Survey of Nations to Glide Federal Aid
The Commerce Department launches a nationwide census to locate areas most in need of federal aid to fight unemployment. Charles Sawyer leads the survey with Boston meetings, Whit ney and Blairdell in Louisville and Atlanta, and Midwest visits planned. President Truman ordered the effort to guide federal contracts and public works to the hardest hit regions.
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PY Ashington
Commerce Department
Etreaee Prawerenaneur
Charles Sawyer
Boston
New England Council
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Thomas C. Blairdell
Louisville
Atlanta
Midwest
Truman
Chambers of Commerce
Jobless Pay in June Reaches New High
Washington reports unemployment insurance payments in June at an all time high of 154,696,000. Through six months total benefit payments reached about 800,000,000, nearly double the final half of 1948. The average weekly payout rose to 1,814,000 persons, up about 160,000 from May.
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Washington
Robert C. Goodwin
Bureau of Employment Security
Beery's Personal Possessions Go on Auction Block
The late Beery’s prized personal possessions go on the auction block in Hollywood. Items include a Colt revolver once picked by Beery’s uncle Tom Mills at a battlefield with Gen. Custer and an elephant hook Beery used as a circus animal handler.
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Hollywood
Beery
Tom
Local Front Highlights From Today’s News
Los Angeles County urged to buy DelAmo Blvd and Alameda Street frontage for pork. Christian Churches of Southern California forms 61st annual convention. National and state conventions of Legion of Guardsmen to be held this week. Churchill urges Britain to stand on its own feet in top news.
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Los Angeles County
DelAmo Blvd
Alameda-St
Christian Churches of Southern
Calif
Typhoon Hits Okinawa Casually Damages Reported
Messages from typhoon l ash Okinawa show 90 percent of Kadena airfield buildings damaged. Reports cite deaths and injuries but do not confirm casualty nationalities. Air Force officials describe garbled Morse messages and limited weather reconnaissance.
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Tokyo
Okinawa
J. M. Welkert
Far East Air Force
Atalf
Kadena
Airport
Morse
Wan
U. S
Guam
U.S. 20Th Air Force
Turkey Quake Hits Port. Scores Reported Killed
Reports say a devastating earthquake struck a Turkish port city with casualties confirmed. Details are fragmented with unclear casualty totals and locations, but officials cite multiple fatalities and widespread damage in the area.
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Turkish
Istanbul
Turkey
SosaEib
Vermeer
Karaburan
Three Plane Wrecks Sighted in Mountains Near Newhall
Air rescue crews reported sighting wreckage of at least three light planes with possible two more in the rugged mountains near Newhall. A Aeronca passenger plane crashed while aiding another distressed ship. pilot Ed Tannehill and passenger Andrew Bello escaped injury. Food and blankets were dropped to the survivors as rescue teams prepared a ground and air search with several craft and a helicopter.
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Newhall
Air Force
Aeronca
Ed Tannehill
Andrew Bello
Deseis
Ceama
Tannebil
Tandehill
Bes Aero Squadron
March
Tanni
Bello
Victor
Weasel
2 & Mij
Tanniehity Jan
Earl S. McKain
Luciano Spurns Offer of Political Post
In Lercara Friddi Sicily on July 23 1970 Luciano spurned a hometown political post and left within hours. Cousin Giovanni Montalto said Luciano may have headed to Naples or Rome after police ordered him to return home.
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Lercara
Friddi
Sicily
Charles
Lucky
Luciano
Giovanni Montalto
Naples
Rome
Po‘lice
Fridd
One Beer 300 Feet Up Wins After Police Talk
A man perched 300 feet up Tadbo tower faced a lengthy standoff before police and his father convinced him to descend. The incident stretched nearly three hours as authorities negotiated and ensured his safety.
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Tadbo Tower
Com
New York Heat Triggers Subway Power Failure and Violence
A five day heat wave sent temperatures up to 100 degrees and buckled sidewalks in New York City. A subway power plant explosion trapped thousands underground for about 50 minutes as heat loosened cable insulation. Police said Billy Sarich fired five shots in a bowling alley incident before seeking shelter at a restaurant.
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Chicago
New York City
Rocky Mountains
Iowa
Texas
South Dakota
Kansas
Maryland
Chicago ‘Weather Bureau
Billy
Sarich
Costello Rumored in Beverly Hills Amid L A Racketeering Talk
Dispatches from Los Angeles report possible eastern attempts to move into local rackets as the Cohen shooting quiets. Frank Costello, New York mob chief, may be in Beverly Hills with lieutenant Phil Kastel rumored but unconfirmed. Cohen says LA is too hot for syndicate activity and dismisses Costello contact as ridiculous.
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OS Angeles
Los Angeles
Mickey ‘Cohen
Frank Costello
New York
Beverly Hills
Phil Kastel
Costello
Cohen
Mickey
Kastel
Los Gatos
Chanical
Stanford
Esther ‘Henedett
San
Jose
Bach
Truman Urges Pact Talks with Soviets and U N Reform
Senator Arthur Vandenberg urged President Truman to seek a new arms reduction pact with the Soviet Union and to strengthen the United Nations with guaranteed limits on veto power. He also backed a short term arms aid plan for Western Europe and cautioned Congress on a long term program, highlighting tensions over NATO implementation and the 1.45 billion arms package.
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Washington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Truman
Russia
United Nations
Vandenberg
U. N
Senate
Congress
Western
Europe
Western Europe
San Pedro Longshoremen Threaten Hawaiian Vessel Ban
San Pedro longshoremen cable Hawaiian Governor Ingram Stainback that they will not unload any Hawaiian ships unless the strike ends. Ernest L Adams of the Longshoremen’s union condemns anti labor legislation and warns against scab labor. Hawaii’s Sen Knowland proposes special legislation. Stainback may push Hawaiian Legislature to act. Damages cited at $10,000 in Honolulu reports.
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San’ Pedro
San Pedro
Ingram Stainback
Ernest L Adams
Islands
William Knowland
R.calif
Stainback
Honolulu
Steik Hile
Kamahu Kamahaiulu
Ted
Schultz 1s Back in the Corps Dog Hikes 2000 Miles
Schultz the war dog returns to his Marine Corps owner after a roughly 2000 mile journey from Indiana to Seattle. The dog, coined Schultz, ended up in a Seattle housing development before being sent back to his owner, Anthony Prechard, who is stationed nearby. The tale notes Schultz as a mascot at the Marine Base and mentions his mother’s letter around July 2.
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Qeatile
Schultz
Marine Corps
Wakarusa
Ind
Chicago
Seattle
Marine CaEbact Bathory
Prechard B. ‘Anthony
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