Senate Votes of Families Allotments at Fees Cof Tae
The Senate passed a bill to provide cash allowances for families of enlisted men, ranging from $85 to $155 monthly, with specifics for wife and child dependents. It targets army navy air force marines and coast guard families and would be retroactive to August with total costs estimated at $242 million through mid 1951. The House plans a similar program with stricter eligibility and a cut-off after three dependents.
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Senate
House
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Armed Services Committee
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marines
Coast Guard
Government
Nine Senators Back UMIT Plan For Universal Training
A strong bipartisan bloc in the Senate Armed Services Committee endorsed universal military training. Secretary Johnson and Gen. Omar Bradley argued mass training is essential to national security, with a six month program for ages 18 to 20 plus six months active guard or reserve service. The nine supporting senators included Tydings Byrd Chapman Johnson Hunt Gurney Morse Bridges Knowland.
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UMIT
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Omar Bradley
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Senate Committee
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Chapman
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Hunt
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Gurney
Morse
Ore
Bridges
Knowland
Calif
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Kefauver
Tenn
Saltonstall
Mass
Yanks Force North Koreans Into Bloody Retreat
American Pershing tanks and air power halted a Red advance north of Taegu. U S commanders foresee a possible 48 hour decision as Reds retreat under heavy allied fire and South Korean support.
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Key Center
Tokyo
Taegu
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
U. S
Eighth Army
West Virginian Praises Johnson in Picnic Speech
Howard Starling of the West Virginia Society praised Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson at a society picnic. He defended Johnson against criticism and said the nation owes him a debt for public service for maintaining armed forces during tight budget times.
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Washington
Howard Starling
West Virginia Society
United States
Johnson
Starling
West Virginia
Louis Johnson
Society
Congress
State Trooper Fulk Resigns From Force
Charleston W V Aug 22 The resignation of State Police Cpl L K Fulk of the Thomas detachment effective August 31 was announced by Superintendent W E Burchett Fulk who joined the department in 1940 said he planned to join an insurance concern On December 27 1948 he received jaw and thigh wounds in a gun battle with Harry Arthur Roach at Roach s farm 12 miles west of Martinsburg Roach was shot fatally and died in Martinsburg city hospital several hours later Falk and Sgt W W Murphy had gone to the farm to serve a warrant on Roach
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Charleston
W. Va
L. K. Fulk
Thomas
W. E. Burchett
Pulk
Harry Arthur Roach
Roach
Martinsburg
Falk
W. W. Murphy
Rail unions pause rail strike spread after White House talks
Union officials announce a temporary moratorium on expanding rail strikes after failed White House negotiations. Over 44,000 rail and steel workers already idled. Canada also sees a nationwide rail walkout affecting newsprint supply.
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Washington
White House
Defense Area
Canada
Dominion
United States
CIO Union Winner In Pulaski Voting
The National Labor Relations board ruled that the CIO sponsored International Union of Electrical Workers won the May 18 election at the RCA Victor Plant in Pulaski Virginia with 358 votes to 447 for the United Electrical Workers UEW. Protests by UEW were dismissed as meritless.
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National Labor Relations Board
International Union of Electrical Workers
Rca-Victor
Pulaski
United Electrical Workers Union
RCA
UEW
CIO
Malik Demands UN Troops Be Ordered To Leave Korea
Lake Success August 22 Russia demands U N troops leave Korea and calls the U N a colossal international bluff. Warren Austin accuses Malik of false statements and cites a Russian shell dated 1950 as evidence of Soviet deception. Austin pressures Moscow to halt aggression and end propaganda to restore peace in Korea.
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Korea
Russia
Austin
Security Council
Oi Malik
U. N
Gluttonous Snake Eats Way To Grave
In Spencer West Virginia on August 22 a pipeline crew found a 54 inch rattler dead after being clubbed. Roma Arnott said the snake was cut open and revealed it had recently eaten a full grown squirrel.
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Spencer
W. Va
Roma Arnott
Ex Truman aide tied to sugar quota probe
New York candy maker David Lubben testified before the senate crime committee that he paid Victor Messall, a former Truman secretary, to help secure a wartime sugar quota that never arrived. Lubben described Losses in his Eatsam Food Products venture after involving partners he says were hoodlums, totaling nearly all his investment in a Bronx firm worth about $1 million.
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New York
Truman
David Lubben
Hillsdale
N. J
Senate Crime Committee
Victor Messall
Senate
Messall
Mr. Truman
Lubben
HST
Democratic National Committee
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Eatsam
Scientist Who Knew Fuchs Joins Hungary
London report says Prof. Lajos Janossy, linked to atomic spy Klaus Fuchs, has joined Budapest University after moving from Dublin institute. He is 38 and reportedly valued for his cosmic ray knowledge. War work at Manchester University noted. certainty on ties with Fuchs unclear.
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London
Lajos Janossy
Klaus Emil Fuchs
Hungary
London Daily Mail
Janossy
Institute For Advanced Sciences
Dublin
Budapest University
Budapest
Manchester University
Fuchs
Yanks In Korea by February Forecast With Tax Boosts
Secretary of Defense Johnson said United Nations forces could drive into North Korea by February if conditions hold. The article notes naval air raids near the 38th parallel and outlines a $10.5 billion funding request plus a $5 million tax boost bill backed by the Senate Finance Committee to aid the war effort. The measure includes GI combat zone tax exemptions and sets combat area definitions for exemptions.
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Europe
United States
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Korea
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North Korea
United Nations
38Th Parallel
North
South Korea
U. N
House Appropriations
Senate Finance Committee
Wyoming
House-Senate Economic Committee
Senate
Young Scientist Held In Plutonium Theft
Denver reports a 28 year old Sanford Lawrence Simons was jailed on charges of stealing plutonium from the Los Alamos project. He is held on $10,000 bond awaiting trial under the atomic energy act with possible penalties up to five years and a fine. FBI recovered the plutonium, in a small glass vial, from a hiding place under his Denver home.
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Los Alamos
Sanford Lawrence Simons
FBI
Russell Kramer
Simons
Egyptian swimmer sets fastest English Channel crossing record
Hassan Abd ed Rehim, an Egyptian army officer, won the Dover crossing in 10 hours 53 minutes beating Le Morvan by 10 minutes. The event drew 24 starters from 12 nations, with Eileen Fenton winning the first woman prize and several others finishing behind. Fahmy Attallah remained still swimming off the English coast late tonight.
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Old Channel
Matthew Webb
France
Webb
Hassan Abd Ed Rehim
London Daily Mail
Roger le Morvan
Paris
Cap Gris Nez
Allah
Georges Michel
le Morvan
Rehim
the Mail
Eileen Fenton
Jennie Kammersgaard
Florence Chadwick
San Diego
Calif
The
Daily Mail
Mareeh Hassan Hamad
David Frank
New York City
Panagiotis Kamberos
Greece
Fahmy Attallah
Glennan Confirmed for AEC Position
Senate tonight unanimously confirmed Thomas Keith Glennan president of the Case Institute of Technology Cleveland for a five year term on the atomic energy commission He succeeds Lewis L Strauss who resigned last April 15 His confirmation gives the AEC its full five member strength for the first time since February 15 when David E Lilienthal resigned as chairman
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Senate
Thomas Keith Glennan
Case Institute of Technology
Cleveland
Atomic Energy Commission
Lewis L. Strauss
Glennan
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
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