Senate urges further cut in natural rubber stockpiling
Senate preparedness subcommittee warns a Korean truce could trigger a Chinese Red drive into Southeast Asia and calls for deeper rubber stockpiling cuts. It accuses the Defense Production Administration of a spring slowdown, notes Russia may hold a large rubber reserve, and urges allied nations to curb strategic materials to Communist states.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Southeast Asia
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Defense Production Administration
Johnson
Texas
DPA
William H. Harn
Russia
China
A& Natural
Pearl Harbor
Louis Adamic Found Dead in Fire at Milford Farmhouse
Police and firemen report author Louis Adamic was found shot in a partly burned farmhouse in Milford New Jersey ten miles west of Flemington. A .22 caliber rifle lay across his knees as kerosene-soaked rags were found in the kitchen and the home was set ablaze.
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Flemington
N. J
Louis Adamic
Milford
Here
Adamic
Walter Ellis
Riegelsville
Delaware River
New Jersey
Ellis
Injunction Action Looms In Mine Strike
President Truman's board of inquiry was to report today on the Kennecott copper strike facts advancing toward a Taft Hartley Act injunction. The board cannot settle but will report, as 9,400 workers remain idle and wage talks stall amid industry low-paying averages and a 10 percent ceiling.
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Washington
Truman
Board of Inquiry
Defense
San Francisco
Kennecott Copper Corp
Kennecott
Wage Stabilization Board
President Truman greets San Francisco welcomers
President Truman waves and smiles as his flight arrives in San Francisco for the Japanese treaty conference. He plans to speak tonight and is expected to warn against Russian delaying tactics. AP wirephoto.
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Truman
Washington
San Francisco
U S Confident Soviet Can't Disrupt San Francisco Parley
The United States and allies, led by President Truman, claim they have votes to defeat Soviet efforts to disrupt the Japanese peace conference opening in San Francisco. Truman warns of possible Communist offensives while presses for defense buildup as 51 delegates assemble to formalize measures ending World War II in the Pacific.
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U.S
San Francisco
Truman
Korea
Europe
Middle East
Asia
Japan
United States
Russia
State Acheson
Kenneth Younger
Andrei Gromyko
United Nations says 3 US divisions face 83,000 Reds in Korea
The United Nations disclosed that the Seventh and Second US divisions and the First Marine Division fight alongside South Korean forces against 83,000 Communist troops in east central Korea. General Van Fleet reported 850,000 Reds with 1,000 planes and 500 tanks backed by German and other European volunteers. The allied drive aims to offset a potential Soviet led offensive and inflict heavy casualties.
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Tokyo
United Nations
U. S
Korea
United States Army
James A. van Fleet
Imammuuuesr Uibcivsetuuu
van Fleet
Matthew B. Ridgway
U.N. Supreme Headquarters
East Germany
North Korea
Eighth Army
Red
Ridgway
Manchuria
Kumsong
Red Line
Ridgway Note Carries Hope Of Truce Talk
Tokyo reports Gen Matthew Ridgway is finishing a note to Communist leaders aiming to break the Korean truce deadlock. Indications point to a proposed site shift for talks perhaps in a tent city in no man’s land or even Hong Kong. UN officers express confidence talks will resume despite Reds’ protests over neutrality at Kaesong.
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Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
High Command
United Nations Command
Kaesong
U.N
Adm. C. Turner Joy
Ridgway
Red
No Man's Land
Hong Kong
Admiral Joy
Nam Il
Jamaica braces for second hurricane amid shifting path
Jamaica prepares for a second hurricane in three weeks as Miami forecaster Grady Norton reports possible westward veer. The system, now with hundred mile per hour winds, may pass south of Jamaica where 150 people died in a prior storm. Officials urge full alert while awaiting confirmation.
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Miami
Fla
Jamaica
Grady Norton
Miami Weather Bureau
Norton
Cuba
Ballot Box Stolen Raises Security in Kentucky Primary
In London Kentucky armed guards monitored ballots from the August Republican primary after a ballot box was stolen on the eve of the scheduled count. Local authorities investigated the theft as officials moved to secure remaining ballots and ensure a fair tally.
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London
Phelps Dodge Talks Fail to End Mine Strike
In Douglas on September 4 AP reports further negotiations between Phelps Dodge Corp and the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union failed to resolve the strike. The company wired the presidential board of inquiry that recent talks offered no immediate settlement, noting a meeting between Phelps Dodge representatives and union leaders is planned on page 2.
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Douglas
Phelps Dodge Corp
Presidential Board of Inquiry
Phelps Dodge
Korea Amphibious Plans Called Off
Vice Admiral Ingolf N. Kiland announced that UN Command planned amphibious operations in Korea last January but they were not conducted for reasons not disclosed. He relinquished command of the amphibious force in the Pacific and Task Force 90, with Rear Admiral Tom B. Hill succeeding him.
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Eldorado
Yokosuka
Japan
United Nations Command
Korea
Ingolf N. Kiland
Pacific
Kiland
Tom B. Hill
Amphibious Group 1
Four Assassins Hanged in Jordan Plot Case
Four men convicted of plotting to kill King Abdullah of Jordan were hanged today in Amman after their July 20 arrest. The executions followed a court ruling defining the threatened attack as an assassination attempt against the monarch.
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Amman
Jordan
Abdullah of
445 Traffic Deaths Set All Time Record
United Press reports Labor Day weekend traffic deaths set a new record with 707 killed between Friday 6 p.m. and midnight and 445 on streets and highways. Drownings totaled 118 and 19 in airplane crashes. More than 15,500 injured. 133 expected to die. Ned H. Dearborn called motorists morons and urged drastic highway safety steps.
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United Press
National Safety Council Today
Council
Bashful boy admits 12 burglaries in Phoenix Mesa
A 17 year old Phoenix youth who said he was too bashful to ask for work admitted committing 12 burglaries in Phoenix and Mesa. Officers captured him with a loaded pistol and cash at the Dom inee Pool Hall. He described his biggest job at M enhennett s News Stand in Mesa netting 500 dollars plus goods. He spent most of the money on a 1941 car. He had eluded police earlier at 20th Street and Park. He also admitted other break ins at Merle s Bar The Waffle Shop The Gun Shop Palms Theater Montgomery Ward Biltmore Cleaners and American Cleaners.
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Ellis
Adamic
Yugoslavia
America
Mesa
Kenneth Arline
Phoenix
Robert Flack
Mason West
E. van Buren
Ed Langevin
Arthur Fairbanks
Menhennett
Flack
Esli Landis
20Th St. and Park
W. Roosevelt
Palms Theater
N. Central
Montgomery Ward
First St
Adams
Biltmore Cleaners
American Cleaners
Seventh St
Dunhill
Arizona holiday traffic toll reaches six fatalities
Arizona records its fifth traffic death of Labor Day weekend as Joe Coffendaffer 28 of Silver City New Mexico dies when his Jeep plunges 300 feet down an embankment on Mule Creek Road in Greenlee County. Passenger Sid Sulcher is injured. Priscilla White and two Globe women die in separate crashes bringing the year tally to 246.
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Arizona
Joe Coffendaffer
Silver City
N. Mex
Greenlee County
Arizona Highway Patrol
Mule Creek Road
Sid Sulcher
Morenci Hospital
Priscilla White
Whiteriver
Fort Apache Indian Reservation
Globe
Priscilla McGinness
Verl Beckstead
Manuel Sedilla
Flagstaff
Rescue Craft Rush To Aid Burning Ship
Rescue craft from American and Canadian air and sea crews raced to aid a burning ship believed to be American, 350 miles southeast of Cape Race. Radio intercepts identified the vessel as the Anthony and said the fire was in food stores onboard.
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Boston
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Coast Guard
Anthony
Noted Figures Comment on Communism and Global Policy
International News Service reports comments from AFL President William Green labeling communism bankrupt and predicting Stalin's fate, from Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin praising democratic participation in labor, and from President Ōuman stressing continued defense buildup amid Korea talks.
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International News Service
Washington
AFL
William Green
Stalin
Couple Perish In KC Blaze
A man and his wife died in an early morning fire on the second floor of a two story frame house in Kansas City. Identified as Elwood Brown, 32, and his wife Genevieve, 28, they had just returned from a Chicago vacation. Police said they slept deeply and were not awakened. Three others on the first floor escaped uninjured.
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Kansas City
Elwood Brown
Genevieve
Chicago
Mammoth bones unearthed by Prescott group
Yavapai County Archaeological Society members led by Aubrey Gist found mammoth bones in Walnut Grove area during a field trip. Teeth identified by Dr. John Lance confirm species Archidiskodon, imperial mammoth, with context on Pleistocene fauna and Ice Age ranges.
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Prescott
Yavapai County Archaeological Society
Walnut Grove
Aubrey Gist
Museum of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff
Charles A. Anderson
Arizona
New Mexico
U.S. Geological Survey
Medora H. Krieger
Prescott Quadrangle
John Lance
University of Arizona
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