Truce Jeopardized as Threats Spur Reprisals in Middle East
Cairo dispatches report rising cease fire violations across Palestine on June 12 as both Arab and Jewish forces clash near Ein Geb and Mahnayim. U N mediator Folke Bernadotte tours Amman and Damascus while Arab leaders warn of swift action and Israel hints at air raids. Syrian reports claim village captures and border advances between Dan and Lake Hula with Nazareth and Latrun threatened.
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Cairo
Palestine
Folke Bernadotte
U. N
Amman
Trans - Jordan
Jerusalem
Damascus
Syria
Tel Aviv
Haifa
Arab League
Bernadotte
Israel
Army
Sytiang
Ein Geb
Lake Galilee
Mahnayim
Kfar Szold
Jewish Agency
Nazareth
Beersheba
I ‘ Mohsen Bey Becaai
Lake Hula
Dan
Kfar Szate
Baltimore
Hadassah
Dawwara
Salhiyya
Muftakhara
Sawiyya
Mansoura
Madahel
Adsiyya
Telkhanzeer
Jisr Banat Yaacov
Jacob
Shajara
Arabheld Latrun
Vote on draft bill hinges on House rules vote
Washington June 12 The fate of draft legislation in this session rests on a House rules committee vote expected Monday. A split 6-5 with one not committed could send the bill to the floor, potentially finishing action before the recess next Saturday. The bill, approved 281 to 5 by the House Armed Services Committee, faces opposition from several members.
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Washington
Congress
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Rep. Harkness
Vet Harness
Harness
Indiana
House
Armed Services‘committee
Please House Extends Farm Subsidies
The House passed legislation to day extending until June 30 1950 with modifications the government s price support program for farm products. Drafted by the House agriculture committee it will serve as a substitute for long range farm legislation in the Senate. It keeps prices supports at 90 percent of parity for 1948 harvests of cotton wheat corn hogs eggs potatoes rice tobacco and peanuts and sets minimum 60 percent parity for dried beans peas flax and some perishables. Parity keeps consumer and producer prices balanced. The final vote rejected a Dirksen AG amendment to cut peanut support from 90 to 60 percent.
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Washington
House
House Agriculture Committee
Senate
Rep. Dirksen AG
GOP Prepares to Tackle Convention Preliminaries
Philadelphia prepares for the Republican national convention with seven days of committee meetings and social events. The opening session is set for 1 a.m. on June 21 in Convention Hall, with adjournment possible Wednesday unless deadlock delays nominees. Delegates from Georgia and DC face seating disputes while resolutions, platform hearings, and social functions unfold under Walther Hallanan and Carroll Reece.
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Philadelphia
Quaker City
GOP
National Republican Committee
Washington
Walter Hallanan
West Virginia
Carroll Reece
Tennessee
National Committee
Georgia
District of Columbia
Resolutions Committee
Hery Cabot Lodge, Jr
Pennsylvania
Strawberry Mansion
G. Worthington Scranton
Page Il Col
Want to Retire in 10 Years
Kanawha covmans received $242,000,000 in salaries and wages during 1947 and income continues at a record level. United States Savings Bonds offer a sure safe and painless method of saving. Bonds of Series E bought during America's Security Loan campaign will pay $4 for every $3 invested. A bonds month, the cost tailored to present earnings, will provide a steady income starting in 1958. Any bank in West Virginia can furnish detail.
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Kanawha Covmans
United States Savings
U. S
America
West Virginia
Russians End Berlin Rail Block Describes Move
Berlin faced a sudden shift as Russia halted an hours-old rail traffic block that would have cut food and coal to two million Berliners. Freight trains moved normally from Western Germany to Berlin after Russian notice, with no explanation given.
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Berlin
Germany
Helmstedt
Russia
Finland
Hungary
Romania
Unloaded Gun Kills Boy 15 in Nitro
A 15 year old, Harold W. Tinney of Nitro Heights, died after a 14 year old friend pulled the trigger on a 38 caliber pistol thought to be unloaded. Carl Thomas Meadows of Nitro held the weapon. State police say the shooting was accidental. Tinney died at a South Charleston hospital after the bullet ricocheted into his heart.
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D. J. Gilbert
Nitro State Police Detachment
Harold W. Tinkey
W. P. Tinney
Nitro Heights
Young Tinney
South Charleston
Gilbert
Carl Thomas Meadows
Eth
Nitro
Meadows
Cooke Mortuary
Young Meadows
Tinney
Student Flanks Bomb Into Test Room in Athens Shootings
In Athens Greece June Leon a young student angry about failing exams hurled a grenade into a classroom during tests. Five students were wounded as the assailant fled the scene.
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FE Pn
Athens
Greece
Léon
Polite
Pay Up Lewis Tells Owners
John L. Lewis spoke on a new 1948 contract during talks with soft coal operators in Washington, signaling a possible peaceful settlement but offering no terms. He denounced operators and warned they were licked, while welfare trustees moved to extend distress benefits beyond June 30, potentially drawing legal challenges.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United
Lewis
Miners’ Welfare Fund
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
Eere van Horn
van Horn
Board of Trustees
T. Alan Goldsborough
Henry Simms Dies at 63 in Charleston Legal Career Highlighted
Henry Simms 63 a Charleston lawyer and Unemployment Compensation Department trial examiner died at his home at 4 45 p m He was born in Huntington June 7 1885 son of Henry and Katherine Simms An alumnus of Marshall College and West Virginia University he practiced with Simms Enslow and Simms Stoker and served as Cabell County prosecuting attorney He moved to Charleston in 1934 becoming chief counsel for the Home Owners Loan Corp and later unemployment examiner He was a London lawyers convention delegate in 1924 He was a member of St Johns Episcopal Church and life member of the BPOE of Huntington Surviving are his wife Mary
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Henry Simms
St. Charleston
St. John’s Episcopal Church
BPOE
Huntington
Henry
Katherine Lyon Simms
Marshall College
West Virginia University
Phi Sigma, Kappa
West Virginia Bar
Simms
Simms & Enslow
Simms & Stoker
Cabell County
Charleston
Home Owners Loan Corp
London
England
Mary
Senate Okays Four Billion ERP Funding Revisions
The Senate appropriations committee voted 4 billion dollars for the European Recovery Program restoring most House slashes and setting the aid on a 12 month basis. Total ECA funding becomes about 5.055 billion versus 5.3 billion requested, with debate over the final amount. Senator Bridges noted an increased 950 million over House figures while Senator Vandenberg urged restoring House cuts.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Economic Cooperation Administration
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
Bridges
Vandenberg
Sen
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Appropriations
Congress
Japan
Korea
Senate
U. S. Plans Check Of All ERP Aid
Washington reports a system will trace European recovery shipments to prevent contraband and ensure goods aid intended for reconstruction reach approved ends. Eric L. Kohler says investigators will track machines and materials to factories, with a European comptroller and deputies in missions.
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Washington
Europe
China
Eric L. Kohler
Economic Cooperation Administration
Senate
ECA
House
Kohler
EGA
Paris
W. Averell Harriman
Konier
Congress
Paul G. Hoffman
Russia
Venice
Kohier
Music Leaders to Attend Parley of Symphony Orchestra League
Music executives and performers from across the nation converge on Charleston for the national convention of the American Symphony Orchestra League. The Charleston Symphony Orchestra hosts with sessions at the Daniel Boone hotel and an NBC network broadcast from the Municipal Auditorium. Ernest LaPrade of NBC will address Saturday morning. Arthur Lipkin and Theodore Vosburgh are among speakers guiding community programming and rehearsal methods. The Friday open house is at the orchestra office on Quarrier Street, with network audio set for 2 pm local time, though daylight saving time shifts will affect Charleston radios to 3 pm.
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Charleston
American Syrmophony Orchestra League
Daniel Boone
Charleston Symphony Orchestra
League
Quarrier St
NBC
Municipal
Suditenture
Ernest LaPrade
Orchestras of the Nation
Aides Dispute Truman About Stalin Prisoner View
Washington reports Jake Joint era dispute over President Truman’s remark that Stalin is a prisoner of the Politburo. Diplomats say Stalin runs the Politburo, while Truman says Joe is a captain of state and that the Politburo controls Russia. State Department experts frame Stalin as leading a team to counter U S aims and to portray the United States as warmongering.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Truman
Josef Stalin
Russia
Stalin
Eugene
Ore
Joe
Mr. Truman
State Department
Molotov
Zhdanov
American
United States
Western
Europe
Attack
Moscow
Marshall
W. BB. Smith
Engineers Try To Foil Flood Near Reynolds Aluminum Plant
Army engineers began a push to drop a plug in a narrow flood channel to save the Reynolds Metals aluminum plant near Portland. The Columbia River crest neared its third high in three weeks as damage mounted in the multi millions. Five deaths were reported yesterday, with total toll at 38 including five from Vanport. River threats extended 120 miles from Portland to the coast, while engineers aimed to hold water along a 10 mile stretch to spare the plant and nearby areas.
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Portland
Ore
Army Engineers
Vanport
Red Cross
Boundary
Wash
Weather Bureau
Columbia
Grand Coulee Dam
Richland
Hanford
Vancouver
Reynolds Metals Co
Longview
Coach's Wife Dies in Coal River Crash Near St Albans
A station wagon carrying four women and one man crashed into a utility pole on Coal river road near St Albans at 3 am. Mrs Mary Maxine Alford 26 wife of Madison High School coach Clyde D Alford died from a broken neck. Driver Francis Noland Dawson 26 suffered a possible internal injury and fractured shoulder. Louise Phillips Midkiff 26 had a severe head scalp wound. Helen Arthur Gessure 22 of Washington DC had minor bruises and shock not hospitalized. All but Miss Gessure were treated at nearby hospital with the outlook described as good.
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Coal River Road
St. Albans
Bartlett Mortuary
Mary Maxine Alford
Dansville
Boone County
Clyde D. Alford
Madison High School
W. 8. Webb
South Charleston
Alford
Francis Noland Dawson
Spring St. St. Albans
Louise Phillips Midkiff
Kanawha Terrace
Herbert J.thomas Memorial Hospital
Dawson
Midkiff
Helen Arthur Gessure
Washington, D. C
Webb
Old Midland Trail
Rail Rate Fixing Vetoed by Truman
President Truman vetoed a bill shielding ICC approved rail and road rate agreements from anti trust laws. Senate leaders considered overriding next Tuesday or Wednesday amid a long battle for exemption. Railroads criticized the veto as harmful to the public and the economy.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sen. Reed
R-Kas
House Commerce Committee
House
Sen
Wheeler
D-Mont
Association of American Railroads
William T. Fariey
Truman’s speech fuses peace plea with anti Russia stance
President Truman charged Russia with obstruction and aggression in a major foreign policy address at the University of California. He urged honest negotiation while rejecting great power deals detrimental to others, warning that capitalism would not collapse to appease the Soviet Union. He also linked peace to concrete actions in Greece and Korea and forewarned a clear fall election contrast between his record and Congress.
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Berkeley
Cal
Truman
Russia
America
Soviet Union
Greece
Korea
University of California
United States
United Nations
Congress
U. S. Congress
Earl Warren
California
Jay Walkers On Capitol Street Create Mayhem
A Saturday scene on Capitol Street between Washington and Kanawha Blvd saw 139 pedestrians jaywalking in a 15 minute span, suggesting over 4 000 people may have joined in the activity during the 9 am to 5 pm period. Heavy traffic and bus flow amplified risk as six cars blocked double parked and three vehicles plus a truck parked illegally in no parking zones.
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Capitol St
Jay-Walkers
Capitol
Washington
Kanawha Blvd
Capital St
Charleston
Finnborg Sunk Near Jersey After Collision With Southport
The British coast guard reported the Finnish steamer Finnborg, 2410 tons, sank off Jersey after a fog collision with the American steamer Southport, 8145 tons. No lives were lost. Southport rescued all aboard Finnborg about 40 miles north of the Jersey coast.
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Jersey
London
British Coast Guard
Finnborg
Island of
Coast Guard
Southport
Unsetted News Snippet Teases Treasury Shortfall
A cryptic Philadelphians note signals a two million treasury shortfall as Seika odds rise while a convention remains absent. Stan Arnold hints at unsettled times and pending financial tensions.
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