Allied Envoys Await Molotov Call to Parley
Moscow reports that allied envoys from three Western powers expect a call from Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov to resume four power talks on Germany and Europe. After meetings with Stalin and Molotov, negotiators probe Berlin and German questions amid cautious progress and ongoing disagreement on a broad four power framework.
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V. M. Molotov
Germany
Europe
Stalin
Molotov
London
Russia
Berlin
Literary Gazette
Warsaw
Soviet’Union
America
England
France
End Reich Crisis Lie Tells Big Powers to Settle German Issue
Secretary-General Trygve Lie urged the major powers to resolve Germany’s fate, inside or outside the United Nations, as he delivered his annual report. He warned against bringing disputes to the UN unless pursued in good faith and called for action on bacteriological and chemical weapons and atomic control at the Paris session.
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United Nations
Lie
General Assembly
U. N
Paris
Fear of New Munich Spurs West Berlin Plea
Western Berliners push to resist new Russian demands amid four power talks in Moscow. Telegraf cites Berlin bravery under blockade and warns democracies must not trade away access to all Germany. Suhr urges safeguard for cellar dwellers while Moscow talks stay secret.
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Moscow
Telegraf
Berlin
Gito Suher
Suhr
Dispatch
Washington
Truman
Marshall
Berin
Poma
Meat Boycotts Stepped Up As U S Predicts New Rise
Chicago reports housewives augment a national meat boycott as government forecasts higher prices. Dallas women sparked the campaign with 10 000 participants pledging to stop buying meat on August 9 across 16 Texas cities and beyond. Meat packers in Indianapolis and Chicago dispute the forecast, predicting price stability or declines with increased livestock supply this fall and winter.
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Dallas
Louisville
Salt Lake City
Hansas City
San Francisco
Indianapolis
Texas
Wisconsin
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Kingan & Co
Rh, D. Vaughn
Dallas Women's Chamber of Commerce
Texan
Otis Bryant
Dallas Independent Grocers
Western Powers Reject Russian Danube Monopoly Plan
Belgrade dispatch says U S and Western delegations will not sign any pact granting Communist bloc control of the Danube. Russia blocks non Soviet shipping downstream from Linz. 美国强调若俄方不让步，西方不愿就多国监管达成新条约。
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Belgrade
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Cavendish Cannon
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Europe
U. S
Germany
Austria
Tobin Nominated To Cabinet Post
President Truman nominates Maurice J. Tobin of Massachusetts for secretary of agriculture but Senate confirmation is blocked by Senator Taft. Legislators say a recess appointment is possible during adjournment and Tobin could receive pay pending action. Elmer H. Wene of New Jersey is named assistant secretary of agriculture.
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Aug
Truman
Maurice J. Tobin
Massachusetts
Tabor
Sen
Taft
Rohio
Senate
Tobin
Congress
Elmer H. Wene
New Jersey
Boston
Bay State
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Barkley
Kentucky
Steed Unmoved by Verdict in Fayette Slaying Trial
Fayetteville Aug 7 Lem urr Thomas Steed was convicted of first degree murder in the auto robbery slaying of Loren McClung. Jailer Frank Wheeler said Steed showed no remorse and hardly any emotion during the trial with 19 minutes of deliberation. Wheeler added Steed, a 28 year old unemployed Boomer man, never shed a tear or discussed the case. The special prosecutor presented the pharmacist’s blood stained trousers as evidence while Steed listened, then glanced away as the confession was read. Wheeler called Steed orderly and well behaved, noting he jokes with other inmates.
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Fayetteville
Lemurr Thomas Steed
Fayette County
Loren ‘McClung
Frank Wheeler
Wheeler
William Tho
Montgomery
Steed
Thompson
Red teacher at center of kidnapping case in New York
A 2-year-old Russian woman and chemistry teacher, Kosenkina Oksana Stepanovna, became the focus of a Russian tug of war from Reed farm in Valley Cottar to the Soviet consulate in New York. Soviet officials say she was rescued by White Russians but she feared return to the USSR. Mundt says she would testify to the House Un American Activities Committee about Russian aggression.
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New York City
Washington
Kosenkina Oksana Stepanovna
Reed Farm
Alexandre Tolstoy
New York
Jacob Lomakin
Soviet Union
Worpin
Atta St
U. N
Lomakin
Tolstoy
Stepanovna
House’ UN- American Activities Committee
Mundt
Ture
Senator Ferguson Attacks President Over Impeachment Push
Senator Ferguson denounces President Truman in a Senate address demanding loyalty files on government workers to aid red probes. He claims censorship and secrecy threaten Congress as Democrats adjourn after his remarks. The White House stayed silent and dialogue stalled on the impeachment topic.
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Aug. T
Sen. Ferguson
Truman
Congress
Ferguson
Senate
Michigan
White House
Sen
McMahon
D.-Conn
Senate of the United Ie
Sartex
Ren
Probers Name Secret Witness In Red Spy Scandal
The House Un American Activities Committee identified Alexander Koral as the mystery witness in a wartime Red spy ring inquiry. In New York, subcommittee members questioned Koral and Perlo amid plans to question Whittaker Chambers and Browder in public hearings, with further hearings anticipated next week.
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Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
Alexander Koral
Koral
New York
Rep. Mundt
R-Sd
Mundt
Russia
Rankin
D-Miss
Henry A. Wallace
Leslie R. Groves
R I
Earl Browder
Communist Party
Victor Perlo
Whittaker Chambers
Perle
Perlo
Beauties Vie for North South Crowns in Morgantown
Miss Emmy Lou Randall of Morgantown selected as Miss Morgantown Dominion News and a candidate for Miss North at the 15th North South football game at Laidley Field on Aug 20. She is a WVU summer student and has held multiple campus posts.
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Morgantown Dominion News
Emmy Lou Randall
Emily Rendall
Maple
Morgantown
Miss Raleigh Register
Reginald Myers
Sooth Kanawha St
Beckley
Queen's Court
Chaogen School For
New York City
the Gazette
West Virginia
Charleston
Valuation Soars in Kanawha County to Record 302 Million
Assessor J. H. Abbot reports Kanawha County property value at a record 302,848,115, up 17,805,510 from last year. Charleston leads gains with new peaks in real estate and personal property categories while most new construction affects 1949 taxation.
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J. H. Abbot
Charleston
Abbot Asguin
Abbot
American Consul General Burdett narrowly survives Arab sniper fire
In Jerusalem American Consul General William Burdett avoided injury when a sniper's bullet struck the window of his office and lodged in the wall above him. Sniping from the Arab-held old city has troubled the consulate recently, with Burdett's predecessor Thomas C. Wesson killed last May by an unidentified sniper.
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Jerusalem
William Burdett
Burdett
Thomas C. Was
Bleacher Seats Ready for North-South Game at Laidley Field
About 4 900 bleacher seats stand ready in the end zones at Laidley Field for the 15th North South game on August 20. The seats are unreserved on a first come basis for general admission ticket holders. Tickets cost $2 plus tax and are sold at Sport Mart or by mail to the Neeparsouth Game box 2673 Charleston West Virginia.
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Sport Mart
Charleston
Forty planes search for missing craft near Kanawha Airport
About forty local planes plus West Virginia Air National Guard and commercial airliners search the Charleston area for Dr. R K Price of Newton Conover North Carolina after his craft vanished while reporting 18 minutes of fuel. Kanawha Airport manager Fred Alley says wreckage or traces are likely near Charleston with efforts extending from Pittsburgh heading toward Wheeling.
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Jast'seah
Kanawha
Fred Alley
Alley
West Virginia Air National Guard
R. KK. Price
Newton-Conover
N. C
Aley
Charleston
Dr. Dahney
Pittsburgh
Hubert H. Stark
State Aeronautica Commission
Dr. Dabney
Wheeling
Navy Announces Major Postwar Carrier and Fleet Order
The Navy says a 65 000 ton flush deck carrier will be built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. in Virginia. The contract and other postwar additions include two anti submarine cruisers four destroyers six high speed submarines and several more subs with work shared by Bethlehem Steel Quincy MA Bath ME Iron Works and Electric Boat Groton CT among others.
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Aug. T
Navy
Newport Jews
Norfolk
New York Shipbuilding Corp
Camden
N. J
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Bethlehem Steel Co
Quincy
Mass
Bath
Portsmouth
N. H. Naval Shipyard
Electric Boat Co
Groton
Conn
Electric Boat.Co
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Vallejo
Calif
Greek Rebels Harled Back Near Albanian Border
Greek army troops pushed a 30 mile front in the Grammosa mountains closing on Communist guerrillas near the Albanian border. Rebel leader Markos Vafiades reportedly moved his provisional government to Nikolitsa in Albania as villagers are said to be pressed into rebel service.
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Bordar
Albania
Athens
Grammosa
Markos Vafiades
Wreckage of Plane Carrying 22 Found
The wreckage of an American Army C-47 transport plane with 22 aboard was found in the Italian Alps at 9,000 feet after vanishing on November 28. The crew and passengers included 17 enlisted men three officers and a War Department civilian.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Italian Alps
Air Force
Italy
Wiesbaden
War Department
Scions Adopt Own Versions Of Controls
Congress rewrote Truman’s eight point anti inflation plan and adjourned until December 31 1947 after a bitter Senate debate. The House and Senate blocked or altered key provisions including installment buying and Federal Reserve bank reserves. A housing bill to promote low cost homes was included with omissions.
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Congress
Truman
House
Senate
Wherry Neb
Tydings
Vandenberg
Sen
McMahon
D.-Conn
Ferguson
Trumanan Sabe
Oleo Tax Repeal Fails in Senate Amid Adjourning Rush
In Washington the drive to repeal oleomargarine taxes stalled as Sen. Fulbright dropped plans to attach the repeal to the cost of living bill. The House had passed the repeal 28 to 108. the Senate Finance Committee approved, but no vote occurred before adjournment. Current oleo taxes include 10 cents on colored sales, a quarter-cent on uncolored, plus fees on makers and sellers.
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Congress
Sen
Fulbright
D.ark
South
House
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Arkansas
Building Set Back Urged for Wider Charleston Streets
Long range planning calls for wider streets within a mile of Charleston city limits. The proposed building set back ordinance aims to ease traffic by widening about 15 principal streets an average of 10 feet, with future rights of way potential. It would restrict permits for new or enlarged buildings within future right of way lines and outlines specific street widenings and project areas.
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