ROK Attack Pushes Commies Back Near Seoul
South Korean troops and UN forces drove back North Korean units northwest of Seoul advancing about three miles to 13 miles from the capital. Allied eastern advances near Inje yielded small gains as forces pushed along the 38th parallel line amid heavy fighting and reported Red losses exceeding 80,000 since April 22.
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Seoul
Chunchon
Associated Press
John Randolph
Russia
Inje
United Nations
Han River
United States
Eighth Army
Korea
Republic of Korea
ROK
Munsan
Seoul-Munsan
Uijongbu
38Th Parallel
Robert Bunson
Seoul-Chunchon
Kapyong
Chunwon
Red Korea
Plan to forestall production lag outlined in hearings
Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson urged Congress for standby authority to pay federal subsidies on food and farm products to prevent defense production delays. He warned shortages and inflation threats loom, as price and wage controls approach expiration on June 30 during 20 day Senate banking committee hearings.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
Congress
Wilson
Senate Banking Committee
Truman
Maybank
D-S C
Butte Marine Recounts Handshake With Chinese Soldier
Dick Skates a 21 year old medic with the First Marine Division in Korea returns home after four and a half years in the service. He relays a wartime incident when, during a dark night patrol for an appendicitis case, he shook hands with a Chinese soldier who became his prisoner and later freed him to the Allied side.
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Dick Skates
Korea
Gen. MacArthur
O. M. Skates
Butte
Navy
Marine
Skates
Placer
Earthquake devastates towns in El Salvador killing 1000
A severe quake in eastern El Salvador struck Chinameca and Jucuapa near San Salvador killing more than 1,000. Rescue teams moved food and medical aid by truck and ambulance as landslides blocked roads and telegraph lines, with national mourning declared.
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el Salvador
U.P
Central American Republic
Mount Chaparrastique
Red Cross
Chinameca
Jucuapa
Usulutan
Berlin
Santa Elena
UN Moves to Impose 100 Percent Arms Embargo on China
The United States introduced at the United Nations a resolution demanding a total arms embargo on Communist China. Britain and France backed the plan to ensure no soldier in Korea faces a bullet made in the free world.
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N. Y
U.P
United States
China
Britain
France
Korea
Free World
Warner Baxter Dies on Coast in Beverly Hills
Veteran actor Warner Baxter, 58, famed for the Cisco Kid role and an Academy Award winner, died Monday night at his Beverly Hills home from bronchial pneumonia. He had been ill, hospitalized in Santa Monica for cranial surgery, and is survived by his wife Winifred and mother Mrs. Jane Baxter. Funeral services are pending.
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Calif
Warner Baxter
Phil Schiefer
Baxter
St. John Hospital
Santa Monica
Winifred
Jane Baxter
Cisco Kid
Israel accuses Syria of armed aggression on frontier
Israel charges Syria with armed aggression in six day fighting along the northern frontier and calls for a United Nations Security Council meeting to address the issue.
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Israel
Syria
UN Security Council
Russia proposes two month start for Japan peace talk with China pact
Moscow proposed to the United States that a conference of foreign ministers including the Chinese Communists begin within two months to draft a peace treaty for Japan. The plan calls for demilitarization and democratization, limits on forces, non restriction of trade, or postwar UN admission, and withdrawal of occupation forces within a year.
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Russia
United States
China
Japan
Adm
Alan G. Kirk
Alexander Bogomolov
Kirk
Kremlin
United Nations
Great Britain
State Department
US Troops Land in Iceland for North Atlantic Defense
United States Army Navy and Air Force troops arrived in Reykjavik to set up radar stations detecting possible Communist atomic bomb fleets approaching North America. Fifteen Air Force Skymaster planes ferried troops from Newfoundland. numbers remain undisclosed. Br. Gen. Edward J. McGaw commands the contingent, with further arrivals planned. The Keflavik airport is returned to Icelandic control under a bilateral agreement granting facilities while allowing troop limits.
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Iceland
U.P
United States Army
Navy
Air Force
Arctic
North Atlantic Defense Organization
North American
Great Air Force
Skymaster
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Edward J. McGaw
Arctic Circle
North Atlantic
State Department
United States
U.S
U. S
Keflavik
Thieves Crack 800-Pound Safe At Fort Harrison
Thieves carried an 800-pound safe from the Fort Harrison finance office rolled it a half mile and cracked it for about $1,000 in cash Saturday night. They also took some of the $50,000 in Veterans Administration payroll checks awaiting Wednesday pay. Announced by VA Center Manager Claude Meredith.
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Helena
Fort Harrison
Veterans Administration
Claude Meredith
Meredith
U.P
Here
Prowler Chase Echoes Keystone Cops in Hayward Standoff
In Hayward California on May 7 Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Lundberg and Will ie Shephard pursued a prowler Vincent Marchesani a 38 year old merchant seaman. Marchesani was shot in the arm and fractured skull while Lundberg sustained a scalp wound.
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Hayward
Calif
Willie Shephard
Kenneth Lundberg
Prowler
Lundberg
Shephard
Vincent Marchesani
Marchesani
Mine-Mill Wins Great Falls Smelter Election
In Great Falls Montana workers at the Anaconda Copper Mining company smelter voted to keep the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers as their bargaining agent. 734 voted for Mine-Mill and 287 for the United Steelworkers. The result follows a recent Mine-Mill win at Tacoma.
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Great Falls
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
International Union of Mine, Mill
William Mason
Iummsw
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
National Labor Relations Board
Mason
Tacoma, Wash
Butte Officials Reorganize City Council Elects Daly President
City reorganizes with Gene W. Daly elected council president and Dan J. Kinsella as vice president. Mayor Thomas R. Morgan pledges a second term of rigid economy to balance the city budget and maintain cash basis operations.
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Butte City Council
Gene W. Daly
Thomas R. Morgan
New
Butte
Sixth Ward
William A. Curran
Dan J. Kinsella
Seventh Ward
John Lindquist
Lindquist
Morgan
Butte Weather Forecast Update for Tuesday
Partly cloudy with afternoon showers and cooler temperatures. Readings show a Tuesday low near 38 and high around 58. Airport area tops 63 and lowers 40. School of Mines ranges 43 to 62. West of Divide expects 55 to 65 with possible thunderstorms. East of Divide 60 with scattered thundershowers.
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School of Mines
Divide
Peace and atomic war fears in Truman MacArthur clash
Secretary Marshall told senators that MacArthur's March peace appeal ruined any chance of a Korea settlement and warned that war plans risk a broader conflict. President Truman said expanding the war could bring atomic bombs on American cities and stressed a limited, defensive Korea policy.
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Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Truman
MacArthur
Korea
Russia
Europe
Free World
Red China
America
Free Nations
Asia
Kremlin
Far East
Senate
United States
Mr. Truman
Formosa
Civil Defense
United States Civil Defense Corps
Mississippi Negro Executed in Chair
Willie McGee, 37, a Negro grocery truck driver, died in the electric chair at 12:10 a.m. after five and a half years elapsed since he raped a white housewife in Laurel. He lost four appeals within his last six hours.
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Laurel, Miss
Willie McGee
McGee
MacArthur turns in plane to Defense Department
General Douglas MacArthur delivered the Constellation Bataan to the Defense Department on Monday saying he felt it no longer appropriate to keep the aircraft. The transfer occurred in New York where the General had earlier been stationed.
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New York
U.R
Douglas MacArthur
Defense Department
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