Draft Age Men Rush To Avoid Induction Call
Washington reports on the new selective service bill with expectations the National Guard will be full and cease recruiting for a year by month end. Preliminary figures show 90,000 to 100,000 vacancies, with volunteers aged 19 to 25 set to be inducted once the bill is signed. The draft hinges on presidential action and Senate and House approvals, with a July 5 deadline looming.
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Rmich
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R-Mass
Philadelphia
White House
Dereft
President Truman
Soviets Reveal Own Money Plans Berlin
The Soviet military administration announced currency reform for eastern Germany and Berlin effective June 24 in a letter to the Berlin mayor. It was unilateral, ignoring four power talks and western reforms in their zones, and blamed Western action for forcing the Russian move.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Britain
France
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Brian Robertson
Mississippi Demos Back Walkout Threat at Convention
Mississippi Democrats adopted resolutions to bind delegates to walk out if Truman is nominated or civil rights programs are not repudiated. The convention will elect national delegates and presidential electors, with a nominating committee to ensure nominees will abide by all party resolutions.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Truman
T. J. Tubb
West Point
Resolutions Committee
Tru- Man
Jews Battle Over Munitions LST Beached Near Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv residents fled waterfront as a munitions laden LST beached after being set afire by army shelling. Irgun fighters, many unarmed, fled the streets while the army and rebels clashed. A UN truce zone and hotels along the waterfront were evacuated as 40 hurt or killed in the fighting.
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Israel
Irgun
Mediterranean
United Nations
LST
U.N
Haganah
Israel Army
Natanya
Tel Aviv Bay
Objector locks self to bannister at White House protest
A 33 year old New Yorker, James D. Peck of New York City, chained himself to a bannister in the Kite House during touring hours to protest the draft bill. Secret Service men freed him from the railing and took him to headquarters for questioning before releasing him without charges. He had recently been released from Danbury federal penitentiary after a three year term as a conscientious objector. He displayed a shirt message veto the draft in red and blue.
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Washington
Kite House
Secret Service
James D. Peck
New York City
Danbury
Conn
Taft Stassen Seek to Stop Dewey in Party Tug of War
Taft conferred secretly with Stassen amid moves to block Dewey for the Republican nomination. Pennsylvania figures like Gov Duff and Sen Martin shape the fight as delegates jockey for a coalition that could approach but not reach the required votes. Dewey gains a Pennsylvania bloc while Taft Stassen Warren push a rival gain.
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Philadelphia
Taft
Ohio
Harold E. Stassen
Thomas E. Dewey
Taft-Stassen
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Dewey
New York
Stassen
James H. Duff
Earl Warren
California
Duff
Warren
Heaven Must Protect This Kind Of Driver
Police report in Los Angeles on June 22 cites Everett Clyde Miller driving at 50 mph without a steering wheel. Officer C D Barkley charged him with unsafe vehicle speeding faulty headlights defective windshields illegal windshield stickers no registration and failing to observe a stop signal. Barkley noted the steering wheel absent and Miller using pliers to steer.
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Los Angeles
C. D. Barkley
Everett Clyde Miller
Barkley
Miller
Convention Schedule Philadelphia third day program outline
The third day at the Republican national convention in Philadelphia features a morning session starting at 10 a.m. with permanent chairman Rep. Martin of Massachusetts presiding. Speakers include Rep Halleck Indiana Mrs. Robert W. Macauley Ralph Becker and Senator Cain Washington. The resolutions committee reports followed by roll call for presidential nominations. Evening session at 8 p.m. will include roll call for balloting. balloting may not begin until Thursday.
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Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Halleck
Indiana
Robert W. Macauley
Republican National Committee
Ralph Becker
National Young Republican Federation
Senator Cain
Washington
Roll Call of
United States
Israel United States exchange envoys announced
President Truman announced the exchange of diplomatic missions between the United States and the provisional government of Israel. James Grover McDonald will head the U S mission in Israel and Eliahu Epstein will head the Israeli mission in the United States.
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Truman
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James Grover McDonald
New York
United States
Eliahu Epstein
White House
McDonald
Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry
Palestine
Twentieth Century Fund
Coldwater
Ohio
Bronxville
N. Y
Indiana University
Harvard
Tufts College
Virginia GOPs Delay Choice At Convention Balloting
A divided Virginia delegation decided to delay a poll on a presidential nominee preference until convention balloting begins. Unofficial tallies show 12 for Dewey, eight for Taft, one for Martin. Delegates expect Dewey to lead on the second ballot. a Martin vote may come from Norfolk's Henarius Lankford out of respect for her late husband.
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Philadelphia
Virginia
New York
Thomas E Dewey
Taft
Rqo
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Dewey
Martin
Henarius Lankford
Norfolk
Robert H Woods
Pearisburg
Pennsylvania
Woods
Walter Johnson
Heathsville
Johnson
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Wallace Raps Truman Coal Miner Policy
Henry Wallace charged the Truman administration blocked better lives for coal miners by intervening in bargaining. He said the government seized, used strike‑breaking injunctions, jail threats and fines to block miners’ demands. The letter to Marion county WV union leader Lamargo was released by Wallace for president committee.
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New York
Henry Wallace
Truman
Wallace
Joseph Lamargo
Union Labor Legislative Committee
Marion County
West Virginia
National Wallace
U S Will Be Atomic Target In Next War Warns Expert
Chicago reports Dr. Stafford Warren, dean of UCLA medical school and former wartime atomic safety head, warned at an American Medical Association symposium that the United States would be a likely atomic target in the next war. He projected destruction of 25 key American cities could extinguish the nation as a political power and urged public awareness for survival strategies.
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U. S
Chicago
United States
Stafford Warren
American Medical Association
Warren
New Medical School
University of California
Los Angeles
Dr. Warren
Smooth Sailing Predicted For GOP Platform
The Philadelphia report notes GOP platform talks eased into harmony with no convention fight over foreign policy. Vandenberg called the plank magnificent while Brooks said no further challenge, and Lodge promised unity. Labor leaders condemned the labor plank as weak, while civil rights positions echoed Democratic aims.
Greeks Close in on Grammos Rebels in Greece
Greek army columns converge within 10 miles of the Grammos rebel force of 7,000 led by Markos Vafiades as three fresh divisions join the push to encircle the guerrillas. U S officers counsel Western style encirclement tactics while observers compare to World War II Normandy operations.
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Grammos
Markos Vaflades
Albania
Greece
Vaflades
Normandy
Soft Coal Talks Launched Anew
Washington June 22 AP John L. Lewis and soft coal operators ended a session without comment and agreed to meet again tomorrow at 9 a m est The talks come eight days before the current work agreement ends and follow a court ruling upholding Lewis sought 100 monthly pensions for aged United Mine Workers members Officials said they hope the inquiry board can report imminent agreement to President Truman The dispute risks a Taft Hartley act injunction unless a deal emerges and both sides insist they are bargaining in good faith The pension issue centers on the welfare fund trustees and the potential removal of Ezra Van Horn as trustee if new terms are not accepted
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Rmich
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R-Ii
Carroll Reece
United Nations Control of Atomic Energy
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Platform Committee
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U.N
Platform
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A. F. Whitney
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Dixie
John L. Lewis
Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
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Charles O'Neill
David L. Cole
O'Neill
Ezra van Horn
Welfare Fund Trustee Board
Cole
van Horn
Morrow
Goldsborough
In Board
Goldsboro
Southern Coal Producers Association
Trig
Senator Bridges
R-Nh
Veto Kills U S Plan for World Atomic Control
In Lake Success on June 22 1950 Soviet veto by Andrei Gromyko blocks an American plan for global atom control. Nine others including the United States Argentina Britain China and France supported sending the deadlock records to the Paris UN General Assembly. Manuilsky criticized U S policy as threatening world peace.
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Lake Success
Russia
Security Council
Andrei A. Gromyko
Ukraine
United States
Argentina
Britain
China
Belgium
Syria
France
Canada
Columbia
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
General Assembly
Paris
Gremyko
Dmitri Z. Manuusky
Gromyko
Manuilsky
U. S
Atomic Commission
Council
Reds Plan To Fight Europe Aid
Washington reports of a Cominform meeting in Eastern Europe signal a second push to wreck the Marshall Plan. State Department officials note Cominform aims to tighten communist grip in Eastern Europe as Western nations build reconstruction with American aid.
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Washington
Cominform
Europe
Communist High Command
State Department
Belgrade
Poland
Czechoslovakia
United States
Western
Germany
Congresswoman Wins Maine Senate Nomination
Congresswoman Margaret Chase Smith won the Republican senate nomination in Maine with a 32,359 plurality after defeating three male opponents. She plans to attend the Republican national convention in Philadelphia, having secured a strong statewide lead over Gov. Horace Hildreth, former Gov. Sumner Sewall, and Albion P. Beverage. She would become the second woman to serve in the U S Senate if elected in September. Unofficial results show Smith at 62,936 votes to 30,577 for Hildreth, 21,770 for Sewall, and 6,438 for Beverage.
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Portland
Maine
Margaret Chase Smith
Philadelphia
Skewegan
Missing 101 Year-Old Man In Chattanooga
A 101-year-old man named Uncle Joe Vandergrift was reported missing in Chattanooga Tennessee after leaving his home on Monday. His daughter Mrs Fred C Whitner told police he can get around well which complicates the search and raises questions about his whereabouts.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Joe” Vandergrift
Fred C. Whitner
West Virginia Sees Hottest Day Of Summer Start
Huntington reports 91.3 degrees at 4 p.m. as the second day of summer brings heat across the state. Parkersburg and Charleston notch upper eighties, Elkins and Martinsburg lower to mid eighties. Officials forecast warm, humid days with occasional thundershowers and 1 to 2 inches of rainfall through Thursday and into the weekend.
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Charleston
Elkins
Petersburg
Flat Top
Marchinsburg
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