Judge Denies Suspension of Curley Jail Sentence
Judge James M. Proctor refused to suspend Boston Mayor James M. Curley’s mail fraud sentence and ordered him to begin serving six to 18 months immediately. Defense pleas for health concerns were rejected and no further statement was allowed. Also, the House Appropriations Committee recommended cuts to the 1948 legislative budget totaling 75 million 57 thousand 505 dollars, with large trims to the Government Printing Office and Library of Congress funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James M. Proctor
Boston
James M. Curley
Curley
Prion
Proctor
Massachusetts
Jor
House Appropriations Committee
Legislative Establishment
House
Senate
Government Printing Office
GPO
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Tishomingo May Get Mail Service
Rep. Glen Johnson asks the post office department to establish city mail service in Tishomingo Oklahoma. Requirements include last year postal receipts over 10000 and area population at least 2500. Preliminary checks indicate Tishomingo meets both, pending official verification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Glen Johnson
D-Okla
Post Office Department
Tishomingo, Ok
World's Smallest Auto Debuts in Osaka
In Osaka a pocket-sized car weighing about 50 pounds carries one passenger and can reach 17 mph on a 14 horsepower engine. Designed and manufactured by Hiroshi Tamura, former president of Sankoku Heavy Industries, the vehicle cost about 10 000 yen to make and aims for mass production for export.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osaka
Japan
Hiroshi Tamura
Sankoku Heavy Industries Company
Tulsa Teachers Get Adjustment Pay
Tulsa Oklahoma June 26 The board of education approved a cost of living adjustment pay ment of 62 50 for each Tulsa teacher totaling about 83000 The checks will be paid around July 10 and other regular employees will receive the same lump sum if full time employed with proportional adjustments for part time staff About 1600 employees will receive the payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Board of Education
Oklahoma Weather Nears Warmth With Thunderstorms
Fair to partly cloudy conditions with local storms northeast and north central this evening into Friday morning. Temperature expected to rise little with Friday highs around 90 to 95 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Pontotoc County 4-H Represented at Turner Ranch Field Day
Pontotoc county 4-H clubs will send a five-member team to Turner Field Day on Saturday June 28. Contestants from Francis and Roff include Max Kirkes Truman Scroggins Leroy Harris Harold Krannig and Charles Tingle all in the dairy program with milking Shorthorns Guernsey cattle and Herefords. Registration starts 9 a.m. with judging at 10 a.m. Five Hereford classes will be judged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontotoc County
Lereford
Max Kirkes
Francis
Francis Club
Truman Scroggins
Leroy Harris
Harold Krannig
Roff
Roff Club
Charles Tingle
Guernsey
Accident Victim McGilliard Remains Unchanged
Ralph P. McGilliard suffers a skull fracture after an Ada area crash Tuesday afternoon. Driving a Copeland bakery truck from Stratford with Conrad Gilliam, they passed a car near Gaar Corner and the truck overturned after clipping a post, he was thrown clear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph P. McGilliard
Valley View Hospital
McGilliard
Conrad Gilliam
Copeland
Stratford
Gaar Corner
Ada
Book by OU librarian compiles 4000 southwest sources
University of Oklahoma Press releases a bibliography by librarian Jess L. Rader titled South of Fourth from the Mississippi to the Rio Grande. Compiled over 25 years, the work lists 4 000 titles reflecting southwest sources and history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman
University of Oklahoma Press
Jess L. Rader
Near Record Flood In Iowa Threatens Des Moines Area
Des Moines river breach in a mile long levee near the Franklin area unleashed a rapid flood crest of 20.92 at Scott street, sending water through city blocks as 1,800 residents were evacuated. Missouri river flood pressures rose with multiple levee breaches across the western border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Scott Street
Red Rock
Eddyville
Ottumwa
Keosauqua
Raccoon
Franklin
Second Avenues
Charles Slade
Forest Avenue
College Avenue
David Liddle
Red Cross
Iowa
Missouri
Rule
Nebraska
St. Louis
Glasgow
Col
W. E. Potter
Army Engineers
Kansas City
Marshall
Miami
McAlester Receives 1.15 Inches Of Rain
An electrical storm hit Oklahoma towns with heavy rain. McAlester recorded 1.15 inches of rainfall in about 50 minutes around 10 a.m. High winds accompanied the downpour, but no damage was reported. Ponca City saw over an inch in 40 minutes, threatening uncut wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Ponca City
McAlester
President Truman Vetoes Wool Price Support Bill
President Truman vetoed the wool price support bill saying it would harm international relations. He warned it would boost trade barriers and be seen as economic isolationism during the United Nations Geneva conference. The veto marks the third major veto of the current congressional session after earlier rejections of a tax cut and Taft-Hartley bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Geneva
Congress
Congress May Act On Legislation Affecting Indians
Washington June 26 Rep Preston Peden says Congress may act on a bill affecting Oklahoma Indians before adjournment. The measure would grant a certificate of competency to an Indian who applies, giving full control of property and ending government authority over sales or leases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Preston Peden
Okla
Peden
Rep
D’ewart
R-Mont
House
Public Lands Committee
School Students Get Additional Aid
Oklahoma City report says the State Board of Education will have 608 909.27 dollars for vocational rehabilitation in the next fiscal year starting July 1. Dr. Oliver Hodge noted the last legislature allocated 125 000 for appliances, with the rest from federal funds for salaries and other costs. Funds will rehabilitate physically handicapped persons over 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
State Board of Education
Oliver Hodge
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Sale Approval for Pullman Company Trust
Philadelphia June 26. U S district court approved sale of the Pullman company operator of sleeping cars on railroads nationwide to a buying group of 57 railroads. The action ends a long dispute over control and future operations of the sleeping car line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pullman Company
U. S. District Court
CIO White House plan to curb rising living costs
The CIO urged Congress to act to curb the cost of living, proposing a broad program including tax overhauls, higher social security, a higher minimum wage, national health insurance, anti discrimination legislation, federal education aid, and more river valley power projects. Senator Taft chairs the joint committee examining Truman’s economic report while Senator Flanders suggests voluntary meat rationing to slow price pressures. Flood damage in the Midwest corn crop worsens prospects for falling food prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
CIO
Congress
Emil Rieve
Joint
Congressional Committee
Truman
Rieve
Taft
Ohio
Flanders
R-Vi
Vermont
Midwest
Oklahoma businessmen tour St Louis to showcase state industries
A 16 day Oklahoma trade tour halted in St. Louis with 125 local business specialists inspecting four exhibit cars. Leaders included George C. Smith of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce and Victor F. Barnett of the Tulsa Tribune who led delegates from 51 Oklahoma towns to highlight manufacturing and distribution advantages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Oklahoma
Union Station
George C. Smith
Hartley blast sparks coal mine walkout mood across region
Rep Hartley denounces Lewis as operators urged to yield amid a four day old coal stoppage. In Pennsylvania anthracite 6500 miners refuse to report as 225000 idle and 119 million tons lost nationally in a day as railroads cut coal runs and Alabama logs 20000 idle miners.
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Hartley
Lewis
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Panther Creek Valley
Lansford
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Federal Coal Mines Administration
Shipyard Workers Go Out On Strike
About 40,000 members of the Marine and Shipbuilders Workers union walked out at 10 east coast shipyards halting nonessential work. Bethlehem Steel yards in Brooklyn Staten Island Hoboken Quincy Boston Baltimore and Sparrows Point were shut. aim to shut all east and Gulf coast yards by next week. Union cites no counter offers to a 13 cent hourly wage raise and other benefits after contract expiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilders Workers
CSO
East Coast
Bethlehem Steel Company
Atlantic Basin Iron Works
Brooklyn
Navy
Gulf
Bethlehem Yards
Staten Island
Hoboken
N. J
Quincey
Boston
Mass
Baltimore
Sparrows Point
Union
Bethlehem
John Green
Fishermen Barred From Grand River Below Dam
Oklahoma City June 96. A GRDA zone 3000 yards below the dam will ban fishing for 45 days with hook and line exempt. The State Game and Fish commission cites frequent violations during flood gate operations and claims GRDA workers did not inform the department of opening times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Grand River
State Game and Fish Commission
Jeff Kendall
Kendall
GRDA
Game Department
Commission
Fihermen
Postmaster Nominations Held Up by Truman
President Truman withdrew 103 nominees for postmaster positions across the United States as declining receipts push offices to fourth class status on July 1. The White House noted the affected posts in 32 states and Puerto Rico, with many appointees no longer presidential selections due to the downgrade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
States
Puerto Rico
Hail Damages Kansas Wheat in Sumner County
Wellington, Kansas reports preliminary damage estimates of about 500000 to Sumner County wheat from a sequence of hail and rain storms. The storms damaged acres across the county, delayed harvesting, and caused roof and glass damage to 35 to 40 percent of Wellington’s homes and businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Kas
Sumner County
Raymond Frye
Les
Kansas County
Frye
Conway Springs
Woolcott and Lincoln
Turnpike Cities Asked To Put Up Survey Money
Oklahoma City June 26 Residents of cities along the planned Oklahoma City Tulsa toll turnpike are to decide on advancing about 50 000 to finance a traffic survey and preliminary engineering. Gov Roy J Turner said the survey must be completed before estimating road costs and issuing bonds for financing. Cities invited include Tulsa Oklahoma City Sapulpa Bristow Stroud and Chandler. Citizens would be reimbursed after bond sales. The four lane road was authorized by the twenty first legislature but becomes effective Aug 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City-Tulsa
Roy J. Turner
Tulsa
Sapulpa
Bristow
Stroud
Chandler
Turner
Framing Labor Law Divides Over Lewis and Soft Coal
In Washington, Rep Hartley assails John L. Lewis as rebellious and mutinous while Rep Land suggests miners yielding to Lewis to avert a July 8 strike. Talks tense as 75 percent of bituminous output in Northwest and West renew contract discussions despite stalled negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold W. Ward
Washington
House
John L. Lewis
Rep. Hartley
R-Nj
Truman
Lewis
Rep. Land
R-Ind
House Labor Committee
New Jersey
T:t
Hartley
Senate-House
Railroad Officials Probe Wreck Killing Six in Ohio
New York Central officials investigate if caution orders were violated after a St. Louis Special derailed near Shiloh Ohio killing six or seven. Papers ordering caution found on an engineer suggesting speed under 20 mph, while witnesses cite about 50 mph.
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Shelby. O
New York Central Railroad
St. Louis
Cleveland
Shiloh
Reprieve Granted Falls City Youth Returns Coat
Falls City Nebraska June 26 AP reports Larry Smith found a coat at Oil City theater and returned it. He stated if the finder returned the coat he would not be punished. The coat was returned and no action was taken.
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Falls City
Nebr
Apu
Larry Smith
Dolby J
Ourna
Oil City Theater
Beaches at Sydney Hit 19 Million Visitor Milestone
Sydney beaches welcomed an annual total of 19 million visitors as warm weather drew crowds to coastal sites. Authorities noted steady turnout across multiple beaches and peak weekend days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
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James Forrestal
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Casablanca
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Algiers
North Africa
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Sen. Flanders
Kansas
North
UMW
John O'Leary
Rome
Enrico de Nicola
Republic
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