Dust Bowl Threatens Return of Dust Bowl Conditions
Washington reports the chance of renewed dust bowl conditions is highest since the 1930s as the U S Soil Conservation Service notes June reports showing ongoing drought in the southern central Great Plains. Authorities urge conservation cropping and other measures to protect remaining acres. Dust storms occurred in March and April across a broad area from Nebraska to the Oklahoma Texas panhandles, with a sharply reduced winter wheat crop and insect damage contributing to low yields.
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Washington
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Great Plains
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandles
Senators Seek Faster Corporate Tax Payments Reform
Senators on page one push a House approved plan to accelerate corporate tax payments from four quarterly installments to within six months after the tax year. The measure would boost near term Treasury receipts by about 30 million dollars next year and over 4 billion dollars over a re year period, but critics warn it could strain many corporations already facing financing challenges and Taft’s opposition remains unexplained.
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Taft
Criliés
Hall Slogan Exchange Echoes in Local Race
In Rochester and Binghamton reports Rep Edwin Acthu and Hall discuss slogans for Teang. Keating, undecided on reelection, asks Hall for ideas. Hall offers a quip urging voters to "Vote for Keating, keep on eating," highlighting campaign tone.
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Ken
Rochester
Edwin Acthu
Hall
Binghamton
Keating
Ives Says Truman Must Be Backed On Korea
Senator Ives told Rochester that President Truman's Korea policy must be maintained and reinforced regardless of Congress. He praised the President's order committing armed force to aid South Korea against the North Korean invasion, calling it belated yet courageous and noting broad U.S. citizen support. He spoke at the 31st annual encampment of the New York State Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Rochester
Ives ‘R
Truman
Korea
America
the Red
American Citizens.” Ivesi
New York State
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Sinatra signs $3 million TV deal with Ava Gardner
London dispatch reports crooner Frank Sinatra signed a three million dollar television contract. He will perform 339 weekly shows over three years, starting with a one hour weekly series in October, alongside a one hour radio program, before moving into film work.
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London
INS
Frank
Sinatra
Ava Gardner
Uncle Sam i
cut—Sinairal
Venezuela Clash: Embassy Attacked by Demonstrators
A U S Embassy official used a baseball bat to help disperse about 30 demonstrators who smashed embassy windows with stones in Caracas yesterday. Frederick Kuhn, the press attache, was leaving for a baseball game when the attack began. Police dispersed the attackers. several were captured. Placards denounced warmongers.
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Caracas
Venezuela
U.S
Ceri
el Frederick Kuhn
Kuhn
Tusa
UN Members Back Effort to End Korean War Support Grows
Three more United Nations members Sweden Denmark and Israel have voiced support for UN efforts to end the Korean War. Their statements were issued from their capitals as other member nations formally notified the UN.
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Lake Success
United Nations
Sweden
Denmark
Israel
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Promised to Clear Pimples
A Davis Oklahoma reader reports three weeks of using Cuticura Soap and Ointment cleared a three year pimples condition. The letter from Miss B Green of Box 361 says she is now relieved and pimples are gone. The ad suggests others buy Cuticura at their druggist.
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B. Green
Davis
Okla
North Korean advance drives toward Seoul amid heavy fighting
North Korean armored units moved north from Taejon toward Suwon to reinforce the attack on Seoul as South Korean troops and U.S. forces held the Han River line. Reports say the front shifted with some sectors advancing and others retreating while U.S. and British naval units shell North Korean beachheads on the west coast. Local fighting near Suwon and Yonadungpo indicated persistent enemy pressure as armored patrols probed the countryside for signs of intrusion.
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Tagjou
Han River
Suwon
Yongdunpo
Seoul
Wonju
Taeson
Korea
Nouthern
Southern
North Koréafis
James
U.S
Ising
Ilan River
Robert Miller
Unitea Ies i
Taejon
South Korea
Noth
Anns U. 8
Sev
King
iSumehok
Kangnung
Columans
Yonadungpo
Chinese Reds Mass Troops Near Korea and Indo China Border
Reports from Chinese Nationalist sources say 200000 to 500000 troops move to the Manchurian Korean border and another 200000 along the Indo China frontier. Other forces ring a British bridge near Hank Suwon as fighting continues in Korea with North Korean columns pushing toward Suwon and Wonju.
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Hong Kong
China
Australia Presses Pause on Troop Sending to Korea
Canberra reports Prime Minister Robert G. Menzie states Australia has not decided to send troops from Japan to Korea. He confirms no requests have been received and no decisions made.
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Canberra
Australia
Orime
Robert G. Menzie
Japan
Korea
York Hero ill with pneumonia in Tennessee
Alvin York, American World War I hero, is ill with pneumonia in Pall Mall Tennessee. His wife reports he was confined to bed Friday after weeks of illness. condition improved yesterday.
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Pall Mall
Tenn
York
Soviet Grip Across Europe and Asia in Cold War Spread
The era described shows Soviet influence expanding from Sakhalin to eastern Europe and Asia by 1950, with Communists controlling nations from Albania to Hungary and Manchuria’s Manchu land, Ho Chi Minh governed with Kremlin recognition, and the United States deploying forces to defend South Korea as Moscow’s reach extends toward Formosa and beyond. The narrative questions where Russia would strike next as terse global tension rises.
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Sakhalin Island
Stoscow
Ho Chi Minh
Kremlin
Malaya
Singapore
U.S
Formosa
Europe
Tito
Yugoslavia
Moscow
Korea
Red Machine
United States
Soviet Russia
Asia
Russia
Publisher Killed By Chinese Reds in Saigon
Lu Khé publisher of Anh Sang newspaper was assassinated outside his home by two gunmen who fled after firing, as Communist-led Nationalists intensify terrorism. Grenades were hurled to cover the attack.
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Saigon
Child Drowned In Water-Filled Paint Can at Woodbine
In Woodbine Maryland a two year old boy nicknamed Mickey Jenkins Jr. wandered away after greeting his father. He was later found face down in a six inch deep water filled 10 gallon paint can behind the house. Firefighters attempted artificial respiration but the child died.
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Woodbine
Coffee industry drives livelihoods across Latin America
The Latin American coffee sector stands as the chief source of income for millions. In rural communities Hacienda and Finca estates in Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions illustrate the enduring agricultural backbone sustaining families and local economies.
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Portoues
Latin America
Reds Brace For Bug War
Moscow radio accused the United States of bacteriological warfare after alleging U S planes dropped potato bugs on East Germany. Russia cited 18 Japanese specialists sent to the United States in 1946 who allegedly shared bacteriological material with American researchers.
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London
Russia
United States
East Germany
Moscow Radio
The
Maryland
Utah
Massachusetts
Jed
U.S
Gorilla Bushman A as Stroke in Zoo
Chicago zoo notes gorilla Bushman a sem i invalid after stroke from a blood clot. Lincoln Park Zoo director R Marlin Perkins says the 550 pound animal is partially paralyzed in his right arm and leg and spends most time in his cage. At 22 years old he is considered an old ape, equivalent to a 70 year human.
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Chicago
Bushman
R. Marlin Perkins
Lincoln Park Zoo
Perkins
Bomb Shelter Project Planned in Santa Monica
John Drescher, a 37 year old consulting engineer, is pursuing a summer project to build a bomb shelter. The shelter will be a sub basement 25 feet below ground with a 20 by 40 foot room and eight foot reinforced concrete walls as part of an above ground business building.
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Santa Monica
Calif
John Drescher
Torture Soothed in Few Minutes Pile Relief Ad
Fragmented ad copy touts Drescher and Petersons Ointment for quick relief from piles and itching. Claims include cooling soothing effects, radiation protection plans, bottled oxygen relief for thousands, and inexpensive applicators. The text presents product names and dubious wartime imagery without clear factual backing.
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Drescher
Peterson
Helat
Gaoney Bacic
Rioters Attack Iran Premier Razmara Near Parliament
Stone throwing rioters assaulted Iran's new premier Gen Ali Razmara in front of Parliament in Tehran yesterday. Police dispersed the mob injuring several, including three officers. The National Front led the demonstration as Razmara defended his government before Parliament. He vowed firm action against those responsible.
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Tehran
Iran
Ali Razmara
Razmara
National Front
Ramara
Free Europe Radio Aids Cold War Voice From Exile
A privately funded station named Radio Free Europe launches in New York under the National Committee for a Free Europe. It will broadcast in native languages to prisoners and exiles, challenging Communist propaganda with hard hitting programs. Sponsors include Joseph C. Grew, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, James A. Farley, and William Green.
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NEW York UP
State Department
Voice of America
Radio, Free Europe
National Committee For A Free Europe
N.C.P.E
de Witt C. Poole
Radio Free Europe
Poole
Nia
N.C.E.E
Joseph C.grew
Japan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
James A. Farley
A.F.L
William Green
Chautauqua Opens Season At Lakeside Institute
Eight weeks of lectures concerts and religious services begin at Chautauqua Institution. The Tithannwat assembly opened on the grounds overlooking Chautauqua Lake and will run to Aug 27. Expected speakers include U.S. Senator Irving Ives and Representatives Bryson and Otherson.
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AQUAP
Chataauqua
Tithannwat Assembly
Chautauqua Lake
Ralph McCallister
Syracuse
Edgar J. Fisher
New York University
Carter Glass
Sweet Briar College
U.S
Irving’ M.'Ives
Joseph
R. Bryson
Walter Otherson
Henry Steele
Speeding Fan Tagged Along Ohio Police Route
A Canton man known as Earth Stanton was booked after speeding en route to a Cleveland Indians Detroit Tigers doubleheader. Police across Newburgh Heights Cuyahoga Heights Independence Brecksville pursued him as he stopped for a streetcar, then jailed him overnight in Independence before Brecksville planned the final stop.
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Cleveland UP
Canton
Ohio
Municipal Stadium
Eart
Stanton
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
Cleveland
Brecksville
Independence
Cuyahoga Heights
Newburgh Heights
Frank W. Novak
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Travel Lounge
Ruth
By Edwin C. Hill
Coffee Tree
Edwin C. Hill
Free Europe Radio
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