Pyongyang Hit By Record Allied Air Raids
Allied air forces led by the United States bombed Pyongyang in the war’s strongest assault. In a dawn to dusk operation, 1,403 sorties targeted factories, supply dumps, and troop billets, while three U.S. carrier task forces contributed 210 sorties. Over 40 targets were hit with 597 tons of explosives and 52,000 machine gun rounds.
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Seoul
Korea
Pyongyang
North Korea
Fifth Air Force
Navy
U.S
Red Capital
Mid-August Food Prices Reach Record High
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports food prices in August reached a new U S high at 235.6 percent of the 1935-39 average, about 16 percent above levels when the Korean War began. Pork and chicken price increases drove the rise, while price controls on several product categories were suspended.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor
U. S
Tighe E. Woods
Truman
OPS
Mail Train Robbed In Old West Style
In San Bernardino California a 20th century mail robbery played out in Little Horse Thief canyon with a posse of 50 sheriffs pursuing two suspects. W H Cox 53 of Houston and Charles May 46 of Salt Lake City were booked on suspicion of mail theft after three sacks containing $300 in clothing and parcels were recovered.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Little Horse Thief Canyon
W. H. Cox
Houston
Tex
Charles May
Salt Lake City
Bus Strike Looms In Quad Cities Sunday Night
Quad Cities faced a potential bus strike as talks between union leaders and National City lines failed. District manager George M. Troutwine declined further meetings with union officials and the four mayors, citing private rights. The AFL contract expires at midnight Sunday and a conciliator was offered, but an arbitration board was rejected.
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Davenport
Quad Cities
George M. Troutwine
National City Lines
Quad City
Troutwine
Arthur Kroppach
Amalgamated Street, Electric
AFL
Escapee Nabbed Two Still at Large Anamosa
One of three convicts who escaped from the Iowa men's reformatory, Claude Engle 24 of Milo, was recaptured four blocks from the reformitory in Anamosa by Sheriff Lorin Felderman. The other two, Roy Warren 19 of Ames and Frank Blacksher 28 of Gainesville, Mo., remained at large. The escape followed sawed bars in a storage room and a failed guard pursuit.
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Anamosa
Iowa
Claude Engle
Milo
Lorin Felderman
Maquoketa
Engle
Felderman
Roy Warren
Ames
Frank Blacksher
Gainesville
Reformatory
Legion Urges Military Run War Policy Adopted in Madison Sq Garden
The American Legion called for the military to have full authority in the Korean War and abandon political control. The resolution was adopted at the 34th annual convention in Madison Square Garden. Lewis Ketcham Gough, 44, a World War II veteran from Pasadena, California, was elected national commander.
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New York
American Legion
Legion
Madison Square Garden
Lewis Ketcham Gough
Pasadena
Calif
Local Phone Rates Increase in Muscatine Oct 1
Northwestern Bell announces a local service rate increase in Muscatine effective with bills dated on or after Oct. 1. Manager M. A. Pope cites rising wages taxes and material costs as the main factors driving higher local rates.
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Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Muscatine
M. A. Pope
Pope
Rate increases announced for Burlington Davenport and other cities
Rate comparison notes Muscatine levels below those of comparable cities. Pope says new rates include increases for most miscellaneous equipment and private branch exchange service. Increases also being announced for local phone service in Burlington Davenport Dubuque and Sioux City.
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Muscatine
Pope
Burlington
Davenport
Dubuque
Sioux City
Mrs America 1953 Finalists Ban Bikini Swimwear
Asbury Park New Jersey reports the 14th annual Mrs America finals set for September 7. Contest rules require married contestants living with husbands and free of scandal. Judging favors 50 percent beauty and 50 percent homemaking with a $10,000 prize and a Bermuda cruise for the winner.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Burmuda
Eisenhower Ends Invasion As Stevenson Plans Swing
Eisenhower closes his doors to write speeches for a southern tour starting Tuesday while Stevenson prepares for a Labor Day Detroit address and a western swing. Truman gears to a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee as Justice Department hearings reveal delays and tactics in a Detroit war fraud case.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Ilinois
Adlai
Stevenson
New York
Springfield
Detroit
Senate
Ike
Eisenhower
South
Truman
Milwaukee
Youth Killed In Headon Collision Near Ayrshire
Estherville reports Arthur Dale Berger 18 of Ayrshire died in a head on crash four miles south of town on Highway 17. Kenneth Jaeger also of Ayrshire and James Rienders of Mallard were hospitalized with multiple injuries. Another youth, Eugene Goetsch 17 of Ringsted, in a Thursday night crash remained in very critical condition after a gear shift impaled him. doctors removed the gear shift knob from his abdomen.
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Eugene Goetsch
Ringsted
Goetsch
Five Day Forecast Sees Temperature Swings Across Regions
The outlook shows temperatures running two to four degrees below normal in the northwest and three to five degrees above normal in the southeast. Normal highs are 74 in the north and 83 in the south, with lows of 50 north and 59 south. Warmer Saturday, cooler Sunday, warmer Monday, then cooler again Tuesday or Wednesday. Rainfall averages 0.5 to 0.75 inch in showers ending Sunday and again Tuesday or Wednesday.
Justice Department Assailed over War Fraud Case
House investigators condemned the Justice Department as dilatory and cited the Norman E. Miller and Associates case in Detroit as typical. Robert A. Collier described Miller’s July 14 1944 indictment on six counts charging fraud and said a 1944 civil suit sought about 36000 in recovery, with the matter closed in 1951 without prosecution.
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Collier
Justice Department
Miller
FBI
Washington
House
Detroit
Pectin
Robert A. Collier
Judiciary
Norman E. Miller and Associates, Inc
Pravda Attacks Eisenhower Speech as Warmonger Propaganda
Pravda denounces General Eisenhower's New York American Legion address as hate filled propaganda. The Soviet Communist party organ labels the Republican nominee the most energetic propagandist of aggression and hostility toward the United States.
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Moscow
Pravda
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American Legion
New York
Eisenhower
Republican Party
One Family Tragedy as Polio Strikes Buggy Family
Salem Massachusetts reports Charles R. Buggy a U S Coast Guard mercy plane survivor arrives to a tragedy filled home life with polio claiming his four year old son Charles Jr. and his daughter Kathleen ill as his wife faces spinal surgery. The family recently relocated from Richmond Ohio to Winnebago Nebraska where Mrs. Buggy’s mother lives.
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Kathleen Buggy
Winnebago
Neb
Mercy Hospital
Sioux City
Charles R. Huggy
Charles
Kathleen
Mary Gerald
U. 5
Nebraska
Salem
Mass
Coast Guard
Charles R. Buggy
Alexander Patch
Atlantic Ocean
New York
Bremerhaven
Germany
Westover Air Force Base
Beverly
Air Force
Buggy
Charles Jr
Richmond
Ohio
Polio Hitting Iowa Harder Than Any Neighbor States
Polio runs strongest in Iowa this year with 1,229 cases and 71 deaths to date, more than neighboring states. Illinois reports 1,038 cases, Minnesota 813 cases and 46 deaths, while Nebraska shows 658 cases. Wisconsin and others present lower totals, with some data not fully available.
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Iowa
Midwest
Associated Press
Illinois
Minnesota
Nebraska
Illinois Health Department
Iowa-Missouri
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Csce
Escape Artist Flees State Pen
John Bryl a 41 year old Omaha man serving 25 years for robbery with aggravation escaped from the Iowa state penitentiary by seizing a guard's 1947 coupe license 56 8736. He had earlier led a New Year 1944 breakout from Anamosa reformatory with three others taking two hostages and injuring a guard.
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Ft. Madison
Anamosa Men
John Bryl
Omaha
Bry
C. C. Graves
Board of Control Director of
Mental Institutions
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