Aides Clash Over Prompting Congress for Price Controls
President Truman’s top economic aides debated calling Congress into a special session to tighten price controls after Arnall urged action. Roger Putnam opposed immediate action unless prices rise rapidly, while Sen. Sparkman criticized timing. Others, including Javits and Farm Bureau, weighed in as OPS prepared new standards expected within a week.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Ellis Arnall
Roger Putnam
John Sparkman
Alabama
American Farm Bureau Federation
Jacob Javits
R-Lib-Ny
Arnall
Office of Price Stabilization
Office of Defense Mobilization
New York
Putnam
NBC
Sparkman
Farm Bureau
Roger Fleming
Javits
OPS
Schuman Plan's Nine Man Board Begins Big Task
In Luxembourg the Schuman Plan formed a nine member executive to unite Western Europe’s coal and steel industries. Led by Jean Monnet, the group aims to erase trade barriers, integrate markets, and pursue eventual political unity. They will operate with full diplomatic status and oversee a two house supranational structure including a ministers council and a 78 member assembly.
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Luxembourg
Western
Europe
Sixmalion Coal-Steel Pool
Jean Monnet
Saar
Schuman Plan
Monnet
West Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Beglium
France
Six Nations
Schuman Organization
Robert Schuman
Coal Steel Pool
International Court
Pantagraph Half Endorses Stevenson Citing Party Handicap
The Bloomington Pantagraph, partly owned by Gov Adlai Stevenson, says it wishes to endorse him for president but cites the Democratic party as a great handicap. It calls both Stevenson and Eisenhower highly intelligent and qualified, but criticizes the Democratic party for lowering government respect.
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Bloomington
Democratic Party
Stevenson
Pantagraph
Summer Band to Hold Friday Concert and Practice Sessions
Senior members of the Summer Band School will perform Friday night with time and venue to be announced. Practice sessions run five days weekly for brass 8 to 9, woodwinds 9 to 10, and full band 10 15 to 11 45. The band also plays at the August 29 football game and junior high programs run by J R McEntyre and Gene Smith at Bowie and Crockett Schools beginning at 9 each morning.
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Robert Maddox
Maddox
Bowie Junior High School
J. R. McEntyre
Crockett Junior High
Gene Smith
Eden to Wed Clarissa Spencer Churchill
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will marry Clarissa Spencer Churchill niece of Prime Minister Churchill The couple age 55 and 32 plan a photo friendly wedding Eden who led in wartime as a handsome public figure Spencer Churchill, a debutante of 1938, is daughter of the late Maj John Spencer Churchill and Lady Arwendeling Spencer Churchill She aided the Foreign Office decoding telegrams during the war
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London
Anthony Eden
Clarissa Spencer-Churchill
Churchill
Ede
John Spencer-Churchill
Arwendeling Spencer-Churchill
Eden
Miss Spencer-Churchill
Spencer-Churchill
Foreign Office
Union Policy Men To Map Election Year Plans Today
Atlantic City N J August 11 American Federation of Labor meets to map election year plans for eight million members. The 15 member executive council may endorse a presidential candidate for the first time since 1924 with Robert LaFollette as target. William Green presides as sessions close to the public. Potential successor to Green discussed.
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Atlantic City
N. J
American Federation of Labor
AFL
White House
Robert M. LaFollette
Progressive Party
Wisconsin
New York
Council
William Green
Green
A. S
Mike Monroney
Oklahoma
Korea
CIO
James B. Carey
CBS
James A. Farley
Alben Barkley
Farley
Barkley
Stevenson
Pipeliner Dies in Head-On Crash Near Cleveland
Earle Soile, 40, a Fort Worth pipe line welder, died yesterday from injuries after two cars collided head on near Cleveland Mississippi. Officers cited wet slippery pavement as the cause of the accident.
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Cleveland
Miss
Earle Soile
Fort Worth
Commie Forces Dig In On Siberia Hill
Reports from the Korean Western Front say Chinese forces entrenched on Siberia Hill east of the Panmunjom truce site after a day-long U N fighter-bomber assault and Marine pressure. The hill exchanged hands five times in two days as U N planes conducted over 150 sorties and ground fighting persisted. Casualties and specific operational details indicated continued high-intensity clashes with air and naval support compensating for calmer sectors along the front.
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Seoul
Korea
Siberia Hill
U. N
U. S
Panmunjom
Ihe
Jist Marine Division
U.S. Eighth Army
Siberia
Eighth Army
Navy
Boxer
Olympic Pistol Star Escapes Secret Police in Finland
Panait Calcai 26 a Romanian Olympic pistol sharpshooter fled from a secret police guard in Helsinki after a staged return for a missing knapsack. Police released him after a street scuffle, but Calcai slipped away in a waiting car and vanished.
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Helsinki
Finland
Romania
Panait Calcai
Freedom
Calcai
Olympic Village
Otaniemi
Central Station
Alexander
Extradition Denied in Lo Dolce Case by Judge Knight
Federal Judge John Knight refused to extradite Carl G. Lo Dolce to Italy to face a wartime murder charge. Italy sought extradition for the killing of Maj. William V. Holohan, Lo Dolce's former commanding officer with the OSS, in 1944 behind German lines. The judge ruled the 1868 extradition treaty was not effective as the crime occurred while the area was occupied by German forces.
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Buffalo
N. Y
John Knight
Carl G. Lo Dolce
Italy
Rochester
William V. Holohan
Office of Strategic Services
Holohan
Knight
Miniature Train Crash Kills Child in London Park
A miniature train jumped its track at an amusement park near a lake in London, killing a one year old girl and injuring 19 other riders. The gas powered train with 40 passengers derailed into trees as three other amusements have had wrecks in Britain in three years.
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London
Britain
Funeral arranged for Odessa man Foos in county custody
A first class Texas funeral will honor Melvyn Eugene Foos 26 of Odessa who died in the Ector County jail from acute alcoholic poisoning after head injuries in a fall. Hubbard Funeral Home reports donations from the Veterans Administration Red Cross American Legion several churches and individuals to cover burial costs. The inquest supported the death cause and Foos a World War II veteran is survived by a son father two brothers and five sisters with burial set at Odessa Cemetery.
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Ector County
Melvyn Eugene Foos
Odessa
Texas
Hubbard Funeral Home
Commissioner’s Court
The
Veterans Administration
Red Cross
Veteran’s ,of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Foos
East Eighth Street
D Courts
George Kelton
Riverside
Kan
Michael
John Foos
Great Bend
Clifford
Maryland
Dorothy McCown
Denver
Colo
Betty Norris
Shirley Ann Foos
La‘Junta
Darline Foos
Omaha
Neb
Frances Stewart
Ellenwood
J. Conally Evans
Bel‘mont Baptist Church
M. F. Nelson
Milford Bebee
Elmer Estill
Jack Cahela
Abe Martin
Joel Shaw
Odessa’ Cemetery
End of Texas heat wave hoped as cool front moves in
Texas faced a lingering heat wave with Dallas reaching 100 plus for the ninth straight day. A cool front from Kansas was expected to arrive within 48 hours, bringing possible rain to some areas. Emmett John Flanagan died of heat stroke in Dallas, while other cities reported thundershowers and scattered rain, notably Lubbock with 1.02 inches. Crops and livestock suffered as drought and drying wells persisted.
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Weather Bureau
Iwell
Panhandle
Red River Valley
Texas
Dallas
Emmett John Flanagan
Fort Worth
el Paso
Wichita Falls
Amarillo
South Plains
Gainesville
Presidio
Mineral Wells
Junction
Cotulla
Laredo
Waco
del Rio
Alice
San Angelo
San Anee Tyler
College Station
Kefauver Backers Lose Top Senate Committee Posts
The Senate Preparedness subcommittee fired two staff members who backed Estes Kefauver for the Democratic presidential nomination. Downey Rice and George H. Martin said they were dismissed effective Sept. 1 for staff reductions. Officials cite a staff cut while Capitol Hill buzz links the moves to Kefauver support.
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Washington
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Downey Rice
George ‘H. Martin
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Depite
Capitol Hill
Kefauver
Rice
Army Calls Up Forty Seven Thousand Draftees
The Army announced a draft call of 47 000 men for October up from 30 000 in September bringing total inductions since September 1950 to 932 000. Marine Corps has drafted 81 430. Navy and Air Force rely on volunteers. Marine draft halted last May.
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Washington
Army
Marine Corps
Navy
Air Force
Material Allotments For Odessa Building Project
Ernest Tutt of the National Production Authority announced Texas allotments for new construction. Odessa receives one large project with a $510,000 office building, and West Texas sees two Lubbock permits for a $280,000 project and a $119,000 swimming pool.
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Dallas
Ernest Tutt
National Production Authority
Texas
Odessa
Ben Nectow
West Texas
Lubbock
Campaign Clashes Prefigure 1944 Election Stakes
In a tense lead up to the November election, Eisenhower and Stevenson camps mobilize across states. Eisenhower meets with Indian leaders in Gallup and plans talks with farm lawmakers while Stevenson stresses party unity in Illinois and Washington briefings.
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Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
GOP
Eisenhower
Congressional Agriculture Committees
Denver
Gallup
N. M
Stevenson
Springfield
Frank McKinney
Stephen Mitchell
Wilson Wyatt
McKinney
Novice kin feud turns deadly in Decatur death
In Decatur a 75 year old man Wiley Starnes is held on murder charges after shooting his 38 year old nephew Wilford Starnes on a Sunday night over a dispute about the will. The killer was arrested in Denton and owns a farm near McKinney.
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Decatur
Wiley Starnes
Wilford Starnes
Starnes
Wise County
Carl Ramsey
Denton
McKinney
Demos Still Have Negro Loyalty In Full Election
In the 12 southern states about 1 180 000 Negro voters are registered The Associated Press survey finds Negro leaders expect a Democratic majority in November Despite some dissatisfaction with civil rights planks and Sparkman Republicans may gain some edge from Eisenhower but the overall Negro vote is viewed as reliably Democratic Powell White and Walden weigh in on the impact with differing views The piece notes Negro influence remains limited unless the race is extremely close and calls for party unity among black voters across the South.
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Atlanta
Democratic Party
Dixie
Associated Press
John J. Sparkman
Eisenhower
Republican Standard
GOP
South
Roosevelt
Truman
de- Enson
Sparkman
Adam Clayton Powell Jr
New York
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Powell
Uncle Toms
Two Hurt in W Third and N Washington Car Crash
At about 10 30 p m Saturday a two car collision at W Third and N Washington injured T L Ribble 22 time keeper 115 E 11th and Marjorie Whitefield 33 telephone clerk 705 N Dotsy. Ribble fractured shoulder Whitefield scalp laceration. Police said Ribble ran a stop sign driving south. other driver headed west. Both released after treatment.
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W. Third
N. Washington
Medical Center Hospital
T. L. Ribble
E. 11Th
Marjorie Whitefield
N. Dotsy
Ribble
Federal mediation sought to avert rail strike
New York federal mediators hold talks with railroad brotherhoods and New York Central officials to prevent a strike on lines east of Buffalo. Three of four brotherhoods had threatened today, but union leaders agreed to renew mediation and postpone the action for a reasonable period. The dispute centers on 58 remaining union grievances and working rules.
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New York
Railroad Brotherhoods
New York Central Railroad
Central
Buffalo
Totter Heads to Korea Front for Hospital Tour
Hollywood reports actress Audrey Totter travels to the Korean battle front to visit wounded troops and boost morale saying seeing an American girl helps more than medicine for the soldiers.
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Hollywood
Audrey Totter
State Democratic Committee rejects referendum on Aug primary
The State Democratic Executive Committee ruled against a referendum to pick a Democratic presidential candidate for the November ballot citing no legal means to order it. The canvass also confirmed July 26 primary results, with races for governor, U S Senate, attorney general, railroad and land office commissioners, and Supreme Court justices.
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Austin
Democratic Executive Committee
T. O. Davis
Deneter
Charles Devall
Kilegore
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mitchell
Tee
State Supreme Court
Spurgeon Bell
Houston
Frank P. Culver
Fort Worth
Allan Shivers
Ralph Yarborough
Allene ‘Traylor
Frank Morales
U. S. Senate
Price Daniel
Lindley Beckworth
E. W. Napier
John Ben Shepperd
Curt Stiles
Olint Culverson
Joe Laird
Basco Giles
Guy Patterson
The
Land Office
John C. White
Glenn R. Lewis
A. R. Stout
Supreme Court
Graham B. Smedley
Robert Bruce Keenan
Court of Criminal Appeals
Kenneth K. Woodley
Jesse Owens
Phillips Receives Major Tax Write Off for Gasoline Units
The National Production Authority announced one of the largest defense plant tax write-off certifications for Phillips Petroleum Co. for natural gasoline production at Sweeney Texas totaling 11,453,000 with rates from 65 to 15 percent. Additional Phillips grants covered Midland Upton and Regan Counties Texas totaling 6,108,280 69 percent 2,710,000 40 percent and 278,300 25 percent. Runnels Gas Products Corp. earned 3,011,392 at 65 percent and 403,332 at 40 percent for gasoline production in Runnels County.
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Dallas
National Production Authority
Phillips Petroleum Co
Sweeney
Tex
Phillips
Midland
Upton
Regan Counties
Leent
Runnels Gas Products Corp
Runnels County
Margaret Truman Visits Russian Zone on European Tour
Margaret Truman daughter of the U S President rode through the Russian zone to Berlin for a two day visit during her European tour passing through the area with U S officials and reporters in attendance on August 11 then continuing her itinerary in Europe.
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Berlin
Margaret Truman
U. S
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Wyatt
Mander
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