Truman Warns Nation On Tighter Inflation Controls
President Truman urges a broad consumer-led crusade as he presses Congress for a two year extension of the Defense Production Act and expanded control powers. Beef industry groups resist price-wage curbs while Ford proposes changes and lawmakers push for timely action.
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LE Upd Y Peerese
National Association of Manufacturers
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Ford Motor Co
Congress
Eric Johnston
Ford
Banking Committee
Truman
Senate House Defense Production
Maybank
2 - SC
Robertson
Dvai
Ives
R-Ny
Moody 1Dmich
Olson
Hormel's Packing Company
Meets Stone
Moody
Brannan
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Johnson Testimony Details Formosa Mission and Korea Decision
Former Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson testified before the MacArthur inquiry that a December 1949 plan to send a U S military mission to Formosa was blocked by President Truman due to State Department protests. He described shifts after the Korean war began and noted a White House meeting led to the dispatch of forces to Korea and the Seventh Fleet mission to Formosa later. Johnson recounted high level conferences and his role in communicating recommendations from the Joint Chiefs of Staff while noting limits on divulging confidences.
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Washington
Louis Johnson
Defense
U.S
Formosa
Truman
State Department
Senate
MacArthur
Johnson
Korea
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
United States
Douglas MacArthur
Seventh Fleet
Defense Departments
Iate
Joint Chiefs
Chiang Kai- Shek
Acheson
Tme
White House
Far East
Tokyo
South Korea
South
Joint Chiefs of Staff
MaccArthurs
Lohner
Dehse Department
Lon Johnson
Missouri
Omar Bradley
Farmers Oppose Price Controls in Ohio Poll
Washington reports that about 1800 Ohio farmers oppose extending price controls past June 30. The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation announced early poll results showing 71 to 75 percent want continued controls ending with the Production Act. Respondents favored boosting production, with 95 percent willing, and 76 percent backing more credit, while only 26 percent opposed income taxes.
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Washington
Ohio
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
John W. Sims
Columbus
Ohio Farm Bureau
Action Taken Against Tiffin for Pollution
Columbus reports action will be taken against the city of Tiffin for alleged pollution of the Sandusky River. Attorney General C William ONeill said no action until all correspondence with the State Health Department is turned over. The case tests Ohio’s stream anti pollution law with 500 dollar fines and health checks ordered for river segments above and below Tiffin.
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Columbus
Tiffin
Sandusky
William O'Neill
O'Neill
State Health Department
Otto
Ohio
Fremont
Piffin
Auto licenses switch to paper stickers in 1952
State Highway Director T. J. Kauer announced a switch from metal plates to windshield paper stickers in 1952 due to steel shortages. The legislature approved a law allowing metal plates or paper stickers, with plans to issue one metal plate in 1953.
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Columbus
Tate
T. J. Kauer
Kauer
Police Catch Escapees From London Prison Farm
Zanesville police nabbed Don R. Brown 34 and Oscar D. Alexander 26, both of Zanesville, after spotting two familiar men in a truck near the business district. The pair had been serving sentences for breaking and entering since December 9 and fled from London Prison Farm Monday. Brown claimed they had been in town only about 20 minutes.
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Zanesville
Don R. Brown
Oscar D. Alexander
London
Brown
Alexander
Ireland Votes For De Valera Returns as Prime Minister
In Dublin Eamon De Valera wins a comeback to lead Ireland by a five vote margin after three years on the sidelines. The Dail elected him over John A Costello amid a nearly split chamber and ongoing domestic troubles. Analysts foresee a fragile government and a running battle to stay in power.
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Dublin
Ireland
Eamon de Valera
Britain
Dail Gower House of
John A. Costello
Broc
Dail
de Valera
Committee Approves Autos for Amputee Veterans
The House Veterans Affairs Committee approved legislation to grant an $1800 car or cash to amputee veterans from World War I II and the Korean campaign. Blind veterans would also be eligible.
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Washington
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Widespread Work Stoppages Hit Multiple Industries
Auto, aircraft, rubber, and bakery plants halted work, idling nearly 20 000 workers. Goodyear plants, Chrysler and Hudson plants faced suspensions amid production disputes. Paducah atomic site workers returned after a one day walkout. New York garment workers resumed after a 25 year gap as a settlement was reached.
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Paducah
Detroit
Hudson
Chrysler
DeSoto
C10
United Ante
Goodyear Rubber Co
Akron
C1o Uaw
Goodyear
CIO
United Rubber Workers
Goodyear Aviation Corp
Cio-Uaw
New York
Senate Economy Bloc Faces Blow as Cuts Prompt Debate
In Washington the Senate economy bloc, stalled after losing momentum, faces a bid to kill its major win a ten percent payroll cut in two federal agencies the Labor Department and the Federal Security Agency for the coming fiscal year starting July 1. Senator Neely seeks to return the bill to appropriations with instructions to remove the health research payroll cut. The House sent to the Senate a $514,427,400 rivers and harbors and flood control bill with a ban on hiring beyond one quarter vacancy except a few cases.
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Washington
Senate
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
Neely
D-Wva
Appropriations Committee
House
Army Engineers
Breen Faces Illness Forcing Leave From Capitol
Rep Edward Breen of Ohio is seriously ill and may have to take a leave of absence or retire. Albert A Horstman national committeeman and Montgomery County Democratic chairman said Breen is confined to his Washington home with a blood ailment.
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Dayton
Edward Breen
Ohio
Albert A. Horstman
Montgomery County
Washington
Allied Tanks Roam Across Red Triangle in Korea
Allied tank columns rolled across the Reds fault line in the east central front with heavy support from riflemen, while UN patrols probed north of Yanggu and Inje under constant artillery. In the west, tanks moved toward Pyongyang nearly unopposed as North Korean counterattacks faced stiff resistance along the Yanggu Inje sector.
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Tokyo
Iron Triangle
Korea
United Nations
Yanggu
Inje
U. S. Eighth Army
Pyongyang
Triangle
Eighth Army
Yanggu-Inje
George A. McArthur
McArthur
East Central
Reda
Yangu
GE Unveils All Weather Jet Engine With Greater Thrust
General Electric announces the J-47-G.E.-21, an all weather jet engine with thrust exceeding the current world speed record engine. unveiled at the Aviation Writers Association convention. The 23 engine powers top fighters and bombers and includes anti icing and high altitude starting features.
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New York
General Electric Co
Aviation Writers’ Association
Neil Burgess, Jr
GE Aircraft
MacArthur labels policy makers weak in appeasement stance
General Douglas MacArthur railed against policy makers in Texas declaring appeasement risks war with Russia. He blamed moral weakness in the free world for Soviet advances and urged decisive use of scientific superiority to win in Korea, drawing a record Houston crowd and speaking in Austin.
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Houston
Tex
Douglas MacArthur
Texas
Korea
Russia
MacArthur
Oscar Holcombe
Roosevelt
Austin
America
Yalu
Manchurian
Elbe River
Europe
Mpon
Missing nurse Evange Lorimer tracked in Smoky Mountains
In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, searchers chase leads as 21 year old Cincinnati nursing student Evange Lorimer remains missing after leaving a camping site with her father W M Lorimer. Bloodhounds followed footprints to US Highway 129 near the park edge. diversions include a Las Vegas New Mexico report about her father. The father and rangers persist in the hunt despite unconfirmed leads and a past mental health note about W M Lorimer.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Evangeline Larimer
Cincinnati
Havana
Cuba
Seattle
Wash
Mise Lorimer
Smokies
W. M. Lorimer
North Carolina
Sanger
Lake View
3. C
Cincinnai
Phoenix
Alex
Las Vegas
N. M
Rangers
State Hospital
Albuquerque
R. E. Mernin
Lorimer
Wilds
Lausche Signs Bill For State Employee Pay Raises
Governor Lausche signed into law an emergency measure raising pay for about 28,000 state employees by 15 to 22 percent, totaling over 11 million dollars in the next two years. The act takes effect immediately and adjusts pay by length of service and cost of living factors. It also places some 4,000 employees in state educational institutions under job classifications.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Richmond Tornado Strikes City Causing Homelessness
A tornado hit Richmond Virginia yesterday injuring five and leaving more than 100 people homeless. Officials assess property damage between 1.0 and 5.0 million dollars as several hundred homes may be condemned for safety. Elsewhere in West Virginia creeks overflowed flooding communities, Salem reported 15500 dollars in damage, and torrential rains near Pittsburgh caused about 1.09 million dollars in damage with one child drowning in a swollen stream.
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Richmond
West Virginia
Salem
Metz
Fairmont
Clarksburg
Westmoreland County
Pittsburgh
UNIVAC Computer Begins Census Data Processing
The UNIVAC electronic brain starts work for the U S Census Bureau to process records of 132 000 people and 156 million characteristics. In minutes it can compute in one sixth of a second 20 facts about a person such as residence sex marital status age employment income education war service birthplace and naturalization status.
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Philadelphia
U. S. Census Bureau
Univac
10 Witnesses Called In Jamison's Trial
Newark report says the state added ten witnesses in the first degree murder case of Robert Jamison Jr. with defense eyes on opening tomorrow. The court day featured Richard Lowwendick, husband of Mary Adeeick, a 37 year old victim, on the stand as testimony continued this week.
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Jamison
Newark
Robert Jamison, Jr
Richart Lowwendick
Mary Adee — Ick
Vie Tt
26 Men Dead In Ship Blast
The Navy reported an underwater explosion damaged the destroyer Walke off the east coast of Korea. Twenty six sailors were killed and seven were injured, the cause suspected as a mine. The Walke sustained hull damage but limped to a Japanese port under its own power with American sailors aboard.
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Washington
Navy
Korea
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