Price controls drive hits snarls raise beef rollbacks
Washington June 19 The Senate banking committee voted to ban further beef price rollbacks including below average levels between Jan 24 and Feb 24 1951 and to liberalize auto installment terms. The House committee moved to block two additional beef cuts by DiSalle while urging stiff new controls.
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Washington
U.2
Senate Banking Committee
House Banking Committee
Michael V. DiSalle
Taft
Ohio
Charles E. Wilson
House Agriculture Committee
Cooley
D.-N.c
Truman
Allis Chalmers Pilot Plant Nears Completion
Allis Chalmers Manufacturing rushes completion of its war contract pilot plant on East Washab avenue formerly street car barns. Renovation costs $128000 with 28 day progress. Eight lathes moved into the northeast wing as 125 workers moved the job forward. The facility will train personnel for a new $5,000,000 plant north of town. Continued on Page 2.
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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Wabash Avenue
Homer Howerton
Glenn W. North Construction Company
Allis-Chalmers
Trucker Auto Crash Kills Mother and Injures Three
A collision on State Road 67 near Marco Indiana killed Belva L. Merrifield 32 and seriously injured her two young sons 3 and 6 plus a fourth person Leon Vandeventer 18. The victims were taken to Freeman Greene County Hospital in an Anderson-Poindexter ambulance.
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Marco
Ind
C.S.T
Here
Freeman-Greene County
Linton
Anderson-Poindexter
Belva L. Merrifield
Pleasant
Mich
British controls export of strategic goods to China via Hong Kong
Britain announced a licensing regime to block shipments of strategic goods from the United Kingdom to Hong Kong and China. Sir Hartley Shawcross said no licenses would be granted for items that could be of strategic or military importance, in the House of Commons. Rubber exports to Communist China were already banned.
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London
Britain
Red China
Hong Kong
Hartley Shawcross
Board of Trade
United Kingdom
China
Shawcross
House of Commons
Government profit on 1948 cotton surplus sale
Washington reports the Agriculture Department sold about 3.8 million bales of surplus cotton stored under price support for 67 million dollars more than the loaned amount plus interest and charges. Government vested in farm products totals about 2.2 billion dollars, down from a year ago’s peak of 4.2 billion.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
War on Pests This Summer In Terre Haute
Mayor Ralph Tucker with the city board of health and board of works announced an organized pest control campaign for summer. Householders will be called to assist in the city county effort within 30 days, directed by Dr Milton Rubin and Dr C R Van Arsdall. The Arab Pest Control Company won contracts to exterminate mosquitoes flies and rats in the Terre Haute Vigo County project.
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Ralph Tucker
Board of Health
Board of Works
Milton Rubin
C. R. van Arsdall
Terre Haute-Vigo County
Arab Pest Control Company
Humid Warmth Still With Us
Chicago dispatch notes a warm June day across the nation with heat peaks in Texas and Arizona. Temperatures reached 112 in Presidio Texas 107 in Wink Texas 105 in Yuma Arizona and 101 in Blythe California as a rain shower area spread through the middle Mississippi valley Michigan northern Texas Oklahoma and the northern Great Plains.
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Chicago
Rio Grande Valley
California
Presidio
Tex
Wink
Yuma
Ariz
Blythe
Calif
Mississippi Valley
Michigan
Texas
Oklahoma
Great Plain
Ohio Valley
Keeping Up With Joneses as They Tarnish Debt
New York June 19 A neighborly tale shows Jones living off a $750 sofa while Smith Brown and Johnson accuse him of unsustainable spending. Jones replies it’s about pride and staying ahead, even as he admits deep debt and plans to move if cash were available.
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New York
Smith
Brown
Johnson
Jones
Smith, Brown
Tougher draft law cuts age to 18 and overhauls deferments
President Truman signed a new draft law lowering the age to 18 and allowing induction of 385,000 registrants 19 through 25. It shifts to a 24 month term, extends reserve and National Guard service, and redefines deferments with new lone-wage hardship rules while laying groundwork for universal military training.
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Frank Eleazer
United Press
Washington
U.P
Truman
Congress
Korea
U.M.T
Czech reporter Williams Oatis faces trial in Prague
Prague reports say Associated Press correspondent Williams Oatis will be tried within days on charges of hostile activities toward the Czechoslovak government. Oatis, 37, was seized April 23 after vanishing from his Prague office and lodging during an attempted appointment.
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London
Prague
U.S
Associated Press
Williams Oatis
Oatis
Vilem Siroky
Ellis O O. Briggs
Briggs
Foreign Ministry
Marion
Ind
Frank Starzel
Man Killed By Truck In Lawrenceburg
Lloyd Mills 35 of Sunman died after being struck by a Seagram distilleries truck in Lawrenceburg. Mills worked at the whisky plant and was killed yesterday.
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Lawrenceburg
U.P
Lloyd Mills
Sunman
Seagram Distilleries
Mills
Mother Seeks Missing Girl Mary Meneely
The mother of 17 year old Mary Meneely of 512 Prairieton Avenue asks police to locate her daughter who has not been seen since last Friday. She is described as five feet tall, 160 pounds, blond, wearing a blue blouse a pink skirt and white shoes.
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Mary Meneely
Prairieton Avenue
Yontz
Showdown Sei On Truck Law
The Public Service Commission will investigate Sims Motor Transport Lines Inc over a Chicago truck that left driver John W. Lewis of Indianapolis jailed 11 days before paying a $911 fine for weight law violations. A July 18 hearing in the capitol was ordered to determine knowledge of overload and possible willful violation.
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Indianapolis
Public Service Commission
Chicago
PSC
Sims Motor Transport Lines, Inc
C.D.T
Capitol
John W. Lewis
Crown Point
Lewis
Hugh W. Abbott
Abbett
Medal of Honor to Sst George Libby for heroism
Posthumous Medal of Honor awarded to Sst George D. Libby of Casco Maine. He sacrificed himself shielding comrades from enemy fire while evacuating wounded on July 20 near Taejon Korea, as a B 5 tractor carried soldiers through Communist lines. He died at 31 after standing between driver and attackers to ensure passage.
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Washington
George D. Libby
Libby
Casco
Taejon
Korea
Sgt
Badger notes possible south China revolt and limited war stance
Vice Admiral Oscar C. Badger told senators there may be a revolt in south China against the Communists and endorsed a limited war approach in Korea. He urged UN action against China at sea but opposed a U.S. only blockade and warned Manchuria and Inner Asia remain under Moscow while southern China holds potential reform.
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Washington
Oscar C. Badger
South China
Badger
Navy
China
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Red China
Korea
Manchuria
United Nations
Peiping
United States
Forrest Sherman
Naval Operations
War College
Inner Mongolia
Sinkiang
Moscow
U. S
Russia
Yangtze River
Southeast Asia
Mother and son killed as train strikes in Albion
Mrs Barbara Esslinger 31 and her eight year old son Ronald died when she stood with him in front of a New York Central train in Albion Michigan. Coroner R D Scott ruled death by own action and homicide noting despondency after a recent divorce from Raymond Esslinger.
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Albion
Mich
Barbara Esslinger
Ronald
Esslinger
R. D. Scott
Senators begin ethics probe into government conduct
A group of senators led by Senator Fulbright begins a campaign to study ethics in government and craft a code to improve moral standards for lawmakers, officials, and those doing business with Congress. The plan calls for a commission of prominent citizens to review conduct and propose reforms.
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Washington
Fulbright
Arkansas
Congress
Battle lines moving north in Korea driving toward Manchuria
United Nations forces pushed their Korean front about 30 miles north of the 38th parallel and clashed with Communist jets in a high altitude dog fight near the Manchurian frontier. Allied troops stormed Punch Bowl valley above Inje as ground and air units pressed deeper into North Korea and repelled a new Red air challenge.
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United Press
Tokyo
U.P
United Nations
38Th Parallel
Manchurian
Inje
North Korea
U.S
U.N
London
Korea
Pilots Strike Grounds United Airlines Planes Nationwide
Chicago reports 900 pilots and co pilots walk out in a strike led by AFL Air Lines Pilots Association President David L Behncke. Flights halted across the country though some aircraft already in the air completed destinations and United shifted passengers to other carriers or trains. Behncke warned the action would not hit United pilots on the Korean Pacific airlift mission.
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Chicago
United Air Lines
David L. Behncke
AFL
Air Lines Pilots Association
United
U.A.S
Behncke
Weather Report Summary From U S Weather Bureau
The report lists morning and afternoon temperatures with a 76 at 9 am and 82 by 2 pm. Sunrise is 5 23 and sunset is 8 20. River stage stands at 4.4 feet and stationary.
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A. m
Local Conditions Summary
Yesterday's high reached %7 with a low of 69 last night. Precipitation was trace.
Weather Update for Terre Haute and Region
Partly cloudy warm and humid through Wednesday with late thundershowers. Lows tonight around 70, highs tomorrow near 88. Indiana area sees showers Wednesday with little temperature change. lows 65 to 70, highs 85 to 90. Illinois notes widely scattered showers in the northwest and north tonight and partly cloudy south Wednesday. temps steady with lows 65 north to 70 south and highs 82 north to 90 south.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
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DiSalle
Vigo County
Army
Don Paul Dily
Thomas Ed Lowell
Walter Lee Graham
Wayne Carl Downey
Kenneth Eugene Coffin
Donald Eugene Brenton
William Francis Robinson
Richard Dean Kimmel
Richard Lee McDuffee
Theodore Keith Price
Donald Edwin Deighton
Stanley Vern Rees
Richard Huey
James Lowell Clapp
Bill Arthur Harris
Max Eugene Dean
Mathew Leroy Wilford
Lloyd C. Mills
Richard Claude Kauffman
Wiley Hamilton, Jr
Fred Eugene Worthington
Elmer Leroy Bryan
Herbert Neil Jordan
Joneses
Pentagon
Sei
Sims Company
MacArthur
Oriental
Formosa
James Marlow
Yalu
Earnest Hoberecht
United’s
U. S. Weather Bureau
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