Taft Plan Approved by Narrow Senate Vote
The Senate approved Senator Taft's plan to use injunctions and seizure in national emergencies by a 50 to 40 vote. The move shifts the administration bill toward Taft Hartley style limits and heightens the clash with Truman as labor laws are debated.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Holland
D.-Fla
Lucas
Mi1
Ives
R.-N.y
Congress
Tyd‘nga
D.-Md
Approve Trial Run for New Farm Bill
The House Agriculture Committee backed a new farm bill authorizing a three crop trial run for the production payment program. The 217 to 9 vote came largely against Republicans as Democrats and Republicans seek Midwest farm votes ahead of next year’s elections. Some farm groups call the plan a subsidy or dole, while the bill keeps firm price supports at higher levels than the current program.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Truman
Senator Wagner Resignation Anounced From New York
ALBANT N Y Gov Thomas E Dewey announced Tuesday the resignation of United States Senator Robert F Wagner a 72 year old Democrat from New York The secretary to the governor Paul E Lorkwood said Wagner informed Dewey he would submit his resignation to Secretary of State Thomas J Curran before nightfall The move sets the stage for a special election to fill the balance of Wagner term expiring January 1 1951 and triggers a succession plan for the Empire State
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Agers
Coleman Resigns Republican Post
Vice Chairman Thomas K. Coleman quits the Republican strategy committee, blasting GOP Chairman Hugh D. Scott Jr. for failure to keep the group moving along. Coleman, Wisconsin Republican state chairman, says he cannot spend time or take responsibility for a committee not moving. The 23 member committee, formed at Omaha, aimed to build new party machinery to push its viewpoint.
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Washington
Thomas KE
Coleman
Republican Strategy Committee
GOP
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
Wisconsin
Republican Trustice
Scott
Omaha
Corn Borer Threatens Iowa’s 1949 Corn Yield Outlook
Des Moines reports suggest Iowa’s 1949 corn crop may not meet 1948 levels due to corn borer damage and fast growing crops limiting final cultivation. By June 25 about 21 percent of acreage was laid by with expected 60 percent by July 1, and conditions vary for small grains and hay crops amid rains and pastures in good shape.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Weather Bulletin
School Board Cuts Budget By About Thirty-Six Thousand
The school board whittled 36097 from the tentative 1949 50 budget lowering the 2 50 mill expected tax rise to 1 45 mills and canceling a 1 mill site fund levy. A fall election will seek about 2 million in construction bonds while the new budget totals 1 235 055 up from 1 129 731 with about 100000 more state aid.
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Sue
Lloyd Roper
Charles Langmade
Albert Jensen
Abraham Lincoln High School
Martin L. Williams
Dennis Nelson
Dodge
Gunn
E. L. “Vern
Allphin
Mrs Beardsley Plans July Visit to Ketchikan Alaska
DES MOINES. Mrs William S Beardsley wife of Iowas governor travels to Ketchikan Alaska for the month of July to visit Blaine Beardsley and his wife Linda Lois Beardsley a new daughter was born to the couple a few weeks ago Blaine is employed by a drug company in Ketchikan and the trip follows a visit last summer
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Des Moines
Irs
William S. Beardsley
Iowa
Ketchikan
Alaska
Blaine Beardsley
Good Will Tour Into East Pot
A Council Bluffs Goodwill booster caravan toured east Potawatomi in a three day Iowa trip led by William Foster, visiting Oakland Atlantic Carson Treynor and eight more towns. Local leaders welcomed the group praising trading, growth and Main Street vitality while a tight schedule kept the caravan 13 seconds ahead of time before ending back home.
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Griswold
Council Bluffs
East Pottawattamle
William
Bill” Foster
Gus Pfaff
Chamber of Commerce
Oakland
Iowa
Don Hummel
Rk Club
Main Street
Ernest W. Hansen
Atlantic
Carson and
Treynor
Underwood
Neola
Minsden
Avoca
Harlan
Portsmouth
Logan
Missouri Valley
Lady Luck
Tabor
Reveal Agreement in Bendix Dispute
WASHINGTON an Secretary of Air Symington announced an agreement Tuesday to settle the Bendix Aviation strike that shut the South Bend Indiana plant for 70 days. Terms were kept secret pending study and a workers vote. Symington summoned union and management spokesmen for talks through Monday night and into Tuesday morning to mitigate engine production disruption.
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Washington
Air Symington
Bendix Aviation Corporation
South Bend
Ind
United Auto Workers
Symington
Last Chance to Sign Homestead Exemptions
City Assessor J. Vince Crowe announces extended evening hours to sign homestead exemption applications. The office stays open Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday 7 to 8 30 p m to accommodate filers. Deadline to file is June 30.
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J. Vince Crowe
Pilot Escapes After Destructive Mitchellville Crash
Pilot Paul Haines of Aerial Blight Control, West Bend Wisconsin, escaped with minor facial cuts and bumps after a crash in Mitchellville that demolished his plane and knocked out a major power line on Tuesday morning.
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Mitchellville
Paul Haines
West Bend
Wis
House Races Toward Final Housing Vote Amid Race Debate
The administration pressed toward final action on a broad public housing bill as a race issue loomed. Representative Marcantonio proposed an amendment banning racial discrimination in public housing, while Spence warned against amendments that could derail the measure. The House aimed for swift passage with little opposition aside from the race question.
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Washington
House
Rayburn
D.tex
Spence
D.ky
Marcantonio
Al-N
Senate
Streetcar Union Votes to Strike in Des Moines
600 members of the Des Moines streetcar men’s union planned to strike at 12:00 a m Wednesday after a mass meeting Tuesday. Union attorney Max Putnam said only one vote opposed the strike and two motions failed. Company president C W Gif ford warned of contract cancellation and loss of benefits if the strike proceeds. The International board urged legality, taking no position on motions.
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Des Moines
C. W. Gifford
Des Moines Railway Company
Max Putnam
Putnam
Gifford
International General Board
The
International
Gilford
New Hearing Date Set for Great Western Trains
The Iowa commerce commission announced a new hearing date of July 27 at Fort Dodge for Great Western railway's proposal to discontinue passenger trains Nos. 31 and 32 on the Omaha to Minneapolis route. The hearing had been scheduled for July 13.
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Great Western
Des Moines
Iowa Commerce Commission
Fort Dodge
Great Western Railway
Omaha
Minneapolis
Flood Control Demanded as Fifth Avenue Faces Floods
City council awards Fifth avenue repaving contracts after residents flood chamber with mud stained boots and fatigue wear. They push for flood control while deferring Avenue A storm sewer project and consider reclassifying the convalescent home property at 501 Frank Street.
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Fifth Avenue
Avenue A
Frank Street
Thirteenth Street
L. J. Bergantzel
Over-Aged Romeo Faces Legal Woes in Chicago
Sigmund Engel, a 73 year old international swindler nicknamed the over aged Romeo, is jailed in Chicago under heavy bond as prosecutors pursue prison. If he wins dismissal here, victims in other cities may press charges against him for purporting romance scams.
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Chicago
Sigmund Engel
Romeo
Engel
Iowa GOP Leaders Win Commendations at State Meet
Des Moines Iowa resolutions praised Republican leaders in congress and the state after a closing banquet. Everett Dirksen, Senator Bourke Hickenlooper and Governor Beardsley spoke as resolutions commended Hickenlooper and Iowa’s eight Republican congressmen, along with state officials and the legislature, for their work on the atomic energy commission investigation.
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Des Moines
Iowa
G.O.P
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
William S. Beardsley
Hickenlooper
Beardsley
Atomic Energy Commission
Grant granted for fare boost by Nebraska rail commission
The Nebraska state railway commission approved a 23 cent two token fare for the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company while denying a full 15 cent cash fare. Council Bluffs fares stay at 10 cents, with a 13 cent adult cash fare allowed. A new rate schedule will take effect once ordered by the company. The ruling notes a 1948 deficit of 28,813 dollars and confirms wage and cost increases necessitating higher rates to avoid a projected 500,000 dollar deficit in 1949. The decision passed 2 to 1 with Commissioner Harold A. Palmer dissenting from the view that current economic trends justify the adjustments.
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Nebraska State Railway Commission
Omaha and Council
Associated Press
Harold A. Palmer
Omaha
Too Busy Fighting Water to Attend Meeting
Residents from the western end of the city sent a telegraph to Alderman Joseph B. Katelman after Monday night’s rain. The message, signed by E. F Anderson O. R Ronk and C. Hanson, stated they were too busy bailing out water for sewer and paving on Avenue A to attend the council meeting.
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Anree
Councell
Joseph B. Katelman
E. F Anderson
O. R. Ronk
C. Hanson
New Ruling May Change Quorum
Washington officials say a Supreme Court ruling reversed Harold Christoffel's perjury conviction, citing an apparent lack of a valid quorum in a Milwaukee labor case. The 5 to 4 decision questions traditional congressional quorum practices dating to George Washington, potentially altering how sessions are deemed lawful when members are absent.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Milwaukee
Congress
George Washington
Harold Roland Christoffel
CIO
United Auto Workers
House Labor Committee
Christoffel
House
Senate
Seaion
CIO Packinghouse Workers Resume Contract Talks in Chicago
A. T. Stepheng, district executive of the CIO Packinghouse Workers union, said Tuesday that CIO-OPWA has resumed contract negotiations with Wilson & Company in Chicago. The union aims to reestablish a master bargaining contract with the firm.
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Des Moines
A. T. Steph ‘Eng
CIO Packinghouse Workers Union
Cio-Opwa
Wilson & Company
Chicago
Wilson
City Bills Run High After Citywide Rain Flood
The city faces cleanup costs in the thousands after a two hour downpour dropped 3.17 inches of rain and caused widespread mud, flooded basements, and river crests along Indian Creek. City leaders toured affected zones as residents sandbagged flood walls and a sewer breach near Lore sen’s farm required emergency funding and responses.
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Indian Creek
Birest
Kline W. Taylor
Taylor
Weather Bureau
Omaha
Thirety-seventh Street
Broadway
Avenue G
Sixth Avenue
Tenth Street
Seventeenth Street
Tenth
Eleventh Streets
Eleventh Street
North Western Railroad
Sixteenth and
Eldon Evans
Loresen
Eighteenth Street
Twenty-ninth Avenue
Forest E. Grover
Twenty-second
Twenty - Eighth Avenues
Frank Street
Twenty-third Avenues
Twenty Third Avenue
George Miller
South Eleventh Street
Deowe
Pege Ye
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Jim Booker
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Avenue D
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Fifth Avenue Bridge
HX Bank
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