Feldman Admits Hunt Previewed Purchase Plans
Major General Herman Feldman testified before a Senate committee that he gave James V. Hunt a preview of 1948 Army purchasing plans but denied wrongdoing. He argued the information had appeared in newspapers and did not aid Hunt, noting no Hunt-backed firm received a quartermaster contract.
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Washington
Herman Feldman
Army
James V. Hunt
Senate
Hunt
Quartermaster Corps
Feldman
Clyde R. Hoey
Ernest M. Brannon
William P. Rogers
White House
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Nathan Koenig
Secretary of Agriculture
Harry H. Vaughan
Truman
Vaughan
J. Feldman
Wayne R. Allen
Los Angeles County
Calif
Allen
L. Cook
Chicago
Douglas MacArthur
Henningsen Produce Company
San Mateo
Pacific Theater
Petition Forces Panel Restudy Of Schools Aid
Freshman Representative Sims gathered 13 of 25 labor committee members to compel a hearing on federal education aid disputed amid church school funding battles. Chairman Lesinski had resisted. a formal meeting is set for Wednesday, with lawmakers cautious about immediate outcomes.
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Washington
House
Labor Committee
Sims
South Carolina
Lesinski
D-Mich
Sim
Nixon
R-Calif
Treasury
Barden
D-Nc
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Steed
D-Okia
Bailey
D-W Va
Irving
D-Mo
Perkins
D-Ky
Powell
D-Ny
Wier
Jacobs
D-Ind
Wood
Dga
Howell
Morton
Rky
Burke
Ohio
Senate backs SPA funds in power bill clash
The Senate voted 45 to 36 to restore Interior Department funds for the Southwest Power Administration, rejecting committee cuts from 9 million to about 3.87 million. Lyndon B. Johnson urged restoring full funding to push transmission lines and defend a public power policy, while Elmer Thomas and Carl Hayden urged negotiating with private lines first.
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Washington
Senate
Interior Department
Senate Appropriations Committee
Southwestern Power Administration
SPA
Colorado
Idaho
California
Montana
Douglas Wright
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Sena
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dtexas
Johnson
Appropriations Committee
Southwest Power Administration
Douglas G. Wright
Wright
Denison
Norfolk
Missouri
Elmer Thomas
D-Okla
Carl Hayden
D-Ariz
Congress
Long Handles for George VI Feud Sparks Genteel Gaffe
In London a Buckingham Palace official said King George VI would not wear a suit of long underwear, even from a stranger. The offer stems from a Waterloo Iowa dispute between Patty Johnson of the Daily Courier and John Walter of the London Daily Mirror, with Walter joking about Iowa farmers’ long underwear.
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London
George VI
Buckingham Palace
Iowa
Patty Johnson
Waterloo
Daily Courier
John Walter
New York
London Daily Mirror
Miss Johnson
Britain
Mirror
Walter
Towa
Seals Bask at Alamitos Bay in Southern California
Seals dark and jet black, roughly cocker spaniel size, lounge in the spring sun at Alamitos Bay near the Port of Long Beach in southern California.
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Alamitos Bay
Nam Beach
California
Cupid sabotaged by measles slows Mrs. Lee search for husband
Grand Junction Colorado August 23. Mrs Johnnie Lee Chris mother of two says her 14 month old Antoinette Marie has measles delaying her classified ad for a husband. Since Sunday she has received about 75 applications from men some bums some seeking divorces but none fit her criteria a serious man who will be a good home for her children.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Johnnie Lee Chris
Chi
Jaycees To Hear TMD Executive At Driskill Hotel
Colonel Oscar A. Abbott, senior instructor for the Organized Reserve Corps of Texas and executive of the Texas Military District, was named guest speaker for the Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Driskill Hotel. Abbott, a World War II brigadier general, served on Eisenhower Andrews and Devers staffs and holds the Legion of Merit and the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
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Oscar A. Abbott
Organized Reserve Corps of Texas
Gen. Eisenhower
Iraan Sheep Breeder Named President of Rambouillet Association
SALT LAKE CITY Aug. 23 Leo Richardson of Iraan Texas was elected Monday night as president of the American Rambouillet Sheep Breeders Association at its 61st annual meeting He succeeds W C Olsen of Mt Pleasant Utah and R O Sheffield of San Angelo Texas was named a director.
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Salt Lake City
Leo Richardson
Iraan
Texas
Cosmopolitan Club Installs Officers at Driskill
The Cosmopolitan Club announces installation of new officers on September 10 at a dinner dance. A board of managers was elected including President Dean Whiffen and four members Barney Traynor Les Pollard Russell Grimes and Corley Smith. New member Leo W. Roberts introduced.
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Cosmopolitan Club
Driskill Hotel
Dean Whiffen
Southwestern Conference
Barney Traynor
Les Pollard
Russell Grimes
Corley Smith
Leo W. Roberts
Fires rage across Idaho forests as winds drive flames
Payette and Boise National Forests close to vacationers as three major fires and a smaller blaze burn out of control. Lightning starts seven new fires. Warm Springs blaze on the Salmon River fuels by dense stands of pine and fir.
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Idaho
Payette National Forest
Maine
Payette
FE. B. Rice
Boise National Forests
Sawtooth Forest
Salmon River
Riggins
Payette Forest
Hessel
Circle End Creek
Hell's Canyon
California
Shasta and
Modoc
Lava Beds
First Bale Race in Johnson County Ginned vs Unginned
In Cleburne on August 23 a cotton contest pits D. Hanna and C. M. Phillips as their bales reach the gin. Hanna's bale passed through machinery cleanly while Phillips’ bale jammed the gin. Tuesday’s check suggests Phillips’ bale ahead for the first unginned bale, with the committee slated to decide this afternoon.
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Cleburne
D. Hanna
C. M. Phillips
Hanna
Phillips
Dumas Youth Drowns In Rescue Attempt
Rick Gorman a 17 year old from Dumas drowned at Buffalo Lake south of Amarillo while trying to save friend Harold Roomes 19 who was seized by cramps near a boat with four other youths from Dumas.
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Amarillo
Rick Gorman
Dumas
Buffalo Lake
Here
Harold Roomes
Gorman
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