MacArthur Attacks Drift Toward Socialism in Texas
General Douglas MacArthur closed a four day Texas tour denouncing the high cost of government and a drift toward socialism. He urged Americans to demand morality in government, reject propaganda, and protect free enterprise to sustain both material progress and national confidence. He avoided foreign policy or Korea in his remarks.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
MacArthur
Texas
United States
Big Guns Pound Retreating Reds in Korea
Allied artillery roared across Korea as Reds pulled back from the North Korean hills. Lt. Gen. Van Fleet said uncommitted reserves remain and a third Chinese spring offensive is possible. Large Reds concentrations were seen west of Yonchon and north of Korangpo, with pilots spotting only scattered bands.
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Tokyo
Korea
New Tea
United Nations
James A. van Fleet
U.S. Eighth Army
U. N
Imjin River
Yonchon
Seoul
Korangpo
Oklahoma Pigs Freeze To Death In Hail Storm
Stroud Oklahoma farmer Dee Cook reports his sows and young pigs froze to death during a severe hail storm. Baseball sized hail blanketed four inches of ground and drifted over the animals. He found them frozen two hours later in a pasture corner.
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Stroud
Okla
Oklahoma
Dee Cook
Cook
Dulles Reports Progress Toward Japan Peace Pact
John Foster Dulles told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee a report of good progress toward a peace treaty with Japan was made. Senator Sparkman described the briefing as showing steady advancement in negotiations.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Senate Foreign Relations
Sparkman
D-Ala
Japan
Goldsborough Judge Dies After Father's Day Visit
Federal Judge T Allan Goldsborough died at 73 in Washington while visiting his daughter in law for a Father's Day dinner. He twice fined John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers for contempt in 1946 and 1948, with record union fines later trimmed by the Supreme Court.
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Washington
T. Allan Goldsborough
T. Alan Goldsborough, Jr
Goldsborough
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Union
Supreme Court
Newhall Man Held In Death In Mc Dowell County
Red Cray of Newhall is held at Mc Dowell county jail on the death of 74 year old John Nalpai in Number Six bottom Newhall. Nalpai’s body was found at home with signs of trauma. Cray faces intoxication and assault charges. coroner’s report pending. Nalpai reputedly had no relatives in the United States and is said to be of Hungarian origin. The body lies at O. J. Douglas mortuary pending funeral plans.
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Welch
W. Va
Irvine Saunders
Cray
J. D. Brown
Nalpai
O. J. Douglas Mortuary
C&P Seeks Fifth Postwar Rate Hike After Wage Boosts
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone plans to seek a fifth postwar rate increase in West Virginia after granting wage boosts to 3,800 non supervisory workers. The company, in a wage agreement with CIO Communications Workers of America, said it would promptly ask the Public Service Commission for higher service prices. The raise ranges from 3 to 8 dollars per week and takes effect tomorrow under a one year contract.
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Charleston
W. Va
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
CIO Communication Workers of America Union
Public Service Commission
U S Ports Face Strike And Tieups
Strikes and threats disrupted U S travel as CIO crews tied up major ports and 650 vessels. Air unions staged token pickets in five cities while Pan American workers struck at New York’s airport over layoffs.
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Associated Press
CIO
AFL
United Air Lines
Chicago
Denver
Los Angeles
New York
Newark
N. J
Pan American World Airways
New York City
Europe
Pan American
CIO Transport Workers Union
Miami
CIO National Maritime Union
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
American Radio Association
Gulf Coast
CIO American Radio Association
Pacific Maritime Association
NMU
Publicker Industries, Inc
Philadelphia
CIO United Distillery Workers
Continental and
Kinsey Distilling
Lincoln, Neb
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
United Rubber Workers
Arrow Strikes Boy May Lose Eye in Welch
Eight year old Graham Michael Newman son of Mr and Mrs Graham Newman of Wick apartments Wyoming street was struck by an arrow while playing with bows and arrows beside the municipal parking building. He was taken to Grace hospital for surgery to save his left eye. The incident highlights a local fad for dangerous dart throwing among children in Welch. His father works at the O J Douglas mortuary.
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O. J. Douglas Mortuary
Divers Describe Finding Of Ill Fated British Sub
Portsmouth England June 16 divers from the naval diving ship Reclaim reported locating the sunken British submarine Affray after a nine week search. The sub lies near an underwater precipice in the English Channel with an 18 inch hole in the breathing tube allowing rapid flooding. All 75 officers and men aboard perished during the April 17 sinking.
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Portsmouth
Eng
English Channel
Reclaim
Bill Middleton
Cain says Truman betrayed Korean dead over trading ban
Senator Cain charges President Truman betrayed Korean war dead by suspending a congressional ban on aid to nations trading with Russia. Senator Wherry praised the attack, calling the move a willful nullification of Congress. The White House cited national security as the reason for the 90 day suspension via the National Security Council.
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Truman
Congress
Washington
R-Wash
Russia
White House
Wherry
Nebraska
GOP
Senate
National Security Council
Barkley
State Acheson
Defense Marshall
Kem
Missouri
Security Council
United States
Council
Exotic West Virginia Dancer Wounded In New Orleans Shootout
Sheila Ryan a 22 year old exotic dancer in a Bourbon Street club was stabbed in the left breast by ex convict Donald Lee Wear during a dawn gun battle with police. Wear barricaded in Ryan's upstairs apartment after a capsized chase. police fought with guns tear gas and a shotgun rounds. Officer Jules Cassard was wounded in the shoulder by a stray shot. Wear faced multiple charges including attempted murder and aggravated battery. Ryan said Wear known as Buddy Baker had only recently appeared in her life and that she would be marked by the scar.
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New Orleans
Sheila Ryan
Henry Morris
Joseph Guillot
Donald Lee Wear
Delta
Colo
Miss Ryan
Bourbon Street
Wear
Guillot
New Mexico
Buddy Baker
Jules Cassard
Rita Raye
Ryan
West Virginia
Joy Ming
French Vote Outcome Awaited For Decisions
Washington expects allied decisions on Western security matters after the French election. Officials hope a stable French administration will emerge within weeks to address issues like German rearmament, which Paris has delayed taking positions on. The United States and Britain avoid forcing major issues until France votes.
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Washington
United States
Channel Swim By Tots Delayed
Rus sell Tongay postpones plans to take his young children Bubba and Kathy to Britain for an English channel swim in August amid protests from women groups. Tongay cites personal business and insists the channel swim will proceed despite the delay from tomorrow to possibly Wednesday. Bubba, 5, and Kathy, 4, have trained under their father with Bubba completing a 22 mile Mississippi swim last year and Kathy a five mile swim.
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Miami
Fla
Russell
Tongay
Britain
Bubba
Kathy
England
Frince
Cathy
Mississippi River
Alton
Til
St. Louis
Beer Man Apologizes For Revival Upset
In Memphis, a blimp advertising beer flew over Billy Graham’s revival drawing protests. Mrs. Hattie W. Coopwood threatened violence, while Charles J. Goggio of the distributing company called the flight unintentional and regrettable and said it will not recur.
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Memphis
Tenn
Billy Graham
Hattie W. Coopwood
Charles J. Goggio
Korea Seen As Start Of World War III
Senator George of Georgia said the Korean war must end soon on reasonable terms or it could trigger World War III. He supports a quick settlement but did not specify terms or a path to reach them.
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Korea
Washington
George
D-Ga
Douglas MacArthur
French Vote Today on New Government in France
French voters head to the polls in Paris to choose a government promising stability and direction amid a crowded field of 4,180 candidates contesting 627 seats in the national assembly. More than 100 parties compete in this first postwar test of political sentiment since 1946.
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Paris
National Assembly
House of Parliament
France
Price Ceilings On Santa Stir Up Fuss In Capital
Washington reports price ceilings for Santa Claus toys are causing friction between toy manufacturers and the Office of Price Stabilization. OPS plans a July 2 shift to a new pricing system, tying costs to mid-1950s levels plus increases, while defenders claim a freeze would be safer.
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Santa
Washington
Santa Claus
North Pole
Office of Price Stabilization
Tim
Shavwe Mnant Vilatde
OPS
Truman
GaddNominated by GOP in Fifth District Convention
Cyrus Gadd, Princeton attorney, named by Republicans at Princeton in a motionless acclamation to run in the July 17 special election against Democrat Maude Kee. Sherman Ballard released his delegates, praising Gadd while Ballard accepted defeat without rancor amid a large Mercer county gathering.
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Gaujot Bias
Williamson
Cyrus H. Gadd
Princeton
Mercer County
GOP
Robert B. McDougle
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Republican Executive Committee
Wall
Fifth Congressional District
Cyrus Gadd
Congress
Maude Elizabeth Kee
Welch
Walter S. Hallanan
Charleston
Rusty Renick
Fayetteville
Gadd
Sherman Ballard
Greenbrier
Seowneny Price
Monroe
Ballard
Missouri
Lilly
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Virgil L
Stubby) Currence
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Kansas
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J. H. Lilly
W. H. Ballard
Sherman
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McDowell County
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Stubby) Curerence
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Princeton Baptist Church
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