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House, 264-108, orders Donaldson to rescind cuts
Pres Truman rejects unions demand to seize rrs now; BRT calls strike by 3,000 yardmen at Louisville, St Paul and Cleveland; move to get rr presidents to join talks seen; Steelman to resume mediation
grand jury clears McDonald of O'Dwyer's charge; rejects police line orgns charges; scouts rept that Flynn was subjected to mental cruelty; Mrs Flynn testifies; Leibowitz comments
Sen debate on US policy; Tydings scores Wherry attacks on US pre-war aid; discloses US spent $495.7 million for mil and econ aid since '46; Wherry insists only $200 worth of wire was sent to S Korea under $10 million mil aid program; says blood of US soldiers is on Acheson's shoulders
1950Geraint Jarman, Welsh musician, poet and television producer (died 2025)[†]
Geraint Jarman was a Welsh musician, poet and television producer whose career dates back to the early years of Welsh popular music. He recorded many albums as a solo artist and with his band Geraint Jarman a'r Cynganeddwyr.
1950Korean War: Forty-two American prisoners of war were massacred by the Korean People's Army on a hill above Waegwan, South Korea.[†]
The Korean War was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations Command (UNC) led by the United States. The conflict was one of the first major proxy wars of the Cold War. Fighting ended in 1953 with an armistice but no peace treaty, leading to the ongoing Korean conflict.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]