Acting Chief Appointed For Italian Government As Move To Halt Revolt
Premier Alcide de Gasperi became acting chief of the Italian state by cabinet order though monarchists said nothing changed and King Umberto II stayed in Rome awaiting Supreme Court action. The cabinet move, seen as unilateral, followed plebiscite returns showing republics victory. Labor unrest rose in Milan as workers faced delays in the monarchy-to-republic transition. Monarchist and pro‑Republic papers offered conflicting readings of the new setup.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Umberto II
Supreme Court
Italy
Pisa
Royal
Interior
Pietro Nenni
Milan
Umberto
Senator John Bankhead Dies at 73 After Stroke
Senator John W Bankhead, a longtime Alabama Democrat who served in the Senate since 1930, died at 73 after a stroke. He will be buried in Jasper Alabama after funeral services in Alabama, with the Senate recessing to honor his memory.
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Washington
Bankhead
Grover Cleveland
White House
John W. Bankhead
Capitol Hill
U. S. Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Senate
Jasper
Ala
Byrnes Heads to Paris for Molotov Showdown
Secretary of State Byrnes departs for Paris to meet Molotov in a pivotal Big Four session aiming to restore European peace. Officials say the outcome will test whether major powers can unite on issues like Trieste and Italian reparations, with a push to seek UN action in September if Paris fails. Estes Park hosts the 61st National Editorial Association convention opening tonight.
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Washington
Byrnes
Paris
Molotov
Europe
Trieste
United Nations
Estes Park
Colo
National Editorial Association
First U S Resident Voted to Sainthood
Vatican ceremony grants Mother Frances Cabrini of Chicago sainthood, marking the United States first woman saint. The consistory in Rome voted unanimously as Ohio Steel Foundry Co. faces a treble damage suit in Lima over an OPA lease dispute.
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Vatican City
United States
OPA
Washington
Cleveland
Vatican
Ohio Steel Foundry Co
Fed
Lima
Colby
Mother Frances
Farick, Inc
Mansfield
Kavier Cabrini
Chicago
Ship Men Struggle With Conciliators
Washington works toward a federal conciliation formula to avert a coast-wide shipping tie-up at midnight. CIO and AFL leaders spar over terms as 200000 union members brace for a strike. wage hikes, overtime rules, and a 56-hour week emerge, guidance from a federal board cited.
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Washington
CIO
John W. Gibson
Lee Pressman
Labor Department
AFL
United Front
Restaurant Price Boost Way Is Cleared by OPA
OPA opened the way for higher restaurant prices by removing ceilings on foods with no price controls. The order lets menu prices rise to reflect higher costs from lifted ceilings, but few items are exempt now. If meat ceilings end, steak dinners could cost more.
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Washington
OPA
Senate Banking Committee
Senate Committee
Senate
Ninth Story Plunges Kill Man, Woman
A former garage owner and a 25 year old woman plunged to their deaths from a ninth floor room at the Lafayette Hotel near the White House. The man died after a long confrontation with policemen. the woman landed on the hotel dining room roof. Names given: Arthur D. Millison, 34, and Dorothy Cox Mehoney, mother of a three year old. Millison registered as Mr and Mrs Arthur D Millison, San Francisco.
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Washington
Lafayette Hotel
White House
Clyde N. Strange
Arthur D. Millison
Theather
Dorothy Cox Mehoney
San Francisco
British Loan Approved by House Banking Committee
The House Banking Committee approved legislation ratifying the $3.75 billion British Loan by 20 to 5. The bill, already cleared by the Senate, moves to the House floor where a heated fight is expected, likely reaching the floor about a week from Monday.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Senate
House
Banking Committee
Truman Adviser Choice Is Denounced by Ickes
Harold L. Ickes denounces Truman advisers as a pantry cabinet of little and self seeking men and calls for a surround of wise patriotic counselors. He says the president should surround himself with officials whose interests align with the nation and not special groups.
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Chicago
Truman
Harold L. Ickes
Foreign Legion Proposed To Support Draft Extension
Senator Bridges endorses creating a foreign legion within the U S Army to recruit allied soldiers for a draft extension. He notes thousands of Poles have already served as civilian guards abroad and says he is intrigued by Chairman Elbert Thomas's idea.
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Washington
Bridges
Foreign Legion
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Senate Military Committee
Agricultural Training In City Schools Urged
Joseph W. Fichter of the Ohio State Grange urged vocational agriculture in city schools to stem rural to urban migration. He spoke at the annual conference of Ohio teachers of vocational agriculture at Ohio State University, calling for rural schools to stop imitating city schools.
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Columbus
Joseph W.fichter
Ohio State Grange
Fichter
Ohio Teachers of Vocational Agriculture
Ohio State University
Streamliner Wrecked Kills Two Trainmen in Virginia
In Powhatan Virginia yesterday the Norfolk and Westerns Powhatan Arrow streamliner crashed on a sharp curve. Two train crewmen died and eleven passengers were injured though none seriously. The second coach plunged into the locomotive tender during the derailment.
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Powhatan
Norfolk and Western Railway
Yesteday
Shawnee Man Slated For Shooting Trial In June
Shawnee pool hall operator Edward McKnight, 32, will be arraigned Friday on a first degree murder charge for the June 3 shooting of Luther Browning, 18. The Perry County Grand Jury returned the murder indictment against McKnight yesterday. A Columbus court awarded CCC Highways, Inc. of Columbus $29,975 in damages from a collision suit in Otts Court.
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New Lexington
Edward McKnight
Luther Browning
Perry County
McKnight
CoLumMpsLs
Ottman Pleas Court
CCC Highways, Inc. of
Columbus
New President of DAV Elected at Convention
Columbus report notes Mrs Zelma Kah of Middletown named president of the Daughters of Union Veterans as the group closed its convention with allied GAR units. Mrs Mary Bennet of Canton selected as vice president. Surplus buildings at Ravenna Arsenal, about 120 structures, will be sold this month per Col S R Stribling.
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DAV
Columbus
Zelma Kah
Middletown
Daughters of Union Veterans
Grand Army of the Republic
Mary Bennet
Canton
Ravenna
Arsenal
Court Feud Weighs Ahead Before House Panel
The Jackson Black Supreme Court feud reaches Congress with Justice Jackson sending a cablegram from Nurnberg to the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Hatton W Sumners weighs three options from open investigation to no action or adjournment leaving room for later action. Senator McCarran pleads restraint while Senator Bridges attacks political speeches by justices citing past Klan links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Nuernberg
House Judiciary Committee
Hatton W. Sumners
D-Tex
Jackson
Hugo Black
Sumners
Senate
McCarran
D-New
Judiciary Committee
Bridges
Citizens Political Action Committee
New York
Supreme Court
New Hampshire Republican
Black
Ku Klux Klan
Sorge
Spanish Plan Is Accepted
United Nations Security Council accepts a U S Spain plan and refers the Spanish question to the General Assembly for action. Pr Herbert V Evatt of Australia announces sub committee modifications to its recommendations after Herschel V Johnson sug gested changes. The session opens with Evatt outlining the approved modifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
UN Security Council
Spain
General Assembly
Dr. Evatt
Security Council
Herschel V. Johnson
Chinese Nationalists Gaining in Manchuria
The fifteen day truce between Nationalist and Communist forces is said to be near collapse as Nationalist troops push in Manchuria. Communists reportedly failed landings near Tsingtao where U S Marines maintain a major North China garrison.
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Nanking
China
Central News ‘Agency
Manchuria
Tsingtao
U.S
North China
Shanghai
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Chihli
Shantung Peninsula
Lafa
116 Year Old Paper To Cease Publication
The 116 year old Weekly Examiner of Logan County will stop publication with the June 21 issue. Publishers H. RK Hubbard and Co cite rising costs scarce newsprint and a shrinking weekly field as the reasons for the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellefontaine
Examiner
Logan County
H. RK. Hubbard and Co
Congressional Probe Of Klan Is Postponed
The House Committee on Un American Activities postponed the congressional probe of the Ku Klux Klan indefinitely by a 5 to 10 to 1 vote. Some members indicated an informal check of Klan activities by investigators would continue.
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Washington —.P
House Committee On UN
Jap Conquest Traced As War Trial Opens In Tokyo
In Tokyo a world war crimes tribunal opens its case against former premier Hideki Tojo and 25 others. Prosecutor Henry G Nolan outlines Japan's empire bid with 15 foot maps showing expansion from Manchuria to the Philippines and Southeast Asia as red lines recede after Japan’s defeats.
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Tokyo
Hideki Jojo
Manchuria
China
Southeast Asia
South Pacific
Tojo
Japan
Philippines
Thailand
Burma
New Guinea
Malay Straits
Empire
War Ministry
Henry G. Nolan
Assistic
Canada
Comedian Charles Butterworth Dies In Auto Crash
Los Angeles report says comedian Charles Butterworth died from head injuries after his foreign make car skidded 50 feet and struck an electric light pole. He died in an ambulance as it arrived at General Hospital. no other persons were in the vehicle.
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Los Angeles
Charles Butterworth
General Hospital
Woman 52 Held in Cleveland Killing of Restaurant Operator
A 52-year-old Cleveland woman was held by police in the killing of Alexander Page, 46, a Cleveland restaurant operator, during a quarrel in his East Side restaurant living quarters. Detectives said she admitted firing one shot into Page's chest after the dispute and was arrested in Youngstown yesterday.
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Cleveland
Alexander
Page
Lawrence Doran
George Gackowski
Youngstown
Rigo
East Side
Church Clash Over Delegate Flares Openly
New York Protestants press for recall of Myron C. Taylor as presidential representative at the Vatican. Francis Cardinal Spellman and Bishop G Bromley Oxnam clash over the recall demand after Truman’s note that Taylor’s appointment was a temporary expedient.
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New York
Myron C. Taylor
Vatican
Francis Cardinal Spellman
G. Bromley Oxnam
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In
Cardinal Spellman
Fordsham University
Father Contends Son Was Pushed to Death
Coroner John B Gravis refused to alter the verdict of accidental death after Harry T Shields of Newark claimed Donald H Shields 21 died in a 98 foot fall from the Ohio State University stadium during a robbery attempt His son was a junior at OSU and died June 4 authorities described the fall as accidental.
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Columbus
John B. Gravis
Donald H. Shields
Ohio State University
OSU
Harry T. Shields
Newark
Young Shields J
Scrap price rise rejected by price office panel
A proposal for a $2.50 per ton rise in iron and steel scrap prices was turned down by the Office of Price Administration Iron and Steel Scrap Advisory Committee. The decision followed a meeting held here Wednesday to consider a proposal from the Iron and Steel Scrap Institute, Inc.
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Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
Iron and Steel Scrap Advisory Committee
Iron and Steel Scrap Institute, Inc
Price Policies Causing Wheat Belt Resentment
Hutchinson Kansas report on a bumper wheat harvest across Kansas Oklahoma and Texas amid growing discontent with government price policy. Farmers store grain on farms to dodge selling to the Commodity Credit Corp while some wheat moves to elevators. Across the plains older equipment and scarce labor curb farm expansion as harvest advances with favorable rains and heat speeding gathering.
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Hutchinson
Kas
Plains
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas-Oklashoma
Garden City
Walt Mercer
Commodity Credit Corp
Taft Plan Approved As Senate Sets OPA Extension Vote
The Senate backed Taft's amendment limiting OPA price ceilings to the Oct 1 15 1941 base plus industry cost increases, with a 44 29 roll call. The measure extends price control to June 30 1947 but curbs the administrator's power and ends meat dairy poultry control July 1. Subsidies drop to 1.1 billion and food subsidies end May 1 1947.
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Senate
Taft
Ohio
OPA
Huffman
Secretary of Agriculture
Jewels Worth 40 000 Found After German Arrest
FRANKFURT The Army announced that 40 000 to 50 000 dollars worth of the Hesse crown jewels were recovered in Germany after the arrest of American Maj David S Watson of Burjlingame California here Sunday. Watson was arrested in connection with the theft when his former superior Col J W Durant was taken into custody in Chicago by officers investigating the theft of 1 500 000 royal treasure from Kronberg Castle. Durant and his WAC wife Kathleen Nash Durant were reported to return to Germany for court martial.
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Frankfurt
Hesse
Germany
David S. Watson
Bure Jlingame
Calif
Col
J. Iw. Durant
Chicago
Kronberg Castle
Durant
WAC
Kathleen B. Nash Durant
CIO Union Records Ordered Into Hearing in Weirton Steubenville Case
National Labor Relations Board hearing ordered on organizing activities of the CIO United Steelworkers at Weirton Steel Co plants in Weirton West Virginia and Steubenville Ohio. Special Master Drayton Heard will examine union records in the case alleging Weirton Steel fostered an independent union.
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Pittsburgh
Ciio United Steel
Weirton
W. Va
Steubenville
Weirton Steel Co
Mani ‘Ter Drayton
Heard
National Labor Relations Board
Weirton Steel
West East Round Trip Flight Sets Unofficial Record
Pilots of three Army jet propelled planes today held an unofficial record for a day long round trip from March Field California to Andrews Field Maryland covering about 4355 miles. The west to east leg averaged 478 miles per hour while the east to west leg averaged 414 mph and the overall average speed was 446 mph.
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March Field
Calif
Andrews Field
Man and Woman Die When Train Strikes Car in Columbus
A Pennsylvania freight train struck a car in Columbus early today killing a man identified as Willie Frum and a woman who was not immediately named. Investigators described the crash as sudden with no immediate details on why the vehicle was on the tracks.
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Columbus
Pennsylvania
Willie Frum
Lebanon HS appoints Townsend as basketball coach and Greist as athletic director
The Lebanon High School announces the appointment of Harry Townsend as basketball coach and promotes Ceci Greist to athletic director, marking key staff changes for the school.
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Cage
Lebanon
Harry Townsend
Ceci Greist
Labanon High School
Tre Day
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