Compromise wage bill splits GOP as debate opens
Washington Aug 9 A split among Republicans over a 75 cent minimum wage added uncertainty to House debate on amending the wage hour law. Democrats expect to keep 75 cents but may accept 65. Republicans fear southern states defecting on Lucas bill. The administration proposal would raise to 75 cents and broaden coverage while Lucas would set 65 with annual cost of living adjustments.
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Washington
House
House Labor Committee
GOP
Labor Committee
Rep
Lucas
D-Tex
South
Lesinski
D-Mich
Stennis urges passage of rural phone loan measure
Senator Stennis of Mississippi urged the Senate agriculture committee to approve a House-passed bill creating a federal loan program to extend rural telephone service. He called telephones vital to rural business and likened the plan to the Rural Electrification Administration expansion. An independent small phone company owner warned lack of financing would halt rural expansion and service.
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Washington
Stennis
D-Miss
Tony
Senate Agriculture Committee
House
Ipodon
SBI Ordered to Probe State Advertising Award
Governor Scott announced that the SBI will investigate reports of irregularities in awarding the state advertising contract. The probe follows a recommendation from J L Horne Jr of Rocky Mount, chairman of the state conservation and development advertising committee. The governor urged a thorough and impartial inquiry to clear or confirm the charges and protect the state's good name.
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SBI
Raleigh
Scott
J. L. Horne, Jr
Rocky Mount
State Department of Conservation and Development
McVe
Caesar
Luce Donates Mepkin Plantation for Trappist Monastery
Henry R. Luce transfers most of his Mepkin plantation in Berkeley County to the Charleston diocese to establish a Cistercian Trappist monastery. The deal involves 3,130 acres of 7,200 with a $20,000 note payable over five years, bishops and monks from Gethsemane Ky. to establish the foundation.
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S. C
Time-Life Magazine
Henry R. Luce
Luce
Berkeley County
Monks Corners
Charleston
Emmet M. Walsh
Gethsemane
Lovett Denies Outside Pressure on B-36 Flight
Robert A. Lovett, former assistant secretary of war for air, testified to the House Armed Services Committee that no outside influence pushed the B-36 bomber into service in 1941. He noted the B-36 originated in August 1941 after air corps planners decided the U S needed a bomber with a 10 000 pound load for 10 000 miles.
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Washington
Robert A. Lovett
Air
House Armed Services Committee
Lovett
Air Corps
U.S
Stock Market Takes Time Out To Catch Breath
The two day stock market advance paused for a breath with narrow price moves and few leadership changes. Radio TV and oils showed modest strength but no broad buying. Celanese Corp fell over a point while six month earnings dropped to 6.174 million from 20.768 million the prior year.
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New York
Radio-Tv
Celanese Corp. of America
Bethelehem Steel
Nickle Plate
Emerson Radio & Phonograph
Radio Corp
American Smelting
Dome Mines
Texas Co
Studebaker
Commonwealth Edison
Consolidated Natural Gas
McIntyre
Dow Chemical
Eastman Kodak
American Can
American Woolen
Chrysler
American Tobacco
Loew's
United Air Lines
Trygve Lie Proposes Six Point Peace Plan at UN
U N Secretary-General Trygve Lie outlines a six point program to bolster the world organization and curb war risks in his fourth annual report. He highlights progress, the Berlin blockade lifted, and urges continued talks among great powers on German Austrian and Japanese treaties atomic control and a 300 man UN guard force. He also pushes trusteeship for Italy’s colonies amid debates over trusteeship plans and territorial administration.
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Lake Success
U. N
Trygve Lie
World Peace Organization
Lie
Berlin
U.N
Italy
General Assembly
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Brannan to Speak Tonight at North Carolina State College
Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan will address thousands at the 41st North Carolina farm and home week. Governor Scott precedes him at 7 30 at Riddick Stadium as the four day event opens with 5000 plus expected visitors and farm machinery exhibits described as the most complete in the state.
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Raleigh
Charles Brannan
Brannan
Scott
N. C. State College
Riddick Stadium
North Carolina
State
J. W. Harrelson
L. Y. Ballentine
George Apperson
Mocksville
Eighteen German children killed in Hamburg bus crash
Eighteen children died when an express train struck a holiday bus in Hamburg late last night five minutes before the children were due to arrive home. The tragedy occurred as the group neared their destination.
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Hamburg
Germany
Social Security Revision Depends On Next Session
James Marlow reports that House Ways and Means backs a bill to expand social security, raising taxes and benefits. The plan would lift maximum pensions from 44.80 to 74.20 for men and 22.40 to 37.19 for wives, raise the minimum from 10 to 25, and retroactively boost existing payments begun since 1940.
Earthquakes Leave Ecuador Highlands Homeless and Stricken
Government grapples with housing 100000 people made homeless by Friday's quake. Pelileo reports 3200 dead, Ambato largely ruined, 75 percent of homes in the city wrecked. Emergency aid, tents, airlift, and a 20 year bond plan outlined as relief efforts expand.
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Ecuador
Jorge Mantilla
Quito
Galo Plaza Lasso
Pelileo
Plaza
Ambato
United States
Miguel Albornoz
Tungarahua
Governor's Choice for State Advertising Head Faces Salary Panel
The advertising committee of the state board of conservation and development meets in Raleigh to review Governor Scott's pick to head the advertising division. If approved, Charlie Parker, the governor's private secretary, could replace Bill Sharpe at a salary higher than Sharpe's. The panel may also discuss ending the Ayer and Gillett advertising contract after 60 days.
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Raleigh
State Board of Conservation and Development
Scott
Charlie Parker
Bill Sharpe
John Marshall
Parker
Sharpe
Ayer and Gillett
Charlotte
Men Winning Fight Against Forest Fire
Helena Montana August 9 report says 500 firefighters struggle a four day blaze that has killed 13 and burned 6000 woodland acres. Forest supervisor A D Moir says the fire should be entirely under control by tomorrow.
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Helena
Mont
A. D Moir
Helena National Forest Supervisos
Fellow Spiritualists Join Search for Woman's Slayer
Baltimore August 9—Mrs A Kefalos a 60 year old spiritualist was strangled with an electric cord. Fellow mediums offered to reach the spirit world to identify her killer. Neighbors say she held seances and kept crystal balls in a second floor apartment in the Polish Bowerman section. The room was ransacked and $68 cash plus five rings were found. robbery ruled out. A fellow medium cited threats from an unknown man and neighbors recall her fraught relationships with men. Police pursue possible clues from the spirit world.
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Baltimore
A. Kefalos
Nick Drisas
Kefalos
Health Grants Awarded to Tar Heels Researchers
The National Institutes of Health announced 217 grants totaling $2,056,426 to 94 institutions for continuation of medical and allied research. Projects cover deafness, speech defects, peptic ulcers, the common cold, and endocrine aging. Grants include Duke University and University of North Carolina recipients with listed researchers and amounts.
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Washington
National Institutes of Health
North Carolina
Duke University
Durham
Wiley D. Forbus
John T. Cuttino
Keith S. Grimson
Philip Handler
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Kenneth M. Brinkhouse
Olive resigns as chairman of State Elections Board
Governor Scott announced the resignation of Hubert E. Olive of Lexington as chairman of the state board of elections. Charles Britt of Asheville was named as Olive's successor and urged to become chairman. Olive cited workload with Wake Forest college fundraising as the reason for stepping down.
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Olive
State Elections Board
Raleigh
Hubert E. Olive
Lexington
State Board of Elections
Scott
Charles Britt
Asheville
Britt
Wake Forest College
Collision injures Joyce Fillingame near Vanceboro
Joyce Fillingame of Vanceboro Craven county was badly cut when the car she rode in hit the rear of Bernard Fagersten's automobile two miles from Vanceboro on highway 17 around 11 PM.
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New Bern
Joyce Fillingame
Vanceboro
Craven County
Bernard Fagersten
Clairmont
Fla
North Carolina ad division shakeup Heard in Capitol Newsroom
Governor Scott bypasses board and appoints Charles Parker, private secretary, as state advertising director amid 60 day notice to Ayer and Gillett. Advertising committee voices resentment as J L Horne schedules a Wednesday meeting to fill the post. Frederick Davis and Eric Rodgers among others involved in talks with Parker.
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J. L. Horne
T. V. Rochelle
High Point
Tom Alexander
Cattaloochee
Fred Davis
Zebulon
Eric Rodgers
Scotland Neck
Parker
Halve First Year Cost for Western Europe Aid Proposed
Senator Vandenberg proposed a 50 percent cash cut for the first year of Western Europe aid, suggesting about 580 million dollars be provided in cash with the rest covered by later contract authorizations. Secretary Johnson argued that 1.456 billion is needed to safeguard U S security and deter Soviet expansion. The debate occurred at a joint Senate committee hearing as Congress moved toward action on the foreign recovery bill.
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James Marlow Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Michigan
Louis Johnson
Johnson
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committee
United States
Europe
Soviet Union
Atlantic
Western Europe
Senate House Committee
Vaughn Intervened In California Race Track Case
Washington reports Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan pressed for fair handling of a Tanforan track construction dispute in 1947 48. Tighe Woods testified Vaughan sought race track friends’ interest and urged merit and legality in approvals. Creedon had paused work. later, a court order halted ongoing construction.
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Washington
Tighe Woods
Harry H. Va
White House
Vaughan
California
Woods
Tanforan
San Francisco
Calif
Senate
Truman
Francis D. Flanagan
Frank L. Creedon
Federal
Creedon
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