U S May Seek Way To Up Farm Price
Washington report notes easing markets may push the government to bolster farm prices rather than curb increases. The Commodity Credit Corporation stands ready to support wheat cotton oats barley and peanuts as harvest approaches. Prices for rice and soybeans have fallen below prior support levels, with beef cattle and other sectors likely to soften by fall.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Office of Price Stabilization
Korea
AEC Plans More Frequent Tests of Atomic Weapons
The Atomic Energy Commission announced at a news conference that it will conduct many more tests of its weapons in the future. It disclosed some weapons have a larger energy release and are tested in remote sites like Eniwetok, while smaller ones are tested in Nevada.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Congress
United States
Eniwetok
Nevada
Gordon Dean
Free Nations
Belgian Congo
Russia
Dean
Truman Urged To Sign New Price Bill While Criticizing It
President Truman faces a split view on the new economic controls bill with aides urging signature today while critics say the measure is inadequate to curb inflation. The House passed it 294 to 80 and the Senate earlier approved by voice vote. The bill preserves wage, price, rent, consumer credit and defense controls through next June with some relaxations and allows for rent increases up to 20 percent in controlled areas.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
United Labor Policy Committee
Organized Labor
Mr. Truman
House
Senate
Michael V. di Salle
DiSalle
Federal Reserve Board
Senate Banking Committee
UN Would Rescue Slavs In Yugoslavia Crisis
United Nations would intervene if Russia attacked Yugoslavia under the peace through deeds resolution. Warren R. Austin said UN support would come to Yugoslavia, though he did not expect an imminent attack.
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United Nations
N. Y
Russia
Yugoslavia
U. S
Warren R. Austin
Austin
General Assembly
Vermont
Labor Party Seizes Lead in Israel Election Returns
Early returns from 987 of 1500 polling places show Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's Mapai Labor party leading with 38.63 percent. Conservative General Zionists second at 17.76 percent. communists 3.32. Mapam 11.85. Freedom Party 7.45. Religious Workers 6.36. Left-Liberal Progressives 3.58. Ballot for 120 Knesset seats with about 880,000 voters, including 400,000 newcomers.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Mapai Labor Party
General Zionists
Mapam
Freedom Party
Religious Workers
Knesset
Ben-Gurion
Kauer Claims Trucking Lacks Fair Highway Funding
Massillon Ohio officials contend heavy commercial trucking does not pay its share of state highway costs. T. J. Kauer spoke to the Massillon automobile club citing Maryland tests showing road damage and arguing current revenues fail to fund urgently needed highway improvements.
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Massillon
Ohio
T. J. Kauer
Massillon Automobile Club
Maryland
Fire Devastates Cleveland Market With Three Alarm Blaze
A three alarm fire tore through the Woodland East Market in Cleveland on East 55th Street. Damage expected to exceed $100,000 as 13 fire companies battled the flames. Three firemen were injured and three trackless trolley lines were halted for about three hours.
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Cleveland
Woodland
East 55Th Street
Gary mill reprocesses newsprint for region papers
A Gary Indiana plant produces 26 tons of reprocessed newsprint daily for 11 local newspapers. The $2,000,000 facility boosts regional production and supports multiple paper outlets.
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Gary
Ind
Moody Fights To Include Seaway in Defense Bill
Senator Moody promises a determined push to authorize the St. Lawrence Seaway and power project in the 8.5 billion foreign aid bill. He expects a Senate Foreign Relations hearing and, if needed, an amendment on the Senate floor. Moody argues the project is essential to national defense, citing Truman Marshall and Wilson.
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Washington
Moody
D-Mich
St. Lawrence Seaway
Senate
St. Lawrence
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Aiken
R-Vi
House Public Works Committee
Rep. Pickett
Truman
Marshall
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Detroit
Great Lakes
Abadan Plant Closes Down Amid Oil Dispute
Abadan giant refinery stops producing as storage tanks fill up. The shutdown ends months of nationalization conflict between Iran and the Anglo Iranian Oil Company, cutting Western oil supply. Harriman returns to Tehran optimistic about talks as British envoy Stokes prepares to visit.
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Iran
Britain
Anglo-Iranian Oil Comany
Abadansland
AIOC
Europe
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Tehran
London
Truman
Richards Stokes
Loard
Ohio Truckers Back on Roads
Ohio truckers return to work as 5600 drivers ordered back to their cabs. The AFL-Ohio Drivers Council says 400 Akron and Toledo drivers remain on strike at Summit Fast Freight Akron-Chicago Transportation A C E Transportation Dixie- Ohio Expr Sentle Trucking Co. Officials schedule talks in Columbus to discuss alleged contract violations by five firms.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Afl-Ohio Drivers Council
Akron
Toledo
Summit Fast Freight
Akron-Chicago Transportation
A. C. E. Transportation
Dixie- Ohio
Traffic deaths in 1951 seen rising to 37800
The National Safety Council warns 1951 total traffic fatalities may reach 37,800, the fourth highest total. In the first six months, 16,320 lives were lost, an 8 percent increase from the same period in 1950.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Pork Prices to Rise Under New Ceilings
Washington reports lean pork prices will rise after the Office of Price Stabilization set new ceilings. Most pork chops and roasts will be increased by five or six cents at the meat counter.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
Solon seeks college deferment exam test for draftees
Rep Ayres of Ohio asked Selec tive Service to allow him to take the deferment exam with prospective draftees. The World War II veteran wants to see on what basis the exam determines exemption from service. He opposes deferral by intelligence alone and cites acquaintances who fail the test and are drafted.
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Washington
Rep. Ayres
Ohio
Selective Service Headquarters
Ohioan
Ayres
Picketing Order Holds At Miami Herald Plant
A court made permanent a four and a half month old order stopping picketing at the Miami Herald plant. Circuit Judge Vincent C. Giblin found the unions responsible for threats coercion and violence that had ceased after the temporary injunction was issued.
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Miami, Fla
Miami Herald
Vincent C. Giblin
Delivery Boy Indicted On Eight Murder Counts
Kenneth Skinner a 22 year old delivery boy was indicted by a San Francisco grand jury on eight counts of murder for deliberately starting an apartment house fire that killed seven women and one man. His mother prompted him to admit the arson after he previously claimed it was an accident.
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San Francisco
Grand Jury
Kenneth Skinner
Armistice Talkers Make No Headway In Buffer Line Talks
Armistice negotiators failed to narrow gaps over a cease fire buffer in Korea in a 1 hour 34 minute session. UN favors a demilitarized zone along current lines, while the Reds push a buffer around the 38th parallel. Rallies in Pusan and Seoul vow unity across Korea.
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United Nations
38Th Parallel
Kaesong
Crcaning Wit Utaliver
William N. Nuckols
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Nam Il
North Korea
North
South Korea
Pusan
Yalu
Seoul
Yalu River
Manchuria
U. S. Information Building
Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Allied air strikes hit Reds in Korea iron triangle
U S planes under cloud cover bombed Red positions around Pyongyang and the Kumsong area as ground combat dwindled to patrol actions. Capt Gerald R Marshall of Woodrow Pa described heavy village explosions after a fuel and ammo conflagration. Marines and B 26s hit east of Pyongyang while two light probing Red attacks were repelled.
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U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
Iron Triangle
Fifth Air Force
Pyongyang
Gerald R. Marshall
Woodrow
Kumsong
Kumhwa
School for Thieves Needed in Arkansas
Mrs. H. M. Doak reported a car break‑in in Little Rock. She said the thief broke the right ventilator wing glass and frame but stole nothing. She noted all four doors were unlocked.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
H. M. Doak
Leader Killed In Indochina Attack Kills South Vietnam Governor
Saigon Indochina a grenade thrown by a Viet minh terrorist killed Thai Lap Thanh governor of South Vietnam during an inspection at Sadec. Three French officers in the party were wounded. The assassin, about 25, was killed instantly.
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Saigon
Indochina
Thai Lap Thanh
South Vietnam
Sadec
Leftist Field Sentenced To Six Months Contempt
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, heir to Commodore Vanderbilt, received a six month contempt sentence from Federal Judge John F. X. McGahey for refusing to reveal names of Civil Rights Congress bail fund contributors to a grand jury. The total $80,000 bail was forfeited after four convicted communists jumped bond. Field, trustee of the fund, faces another nine months pending appeal.
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New York
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Field
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
John F. X. McGahey
Toledo Editor Sees Less Tension in Europe
Michael Bradshaw editor of the Toledo Blade, returning from a world cruise, says Europe seems less tense than the United States. He traveled to Korea Formosa India and Europe to see what the world is doing and notes Americans appear over-excited.
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New York
Europe
Michael Bradshaw
The
Toledo Blade
Bradshaw
Newsmen
Toledo
Korea
Formosa
India
Union Shop Ruling Says Worker May Refuse Assessments
National Labor Relations Board rules a worker in a union shop need not pay union assessments to keep employment. The ruling clarifies assessments are extra payments requested by the union beyond initiation fees and regular dues.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Weather Outlook for Columbus on Wednesday Through Sunday
Temperatures will average 2 4 degrees below normal with a normal high of 84 and low of 62. A cooler Wednesday with minor changes the rest of the period. Precipitation totals three tenths to one half inch with occasional showers Friday through Sunday.
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Columbus
Former Red Headed Voice of America Chief Testifies
Alexander Barmine a former Soviet general now heading VOA Russian unit testified to Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in Washington. He said he fled Soviet authorities in 1937 after learning classmates were purged and became a naturalized U S citizen in 1943. He described his resignation from the Soviet service and Communist Party and his move to Paris before joining the U S Army.
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Deepartment
Voice of America
Senate
Alexander Barmine
Internal Security
Far East
Barmine
Russia
United States Army
Greece
Moscow
Communist Party
Paris
O’conor
Owen Lattimore
Lauchlin Currie
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Field
Angel
WSB Alters Merit Policy in Rate Range Plans
The Stabilization Board eased merit pay rules for employers using rate ranges. It allows increases in three ways: keep 1950 increase amounts with cap on rate, raise up to six percent for job advancement while top rate stays the same, or apply pre January 25 1951 merit rate plans for the year.
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Washington
Beg Stabilization Board
Eowey
Sheet prices lowered by four weavers in New York
Wholesale prices on cotton bed sheets dropped 4 to 10 percent by four New York weavers.
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New York
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