Truce Talks Warm Up as Fire Eases on Korean Front
East Korea sees mild Red resistance with brief clashes on the front and rain limiting air operations. U N patrols report enemy activity near Kumsong and Yanggu while Allied artillery shells Reds northeast of Yanggu. Subcommittees at Kaesong discuss demarcation and terrain based defense, signaling possible thaw in negotiations.
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George A. McArti
U. S
Korea
East Korea
Kaesong
Central Front
No-Man’s-Land
East Central Front
Associated Press
Stan Carter
U. N
Kumsong
Yanggu
Inje
Yangeu
Fifth Air Force
Pyongyang
Robert B. Tuckman
Com- AP
Plete
Munsan
Henry S. Hodes
U.N
Lee Sang Chop
U.S
Arleigh Burke
Gual Alco
Pang
Sion
Aidt Yrming Radio
38Th Parallel
Red China
Kagsong
Charles Turner Joy
United Nations
Red Capital
Kumtwa
Central Press
Young Man Juggles Four Service Academies
Nineteen year old Robert T. Lutz Jr. pursues multiple service academies after an earlier West Point entrance exam. Congressmen Poulson and Jackson influence his path as he alternates between West Point Annapolis Coast Guard Academy and the Maritime Academy before his draft number arrives. He remains committed to West Point.
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OS Angeles
Robert T. Lutz, Jr
Robert
West Point
Morris Poulson
Academy
Donald Jackson
Annapolis
New London
Logan Boy Confesses Chewing Habit After Escape
Jimmy Sloan, 14, who hopped 15 miles on crutches for medical care, vanished from Huntington Orthopedic Hospital to visit his grandfather in Taplin Logan County. He plans to return for therapy and says he still intends to quit chewing, despite admitting the habit.
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Logan
Jimmy Sloan
Jimmy
Sloan
Huntington Orthopedic Hospital
Taplin
Logan County
Too Good to Let Go Parole Bid for Jail Warden Blaine Decker
Annapolis report says Sheriff Alton seeks parole for Blaine Decker 38 a county jail inmate who runs the jail manages menus buys food cooks audits funds and escorts prisoners at night for two dollars a day under an old law. Decker has served three years and has earned praise from the sheriff who says he cannot function without him.
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Annapolis
Joseph W. Alton
Blaine Decker
Decker
Korea Seeks 160 Million for Goods to U.S. Forces
Ambassador You Chan Yang told reporters that South Korea has billed the United States for 160 million dollars in goods and services supplied to American fighting forces. He said Washington backs the payment and that bills were to be presented after the war, but Korea needs the money now to combat inflation.
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Associated Press
Washington
South Korea
United States
You Chan Yang
Dean Rusk
State Department
Korea
Senate Crime Probers Near Closing Day In New Jersey Inquiry
Washington reports the Senate Crime Investigating Committee winds down open hearings after more than a year investigating rackets and politics in northern New Jersey. Testimony linked Abner Zwillman to a $300000 campaign offer to a 1949 New Jersey governor candidate, with Zwillman described as a bootlegging kingpin. Mayor John V. Kenny, once allied with Boss Hague, denied knowledge of Zwillman or ties to his activities.
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Senate
Richard G. Moser
Crime Investigating Committee
Awe Hv
New Jersey
Abner Zwill- Yaan
Elmer Wenge
Zwillman
U.S
James Bishop
Teaneck
Wene
Bishop
A |Ase
Alfred Driscoll
Kesselhaut
John Kenny
Jersey City
John V. Kenny
Frank Hague
Kenny
Swillman
Williams Captured Quietly After Jail Escape
Harry Williams, a 20 year old killer, was arrested on a street car after escaping Cook County jail death row. He was found by four plainclothes policemen reading a Bible and was taken into custody without a struggle. Williams had broken from his cell Tuesday night and faced imminent execution for a prior rape and murder.
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Chicago
Harry Williams
Cook County
George Turley
Williams
International Soundphoto
Associated Press
Ex- servicemen resist Italy extradition over OSS chief killing
Two former U S servicemen deny involvement in the death of Maj William V Holohan, OSS chief behind German lines in 1944. The Defense Department accuses Aldo Teardi and Cat G LaDolce, aided by two Italians, of killing Holohan. Italy has not yet acted on extradition.
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Associated Press
Washington
Italy
U. S. Defense Department
William V. Holohan
Holohan
Office of Strategic Services
OSS
Defense Department
Aldo
Ike) Teardi
Preakness
N. J
Cat G. LaDolce
Rochester
iCool Ridge Youth Held for Burglary
A Cool Ridge youth was jailed yesterday on a burglary charge after allegedly breaking into Norma Wilson’s residence and stealing about $8 in cash, several rings, and other items. State Police noted he was on probation for a similar offense and he was arrested at Cool Ridge.
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Cool Ridge
Norma Wilson
Senate MacArthur Inquiry No Report Despite Hearings
Washington The Senate MacArthur Inquiry Committee voted 20 to 3 against issuing a report after two months of hearings. Washington The House passed over President Truman's veto a bill granting 120 monthly pensions to veterans disabled from nonservice connected causes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
MacArthur Inquiry Committee
House
Truman
Hopi Snake Dances Back to Rain Rite Amid Drought
Hopi Indians readied their annual snake dances at Mishongnavi and Walpi to summon rain during the driest period in modern history. Dancers, conducted in secrecy, carry rattlesnakes in a ritual circle while village chiefs oversee the rite and corn meal is sprinkled on participants.
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Jack Stevenson
Walfti
Ariz
Mishongnavi
Walpt
U.S. Weather Bureau
Jake
Carrier
Wits clash as RFC scandal windup tops Senate talks
Democratic Senator Fulbright leads a Democratic push to withhold sanction from a Republican minority report on RFC loans amid accusations of White House influence. Capehart and Bricker plan to file their windup report on legislative reforms, regardless of Democratic objections.
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Associated Press
Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
REC
Senate Banking ‘Committee
Truman
RFC
Fulrright
D-Ark
Fulbright
White House
Donald
Dawson
Capejhart
Ind
Bricker
Ohio
MREC
Capehart
Lovesick suitor shoots three in Lakewood double tragedy
In Lakewood New Jersey a man shot three women in a house killing two and wounding one before fleeing into nearby woods where he shot himself. Detective George Westerlv said the dead were Mrs Anna Tulpan and her mother Mrs Raczmasz. The wounded woman identified as Mrs Alex of Passaic was hospitalized in serious condition. The suspect, described as a lover of one victim, reportedly killed after a dispute over attention to a daughter.
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Associated Press
Lakewood
N. J
Ocean ‘County
George Wester
Westerve
Anna Tulpan
Aang Raczmasz
Alex
Passaic
Pawe
New York
Sv. Westervelt
Heemer
Foltine
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Yasiner
WV News Briefs Highlight Homicide Probe and Local Accidents
Huntington photographer James McGee is sought on unlawful flight to avoid prosecution as FBI joins the search in Charleston for Edward C. Hensel the murdered photographer. Fire destroys the Muntzing Building in Fairmont and a truck crash near Welch kills Clarence Stitt. A Wetzel County birth and coal mine accidents at Olga Mine and Munson, McDowell County, are reported with fatalities.
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Charleston
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Huntington
C. C. Stewart
FBI
U.S. Commis
James McGee
Edward C. Hensel
Corporal Stewart
Ada Hobaugh Dies at 68 in Wyco Home
Ada Hobaugh 68 died at 5 a m at the Wyco home of her son Allen J Robertson where she had lived 28 years after a cancer illness since July 18 Born December 15 1882 in Hales Ford Franklin County Virginia she was a daughter of Asa and Lydia Newman She was a Wyco Methodist Church member Survivors include another son Grover Robertson four brothers two sisters six grandchildren and three great grandchildren Funeral services were held at 4 p m Sunday at the Wyco church with burial in Sunset Memorial Park Beckley The Associated Press
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Ada Hojbaugh
Wyco
Allen J T. Robertson
Hales Ford
Franklin County
Asa
Lydia Jones Newman
Wyco Methdist Church
Grover Robertson
Princeton
Associated Press
Washington
Wree
Lal Cal Association
Dorsey
Memorial Park
Beckley
Robertson & Faglesong
Robertson
Pressure Exerted To Lease Morgantown Plant, Neely Says
Senator Neely claims a prominent New York Democratic figure pressed President Truman to favor United Distillers of America in bidding to lease the Morgantown Army plant. He cites Allied Chemical and Dye offering 1.25 million annually, United Distillers 0.5 million, urging a non political decision by Archibald Alexander the undersecretary of the Army.
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Neely
Joseph C. GO
Washington
W. Va
D-Wva
Truman
New York State
Paul Fitzpatrick
New York
Fitzpatrick
New Yorker
United Distillers of America
New Jersey
United Distillers
White House
Staggers
Bailey
Kee
West Virginia
Allied Chemicalsand Dye Corporation
Army Ordnance Plant
Aled
Archibald Alexander
Army
Mistake Accounts For Test Deaths In Sedative Experiment
A 28 year old medical researcher from Dakota Medical School admitted a drug error in a sedative study. He gave 100 milligrams of methadone instead of the normal Demerol to two subjects who died within a day. The victims were Jack Clifford a 30 year old technician and Ardys Carson 26 a secretary.
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Associated Press
S.D
Louis F. Michalek
Dakota Medical School
Jack Clifford
Ardys P. Carson
Phacsaecology and Physiology
Michalek
Drug Addiction Puts Crimp in China Deal
Washington noted by Deputy Narcotics Commissioner G. W. Cunningham that U S objections blocked a plan for China to swap 5 tons of opium for American cation. Cunningham said China holds enough opium to supply the world for a year and cited rising U S drug addiction needing 37 extra agents and $130 000 for narcotic drugs for evidence.
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Tie Associated
Washington
Narcotics Bureau
Red China
Congress
House Appropriations Subcommittee
G. W. Cunningham
Cunningham
United States
Nikit Drhes
Oak Hill Woman Ada Callison Dies of Heart Attack
Oak Hill widow Ada Callison died at 32 yesterday evening from a heart attack while visiting a niece in Hampden Virginia. She owned The Piece Goods Center in Oak Hill and served as organist at the Oak Hill Methodist Church. The tax and business community mourns her work with local firms and committees as arrangements are not yet complete.
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Register
Oak Hill
Ada Callison
Mugler Souder
Hampden
Richma
Auston
Weather Forecast for Virginia Incl Summary
Clouds and showers expected tonight into Saturday with periods of rain Saturday afternoon. The New River region near Bellepoint shows end of reservoir levels improving and clear conditions. Extended outlook Aug 18 to 22 calls for showers Sunday and likely Wednesday, light totals around a quarter to a half inch, temperatures near 70 to 71 across regions with a modest rise to about three degrees above normal in places.
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New River End
Greenbrier
Glade Creek
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