Acheson Salary Fight Shapes House Debate
Washington July 24 AP House critics of the State Department push to remove Secretary of State Acheson from the federal payroll via amendments to the annual appropriations bill. The Phillips amendment would bar department funds for officials tied to foreign-government representing work, a move allied by some Republicans and southern Democrats. Critics warn it could affect Dulles and other top officials, while administration allies seek to trim Voice of America funding amid GOP concern over foreign broadcasting. The omnibus bill totals 1 051 715 115 dollars for State Justice Commerce and the Judiciary, with State 231 432 000, Justice 181 667 000, Commerce 612 698 000, Judiciary 25 918 115.
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AWOL Air Base Seaman Returns Home In Indignation
Lafayette Indiana reports Raymos Burdine 16 left Sam son Air Base Geneva New York without permission and returned home. His commander said he joined by misstating his birth date and Burdine would be discharged.
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Pravda To Publish Scoop by British Foreign Minister Morrison
Pravda in Moscow plans to publish a scoop by British Foreign Minister Herbert Morrison. Morrison had challenged Pravda to reproduce an interview with Attlee or himself, saying Pravda’s circulation might suffer if it did not. Both sides demanded exact and prominent treatment of responses.
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Attlee
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Warsaw ghetto butcher Stroop condemned to death
Poles sentence Nazi war criminal Jurgen von Stroop to death after Warsaw provincial court conviction for 1943 ghetto massacres. His aide Capt. Franz Konrad is sentenced, marking Stroop’s second death sentence after a 1947 U S war crimes court verdict.
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Poland
Jurgen von Stroop
Warsaw Ghetto
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Franz Konrad
U. S
Ring Lost In Canton Area Worth Three Thousand Dollars
Ernest Franklin of Huntington Park California reported to police that he misplaced a one and a half carat perfect blue white diamond ring valued at $3,000 in Canton or Massillon sometime Monday.
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Ernest Franklin
Huntington Park
Calif
Canton
Army to Tap Training Staffs for Korea Replacements
Administrative and training staffs of six U S army areas will be tapped for about half the troops to go to Korea as replacements in the next few months. The army said some soldiers will come from the 31st and 47th National Guard divisions now training at Fort Jackson South Carolina and Camp Rucker Alabama. The aim is to replace 30,000 Korean troops in each of the next three months.
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Camp Rucker
Ala
Eight Mississippi Democrats Plead Innocent on Jobs Sale
Eight Mississippi pro Truman Democrats pleaded innocent to federal charges of conspiring to sell government jobs. The group includes Clarence Hood, Curtis Rogers, B. C. Beasley, Laverne Yelverton, Frank Mize, and others among 12 indicted last week. They voluntarily surrendered to arrest.
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Mississippi
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Curtis Rogers
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Laverne Yelverton
Frank Mize
Armed Forces Plan Clinic For Area Manufacturers
Canton area manufacturers seeking defense subcontracts invited to a four day armed forces procurement clinic at the Cleveland Central Armory opening today. Prime contractors will display items needing production assistance and representatives will be on hand for consultation.
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Cleveland Central Armory
Petain Burial Denied Verdun. Simple Funeral Planned
French authorities refuse to bury Marshal Petain at Verdun despite appeals by his lawyer. At Port Joinville on Le D’Yeu Island a simple funeral and plain headstone are prepared for the 93 year old former hero and Vichy head, who died after six years in exile. Controversy lingers as supporters press to clear his name while a new government cabinet is awaited. Gen. Weygand expected among mourners.
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Henri Phillippe Petain
Verdun
Port Joinville
Atlantic
Philippe Petain
Petain
Vichy
Maxime Weygand
North Africa
Russians Report Finding Life Five Miles Under Sea
A Soviet expedition claims discovery of life nearly five miles beneath the ocean. Conical nets hauled up from eight thousand meters yielded a black-eyed fish about 35 inches long and a collection of worms. Location unspecified.
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Moscow
Timken Granted Permit To Amortize Property
The Defense Production Administration approved certificates of necessity for accelerated tax amortization for Timken Roller Bearing Co. totaling 3,882,547 dollars. About 3,768,273 dollars funds machinery and building for cup production at the Bucyrus plant, with 114,274 dollars for bearing machinery at the Savannah avenue plant. Amortization is permitted over five years rather than the standard 20 to 25 years. 114 such approvals were issued nationwide, including six in Ohio.
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Defense Production Administration
Washington
Bucyrus
Savannah Ave NE
Timken
DPA
Ohio
Durant Says World Troubles Are Normal Times
Will Durant advised Americans to not overreact to alarms and prophecies of war. Returning from Europe aboard the liner Independence after eight months abroad, he called the current world tension “normal times” and said the world situation today is “precisely a snafu the same as it always has been.”
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Durant
Europe
Dogs Uprooting Gardens Spark police complaints
Police report a wave of complaints about dogs running at large across gardens lawns and flower beds causing minor damage. Officers urge owners to keep pets tied or within enclosed yards to curb the nuisance.
Field Invites New Contempt In Federal Court
NEW YORK July 24 APmillionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field jailed angel of left wing causes hailed back into Federal Court under a new contempt threat in the government probe of Communist bail jumping. Field a trustee for the Civil Rights Congress bail fund has refused to reveal contributors, facing potential further contempt by Judge McGohey after a 90 day sentence for refusing to testify without counsel. The judge warned the issue could extend if Field remains silent.
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Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Angel
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Civil Rights Congress
Field
Sylvester Ryan
U. S
Irving H. Saypol
John F. X. McGohey
Saypol
McGohey
Burglar Snoozed After Helping Himself to Beer
Richmond police report a home burglary where the intruder drank the beer in the icebox and took a nap in the homeowner B. E. Baldwin’s bed. The incident highlights the intruder’s unusual comfort-seeking before discovery and arrest.
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B. E. Baldwin
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