Profits Probe Details on Garson Combine Figures
Joseph F. Free testifies to war profits inquiry about Rep Andrew J of Kentucky aiding intercession with the War Department. Allen B. Gellman notes a Senate panel cut from the Garsson combine as the investigation unfolds.
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Garston
Joseph F. Free
Wittee
Andrew J
D.-Ky
Coopfion
War Department
Allen B. Gellman
Senate
Garsson Combine
International
Talmadge Leads On Inconclusive Georgia Primary
The Georgia Democratic primary returns show Eugene Talmadge with a lead in many counties and unit votes, yet 36 year old Carmichael leads the popular vote. Riots of unreported blocks and a new white primary issue loom as Talmadge pledges to restore the white primary by removing it from state control. results are incomplete across 153 counties and 1023 of 1746 precincts.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Talmadge
James V. Carmlachel
Carmichael
Ellis Arnall
E. D. Rivers
Hoke O Kelley
Rivers
O'Kelly
Deep South
U. S. Supreme Court
South Carolina
Delays in May Probe Run by Senate War Committee
Washington July 18 The Senate war investigating committee reported new evidence delaying its decision in the Midwest munitions combine inquiry. It concerns May of Kentucky, a House Military Committee figure, who seeks cross examination rights and records access. May admits aiding the Illinois industrial combine during war years but says gains were war effort only.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Iid War Profits
Mid‘west
Min May
D.ky
House ‘Military Committee
Combine
Mead
May
Tlinois
Dut
Execu
Slaying Shocks Ohio: Mother's Body Found Near Alliance
Ohio investigators and Stark and Columbiana counties work to track a slayer after the nude body of 26 year old Mrs. Geraldine Elizabeth I of Pittsburgh was found yesterday in a ditched car along a country road southeast of Alliance. She had been shot twice and dragged about 75 feet. Her husband Harold Beck of Grafton Beach, Pa, to confer with prosecutors as possible leads are pursued. Robbery seems unlikely as her suitcase remained in the car.
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Ohio
Lumbiana
Stark County
Geraldine Elzabeth I
Pittsburgh
Alliance
Theatre Ticket Present Tile Cupping for Aa Raid at Strand
Theatre notes show tickets listed for performances at the Strand with cast members including Joan Bennett William Sytlee and others, while Dixie Theatre offers a separate event featuring Carol. The fragment mentions Cobarm and Valley venues and describes theatre listings with unclear spellings.
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Raid
Joan Bennett
William Sytlee
Strand Tre
Valley
D Green
Carol Is
Dixie Theatre
Veterans urged to be model citizens by Admiral King
Cleveland July 18 Admiral Ernest J King told veterans at the Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment that war veterans should be better citizens. He urged active participation in government and support for financial and anti famine programs, saying veterans understand the need to keep the United States in an effective military state.
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Cleveland
Ernest J. King
Kinz
Ohio Department of Veterans of Foreign Wars
United States
WANTS ACTION IN COAL CAR SHORTAGE
In Fairmont on July 18 President C Fremont Davis of United Mine Workers District 3 urged northern West Virginia civic groups to aid in solving a coal car shortage. He warned the shortage threatens the Baltimore and Ohio and Monongahela railroads and the community life as 114 idle mines caused a 100000 ton production loss.
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Fairmont
C. Fremont Davis
United Mine Workers District 3Y
West Virginia
Davis
Baltimore and Ohio
Monongahela
Lew Lewis gains foothold in mine wage talks with govt contract
In Washington on July 18 the government granted a wage agreement covering 186 mine supervisors, giving John L. Lewis and the Mine Workers AFL a new toehold in the soft coal industry. The pact, signed by Interior Secretary Krug and coal mines administrator Moreell, applies only during federal possession and could be voided if courts find government action improper. It covers 136 supervisors at four Jones and Laughlin mines in western Pennsylvania, Vesta No 4 5 6 and Shannopin at California.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
AFL
Secretary of the Interior
J. A. Krux
Adm
Ben C. Moreell
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Western
Pensylvania
Vesta
Married senators may fear vote on women equality amendment
Washington July 18 Some married senators fear returning home tonight as debate opens on a proposed constitutional amendment granting women equality of rights under the law. Senator Radcliffe leading the floor fight urged a straightforward vote while Senators Andrews Murdock and others prepare arguments against the measure citing state laws protecting mothers and workers and accusing changes of discriminating against men. Page 3.
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Washington
Radcliffe
D.-Md
Andrews
D.-Fla
Murdock
Utah
Tariff Cutting Takes Top Spot
Washington dispatch notes tariff reductions as the lead item in expanding global trade. Following a Britain loan, over thirty inter-departmental committees draft lists of commodities for lower duties under the 1934 trade agreements act. Plans aim for a 16-nation conference to set quotas, preferences and subsidies with reciprocity.
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Washington
Britain
Government wages exceed private pay in nation
Federal state and local governments account for more than one sixth of all wages. Annual private salary total is 84 billion dollars while government payments reach about 18 billion. Most federal civilian pay goes to Army Navy and war agencies with Panama Canal and wartime agencies like OPA and Selective Service. Congress and peacetime departments are at 2.6 billion. See PAYS page 3.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Panama Canal
OPA
Selective Service
Congress
Piles of Garbage Rise as McKeesport Strike Drags On
Roving pickets halted private haulers from removing garbage in McKeesport Pennsylvania as municipal workers’ three day strike continued. Pickets persuaded two truck drivers to return loads to restaurants and blocked disposal at the incinerator amid mounting health official concern.
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Mckeesport
Accu
Ale
Name Bowles Successor When OPA Gets Going Again
Amid China crisis in Nanking and Yangtze clashes and US talks, Truman vows to name Bowles successor once an OPA law allows action. Marshall accompanies Stuart as negotiations stall, while price control battles continue and Congress debates a constitutional equal rights amendment.
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Bowles
OPA
Philippine land sale probe launches as church seeks aid
July 18 Manila report says Congress plans an immediate inquiry into the sale of 840000 acres of Buena estate by a Catholic hospital group to Brig. Gen. Ernest Burt, U S A retired, with the Catholic diocese offering to cancel and President Roxas contemplating expropriation to block the deal. Bettors seek back lease payments to rebuild San Juan de Dios hospital as Burt set to testify.
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Manila
Philippine Congress
Caifholic Hospital Association
Buena Estate
Ernest Burt
Joyce Pecked
Anenayeee
The
Phil‘pines
Manuel Roxas
Mons. Jovellasos
San Juan de Dios
Burt
Atomic damage observed on ships sunk at Bikini lagoon
Diver reports aboard the USS Mount McKinley describe the maximum effect of the atomic bomb on five ships sunk July 17. Lt Commander J. T. Simpson recalls seeing Gillam with its entire superstructure gone and wreckage strewn, while Lamson lay capsized in 65 feet of water with its hull bent upward.
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Mount Mckinley
Bikini Lagoon
Oday
J. T. Simpson
Lynchburg
Gillam
Pittsburgh
Lamson
Tatall
Typhoon Dampens Hong Kong Harbor with Vessels Damaged
A typhoon struck Hong Kong harbor at 102 mph causing wreckage to at least six vessels of varying sizes and forcing abandonment of cars and jeeps as streets flooded. The storm moved southwest after three hours of heavy rain and damage totals rose in the city.
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Hong Kong
Gordon Murder Trial Nears End in Bluefield
Princeton West Virginia July 18 The states case against William Gordon 21 year old Columbia South Carolina sailor on trial for the shotgun slaying of Mrs Josephine Carr April 1 at Bluefield drew near a close today after testimony from family members of the victim They described discovering her body near a sewing machine and a shotgun wound in her neck Gordon had been living with the Carrs and was identified by clothing found in his possession The state contends the shooting was an attempted robbery and that Gordon planned to escape in the Carr automobile with a key he believed opened it The Carr family testified the key opened a bakery where the elder Carr worked
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Princeton
W. Va
William Gordon
Columbia
Josephine Carr
Bluefield
Dewey Carr
Carr
Gordon
Navy
West Virginia Picket Lines Idle Wheeling Firms
In Wheeling twenty eight construction companies halted work as APL wage hike and union carpenters and other workers refused to cross drivers lines. In Oak Hill two playmates carried 8 year old Dickie Bradley home after a scuffle from his tent. Dickie has been missing five days. Details on West Virginia page 4.
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Wheeling
Wheeling Construction
APL
Ee Oak Hill
Dickie Bradley
Byte
Dickie
West Virginia
Truman rails against Slaughter in Missouri primary
President Truman indicated he will back Democratic candidates where he can be of service and openly opposed Rep. Roger C. Slaughter of Missouri’s fifth district. He said James Pendergast would support Enos Axtell, Slaughter's opponent, and asserted his stance on Slaughter when asked about the neighboring district. He planned to vote August 6 and stated his opposition to Slaughter without hesitation.
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Washington
Truman
Roger C. Slaughter
Missouri
James Pendergast
Kansas City
Enos Axtell
Slaugher
Pendergast
Wheeler
D-Mont
Slaughter
Pender
328 Students Register At Fairmont College Summer Term
In Fairmont, 328 students registered for the opening of the college's second summer term, among the largest groups in years. The registration included 120 veterans among the attendees as the session began.
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Fairmont
Pairmont State College
West Virginia reports agate chicken shortage
Charleston July 18 West Virginians who swapped red meat for chicken face a white meat and drum stick shortage the Cooperative Federal State Crop Reporting Service predicts. Low hatchery output from June 185000 chicks and higher feed costs shrink flocks while gardens yield beans corn cabbage squash and tomatoes as pastures dry and temperatures rise.
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Charleston
West
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James F. Byrnes
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LEW Wing
York
Irene Najdenkows
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Yangtze River
Chou En-Lai
Peng Hsueh-Pei
Yangtze
Shanghai
Peng
Chungking
Marshall
John Leighton Stuart
Generalissmo
Ethnie Bear
Wse
Atie
Chester Bowles
Porter
Capitol Hill
Barkley
Philippine Land Sale
Trunk Opprses Demmy
Rager Slaughter
Fairmont College
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