Confident Nourse Heads Economic Advisory Council
Edwind G Nourse chosen by President Truman to chair the presidents council of economic advisors will steer policy to avoid inflation and depression. Nourse, Brookings vice president, joins Leon H Keyserling and John D Clark as Senate confirms the three member panel.
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Washington
Edwin G. Nourse
Truman
Nourse
Council of Economic Advisers
Congress
Senate
Brookings Institution
Organization For
Leon H. Keyserling
Natural Housing Agency
John D. Clark
University of Nebraska
Car Shortages Idle 59 Mines in West Virginia
FAIRMONT July 30 The railroad car shortage blamed for the idleness of employees at 59 northern West Virginia coal mines. Forty nine mines served by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with 1,895 hoppers. Ten on Monongahela lines down. Monongahela 30 percent car supply. Yesterday district had strong production with 191 tons brought to the st.
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Fairmont
West Virginia
Uhe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Solid Fuels Administration Office
Monongahela
Yestern
Theatre Ticket Presents Stars at Local Theatres
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Clara Phillips to attend tonight’s show. At Strand Theatre or Dixie Theatre audiences may see Beratoga Trunk starring Gary Gooper Ingrid Bergman or Gilda with Rita Hayworth and Ford.
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Grafton Sentinel
Clara Phillips Blueville
Gary Gooper
Ingrid Bergman
Strand Theatre
Gilda
Rita Hayworth
Ford
Dixie Theatre
Townsend Plan Returns to Congress in New Form
Washington July 30 The low mood Townsend Plan reappears before Congress with little chance of enactment. Senators Pepper Downey and Taylor push a 3 percent gross federal income tax to fund old age pensions for those 60 and over. The measure amends existing social security rules while the House already favors a payroll tax freeze and broader coverage.
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Washington
Townsend
Congress
Pepper
Fla
Downey
Calif
Taylor
Idaho
House
Senate Finance Committee
West Virginia News Briefs Update on city waste control plans
Wheeling reports city engineer Jay Henry says the city’s attempt to run its own garbage disposal system proved uneconomical and unsatisfactory with bids for contract work due by August 27. Parkerburg AFL council to sponsor a full Labor Day celebration at city park featuring games rides and fireworks. Charleston notes United Fuel Gas Company activity, see West Virginia page 3.
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Wheeling
Jay Henry
Ear
Parkersburg
AFL Central Trades and Labor Council
Charleston
United Fuel Gas Company
West Virginia
Five Die Today in Plane Crash Near West Mississippi
Five people were killed when a two engine plane crashed about five miles northeast of West Mississippi. Walter Howell, who saw the wreckage, reported five badly burned bodies and said the aircraft had two engines. Witnesses believed it to be an Army B 25 with no survivors known. The tail section remained, with wreckage scattered.
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West, Miss
Here
Walter Howell
West
Howell
U S Marines Killed In China After Communist Attack
Three hundred Chinese fighters attacked a truck convoy of one hundred Marines near Peiping. At least four Marines were killed and nineteen wounded as the four hour battle forced the convoy to withdraw. Missing continue to be sought while Communist negotiator Chou En-lai blamed Marine provocation.
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Tom Masterson Peiping
Pieping
Nanking
Chou En-La
China
Fred J. Frees
Sioux Falls
S. D
Peiping
Tientsin
James West
Cincin- Frees
West
Maj. F. Reese
Peiping Headquarters
Associated Press
U. S. Marines
Denies Funds for Coffee Campaign Expense
Tacoma contractor Eivind Anderson testified he agreed to pay Rep. Coffee 2500 for representation in Washington in 1941 stating the payment was not campaign contributions. He described a brief conversation after a War department visit and said Coffee assured him they would look after his interests with government officials.
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Washington
Eivind Anderson
Tacoma
Wash
Rep
Coffee
Capitol
Anderson
Senate War Investigating Committee
Lonesome Corridor
House
Paul A. Olson
War Department
Paul
Peared
War and Justice Department
House Filibuster Threatens GI Pay and OPA Funds
A House filibuster risk stalled action as dwindling attendance menaced key bills. If unresolved before Congress adjourns, terminal pay for enlisted personnel and extra OPA funds may die, with Rep. Rankin and Rep. Marcantonio clashing over contempt proceedings for un American activities.
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Washington
House
Congress
Chamber
Committee On UN
New U S decontrol board named by President Truman
Senate quick confirmed Roy S. Thompson as chairman and named Daniel W. Bell and George H. Mead to a new price decontrol board. The trio, each earning 12000 dollars annually, will decide by August 20 whether to restore price controls on meats dairy grains cotton seed soybeans and related products. Public hearings are required before any decision.
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Washington, Ip
Senate
Congress
Roy S. Thompson
Truman
Daniel W. Bell
George H. Mead
Thompson
Federal Land Bank of
New Orleans
Bell
The
Treasury
Ammerican Security and Trust Co
Washington
Mead
Mead Paper and Pulp Co
Dayton
Ohio
OPA
Curfew Clamps Tel Aviv After King David Bombing
British troops impose a 22 hour curfew on Tel Aviv to catch suspects in the King David Hotel bombing. Palestine police aid as 2000 to 3000 Jewish residents are rounded up for identification and questioning, with releases for the innocent as promptly as possible.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
King David
Palestine Police
Ford Celebrates His 83rd Birthday
Ford marks his 83rd birthday in Detroit as Dearborn plans a day of events. Henry Ford urges youth to solve national problems with hard work. A 9 to 9:30 p.m. broadcast from Columbia plans to cover ceremonies. He predicts peace and prosperity after wartime difficulties and urges faith in the American people.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Ford
Columbia Broadcasting System
Nagato Sunk in Bikini Atomic Test Offloading Final Blow
Bikini July 30 Nagato one of Japan s largest prewar battleships sank in Thursday s underwater atomic blast joining a battleship carrier as capital ships lost in the test. The 32720 ton warship suffered multiple prior hits at Pearl Harbor Yokosuka and later in the Bikini explosion. Updated tally lists New York Arkansa Sagatoga and others sunk with several vessels missing or beached.
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Bikini
Japan
Nagato
Philippines
Yokosuka
Adm
W. H. P. Blandy
New York
Arkansas
Sagatoga
Local firm pays for overcharges in Charleston
The District OPA enforcement division reports 20 cases involving the price administrator’s claims for overcharges by West Virginia firms were settled with $7,307.62 paid to the U S Treasury. Settlements include American restaurant in Gratton for $271.02 and a consent injunction restraining further violations was obtained.
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Charleston
District Opa
West Virginia
U. S. Treasury
Gratton
OPA
Rainmakers’ odd drought tale ends with charity pool gift
Waynesburg Pennsylvania reports no rain on July 29 marking a 15 year first and 4th in 70 years. Chief Rainmaker John Daily paid 50 dollars to Jack Dempsey, who donated the sum to fund a swimming pool for Waynesburg, amid a broader weather tale from the region.
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Waynesburg
John Daily
Jack Dempsey
Shirts Pajamas Hiked 11 Percent
The OPA granted an 11 percent rise in retail prices for men's shirts shorts and pajamas and allowed an additional 10 percent for men's and boys dress shirts and boys sports shirts where it does not exceed maximums. The new caps are about 1.84 for men's dress shirts 1.04 for a boys shirt type and 1.35 for another.
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Washington
OPA
Child Reunited After Abduction At West Virginia Bus Station
Mrs Myrtle Blankenship 22 and her 11 month old daughter Patricia Gale were reunited eight hours after the child was taken from a Bluefield bus station. The mother, en route from Newton Georgia to join her ex soldier husband Levi Blankenship a coal company worker at Logan, faced grief on her first West Virginia visit before police recovered the child.
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West Virginia
Myrtle Blankenship
Patricia Gale
Bluefield
W.va
Atomic powered ships reality in short time
Dr Robert D Fowler an atomic energy expert predicts atomic powered battleships may be a reality within two to five years. Vice Admiral E L Cochrane says energy will propel American battleships within ten years. Fowler adds it could happen sooner if the Navy remains committed.
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Baltimore
Robert D. Fowler
Aes Chemistry
Johnsoo University
E. L. Cochrane
Navy Department
Bureau of Ships
Bikini Atoll
Fowler
SEEK QUICK END IN MURDER CHARGE IN MONROE GA
Attorney General Tom Clark urged an early resolution of the mass murders in Monroe Georgia where about twenty men lynched two African American farm workers and their wives last Thursday. He called on citizens to reject mob rule and aid authorities to bring the criminals to justice. The Justice Department has received numerous letters and telegrams from civic, religious, labor, and veterans groups nationwide condemning the violence.
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Washington
Tom Clark
Monroe
Clark
Justice Department
Pub Hc
Primary votes loom in Alabama and Arkansas races
Alabama holds a senate primary to replace the late John H. Bankhead with Rep. John Sparkman backed by CIO-PAC and labor groups joining AFL support as rivals Rep. Frank Boykin James Simpson Ted Allen and Thomas M. MacWell compete. Arkansas Governor Ben Laney seeks a Democratic renomination in a separate primary, not tied to congressional elections.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Arkansas
Cio-Pac
John J. Sparkman
House
John H. Bankhead
Frank Boykin
Sparkman
AFL
James A. Simpson
Ted Allen
Thomas M. MacWell
George R. Swift
Bankhead
Ben Laney
Japs Planned To Erase Red Menace
Documents offered at Tokyo war crimes trial show as early as 1936 Japan planned to advance and develop the empire to ward the south seas and to eradicate the Soviet menace to the north. Prosecution submitted foreign ministry extracts outlining plots to separate north China provinces from the government and to economically penetrate the Asiatic mainland despite defense objections.
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Toko
Tokyo
South Seas
Britain
America
Hideki Tojo
Foreign Ministry
North China
Byrnes presses for open covenants at Paris Peace talks
Paris July 30 The United States Secretary of State James Byrnes told the Paris Peace Conference open covenants may be adopted only with a two thirds majority for any peace treaty. He spoke after rules committee considered a proposal on freedom of the press and was supported by Molotov and Australian Foreign Minister Evatt. The Russian demand for unanimity in major decisions was noted. The session opened with a pledge that democracy cannot be imposed by force.
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Paris
Byrnes
San Byre
Foreign Ministers Council
General Assembly
Moleault
Council of Foreign Ministers
United ‘States
Assebly
V. M. Molotov
Russia
H. V. Evatt
Hill-Burton Plan Proposes $42 Million Hospital Funds
Washington July 30 Congress expected to pass today or tomorrow the Hill Burton bill providing 42 million dollars for a five year program to build and equip hospitals. Private non profit and state county or city hospitals may share in federal funds. The measure appropriates 75 million dollars annually for five years for the nation.
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Washington
Congress
Funk
South
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