Army suspends two generals over influence in contracts
Washington July 16 AP The Army temporarily relieves Maj Gen Alden H Waitt and Maj Gen Herman Feldman from duty amid investigations of alleged influence in Army contract awards. Secretary Gordon Gray cites incomplete findings but says both officers showed poor judgment and propriety, promising full hearings as probe continues. Continued on Page A2 Col 4.
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Washington
Army Today
Alden H. Waitt
Chemical Corps
Herman Feldman
Quartermaster Corps
National Military Establishment
Army
Gordon Gray
Alden Harry Waitt
Feldman
Gray
Waitt
Gen
Nate
Revolutionary Power Plant for Subs Seen
Washington July 16 The Navy plans a completely new propulsion type for submarines with hazardous secret work. It seeks 2 million dollars to fund an Annapolis test plant as part of a 1950 building program totaling nearly 194 million dollars.
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Washington
Navy
Congress
Naval Engineering Experiment Station
Annapolis
Atomic Energy Commission
Western Electric Corp
House
Armed Services Committee
David Nav For
Model Basin
Carderock
Fishing Boat Burns at Sea Owner Saved
One man was rescued from a burning fishing boat and a Coast Guard cutter planned to tow a small bait boat this morning after calls overnight. Frank Hooper, the only occupant of the Chicago, was found safe in a lifeboat eight miles south of Dana Point. The Chicago, likely out of Newport, sank after burning last night. A 38-foot bait boat Bella Marta was en route from San Diego towed near San Jose Point, 80 miles south of San Diego, to a disabled condition.
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Coast Guard
Frank Hooper
Chicago
Dana Point
Newport
San Diego
San Jose Point
Soviet Troops in Brandenburg Open Summer Maneuvers
Thirty thousand Soviet troops are engaged in summer maneuvers in Brandenburg Province about 35 miles from Berlin, reported by the American Hoengen Tagesspiegel.
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Berlin
Brandenburg Province
Off the Teletype News Highlights Summary
Britain calls labor to halt a long dock strike while tidelands deals surface. Bock reviews and church listings fill pages, with classifieds, comics, sports, and theaters in standard sections. Weather and tides noted on page A-7.
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Britain
Bock Reviews
Rail Trainmen Union Chief Whitney Dies Suddenly
Alexander Fell Whitney 76, head of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, died of a heart attack at his Bay Village home. He led 214,000 railroad trainmen in 1145 lodges nationwide and helped halt a national rail strike in 1946. Assistant D. A. MacKenzie to serve as temporary head. board to choose a successor within 10 days. Whitney was a potent labor leader known for strong opposition to the Taft Hartley Act.
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Cleveland
Alexander Fell Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad
Bay Village
Max Markey
Markey
Whitney
Secrretary
A Markey
D. A.’ MacKenzie
Salt Lake City
Brotherhood
United States
Canada
Alvanley Johnston
The
Brotherhood of Locomotives Engineers
Truman
Mr. Y
Canary Island Volcano Erupts Ninth Straight Day
Canary Islands report Mount Pelada volcano erupted lava today for the ninth straight day on La Palma. Firefighters faced extreme heat and smoke as forests burned in the southern part of the island. A wide lava channel about 600 yards wide streamed into the sea, but no loss of life was reported.
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Santa Cruz
la Palma
Canary Islands
Czech Reds Demand Liquidation of Church
A Czech Communist manifesto calls for liquidation of the church as the “greatest enemy” to complete collectivization. It aims to undermine church authority, turn peasants against Archbishop Beran, and to draft laws to seize church control, amid ministerial notes on Vatican excommunication.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Church
Alexei Cepicka
Vatican
Clarms
Josef Beran
Lsted
Antonin Gregor
Gen
Ludvik Svoboda
Munitions Blast Knocks Out German Village
A French ammunition store exploded near Prüm Germany killing fourteen people. Three remain missing and about one hundred are injured in the blast that hit a town of around five thousand. Dozens suffer serious or minor injuries as responders assess the scene.
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Pruem
Germany
Gethis Vilage
Typhoon Bypasses Okinawa Heads Toward Japan
A typhoon moved east of American-occupied Okinawa causing no damage and is projected to strike southern Japan by 4 p.m. tomorrow.
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Okinawa
Tokyo
Japan
Taft Accuses Truman Of Pushing Toward Totalitarian Rule
Senator Taft charged President Truman with deficit spending steering the nation toward socialism and a totalitarian state. In a 15 minute radio speech he argued Congress opposes the president, tax cuts were rejected to fund deficits, and that government should serve rather than control citizens. Taft warned excessive taxation harms prosperity and urged a return to sound economics with limited government spending.
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Olumbus
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Republican Party
Truman
Tait
Congress
Taft
Kent
America
Feds
Speedy Trip to Surgery Saves Boy in Coast Guard Navy Effort
A 10-year-old boy, Mike Deeble, rests comfortably in Seaside hospital after an emergency coast guard and navy coordinated air and sea rescue. A radio appeal aided the response as a coast guard crew flew him to Long Beach and a Navy destroyer picked him up for medical care.
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Navy
Coast Guard
Boy
Mike Deeble
Outer Harbor
Long Beach
Rockport Hit by Cloudburst Weather Siege
Rockport Texas was drenched by a cloudburst dumping 7.6 inches of rain since 2 am with the downpour continuing into midmorning. The storm along the Gulf Coast near Corpus Christi caused severe flooding and contributed to two deaths in the Texas weather siege.
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Rockport
Texas
Texas Gulf Coast
Corpus Christi
Berlin Plane Crash Kills Five in Berlin
Berlin officials report a British Hastings airlift plane crashed during takeoff at a Berlin airfield. Five crew members died as the craft stalled at about 50 feet and plunged to the ground. Officials indicated the aircraft was carrying a cargo for western Germany.
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Berlin
Germany
Longshoremen pickets arrest in Hawaii strike scale
HONOLULU July 16 Police arrested about two dozen longshoremen as nonunion workers were escorted through a picket line at Pier 29 to unload 24 000 tons from the Isthmian freighter Steel Flyer The mass arrests mark a second such event this week with earlier arrests on July 11 tied to unloading the Matson freighter Hawaiian Citizen Governor Stainback backs waterfront control legislation to resolve the conflict aiming to reduce the disruption and protect cargo flow
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Honolulu
Po. Ace
Pier 29
Steel Flyer
Matson
Ingram Stainback
Hawaii
Severnie
Atorney Cral
Truman Act May Delay Strike on S. P.
SAN FRANCISCO July 16 The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen planned a 3000 member strike in seven western states against Southern Pacific Railroad at 11pm Friday but the Truman Railways Act allows President Truman to order a 60 day delay after an investigation. Affected states include California Texas New Mexico Utah Nevada Arizona and Oregon. The walkout followed failed talks over larger train crews.
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San Francisco
FPA Railway
Southern Pacific Railroad
National Railway Labor Act
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Western
Truman
California
Texas
New Mexico
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
Oregon
Union Charges Solon and Others With Diverted Union Funds
A petition filed in circuit court accuses Rep. Leonard Irving and two other Local 264 officers of diverting funds from the Hod Carriers Union in Missouri's Fourth District. A temporary restraining order limits signatories to authorized checks. hearing set for July 21 as trustees seek an accounting of all union funds.
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Kansas City
Leonard Irving
Congress
Truman
Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers Union of America
Rep
Irving
Missouri
Roy E. Livingston
Alvin Butcher
Thomas R. Hunt
Livingston
Sixty Families Flee Southern Oregon Forest Blaze
Sixty families fled a forest fire in Cave Junction Oregon as crews fought the blaze. The fire crossed a river and swept a four mile stretch of farm and timberland burning several houses. It blackened about four miles by a mile, then calmed during the night.
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Cave Junction
Ore
Oregon
Anglo U S harmony at risk by royal love rivalry
London columnists warn U S Ambassador Lewis Douglas fears a clash in friendship if Princess Margaret and his daughter Sharman pursue the same man. The Daily Mirror notes both girls have been seen with the Marquess of Blandford and the Marquess of Milford Haven, though no serious romance is cited.
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London Daily Mirror
U. S
Lewis W. Douglas
Princess Margaret
Sharman
Noel _Whitcomb
Whitcomb
Douglas
Canton
Ambassador's
Margaret
Marquess of
Blandford
Milford Haven
Mirror
Buckingham Palace Srokeeaas
Tor
Won Sek Cpa Witout
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Maria Esther
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Maria Christina
Franco Jr
S. P
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Gert Howard
Scottsbluff
Loeb
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Wherery
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Hugh D. Scott
Solon
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