Truman Fails To See Level Off In Prices
President Truman refused to accept Senator Taft’s view that prices would soon level off. He blamed a do nothing Congress for inaction on his recommendations for a special session and noted price rises since controls ended. A brighter note was larger farm crops which could lower food prices. He planned to sign an anti inflation bill and criticized Congress for inaction on other proposals. Federal reserve banks raised rates to curb lending, and the White House released a box score of requested versus enacted measures. He hinted at a Detroit Labor Day speech and discussed coalition plans with key aides.
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Washington
Truman
Taft
R-Chio
Congress
Federal Reserve
White House
Taft Filender - Wagner
Detroit
Alben W. Barkley
J. Howard McGrath
Paul Hoffman
Body Identified as Tazewell Man Savers 34
Roanoke Virginia August 12 The body of a man found crushed by a load of iron pipe in a railway car has been identified as Mugene Savers 34 of Tazewell Savers escaped from Southwestern State Hospital Marion police said they were informed Two representatives of the institution came here Wednesday night and made a positive identification The body has been removed to Tazewell
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Roanoke
Savers
Tazewell
Southwestern State Hospital
Marion
Muscovite Arms Measure Beaten in UN Vote
A United Nations 11 nation commission rejected Russia's plan to slash global armaments, voting 9 to 2 with Russia and the Soviet Ak Traine dissenting. The panel urged planning for arms reduction only in a climate of international confidence, noting needed conditions like a world police force atomic energy control and peace treaties with Germany and Japan. No further declaration before 1949 was expected.
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Lake Success
United Nations Commission
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Ruth Ruth Still Critical After Illness At Memorial
Ruth Ruth remains in critical but slightly improving condition at Memorial hospital as family friends report encouraging signs. Bulletin notes pulse stronger and improved condition, though later bulletin says unchanged. messages pour in from fans, towns, and officials including a Babe Ruth day proclamation from Boston.
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New York
Babe
Ruth
Memorial Hospital
Claire Ruth
Memorial Hospital Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Margie Reardon
Paterson
N. J
Trenton
Boston
James M. Curley
Babe Ruth
Liquidation Of Appeal For Children Approved
Geneva Switzerland Aug 12 The United Nations economic and social council voted to liquidate the U N appeal for children Collections total 16 000 000 The eight to seven vote with three abstentions adopted a New Zealand resolution to wind up the international organization by year end Supported by United States Britain France and Canada Australia s Herbert Evatt led opposition stating liquidation would be a great loss of prestige to the United Nations
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Geneva
Switzerland
United Nations Economic and Social Council
U. N. Appeal For
New Zealand
International Appeal Organization
United States
Britain
France
Canada
National Children’s Fund Organization
Herbert V. Evatt
United Nations
Big Jim Folsom Quits Politics in 1951 Return to Insurance
Gov. James E. Folsom of Alabama announced he will quit politics when he leaves office in January 1951 and return to the insurance business at his Cullman home. He spoke while inspecting Alabama National Guard troops at Fort Benning, saying he does not want to grow old in politics and aims to remove the political bug while young.
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Columbus
James E. Folsom
Alabama
Big Jim
Kissin
Cullman
Ala
Alabama National Guard
Fort Benning
Envoys See Red Minister Again in Kremlin Talks
Moscow August 12 United States Britain and France resumed talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in a fifth Kremlin session on the Berlin crisis. The two hour forty five minute meeting ended without conclusions. Envoys Smith Roberts and Chataigneau left to report home, while Smith said more talks are possible.
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Moscow
United States
V. M. Molotov
Kremlin
Berlin
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Smith
Frank Roberts
Yves Chataigneau
Injured Truck Driver Warns Of Bridge Collapse Near Crivitz
Crivitz Wis Aug 12 A seriously injured truck driver Jack Paquette of Kingsford Heights Mich warned motorists as a bridge over the Peshtigo river near here collapsed. Paquette, driving a load of three steel sections, suffered a fractured skull and is confined to Marinette General Hospital. His truck slid off the span when steel hooked a bridge girder and the bridge shifted. Paquette crawled out and used a torch of newspapers. Henry Rupar found him dazed nearby.
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Crivitz
Wis
Peshtigo River
Jack Paquette
Kingsford Heights
Mich
Marinette General Hospital
Paquette
Henry Rupar
U S and Britain Repel Russian Berlin Moves
Berlin August 12 AP US and British military police repelled two Russian attempts to enter western occupied Berlin without violence. The incidents highlight Berlin tensions amid a split in the city police and amid protests by German workers against high food prices under American rule.
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Berlin
United States
Germany
Frankfurt
Charles C. Bond
Istant
Public Safety
U. S
Kreuzberg
Potsdamer Platz
Atomic Plant Workers Are Given Pay Boost
Oak Ridge Tennessee August 12 3 000 atomic plant workers receive wage increases from 5 to 24 cents an hour under a new contract between CIO United Chemical Workers and Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation The settlement described as the shortest period of relations resulting in an agreement in Oak Ridge history followed wage reopenings of a December 9 previous contract.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
CIO
United Chemical Workers and Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
Industrial J
Carbide
Gaseous-Diffusion Atomic Process
White House Squadron Tops Gunnery Contest
In Dover Delaware on August 12 the Washington 121st white House Squadron regained the unofficial lead in the 53rd fighter wing air gunnery competition. Four Washington gunners filled the air with shot before clouds blanked the range and posted a 12.9 hits per gun percentage to beat Reading Pa 148th Squadron. Unofficial totals showed Washington with 214 hits in 1 917 rounds for a 6.27 average while Reading could not fire today due to weather and held a 5.79 average.
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Dover
Del
Washington
White House
53Rd
Reading
Attack on Latrun station shocks Jerusalem water supply
Tel Aviv reports a blast at the Latrun pumping station used for Jerusalem water. UN and Israeli officials call it a truce breach with grave consequences. Arab Legion control noted, with irregulars seen nearby. Water delivery plans halted and nearby villages affected. Moshe Shertok demands a reassessment as UN mediators are informed.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Latrun
Jerusalem
United Nations
Haifa
U. N. Security Council
Lake Success
Arab Legion
Te Station
No Man's Land
U. N
William E. Riley
U.N
al Kubeib
Jerusaem
Ajanjul
Buweira
Ramallah
Moshe Shertok
Folke Bernadotte
Shertok
Bernadotte
Palestine
Federal Banks Move To Fight War Of Prices
Washington Aug 12 AP the federal reserve system joined the treasury in using fiscal tools to curb inflation. Nine of the twelve federal reserve banks raised their discount rate from 1 1/4 to 1 4 percent, with the others to follow, making bank lending pricier. Secretary Snyder announced substantial bond redemptions to reduce money in circulation and tighten banks resources, aiming to slow lending and deflate prices. Interest rates on short term securities rose, pressuring bond issues and raising borrowing costs across government and corporate markets.
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Washington
Federal Reserve System
The
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Secretary of Treasury
Snyder
Door Wouldn’t Open on Lurline Trip
Richard Serrac, ten, and his mother boarded the mat ion liner Lurline at Honolulu to see friends off when the door refused to open. He said the door slammed in a restroom and could not be opened. The ship was far at sea when he was found and his mother wired $130 for a round trip ticket. Officers monitor him as the liner sails toward Honolulu tomorrow night.
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Los Angeles
Richard
Honolulu
States
Richard Serrac
Lurline
Wallace Denies Purge of Third Party Ahead of Campaign
New York August 12 Henry Wallace asserted he would not purge the progressive party for past political affiliations and would not include anyone who advocates violent overthrow. He disavowed ties to communism and placed the party between Russian haters and communists. He said he has never been under anyone’s leash and will not purge the party on past associations.
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New York
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Wallace
NBC
Charleston Man Will Leave For Palestine
Lt. Col. George M. Wertz Jr., executive officer to the senior army instructor of the West Virginia national guard since 1946, will leave Sunday for Palestine. A 1931 USMA graduate, he has been assigned as a military observer for the State Department with headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. Wertz came to Charleston from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, as an artillery instructor.
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Charleston
W. Va
George M. Wertz
West Virginia National Guard
Palestine
Cal Wertz
U. S. Military Academy
State Department
Cairo
Egypt
Col. Wertz
Fort Sill
Okla
Boxing Mayor Dons Gloves in Bid to Stay In Office
Mayor Delmar A. Canaday of Pomeroy Ohio, a former welterweight champion, defends his mayoralty as he fights removal calls. He vows to serve two years, warns obstructors, and recounts boxing career and late fines policy. He faces Republican Thomas A. Jenkins in the 10th district congressional race.
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Canaday
Congress
Ohio River
Thomas J. Herbert
Columbus
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ironton
Jenkins
Dewey aide raps Truman cover up of spies
Albany August report says Gov. Thomas E. Dewey campaign manager Herbert Brownell Jr stated the public is shocked by President Truman's attitude toward providing information from the loyalty probe hearings. Brownell warned the Democratic party has fallen apart while Dewey would run a vigorous campaign with broad support from Democrats and independents.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Truman
Congress
Brownell
New York
Earl Warren
California
Dewey
J. Russel Sprague
New York City
Edwin F. Jaeckle
Buffalo
Jumping at the Russian consulate nets AP team images
AP reporter Vincent O Mahoney and photographer Robert A Wands covered Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina as she leaped from the Russian consulate, triggering rapid bulletins and the sending of negatives to AP. The incident occurred at 3 20 p m EST with a motorcycle delivering the pictures to the wire desk by 4 06 p m.
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New York
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Associated Press
Vincent O'Mahoney
Robert A. Wands
Soviet Teacher Flees Consulate In Brookyln Jump
New York Aug 12 AP A Russian woman teacher Mrs Oksana Stepnovna Kosenkina 52 jumped from a third floor window of the Russian consulate in New York City landing in a courtyard and entangled in fence wires She was critically injured at Roosevelt Hospital The incident followed months of Soviet claims of her being held and echoes a wider day of Russia related actions including questioning of a fellow defector Michael Samarin Truman Molo tov Mundt and anti Communist group Common Cause all shaping the foreign front.
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New York
Oksana Stepnovna Kosenkina
Roosevelt Hospital
Dmitri Zenzinov
Mrs. Kosenkina
Zenzinov
Valley Cottage
N. Y
U.S
Kosenkina
House
American Activities Committee
Michael Ivanovitch Samarin
Truman
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Samarin
Molotov
Rep
Kari Mundt
R-Sd
House Committee
Osenkina
Common Cause, Inc
the Jump
Fire Aboard Swedish Vessel Under Control
The Swedish freighter Axel Salen, alight in No 2 hold, was towed to an anchorage in the lower harbor after coast guards, fire boats, and crew battled the blaze through the night. No injuries. Fire began near Chesapeake Bay after departing for San Francisco and Orient with sodium phosphate, cotton goods, and fertilizer. Flames spurted up to 15 feet while heavy rain and fumes hindered efforts.
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Baltimore
Axel Salen
Chesapeake Bay
San Francisco
Orient
Delaware
Atlantic
State Coal Production Far Behind 1947 Pace
West Virginia coal output for January through June totaled 76,758,020 tons, far below the 87,159,650 tons mined in the same period in 1947. The six month total shows production more than 10 million tons short of the 1947 pace.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Mines Department
Russia protests over alleged kidnaping of Soviet teachers
Moscow's radio says Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov summoned U S ambassador Smith to protest alleged U S involvement in the kidnapping of two Soviet teachers in New York. One teacher’s wife, Mrs Kosenkina, was critically injured after leaping from a Soviet consulate window.
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London
Russia
United States
New York
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
Kremlin
Molotov
U. S
Mikhail Ivanovitch Samarin
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Samarin
Washington
House Committee On the
Kosenkina
FBI
Smith
Walter
Bedell Smith
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Liquidation of Appeal For Children
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Suzanne Marie
New Orleans
Hell
George Miketish
Eldred
New York-Pennsylvania
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