Graft probe pledge tops GOP platform in West Virginia
Charleston Aug 14 AP Republicans vow a legislative inquiry into graft and corruption charges against the incumbent Democratic state administration as part of a broad platform. They seek an four year state medical school, a soldiers' bonus vote, and an itemized budget. Speakers include Senator Cain and National Committeeman Hallanan.
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Charleston
W. Va
GOP
Harry P. Cain
Wash
Revercomb
Wva
Herbert S. Parkersburg
New Government in Greece Sought by Liberals
Athens Aug 14 Dissident liberal leaders urged a new government to replace the coalition cabinet as Grammos front operations near end. Venizelos said collaboration with populists should end and a nonpartisan government is needed to restore democratic institutions and enable free elections.
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Athens
Greece
Liberal Party
Themistokles Sophoulis
Kers
Sophocles Venizelos
Venizelos
Grammos Front
Reds Said Pushing Police State In Eastern Reich
Berlin reports claim communists plot a complete sovietization of the Russian occupation zone. Bernard Bechler, Branden burg interior minister, says now is the time to create the socialist state envisioned in 1945, centralizing police and forming a control commission to push the plan. Der Tag notes tightening unity, exclusion of non communist parties, and closer ties to the Soviet Union.
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QTL Alm
der Tag
Socialist Unity Party
Berlin
Bechler
Allied Control Council
Germany
Interior Ministry
Y Trols
Socialis
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Liberal Democrats
Christian Democrats
Arabs Consider Alignment With Russia Over Zionist Issue
Jamal Husseini, vice-president of the Arab higher committee in Palestine, said Arabs may turn to Russia if the United States continues to back Zionist aims. He argued peace in Palestine hinges on halting a sovereign Jewish state and immigration, and warned the conflict could resume. He spoke on the eve of UN General Assembly sessions and suggested Russia would back Arabs to remove them from the democratic orbit.
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New York
Arab Higher Committee
Palestine
America
Holy Land
Jamal Husseini
United Nations
Damascus
United Nations General Assembly
Paris
Husseini
Prospects Dim for West Coast Maritime Settlement
Washington reports the outlook for resolving a west coast maritime dispute is slim while the east coast shows promise. The White House fact finding board delivered its final Taft Hartley Act report to President Truman, noting no recommendations and identifying hiring dispute as the main obstacle to a broad agreement. The inquiry board must issue its final document 60 days after the injunction. The justice department preempted a coast wide strike with court orders issued June 14 in New York, Cleveland, and San Francisco.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Justice Department
New York
Cleveland
San Francisco
Bowles Named Democratic Nominee for Connecticut Governor
Hartford August 14 The Democratic convention chose former OPA administrator Chester Bowles as its nominee for governor in a unanimous vote. Bowles had been praised as the man who was right about high prices and was supported by party leaders after Thomas J. Dodd withdrew earlier in the week.
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Hartford
Conn
OPA
Chester Bowles
Thomas J. Dodd
Bowles
Consumer Hears Words Of Sympathy Amid Inflation Clamor
In New York Aug 14 price pressures loom as bumper crops raise hopes for lower costs but this year’s corn and cotton will not curb meat and cloth prices next year. Truman fails to win price controls. Taft says anti inflation powers exist. treasury actions slow inflation. Growth in income hits a record 211.9 billion dollars per year as production and sales rise.
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New York
Truman
Congress
Treasury
Taft
Ohio
Ethyl Corporation
Commerce Department
Russian Subpoena Moves Exposed Soviet Teacher to Safety
New York August report says Mrs. Stepanovna Kosenkina a 52 year old Russian schoolteacher accepted a House committee subpoena in Roosevelt Hospital placing her under federal protection as Russia demands custody and US rejects control She had leaped from the third floor of the Soviet consulate amid a dispute over detention and immunity and the case draws in Moscow authorities and US police protection concerns all involved parties and the spy ring inquiry.
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New York
Stepanovna Kosenkina
House
American Activities Committee
Robert E. Stripling
Roosevelt Hospital
Russia
United States
Fom
Moscow
Mrs. Kosenkina
Lewis Paper Praises Congress Spy Probe
John Lewis newspaper editorial calls for continued Communist hearings on Capitol Hill criticizing President Truman. The United Mine Workers Journal supports the probe, calling the White House plot and the attacks a red herring while urging exposure of the alleged communists. Lewis is identified as a Republican and the piece argues partisanship should not block the inquiry.
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Washington
John Lewis
Truman
Capitol Hill
United Mine Workers Journal
Harry
White House
Lewis
Wire-Tapping Plans Said Truman Okayed
New York headline cites the Herald Tribune claiming the administration drafted an anti espionage bill allowing wire tapping of private telephone conversations. The plan allegedly faces a cabinet level fight with Forrestal aides noting it remains at cabinet level and not in the defense office. White House sources were unavailable for comment.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
James V. Forrestal
National Defense Operating Office
White House
GOP says savings total over six billion dollars
Washington August 14 Republicans claim they have saved American taxpayers about 6.35 billion by cutting administration spending over two years. Taber chair of the House Appropriations Committee released figures showing 3.6 billion saved in 1947 and 2.741 billion in 1948, with total savings 6.341 billion.
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Washington
Truman
Taber
R-Ny
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Congress
Rep
Dingell
D-Mich
House
Ways and Means Committee
Auto Union Prepares For Political Action
Detroit Aug 14 The CIO United Auto Workers union nearing the end of its 1948 wage drive mobilized for an all out political action campaign President Walter P Reuther called for realignment of political forces and urged UAW members to back a genuine progressive political party The UAW executive board last March supported forming such a party drawing from industrial and white collar workers working farmers small business people and others committed to economic security and freedom
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Walter P. Reuther
Automobile Worker
Reuther
UAW
Vandenberg Likely To Open Dewey Campaign Talk
Senator Vandenberg may broadcast on foreign policy to back Dewey and outline a GOP nation wide hookup. He and Dewey agree Republicans can discuss historical aspects of foreign policy without undermining current talks, aiming to critique past Democratic policies while supporting ongoing international negotiations.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Mich
Ponies
EB. Dewey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dewey
John Foster Dulles
Michigan
Vandenberr
GOP
Dulles
Berlin
London
Yalta
Potsdam
United States
Radical Party attacks Peron in bid to impeach
In Buenos Aires on August 14 the Radical Party resumed its opposition to President Juan D. Peron. They demanded his impeachment and called for a congressional probe into government employee enrichment. A bomb attack near Congress caused a panic but no injuries. Government‑backed constitutional reform to enable Peron’s reelection and expanded state controls was approved 96 to 33, while Radicals returned to the chamber after eight days away to resume their opposition.
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Buenos Aires
Radical Party
Juan D. Peron
Peron
Houses of Congress
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Chrysler Price Hike Raises Auto Costs Across Models
Chrysler Corp raised prices on its Plymouth Dodge De Soto and Chrysler lines by as much as 98 dollars, effective Monday. The move follows a June increases after a 17 day CIO UAW strike settlement and comes as GM and Ford also boosted prices recently due to higher material and transport costs.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
Plymouth
Chrysler
CIO
United Auto
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Dodge
DeSoto
Reduced Meat Prices Sparked Traffic Snarl in Portland
Portland shoppers overwhelmed a suburban market as meat sold at 60 cents or less per pound triggered a citywide traffic jam. About 1,700 cars lined the area before noon while market owner T. F. Staley boasted selling 77 beef carcasses and 6,000 pounds of bacon by midday. Prices included T-bone sirloin round and rib steaks at 60 cents a pound, pork roasts 49 cents, and beef pot roasts 48 cents as he aimed to move 35 tons of beef before closing.
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Portland
Ore
Multnomah County
T. F. Staley
Staley
Polish Youths Laud Wallace At Meeting
In Warsaw 446 delegates from 46 countries closed a six day international conference of working youth with cheers for Henry A Wallace. The congress backed a world charter of youth rights and pledged to oppose war mongers and capitalist exploitation. It drafted a 15 point charter to aid the global working youth movement to be sent to the United Nations ECOSOC. 3000 spectators chanted Wallace as a gift of vitamin tablets was presented for use in the Polish section of the world federation of democratic youth. It sent greetings to US youth amid their tough struggle.
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Warsaw
International Conference of Working Youth
Henry A. Wallace
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Roma
Wallace
Guy de Boisson
France
World Federation of Democratic Youth
United States
Lillys By The Thousands End Reunion Today
Lillys by the thousands from across the United States gather atop Flat Top mountain for the Lilly reunion's final day. Highlights include a monument unveiling to founders Robert and Fannie Moody Lilly, speeches by West Virginia leaders, and music by local bands. Notables include A. A. Lilly, Ernest D. Lilly, and speakers Mrs. Erland Hedrick, Mrs. Wyatt Payne, James B. Riley, Irvin Stewart, and Clarence Meadwes. The day includes memorial rites for Tick Lilly.
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Jack Adams
United States
Flat Top Mountain
America
Lilly Clan
Robert and
Fannie Moody Lilly
West Virginia
Abe
A. A. Lilly
The
Lilly Reunion Association
Ernest D . Lilly
Princeton
Welch High School
Bill Lilly
Fred Pendleton
Lilly Mountaineers
Sam” Raborn
Erland H. Hedrick
BE. H. Hedrick
Beckley
E. ‘Wyatt Payne
Huntington
James B. Riley
Charleston
Supreme Court of Appeals
Irvin Stewart
West Virginia University
Clarence J.W. Meadwes
Howard Clifton
Tick” Lilly
UN Reaches No-Progress Stage in Berlin Talks
At Lake Success on August 14 the UN Security Council idles as Moscow and Washington fail to advance major issues. Observers say the Kremlin and Washington talks shape east-west relations, with potential impact on a world police force and international energy control amid stalled plans after three years of debate.
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United Nations
Moscow
Washington
Security Council
Whle
Berlin
Kremlin
Paris
Lake Success
Corn Likker No Longer Made Of Corn in Virginia
Virginia moonshine shifts from corn mash to sugar mash as ATU agents report 373,068 gallons of mash seized in the year ending July 30. Sugar mash yields faster fermentation and more alcohol, driving a generation-long conversion away from traditional grain mash, especially in mountain regions.
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Richmond
Virginia
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Alcohol Tax Unit
ATU
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