Seeing Eye Dog Leads Blind Girl Through Flames
A blind 23 year old woman, Anita Blair of El Paso, escaped from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago with her Seeing Eye dog Fawn during a 12:35 am fire that killed several guests. The pair used an outside fire escape to reach safety after guides and hotel staff helped with exits. Blair credited calm and trust in her dog for her survival amid smoke and heat.
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Chicago
Fawn
LaSalle
Anita Blair
el Paso
Blair
Michael Corrigan
A. L. Brodie
Edward J. Kelly
Atty
William J. Tuohy
Illinois State Senate
Brodie
Paul Gerhardt, Jr
Miss Blair
LaSalle Hotel
LaSalle Street
Senators Move To Extend OPA Meat Control Reforms
The Senate Banking Committee approved a bill to extend price control through June 30 1947 with amendments. It would lift controls on live stock meat poultry eggs and dairy by month end while shaping subsidies and a decontrol board. The MAP order would be abolished and discounts on reconversion items protected to limit price volatility.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Wagner
New York
Secretary of Agriculture
OPA
House
Railroad directors form joint committee for merger study
R J Morfa of Dallas Texas was elected permanent chairman of a joint committee of Katy Chicago and Eastern and Chicago and Great Western rail directors to study merger plans among the three lines.
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Chicago
R. J. Morfa
Dallas
Tex
Missouri-Kansas- Texas Railroad
Katy
Chicago & Eastern
Chicago and Great Western Rail
Senate backs draft extension with pay rise in 1947
The Senate approved a draft extension bill by 69 to 8 to permit 18 and 19 year olds to be drafted again after May 1947. The measure, opposed by some who urged waiting for pay hikes and study of manpower needs, faces House action with a July 1 deadline for the temporary extension.
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Washington
Senate
House
Revercomb
West Virginia
Wilson
Iowa
Wherry
Nebraska
Congress
Spain
China
Senate House Committee
GI Wives Blamed For Babies Death On Army Bride Ship
A War Department inquiry blamed unclean habits of mothers for an intestinal disease that killed eight babies aboard the Army bride ship Zebu lon B. Vance. The report found the ship and hospital areas were clean and medical staff neglected neither care nor intoxication, but cited mothers sleeping in clothes, dirty pacifiers, non sterile bottles, irregular feeding, and dirty diapers as contributing factors. The disease cause remained unconfirmed, with resemblance to epidemic infantile diarrhea and possible transmission by direct contact. Passenger origins included 242 from France, 124 from Belgium, two from Poland, one from Holland.
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Washington
Zebulon B. Vance
War Department
Europe
France
Belgium
Poland
Holland
AFL Seafarers Call Coastwide Work Stoppage Tomorrow
The AFL Seafarers International Union plans a 2 PM local work stoppage on all coasts described as stop-work meetings. Chief leaders John Hawk and Harry Lundeberg indicate the action aims to pressure shipowners to engage in bargaining amid a broader CIO strike dispute and a White House call to settle the crisis. The two unions together claim about 62,000 members.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
John Hawk
AFL Seafarers International Union
New
Hawk
San Francisco
Harry Lundeberg
West Coast
Pacific
Lundeberg
Labor
Schwellenbach
Truman
Affiliated
Sailors Union of the Pacific
UAW Board Attacks Truman as Strike Breaker
The CIO United Automobile Workers Executive Board labeled President Truman the number one strike breaker for moving to avert a maritime strike set for June 15. The resolution backs mariners and accuses the administration of backing ship owners while praising maritime workers war records.
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Cleveland
CIO United Automobile Workers Executive Board
Truman
America
Maritime Workers
National Maritime Union
CIO
UAW
Bond Cashin Exceeds Sales In War Bond Replacements
Bond purchases and redemptions show Seriec E Savings Bonds outstripping new sales by 486.93 million dollars this year as treasury figures release ahead of a campaign to boost bond buying.
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Washington
Treasury
Loggers Reject Peace Proposal
Victoria B C June 5 International Woodworkers of America CIO today formally rejected the recommendations of Chief Justice Gordon Sloan to end the 22 day old logging industry tieup. First publication of the weekend display advertising appears in this issue. Restrictions remain on use of newsprint due to the strike of woodworkers in British Columbia. Classifieds will appear again Sunday for three issues.
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Victoria
B. C
International Woodworkers of America
CIO
Gordon Sloan
Daily News
British Columbia
Visitor entry in Stevenson’s office lists Anne Castleberry
The visitors registry in Governor Coke R. Stevenson’s Austin office records Anne Castleberry, also known as Yea Rainey, as a noted visitor on June 5.
Man Charged With Mistreating Lad Here
Clarence B. Lichlyter, 50, an unemployed cook, is jailed on a technical aggravated charge of mistreating a small boy at the State Theater. Bond set at 750 dollars. he pleads not guilty and questions officers, claiming nervousness may have influenced any actions. He says he recently moved from Albuquerque and has wife ill, with money concerns.
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Tex Keirsey
Potter County
Clarence B. Lichlyter
J. R. Ellison
Aftar Naamnilainta Lad Masia Sia Am
Walvcl Cyl Iginld Tau Ueell
Ellison
Lichlyter
E. O. Northcourt
Leo Yielding
Lem Pounds
West Seventh
Albuquerque
Corpus Christi
Beaumont
Dalhart
Texas
Truman names Warren Austin to UN Security Council post
President Truman selects Senator Warren R. Austin Vermont Republican as the next U S representative to the United Nations Security Council. The appointment takes effect next January after the Senate term ends with Herschel Johnson acting in the interim. Austin will resign his Senate seat to serve as special presidential representative with ambassadorial rank and advise Johnson.
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Washington
Truman
Sen
Warren R. Austin
Vermont
America
United Nations Security Council
White House
Austin
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Senate
Herschel Johnson
United States
United Nations
Johnson
Charles G. Ross
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate passes teen-age draft bill amid party split
Washington June 5 Senate passed and sent back to the House the teen-age pay-raising draft bill by a 69 to 8 margin. Democrats Connally and O'Daniel of Texas voted in favor. Hatch of New Mexico favored passage but did not vote, Chavez of New Mexico did not vote.
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Washington
Senate
House
Connally
O’daniel
Texas
Democrat Hatch
New Mexico
Chavez
Hitchhiker Confesses Driver Hitman Near Amarillo Case
Arthur Clyde Sanders of Lubbock 49 found slain beneath a culvert near Sayre Oklahoma. A hitchhiker led deputies to the scene after signing a statement claiming Sanders shot him when Sanders turned back toward Clinton rather than Amarillo. The man drove Sanders’ car to various spots before arrest. Sanders had left Abilene to take a Canyon job. survivors include a widow two sons and a daughter.
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Sayre
Okla
Arthur Clyde Sanders
Lubbock
Earl Francis
Francis
Sanders
Amarillo
Clinton
Oklo
Canyon
Abilene
J. E. Sanders
Oklahoma
A. C. Sanders
Foley Named Federal Housing Administrator
Senate confirmation today approved Raymond M. Foley of Michigan as federal housing administrator serving under Wilson W. Wyatt. Foley’s appointment places him in charge of FHA operations amid Wyatt’s national housing leadership.
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FHA
Washington
Senate
Raymond M. Foley
Michigan
Wilson W. Wyatt
Protestant delegation asks Truman recall of en voy to Vatican
Reported in Daily News index a Protestant delegation calls on President Truman urging recall of envoy to the Vatican. Concurrent notes show labor leaders seeking unemployment compensation during strikes and Gallup poll indicating union regulation support.
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Truman
Vaticans
Gallup
Texas
CAB
Attlee and Churchill
Reds
Plainview
Newton
Society News
Sporta
Umberto
Italy
Onakeley
Hereford
Jack Turner
George Dixon
Peru
Warren Heads GOP Hopefuls After California Win
Gov. Earl Warren swept both Republican and Democratic nominations in California signaling his rise as the lead 1948 Republican contender. Rep. J. Leroy Johnson credited Warren with a nonpartisan praised administration and personal vote-getting, calling him “the No. 1 man” for the presidency. Other contests named Knowland for re nomination and Rogers Jr. for the Democrats in California, with party leaders weighing cross filing and multi ticket backing.
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Associated Press
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Robert Kenny
Rep. J. Leroy Johnson
Stockton
House
Washington
Gov
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Sen
Hiram Johnson
Alabama
New Jersey
William F. Knowland
Will Rogers, Jr
U. S
Cap
Knowland
Ellis E. Patterson
Los Angeles
H. Alexander Smith
George E. Brunner
Camden
James E. Folsom
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York
Russell Stationery Co
Stettinius Post
Eral
Lone Wolf
Hobart
Daily News Index
CIO Political Action Committee
Handy Ellis
Montgomery
Alfred E. Driscoll
Walter E. Edge
Charles Edison
Harold G. Hoffman
Lewis G. Hansen
Jersey City
South Dakota
George T. Mickelson
M. Q. Sharpe
Richard Haeder
South Dakota Rural Electrification Association
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