Get Out of Town Fever Spurs Congress
Washington reports show Congress racing to finish money bills as Senate approves a $45.7 billion military bill and other measures, with hopes to wrap up the 82nd Congress next week. Debate opens on a $10 billion foreign aid and defense package amid expected further cuts.
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Russell Baines
Joe Hall
Washington
Congress
82Nd
House
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Treasury-Post Office
Truman
Germany
Trieste
Senate Committee
Owatonna Youth Dies in Car Mishap
James Schrodt age 16 was killed and his brother Floyd 18 injured in a collision with a bridge abutment on Highway 14 six miles west of Owatonna. The crash occurred about 2 p.m. Floyd was taken to Owatonna Hospital with a fractured skull.
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Owatonna
James Schrodt
Floyd
Highway 14
Owatonma Hospital
Two Minneapolis youths held in Minnesota car thefts
Two 18 and 19 year old Minneapolis boys, Glenn L. Davis and Kenneth L. Nelson, were jailed in Mankato after admitting a spree that included stealing three cars and wrecking two. They hitchhiked from Sleepy Eye to Elmore to steal a car, then seized vehicles near Vernon Center and Garden City, with deputies and a police chief notifying authorities and arresting them near Garden City.
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Mankato
Minneapolis
Sleepy Eye
Elmore
Joe Martin Frost
Vernon Center
M. P. Monagie
Garden City
Harold Childs
Gordon Stevens
Lake Crystal
U S Canada Plan 8 Day Air Defense Drill
An eight day international air defense exercise will begin July 19 with U S Air National Guard Canadian reserve planes joining regular Air Forces. The drill tests coordination, new equipment and manpower efficiency. Fighter interceptor aircraft radar units and ground observer corps will seek bomber forces attacking targets in Canada and the United States.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Canada
United States
U. S. Air National Guard
Heat Jams Door So He's Late to Work
New York. Dominick Abate an Associated Press teletype operator said he would be late for work. He could not open his apartment door because the heat had caused it to swell and jam.
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New York
Dominick Abbate
Associated Press
Eisenhower Attacks Democrats as Complacent and Corrupt
General Dwight Eisenhower stepped up his bid for the Republican nomination by condemning the Democrats as long in power and corrupt. Speaking to about 11,000 in Denver, he challenged youth with a call for moral vigor and criticized U.S. softness toward Russia amid Korea and China tensions. Taft disputed Eisenhower's momentum, claiming near total control of the 604 delegate votes needed, while Dewey backs Eisenhower at the Chicago convention. The Democratic race in Chicago follows the GOP convention with movement on possible anti-Harriman resistance from Southern leaders.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Denver
Eisenhower
United States
Russia
China
Balkan
Baltic States
Taft
GOP
Ohio
Robert Taft
Washington, D.C
Dewey
New York
Thomas Dewey
Truman
Chicago
David Ingalls
Associated Press
Rushworth, Former Stage Star Dies
WEST HAVEN Conn. Frank Rushworth 82 a leading man for Anna Held and other stars of the gay nineties and early this century died today at a convalescent home. He was born in Manchester England and appeared in productions with Fritzie Scheff and Natalie Jerome whom he later married before retiring with his wife to New Haven.
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West Haven
Conn
Frank Rushworth
Anna Held
Manchester
Eng
Natalie Jerome
Rushworth
Fritzie Scheff
Metropolitan Opera
New Haven
Hove to Head ELC Public Relations
The Rev O H Hove of Canby Minnesota will become public relations director for the Evangelical Lutheran church on August 1. At 46 he brings 12 years in parish ministry and eight years in the South Dakota legislature plus past pastorates in Brooklyn North Carolina Colman South Dakota and Northwood Iowa. He is a Luther College graduate who studied at the University of Minnesota.
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O. H. Hove
Canby
Minn
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Dr. Hove
South Dakota
Brooklyn
N. Y
Colman
S. D
Northwood
Iowa
Luther College
Decorah
University of Minnesota
Lawmakers Push Action on Controls
Washington report on a last-ditch run to keep price and wage controls after House votes to end most price controls and rent limits. Conferees clash over Taft-Hartley use and continued controls, with stalemate on presidential powers and looming elections.
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Senate
House
Truman
Congress
Sen
Maybank
D-Sc
Norton Named Municipal Judge for Edina Village
ST. PAUL reports Governor Anderson named Austin B. Norton as Edina village municipal judge. Norton succeeds Phillip Neville who resigned to become U S district attorney for Minnesota. Norton had been acting jurist since Melville left the post.
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ST. Paul
Anderson
Austin B. Norton
Edina
Phillip Neville
U. S
Minnesota
Norton
Meville
Quell 2nd Riot at Kentucky State Prison
Eddyville Ky. guards contained a second riot at the Kentucky state prison within 24 hours. No injuries reported unlike yesterday when eight were wounded and a guard hurt. About 30 young inmates raided the commissary, were forced to surrender loot, and returned to cells as state police were kept at the penitentiary for a few days. Luther Goheen said operations should run smoothly.
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Eddyville
Jess Buchanan
Luthern Goheen
Louisville
Truman ousts U S Marshal in Illinois affair
President Truman dismissed Robert Grant U S marshal for the southern district of Illinois on grounds of irregularities. Attorney General McGranery said Grant became involved with a man charged with mail fraud and stated the action was justified, effective immediately. Grant’s Springfield headquarters noted.
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Washington
Truman
Robert Grant
U. S
Ilinois
Grant
McGranery
Springfield
White House
Loyalty Board Clears Hanson of Communist Inclinations
Washington reports that Haldore Hanson, a State department official, was cleared by the Civil Service Loyalty Review board after accusations by Senator McCarthy. Conrad E. Snow, chairman, disclosed at a secret Senate Appropriations subcommittee session that Hanson remains an employee in good standing, tied to the State department’s Point Four program for economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
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Washington
Haldore Hanson
State Department
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Civil Service Loyalty Review Board
Conrad E. Snow
Loyalty - Security Board
Senate Appropriations
Snow
Hanson
Department
Girl, 18, killed at Fairmont Canning Co plant
Dorothy Abbas, 18, of rural Delavan, died after a truck backed into the loading device she operated at the Fairmont Canning Co. plant in Winnebago. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Abbas.
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Fairmont Canning Co
Winnebago, Minn
Dorothy Abbas
Delavan
Arthur Abbas
Congress Passes McCarran-Walter Immigration Bill
Congress enacted the McCarran-Walter Immigration Bill today despite President Truman vetoing it calling the measure infamous. The bill tightens immigration controls and sets new policy directions for entry.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Roosevelt Jr Seeks Minnesota Backing for Harriman
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr petitions Minnesota delegates to back Averell Harriman for president. Harriman plans a Minnesota visit next week with stops in Minneapolis St Paul Duluth Brainerd Watertown and Montevideo to meet delegates and rally support amid unpledged status and backers including Thomas W Walsh and the Truman for President club.
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ST. Paul
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Minnesota
Averell Harriman
Roosevelt
Harriman
Thomas W. Walsh
Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Truman-for-President Club
Watertown
S. D
Brainerd
South Dakota
Mill City
Wold Chamberlain
Minneapolis
DFL
Duluth
Virginia
Robert Butler
Aitkin
Continental grain terminal eyed in St Paul plan
Continental Grain Co proposes a $100,000 box car to barge grain terminal a half mile down river from the existing municipal barge facility in St Paul. The firm has asked the U S Corps of Engineers for permission to dredge the site and could receive a permit to proceed around July 9 if no objections are raised. Loading facilities could be ready within 60 days for the fall grain movement.
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ST. Paul
Continental Grain Co
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Continental
Davis S. Levine
Levine
British Magazine Sums U.S. Airmen Life in England
Picture Post reports about 50 000 U S airmen in Britain living a normal life near bases with cars, furniture, and leisure, while some fear it weakens wartime readiness. The piece notes base economies bring substantial dollars, but social issues including camp followers and brothels draw concern.
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London
U. S
United Kingdom
America
Picture Post
England
Main Street
UN Bombs 2 More Red Plants In Korea Raid Report
Allied aircraft pounded North Korean power facilities including two Changjin plants and a Fusen station as U N forces also engaged Chinese battalions on the Western Front. Fifth Air Force crews described the strikes as mopping up on a large scale with multiple plants now out of action. Navy and Marine air units targeted supply routes and buildings around Wonsan and Chinnampo Haeju, while heavy fighting west of Chorwon left hundreds of Chinese casualties and U N troops holding key elevations.
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Stan Carter
Seoul
Korea
North Korea
U. N
Fifth Air Force
Changjin
Chosin
Air Force
Fusen
Suiho
Yalu
Red War
Manchuria
Eighth Army
T-bone Hill
Chorwon
U.N
Navy
Wonsan
Boxer
Princeton
Bon Homme Richard
Bataan
Chinnampo-Haeju
Williams Seeks Honest Tax Collection Platform Push
Sen. John Williams of Delaware, known for exposing federal tax frauds, says he will urge Republican leaders to make honest tax collection a campaign issue. He is assembling material for the party platform drafters in Chicago next week. He argues broad support exists for a complete house-cleaning in tax collections.
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Washington
John Williams
Delaware
Chicago
Williams
Near Accord on Social Security Hike
A bill proposing at least five dollars more per month to all Social Security beneficiaries moved toward final passage. Senate approval sent the measure to a conference committee to resolve differences before Congress adjourns next week.
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Washington
Senate
Senate House
Congress
Big Three Meet on German Unification Question
The three foreign ministers agreed to press for talks with Australia regarding the unification of Germany.
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London
Aussie
Gordmany
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