Battle Report Shows Pushing, River Crossings Near Taegu
The communique describes two North Korean battalions eliminated near a Naktong River bridgehead while the enemy pressed along the northern front. U S and South Korean forces repelled crossings, with 40 Reds killed near Waegwan and patrols advancing within seven miles of Chinju. Changnyong lies southwest of Taegu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naktong River
Taegu
Pusan
Korea
Hal Boyle
U. S
Waeg-l Wan
Waegwan
Naktong
Changnyong
Changnyong Isi
Scotland Yard hunts stolen atomic secrets suitcase
English detectives chased a brown suitcase reportedly carrying atomic secrets taken from an American scientist on a London to Blackpool train. The owner, variously named as Frank Greenleaf or Greenles, was briefly away from the compartment. authorities denied any AEC links and offered no details.
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Associated Press
London
Scotland Yard
Frank Greenleaf Flw. Greentrees
Frank Miller Greenleas
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
England
Greentrees
Greenleaf
Greenles
AEC
Mashallan Engineer District
Blackpool
Ministry of Supply
Britain
British Press Association
Supply m Ministry
Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Risley
Politics Heated as Scions Study Anti-Red Appeal
Congress rivals rush to push anti-Communist bills as President Truman seeks authority to register foreign spies. House committees move to shape legislation with hearings planned amid debates on restricting Communist Party members from government or defense-related work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Tite House
Truman
Lucas
D-H
Democratic Policy Committee
Myr
Congress
Ferguson
Michigan
Mundt
South Dakota
Celler
D-Ny
House Judiciary
House UN- American Activities Committe
Wood
D-Ga
Communist Party
Weather Notes From Virginia Creek and Rivers
Weather data from Oak Hill and Glade Creek reports show highs and lows from yesterday and early today. River conditions at Bellepoint include Greenbrier and Bluestone with varying clarity and water levels described as normal, murky, or clear.
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Oak Hill
Egt Glade Creek
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Normal
Cigar
Bluestone Reservoir
Norma
Navy Gets Funds For Atomic Sub
The Navy gains authority to build the first atomic powered submarine. Rep Robeson cites resumption of work on the 63 900 ton aircraft carrier United States. A special House subcommittee reports overtime work may be ordered to rush completion of the radar warning system in a $351 million bill signed by President Truman.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy
Rep Robeson
D-Va
United States
Armed Services
WaTay
Truman
Kilgore and Sweeney May Get $5 000 Each
The Senate Rules Committee recommended paying $3 000 each to Senator Kilgore of West Virginia and Thomas B. Sweeney of Wheeling for expenses in the 1946 West Virginia senatorial election inquiry. Sweeney opposed Kilgore. Kilgore won narrowly. The panel later found Kilgore the winner after a lengthy investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Rules Committee
Kilgore
D-Wva
Thomas B. Sweeney
Wheeling
W. Va
Senate
West Virginia
Sweeney
Yanks Charge Reds At Dawn On Hill West Of Chindong
American troops of the Fifth Regimental Combat Team surged five miles from the Chindong bottleneck toward Chinju in dawn combat. Captain Frederick Griffiths led Company K up the hill fixing bayonets after clasping hands as a unit to prevent fallbacks. The assault broke a Korean Red attempt and left about 25 enemy bodies on the hill with their commander among the last survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Lambert
U.S
South Korea
Chinju
Chindong
Frederick Griffiths
Cleveland
Ohio
Wei
Sims Refuses Funds For Anti Pollution Effort
Charleston reports West Virginia Auditor Edgar B. Sims rejected the state's 3600 share of Potomac River Basin Interstate Commission expenses. He says future legislatures could face unconstitutional appropriations and cites similar rejections of funds to the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission and the Cornerstone State Governments.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Potomac River Basin Interstate Commission
Edgar B. Sims
Sims
West Vira
Sints
Supreme Court
Oain River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
Potomac
N. H. Dyer
Comn
Patteson Declares Hiring of Handicapped Is Good Business
Governor Okey L. Patteson told a national conference that employing the physically handicapped is sound business. He cited surveys showing productiveness and reliability and recalled helping a mine accident survivor rebuild life through rehabilitation and self sufficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
West Virginia
Okey L. Patteson
Patteson
Toy
Condemned Man Reprieve Granted by Court
A court granted a reprieve for Robert Ballard, sentenced to death for a first degree murder converted to robbery slaving. The ruling came after a review prompted by Mrs Rosina Fazio, a 58 year old storekeeper, and followed preceding appeals.
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Eirt
Rosina Fazio
UN Members Seek Plan to Break Malik Filibuster
U N Security Council members review strategies to break Malik's one man obstruction over Korea action. The session adjourned after heated debate with Malik opposing US led condemnation and a proposed ban on aid to North Korea. US delegate Warren Austin warned of possible rule changes or convening reform to end the obstruction.
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Malik
Associated Press
United Nations Security Council
Jakot
Council
Ap Ae
Ree
J Council
U. S. Air Force
North Korea
U. S
Korea
U. N
Warren R. Austin
Security Council
Austin
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Ernest Gross
Igoor Har Trygve Lie
Gross
Dare
Howir
Traian Bond
Hasy ' Lana
Waren Oemen
Pra. Vidtains
Bs Union
Polio Spreading In Virginia Area
The Wytheville area reports seven new polio cases and one death, pushing Wythe County to 140 total cases and 15 deaths since July 1. Three Wytheville cases raise town totals to 82, as Speedwell and Max Meads report multiple new infections. Additional cases appear in Wise, Giles, and Smyth counties and Mercer County West Virginia.
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Associated Press
Wytheville
Virginia
State Health Department
Wythe County
Max Meads
Speedwell
Wise, Giles and
Smyth
Mercer County
W. Va
Wythe
Radioactive weapon cited by British scientist
Cambridge England An atomic researcher at King's College Prof E S Shire warns a invisible film of radioactive material could render land uninhabitable for months He cites a 1 090 000 kilowatt reactor possibly covering about 1060 square miles and notes US reactors may exceed 1 000 000 kilowatts Bombardment by radioactive dust is described as potentially more dangerous and effective than ground contamination.
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Associeed
Cambridge
Eng
E. S. Shire
King’s College
London
Shire
Route 16 resumption of widening and resurfacing stated
B F Whitney president of Acme Traction Co said route 16 from Crab Orchard to Tains Mountain will resume around Aug 25. The project halted due to scarce funds will see about two miles widened four miles resurfaced from Sophia to Crab Orchard and one mile beyond Crab Orchard with work extending toward Mabscott.
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Crab Orchard
Tains Mountain
B. F. Whitney
Acmex Traction Company
Acme
Whitney
Newce Owl
Sophia
Crabard
Aihway
Mabscott
Witney
Russell Street Gets Surface Treatment
Street Commissioner ALK Minter announced Russell Street now receives surface treatment as a citre prospect. He noted Maplewind Lane Wetmoreland and G streets are completed and all unrepaired dust fall streets will be improved. Reservoir Road will be treated next once stone chips arrive.
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Russell Street
Alk. Minter
Maplewind Lane
Wetmoreland
Minter
Russet Street
Reservoir Road
Naval Guns Destroy Rail Yard at Tanhon
The Navy reports that ships bombarded the Tanhon marshalling yard on the North Korea east coast destroying 15 percent of its tracks and disrupting rail traffic. Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy announced details of the carrier and destroyer actions confirming damage to motive power and rolling stock as ships closed with the yard.
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Tanhon
North Korea
Soda
Adm
Charles T. Joy
U.S. Far East Naval Forces
Confident Or Victory in Korean Battle
Averell Harriman returned from Tokyo with General Douglas MacArthur and told President Truman that American forces are confident they can drive the Communists from South Korea. Harriman discussed the military and political situation, including implications for Nationalist China, with the President at the White House.
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Associated Press
W. Averell Harriman
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
South Korea
Traian
General MacArthur
Korea
Harriman
Trusman
U. S
China
Manpower Seen as Top Mobilization Problem in UMT Debate
Senator Tydings asserts trained manpower is the primary mobilization shortage as Congress weighs defense spending and foreign arms aid. He rejects universal military training as a goal while noting discussion of voluntary Japanese enlistments and a possible foreign legion alternative. General MacArthur calls the Japanese enlistment plan unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Senator Tydings
D-Md
America
Tydings
Senate Armed Services Committee
Congress
Truman
U.S
Korea
UMT
Defense Department
Army
Navy
Air Force
Senate
Magnuson
D-Wash
U. S
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Gurney
R-Sd
Armed Services Committee
Foreign Legion
Taft proposes large annual tax increase in USA war plan
Senator Taft proposes a pay as you go tax rise of about 13 to 14 billion dollars yearly to fund the Korean War and rearmament, lifting total annual taxes toward 50 billion dollars, well above the 1945 peak. Treasury estimates 36.2 billion this year under current rates.
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Associated Press
Washington
Taft
Ohio
America
Tae Treasury
Truman
Senate Finance Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Congress
Derailed Cars Idle Wyoming Mines After Virginian Train Wreck
A Virginian Railway wreck at Shannon yards midnight derailed cars in the southern Wyoming County causing coal mines to idle. One car derailed in the Baileysville curve, derailing three more and partially derailing another as the train hit the switch. All cars were loaded with coal and the main line was to be cleared today.
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Oy Register Stott
Baileysville
Wyoming County
Shannon Yards
Mack Shumate
Bailewsville
Visitor from Turkey Sees War With Reds
A Turkish engineer touring mining operations in the region predicts an imminent war with Russia. He argues Russia seeks Turkey’s ports, notes Turkey’s limited communist influence, and recalls U S Russia ties in 1942. He foresees renewed fighting between Russia and Turkey.
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Turkey
Russia
Te. A. T
Army Reception Centers Planned for Seven-State Area
Fort Meade Maryland hosts new Army Reception Centers to process draftees from Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia Ohio and Kentucky by September end. Centers at Fort Knox Kentucky and Indiantown Gap Pennsylvania join the one at Fort Meade to handle hundreds of recruits daily with uniforms records and equipment issuance before basic training. The 2053rd Reception Center based in Baltimore will operate locally to support the effort.
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Fort Meade
Second Army
Fort Knox
Indiantown Gap
ARMY
Baltimore
Maryland
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
Kentucky
Van Fleet Takes Second Army Command Ceremony
Fort Meade Md Lt Gen James A Van Fleet assumed formal command of the Second Army after a 15 gun salute. An honor escort from B Battery Thth Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion the Second Army Band and two tanks from the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment met him at Laurel and paraded to the Second Army headquarters.
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Ion. van Fleet
Second Army
Fort Meade
James A. van Fleet
Thth
Third Armored Cavalry Regiment
Laurel
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