Indictments in Missouri vote probe grow to 27 charged
Jackson county grand jury returned 29 indictments against 27 people for alleged vote fraud in last August’s Missouri primary. Names and exact violations were kept secret pending arrests. Earlier indictments targeted election judges, clerks and precinct workers for false returns. Senator Kem urged a Senate probe into Justice Department inaction amid Missouri irregularities.
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Kansas City
Jackson County Grand Jury
Grand Jury
Kansas City Star
Sen Kem
R-Mo
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Justice Department
Missouri
Fifth
Taft Says No Health Bill This Year
Senator Taft of Ohio announced that the Senate has no place on its 1947 schedule for the lengthy battle needed to pass a federal health bill. He said the GOP policy committee chair rejected Truman’s appeal for immediate action, though hearings on health needs would begin within days. Taft, labor committee head, noted hearings would start soon but no bill this year.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
G.O.P. Policy Committee
Truman
Labor Committee
Marshall: No Immediate Aid Bill Planned
Secretary of State Marshall said the United States is studying global economic needs but no immediate aid bill like the Greek Turkish package is in prospect. He noted Korea will require about 200 million dollars from Congress, 78 million for rehabilitation and the rest for occupation costs, including food. He defended press coverage of Moscow talks and said the US seeks ways to aid China economically that would gain public and congressional support, despite the Export-Import loan hold.
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Washington
Marshall
Korea
War Departments
Congress
Bevin
Moscow
State Department
China
United States
Secretary of State
Mundt
R-S.d
House
Senate
Navy Describes Charges Against Officer on Trial
Navy disclosure names Lt Cmdr Edward N. Little as accused of maltreating prisoners subject to his orders while in a Japanese camp. Main charges include maltreatment, conduct prejudicial to good order, and conduct unbecoming of an officer. affidavits say Little turned prisoners over to guards. Knight died from torture in the guardhouse. Little, 39, last civilian address Decatur NL, was freed in October 1945 and treated in Oakland hospital until January 1946.
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Tokyo
Isao Fukuhara
William H. Knight
Warsaw
N. Y
Fukuhara
Knight
Alva C. Carpenter
Allied Headquarters
Washington
Decatur
Annapolis
Corregidor
Naval Hospital
Oakland
Calif
Gold Star Street Named In Cambridge Reform
Cambridge city council renames 12 Gold Star mothers in Yorktown area as Gold Star Street and Gold Star Courts to honor their service. The 40 houses on Yorktown Street and Yorktown Court will adopt the new designations.
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Cambridge, Mass
Yorktown Street
Yorktown Court
Gold
Star Street
Gold Star l Courts
Amana Struggles to Buy Steel Amid Senator Hearing
R E Hatter of Marengo Iowa testified to a Senate small business subcommittee chaired by Senator Martin about a daily chain of commissions linked to steel sales for the Amana Society. Hatter described hush hush negotiations with a Chicago broker and a mill rep dubbed a voice in Washington. He said no payments were made and no steel delivered.
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Washington
R. E. Hatter
Marengo
Amana Society
Iowa
Hatter
Senate
Martin
R-Pa
W. W. Sutherland
Chicago
James Kelly
Amana
Kelly
Iowa freezer firm manager tells senate subcommittee
The manager of an Iowa home freezer concern testified before a senate investigating subcommittee on Tuesday. The session continued as material was noted to continue on page 4, column 4.
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Washington
Iowa
Senate
Navy appropriation bill passes House for 3.47 billion
The House approved a 3,469,761,100 navy appropriation bill and sent it to the Senate despite Democratic protests. The measure would force a reduction of 82,000 in navy and marine corps strength.
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Washington
House
Senate
Navy
Marine Corps
Gromyko rejects full international atomic inspection
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared in New York that Russia cannot accept unlimited inspection of atomic resources or international control of peaceful nuclear production. He argued for strict but not unlimited inspection, veto protections, and first outlawing atomic weapons before broad control steps, while noting U.S. monopoly fears and equal science progress.
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New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
Gromyko
United States
Soviet Union
Gromyko Misstated Soviet Atomic Stance Says Hickenlooper
Senator Hickenlooper accused Andrei Gromyko of inaccuracy after he claimed the U S monopoly on the atomic bomb would persist. The senator said Russia opposes a rigid inspection and doubts cooperation on solving the atomic problem, stressing that other nations will likely develop bombs.
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Washington
INS
Hickenlooper
Russia
Congressional Atomic Committee
Andrei Gromyko
Bond Election for Cedar Rapids Schools May Be Deferred
Cedar Rapids school board has not fixed a date for a $ several million bond issue tied to an east side high school and a west side stadium. Voting may be postponed until after school opens next fall, with August or September seen as likely. Architects from Childs and Smith outlined plans for a streamlined multi wing campus with a 1,500 seat auditorium and a 3,000 capacity gym, drawing dispute among board members over facility size. Continued on Page 4.
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Cedar Rapids
O. H. Breidert
Childs and Smith
Chicago
West Side
Finance Committee
C. J. Penningroth
Breidert
East Side
Cottage Grove Avenue
Twenty Third Street
First Avenue
E. H. Moorman
J. K. von Lackum
Pilot lands after seven hour Atlantic survival ordeal
Lt. Hubert W Gainer, 31, of Freeport New York parachuted from his P 47 in bad weather en route from Maxwell Field Alabama to Mitchel Field New York. Entangled in parachute shroud lines he floated for 25 minutes before inflating his life raft and washing ashore at Breezy Point Rockaways about 4 30 a m. He was rescued by an ambulance from Mitchel Field.
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Mitchel Field
N. Y
Atlantic
Hubert W Gainer
Freeport
Rockaways
Maxwell Field
Ala
Washington
New York
Gainer
Grace Cornwell
Mitchelfield
May Testifies He Posed as Owner to Obtain Labor
Former Rep. Andrew J. May testified at his war fraud trial that he pretended to own a lumber company to secure workers. He described the Cumberland Opt Co in Prestonsburg as owned by the Garsson brothers, who allegedly bribed him $55,000 for contracts, and he made a biased remark about outsiders and Jews. The exchange occurred during questioning by Defense Attorney Warren Magee and a judge's comment on the leading nature of the query.
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Garsson Brothers
May
Garsson
Warren Magee
Cumberland Company
Henry A. Schweinhaut
More Cloudiness More Rain Seen In Iowa Weather
Cedar Rapids reports continued cool wet weather with cloudy skies and light showers in the east and central areas. Five day outlook shows temperatures about two degrees below normal, with cooler Wednesday and Saturday and minor changes other days. High reached 72 at 3 p.m. with temperatures falling to 45 overnight and fluctuating through the day.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Chambers
Balkan trio defy UN border watch in Greece
The United States accused Albania Yugoslavia and Bulgaria of defying UN authority by refusing to cooperate with a border watch group in northern Greece. Deputy U S Delegate Herschel V Johnson called the action inadmissible for the Security Council to accept.
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Lake Success
United States
Balkans
United Nations Authority
U.N
Greece
Albania
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Herschel V. Johnson
Security Council
Information Program Gains Support in House Subcommittee
A House foreign affairs subcommittee approved a bill to create an Office of Information and Educational Exchange in the State Department with tight controls. Key provisions rename the office, hire private agencies where practical, require FBI screening, empower Congress to end the program, limit disclosures, and halt exchanges with noncooperative nations.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs
Office of Information and
State Department
House
Eisenhower
Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs
Secretary of State
FBI
Congress
United States
Sign Western Electric Pact Ends Long Telephone Strike
In New York AP reports the last major dispute in the April 7 telephone strike was resolved after Western Electric and the Association of Communication Equipment Workers reached a new contract in Washington. Local 69 president W. D. Barry announced 20 000 members would return to work at 8 am Wednesday, with a base wage increase of 4.40 and a 35 cent weekly fringe raise in some cases, plus higher transfer allowances for shifted and early starting times.
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NEW York
Association of Communication Equipment Workers
Western Electric Company
Washington
W. D. Barry
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Barry
Truman's Mother Is Holding Own In Missouri
Grandview, Mo AP Mrs Martha Truman President Truman's 94 year old mother was described as just about holding her own after a restless night She was carried to a chair and rocked for an hour and a half while her physician Brig Gen Wallace H Bee said she thoroughly enjoyed rocking and talking with the President
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Grandview
Ralf
Truman
Charles G. Ross
Martha Truman
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