General Feldman Testifying in Per Cent Probe
In Washington the Army's quartermaster general Major General Herman Feldman testifies as a personal witness before the Senate Investigations Committee in the five per centers inquiry. He faces questions about ties to James Hunt and a letter outlining procurement plans amid a $400000 DDT bomb deal.
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Washington
Army
Herman Feldman
Fetaman
Special
Senate Investigations Committee
James \. Hunt
Washington Management
Hoey
D-Nc
Shelby
N. C
Feldman
Drive Opens Despite View of Doughton
Washington AP report on a new push in Congress for wartime excise tax cuts. Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee says no prospect this year due to a potential deficit of five trillion dollars. Minority pressures from Republicans and some Democrats call for relief, with possible study for 1950 but warnings that other taxes could rise to offset any cut.
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Washington
Congress
Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Coughton
Martin
Massachusetts
Master
New York
Davenport
Pennsylvania
Congressional
Tito accused of plotting Balkan war by Romanian leader
Romanian Vice Premier Gheorghe Gheorghiudej charged Tito with plotting to set ablaze the Balkan powder keg at a rally of about 8000 Romanian Reds. Soviet Politburo member Voroshilov denounced Tito as a traitor and linked him with fascism in a broader broadside against Yugoslavia.
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London
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Russia
Tito
Gheorghe Gheorghiudej
Balkan
Klementi Voroshilov
Politburo
Soviet Union
Voroshilov
Czech Communist Paper Attacks Tito Regime as Fascist
Rude Pravo, the Czech Communist Party organ, brands Premier Marshal Tito's government fascist and says Soviet policy is to exterminate fascism wherever it appears, echoing wartime stance as Prague reports.
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Prague
Cezchoslovakia
Marshal Tito
Soviet Union
Rude Pravo
Czech Communist Party
Cominform attack echoed amid Yugoslavia tensions
The report notes an accusation of negotiating with the West behind the back of the Soviet Union and the People's Democracies. Both speakers hit typical anti imperialism rhetoric as a new Cominform blitz followed a day of jittery Western and neutral diplomats in Yugoslavia despite rumors of troop movements near borders.
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Yugoslavia
Yugoslav
Hurricane May By Pass Florida Hints Northward Drift
The first Atlantic hurricane of the season has veered northward and likely will miss the Florida coast. The Weather Bureau put the storm about 300 miles east of Melbourne with winds near 100 mph and moving north at 12 mph, with a forecast of faster forward movement later today.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Weather Bureau
Melbourne
Theft Cleared Involving Family Pet Dog In East Liverpool
A theft of 225 dollars in jewelry was solved when police found the missing wristwatch and bracelet in the family dog Midge’s bed. Mrs. Laura Reinacher reported the items missing after returning home late at night. The culprit listed on the blotter is the pet dog named Midge.
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East Liverpool
Midge
Laura Reinacher
CIO Leader Attacks Steel Firms During Fact-Finding
Philip Murray of the CIO Steelworkers Union denounced steel executives' testimony before a Presidential fact-finding board as an insult to the President. He rebutted Clarence B. Randall of Inland Steel and pressed for a 30 cent per hour package with pension and insurance. Randall accused the White House and the board of paving a socialist or corporative state, while Murray defended the President and rejected the accusation of political influence. The 60 day truce was set with the three man board's involvement.
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New York
Philip Murray
CIO Steelworkers Union
United States
Randall
Steel Industry Board
Murray
CIO
Muray
Truman
White House
Southern Democrats Face Party Trial
States Rights members of the Democratic National Committee go on trial for desertion in last year’s campaign. The Credentials Committee will judge expulsions, while the full committee tomorrow selects a new national chairman to replace McGrath, who resigns to join the cabinet as Attorney General. Boyle is favored to succeed McGrath.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Congress
National Committee
Truman
Dixie
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
South Carolina
J. Strom Thurmond
Credentials Committee
J. Howard MceGrath
U. S
Rhode Island
William M. Boyle, Jr
McGrath
Boyle
Four Killed In Auto And Train Crashes
Three people from Scio were killed when a car was struck by the Iron City Express at a crossing. Victims were William Stapleton 52 Mary Ethel Stapleton 48 and a neighbor's child Sheila Davis 2. A fourth death occurred nearby when Russell MacFaren 50 of Mount Eaton died when his truck was hit by a Wheeling and Lake Erie Freight train four miles south of Dalton in Wayne County.
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Cadiz. O
Pennsylvania Railroad
Iron City
Scio
William Stapleton
Mary Ethel
Sheila Davis
State Highway Patrol
Duane Kinsey
Stapleton
Pittsburgh
Coluntaus
Russell MacFaren
Mount Eaton
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Dalton
Wayne County
Chiang Moves Into Canton Amid Red Invasion Threat
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek arrived in Canton as Chinese Communists mass near the Kiangsi border. Chiang will chair the Nationalist Emergency Council meeting to plan defense for south China and Canton, said to be prepared to die for the cause if needed. The National Defense Ministry announced a counteroffensive along the Kwangtung Kiangsi frontier.
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Canton
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Kuomintang
Nationalist Party
South China
Kiangsi
Kwangtung
Ministry of National Defense
Kwangtung - Kiangsi
English Youth Starts Channel Swim at CAP GRIS NEZ
English youth Philip Mickman aged 18 began swimming the English Channel at 5 30 this morning from Wissant near CAP GRIS NEZ France. No progress reports yet. Dutch student Dick Schermer aged 21 abandoned after four hours forty minutes due to cold water.
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Cap Gris Nez
France
Philip Mickman
Mickmsn
Wissant
Dick Schermer
Forest fires race across North America from Quebec to California
The blaze moved from Quebec toward Terrebonne Heights near Montreal as 1500 residents fled. Firefighters built earthworks while winds calmed. meanwhile in San Diego County an emergency fire condition was declared after a new flame near Fallbrook spread from Camp Pendleton and intensified.
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Quebec
Canada
San Diego
Laurentian Mountain
Terrebonne Heights
Montreal
Ordnance Proving Ground
San Diego County
Cal
Fallbrook
Deluz Canyon
Camp Pendleton
Res
Forest fires threaten Bordeaux area with evacuations
Light rain reduced danger as eight lives were lost in forests. Overnight fires erupted at Saucats, a village 14 miles south of Bordeaux, prompting evacuation of the town, according to military officials.
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Bordeaux
France
Saucats
Bordeaus
Fires Consume Thousands of Acres Across Western States
State forestry crews and Camp Pendleton Marines fought a large blaze near the Riverside County line that had scorched over 1,000 acres. Rebels of earlier fires continued to burn in Idaho where wind driven fires devastated 14,000 acres in the Payette National Forest.
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Riverside County
Camp Pendleton
Idaho
Payette National Forest
Guardsmen Aid Search For Missing Minnesota Child
In McGregor Minnesota more than 200 Minnesota National Guardsmen joined volunteers in a large search for three year old Larry Coleman who vanished Saturday while picking cones on his grandparents farm 30 miles north. Sheriff Hulin doubted the boy could survive a third night in the woods as a 26 member Coleman neighbor search party arrived from New Brighton suburb of St Paul by bus.
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Mcgregor, Minn
Minnesota National Guardsmen
Larry Coleman
Here
Coleman Farm
Hjalmar Hulin
Aitkin County
Kenneth Coleman
New Brighton
Truce Reached in Senate Rent Control Funding Fight
Senate and administration officials announced a truce in the rent control funding battle. Senator Douglas withdrew for now after a promise to revisit the request in January. Housing official Woods hailed the move as Congressional support for rent control while leaving plans to lift ceilings in some areas unsettled.
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Washington
Senate
Douglas
D-Ill
Tighe Woods
Woods
House
B-36 Inquiry Nears End in Congress
The B-36 bomber inquiry appears close to a wind up with leaders signaling a clean bill of health for the Air Force. Chairman Vinson and other members said the investigation has found no outside influence in selecting the B-36 as an intercontinental bomber and expect a rapid conclusion this week.
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Washington
Air Force
Congress
Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Lauris Norstad
Brooks
D-La
Short
German Field Marshal Manstein Goes On War Crimes Trial
German Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein faces a British military court in Hamburg on 17 war crimes charges after a four year wait. He loses a plea to be tried by court martial instead of a war crimes tribunal. The charges relate to his actions in Poland and Russia during World War II.
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Hamburg
Germany
Erich von Manstein
Poland
Russia
Bargains Galore and the Lady’s Curious Finds
A lighthearted sketch by Gordon Martin on how women chase bargains in daily life. It portrays the lure of cut price gadgets, unused items piling in the basement, and the household routine of shopping bliss followed by cluttered spring cleaning.
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Gordon Martin
Ohio and nearby states to close rent control offices
Rent control offices in medium Ohio cities will be closed or consolidated around September 1, officials said. The plan covers Ohio Michigan Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia, with about 25 areas to lose controls and enforcement shifting to larger nearby offices.
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Ohio
Cleveland
John F. Kessel
Michigan
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virsonia
Kessel
Washington
Lessel
Lorain
Ashtabula
Steuberville
Lima
Chillicothe
Mar
West Virginia
Bluefield
Logan
Morgantown
Lexington
Pacucah
Federal mediator renews Hawaii dock wage talks
In Honolulu, Cyrus S. Ching of the U S Conciliation Service urged renewed negotiations to end Hawaii's 115 day dock strike. Mediator George Hillenbrand arranged a morning meeting with employers and a separate session with the ILWU Strike Committee to restart talks without a new proposal from Ching.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Cyrus S. Ching
U. S. Conciliation Service
Thempetus
CIO International Longshoremen’s
George Hillenbrand
Wherry Opposes Immediate Foreign Arms Aid
Senator Wherry of Nebraska declares he will oppose any foreign arms program now. He argues Congress should wait until January to review the situation while committees begin drafting a bill to supply arms to Atlantic Pact nations, Greece and Turkey, Iran, Korea and the Philippines.
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Washington
Wherry
R-Neb
Matty
Senate
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Korea
Coal Parley Resumes Amid Slumping Stockpile
In White Sulphur Springs West Virginia the United Mine Workers and coal operators resume contract talks as stockpiles shrink to 40 000 44 000 tons. John L Lewis may attend and could push concrete demands once stockpiles are lower.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
UMW
Lewis
Clarksburg
Mississippi
Kirwan to seek re election in 1950
Youngstown Ohio Congressman Michael J Kirwan said he will definitely run again in 1950 to benefit his district with influence he has gained in Washington since 1936.
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Youngstown
Michael J. Kirwan
Washington
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