Arab Refusal to Cease Fire Draws U.N. Concern
In Cairo the Palestine war intensifies as Arab rejection of the U.N. cease fire plea alarms delegates. A Security Council response is anticipated, possibly including sanctions or an international force. U.S. envoy Warren Austin calls for careful action as evacuation plans and renewed diplomacy unfold amid fighting in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
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Palestine
United Nations
U.N. Security Council
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Warren R. Austin
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Cyprus
Middle East
Arab League
Amman
Security Council
Jerusalem
Hurva
Legion
Arams
Jewish Agency
Old City
Mount Zion
Senators Attack Voice of America as Sabotage and Libel
A Senate inquiry into Voice of America broadcasts accused of slander and harmful portrayal of the United States. Lawmakers demanded rescinding a 27 million dollar funding next year and condemned scripts depicting states and regions in a negative light.
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Washington
State Department
Voice of America
New England
Texas
Nevada
Las Vegas
Reno
Hatch
D-Nm
Ferguson
Rmich
Congress
MacArthur Invitation Moves Through Senate Panel
Senate Appropriations Committee votes on inviting Gen. Douglas MacArthur to return from Tokyo to outline his military plans. Sen. Wherry predicts approval, while Gen. Jonathan Wainwright backs gathering MacArthur’s views for GOP prospects.
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Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senator Wherry
Nebraska
Jonathan Wainwright
MacArthur
Philippine
Congress
Wainwright
GOP
Wherry
Parolee Earl Anderson Dies Before Release at Federal Reformatory
Acting Coroner Carl Hohenstein ruled Earl Anderson a 21 year old parolee died of physiological causes minutes before his release from the Federal Reformatory in Chillicothe. He noted guards struggled with Anderson while he attempted to smuggle a package of verses and were doing their duty.
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Chillicothe
Carl Hohenstein
Earl Anderson
Federal Reformatory
Anderson
Towboat Omar Raised and Ready for Repairs Plan
The $300,000 towboat Omar was floated late last night and crews prepared to tow the vessel 10 miles downstream to Addyston for repair after sinking Saturday night in the Ohio River opposite the Cincinnati public landing.
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Cincinnati
Omar
Addyston
Ohio River
Cincinnati Public Landing
Talks Resume GE CIO Wage Talks Eye GM Formula
Negotiators for General Electric and the CIO Electrical Workers resumed wage discussions today aiming to align with the General Motors formula. The talks focus on pay raises and cost of living adjustments amid ongoing industry wage pressures.
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New York
General Electric Co
CIO
General Motors
Arab king visits Jerusalem prayers at holy shrines
King Abdul arranged a surprise visit to Jerusalem and prayed at Christian and Muslim shrines in the old city. The trip highlighted interfaith gestures during the tour.
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Holy City
Jerusalem
Abdullah
Old City
Dayton Bookstore Holdup Sparks High Speed Chase Arrest
A 32 year old Dayton man identified as John Nelson surrendered after a wild auto chase that followed a downtown Wilkie Bookstore holdup. He fired a shot into the floor and took about $130 before forcing a taxi driver to flee northward and later abandoning the car near backyards as police pursued.
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Dayton
John Nelson
Nelson
Wilkie
Basil Burnett
Battle Lines Formed Against Canal Project
The Ohio Valley Board of Trade formed battle lines to oppose the proposed 104 mile Ohio River-Lake Erie Canal approved by Army engineers. They say the project would cost taxpayers over a half billion dollars and threaten flood control plans in the Ohio Valley.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio Valley Board of Trade
Army Engineers
F. Leslie
Board of Trade
Ohio Valley
Angry Motorist Strikes Wife and Rival Him In Cleveland
A 21 year old motorist knocked down his wife and another man after becoming angry over her walking with another man. Clay McCants Jr. was jailed on assault and battery. Jennie McCants, 21, suffered a possible skull fracture and was hospitalized. The other man fled.
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Cleveland
Clay McCants, Jr
Jennie
Taft Captures Texas Votes Ahead of Convention
Senator Taft won 30 of Texas 33 Republican votes. Rep. Clarence Brown, Taft's pre-convention manager, said the result exceeded expectations, noting strong activity by rivals. Texas delegates were selected on Tuesday.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Texas
Clarence Brown
Brown
Taft
New Jersey Delegates Line Up Behind Vandenberg
New Jersey GOP delegates, after reviewing the three leading presidential contenders, were reported ready to back Senator Arthur Vandenberg at the convention. Governor Thomas E. Dewey addressed them at a closed dinner, following hearings from Senator Robert A. Taft and former Governor Harold E. Stassen.
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Trenton
N.J
New Jersey
Arthur Vandenberg
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Poland and France Sign Five Year Trade Pact
Poland and France formalize a five year trade accord. France will supply Poland with $60,000,000 in motor cars machinery and other goods while Poland will pay with coal.
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France
Poland
Floods force mass evacuation in Washington towns
Thousands fled the Richland Pasco Kennewick area as dikes breached and trailer camps flooded. Rivers Yakima and Columbia at flood stage with a cloudburst worsening conditions. Evacuees include Hanford Atomic Energy plant workers moved to government trailer camps.
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Richland-Pasco
Kennewick
Washington
Benton County
Harry Cochrane
Sheriff's Office
Kennewick City
State Patrol
Pasco
Yakima River
Yakima
Columbia
Hanford Atomic Energy Plant
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Hanford Works
Legion Head Warns U.S. of Quislings
American Legion leader Paul Griffith told the Senate Judiciary Committee that 100,000 trained Quislings and a million fellow travelers threaten the United States. He urged quick passage of the Mundt Nixon bill to curb communists and noted a war chest of 500000 dollars. Henry Wallace sought to testify but was barred as hearings opened.
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American Legion
United States
Paul Griffith
National Legion
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Griffith
Communist Party
West Virginia Union Position Is Threatened
John L. Lewis refuses to sign a non Communist affidavit under Taft Hartley threatening his United Mine Workers District 50 as bargaining agent for 4000 Dupont employees near Charleston West Virginia per official NLRB guidance. District 50, Lewis' broad group for workers outside mining, faces ballot exclusion.
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Charleston
W. Va
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Dupont
National Labor Relations Board
Lewis
Ohioan Edward Green Places Third in French Contest
Edward Green of Portsmouth Ohio placed third in a French language contest sponsored by the French government for first year American students held in Oxford Ohio.
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Oxford
Edward Green
Portsmouth
90 Year Old Bride Marries 37 Year Old Farm Hand in NY
In Brushton New York a 90 plus year old bride Eliza Murray weds Clarence McGee 37 in a church ceremony watched by 3000 spectators. The bride who has seven children two dead and an artificial leg says she’d rather have a young strong man than a pension. The wedding ring cost 50 cents and a district superintendent approved the marriage after a 12 minute delay.
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Brushton
N. Y
Eliza Murray
Clarence McGee
New York
UMW Organizing Drive Hits Injunction in Ohio Mines
A United Mine Workers organizing drive facing a Coshocton County injunction after a 24 day work stoppage affecting 200 to 300 miners. Judge Lloyd S. Leech ordered two organizers and 31 members to stop interfering with workers returning to six large mines. Adolph Pacifico of District 6 said 350 miners sought UMW representation.
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UMW
John Graham
Ira Nelson
New Philadelphia
Bellaire
Adolph Pacifico
District 6
Pacifico
Ohio
Virden Withdraws Resignation From Commerce Post
John C. Virden, 51, director of the Commerce Department's Office of Industry Cooperation, withdrew his resignation after disclosures his 22-year-old daughter works for a Russian news agency. Secretary Sawyer said Virden will continue to lead OIC efforts directing scarce materials to essential uses. He is a Cleveland industrialist and Republican.
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P — John Co
Virden
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Commerce Department
Office of Industry Cooperation
Cleveland
OIC
Health Course Proposed for Teachers by PTA Platform
The 1948 49 PTA platform urges prospective teachers to take a college health course including sex education. It calls for social hygiene education to start at home and continue in schools with adequately trained teachers, covering education health home life family life and world understanding.
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Cleveland
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
PTA
Ohio Coal Conference OpensIts 17th Three Day Meet
The Ohio Coal Conference began its 17th annual three day convention in Bluefield West Virginia with panel discussions on safety and industry outlook. J S Davis Jr president of Davis Coal Co Dayton was to speak. R H Smith president of Norfolk and Western Railroad delivered the afternoon address.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Ohio Coal Conference
J. S. Davis, Jr
Davis Coal Co
Dayton
R. H. Smith
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Methodist Leader Calls for Obedience to Commandments
Arthur Flemming, prominent layman from Washington, D.C., told the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church that many world problems could be solved if people followed the commandments. He denounced the excuse that "everyone does it" as a major modern curse.
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Columbus
Ohio
Methodist Church
Arthur S. Flemming
Washington, D.C
Miners Trapped After Cavern Collapse Near Scranton
Rescue crews frantically dug to reach two men trapped two hundred feet underground after a cavern collapse in a Scranton area mine. Taps and shouts echoed from the chamber as crews pressed the dangerous operation in challenging conditions.
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Scranton
West Virginian Wounded Near Boundary in Seoul Clash
Karl S. Smith 45 of Huntington West Virginia was wounded by gunshots while standing near the dividing line between the Russian and American zones in Seoul yesterday.
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Seoul
Karl S. Smith
Huntington
W. Va
Pistol Butt Ends Fight in Columbus
Police officer Dwight W. Joseph confronted a prowler during a welfare check. The man tried a pistol twice. when the weapon misfired the second time, Joseph fired six shots into the suspect’s car. The suspect, Ulysses Smith, 35, of Cincinnati, was subdued with a pistol butt and held for investigation.
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Columbus
Dwight W. Joseph
Joseph
Ulysses Smith
Cincinnati
Czech Officials Deny Benes Ill Despite Reports
Prague officials contradicted abroad claims that President Eduard Benes is gravely ill. An information ministry spokesman said the 46 year old president walked with his wife in the garden of their country home last night and appeared in a happy mood.
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Prague
Eduard Benes
Information Ministry
OSU Will Limit Fall Non-Ohio Enrollment
Ohio State University will limit out-of-state student admissions this fall while admitting all Ohio high school graduates. President Howard L. Bevis said the university is not ready to return to unrestricted non-Ohio enrollment.
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OSU
Ohio
Columbus
Ohio State University
Howard L. Bevis
Bevis
Wallace’s Running Mate To Speak at Cleveland
Senator Glen H. Taylor of Idaho will be the principal speaker for Ohio Wallace supporters in Cleveland on June 19 and 20. Taylor, the vice presidential nominee, will deliver three addresses.
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Wallace
Cleveland
Glen H. Taylor
Idaho
Ohio
Henry A. Wallace
Taylor
Sailor Charged with First Degree Manslaughter in Newark
Robert Leh man, 20 year old sailor, is charged with first degree manslaughter for the fatal shooting of his sweetheart Beny Stevens on May 15 in Newark Ohio.
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Newark
Robert Lehman
Beny Stevens
Ohio growers warned as Georgia tomato plants carry blight
T H King of Ohio State University warned growers who bought tomato plants from Valdosta Georgia to discard uninfected stock and buy elsewhere. Meigs County and Gallia County in Southern Ohio reported heavy blight requiring resetting 50 to 100 percent of plant beds. He advised inspecting plants before planting and spraying copper sulfate or commercial products to protect against the blight. once infection occurs, nothing can stop it.
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T. H. King
Ohio State University
Ohio
Valdosta
Meigs County
Gallia County
Hopes I Ade On Trade Bill
The administration seeks a longer extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. The House passed a three year extension with tariff powers curb reins by 234 to 149. Senate action remains uncertain as Democrats vow a hard fight for a fuller extension or a one year extender.
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Washington
Senate
House
Marshall
Pearl Harbor
Alf M. Landon
GOP
Administration
Wife for sale ad seeks husband to support two children
Mrs Dorothy Lawlor of Hempstead says she no longer believes in love and posts a Situation Wanted notice seeking a man to marry and provide an immediate $10,000 cash settlement for her and two children. The ad drew 16 responses on the first day.
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Dorothy Lawlor
Hempstead
N.Y
Two Drown in Attempt To Learn Lifesaving
Canton area youths James Shortland and John McCance wade into a water filled strip mine to practice rescuing drowning persons. Shortland, 10, Grabs McCance, 15, as water deepens and both disappear while two companions on shore fail to intervene. Deputy sheriff notes the others were too excited to try a rescue.
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Canton
James Shortland
John T. McCance
Shortland
Solon Seeks Federal Aid for Ohio Toll Roads
Ohio Senator Ralph A. Winter of Medina urged the House Public Works Committee to approve a bill allowing federal aid grants for toll bridges highways and tunnels in Ohio to relieve a critical transportation problem.
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Washington
Ohio
Ralph A. Winter
Medina
House Public Works Committee
Hard Coal Operators UMW Discuss Contract
John L. Lewis and representatives of the anthracite operators meet to negotiate a new hard coal contract. The current agreement expires July 10 and covers about 80,000 miners across 225 mines in eight eastern Pennsylvania counties.
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Philadelphia
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Brannan Recommended for Secretary of Agriculture
The Senate Agriculture Committee unanimously recommended the confirmation of Charles F. Brannan to be Secretary of Agriculture.
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Brannan
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Charles F. Brannan
Agriculture
Fisherman William Herbst Drowns at Canton Reservoir
Fisherman William Herbst of Canton drowned yesterday in the Tappan Reservoir in Jiarrison County. Authorities reported the mishap occurred during fishing activities and a search is underway.
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Canton
William Herbst
Ye Tappani Reservoir
Jiarrison County
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