Door Opened To Russia To Join Program
Washington reports that Secretary Marshall opened the door for Russia to join a voluntary European economic recovery program.1 Europe may need 5 to 6 billion dollars annually for three or four years, Cohen estimated, with US aid likely limited. Thorp added about 8 billion in US aid to sustain exports, while the international bank may aid capital needs for Europe’s recovery.
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Washington
Benjamin V. Cohen
State Department
Europe
Marshall
United States
Russia
Cohen
Chamber of Commerce
Long Beach
Calif
Britain
Willard Thorp
American Marketing Association
New York
Thorp
International Bank
Eupene
Harvard
Moscow
Record Of Sugar Buyers Must Be Kept
Washington June 11 despite sugar home use rationing ending retailers must maintain records of buyers over 100 pounds including name and address plus the delivered amount and date. Industries must keep similar records for any sugar sale and the government will continue to limit industrial sugar use.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Britain regrets Molotov rebuff in Hungary talks
London reports Minister of State Hector McNeil reacting with surprise and regret to Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov's sharp rebuff of Britain's mediation efforts in Hungary. He avoided promising UN action, but said Britain would press for full information on the crisis and determine appropriate steps once facts are known.
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London
Hector McNeil
V. M. Molotov
Britain
United Nations
House of Commons
U. N
McNeil
Ernest Bevins
Moscow
Maurice Peterson
Hungary
M. Molotov
Llied Control Commission
U.S.S
Farley Details Break With Roosevelt in Collier's Interview
James A. Farley reveals in Collier's why he broke with Franklin D. Roosevelt. He cites five events shaping the split and accuses the late president of resenting party loyalties over personal ties. He condemns the administration's bid to punish Democrats opposing his will.
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Washington
James A. Farley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collier's
Packard and UAW Sign Two Year Wage Pact in 15 Cent Hike
Detroit June 12 Packard Motor Car company announced a flat 15 cents an hour general wage increase for production workers and a two year wage freeze linked with dismissal of 45 billion in back pay claims. The agreement with CIO UAW covers 8000 workers and ends 44 million in portal to portal pay suits and 1.765 million in planar suits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Packard Motor Car Company
George T. Christopher
CIO
United Auto Workers
Uaw-Cio
Packard
Gaw-Cio
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Briggs
Icle
Hudson Motor Company
Ford Motor Company
Continental Motors Corporation
Packard-Uaw
Top Nazi Is Trial Witness
Boston June 12 Dr Anton Winkelnkemper described as the top nazi alive testified in federal court that he attended daily conferences with Dr Goebbels and discussed information passed to group leaders in charge of shortwave zones. He said he was brought from a concentration camp and paid ten dollars a day while serving as Reich Radio director general. He testified Chandler used the alias Paul Revere in broadcasts to the USA zone and that recordings played in court attacked Roosevelt and praised Japan.
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Boston
Anton Winkelnkemper
Douglas Chandler
Bathmore Md
Reich Radio Corporation
Chandler
Aes
Goebbels
U.S.A
Paul Revere
Radio Berlin
Roosevelt
White House
Pearl Harbor
United States
Saturday Flag Day Proclaimed in West Virginia
Governor Clarence W. Meadows designated Saturday June 14 as Flag Day in West Virginia. The proclamation urged citizens to rededicate themselves to principles and ideals preserved by revolutionary forebearers, amid what he called a dire national threat.
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Charleston
W. Va
Clarence W. Meadows
West Virginia
Virginia GOP Plans Mountain Lake Policy Conference
Virginia Republicans open a two day policy conference at Mountain Lake in Giles County to shape a legislative platform for state races. The Mountain Lake meeting shapes a unified GOP approach, with future sessions planned in Virginia Beach and other regions featuring officials including Earle Lutz and S Floyd Landreth.
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Richmond
Virginia
Mountain Lake
Giles County
GOP
General Assembly
Republican State Central Committee
Earle Lutz
Central Committee
S. Floyd Landreth
Galax
Curtis M. Dozier
Phyllis A. Otey
Lutz
Virginia Beach
Truman seeks peacetime credit curb extension
President Truman asked Congress to pass a peace time act to extend wartime credit curbs, including down payment requirements and installment limits, to curb inflation. If Congress rejects, he would lift wartime controls. letter to Marriner Eccles was read to the House Banking Committee.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Canada
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Eccles
House Banking Committee
American Bankers Association
Truman Ends Canadian Visit on Peace and Friendship
President Truman left Ottawa aboard his 11 car special train at 10 25 p m asserting the United States seeks peace and friendship with every nation The remark notable for likely referencing Soviet Russia he shared on the Seignory club lawn with Canadian Prime Minister W L MacKenzie King The trip ended after a three day Canadian tour highlighted by public cheers and a pledge against coercion and intimidation in world affairs
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Truman
Washington
Canada
United States
Ottawa
Seignory
W. L. MacKenzie King
Kiwanis President Jay Emerson Dies in Auto Accident
Kiwanis International President Jay Emerson died suddenly yesterday due to a heart attack while traveling by car between Spokane and Pullman. Mrs Emerson was with him. Funeral services will be held in Pullman. Emerson had just spoken to 275 Kiwanians in Bluefield.
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Jay Emerson
Kiwanis International
Spokane
Wash
Pullman
Emerson
Paul Thomas
Bluefield
West Virginia
Kiwanis District
Virginias
Washington, D. C
State Department
Crash Pilot Testifies At CAB Hearing
Captain Benton Baldwin of United Air Lines testified at a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing that LaGuardia should have longer runways. He urged lighted wind socks, secure luggage restraints, additional hatches with independent and pilot control, and supported banning 3500-foot Runway 18 for DC-4 operations after the May crash that killed 42.
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New York
Benton Baldwin
United Air Lines
la Guardia Field
Civil Aeronautics Board
William K. Andrews
CAB
Baldwin
Andrews
Threat Letter Targets Rep J Parnell Thomas in June
Washington reports Rep. J Parnell Thomas of New Jersey received an anonymous death threat signed Finis and titled obit No 1. The letter, marked for Thomas and Rep. Rankin of Mississippi, warns of a June demise and references a white black resistance. The threat was turned to federal investigators as Thomas notes the Southern Conference for Human Welfare is Communist front claim and continues with scheduled Wallace event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
J. Parnell Thomas
N. J
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Thomas
Federal Bureau of Investigatio
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
New York
Clark Foreman
Atlanta
America
Ranin
Rankin
Town board cites speed limit on lake Boaters clash with chiefless patrol
Yorktown New York June 12 The town board backed a ten mile per hour speed limit on Lake Mohegan and Lake Junior after complaints that fast powerboats menaced swimmers and boaters The problem is Police Chief Earle Hawk has no marine division or clocking equipment to enforce the rule and asks how he can pursue offenders.
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Yorktown
N. Y
Earle Hawk
Lake Mohegan
Lake Junior
Bulgarian Purge Expels 23 Agrarians From Assembly
In Sofia on June 12 the Bulgarian Communist majority ousted 23 opposition Agrarian deputies amid claims they resigned under Petkov’s influence. The ouster, tied to alleged resignations found in Petkov papers, faces counterclaims of routine party practice. Replacement from the same party is required.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
National Assembly
Nikola Petkov
Agrarian Party
Petkov
United States Department
Fatherland Front
Jority
Grand National Assembly
Weather Battle Ranges From Snow To Heat Across States
The Associated Press reports diverse conditions with snow in the Rockies and western Nebraska while the East experiences unseasonable warmth. Heavy Midwest rains push eastward toward Illinois Wisconsin Michigan and Indiana as Des Moines records three inches in 12 hours. Flood threats rise in northwest Missouri and nearby states with over 1 million acres inundated. levees around St. Louis hold and no major flood damage is expected there.
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Midwest
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Rocky Mountain
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Des Moines
Mississippi
New England
St. Louis
Missouri
War Department
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
France Faces Wave of Strikes After Rail Dispute
Paris June 12 France’s railroad strike ends but fears rise of a broad wage push that could trigger the worst postwar wave of strikes. Premier Ramadier says the social climate will improve though Socialist lawmakers differ. The CGT plans a July 1 ruling on wage policy as Ramadier delays wage reconsideration to December.
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Paris
France
Paul Ramadier
Socialist Party
MPR
General Labor Confederation
Prance
Ramadier
Mead To Testify In Garsson War Fraud Trial
The court ordered former Senator James M. Mead to testify next Tuesday in the May Garsson war fraud trial. Mead may be asked only about claims that May and Garssons withheld documents. The defense sought motive evidence but the judge restricted questions to evidence withholding and refused probe of Mead's motives.
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Washington
James M. Mead
May- Garsson
Henry A. Schweinhaut
Mead
Senate War Investigating Committee
Andrew J. May
Chaiirman
House Military Committee
Henry
Murray Garsson
May
Garssons
Charles J. Margiotti
Senate
Margiotti
Justice Department
May-Garsson
Schweinhaut
Heat returns as Bluefield nears 90 degrees
The Bluefield area sweltered yesterday with temperatures near 90 as the N. and W. thermometer recorded 89 degrees at noon. A slight dip followed in the afternoon as the heat persisted.
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Bluefield
Circus Contractor Slain In Tent Near Big Top
Baltimore reports a 41 year old circus contractor Richard Sheehan alias Fred Madera was shot to death in a tent near the big top. Police say three men fled after the shots. Autopsy cites pistol wounds and a tattooed forehead.
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Baltimore
Big Top
Richard Sheehan
Arlington
George G. Merrill
Homicide Bureau
Sarasota
Fla
Ringling Brothers-Barnab
Florida State
Pearson
Defenders of Province Beat Back Invaders
Chinese forces in Sinkiang repulsed Outer Mongolian attackers after three days of bombing and strafing by warplanes with Russian emblems. Gen. Pai Chung-Hsi prepared to visit Tihwa as tensions with Russia rose, while Wang Shi-Chien signaled tougher policy.
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Nanking
Sinkiang
Central
Pai Chung-Hsi
Tihwa
Wang Shi- Chien
Legislative Yuan (Council
Russia
Peitashan
Outer Mongolia
Pai
Chiang Kai-Shek
Housewives Slightly Interested In Buying Unrationed Sugar
Memphis observers report a local poll of retail grocers showing housewives are only moderately interested in unrationed sugar. Grocers note softer sales and some customers declining offers, while one dealer cites memories of 1920 price spikes.
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Memphis
H. F. McIntosh
Double Slaying Suspect Sought in Kentucky
Rowan county Judge Luther Bradley issued a murder warrant for Orville Brown 24 sought in yesterday shotgun slayings of Ed Johnson 52 storekeeper and Bobby Rowe 16 at Christy Creek Kentucky. Sheriff Green said Brown is at large with his family near the store and may have been working in Shirley Indiana.
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Morehead
Rowan County
Luther Bradley
Orville Brown
Christy Creek
Samuel L. Green
Brown
Shirley
Ind
Ed Johnson
Bobby Rowe
Bradley
Elijah Hogge
Green
Johnson
Rowe
Hogge
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Charles Michelson
Democratic National Committee
Kiwanis
Stuart B. Allen
St. Joseph
John A. Frank
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