Hoover Commission Wraps Up Controversial Two Year Term
The Hoover Commission led by Herbert Hoover concludes its two year mandate amid clashes over power policy and budget plans. Dissents from four members, including Atty. Gen. Brownell and Arthur S. Flemming, accuse the report of overstepping government duties. The task force on power faces delay before possible public release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Hoover Commission
Herbert Hoover
Commission On
Ane
Wedsesby Tar
Brownell
Defense
Arthur S. Flemming
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Rep
Holifield
D-Calif
Commission
Task Force On
FOA
Board Divides On River Tolls
Hoover Commission members split over a majority recommendation to impose tolls on inland waterways. The plan, handled by the Interstate Commerce Commission, would set charges on most users to fund locks and dams, sparking industry concerns in the Ohio Valley about potential curbs to growth.
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Washington
Hoover Commission
Ohio River
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ohio Valley
Huntington
W. Va
Cincinnati
Ohio
Holi
Auto Industry Sets Six Month Sales Record
AP reports the first half of 1955 set records across production and retail with near 4 percent million passenger cars built and over 3.5 million delivered. Local inventories hover around 800 thousand as foreign shipments top 155 thousand. Joint wage agreement between CIO UAW and Ford GM is seen averting a strike, with expansion plans by Ford and GM adding hundreds of millions in postwar investment. Chrysler gains near 19 percent of the market as industry eyes a full year record in production and sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Unon
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler Corp
Ford Motoro
General Sion Fund
Chrysler
Turner to Page Six Records Page Thirty Eight
A brief navigation note directs readers to page six column one for a turn to records on page thirty eight.
Portsmouth First Automatic Yard In United States
Norfolk and Western selects Portsmouth for a first automatic switching yard in an $825000 modernization. The project upgrades curvature, elevation, retarder system, yard master facilities, and a complete communications network to handle coal and other freight traffic from West Virginia to Columbus Great Lakes routes and Cincinnati.
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Norfolk & Western
Portsmouth
United States
N&w
America
West Virginia
Columbus
Great Lakes
Cincinnati
R. H. Smith
Roanoke
Fog and foggy seas hamper Pacific search for airmen
Dense fog again closed in on the Pacific search for missing Marine airmen as planes and a dozen ships combed the area. The four missing are Capt Hodgin P. Montague of Jackson Mississippi Lt David Winton Bell of Wayzata Minnesota Lt Alan Murdock McAneny Jr of Yonkers New York and an unidentified crewman of a Marine helicopter. Signals from Bells raft are believed to have been heard though no additional radio contacts were reported. The operation continued with nearly 70 planes reduced to fewer aircraft as weather worsened.
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Tokyo
Pacific
Air Force
Maj
William James
Far East Air Forces
Navy
Hodgin P. Montague
Jackson
Miss
Marine Sky Knight
David Winton Bell
Wayzata
Minn
Alan Murdock McAneny Jr
Yonkers
N.Y
Associated Press
Jim Becker
Bell
Ohio VFW opens 35th state encampment in Cleveland
About 15,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars gathered in Cleveland to begin the organization's 35th state encampment with ceremonies and address by leaders and local officials.
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Cleveland
Ohio
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Organizattion
Greyhound Resumes Service After 84 Day Strike
Greyhound buses began running from the Portsmouth terminal again after 84 days of strife. Drivers accepted a new contract Sunday night and returned to work around midnight, with routes to Columbus Cincinnati and Detroit resuming on normal schedules for the Fourth of July travel. The agreement runs to December 31 1956 with retroactive pay from March 1, and raises in daily pay trip pay and hourly rates.
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Greyhound
Harold O. Ross
Second St
Portsmouth
Gallia St
Atlantic
Mid
AFL Moto
Charleston
Cincinnati
Columbus
Carl E. Chambers
Detroit
Mr. Chambers
Daniel V. Maroney Jr
State Revenue Hits Billion Dollar Mark
Ohio state revenue reached a record 1,001,141,402.22 dollars as departments rushed last minute vouchers to the auditor's office for year end checks before the fiscal year closes. Auditor James A. Rhodes reported the milestone.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
State Auditor
Inside The Times Page Comics and Sections Guide
The page announces sections including 47 death notices 38 editorial page 8 markets 38 radio and television 18 round about Portsmouth 10 social affairs 14 16 sports 20 21 theaters 16 and notes the edition structure and page references.
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Portsmouth
Burdett Tells Of Spying For Soviet Russia
Senate investigators prepared to question former Brooklyn Eagle staffer at a follow-up hearing after Winston Burdett testified he spied for Russia from 1940 to 1941 and joined a Communist unit in 1937. Grutzner, a New York Times reporter, was named as a witness. Several witnesses invoked the Fifth Amendment.
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Washington
Senate
Russia
Charles Grutzner
New York Times
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Winston M. Burdett
Sen
Eastland
D-Miss
Grutzner
Burdett
Brooklyn Eagle
Columbia Broadcasting System
Monroe Stern
CBS
United Nations
Europe
Finland
Turkey
Huge Armed Forces Money Bill Approved
Congress sent President Eisenhower the year’s largest appropriations bill for the armed forces totaling about 31.88 billion dollars for the fiscal year. The House and Senate passed the conference agreement by voice vote with Eisenhower expected to sign promptly. The package allocates figures for the Army Navy and Air Force plus defense department activities and adds 46 million to offset Marine Corps manpower cuts.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
House
Senate
Army
Navy
Air Force
Defense
Wilson
Defense Department
Marine Corps
Hero Gets Eight Years For Aiding Red Foe
Cpl Harold M Dunn formerly hailed in Baldwinsville New York was sentenced by a seven man court martial to eight years hard labor for aiding the Communist enemy while a prisoner in North Korea. He received a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of pay and allowances. He told the court his conduct was a tragic mistake for which he is sorry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cpl
Harold M. Dunn
Baldwinsville
N.Y
North Korea
Tunisia Self Rule Gains Approval by National Assembly
Paris sources report the National Assembly's foreign affairs committee approved agreements to grant Tunisia increased self rule. The move sets a path toward autonomy within the framework of the broader decolonization initiative.
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Paris
Tunisia
National Assembly
Foreign Affairs Committee
Negotiators Strive To Avert Steel Strike In Last Hours
Pittsburgh reports show CIO Steelworkers Union led by David J. McDonald and John A. Stephens negotiating with U S Steel amid secrecy as a midnight strike looms. Major mills slow shutdowns and talks hinge on a proposed wage offer and selective strike options.
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Pittsburgh
David J. McDonald
CIO Steelworkers Union
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Corp
Stephens
McDonald
Detroit Steel Corp
Portsmouth
Abel
Associated Press
Philip Murray
Juvenile Gang To Face Court
Six boys will face Juvenile Court after a city and railroad detective team linked them to a scheme targeting morning paper carriers. The youths allegedly demanded protection money and used a railroad shanty to raid boxcars, even removing a lock for access.
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Norfolk & Western Railway
Glenn Albrecht
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Hoover
FDA
Board
Auto Industry
AP Automotive Editor
VFW
Inside the Times
Soviet
Associates
Aspeds
Reds
U.K
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Fourth and Gay Sts
Steelworkers
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