Congress Passes Broad Home Front Mobilization Bill
Congress sent to President Truman a bill to curb inflation and mobilize the home front. It would let the administration control prices wages credit and strategic materials while enabling allocation of scarce resources and defense loan programs. Truman says wage price controls may not be needed and plans to address the public tonight. The measure also covers rationing penalties and plant requisitioning beyond what he requested.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Truman
House
Senate
Mr. Truman
Record High U S Employment Reaches 62 367 000
August adds 1 153 000 jobs to hit a new peak of 62 367 000 with non farm positions rising 1 433 000 to 54 297 000 while farm workers fall 280 000 to 8 160 000. Unemployment falls to 2 500 000 the lowest since 1949.
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Washington
Commerce Sawyer
Hanres Sawyer
Chicago Crime Probe Subpoenas Fosco and Others
Peter Fosco downtown Chicago Democratic boss was served a senate crime committee subpoena. Also named were County Commissioner Arthur Elrod and Attorney Eugene Bernstein. The Kefauver panel seeks light on racketeering with subpoenas for businessmen and political figures connected to the underworld. Bernstein urged to provide records of figures he represented, including Parole cases for Ricca Campagna and Gice.
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Chicago
Peter Fosco
Senate
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Fosco
1St Ward
A.F.L. Hod Carriers Union
Arthur X. Elrod
Eugene Bernstein
Senate Committee
Campagna
Charles
Gice
Protesters in West Berlin Doused by Police Hoses
West Berlin police used high pressure water hoses today to disperse several hundred Communist rowdies in front of city hall. The demonstrators, West Berlin residents who work in East Berlin for Communist agencies, protested a Western ban on exchanging East marks for West marks.
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Berlin
West Berlin
City Hall
East Berlin
Weather outlook and temperatures for the region
Cloudy conditions persist with occasional rain in the southwest tonight and in the extreme south Saturday. Temperatures remain steady with lows near 65 tonight and highs in the upper 70s Saturday. Data notes include sunrise at 5 26 today and sunset at 6 33, with 100 percent humidity at 8 30 this morning and 1.94 inches of precipitation since yesterday.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Age limit on draftees eyed at 35 by Solon
Chairman Carl Vinson of the House armed services committee said in January the panel will consider raising the draft age from 25 to 35. The report notes Solon indicates this potential change.
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Solon
Washington
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Veterans draft debate on GI dependents payments and exemptions
A House committee will weigh extending draft to veterans, noting GI dependents costs estimated at 300 million for Aug to June. Current rules exempt veterans with 90 days service. Vinson hints at drafting fathers up to 26 soon, then says no change before January.
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Vinson
Congress
Boy Convicted Of Murder In Liquor Store Slaying
Eighteen year old Tommy Cook was found guilty of second degree murder in a liquor store proprietor slaying during an attempted holdup. He testified that his accomplices were Peggy Byrnes and Muriel Pickles Downs, both 18, who await juvenile action. The verdict followed 11 hours of jury deliberation. sentencing is set for next Tuesday.
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Long Beach
Calif
Tommy Cook
Cook
Peggy Byrnes
Muriel Pickles Downs
Peggy
California
Philharmonic Debuts in Movie Theater at Roxy
New York's New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra opened a four show a day run at the Roxy theater sharing top billing with a technicolor film. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos presented a 45 minute potpourri of classic and semi classical works. Opera star Eileen Farrell performed soprano arias as an added attraction. Broadway movie fans attended at regular admission.
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New York
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Roxy Theater
Meestro Dimitri Mitropoulous
Eileen Farrell
World Set-Up Without Reds Is Proposed
A five man foreign relations subcommittee urged planning for a United Nations operation without Russia. The confidential report warns the Soviet union may sabotage the UN from within or by veto or walkout during the Korean crisis. It calls the U N test a chance to ensure freedom and law with or without Russia.
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United States
United Nations
Russia
State Department
U.N
Full Foreign Relations Committee
Subcommittee
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
U. N
Korea
S Korea
North Korea
Lucas Plans Downstate Speeches on Saturday
State Democratic headquarters said Senate majority Leader Scott W. Lucas will return from Washington for two speeches in Southern Illinois. He will give a non political talk to farmers in Anna in the afternoon and speak to the Alexander County Democrats in Cairo that night.
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Lucas
Democratic
Senate
Scott W. Lucas
Washington
D. C
Southern
Illnois
Anna
Alexander County Democrats
Cairo
Murphysboro Alderman Resigns Over Water Dispute
Herman McGowan Ward 1 alderman resigns from Murphysboro city council and returns two uncashed June and July paychecks after conflict with the water company over mains. Council cut August pay for McGowan and Beattie. vacancy to be filled by election or until April 30, 1951.
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Herman McGowan
Murphysboro
McGowan
Murphysboro Water Company
D Street
Briton Takes Up U N Reins As Malik Bows Out
Sir Gladwyn Jebb of Britain becomes U N Security Council president in September ending Malik's vetoes and pushing for Korea to be seated. The council plans to back an American resolution declaring North Korea the aggressor and to hear Chinese charges. An on the spot probe into a Manchurian airfield was requested by Warren R. Austin with potential U S indemnity and discipline if proven.
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U. N
Malik
Britain
Gladwyn Jebb
United Nations Security Council
Jakob A. Malik
U. S. Council
Jebb
South Korea
Council
Red China
Soviet Union
Formosa
Manchuria
United Nations
U. S
Warren R. Austin
Strikes Level Off Since War
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the number of strikes leveled off after the Korean War began. July saw 425 stoppages, similar to June, with 225,000 workers involved compared with 260,000 in June. July strike idleness rose about five percent, totaling 2,900,000 man days.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Obliging Fellow Gives Waitress His Shirt
A Memphis customer admired by waitress Louise Wolfe removed his polka dot shirt and left it on the table with a cash tip. She noted he was not wearing an undershirt.
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Memphis
Tenn
Louise Wolfe
Bed for sale in Murphysboro ad in Hollywood section
Classified ad offers a complete like new bed for 30 dollars through a one dollar listing. Ad gives location 308 Lucier and phone number 232 for contact in Murphysboro Illinois.
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Murphysboro
Hollywood
Lucier
Classified Ad Yields Bed Sale After Three Runs
Mrs Haréold Williams ran a six day ad in the Southern Illinois classifieds for $1 and sold the bed for $30. She received eight or nine inquiries before the sale, saying she was very pleased with the ad’s results after it appeared three times.
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Haréold Williams
Southern Illinoisan
Amnesty offer on missing boy yields no takers
Springfield Ill. Sept. 1 Up A noon deadline for an amnesty offer to return 2 year old Earnest Cagle Jr. dead or alive drew no responses. State’s Attorney George Coutrakon said he would not prosecute if the child were returned alive. He withdrew the offer and doubted kidnapping was involved, noting the boy’s diabetic condition and vanishing from his parents’ car in Buckhart Illinois. The parents believed kidnapping, but investigators found no new leads.
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Springfield
Ill
George P. Coutrakon
Little Earnest Cagle, Jr
Coutrakon
Buckhart
Earnest Cagle, Sr
Illiopolis
Coutralion
Family wins court decree for burial in Herrin
Frank Cappanellano 50 of Chicago will be buried in Herrin Illinois after his brothers Joseph and Dominick of Herrin and Peter of Chicago won a Superior Court ruling. Judge Alan E. Ashcraft Jr. continued a Chicago burial injunction and blocked the plan by a woman who had lived with the deceased.
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Herrin
Frank Cappanellano
Chicago
Herrin, Ill
Superior Court
Alan E. Ashcraft, Jr
Cappellano
Joseph
Dominick
Peter
Frank
Lucille Johnson
Ashcraft
Weather and War Trim Chicago Fair Attendance
The Chicago fair will fall short of its 2 million goal due to bad weather and the Korean war. Officials estimate about 1,650,000 cash customers will have attended by Monday night, with 35 percent from outside a 100 mile radius. They call the venture worthwhile and will decide on a repeat next year.
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Chicago
Bird love could send lifer to gas chamber in California
In San Rafael California Joseph Johansen 22 faces the death penalty after a hammer assault on a cellmate over a pet bird. The case arose from a June incident at San Quentin where a cat injured the bird leading to a confrontation and a pipe blow. If convicted, the law mandates the death sentence for a lifer with a lethal attack.
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San Rafael
Calif
Joseph Johansen
Johansen
San Quentin
Nate
Fridolin Dargo
Los Angeles
Dargo
A. E. Bagshaw
Marin County Grand Jury
North Koreans Press Assault On South Korean Front
North Korean forces renewed a heavy assault along the western front as U N troops and U S armor counterattacked to recapture Haman, driving back the Red advance from the southwest flank. The U S 25th Infantry Division and air support halted the momentum, with warnings of a possible second major offensive elsewhere and the Waegwan area as a reserve focus.
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U. S
Pohang
Waeg
Haman
United Nations
Korea
U. S. 25Th Infantry
Pusan
MacArthur
Waegwan
Tengu
Tokyo
Naktong-Nam River
Naktong
Taegu
Red
Rent Control Extension Deadline Has Expired
Springfield Illinois residents faced a deadline on extending rent controls with action due by Thursday midnight. If no action was taken or extensions were defeated, controls will expire this year, while the law allows a June 30 extension pending an Aug. 31 legislative deadline.
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Springfield
Illinois
Kiley Named President of Milwaukee Road
John P. Kiley has been elected president of the Milwaukee Road by the board of directors. The Savanna, NL native was previously vice president in charge of operations and also joins the board. Lloyd F. Donald becomes vice president in charge of operations, replacing Kiley’s former post as Bu ford retires.
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Chicago
John P. Kiley
Milwaukee Road
Rairoad
Kiley
Savanna
Lloyd F. Donald
Charles H. Buford
Mrs Gwendolin Armour Dies at 57 in Lake Bluff Suburb
Mrs Gwendolin Condon Armour 57 wife of Philip D Armour and granddaughter of Armour founder died yesterday in Lake Bluff suburb from a heart ailment. The Illinois death occurred after a long illness. Funeral plans were not immediately announced.
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Chicago
Gwendolin Condon Armour
Philip D. Armour
Armour & Co
Lake Bluff
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