Air Force Doubts Saucers Menace After Sightings Review
The Air Force says it is still investigating saucer reports but finds them not a menace. About one fifth of sightings are from credible observers with no explanation, and no pattern of threat is found. Since 1947, roughly 2,000 reports have been analyzed, most traced to friendly aircraft, hoaxes, or natural phenomena.
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Air Force
Washington
United States
Washington Sea
Gauhers
John A. Samford
Inteligence
Samford
Roger Ramey
Samford and Ramey
Drought Hits Binghamton As Water Rushes Back
In Binghamton New York 24000 homes face water shortages after a pipeline rupture led to a three day drought. Officials say some supply returned and rail service may resume today. Hotels ice plants laundries and other businesses reopened as the main break under extra pressure is blamed for the outage. General Aniline Corp recalled 300 Ansco camera plant workers as water pressure was eased and restoration progresses.
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Binghamton
New York
General Aniline Corp
Ansco
William A. Cody Granted New Trial After Jury Fraternizing
In Oakland California William A Cody 44 faced accusation of receiving stolen goods A judge declared a mistrial after learning he was taking a juror home from court He ordered gatherings with defendants to stop and scheduled a new trial for Cody today
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Oakland
Calif
ULP
William A. Cody
It's Time for a Change Drives Ike Nixon Ticket
Editorial notes the 1948 campaign theme change prompts Republicans to push the Eisenhower Nixon ticket. The piece previews editorial and page-by-page sections including Amusements Bridge Music Radio-TV City Life Social Deaths Sports Editorials and letters with page references.
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Marquis Childs
Gitel Leguedd Dculeste
Ing
Stevenson Financial
Dirksen and Butler Join Ike Campaign In Midwest Move
Two U S senators who backed Taft for the GOP nomination, Everett Dirksen of Illinois and Hugh Butler of Nebraska, joined Dwight D. Eisenhower’s camp. Dirksen plans a Denver trip for weekend campaign strategy conferences, while Butler urged Eisenhower’s victory in Nebraska and predicted Taft’s active role.
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Washington Co
South
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Macg. O. P
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everett Dirksen
Illnois
Hugh Butler
Nebraska
Dirksen
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Denver
Butler
Eisenhower
Taft
Communist Show Turns Into Brawl Near Tokyo
A self-styled mountain and village corps of Communist activists invaded a laborers field camp near Tokyo to stage lantern slides. The clash with about 50 workers left several laborers seriously injured and 9 Communists arrested. Kyodo News Agency reported 17 Reds tangled with the laborers.
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Tokyo
Kyodo
Water shutoff hits Mattydale Airbase families
Sahara desert-like conditions loom as twelve Fairview Housing Project homes at Mattydale Airbase face days without steady water. Officials say the main break left residents with only brief daily water access, causing dishes to pile up and sanitation to worsen.
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Sahara Desert
Mattydale Airbase
Fairview
Klen Biva
Water supply mud and unfit for drinking alarm residents
Since Sunday the few drops of water through the pipes have carried mud and are unfit for drinking. Residents complain and each family has been forced to gather every possible container to conserve. Concluded on Page 6. Column 6.
VA official urges long term care for mental patients
A Veterans Administration official urged society to take longer term responsibility for mental cases to protect the public from violent patients like Barard Peakses. He said it should be up to federal or state governments to monitor latent psychiatric issues, with the states primarily handling the duty.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Barard P. Peak Ses
New York City
Edward E. Odom
Dayton
Ohio
Homer J. Laile
Hickory
N.C
Carl T. Hamm
Laile
Peakes
Odom
Saul S. Streit
Eileen Fahey
American Physical Society
Miss Fahey
Society
Columbia University
Streit
Army
Framingham
Mass
Grow Guilty Reprimanded General Convicted
Fort Meade Md Maj Gen Robert W Grow was court martialed and found guilty of two offenses for jotting military secrets in a personal diary and failing to safeguard classified data He received a six month suspension from command and a reprimand which will count against future promotion The maximum penalty could have been five years confinement discharge and forfeiture of pay
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Fort Meade
Soviet Union
Robert W. Grow
Grow
Ivolv
British Supersonic Guided Missile May Be Sold to U S
Paris reports the United States may buy a British guided missile with self steering “brains” that could outmaneuver modern fighters. Officials say Washington will study the weapon under a policy of shopping Europe’s best arms for mutual security.
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Paris
United States
Omimitar
Europe
Britain
Senator Raps NY Delegates
Maryland State Senator George W. Della blasted the New York Democratic delegation as insincere in a letter to Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. The remarks followed Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. announcing New York Negroes would not campaign for the ticket due to Senator John J. Sparkman as vice presidential nominee. Lehman warned Sparkman must accept the civil rights plank to avoid weakening the ticket in New York.
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Baltimore
New York
George W. Della
Maryland
James Farley
Della
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Herbert H. Lehman
Sparkman
Refugees Pour Into West Berlin From East Germany
More than 1 000 Soviet Zone residents fled to West Berlin today as panicked crowds moved away from the East German regime. Officials predicted July's total would exceed 12 000 as the Communists prepared to declare a peoples democracy.
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Berlin
West Berlin
East Germany
U S Battle Casualties in Korea Rise by 305
Washington reports 305 more U S battle casualties in Korea, bringing the total to 113,688. The update notes the weekly increase and lists overall toll since the conflict began.
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Washington
U. S
Korea
Exiled King Farouk Stays in Seclusion on Capri
Exiled King Farouk and his 18 year old Queen Narriman remained secluded in their Capri hotel today disappointing scores of curious onlookers. Attendants atop Anacapri cliffs supported by long distance calls, the former Nile monarch kept to privacy during the morning.
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Isle OF Capri
Farouk
Narriman
Egypt
Anacapri
I Saportye
Nile Kingdom
Must Limit Arms Churchill Says for Britain
Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons that Britain's rearmament program must be bent within the limits of its economic strength. He emphasized balancing defense needs with national economic stability.
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London
LLP
Winston Churchill
House of Commons Today
Britain
Burglar steals $2571 from drive-in as flagpole sitter dozes
In San Jose California burglars took 2571 dollars from a drive-in movie last night while Laverene Tam a porch flagpole sitter slept about 120 feet above the scene. She said I fell asleep and didn't hear a thing.
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San Jose
Calif
Ancestry joke targets Boston Tea Party lineage
A humorous exchange jokes about tracing ancestry to the Boston Tea Party with a line about a great-grandmother being the last bag thrown overboard. The quip plays on heritage and maritime imagery in a lighthearted way.
Shootout echoes amid four family feud in Bluefield West Virginia
In Lamar Hollow near Bluefield residents endure nightly gunfire as the Howertons clash with the Blankenships Pendergrasses and Sigmans over land. A youngster and a man with a peg leg were lightly wounded by shotgun pellets. police report limited manpower and pending warrants. The feud is described as long running but less deadly than Hatfield McCoy clashes nearby decades ago.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Lamar Hollow
Hollow
Howertons
Blankenships
Pendergrasses
Sigmans
L. E. King
Fussin
King
Pearly Patterson
Howerton
Kentucky-West Virginia
West Virginia
Perpetual calendar debuts from insomnia driven engineer
Schenectady engineer Arthur Merrill has devised a perpetual calendar he claims is the fastest date finder. He says it can determine days for Christmas 1987 and William Jennings Bryan's birth date in about ten seconds, inspired by sleeplessness.
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Schenectady
Arthur Merrill
Wiliam Jennings Bryan
Merrill
Aid Fund Cuts Slow Output
Secretary of State Acheson warned that congressional cuts in foreign aid will slow military production in the Western world. He cited the denial of a large French arms purchase request and said the U.S. cannot fund bigger orders due to roughly $2 billion slashed from the $7.9 billion foreign aid bill, hindering Allied procurement.
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Washington
Acheson
France
United States
Congress
Truman
Firefighters battle stubborn house blaze in Nashville
Suburban Woodbine firemen extinguished a blaze last night after a difficult effort during a thunderstorm. Firemen Claiborn Ross and Curtis Hall, both 21, were unhurt. Ross called for help from a nearby house but the resident refused entry to use the phone, and a dog bit him on departure.
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Nashville
Tenn
Woodbine
Berets Wet Optien
Claiborn Ross
Curtis Hall
Ross
Van Fleet cites Korean front thinning amid Allied pressure
Gen James A. Van Fleet reports Communist troops thinning their lines on the Korean front due to Eighth Army pressure Allied artillery and air support supply shortages and coastal threats. He warns the shift does not erase the risk of future offensives and notes the steel strike has not yet affected operations.
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Seoul
Korea
James A. van Fleet
U. S
Eighth Army
United Nations
van Fleet
Defense Set Back By Steel Strike
The Pentagon expects defense production to take double its normal share of steel output for six months. To recover a 26 million ton loss from the strike, military output will rise to 30 percent of the first 20 million tons, with 6 million tons allocated to defense. 30 officers will monitor mills to ensure priority, while contracts and schedules may be amended.
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Washington
Pentagon
Defense Department
Munitions Board
J. D. Small
Small
National Production Authority
Black Mart Fine Imposed on US Colonel's Wife in Germany
Katherine Reed, 44, wife of a U S Air Force colonel, was convicted on five black market counts in Wiesbaden. She received fines totaling $3,982 for selling coffee and gasoline coupons and making illegal currency exchanges. Bail was set at £1,000 pending payment or appeal. She was found innocent on two related charges involving importing coffee for resale and buying military scrip with American dollars.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Katherine Reed
U. & Air Force
U. S
Dudge DeWitt White
Eels Proposed To Beat Tokyo Heat Wave
Tokyo reports a culinary fix for summer heat as officials advise cooling with large broiled eels. The article notes the fish contains ingredients believed to combat heat discomfort and induce laughter.
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Tokyo
Teen traffic sting backfires in Stuttgart
In Stuttgart Germany police aimed to educate teens on traffic law by riding along in patrol cars. The first offender spotted by the group was a policeman cycling without taillights, a serious violation in Germany.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Weather forecast chills as cold fronts surge in
Weatherman Andrew P. Keller pins a 6 AM Hancock Airport reading of 52 degrees and predicts highs near 82 with more showers. He notes cooler nights around 55 and northwest winds 15 to 20 miles per hour. Massena dips to 41 as cold fronts crowd in, ending the heat wave.
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Andrew P. Keller
Hancock Airport
Keller
Massena
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