Vandenberg urges bipartisan council on foreign aid policy
Senator Vandenberg called for a top level bipartisan council to decide how far the United States can go in aiding a world in distress. He urged a sound inventory of American resources first and cautioned against creating anxious expectations or reliance on U.S. aid without self-reliance.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Reich
Repulicans
United States
Senate Foreign Relation Committee
America
Arnold
Man Born On Friday 13th Killed In Highway Crash
In Memphis Tennessee on June 13 a paraplegic veteran Thomas T Atkins born Friday the 13th was killed when his specially equipped 1947 auto veered off a highway. His daughter’s pet rabbit also died. witnesses say the car sped and left the road crashing into a fence and field. Atkins had served overseas three and a half years and was a Kennedy Veterans hospital patient. This marks Shelby county's 13th traffic fatality this year outside of Memphis.
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Tenn
Thomas T. Atkins
Ore
Sherry
Atkins
Kennedy Veterans Hospital
Shelby County
Virginia GOP Opens 2 Day Meet at Mountain Lake
Virginia Republicans gather in Mountain Lake Va for a two day meeting pushing for an unrestricted constitutional convention to address state ills. Leaders say the party will field a record number of assembly candidates and contest local offices as central committee plans a July 1 platform adoption.
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Virginia
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General Assembly
Robert H. Woods
Pearlsburg
Central Committee
Sagar
GOP
Curtis M. Dozier
Richmond
Emily Logan
Woodstock
Kansas City
National Party
Earle Lutz
Fred W. McWane
Lynchburg
Lloyd Landreth
Galax
Bluefield Country Club
West Virginian Hotel
Chartered Life Underwriters
Ross Davis
New York Life
Wheeling
Herbert R. Hill
C.L.A
The
Life Insurance Company of Virginia of Richmond
National Association of Life Underwriters
Paul Troth
Home Life Insurance Company of
New York City
Life Insurance Illustrated
President Truman Returns To Capital In Ottawa Visit
President Truman resumed duties in Washington after a goodwill mission to Canada. An 11 car special train carried him and Mrs. Truman with daughter Margaret to the White House, following his Ottawa speech to the Canadian Parliament.
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Ottawa
Union Station
E.s.t
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Margaret
White House
Pressure Mounts Over Taft Hartley Veto and Sign Debate
Pressure mounted today on President Truman to veto or sign the Taft Hartley labor bill as June 20 nears. Some labor experts predict the bill could curb coal mine shutdowns but others say it is unworkable or might be invoked to prevent strikes during emergencies.
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Congress
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Centralia
United Mine Workers Journal
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Atomic Energy Commission
Veterans Administration
Civil Service Commission
Believes Lewis Will Call Strike
Washington reports Chairman Hartley of the house labor committee warned that John L. Lewis will call the United Mine Workers on strike unless the Taft Hartley labor bill becomes law. Government experts doubt the bill can halt a mine walkout while advisers differ on the bill’s effectiveness.
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Hartley R-Nj
House Labor Committee
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
United States
Lewis
Hartley
Former Bluefield Pastor Succumbs
Dr. Joseph A. Baylor former pastor of Bland Street and Main Street Methodist churches in Tazewell died suddenly at his Lake Junalaska North Carolina home. He was 72, retired four years, and leaves a wide following in Holston conference. Funeral at State Street Methodist Church Bristol Sunday, Monday service at 11. His career included church architecture work in Louisville and church building designs in Holston. Baylor helped reform Bluefield municipal government with the Good Government club and supported railroad workers.
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Bland Street Methodist Church
Main Street Methodist Church
Tazewell
J. Raymond Tilson
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Lake Junalaska
N. C
Baylor
Holston
Bristol
Norning
State Street Methodist Church
Russell County
Virginia
Belfast
Emory and Henry College
Emory
Bluefield
Southern Methodist Church
Louisville
Hamilton Hall
Bland Street
Washington and
Albemarle Streets
Methodist
Court Seeks Ban on Wallace Theater Speech
The American anti communism group asks a federal court to stop Henry Wallace from using Watergate amphitheater for a Monday speech. The filing cites the Southern Conference for Human Welfare as a listed communist front and seeks a restraining order against Secretary Krug over the permit.
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American Anti-Communist Association
Federal Court
Henry Wallace
Watergate Amphitheater
Secretary of the Interior
Krug
George Perkins
District Court
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Wallace
House
unAmerican
Truman
Martin
R-Mass
American Activities Committee
J. Parnel Thomas
R-Nj
Clark Foreman
Junk collector and wife charged with cruelly chaining son
In Augusta Georgia a Brooklyn couple, Frank J. Dollar and Lillian, are jailed on cruelty charges after admitting they chained seven year old George Leroy to a tent pole at night to prevent escape. Deputies report starved looking siblings aged infancy to 11 in a 10 by 12 foot tent.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
J. Q. Pulgham
L. C. Key
Frank J. Dollar
George Leroy
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Key
Dollar
Lillian
Woman Asks Arrest In Connection With Killing
Miss Virginia Gibbs, 23, walked into Cincinnati police headquarters and asked to be arrested in the Sept 3 1945 killing of Henry F Smith 61 machine tool broker. She said her father Charles Gibbs 57 killed Smith at her urging and was declared insane.
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Cincinnati
Virginia Gibbs
Henry F Smith
Lima State Hospital
Smith
Committee Sends Pruned Offices Funds Measure To House Floor
House appropriations committee approves a $3.17 billion bill for 33 independent offices for the fiscal year starting July 1, trimming atomic energy and VA spending. total cuts from Truman request reach about $3.58 billion, with Republicans touting savings and Democrats calling many "phony."
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Atomic Energy Commission
Veterans Administration
House Appropriations Committee
House
Interior Department
Missing Capital Airlines DC-4 Searched Near Hillsboro
Search efforts focused on Hillsboro area after Capital Airlines DC-4 missing with 50 aboard. The flight from Chicago to Washington was due Friday evening. wreckage reportedly found between Purcellville and Hillsboro while authorities confirm no survivors yet.
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Lloyd Kelly
Purcellville
Hills
Hillsboro
Chicago
Washington
Capital Airlines
Horace Stark
R. N. Creekmore
Peggy Walls
Texas Man Named To Head U. S. Jaycees
John Ben Shepperd of Glade water Texas was elected without opposition as the new president of the U S junior chamber of commerce. The attorney previously served two terms as vice president. Included as new regional vice president is W Gwynn Edmonds of Huntington West Virginia.
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Gladewater
Tex
U. S
Murray Foresees CIO Maritime Strike If Talks Fail
CIO President Philip Murray warned in Washington that if contracts with ship owners expire Sunday night a maritime strike is likely with CIO backing. Secretary Schwellenbach urged continued work under current contracts to avoid disrupting American commerce during wartime and urged leaders to press for conciliation.
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CIO
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Schwellenbach
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Gulf
Labor Department
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American Communication
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
Schnellenbach
Edgard L. Warren
Harry Bridges
Hugh Bryson
Marine Cooks and Stewards
Accord Reached On Rent Measure in Washington
A house senate committee reached final accord on extending rent controls through February 29 with a 15 percent increase option under certain conditions. The bill, largely unchanged from two days prior, awaits House ratification and Senate approval before going to the White House. Key provisions include advisory boards in defense rental areas, a rent administrator, and removal of controls on many new housing categories.
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Texas
House
Washington
House-Senate
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R-Mich
Senate
White House
Creecon
Rare Stradivarius Sound In Courtroom Court Action
In New York a grand larceny case features a Stradivarius valued at about $50,000 pawned for $30. Edwin C. Porter, 44, is charged with stealing the violin from Caryl Bryan Oakes of Bloomington Indiana. Magistrate Edgar Bromberger expresses awe at the instrument as bail is set at $15,000.
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Edgar Bromberger
Edwin C. Porter
Caryl Bryan Oakes
Bloomington
Ind
Oakes
Porter
Bromberger
Half Of Iowa Battles Flood Across State
Roughly half of Iowa south of a diagonal line faced flood waters or readying to. Hundreds of families in at least a dozen communities were driven from homes as rivers broke banks and set record highs. Ottumwa braced for more flooding while Des Moines saw the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers meet and evacuations continued.
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