Men From Here Serving In Far East
At least fifteen Frederick County men are stationed with outfits under the Far Eastern Command over the Korean situation. Sgt. Robert L. Lane said the names cannot be released as some may have been transferred. Enlistees from 1948 and 1949 received direct assignment to the Pacific theater, mostly to the First Armored Cavalry Division in Japan, with others in engineers and infantry units.
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Frederick County
Far Eastern Command
Robert L. Lane
Army and Air Force
Winchester Hall
Pacific Theater
First Armored Cavalry Division
Japan
Corps of Engineers
Pacific
Lane
United States
Army
North Korean Capital Twice Blasted By U S Bombers
U S bombing raids on Pyongyang reported by Radio Pyongyang and monitored in Tokyo claim 89 planes struck at 630 a m and again at 1 30 p m local time. The broadcasts state fighter intercepts downed two bombers and strafing occurred on outskirts villages. Hazardous devices reportedly weighed 100 to 1000 pounds.
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Tokyo
Pyongyang
Muggy Fourth Forecast for Maryland and July 4
AP weather forecasters warn of a warm partly cloudy Fourth of July across Maryland with muggy humidity and scattered thundershowers this afternoon and evening. Temperatures hover near 65 to 76 for Monday night with light activity as many communities observe the holiday. Three traffic deaths and three drownings mark a quiet celebration as fireworks displays are limited to licensed events in several cities.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Baltimore
State
Greensboro
Frostburg
Chevy Chase
Rock Creek Recreation Center
Congressional Club
Bethesda
Hyattsville
Greenbelt
Hagerstown
Cambridge
Cumberland
Moscow Resentment Grows Over Korea Intervention
The Moscow press reports rising popular resentment against U.S. intervention in Korea. Pravda notes protest meetings in factories and offices nationwide as Kremlin prepares a major session of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet, with the other republics set to meet in their capitals.
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Moscow
Korea
Russia
Communist Party
Pravda
Supreme Soviet
Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic
Kremlin
Supreme Soviets
May Get About $2.05 A Bushel For Wheat Here
Frederick county farmers may net around 2.05 per bushel on new wheat under the government loan program while an open market price of 1.90 a bushel is set locally. First shipments expected by Wednesday or Thursday as farmers prepare to store surplus on loan.
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Frederick County
Farmers Cooperative Association
Pp. D. Koons
Wall Street Journal
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Koons
Foreign Subs Surface Off The Philippines
The Philippines Defense Department announced that foreign submarines surfaced Sunday about 40 miles from Manila. A spokesman would not specify how many, only that there was more than one. Sightings were by soldiers and civilians in Quezon province coastal waters. markings were not distinguishable. Rumors of alien smuggling persist, but this is the first official confirmation of subs in Philippine coastal waters. Army officers have suggested some Chinese Communists allied with Hukbalahap dissidents might have been brought by subs.
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Manila
Philippines Defense Department
Quezon
Philippines
Four-Year-Old Girl Lost in Mt Rainier National Park
Fifty park employees and volunteers searched the Carbon River area of Mt. Rainier National Park for a four year old girl who was reported lost. Bloodhounds were brought in to aid the search in rugged rocky timber country.
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Longmire
Wash
Carbon River
Mt. Rainier National Park
Hot humid July 4 forecast and holiday fishing notes
The Weather Bureau predicts a hot humid Independence Day with scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight and again on the holiday. Temperatures should reach the upper 80s to 90s, with cooler 66 to 72 degrees tonight and a dry spell not yet affecting major water supplies. Fishing activity rises with large catfish reported in the Monocacy upper reaches and bass at Culler Lake, while potomec rivers show little rain impact ahead of the holiday.
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Weather Bureau
Frederick
Brunswick
Doubs
Adamstown
Frank Weddle
Fishing Creek
Frederick City
Jtown
Potomac
Monocacy
Culler Lake
Train Bus Collision Kills 2 Percent of Bus Riders Near Lyon
An express train carrying 900 children collided with an excursion bus at a grade crossing near Bourg-en-Bresse, France. Officials said the barrier was open while the train passed, killing about two percent of the bus occupants, all residents of Foissiat, many veterans bound for Lake Saint-Point.
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Bourg-En-Bresse
France
Pim
Lyon
Foissiat
Lake Saint-Point
French Alps
Russia accuses U S of preparing bacterial war
Moscow radio broadcast charges that American militarists are actively preparing bacterial war. It cites 18 Japanese specialists sent to the United States and claims secret labs in Maryland Utah and Massachusetts are working on the weapon. Earlier Russia accused U S planes of dropping potato bugs on East Germany.
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London
Russia
United States
East Germany
Moscow Radio
Maryland
Utah
Massachusetts
Seven Tanks and Twenty-Two Trucks Wrecked In Korean War action
Tokyo reported American and Australian planes destroyed seven North Korean tanks and 22 trucks and shot down two enemy aircraft on Monday. North Korean bombing failed to drive South Koreans from Suwon, while Kim forces redeploy around Seoul and the Han River, building bases for a new push southward.
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Tokyo
South Korea
Seoul
MacArthur
Suwon
Infantrymen Dig In On Korean Front
American infantrymen dug in on the South Korean front today as a 24 minute strafing and rocket attack by five to seven unidentified planes wounded one sergeant. Ground contact with the enemy had not yet been made while rail facilities near the command post were destroyed. Bystanders include Lt Col Charles F Smith and Lt John Doody as Koreans and Americans work side by side digging gun emplacements and foxholes near a mud walled Korean city.
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Tom Lambert
Jor Fromm
United States News
Marguerite Highns
New York Herald Tribune
Roy McCarthy
Reuters
Pir
Allen Kuick
Lakeland
Fla
John Hawkins
Anderson
Charles F. Smith
Lambertsville
N. 7
Smith
School Yard
Perfpiring
John Doody
Jersey City
William F Cochran philanthropic dies in Baltimore
Baltimore resident William F. Cochran millionaire churchman and donor died last night at his suburban home aged about 75. He rose to attention in 1912 by asking how to dispose of his fortune, prompting letters on morality and wealth. A longtime backer of relief efforts, he supported the Workers Alliance of America and in 1942 led the United China campaign to raise 7 million for war refugees.
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Baltimore
William F. Cochran
Here
Cochran
New York
Workers Alliance of America
United China Campaign
China
Hairbreadth escape during parade in Springfield
Henry LeFeave, 46, plunged from a third floor hotel window while a parade passed. He grabbed a flagpole, then a sign bracket, fell 19 feet to a chain support and was rescued through a second-story window. Hundreds watched as spectators rushed to help LeFeave during the Amvers state convention parade.
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Springfield
Mass
Apj
Henry LeFeave
Amvers
LeFeave
Frederick Men Rescue 2 At Seneca
Three Frederick men Robert C Keline Harry Hact and William Coram aided in rescuing Army private Donald Henson and 14 year old Austin Metz from Seneca Creek Sunday afternoon. Henson and Metz were dangling on a rope over the river when the line swung and broke. Keline heard screams from his cabin near the creek junction with the Potomac and helped haul Metz ashore then dove to locate Henson. Hart and W Weiger aided in pulling the soldier from the water. Coram applied artificial respiration as Gaithersburg Washington Grove volunteers arrived with a resuscitator. Henson was taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital in satisfactory condition. Neither rescued man could swim.
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Frederick
Robert C Keline
West D4th
Harry Hact
Sherman Avenue
William Coram
Carroll Parkway
Damascus
Seneca Creek
Austin Metz
Donald Henson
Fort Devens
Mass
Henson
Ketine
Potomac
Southern Distributors, Inc
Holiday Toll Climbs as July Fourth Travel Surges
The Associated Press reports 350 deaths from holiday travels as millions take to highways and beaches for the July 4 celebration. The National Safety Council warned it could reach 485 by midnight, with about 36,000,000 vehicles on the roads Friday through Tuesday. Highway crashes caused 23 deaths, drownings 71, one fireworks fatality, and 42 other deaths noted.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Quick Thinking Saves Scouts In Small Truck
Havre De Grace July 37 A quick thinking driver averted a bad smash up on U S Route 40 as a tractor-trailer swerved across the green infield toward a Scout-packed stake body truck driven by Benjamin Commer 33 of Brooklyn N Y Commer slammed brakes reversed and sped back just before the larger vehicle overturned injuring its driver Joseph Emmons of Vineland N J who was hospitalized with a broken leg none of the Scouts was hurt
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Havre de Grace
U. S
Commer
Joseph Emmons
Vineland
N. J
Harford Memorial Hospital
Australia to take up Korean situation in Parliament
Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced that both Houses will reassemble on July 6 to discuss the Korean crisis. He said Australia had not decided on sending troops from Japan and had no requests, while navy and air forces were already active in Korea. A separate item notes two Republican Senators urged President Truman to name a new permanent Atomic Energy Commission chairman.
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Canberra
Australia
Robert G. Menzies
Menzies
Japan
Korea
WAST
Washington
Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
Hickenlooper Vowar
Rocker Ohiat
U S Has Great Peacetime Ability To Carry On War
Washington reports that U S peacetime military strength is praised by top readers as the nation’s greatest asset for war, yet critics warn the Soviet bloc remains formidable. Officials cite 100000 U S Army personnel in Europe, ongoing radar expansions, large air and naval bases, and a multi-billion buildout plan including Navy secret base funding and base strengthening for overseas protection.
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U.S
Washington
Korea
America
Europe
Mehling
United States
Benosphere
Earth
Sas
Russa
Pentagon
Fis
Armny Steta
Delta
Northwest
Northas East
Alaska
Owatch
Johnsom
Pearl Tuibor
J. Lawton Collins
Arr
Statf
Unifersy
Finse
Germany
Wwe
Pacific
Atlantic
Sane
Tessa
Associated Press
Navy
Wold
Congress
Army
No Call Now For Reserves
Washington reports Secretary Johnson said there is no current plan to mobilize reserves amid Korean War developments. He spoke after a White House meeting with President Truman and did not rule out future actions, noting Congress and law allow calling reserves without consent if necessary. Also notes stock losses and the assassination of a Saigon publisher amid rising Nationalist terrorism.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Truman
David Lawrence
Lawrence
Stephen T. Early
Gen
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Hear Chinese Reds Mobilized For Korea Campaign
Independent Chinese newspapers report 26000 Communist troops bound by rail from South China to join North Korean forces with more units alerted. Dispatches say 20000 troops between Canton and Macao ordered to reach the Manchurian front within 40 days, and 6000 troops of the Reds 87th division rushed to Hankow to await orders.
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Hongkong
Korea
America
China
United States
Nationalist
Formosa
Canton
Macao
South China
Hankow
Lightning Kills Teen During Helena Anaconda League Game
A 16-year-old baseball player, Robert Freeman Morris of Anaconda, Mont., was killed when a lightning bolt struck the Helena versus Anaconda American Legion Junior baseball game. Seven others were injured, and the strike knocked down about a dozen spectators. Morris was struck on the head as the cap split and a shoe was torn off. His parents were in the crowd.
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Helena
Mont
Robert Freeman Morris
Anaconda
Anaconda American Legion
Morris
Attack With Rockets For 25 Minutes
American forces report a 25 minute rocket and strafing attack on South Korea fronts. North Korean spearheads stalled, Suwon base abandoned, four columns across the Han river, tanks and trucks mobilized southward toward Seoul. U.S. air power targeted advancing columns as Maj. Gen. Dean named commander in Korea and Brig. Gen. Church named liaison officer.
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Tokyo
South Korea
Suwon
Sone
MacArthur
Seoul
Han River
Wore
I. 8
U. 8
Associated Press
Tom Lambert
Tacton
U. S
North Korea
Yonpo
Filats
William F. Dean
Korea
Dean
Japan
Church
John H. Church
No Paper Tuesday News Office Closures July Fourth
The News will not be published on Tuesday July 4 and the business office will be closed all day The editorial office will open after 1 p m to handle essential operations and inquiries
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Taejon
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