British Officer Escapes From Kidnappers in Jerusalem
Major H. P. Chadwick escaped kidnappers in Jerusalem and led a search for five abducted officers in Tel Aviv. British troops tightened curfews in Adda and Haifa areas to curb violence blamed on illegal Jewish groups. Reports conflict over a nurse disappearance. Palestinians in Cairo celebrate the mufti’s stance as violence continues.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Adda
Haifa
H. P. Chadwick
Bucharim
Chadek
Eucharimn
Chadwick
ATS
Moshe Shertok
Jewish Agency
Ircun Zval Leumi
Lyd Ga
Telviv
Cairo
Mufti
Mossem Brotherhood
Amram Rosenberg
Palestine
Mines Administrator Rules On Vacation Pay
Washington June 20 A government operated soft coal mine employee who served in the military between June 1 1945 and May 31 1946 is eligible for 100 dollars vacation pay. Admiral Ben Moreell coal mines administrator issued the interpretation of the settlement ending the bituminous coal strike. Miners who received 75 dollars at entry will receive only an additional 25 dollars.
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Washington
Adm
Ben Moreell
Bluefield Garment Plant Closes Amid Union Tensions
Paul Trilli owner of Bluefield Garment on Bluefield avenue closed the plant yesterday morning pending further notice after efforts to organize workers disrupted production. ILGWU representative Leon Deane failed to reach an accord at a post‑closure conference. A second meeting is set with AFL affiliated group present to discuss the situation. About 100 women and 5 men reported for work but were sent home and paid off at 1 p m. The union circulated handbills and planned to file NLBR charges. Trilli cited unachievable wage proposals as the cause.
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Paul Trilli
Bluefield Garment Company
Bluefield Avenue
Leon Deane
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Ghar i
American Oration of Labor
ILGA
Deane
ILGU
National Labor Relations Board
Trilli
Escaped Prisoners Surrender Here
Clarence H. Moricle 22 of Princeton and Clarence R. Murray 18 of Clarksburg surrendered to Bluefield police after two weeks on the run. Moricle serves 2 to 10 years for grand larceny in Mercer county. Murray 1 to 5 years for felonious assault in Clarksburg. They had lived in hay lofts on a meager diet and forced to hitchhike before turning themselves in.
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Clarence H. Moricle
Princeton
Clarence R. Murray
Clarksburg
Bluefield Police
Moricle
Mercer County
Murray
Upfield
Police
Civilian Control Of Atomic Energy Favored By Truman
President Truman voiced strong support for civilian control of atomic energy and backed the senate bill establishing a civilian commission to govern domestic fields. He noted ongoing negotiations on international control with the United Nations and endorsed the Baruch plan, while confirming discussions with Russian proposals and noting possible agreements without a big power veto. He also disclosed comments on Justice Jackson, merger plans for the armed services, Hoover's South America trip, Palestine talks, and resignations at War Assets and Puerto Rico governorship.
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Washington
Truman
House Military Committee
Senate
United Nations
Bernard M. Baruch
Security Council
Justice Black
Nuernberg
Jackson
White House
Patterson
Army
Navy
Edmund B. Gregory
War Assets Administration
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Puerto Rico
Pacific
Herbert Evatt
Dean Acheson
Evatt
State Department
Tabor
Allis-Chalmers
Hens Wear Chastity Belts Aboard Pass Christian Victory
Newport News announces a curious plan as 3000 hens board the steamship Pass Christian Victory with 100 roosters placed in crates to keep them separate. The United States Lines Norfolk agents say the belts and crate arrangement is the most economical method for the voyage.
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Newport News
Christian Victory
United States Lines Company
Norfolk
Bowles Flags Pending Riders To OPA Bill
Washington reports congressional conferees plan to keep an amendment Bowles calls a delayed action bomb under price control. A five member subcommittee will reconcile Taft and Wolcott amendments aimed at manufacturers profits with Bowles warning of dangerous inflation risks.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Senate-House
Taft
Wolcott
Senate
House
Bowles
R-Mich
OPA
Ohio
Barkley
D-Ky
Brown
D- Ga
Patman
D-Tex
Speer testifies plot to gas Hitler at Berlin bunker
Albert Speer testified at the war crimes trial that he plotted to kill Adolf Hitler with poison gas through the chancellery bunker ventilator in March 1946. He said Hitler betrayed Germany by continuing the war and refused to surrender, and he discussed plans before abandoning the idea due to guards and plant damage.
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Nuernberg
Albert Speeer
Adolf Hitler
International Military Tribunal
Hitler
Germany
Speer
United States
Russia
France
United Kingdom
Berlin
Eva Braum
Former West Virginia newspaperman dies
Cumberland Md June 20 William L Geppert a native of Cincinnati Ohio son of Mr and Mrs William Geppert his father editor of the Musical Courier was long associated with Cumberland Daily Post and later owner editor of Clarksburg Daily Telegram He chaired the Chesapeake Associated Press association for years its members include editors and publishers from Maryland the District of Columbia Hanover Pa and Wilmington Del
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Cumberland, Md
William L. Geppert
Geppert
Cincinnati
William Geppert
Musical Courier
Cumberland
Daily Post
Cons
Clarksburg Daily Telegram
Chesapeake Associated Press Association
Maryland
District of Columbia
Hanover
Wilmington
Del
Georgia moves to revoke Ku Klux Klan charter
Georgia filed a suit in Fulton County Superior Court to revoke the Klan charter and dissolve the organization. Attorney General Eugene Cook said the state seeks to curb a “conspiracy to grab control” of government. The case cites a May 9 Stone Mountain naturalization ceremony where robed members seized a journalist and assaulted attendees.
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Atlanta
Ku Klux Klan
State of Georgia
Eugene Cook
National Organization of the Invisible Empire
Klan
Stone Mountain
Here
Georgia
Fulton County
Frank A. A Jr
Samuel H. Green
Almadge
Robert H. Holloway
United Press
Bakery Heir Divorced and Wife Jailed for Contempt
Sidney Raskin, bakery heir, won a divorce from actress wife after she was jailed for using unseemly language in court. Judge E D Doyle granted the decree in a contested suit filed two months after their marriage. Raskin testified she demanded $5 for each kiss, while the wife accused him of marriage and money disputes.
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Los Angeles
Sidney Raskin
E. D. Doyle
Raskin
Ses
Ministers Delay Decision On Italy Colonies At UN Referendum
The foreign ministers of the United States Britain Russia and France agreed to postpone a decision on Italian colonies and refer the issue to the United Nations if divisions persist. They backed Byrnes proposal for four power control or UN trusteeship, and set up a four member commission to study details. Troop withdrawals from Italy and Bulgaria were agreed within 90 days of peace treaties.
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Paris
United States
Britain
Russia
France
United Nations
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Italy
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Bulgaria
Rome
Byrnes
Britih
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Bidault
Plague Of Fleas Descends On Paris
Paris suffers a flea plague disrupting subways theatres and trains. Deputies and the public scratch in public view while the opera star endures a painful bite on stage.
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Paris
Constituent Assembly
No Date Fixed To Restore Coal Mines
A government report notes no date yet set to restore coal mines seized during the John L. Lewis United Mine Workers strike. The mines remain under government control and await policy decisions.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Gasoline From Coal Feasible At Six Cents A Gallon
Washington June 20 Gasoline may be made from some coals in the United States at six cents a gallon within five years according to P C Keith president of Hydrocarbon Research Inc He predicted cheaper gasoline from natural gas as well and noted potential advances in gas manufacture and coal derived liquids He cited coal at $2 a ton and natural gas at five cents per 1000 cubic feet as cost bases and warned that agitation for limiting natural gas uses was under way.
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Washington
United States
P. C. Keith
Hydrocarbon Research, Inc
The
Power Commission
Keith
West Virginia
West Vnia
New York
Feuchtenberger Plants to Halt Production Amid Flour Shortage
Feuchtenberger Bakeries announced stoppage of operations in Pikeville Paintsville Williamson Grundy due to flour shortage. McComas Local 6035 UMWA urged President Truman to route food to coal mining communities as lines for bread and meat lengthened. Cole Baking in Bluefield reported promised flour and no definite shipping date.
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L. D. Feuchtenberger
Feuchtenberger Bakeries
Pikeville
Paintsville
Williamson
W. Va
Grundy
McComas
Union
Truman
Blineiield
McComas Union
Earl Stamper
Cole Baking Company
Welch
Paul Cole
Bluefield
Onlynao
Snake Refuses To Relax Costs Brookfield Zoo
The Brookfield Zoo bought an anaconda named Diablo for 450 dollars with a 21 foot expected length. The price rose or fell by 20 dollars per extra or missing foot. Diablo measured about 14 feet, so the zoo paid 310 dollars after adjustments.
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Chicago
Brookfield Zoo
Robert Bean
Louis Ruhe, Inc
New York
Bean
Baker Fined 500 Dollars for Pure Food Violations
Frank H. Ernst of Bluefield was fined 500 dollars by Judge Ben Moore in the U S district court for the southern district of West Virginia after pleading nolo contendere to a Pure Food and Drug Act violation. The bakery had prior unsanitary issues with rodents and insects but later appeared cleaned and conditions reported satisfactory. A separate case saw Robert Henderson of Clarksburg sentenced to two years and two months in a federal reformatory for motor vehicle theft. The report notes another defendant, Earrince James Bennett, awaiting jail after a plea.
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Ben Moore
U. S
West Virginia
Frank H. Ernst
Bluefield
Frank
Moore
Ernst
Nollo Contendre
Robert Henderson
Clarksburg
Federal Reformatory
Chillicothe
Quadruplets Lead Wedding Procession in Leitchfield Ky
Miss Fannie Mae Lashley wed Philip Simon at St Joseph Catholic Church led by her quadruplets. John carried the ring. flower girls Martine Mildred and Beulah processed beside the trio. The quads born February five years ago, their mother died two years past, leaving Fannie Mae as caretaker.
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Leitchfield
Fannie Mae Lashley
Philip Simon
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
John
Martine
Mildred
Beulah
Fannie Mae
Porter Lashley
Truman Rebuffed By Committee
The house expenditures committee rejected parts of President Truman’s federal reorganization plan by a 10 to 3 vote. It disapproved centralizing housing into one agency and the proposed new cabinet post for welfare, while actions must clear within 60 days of submission under the 1945 reorganization law. Rep. Pittenger led the disapproval, arguing the plan merely shifts agency functions.
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Washington
House Expenditures Committee
Truman
Cabinet Post - Department of Welfare
Senate
House
Pittenger
Rminn
Militarists push idea of Jap expansion at postwar trial
Tokyo witnesses describe a unified propagandist drive to sell Nippon domination of Asia. Prosecutors target the goal of a Far East co prosperity sphere while insisting Tojo and 27 others aided war policies. Nobufumi Ito testifies propaganda aimed to defend Japanese policies and gain world sanction.
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Tokyo
Far East
Japan
International War Crimes Tribunal
Nippon
Asia
Tojo
Nobufumi Ito
Cabinet Board of Information
United States
Great Britain
Ito
Wise County GOP Meeting Postponed
A Wise County Republican mass meeting in Wise Virginia was postponed to July 12. Delegates will be elected for the ninth congressional district convention in Bristol on July 20 and the state senatorial convention in Roanoke on July 27.
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Wise
Wise County
Bristol
Roanoke
Draft extension nears as 18 year olds exempted
Senate and house conferees agreed to exempt 18-year-olds from the draft and to draft 19-year-olds, aiming for a nine month extension after July 1. They also approved a broad pay raise in the armed services, with a 50 percent boost for privates and apprentices and varied increases for other ranks, moving swiftly toward final passage.
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Washington
Senate
House
Death rumor confuses Encino farmer with postmaster general
Los Angeles June 20 Will H Hays an Encino farmer was mistaken for the late postmaster general and former film censor director after an undertaker issued a false death notice in New York Hays alive and well said the rumor was exaggerated noting they shared the same middle initial and homes in Encino Pierce Brothers mortuary attributed the error to the mix up and said the real location is Ventura Boulevard in Thousand Oaks not Encino.
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Los Angeles
Encino
Will H. Hays
New York
Hays
Mark Twain
Pierce Brothers’ Mortuary
Ventura Boulevard
San Fernando Valley
Thousand Oaks
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