Testimony Sparks Call for FBI Reports to Congress
Barnes and McCarran defended Barmine against what they called purport poppycock. McCarran urged Congress to obtain FBI reports by law if needed. Ferguson suggested President Truman may block Congress from accessing executive-branch information.
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Office of War Information
New York Book
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FBI
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Ferguson
Subcommittee
YBI
Truman
Political Smoke Hovers Over Ike
The piece reports worry among Republicans that Dwight D. Eisenhower is an unknown quantity on business and economic policy. It notes supporters explain his stance while Eisenhower smiles in Paris at NATO HQ. A nationwide rumor claimed he would renounce politics if he led Columbia University, but close aides deny the story.
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Paris
Columbia University
Columbia
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Missionary to China seeks marriage papers in Italy
Negrini, 43, former Catholic missionary to China, visited the daughter of a Loyola University professor in Chicago to secure barriers for his marriage in Italy. He plans to apply for official papers today, including a consular clearance. He spoke of a time sensitive race as authorities acted over her detention for an expired permit.
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Loyola University
Chicago
China
Claire
United States
Italy
Obituary Tribute for Robert G Foltz II of The Nice denius National Bank
The Nice denius National Bank records the death of Robert G Foltz II a long time director who served nearly twenty four years. He was active in church and family and valued for his business judgment and friendship. A memorial resolution notes his faithful service and asks a copy be sent to his family through committee members John J Porter Charles W Cromer Ellsworth R Roulette.
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Hageratown
Robert G. Foltz
Bob
Legion
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Charles W. Cromer
Ellsworth
R. Roulette
Truman Plans New Price Bill Amid Inflation Fight
President Truman seeks a fresh price control bill to curb inflation. He also cancels two planned 41 percent rollbacks on live cattle prices and orders export price ceilings to limit domestic costs for allies. The Office of Housing Expediter is absorbed into the ESA as the Office of Rent Stabilization.
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Truman
U. S
Office of
OHE
Eric Johnston
Economic Stabilization Agency
Office of Rent Stabilization
ESA
OPS
Wage Board
Tighe Woods
Allied Infantry Seizes Mountain After Savage Assault
Allied infantry pressed three times over three days against North Korean hill defenses and took Fool Mountain on the fourth day after a withering artillery barrage. Tanks supported close fire into rock bunkers where defenders fought to the death. By week’s end the hill fell, many Allies dead or wounded, five prisoners taken.
First 14 Mariners Named For Government Cargo Ships
Washington Aug 1 The Maritime Administration announced the names of the first 14 Mariner class cargo ships to be built for the government. Contracts cover eight ships at 12 500 tons and 20 knots with nicknames honoring states including Delaware Maryland West Virginia and Virginia.
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BK. L. Cochrane
Maritime Administratiion
Diamond State Mariner
Delaware
Free State Mariner
Maryland
Mountain State Mariner
West Virginia
Old Dominion Mariner
Virginia
Spirit Of St. Louis Builder Is Dead
Benjamin Franklin Mahoney a 60 year old plane builder who constructed the Spirit of St. Louis for Charles Lindbergh died in a sanitarium. He previously bought Claude Byram’s flying school in San Diego and adapted a Ryan Monoplane for Lindbergh with enlarged wing for the 1927 transatlantic flight.
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Studio City
Calif
Benjamin Franklin Mahoney
Wilgg
Baby Goes Bow to See New Sarus Crane Chick
A six foot tall Sarus crane mother lowers to Earth at the Philadelphia Zoo to glimpse her newborn chick. Keeper John A Griswold moves the fledgling to a first floor brooder and feeds it hard boiled eggs as it may be the first Sarus hatched in the United States.
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Philadelphia
U. S
John A. Griswold
Breoder
Perishable foods shipped by express dairies in 1842
Perishable foods were first shipped by express a icleries in the United States in the spring of 1842 when oysters moved from Albany to Buffalo New York.
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United States
Albany
Buffalo
N.Y
UN Talks Stall Over Korean Armistice Details
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckola reported that North and South Korean delegates failed to make progress in a two hour session. The United Nations said a durable demilitarized zone is sought, with a buffer zone as the central issue amid calls for a realistic, equitable armistice.
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U. N. Public Information
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Nam I
Red
United Nations
Joy
U. N
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U.N
North
South Korea
Altes
Korea
Weat
Imjin
Kwaesong
North Korea
Navy To Buy Cold Weather Clothing
Washington reports the Navy asked Congress for 31 609 090 to buy protective clothing for extreme cold, disclosed in testimony at House Appropriations hearings on the armed services budget. The Marine Corps also bought 20 000 pairs of a new type of cold weather boots praised as a major improvement over Arctic overshoes.
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Washington
Navy
Congress
House
Armed Services
Marine Corps
Federal government takes over Baltimore factory building
Baltimore August 1 The federal government backed by opposition from Baltimore City won temporary possession of the Curtles Caproni factory building at Harbor Field for military use. Judge Chesnut signed the order effective August 10 allowing vacate motions. government plans to lease until 1962 with yearly extensions to 1981. Curthas Wright Aircraft Corp currently owns the building. city anticipated Sept 1 transfer and hoped to sell the site to an industrial firm.
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Baltimore City
Kight
Fse
W. Calvin Chesnut
Curtles-Caproni
Harbor Field
Chesnut
Curthas- Wright Aircraft ‘Corp
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Gsita
Reduction Sought In Bail For 12 California Reds
Los Angeles reports a request to reduce bail from 995000 to lower amounts for 12 California Communists indicted under the Smith Act. Four detained locally, seven in San Francisco, one in New York, all with bonds. arraignment set for August 43. Highway construction costs Alaska route at 198 million.
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U.S
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Los Angeles Federat i Grand Jury
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