Bombers hit Pyongyang HQ in two waves andkill red forces
U S Fifth Air Force and U N fighter bombers launched two massive waves against a key North Korean military headquarters near Pyongyang destroying multiple buildings and anti-aircraft positions. MiG-15 engagements added to the air war as ground forces report gains at Old Baldy hill.
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Seoul
Korea
U.S
Fifth Air Force
U. N
Pyongyang
Air Force
Newark
N. J
North Korea
Karl K. Dittmer
el Reno
Okla
U. S
Old Baldy Hill
Eighth Army
Western Front
Old Baldy
James A. van Fleet
23Rd Regiment
van Fleet
Red Front
Navy Patrol Plane Fights Off Two Russian MiGs
The Martin Mariner repelled two MiG-15 fighters over the Yellow Sea during routine patrol west of Korea. Two crew were killed and two wounded. the plane limped to the Korean west coast for spot repairs before heading to Iwakuni Japan.
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Korea
Iwakuni
Japan
Navy
Manchuria
Shantung
Yellow Sea
China
Navy Mariner
U. S
State Departments
United States
Sea of Japan
Baltic Sea
Russia
Washington
Midland Soldier Killed in Korea
Midland with Special reports that 18 year old Pfc. Johnny D. Richters son of Mr and Mrs Pleas Richters living at 609 S Mineola Midlands High School alumnus and former Woolworths stock room assistant was killed in action in Korea. He volunteered last October and went to Korea May 14 and recently received the Combat Infantryman Badge. Survived by his parents three sisters Mrs L E Shields Providence Ky Dorothy Richters Midland and Mrs T C Consford Houston and three brothers Airman Joe Richters Mountain Time Ida Donald and Tommy Midland.
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Midland
Johnny D. Richters
Pleas Ritchers
S. Mineola
Korea
Richters
Midland High School
Woolworth’s
L. E. Shields
Providence
Dorothy Ritchers
Consford
Houston
Joe Richters
Mountain Tome
Ida
Donald
Tommy
Foreign Newsmen Face Censorship In South Korea
In Pusan Korea on August 4 the government threatened foreign newspapermen with accountability for stories about the South Korean government based on groundless rumors. The Office of Public Information urged reporters to consult in advance on material involving the government.
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Pusan
Korea
Clarence Ryee
Office of Public Information
Tragedy at Carolina Beach Claims Pfc. Manuel Figueroa
Pfc. Manuel Figueroa, 24, from Lubbock Texas, drowned at Carolina Beach Sunday after falling from a rubber surf mat. He was stationed at Camp LeJeune North Carolina.
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Carolina Beach
N. C
Manuel Figueroa
Lubbock
Tex
Camp LeJeune
N.C
Polio Cases Dip as Texas Sees Encouraging Trend
Polio activity in Texas shows a hopeful turn with seven new cases and one death reported Sunday. Austin Travis County records a third straight day without new cases while Dallas reports three new cases and a death, Fort Worth totals reach 151 patients for the year. Officials note some cases may be unreported as Brackenridge Hospital in Austin reports 21 patients doing well.
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Texas
Austin
Travis County
Houston
Dallas
Helen Sheets
Fort Worth
Brackenridge Hospital
Test Tube Victories Signal Polio Fight Advances
Basil OConnor says recent test tube results foretell a direct attack on paralytic polio in humans. The foundation cites mass serum trials in Provo Utah and ongoing tests in Houston Texas and Sioux City Iowa along with 28 668 polio cases in 1951 and the Public Health Service calling the year the third worst for polio in the United States.
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New York
National Foundation For
Foundation
Basil O'Connor
Provo
Utah
Houston
Tex
Sioux City
Towa
U. S. Public Health Service
4000 CIO Workers Strike At Melrose Park Tractor Plant
About 4,000 CIO United Auto Workers walked out at International Harvester tractor works in Melrose Park after failed negotiations over revised job standards. The plant had been idle four weeks due to a steel shortage and was to resume production Monday. Harvester twine plant in Chicago, with 250 workers, held a sit down last week protesting the move to New Orleans but returned to work without incident as plans continued.
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Chicago
Cio-United Auto Workers
International Harvester Tractor Works
Melrose Park
Harvester
New Orleans
Child Fatally Burned in Fire in Conroe
Norman Doyle Gates nine-year-old boy died after hesitating at a second floor window during a house fire in Conroe. His parents Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Gates escaped after leaping to safety as flames engulfed the apartment. He died hours later at a Houston hospital from burns.
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Conroe
Norman Doyle Gates
O. L. Gates
Norman
Houston
West Berlin Red Invasion Fizzles Out
In Berlin August 4 report says planned mass invasion of West Berlin fizzled. About 300 Red youths infiltrated into the British sector and clashed briefly with police, 36 arrests bringing total to 51. British authorities tightened control around Radio Berlin and inspected Russian vehicles. Over 1,000 others held peaceful diversionary rallies along four border points.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Jungfernheide Park
Radio
British
Drought Strikes Nation as Scattered Rains Fall Slowly
The nation endures a hot dry spell with scattered light rains that fail to reverse crop losses. Disasters extend across Maine Massachusetts Tennessee Kentucky North Carolina Alabama Georgia and others with billions in potential losses and calls for federal aid.
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United States
New England
Weather Bureau
Agriculture Commissioner
Massachusetts
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Maine
Massachuetts
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
Arkansas
Missouri
North Carolina
Virginia
Florida
Kansas
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Farm Bureau
New York
Louisville
Memphis
Tenn
Nashville
Poles Mutiny Seek Refuge at Swedish Base
Two Polish fishermen hijacked their trawler after overpowering the captain near Karls KRona then sought political refuge in Sweden. Coast Guardsmen found the crew badly injured aboard the grounded vessel. The two attackers, aged 26 and 30, claimed they attacked the skipper when he refused to sail for Sweden.
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Karlskrona
Sweden
Waco Bus Crash Kills Dozens In Fatal Early Morning Collision
Two Greyhound buses collided head on near Waco at 4 05 am killing at least 29 and injuring 23 with five unaccounted. Officials say 37 rode the San Antonio bound bus and 20 rode the Dallas bound bus. A third car may have sparked the crash.
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Waco
Greyhound
Here
Greyhound Bus
San Antonio
Dallas
Texas
National Safety Council
O. Massey
Massey
James LeBlond
Civil Defense
McLennan County
Compton Funeral Home
Sam Johnson
LeBlond
M. B. Herring
Billy Earl
Herring
Malone
H. C Garland
J. K. Smith
Garland
Temple
Connally Air Force Base
Dora Athey
Dniels
W. C. Webb
Chicago
Perssons
Passaic
N. J
Chelan
Wash
Lake Chelan
Weirton
W. Va
Clanton
Ala
Aliquippa
Tooele
Utah
Headless murder victim identified in Oklahoma case
Betty Jack Stevens a 21 year old Dallas waitress was identified as the headless murder victim found in a Yukon area dry creek bed. Police noted signs of torture and decapitation and linked the case to potential gangland revenge. Relatives in Texas and Oklahoma described long periods without contact.
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Oklahoma City
Betty Jack Stevens
Dallas c
Yukon
Okla
O. K. Bivins
Oklahoma Crime Bureau
Miss Steven
Texas
Oklahoma
Helen Stevens
Texarkana
Tex
Eddie Stevens
Dallas
Mutilation Slayer Payed With Life at Fort Madison
Edward J. Beckwith 31 was executed at Fort Madison State Prison at 6:43 a.m. for the June 22, 1949 murder of Irma Jean Stahlhut in Morrison Iowa. Beckwith, a wartime Pacific veteran, claimed intoxication and temporary insanity. It was Iowa’s 40th execution since 1834.
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Fort Madison
Edward J
Buddy) Beckwit
Morrison
Fort Madison State Prison
Iowa
Beckwith
Irma Jean Stahlhut
Pacific
Stahihut
Lubbock Beauty Crowned Miss Texas at Island Contest
Connie Hobbing of Lubbock was chosen Miss Texas to represent the state at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City September 1 through 6. Entered as Miss Lubbock she topped five finalists in the late night contest. First runner up was Kathryn Grandstaff of West Columbia with Mary Jane Walton of Houston as second runner up. Other finalists included Io Ann Mang Seguin and Kath ileen Karbach New Braunfels.
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Galveston
Connie Hobbing
Lubbock
Texas
Atlantic City
N. J
Io Ann Mang
Seguin
Kathileen Karbach
New Braunfels
Egypt Cuts King Salary and Investigates Farouk Wealth
Cairo Aug 4 Premier Aly Mahers government slashes the king’s salary from 280000 to 10000 a year and funds for the king’s family from 280000 to 100000 annually. The regency council will govern for the young King Ahmed Fuad while Farouk abdication profits are probed. Foreign publications banned including Life and Saturday Evening Post over references to Farouk.
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Cairo
Egypt
Aly Maher
Farouk
Isle of Capri
Maher
Life
Saturday Evening Post
Ahmed Fuad
His Own Son-In-Law Confusion Stuns Virginia Town
In Tazewell Virginia a 93-year-old J H Hall from Mercer County West Virginia married 63-year-old Roxie Bailey Rutherford of Bristol Virginia. The union creates a tangled family web as Hall becomes son-in-law to his own daughter and to his son-in-law Bailey. The spouses swap roles as mother-in-law and step relations blur in the knotty marriage.
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Tazewell
J. H. Hall
Mercer County
W. Va
Roxie Bailey Rutherford
Bristol, Va
Roxie
Annie
John W. Bailey
Hall
Bailey
Survivors list from Waco Greyhound bus wreck
Providence hospital in Waco released a tentative roster of injured. The list includes Mrs. Dora Daniel of Waco and servicemen from Fort Hood Fort Sam Houston Lackland Air Force Base James Connally Air Force Base and Dayton among others with Ensign Robert F Sticknell listed as critically injured. Seventeen servicemen were treated at James Connally Air Force Base Hospital near Waco with fourteen released and three admitted for minor injuries. The admitted include Sgt Alonzo Shelton Cpl Louis G Manriquez and Airman J C Miller. A black unidentified man was admitted at Kilcrest Hospital for treatment.
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Waco
Providence
Greyhound
Dora Daniel
John Langley
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Barney Harris
Fort Hood
M-St. W. M. Virtus
Allen Richards
Wright Patterson Armir Force Base
Dayton
O. M
D. L. Mita
Army Chemical Center
Maryland
Adolph Sammenk
Bentley
Austin
Velma Broyles
Junction
Mildred Lee
Fort Worth
L. C. Miller
Rackland Air Force Base
Robert F. Sticknell
East Aurora
N. Y
Kilcrest Hospital
James Connally Air Force Base Hospital
Here
Alonzo Shelton
Cpl
Louis G. Manriquez
J. C. Miller
Lackland Air Force Base
Fatal Car Crash Near San Antonio Claims Three Lives
Joseph Berry aged 33 and his wife Florence aged 33, both of San Antonio, died in a head on collision about 10 miles east of the city on Highway 90 Sunday night. The other driver, Mrs. Mickey Lopez Quintero, 41, of San Antonio, was critically injured.
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San Antonio
Joseph Berry
Florence
Mickey Lopez Quintero
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Eddie
O. S. Stevens
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Wayne Harbolt
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