CIO Opposes Senate Curbs Bill Says Amendments Cost Consumers
The CIO warns amendments to the economic controls bill could cost consumers billions and turn the measure into a profit guarantee. It faults pending changes aimed at expanding exemptions and asserts they would erode inflation control and threaten defense production. The open letter, signed by Nathan Cowan, argues the floor favors profits over price stability and cites Maybank amendments viewed as harmful.
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Washington
CIO
Senate
Labor Organization
Truman
House
Act of Congress
Maybank
D- 8
S. C
OPA
Nathan Cowan
Senate Banking Committee
Wherry
R-Neb
Bricker
Ohio
Rail unions declare strike looming as walkout nears
Washington Aug 20 Strikes set to begin at 6 am Monday at three midwest terminals Louisville Cleveland and Minneapolis St Paul with five day stoppages at Chicago Pittsburgh lines and two short line routes. Union and steel firm actions await White House seizure decisions as talks with John Steelman fail to produce a settlement.
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Washington
Mid-West
White House
Louisville
Cleveland
Minnapolis-St. Paul
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Truman
Catoctin Mountains
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Republican Steel Corporation
Republicans Seek Overseas Ballots for Servicemen in Korea
Two Republican senators propose an overseas ballot measure patterned after the 1942 44 war ballot to reach GIs abroad and absentee voters in states without existing laws. In 1944 about 84 835 valid GI votes were counted of 2 691 160 absentee ballots.
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Washington
Korea
Bridges
R-Nh
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Senate
Armed Services
Roosevelt
National Campaign Experts Outline Plan Of Action
Three top national campaign experts arrived in Bluefield to launch a West Virginia series of Schools for Politics at the West Virginian hotel. The team led by F Trowbridge vom Baur includes Mrs Gladys Gordon and James F Hogan with George R Ables as tour manager. They will tour Charleston Parkersburg Wheeling Clarksburg Morgantown this week and invite Republican leaders to join.
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West Virginian
F. Trowbridge Vom Baur
Republican National Committee
James A. Hogan
Monkey Wrench
Hague
Jersey City
George R. Ables
Parkersburg
West Virginia
School of Politics
Gladys P. Gordon
R. H. Borden
Mercer
Bluefield
F. Trowbridge
Washington Awornmey
National Republican School of Politics
Maryland
James F. Hogan
Robert B. McDougle
Charleston
Wheeling
Clarksburg
Morgantown
S. Vom Baur
Gordon
Hogan
Ables
WHIS
Vom Baur
Cyrus Gadd
McDowell
Lon L. Ashworth
Wyoming
Baur
Gripes
Austin to Loos e Haymaker in UN Crisis with Malik
U S spokesman says Warren Austin will deliver a strong move this week in the security council clash with Jacob Malik. After a toned down proposal on Korea as a unified state the council president Malik renewed accusations of aggression and domination by the United States.
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Korea
Austin
U. S
Malik
Penny Swallower Hits Jackpot For 14 Cents
Kevin Ryan a nearly two year old in Jacksonville Illinois swallowed pennies from his piggy bank while alone. His father Carl Ryan slapped his back twice and pennies erupted from the boy. An X-ray yesterday showed the jackpot was empty.
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Jacksonville
Ill
Kevin Ryan
Kevin
Carroll Ryan
Ryan
Laborites Propose World Mutual Aid Plan to Succeed Marshall
Britain and other free nations would join the United States in a long term program of mutual economic aid to combat Soviet influence. The Labour Party executive, led by Prime Minister Attlee, argues for a plan building on Truman’s aid concept and stressing rising living standards and defense through constructive international development.
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London
Britain
Labor Party
United States
Clement Attlee
Morgan Phillips
Truman
Phillips
Australian Quads Deliver Names and Health Update
Australian couple Betty and Percy Sara welcomed quadruplets Alison Philip Judith and Mark after a 50 hour birth. Alison weighs 3 lbs 9 oz and Judith 5 lbs. Philip 5 lbs 11 oz. Mark weight undisclosed. Mrs Sara recovering with doctors monitoring mother and babies. Belligen residents plan to expand the home and a Sydney newspaper funds aid.
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Sydney
Australia
Betty Sara
Belligen River District Hospital
Percy
Alison
Philip
Judith
Mark
Senate crime probes plan hearings on racketeers profits
Senate investigators announce public hearings to expose how racketeers used wartime and other markets to funnel illegal profits into legitimate business. Kefauver leads the probe with witnesses from New York as Hunt and Wiley urge local crime commissions to curb interstate crime.
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Washington
Senate
Kefauver
D - Tenn
New York
Hunt
Dwye
Wiley
R-Wis
Miami
Chicago
California
Germany's Role In Defense Eyed
Washington reports three staged plans for integrating Germany into western Europe's defenses against Russia. Officials say Germany would first supply non combat equipment, then potentially manufacture combat gear if occupation rules loosen, and finally deploy manpower in an international force rather than a revived German army.
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Washington
Germany
Western Europe
Russia
Geran
Britain
France
Europe
Ruhr
Area Men Wounded and Missing in Korea
Defense department casualty lists show several West Virginia men wounded in Korea and two missing in action. Wounded are Pvt. Charles E. Fox Jr. Meadow Bridge Fayette county. Pvt. Gerald Pack Omar Logan county. Cpl. Richard Eugene Serra Bradshaw McDowell county. Pfc. Robert L. Green Baileysville Wyoming county. Cpl. James Robert Whitlow Kellysville Mercer county. Cpl. William E. Holmes Beckley. Pvt. William Creed Lee Panther McDowell county. Missing are Pfc. Samuel E. Ward Sprague Raleigh county. Pfc. Donald Bristow Worley Portsmouth Avenue Bris Va.
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Defense Department
Charles E. Fox, Jr
Maggie L. Fox
Meadow Bridge
Fayette County
Gerald Pack
Pharo Pack
Omar
Logan County
Richard Eugene Serra
Cora Lee Serra
Bradshaw
McDowell County
Robert L. Green
Calvin J. Green
Baileysville
Raleigh County
Donald Bristow Worley
Herbert T. Worley
Portsmouth Avenue
Bris. Va
Red China Move For Peace Hinted
The report notes a potential peace move by Red China as Nehru considers Peiping talks. U N forces counter Red offensives in Korea with South Korean and American units claiming key breakthroughs along the Naktong and east coast. Twenty four division and first marine brigade units helped push back the Chang nyong beachhead and other ground operations near Taegu Kigye and Pohang.
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Tokyo
United Nations
U. S
Changnyong
Naktong River
Kumhwa
Taegu
U. N
Waegwan-Kumhihwa
Chinju-Masan
Associated Press
Stan Swinton
Chou En Lai
China
Peiping
Nehru
Peipng
India
Korea
World Peace Organization
MacArthur
Republic of Korea
Pohang
Kigye
U. S. 24Th Infantry Division
First Marine Brigade
Airman's Son Dies Of Polio In Cabell
Huntington W Va Aug 20 The infant son of an air force lieutenant Alan Timothy Hissem two and a half years old died of acute bulbar poliomyelitis in Cabell County He was visiting his grandmother and was the year's first polio fatality The father Lt Alan Hissem is stationed at Ellington Field Houston Texas and the child was treated at Morris Memorial hospital Milton after Friday onset
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Huntington
W. Va
Air Force
Cabell County
Alan Timothy Hissem
Alan Hissem
Houston
Tex
Ellington Field
Morris Memorial Hospital
Milton
British to Send Hong Kong Troops to Korea Front
Gen Sir John Harding announced a British infantry force from Hong Kong would be sent to Korea immediately as the first ground reinforcements at the UN front. About 1,500 troops are preparing to depart with the 1st battalions of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders and the Highlanders of the South.
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Hong Kong
Korea
Singapore
Sir John Harding
Korean
Britain
U. N
London
Warrior
Portsmouth
Theseus
United Nations
Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders
Southerland Highlanders
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United Nations Assembly
Small-Nation Council
Lake Success
United Nations Security Council
Benegal N. Rau
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Egypt
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Ecuador
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Yongdok
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