Senate Extends Price Controls Eight Months
The Senate approved an eight month extension of price wage and rent controls by a 71 to 10 vote. The measure would curb or ban new rollbacks and delays House action on a stop gap to extend present controls for 31 days. The bill’s fate hinges on House passage.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
House
Bricker
Taft
Ohio
Senator Wherry
R-Neb
Senate Banking Committee
Wherry
Millikin
R-Cole
OPS
Early Action Indicated On Korea Truce Move
The United States sent Ridgway general instructions on Korea cease-fire negotiations. London sources claim UN support and possible action within hours. Fighting in Korea had quieted amid cease-fire talks with Ridgway at Tokyo and new discussions between U S officials and Korean leaders.
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Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Korea
London
United Nations
Ridgway
Tokyo
William J. Sebald
U. S
Japan
San
John J. Muccio
Clarence Ryee
38Th Parallel
North
South Korea
Congress
Ridgeway
Robert A. Lovett
Lovett
Truman
White House
Joseph Short
Levett
United States
United Na
Far East Air Forces
Kumhwa
Iron Triangle
Trygve Lib
Naarollah Entezam
UN General Assembly
New York
Lie
Europe
Taft Sees Politics In Proposed Tax Hike
Senator Taft said he suspects the Truman administration seeks a large tax increase in 1952 to avoid another hike before the elections. The Senate Finance Committee heard Elmer Staats push for a $10 billion boost, with House approval already at $7.2 billion. A mix of support and doubt marked the panel as plans target a September enactment and October withholding changes. Taft also suggested delaying action until November.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Senate
Elmer B. Staats
Senate Finance Committee
House
Capitol Hill
Snyder
Democratic Finance Committee
Finance Group
Three Years Foreign Aid Forecast By Defense Chief
Secretary of Defense Marshall told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the United States should expect at least three more years of multi billion dollar foreign aid spending. He described the $8.5 billion package for fiscal year starting Sunday, with $6.3 billion in foreign military aid mainly to Western Europe, and projected levels for 1953 and 1954 as still needed.
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Washington
Marshal
United States
Free World
Marshall
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U. S
Europe
Son Kept From War After Siblings Die in Korea
Cincinnati couple learns their surviving son will not be assigned to an immediate combat area after their younger son, Sgt. Herbert C. Lilienthal, was killed in action last month in Korea. Senator Taft states orders keep M Sgt Alfred Lilienthal from active combat duty.
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Washington
Cincinnati
Korea
Taft
Ohio
Alfred Lilienthal
Richard Lilienthal
Japan
Herbert C. Lilienthal
Van Fleet Unharmed After Helicopter Crash Off Korea
Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commander of the Eighth Army, escaped injury when a Navy helicopter aboard the cruiser Los Angeles was hit by a gust while landing off Korea. The craft toppled on deck, but Van Fleet, Rear Adm. Arleigh Burke, and the pilot escaped unhurt.
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U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
James A. van Fleet
Eighth Army
Navy
Los Angeles
van Fleet
Arleigh
Burke
Visit May Clear Up Eisenhower Intentions
Washington reports a forthcoming Senate trip may let Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower clarify his political intentions if any. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a 10 day European trip to inspect patrons seeking a share of the proposed 8.5 billion foreign aid program.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lausche Signs 208 Million School Funding Bill
Gov Frank J Lausche signed a two year school funding measure totaling 208 5 million dollars for the next period starting July 1 The bill ended a legislative deadlock and surpassed earlier expectations while rejecting the minimal 37 5 million option and maintaining an added 5 5 million request.
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Lausche
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Truce Ends Pilots Strike On United Air Lines
A ten day stoppage on United Air Lines was ended by a truce. The AFL Air Line Pilots Association ordered 900 pilots to return to work by 3 45 p m. The National Mediation Board will mediate the dispute with United and the pilots.
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Chicago
United Air Lines
Thomas E. Bickers
National Mediation Board
AFL
Airline Pilots Association
Bickers
Iran Premier summons U S envoy over oil crisis
Tehran reports Premier Mohammed Mossadegh held an hour and a half meeting with U S Ambassador Henry F. Grady to discuss Iran’s oil nationalization dispute with the Anglo Iranian Oil Co. Grady says Mossadegh signs to suspend the anti sabotage bill if British technologists stay.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
U. S
Henry F. Grady
Britain
Grady
Mossadegh
Anglo- Iranian Oil Co
Iranian National Oil Company
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Abadan
Iranian National Oil Co
AIOC
Mauritius
Shatt el Arab
Shan
Truman
United States
Washington
Death Penalty Proposed For Peddlers of Dope
Athens County Sheriff George Bateman urged a stronger narcotics law with a death penalty for offenders as a curb on drug traffic and juvenile drug use. He noted his conference appointment is unofficial and personal opinion. He likened the measure to the Lindbergh kidnapping law.
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Athens County
George Bateman
Frank J. Lausche
Bateman
Buckeye Sheriff's Association
Sheriff's Association
FTC Rules Luckies Ads Misleading Deceptive Claim
The Federal Trade Commission orders American Tobacco Co to stop claims that Lucky Strike cigarettes contain less nicotine and are easier on the throat. New York firm disputes the ruling, arguing the order bars public judgment of a factual effect.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
American Tobacco Co
FTC
New York
Train Crash in Illinois Kills Two Crew Members
The Meadowlark passenger train of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois struck a track wash-out near Shelbyville Illinois last night. It somersaulted down a 30 foot embankment, killing two crewmen and injuring a dozen passengers. The diesel locomotive plunged into swollen brush creek as four cars tumbled, three overturning multiple times.
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Shelbyville
Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Meadowlark
Brush
Czechs Agree To Free Two Taken June
The State Department said Czechoslovakia agreed to release two Western pilots Lt. Luther G. Roland of Hummelstown Pennsylvania and Lt. Bjoern Johansen a Norwegian airman training with the U S Air Forces and the U S jet fighters they flew after emergency landings near Prague on June 8. The Czech note promised freedom but gave no date. The pilots had been held incommunicado as authorities treated the incident as part of ongoing provocations.
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Washington
State Department
Czechoslovakia
U. S
Prague
Ellis O. Briggs
Briggs
Germany
Luther G. Roland
Hummelstown
Bjoern Johansen
Copter Saves Steeplejack at Cathedral Rescue
Police pilot Gustav Crawford won acclaim for a hazardous helicopter rescue of steeplejack Peter Burr from the roof of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine New York. The craft hovered 0 feet above ground with two inches clearance above scaffolding and a 41 foot tail extending over the edge while Burr, 53, sustained a fractured right hip and other injuries after a 29 foot fall.
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New York
Gustav Crawford
Episcopal Cathedral
St. John the Divine
Peter Burr
One Killed Two Wounded In Shelton Gang Shootout
In Fairfield Illinois a gang battle left Guy Pennington aged 37 and Lulu Shelton Pennington 44 gravely wounded by four shots each at a street intersection. The assailant Charlie Harris an ex convict and rival to the Shelton brothers is named. Hours later Louis Sons 49 was found shot to death at a farm house resort run by Ogie Pennington, brother of the earlier victim.
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Fairfield
Ill
Shelton
Shelton Brothers
Guy Pennington
Lulu Shelton Pennington
Charlie
Black Charlie) Harris
Pennington
Penningtons
Louis Sons
Ogie Pennington
Year’s Traffic Toll Highest in 10 Years
The national Safety Council warns this year’s traffic fatalities may reach the highest ten year rate, with an estimated 37,000 deaths in 1951. The total could mean the millionth traffic victim since 1900 will die during Christmas week, bringing the national toll to 976,000.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
the Council
AT T Head Dead at 50
Leroy A. Wilson president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. died in New York at 50 after a two week hospital stay. Born in Terre Haute Indiana he rose from traffic clerk to head of the Bell System in 29 years joining A T and T in Terre Haute and earning a salary of 178000 a year.
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New York
Leroy A. Wilson
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Wilson
Bell
Presbyterian Hospital
Terre Haute
Ind
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Marion Telephone Co seeks 19.7 percent rate hike
The Ohio Associated Telephone Co of Marion requests higher rates with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Cited rising operating costs and a planned building program, the measure would lift operating revenues by 19.7 percent. Subcriber increases would start at $1. The firm lists Marion and several other Ohio towns as headquarters.
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Columbus
Ohio Associated Telephone Co. of
Marion
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Brookville
Bryan
Caldwell
Celina
Jackson
New Philadelphia
Midwest Weather Toll Hits Millions Across States
Severe June storms in Kansas and Missouri cause crop and property damage in the millions. Floods threaten thousands of acres across Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and surrounding states with evacuations and 300000 flooded acres feared. Louisiana drought relief rains ease water shortages in sugar cane and rice regions.
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Kansas
Missouri
Midwest
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Ilinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
Kansas City
St. Charles
St. Louis
Sedalia
Defense Chief To Retire Rumors Emerge on Marshall
In Washington speculation grows that Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall may retire this fall. The chatter centers on the 1950 appointment anniversary of September 21 and prior reports he would serve only a limited time.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Defense
Capitol Hill
Marshall
C of C Men Arrested for No Peddlers License
Newark police held two U S Chamber of Commerce sales reps on a technical arrest for selling subscriptions to Nations Business magazine without peddlers licenses. Names were not released.
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C of C
Newark
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
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