U S Ready To Stockpile Germ Bombs
Washington reports the Army has reached production and stockpiling in germ warfare research while policy remains to retaliate if attacked first. Maj. Gen. Bullene warns urgent funding for production though weapon specifics stay secret. Potential delivery methods include bombs and mists. diseases cited include typhus and yellow fever.
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Washington
U. S
United States
Robert A. Lovett
Korea
E. T. Bullene
Army Chemical Corps
Congress
North America
Supreme Court weighs President power to seize steel
The article notes no final decision yet on the presidents power to seize the steel industry amid a possible strike. A Taft Hartley board option could delay action a week to 10 days, while Congress may be urged to pass new legislation. The dispute centers on inherent executive authority in national emergency and potential court rulings.
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Congress
Truman
Taft-Hartley
White House
Murray
Supreme Court
U. S
David A. Pine
Court of Appeals
Pine
Scholarships Open for 1300 Fulbright Awards in 19 Countries
The State Department invites American students to apply for over 1,300 expense paid Fulbright scholarships in 19 friendly countries. A similar number of foreigners will be offered study opportunities in the United States during the same period.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Stores urged to use more self service
New York retailers push self service as key to modern shopping. Macy's head Jack Straus tells Controllers' Congress that the public has embraced self service and supermarkets, urging department stores to adapt or risk declining profits. About 700 retail executives gather at the Hotel Roosevelt for four days.
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New York
BR. EL Macy & Co
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Jack I. Straus
Macy Department Store Organization
Straus
Cally
Congress
Hotel Roosevelt
Koje Island POW Camp Brutality and Control Claims
The dispatch notes heavy POW deaths at Koje Island and 64th Field Hospital records July 2. It cites executions of 154 prisoners, mass graves, torture methods, and factional fighting between anti Communist and pro Red inmates. UN guards claim control outside the 17 compounds.
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U. S. 64Th Field Hospital
Koje
P.O.W
Gelenzer
Pusan
UN P.O.W
Philip J. Noel
Louisville
Boavier
State Ready To Fight Farm Germ War
New York State unveiled an agricultural defense program against biological warfare. Lt. Gen. C R Huebner announced mobilization of experts and technicians in cooperation with the Agriculture Department to protect crops and livestock, with a plant and animal health emphasis and power to seize or quarantine infected material.
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New York
C. Chester Demond
Ivan G. Howe
Bureau of
Animal Husbandry
Y. B. Little
Bureau of Plant Husbandry
Huebner
Civil Defense
Howe
Agriculture Department
Little
Agricultural Defense Program
New York State College of Agriculture
The
New York State Nurseryen’s Association
New York State Extension Service
U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Eisenhower gains in Washington push in GOP race
AP tally shows Taft 399 delegates to Eisenhower 359. Ike makes 16 in Washington State with 20 delegates to Taft’s four, as Connecticut's con vent opens two day session. Republican targets 604 votes and new state choices loom amid Texas and Minnesota shifts. Democratic splits risk November winds with Shivers and Legal Democrats dueling in Texas. Maryland GOP backs McKeldin on first ballot, while Delaware Dems award six delegates unpledged or to Barkley.
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Taft
Ike
Eisenhower
Washington State
Connecticut
John Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
George
Georgia
Murray
Montana
Texas
Allan Shivers
Missouri
Truman
Chicago
Minnesota
Eisenhower Packer
George F. Etzell
Roy E. Dunn
Dunn
Central Committee
Harold E. Stassen
Maryland
G.O.P
Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin
McKeldin
John M. Butler
Delaware
Alben W. Barkley
U.S. Plane Output Far Behind Soviet Says Munitions Chief
John D. Small, chairman of the Munitions Board, told Congress the United States remains far behind the Soviet Union in warplane production, especially jet aircraft. He warned that even with planned 1953 and 1954 deliveries, defense spending will hit the approved ceiling of 46.0 billion dollars for the coming fiscal year, labeling the period ahead very perilous.
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Washington GD
John D. Small
Munitions Board
Congress
Russia
Presbyterians Move to Change Lord's Prayer Wording
The 164th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. approved forming a committee to seek a general revision of the Lord's Prayer replacing debts with sins. Rev. Alexander Mackie protested as a Republican, while Rev. Guy H. Volpitto urged faithful language over custom. The plan aims to involve the National Council of Churches and report back before final action.
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New York
General Assembly
National Council of Churches of Christ
U.S.A
Guy H. Volpitto
Cleveland
Great Catholic Congress draws global church on Spanish soil
The 35th Eucharistic Congress in Lille, 1881 style, connects Barcelona and Madrid with massive plans. Cardinal Tedeschini and 15,009 Americans led by Frances Spellman join 50 archbishops and 200 bishops in a five day program featuring a 146 foot high altar and a 114 foot cross, with Masses, televised services, and a three mile Procession of the Blessed Sacrament. General Francisco Franco and most state bodies attend while Pedro Segura remains in Sevilla for other ceremonies.
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Lille
France
Barcelona
Pius XI
Federico Cardinal Tedeschini
Frances Cardinal Spellman
New York
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Los Angles
New Orleans
Congress
Spain
Cardinal Tedeschini
Monjuich
Francisco Franco
Pedro Cardinal Segura
Sevilla
San Fernando
Funeral services for Calkins set in Volney
Funeral services for Calkins will be held Friday at 1 PM in Volney. The Springer Funeral Home will conduct the rites with Rev. Joseph Elkins of Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church officiating. Burial follows at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
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Calkins
Fulton
Volney
Thel. Springer Funeral Home
Joseph Elkins
Mt. Pleasant
Planes Collide Near Franklin. Four Die in Wreck
A B-45 four engined jet bomber collided in midair with another plane and crashed three miles east of Franklin in Southampton County. Wreckage sprawled over a wide area and four bodies were found. The second plane, believed to also be a B-45, disappeared after the collision.
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Norfolk
Franklin
Southampton County
U S Firm to Buy Out From Iran
Iran announced a five year deal to sell 3,000,000 tons of oil annually to an unidentified American firm. The sale equals about 10 percent of former Anglo Iranian Oil production and could mark a major break in the oil blockade. The contract reportedly includes aviation gasoline.
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Tehran
Iran
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Tran
King Forced To Quit Says Britisher
Lord Beaverbrook claims the Duke of Windsor bluff threatened abdication to win approval for his marriage to Wallis Simpson. The Times editor Geoffrey Dawson allegedly pressured the king and feared the prime minister would lose nerve, prompting the abdication.
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Britisher
London
Lord’ Beaver‘brook
Britain
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Simpson
Beaverbrook
Daily Express
Edward VII
London Times
the Times
TIMES
Geaverbrook
Geoffrey Dawson
England
Stanley Baldwin
Simpson
Dawson
Baldwin
The
Tribal clash near Johannesburg leaves multiple casualties
In New Clare, a segregated township near Cape Town, two killed and 35 seriously wounded in a riot between Zulu and Basuto groups. The violence, noted as the third outbreak in 11 days of native warfare, brings total casualties to nine dead and 68 injured.
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South Africa
Johannesburg
Newclare
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