Truman Raps Senate Tax Hike Measure
President Truman told the Senate the tax increase bill would fall short of balancing the budget and urged a $10 million hike. He sent a letter to Vice President Barkley read on the Senate floor as debate opened, criticizing loopholes and special provisions in the bill.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Alben Barkley
Senate Finance Committee
Finance Committee
George
House
Army To Bid Overseas For Beef Supply
The Army received only 190000 pounds of beef offers from 2 of 212 packers for a 13000000 pound bid. If domestic suppliers fail to meet needs, the Army will seek approval to buy overseas to secure boneless or carcass beef for Europe.
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Washington
Army
Pace
Agriculture Department
Farm Fertilizer Shortage Sparks Fear and Action
Secretary Brannan told the Senate Agriculture Committee that farmers will face major fertilizer shortages this year. He urged immediate construction of nitrogen plants with 700000 ton capacity to balance supply and demand within two to three years, citing a 500000 ton annual nitrogen deficit.
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Washington
Agrulture Brannon
Senate Agriculture Committee
Brannan
Taft urges shift in U S policy after peril ends
Senator Taft argues U S foreign policy in the current emergency rests on the Russian threat. He says once the threat relaxes programs such as alliances aid and rearmament should be reviewed and abandoned unless aligned with permanent interests. He criticizes the State Department and Presidents Roosevelt and Truman for expediency and politics over liberty and peace.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Republican Policy
Russia
State Department
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truman
Senate unit approves price law rewrite amid clash
The Senate Banking Committee voted 9 4 to rewrite the Capehart price law over Truman's objections. Senator Moody said the revision meets the president's concerns while Senator Capehart accused him of misrepresentation and withdrew in anger. The panel also moved to repeal a separate import controls section covering fats oils cheese butter dairy products peanuts and rice.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee Today
Truman
Moody
D-Mich
Capehart
R-Ind
Britain buys Romanian oil for ships bunkers
The Anglo Iranian Oil Company says it will spend over 1,000,000 pounds to buy 200,000 tons of Romanian fuel oil for ships bunkers in the Middle East. Its Iran operation is halted amid Britain Iran ownership disputes over a 1.4 billion dollar industry.
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London
Anglo- Iranian Oil Company
AIOC
Romania
Europe
Red Belt
Middle East
Iran
Seven year old gets 30 day ice cream reprieve
Charles Gibson who found $250 and returned it to an ice cream company is granted 30 days free ice cream by the firm. The boy has averaged a quart daily and gained weight while enjoying vanilla strawberry and chocolate flavors. An ice cream party for Charles and friends is planned with 35 to 40 gallons to be served.
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ST. Louis
Charles Gibson
Charles
W.H. Volkmar
Volkmar
Charlies
NATO Moves to Extend Defense System to Middle East
The North Atlantic Council plans to extend joint defense to the oil-rich Middle East after Denmark veto removal. Greece and Turkey are urged for Atlantic Pact membership, subject to acceptance and ratification. The body also backs a nonmilitary NATO development declaration and orders a full 12-nation inquiry into boosting troop and weapon flow to Eisenhower’s European command by December 1.
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NATO
Middle East
Ottowa
North Atlantic Council
Ottawa
Denmark
Greece
Turkey
Senate
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Three Teens Confess in Nurse Slaying at Ann Arbor
In Ann Arbor Michigan three beer drinking teens aged 18 confessed to murdering nurse Pauline Campbell 34 near her boarding house on the University of Michigan campus. Prosecutor Douglas Read said Bill Morey Max Pel and David Royal admitted the bludgeon killing over a few cents from the victim's purse.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Pauline Campbell
Campbell
Douglas K. Reading
Bill Morey
Max Pel
Ypsilanti
David Royal
Meena
St. Joseph's Hospital
University of Michigan
Air Force May Resort to Draft For Manpower Need
Defense officials said the Air Force may be drafted to meet personnel shortages as Marines request 13,000 draftees and all services face turnover with Reserve releases. A House subcommittee approved a new Reserve program classifying reserves into ready standby and retired groups.
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Washington
Navy
Air Force
Defense Department
Arvy
House
Armed Services
Truman Defends Boyle in RFC Case Amid Hearing
President Truman stated he opposes any DNC official collecting fees for helping obtain an RFC loan but trusts Chairman William M Boyle Jr has not. He cited Boyle’s word and testified that no fees were taken. Hearings focus on Lithoford payments and potential ties to loans and White House staff.
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Washington
Truman
Democratic National Committee
William M. Boyle, Jr
Boyle
Litheford
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Litteford
Francis D. Flanagan
Subcommittee
Guy George Gabrielson
Republican National Committee
RFC
Shirley Green
Lithofold
White House
Ottawa
U. S
Miss Green
Nixon
Calif
Young
Mr. Truman
Baseball Moguls Vote On Warren Giles For Commissioner
Major league club owners met for three hours in Chicago and recessed without a decision on a new baseball commissioner. Warren Giles, Cincinnati Reds president, was reportedly the top candidate and was asked to leave the executive session as ballots were cast to replace Happy Chandler in the $65,000 a year post. Gabe Paul represented the Reds in balloting.
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Chicago
Warren Giles
Giles
Cincinnati Reds
Gabe Paul
Red
Chib
Happy Chandler
East and West Germany sign new trade pact
East and West Germany announce a trade agreement after a three month break in relations. The Western side says the Soviet zone assured end to harassment of traffic between West Berlin and Bonn. The pact may take effect quickly with mutual concessions likely on Ruhr steel and grain exchanges.
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Berlin
East
West Germany
West Berlin
Bonn Republic
Ruhr
Germany
Parole Revoke Feeds Fallout in Gross Case
In New York AP reporting gambler Harry Gross loses parole and remains jailed after a three judge session revokes parole granted six months earlier. Gross had refused to testify, derailing a bribery case against 18 policemen. sentencing set for September 27 on 66 gambling counts. contempt adds five years.
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New York
Harry Gross
Oday
Special Sessions
Gross
Miles F. McDonald
McDonald
William B. Northrop
Communist shift spurs fresh Korea armistice talks
The Communist high command reversed course and urged immediate resumption of armistice talks at Kaesong. They charged Allied air attacks damaged Kaesong, a claim rejected by UN command, while suggesting a neutral body guarantee for Kaesong’s status.
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Don Huth
TOKYO
High Command
Kaesong
Matthew B. Ridgway
United Nations Command
Ridgway
Red
Maverick Announces Bid for U S Representative-at-Large
Maury Maverick, longtime Texas political figure, announces candidacy for U S representative-at-large in 1952 from Port Arthur. The move signals his bid in Texas politics and national service.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Maury Maverick
Texas
U. S
Two Mastodons Bones Found By Ohio Diggers
Diggers near Willard and Lodi uncover bones of two mastodons dating about 15 000 years ago. William Scheele of the Cleveland Museum identifies and preserves the finds. partial skeletons include ribs jaws backbone skull and leg bones, with tusks and pelvis missing. Excavation continues as frost exposes boggy ground.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Willard
Lodi
William Scheele
Museum of Natural History
Scheele
Here
Three MIGs Are Damaged In Dogfights In Korea War
U S Eighth Army reports American warplanes damaged three Russian made MIG-15s in multiple dogfights over northwest Korea. Across 49 Allied and 78 Red aircraft took part with no Allied losses. Red losses included one MIG destroyed and eight damaged over two days. Helicopters ferried troops to a mountain summit in four hours.
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U.S. Eighth Army
Korea
U.S. Fifth Air Force
Gisant
United Nations
Eighth Army
Yonchon
Chorwon
Fifth Air Force
Ain H. Johns
Napa
Calif
John W. Honaker
Ari Ton
Voter Registration Notice for Ohio Residents
If you want to vote register now at the Middletown Board Elections office between 9 a.m. and 4 30 p.m. daily or until noon Saturday Final registration day is Wednesday September 26 changes include name changes new voters moving since last year and those who have not voted in two years or who will have fulfilled their year's residence in Ohio by November 6.
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Ohio
Middletown
Feral Savings and Loar
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