Boyle Defends 1948 Campaign Role of Volunteer Worker
Senator hearings on election law reforms feature William M. Boyle Jr defending E Merl Young as a mere volunteer at Democratic National Headquarters in 1948. Boyle says Young acted without official title while discussing reforms to curb baseless attacks and curb campaign excesses. Gillette invited GOP chair Guy Gabrielson to testify but postponed due to a conflict.
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Washington
William M. Boyle, Jr
Senators
E. Merl Young
Democratic National
Young
Senate
Margaret Chase Smith
R-Me
Boyle
Democratic Committee
National Demarcatic
National Committee
Truman
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
White House
Party
Congress
Defence National Committee
Je (Diona) Gillette
Gillette
Guy Gabrielson
Six Winchester Officials Attend State Municipalities Conclave
Six Winchester city leaders will join about six hundred delegates at Roanoke for the League of Virginia Municipalities three day convention. Mayor M. B. Clowe Jr and councilmen Claude Smalls Jr and J Lee Muller, Auditor John W Jones, Attorney Dabney W Watts, and City Manager S L Grant attend. Clowe presides at Monday luncheon with Lt General Edwin M Almond as guest speaker. Col H R Battley discusses municipalities and Civil Defense Tuesday, with Thurman Sensing giving the banquet speech to close the event.
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Winchester
Roanoke
League of Virginia
M. B. Clowe, Jr
Claude B. Smalls, Jr
J. Lee Muller
John W. Jones
Dabney W. Watts
S. L. Grant
Clowe
League
Edwin M. Almond
Korea
10Th Corps
H. R. Battley
Civil Defense Administration
Thurman Sensing
Southern States Industrial Council
Black Market Cash Ring Smashed In Post Office Case
Federal authorities in Honolulu exposed a large post office money order scheme moving 32 million dollars to Communist China for war materials. Undercover work by R Frank Ogden traced 500 fake orders in Manila and forged signatures on checks and certificates.
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Honolulu
China
R. Frank Ogden
Orient
Manila
Ogden
U. S
Hong Kong
U.S
Philippines
Plane Hits Horse During Night Landing in Virginia
In Hybla Valley Airport near Alexandria a plane struck a horse during a night landing. The horse died and the aircraft lost its landing gear. Two passengers suffered minor head bumps. Sam Witznadel, 40, Bolling AFB inspector, said he was giving night flying lessons to George Smith in Franconia, Virginia.
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Alexandria
Sam Witznadel
Bolling Air Force Base
George Smith
Franconia
Hybla Valley
Britain Orders Russian Grain
Britain announces it has signed a contract to buy 1,000,000 tons of grain from Russia's harvest. The Food Ministry says the shipment will begin soon with wheat 200,009 tons, barley 425,000 tons, corn 300,000 tons, and oats 76,000 tons.
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London
Britain
Russia
Food Ministry
Admission of Guilt Price for Resuming Talks
Tokyo reported Peiping radio hints that resuming Korean truce talks would require Allied admission that Red charges are true. UN command rejected most charges but admitted the accidental strafing of Kaesong neutral zone, while Reds claim can agreement follow if Americans accept military realities.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio
United Nations Command
Kaesong
U. N
Good Deed Costs Buy His Life
Fourteen year old Julian F Sweeney died yesterday of a gunshot wound to the head in Queens. Neighbors mistook him for a prowler after he went to his sister’s roof to fix a television aerial. Police fired four warning shots but he ran down a fire escape and was shot.
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New York
Julian F. Sweeney
Queens
Howard Cronin
Robert Peppard
Sweeney
AFL Denounces Capehart Amendment as a Fraud
AFL economist Peter Henle told Senate hearings the New Economic Controls Law creates a rigid cost plus pricing system that blocks price rollbacks and raises costs for American households. He cited the Capehart Amendment as a key flaw and urged repeal or reform to permit meaningful price reductions.
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Washington
AFL
Labor Organization
Truman
Congress
Peter Henle
Senate
Robertson
D-Va
Henle
Capehart
R-Ind
OPS
Office of Price Stabilization
U N Contributions Propose Higher Russia Share at U N
The United Nations committee on contributions proposed a 41 percent rise in the Soviet Union’s U N cost for next year while cutting the United States share by about 5 percent. If approved, Moscow would pay 9.85 percent and Washington 36.90 percent of the total.
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United Nations
N. Y
Moscow
U. N
U.N
United
A. A. Soldatov
U. S
Congress
Washington
Congress Probe Aims at Theater Monopolies on Boxing
Representative Sutton seeks inquiry into theater monopolies after television owners miss the Robinson Turpin bout in New York. He argues millions were deprived of their right to view the fight on screen.
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Washington
Sutton
D-Tenn
Robinson- Turpin
New York
Firemen Respond To Field Blaze On Martinsburg Pike
City firemen answered a call to Hackwood on the Martinsburg Pike this afternoon to help control a field fire. No damage was reported.
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Hackwood
Martinsburg Pike
Expenditures Inquiry Heard by Senate Panel
Senator Byrd announces a joint congressional committee will begin public hearings tomorrow on the problem of lost congressional control over expenditures. The move signals a broad inquiry into federal spending oversight and accountability.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Congressional Committee
Roller Coaster Drive Pushes Reds From Mountain Peaks
Allied troops seized a commanding mountain northeast of Kumhwa in under three hours with light resistance. Earlier, same UN force captured another peak and seven ridges in the Kumhwa area. Patrols probed western fronts where no major Red attack was seen, while estimates placed Communist strength and airpower in Korea as tensions mounted.
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U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
Kumhwa
United Nations
Iron Triangle
Kansong
Japan
South Korea
Stan Carter
Seoul
Carter
James A. van Fleet
Eighth Army
van Fleet
North Korea
Peiping Radio
Allies Bar Czech Airline Flights Across W Germany
The Allied High Commission barred all Czech airline flights across West Germany effective last Tuesday midnight. An American official said the United States Britain and France agreed in the joint action. The move is tied to Czechoslovak treatment of William Oatis, though officials said no comment on direct links.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Allied High Commission
West Germany
High Commission
United States
Britain
France
William Oatis
Associated Press
Washington
State Department
U. S
Oatis
U .S
Polio Drive Heads Set for Winchester January Campaign
Winchester postmaster named to head the 1952 polio drive by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Elks Lodge will lead the effort with Campbell as drive chairman, and a Greensboro meeting on October 11 will prepare regional plans with Louthan Leatherman Gore and others attending.
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Winchester
National Foundation For
William Louthan
Frederick County
Elks Lodge
Joseph Butler
Butler
Campbell
Conrad-Hoover Legion Post No
Campbell, Louthan
Dan Leatherman
Northern Virginia
Marvin Gore
Greensboro
N. C
Prosecution Witness in Graft Case Back After Day at Races
Gambler Harry Gross, once a top witness in a New York police graft trial, returns from a day at the Atlantic City races after fleeing custody. A U S commissioner releases him to state custody. the bail stands at $25,000 as the trial resumes amid questions of cooperation and possible light sentencing.
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New York
Harry Gross
New Jersey
U. S
Martin C. Epstein
Gross
Atlantic Beach
L. L
Miles F. McDonald
Atlantic City
N J
FBI
McDonald's Office
Uni
Air Force Forms Its First Guided Missile Squadron
The Air Force will form its first guided missile squadron at the Guided Missile Center in Cocoa Florida on October 1. The unit will use the Matador B61 pilotless bomber built by Glenn L. Martin Co. and will train under Air Research and Development Command before becoming combat ready with Tactical Air Command supervision. The missile is ground launched and powered by a single jet engine, with no pilot aboard.
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Baltimore
Air Research and Development Command
Tactical Air Command
Truman
Air Force
Halapan Air Force Base
Coa N. M
Cocoa
Efforts to Trim Defense Funds Fail
The Senate rejected two Douglas amendments to cut 126.15 million dollars from defense spending. Proposals targeted naval ordnance 15.2 million and aircraft procurement 110.95 million, aiming at reductions for contractors and machinery. Senate leaders anticipated passage of the large bill as debate neared end.
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Washington
Senate
Douglas
Dill
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Korea
Tin Substitute is Developed by Reynolds Metals
Reynolds Metals Company will produce a tin substitute in its aluminum foil plants using a heavy aluminum foil coated with plastic. The process, announced by W Stuart Symington, will initially be diverted to military needs before marketed as cans for various products. Output may be shared with other firms later.
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Richmond
Reynolds Metals Company
J. Louis Reynolds
Washington
W. Stuart Symington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Reynolds
Reynolds Company
White House Call Alleged In Lithofold Loan Lobbying
Witness E J Toole testified that Lithofold Corp. head sought White House intervention to fast track RFC loan approval. He cited a diary extract mentioning R J Blaunder pressing Cecil Green to use high influence, while RFC official J Frank Williams testified he never met Boyle or Gabrielson.
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Washington
American Lithofold Corp
White House
E. J. Toole
Litteford
St. Louis
Senate
William M. Boyle, Jr
RFC
Toole
RJB
Cecil Green
Green
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
R. J. Blaunder
Litheford
Boyle
St. Louisirm
J. Frank Williams
Williams
Reconstruction Finance Corp. Examiner
Litteford Corp
Hoey
DNC
Gabrielson
Guy Hugh Gabrielson
Max Siskind
E. Merl Young
Young
Rfc Williams
Siskind
Lithofold
M J. E. Toole
War Plants Corporation
SWPC
Senators
Three United pilots die in San Francisco Bay crash
Salvage crews searched San Francisco Bay mud flats and wreckage for three bodies after a United Airliners Strato-cruiser crashed 20 miles south of the city. The victims were two senior captains Fred Angstadt of Santa Monica and Hugh C. Pop Worthington of San Mateo and flight engineer Charles Brogden of Millbrae. The pilots, both hired in 1932, were aboard to test instrument efficiency before resuming executive duties.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
United
Fred Angstadt
Santa Monica
Calif
Hugh C.pop Worthington
San Mateo
Charles Brogden
Millbrae
Deliveries to Iran Banned by British
Britain halted all deliveries to Iran with ships diverted from routes. A Board of Trade spokesman cited ships carrying scarce materials to Lraff as diverted in line with earlier cancelled concessions to Tehran. The move follows the breakdown in Anglo Iranian talks over oil nationalization.
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London
Britain
Iran
Board of Trade
Ling
Tehran
Food Prices Rise In August. Index Near Prewar Peak
U S Bureau of Labor Statistics reports retail food prices rose seven tenths of one percent in August. The national index reached 227.2 percent of the 1995-39 average, down from a July record and about twelve percent above the pre Korean War level.
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Washington
Wdex
Bureau
Navy Air Squadron Grounded in Alaska
A naval air squadron in Alaska has been grounded for morale reasons after recent crashes that killed four. A special board of inquiry, convened by the Pacific Fleet and headed by a rear admiral, investigates the Alaska incidents while proceedings remain confidential.
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Washington
Alaska
Navy
Rep
Mitchell
D-Wash
Francis P. Whitehair
Alaskan Sea Front
Pacific Fleet
Whitehair
Alaskan
Russia
Dewey Reports Cordial White House Meeting With Truman
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, after a 40 minute White House talk with President Truman, urged stronger political and military support for free nations in the Pacific. Dewey, returning from Korea and the Orient, said no domestic political or Eisenhower talks occurred and called their meetings cordial. He noted the Pacific as the critical area needing advisers and military aid.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
Pacific
New York
Far East
Dewey
Korea
Orient
White House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
GOP
Streamliner Traps Three on Trestle in Memphis
A 20yearold blonde Edith Forsythe and her fianca Robert F. Taylor faced a deadly moment when the Illinois Central City of New Orleans train roared by on a trestle. Taylor was struck by the locomotive and hurled into a creek while Forsythe escaped with bruises. Their companion Terry Kirk led from the trestle with a broken leg and internal injuries after they fired rifles at targets in the creek and failed to hear the approaching train.
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Memphis
Tenn
Edith Forsythe
Ilinois Central
New Orleans
Robert F. Taylor
Terry Kirk
Taylor
Kirk
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Doto
Carl Campbell
Navy Air Squadron
HST
South End Fire Co
H. M. Layman
P. O
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F. A. Shryock
Kernstown
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