Senator Vandenberg urges bi partisan council for global aid
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan urged creation of a top level bipartisan advisory council to coordinate U S aid to a war stricken world. He called for a full inventory of American resources and warned against rushing into imprudent plans while supporting Europe with a long term rehabilitation program.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
America
Advisory Council
Congress
Fair and Warmer Weekend Forecast in Missouri
The Associated Press reports fair and warmer weather across Missouri for the weekend. Skies clear today with a pleasant Sunday, and a few light showers yesterday have passed as the storm center exits. Temperatures rise with St. Louis at 76 and West Plains at 74, Kirksville recording 1.52 inches of rain yesterday. Maximums today near the 80s in Missouri.
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Associated Press
Missouri
Kansas City
West Plains
Kirksville
Missouri families receive 668590 in children's aid checks
Missouri welfare director reports June payments totaled 668,590 dollars for 19,979 families and 52,169 children. June per family average 33.46 dollars compares with May 656,072 dollars for 19,573 families and 51,188 children. Washington FCC: one FM channel reserved per five will end July 1 creating 100 new station assignments.
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Missouri
N. Carter
Washington
The
Communications Commission
Evye
Senate and House Reach Rent Control Accord
Washington June 13 AP The bill to raise rents 15 percent if both landlord and tenant agree on a two year case was approved by a Senate House conference committee. The compromise extends rent controls through February 20 next year. Rep Wolcott Michigan said the legislation could reach the White House by Friday with the House expected to pass Wednesday and the Senate to act Thursday.
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Washington
Senate House
House
Senate
Rep. Wolcott
R-Mich
White House
President Returns From a Good Will Mission to Canada
President Truman ends a three day goodwill tour to Ottawa and meets Parliament. He plans to decide the tax bill Monday while awaiting reports on his mother’s health. He emphasized United States policy aims for world peace and allied recovery.
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Canada
Washington
Fruman
Ottawa
Union Station
Truman
Margaret
White House
Congress
Grandview
Martha E. Truman
United States
GOP Women Elect Leaders in 6th District Meet
Sedalia hosts the sixth district Republican Women’s Clubs meeting electing Mrs. F. M. Hatfield as president. Officers named include first vice president T. H. Douglas Bolivar second vice president Minnie Reece Osceola fourth vice president Ralph Mays Springfield fifth vice president Ray Schubert Harrisonville sixth vice president Dewey Thatch Clinton seventh vice president Lucille Englehart Montrose secretary Sam McLaney Warrensburg treasurer O W Neff Nevada. Prominent speakers were Mrs. Carl Crome Clinton and Senator R Jasper Smith Springfield. A Bennett speech was read by George G Miller of Sedalia.
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Sedalia
F. M. Hatfield
Republican Women's Clubs
Sixth Congressional District
T. H. Douglas
Bolivar
Minnie Reece
Osceola
Ralph Mays
Springfield
Ray Schubert
Harrisonville
Dewey Thatch
Clinton
Bosch Sedan Struck by Hit and Run Driver
A sedan owned by Paul Bosch Sr. and driven by Paul Bosch Jr. was badly damaged last night by a hit and run on Highway 50 seven miles east. Passengers J E Kelly and Calvin Glover were not injured. The parked vehicle was struck as the other car crossed the shoulder and fled.
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Paul Bosch, Sr
Boonville Road
Paul Bosch, Jr
Highway 50
Here
Bosch
J. E. Kelly
East High Street
Calvin Glover
East McCarty Street
State Highway Patrol
House to place foreign information program under bi partite board
The House moved to place the administration's foreign information and educational exchange program under outside bipartisan supervision pending approval. A six member advisory board from journalism, radio, labor, business, education, motion pictures and veterans affairs would oversee the State Department division, with no more than six from one party. The vote was 145 to 1, Mansfield dissenting, and the chamber recessed without final passage.
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Washington
House
Congress
Rep
Dirksen
R-Ill
Voice of America
Remember
State Department
Keefe
R-Wis
Mansfield
D-Mont
Rees
R-Kan
William Benton
Senate
Ball
R-Minn
Benton
America
Greece
Turkey
Wheat Train Derailment Dumps Grain Across ElDorado Elevators
In Eldorado Oklahoma on June 13 a Frisco derailment blocked five grain elevators and halted box car movement. Forty carloads of new wheat spilled onto a street near two elevators while other cars were unloaded. One hundred loaded box cars remained trapped on the blocked track as a wrecker was rushed from Oklahoma City to clear the line.
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Eldorado
Okla
Jackson County
Libr
Oklahoma City
St. Louis Strike Disrupts Public Transport Nightly
The June 13 strike by 3500 street car and bus workers in St. Louis disrupted transit but not nightlife. Theater attendance lagged by 30 to 50 percent downtown, yet the Municipal Opera and other entertainments drew sizable crowds. The St. Louis Brooklyn game drew over 25,000 at Sportsman's Park, while the U S Open golf tourney at St Louis Country Club saw 9,000 to 10,000 fans. The walkout aimed to pressure wage negotiations with St. Louis Public Service Co, affecting up to a million metropolitan residents for commuting.
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ST. Louis
Midtown
Municipal Opera
Two Union Officials May Face Perjury Indictments
The Justice Department plans to seek perjury indictments against Harold Christoffel and Robert Ruse who denied Communist ties to the House labor committee. Chairman Hartley and Rep. Kersten asked to appear at a federal grand jury session Tuesday after the officials testified against labor legislation last March.
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Washington
Justice Department
Harold Christoffel
Robert Ruse
House Labor Committee
Hartley
R-Nj
Rep
Kersten
R-Wis
Christoffer
Buse
Woodring Eyes New Railroad Venture In Arkansas
Three co receivers for the idle Missouri and Arkansas railway announced former Secretary of War Harry F. Woodring and aides will visit Harrison next Wednesday to inspect the line. Woodring refused to discuss talks of buying the 361 mile Joplin Missouri to Helena Arkansas route. Receivers seek union cooperation to restore service and plan expert cost studies with a 90 day ICC stay request on abandonment, potentially financing operations via receivers’ certificates.
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Harrison
Ark
Missouri and Arkansas Railway
Harry F. Woodring
C. C. Alexander
W.S. Walker
J. B. Lambert
Helena
Topeka
Kan
Woodring
Joplin
Empley
Interstate Commerce Commission
Yugoslavs Charge Ethridge in Error
Yugoslavia accused Mark F. Ethridge American member of the U N Balkan Inquiry Commission of imperiling the group s work and the UN authority in a letter to Secretary General Trygve Lie. Ambassador Sava Kosanovic criticized Ethridge for remarks in a New York interview about aid to Greek guerrillas by Bulgaria Albania and Yugoslavia. Ethridge replied tersely with the word nuts.
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Lake Success
Yugoslavia
Mark F. Ethridge
U. N. Balkan Inquiry Commission
United Nations
Tryave Lie
Sava N. Kosanovic
Kosanovic
Ethridge
U. S
New York
Arabs Boycott UN Holy Land Inquiry Plan
The Arab higher committee for Palestine notified Secretary-General Trygve Lie of a boycott of the United Nations Holy Land inquiry. Lie sent the committee's communication to the inquiry group's chairman in Jerusalem, and the inquiry will begin its work next week.
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Lake Success
Arab Higher Committee For Palestine
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Holy Land
Lie
Jerusalem
Judges Hear Citizen Views On Courts Criticism
In Denver on June 13 AP reports more than ten federal judges and attorneys heard remarks at the 11th circuit conference. Walter W. Allen of Oklahoma City urged courts to modernize and improve facilities while criticizing lower courts as time-wasting.
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Denver
Law
Idth Circuit Court
Walter W. Allen
Oklahoma City
Missouri Floods Reach New Records Across Midwest
Reports from The Associated Press say torrential rains push new flood crests along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. In Iowa and Missouri, homes, farmland, and infrastructure suffer as engineers warn of continuing high water and reopened highways amid rapid river rises and evacuations.
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Iowa
Missouri
Mississippi
Leach and Roberts Sued for Ten Thousand One Hundred Fifty Dollars
Oliver Leach and Ray Roberts Jr are named defendants in a damage suit filed in the circuit clerk's office for $10,150 stemming from a December 27 highway crash near Forest Green Missouri. Effie Dooley, 63, died as a bus passenger when a Santa Fe Trailways vehicle collided with the Leach and Roberts truck driven by Morris Elliott on Highway 5. Dooley’s husband Jim Dooley sues while alleging Elliott’s negligence. Dooley has already received $4,850 from the bus line under a settlement agreement.
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Oliver Leach
Ray Roberts, Jr
Leach and Roberts
Circuit Clerk
Jim Dooley
Forest Green
Dooley
Effie Dooley
Morris R. Elliott
Highway 5
Eliott
Reckless Driver Fined at Fulton Magistrate Court
Ralph Peeper of Route 1 was fined 30 dollars and costs by Judge Yates in Fulton magistrate court for careless and reckless driving. State Patrol arrested him after he drove onto the highway from the shoulder and struck another car north of the city on Highway 54. Michael Zabana of Central, N. Me was the other driver involved.
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Ralph Peeper
Route 1
Yates
Fulton
State Highway Patrol
Here
Michael Zabana
Central, N. Me
Bottom Land Owners Farm New Association in Missouri
Preliminary plans emerged at a Marshall meeting to form an association of bottom land owners and levee districts from Miami to Kansas City. The group aims to boost support for the Pick-Sloan flood control plan on the Missouri River. Most districts along the 120 mile stretch attended. a second meeting is slated for July 10 at Lexington. W M Huston of Marshall organized the gathering.
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Marshall
Miami
Kansas City
Pick- Sloan
Missouri River
Lexington
W. M. Huston
Hartley Defends Labor Bill Warns Lewis Aims Strike
Washington June 13 AP Chairman Hartley of the House labor committee says John L Lewis will call the United Mine Workers on strike. He argues the Taft Hartley bill would empower the government to deal with powerful labor leaders. Hartley calls the measure good Americanism and says it protects workers rights to organize and bargain without coercion.
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Washington
Hartley
R-Nj
House Labor Committee
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
United States
Lewis
Truman
Congress
Missouri flood control funds urged for levee work
Rep. William Cole told the House civil functions appropriations committee that Missouri floods require increased and better flood control and levee appropriations. He pressed funds for the Missouri river stretch from the To ws downriver to east Kansas City and for tributaries, citing annual floods and crop losses. Army engineers note no Congress funds for agricultural levees along the Missouri from Sioux City to the river mouth.
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Washington
William Cole
House
Civil Functions Appropriations Committee
Missouri
Cole
Missouri River
Towa
Kansas City
Platte
One Hundred and Two
Nodaway
Nishnabotna
Tarkic
Squaw
Davis Creeks
Army
St. Joseph
Sioux City
Iowa
Congress
Boys' State Proposes $2400 Minimum for Missouri Teachers
Missouri Boys State lawmakers pushed a $2400 annual minimum salary for teachers, urging the General Assembly to set a floor. They also backed 35 percent state aid for public housing and tax exemptions for housing projects in Kansas City and St. Louis, reflecting a serious youth-led bid for broader reforms.
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Missouri
American Legion
General Assembly
Kansas City
St. Louis
Boys! State Assembly
Capital Airlines Plane Crashes Near Purcellville
Leesburg police report locating wreckage of a Capital Airlines DC type plane between Purcellville and Hillsboro, Va. with 47 passengers and crew of three aboard. Pilot Horace Stark and co pilot R N Creekmore, both of Washington, plus hostess Peggy Walls, also of Washington, are named. Weather not severe. search under way with fire trucks and ambulances en route.
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Leesburg
Lloyd Kelly
Purcellville
Hillsboro
Kelly
Chicago
Washington
Martinsburg
W. Va
Capital Airlines
Horace Stark
R. N. Creek More
Peggy Walls
la Guardia Field
Port Deposit
Panhandle
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
New York
LaGuardia Field
Stark
Steelmanville
N. J
Creekmore
Wolfe
Texas
Air Transport Command
PCA
Arlington
Margaret Wall
Guntersville
Ala
Alabama College
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Airline
KWOS GIVES RIVER STAGE BROADCAST TIMING
Radio station KWOS starts river stage bulletins this morning at 8 30 with additional reports at 10 49, 12 30, 2 36 and 4 45 p m. The timetable outlines the sequence for daily updates.
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KWOS
River Stage
Court Moves To Bar Wallace Park Speech
The American Anti-Communist Association asked a federal court to stop Henry A. Wallace from speaking at Watergate Amphitheater alleging his methods incite riot. The suit targets Secretary of the Interior Krug over theater control and cites Wallace’s ties to communist fronts per a House committee report.
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Washington
American Anti- Communist Association
Henry A. Wallace
Federal District Court
Wallace
Watergate Amphitheater
Secretary of the Interior
Krug
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
House un-American Activities Committee
New York
House Committee
Keve
Truman
Anti - Communist Association
George Perkins
White Rock Chicks Win Missouri State Poultry Title
Browne Moore of Shelbina captured the Missouri State title in the 12 week White Rocks with an average live weight of 344 pounds. Second through fourth were Mrs. W. H. Linnart Chillicothe W. W. Noel Bolivar and C. E. Newcome Potosi. Top four received cash awards. Moore also earned a silver replica.
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Sedalia
Browne Moore
Shelbina
Missouri
Noel M. Hail
W. H. Linnart
Chillicothe
W. W. Noel
Bolivar
C. E. New
Robert Ashen
Federal
B. M. Funk
University of Missouri
H. L. Crow
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Ilinois
Grand River
Nebraska City
Nebr
Cedar City
Prison Farm No. 2
Troop F
Boonville
Thhe
Leach and
Roberts
Bottom Land Owners Farm New Association
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