Army Captain Garsson claims protection scheme hindered career
ATAVIA TI July 27 AP Army Captain Joseph H Garsson son of a profits probe principal says commanders were told to “take care of Garsson” and protect him. He testified interference followed his overseas service and noted generals in chemical warfare reportedly aided him while others opposed his transfers and court-martial issues.
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Atavia
Joseph HH Id) Garsson
Mar- Garsson
All War Profits
Garsson
Rep
Andrew May 4
D-Ky
France
Robert T. Fredericks
Anzio
Fredericks
Special Service Force
White Paper Attacked By Jew Leader
Paris July 27 Ben Gurion head of the Jewish Agency attacked the authenticity of the telegrams cited in Britain s white paper on Palestine and said British policy aimed to destroy the Jewish community in Palestine He promised a black paper listing British violence and terrorism in Palestine He questioned why the telegrams lack sender names and argued they do not constitute evidence He described meetings with British colonial secretary George Hall as cordial and implied possible ignorance or complicity in the alleged actions
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Paris
David Ben- Gurion
Jewish Agency
Britain
Palestine
Ben- Gurion
Ben-Gurion
Jewish ‘Agency
Alestine
England
British Criminal Investigation
George Hall
London
Hall
People of
Air Force Day Urged by Governor for August 1
Harrisburg July 27 Gov Martin urges Pennsylvanians to mark Army Air Force Day Thursday August 1 to show appreciation of air power in maintaining peace and guaranteeing security while stimulating continued aeronautical development.
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Harrisburg
Approval Of Pay Raise For Congress
Washington reports Congress expected President Truman to approve a broad reorganization plan plus a pay raise. The plan cuts House committees from 48 to 19 and Senate committees from 33 to 15 with possible further changes by the next Congress. It also merges the military panels, while many abolished committees were inactive. The measure raises base pay from 10,000 to 12,500 dollars annually plus a tax free 2500 expense allowance and allows pension eligibility via existing federal retirement contributions.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
House
Senate
White House
Farm Workers Excluded From Wagner Act Protections
Washington July 27 President Truman signed an appropriation bill shielding border line agricultural workers from Wagner Act coverage. The measure funds the Labor Department and Federal Security Agency at 1.16 billion and returns the U S Employment Service to state operation on November 15. Senate amendment bars Wagner Act cases involving agricultural workers defined by the Act, affecting about one million workers. Harrodsburg Kentucky’s 1774 settlement referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
United States Employment Service
Senate
CIO Food and Tobacco
Harrodsburg
Kentucky
Congress Pushes Toward Longest Rest In Eight Years
Congress moves toward its longest break in eight years as leaders plan a work agenda to clear the House and Senate. Key bills include five year extension for the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion, funding for Philippine government, cancer research, veteran aid, and oil tidelands control. A Senate fight over rail rate anti trust exemptions and a looming poll tax voting bill may affect adjournment.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Qar
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
Philippine Republic
Philippines
OPA
Foundling Baby Mystery in Greensburg Tale of Identity
Thomas Smith Sr travels from Clinton to Greensburg seeking clues about a three day old found infant later tied to his son Thomas Smith III. A hereditary illness marks the child with red quarter sized spots while the young Army Air Corps veteran questions his paternity and fights to secure a birth certificate for legal recognition and employment.
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Greensburg
Thomas Smith
Clinton
Army Air Corps
Smith
Thomeas Smith Sr
Anna Lou
William Rayburn
Clifton
Thomas Smith, Jr
Ready Suite for Truman at Hospital
The Army and Navy register reports Walter Reed Hospital will be remodeled into a presidential suite with a bedrom living room reception room four extra bedrooms two sitting rooms a diet kitchen a guards room and a solarium. Project cost about 148000. Col. Wallace Graham says the aim is privacy and Secret Service protection for the President.
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Washington
Army and Navy Register
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Navy
Bethesda
Wallace Graham
Secret Service
Times Cites Problems of Paris Meet
The Times reports from Paris that the peace conference draft shows the Big Four in general agreement on Italy frontiers but divided on others. U S proposals differ on Italy Yugoslavia and Trieste borders, reparations unresolved, and governance for Trieste and the port to be internationalized. Mars colonial settlements postponed a year with blank sections in the draft.
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New York
the Times
Paris
Italy
United States
Yugoslavia
Trieste
Ialy
Soviet Union
France
Greece
Albania
Ethiopia
East
Africa
The
Times
Kaly
Gempany
Air Force and CAP Form Committees for Pittsburgh Air Show
Air Force men and CAP leaders organize for the Army Air Force Day air show set for August 2 at Greater Pittsburgh Airport Moon Township. Major E. K. Long chairs, Captain H. B. Sloan runs operations, with Lieutenants Pearl Pendill Margaret Lacey Liberats and Dorothy Barckskey as secretaries.
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Pittsburgh
Moon Township
Civil Air Patrol
Air Force
Army
CAP
E. K. Long
Pearl Penndl
Margaret Lacey
Liberats
Dorothy Barckskey
CPA
Housing program faces veteran housing concerns
Arthur B. Binns, president of the National Home and Property Owners Foundation, warned that the administration's long range housing plan would drain labor and materials from veterans housing. He urged the House Banking Committee to defeat the bill as it seeks 15 million new housing units in 10 years and expanded FHA mortgage insurance with federal loans to rehabilitate blighted areas. The hearings were reopened at President Truman's urging, though House leaders doubt passage.
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Washington
Arthur B. Binns
National Home and Property Owners Foundation
House Banking Committee
Federal
Banking Committee
Truman
House
Wagner
Ellender
Ala
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Set Hearing For J and L Petition
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals set August 5 for a hearing on the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp petition seeking a temporary injunction to bar a government contract with John L. Lewis governing supervisory employees. The coal mines administration has a contract with Lewis United Mine Workers covering 186 Jones & Laughlin supervisory workers at four western Pennsylvania mines and clerical staff at Jones & Laughlin mines and Industrial Collieries Co., a Bethlehem Steel subsidiary.
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Washington
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
oJnes & Laughlin Steel Corp
John L. Lewis
D. Lawrence Groner
Coal Mines Administration
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Jones & Laughlin
Western Pennsylvania
Industrial Collieries Co
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Johnstown
Plane crash kills eight near Jalapa Mexico
A Tlalapa Cordoba route plane crashed near Huatesco thirty miles southwest of Jalapa. Eight passengers and the pilot died. Enrique Cesar Velarde, Jalapa mayor, and his wife were among the dead. Witnesses cited bad weather and possible motor trouble as causes.
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Jalapa
Mexico
Tlalapa
Cordoba
Huatesco
Here
Enrique Cesar Velarde
Censor Orders Limited Reporting on Swedish Missiles
Stockholm July 27 AP reports a limited censorship on information about unidentified missiles believed to be flying bombs over Swedish territory. Authorities ban listing localities of sightings and require newspapers to use the dateline somewhere in Sweden when covering the subject.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Pardon for Flandin by High Court of Justice
In Versailles on July 27 AP reports the High Court of Justice sentenced former French premier Etienne Flandin to five years in prison for collaboration with the Nazis. He was pardoned later for patriotic actions after resigning from the Vichy government. Historians note ancient gloves dating back 3,000 years and a tongue in cheek line about art and musk. Read the Gazette Classified Ads.
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Versailles
High Court of Justice
Etilenne Flandin
France
Manila
Philippines
Republic
U. S
Princeton
Moenile Harbor
Manuel Quezon
Manuel Roxas
Melacanan Pale Ace
U. S. Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
Quezon
Impresario Beegle Dies in Pittsburgh at 59
Tom Beegle 59 year old Pittsburgh concert impresario died of a heart attack in Mercy Hospital while riding with his wife to Homestead to buy a car. He led the May Beegle concert series since 1943 and earlier worked 26 years for National Cash Register, directing Canton office before moving to Pittsburgh in 1932. Survived by his widow and two sons Thomas P. Jr. and William. Funeral services set for Monday.
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Pittsburgh
Tom Beegle
May Beegle
Mercy Hospital
Beegle
Homestead
National Cash Register, Co
Canton, O
Bradford, Pa
Thomas P., Jr
William
Axtell Opens Campaign In Missouri
Enos Axtell opened his bid for Congress in Missouri with a radio address saying he will not embarrass the President by voting with reactionaries while not promising blind support for all administration measures. He labeled incumbent Slaughter ultra conservative and aligned with wealth, urging a middle stance between Slaughter and Jerome Walsh and calling for a modified OPA with eventual price control removal.
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Kansas City
Enos A. Axtell
Truman
Roger CG
Slaughter
Fifth Congressional District
Axtell
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James Pendergast
Missouri
Mr. Truman
U. S. Senate
Washington
Jerome Walsh
Gromyko Faces Questions On Atom Control At UN
New York July 27 delegates to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission expect Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko to be grilled next week on how to prevent illegal production of atomic weapons. While agreeing that production and use must be outlawed they’re unhappy with his brief enforcement plan urging each signatory state to enact penalties within six months. The committee will press for elaboration on measures to control peaceful atomic energy and the enforcement mechanism as it reconvenes next Wednesday.
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New York
United Nations Atomic Energy Commisson
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
United Nations
Don Walter Lewis
Butohn M. Hancock
Ter
United States
Helief
Pennsylvania Railroad
VFW
Butler
Indiana
William
Nancy M
Shields) Lewis
Mary
Athens Lewis
O. C. Douglass
Washington, D. C
Carl Sisson
Erie
Jonell Lewis
Robert A. Lewis
Laura Lewis
Edward
Saginaw
Mich
George
Stephen
Braddock
Thompson
North Street
McKean
T. Leroy Hooper
Methodist Church
Oakland Cemetery
Obituary and Garsson gunboat profits questioned
Obituaries include Mrs Amy J Ryen aged 178 who died at home near Rochester Mills, and 11 year old Richard D Williams of Aultman. Havana report covers Murray Garsson denying millions in wartime profits and planning Senate testimony. Funeral details and interment noted for McCombs and related rites.
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Richard Daniel Williams
Richard T
Ella Ewing Williams
Aultman
Indiana Hospital
A.lee
Robinson
Indiana
Beach Ship For Study At Atom Lagoon
Fallon, battered by the underwater atomic blast, was pushed ashore at Enya Island by tugboats to be saved and studied. Radioactivity rose in the inner target area hampering salvage. Vice Adm. Blandy warned it would take days before inner targets could be boarded as the fleet regrouped near the lagoon’s eastern end. Reports show at least 13 vessels sunk or damaged including Arkansas Saratoga Nagato New York Fallon Hughes LST.
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Mt, Mckinley
Bikini
Fallon
Enya Island
Bikini Lagoon
Adm
Wn. H. BP
Blandy
Atomic Test Evaluation Boards
Associated Press
Arkansas
Saratoga
Say Lynching in Ga Rehearsed by White Mob Leaders
The report, relayed by Lou Harrison, describes a mob of about 20 armed men abducting four Black individuals. A tall white man led the group, counting and firing on the captives, as the scene unfolded under incitement linked to Bilbos and Talmadge. Rep. Marcantonio urged Truman to intervene to prevent a repeat of lynching.
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Georgia
Lou Harrison
Malcolm
Bond
Harrison
Plans for $400,000 Pittsburgh bus terminal announced
Plan calls for a new 400000 dollar bus terminal by the American Business Depot. Bids will be taken August 5 with work to start soon after. The terminal would rise on the old Monongahela House site at First Avenue and Smithfield and Water Streets, linking Water Street traffic to a parkway planned along Pittsburgh's southern Golden Triangle rim.
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Pittsburgh
American Business Depot
First Avenue
Smithfield
Water Streets
Golden Triangle
Punxsutawney Veterans Day Observance Set for Aug 28
World War II veterans in Punxsutawney will be honored in a Veterans Day celebration on Wednesday August 28. The event is sponsored by the Borough council and the Chamber of Commerce as the city of Punxsutawney welcomes its 10 000 citizens to pay tribute to the men who defended the country.
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Punxsutawney
Plan to Save Heirens Life Amid Alleged 1945 Slayings
Attorneys discuss a strategy connected to the Heirens case and dispute a Sun and Tribune report about a December 10 1945 shooting and stabbing of a farmer named Brown and the June 5 1945 murder of widow Mrs. Josephine Ross. They deny the stories as fabrications.
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Miss Brown
Josephine Ross
Sun
Roland Towle
Towle
Frank Sain
Tribune
Heirens
Ross
Austria seeks UN aid over Russia demands on nationalized industries
Vienna reports Austria plans to ask the United Nations for permission to send a delegation to present its case after Parliament unanimously approved nationalization of 81 key industries. Russia asserts German assets in eastern Austria, including the Zistersdorf oil field and Danube Shipping, are Soviet property under Potsdam, threatening independence and recovery.
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Vienna
Austria
Russia
United Nations
Potsdam
VU. N
Leopold Fig
Zistersdorf
Danube
Rep Fulton Bids National Park Area Acquisition
Rep Fulton seeks a bill to authorize Interior to acquire a historic Indian burial ground at McKees Rocks Pennsylvania as a national park. He noted slim chances to pass before Congress adjourns but said the measure authorizes study and a report for delivery when the next Congress convenes.
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Washington
Fulton
R-Pa
Congress
Interior Department
McKees Rocks
Glider Record Claim At 18 700 Feet Height
Paul Tuntland of Los Angeles awaiting official action on a new world altitude record for two passenger gliders. He reports an 18 700 foot release height and 22 700 feet above sea level from a tow plane. The prior record stood at 14 960 feet set August 12 1940 by Maj. Lewin Barringer in Manila.
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Orlando
Fla
Paul Tuntland
Los Angeles
Calif
Tuntland
U.S. Weather Bureau
Fpiencastle l Army Airfield
Maj. Lewin Barringer
Mount
Quezon
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Pardon Flandin
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Harry Leasure
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Viola Thomas
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Leasure
Raleigh Funeral Home
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Frye Cemetery
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Murray Garsson
Jesse Jones
Robin Hood
Wayne Johnson
Og Garsson
McCombs
Cherryhill
Henry Gars
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Hellwood
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Pearl Waugaman McCombs
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Sona
Drew J. May
Harvey M. McComb
Robinson Funeral Home
Clarence Bennett
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Weather Report
Atom Lagoon
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Hughes
James E. Webb
Oxford
Sam
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Marine Corps
National Aeronautic Association
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