French Stage Protest Strike Against Taxes Adopts Bill
About 200000 French workers strike over Prime Minister Ramadier's tax bill passed by the assembly 302 to 241. Coal mines banks and major industries halt work as unions spread action ahead of European talks. The bill aims to raise prices on milk bread cigarettes and gasoline and raise 136 billion francs.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
National Assembly
Radamier
Ramadier
Socialist Party
Georges Bidault
Popular
Re Stricnt Movement
MRP
McDowell Special School Levy Wins by Wide Margin
Proponents in McDowell County secure victory as 92 percent support is shown in early unofficial tallies from 99 of 111 precincts. The plan would raise about 226000 dollars annually for three years for building and improvements to the school system.
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McDowell County
Board of Education
Fire damages Lawson Street grocery in brief blaze
A two story frame Lawson Street grocery at Lawson and Mercer was heavily damaged by a fire of undetermined origin last night about 8 25. The store owner Mrs Emma Johnson and her son were upstairs when smoke forced evacuation. About fifty percent of stock and building were lost. no injuries reported. Firemen could not give a precise damage estimate.
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Lawson Street
Lawson and
Mercer Streets
Emma Johnson
Charleston
Johnsons
Johnson
General Eisenhower Accepts Presidency of Columbia University
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower disclosed he has accepted the presidency of Columbia University in New York to take effect next year. He will join the university as president and trustee, succeeding Nicholas Murray Butler, who retired in 1945 as president emeritus.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Columbia University
New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
Eisenhower
Army
Omark
N. Bradley
Bradley
Floyd L. Parks
War Department
Columbia Post Today “With the Approval of the President of the
United States
Secretary of War
University
George C. Marshall
Gasoline allocation announced by Standard Oil Indiana
Standard Oil Company Indiana will ration its output during June July and August across 12 of its 15 service states cutting distribution about 15 percent. Deliveries this summer are expected to roughly match last year despite demand about 15 percent higher. Shortage blamed on pipeline and refinery capacity, not crude oil. States include Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North Dakota Oklahoma South Dakota Wisconsin.
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Chicago
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Wisconsin
GM President Flags Propaganda Driving Economic Pessimism
Charles E. Wilson, head of General Motors, told a joint congressional committee that propaganda from high places about high prices has sown a disturbing note in the economy. He urged continued, uninterrupted production and predicted truth would prevail to calm industry uncertainty amid possible coal strikes.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
General Motors
Joint
Congressional Committee On the
Truman
Wilson
Rep
Rice
R-Pa
Stockyards Shut Down By Surprise Strike
The nation's third largest stockyards in Omaha were shut down by a surprise strike. Packing plants may also close after livestock are processed. Union leaders deny the strike targets the Taft Hartley act. President Harry Thompson of Local 155 blamed Harry B. Coffee, head of the Union Stock Yards company.
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Omaha
Harry Thompson
United Packinghouse Workers
Harry B. Coffee
Com-Ch
Conviction bid in Overell yacht murder case
State indicts Louise Overell and George Rector Gollum in the bludgeoning deaths of heiress Louise Overell and her lover aboard the Overell yacht in Santa Ana California. Assistant AG Williams denounces motive as sexual passion combined with greed and intent to marry.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Walter E. Overell
Eugene D. Williams
Patterson Asks Funds Be Restored
Secretary of War Patterson told senators that 1948 house cuts would leave the army unable to meet an emergency. He urged restoring 375 million of 475 million denied, noting the world won’t allow reduced military strength. Army strength now 1,013,000 on active duty, about 57,000 below last year’s authorization.
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Washington
Patterson
House
War Department
Secretary of War
Gurney
R-Sd
Congress
Flood Devastates Midwest Crops and Roads Across Rivers
Flood damage mounts across Missouri basin with $60,000,000 in early estimates. Des Moines and Nebraska areas face rising rivers and swollen crests. About 250,000 acres underwater between Rule and St. Louis. crest likely to reach 338,000 acres.
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Omaha
Midwest
Agriculture Department
Lewis A. Pick
Army
Missouri River Division
Missouri
Des Moines
Iowa Capital City
Weather Bureau
Platte River
North Bend
Neb
Nebraska
Rule
Columbus
Loup River
Big Muddy
W. E. Potter
Kansas City
St. Louis
Western European nations join Marshall plan coordination
Poland becomes first eastern European country to express readiness to cooperate on a joint reconstruction blueprint under the Marshall plan. Italy Belgium Holland Luxembourg and Denmark Norway and others have similarly notified the United States of approval as talks expand in Paris with Molotov slated to join the three power conference.
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London
Foreign Office
Paris
U. S
Marshall
Europe
United States
Jozef Winowicz
Washington
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Norway
Belgium
Holland
Italy
Moscow
Molotov
Poland
State Department
Luxembourg
Slavery Case Goes On Trial in California
A New England couple Alfred Wesley Ingalls and Elizabeth Ingalls went on trial in San Diego charged with enslaving Theodora Lawrence Jones. Federal attorneys say it may be the first involuntary servitude case since 1880. Jury selection began as the 57 year old maid remained in FBI custody.
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San Diego
Calif
New England
Massachusetts
Italy
Alfred Wesley Ingalls
Boston
Lynn
Mass
Elizabeth
Theodora Lawrence
Dora” Jones
Lightning Strikes Airliner. Safe Landing At LaGuardia
United Airlines flight with 26 passengers was hit by lightning near LaGuardia as it neared landing. The right aileron was disabled but Capt. R E Lee landed the plane safely. passengers unaware of the incident until disembarking.
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New York
la Guardia Field
R. E. Lee
United Airlines
Chicago
Cleveland
Lee
Youth Sentenced To Life In Prison In Michigan
In Lapeer Michigan on June 24 16 year old Oliver Terpening Jr was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder of Barbara Smith 16 and admitted shooting her siblings Stenley 14 Gladys 13 and Janet in a rural crime case judged sane by Circuit Court Judge George W Desjardines after a brief hearing.
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Lapeer
Mich
Oliver Terpening
Jjr
Jackson
George W. Desjardines
Young Terpening
Barbara Smith
Smith
Stenley
Gladys
Janet
Lewis weighs coal push to meet fuel oil shortage
Washington remarks on a looming fuel oil shortage forecast the dispute will test John L. Lewis and Rep Scrivner. The Kansan warned the union leader could either boost coal production for national welfare or risk mass unemployment and cold homes by opposing it.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Scrivner
Kas
Lewis
Income Tax Cut Bill Introduced on Capitol Hill
House Ways and Means Chairman Knutson reintroduces a four billion dollar tax cut with a single change to take effect January first next year. Speaker Martin says the measure will be considered at the first favorable opportunity and only with a two thirds vote to override a veto. He notes Democrats who sustained Truman's veto now back the two thirds in the Senate.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
House
Ways and Means
Knutson
R-Minon
Martin
R-Mass
Congress
Truman
Senate
House Votes To Sanction Foreign Information Program
Washington votes to give legal sanction to a State Department foreign information and educational exchange program including Voice of America. The 272 to 97 roll call comes six days before the current program expires, with funding still to be decided by appropriations.
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Washington
House
State Department
Voice of America
Capitol
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Committee
Senate
War Veterans Warned Of Sharp Operators
Charleston June 24 A warning to war veterans against sharp operators offering loans on terminal leave bonds was issued by T H McGovran head of the state department of veterans affairs The note comes as the Veterans Affairs council chaired by Louis A Johnson of Clarksburg plans a meeting next Monday to discuss the issue and its pitfalls.
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Charleston
W. Va
T. H. McGovran
State Department of Veterans Affairs
McGovran
Veterans Affairs Council
Louis A. Johnson
Clarksburg
Chiang Admits Armies In Perilous Position
Chiang Kai Shek's chief of staff Gen Chen Chung said Chinese forces in Manchuria were in a perilous position and accused Russia of giving the Communists substantial aid in the civil war. He spoke openly, breaking prior caution by officials.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Manchuria
Russia
Chen Chung
U. S
China
Ten killed as Brussels Education Ministry blast sparks major fire
A blast in the cellar of Brussels Education Ministry ignited a severe fire, killing at least ten and injuring about forty. The incident, described as one of the city’s worst fires, occurred in Brussels on June 24, with officials detailing casualties and ongoing emergency response.
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Brussels
Ministry of Education
Brussel
Coal Production Cut Drastically
Angry coal miners across several states halted work in protests against union curbs. Idle miners rose to over 175000, with Pennsylvania at 41000 and West Virginia at 31000 idle. The walkouts hit major producers like U.S. Steel and Jones and Laughlin pits, while the Taft Hartley veto override preceded the action.
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Pittsburgh
Alabama
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
AFL
United Mine Workers
Illinois
Navy Coal Mine Administration
U.S. Steel Corp
Western Pennsylvania
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Senate
Truman
Kentucky
Virginia
Ohio
Tennessee
Indiana
Utah
G. Pamvan Arkel
Smith
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
CIO Auto
Jobless Benefit Claims Denied in West Virginia Coal Strike Case
The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a Kanawha circuit ruling denying unemployment benefits to Eunice W. Copen and 200 other Mead Coal Co miners in Raleigh County for time lost during the 1944 strike. The 3-2 decision held claimants failed to prove noninvolvement or lack of direct interest in the dispute.
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Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Kanawha Circuit
Unemployment Compensation Board of Review
Eunice W. Copen
C. H. Mead Coal Company
Raleigh County
Jo N. Kenna
Mine Bosses Union
UMW
James B. Riley
W. T. Lovins
Copen
Cabell S. Davis
Sulient
Missing Lad Found In Old Ice Box
Four-year-old Marcello Basco was found alive today in an old icebox behind his Albany home after being missing since yesterday. He endured 18 hours trapped, hungry and tired, with cuts and bruises. he is hospitalized for exhaustion and injuries. His father John Basco initially checked a compartment and thought the noise was rats.
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Albany
N. Y
Marcello
Butch”) Basco
John Basco
Third Of State's Coal Miners Quit
In West Virginia the strike wave widens as about 2,000 Monongalia county miners walk out amid Taft Hartley tensions. Nationwide, roughly one third of 100,000 miners refrain from work, with some returns to duty urged by UMW leaders.
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Charleston
W. Va
Monongalia County
Osage
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
National No. 5
Christopher Coal Company
United Mine Workers
Charles A. Braney
Leo Wisniewski
UMW
Radio Today
West Virginia
Kanawha Coal Operators Association
Senate
Truman
McDowell County
McDowell
Williamson
Kanawha Field
Winding Gulf
New River
Pocahontas
Logan Field
Injunction Angle Urged as Coal Walkout Grows
Washington reports the Justice Department is studying a 75 000 coal miner walkout to see if an injunction against John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers is possible. Rep Howard Smith urged extending government seizure powers and feared a national calamity under Taft Hartley while the National Coal Association notes a full scale strike developing.
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Washington
Justice Department
John L. Lewis
Howard Smith
D-Va
House
Supreme Court
United Mine Workers
Taft
Ohio
Coal Association
National Labor Relations Board
Paul M. Herzog
John M. Houston
James J. Reynolds, Jr
Congress
Installment Buying Curbs Seem Doomed
Washington reports that federal controls over installment buying face destruction as the House Banking Committee backs a bill to end wartime credit restrictions. Chairman Wolcott says controls served in wartime but outlived usefulness, with immediate repeal upon passage by both houses. The current law requires a one third down payment and full payoff within 15 months for major purchases.
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Washington
Truman
House Banking Committee
Wolcott
R-Mich
House
Senate
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Citroen
Labor Federation
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Sete
M’dowell
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Il Company
Merchant Marine Committee
Weichel
Los Angeles
French
Chiang
Coal Mines Administration
Fairmont
High Court
T. Alan Goldsborough
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