Truman Signs Bill To Curb Credit In New Blast At GOP
President Truman signed a bill to curb consumer credit as part of anti inflation measures. The Federal Reserve Board will set rules and an effective date for the act later this week. Truman criticized GOP leaders for not providing stronger wartime controls and pledged more speeches against inflation.
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Bill
GOP
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T i
Federal Reserve Board
America
Senate
Millikin
R-Cole
Finance Committee
Wherry
Nebraska
OPA
Truman Despairs Of Alabama Ballot Bid
President Truman faces likely failure to place a pro-Truman slate on Alabama's ballot as labor groups back a challenge to electors. Senator Sparkman doubts any route exists besides a state legislature session to win ballot status. A Montgomery meeting set August 28 to nominate electors, while officials consider Alabama’s 11 votes might still influence a national result.
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Truman
Alabama
Organized Labor
Sparkman
D-Ala
J. Stram Thurmond
South Carolina
Montgomery
Birminham
Thom
Dewey Plans Equal Campaign Roles for Warren in GOP Bid
Gov. Dewey plans to assign Vice President hopeful Earl Warren a major, equal role in a nationwide Republican campaign. Campaign manager Herbert Brownell Jr. said the ticket will tour separately and together to boost the party, aiming to widen the Senate majority. Brownell stressed a working partnership before Election Day.
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Warren
Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Earl Warren
California
Executive Chamber
Herbert C. Brownell, Jr
Brownell
U. S. Senate
Truman Plans Nine Day Yacht Cruise For Campaign Prep
President Truman will depart Friday for a nine day cruise aboard the Williamsburg with staff only. The trip down the Potomac into Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay serves as a vacation and work period to prepare for a country wide campaign. he will begin formal campaigning on September 6.
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Truman
White House
Charles G. Ross
Williamsburg
Potomac
Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake-Delaware Ship Canal
Delaware Bay
Ross
Mr. Truman
Death by own action verdict in Ruth Alexander case
Coroner J Grady Moss ruled death by own action in the fatal shooting of 22 year old Ruth Alexander of Holy Pond. She died while being taken to a hospital after a period of ill health.
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Cullman
Ala
J. Grady Moss
Ruth Alexander
Holy Pond
Moss
Tragic Death of Missing 13-Year-Old Found Beside Railroad
Edwin T. Gregory III, missing since June 28 after boarding a Seaboard Air Line Silver Meteor bound for Savannah, was found near a railroad embankment in Stafford County. An inquest was scheduled as investigators explored how the boy came to be outside the train with officials signaling doors and car windows were sealed and difficult to open.
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Stafford County
Edwin T. Gregory III
Savannah
East Hampton
Mass
Seaboard Air Line
Savarnnah
Ang Birs
Edwin Gregory
Bey
J. E. Borkey
Washington
Richmond
Burkey
Fon of
Ine
Alabama Dixiecrats Won't Block Truman on Ballot
Alabama States Rights electors will not oppose placing pro Truman electors on the November ballot. A Truman slate was proposed by a 35 member Alabama Democratic group after an organizational meeting in Montgomery. They plan to meet in Birmingham August 28 to name 11 electors, while States Rights electors cited no obstruction to the plan.
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Alabama
Truman
National Democratic Party
Birmingham
Guy Matlock
Gessner T. McCorvey
McCorvey
Joseph
Four New Candidates Enter Enterprise Municipal Race
Four new candidates entered the Enterprise election campaign. Howell Hayes, president of Hayes Lumber, announced his bid for mayor. Three men qualified for council seats, including Joe Slawson running for councilman at large against Ed Shirlin, Ed Smith in Ward 2 against P. H. Searcy, and Wilbur James in Ward 4 opposing J E. Rawls. The election will be held.
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Enterprise
Howell Hayes
The
Hayes Lumber Company
Joe Slawson
Ed Shirlin
Ed Smith
P. H. Searcy
Wilbur James
J E. Rawls
Net Spread For Two Wanted For Quizzing In Seaside Murders
Police widened the search for two men suspected in the seaside assault and death of Mary Hucks and the slaying of her male companion on a moonlit Atlantic beach near Ormond Beach. Four white youths and two Black men were questioned as reports placed two suspicious men buying a rifle and later seen in Daytona Beach. The victims were identified as Mary Hucks, 24, of East Point Georgia, and Gregory Blount, 23, a University of Kentucky student.
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Volusia County
William Freeman
Ormond Beach
Fla
Mary Hucks
East Point
Gregory Blount
Lexington
Alex Littlefield
Miss Hucks
Blount
T. J. Wright
Littlefield
W. R. Billingsley
Ormond
Florida
University of Kentucky
To. J. Wright
Wright
Daytona Beach
Dignified Treatment Initiated for Orange County School Staff
In Orlando, Janitors in Orange County are renamed custodians and school bus drivers gain access to faculty meetings. Principals and teachers attend refresher courses as Walker explains the policy aims to involve staff more closely in administration.
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Orlando
Fla
Orange County
Walker
Babe Ruth to Lie in State at Yankee Stadium
Babe Ruth will lie in state for 26 hours in Yankee Stadium rotunda from 3 p.m. today to 5 p.m. tomorrow as tributes pour in. Funeral service scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday at St. Patrick Cathedral with burial in Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Presidents and networks join world in mourning. Ruth died at Memorial Hospital from throat cancer at 53.
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Ruth
Memorial Hospital
Dothan
Dollan
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Westchester County
Mutual
NBC
ABC
Truman
Baade
Riverside Drive
Thomas H Kaufman
Roman Catholc Church of St. Catherine of Siena
Hayes Martin
Loton Rasmussen
Martin
C-74 Globemaster On Berlin Air Lift
Berlin airlift continues as U S Air Force announces a C-74 Globe master, Europe’s largest plane with a 174 foot wingspan, will fly 20 to 25 tons of flour to Berlin today. 58 USAF F-80 jets have arrived. 26 more join soon. British report Soviet Yak fighters briefly approached a London bound British passenger plane while Soviets claim a British fighter made a forced landing inside the Soviet zone. pilot was reported safe.
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U. S. Air Force
America
Europe
Frankfurt
Frankfurt-Berlin
Air Force
U. S
Germany
Parking Meters Net $601 In First Week
Dothan reports 79 parking meters earned $60.81 in the first full week of operation. Police Chief Eddie D. Kelley warned that offenders would be prosecuted and urged proper usage of the new meters.
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Dothan
Eddie D. Kelley
Sixth Conference Held With Molotov In Moscow
Observers remain uncertain on Berlin settlement talks as the sixth meeting with Molotov extended longer than past sessions. Western envoys, including Smith and Chataigneau, then briefed in London and Moscow to relay reports to their governments.
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Molotov
London
Russia
Berlin
Frankfurt
U. S
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Stalin
Kremlin
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
Yvex Chataigneau
Britain
Frank Roberts
Geneva Firm Is Low Bidder on Dothan Sewage Plant
Carter Construction Company of Geneva had the lowest bid for Dothan s new sanitary sewage disposal plant at 286 776 10 beating Couch Construction of Dothan s bid by more than 50 000 The commission postponed awarding the contract pending the September 7 bond election and also opened bids for the bonds Sterne Agee and Leach Montgomery submitted the winning bond bid at two and one half percent interest Turn to No 260 on Page 2
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Dothan
City Commission
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Montgomery
Sterne, Agee and Leach
Board of Commissioners
Heavy Rain Floods Downtown Streets
Sudden heavy rain and wind caused temporary blackouts as electrical wires went down and several streets flooded. City officials said no serious damage occurred while crews resumed paving work and extra machinery arrived to speed the project.
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Gty
Chiff Smith
Art Aonurmeber
Smath
CAA
Sevtierdas
Tata
Harry D White dies at 56 key figure in spy hearings
Harry Dexter White, 56, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury and a principal figure in Soviet spy hearings, died at his Fitzwilliam New Hampshire summer home. Officials said he suffered a heart seizure. White denied charges, testifying he was loyal to the United States and denying knowledge of a Silvermaster-linked friendship.
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Harry Dexter White
Washington
White
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Whittaké
R Chambera
Tine Magazine
Communist Party
Chambers
United States
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Board of Economic Warfare
Miss Bentley
Secret Talks and Leaks Roil Un-American Activities Panel
The House un American activities committee faced a behind the scenes row over an oath violation after Alger Hiss testified at a closed session. A member promised to demand a probe into a leak, while Hiss and others attended the questioning. The panel recessed three weeks and plans to reconvene next week to face Hiss and Whittaker Chambers.
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Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
Committee
Alger Hiss
State Department
Sis
Hiss
Whittaker Chandera
Niss
Thomas
R-Nj
Nixon
R-Calley
McDowell
R-Pai
Hebert
R-La
Robert E. Stripling
Donald Appel
Ben Mandel
Louis Russell
William Wheeler
Asselia Poore
Lillian Howard
Appell
Wheeler
Russell
Ferguson CR Mich
Truman Charged With Concealing Hidden Spy Ring
Rep. J Parnell Thomas accuses President Truman of concealing a new espionage ring and says the House Un American Activities Committee will reveal more about operations of another spy ring that gathered vital information. He claims the facts should have been made public months ago and the conspirators jailed.
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Washington
J. Parnell Thomas
Truman
Thomas
New Jersey Republican
House un-American Activities Committee
Lomakin Blames White Russians for Teacher Leap
New York AP Soviet Consul General Yakov Lomakin blames White Russians and American officials for a teacher's suicide attempt after a nervous breakdown. The Times reports Roosevelt Hospital patient details and a police report to Mayor O Dwyer casts doubt on kidnap claims and awaits federal action.
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U.S
Leap
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Sovyiet
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Jean
Roosevelt Hospital
New York Times
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Times
U. S
Moscow
Molotov
Washington
Arbsssmdee
Alexander
Penyushkia
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