Drought Area Receives 3 Million Aid from U S Treasury
President Truman announced three million dollars in disaster emergency funds to aid feed for dairy and beef herds in drought-hit Kentucky and Tennessee. Rain in parts of the region offered late relief, while crop damage and rising prices underscored broader drought impacts on agriculture and rural trade.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Truman
Kentucky
Tennessee
New England
south
Missouri
New Hampshire
Oklahoma
department of commerce
Korea Air War Tempo Soars
In July allied air power surged with hundreds of fighter bombers striking North Korea. The Fifth Air Force reported 15 enemy aircraft destroyed and 19 damaged over four days, including four Mig jets and five more damaged as clashes persisted near Panmunjom.
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SEOUL
North Korea
fifth air force
Panmunjom
air force
Korea
Baseball American League First Game Report
In an incomplete box score the New York and Washington teams split a doubleheader. Early scoring shows New York trailing 6 to 1 in the first game with late runs by Berra and Grasso. The second game details are partially garbled but includes errors by Trout and Delock with McDonald and Berra noted.
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New York
Washington
McDonald
Berra
Moreno
Grasso
Red Cross backs germ warfare probe vote
The 18th International Red Cross conference voted 69 to 12 to back an impartial probe into Communist charges that the United States used germ warfare in Korea, overruling Soviet objections at the Toronto session on August 7.
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TORONTO
International Red Cross
U.S
Korea
McKellar Future At Stake In Tennessee Primaries
In Nashville and across Tennessee showers dampened polling but officials expect a record primary turnout. Voters will decide if K D McKellar secures a seventh Senate term and if Gordon Browning wins a third term as governor amid hot contests for Congress and local offices. A record 1,339,259 were eligible to vote with turnout projected between 600,000 and 700,000, well above the 481,271 gubernatorial tally two years ago.
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NASHVILLE
Tenn
Tennessee
Knoxville
Memphis
Chattanooga
McKELLAR
K. D. McKellar
senate
Gordon Browning
Browning
Estes Kefauver
U.S. senate
Hog Slaughter Program Set
Washington proposes a 15 state hog slaughter plan to curb vesicular exanthema. Owners would be paid for destroyed hogs with the federal government bearing half the cost and states paying the other half. Participating states include Alabama Arizona Georgia Illinois Iowa Kansas Missouri Nebraska New Jersey New York Ohio Oregon South Dakota Washington and Wyoming.
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WASHINGTON
Alabama
Arizona
Georgia
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Oregon
South Dakota
Wyoming
Democrats Spar At GOP as Top Men Seek Unity
Springfield Illinois August 7 1948 Sen Blair Moody Michigan urges Stevenson to make the hatchet man issue against Eisenhower invites a Labor Day Detroit kickoff and debates. Eisenhower meets Taft supporters Gov Jordan Utah George Hansen and two Taft aligned women at his side. Russell Harriman and others weigh civil rights as Shivers notes Texas could swing with tidelands oil issue.
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GOP
SPRINGFIELD
IIl
Blair Moody
Michigan
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Moody
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Kenn
Missouri
Jenner
Indiana
Stevenson
Detroit
Truman
Eisenhower
Taft
Len B. Jordan
Idaho
George T. Hansen
Utah
Jordan
Hansen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
national committees
Ethel Heffelfinger
Minnesota
Bertha S. Adkins
Maryland
Chicago
Averell Harriman
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Harriman
Dan Kimball
executive mansion
Kimball
Russell
Washington
Senator Russell
south
Texas
Allan Shivers
tidelands
Reds Charge U N Shells Truce Site
MUNSAN Korea Aug 7 Communist staff officers accuse the United Nations command of shelling the Panmunjom truce talks site Aug 2. A U N official said there is no evidence to prove the claim. Korean truce negotiations are in recess until Monday.
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MUNSAN
Korea
United Nations command
Panmunjom
U.N
Little Men On Mountain Top Spark Saucer Scare
Nick Dale, hunting camp owner in Narrowsburg New York, says he rode to the mountain top to chase flying saucers and found smoke signals traced by flashlights. The lights atop Tusten mountain drew vacationers for miles, and Dale concluded the signals came from members of the New York Boy Scout camp rather than Martians.
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NARROWSBURG
N. Y
Nick Dale
Tusten mountain
Dale
Mars
greater
New York
Boy Scout
Mill Worker Faces Expulsion Under McCarran Act
A 49-year-old Finnish-born mill worker from Wendell New Hampshire, Carl A Latva, was ordered deported after testifying he signed a 1934 Communist party membership application to aid a strike. Judge Wyzanski ruled under the McCarran Act that deportation is required, despite Latva’s claim that he never heard of plans to overthrow the government. Latva, who arrived in the U S at 13, has two sons in the Navy and a pending citizenship petition.
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McCarran
BOSTON
Wendell
N. H
Communist party
Charles TE. Wyzanski, Jr
Carl A. Latva
Finland
THAMS
ACT
Wyzanski
congress
Truman
U. S
Latva
U.S
United States
Pori
New Hampshire
Greek frontline tensions verge on crisis with U N observers
United Nations observers on the Greek Bulgarian border report large forces poised for action and warn the situation is very dangerous. The Gamma island observer urges Greek government to seek U N intervention while Greece denies immediate U N action. Balkan sub commission monitors Evros river as Greek fire erupts on Bulgarians.
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UNITED NATIONS
N. Y
U. N
Gamma island
Greece
Bulgaria
Alexis Kyrou
U. N. Balkan
Evros
Jet Blast Kills 9 Aboard Boxer
A jet plane explosion aboard the U S carrier Boxer in Korean waters killed nine crew members and injured an unknown number. Twelve jets were destroyed by fires and 63 crew were rescued by helicopters and lifeboats. The 27 000 ton carrier’s crew is about 2900, and damage was slight with repairs to be made in the Korean theatre of operations.
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WASHINGTON
U.S
navy
Korea
Raid Targets North Korea Gold Mine In Air Strike
Far East air forces said the B 29 Superforts destroyed more than 90 percent of buildings at the Communists largest North Korean gold mine in a raid Tuesday night.
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TOKYO
Far East air forces
North Korea
Bethlehem Signs With Steel Union
Bethlehem Steel Co. became the second major company to finalize terms with the CIO United Steelworkers. Inland Steel and Wheeling Steel had already signed. The agreement marks a key step in broader steel industry labor peace.
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NEW YORK
Bethlehem Steel co
CIO
united steelworkers
Bethlehem
Inland Steel
Wheeling Steel
Truman weighs extra session for stronger price control law
President Truman said he is studying the possibility of calling an extra congressional session to seek a tougher price control law. He did not decide, but said he will act if needed and would call a special session. Arnall warned that food prices are rising sharply and urged a stronger act, noting OPS funding cuts and staff reductions.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
congress
Ellis G. Arnall
Arnall
White House
price
office of price stabilization
OPS
Three Nations Launch Pacific Defense System
Foreign ministers of the United States Australia and New Zealand launched the first formal peacetime military cooperation system among the three nations. A communique said a go slow approach would keep other non Communist Pacific nations from joining yet they would consult through regular channels. An eye toward a five power conference with the Philippines and Japan was noted as a possibility.
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HONOLULU
U.S
Australia
New Zealand
security organization
Joaquin Elizalde
Philippines
Manila
Japan
U. S
Dean Acheson
Richard G. Casey
Clifton Webb
United States
San Francisco
Pearl Harbor
Melbourne
Wellington
N. Z
Arthur W. Radford
U. S. Pacific fleet
U S Air Bomber Crashes Into Rhine at Mainz
A United States Air Force bomber fell into the Rhine River at Mainz today with four crew aboard. Two parachuted free and escaped with serious injuries. The other two were missing and believed drowned.
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FRANKFURT
Germany
Bus Wreck Toll Fixed at 28
In Waco on August 7, a civilian identification expert for the air force confirmed the death toll from Monday's Greyhound bus crash at 28. R. L. Trask explained that heat from the fire was not enough to fully cremate remains, and no additional fatalities were found beyond the 28 identified in the charred wreckage.
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WACO
Tex
R. L. Trask
air force
Willie the Panhandler Heads to Chicago After Oklahoma City Visit
Oklahoma City police detained Willie the panhandler when his chauffeur tried to change 50 dollars in coin for paper money. The 34 year old, paralyzed man from Dallas said he came to Oklahoma City to earn more amid steady daily takings and planned a vacation with his driver before returning to Texas.
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OKLAHOMA CITY
Willie
Dallas
Texas city
Oklahoma
scout car
Chicago
Truman Plans Campaign Talks With Stevenson Next Week
President Truman said talks will cover Stevenson’s role in the campaign when Stevenson meets him and cabinet in Washington next week. The White House lunch will include Sen John Sparkman and Vice President Barkley. Truman praised the convention picks and discussed Missouri senator choices and Harriman’s candidacy, while declining to comment on Republican nominee speeches.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Adiat Stevenson
Stevenson
White House
Chicago
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Alben W. Barkley
dent ialT
arsley
Barkley
W. Stuart
Symington
Missouri
South Carolina
Averell Harriman
Harriman
New York
Republian
Ives
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Polio Outbreak At Year’s High
Washington report shows 2,290 new infantile paralysis cases last week, the highest weekly total this year. Yearly total through Aug 2 reaches 10,697, near 1949 and 1950 levels, with Texas leading the nation at 2,079 cases as the August peak period approaches.
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WASHINGTON
UPI
government today
public health service
health service
Texas
Arizona union lumber workers resume duties pending wage talks
Striking members of the lumber and sawmill workers union AFL in Arizona returned to their jobs this morning as wage negotiation talks continued in Flagstaff.
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FLAGSTAFF
Ariz
lumber and sawmill workers union
AFL
Arizona
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