Truman urges Congress to probe real estate lobbyists
President Truman called for a full investigation into what he termed brazen real estate lobbyist operations, criticizing the rent control extension bill for allowing 18 percent increases and loosening construction controls. Senators Bricker and Taft dismissed the move as demagoguery, while Arthur W. Binns of the National Home and Property Owners Foundation welcomed scrutiny.
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Truman
Congress
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R-Qhio
Taft
Ohio
Arthur W. Binns
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Property Owners Foundation
Principals Meet To Open Talks On Wage Demands
Soft coal operators seek government lead to restart contract talks with John L. Lewis to avert a July 8 strike as miners demand a 35 cent hourly rise plus a safety code and a 10 cent ton royalty for funds. No confirmation of an offers or meetings emerged amid background reports of industry and union negotiations.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
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Big Northern
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Interior
King
Benjamin F. Fairless
Ly. S. ‘Steel Corporation
George M. Humphreys
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal ‘Company
Britain and France May Act Without Russian Aid
Paris report says Britain and France prepare continental economic planning without the Soviet Union as the four power European recovery conference appears set to break up. Bevin and Bidault told Moscow’s plan is unacceptable but seek advice. Ramadier’s cabinet meeting postponed as debate begins in the National Assembly.
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Paris
Td “Ae
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
Foreign Ministry
Molotov
George C. Marshall
United States
Bevin
Bidault
Marshall
Paul Ramadier
National Assembly
Ramadier
Russia
Higher Telephone Rates In Effect
The Public Service Commission authorized Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone to raise basic service rates 12 percent across most of West Virginia. Long distance charges and a 20 percent increase for connections, moving, and instrument changes were approved, expected to add about 450000 dollars annually to net income. The order sets a fallback using the lower of company and commission figures where needed and remains open for further changes.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
Public Service Commission
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Commission
56 Injured When Speeding Train Hits Open Switch
The Baltimore and Ohio streamliner Columbian traveling 78 miles per hour hit an open switch near Westville Indiana at 6 15 p m injuring 56 passengers eight of nine cars derailed while the diesel locomotive and the following car stayed on track About 180 aboard five eight coaches and one sleeper were on board Many uninjured continued their trip The injured were rushed to hospitals in Michigan City Gary La Porte and Valparaiso in about 25 ambulances from area communities The crash forced the train onto a side track with derailed cars clustered nearby and damage to several vans described as bedlam by a passenger
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Ind
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Chicago
Washington
Michigan City
Gary
la Porte
Valparaiso
Glovia Mcintosh
Washington, D. C
Two Inch Rainfall Deepens Flood Threat in Missouri
The Mississippi River near St. Louis rose to 39.3 feet the previous day and 29.6 feet by night as 2.1 inches of rain fell in three hours. About 4,000 people from Cupe East Carondelet and nearby areas were moved to safety on the Army Corps guidance. Colonel Smyser ordered evacuation while the Begognih Fountain Bluff levee south of Chester was abandoned to protect 28,000 acres.
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Mississippi River
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East Carondelet
R. E. Smyser, Jr
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Fountain Bluff
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Weather Bureau
Fire forces 42 story Midtown building evacuation by foot
In New York a fire in a shaft knocked out elevator service, sending several thousand office workers including James A Farley fleeing 42 stories on foot. Firefighters reached the top floor to battle the blaze, which officials say likely started from a short circuit and was extinguished after about an hour and 20 minutes.
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Saver 1
New York
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mid-Manhattan
Maquis Claim 25 000 Ready to Fight Reds in Paris
A self described leader of the Black Maquis said 25 000 armed men are ready to march on Paris to establish an anti Communist government. The Interior Ministry disclosed the group and its leaders were arrested for plotting to overthrow the republic and set up a military dictatorship. The interview was conducted on the Champs Elysees and the source boasted of further arrests as a government official’s son was implicated.
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Associated Press
Paris
Interior Ministry
Republic
Champs Elysees
East and Gulf shipyards join wide walkout
A nationwide strike expands from 10 yards in four states to East and Gulf Coast plants, swelling union participation to about 120000. The walkout started at midnight in Camden New Jersey and includes 42,000 who struck last Thursday in Maryland Massachusetts New Jersey and New York threatening a shutdown of major Atlantic coast shipbuilding and repair.
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New York
East
Gulf Coast
Atlantic
Camden
N. J
Industrial Union’ of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
Truman Criticizes Tax Agencies Funding Shortfall
President Truman signed the Treasury Post Office Appropriations Bill totaling 12.402 billion but denounced what he called gross inadequacy in funds for tax collecting agencies. He objected to a 20 million cut for the Internal Revenue Bureau and urged political neutrality in administration of tax laws.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Treasury Post Office
Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
UN Members Map World Security Force Plans
UN Security Council members reported progress toward a world security force after United States Britain and France submitted force estimates from the U N Military Staff Committee. The US proposed at least 3800 warplanes 20 divisions of ground troops three battleships and six carriers. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dismissed the report as theatrical and said no authoritative figures could be drawn yet.
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A Lake
United Nations Security Council
U. N
United States
Britain
France
Andrei A. Gromyko
Missing Child Greta Gale Vanishes Near Lee's Camp
Grandfather former U S Congressman John H. Tolan died of a heart attack after Greta Mary Gale, two and a half, disappeared from a Lassen National Park vacation camp near Lee's camp. Search parties joined the effort. Gale said kidnapping possible for ransom.
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Associated Press
Lassen National Park
Calif
Greta Mary Gale
Here
John H. Tolan
Tolan
General Hospital
Beetle Invasion Hits Beckley Area For First Time In Years
County Farm Agent H B Thomas warned of a blister beetle infestation in Beckley area. The insect can strip leaves in hours and appears in hordes. A farmer noted it is the first sighting in 27 years. Thomas advised copper and DDT dust for potatoes and rotenone for beans.
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H. B. Thomas
Yars
Thomas
Russian cancer remedy KR claims dissolves malignant growths
New York report from the American Review of Soviet Medicine via Mme N G Klyueva states KR, a chemical from Trypanosoma parasites, dissolves cancers in about half of treated patients. Fever increases with dose, but higher purity allows dosages up to 500 times initial. Treated cancers include larynx, esophagus, breast, and cervix with several apparent recoveries.
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American Review of Soviet Medicine
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Eisenhowers Poor Second Triggers Probe Call
Rep. Short led calls for a congressional probe into why the U S Army lags behind Russia in power suggesting the Eisenhower remark was propaganda for universal military training He urged inquiry into peacetime military appropriations and army performance amid large budgets and surpluses Eisenhowers testimony and the War Department budget cuts drew no immediate comment from Eisenhower or the department
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Senate Appropriations Committee
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War Department
House Armed Services
Universal Training
Leo E. Allen
R-Ill
House Rules Committee
Congress
Federal Court Jurors Named Opens July 21
Beckley’s Southern district opens July 21 with Judge Ben Moore presiding. Twenty five area residents are summoned to serve as grand jurors at 1 30 p m on opening day. Sixty others are summoned as petit jurors for July 28 at 9 a m when trials begin. The list includes C H Arthur Beckley and many others from local towns.
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Beckley
Southern District
Federal Court
Ben, Moore
Hinton Juror Report List Names and Dates
Petit jurors summoned to report on July 28 include Harry Allen of Fayetteville R8 Amick Dempsey N W Baylor T E Bazzarre J B Bibb S F Biggers Lawson Ottie Blake Mount Hope M Bobbitt Beckley 8B C Callaway Beckley R H Carter Mount Hope Noah Clemens Saxon S A Cody Fayetteville Let cher Cook Fayetteville John Coppney Fayetteville C L Deeds Hinton U S Dickens Beckley Keby Farmer Bolt EB H Foster Bellepoint F O Grimmett Buck R C Haynes Hinton See Story No 4 Page 10
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Fayetteville
Letcher Cook
John Coppney
C. L. Deeds
Hinton
U. S. Dickens
Beckley
Keby Farmer
Bolt
H. Foster
Bellepoint
F. O. Grimmett
Buck
R. C. Haynes
Daughter of 10th U S President Succumbs
Pearl Tyler Ellis, youngest and only surviving daughter of John Tyler, died at her daughter Mrs Ambrose M Marye's home near Elliston Virginia yesterday. She was the fourteenth child and, though she did not reveal her age, would be in her late eighties since she was an infant when her father died in 1862. Ellis was the widow of Major William Munford Ellis who served in the Confederate army.
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Pearl Tyler Ellis
United States
John Tyler
Ambrose M. Marye
Tyler
Ellis
William Munford Ellis
Ex-Hitler Youth Stabs Red Proxy
German police hunted possible accomplices after a 28 year old former Hitler Youth member Heinz Andre stabbed and wounded the president of Thuringia's provincial council. The assailant was captured yesterday and identified by the Russian controlled German News Agency dispatches.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Thuringia
Heinz Andre
Weather forecast fragment for today and tonight
The clipped weather note reports scattered showers and a warm afternoon with a high near 86 and night low around 62. It includes noon temperature and precipitation for the 24 hours ending at noon, but many words are garbled.
Explosion Kills Sixty Italians in Port of Rome Area
Ansa reported sixty people were killed when ammunition exploded on unloading from the Italian ship Panigaglia at Porto Santo Stefano near Civita Vecchia, northwest of Rome. The victims were crewmembers and civilian workers from a wartime-fortified ammunition shipment sourced from a southern island near Sicily.
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Rome
Ansa
Porto Santo Stefano
Civiti Vecchia
Panigaglia
Sicily
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