Jets Fire Over Mig Alley In Fierce Korean Air Battle
United States Fifth Air Force reports 75 Sabre jets vs 29 MIGs in a two day clash over Mig Alley northwest Korea. Reds lose two fighters, five damaged. Lt. Richard Becker adds two kills for a total of four. All Americans returned safely. one damaged by debris.
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United States
Fifth Air Force
Korea
U.P
Northwest
Richard S. Becker
Fleetwood
Kim Il Sung
North Korea
Red Air Force
George L. Jones
Vero Beach
Fla
Six Dead Ten Missing As Shell Tanker Blows Up
Two explosions and a fire on a Shell Oil tanker at Bukom island Singapore left six dead ten missing and more than twenty injured. European and Asian employees were affected as the vessel tied to a wharf before its scheduled sailing to the Philippines. Firemen confined the blaze to the bow and tugs moved the ship away from nearby oil storage tanks.
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Singapore
Shell Oil Company
Bukom Island
Philippines
Hurricane Slams Yucatan Peninsula Killing Many
A Caribbean hurricane ripping at 130 mph struck the Yucatan coast at 8 30 p m causing heavy destruction and at least 100 deaths in Jamaica. It aims for Merida and is forecast to enter the Gulf of Mexico near Campeche with danger warnings for northern Yucatan and adjacent waters.
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Miami
Fila
Jamaica
Yucatan Peninsula
Miami Weather Bureau
Merida
Yucatan
Gulf of Mexico
Cozumel Island
Hernando Cortez
Mexico
Weather Bureau
Merida-Campeche
Puerto Rico
Acheson Promises to Oust Reds from State Department
Secretary of State Dean Acheson pledged to remove any communists, Red sympathizers, or security risks found in his department. The promise appeared in a response to charges against his State Department leadership from Lt. Gov. Goodwin J. Knight of California, provided by civic leader John B. Elliott.
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Washington
U.P
Dean Acheson
State Department
Goodwin J. Knight
California
John B. Elliott
Los Angeles
Knight
Acheson
Elliott
Msgr Daniel Harrington Honored at St Lawrence Parish Dinner
Msgr Daniel B Harrington spiritual director of North American college in Rome was honored at a St Lawrence parish testimonial dinner at the Finlen hotel. More than 250 clergy and laity bid farewell as he leaves for Rome after a month’s leave of absence.
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Butte
Pius XII
North American College
Rome
Daniel B. Harrington
St. Lawrence Parish
Finlen Hotel
Msgr
Harrington
Eternal City
Cardinal O’connell
Boston
Edward Cardinal Mooney
Detroit
Japan
India
Moses E. Kiley
Milwaukee
Edward P. Gilmore
East Helena
Army Runs a Fleet Bigger Than the Navy
Washington August 19. A Senate report shows the United States Army operates more than 2,000 vessels including 50 oceangoing ships ferries barges tugs and smaller craft none of which are fighting ships. The bill before Congress would let the Army settle up to 1 million dollars per claim from collisions and other accidents.
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Washington
United States Army
Congress
Senate
Army
Alligators Missing From Patchogue Pet Farm
Henry Ratner sought two missing alligators after they vanished from a mesh-covered tank in his yard. Police found the pets at home safe, while his menagerie of skunks foxes flying squirrels chipmunks an owl an opossum two red squirrels a falcon and a trained crow remained on the property.
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Patchogue
N. Y
Henry Ratner
Ratner
Moscow Hurt by Canceling of Trade Pact
The Kremlin accuses the United States of worsening Soviet American tensions by canceling the 1937 American Soviet trade pact. The note, delivered to the State Department, argues the move breaches peace commitments. Tariffs on Soviet goods rise and access to the U.S. market tightens as Congress acts against Communist nations. Congress, meanwhile, backs halting trade with Czechoslovakia over William N. Oatis.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Tass
London
State Department
Michael J. McDermott
McDermott
Dean Acheson
Kremlin
Congress
House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Czechoslovakia
Prague
William N. Oatis
Army Engineers Assailed in House Report
The House appropriations committee criticized the Army engineers for underestimating civil works costs and called for improved planning and updated cost estimates. It cited cost increases on 182 projects from 1927 authorizations to now about 5.91 billion dollars, including major Missouri river dams.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Army Engineers
House
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Corps of Engineers
Missouri River
Fort Peck
Garrison
Oahe
Fort Randall
Air Force test pilot sets 628 MPH world speed mark
Col. Fred J. Ascani piloted an armed F86E Sabre around a 100-km oval at Wayne Major airport to 628.698 mph in the Thompson Trophy event, aiming to certify as the world record for a closed course. A stronger 635.411 mph trial run may be certified later.
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Detroit
Air Force
Fred J. Ascani
Wayne Major
Col
Ascani
John Paul Jones
van Nuys
Calif
Itin
Texas
Col. Ascani
Edwards Air Force Base
National Aeronautic Association
Britain Develops Four Jet Bomber
Britain has developed a four jet medium bomber for the royal air force. The air ministry said the SA4 is powered by Rolls Royce Avon jets and carries a crew of five. Short Brothers and Harland Ltd have been ordered to build a substantial number.
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London
Britain
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd
Young German Communists pledge to back Stalin in East Berlin
Half a million youths in East Berlin swore allegiance to Stalin during a world youth festival rally. The event featured clenched fists, chants of support for the world peace drive, and a pledge to wreck Western war plans. In Washington, eight Republican senators condemned U.S. policy toward Korea and criticized Secretary Acheson as a failure, calling for liberation and unification as a condition for peace. The article notes broader East German anti Western rhetoric and the festival's finale with Prime Minister Grotewohl asserting Reds will strike at Western rearmament.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Red Square
Stalin
Washington
Truman
Korea
Congress
State Department
United States
China
Yalta
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
GOP
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
Acheson
Bridges
New Hampshire
Wiley
Wisconsin
H. Alexander Smith
New Jersey
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Knowland
California
Cain
Brewster
Maine
Flanders
Vermont
MacArthur
Manchuria
Red China
Formosa
Kaesong
38Th Parallel
United Nations
Lodge
R-Mass
Saltonstall
East Germany
Frances Damon
Western Europe
Otto Grotewohl
Kremlin
Former U S Spy Denies Killing Commander in Italy
Aldo Icardi a former OSS lieutenant and co accused with Carl G. LaDolce Rochester N Y of murdering their commanding officer Maj William V Holohan behind enemy lines in Italy in 1944 denies the charges as absurd and vows to fight extradition and seek trial in the United States He says he would re enter the Army for a military court and that due process has been ignored by magazine radio and press with the Defense department backing the allegations.
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Aldo Icardi
Office of Strategic Services
OSS
Carl G. LaDolce
Rochester
N. Y
Italy
Defense Department
Icardi
United Press
Pittsburgh Press
Pittsburgh
U.P
William V. Holohan
America
Ruggero Aldisert
Green Tree
Samuel L. Rodgers
Washington
Supreme Court
Butte Weather Forecast For Monday Showers And Cooler
Partly cloudy with occasional light showers and cooler Monday. Min 42 and high 73 Monday afternoon. Airport readings show 42 to 81, west of Divide 75 to 85, east of Divide 65 to 80 with showers and varying conditions. Clear to partly cloudy south Monday night.
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Divide
Dead Pilot Receives First Air Force Medal in Korea
Maj. Louis J. Sebille, 35, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions Aug 5 near Hamechang where his damaged plane fought enemy troops and armor. Commander of the 67th Fighter-Bomber squadron, he dies in the crash and will be honored at a March Air Force Base ceremony in Riverside, California, for this first Air Force MOH in Korea. He was a Harbor Beach, Michigan native.
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Washington
Air Force
Korea
Louis J. Sebille
March Air Force Base
Riverside
Calif
Sebille
18Th
Hamechang
Harbor Beach
Mich
Allies Score Gains in New Lighting
Allied troops pushed more than a mile in central Korea as a 70 mile front flared with heavy combat. United Nations forces captured key peaks in bloody bayonet and hand grenade battles, taking the second of four hills north of the 38th parallel amid driving rainstorms. Eighth Army reported bitter fighting west of Chorwon and limited objective attacks extending toward the coast, the heaviest since the Kaesong armistice talks began.
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Tokyo
Korea
United Nations
Kumhwa
Iron Triangle
38Th Parallel
Eighth Army
Chorwon
Kaesong
Lack of Faith Described by Officials
The UN command said North Korean guerrillas may have violated the Kaesong neutral zone to derail armistice talks. A joint investigation could not identify the armed bands as UN forces, and the inquiry continued. Nam Il protested. Joy and Ridgway met in Tokyo amid rising tensions over the talks.
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Munsan
Korea
Kaesong
UN Command
UN Comemand
Nam I
Peiping
Nam Il
C. Turner Joy
Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Panmuniom
Li Ching-lin
James Mureray
Murray
Joy
Kefauver Declines Presidential Candidacy in Oregon
Senator Kefauver told reporters he has asked friends to stop circulating petitions for his name in the Oregon May primary. He stated he is not a candidate for the Democratic nomination, though his name may still appear alongside Truman and Douglas. Oregon allows filing without permission, with proof of party affiliation required.
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Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Oregon
Truman
Senator Douglas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas
Monroe Sweetland
Congress
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Barkley
French Lick
Ind
Lausche
FP. Schricker
Indiana
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Lawrence W. Wetherby
Kentucky
Kimball
Michael V
Foreign Aid Bill Faces Uphill Battle in Congress
Washington August 19. Administration backers pursue a renewed effort Monday to avert large cuts in the Truman foreign aid bill. The House already trimmed the package by 1 billion dollars while Senate members discuss further reductions. Senators Connally will convene a joint session to revise the measure for the Senate, with focus on the 2.2 billion economic aid section. The Senate finance committee also plans to press for higher taxes, but few expect the President’s 10 billion request to be met.
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Washington
Truman
House
Europe
Senate
Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations
Senate Finance Committee
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