Egypt accuses Britain of hostile policy seeks UN action
Egypt charges Britain with hostile policy toward Egypt and seeks UN orders for immediate evacuation of British troops. Cairo argues the 1936 Anglo Egyptian Treaty cannot bind Egypt any longer and calls for termination of British presence in Sudan to keep the nation united. The complaint, signed by Prime Minister Nokrashy Pasha, was sent to the UN as Britain cites troop reductions to below treaty limits amid ongoing regional tensions.
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Lake Success
Britain
Egypt
United Nations
Security Council
U.N
U. N
Sudan
London War Office
Cairo
Alexandria
Suez Canal Zone
Nokrashy Pasha
Ambasador Hassan Pasha
Re Huttion Council
Tian Charges
Re Council
Bulgaria
United States
Balkans
N. Mevorah
Warren R. Austin
Balkan
Brtsh
Rope Trussed Body Of Divorcee Found In Churchyard
Marion Ohio reports the rope-trussed nude body of Zora Grebes a 25 year old divorced mother of three was found in the St Pauls Lutheran churchyard. Coroner E H Morgan calls homicide by strangulation with possible criminal assault and notes circumstantial evidence. Sheriff Leroy Retterer seeks a dark haired man seen with the woman about 2 am near the church.
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Marion
Zora
Grebes
E. H. Morgan
Dr. Morgan
Leroy Retterer
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Here
Court Refuses Doctor's Claim in West Virginia
The West Virginia Supreme Court, in a 4 to 1 ruling, refused to pay Dr. Harold H. Cashman $2,000 for tuberculosis contracted while serving at Hopemont Sanitarium. The court said moral obligations may exist in other cases but denied the state appropriation. Justice Frank C. Haymond wrote the majority. Justice J N Kenna dissented.
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Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Sayre
Harold H. Cashman
Hopemont Sanitarium
Cashman
Edgar B. Sims
State Court of Claims
Legislative
Sims
Frank C. Haymond
J. N. Kenna
Taxicab driver accused of robberies to fund marriage
Walter C. Otis, 24, released on 2500 bail posted by his prospective father in law after police charged him with a first degree robbery and three burglaries. Officers said loot totaled about 500 dollars, some of which funded a wedding ring. Otis pleaded innocent in police court and gave no statement on wedding plans.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Walter C. Otis
Otis
Peter Krupka
Senate Tax Vote Expected Today
Washington July 11 sponsors of a 4 billion income tax cut bill push for a Senate vote after House passage. Senator Morse proposed eight amendments to broaden relief while limiting business harm, including delayed effective dates and new tax schedules. Senator Millikin said revisions require full finance committee consideration.
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Washington
Senate
House
Morse
R-Ore
Millikin
R-Cole
Broadening Economic Group Members Sought for Asia Far East
At Lake Success July 11 a plan to widen the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East to include all Asian dependent territories as members or consultants was presented. Proposals from India and the Philippines push consultative status for territories Burma Ceylon Malaya Indonesia and Indochina. The Soviet plan would add most UN members in Asia excluding Turkey and consult nonmembers, expanding access to Iraq Iran Syria Lebanon and Afghanistan.
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Lake Success
India
Philippines
Economic Commission For
Burma
Ceylon
Malaya
Indonesia
Indochina
Asia
Commission
United Nations
Turkey
Economic Commission For Europe
Iraq
Iran
Syria
Lebanon
Afghanistan
Kingsport Police Nab Napier After Gun Battle
Kingsport Tennessee July 11 a man who gave the name Carl Styles when arrested after a running gun battle was identified as Herbert Lee Napier wanted by the FBI in a hot car racket at Pennington Gap Virginia The suspect’s brother William Napier is jailed on Dyer Act charges and another brother Herbert was sought for questioning Keys found on Napier fit a vehicle stolen in Middlesboro Kentucky and recovered near Indian Springs by local officers and state police
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Kingsport
Tenn
Carl Styles
Sullivan County
J. E. Upchurch
Herbert Lee
Hub) Napier
F.B.I
Pennington Gap
William Napier
Virginia
Richmond
Ind
Thompson Motor Company
Herbert
Upchurch
Napier
Davis
Mount Sterling
Middlesboro
Indian Springs
G. W. Fletcher
Icity
New Inflation Warnings Expected In President's Economic Message
Washington July 11 AP President Truman to deliver a special mid year economic report to Congress warning of inflation risks. Cabinet and council reviews highlight wage gains for miners and potential price pressures in coal steel and consumer goods. Export demand and foreign loans may influence effects of curtailing aid programs.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Council of Economic Advisers
Council
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Pittsburgh
Baldwin
R-Conn
Senate Banking Committee
Ross
Economic Council
Cabinet
Edwin G. Nourse
Arson Sets Farm Home Ablaze Killing Woman and Child
Harrisville West Virginia July 11 a 30 year old farm woman and her eight year old daughter were badly burned when an unidentified arsonist set their home on fire near Pike in Ritchie County Sheriff John Lowther said Howard Clayton 38 a farmhand who lived at the Stackhouse home is in jail for questioning. Stackhouse was away at the time. Clayton claimed he was slugged and remembered nothing.
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Harrisville
W. Va
Pike
Ritchie County
John Lowther
John Stackhouse
St. Joseph's Hospital
Parkersburg
Deloris
Shariff Taarthaw
Mueite Aar
Apu Wulitl Offau
Howard Clayton
Stackhouse
Stackhouses
Clayton
Tyler County
Lowther
A. P. Hatfield
Grasshopper Plague Threatens Hillsborough Citrus
Tampa July 11 grasshoppers mul tiplying at a prodigious rate menace citrus groves and farms in Hillsborough county around Plant City. Agent Alec White says hoppers are thicker than any prior year defoliating many trees as natural controls like birds have left the area.
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Tampa
Fla
Hillsborough County
Plant City
Alec White
White
Negatives Of A-Bomb Parts Among Material Men Removed
An unnamed congressional official says photographs negatives of atomic bomb parts were taken from Los Alamos by two army sergeants in March 1946. FBI checks continue to see if prints were made. Missing material is reported recovered. The official notes no proven breach of security.
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Washington
Congress
Los Alamos
N. M
Atomic Energy Plant
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Atomic Energy Commission
Congressional
Justice Department
Hickenlooper
Senate
FBI
Department of Justice
PBI
Rickenlooper
Full Operations Seen In Virginia By Monday
Norton Virginia July 11 W F Minton president of district 28 United Mine Workers of America said tonight he expected operations in the southwest Virginia coal fields to be in full swing Monday morning George more from the union also voiced similar prediction as the stoppage nears end
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Norton
W. F. Minton
United Mine Workers of America
UFL
Southwest
Virginia
George
Copenhaver Named to PSC as Gore’s Successor
John T. Copenhaver a 49 year old Charleston attorney was appointed by Governor Meadows as the Republican minority member of the three man Public Service Commission. He will serve until May 31 1953 succeeding late Governor Howard M Gore in the 6000 dollar per year post. Copenhaver admitted to the bar in 1927 and has run a general practice in Charleston since. He was GOP nominee for Kanawha county prosecuting attorney in 1944 but was defeated.
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Charleston
W. Va
John T. Copenhaver
Meadows
Public Service Commission
Copenhaver
Howard M. Gore
GOP
Kanawha
Greeks Seize Two Fortified Positions in Greek Guerrilla War
Greek general staff reports capture of two fortified guerrilla positions on Mount Grammos near Albania amid a broader battle with some 4,000 guerrillas. The cabinet minister cites aims to establish a communist state and to open a route for international forces, with UN investigators failing to contact the guerrilla commander. The United States speeds a 35 million dollar weapons shipment to Greek forces ahead of reconstruction.
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Athens
Mount Grammos
Albania
George Stratos
KKE
Kastoria
Konitsa
Koritza
Stratos
Greece
Split
Adriatic
United Nations Balkan Investigating Commission
Markos Visiades
U. 8
Washington
United States
Dwicht Griswold
American Economic Aid Mission
Turkish Premier accuses Democrats of plotting revolt
Premier Recep Peker charged the opposition Democratic party with trying to spark a coup to seize power as Turkey faced frontier threats. He said Democrats sought to ignite unrest while Celal Bayar accused his government of violence to throttle opposition. Peker spoke with Bayar in the presence of President Ismet Inonu and warned of hidden revolt.
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Istanbul
Recep Peker
Democratic Party Today
Turkey
Peker
Sukrurtge
Celal Bayar
Democratic Party
ULUS
People's Party
Bayard
Ismet Inonu
French Civil Servants Strike Threat Fades
Paris reports the threat of a general strike by French civil servants fading as government sources and union leaders near accord on key issues. Paul Ramadier is noted among the officials and union figures involved in the talks.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
Senate sets docket to close out session priorities
Senate Republicans map last two weeks of the session with plans to push income tax cuts and major appropriations. Taft notes possible crowded adjournment and a special Saturday session, while Baldwin presses to include the terminal pay bonds bill for veterans.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Baldwin
R-Conn
Trunk Murder Slayer Hunt Shifts To Nevada
Morley V. King, 46, restaurant operator, is sought in the trunk murder of his wife Christiana De Koheb in California. Authorities traced possible leads from a Mina Nevada address found among Mrs. King’s effects as the manhunt extended toward Reno and Yosemite.
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San Luis Obispo
Calif
Nevada
Yosemite National Park
Reno
Morley V. King
King
Christiana de Koheb
Murray C. Hathway
Hathway
New WHIS FM to Cover East With 186000 Watt Bluefield Transmitter
Bluefield prepares for WHIS FM broadcasting using frequency modulation to reduce static. The station will operate at 104.5 MHz on FM channel 283 with up to 186000 watts, cost about 150000 dollars, and begin regular programs next week while AM WHIS continues. Engineers from Federal Telephone and Radio aid tests. permanent transmitter site on East River mountain, building nearing completion.
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Seaboard
Bluefield
Whis-Fm
Nhis-Fm
Radio Sta
Tion Whis
Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation of
Newark
N. J
WHIS
Pat Flanagan
Construc
East River Mountain
South Gate
Woman Seeks Parole For Man Who Killed Wife She Later Married
A California woman, once nearly his bride, asks parole for a man jailed for murdering his wife. The state parole secretary said the case was reviewed last year and release is not expected before November 17. The prisoner, jailed since 1939 for murder, is about 50.
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Nashville
California
R. D. Greenlaw
State Pardon and Parole Board
Greenlaw
Shelby County
Five Convicts Killed in Georgia Prison Break
Five Negro convicts were shot dead and eight wounded during a break at a state highway work camp near Anguilla Georgia. Warden W G Worthy said five prison guards and three county officers opened fire as prisoners escaped a 12 foot fence.
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Brunswick
W. G. Worthy
Anguilla
Jesup
P. m
Russel B. Henderson
Glynn County
Revercomb and McCarthy Seek 150000 Housing Review
Senators Revercomb and McCarthy call for a joint 14 member House and Senate study to review housing shortages and costs. They propose spending 150000 on an A to Z examination with a report due by March 15. The move aims to illuminate problems and delay long term Wagner Taft bill action.
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Washington
Revercomb
R.-W. Va
McCarthy
R.-Wis
House
Senate
Congress
Joint Committee
Western European nations rally to Marshall plan push
Six teen Western European states vow to rebuild war torn economies with US aid while Russia and its orbit abstain from the Paris Marshall Plan conference. Czechoslovakia joins then withdraws under Soviet pressure as Prague reports non communist ministers won a lone point against Soviet insistence.
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Paris
Western Europe
United States
Russia
Europe
Finland
Czechoslovakia
Britain
France
Belgium
Italy
Portugal
Eire
Greece
Turkey
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Iceland
Austria
Switzerland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
U. S
State Marshall
Harvard University
Rustov
Molotov
Prague
Klemen Gottwald
Moscow
Marshall
Eduard Benes
Airline Route Hearing Ends With Prolonged CAB Deliberation
The Civil Aeronautics Board capped four weeks of oral arguments on the middle Atlantic airline route case. CAB chairman James M. Landis said no decision would come for two months or more. The case consolidated 61 applications, with 28 participants, seeking route adjustments across New York to the District of Columbia.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
James M. Landis
CAB
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusets
Ohio
Virginia
District of Columbia
Landis
Great Lakes
Philadelphia
Senate Approves Bruce as Argentina Envoy
The Senate confirmed James Bruce of Baltimore as ambassador to Argentina without a record vote. One lone opposition speech by Senator Lazger cited Bruce's industrial connections.
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Senate
Bruce
Argentina
Washington
James Bruce
Baltimore
Lazger
R.N.D
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Tion
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