Reds Beaten Again In Air Over Korea
Tokyo AP reports the Red Air Force suffered major losses in two jet battles over North Korea. American Sabre jets downed two Russian-made MIGs and damaged three, raising weekly Red losses to 11 shot down, one probably destroyed and 17 damaged. Eighty nine jets were involved in the clashes, the two largest ground actions since a fire bomb attack on UN forces.
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Tokyo
Red Air Force
North Korea
U. S
Fifth Air Force
United Nations
Manchuria
Yalu River
Manchurian
Far East
Chorwon
America Asks More Men For Korean Fight
At the United Nations, the United States urged member nations to provide additional forces for Korea amid Chinese Communist concentrations and continued aggression. Ernest Gross appealed to Secretary General Lie to secure troops from states that pledged support but have not yet sent forces.
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N. Y
United States
Korea
Ernest Gross
U. S. Delege
Trygve Lie
North Korea
Gross
Lie
Copenhagen
U. S
Washington
Whch
Democrats Prepare To Push Tax Bill To Vote In House
President Truman faces a House vote on a massive $7.2 billion tax measure. Democrats muster support as Ways and Means advances a package boosting individual, corporate and excise taxes with a new defense levy. Republicans threaten to force a recommittal, while timing and party discipline shape the final decision.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Percy Priest
Tennes
See
Senate
Ways and Means
Truman
Decision Due Next Week On Economic Controls
Congress committees advance bills narrowing President Truman’s control powers in a fight over price, wage, rent and other economic controls. Senate debate on the rollback bill is set for Monday while House action aims for Wednesday. The measures seek limits on new powers and restrict future rollbacks, with DiSalle warning the change could raise costs for consumers and affect beef price ceilings and other items.
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Washington
Congress
Capitol
Truman
Senate
Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Group
House
DiSalle
Ickes Attacks Congress and MacArthur on Ethics
Harold L. Ickes testifies to a Senate labor subcommittee that Congress bears major responsibility for eroding public trust through acts of commission and omission. He criticizes lawmakers for sensationalism and smearing while urging a federal ethics code as hearings explore creating a government ethics commission. He also cites General MacArthur’s conduct as harmful to unity amid the Korean War.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Congress
Douglas MacArthur
Secretary of Interior
Senate Labor
Ickes
Truman
America
British Ready To Move Oil Workers From Iran
British workers at the Anglo Iranian Oil Company prepare to leave Iran as tensions rise over the nationalization of the oil industry. AIOC general manager A E C Drake warns about 3,000 British staff to ready their passports for a rapid exit as Iran presses to take over operations. Expect showdown at Abadan soon with Iranian officials seeking signed acknowledgments of government employment under the new structure. Deputy Premier Hossein Fatemi says pay and terms will match AIOC contracts, but a British Embassy spokesman doubts many Britons will work for the Iranian government. AIOC may transfer staff to affiliates in Iraq and Kuwait as talks continue.
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Tehran
Iran
Anglo- Iranian Oil Company
A. E. C. Drake
AIOC
Abadan
Hossein Fatimi
Umder Aioc
Iraq
Kuwait
Consumers To Be Heard On Controls Plan
Price Stabilizer Michael V. Di Salle launches a plan to give consumers a voice in price control policy making. Selections from 22 organizations will meet with OPS to form a National Consumer Advisory Committee to advise on price problems and improve understanding of OPS work among consumer groups.
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Washington
Michael V. di Salle
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
DiSalle
Senate Votes On RFC Abolition Or Overhaul
Banking Committee sent two rival measures to the Senate aiming to end the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or reorganize it. The bills arise from an investigation into alleged political influence over RFC loan decisions led by Senator Fulbright with White House aide linked to the probe. Sponsors include Byrd Robertson Bricker Kem Williams Ferguson, while a substitute would shift small business loan guarantees to the Federal Reserve.
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Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Fulbright
D- Ark
White House
Donald S. Dawson
Byrd and Robertson
D-Va
Bricker
Rohio
Kem
R-Mo
Williams
R-Del
Ferguson
R-Mich
Robertson
Federal Reserve System
Birdie on Tee Shot Stuns at Lost Creek Course
Local golf notes report Mrs. Roy Gamble achieving a birdie on her tee shot at Lost Creek Country Club hole 15. The shot sailed toward the green and was described as a skilled in-flight birdie during the round in Lima Ohio.
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Lima
Roy Gamble
Lost Creek Country Club
Poe
Red Lawyers Seek To Cut Down Bails
New York AP. Counsel for jailed Communists press their bid to reduce bail set as high as 20000 dollars. Fourteen of the sixteen detainees spent two nights in jail. two in poor health freed on low bail. A seventeenth was arrested in Pittsburgh. Judge Jerome N. Frank of the U S Circuit Court of Appeals ordered written arguments on bail today and reserved decision yesterday.
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New York
Pittsburgh
Jerome N. Frank
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Congressmen Toss Fists In Quarrel
In Washington Rep John Phillips and Rep Clarence Cannon, both on the House Appropriations Committee, fought in a House corridor over procedure. Phillips, 63, was treated for a cut lip and sent home. Cannon, 72, returned to the floor unmarked. Eyewitness Rep John Taber said Phillips started the altercation after Cannon called him a name. Taber noted Cannon acted in self defense.
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Washington
John Phillips
Calif
Clarence Canon
D-Mo
Cannon
Phillips
House Appropriations Committee
George Calver
Capitol
John Taber
Taber
Air Academy Is Proposed by House Armed Services Chair
Chairman Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee proposed legislation to create a 20 million Air Force Academy. The bill would authorize the Air Secretary to pick a permanent site or use a temporary location during construction and could lease a civilian institution or existing base to the Air Force to minimize costs.
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Washington
Vinson
D-G
House
Armed Services Committee
Air Force Academy
Air Secretary
Air Force
Cincinnati Girl Found After Two-Week Smoky Mountain Ordeal
Evangeline Lorimer 21, a nurse from Cincinnati, emerged from rugged Great Smoky Mountains after two weeks missing. She walked into a ranger camp near Hannah Mountain, said she decided it was time to come out, and was taken to Sevierville hospital. Rangers noted she was in surprisingly good condition aside from swollen feet and insect bites. She had wandered after taking a wrong turn during a camping trip with her father, evangelist W. H. Lorimer, on June 8. An unidentified mountaineer guided her to safety at Abrams Creek. Authorities reported she planned to return to duty at Jewish Hospital Monday.
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Tenn
Evangeline Lorimer
Sevierville
Great Smoky Mountains
Hannah Mountain
White
Cincinnati
Jewish Hospital
Abrams Creek
W. H. Lorimer
Miss Lorimor
Archbishop Confesses To Spying On Hungary
Archbishop Joszef Groesz and eight others faced trial in Budapest before Judge Vilmos Olti on charges of plotting against Hungary’s Communist government and attempting to restore the Hapsburgs. The case echoes Mindszenty’s 1949 actions in the same courtroom and with the same judge as American lawyer Elajos Pongracz and Robert A. Vogei were previously involved in related espionage cases.
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Budapest
Hungary
Joszef Groesz
Mindszenty
Vilmos Olti
Busi
Nessman
Robert A. Vogeier
American Legation
Elajos Pongracz
Kingdom of the Hapsburgs
Cardinal Mindszenty
Ridgway Backed Nationalist Troops for South China
Senate inquiry into MacArthur's dismissal reveals Gen Ridgway supported using Chinese Nationalist troops against the Chinese mainland. He argued the move could relieve pressure on UN forces in Korea, backing a Formosa operation without delay. Barr testified on Korea actions and Formosa's role and urged a multi national blockade rather than unilateral action.
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Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Douglas MacArthur
China
Senate
MacArthur
Red China
Knowland
R-Calif
Ridgway
J. Lawton Collins
Army
South
Korea
United Nations
David G. Barr
Barr
United States
Collins
U.S
Chiang Kai-Shek
Formosa
Eighth Army
Manchuria
Reservists To Be Released From Korea
The Army announced that enlisted reservists in Korea will begin returning home in mid July with most back in the United States by year end. The plan excludes some cases and covers inactive and volunteer reserve enlisted men who were called to service in Korea.
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Tokyo
Korea
U. S
Land And Sea Hunt Started Near Africa
A Pan American World Airways Constellation with about 40 aboard was nine hours overdue on a flight from Johannesburg to New York. French planes searched land and sea for the missing aircraft, which failed to stop at Roberts Field in Monrovia after last stopping in Accra. Dakar said the plane had fuel to be in the air, with the next planned stop at Roberts Field. Captain Frank J. Crawford, of Huntington Station, N Y, was believed the pilot. No passenger or crew list was released.
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Tongay
Miami
Fla
England
Russell Tongay
America
Bubba Tongay
Kathy
Dakar
French West Africa
Pan American World Airways
Johannesburg
New York City
Roberts Field
Monrovia
Liberia
Accra
Gold Coast
New York
Frank J. Crawford
Huntington Station
N. Y
Long Island
Pan American
Pan American releases six crew names from nine
Pan American in New York disclosed six of the nine aboard. Pilot Captain Frank J Crawford, 38, Huntington Station, New York. Co pilots George Alcock, 34, Forest Hills, N Y C and Ray T Detwiller, 31, Clifton, N J. Poser Raymond Tunstak, 50, Flushing, N Y C. Second engineer Gerald Kissling, 31, Queens, N Y C. Stewardess Bea C Picou, 31, New York City.
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New York
Frank J. Crawford
Huntington Station
Long Island
George Alcock
Forest Hills
Ray T. Detwiller
Clifton
N. J
Bea C. Picou
New York City
Murder and Kidnap Suspect Sought in Chicago Area
FBI and Midwest agencies pursue Warren Lee Irwin 27, an ex convict charged with slaying Adeline Shagena 37 in Pontiac Michigan and kidnapping Doris Myers 42 of Detroit. Myers escaped after a 15 hour ride through four states. Irwin hired a pilot to Chicago, then vanished after landing at Midway.
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Warren Lee Irwin
FBI
Midwest
Irwin
Adeline Shagena
Pontiac
Mich
Doris Myers
Detroit
Myers Esca
Durant
Ila
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Iowa
Davenport
Don Hermann
Hermann
Lake Front
Meigs Field
Midway Airport
Conference Of Big Four Breaks Down In Paris
Paris AP report says sixteen weeks of deputy foreign ministers from Britain France the Soviet Union and the United States failed to agree on an agenda for a Big Four conference. Western powers said Russia should still attend while the dispute over NATO and overseas bases stalled talks. Gromyko questioned the meaning of the Western declaration as Davies signaled the talks were over.
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Britain
France
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Andrei Gromyko
Ernest Davies
Gromyko
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