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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1952
Page
2
Mid year review finds Americans living well but paying more for goods and services. Food remains plentiful with prices easing, while pork and sugar costs rise. clothing and home furnishings grow cheaper. housing booms continue. jobs stay strong despite strikes. incomes rise slowly with high taxes and shorter work weeks. Savings deposits reach record highs as credit expands.
In Albuquerque Kerr supporters claim at least eight of New Mexico's 12 Democratic National Convention votes. State convention named 24 uninstructed delegates with half votes and 24 alternates. An AP poll showed 14 uncommitted, five for Kerr, two for Russell, two for Kefauver, and one absent.
Governor John S. Fine says he is increasingly leaning toward Eisenhower in the GOP presidential race though he will not name a preferred candidate. An AP poll shows 32 Eisenhower, 24 Taft, 14 undecided among Pennsylvania’s 70 delegates. Fine says independent thinkers mostly back Eisenhower and denies any feud with Senator Duff.
HOLLYWOOD Actress Leverly Wills reports 18 year old daughter of comedienne Joan Davis eloped with a fireman to Carson City Nevada last Sunday and returned yesterday informing her mother of the marriage.
A mass of cool air brought relief to northern regions but no relief for the hot South. Deaths rose to 61 with thousands suffering heat prostration and exhaustion. Readings topped 100 in many cities as a cold front moved in and storms cooled eastern New York and parts of New England.
Indianapolis police sought a thief who stole ice skates from a car, owned by a woman bound for a Michigan resort with an indoor rink. In Detroit, nearly 24,000 auto workers were idle as heat strikes continued for a third day amid 100 degree temperatures. Springfield laborers returning home after carrying insecticide bags died within hours. doctors planned an investigation into fumes. George Eleff, cooling off, rode in his car with his year old pet monkey Sam, who jumped on the steering wheel and wrecked the car, leading to a $10 fine for disorderly conduct. Traffic cops in St. Louis complained of heat slowed pedestrians, urging a curb-to-curb cadence to avoid heat‑driven accidents.
Trenton New Jersey theater manager Brock Whitlock of the Olden Theater arranged shelter for heat stricken residents. He sent his wife to run the box office and invited porch and yard sitters to the cinema. More than 700 people, including children with parents, attended, with the cinema kept open until 3 a.m.
A federal grand jury in Seattle probes the motive behind a false tip about Owen Lattimore planning a trip to Russia. The tip, to the CIA then the State Department, prompted a travel ban on the Johns Hopkins Far Eastern expert. Lattimore denies Communist links. The informant was a local travel agency employee. name withheld. The man may be summoned to testify.
A mother, 31 year old Ooie Mae Bryant, and her 6 year old son James Bryant were killed while washing the family car in their backyard in Niagara Falls New York. Witnesses said no rain at the moment but a thunderstorm moved in later.
A cooperative effort by about 300 conservation minded people planted 30 000 walnuts in Rock Creek Lake State Park. The trees were placed on east and west slopes to provide shade and beauty with first seedlings expected to stand about two feet tall by next year.
Observations through June 24 show regional variations in corn borer indicators. Counts of average height and egg masses per 100 plants differ by region, with higher totals in the West-central area. Start egg mass checks on the tallest corn. payout when 50+ egg masses per 100 plants or 75 percent of plants show feeding in the whorl and height exceeds 35 inches. High winds and heavy rains have dislodged many egg masses this week.
Southern Democrats plot to block Harriman if Truman backs his Democratic bid as Harriman campaigns on a New Deal Fair Deal program. They doubt a southern bolt unless Truman runs, while Stevenson drafts linger and Barkley, aging, waits for moves with fears of Stevenson resurgence.
MISSOULA Mont Lead by a college humor society students at Montana State University closed the school year with a Be Kind to the Faculty Day. Apples were given to instructors and favors shown in class while between class refreshments were served. The society creed urged everyone to love the faculty at least one day a year.
Four Democratic presidential hopefuls gathered in Denver to court Colorado’s 16 delegates for Chicago’s National Convention. Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia claimed 300 on the first ballot and listed expected supports from Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and others, with plans for a Colorado address and radio appeal.
The body of Waxey Gordon born Irving Wexler 63 years ago left San Francisco last night as part of a five ton air freight cargo. He died in Alcatraz Tuesday night of a heart attack. His casket in a redwood box with brass handles traveled with 8000 pounds of flowers and Navy equipment. The plane is due in New York this afternoon.
A woman claims digestion improved after taking INNER TONE a natural juice formula with iron and vitamins. Taken before meals it supposedly aids digestion and reduces gas and bloat, ending years of indigestion. Get INNER TONE at leading drug stores.
Maj Gen William K Harrison Jr led a three day recess as Allied negotiators walked out of Panmunjom after Nam Gen Nam demanded another session. Nam accused the Allies of coercing prisoner exchanges while Harrison dismissed Red propaganda as drivel and pressed for real progress toward peace.
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