Auto Industry Faces New Output Cuts
The government orders auto makers to cut output for July to September to about 1,200,000 cars from April to June 2.4 million. The plan sets quotas by company using 1950 metal content and current shares, limiting steel to about 65 percent of pre‑Korea levels, copper to 60 percent, and aluminum to 50 percent.
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Washington
Courtney Johnson
National Production Authority’s
NPA
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
Studebaker
Nash
Hudson
Packard
Kaiser
Willys- Overland
Crosley
Checker Cab
Johnson
Price War Sparks Bargain Mobs at Macy's in New York
New York shoppers, including four men and women, jammed Macy's bargain counters in a price tag war sparked by a ruling on fair trade. Prices slashed 30 percent or more on items from suits to appliances, with aspirin dropping to 24 cents and buyers rushing to snatch stock. Macy's sold 550 Mixmasivers as discounts spread through the store.
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New York
Department
Macy's
Supreme Court
Pigeons Startled by New York Air Raid Sirens Test
New Yorkers largely ignore the noon air raid warning test held in Times Square city hall plaza and Rockefeller Center. Flocks of pigeons took wing after the sirens, scattering from building ledges and ignored by crowds.
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New York
Times Square
City Hall Plaza
Rockefeller Center
Otey elected president of WVU board of governors
E G Otey of Bluefield was chosen to head the West Virginia university board of governors at the 84th annual meeting in Morgantown. He rises from vice president to president, succeeding William G. Thompson. Also elected were Clay Miller as alumni association president Latelle LaFollette Jr first vice president and David W Jacobs for a 14th one year term as executive secretary. President Irvin Stewart announced a $1000 donation to a student loan fund by Fred G Wood, who previously endowed 517 acres of coal land in southern West Virginia to the university.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Ernest G. Otey
First National Bank of
Bluefield
West Virginia University Board of Governors
Otey
William G. Thompson
Montgomery
Fred G. Wood
Raleigh County
Wood
Daytona Beach
Fila
University
West Virginia
Free Lemonade Monday As Mercury Hits 90 Mark
Bluefield sweltered as the temperature hit 90 degrees boosting the town into a tropical heat zone. The Bluefield Chamber announced free lemonade at several downtown spots on Monday at 1 pm with cheerful staff handing out drinks to thirsty residents.
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Mercury
Paul Chryssikos
Chamber
Matz
Princeton Ave
Doughboy Cafe
Thefield Ave
Paul's Grille
Orth St
Central Pharmacy
New Grang Pharmacy
Virginia
Nature
Acheson says Formosa loss not catastrophic
Secretary of State Acheson told the MacArthur inquiry that Formosa is strategically valuable but its loss would not be catastrophic for the United States. He rejected claims that losing Formosa would force defense back to the western coast and said such views are not held within the government.
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Washington
Acheson
Formosa
United States
U S Puts Travel Ban On Czechs
The United States bans travel by American citizens to Communist Czechoslovakia amid AP correspondent William Oatis six week arrest. State Department cites hostile conditions and stamps passports not valid for travel to Czechoslovakia. Oatis, 37, arrived in Prague in June 1950 and was arrested April 23 on charges of hostile activities and spreading harmful information.
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Washington
United States Today
Czechoslovakia
Associated Press
William Oatis
State Department
Oatis
Department
Department of State
United States
Foreign Service Office
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Vogeler
Prague
U. S
Allies End Chase Of Rea Korean Forces
The U N and Allied troops say their pursuit phase in Korea ended with Communists expelled from much of South Korea, as U N commander Van Fleet notes no link to peace talks. Front fighting remains fierce with heavy Red losses and new censorship restricting war reports.
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Rea
U.S. Eighth Army
Korea
Tokyo
United Nations
South Korea
James A. van Fleet
U.N
Trygve Lie
38Th Parallel
Eighth Army
Washington
Acheson
Senate
Red China
Red North Korea
Chorwon-Kumhwa-Pyonggang
Lie
Ottawa
van Fleet
Dispute Over Coal Hauling Ends in Logan Miner Slayings
In Logan West Virginia on Saturday a feud among union members over coal hauling led to two men dead and a third critically wounded. Elmer Farley 45 held in jail after the shootout with Charles Wells 45 and Robert Whorley 40 both killed. Major Thompson 28 of the local safety committee injured in the exchange. Wells and Whorley died from shots to belt and heart while Thompson was struck in the back. Farley a long time Island Creek employee reportedly hauled coal on off days provoking the dispute. About 150 witnesses gathered as police investigated in Monaville Holden area near Lindley Camp.
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Logan
W. Va
Carson W. Browning
Elmer Farley
Logan County
Charles Wells
United Mine Workers
Island Creek Coal Co
Holden
Robert Whorley
Major Thompson
Holden Hospital
Farley
Browning
Monaville
Holden Road
Thompson
Lindley Camp
Island Creek
Wells
Whorley
Farber
Large Areas Of Country Hit By Freak Turns Of Weather
Regions across the nation endured a wild weather outbreak on Friday and Saturday with storms, tornados, heat, cold, floods, and drought. A Detroit man died after a pole collapse in 119 foot winds, while 98 mph gusts struck Willow Run. A Alabama lightning strike killed five, a Fort Benning soldier died in field maneuvers, and a Toledo sailboat accident drowned a youth. Governors and officials sought rain as drought spread across Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and surrounding states with crop damage and economic losses mounting. Florida citrus remained reportedly healthy.
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Detroit
Willow Run
Alabama
Fort Benning
Ottawa River
Toledo
South
Marshalltown
Mississippi
Fielding Wright
Lumberton
N. C
Li Corley
Georgia
Florida
Louisiana
Tennessee
South Carolina
North Carolina
Three Klansmen Slated For Trial In Flogging
Three accused Ku Klux Klansmen face trial Monday in Birmingham on charges of flogging while masked. Defendants are A Byrd Carradine Bret Brasfield and Moody Nations. The case stems from a May 20 1949 assault on Mary Alice Henderson Jack Alexander and coal miner Willie Stevens by a white robed group.
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Birmingham
Cecil Deason
A. Byrd Carradine
Bret Brasfield
Moody Nations
Mary Alice Henderson
Jack Alexander
Willie Stevens
San Francisco Awaits Price War Monday
San Francisco on June 2 reports a price-cutting war starting Monday with Weinstein's cutting Sunbeam toasters, Schick razors, and Ronson lighters from listed prices. Other drug stores plan to match cuts as the state attorney general cautions against below cost pricing under the unfair practices act.
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San Francisco
Market Street
Weinstein’s
Sunbeam
Schick
Ronson
California
China Signals Will to Extend Korea War Into Next Year
Peiping radio indicated Beijing plans to continue the Korean conflict into 1952. It urged nationwide fundraising to equip the Chinese forces in Korea with tanks planes and artillery and announced a January 1952 campaign check. It also described a patriotic pact movement to support arms for victory.
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San Francisco
Red China
Peiping
Associated Press
Red Army
Korea
Peoples Volunteers
Red Radio
Chinese Peoples Committee For World Peace
Asia
Dixie Vets Meet For Final Time
Norfolk Va June 24 the final reunion of Confederate veterans included a re enactment of the Monitor and the Merrimac by the navy the offshore battle ended in a draw no side claimed victory two of the three 105 year old veterans who attended chose different travel plans with John Salling opting to fly home return delayed by a day William Townsend chose train travel and William Bush remained in town planning a Monday plane trip
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Norfolk
Monitor
Merrimac
Navy
Elizabeth River
John Salling
Slant. Va
William D. Townsend
Olla
William Joshua Bush
Fitzgerald, Ga
Centurion
Salling
Iran Rejects Truman Plea to Enter Oil Negotiations
Premier Mossadegh spurns any talks with a British mission unless Iran’s oil nationalization is clearly recognized. He cites lack of Western assurances and insists British officials discuss only the nationalization issue with defined terms. Hussein Maki says Iran has “burned all bridges” on the nationalization dispute.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Truman
Senate
U.S
Henry Grady
Mossadegh
Etelast
Britain
Iren
Francis Shepherd
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
AIOC
Hussein Maki
Oil Board
Margaret Truman Begins Cathedral Tour in Britain
Margaret Truman, in a black dress, arrives in London for a six week vacation and cathedral tour. She says she will not sing and plans to visit cathedrals starting with Westminster Abbey, meeting U S Ambassador Walter Gifford and wife at the station.
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Margaret Truman
Britain
London
King George
Woriships
Westminster Abbey
Margaret
Southhampton
U.S
Walter Gifford
Gifford
Acheson Hints U.S. Open to Korea Pact If Compliance Proves Enduring
Secretary of State Acheson told Senate committees the United States could halt fighting in Korea at the 38th parallel if there are reliable assurances of no further aggression. He argued a real settlement could allow a peacetime status and gradual troop removal, while opposing Red China recognition and a UN seat for Reds.
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Washington
Acheson
United States
Korea
United Nations
U.N
38Th Parallel
James A. van Fleet
Senate Armed Forces and Foreign Relations Committees
Douglas MacArthur
U. N
Smith
R-Nj
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Elkins
Martinsoure
Petersburg
Parkersburg
Wheeling
North Korea
Imjin
Yonchon
Chorwon
Hwachon
Kumhwa
Miner
J. C. Farber
THE
Rye
Nearer
China
Dixie Vets
America
MacArthur
Brewster
R-Me
D-Tex
Mac
White House
Wiley
R-Wis
Defense Marshall
Omar Bradley
Chelyman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
HST
Bradley
Forrest Sherman
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