Hughes Arrives To Testify On Contracts In Indonesia War
In Batavia Indonesia, the Dutch army denied Indonesian charges of cease fire violations while accusing Jakarta of breaches. U S envoy Walter Foote delivered a U S mediation offer to A K Gani, who promised to relay it to Prime Minister Amir Sjarifoeddin with hopes for a prompt reply.
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Batavia
Java
Amir Sjarifoeddin
Gombong
Jogjakarta
Adm
William D. Leahy
Washington
United States
Walter A. Foote
U. S
A. K. Gani
Foote
Leahy
Gani
Geni
Realty Dealers Plan Organizing Board in Twin Cities
Luther Reed Sr of Luther Reed and Company says Twin Cities real estate dealers will form a local board empowered to set rules and discipline members. He aims to convene a September meeting with national real estate representatives to discuss formation and ethics enforcement for about 25 active dealers.
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Luther Reed, Sr
Luther Reed and Company
Baton Rouge
State Realty Dealers License Board
National Real Estate Board
Reed
Twin Cities
Three More Jews Taken by British
In Jerusalem Aug 6 three more Jews were seized as British forces widen a roundup of Jewish leaders accused of sympathy for violence or ties to the underground. A dawn grenade explosion near a British post by the Jewish Agency caused no casualties. about 40 leaders, including mayors of Tel Aviv Natanya and Ramat Gan, are held at Latrun detention camp, many from the revisionist movement which claims no underground links.
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Jerusalem
Jewish Agency
Latrun
Tel Aviv
Natanya
Ramat Gan
Revisionist
U N May Get Balkan Crisis
The United States signals that if the Security Council cannot act due to Russia’s veto, the General Assembly may handle the Balkans crisis. Herschel V. Johnson was to outline Washington’s position, urging action against Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia and stressing a UN led solution with a semi permanent commission to police the region.
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United States
Security Council
Council
General Assembly
Albania
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
United Stetes
United Nations
Balkans
Vassili Dendramis
Europe
Russia
Atomic Delegate Rejects Soviet Control Plan
Frederick H. Osborn, United States atomic delegate, called Soviet proposals for an international control agency inadequate and wholly unacceptable. He told the United Nations atomic energy commission that the plan would mislead peoples about real security as deliberations on atom control for peaceful purposes continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
Frederick H. Osborn
United States
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Vussia
Osborn
Lend lease to Reds diverted under congressional hold
Washington reports part of a 25 million dollar lend lease shipment originally for Russia may go to Greece and Turkey to ease Soviet pressure. The rest likely heads to surplus markets. lawmakers fear discrimination and the drop in U. S. contract obligations.
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Washington
Russia
Greece
Turkey
State
Treasury Departments
State Department
Congress
Europe
United States
Truman Vetoes News Vendors Social Security Exemption Bill
President Truman pocket vetoed H. R. 3897 to remove full time news vendors from social security coverage. He warned exemptions would invite other employers to seek carve outs and set a dangerous precedent. He argued expanding social security protects workers including news vendors and their families against old age, death, and unemployment risks.
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Washington
Truman
Trumen
Regulations Cut Legal Duck Kill With 1947 Limits
Washington reports the 1947 duck hunting rules aim to reduce kills as four bad breeding seasons have hurt waterfowl. The season drops from 45 to 30 days in the east and 35 in the center and west, with bag limits down from seven to four per day.
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Washington
Frederick C. Lincoln
Lincoln
Fish and Wildlife Service
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Wildlife Management Institute
Congressional fight looms over reciprocal trade act
Two Republican Ways and Means members Daniel A. Reed of New York and Gearhart of California warned that the reciprocal trade act may face trouble in the next Congress. They said Congress will seek more control over trade negotiations and may require a majority vote to approve or abrogate any accord, as the act nears its June expiration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Daniel A. Reed
New York
Gearhart
California
Congress
State Department
Ways and Means
Reed
United States
Gas Pipeline to Monroe Firm and Eola Plant Upgrade
Anchor Gasoline Company of Tulsa announced a new pipeline from Church Point Louisiana to Eola Louisiana a distance of 35 miles with remodeling of the Eola plant. Project cost about 450000 and construction to finish in four to six months. The line will move about 10000000 cubic feet of gas daily to the Eola plant for repressuring wells and later sell to Southern Carbon Company Monroe Louisiana for carbon black at 7000000 cubic feet daily.
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Tulsa
Okla
Church Point
Eola
Anchor Gasoline Company of
Chris Gay
Gay
Gay Sad
Southern Carbon Company
Monroe
Britain seeks extension of postwar loan with US discussions
Prime Minister Attlee said the United States agreed to two power discussions to revise parts of the loan agreement amid Britain’s dollar famine. He noted the loan, $3.75 billion, would be exhausted this year and outlined plans to avoid frittering the aid as Churchill charged.
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London
Attlee
United States
House Commons
Labor Administration
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Marshall
U. S
Russia
Eastern Europe
Churchill
Britain
Dol
United States to Confer With Britain on Loan Terms
Secretary of State Marshall announced a high level conference with Britain to ease parts of the Anglo American loan. Talks would focus on pounds to dollars convertibility and non discrimination against American exports in Britain’s import program. Treasury Secretary Snyder said the U S is ready to confer but has had no direct overtures from British authorities on relaxing the 3 75 billion credit terms.
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Washington
Marshall
United States
Britain
Attlee
Commons
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Congress
U. S
Trains Crash Near Czech Border Killing Sixteen
Sixteen people died and 35 were injured when the Bratislava Prague Express derailed near Kuty Moravia. Seventeen of the injured were reported in critical condition.
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Prague
Kuty
Moravia
Overell Murder Trial Details Reveal Motive Claims
In Santa Ana the prosecutor probes a motive linking George Gollum and Louie Overell to the Bludgeon murder and yacht blast. Louise Overell denies the charge and asserts she did not kill her parents or Bud. Testimony notes tensions over clothing and allowance and reports family ties to Gollum.
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Santa Ana
Call
Walter EF. Overell
State
Eugene Williams
George
Bud) Gollum
Louie Overell
Louise
Bud
Lewil Slayback
Miss Overell
James Musick
Gollum
Williams
Herbert van Zwoll
Overells
Overell
Mary Pritchard
Louie
Maren
Meyer Concludes Expense Details At Hughes Hearing
John W. Meyer testified he spent 97 821.59 of Howard Hughes aircraft company funds on promotion for two wartime contracts and entertainment of army officers and officials. He noted two accounts for aircraft work and said he was the primary Hughes public relations worker as hearings continued in Washington with Hughes ready to testify.
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Washington
John W. Meyer
Howard Hughes Aircraft Company
Hughes
Senate War Investigating Committee
Meyer
Ferguson
Republican
Michigan
Col
James Hall
Elliott Roosevelt
Air Corps
Roosevelt
United States
Hall
Subcommittee
Parts shortage triggers layoffs at Ford plants
About 51,000 U S Ford Motor Co workers faced a weeklong layoff after a parts shortage halted all assembly. The company will suspend operations until August 12 due to missing body parts from Murray Corp of America amid a Murray strike dispute tied to Taft Hartley immunity demands.
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Detroit
C. I. O. Ford Motor Company
Ford Company
Murray Corporation of America
Murray
Ford
United Auto Workers
Ford-U. A. W
Detroit Area
Wright Named Governor of Mississippi After Primary Lead
Mississippi after the Democratic primary shows Fielding L. Wright with a strong lead for governor. Unofficial tallies with 825 of 1,714 precincts indicate Wright at 58,097 votes to Paul B. Johnson Jr.’s 30,450, while challengers like Jesse M. Byrd and Frank L. Jacobs are eliminated. Lieutenant governor race goes to Sam Lumpkin vs Grady Cook, with Lumpkin ahead but short of a majority.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Fielding L. Wright
Wright
Paul B. Johnson
Johnson
Jesse M. Byrd
Frank L. Jacobs
Meridian
William Lycurgus Spinks
Thomas L. Bailey
Marine Corps
Sam Lumpkin
Tupelo
Lumpkin
Grady Cook
Pontotoc
Jesse W. Shanks
Theodore Bilbo
Senate
Tom J. Grayson
Charles G. Hamilton
Aberdeen
Greece receives priority aid for highway rail and port rebuild
Washington reports the state department flags high priority for a 390 million dollar Greek aid program. Contracts totaling 82.4 million are awarded to U S firms for highways railroads and seaports under a cost plus fixed fee basis. An advance group of contractors travels to Athens to begin work.
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Washington
State Department
Department
Athens
Congress
Stone to drill two Tucker Farm wells in Union parish
J Floyd Stone Sr Monroe cotton merchant and Olcott Stone Motors member seeks permits to drill two wells on his 20 acre Perry J Tucker farm lease two miles southwest of the Ora field in Union parish. Sellars Ewing struck oil nearby on July 27 as their No 2 well advances. Stone will source a drilling contractor and act as operator for the first time.
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Perry J. Tucker
Ora
Union Parish
Sellars-Ewing Company
J. Floyd Stone
Monroe
Olcott-Stone Motors Co
Sellars-Ewing Holdings
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Realty Board
U. N
Assembly
REDS
News Vendors
Clifford Martin
Mervyn Paice
Palestine
Ramle
G.O. P
Labor Party
U.S
Says
Tucker
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