Allied Tank Advances Amid Red Resistance In Korea
Allied columns swept the Iron Triangle in Korea with tanks and infantry as Chinese forces harassed mop up efforts. East of Pyongyang heavy air and artillery fire targeted enemy concentrations while U.N. patrols probed and fought small groups of Communists in the Yanggu Inje area. In Washington, the destroyer Walke was damaged by a mine and 26 sailors killed with 40 total warship losses in Korean actions.
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Tokyo
Iron Triangle
Korea
United Nations
Red
Yanggu
Inje
U. S. 8Th Army
Pyongyang
Triangle
8Th Army
5Th Air Force
U.N
Yanggu-Inje
A.P
George A. McArthur
Washington
Navy
Associated Press
Strikes Idle 20 000 Workers Across Industries
About 20 000 workers halted production in auto mobile aircraft rubber and bakery sectors. At Paducah Kentucky 3 000 construction workers returned after a one day walkout over grievances linked to weather layoffs and contractor status. In Detroit over 11 000 auto workers were idle and Hudson plant cut 10 000 due to line delays. Chrysler laid off 1 000 at its De Soto plant after 13 metal finishers walked out.
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Associated Press
Paducah
Detroit
Hudson
Chrysler
de Soto
CIO United Auto Workers
Berlin Ne Detainment Sparks Blockade Fears
Berlin reports a new blockade as Communist police halt shipments into and out of the city. West German police say $23,000 worth of goods including butter soap and canned meat were confiscated for insufficient documentation, and 1042 tons of scrap metal were seized. Western authorities had urged Moscow to lift Westward movement restrictions on Berlin goods.
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Berlin
Germany
U.P
West
Louis Savold Fight Postponed To Tomorrow At MSG
The Joe Louis versus Lee Savold 15 round bout. postponed due to rain, will be held at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night as announced by the International Boxing Club. The fight was originally slated for last night and delayed again.
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New York
Joe Louis-Lee Savold
Madison Square Garden
International Boxing Club
Moose Lodge Raided Seizing 28 Slot Machines
Excise police raided the Moose Club at Wa bash avenue last night and seized 28 slot machines stored on the third floor. Officers McCullough and Homer Petero led the raid breaking into the storeroom while Harry Dixon George Kracy and Marion Turner helped load machines onto nearby trucks.
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Moose Club
Wabash Avenue
Moose
Excise
McCullough
Homer Petero
Harry Dixon
George Kracy
Marion Turner
Doubts House Will Lift Ban On Relief Names
Senator Chavez doubts the House will accept lifting the 12 year ban on publishing relief recipient names. The Senate approved an amendment to end the ban but it could be blocked on a point of order in an appropriations bill. Indiana faces $18 million in federal funds loss if relief rolls open public inspection.
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Washington
Chavez
N.M
Senate
House
New Mexico
Jenner
R-Ind
Social Security Administration
Indiana
Oscar Ewing
Federal Security Administrator
Florida
Fuller Warren
Guerin Family Wins Ten Scholarships Since Grammar School
In New Orleans on June 14, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Guerin celebrate a generation of success as their four children earned ten scholarships since grammar school. Sons E. L. Guerin Jr. 21, Roland 19, Russell 18, and daughter Gloria 14 posted high school averages from 96.6 to 99.5, lifting parents’ worries about college funding.
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New Orleans
W. L. Guerin
Guerin’s
E. L. Guerin, Jr
Roland
Russell
Gloria
Open season returns for Indiana game fish at midnight Friday
Beginning at midnight Friday anglers may catch larger game fish in Indiana after a six week spawning pause. Rock bass join the restricted list while other panfish and coarse fish are unprotected. Separate trout season runs May 1 to August 31 with a $1 stamp. Minimum sizes and bag limits apply. celebrations planned at Monticello and other Hoosier lake resorts.
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Tne Associateu Rico
Indiana
Kentucky
Monticello
Hoosier Lake
Eniwetok Tests Reveal Record-Deadly Atomic Weapons
At Eniwetok in April and May, new hydrogen and advanced atomic weapons demonstrated unprecedented power. Officials said future tests aim to produce even deadlier arms, with civil defense data due soon and explosive efficiency improvements across weapon categories.
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Joseph L. Myler
Washington
Eniwetok
Melvin Price
D. Ill
United Press
Pentagon
Congressman Price Predicts U S Hydrogen Bomb Success
Illinois Congressman Melvin Price who witnessed the Eniwetok atomic test says the United States will develop the hydrogen bomb. He argues the H-bomb will strengthen the free world, citing Los Alamos work and extensive calculations behind the tests. The note adds the assessment from U P.
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Melvin Price
Illinois
Eniwetok
United Press
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
House Armed Services Committee
Washington
U.P
Los Alamos
Home Packing Walkout Spurs Plant Shutdown
Home Packing Company employees stayed away from the plant on Thursday after a Wednesday morning walkout protesting an efficiency expert hired by the company. 300 to 400 workers left early citing illness as they joined Local 381 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America.
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Home Packing Company
New Buildings Planned for Vigo County Fairgrounds
A. D. Luers announces two permanent structures at the Vigo County Fairgrounds. A 4 H beef and dairy building to be erected by 4 H Club members and leaders, 48 by 96 feet with a pole frame and gable roof, sits on the former beef and dairy tent site. A horse barn 44 by 120 feet with an office and 23 stalls will be built by race horse groups.
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Vigo County Fairgrounds
A. D. Luers
Luers
Ray Graham
Rubber Exports to China Rise for Reds in April
Hong Kong port shipped 6 768 tons of Malayan rubber to Communist China in April, with another 3 265 tons sent directly from Malaya, yielding a monthly total of 10 033 tons per Colonial Secretary James Griffiths in the House of Commons.
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London
Hong Kong
China
James Griffiths
House of Commons
Malaya
Missing British Sub Affray Found in English Channel
The British submarine Affray, vanished April 16 with 75 aboard, was located in 200 feet of water in the English Channel near Hard Deep northwest of Alderney. Salvage vessel HMS Reclaim reported the find to the admiralty. Callaghan relayed the news in Parliament and cautioned salvage would be difficult.
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London
English Channel
H.M.S. Reclaim
Admiralty
Alderney
Isle of Wight
L. J. Callaghan
Callaghan
Richmond Tornado Leaves City in Ruins and Homelessness
A zigzag tornado struck Richmond Virginia causing over 1 million dollars in damage. More than 100 residents were homeless and five injured as trees rooftops and power lines were torn down across a wide area late yesterday. No fatalities were reported.
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Richmond
Grant
President to urge consumer crusade against inflation
The Senate Banking and Currency Committee defeated Sen. Robertson's bid to extend the defense production act to 1952 and take up a broader control bill. President Truman planned a White House address at 8 30 p.m. CST urging a consumer crusade while beef packers pressed for fewer limits.
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Washington
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Robertson
D.-Va
Congress
Truman
White House
C.S.T
National Association of Manufacturers
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Ford Motor Co
Eric Johnston
Ford
Senate Banking Committee
Senate House Defense Production
Maybank
D.-S.c
Ives
R.-N.y
Moody
D.-Mich
James Olson
Hormel’s Packing Company
Olson
Bargain Trade-In Involves 1902 Oldsmobile In Transit
Bedford Pennsylvania June 14. An 81 year old Virginia real estate man William A Worth of Petersburg paused briefly to service a 1902 Oldsmobile spark plug then continued toward Lansing Michigan to swap for a new GM model. Worth had earlier declined a similar offer in 1947.
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Bedford
Virginia
Lansing
Mich
William A. Worth
Petersburg
Michigan
General Motors
Worth
New Electronic Brain Aids Census Work With Univac Computer
Philadelphia June 14. A six hundred thousand dollar UNIVAC electronic brain goes to work for the US census. Invented by Eckert and Mauchly, the machine, smaller than ENIAC, handles complex calculations in hours, promising faster materiel control and logistics for military and civilian use. It stores tens of thousands of impulses in memory and processes data at 2.25 million pulses per second.
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Philadelphia
Univac
J. P. Presper Eckert
John W. Mauchly
ENIAC
U.S. Army
Tax Measure Advances to House Floor
The House Ways and Means Committee finished work on a bill to raise taxes by 7.233 trillion dollars a year with higher individual income taxes and new withholding on bank and Savings Bond interest. It includes retroactive corporate taxes and excise boosts with dates tied to enactment and September 1 for individual rates.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Senate
U. S
Doughton
D-Nc
Finance Committee
Teachers Pay Discussed in Terre Haute Meeting
Local 734 Terre Haute Council of Classroom Teachers will vote Friday at 7 30 p m on whether to accept the proposed salary schedule for school employees. President Wilbur Russell is away. Vice President Mary Harvey will preside. Salaries are said to be scaled up but details remain unofficial until formal approval.
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Terre Haute
Wilbur Russell
Mary Harvey
Weather Summary With Temperatures and River Level
The report lists 6 am 55, noon 72, 9 am 66, 4 pm 98, sunrise 5 23, sunset 8 14. River stage 4.6 and falling. Highest yesterday 79, lowest last night 54, precipitation .17.
Weather forecast for Terre Haute and surroundings
Fair and cool tonight. Friday partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers in the afternoon. Low tonight 55. High tomorrow 84. Indiana notes fair and cool tonight with warmer Friday and scattered thundery showers. Illinois report fair tonight and warmer Friday with scattered thundershowers south and west. Low tonight 50-55 north 54-58 south. High Friday 80-85 north and south. Street thermometer readings show 56 at 9 am and 75 at 2 pm.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
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