Week of August 1, 1950
Korea -
Gen. MacArthur
turns down Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek’s offer to send 33,000 Chinese Nationalist troops to
Korea. “Such action at this time might so seriously jeopardize the
defense of Formosa that it would be inadvisable.” The U.S. 7
th
fleet is patrolling the waters between nationalist Formosa and the
Chinese Communist mainland under orders of President Truman
to prevent a Red invasion of the island.
The latest Korean release from Gen. MacArthur says the Communists continue
their attack without abatement all along the battlefront. “They have thrown
caution to the winds realizing that they must complete their conquest before the
United States build-up is adequate to initiate an offensive.”
Semi-annual report - The Atomic energy Commission days that since January, it
has produced a record amount of the explosive which goes into A-bombs. Du
When in the New York area, don’t miss
Dacita.
She’s a
Puerto Rican band -leader. Besides leading her own
band and singing, Dacita writes poetry and has
Hollywood and TV on her mind. She’s alternating
performances with Stan Kenton at one New York nitery.
The State Department asks Paul Robeson, native-born
Negro singer and a leader in left-wing movements, to
surrender his passport. The singer refuses. Immigration
officials and the FBI have been ordered to stop
Robeson if he tries to leave the country. A spokesman for the State Department
says any trip abroad that Robeson would make would not be in the interest of the
United States.
In Portland Maine - Nearly 4000 Portlanders solemnly pledge against hoarding.
Promising to become home defenders of freedom, they said: “I will not buy more
than my normal needs during this war emergency. I know that in so doing, I am
making a very real contribution to the cause of freedom and the security of my
country.”
At Fairfield Suisun Air Force Base in California - 17 are known dead and 60 hurt
as a bomb-laden B-29 crashed and burned.
