House Debates Adjourning as Lawmakers Count Noses
Washington report details a fractious session where the House spent four hours forty minutes debating adjournment and counting members. Fepc foes, Rankin, Herter, Rivers and others sparred over rules, quorum calls, and a potential FEPC bill amid partisan sniping and procedural standoffs.
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Frederick C.othman
Washington
U.P
House of Representatives
Christian A. Herter
Massachusetts
Sam Rayburn
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Mendel Rivers
South Carolina
Herter
John E. Rankin
Mississippi
Representative Herter
Rankin
Dangerous Monkey Business
Vito Marcantonio
New York
Reading
George J. Maurer
Midland Rodeo Plans Shaped
Midland prepares for the 12th annual world championship Midland Rodeo from June 30 to July 2 with top cowhands competing for over 7500 in purses. Events include bronc riding calf roping bull riding bareback bronc and steer wrestling. Stock supplied by Everett Colborn and Gene Autry. Cowgirl sponsors from West Texas New Mexico and Arizona join a prize contest worth over 1000. Evening performances run May 30 31 and June 1 2 with a Sunday matinee.
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Midland
Midland Pair, Inc
Everett Colborn
Gene Autry
World’s Championship Rodeo Corporation
Madison Square Garden Rodeo
Fort Worth
West Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
General Hospital issues seven grass skirts labeled complete
Winter General Hospital in Topeka operated by the Veterans Administration sent out scales for seven grass skirts described as complete by public relations officers. The term complete referred to the upper part of the skirt.
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Topeka, Kas
Winter General Hospital
Veterans’ Administration
Pas teur Institute Resumes Operations in Bandoeng
The Pasteur Institute at Bandoeng Java, a principal source of vaccines and serums in the Dutch East Indies, has resumed operations.
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Bandoeng
Java
Pasteur Institute
Dutch East Indies
Plane Acrobatics Display In Southeast Amarillo
Pilot of a red and yellow airplane performed daring aerobatics over southeast Amarillo on Thursday noon. For 15 minutes the plane roared above homes and wires, diving near wires and fields before heading southeast and away.
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Amarillo
J. V. de Sautell
East
Irish-born maid leaves estate of 73000 to church society
Rose Hagan 82, who came from Ireland 50 years ago and worked as a domestic for fashionable Main Line families until her death last month, disclosed in her will. She leaves bequests of 2000 and the remainder, 71000, to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
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Philadelphia
Rose Hagan
Ireland
Society For the Propagation of the Faith
Harvard Honors MacArthur and Marshall In Absentia
Harvard University conferred in absentia honorary doctor of laws degrees on General Douglas MacArthur and General George Marshall, breaking a three century tradition in Cambridge Massachusetts.
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Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Douglas MacArthur
George Marshall
Beethoven Knocks Linked to Schumann’s Mental Struggles
In late life Robert Schumann, tormented by mental illness, believed he was contacted by the immortal through rhythmic knocks—an idea tied to a rhythm akin to the opening motif of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
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Robert Schmann
Beethoven
Cattlemen Withhold Cattle as Price Controls Loom
The Agriculture Department reports livestock producers are withholding cattle from slaughter markets awaiting price control clarity. A Senate panel favors removing ceilings on livestock and poultry products by June 30. National markets show the smallest week of cattle marketing this year, with Kansas City receipts at multi year lows. Beef steers in Chicago last week neared the November record prices.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate
Kansas City
Chicago
Malden prefab tenants to name their houses
In Malden England prefab tenants will choose names for their houses and receive a name-plate from the borough surveyor. The plan highlights community identification as new housing is completed.
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Malden, Eng
Malden
Greek boy thanks Sapulpa students for gifts abroad
Woodlawn school pupils in Sapulpa Oklahoma received a Greek letter of thanks from a 13 year old boy in Greece. The note was interpreted by James Zartalades theater executive. Officials said the Red Cross gift boxes they sent reached overseas safely.
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Sapulpa
Okla
U.P
Woodlawn
Greece
Red Cross
James Zartalades
Viennese Waltzes Edge Truman Over Missouri Favorite
President Truman, long linked with the Missouri Waltz, reveals his real favorite is Roses From the South by Strauss. He praised conductor and band after a White House garden party for 865 disabled veterans, recalling Roosevelt’s misread musical tastes and Marvin McIntyre’s role.
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Washington
The
Daily News
Truman
White House
U. S. Marine Band
South
Johann Strauss
Secoria
Vienna Woods
Mr. Truman
Executive Mansion
President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Marvin N. McIntyre
McIntyre
Grandma Serves Corn Bread Delays Presses in Alton
June Rhoades reports from Alton Illinois that Grandma Chew is renowned for corn bread and regularly shares it with neighbors in her apartment building. A hot serving interrupts the news desk as the correspondent asks to hold the presses.
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Alton, Ill
Grandma Chew
June Rhoades
Alton Evening Telegraph
Upper Alton
100000 Year Old Horse Skeleton Found In Mine
In Grandson Switzerland a coal mine yielded a horse skeleton dated about 100000 years old. In San Antonio a blaze in a rooming house killed Alfred Perez aged 50. his body found six hours after a fire caused by an exploding oil stove. Damages estimated at 800 dollars. Only 18 states require vision tests in schools.
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Grandson
Switzerland
San Antonio
U.P
Alfred Perez
States
Police Report Odd Rabbit Theft Probe in Springfield
Springfield police officer Buford Tabor investigates an attempted rabbit theft but notes the culprit did not appear ready to steal a rabbit. He searched the area yet found no suspect fitting the description.
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Springfield
Buford Tabor
Tabor
Burglary Strikes H T Cafe For 2000 Nickels
A burglar broke into the H T Cafe last night and stole the loose change of 2,000 nickels. Also noted is a tip about using rhubarb plant leaves to brighten dark aluminum pans by boiling leaves and water in the pan a few minutes.
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Chicago, Ill
U.P
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Chicago
Ex- Bee
Houston
H-T
Emma Eldridge Found Dead In Alleged Suicide
San Antonio reports a death by own action verdict in the case of Mrs Emma L Eldridge wife of a former city attorney found hanged in her home today. The verdict confirmed self inflicted death.
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San Antonio
Emma L. Eldridge
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