Mead Urges Discipline for Officers in Garsson Case
Senate War Investigating Committee chairman Mead pressed the War Department to discipline high ranking Army officers tied to the Garsson munitiones scandal. Records show travel orders and per diem allowances for six officers to be in New York for Natalie Garsson’s wedding on January 2 1944 at the Hotel Pierre.
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Washington
Mead
D-Ny
Senate War Investigating Committee
War Department
Garsson
New York
Natalie Garsson
Garsson Brothers
Benny
Murray
Jean Bates
Inn
Henry Garsson
Joseph Freeman
Washington Gifice
Ie Garssons
Army
Paul X. English
Chemical Warfare Services Procurement Division
Alden H. Waitt
Pierre
Murray Garsson
Natalie
Fireworks Considered To Deter Starling Nuisance
City explores large roman candles to frighten starling flocks in hospital park area. Police chief says possible approval. no gunfire used yet. Earlier attempts with tin serenades yielded no results. Firemen’s convention display had no duds and sparks hope for deterring birds.
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Fred Straley
Hospital Park
Drive to Down OPA and Rent Controls in House
July 23 report on a final House drive to kill price controls and restore rent ceilings. Rep Brown warned reviving controls would spur shortages and black markets. factions debated limiting authority to rents only while scrapping other controls. A separate Nagoya crash killed five American airmen with three injured.
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Washington
Rep
Brown
Ohio
Chamber
House
Nagoya
Japan
Nagoya Bay
Fifth Air Force
Madame Sun Yat Sen warns China heads for disaster
Madame Sun Yat Sen bluntly warned that China faces disaster as reactionaries in Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang push for war with the Communists aided by American and Russian interests. She urged U.S. troops to withdraw and suggested a coalition government with the Chinese Communists to achieve constitutional rule and lasting peace.
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Sun Yat-Sen
China
Sun
Chiang Hai-Shek
Chungsing
Madame Sun
Chiang
Kuomintang
United States
Russia
Moscow Radio
Far East
Far “East
Joan M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
America
Mme. ‘Sun
Record Precipitation Fourth Day Halts Dry Spell
Rain continued for a fourth straight day with 6.28 inches overnight city total reaching 3 inches for July, against a 4.03 normal. Forecasts show more showers and thundershowers through the week, with a rising temperature trend by Thursday and a humid overnight low of 69 degrees.
Wrecked Jewish State Blamed on Terrorists in Jerusalem
In Jerusalem the King David hotel bombing raises deaths and missing to 93 as British and Palestinian officials recount chaos. Witnesses say attackers in Arab disguise spoke Hebrew while staff and security fought back amid curfew and wrecked buildings.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
David
Jewish Agency
Palestine
Government Secretariat
Flashes Of Life And Brief Notices From July 23
A collage of short items notes Mrs Lilly Darlick of Connellsville seeking divorce after nightly news rituals in Uniontown. barber C B Moore recalling his first customer as he sells his shop in Tulsa. rats and stale candy shown in a Los Angeles city hall exhibit to warn against disease. and Henry J Donigan a 20 year old Marine veteran denied a revolver permit under a 21 age limit in Boston.
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Uniontown
Lilly
Darlick
Connellsville
John Morrow
Tulsa
Oklo
Barber C. B. Moore
Harold C. Noe
Moore
Los Angeles
City Hall
Boston
Pacific Islands
Henry J Donigan
Guadalcanal
Guam
Peleliu
Saipan
Co B to Go Into Camp on Sunday
About 50 members of Company B Maryland State Guard will depart Sunday for a one week camp at Camp Ritchie Cascade for maneuvers similar to prewar National Guard camps. Led by Capt Harry B E Pettingall and Lt Robert L Price, they will travel from the State Armory at 8 am. August 3 will feature Governor's Day with a parade and review by Governor O Conor and state officials.
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Maryland State Guard
Camp Ritchie
Cascade
State Guard
Maryland
Jwhich
Camnann R
Harry BE. Pettingall
Robert L. Price
State Armory
O'Conor
Dwight T. Mohr
Heavy selling hits market in New York stocks rout
July 23 market fell across sectors as heavy selling drove major averages down and several leaders lost more than 4 points. Slow openings and a two minute ticker delay snarled trading while brokers blamed price control fears and rising short term rates for the downturn. A few issues managed gains amid overall weakness. In Baltimore, Jony Edwards Jr of B&O said freight car shortages likely persist into next spring.
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New York
Baltimore
Jony Edwards, Jr
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
One Killed and Three Hurt In Route 46 Crash Near Hancock
Herbert Hann aged 20 was killed instantly when an automobile left Route 46 and struck a guard rail four miles east of Hancock. James Barnhart Susan Barnhart and Roxie Fling of Hancock were injured. Fling reported in critical condition at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown.
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Hancock
Herbert Hann
Route 46
Here
James Barnhart
Stusan Barnhart
Cousins
Roxie Fling
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Brunswick mayor seeks return of seven workers over pay raise
Mayor E. G. Bowers Sr of Brunswick sent word to seven employees who did not report for work eight days ago. He promised a council meeting to consider their pay demands if they return. The seven include five Malumnee workers and two policemen. Police remain absent though not officially on strike. The town's finance committee will report on demands to raise wages to one dollar an hour.
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E. G. Bowers
Brunswick
Bowers
Cewnn Haen
Finance Committee
Heavy Rains In Baltimore and Maryland Crop Prospects
Torrential rains drenched Maryland with Baltimore the hardest hit. The Weather Bureau logged 1.5 inches in Baltimore from yesterday afternoon to today, while the Eastern Shore saw minor totals. Crops overall improved, with Kent County noting a half million dollars in value from rain, though some officials warned of excess rain.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Baltimore
Weather Bureau
Free State
Salisbury
Annapolis
Kent County
J. B. Movean
Carroll County
L. C. Burns
Corn and Wheat Yields May Break Historic Marks
Washington reports July 23 sees record prospects for corn and wheat, with potential crop highs. Officials discuss possible easing of grain consumption controls and continued reluctance on foreign relief purchases as prices and ceilings loom.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Hanging Men Are Cut Down in Bolivia After Coup
In La Paz on July 23, following a four day revolution that killed President Guulberto Villarroel and three aides, the bodies were removed from lampposts in front of the presidential palace after a woman civic leader insisted. Thousands viewed the corpses as they were taken to a morgue to await Christian burial. The revolt left 2,909 casualties.
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la Paz
Bolivia
Guulberto Villarroel
Villarroel
Nuce May Oppose Virts At Brunswick
Bruns wick councilman William C. Nuce may run for Mayor before Friday’s filing deadline. Stanley T. Virts in the third ward has no opposition for Mayor. Nuce may seek Mayoralty or re election to his second ward seat whose two year term ends this year. Jerry J. Eshbaugh is the only candidate filed for first ward. Election set for August 6 to choose a Mayor and three two year council seats.
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William C. Nuce
Brunswick
Stanley T. Virts
Nuce
Wirts
Iver Caudhigeenss
Wes Repurteay Alehourd
Jerry J. Eshbaugh
Fay
Paul J. Moler
Md Democrats Nominating State Ticket in Baltimore
Maryland Democrats convened at the Emerson hotel to nominate W Preston Lane Jr for governor Herbert O Connor for U S Senator James T Lacey for Comptroller and Hall Hammond for Attorney General Tru man B Cash opened the session and Lansdale Lusseer was named chairman The party plans a 20 member resolutions committee from each county and Baltimore district to draft the November platform
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Baltimore
Maryland Democrats
Enerson Hotel
W. Preston Lane, Jr
Herbert &. O'Connor
U.S
James T. Lacey
Hall Hammond
Truman B. Cash
State Central Committee
Lansdale Lusseer
Sasseer
Muryiana
Lane
Sasser
H. Streett Baldwin
Baltimore County
Baldwin
Briek
Car Overturns injuring three on National Highway
Early morning crash near Braddock Mountain sent a Ford sedan overturning in a culvert. Involved were Mrs Susie Pittman Marion County Ky, her daughter Barbara Pittman and Geraldine Gumm of Cincinnati Ohio. They were treated at Frederick City Hospital for cuts and bruises and discharged. State Trooper Myers reported no charges.
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Braddock Mountain
Frederick City
Susie Pittman
Marion County
Barbara Pittman
Geraldine Gumm
Cincinnati
Truman to Fly Home to Vote on August 3
President Truman plans to leave Washington early Saturday morning August 3 to fly home and cast his ballot in the election. The trip underscores the vote that will take place as he returns to his base and continues to press for his legislative priorities.
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Washington
Truman
Attlee condemns Jerusalem bombing as worst act of terrorism
London reports Prime Minister Attlee described the King David Hotel blast in Jerusalem as the worst act of terrorism in ten months. He cited 41 dead 53 missing and 53 injured while noting Jewish perpetrators were implied. He said Britain works with the United States on a just Palestine settlement and would not be diverted by violence.
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Irgun Zvar Leumi
Stern Gang
United States
Palestine
Malcolm P. Hooper
la Regence
Secretariat
Jewish Agency
London
Attlee
House of Commons
King David
Jerusalem
Atllee
Foreign Office
Britain
Ijara Fares Imland
Former Gestapo Agents Fattening in Refugee Camps
Moscow reports the Red Star accuses former Gestapo agents and storm troopers of anti-Soviet activity while living on UNRRA bread in American refugee camps near Munich and Nuernberg. It cites a Polish ex-Gestapo operative Karl Holte Kornitsky and warns Munich is a gathering point for European reactionaries.
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Red Star
Munich
Nuernberg
Warmberg
Karl Holte Kornitsky
Poznan
Gestapo
Europe
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