UN Forces Hold Back Punch to Show Good Faith
The Army said allied forces kept a knockout move in reserve in Korea to show goodwill in peace talks. It cited a massive May Communist offensive near the east central front, a retreat of Chinese troops, and a counteroffensive that left over 100000 enemy casualties. An unidentified UN unit was pulled out to Japan.
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Washington
Korea
United Nations
Japan
Pentagon
East Central
Tenth Corps
U. S
Eighth Army
Weather Outlook for Virginia Shows Scattered Thunderstorms
Five day outlook for Virginia predicts scattered thundershowers Sunday Monday and probably Wednesday. Expected rainfall totals range from a quarter to a half inch. Temperatures remain near normal to four degrees above normal.
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Virginia
Postwar marriage rates dip toward prewar levels
Metropolitan Life statisticians find marriage rates rose during World War II, then declined across many countries. Effects were strongest in occupied and belligerent nations, with neutrals showing little change. Years 1939 to 1942 saw a peak in English speaking regions, followed by declines, and a new peak after 1945 in Britain, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
British Isles
United States
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Leopard Skin Rug Worth 100000 Sent Home From Korea
A U S sergeant Selverne H. Giltner sent a leopard skin rug from Korea valued at about 100000 to his parents in Pueblo Colorado. The rug measures 18 feet 11 inches by eight feet and comprises 48 leopard skins. The rug is said to have originated with Queen Min of Korea and was shipped in a bag with stamps. The mother says it is for sale to the highest bidder and stored at a Pueblo fur company.
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New York
New York Times Today
Pueblo
Colo
Korea
David Namkoog
Selverne H. Giltner
Eighth Army
the Times
Namkoog
Giltner
Queen Min
Japan
Hugh V. Giltner
GOP Get Acheson Drive Fails in House Vote
The House approved a $1,045,940,115 State Justice and Commerce funding bill and defeated Republican attempts to cut Secretary of State Acheson pay and slash the Voice of America budget. Democrats held firmer lines as Republicans split. Acheson salary saved 171 to 81. Voice of America budget set at 85 million.
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Washington
House
Senate
State, Justice and Commerce Departments
Acheson
Voice of America
State Department
Truman
Appropriations Committee
Wildcat strike threatens Ford national operations
Ford Motor Co says a wildcat walkout at a Monroe Michigan parts plant could halt all national production, with 32 500 workers idled elsewhere in the industry. Ford seeks UAW President Walter Reuther s help and warns of possible plant closings if the dispute spreads. The Monroe plant employs about 2 000 and makes wheels springs and plating.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Michigan
Ford
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Monroe
Mich
Chrysler
Dodge
Hudson
Reuther
Hubbard Addresses Farm Bureau Picnic
Maury A. Hubbard executive secretary of the Virginia Farm Bureau told hundreds at the Frederick and Clarke Counties Farm Bureau picnic in Winchester to defend democracy and Christianity and oppose inflation. Longest married couples were recognized, with E. H. Woore and Ella Carper winning 54 years, and E. L. Luttrell and Laura Omps 53 years. Additional prizes went to John Newell, 84, and Laura Pritchard, 85, as oldest farmer and farm woman respectively. Roger Lee Luttrell, 1 year 3 weeks, was the youngest attendee.
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Maury A. Hubbard
Richmond
Virginia State Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Frederick
Clarke Counties
Lions Shelter
Winchester Recreation Center
Hubbard
Hubard
C. W. Sollenberger
Woodstock
Winchester
Shenandoah
E. H. Woore
Ella Carper
Clearbrook
E. L. Luttrell
Laura Omps
Whitacre
Frederick County
Marshall Teets
Teets
John Newell
Stephens City
Laura Pritchard
Marlboro
Roger Lee Luttrell
Richard Luttrell
Bloomery Star
Ada R. Boxwell
Dr. Grover
Reliance
Frank Adams
Shirley Braithwaite
Ann. Woore
Walter Armel
Berryville Avenue
Richard Darke Demorest
E. W. Adams, Jr
Gainesboro
Gilbert Whitacre
Gore
Marshall Seeks 6.3 Billion in Foreign Arms Aid to Strengthen West
Secretary of Defense Marshall testified before the Senate urging approval of 6.3 billion for foreign arms aid and economic support, arguing the program aims to deter war and strengthen Western Europe. He warned the three year plan totals about 25 billion, with future years likely matching or exceeding this year's needs.
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Washington
Marshall
Congress
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Acheson
Russia
U. S
Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
D-Tex
Armed Services Committee
Armed Services
Bandits Get 7 000 From Store Manager
SHARON Pennsylvania bandits held up the Gold en Dawn Food Market manager as he returned from a bank and escaped with about 7 000. Joseph Ferrara 40 said he was bound and driven to a car by two men described as ages 33 to 35 one short and stocky the other tall and lank. The store sits near the Ohio line on Sharon's outskirts.
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Sharon
Golden Dawn
Joseph Ferrara
Ferrara
Sharon Steel Company
Ohio
Price Rollbacks Tentatively Agreed On Non-Farm Goods
Senate House conferees voted to permit price rollbacks on non-farm commodities to levels prior to the Korean War, after an all night session extending emergency controls. Maybank said a final decision would follow as lawmakers also weigh livestock slaughter quota policy and beef price rollbacks.
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Washington
Senate House
Maybank
D-Sc
Senate
House
Auto Makers Face Further 5 Percent Steel Cut
Washington cites a government order reducing steel for passenger car production by five percent with October to December output at 40 percent of pre invasion levels. Output expected at about 1,190,000 cars with possible use of foreign steel to reach 1,100,000 quota. consumer goods at 65 percent of pre Korea tonnage. DPA notes no broad consumer worry. A separate public notice invites South End Yard Party attendees on August 2 and 3 at South End Fire Hall with cake donations call 6624.
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Defense
Manly Fleischmann
DPA
Fleischmann
South End
South End Fire Hall
W. Monmouth St
Harrison blasts socialistic trend at Rotary dinner
Rep. Burr Harrison told the Winchester Rotary Club that fiscal philanderers and welfare state opportunists in Washington push socialistic designs and defense spending. He warned against government power schemes and nationalization of agriculture, calling for scrutiny of budget estimates and defense justifications. The speech drew about 115 Rotarians at the Somerville event.
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Burr P. Harrison
Winchester Rotary Club
Washington
Seventh District
Howard Melton
Rotary
Harrison
Congress
Rotarians
MacArthur Plans More Addresses in United States
Gen Douglas MacArthur maps a six speech run to be delivered across the United States on foreign and domestic issues. A source says Ohio and Miami Beach are likely next stops before year end 1951, with invitations from many state legislatures and civic groups.
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New York
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
New England
Massachusetts House and Senate
Boston
United States
Ohio
Miami Beach
Courtney Whitney
Whitney
Dead Man Alive Sparks Swampland Murder Mystery
New Orleans reports a man declared legally dead for two years resurfaced alive in a barber shop. Police question several suspects including J. Jones alias John C. Harper, Donald Easterwood, Patrica Land, and John C. Painter as they unravel a convoluted murder case tied to a missing $96 and a decomposed body in Jefferson Parish swamps.
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New Orleans
Sam Jones
Louisiana
Jones
J. Jones
John C. Harper
Denver
Donald Easterwood
Easterwood
Patrica Land
Jefferson Parish
Jones Easterwood
John C. Painter
Painter
Armistice Talks Narrow to Demilitarized Zone Proposal
U N advance headquarters reports Vice Admiral Joy outlined Allied push for a demilitarized zone near the current battle line as armistice talks resume in Kaesong. Communists request adjournment to 10 am Saturday and are expected to respond then.
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U. N
Korea
C. Turner Joy
United Nations
Kaesong
Admiral Joy
Nam Ti
Red
Chorwon
Joy
Executors of Boyd Will Post $434,000
The will of Henry W. Boyd probated in Clarke County names executors Henry W. Boyd Jr. and Shenandoah Valley National Bank. After debts and taxes are paid, the remainder is split equally between his son Henry W. Boyd Jr. of Nashville and daughter Florence Boyd Bechamp of Kansas City. Appraisers appointed include Chas H. Harper and others. bond posted at $434,400.
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Henry W. Boyd
Clarke County
June V. Stultz
John L. Kater
Henry W. Boyd, Jr
Nashville, Tenn
Florence Boyd Beacham
Kansas City
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Winchester
Chas H. Harper
W. D Burtner
R. M. Ware
John L Glaize
Rhodes Jewelry CO
W. Boscawen St
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U.N
KO Punch
Weather Outlook
U.S
Wildcat
Marjorie Shirley
Home Economist
Sears Roebuck & CO
St. Loudoun St
Sam’s Cash Grocery
S. Kent St
Farm Bureau Picnic
Bandits
West Va
Winchester Evening Star
Adm
Jeep
L. C. Craigie
Nam Il
International Radiophoto
Somerville
Mass
Davis Square
Somerville National Bank
Boyd
Laurel Hill Church
Welltown Church
Bethel Methodist Church
Smith's Grocery
Mountain Falls
North Mountain Red Skin Ball Club
Gladiolus
Woodstock Lane
Russells
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