GOP delegates clash over disputed seats before big meet
In Philadelphia on June 15 AP reports six delegate disputes loom over the GOP convention with Georgia South Carolina and Alaska deemed serious contests by committee chair Ezra R Whitla. Delegates from Maryland Mississippi DC also face representation fights as Dewey Taft and Stassen backers move to secure seating amid last minute preparations for about 16000 attendees.
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Philadelphia
Ezra R. Whitla
Coeur D’alene
Idaho
Georgia
South Carolina
Alaska
Herold E. Stassen
Minnnesota
Due Paureaay
New York
Thomas FE. Dewey
Ohio
Robert A Taft
Maryland
Mississippi
District of Columbia
Whitla
Walter Hallanan
West, Virginia
Hallanan
Pentane
Whitia
Alteast
Mt. McKinley
Sitka
Isrge
J. Bates Gerald
Charleston
8. C
B. L. Hendrix
Estiil
SS . Co
Gerald
Lily White
Perry Howard
Ansom Sheldon
Nebraska
Roy G. Foster
Wadley
Taft
Gov
Dewey
W. R. Tucker
Dan- Whitin
seAcot
UN Rejects Russ Bid On Holy Land Issue
Lake Success June 15 United Nations security council rejected a Russian plan to place Soviet military observers in Palestine to supervise a four week truce. Only the Soviet Union and Ukraine supported deputy foreign minister Anrei A. Gromyko. the other nine members including the United States abstained.
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United States
Palestine
Gromyko
United Nations
Russia agrees to Danube conference for July 30
Moscow accepts a U S bid to convene a 10 nation Danube conference on July 30 to lift barriers to shipping. Russia proposes holding in another Danubian capital due to Belgrade facilities issues. The move signals a softer stance in the Soviet peace offensive and includes a nonvoting Austrian delegation.
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Russia
Danube
International Commierce
Moscow
Europe
Austria
United States
Britain
France
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Romania
Ukraine
Yugoslavia
U N Truce Observer Patrols Palestine Coast in American Planes
United Nations mediator Folke Bernadotte announced that UN observers are patrolling the Palestine coast in American supplied planes to monitor immigration and supply ships. He said four C-47 transports and one Beechcraft were provided, with surface ship patrols planned.
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Folke Bernadotte
United Nations
Palestine
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United States
Bernadotte
British Foreign Office
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Ford Opens Parley With CIO Auto Workers Detroit
Ford Motor Co opened wage talks with the CIO United Auto Workers as others settled with the union. A 13 cent hourly raise for 17,000 Ford production workers followed earlier gains granted to 75,000 at Chrysler, Packard, Kaiser-Frazer, Nash, Briggs, and others. A four hour session focused on a proposed union shop election with a decision to be given at a later session.
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Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Motor Car Co
UAW
Chrysler Corp
Packard
Kaiser - Frazer, Nash, Briggs Manufacturing Co
Ford
Oregon Delegates Back Warren In GOP Nomination
Oregon's 12 Republican delegates will back Earl Warren for vice president. Official returns show Warren with 2,978 write-in votes in the May 21 primary, while Sen. Arthur Van Denberg had 1,779. Dewey won the presidential nomination in Oregon with 117,554 votes to Stassen's 107,946.
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Balem
Ore
California
Earl Warren
Oregon
Warren
Arthur Vandenberg
Thomas E. Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Health chief seeks shoe store stocking rule in Annapolis
Annapolis health officer Dr. William J. French proposes a law banning customers from trying on shoes barefoot to curb athlete's foot. City council has sent the idea to a committee for further study on June 15.
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Annapolis
William J. French
Voice of America programs blamed in House probe
Washington investigators faulted the State Department and NBC for offensive Voice of America broadcasts in a report calling for safeguards. The panel found NBC did not exercise ordinary care and the State Department was negligent in approving programs funded by taxpayers. NBC and the department accepted responsibility. The Know North America series was Spanish language and aired amid funding limits and congressional orders directing VOA use private producers.
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Washington
House
State Department
National Broadcasting Company
Voice of America
New England
Texas
NBC
United States
North America
Congress
Department
Judge lashes at rising divorce rate in Crawford county
Meadville June 15 Judge Herbert A. Mook granted 50 divorces in Crawford county court and denounced a cheap regard for martial vows. He warned the current state of affairs is shocking to the court and cited drunkenness in about half the cases. He blamed adult bad example for juvenile delinquency.
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Meadville
Crawford County
Herbert A. Mook
Mook
Streetcar home for WVU law students in Morgantown
Devison brothers convert an abandoned central West Virginia streetcar into a residence in Morgantown for law school. They spent 350 dollars to buy and 150 to move it, totaling about 2500 dollars with modern amenities including a cabinet sink gas heaters shower icebox hot and cold water and a telephone. John may depart for Washington DC for a degree but Roderick expects roommates from fellow law students.
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W. Va
Devison Brothers
Fairmont
West Virginia
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John Devison
West Virginia University
John
Washington, D. C
College of Law
Battle Over Oleo Tax Spurs Farm Bill Fight
Washington June 15 A new battle over oleomargarine tax repeal threatens to derail a long range farm price supports bill in the Senate. Fulbright may offer the oleo repeal as an amendment to the farm measure, while Langer vows to add an anti lynching amendment if that occurs. The clash could delay the farm bill for the session as civil rights and oleo politics mix. President Truman urged action on a long range farm bill, even if summer sessions are needed. Some senators favor extending current price supports for 18 months under an Aiken sponsored bill. Under the plan the government supports crop prices via purchases loans and other measures.
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Washington
Senate
Fulbright
D - Ark
Langer
R-Nd
Truman
Congress
Aiken
Union Chiefs Push Blame Over Rail Dispute
Three railroad union chiefs testified to a Senate labor subcommittee that President Truman blocked a settlement by insisting any agreement align with the emergency board's recommendations. They said the union leadership sought broader wage gains and extra pay for many duties, while White House aides warned findings are not binding.
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Daniel P. Loomis
Loomis
Truman
John R. Steelman
White House
Ioad
Birth Rate Decline Reported In West Virginia
West Virginia recorded an 11 percent drop in births in the first four months of the year, with 14,273 births through April, down 1,768 from 1947. Deaths totaled 5,719 in the same period, while births still greatly outnumbered deaths.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State Health Department
Ater
N. H. Dyer
Truman Vetoes SS Money Bill
President Truman vetoed a nearly one billion dollar appropriation over a rider to transfer the U S Employment Service from Labor to the Federal Security Agency. He called the transfer a serious error and substan tive legislation. Senate action and potential overrides noted.
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U. S. Employment Service
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
Truman
Senate
House
Department of Labor
Congress
Coal Contract Parley Flops
The annual coal crisis intensified as negotiations for a post July 6 contract collapsed. The government intervened with Cyrus S. Ching, head of the mediation service, calling a meeting of both sides for Thursday at 9 30 a m est.
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Ching
Washington
Cyrus S. Ching
Mediation and Conciliation Service
Truman Keeps Up Fire At Congress
President Truman on the move to Kansas City and other stops told crowds that he has been pouring it on Congress to spur action on price control housing and other legislation. He urged voters to support the People against special interests and predicted Congress would work before the GOP convention. He spoke from the rear platform to thousands in Albuquerque Gallup and Barstow and urged passage of key bills while returning to Independence Missouri. Meanwhile UMW talks with operators broke down over welfare funding and Taft Hartley terms with Judge Goldsborough ordering renewed bargaining amid looming July 6 return of miners.
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Kansas City
Congress
Albuquerque
N. M
Jackson County
Winslow, Ariz
Philadelphia
Independence
Washington
California
Barstow
Gallup
Southern Coal Producers Association
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Lewis
UMW
T. Alan Goldsborough
U. S. District Court
Alto
Ezry van Horn
Welfare Fund Board
O'Neill
Harry Moses
H. C. Frick Coke Company
U. S. Steel
George Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation
Moses
Mr. Love
Goldsborough
Goldborough
Mad Dog Killers Get Prison Terms in Chicago
Two 19 year olds dubbed the mad dog killers were each sentenced to 199 years in prison for the murders of three men in Chicago. A criminal court jury deliberated three hours before convicting them after prosecutors urged the death penalty for the defendants Fentress and James Morelli.
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Chicago
St. Valentine's Day
Criminal Court
He Fentress
James Morelli
Big Navy Fund Bill Sails Through Senate
A $3,686,733,250 fund to operate and expand the world s most formidable navy sailed through the senate today with colors flying June 15 Washington margins noted the passage of the measure in a decisive vote by senators.
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Senate
Washington
Critics Mistaken Has Only 110 Wives in Cameroon Chief
Lake Success June 15 A British complaint to the United Nations about the Fon of the Bikom tribe in Cameroon claiming 600 wives is corrected. The Fon reportedly has rights to claim only the first born daughters and certain female twins in some families.
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Lake Success
Britain
United Nations
Cameroons
Judge Impressed By Simple Tale Of Fish And Flowers
Roanoke Virginia judge hears Chesterfield Leftwich recount a story of moon influenced river fish and his life as a florist. He claims he could not be a vagrant, noting the law allows ten days before a person is labeled one, and he had been out of jail nine days.
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Roanoke
Chesterfield Leftwich
Roanoke River
Arrest at regular hobo camp near Roanoke river
Six men were arrested at a makeshift hobo camp on the Roanoke river banks while frying a chicken when police arrived. Judge Dirk A. Kuyk imposed sixty days in jail and a fifty dollar fine on Mar, with Chesterfield Leftwich named by the authority.
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Roanoke River
Chesterfield Leftwich
Dirk A. Kuyk
House Delays Draft Measure Amid Heated Debates
The House debated amendments to a draft bill with leaders predicting final passage tomorrow. Amendments to ban segregation in the armed forces failed 135 to 23 and 102 to 14, while a 18 to 21 minimum voting age amendment was defeated 17 to 32. Senate action and eventual presidential signing loom, with drafting timing depending on which bill passes.
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Washington
House
Javits
R-Ny
Rep
Powell
D. N
Rep. Folger
Haleleck
R. Ind
Senate
Housing Bill May Be Shelved in Congress
Washington June 15 The Taft Ellender Wagner housing bill appears headed for shelving or major revision. House Rules Committee Chairman Allen says the measure has little chance of approval as drawn. Proponents and opponents clash over its public housing and slum clearance aims.
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Washington
Taft-Ellender-Wagner
Allen
R-Hs
House Rules Committee
House
Senate
Rep
Sabath
D-0
Maritime Unions Agree to Obey Court Injunctions
New York June 15 a third CIO maritime union announced it will not defy federal court injunctions restraining a nationwide shipping strike The American Radio association said its executive committee would abide by the restraining orders obtained by the government in New York Cleveland and San Francisco Carl W Lundquist acting president of ARA Atlantic Gulf coast district said the action does not mean giving up strike plans but that they will not strike until free to do so The National Maritime union and the Marine Engineers Beneficial association CIO affiliates had announced similar positions the day before they would not defy injunctions but would fight the issue in court
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CIO Maritime Union
Nationwide
American Radio Association
Cleveland
San Francisco
Carl W. Lundquist
ARA
Atlantic Gulf Coast District
National Maritime Union
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
CIO
Truman Not Here Sunday Bulletin Says God Will
In Kearney Nebraska on June 15 a church bulletin at the Kearney Baptist church noted President Truman will not be held next Sunday but God will. The remark references his churchgoing while en route to the west coast.
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Neb
Kearney Baptist Church
Truman
West Coast
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