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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1951
Page
4
West Berlin Telegraf reports over 60 East German Communist youths arrested by Red police for deserting the world youth festival to visit West Berlin. Leaders fired amid festival supply and organization breakdown as the event nears its fifth day.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars urged Congress to override President Truman's veto of a bill raising pensions for disabled war veterans. National legislative director Omar B. Ketchum called the veto hasty and ill advised, noting only about 20,000 veterans would gain immediately at a cost under 14 million dollars, conflicting with Truman's estimate of 16.7 million for the first year.
Sen Duff declared traitors allied with Russian Communists must be hanged, in a speech to the American Legion in Pennsylvania. He warned Russia’s fake cease fire in Korea and urged relentless tracking of treason and continued defense mobilization to deter another world war.
In Indianapolis on August 9, AP reports that the governor's secretary Arthur Campbell saw his salary rise from 7,200 to 10,000 dollars a year after a legislative move to raise all elected officials. Governor Schricker's pay remains 8,000 with 12,000 extra for expenses. The next governor will earn 15,000 annually.
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