Prices to Climb Under New OPA Price Law
OPA chief Porter warned some prices especially clothing will rise under the new price law while pledging to curb inflation. He said the agency will issue dozens of new price increase orders and urged consumer help in enforcing the act as he praised a potential year of inflation control.
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Washington
OPA
Paul A. Porter
Porter
ABC
Tawcot
Somehof Woslee
Congress
Yester- Bee
Gromyko to face questions on atomic weapon controls
New York July 27 delegates to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission foresee a barrage of questions for Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko next week. He supports outlawing atomic weapons and urges states signing a ban to enforce it within their borders. Critics seek concrete enforcement and punishment measures beyond his six month enactment proposal.
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New York
United Nattions Atomic Energy Commission
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
United Nations
Theatre Ticket Present This Clipping For Ad Taioaben
Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Jesse Corbin of West Main Street attend tonight's presentation at Strand Theatre or Dixie featuring Gary and Ingrid Bergman in a Walk In.
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Jesse Corbin
West Main Street
Gary
Ingrid Bergman
Strand Theatre
The
Burl Curry
Virginia Avenue
Joel McCrea
Gail Russell
Beet
Grafton
State House Stink Brings Senate Hopefuls Calls for Probe
Charleston July 27. Senatorial candidate J Buhl Shahan, former state purchases director, charged a million dollar road equipment line was pre allocated before bidding. He cited a list of proposed purchases and a Charleston firm tied to half eighteen item types. Republican rivals Swiftney and Wheeling demand thorough airing and a housecleaning.
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Charleston
J. Buh] Shahan
U. S
Shahan
Ent
Road Commission
Department of Purchases
L. Patterson
Governor Meadows
Gt Wheeling
Thomas B. Sweeney
Amd
Bee
State House
Mead Committee Seeks Comptroller General War Contract Tips
The Mead war investigating committee plans to discuss with Warren the loopholes enabling profits on equipment contracts. It has requested a GAO report on contract terminations with the Garsson migrations group and aims to hear specific cases where irregularities are suspected but lack concrete fraud evidence.
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Mead
D-Ny
War Investigating Committee
Warren
Hinery
General Accounting Office
Brewster
R-Me
Ferguson
R-Mich
Beieves
Cumberland Bet Cay
Kidnapped Baby Back In Mother's Arms Late Today
An 18 year old brunette facing arraignment on abduction charges claimed the infant Patricia Gale Blankenship looked like her own child. The baby was taken from a Bluefield bus station and later found with the mother Myrtle Blankenship en route to New Logan, Georgia. Police pursued the case as the suspect asserted she planned no ransom.
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Bluefield
Patricia Gale Blankenship
Georgia
West Virginia
R. O. Bond
Marie Delk
Blankenship
Myrtle Blankenship
Newton Ga
Levi Blankenship
Logan
Bitter Campaign Flames in Texas Vote to Nominate
Dallas dispatch notes Texas Democrats will nominate or vote in runoffs for governor, senator, 21 U S representatives and local officials. A turnout near 1 800 000 is foreseen with a heavy Negro vote. governor race the bitterest, overshadowed by moves to stop Homer Rainey, former UT president and minister.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Democrats
United States
Texas Democratic Party
Homer P. Rainey
University of Texas
Kids Protest for Nickel Cones in Burbank
In Burbank California on July 27 six young boys marched before a malt shop with improvised placards calling for nickel cones and five cent mixed drinks. Spokesman Richard Price, 11, said they receive 50 cents weekly and paying ten cents for a cone would halve their standard of living.
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Burbank
Calif
Richard Price
Rehearsed affair eyed in Negro killings near Monre
Major William E. Spence of the FBI said the four Negroes slain near Monre Georgia may have been killed in a rehearsed affair. He suggested the mob attack looked planned since the Negro Roger Malcolm was confined to jail. Local and federal officials debated civil rights implications, with Gov candidate Eugene Talmadge and Rep Marcantonio urging action.
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Monre
Here
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
William E. Spence
FBI
Roger Malcolm
Malcolm
George Dorsey
Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Justice Department
Jack Gautier
Macon
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Talmadge
Cheyenne
Wyo
Marcantonio
Al-Ny
Truman
Moscow Denies Truman on American Travel in Russia
Moscow radio delivered a denial of President Truman's claim that Americans cannot travel in the Soviet Union. The Tass-quoting broadcast cited recent visits by American figures such as Lillian Hellman and other cultural leaders, asserting Americans are allowed to acquaint themselves with Soviet life and the country’s cultural and economic system.
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Moscow Radio
Truman
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Tass
Sen. Brewster
R.me
Portland
M.C
U. S
Lillian Hellman
John Strom
American Association of Aricultural Publishers
Edwin Smith
Hairman
Moscow
Truman Receives Calls For Diverse Atomic Commission Picks
Congress members urged President Truman to appoint a cross section of American science business diplomacy and national defense to the domestic atomic control commission. Senate atomic committee chair Mesanon said he would push for picks that the country can trust and that the five member board will control atomic energy developments with broad authority including patents and security penalties. McMahon and Senator Austin urged outstanding civilians with security expertise, not necessarily military, to represent civilian and defense concerns on the commission.
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Truman
Congress
Domestic Atomic Control Commission
Mesanon
D.-Conn
Senate
Special Atomic Committee
White House
Charles Ross
Ross
United States
Commission
Oly
McMahon
Austin
R.-Vt
Heirens Attorney Seeks Confession To Three Murders
Chicago July 27. William Heirens's attorney Mals hy Coghlan says the 17 year old will confess to the kidnap killing of Suzanne Degnan the lipstick slaying of Frances Brown and the fatal stabbing of Mrs. Josephine Ross. Coghlan notes no quibble on the number of homicides, stressing the three victims. The defense plans to present the confession to State's Attorney William J. Tusby likely Tuesday after a jail conference with Heirens and his parents.
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Chicago
Malshy Coghlan
William Heirens
William J. Tusby
Suzanne Degnan
Frances Brown
Josephine Ross
Heirens
Coghlan
Keweta
Meat Price Protest Ends With Dramatic Recovery At Sea
In New York on July 27 a Holstein heifer slated for loading aboard a tug boat drew a dramatic rescue as Tong shoremen police and an emergency squad worked with an electric crane to recover the animal from the water after it went ashore.
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New York
Conflict grows over Hungary in Paris peace talks
A clash looms between Secretary Byrnes and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov at the Paris Peace Conference. The United States demands a new Hungarian economic deal to secure peace, protesting Red Army seizures of Hungarian foodstuffs and Soviet shutdowns of factories and production. The State Department disclosed the protest as Byrnes heads to Paris for the 21 nation conference.
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Washington
Paris
Byrnes
Molotov
Hungary
United States
Europe
State Department
West Virginia News Briefs item in Huntington
West Virginia news briefs describe a Huntington incident where a child sustained a leg injury after slipping on a floor and a separate report notes a Goiber crash involving 20 service members. The text references a Truman administration commission urged by Randolph and a missing person Willie E. Ingram from Huntington, along with related wartime notes.
Palestine Division BASIG Acceptable to British Heads
London announced British acceptance as a basis for negotiating a plan to divide Palestine into Jewish and Arab provinces under a federal government. Negotiations with Arabs and Jews in London aim to complete before the United Nations assembly meeting in September. The plan arose from British American cabinet committee talks completed yesterday. Byrnes disclosed that the committee adopted a partition plan with a conference date for Jews.
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London
Foreign “Office
Palestine
Plam
United Nations Assembly
Foreign Office
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Washington
Government Tired of Running Coal Mines
Secretary of the Interior Krug said the government is tiring of mining coal and plans to return the mines to private owners by fall. He spoke on a Mutual radio broadcast and said he will recommend to President Truman vetoing the tide lands bill. Krug and aides have managed the mines since they were seized last spring during the dispute with operators.
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Washington
Interior
Krug
Mutual
Truman
Operat
Wytheville Cab Driver Shooting Suspect Held
Wytheville July 27 The state patrol reports Julius Edward Munsey 28 of Bluefield Va held in Wythe County Jail charged with fatally shooting a local cab driver. Munsey was arrested at his mother's Bluefield home hours after Fred A Vaughn 25 was found shot in the head at the foot of Walker Mountain ten miles west of Wytheville.
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Wytheville
Andes
Julius Edward Munsey
Bluefield
Wythe County
Munsey
Fred A. Vaughn
Walker Mountain
Here
First Atom Ship Pushed Ashore After Bikini Blast
Underwater atomic blast force drove the First Atom ship ashore at Bayo Island. Tugboats braved Bikini lagoon to salvage for study as shifting winds and currents raised radioactivity in the inner target area, delaying damage assessment and salvage efforts.
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Transportatlon
Bayo Island
Bikini Lagoon
Taaget
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