Truman Rejects Soviet Peace Bid Demands Eight Point Policy
President Truman sent Russia's peace resolution to Congress with a warning that it fails to promise a real shift away from hostile Soviet policies. He outlined eight conditions for genuine peace and said the United States cannot change its own policies without clear proof of Soviet change.
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United Nations
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Austria
Japan
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State Department
Voice of America
U. S
Truman seeks 400 million flood relief package
President Truman asked Congress for 400 million dollars to aid flood victims in the Midwest and to establish flood disaster insurance. He said the need is urgent, noting damage has surpassed a billion dollars and current emergency funds are far short. Vice President Barkley referred the request to Senate Public Works and Appropriations Committees to speed action.
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McCarthy Defends Md Campaign in 1950 Senate Race
Senator McCarthy defends Maryland 1950 senatorial tactics as exposing Communists in government. The subcommittee labeled the Butler campaign as despicable and said outsiders aided it, naming McCarthy as one. Butler defeated Millard Tydings by 43000 votes amid claims of a whitewash by Tydings’ committee.
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Senate Today
McCarthy Attacks Composite Picture In Tydings Hearing
Senator Wherry accused the effort of portraying Senator Butler as defensive while implying Tydings ran a purer campaign. McCarthy dismissed the Browder Tydings composite as inadequate and a whitewash, noting the tabloid label and production by the Washington Times Herald plant.
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Tydings
Browder
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From the Record
Washington Times- Herald
Senate approves defense housing bill for GI home loans
The Senate approved a 1.635 billion defense housing bill to aid workers in critical defense areas with easier down payments. GI loans would require 4 to 8 percent down for lower costs, rising to 20 percent for higher priced homes, with 25 year repayment and relaxed terms vs existing residential credit rules.
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Senate
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Federal Housing Administration
Gaithersburg Fair Opens with Record Entries and Prizes
The Gaithersburg fair in Montgomery County opens for five days with record entries in animal shows and home arts and foods contests. Prizes total 25000 dollars with cattle sheep poultry goats and horses among categories. Highlights include rodeos a jousting tournament baseball games boxing and wrestling and a grand horse show to close the event.
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United States
Rockville Fair’s Hiatus Ends as County Rebuilds Leagues
The Montgomery County fair, started seven years ago in Rockville, ran annually until the 1931 depression shuttered it. It did not resume until 1949 when County Agent O W Anderson led a campaign to revive the event. Waxey Gordon ill with pneumonia in New York as authorities debate who prosecutes him on drug charges.
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Rockville
O. W. Anderson
Waxey Gordon
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Irving Wexler
Professor Stutzman Retires as Shepherd College Science Head
Shepherdstown West Virginia August 20 Professor Ernest L Stutzman will retire as head of the Shepherd College science department on Friday ending twenty five years of service. He will be succeeded by Dr Ray L Shirley from the University of Florida Experiment Station at Gainesville Florida.
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W. Va
Ernest L. Stutzman
Shepherd College Science Department
Ray L. Shirley
University of Florida Experiment Station
Gainesville
Fla
Ten Die When Jet Plane Strikes Fort Dix Truck
At Fort Dix New Jersey a jet training plane in a dive hit a truck carrying soldiers near McGuire Air Base killing ten men and injuring twenty. The aircraft and truck burned as the plane plowed into a nearby woods. Two Air Force officers died instantly and eight soldiers on the ground perished. sixteen of the twenty injured were treated and released, four remained hospitalized.
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Ninth Division
Plane Crashes After Takeoff Wrecks Truck In Woods
Army reports say a plane crashed shortly after takeoff, destroying a nearby truck and igniting a fire in both aircraft and vehicle. An Army spokesman noted the control tower warned of trouble and radio attempts to contact the plane failed before it hit the ground. Names of the dead and injured withheld pending next of kin notification.
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Soldiers From This Area Returning Home
Sixty three more Marylanders returned today or are due to arrive as soldiers from this area come home, as reported in San Francisco on August 20.
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San Francisco
Marines Returned From Breckenridge Docked in San Francisco
The transport Breckenridge arrived in San Francisco with 33 Marines aboard. The USS Montr has brought four Marines to San Diego, and the USS Sylvester Antolak due tomorrow to Seattle with 26. Names listed include Cpl Bernard Kefany of Buaonsboro and Cpl Ivy Lowe of Ul Wood, plus several others from Hagerstown Westminster Carroll Ave Hampstead and Clarksbie. The Dodescanese Islands in the Aegean Sea comprised 50 islands and islets.
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Diego
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Ivy L. Lowe
Ulwood
Joseph W. Nusz
Pope Ave
Hagerstown
Ward O. Perry
Westminster
Sylvester Antolak
Joseph W. Davids
Carroll Ave
Hampstead
Ely E. Hanlin
Rt. 2
Oakland
Robert L. Shifflet
Clarksbie
Richard W. West
Smithby
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