Truman to Broadcast: Olson and Senators Debate Beef Prices
President Truman plans a radio address from the White House at 8:30 p.m. to urge a consumers crusade for tighter price controls as beef supply and cattle prices spark national debate. Hormel executive James Olson clashed with senators over meat exemptions and government ceilings amid volatile livestock markets.
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Truman
Olson
Senators
White House
Austin
Congress
Senate House Defense Production
James Olson
Hormel
Maybank
D-Sc
Robertson
D-Va
Ives
R-Ny
Moody
D-Mich
Office of Price Stabilization
Cost of Living Raise Granted for Mower County Officials
Mower County board grants a $400 yearly cost of living increase to elective officers retroactive to June 1, following state civil service guidance. Salaries now include the rise: county commissioner 1780, sheriff 3819.96, county attorney 3899.98, school superintendent 4239.96, treasurer 4885, probate judge 5274.84, auditor 4900. Appointive officials get about $15 to $20 a month. other counties are adopting similar raises.
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Mower County
State Civil Service Commission
Clerk of Court
Register of Deeds
Burnquist rules turf game legal for skill, not chance
Atty Gen Burnquist ruled turf a lawful horse racing device operated by players rolling balls into boxes. Attorney General agrees with Cass County Attorney Edward L. Rogers that the machine depends on skill and not chance.
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ST. Paul
Burnquist
Edward L. Rogers
Cass County
Walker
Rogers
Malayan Scouts to Attend Jamboree in Austria
Thirteen Federation of Malaya scouts bound for the International Scout Jamboree at Salzkammergut Austria next August will not wear sarongs. They are advised to bring warm pajamas for sleeping attire instead.
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Singapore
Federation of Malaya
Salzkammergut
Austria
Vandals Strike Kinsman Greenhouse Cause Heavy Loss
Vandals broke into the Kinsman greenhouse after 8 p m Wednesday and caused 750 to 1000 dollars in damage to seedlings and plants. They uprooted, broke pots, and removed plant identification marks, making it impossible to identify varieties and delaying or ruining shipments. Only one greenhouse section was damaged.
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Kinsman
Adm McCully Dies at 84 in St Augustine Florida
Admiral Newton A. McCully USN retired, age 84, who played a prominent part in World War I, died in St Augustine Florida today.
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ST. Augustine, Fla
Newton A. McCully
USN
Johnson testimony details on Korea intervention timing
Former defense secretary Louis Johnson testified before the Senate inquiry that the decision to intervene in Korea originated from a White House meeting led by Secretary of State Acheson. He noted MacArthur was not consulted initially and that ground troops were not ready for combat, with actions shifting after June 26 1950. Johnson recalled briefing MacArthur and the joint chiefs, and that Truman and Bradley discussed the issue without resulting action that night.
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Washington
Louis Johnson
U.S
Korea
White House
State Acheson
Douglas MacArthur
Johnson
Defense
Senate
MacArthur
Far East
Tokyo
South Korea
U. S
Acheson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Japan
Defense Department
State Department
Secretary Acheson
Truman
Missouri
Omar Bradley
Senate OKs payroll cut in federal security bill
The Senate approved a labor federal security appropriations bill totaling 2.538 billion dollars including a 10 percent payroll cut.
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Senate
U.S
Washington
One Killed Seven Injured In Mankato Train Crash
Navy reports an under water explosion damaged the destroyer Walke off Korea injuring seven and killing 26 sailors. The blast, likely from a floating mine, left hull damage but the ship reached a Japanese port under its own power. Dead include Bruce Lynn Carrington and Merlin Roy Lowe.
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Washington
Navy
Walke
Korea
Bruce Lynn Carrington
Henry Frank Carrington
Minneapolis
Minn
Merlin Roy Lowe
Ray Spease
Luverne
Seven Billion Tax Bill Advances In House Committe
The Ways and Means Committee finalized a bill to raise taxes by 7.233 billion dollars annually. It would boost individual income taxes by 12 42 percent, hike corporate taxes, and raise several excise levies. A withholding tax at the source on certain interest was dropped for bank accounts and U S savings bonds issued after March 1 1941, but 20 percent withholding applies to corporate bonds and some life insurance interest. The measure may be introduced Friday and pass later.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Senate
U. S
Iron Miners Call Off Mass Fishing Trip
About 2000 iron miners canceled a planned mass fishing trip for Friday after settling grievances with Oliver Iron Mining Co. The holiday aimed to press a job evaluation program that would adjust wages. Company and CIO United Steelworkers officials announced an acceptable agreement to activate the plan reached in Duluth on Wednesday.
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Hibbing
Oliver Iron Mining Co
CIO United Steelworkers
Duluth
U S May Be Forced to Step Up Atomic Weapon Testing
A news conference by atomic energy and defense scientists says rapid progress in standard nuclear weapons requires more full scale field tests like those at Eniwetok. They note advancements in thermonuclear research but avoid detailing new findings. Plans for additional tests are already underway without disclosure of location or specifics.
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U. S
Elton C. Fayap
Washington
Alvin C. Graves
Los Alamos, N. M
Informa
Graves
ABC
David E. Lilienthal
New York
Eniwetok
Elwood R. Quesada
Joint Task Force
Communists Fight East as UN Probes Pyongyang Front
Allied forces on the east central front probed new Communist defense outposts north of Yanggu and Inje while heavy fighting raged in the east. UN patrols faced artillery and counter attacks, with limited advances and persistent Communist resistance noted along the Yanggu Inje sector.
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Tokyo
Iron Triangle
Korea
United Nations
Yanggu
Inje
East Central
U.S. Eighth Army
Pyongyang
Triangle
Eighth Army
Fifth Airforce
Stars and Stripes
Stan Carter
Yanggu-Inje
George A. McArthur
Red
Three Suspects Held Over Cattle Theft Ring
Sheriff says three suspects confessed to a winter series of cattle thefts from Carver and Rice county farms. Lowell Haefs and Ilon Rickard are in Chaska jail on grand larceny charges, George Rickard is in Faribault. Haefs allegedly fled when questioned about a stolen bicycle, a tire blowout halted his car and led to the confessions.
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Chaska, Minn
Faribault
Lester Melchert
Carver
Rice County
Chaska
Lowell Haefs
Webester
Ilon Rickard
Spring Lake Park
George Rickard
Minneapolis
Melchert
Martin Stahlke
Carver County
Haefs
City Red Cross Prepares Emergency Aid Plan
Austin hosts a joint Red Cross civil defense meeting outlining Red Cross roles in a potential bombing of Minneapolis St Paul or Duluth Mass evacuation food clothing and temporary shelter would be provided under civil defense direction Training conferences set for September First aid classes start soon with 12 instructors certified and more expected Mrs Joy Stephenson announced new nursing service co chairmen Mrs C L Sheedy and Mrs N Jacobsen plus efforts to recruit home nursing instructors Local officials L M Flannery Kermit Meyer William Pribble Erling Runquist and C Edwin Schrafel attended
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Austin
Red Cross Disaster Committee
Red Cross
Myers
Joy Stephenson
C. L. Sheedy
Jacobsen
Dexter
L. M. Flannery
Kermit Meyer
Civil Defense Council
William Pribble
St. Olaf Hospital
Erling Runquist
C. Edwin Schrafel
Red Cross Committee
Red Chinese move to halt surrender in Korea
The Chinese national defense ministry announced a plan to punish officers of any division that surrenders in Korea. The order follows sizable Red surrenders last month after UN forces repelled a second spring offensive in Manchuria.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Korea
Chinese National Defense Ministry
Manchuria
United Nations
Order Mixup Cited as Cause for Collision
A head on crash near Mankato killed Omaha mail passenger engineer Archie Schussler and injured seven crew members. Officials blamed an order mixup on the single track through Minneopa state park. the 92 car freight and 10 car mail train collided at dawn.
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Mankato
Omaha
Here
Archie C. Schussler
Minneapolis
Minneopa State Park
W.D. Miller
St. James
Minn
Auto
Daughter of Former County Couple Killed in Denver Crash
The daughter of a former Sar geant township resident, Mrs. Harold Moats 33, died in a collision involving her husband’s car and a police vehicle in Denver. The police car was transporting blood plasma between hospitals. Injured were the Moats husband 39, mother-in-law 60, and children Robert 2 and Marilyn 5. Uncles Arthur and Julius Kopplin attended the funeral in Austin after moving from Sargeant township.
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Sargeant Township
Denver
Harold Moats
Renova
Sargeant
Ella (Kopplin) Salzman
Yuma
Ariz
Renova-Sargeant
Moats
Ida Moats
Robert
Marylin
Arthur
Julius Kopplin
Austin
Transport Driver Burned to Death in Minnesota Crash
A 50 year old driver named Claude McIalwain of Ogilvie was killed when his truck for P Trucking Co. crashed off Highway 65 near Mora. The Whey transport truck belonged to the Waverly firm and there were no witnesses.
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Mora
Minn
Claude McIalwain
Ogilvie
Here
P Trucking Co
Waverly
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