Korea, China Seats at UN Stir Cold War Standoff
Russia boycotted a UN Big Five meeting in New York amid debate over seating Communist China in the Security Council. India weighs its stance as Malik’s agenda calls for seating China before Korea, while the United States pushes to address Korea first and deny concessions.
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Russia
U. N
Big Five
New York
Security Council
West
Jakob A. Malik
Council
China
Chinese Council
Malik
Korea
Britain
France
Ecuador
Cuba
Norway
United States
Warren R. Austin
U. S
India
East
Benegal N. Rau
Kremlin
Vermont Republicans Lose Ground to Left Wing Tales in Bethel Vermont
Westbrook Pegler reports on Vermont shifting from a traditional conservative stance to a left leaning pattern under Republican label. He details alleged communist influence near Bethel and Randolph, naming John Abt Nathan Witt Lee Pressman Alger Hiss Marian Bachrach and Owen Lattimore in connection with the era’s un America activities. He cites Joe McCarthy and Stefansson as related figures in the controversy.
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New York
Vermont
Bethel
Randolph
John Abt
Nathan Witt
Lee Pressman
Alger Hiss
Marian Bachrach
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
Louis Budenz
Pressman
Abt
Witt
Communist Party
Buden
Owen Lattimore
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
William Stevenson
Stefansson
University of North Dakota
Committee On UN- American Activities
Lattimore
Truman backer hopes fade as Hennings leads Missouri primary
In Missouri's Democratic Senate race Thomas C. Hennings Jr. led with 179,201 votes to P. Emery W. Allison's 174,829 in 4,640 of 4,676 precincts. Absentee ballots may still decide, as Missouri voters can mail ballots from anywhere. President Truman cast a mail ballot but offered no comment on the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Emery W. Allison
Truman
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr
Hennings
U. S
Allison
Missouri
Secretary of State
Left wing marchers clash with police in New York
About two thousand peace marchers, banned from Union Square, clashed with around 1,000 police, resulting in 13 arrests. Demonstrators shouted for peace as mounted officers formed a barrier and windows were broken. Additional groups fled to Madison Square and 23rd Street before police dispersed them.
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New York
Union Square
Times Square
L1th Street
23Rd Street
Madison Square Park
New York Labor Conference For Peace
Paul Robeson
W. E. B. Dubois
Peace Information Center
Korea
Supreme Court
Eugene L. Brisach
U S Battalion Breaches Front 22 Miles Behind Korean Lines
A U S battalion fought 22 miles behind enemy lines in Korea in a tank led force. They saved a regimental command post and revealed enemy buildup around Chinju ahead of a drive toward Masan and Pusan. The mission followed a 36 hour march to the staging point.
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JU. S.S
Korea
U. S
Chinju
Masan
Pusan
Bossier City Man Killed in Texas Head-On Crash
Richard Lloyd Langford, 43, of Bossier City Louisiana, died in a head-on collision about 3:30 a.m. 15 miles west of Toyah Texas on Highway 80. In the other car, four occupants from Los Angeles were treated for minor injuries.
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Pecos
Tex
Richard Lloyd Langford
Bossier
Toyah
Los Angeles
Calif
Langford
Britain Plans Rearmament With American Aid
A government informant said Britain will announce a large rearmament program with American help within 24 hours. Prime Minister Attlee met U S Ambassador Douglas after Washington asked allies for contributions to the western rearmament drive. Defense measures could cost about 280 million dollars yearly, with substantial American support needed to reach full war footing amid a fragile peacetime economy.
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London
Britain
U. S
Lewis Douglas
Attlee
United States
Douglas
Emanuel Shinwell
House of Commons
Red China Trains 10 000 Indo-Chinese Guerrillas
Saigon Aug 3 official French sources report that Red China is training at least 10 000 Indo-Chinese guerrillas for Ho Chi Minh's Communist led anti French forces. Camps at Wenshan Tchenngan Tunghing near the north Indochinese frontier drill recruits and provide advanced commando training.
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Saigon
Indochina
Red China
Ho Chi Minh
China
Wenshan
Tchenngan
Tunghing
Bao Dai
Tennessee Primary Returns Set for Polls Across State
Nashville Aug 3 Tennessee voters faced a broad primary with Gov Gordon Browning opposing Clifford Allen in a key Democratic race and Carroll Reece seeking a comeback in the first district. Polls ran 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in cities and 4 p.m. elsewhere as Tennessee history's first tax free primaries energized turnout.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
First
East Tennessee
Carroll Reece
National
Gordon Browning
E. H. Crump
Shelby County
Memphis
Clifford Allen
Crump
Reece
Dayton Phillips
National Party
John Jennings
Howard H. Baker
Jennings
Road contracts totaling 672347 awarded in Louisiana
The Louisiana Department of Highways announced contracts worth 672347 dollars for overpass and road work. Projects include an Anchorage overpass on the Port Allen Mississippi River Bridge by Pigford Construction Co of Meridian Mississippi, Sabine Gravel Surfacing and trestle bridges on Highway 143, Ebard School by E A Caldwell of Baton Rouge, Beauregard graveling for 7.3 miles of Deridder Singer Highway by T Kleinpeter of Baton Rouge, and Alexand ia Gravel Co furnishing gravel for ward 5.
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Baton Rouge
State Department of Highways
West Baton Rouge Parish
Anchorage
Port Allen Mississippi River
Pigford Construction Co
Meridian
Miss
Sabine
Ebard School
E. A. Caldwell
Beauregard
T. Kleinpeter
Calcasieu
Alexandria Gravel Co
Nicholson resigns from U S post in Frankfurt
The resignation of Ralph Nicholson director of the office of public affairs of the U S high commission was announced today. Shepard Stone his deputy was named to succeed him. Nicholson will return to newspaper publishing in the United States. He formerly published the New Orleans Item. Stone is on leave from the New York Times.
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Frankfurt
Ralph Nicholson
Office of Public Affairs
U. S. High Commission
Shepard Stone
Nicholson
United States
New Orleans Item
Stone
New York Times
Louisiana lawmakers set seven day special session Saturday
Gov Earl Long asked lawmakers to reconvene at 9 p m Saturday for a seven day session approving four main items changes in naming delegates to the January constitutional convention a ban on horses mules and donkeys on highways a planned home for delinquent Negro girls ages 12 to 18 and up to 100 000 to aid crippled children The call delays no tax or appropriations bills and follows a brief New Orleans visit for a dental checkup marking the legislature's second session of the year and third meeting overall
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Earl Long
A. A. Fredericks
State Board of Liquidation
New Orleans
Crescent City
Acute poliomyelitis cases rise nationwide in weekly report
The Public Health Service said acute polio increased to 964 cases last week from 827, with Colorado added separately. Year to date totals remain below 1949 levels, Texas leading with 107 new cases last week and 1,395 for the year. California follows with 605, then New York 390 and Virginia 240.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Colorado
Texas
California
New York
Virginia
Iowa
Illinois
Oklahoma
Michigan
South Carolina
Kentucky
Americans Using Pershing Tanks in Korea Stand
U S marines and the army’s reinforcing second infantry division moved into the combat area with Pershing tanks to support deployed troops along the Nak tong river. The push accompanied a large enemy buildup near Chinju as U S forces withdrew to a defensible line, recovering maps and equipment from a deep tank probe.
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Tokyo
U. S
Second Infantry Division
Chinju
Wheeling
Pusan
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Leif Erickson
U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
Naktong River
Second Infantry
First Marine
Erickson
United Nations
Oil Operation Snag Charged By Louisiana Board
The Louisiana Mineral Board accuses the U S interior department of blocking tidelands oil work and seeks opposition to a Senate joint resolution. It cites an interior ruling requiring department approval for outshore oil plans and notes delays in tidelands operations. The board condemns the action as autocratic and unconsulted.
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Baton Rouge, la
U. S. Department of Interior
Tidelands
Louisiana
State Mineral Board
Board
Interior
Department
Texas
Senate
U. S. Supreme Court
Interior Department
Army Chief of Engineers
U. S. Division
Vicksburg
Miss
Army Engineers
Mineral Board
Berenson Sues Detroit For Damages Over Newsstand Ban
Isadore Berenson a seller of the Communist Daily order sues Detroit in federal court claiming constitutional rights violation and seeks an injunction after his newsstand was ordered off the streets as a public nuisance.
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Detroit
Isadore
Izzy) Berenson
Order
Pauley Sees Russia Aggressor Since 1946 in Korea Talk
Edwin W. Pauley told a Senate hearing he believed the United States should have taken firm action or war if needed to force Soviet compliance in Korea. He recalled 1946 visits to north Korea as Truman envoy and said Russia intended to stay in Korea, though he did not present official documents backing a war recommendation.
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Washington
Edwin W. Pauley
United States
Russia
Korea
Pauley
Truman
North Korea
Tydings
Lyndon Johnson
D.-Tex
Johnson
United Na
Man Thankful After Brother Orchestrates Windpipe Surgery
In Plentywood Montana Roald Lutness survived a throat wound when his brother Bernard slit the windpipe and threaded a rubber tube to restore airflow. Bernard credited his wife with much of the procedural knowledge after a farm drive to the hospital.
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Plentywood
Mont
Roald Lutness
Roald
Bernard
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Austin
Westbrook
Pegler
U. S. First Cavalry Division
Hwanggan
Tinue
Edward J. Jankowiak
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Bossier City
U. S. Post
Lawmakers
Solons
Red Lines
Whitehead
Chunjam
Wonbung Village
O. H. P. King
John E. Church
24Th Division
Church
Soviet Union
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