House Passes Bill To Curb Unions In Labor Reform Vote
The House approved a compromise measure 320 to 79 to curb strikes and unions, sending it to the Senate where a similar tally is expected. The bill would halt national calamity strikes, ban certain boycotts and the closed shop, allow lawsuits against unions, and create a new mediation agency, amid pressure on President Truman over a possible veto.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman
White House
John L. Lewis
Lesinski
D-Mich
Senate-House Committee
Hartley
R-Nj
House Labor Committee
Congress
Murder by Post Envelope Plot Shocks London Officials
Scotland Yard revealed a mail plot sending watchlike devices and explosive powder to British figures in a scheme dubbed murder by post by London papers. Notable recipients included Maj. Gen. E. Spears and potentially Sir Stafford Cripps and Field Marshal Lord Montgomery. envelopes were not opened in Attlee’s office.
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London
Scotland Yard
Post
Italy
British Press Association
Britain
Edd Spears
Middle East
Spears
Stern Gang
Stafford Cripps
Board of Trade
Evening Standard
Lord Montgomery
Imperial General Staff
Attlee
Roosevelt Son Denies Punch In Picket Incident
A Los Angeles hearing drops assault and battery charges against John Roosevelt after testimony about a confrontation at a women's wear store during picketing. George Hardy claims Roosevelt punched him. Roosevelt and witnesses offer differing accounts and a lie detector demand arises.
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Los Angeles
George Hardy
John Roosevelt
Hardy
Don M. Redwine
Roosevelt
Grayson’s
Walter Goldberg
Rosevelt
Elsie T. Fitzpatrick
Thornhill Trial Opens In Logan West Virginia
Logan June 4 The Thornhill ballot theft trial opened with Eugene Scott Beckley newsman testifying he saw Thornhill driving near the Raleigh county courthouse on Nov 16. The state says seven precinct votes disappeared from the Raleigh county clerk’s records room.
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President
Beckley
FBI
Thornhill
Senate to Vote on Pacts Today in Senate Debate
The Senate debated treaties with Italy, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria as a vote set for 1 pm. Senator Wherry faulted an unpublished Italian message urging treaty revisions. Vandenberg said the note appeared only in the press and was written after the treaty.
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Washington
Wherry
R.-Neb
Senate Today
Senate
Vandenberg
R.mich
Foreign Relations Committee
Terracini
Italy
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Bridges
R.N. H
Eastland
D.-Miss
Barkley
D.-Ky
Russia
United States
Truman Accepts Braden Resignation in Argentina Move
President Truman accepted the resignation of Assistant Secretary Spruille Braden after U S actions to restore ties with Argentina. Braden plans to leave the State Department June 30, with speculation on who will fill the Latin American post or reorganize policy leadership.
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Washington
Truman
Spruille Braden
United States
Argentina
Braden
State Department
Marshall
Specu Wation
White House
AWOL Soldier Nabbed After Five Years Hiding in Cavern
Jesse W. Starr 30 of Mount Clare was captured by MPs after five years on the run from Camp Reynolds and the draft. He had hidden in a natural cave near Mount Clare enlarging it into a small home with a rag pallet bed, later donning women’s clothing before returning to men’s attire and seeking a friend’s residence where he was arrested. Starr is jailed in Clarksburg to await transfer to Charleston.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Jesse W. Starr
Mount Clare
Harrison County
Andy Casto
Starr
Charleston
Camp Reynolds
Casto
iCasto
Twelve Perish In Great Lakes Shipwreck Near Ontario
The Canadian freighter Emperor sank after hitting Lake Superior rocks near Lonely Isle Royale. Twelve crew members perished, including Captain Eldon Walkinshaw, with twenty one survivors plucked from lifeboats. Rescue efforts continued as officials investigated the collision cause.
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Fort William
Ont
Lake Superior
Great Lakes
Lonely Isle Royale
United States National Park
Michigan
Canada Steamship Lines
Port Arthur
Edna Schultz
Owen Sound
Georgian Bay
Lake Erie
Arlington
Ship Owners Reject NMU Wage Demands
New York June 4 A group of 39 ship owners and operators with vessels on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts rejected wage hour demands presented two weeks earlier by the CIO National Maritime Union for 90 000 seamen. They submitted 12 stiff counter demands to NMU president Joseph Curran via Frank J Taylor of the American Merchant Marine Institute. One concession was made to reconsider the first six union demands. Curran declined comment.
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New York
Atlantic
Gulf
CIO National Maritime Union
Joseph Curran
NMU
Curran
Frank J. Taylor
American Merchant Marine Institute
Taylor
Fire injures 16 as Hellcat destroyed at Port Columbus
Sixteen enlisted men were hurt during a flash fire that destroyed a Grumman Hellcat and damaged a naval air station hangar at Port Columbus airfield. Fire under control in 19 minutes. most injured were hospitalized. Cause undetermined though believed to have started in or under a Grumman torpedo bomber.
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Navy
Grumman
Court Refuses To Halt Rail Merger
A three judge federal court in Alexandria Va refused to issue a temporary injunction against the Pere Marquette and Chesapeake and Ohio merger. The ICC order approving the merger becomes final tomorrow and executives led by Robert R Young indicate consolidation will proceed Friday in Richmond Va. Albert E Schwabacker Jr led a bid by the Joseph Rosland trust to halt the merger.
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Alexandria
Pere Marquette Railroad
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Robert R. Young
Cleveland
Albert E. Schwabacker, Jr
Joseph Rosland Trust
Pere Marquette
Robert J. Bowman
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co
Richmond
Bowman
Flood paralyzes Rutland Vermont after dam failure
A flash flood from a broken dam paralyzes Rutland Vermont causing $2,000,000 in damage. 500 homeless, no water power gas or electricity, four inches of rain, rail lines washed out, one bridge toppled. 13 year old boy safe. search for Richard Lavictorie ongoing but he was later reported safe. Army and Red Cross rush aid as conditions improve with dry weather forecast.
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Rutland
Vermont
East Creek
East
Pittsford
Richard Lavictorie
Ooe
Army
Red Cross
New England
City
Canada
New Hampshire
Littleton
Boston & Maine
Woodsville
Berlin
Sandwich Man Delights and Delays Times Square Crowd
John Ciampa 26 enthralled a Times Square crowd by walking a five story route on ledges outside the Hotel Astor with a sandwich sign for 15 minutes causing traffic congestion. Police took him to a station after initial crowd fear of a suicide. He faced Manhattan court with a week adjournment on charges of endangering the peace and health of others.
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New York
Times Square
Hotel Astor
Manhattan
John Ciampa
Bogus Check Cashed On Defunct Bank In Huntington
A check dated recently and drawn on the long closed Coal Exchange Bank was cashed by a Huntington store for 52.98. The draft came from a law firm checkbook and used the name of a man dead six months. Police have no clues on the maker or how the check was obtained. An official cited cashier inexperience and rush hours.
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Huntington
W. Va
Coal Exchange Bank
Azel T. Bryant
Fighter Plane Crashes Into Chesapeake Bay
Navy lieutenant Donald Eugene Umphries, 25, a night fighter pilot in the Pacific theater, was killed when his P-80 crashed into Chesapeake Bay during a review near Quantico. The incident occurred 500 yards off Patuxent Beach as he performed a low altitude flyby. cause was not released.
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Washington
Navy
Donald Eugene Umphries
Chesapeake Bay
Marine Corps
Quantico
Patuxent
Naval Air Station
Garsson Testifies About May Help in War Bribe Case
Henry Garsson testified that ex Congress member Andrew J. May assisted him at the war department after the army balked at his shell production ideas. Garsson and his brother Murray face trial with May on federal war bribe charges seeking favors for their munitions firm.
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Washington
Arma
Henry Garsson
Andrew J. May
War Department
Army
Garsson
Murray
May
Chicago Ordnance District
Gars
Garssons
House Military Committee
House Votes to Preserve Army Enlisted Strength
The House defeated an amendment to cut 30,000 enlisted men from the army's next fiscal year size. Representative Dirksen sought a 125 million dollar cut in pay with fewer personnel. The decision kept the Army strength intact amid budget debates on the War Department proposal.
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Washington
Rep. Short
Rmo
Russia
Missourian
House
Dirksen
R-Tll
Army
War Department
Department
Appropriations Committee
Air Corps
Warns Atomic Arms Race Is On Lake Success
United States warns an atomic arms race is on and denounces a Soviet plan for international atomic control as a fraud. Frederick H. Osborn says the U S will maintain its lead until effective international controls are agreed. He notes large atomic operations in Canada England and Russia and speaks after a U N atomic commission meeting.
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Lake
United States
Soviet Russia
Frederick H. Osborn
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Canada
England
Russia
Osborn
U. N. Atomic Commission
Washington
State Department
Atomic Commission
U. N. Security Council
Britain
China
France
U. S
Mine Gasification Damage Suit Filed
A $5,000,000 damage suit was filed in circuit court by retired miner R. B. Kennedy against Milton H. Fies and Alabama Power Co. for breach of faith over confidential information tied to a coal gasification method tested at the Gorgas mine. The case notes Kennedy’s patent filing on March 1, 1945, and states a jury trial is required. Results of the Gorgas experiment will be reviewed at a June 11 Bureau of Mines meeting in Washington.
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Thornhill
James E. Simon
Raleigh Court House
Henry Lilly
State Road Commission
Simon
Lilly
Scott
President Hotel
Azel Cook
Birmingham
Ala
R. B. Kennedy
Milton H. Fies
Alabama Power Co
Kennedy
Gorgas
Fies
Pies
Bureau of Mines
Washington
Truman Presses Action On Bills
President Truman urged Congress to fast track universal military training for youths and to renew several war powers beyond June 30. He sent a cabinet report backing mandatory training and asked leaders from both parties to speed early passage of extending maritime oil tanker charters, export controls, and allocation and priority measures for scarce goods.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Charles G. Ross
Kansas City
Andrews
R-Ny
House Armed Services Committee
Maritime Commission
Martin
Rmass
One Man Army of Bataan Divorced Then Remarried in Hours
Wheatland Wyoming June 4 Arthur W Wermuth famed as the one man army of Bataan was divorced from Jean Wilkins Wermuth Traverse City Michigan at 11 am on grounds of intolerable indignities after a contested action. Half an hour later he married Patricia Steele 23 a former Denver parachutist at the courthouse.
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Wheatland
Wyo
Arthur W. Wermuth
Bataan
Hill City
S. D
Jean Wilkins Wermuth
Traverse City
Mich
Wermuth
Patricia Steele
Denver
Fairly Early End Of Sugar Rationing Seen
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson told a Senate Banking sub committee that a large Cuban sugar crop could allow a fairly early end to sugar rationing for housewives. He cautioned that there are arguments against ending rationing and called it a close question.
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Washington
Anderson
Senate Banking
Bullet Removed From Babe's Brain In Memphis
Fifteen month old Frederick Adkins Jr. survived after surgeons removed a .22 caliber bullet from his brain. Doctors said the bullet was broken in two pieces and the injury occurred during a drive by shooting at the Adkins home Monday night in Memphis Tennessee.
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Memphis
Tenn
Frederick Adkins’ Jr
Adins
miners and operators drift toward delays in Taft Hartley actions
Contract talks between John A Lewis and soft coal operators stall as June 15 government action on Taft Hartley looms. Miners plan possible strikes by July 1 or July 7 while wage demands and safety provisions spark renewed disagreement.
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Washington
John A. Lewis
Truman
Lewis
Congress
Collison Predicts No Coal Mine Shutdown This Summer
Morgantown West Virginia June 4 Captain N H Collisson fed coal mines administrator said on a visit that there is an excellent chance for an agreement to avoid a walkout when mines revert to private ownership at month end He noted no factual basis for a rush to shutdown despite wage talks in Washington and higher demand keeping coal in use.
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Morgantown
W. Va
N. H. Collisson
Fed Coal Mines
Washington
United Mine Workers
Collisson
Pittsburgh
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W. L. Hanger
Emil Marshall
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Raleigh
State Senate
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Browning
Hanger
Manger
Eldon Walkinshaw
Collingwood
Ernest Albrecht
Coast Guard
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