Plan for Civilian Defense Being Made
The National Security Resources Board launched a government project to plan civilian defense in event of war. Acting Chair John R. Steelman directed agencies to develop programs against sabotage and various attacks while a permanent civilian control structure is formed. The effort covers peacetime disaster planning and mobilizes AEC and multiple federal departments for wartime defense.
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Ashington
National Security Resources Board
John R. Steelman
Truman
Steelman
William A. G
Deferdinmerica
Milliona
Audh
Armed Services
Federal Works Agency
Federal Security Agency
Atomic Ener, Commission
Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Aavy and
Justice Departments
AEC
Inera
Toll from Mexico village flood feared to reach sixty
Cloudburst flood near Pachuca Mexico overnight killed and injured many while hundreds remain missing. Torrents swept through a mining town destroying storefronts and homes, with Jimenez Mats downtown hardest hit. Authorities list 15 women 8 children among the dead, numbers may rise as rescue efforts continue.
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Pachuca
Mex
Urieseld
Earin
Hallings
Jimrez
Nate
Ais Fran
Key votes loom in 1-H revision contest in Senate
Washington reports rival camps claim momentum in the Taft Hartley repeal fight over antistrike injunctions. crucial 3 p m and 2 p m votes shape the outcome with Taft backing an amendment and Lucas pushing to strike injunctions from the Taft measures.
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Washington
Senate
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Scott W. Lucas
Taft
Lucas
Night Deposit Incident At Savannah Bank
A hasty withdrawal from a Savannah bank after a lad aged nine was found tied to a money bag chute. Witnesses described a figure entering the bank and leaving with the bag, while alarms and automatic safeties operated during the incident.
Unconscious accident victim fights for life in Texas
Joan Edwards, 24, a Midland Reporter Telegram employee, has been unconscious for 160 days after a January Odessa crash. Doctors say brain damage is permanent with little improvement possible. Her parents in Rankin hope for any chance of relief as medical costs mount.
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Texas
Joan Edwards
Rankin
Dan
Alma
Meraime
Ingo
Joan
Dallas
Odessa
Marion J. Edwards
C. C. Nash
Midland Reporter-Telegram
Midland
Edwards
Dr. Nazh
End of Federal Controls Nears As 1949 Budget Lapses
Washington reports sweeping decontrol moves as the 1949 fiscal year ends and most wartime controls expire. Credit controls on consumer installment buying may end, freeing lower auto down payments. ant inflation measures loosen reserves for about 90 million dollars in bank lending. Priorities aid fertilizer exports and regulate metal antimony, and fears of renewed controls linger on fats oils and rice. Selective Service faces liquidation if funds are not restored. War Assets Administration may be shut down, with a possible new general services agency replacing WAA.
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Washington
U.S
Selective Service
Senate
House
War Assets Administration
Congress
General Services Agency
WAA
Agriculture Department
Jlo
Onetime Chaplain Kills Wife and Self in California
Palo Alto authorities report wartime Army chaplain Reed G Probst killed his wife Cleopha Probst with an eight inch knife on the front lawn of their Menlo Park bungalow then fatally stabbed himself. Their son John age eight witnessed the dawn murder scene. Probst, 46, had served 33 months in the Pacific as a major and struggled with malaria illness and despondency while seeking a chaplain assignment at the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Reed G
Probst
Cleopha Probst
Bunaglow
Menlo Park
George Potter
John
Reeder
Merrill
Potter
Pacific
Palo Alto Veterans’ Hospital
Colorado Assembly votes to end racial discrimination in Guard
Sacramento dispatch reports the Colorado Assembly sent a bill to Governor Warren ordering an end to racial discrimination in the National Guard. The upper house vote was unanimous.
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Colo. Line
Sacramento
Assembly
Calomias National Guard
Warren
American Slav Congress Denounced as Communist Front
Washington dispatch reports House un-American activities committee labeled the American Slav Congress a Communist front aiming to mobilize ten million Slav Americans behind Moscow. New York response quotes the group denying charges and accusing the committee of spreading hysteria and malice.
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Washington
House
American Slav Congress
Communist Front
Russia
House un-American Activities Committee
Congress
Moscow
Alexander Gondorov
United States
Iran
New York
un-American Activities Committee
American-Slav Congress
George Bains
149 Miles on a Gallon
A Shell Oil Company mileage contest at Woodriver features drivers setting records on a 14 mile course. R J Greenshield wins Class A with 15 miles per gallon, Julian Ryan drives a 1933 Chevrolet to win Class B, achieving about 81.9 miles per gallon and a speed near 15 mph.
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Woodriver
Shell Oil Co
Scott Gracefully Accepts Young G O P Criticism
In Alt Lake City Hugh D Scott the national GOP chairman accepts critique from younger members. John Tope 36-year-old Detroit businessman elected chairman of the National Federation of Young Republicans on the second ballot with 928 votes. The group urged liberal labor and welfare policies and called for abolishing the costly speakers bureau while backing a global, flexible approach to health and parity supports.
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John Tope
Detroit
Louise Replogle
Lewstown
Mont
Young Republican National Federation
Salt Lake City
Associated Press
Alt Lake City
Hugh D
Scott
National
Young Republicans
National Federation of Young Republicans
Lee Waters
California
Joe Bartlett
Clarkssburg
W. Va
Republican Party
Congress
Speakers' Bureau
Iete Ene
Old Guard
Liberal Party
Tabor
Truman
Fair Deal
United Nations
U. N
Befuddled Fox Cat Or Dog In Tyler Texas Story
U Pete the fox mix confuses as he mimics dog and cat behaviors in Tyler. He climbs trees with kitten playmates then returns to ground via momentum. Pet of Sgt and Mrs J D Crumbley Pete is larger than Blackie the mother cat and resists weaning.
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Tyler
Texas
Pete
M/Sgt
J. D. Crumbley
Crumbley
Widened Test for Farm-price Plan Requested
Senate agriculture leaders said they were asked to expand a test run of the new farm pricing program to include milk eggs potatoes and wool as well as pork. Chairman Elmer Thomas noted Agriculture Department officials pushed the broadened scope. The plan aims to let prices fall below previous support levels when supplies are ample with subsidies maintaining farmer income.
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Washington
U Senators
New Administration
Elmer Thomas
D.okla
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Brannan
Thomas
Department
D-Okla
Suspect in Roy’s murder grilled in Lamphere case
Police Capt Earl Olson said Ray Ernest Lamphere, 23, a descent escapee, is being questioned about aiding four year old Walter Eaton's disappearance in Lansing Michigan. Lamphere was picked up by two detectives at a municipal beach and recently arrived from Lansing. Olson said Lamphere denied any connection to the mutilation and disappearance of Eaton whose body was found in a vacant lot around midnight Thursday.
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Racine
W's
Earl Olson
Ray Ernest
Lamphere
Walter Eaton
Lansing
Mich
Olson
Wisconsin
Paterson U. A. W. Denies Racketeering Attack
Officials of Local 669 United Automobile Workers in Paterson New Jersey denied a Detroit graft accusation and said the charge was a vicious attack by left wing elements in the union. Reece Bambara, local president, characterized the claim as baseless.
Texas Ranger Loses Six Guns to Thief
Dallas report says Capt. Bob Crowder of the Rangers department says six shotguns were stolen from him in Dallas after departing Lubbock. Police investigate the theft as a loss of firearms from a Texas Ranger.
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Texas Ranger
Dallas
Texas
Bob Crowder
Rangers
Lubbock
Artist's Wife Shoots Self After Dish Washing Spat
Inouth Harpswell Maine June 25 UP the wife of noted Maine artist Ste Etnier shot herself with a .22 pistol while sitting at a dressing table after a quarrel over dish washing during a dinner with poet Robert Coffin. Brunswick Hospital reports her condition serious. The 45 year old painter of marine canvases said the spat followed a grocery order mixup and involved the automatic dishwasher.
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Harpswell
Maine
Norman Emerson
Ste Etnier
Janet Walden Pierce
Georgetown
Ohio
Etnier
Harmles
Emerson
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