Congress records massive 1951 outlays and probes
Congress spent over 90 billion dollars in 1951, expanding military and foreign aid, extending the draft age to 18 and a half, and boosting taxes. It also extended price and wage controls, investigated crime and political influence, and debated authority over troops and foreign policy while criticizing. it considered reforms on civil rights and limited arms shipments to Russia.
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Russia
Czechoslovakia
William N. Oatis
Associated Press
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Moscow
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Air Force
Marine Corps
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Squeeze Seen in U S Metals Shortage
Idaho banquet hears the Defense Minerals Procurement Agency chief Jess Larson warn that many firms may close as the rearmament program intensifies its demand for minerals. He says meeting armament schedules will be hard while keeping civilian economy and stockpiling metals.
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Idaho
Jess Larson
Defense Minerals Procurement Agency
Idaho Small Mine Operators and Prospectors Association
Larson
Russia Peasant Revolt Described In Kazakhstan Uprising
The State Department radio described a mid-August uprising in the Kazakh Soviet republic as the most serious Russia unrest in a decade. Peasants clashed with troops over forced requisition during a new Stalinist farm policy, with MVD squads allegedly seizing private plots and livestock. The order triggering the disturbances was said to be issued by Maj. Gen. Ivan Petrov after Moscow press criticism of Kazakh farm results.
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State Department
Russia
Voice of America
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Moscow
Crackdown on Drug Trade Sent to White House
Washington Oct 20 A bill for harsher penalties on narcotics and marijuana offenses passes Senate and goes to the White House. It imposes two to five years in prison and fines up to 2000 dollars for first offenses, five to ten years for second offenses, and 10 to 20 years for subsequent offenses, with no suspended sentences for first offenders.
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Washington
White House
Senate
Fire destroys Cakebox Baking Co building in Los Angeles
Five city fire companies battled a blaze that wiped out the Cakebox Baking Co two story building in Los Angeles. The fire caused an estimated 125000 dollars in damage to machinery and materials.
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Los Angeles
Cakebox Baking Co
Family Praying for Injured Boy in Lancaster
In Lancaster Pennsylvania on October 20 6 year old Elmer Zimmerman Jr lay critically injured after being struck by an automobile. His family kept a bedside vigil praying insisting the fate rested with God. The child was taken home to Goodville then removed to a hospital after a physician ordered treatment and Lancaster County Court ordered custody to the probation officer.
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Lancaster
Elmer Zimmerman Jr
Goodville
Lancaster County Court
Senate Quits Without OK for 27 Truman Appointees
Washington October 20 Twenty seven of President Truman nominations for government posts were left without Senate confirmation as Congress adjourned. Some may receive temporary appointments while out of session and new nominations arrive next January. Ambassador Philip C Jessup faced a lengthy Senate Foreign Relations panel review before a 3 to 2 advers e vote. Frieda Bennock of the Federal Communications Commission was not confirmed as a federal district judge in the Southern District of New York. Most confirmed appointments were postmasters and armed services officers. Sixteen generals and admirals among those acted upon. The Gorrie nomination to head the National Security Resources Board was not acted upon. Also pending were Ernest A Tolin for federal district judge in California and Jake A Reessen to U S marshal in Southern California.
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Congress
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Senate Foreign Relations
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Federa Communications’ Commission
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Armed Services
Air Force
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National Security Resources Board
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Mon C. K Wallgren
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Tolin Toederal
California
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Reseen
Legislative actions and investigations summarize postwar policy shifts
The record reviews Senate actions on price fixing tax changes and postal reforms, Alaska and Hawaii statehood denial, defense housing aid, wartime veteran benefits, and limited anti-poll tax measures. It notes House and Senate probes into MacArthur’s removal, urban crime, RFC loan influence, Hollywood communism, tax enforcement, tax collectors, and antitrust reach on baseball.
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House Rules Committee
Alaska
Hawaii
Douglas MacArthur
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Lili St Cyr Indecent Show Charge Hits Beverly Hills
Hollywood reporters say Lili St Cyr and club owner Herman D Hover were cited on indecency charges after a raid at Ciro's in Beverly Hills. St Cyr, 30, faces court Monday. Hover plans to cancel her six remaining contract dates.
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Lili St. Cyr
Ciro
Beverly Hills
Herman D. Haver
Miss St. Cyr
Beverly Hills Justice Court
Hover
Pakistan Official Raps U.N. Delay
Karachi Pakistan Ort 20 UP M A Gurmanni Pakistan minister for Kashmir affairs declared today that four years delay by the United Nations in settling the Kashmir dispute has cost our prime minister his life He said no reason for further negotiations over the northern border state in view of the reactions of both India and Pakistan to the report by U N Mediator Frank Graham of North Carolina In a report to the U N this week Graham said he had been unable to persuade India and Pakistan to accept a common formula for withdrawing troops from Kashmir in preparation for a plebiscite But he urged the peace organization to continue its efforts to settle the trouble Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated at Rawalpindi Tuesday The government announced the assassin was a 50 year Afghan national Said Akbar who is reported to have belonged to a religious sect advocating direct action to settle the Kashmir question.
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Pakistan
M. A. Gurmanni
Kashmir
United Nations
India
U. N
Frank Graham
North Carolina
Graham
The
Peace Organization
Liaquat al Khan
Rawalpindi
Akbar
Bill funds Travis Air Force Base expansion
About 34 million dollars for expansion of Travis Air Force Base at Fairfield Suisun California was included in an appropriation bill approved by Congress today and sent to President Truman for signature.
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Washington
Travis Air Force Base
Fairfield-Suisun
Calif
Congress
Truman
Voters Pass Judgment on British Socialists Thursday
British voters face a pivotal national election with six years of state controls at stake. Polls favor the Conservatives led by Churchill, though the race remains tight with 30 to 35 seats the forecast. About 30 million are set to vote for 620 seats in the House of Commons as campaigns end.
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