Wallace Target Of Stiff Attack
Rep Col A Meyer assailed Henry A Wallace calling him the evil tool of those who would destroy America and questioned when the attorney general would indict the renegade. The clash preceded Wallace’s Monday night appearance in Washington as the House committee on American activities planned a weekend report on the Southern Conference for Human Welfare which sponsors the speech. Dr Clark Foreman, president of the conference, urged the report to be based on fact.
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Washington
Col A. Meyer
Kas
Henry A. Wallace
America
House
United States
Meyer
Commerce
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Walace
Clark Foreman
Atlanta
Heat Records Are Broken In East Chicago
Heat records fall across the nation with Wink Texas at 103 degrees the highest. Binghamton New York 95 Albany 92 Buffalo 87 New York City 86 mark warmest day of year. Forecasters expect a cool air mass to ease the heat and lower temperatures in several states.
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Gulf States
Cheyenne
Wyo
Oregon
Nevada
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Wink
Tex
Mercury
Binghamton
N. Y
Albany
Buffalo
New York City
Kentucky
Midwest
Williston
Dickinson N. D
Chadron
Neb
Bend
Ore
Summer heat eases slightly in Charleston area
Charleston and Huntington report cooler temperatures after a 96 and 92 degree day. Thermometer readings show only small drops with forecasts suggesting Tuesday will be less warm. Beckley and Bluefield mark highs near 91 as heat subsides.
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Charleston
W. Va
Eathier
Huntington
Beckley
Blugfield
Sugar Rationing Ends for Homes and Institutions
Washington AP Secretary of Agriculture Anderson ends sugar rationing for household consumers at midnight and exempts institutional users such as hotels and restaurants from rationing while leaving industrial controls. All sugar measures set to end Oct 31 unless Congress acts.
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Washington
Anderson
Congress
House
House Banking Committee
Senate
McCarthy
R-Wise
Bricker
Rohio
International Emergency Food Council
United States
Cuba
Java
Conferees Agree On Rent Bill
Washington date June 11 conferees agree on a rent bill extending modified controls through February 29 with 15 percent increases allowed in leases through 1948. Buck says a final form will be reviewed while Taylor urges veto. bill requires house and senate approval before president. The measure also ends most controls on building materials except amusement construction.
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Senate
House
Buck
R-Del
Taylor
Idaho
United States
Ex Senator David Walsh Dies in Boston at St Elizabeths
Former U S Senator David I Walsh died at St Elizabeths hospital Boston following a long career as a Democratic leader. He headed the Senate Naval Affairs Committee during World War II and helped build a global fleet while often clashing with his party over issues including court size and foreign policy.
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U. S
David I. Walsh
Senate
Naval Affairs Committee
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Walsh
Massachhusetts
Massachusetts
United States
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Radio Actress Beaten by Intruder in New York
Madge Tucker Miller 42, radio actress known as Madge Tucker, was beaten in her apartment by an intruder posing as a window washer. She regained consciousness to call her husband William Burke Miller, NBC program editor, and was taken to a hospital in serious condition with facial injuries and possible skull fracture. Detectives said the assault followed an attempted robbery. the suspect is described as a Negro.
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New York
Madge Tucker Miller
Madge Tucker
Meadows Seeks Special Session on Municipal Gross Taxes
Charleston reports Governor Meadows may call a special legislative session before month end to validate municipal gross sales taxes. West Virginia League of Municipalities requested action after a Supreme Court ruling questioned legality of such levies, affecting Huntington Williamson and other cities.
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W. Va
Charleston Gazette
Meadows
West Virginia League of Municipalities
Supreme Court
West Virginia
Wheeling
Huntington
Williamson
C. H. Koontz
Blame For Red Rise To Power Put On Russia
The United States blamed Russia for inflaming and engineering the communist rise to power in Hungary and condemned Bulgaria for arresting opposition leader Nicola Petkov. Washington warned of possible further action and an urgent international investigation, citing violations of the Yalta and Hungarian armistice agreements.
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Russia
Washington
United States
Hungary
Bulgaria
State Department
Soviet Union
United Nations
Nicola Petkov
Europe
Mead and Others May Be Called In May Garsson Trial
The defense in the May Garsson war fraud trial moved to summon former Senator James M. Mead and other high political figures as witnesses. Chief defense attorney Charles J. Margiotti said he would seek court permission to question Mead about his motives in a 1946 senate investigation of the Garsson munitions case. May, a wartime House committee chair, faces bribery charges alongside Henry and Murray Garsson. the government says May took 55000 from the Garsson brothers for favors.
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James M. Mead
Charles J. Margiotti
Mead
Senate
New York
White House
Margiotti
Henry A. Schweinhaut
Andrew J. May
House
Henry
Murray Garsson
May
Garsson Brothers
Jury Hears Transcription of Paul Revere Nazi Broadcast
In Boston a federal court heard phonograph transcripts of a Berlin 1942 shortwave broadcast by Douglas Chandler who called himself Paul Revere. Prosecutors say the former Baltimore writer treasonously aided the enemy exposing Roosevelt as a false leader.
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Paul Revere
Boston
Douglas Chandler
Chandler
Federal Communications Commission
Silver Hill
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
Baltimore
Chicago
Ashville
North Carolina
New England
New York
Views On Power Of Bill To Halt Coal Strike
Government attorneys differ on Taft-Hartley provisions to stop a soft coal strike next month. If a strike develops and the measure becomes law, courts may decide injunctions. Liable factors include no contract no work and the July 7 work resumption date.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Lewis Seeks to Bar Mine Safety Rules From Krug
John L. Lewis’s attorney urged a senate subcommittee to keep mine safety regulations from Secretary of the Interior Krug. The push follows a feud over control of enforcement and a Kilgore bill to grant the federal Bureau of Mines power to write and enforce safety standards. Currently the government and UMW share a safety code under a wartime contract set to end July 1. the Bureau has no enforcement power.
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John L. Lewis
Interior Krug
Lewis
Harrison Combs
United Mine Workers
Senate Public Lands
UMW
Secretary of the Interior
Combs
Kilgore
D-Wva
Federal Bureau of Mines
R. R. Sayers
Bureau
Krug
Bureau of Mines
Slaying Near Morehead Leaves Storekeeper and Boy Dead
In Morehead Kentucky a 52 year old storekeeper Eddie Johnson and 16 year old Robert Rowe were shot dead by an unidentified man wearing a sack mask on the Christy Creek road. Four teen witnesses fled as the gunman escaped. Authorities issued a John Doe warrant while bloodhounds aided the hunt. The weapon was likely a shotgun. The motive remains unclear amid regional tensions after indictments in moonshining cases.
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Sam Green
Eddie Johnson
Robert Rowe
Elliott County
Christy Creek
Elijah Hogge
Young Rowe
Sam ‘Rowe
Johnson
James Brown
John Doe
Bob Tackett
Lloyd Eldridge
Erwin Booth
Lexington
Green
Russians Agree to Train Hungarian Officers in Moscow
A reliable informant says Russia is seeking a peace time alliance with Hungary to align armies in war. He says Hungarian officers including Maj. Gen. Laszlo Solyom and Gyorgy Paufyosterreicher will train at the Russian war college in Moscow and that Hungarian observers attend Russian maneuvers. Officials would not confirm, while a radio warning warned against discussing maneuvers.
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Budapest
Hungary
Russia
Russian War College
Moscow
Laszlo Solyom
Gyorgy Paufyosterreicher
War Ministry
Trans-Danubia
Seven Escaped GI Prisoners Recaptured in Germany
Seven of eight U S servicemen who escaped Sunday from Mannheim were back in custody. French police reported four were arrested in Mirecourt near Nancy and being returned to the American zone. Richard Kane of Tort Town Virginia said he left the group earlier. the hunt continued for the remaining fugitives.
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Germany
Mannheim
U. S
Mirecourt
Nancys
Richard
Jerry) Kane
Rectortown
Kassel
Triplets Born in Virginia and West Virginia
Mrs. Charles Borror of Brushy Run West Virginia gave birth to triplets on June 2. A boy weighing four pounds two ounces was born at the Borror home in Pendleton County. The mother was rushed to Rockingham Memorial Hospital for two daughters weighing four pounds eight ounces and three pounds five ounces. All three babies are in incubators and doing well.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Charles G. Borror
Brushy Run
W. Va
Borror
Pendleton County
Renolds
Truman Urges U S Aid for Peace Seeking Nations
President Truman told Canadian parliament that the United States will aid nations seeking peaceful living and will expend energy and invest in world recovery. He urged completion of the St Lawrence waterway and framed aid as extending beyond Greek Turkish programs to distressed countries. He stressed internal strength and urged a peaceful, prosperous, free world with mutual respect between Canada and the United States.
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Ottawa
Truman
United States
St. Lawrence Waterway
Canada
Tax Freeze Approved for Social Security Rate
Washington June 11 The house ways and means committee unanimously approved a two year freeze of the social security tax at one percent on wages and payrolls. Without action the tax would rise next year to 2.5 percent for employer and employee.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Soviet Invasion Accusations Shape Sino Mongol Crisis
Chinese officials accuse the Soviet backed Outer Mongolia of invading Sinkiang as four warplanes bombed and strafed targets. China seeks a diplomatic truce amid civil war strain and uranium finds near Chitai. Foreign ministry pledges protest via Moscow and Outer Mongolia.
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Sinkiar
China
Sinkiang
Russia
Outer Mongolia
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Chitai
Chang Yuan-Chang
Foreign Office
Moscow
Govnt
Sonac
Yast Sinkiang
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