Wartime Price Boom Surges Across Home Front
Washington signals a wartime boom with rising prices and demand. Procter and Gamble raised wholesale prices seven percent on cereals and soaps, coppers rush to stockpile foods, and defense production sustains jobs. Wholesale prices on the sensitive list hit 35 percent higher, rubber up 68 percent in five weeks, farm prices up 61.5 percent in a month and a half, while department store sales soar 46 percent year over year.
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Bureau of Later Statistics
Agriculture Department
Federal Reserve Board
City Faces Up To 250000 For Main Street Paving
City consultants present multiple Main Street paving options with totals from 8560 to 250,915 depending on county aid and material choices. Estimates cover three segments totaling about 10,700 feet with costs varying by whether the county supplies labor and concrete and by material type. Berlin urged sealed bids to likely reduce costs, while the council weighs widening and repairing the street as a cheaper alternative.
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Main
H. S. Berlin
Bueer
Goose Creek Stream
Causeway Road
Pruett
Goose Creek
Berlin
Oin Transit
B.A. May
Roup
Baytown
Town Notes: Neighbors Share Dinners and News
Raymond Adams mispacked his lunch sack with sugar and joked about the heft. Patty McDevitt visits Mytown. Bowles vacationing in Acapulco. Mr and Mrs Jenar Oltman now stock fans. Mellon Pond family on a trip home. Garrett in Tol Market shows off a new car. Barnetts seek missing reader.
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Raymond ‘Adams
Michael
Red
Hope
Tom
Hoffman
Ralph Bozarth
Bis
Rogers Brown
Milwaukee
Patty McDevitt
Mytown
Dee
Patty
Atleta
Bowles
Acapulco
Mexico
First Presbyterian
Jenar Ol
Barnetts
Demos Clash Over Proxy Votes At Houston County Convention
Opening of the Democratic county convention in Houston met with a brawl of cheers boos and cat calls as liberals and conservatives debated proxy voting. Conservatives claimed victory by voting down the proxy proposal 58 to 3. Police maintained order while both sides pledged to send delegates to the state convention. Bob Tucker chaired the opening before J Edwin Smith acted as temporary chairman.
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Houston
Bob Tucker
Ralph Lee
Tucker
J. Edwin Smith
Airplane Carrying Five Texans Missing
A twin engined Beechcraft carrying J. R. Harrigan, Mrs Harrigan, two children, and pilot J. F. Aldrich from New Jersey to Providence disappeared July 20. Coast Guard searches for the Oklahoma Construction Corp plane, with five Texans aboard, as company officials say Harrigan planned Maine talks with firm officials at Norway.
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Boston
Texas
New Jersey
Providence
Rhode Island
Coast Guard
J. PR. Harrigan
Ann Gill
J. F Aldrich
Sll
Houston
Oklahoma Contracting Corporation
Harrigan
Crosby Votes On Hike In School Tax Rate
Crosby approved a 50 cent increase in the school tax rate, with four to support. Trustees could raise the rate to $150 on the $100 valuation. President L B Krenck said the rise would be limited to what is needed to run the schools under the Gilmer-Aikin program.
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Crosby
Boara
L.B
Krenck
Gilmer-Aikin
Russia May Ask UN For Cease-Fire
Reports say on return to the Security Council next week Russia may propose an immediate Korea cease-fire with halted hostilities and positions frozen. Afterward Moscow would seek UN mediation between North and South Korea with Communist China seated in place of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. Western powers likely to reject. Soviet delegates could walk out if China is not seated, per observers. Byron Price said Russia cannot block UN aid by leaving.
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Yee
Russia
Security Council
United Nations
Korea
North
South Korea
China
Chiang Kai-Sack
Council
United States
Kremlin
Byron Price
Tast
Security’ Council
Moscow
Impr
Afontiosa
Hong Kong
T. Fi Tsiang
Parents Welcome Twin Sons at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Herschel O Bart of Parkway welcomed twin boys born at 7 am today in San Jacinto Memorial Hospital. One baby weighed 5 pounds 1 ounce and the other 3 pounds 2 ounces. The brothers join three-year-old Michael Wayne and four-month-old Patricia Dianne. Grandparents are H O Hart of 213 East Fayle and WL Creel of Evergreen.
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Herschel O. Bart
Parkway
Hart
San Jacinto Memorial -Hospital
Bart
Michael “Wayne
Patricia Dianne
H. O. Hart
East-Fayle
WL Creel
Evergreen
Walker Says No Retreat Fighting to the Death in Korea
General Walton H. Walker urged US 25th Division troops in Korea to stand and fight to the death with no further retreats. Officers echoed the resolve while veterans voiced belief the unit could hold. The speech drew comparisons to Patton and stressed forward action to avoid a “butchery” of Americans.
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Korea
Walton H. Walker
Walker
Richard Collins
Dothan
Alabama
George S. Patton
Waijor
Mobilization At A Glance Review From UNITED PRESS
E men ae Standby Seabee reserve. AIR FORCE says it will order 50 reserve chaplains to duty and plans to call undisclosed numbers of reserve WAFS Women of the Air Force. Senate completes actions on bill to Tet Coast Guardsmen search foreign ships entering US waters. President Truman asks Congress for 600 million to stockpile critical materials.
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AIR Force
Senate
Truman
Congress
Baytown Draft Quota Raised to 100 Men
Baytown Draft Board increases the August physicals call from 4020 to 10050, with 6039 more men to be examined August 14 18. Examinations expand across Dallas Houston San Antonio El Paso Amarillo Shreveport. Induction in September 2.5 times original. Local boards must issue 60 more notices. many men will be disqualified or married since last reporting.
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Dallas
Houston
San Antonio
EL “Paso
Inc
Realtors Ready For Battle In Baytown Appraisal Feud
Baytown real estate men plan a 730 pm Monday meeting at the Keystone Realty office to protest Veterans Administration appraisal practices. They accuse the Houston VA office of sidelining three local Baytown appraisers Clyde Davis Clifford Bond or C H Miller and sending Houston appraisers who underprice land and homes. Complaints include land lots selling for 1100 appraised around 900 and housing costs 38000 built on 1000 to 119 lots appraised at 8000 to 8200. They say veterans pay 20 for appraisals by Baytown men but 25 to 35 by Houston appraisers and inspections cost 750 to 10. The protest will be sent to loan guaranty officer RFL Andrews.
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Sllica
Baytown
Veterans Administration
Houston
Clyde
Davis
Clifford - M.n Bond
C. H. Miller
Baytown Realtors
RFL Andrews
Weco
Keystone Realty
North Ashbel
Airplane Disaster in Brazil Kills Fifty
A four engine Panair do Brazil Constellation struck a high tension wire and crashed near Porto Alegre while landing, killing 50 people including Ralph Molley of Richmond Indiana, head of Atlantic Refining Brazil, and 24 Brazilian passengers and crew.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Pitty
Ambreen
Panair Do Brazil
Porto Alegre
Ralph ‘Molley
Richmioné
Indiana
Atlantic’ Refining” Company
Ecountry
Whe Company
Pan American’ World
Airways
Two Lots On DeFee Street Change Hands
In Baytown the real estate transfers show Mrs. Olive Pruett selling a 50 foot lot at 311 West DeFee to the S. H. Kress Company for 25000 with plans to move the two story home to 1801 Essie James. The Kress party aims to expand their Baytown store block long and the expansion plans are not announced. Bruce Baytown attorney buys a 50 by 160 tract and house from Mrs. Hattie A. Johnson at 321 West DeFee corner of North Jones for 22000.
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DeFee
Baytown
Olive Pruett
West Defee
S. H. Kress Company
Texas
We Bruce
Hattie A. Johnson
West DeFoe
North Jones
2000 Belgians Riot Against Leopold
In Brussels a Socialist demonstration of about 2000 people near Leopold Square led to mounted police charging with sabres. Troops were struck by a rioting crowd throwing chairs and paving stones. Two protesters were wounded and two officers hit on the head. Several officers were dragged from horses amid ongoing disturbances.
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Brussels
Belgium
iti-Leopold
Times Square
War In Brief: US Retreats as Red Offensive Advances
United Press reports heavy fighting along a 200 mile Korea front. Northwest sector sees First Cavalry driven from Hwanggan after night bombardment. west sector Rhea column takes Kochang with light resistance. a small US unit retreats to sea before Korean and Okinawan support. reinforcements contain threat. North and east see a temporary lull as 25th Division resists and South Korean counterattacks regain ground.
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United Press
Eighth Army
Korea
Walton H. Wailer
Hwanggan
Kochang
UN Forces Halt Reds on Korean Front in Daylong Battle
General Douglas MacArthur reported UN ground forces halted a Communist push on the southern front near Pusan and Hadong as American units from Okinawa joined the battle. East coast fighting around Yongdok continued with South Korean troops engaging near Taegu.
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Earnest Hoberecht
Tokyo
Douglas Macur
United W Nations
Pass
Okinawa
Gener. i
Taegue
Hadong
Yongdek
Pusan
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Frices
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Ohio
Procter and Gamble Gompany
Baptists
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Londoni
Panton
the Baptist
World- Alliance
BWA
Glevelana
A.le Jordan
Rey
Ean
DeFee Street
Leopold
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