Lausche Chosen Chairman by Governors Conference
White Sulphur Springs June 21 1950 governors pick Democrat Frank T Lausche of Ohio as chairman for the next year amid political mentions of Taft and Ferguson. The move comes as Acheson urges rearmament and a strong stance against Reds while Democrats and Republicans debate policy near the luncheon at the governors conference.
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Frank T. Lausche
Ohio
Lausche
Sen
Taft
Truman
Washington
Joe Ferguson
William Preston Lane, Jr
Maryland
Conference Resolutions Committee
Lane
J. Bracken Lee
Utah
Frank Carlson
Kansas
James H. Duff
Pennsylvania
Resolutions
Acheson
Ambassa
Frank J. Lausche
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Gunfire At Enka Plant Amid Labor Dispute
In Morristown Tennessee gunfire from ambush struck three Enka Corp rayon plant cars as strikers and nonstriking drivers faced off. The CIO Textile Workers Union filed unfair labor practice charges against Enka in Atlanta later, alleging coercion and failure to bargain. The 12 week strike has seen crosses on the line, dynamiting at nonstriking workers homes, and National Guard deployment to curb violence.
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Morristown
Tenn
Enka Corp
Atlanta
CIO Textile Workers Union
Enka
Rayon
Robert Cahoon
National Labor Relations Board
Nf Ely
NLRB
Ecompany
CIO
AFL United Textile Workers
National Guard
Convoy Brings Bridge Section For Coonskin Blitz
Soldiers arrive in Charleston with three truck trailers carrying part of a U S Army floating bridge for Operation Coonskin. Esso fuel arrangements and weather permitting, drainage work will finish today. Army detail from Camp Campbell, Ky, led by Cpl Delmar Huff, includes three privates from 02nd Quartermaster Co lth Airborne Division. A second bridge section from Fort Knox is due today.
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Coonskin
Charles R. Armentrout
the Gazette
Charleston
R. N. Hewitt
Coonskin Pards
W. H. Watts
Esso Standard
Coonskin” Fuels
Esso
Coonskin Park
Camp Campbell
Operation Coonskin
Associated General Contractors
W. V3, Inc
Kanawha County
West Virginia
Assot
Associated Equipment Dealers
Charleston Building Contractors Assoc
Cpl
Delmar Huff
Warren, C
Army
02Nd Quartermaster
Fort Knox
Gof
Dulles and MacArthur Confer on Asia Peace Prospects
United States faces positive action to preserve peace in Asia after talks between John P. Dulles and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Dulles described the 90 minute meeting as very satisfactory and signaled U S aims to preserve international peace and security in the Far East. Officials noted no final decisions on a Japan peace treaty and discussed moves by Johnson and Bradley to Okinawa to inspect the Formosan threat region.
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Dulles
MacArthur
Asia
Tokyo
John Pyster Dulles
Gen
United States
Far East
U. S
State Department
Nho
Japan
Secr
Bullet Between Eyes Kills Boy in Quick
Leslie Maliing aged 18 of Quick died from a head wound after being brought to a local hospital. An ambulance driver tied the shooting to a .22 rifle near Peach Fork of Falling Rock Creek, about 30 miles north of Charleston. Investigating state trooper W. L. Pence sought the cause, whether fight or accident.
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Leslie Maliing
Quick
Hess
Harper Mortuary
Clendenin
Peach Fork
Falling Rock Creek
Charleston
Mullins
W. L. Pence
Switchmen Call Sunday Walkout
AFL Switchmen call a Sunday strike against five Western and Midwestern lines, threatening a national tie-up by July 16. The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific warned it will shut down Sunday if workers walk off. Other unions oppose wage and hour recommendations from a June 15 presidential fact finding board. There is a 30 day cooling off for Trainmen and Conductors before any action.
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Chicago
AFL Switchmen
Rock Island and Pacific
Rock Island
West Coast
Southwest
AFL Switchmen's Union of
North Americs
Great Northern
Chicago Great Western
Denver
Rio Grande Western
Western Pacific
Carrlers
Switchmen's
Trailmen
Switchmen’s
Haniel P. Loomis
Assoc
Western Railroads
Class Present Double Take To Graduate Ill Schoolmate
New York June 21 71. Faye Helton of Montville New Jersey received a hospital graduation ceremony for Sandra in New York City after missing the Montville eighth grade event. Pupils held three separate exercises at the hospital with speeches songs and refreshments as autographs filled Sandra extended wishes from classmates. Despite months of illness Sandra topped her class of 16 as she could not attend the original ceremony.
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New York
Prewlyle-Yeer-Oia Oanura
Faye Helton
Montville
N. J
Sandra
California
Florida
New Jersey
Pat Norris
France seeks end of state of war with Germany
Paris reports France will formalize a July 3 proposal to end the state of war with Germany though no peace treaty exists. The move aims to improve Franco German ties and involve West Germany with the Western Allies, sparking mixed reactions from Britain and the United States during a key six nation conference on coal and steel pooling.
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Kingsbury Smith
Paris
INS
France
Germany
Foreign Office
Bonn
London
Schuman
West Germany
U.S
Appland Ém
London 4
Britain
U.S. State Department
Washington
Iwar
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
East German leader signals Sudeten resettlement plan
Berlin reports Walter Ulbricht announced in Prague that East Germany would renounce all terms for 2,006,000 Germans to live in the Sudetenland, a move seen as a “vial solution.” The concession follows postwar expulsions, raises refugee tensions in West Germany, and signals a deeper split in the Soviet bloc amid Cold War dynamics.
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East Reich
Berlin
Munich
Prague
Walter Ulbricht
Sudetenland
Adolf
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
ADN
Uibment
Oder-Neisse
Russia
Poland
Ulbricht
Warsaw
Germany
Ubricht
Communist Party
Mystery flying craft seen over Hamilton Field at dawn
Three airmen at Hamilton Field California reported sighting a mysterious flying object at 1:35 a.m. moving at high speed and emitting a blue green flame. They could not identify its shape and said it was not a conventional jet. The object approached from the Pacific, made three passes over the base, and vanished toward the sea.
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Hamilton Field
Cal
Air Force Base
Reedquarters
4Th Air Force
Washington
Air Force
James E. Johnston
Hamilton
Riel
Corp
Garland Pryor
White Hall
Mont
Ellis Lorimer
Burbank
Lorimer
Virgil Cappuro
San Leandro
Pacific Ocean
Senator Charges Democrat Black in Amerasia Inquiry Debate
Republican Sen. Ferguson accused Democrats of pigeon-holing a demand by 23 GOP senators for a new investigation of the Justice Department's role in the 1945 Amerasia case. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to delay a fresh probe pending the outcome of another inquiry into the wartime affair.
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Washington
Uri
Sen
Ferguson
GOP
Justice Department
Amerasia
Michigan
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Tydings
FBI
Indiana Judge Sent to Penal Farm for 11 Days
In Indianapolis on June 21 the Indiana Supreme Court sent Judge Norval K. Harris of Sullivan County Circuit Court to the penal farm for 11 days. The court showed clear irritation, noting the judge’s clashes with County Prosecutor John K. Purcell over various charges and contempt in a long legal dispute. Harris had previously forged a veteran bonus certificate and served seven months in a federal reformatory before being pardoned by President Roosevelt.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Supreme Court
Norval K. Harris
Sullivan County
Putnaville
Paul Robeson
Committee For the Defense
New York
Withaig County
John K. Pur Fell
Toray
Purcell
Harts
I UW
Harris
Federal Reformatory
Caill Ficothe
Ohio
Roosevelt
2 Year Old Found After 17 Hour Hunt
A 2 year old boy wandered 17 hours through palmetto, missing from 5 p.m. yesterday until 10 p.m. today. North Miami police, sheriff’s deputies, divers, planes, and 40 American Legionnaires joined the search. A Negro couple, Mr and Mrs Joe Walters, located him under a cedar watching planes. He was about three quarters of a mile from home and unhurt.
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Mlami
Fla
Palmetto
Charles Reichard
Senate defeats Russell plan in conscription extension fight
Senate vote 42 to 29 rejects a Russell amendment to allow racially segregated units by written request as the draft law nears expiry at midnight Friday. Leader Lucas argues for a stopgap extension if needed to avoid lapses while President Truman’s order guides desegregation in the armed services. Only about 230,000 youths drafted under the five-year peacetime act since 1949, with voluntary enlistments since January 1949.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Lucas
D-Inl
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Armed Services
Truman
Maybank
D-Sc
Dixie Democrats
Russians fortify Baltic ports with submarine pens
A German traveler reports feverish Soviet activity along the Baltic coast. He cites expansions at Kronstadt and Riga ports to handle warships up to 20,000 tons, and notes renewed submarine pen work on Ruegen Island. Coastal batteries and rocket sites are said to be reactivated as part of a broader maritime buildup.
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Frankfurt
Baltic Sea
Baltic
Russia
Growin Bubs
Leningrad
Kronstadt
Ruegen
Ruegen Island
House Wins Long Battle For Planes
Washington June 21 Backers of a 70 group Air Force won a victory in words today with a conference agreement to authorize that size for the aerial arm Both houses are expected to approve the pact The actual force size will depend on appropriations for planes equipment and men The House had sought direct permanent authority for 70 groups and 22 squadrons 61 reserve groups plus supporting units
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Washington
Congress
House
Army
Air Force
National Guard
United States Air Force
Congress Extends Federal Rent Controls to Dec 31
Congress approved a six month automatic extension of federal rent controls through December 31 with localities allowed an additional half year. The measure passed 176-145 in the House and 40-24 in the Senate, affecting about eight million dwelling units and 33 million people and sent to President Truman for signature.
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Congress
Washington
Truman
Senate House
House
Senate
Snather
Sun Ushers In Summer As Heat Records Rise
A bright sun and light breeze herald summer at 6 37 p m yesterday with a high of 82. The day’s reading came from Fuel Gas Co station at 30 p m. June rainfall has set an eight year record with 5 21 inches, as 10 days remain in the month. Forecasters predict more showers and generally fair, moderate weather today. The city already notes 92 degree highs and a 1310 all time 6 6 inch peak near the century mark.
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U Noted Fuel Gas Co
Reading Staion
Ment
Charleston
Terror Shadows Over Czechs as Reds Tighten Grip
New York Times correspondent Dans Adams Schmidt reports from Vierma on 28 months of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. He says most Czechs hate Communism but resist mainly in thought, with widespread disappearances and a police state backed by spies and informers.
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New York
New York Times
Czechoslovakia
Vierma
Dans Adams Schmidt
Nists
Peat
Schmidt
Witness Silence Prompts Action in House Spy Probe
Washington, June 21. The House on American Activities Committee voted to cite 39 witnesses for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the probe into espionage and Communist influence. Among those named were Philip Bart, editor of the Communist Daily Worker, and Marcel Scherer, a former West Coast labor organizer, both refusing to answer questions about passport use and Communist ties.
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Washington
House On American Activities Committee
Jihne
U.S
Walter
Philip Bart
Communist Daily Worker
Marcel Scherer
Wett Coast
Bart
Schereh
Barts
Stupborn
John William Fox
Tack Chilis Scherer
Commins Party
Jonn Kizm Fox
University of California
Scherer
Federated Architects
California
1 Ley Radiation Laboratory
Nate Set
Dosepr W Weinberg
Weinberg
Steve Nelson
Hay
Nelson
X . Scherer
Whethher
Lenin Institute
Moscow
Democrats Push Tax Cut Measure
Democrats push a major tax cut plan with a $3930 million reduction aimed for passage by June 28. Senate conferees will begin Social Security discussions in July while House Ways and Means ties up tax cut debate. The Senate bill boosts old age pensions and expands coverage. the House bill raises benefits less and adds more people to the rolls.
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Washington
House
Senate
We Means
Fragmentary Weather and Sky Notes From Charleston
A garbled OCR style item lists sunrise and sunset, Moon phase, and planetary references including Mars and Capella. It mentions a Wednesday Teropetayieee event and a 2pm time, though the content is largely indecipherable and lacks clear news elements or coherent context.
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Thoreday
Jane It
Mars Rolaws
Avereryn
Capella
Jupiter
Am Moor
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