Tax Hike Factor In Fight Against Inflation
Johnston urges Senate Finance Committee to approve a year long tax increase to fight inflation. He warns a $10 billion annual bite is essential to financing the mobilization program and maintaining buying power for both consumers and government. He cites price and wage controls and efficiency measures as insufficient without higher taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eric Johnston
Johnston
Senate Finance Committee
House
Finance Committee
Administration
Senate
Charlies E. Wilson
Defense Mobilization
Exin
Polio Victims Transferred From Winchester to Medical College
Two Frederick County children, James Puckett in Winchester and Leonard Orndorff of Stephenson, were hospitalized with polio. They were initially admitted to Winchester Memorial Hospital and later transferred Saturday night to the Medical College in Richmond.
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Frederick County
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Medical College
Richmond
James Puckett
Wincheter
Leonard Orndorff
Stephenson
Theft Report From Smith White Meat House
Sheriff Robert L. De Haven said three pieces of cured meat were stolen from the Smith White meat house on Route 11 north. The loss included a 60 pound ham a 45 pound shoulder and a 25 pound er. The meat house was found unlocked and the meat missing after White checked Friday. County officers are investigating and suspect porous security.
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Smith White
Route 11 North
Robert L. de Haven
White
Government ownership and labor, a historic wage warning
The piece cites Samuel Gompers noting government employees cannot strike and warns that moving business to government control risks worker misery. It recalls a municipality absorbed utility where 400 workers shifted from private to public operation, 100 took lower pay and fewer holidays and lost pensions, all union members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Gompers
Armistice Talk May End Price Control Era
Senator Aiken said an armistice in Korea might lead Congress to drop price and wage controls at month end. President Truman signed a 31 day extension through July 31, freezing price ceilings to prevent rollbacks and limit consumer relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Aiken
R-Vi
Korea
Congress
Truman
House
Senate
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Office of Price Stabilization Ops
Korean Situation Hopeful to Dewey on Asia Tour
Governor Dewey of New York said he was very hopeful about the Korean situation as he prepared for a six week, 25000 mile tour of Asiatic countries. He would visit Korea and other nations, crossing the Pacific at noon EST. He noted North Korean Reds’ response to a UN cease fire proposal and stressed the area’s importance to freedom’s security.
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San Francisco
Dewey
New York
Republican
Warfront
Pacific
U. N
Korea
Japan
Formosa
Phillippines
Indo China
Indonesia
Australia and New Zea
Free World
Metropolitan Restaurant Ad and Jewelers Notice
An old display lists METROPOLITAN RESTAURANT offering breakfast lunch and dinner with air conditioning. A separate note mentions BALE-Two overhead doors for sale at 25 dollars each and provides a phone contact. The page also promotes RALPH B CRABILL, a master watchmaker connected to GRAVING JEWELRY WORK, with service claims and Hodson and Company pricing.
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Metropolitan
BROWN
Ralph B. Crabill
Bowman
Ig, Graving & Jewelry Work
Hodgson
Hodgson and Saawn
Two Ohio Escapees Captured Near Augusta County
Four convicts escaped from Mansfied State Reformatory on June 24. Edward Lykins 22 and Thomas Arrowood 21 were nabbed at 3:20 a.m. on Valley Pike after a car theft in Medina. Companion Daniel Tester 20 and Clarence Craft 20 were captured later in Spotswood and near Timber Ridge as the chase spread through Virginia with bloodhounds tracking them.
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State Reformatory
Mansfied
Ohio
Staunton
Edward P. Lykins
Thomas H. Arrowood
Valley Pike
Lester Shickle
Paul Wert
Leonard Caldwell
Danel Tester
Clarence Craft
John E. Kent
Augusta County
Mint Spring
Greenville
Richard Patterson
George Cox
Spotswood
R. L. Shaver
Himsel
Daniel Tester
Middletown
Tester
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Kent
Florida
Harrisonburg
Winchester
Timber Ridge
Rockbridge
Run away Car Damages House in Monmouth Street Incident
A 1950 Ford owned by Kathryn Miller Helsley of 116 East Monmouth Street drifted off at 10:18 p.m. Sunday and struck the home of Henry Shaver at 133 Monmouth. The car, parked in high gear with the hand brake partly drawn, tore off four shutters and a rain pipe, knocked down a mail box, and came to rest there. Damages: mail box $50, house $350, car $250.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent and
E. Monmouth Streets
Ford
Kathryn Miller Helsley
East
Monmouth Street
Henry Shaver
Monmouth
U.S
Oatis Trial Opens in Prague on Spy Charge
AP Bureau Chief William N. Oatis testified he was an espionage agent in a Prague court trial. He has been jailed since April 23 and denied contact with others. Western officials noted his pale, strained appearance and careful phrasing during testimony.
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Frankfurt
Germany
William N. Oatis
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Oatis
Ben
Robert A. Vogeler
Hungary
Vogler
United States
Probe Air Crash That Took 50 Lives
Investigators piece together Colorado air disaster as 50 aboard United Airlines DC-6 on Flight 610 perished in the Rockies. Debris and personal belongings mark the crash site near Crystal Mountain. one survivor was not reported.
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Probe
Fort Collins
Colo
Colorado
United Air Lines
Rockies
San Francisco
Crystal Mountain
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Ruth Morse
Impersonator FDR fraudster added to FBI Ten Most Wanted
Frederick Emerson Peters a veteran inmate and check forger with 130 aliases is added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted. Peters once impersonated Franklin D Roosevelt to cash a bad check and is wanted for parole violation in Birmingham Alabama and for Chicago and Philadelphia check frauds. He has operated nationwide in disguise as doctors professors clergy and other roles. He replaces Thomas Holden on the list who was captured in Redding California on June 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FBI
Frederick Emerson Peters
West Salem
Ohio
Birmingham
Ala
Chicago
Philadelphia
Franklin Roosevelt
Peters
Na Hae
Thomas James Holden
Alvin Karpis
C.olden
Redding
Calif
Ten Thousand Cabs Step In To Ease Washington Travel
A nationwide strike by Capital Transit Co street car and bus workers paralyzed Washington forcing thousands to walk hitchhike or taxi to work. Taxicab firms deployed 10 000 cabs to ease tieups while negotiators for the company and 3 400 employees worked toward a new settlement after a long stoppage.
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D.C
Washington
Comore
Capital Transit Co
Virginia
Maryland
Seven States Ravaged by Fire and Flood Across the Plains
The twin disasters of fire and flood hit seven states with vast forest and farm damage. About 85 850 acres burned by fire and a half million acres of bottomland flooded in Kansas and Missouri. One firefighting death reported as crews faced backfires and rising waters.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Missouri
New Mexico
Gila
Arizona
Apache National Forest
Alpine
Ariz
Luna
N. M
Cimarron
Zuni Mountains
Apache National
Crooke National Forest
California
Alturas
Forest Service
Midoc National Forest
Washington
Oregon
Williamette National Forest
Eugene
Ore
Arlington
Pacific Northwest
British Columbia
Vancouver Island
Big
Arkansas
Jet
Seven Communists Start Prison Terms
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan ordered seven top Communists to begin five year sentences for conspiring to overthrow the government. Four failed to surrender and were arrested with warrants issued. all were free on $20,000 bail posted by the Civil Rights Congress, which the U S Attorney General's Office has designated subversive.
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New York
Sylvester J. Ryan
House of Correctora
United States
Henry Winston
Gus Hall
Ohio State
Robert Thompson
Gilbert Green
Illinois
Liberty
Civil Rights Congress
U. S. Attorney General's
Five Servicemen Die In Plane Crash At New Jersey Base
A C-47 crash near Maguire Air Force Base in fog killed five servicemen from Kirtland Field New Mexico and injured 16 others, four seriously. The dead were Captain Edward F. Gallo first lieutenant Joseph A. Johnson sergeant Norman K. Sennett staff sergeant Anthony Doublinsky and sergeant Harry Weissberger. Navy lieutenant Reaves H. Baysinger escaped with minor injuries and was en route to Syracuse after a year in Korea aboard the Philip Pine Sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort DIX
N. J
Air Force
Kirtland Force Base
Albuquerque
Maguire Air Force Base
Navy
Reaves H. Baysinger
Iceman
Syracuse
N. Y
Korea
Philip Pine Sea
Kirtland
Edward F. Gallo
Boutton
Joseph A. Johnson
San Francisco
Norman K. Sennett
Houston
Anthony Doublisky
Roebling
Harry Weissberger
New York
C. B. Smalts & Son
Kidnaper Takes His Own Life in Jersey Woods
Warren Lee Irwin, 27, suspected of murder, kidnapping, and rape, shot himself after a long manhunt near Flemington New Jersey. Carolyn Barker, 17, was his last captive. An autopsy was planned. his mother mourned him as her son.
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Carolyn Barker
Riverdale
William Barker
Flemington N.wa
Maryland
Washington, D.C
Warren Lee Irwin
Carolyn
FBI
Irwin
Ringoes
N. J
Flemington
Desperado
West
Jersey
Hopewell
Charles Lindbergh
Barker
Oxford
Mich
Detroit
Quickest Service
Rhodes Jewelry CO
W. Boscawen St
Communists Repeat Acceptance of Cease Fire Talks
North Korea urged fighters to press on as signs point to a UN cease fire discussion in the Kaesong area between July 10 and 15. Allied forces reported heavy skirmishes near Hwanju and Yonchon with air and ground assaults, while observers in Hong Kong speculate Moscow will seek greater influence in a Japanese peace treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Red
Reds
U. N
Kaesong
Washington
Ridgway
Hwanju
Sariwon
Hungnam
United Nations
Yonchon
Hong Kong
China
Korea
Byrd Visits Russian Sector of Berlin
Virginia State Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr returns from Berlin after driving through the Russian sector and flying over the Soviet zone. He plans to depart for Munich and Vienna, saying Mao and Stalin photos dominate the streets in the Russian area.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Virginia
Harry F. Byrd
Berlin
Byrd
Munich
Vienna
Austria
Mao
Stalin
Lionettes
Capon State Park
Farmers & Merchants National Bank
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George A. Smock
ITI
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Fairdale
West Virginia
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Cleveland
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Middle Road
Newsman
Fdr
P.W. Plumly Lumber Corp
Milady’s
N. Loudoun
New Jersey
Ni E
Henkel Harris Co
Clen Clements
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