Demand Explanation For South Korean Collapse
In Washington on July 14 senators pressed for explanations of the South Korean army collapse. Critics urged an all out push to field more planes and ships as they cited critical mail from home. Senator Byrd said the U S mission to train the South Korean forces apparently failed and argued the North Koreans could have been held longer with proper training and arms. Continued on page two.
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Korea
Sen. Lodge
Mass
Sen
Tydings
Byrd
New Republic
Senate Armed Services Committee
No Discussion With Russia On Korea Conflict
Washington today ruled out any bilateral talks with Russia over Korea and urged a UN driven solution. State Department spokesman Lincol n White said the war could only end with a cease fire and Communist forces retreat above the 38th parallel.
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Washington
United States
Russia
South Korea
State Department
Lincoln White
United Nations
White
North
Uth Korea
Clergyman's Son Drowns at Plymouth Beach Massachusetts
Rev. Rufus P. Bucher of Quarryville Pennsylvania learned his son Rufus Jr aged 26 drowned yesterday at White Horse Beach Plymouth Mass. where he and his wife ran a summer camp for children.
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Lancaster
Rufus P. Bucher
Quarryville
R. D
Rufus, Jr
Whitehorse Beach
Plymouth
Mass
Daily Weather Report Forecast Notes and Temperatures
Fair and less humid with moderate temperatures today. Saturday brings some cloudiness and warmer afternoon conditions. Highs around 75 to 80. United States weather data for the 24 hour period ending today shows a maximum temperature of 73 and a minimum of 49 with .76 inches of precipitation. River stage at 5.7 feet. Year ago statistics begin with maximum and continue.
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Leas
United States
Probe Crash Of Bomber In Ohio Killing Eleven
Wright Field officials say 11 men were killed when a four motor B 50 of the 342nd Bomber Squadron crashed seven miles from Lebanon Ohio. Biggs Field reports indicate 11 to 12 aboard with the wreck burning for hours. Officials suspect bombs caused the explosion as witnesses describe the plane entering trouble then diving and bursting into flame.
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Lebanon
INS
Wright Field
Dayton
Biggs Field
el Paso
Texas
Air Force
State Highway Patrol
Richard M. Montgomery
Biggs Air Force Base
Turnpike awards two contracts for western extension
The Pennsylvania turnpike commission awarded a 2,689,531 dollar contract to Ralph Myers Contracting Corporation of Salem Indiana for 2.81 miles of the western extension in Indiana and Harmar townships Allegheny county. Henkels and McCoy of Philadelphia won a 533,039 dollar contract for erection and guard rail and construction of shoulder curbing and drainage for the eastern and western extensions.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Ralph Myers Contracting Corporation
Salem
Ind
Indiana
Harmar Townships
Allegheny County
Henkels & McCoy
Philadeldelphia
Milk truck crash kills Clinton J. Miller near Somerset
A 27 year old named Clinton J. Miller died when his milk truck crashed into a telephone pole a mile north of Somerset. He lived at R. D. 4 Somerset and apparently fell asleep at the wheel in the wreckage.
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Somerset
INS
Clinton J. Miller
Somerset County
Miller
No Bataan or Dunkirk in Korea Says Army Spokesman
A U S Army spokesman in Washington said American troops face heavy fighting in Korea but are conducting a delaying action well and will win. He warned against catastrophe or rout, noting supply lines to Taejon are at risk from a second North Korean Communist army advancing from Chungju and Tanyang.
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Washington
INS
Korea
Bataan
Dunkirk
Rea
Taejon
Chungju
Tanyang
Plan to Call Reservists for Korea War Expansion
President Truman and advisers draft an order to mobilize two million reservists for active duty to fight Korea and other threats. The plan targets 50 000 to 100 000 specialists in ordnance, tank warfare, radar, aviation and medicine. Experts would be called from Army Navy and Air Force reserves as needed.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Air Force
Defense Department
National Guard
Congress
Truman
Woman Killed In Auto Crash Near Sharon
A 61 year old Glenshaw woman died in Sharon hospital from injuries after a car crash on the Sharon Hartford Ohio highway during a rainstorm. Five women traveling to Cleveland were injured with varying conditions, while the truck driver from Youngstown was identified.
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Sharon
INS
Glenshaw
Sharon Hospital
Thayle Gardner
Julia Gardner
Anna Kay Gardner
Pearl Scoles
Emma Stamm
Etna
Cleveland
Sharon-Hartford
George C. DiPietro
Youngstown
Former Wilkinsburg Policeman Held in Philadelphia
Lester Smith a 43 year old former Wilkinsburg policeman was arrested in Philadelphia as he was about to board a flight to Boston. He was to be sent to Allegheny county to face charges of tampering with a witness in a bank robbery case and was held pending authorities' arrival.
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Philadelphia
Wilkinsburg
Allegheny County
Boston
Lester Smith
Pennsylvania
Smith
Death Notices Prompted by Local Rites
Death records list Mrs. John S. Matthews age 83 of Edenburg R D 1 John Komare Sr age 67 of Pittsburgh infant Robert Sumansky age 41814 Lyndal street and Clyde L. Haines age 71 of 1238 West State Street with dates noted Friday July 14 1950
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John S. Matthews
R.D
Edenburg
John Komare, Sr
Pittsburgh
Robert Sumansky
Lyndal Street
Clyde L. Haines
West State Street
Truman May Seek Power To Order Controls
Washington July 14 The President is expected within a week to ask Congress for power to impose limited controls on the economy if the war spreads His plan for cushioning the economy will be sent to Congress in a mid year economic report Advisers debate sweeping stand by controls including prices rationing of goods allocation of materials rent ceilings and wage and manpower controls
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Nehru Plea for Basis to Solve Korean Crisis
Indian Prime Minister Nehru urged the United States and the Soviet Union to seek a basis for resolving the Korean crisis. Indian ambassadors in Washington and Moscow delivered notes to the State Department and the Russian foreign ministry voicing concern over the Far East conflict.
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Washington
Nehru
United States
Russia
Moscow
State Department
Far East
Madame Pandit
U. S
George
Million Yearly Is Paid Here For Numbers Says Klebe
New Castle residents spend about one million dollars annually on the numbers racket. County Detective Howard C. Klebe estimates the sum from confiscated records over the past two weeks. One sheet shows a writer turning in seventy dollars a day, with others indicating around three thousand dollars daily in New Castle.
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Klebe
New Castle
Howard C. Klebe
Kiebe
Generals Collins and Vandenberg Return from Tokyo
U S Army Chief of Staff General J Lawton Collins and Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg depart Tokyo for Washington after briefings with General MacArthur on the Korean War. They stayed under 32 hours, arriving Thursday morning and leaving Friday afternoon.
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Tokyo
INS
U. S. Army
J. Lawton Collins
Air Force
Hoyt Vandenberg
Washington
MacArthur
Collins
Vandenberg
Plane Crash in Lake Erie Kills Two People
Coast guards recover the body of Russell Glen Cobb 53 owner of G C Cobb Screw Manufacturing Cleveland and pilot of the plane. Dr Elsie Hartman cousin of Cobb of Chicago is identified as the second victim. The crash occurred six miles west of Ripley after bad weather forced the plane off course during a flight from Cleveland to Manchester Vermont. Local witness Lucille Dawson reported a heavy rain and turbulent wind. Cobb was a World War I pilot.
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Ripley
N. Y
INS
Coast Guardsmen
Chicago
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Russell Glen Cobb
G. C. Cobb Screw Manufacturing Company
Elsie Hartman
Cobb
North
Sheridan Street
John Doyle
Cleveland Lake Front
Manchester
Lucille Dawson
Terrile
Two Warren Men Die in Plane Crash Near Moon Township
Millard H. Ronone 44 of Warren Ohio treasurer of Copperweld Steel and Richard Bailey 17 of Warren died when a single engine plane crashed at Montour Heights Country Club Moon Township while en route to a Copperweld executives meeting at Glassport. Pilot John Lyden 33 chief pilot of Airways Inc Youngstown Ohio is hospitalized in serious condition.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Millard H. Ronone
Copperweld Steel Company
Warren, O
Richard Bailey
Warren
Ronone
John Lyden
Airways, Inc
Youngstown
One Killed Five Hurt In Downtown Seattle Blast
A downtown Seattle explosion demolished a warehouse and damaged seven buildings. Coroner John P. Brill Jr identified the dead as Neal J. Bowles 33 Kent Wash Bowles was blown from a second story fire escape landing near a hotel across the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
John P. Brill, Jr
Neal J. Bowles
Kent
Wash
Brill
Bowles
Communists Cross Kum River Threaten Taejon Front
American forces repulsed early Saturday a North Korean spearhead crossing of the Kum River near Kongju as the enemy pressed along the front west of Taejon. The United States reported the initial bridgehead across the Kum had been stopped and the attack refuted, with fighting continuing in the central sector of the peninsula.
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Acme
Kum
Konju
Taejon
Kunsan
Andong
Hamchang
Uchin
Wolpo
U. S
Pusan
Tokyo
South Korea
Kum River
Kum Line
U. S. Line
Kum Bend
International News Service
John Rich
Walton H. Walker
Korea
Korean
Rich
Douglas MacArthur
Kongju
Seek To Free Ship From Reef Off Orleans Island
Tugs will attempt at high tide to refloat the 20,000 ton Cunard liner Franconia stuck on a reef off Orleans Island in the St Lawrence River near Quebec City. Three tugs failed previously, a stronger salvage tug from Halifax arrived, and 800 passengers were ferried to safety. Officials fear the keel may be pierced by the reef rocks.
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Quebec City
Que
Franconia
Orleans
St. Lawrence
Cunard
Halifax
Quebec
Liverpool
Heavy Damage in Bomb Raid Admitted
The Communist radio in Pyongyang admitted heavy damage from an American B 29 raid on northeast Wonsan. It claimed indiscriminate bombing with many patients and nurses killed at Wonsan hospital and said peaceful farms and villages suffered.
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Tokyo
INS
Pyongyang
Yugoslav Officials See Bulgarian Moves as Cominform Nerves War
A Belgrade dispatch to the London Daily Express says Yugoslav officials view Bulgarian troop redeployments on the Yugoslav border as part of a cominform nerves war. Premier Marshal Tito and top ministers, including Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj, are relaxing at their summer residence.
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London
INS
London Daily Express
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Edward Kardelj
Two B 29 Losses Reported in Korean War
Tokyo reports two B 29 Superfortresses listed as lost during ongoing operations in Korea. One was shot down near Seoul with crew bailed and likely captured. the other abandoned over the Sea of Japan after a strike on Wonsan refineries. rescue efforts continue for the remaining crew.
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Tokyo
Seoul
Sea of Japan
Wonsan
Port City
North Korea
38Th Parallel
Fires Son's Home Then Kills Self in Lancaster County
Barton Meckley, 60, of Denver R D 1, set fire to his son's home late yesterday and killed himself with a shotgun blast. State Police said he drove his son, daughter in law, and their two children from the house with threats of death before firing the structure with kerosene and shooting himself in a nearby barn. He died at Ephrata Community Hospital.
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Lancaster
Barton Meckley
Denver
R. D
Meckley
Ephrata Community Hospital
Weather Ledger Notes Hot Summer Days Ahead
A rambling bit references peak heat and sultry streets as summer unfolds. It notes the day at seventy two degrees but hints the heat will rise, with casual remarks on sun and perspiration. The tone captures local casual weather chatter rather than precise forecasts.
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8Th
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John A. Reichmann
Daily Weather Report
Ohio
Darrell Garwood
Felix Cotten
U.S
Taechon
TAEGU
MASAN
Gen. Collins
Gen. Vandenberg
Paynesville
Minn
Vamanue
Bama Salehm
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I. N
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Inside Today
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