Union Reaches 6.4 Cents Wage Hike For Continental Bus Drivers
A 6.4 cents per mile top wage agreement was reached between Continental Bus and the union covering about 360 drivers on central lines serving Kansas Oklahoma Missouri Arkansas Western Illinois to Chicago Southern Nebraska and Eastern Colorado. President Truman proposed higher executive pay after a bill granting extra expense money to House members. Britain denied requesting U S help defending Hong Kong. A jewelry robbery in Houston and a deadly explosion at California Refinery Co in Perth Amboy left several dead and many injured.
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Associated Press
Wichita, Kan
Continental Bus Company
Union and Company
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Arkansas
Illngis
Chicago
Nebraska
Colorado
Coplon admits enquiry into Russian trip in 1948
Washington dispatch reports Judith Coplon conceding on cross examination that she inquired about visiting Russia in spring 1948, a year before the FBI held her on espionage suspicions. She swore it was curiosity not a desire to live with the Soviets. Verdict expected next week as defense and prosecution push to finish cross examination.
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Washington
Judith Coplon
Russia
FBI
Sui
Miss Caplan
John M. Melley
Kelley
FBT
Miss Coplon
Justice Department
Parity Cloudy Today With Showers Across Regions
Weather brief notes cloudy today and tomorrow with scattered showers mainly in the afternoon and night. Cooler in the extreme northwest today and northern areas tonight. Daytime highs generally 30s to 35 except northwest near mid 0s to 40s.
Park Board Plot Blocked River Acres Sale Alleged
Jefferson City residents accuse EO Buel and a mysterious "Mr X" of blocking the sale of 33 riverfront acres to the Park Board for a city park. Petitions circulate with hundreds of names urging purchase and public use, while the board also weighs another tract. Local activists demand accountability as a meeting to confront Buel and "Mr X" is planned.
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Buel
Missouri River
Park Board
Broadway Street
Clars Avenue
Moreau Drive
HE. O. Bull
Jefferson City
Harland Bartholomew
City Council
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Swillum
River i Acres
Swillum
Frid Sv Lum
Porter
Landwehr
Cast Enders
Mr. X
Cooks Didn't Aim to Steal Car He Wanted to Borrow
John Cooks Jr of Shreveport was picked up by police after noon yesterday in possession of an automobile that did not belong to him. He was seen examining a car on Main street near the light plant, and said he could not understand how it worked while claiming his Bible says the Lord says anything you can get you can have. He spent the night in jail reflecting on police understanding.
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Shreveport
Tisiana
John Cooks. Jr
Cooks
Hiss Denies Charges as Surprise Witness Testifies
New York June 23 AP Alger Hiss took the stand in his federal perjury trial denying selling State Department secrets to a Soviet spy ring. A surprise defense witness, Malcolm Cowley, quoted Chambers as calling former Assistant Secretary of State Sayre a leader of a Washington underground. Hiss denied knowing Chambers since 1937 and said he wrote disputed data slips. The name Sayre surfaced unexpectedly in Cowley’s account of a Chambers luncheon.
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New York
Alger Hise
State Department
Tye
Anie
Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Icice
St.b
Malcolm Cowley
Sherman
Conn
Chambers
Alexa Paul
Stryker
Charmebers
Savye
Miss
Communist Party
Sayre
Roosevelt
Cowles
KAC
Youth Hidden Most of Life Turns From Mother in Court
Boston report on 14 year old Gerald Sullivan who fled from alleged neglect by his mother Anna Sullivan. In a private hearing before Judge Frankland W Miles the boy refused to speak to his mother as she sought return of the child. Mrs. Sullivan faces neglect charges and a technical charge of being a neglected child amid years of secrecy regarding the boy’s illegitimate birth.
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Boston
Gerald Sullivan
Anna Sullivan
Gerald
Daniel J. O'Connell
O'Connell
Frankland W. L. Miles
Roosevelt Jr Urges Passage of Housing Bill for Americans
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr speaking in the House as a new congressman urged passage of President Truman s housing bill. He called the plan a blow against socialism and communism noting slums breed disorder. Rep Javits predicted GOP support while Halleck cautioned it was touch and go. The bill would subsidize rents for low income tenants in public housing, fund slum clearance and farm housing aids with costs estimated between 7.5 and 20 billion dollars over 40 years.
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Washington
Franklin BD. Roosevelt, Jr
Congress
Truman
House
America
Gopety Young Roosevelt
Javits
New York
GOP Police Committee
Halleck
R-Ind
Legislativr
Slow Retirement Bill Faces House Debate In Missouri
House debates a measure to liberalize the state teacher retirement system by raising the base salary from 1800 to 3000 and extending it to all school employees. The Senate amended to cover only teachers, sparking a partisan clash. A late, slim vote kept the bill alive as Rep Boyd postponed it to next week amid doubts about securing 78 votes.
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House
Senate
James P. Boyd
PraeTem
Harry Sehendel
S. Louis
W. D.dowdy
Ripley County
Pagshe
Two Louis Airmen Injured In Mo Private Field Crash
In Hayti Missouri two St Louis airmen were injured when their light airplane crashed on a private landing field. Alden Parks and Bob McCullough were identified with Parks suffering a broken wrist and possible internal injuries while McCullough had minor cuts.
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Hayti
St. Louis
Alden
Parks
Bob McCullough
McCullough
Morgan
Farmers to Attend Southern Missouri Conclave
About 20 000 Southern Missouri farmers are expected at a conclave August 1 on five Deer Creek valley farms near Westphalia. Walter Heidlage announced the plan, with demonstrations of new farm equipment by state and county extension agents and other agencies. The event will involve farmers from more than 40 counties and focus on dairy cattle beef cattle hogs chickens and sheep along with waterways terracing ponds and fertilizer demonstrations.
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News-Tribune
Deer Creek
Osage County
Governor Hotel
Walter Heidlage
Lorene Stewirt
Gasconade County
Vance Henry
John Falcoon
Charles Paden
Cole County
Missouri
Five Deer Creak Valley
Osage
Arkansas State Line
Heidlage
Governor Pote
Jefferson City
Saeme
Henry Wine Kleman and Sons
Steve Schauwecker
Paul Plassmeyer
Benim
Schwartz and Son
Otto ‘Rebagen
Missouri Extension Service
Heidinge
Westphalia
High Street Viaduct Construction Starts Late July
The High Street Viaduct project will begin late July or early August after a state highway official meeting with the Columbus Kansas contractor. First materials are expected to arrive near that time. The plan to destroy the condemned viaduct has not yet been decided.
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High Street
W. B. Sayville
State Highway Department
Co. E. Maxwell
Columbus
Kan
Missouri Pacific official William R. H. May dies at 56
William R. H. May age 56 an assistant general purchasing agent for the Missouri Pacific railroad died today in St. Louis from heart disease. He had a long career with the railroad and was a prominent industry figure.
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ST. Louis
Willam R. H. May
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Courteous Bandits Loot Home in Kansas City Heist
Mrs Ruth Magedy reported two courteous sounding bandits who broke into her Kansas City home early today. They took $8.25 in jewelry and $186 in cash after forcing her to reveal where items were hidden. The assailants avoided threats and did not harm her, hoping not to wake her two sons, Stanley aged 19 and Mamie aged eight.
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Kansas City
Tune
Ruth Magedy
Magedy
Stanley
Mamie
New Approach Advanced On Interest Rate
A Missouri House proposal would remove troublesome interest limits from the 1945 constitution. Rep Max Garrison from Jackson County steered the constitutional change forward with House advancement, no debate. If approved by both houses, it goes to the November general election ballot. A second conference committee will meet next week to decide a compliant installment loan rate schedule.
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Missouri
Max Garrijson
Jackson County
Itry
Queen Becomes Bride or Not as Tribes Adjourn
In Bechuanaland, Bamangwato tribesmen gathered at Serowe and voted to accept Ruth Williams as queen wife of chief Seretse Khama, despite regents’ orders. Several thousand attended. forty minor chiefs rejected the move. Decision delayed until tomorrow as the regents’ stance sparked regional tension.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Eben
Ruth Willams
Seroowe
Bechuanaland
Designrie Seretse Khama
London
Seretse l
Seretsey
Ruth
Seretse
Bechvaniand
Union of
Morse Plan Swamped In Senate Tug Of War On Taft Hartley
The Senate rejected Morse plan to handle national emergency strikes case by case by 77 to 2. Debate shifted as Lucas proposed an amendment to Taft plan preserving injunction while adding seizure authority. Holland countered to keep injunction and scrap seizure. final moves aimed to pressure a decisive next round in the Taft Hartley dispute.
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Washington
Senate
Morse
Congress
Missouri
Forres
C. Donnell
James P. Kem
Lucas (Til
Taft
R-Chio
Lucas
Holland
D-Fla
Jean Ihe Taft
Vice Press Barkler
Blair Named to Hear Court Suit
Judge Sam C. Blair of the fourteenth judicial district was designated as special judge to hear the Audrain county hospital case in circuit court. The declaratory suit involves osteopathy versus medicine and surgery as doctors seek to define practice scope while trustees of the Audrain hospital dispute years of controversy.
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Marticgo
CAPY
Sam C. Blip
Fourteenth Judicial Iherit
Audrain County Hospital
Blair
Frank Hollinsworth
Audrey Hospital
Osteanpathy
Hiny
Bond Set in Fulton For Forged Checks
Thomas Brandenburg and William Tavis Jr bound over to circuit court on $1,000 bond each after being charged with forging checks drawn on Exchanges National Bank of Jefferson City in the name of W. H. Parris of Holt Summit. State Highway Patrol arrested them in Jefferson City last week and returned them for prosecution.
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Fulton, Mo
Thomas Brandenburg
William Tavis, Jr
John Yates
Exchanges National Bank of
Jefferson City
W. H. Parris
Holt Summit
State Highway Patrol
One-legged man walks 25 miles to wed in Kentucky
Eighty two year old Jess Cook, missing a leg, walked from Democrat, Kentucky, to Whitesburg to marry for the fourth time. Magistrate J C Day performed the ceremony in the courthouse. His bride, 26 year old Jutin Patrick of Tina, Knott County, was married before. After the ceremony they walked back to Democrat.
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Whitesburg
Kay
Jess Cook
Democrat
J. C. Day
Court House
Cook
Jutin Patrick
Tina
Knott County
Day
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