Europe Faces Economic Uncertainty After Strasbourg Debate
A Strasbourg assembly of the 12 nation Council of Europe warned that Marshall Plan aid yields limited long term recovery and Europe risks chaos without economic unity before 1952. Critics blamed self interest and urged Europe to build a healthy economy independent of outside funding.
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Western Europe
Atlantic
Consultative Assembly
Council of Europe
Strausbourg
Europe
America
Strasbourg
Economic Cooperation Administration
Washington
Uncle Sam
Sam
Tobacco Prices Rise on Eastern and Border Belts
Federal state market news reports most grades higher on the eastern North Carolina flue cured belt and continued gains on the Carolina border belt. Increases averaged 1 to 3 per hundred on the border. eastern grades show stronger gains in lower quality while better grades stay steady.
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Raleigh
Maragon Refuses To Answer Hoey Inquiries On Advice
John Maragon declined to answer questions before the senate five percenter inquiry citing possible self incrimination. The witness had previously been reported to have deposited $119 608.61 over five years while claiming income near $30 000 annually. Maragon and his attorney challenged the committee’s authority to probe personal affairs and papers.
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Washington
John Maragon
Senate
Maragon
Hoey
D-Nc
Committee Behind Closed Doors
Gon
Ehrlich
Stock Market In Steadying Mood
New York August 26 The stock market steadied after an early selling flare with fractional losses lingering. Several issues traded little or not at all while others held Thurs day levels. declines touched General Motors Chrysler United Aircraft Schenley American Telephone Consolidated Edison Anaconda Copper Allied Chemical International Paper NY Central Union Pacific DS Gypsum inching ahead were Youngstown Sheet Woolworth Radio Corp Consolidated Natural Gas DuPont Philip Morris Chesapeake Ohio Texas Co
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New York
General Motors
Chrysler
United Aircraft
Schenley
American Telephone
Consolidated Edison
Anaconda Copper
Allied Chemical
International Paper
N. Y
Retiring state education chief honored by staff at Capitol
About thirty staff members of the state board of education paused operations to honor Paul Red, retiring chief and soon president of Western Carolina Teachers College. Red served as controller for nearly six years and received a silver tray gift from colleagues. The event followed mixed prior meetings but cordial relations and mutual respect were stressed by J. E. Hunter and Reid.
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State Board of Education
Paul Red
Western Carolina Teachers College
Cullowhee
Capitol Square
J. E. Hunter
Presidei
Reid
Questi
Chipper 102-Year-Old Vet to Fly to Final GAR Reunion
Chipper Charley Chapper, age 102, plans to fly to Indianapolis for the GAR final encampment, hoping to help wrap up business and return home. He is joined by neighbors Elmer Wohlgeuth and Ida Baker, famed for his Memorial Day appearances and recent garden garden misadventures.
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Chipper
Long Beach
Calif
Charley Chapper
Boys In Blue
Grand Army of the Republic
Charley
GAR
Indianapolis
Boys In
Charles L. Chappel
10Th New York Infantry
Appomattox
Lee
Naval Hospital
Naval
Chappel
Stanley Avenue
Elmer Wohlgeuth
Ida Baker
Polio Epidemic Worst In U S History
New York August 26 Polio cases in 1949 reached 17 306 with 3 422 new cases in the past week the highest weekly total ever. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis projects the year will be the worst in U S history with patterns suggesting a peak between mid August and mid September. Dr Hart E Van Riper notes the peak timing affects subsequent case declines.
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New York
U. S
National Foundation For
Hart E. van Riper
Foundation
Young Boy Rescued After Arm Trapped In Pipe
In Fargo North Dakota Aug a three year old boy Neil Olson became stuck his arm in a fuel oil intake pipe eight up to the elbow. Firemen freed him by rotating him to unscrew the pipe threads then transported to hospital for treatment with grease to aid removal.
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Fargo
N. D
Neil Olson
Neil
Bull Bull charges bus in Knoxville incident
A runaway black bull boarded a parked bus labeled Oak Ridge in Knoxville Tennessee. The animal kicked out a windshield tore seats then rested in the back seat before being driven off by a packing house employer who came to reclaim it and the crowd calmed after about three hours.
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Knoxille
Tenn
Oak Ridge
Two Nurses And Pilot Die in Crash
A twin engine Cessna ambulance plane crashed 15 miles northwest of Oxford killing pilot Robert B. Bushey and two nurses Mrs. Letha Cottrell Cole and Mrs. Peggy Chatham. Chatham died later at Granville hospital. witnesses saw the plane drop flares before the crash. Bushey had flown for Piedmont Aviation since about two years.
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Oxford
Here
Robert B. Bushey
Winston- Salem
Letha Cottrell Cole
Hillsboro Road
Durham
Peggy Chatham
Broad Street
Watts Hospital
Bread Meadows Farm
Granville County
O. J. Mitchell
Cole
Chatham
Granville
Mitchell
Winston-Salem
Tom Davis
Piedmont Aviation, Inc
Bushey
Reynolds
Piedmont Aviation
Davis
Worth Flops as Witness in B-36 Fraud Probe
Congressional investigators pursued additional suspects amid fraud and favoritism rumors in the B-36 bomber program. Cedric Worth disavowed prior accusations against Floyd Odlum and others, then admitted no direct knowledge of corruption while Navy officials ordered a formal inquiry.
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Washington
Defense Johnson
Air Symington
Floyd Odlum
Navy
Cedric Worth
Navy Department
Worth
Dan Kimball
House
Keenan
Odlum
Consolidated-Vultece Aircraft Company
Rep
Bates
Rmass
Sir Harry Lauder Reported Weakened by Illness
Sir Harry Lauder 79, famed Scottish comedian, gravely ill at his home near Strathaven Scotland. He has been ill since Monday with uremia and blood clots on the brain and was reported weakening this morning.
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Harry
Strathaven
Scotland
Harry Lauder
Here
Lauder
Snoopy the Heifer Strands in Private Silo at Lampman Farm
Snoopy a 650 pound heifer escaped into a 12 foot deep silo on the Everett Lampman farm in Osceola Wisconsin. Neighbors plan to fill the silo to coax her out while a weekend rescue party with apple pie and fried chicken awaits.
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Osceola
Wis
Snoopy
Everett Lampman
Lampman
Truman Talks Candidacy Plans Amid 1950 Election Gaze
President Truman's close allies doubt he will announce a 1952 run soon. They expect a public tour next year to rally support for his fair deal program. Truman hinted he might not run in 1952 but gave no definite answer as teenage visitors entertained him at the White House.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
American Legion Auxiliary
Legionnaires Vying For Legion Command In Philadelphia
Delegates to the 31st National American Legion convention arrive in Philadelphia with three candidates George N. Craig Earl Cocke and James F Green contending to become the first non World War I veteran to lead the Legion A national parade on Tuesday expected to feature 18000 marchers with a 15 hour event and a parade inventory valued at millions including uniforms instruments and bands from Joliet Illinois along with drums bugle corps and color guards.
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Philadelphia
National American Legion
George N. Craig
Brazil
Ind
Earl Cocke
Dawson
James F. Green
Omaha
Neb
Legion
Joliet
Ill
Chinese Reds Close In On Canton Front
Chinese Reds push toward Canton as Nationalist reports claim Lungnan Kiangsi town falls and Kiernan and Tingnan may be captured. About 19,000 Communist troops pound border points along routes south of Kukong, 125 miles north of Canton.
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Canton
Kwangtung
Kiangsi
Lungnan
Kiernan
Tingnan
Kwangtung Providence
Kukong
Johnson Plans More Military Spending Cuts
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson outlines a plan to cut 135,000 civilian employees and shut down about 50 installations to save roughly 500 million dollars annually. President Truman ordered the cuts to curb government spending as the defense effort reshapes postwar force levels.
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James Marlow Washinngton
Louis Johnson
Truman
Johnson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Okeechobee Lake Area In Path Of Hurricane
The weather bureau issued a noon advisory as the Atlantic hurricane nears Florida. Winds 25 to 35 mph rising, heavy rain from Vero Beach to Miami, with abnormally high tides and onshore winds strongest near Fort Lauderdale and Stuart. Precautions advised until the storm passes, especially in hurricane warnings zones around Lake Okeechobee. The storm center is set to pass near Lake Okeechobee.
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Miami
Fla
Weather Bureau
Florida Peninsula
Vero Beach
Fort Lauderdale-Stuart
Lake Okeechobee
Greater Miami
Berandina
Key
Fort Myers
Cedarey
Nassau
Bahamas
Palm Beach
Miami Weather Bureau
Seven Lost As U S Sub Sinks In Far North
UPI reports the submarine Cochino exploded and burned in Arctic waters with six navy sailors and a civilian technician dead and 84 crewmen rescued. The Tusk recovered Cochino’s crew and headed to Hammerfest, Norway for medical aid after a cold water training mission briefed by Admiral Connally.
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U.S
Far North
Washington
UPI
Navy
Arctic
Hammerfast
Richard L. Connally
U. S
European
U. S. Naval Submarine Base
New London
Conn
Royall Urges Unification of Air and Defense Forces
Former Secretary Royall recommends drastic changes to unify the armed services. He says the Air Force should be transferred to the Navy or absorb the Naval Air arm. Royall urges the Secretary of Defense to have power to prescribe and alter the roles of Army Navy and Air Force in a report released by the Defense Department.
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Congress
Johnson
Army Navy
Airforce
National Defense Management Committee
Joseph T. McNarney
Washington
Army
Royall
Air Force
Navy
Naval Air Arm
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