Quake and Fire Ravage Fukui and Surrounding Towns
A powerful earthquake struck Fukui Japan and nearby towns late Monday, triggering fires that destroyed most of Fukui’s 37 000 buildings and caused heavy casualties. Reports placed dead and injured in the hundreds with Japanese and American officials unsure of totals as relief efforts mobilized.
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Fukui
Tokyo
U. S. Army
Ben Evans
Crawfordsville
Ind
Sea of Japan
Japanese Welfare Ministry
Daishoji
Welfare Ministry
U. S
Pakui
Honshu
Japan
Joseph Swing
Kyoto
Takefu
Crawford Sams
Catholic Girl Wins Beauty Contest in Wheeling
An 18-year-old Catholic contestant won Miss Wheeling after facing church threats of excommunication. Miss Mariiuth Ford, daughter of Wheeling grocer, advances to the state pageant at Moundsville in August with a path to Miss America in Atlantic City. Her father supported the decision despite Bishoph Swint’s warning, and two Catholic girls withdrew.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Mariiuth Ford
Moundsville
Atlantic City
John J. Swint
Wheeling Catholic
Miss Ford
Foreign Aid Bill Signed Into Law by President Truman
The United States enacted a $6.03 billion foreign aid bill to back European recovery and allied nations. It allocates $4 billion for the European program, plus $400 million for China, $1.3 billion for occupied Germany and Asia, and smaller sums for Greece Turkiye and relief efforts. International agreements with Ireland and Italy set production, currency stability, and trade aims while securing U.S. defense stockpile materials.
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Washington
America
Truman
State Department
Ireland
Dublin
Italy
Rome
Europe
United States
Marshall
Atlantic
Paul G. Hoffman
Economic Cooperation Administration
Congress
China
ECA
Germany
Austria
Japan
Korea
Ryukyu Islands
International Children’s
International Refugee Organization
50,000 Moslem Girls Reported Abducted in India Trouble
Karachi journalist says 50,000 Muslim girls were abducted during last year's communal trouble in India. Pakistani refugee minister Raja Hazanfar Ali Khan reports only about 8,000 have been recovered.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Raja Hazanfar Ali Khan
India
Shade Of Yesterday S Little Red School In Oregon
Deborah Conklin, 11, commutes daily from North Bend to Eugene for class at a special university. She flies commercial aircraft as bored as other youths ride a school bus. Costs total six dollars daily for plane fare plus taxi and tax. father, Robert Conklin, timber mill manager, says it’s cheaper than boarding in Eugene. She leaves at 9 a.m. and returns by 1 p.m.
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North Bend
Ore
Deborah Conklin
University In
Oregon
Eugene
Robert Conklin
Capital Police Seek Slayer In Dreaded Washington Crime
Washington reporters offered a 5000 dollar reward for exclusive information leading to the arrest and conviction of the slayer of 11 year old Carol Bardwell found in Rock Creek park with her throat cut. Police questioned a handyman and two other suspects while a Capitol Hill officer lay wounded in hospital. An autopsy ruled out rape. a 22 year old man is charged with assault.
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Washington
Today
Carol Bardwell
William P. Bardwell
Federal Trade Commission
Rock Creek Park
Washington Times-Herald
A. Magruder MacDonald
Times-Herald
Businessmen’s Association
Columbia Heights Businessmen’s Association
Fred J. Crenshaw
Capitol Hill
Youth Held In Rifle Wounding Of Father In Middleburg
A 15-year-old boy, claiming defense of his mother, was held in Snyder county for the rifle wounding of his father, Bryan Balutis. The attack left him with wounds to the abdomen, jaw, and neck. he is in satisfactory condition at Danville hospital. No charges yet filed.
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Middleburg
Snyder County
Palmer E. Dinius
Joseph Balutis
Girardville
Bryan Balutis
Danville Hospital
Warren Visit Highlights Dismal Second for Politics
New York June 28 Gov Earl Warren Republican nominee for vice president drew attention for his family night life in New York City during a first day in town. Warren limited his daughters shopping and chose Finian's Rainbow as their show. The Warren party stayed at the Hotel Pennsylvania and planned a visit to Pawling, N Y for private talks with Gov Thomas E Dewey before continuing the campaign.
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New York
Earl Warren
New York City
California
Finian
Rainbow
Virginia
Dorothy
Nina Elizabeth
Honeybear
Mrs. Warren
Warren
James H. McCabe
Ager
Pennsylvania
McCabe
Pawling
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Hudson
West
Dewey Warren Plan Campaign Talk At Dewey Farm
New York governor Dewey and California governor Warren plan a private face to face at Dewey's upstate farm to outline campaign details. Warren and his wife arrive from New York City for a day of talks, with plans for extensive fall campaigning across Missouri and border states. Warren, undefeated in public office, is expected to help carry California for the GOP.
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New York City
Dewey
Philadelphia
Warren
Far West
California
Missouri
Truman
West Virginia
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Syrians Claim U S Warship Fires On Arabs Off Palestine
Syrian interior minister Huhsen Al Barazi told reporters in Cairo that a U S warship, said to be at Bernadotte's disposal, shelled Arab lines during a land battle near Al Barwa in northern Palestine. He said the action caused casualties and prompted protests to Washington and to Count Folke Bernadotte. State Department in Washington said no official word and that U S destroyers were present only as UN truce observers.
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Cairo
U. S
Palestine
United States
Folke Bernadotte
United Nations Palestine
Huhsen al Barazi
Bernadote
al Barazi
Tomorrrow
Arab League Political Committee
al Barwa
Arab Liberation Army
Fawzi Pasha al Kaukji
Bernadotte
Damascus
J. Esarati
Washington
State Department
New York Cops Unearth Major Narcotics Cache
New York police uncovered a large narcotics haul after four days of digging through 200 tons of garbage. Officers estimated the fentanyl, morphine, and heroin value at up to 2 million dollars with other estimates as low as 800 thousand.
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New York
Cominform Attacks Tito At Red Meeting Denounces Yugoslavia
The cominform denounces Marshal Tito and top Yugoslav communists for deviating from Marxism Leninism and aligning with Western methods. It calls for a return to true Marxist lines or leadership change, naming Kardelj Djilas Rankovic and others while noting Tito's summer at Bled and the Belgrade HQ.
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Moscow
Marshal Tito
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Cominform
Belgrade
Communist International Information Bureau
Russia
Romania
Yugoslavia
Tito
Edvard Kardelj
Milovan Djilas
Montenegro
Alexander Rankovic
Bled
A. Zhdanov
Soviet Union
Rade Pravo
Communist Party of Yugoslavia
M. Zujovic
Andre Hebrang
Poland
Tito Long
Yugoslav Delegate Questions Cominform Blast
Lake Success report says Jose Vilfan, Yugoslav delegate, was surprised by a Prague issued cominform blast against Yugoslav communists. He doubted the statement’s authenticity, calling it confusion and anti-Yugoslav propaganda.
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Lake Success
Cominform
Prague
Jose Vilfan
Vilfan
Hostile Demos Set Philadelphia Caucus
J O Emmerich chair of the states rights campaign says 15 southern governors will attend a Philadelphia caucus on July 11 before the Democratic convention. He returned from Little Rock with Governor Ben Laney and said all 15 governors are hostile to President Truman's renomination and favored by the campaign.
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McComb
Miss
Philadelphia
J. O. Emmerich
Little Rock
Ark
Ben Laney
Truman
Emmerich l
Draft Call Estimate Drops Statewide for West Virginia
Charleston June 28 The adjutant general's office revised downward its draft call for West Virginia to about 275 monthly as officials await Washington's activation of the selective service system. Lt Col Charles A Wood Jr said about 112000 WV men aged 18 to 25 are registered, with roughly 100000 in the 19 to 25 draft age. Plans call for 36 draft boards statewide and a guard enlistment program continuing while the quota is set. The army now numbers 542000 and aims for 790000 by July 1 1949 and 837000 at full strength including six national guard divisions.
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Washington
Sdm
Army
Congress
Defense
Royall
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Charles R. Fox
West
Fox
West Virginia National Guard
Guard
Kenneth C. Royall
Virginia
National Guard
Regular Army National Guard
Forts Ord
Calif
Jackson
S. C
Dix
N.J
Knox
Riley
Kans
Chafee
Ark
Breckenridge
Pickett
Fort Bliss
Tex
Camp Carson
Colo
Fort Meade
Camp Cooke
Fort Devins
Mass
Fort Worden
Wash
United States
Britain Declares National Emergency Over Dock Strike
London June 28. King George VI granted sweeping powers to Attlee’s Labour government to end the dock strike, declaring a national emergency under the National Emergency Act of 1920. Attlee blamed communist mischief and vowed to feed the country while the government can requisition buildings, take over billeting, and mobilize troops or volunteers.
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London
George VI
Attlee
Britain
Royal Gazette
Attee
Lewis Moves To Start Miner Pension Plan
Washington June 28 John L Lewis and other trustees moved today to start pensions and distress payments from the miners 45 million welfare fund frozen for 12 months. The ruling by Justice T Alan Goldsborough cleared the way for Bridges and Lewis to absorb obligations of the exhausted fund. Operators agreed in the 1948 contract to raise the tonnage royalty to 20 cents to cover pensions and other benefits. Decisions at the meeting were unanimous as trustees work out rules so payments to distress families continue and pensions begin after regulations are approved, likely next week. Steel interests refused to sign the new contract, arguing Taft Hartley violations. they may seek an injunction. The miners are on a 10 day industry wide vacation ending July 6.
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John L. Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lewis
Senator Bridges
R-Nh
Ezra van Horn
Bridges
van Horn
Robert N, Venham
Naational Labor Relations Board
Harry M. Moses
U. S. Steel Corporation
Reds Allow Interzonal Travel to Berlin Yet Rail Ban Remains
Berlin reports that Russians lifted the ban on interzonal travel by Germans but railway service to Berlin will not resume soon due to repairs on the Helmstedt Berlin line. Western powers push airlifts to 2.5 million Berliners as train traffic remains blocked by new currency measures and Soviet controls. U S officials arrived for talks with General Clay as night flights are limited and shuttle air service continues.
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Berlin
ADN
Helmstedt - Berlin
Curren
Ber
U. S
William H. Draper, Jr
A. C. Wedemeyer
U. S. General Staff
N. Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Britain
Air Force
Frankfurt
Polio cases climb to 150 in North Carolina
North Carolina’s polio outbreak reached 150 June cases with 12 new reports to the state board of health. Among the additions were three in Cleveland County and two in Buncombe and Randolph each, with single cases in Mecklenburg Moore Sampson Surry and Wilkes counties.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
State Board of Health
Cleveland County
Buncombe
Randolph
Mecklenburg, Moore, Sampson, Surry
Wilkes
Paralyzed Coal Miners Arrive For Treatment In California
Thirty eight paralyzed coal miners arrived from the east for rehabilitation at Permanente hospital in Oakland and will transfer to the Rabat Haiser institute at Vallejo. The men, injured in mine accidents with severed spines or severe paralysis, hope to walk again, aided by mechanical devices, in a six month course costing between five and ten thousand dollars per miner. They are part of a UMWA welfare program funded by John L. Lewis. Their prospects are described as slim by Dr John oe.
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Oakland
Calif
United States
Permanente Hospital
Rabat—Haiser Institute
Vallejo
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
John Oe
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Osage Mine of Consolidation Coal Co
Morgantown
Rad
Say
Warrens
GOP
Armed Services
Miner Pension Plan
Reds
Helmstedt
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