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Gov Dewey urges US to start program to out-produce USSR in arms
US troops form new line S of Pyontaek after 15-ml retreat; Communists take Pyontaek, reach Chonan; evacuation of Taejon reptd begun; N Koreans fan out from east coast centers; US warships shell area from Samchok to 38th parallel; S Koreans reptdly still hold Changju and Chechon: US jets and other fighters strike at communications; B-29s hit rr bridges, Pyongyang, Hamhung and Sinanju, and Wonsan airfield; Far East Air Force rept; map
Repub County Com exec com permits Carter to enter Repub primary
USSR holds US move 'new act of aggression;' warns US will be held responsible for damage to Soviet interests, note to US Embassy, Moscow; text
1950Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (born 1923)[†]
Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big bands before achieving fame as a bebop trumpeter in New York. Following a series of studio sessions with leading bebop figures including Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Kenny Clarke, he became ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 26. Despite the short duration of his career, he had a strong stylistic influence on trumpet players who rose to fame in later decades, including Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]