Americans Counterattack Koreans 34 Are Dead in U. S. Plane Crash
A large Air Force transport carrying National Guardsmen from war games crashed near Myrtle Beach South Carolina killing 34 aboard. The C46 plunged from 10:30 am en route to Nashville after takeoff from Myrtle Beach. Rescue crews and local officials reported no survivors as the fiery wreckage burned in a pine thicket.
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Myrtle Beach
S. C
Nashville
Tennessee Air National Guardsmen
Air Force Reserve
Mimai
George Hux
Conway
Undertaker
P. 8. Wood
Shaw (S. C
Nashville Guardsmen
105Th
118Th Fighter Group
Air National Guardsmen
South Carolina
Here
Berry Field
Tennessee Air National Guard
Hit Run Driver Kills Baby Near Anaconda
The body of 16 month old Catherine Ann Bixler was found beside the Anaconda Philipsburg highway near Anaconda Montana. Coroner reports severe head injuries from a hit and run. Sheriff searches for the vehicle and urges any witnesses to contact Deer Lodge County sheriff.
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Anaconda
Catherine Ann Bixler
Frederick Bixler
Anaconda-Philipsburg
Here
Leo Scalise
St. Ann Hospital
Bixler
Georgetown Lake
George Hartsell
Anyce
Deer Lodgeounty Sheriff's Office
Kendrick Schapel
Senator Wiley urges citizens cabinet for home front mobilization
Senator Wiley of Wisconsin urged President Truman to appoint a citizens cabinet to advise the White House and defense agencies on home front mobilization. He proposed the advisory group include representatives of labor business fraternal veterans and women’s organizations.
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Citizens’ Cabinet
Washington
Wiley
Butte Girl Lost in Wilderness Near Scout Camp
Diane Cox 21 of Mining City is missing in the Lowlands recreation area north of Butte after being last seen Sunday evening. Over 100 searchers from Boy Scouts and county and state officers combed the woods by flashlight, concentrating between Camp Lowlands and the Trask turnoff on the Butte Helena highway. Local authorities relayed updates via police radio as the search continued Monday morning.
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Butte
Lowlands
Diane Cox
Mayhew Cox
East Mercury
Silver Bow County
Montana
Boy Scouts
Trask
Butte Helena
John Lind
South Crystal
Lind
Elk Park
Deer Lodge
Anaconda
Jefferson County
Dan Quinn
Whitehall
No Plans Exist Now for Wide Open Draft
Senate armed services chair Millard E. Tydings said there are no plans to widen the draft unless the Korean conflict escalates. A Pentagon briefing noted Congress would be told soon about Air Force reserve plans, while Marine reserves are being activated to full strength but not expanding overall squadron counts.
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Washington
U.P
Millard E. Tydings
Senate Armed Services Committee
Maryland
Marine Corps
Air Force
National Guard
Army
Navy
Tydings
Korea
Leopold III Shows Resolve to Stay on Belgian Throne
King Leopold III appears determined to remain king after his return from exile as Belgians question if he will cede power to Crown Prince Baudouin. Liberal ministers, invited to Laeken Palace, withdrew in protest when the king refused to hear abdication talks and only read an address.
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Brussels
Belgium
Leopold III
Baudouin
Leopold
Crown Council
Laeken Palace
Soviet General Declares Soviet Ships Fastest with Strongest Firepower
Lt. Gen. S. E. Zakharov told a Navy day address that Soviet warships are the fastest most invulnerable and have the greatest firing power in the world. Adm. Golovko said hundreds of new first class warships have strengthened the navy in the last decade.
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Moscow
U.P
S. E. Zakharov
Coastal Artillery
Golovko
Pravda
London
Tass
Radio Moscow
Soviet Union
Korea
Zakharov
Gorki Park
Red Fleet
Joseph Stalin
Butte Montana Weather Outlook Monday to Sunday
Weather forecast shows minimum 43 and maximum 73 for Monday in Butte. Airport data indicate a Sunday high near 72 and low 44 with 0.04 inch precipitation. West of Divide in Montana: mostly partly cloudy Monday with scattered thunderstorms and little temperature change, highs 75 to 85. East of Divide: partly cloudy with southwest winds, little temperature change, highs 75 to 80.
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Butte
Airport
Montana
Divide
Associated Press
Max. Min. Pep. Billings Steneereesmeneeeeres
Belgrade
U.S. Flattop Sets Fast Trans-Pacific Crossing Record
Vice Adm. Charles T. Joy said an unidentified American aircraft carrier arrived in Japan from the United States after the fastest non-stop Pacific crossing. The ship, carrying the largest air complement yet aboard a carrier, covered the route in eight days and seven hours, beating the former 11 days 18 hours record set by the Japanese Nitta Maru in April 1941.
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Tokyo
U.p
Charles T. Joy
Far East
Four in Family of Six Have July 23 Birthday
Providence Rhode Island July 23 A brand new baby boy Sunday made it four out of six in the family of Mr and Mrs Vincent G Sittnick who celebrate birthdays on July 23 The father a fireman was born 36 years ago Sunday Ruth Mary was born on this date eight years ago Kathleen was born just four years ago The new son born Sunday and as yet unnamed made it four A second son Vincent Jr was born in October 1947 and the mother on July 5
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Providence
R. I
Vincent G. Sittnick
Ruth Mary
Kathleen
Vincent, Jr
North Korean War Prisoners Parade Through Pyongyang
Pravda published a Sunday photo showing American war prisoners marching in Pyongyang with pro Communist banners. The image includes a banner reading the Korean people’s struggle for unity and a demand to cease and immediate armed intervention in Korea.
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Moscow
Pravda
Pyongyang
Korea
Allied planes strike heavy blows on North Korea targets
In reported raids Sunday Allied aircraft attacked rail and highway bridges, industrial plants, depots, and vehicles from Pyongyang to the western battle fronts. US and Australian forces logged about 165 sorties with B29s hitting Pyongyang’s east coast industrial targets dropping 130 tons of bombs. Fifth Army fighters claimed multiple tanks and trucks destroyed in central areas including Taejon Pyongtaek Chungju Punggi and Kaesan.
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Tokyo
North Korea
Pyongyang
Far East Air Force
Pusan
Taejon
Pyongtaek
Chungju
Punggi
Kaesan
Fifth Army
Yankship Infiltration Raids at Taejon Front
American counterattack repelled the first Red infantry assault on the Taejon Yongdong highway line and drove back infiltration raids. North Korean buildup reported as U.N. forces held the line about Yongdong.
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Taejon
Eighth
United States Army
Korea
Taejon-Yongdong
Frank Tremaine
Tokyo
Jets strike Inchon and Wonsan in first Korea war missions
U S Seventh Fleet aircraft carriers off Korea report their first combat missions and casualties as jets attack oil refineries and depots at Inchon and Wonsan. Admiral Sherman lauds new planes. North Korea seizes Kwangju near Taejon, while U S First Cavalry repels a large tank assault and holds positions southeast of Taejon.
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Korea
Forrest Sherman
Naval Operations
Washington
Inchon
Seoul
Wonsan
38Th Parallel
Dam
Death and Dancing Amid War in Japan En Route to Korea
In Japan near an American air base, wives of 24th Infantry officers endure fear and hope while their husbands fight in Korea. An air club scene shows couples dancing tonight as the war looms, and an old sergeant reflects on the toll of extended service.
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Korea
Japan
24Th Infantry
24Th
Bill
William F. Dean
Taejon
Air Force
24Th Division
Butte Teamster 81 Fatally Hurt in Vehicle Accident
An 81 year old Butte teamster John E Ed Free died in a local hospital from injuries from a horse and wagon crash six weeks earlier near Columbia Gardens. He had lived at 625 East Platinum and was a resident of Butte for 61 years. He worked in contract teaming at the time of the mishap. Funeral arrangements are handled by Richards funeral home.
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Butte
John E
Ed) Free
East Platinum
Mr. Free
Columbia Gardens
Gilman, III
Phoebe Todd
Ann Free
William Martin
Russell Stopher
George Free
John Todd
John Tourikis
Carl Albertson
Grant Carey
Elwood Tompkins
Helena
Jerry Gump
Seaside
Ore
Don Carey
Portland
Richards Funeral Home
Powell County Official Clara Evans Dies in Deer Lodge
Clara E. Evans, Powell county public administrator since 1916 and owner of Powell County Abstract, died Sunday after a fall two weeks earlier. Born in the Deer Lodge area, she studied music at Rowland Hall and married Warren E Evans in 1888. She served as his deputy before dedicating herself to the abstract business.
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Salt Lake City
Deer Lodge
Warren E Evans
Powell County
Korean Invaders Reported Losing Up to 18 000 Men
A Pentagon briefing cited estimates that Communist casualties in Korea reach 14 000 to 18 000, with about 100 000 enemy still in the field. Officials warned against expecting a quick victory, noting fuel and manpower constraints and renewed U S air and naval activity around the peninsula.
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Washington
U.P
Korea
Pentagon
North
South Korea
North Korea
United States
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Navy
Seventh Fleet
Haeju
First Cavalry Repels 6000 NK Tank Assault Near Taejon
On the Taejon front in Korea the U S First Cavalry Division beat back a 6000 tank led North Korean attack after a 14 hour fight. Maj Gen Hobart R Gay praised artillery and air support as U S troops held positions and repelled the enemy on July 23.
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United States First Cavalry
United States
Taejon
Yongdong
First Cavalry
Gis
Commu
Korea
U.P
Hobart R. Gay
Gay
Pusan
Yanks Smoke North Korean Tanks On Da Crosstown Mine Trap
On the Taejon Yongdong highway a U S Army engineer detachment used a daisy chain of mines to stopper two North Korean tanks. Lt Raymond Whelan and his crew laid wired mines across the road triggering the first tank and destroying the second as it rounded a bend.
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O. H. P. King
Taejon-Yongdong Highway
Korea
Raymond Whelan
Moosup, Conn
Whelan
Corp
Wayne Harris
Rolla
Pfc
Garnet Cramer
Michigan
John T. Stevens
New Boston
Ohio
July Snowstorm Near Butte Delays Traffic
A July snowstorm on United States Highway 10 east of Butte caused minor traffic delays as about a dozen tourists stopped to throw snowballs. Cameras were ready to film the Montana summer phenomenon along a three mile stretch from Deadman's curve toward the Vigilante trail. Snow did not reach Butte, but cool rain lowered temperatures to a pleasant level.
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Butte
Montana
Deadman
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N. I. Vinogradov
Trans-Pacific
Eighth Army
Kwangju
Sunchon
Red
Chongup
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