Blast Toll In Germany Mounting
Dying flames limit access to the I G Farben chemical plant as investigators and rescue workers struggle to confirm figures. German police say 500 to 800 missing, presumed dead, with U S Army reporting about 6,200 injured and hundreds killed across Ludwigshafen Mannheim and surrounding areas.
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Ludwigshafen
Germany
Farben
Rhine
Mannheim
U. S. Army
I. G. Farben Chemical
Berlin
Europe
A.P
Frankfurt
James Watson Former GOP Leader Dies at 87
James Eli Watson of Indiana longtime Republican leader in the Senate and former House member died today at age 87 after a career spanning eight presidents. He survived a 1932 electoral landslide and remained active in law practice and Capitol listening sessions. Survivors include Flora Miller Watson widow and three sons.
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Washington
James Eli Watson
Indiana
Senate
Hoover
Congress
Watson
Capitol
Has
House
Flora Miller
Winchester
Ind
Ernest Gross
Edwin G
Joseph C. Watson
James Watson, Jr
Chicago
Arles Watson
Weather Summary for North Carolina and Cities Listed
North Carolina sees considerable dow and cooler nights with scattered thundershowers over the south. warmer in other areas. City reports include Charlotte 85 68 with 1.24 inches rain, Charleston 92 74 1.06, Chicago 88 62, Denver 58, Jacksonville 98 72 0.89, Little Rock 92 74 0.00, Memphis 90 69, New York 90 71, Raleigh 85 75 1.24, Miami 84 77 0.01, Los Angeles 79 62, and other readings across major hubs. High Point shows 84 70 with 0.25 inches. Weather outlook: cooler extreme south tonight and Friday, warmer elsewhere. Sunrise 6:25, sunset 7:27.
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North Carolina
Charlotte
Weath Bureau
Hipston
Charleston
Chicago
Columbia
Denver
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
High Point
Jacksonville
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian Ae
Miami
Mini-St. P
Mobile
Aft
Mitchell
Orleans
New York
Raleigh
Eccles Testimony Is Shunted Aside In Inflation Battle
Washington July 29 The administration moved to quicken its anti inflation push by placing Federal Reserve Chairman Thomas B. McCabe on the Senate banking committee witness list ahead of former FRB chief Eccles. The shift follows Eccles criticism of the 10 point plan and aims to gain support for Truman’s price curbs while Porter and Snyder prepare their testimonies. Eccles may be heard later.
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Washington
Ccean
Federal Reserve Board
Thomas B. McCabe
Senate Banking Committee
Truman
Tobey
R-Nh
Marriner S. Eccles
Eccles
FRB
McCabe
Porter
House Committee
Snyder
Congressional
Pennsylvania U Elects Stassen As President
The University of Pennsylvania named Harold E. Stassen as its new president following a unanimous board recommendation. Stassen, 41, from Minnesota, will be elected at a September board meeting, with Dr. George William McClelland slated to become chair.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
George William McClelland
Paper Carton Manufacturer Assassinated in Chicago
Nath an Gubin a 56 year old wealthy paper carton manufacturer was killed by a single shotgun blast in a daylight ambush on a busy south side street. His son Owen 19 rode in the car unharmed as two gunmen in another car pulled alongside and fired as the sedan halted at a traffic light near Pershing road and Wallace street. Policeman James Webster who was just ahead reported the assailants veered to the left of the vehicle after the shot.
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Chicago
Nathan
Gubin
Gumbin
Owen
Pershing Road
Wallace Street
James Webster
Four-Power Conference at Hand in Berlin Talks
Informants say talks among American British and Soviet officials may lead to a four power conference possibly with foreign ministers. If agreed meetings may be held in Paris around the September 21 United Nations assembly, focusing on Berlin deadlock and Germany's future. Walter Bedell Smith and Frank Roberts returned to Moscow after negotiations in Berlin and London.
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Moscow
V. M. Molotov
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Berlin
London
Frank Roberts
Ernest Bevin
Paris
United Nations Assembly
Germany
Smith
Roberts
Molotov
State polio total tops 1000 as July cases reported
The North Carolina polio tally rose to 1,037 for the year with 39 new cases. July onset accounted for all today’s, Buncombe county leading with nine. Other counts included Davidson Forsyth Mecklenburg New Hanover and more. The epidemic caused 59 deaths and a $100,000 grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
Buncombe County
Davidson
Forsyth
Mecklenburg
New Hanover
Cabarrus
Gaston
Rutherford
Cleveland
Franklin
Lenoir
Macon
Polk
Randolph
Robeson
Rockingham
Wilkes
Yadkin
National Foundation For
Memorial Erected For Two U S Fliers
Western Berlin residents raise a memorial at the crash site of Lt. Charles H. King of Britton South Dakota and Lt. Robert W. Stuber of Arlington California. Both fliers died last Sunday while delivering food to the blockaded city. each left a widow and child in Wiesbaden.
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Berlin
Charles H. King
Britton
S. D
Robert W. Stuber
Arlington
Calif
Wiesbaden
Durham Woman Dies In Highway Collision With Dairy Truck
A Durham woman was killed and another injured in a crash on U S Highway 70 four and a half miles east of Durham this morning around 8 30. Their car skidded and collided with a dairy truck.
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Durham
States Rights Group Hopes to Be Minority in 81st Congress
States rights Democrats aim to build a national campaign starting August 11 to become a major political force. Governors Thurmond and Wright announced the drive in Columbia with a July 29 joint statement naming committee heads and a plan to open headquarters in Jackson August 9 and Houston for a kickoff rally.
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States’ Rights Group
Columbia
S. C
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Houston
Texas
Ben Laney
Arkansas
Merrit Gibson
Longview
George C. Wallace
Jackson
Miss
Washington, D. C
Thurmond
Congress
South
Wright
Presi
Farben Directors Cleared Of Plotting War
A U S military tribunal acquitted 24 I G Farben directors of plotting and waging aggressive war while convicting nine on looting in Nazi-occupied nations. The court held politicians and militarists responsible for war plans, with two counts of crimes against humanity to be decided tomorrow. The Farben plant at Ludwigs hafen lay in ruins after a massive explosion.
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Hitler
Third Reich
Farben
Hermann Schmitz
Georg von Schnitzler
Fritz Ter Meer
Ernst Buergin
Paul Harfliger
Max Ilgner
Friedrich Jaehne
Heinrich Oster
Hans Kuggler
France
Norway
Poland
Russia
von Schnitzler
Europe
Chemical Trust
Acd
Filibuster On Poll Tax Gets Under Way
Anti poll tax legislation is brought up in the senate with southern filibuster tactics. Debate signals little action likely this session. Porter outlines a bill for price control and rationing to reverse cost of living toward 1947 levels. GOP criticism grows as Russell begins delaying tactics with a quorum call.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Truman
Paul Porter
OPA
House Banking Committee
GOP
Porter
Wolcott
R-Mich
House
Wherry
R-Neb
Russell
D-Ga
Tito and Entire List of Candidates Reelected
Yugoslav communists elected Premier Marshal Tito and his entire slate to the party central committee at Belgrade, rebuffing Cominform pressure. The congress hailed Tito as leader, while observers noted tension with Bulgaria Albania and Hungary amid changes in regional ties.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Tito
Ole Stalin
Moscow
Cominform
International Communist Information Bureau
Russia
Eastern Bloc
Stalin
Red Army
Bolshevik
Bulgaria
Albania
Hungary
Yugoslav Information Office
Budapest
Weather as a Weapon: U S Studies Meteorological Warfare
Washington reports the United States is exploring meteorological warfare and weather control as a military option. Officials refuse discussion while a London international paper notes U S advances in bacteriological and meteorological warfare, highlighting potential droughts to devastate enemy food supplies.
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Washington
United States
Armed Forces and
National Defense Organization
London
International Committee For Study of
Germany
Truman seeks broad power on price controls and credits
President Truman urged Congress to grant wide authority to cut prices on cost of living items and set a base at the November 1947 level. He proposed limited rationing and wage controls, a return of wartime consumer credit rules, regulation of commodity futures, and strengthened rent controls to curb living costs.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Capitol
Paul Porter
OPA
House Banking Committee
Ident Truman
Special Congress
Porter
Britain Weighs Slowing Demobilization Amid Cold War Tensions
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told Parliament Britain may halt demobilization as Russia Western tensions persist. He said a decision will come in a few days as diplomacy with the United States and France continues. Churchill urged a pause until Berlin is satisfactorily resolved.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Russia
West
House of Commons
Britain
United States
France
Berlin
Bevin
Winston Churchill
Enlistments May Catch Up With Draft Quota
The army reports 18,085 volunteers in early July, helping reach a projected monthly 30,000 need to raise strength from 542,000 to 790,000. Lt. Gen. Willard S. Paul notes many three year enlistments totaling about 240,900 are expiring, as a drive to re-enlist continues. Draft officials also plan to stockpile military manpower for future use starting around the next year.
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Washington
Willard S. Paul
Paul
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