explosive ingredients for A bombs in the first half of the year and studies the potential to build an atomic weapon. The report notes a stepped up program with various forms of weapons including the hydrogen bomb, and reveals ample uranium ore supplies from foreign and domestic sources.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
Atomic Energy
Thieves Stole 19 Tons of Steel from Republic Lot
Police report thieves stole a trailer loaded with nineteen tons of high grade steel from a Republic Steel Corporation lot over the weekend. The empty trailer was later found near a General Motors plant. The steel was consigned to the Motors plant near Cleveland. Value estimated at 5 dollars.
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Republic Steel Corporation
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U.S. Forces Still Half The North Korean Army
U S forces and South Korean troops in Korea remain about half as strong as the enemy, with reinforcements bringing total allied strength to roughly 49 000. Gen MacArthur intelligence estimates North Korean mobilization to 200 000. South Korean army previously 96 000, casualties cut force to about half.
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Washington
United States
Korea
MacArthur
United States Army
Okinawa
Bio Nitrogen Plant Knocked Out By B-20's
TOKYO AP Fifty five percent of the war chosen nitrogen chemical plant and North Korea is narrated as heavily damaged after a Sunday raid by B20 bombers. Photographs showed excellent results from the 100 ton bombing with reconnaissance indicating 3 percent of the Mungnam industrial area wiped out. The attack damaged buildings houses laboratories rail stee loading ed. Forty percent of the target area was heavily damaged and 15 percent more damaged. No further war supplies will be produced in ura factory for sometime.
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Nitrogen Chemicalne
North Korea
Fast Air Force
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Mungnam
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Air Force
Spy suspects facing hearing in atomic espionage case
Federal case widens over a Soviet spy ring tied to Klaus Fuchs. Arrested Saturday were two female chemists, Miriam Moskowitz and Ruth Berman, with Abraham Brothman also indicted. Julius Rosenberg faces court action for transmitting atomic secrets. Harry Gold of Philadelphia testified before the grand jury. More arrests hinted as the probe expands.
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Abraham Broths
Miriamek
Russia
Klaus Fuchs
Julius Rosenberg
Brothman
Miss Moskowit
War Manpower Commission
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Philadelphia
Fuchs
Senate group OKs death for spying
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to impose the death penalty for spies. The plan would raise the wartime and peacetime espionage penalties, currently capped at life or long terms, to execution for certain cases.
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Nashington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Men Rushed Into Battle To Stem Red Forces In Korea
In Korea on Monday Maj Gen Laurence B. Keiser's Infantry Division with tanks advanced to plug gaps as North Korean forces mass along a 66 mile east coast front Pusan to Chintu. U.N. and U.S. troops, including Pivot Cavalry, 7th and 8th Infantry Divisions, faced stiff resistance as Communist units pressed toward Pusan and Hamhung. Dispatches report many Communist dead and trucks shifting to new positions amid heavy fighting.
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Tokyo
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Laurence B. Keiser
Korea
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UME Ceu
MacArthur
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Chimya
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China
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Chiang
NewArthur
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Chintu
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Truman seeks four billion for European arms aid
Washington AP reports President Truman urged Congress to approve an additional 4 billion dollars for military aid to anti-Communist allies in Europe. Key lawmakers from both parties indicated bipartisan support, with leaders stressing urgency and the need to continue arming Western Europe amid the communist threat. The request will go to the House Appropriations Committee after a letter to Speaker and is expected to gain quick action.
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Bridges Threat to U S Security Posed by CIO Leader Says Attorney
A San Francisco bulletin reports APA government attorney will seek revocation today of Bridges liberty bond status claiming Harry Bridges, president of the CIO Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union, poses a threat to United States security. F Joseph Donohue, prosecutor for the U S Attorney General, stated the government aims to revoke the $25,000 bond.
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APA
Harry Bridges
F. Joseph Donohue
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Bridges
CIO Longshoremen's and
United States
Fresh Troops Arrive in Korea to Boost Morale
U S infantry divisions land at a South Korean port as fresh troops from Texas California Georgia New York India Oklahoma Vermont Illinois and other states join the fight against North Korean invaders. The Second Division arrival aims to lift morale amid persistent enemy pressure, while veterans and new recruits alike face the unknowns of war under bright dockside lights.
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Tom Lambersomewasere
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U. S
United States
Texas
California
Georgia
New York
Oklahoma
Vermont
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Nacartiell Sol Tsite
al Bellmore
Detroit
North Kor
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