Probers Find New Scandals In US Tax Bureau Alcohol Unit
House investigators report fresh scandals in the Internal Revenue Service alcohol tax unit. Liquor dealers allegedly settled large federal tax claims for tiny sums and licenses were issued to bootleggers and shady figures. Political influence helped obtain preferred jobs. hearings are planned later this year under Rep. Cecil King.
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House
Washington, D. C
Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury Department
Ways and Means
Cecil King
California
Carroll Mealey
Albany
N. Y
Internal Revenue
Mealey
M. L. Harney
Bureau of Narcotics
Treasury
John W. Snyder
Harney
Charles Lyon
World News Briefs From Tokyo to Havana
A B-29 crash at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo killed none, nine of twelve crew survived by parachute, three missing. Spencer Tracy says he will quit acting after his M G M contract ends in three years in Stockholm. In Pusan Syngman Rhee leads South Korea’s first popular election with 2,409,714 votes to rivals. In Havana five police charged with conspiring to topple Batista are convicted by a Cabana fortress court, likely two to four years and dishonorable discharges.
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Tokyo
Japan
United Nations
Yokota Air Force Base
Korea
Stockholm
Sweden
Spencer Tracy
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Killer
Pusan
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Rhee
Cho Pong Am
Lee Shi Yong
Havana
Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Cabana Fortress
Churchill
Britain
China
Manchuria
Old Age Pension Checks Increase Five Dollars This October
Old Age Assistance and Aid to the Blind recipients will see a five dollar boost in October under new federal legislation. Some benefits are exempt for those on both Old Age Assistance and Social Security or Aid to Dependent Children. Individual grant amounts still depend on needs minus income.
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Josephine D. Harvey
Waco
State Department of Public Welfare
Rally
Eveyone
Harvey
Austin
Mexia Jaycees Schedule Meeting at 6 30 PM
Mexia Jaycees meet tomorrow at 6 30 in the Chamber of Commerce office to assign Fiesta committee roles. President C W Teel said the session is set early to avoid clashing with the Jaycees sponsored softball tournament.
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Mexia Jaycees
Chamber of Commerce
Pres. C. W. Teel
Jaycees
Sentence Awaited By 14 Convicted California Reds
Fourteen second string Communist party leaders face sentencing for conspiring to overthrow the government. They could get up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine. The jury convicted them after a six month trial. bail was denied and they were remanded to U.S. Marshal custody.
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Los Angeles
Communist Party
New York
U. S
James J. Boyle
Murder of Eisenhower aide shocks postwar France
Police hunted two young campers across southwest France in connection with the brutal killing of former Eisenhower aide Sir Jack Drummond his wife Anne and their 11 year old daughter Elizabeth using a U S Army carbine. Officers ordered shoot to kill as hundreds of gendarmes searched near a tent where the British family camped.
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Sars
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jack Cecil Drummond
Border Patrol round up 1200 illegal aliens in Texas
In Elsa Texas the U S Border Patrol rounded up an additional 1200 illegal Mexican aliens in the Delta lake area of extreme South Texas yesterday. The article notes this crackdown as a major action in border security.
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Elsa
Tex
U. S
Border Patrol
Delta Lake
South
Texas
Alice Robinson Named July Courtesy Winner in Mexia
Miss Alice Robinson, then with White and Gillespie Drug, now with Sears Roebuck, chosen as July’s most courteous salesperson by a Rotary wives committee. Presentation to be by Dr Gordon Pratt at noon tomorrow. honorable mentions include Hope Bohannon and others from local shops.
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Alice Robinson
Mexia
Woodrow Perkins
Chamber of Commerce
Alton Kerzee
Hope Bohannon
Mexia Jewelry
Josie Chandler
Sears
Claude Mangum
Karner and Phillips
T. C. Note
McKenzie Motor Company
Irene Warshauer
LaMode
Irene Lucus
Rena Mae Eliasor
Bess Allen
Clovis Bounds
Hottest Day Of Year Recorded In Mexia 102 Degrees
Yesterday Mexia saw a record 102 degree high the fifth 100 degree day this season with a 78 degree overnight low. Dallas 104 and Wichita Falls 106 marked Texas heat as drownings in Houston and a Houston prisoner death were linked to the heat. A Dallas shower caused 25 accidents and a lineman fall while hurricane winds south of Gainesville felled structures. The American Museum of Natural History houses a 750000 specimen bird collection.
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Mexia
United Press
Texas
North Central
West Texas
Gainesville
Weather Bureau
Wichita Falls
Presidio
Childress
Dallas
Abilene
Houston
Olivia Elizabeth Connor
Humble
Linda Beth Keeling
Carthage
Sanders Martin
Houston City
Mercury
Jesse Lloyd Hill
Wyandotte County Spends 5000 For One Ballot
Kans City report says Wyandotte county paid 5000 for one voter to cast a ballot and similar sums for 12 others. Election commissioner Patrick J. Corcoran notes one Socialist vote and 12 Prohibition votes and explains 196 precincts require 100 ballots per party, with 19600 ballots costing about 9000.
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Kansas City
Kans
Wyandotte County
Patrick J. Corcoran
Corcoran
Six MIGs Fall to Allied Sabre Jets Over Korea
UN pilots shot down six Communist MIG-15s and damaged two others in Korea on Wednesday. Over three days, 24 MIGs were destroyed or damaged as Sabrejets from the Fifth Air Force and wings of the Fourth and First Fighter-Interceptors led the effort. Truce talks at Panmunjom paused with negotiators resuming Monday to address prisoner exchanges. The Reds demand 116000 prisoners returned, while the UN proposes returning 83000 who would not resist.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Fifth Air Force
Panmunjom
Munsan
Kaesong
Pilot Ditches B-36 To Save Beachgoers
Witnesses recount a heroic B 36 superbomber crash near Lindbergh Field after its starboard engine exploded. The giant 10 engine aircraft turned away from crowded beaches and plunged into the sea. Two of eight crewmen died with six surviving after parachuting to safety.
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San Diego
Calif
Lindmogg Field
Pacific Ocean
Tommy Manville’s Ninth Wife Starts Divorce Flight
Anita Eden, Manville’s ninth wife, left New York by plane for Houston en route to Mexico to divorce the asbestos heir after a 13 day marriage. She said he paid $50,000 for the divorce and a $50,000 bonus, joking about taxes and his sense of humor.
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Tommy Manville
New York
Anita Eden
Houston
Mexico
Tommy
Vandenberg Returns to Duty as Air Force Chief
General Hoyt S. Vandenberg will resume duties as Air Force chief of staff on August 15 after recovering from abdominal surgery performed May 7. The announcement confirms his readiness to lead the service again.
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Vandenberg
Washington
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Air Force
Lions Hear Report on Improvements at Mexia State School
Thurman Kerr, business manager, reported the Mexia State School and Home now serves 1500 patients up from 800 two years ago. Five recreational workers and nine occupational therapy staff, plus $700,200 in new buildings and equipment, and an $800,000 project underway, mark progress.
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Mexia State School
Thurman Kerr
Mexia Lions Club
Kerr
Mexia State School and
Mexia
Texas
Japanese Mark Seventh Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing
About 2000 Japanese observe a minute of silence at 8 15 am seven years after the atomic blast. Five orphaned children unveiled a memorial, while a British plane dropped flowers over Hiroshima to honor the dead who may number over 200 000 per Japanese accounts.
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Hiroshima
Japan
Polio Cases Jump in Texas First Week of 1952
Texas health officials report 276 polio cases in one week the second largest weekly total in state history. The 1952 cumulative tally rises to 2,373 cases as the State Health Department releases the update.
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Texas
Austin
State Health Department
Politicians in Britain and United States Draw Parallels
Foreign analyst Phil Newsom assesses how U S politics resemble Britain with Labour momentum in Britain and a hung parliament risk for Churchill. Bevan rises as a potential rival though anti American labels cloud his appeal amid party splits and public opinion shifts.
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Phil Newsom
United States
Britain
U.S
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
London County Council
Commons
Labor
Clement Attlee
Aneurin Bevan
Bevan
U. S
Byrnes Urges South Democrats to Stay Loyal
In Denver Eisenhower unveils a 10 point program before the Veterans of Foreign Wars while Gov. James F. Byrnes appeals South Carolina Democrats to remain loyal to the national party and back Adlai Stevenson for president. Byrnes urges electors to vote with the Democrats, not switch to Republicans.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Denver
C. Wayland Brooks
Adlai Stevenson
Iinois
Adlai
San Antonio
Tex
Springfield
Stevenson
Jenna Fae Whatley
Winnfield
Ida Lupino
California
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Walter G. Keil
Miss Whatley
Los Angeles
NEA
Byrnes
South
Columbia
S. C
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Ilinois
Egypt Seizes Farouk Assets in Egyptian Holdings
The government of Egypt seized control of ex king Farouk's assets, placing real estate, bank accounts and investments under a two man sequestration board. Egyptian holdings are estimated at 515 million to 575 million dollars in value. England consumes six bushels of wheat per head annually.
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Cairo
Egypt
Farouk
Aly Maher
England
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American Museum of Natural History
New York City
Eisenhower
Woodrow Wilson
Great Britain
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Memorial Coliseum
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Nile
Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate
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