Senate Labor Bill Moves Toward Final Passage
Senate teams focus on approving the compromise labor bill after a strong House vote of 320 to 79. Key figures Taft Ball Hartley predict passage, while Democrats expect a presidential veto could fail to stop the measure. House votes mirrored earlier gains as lawmakers weigh veto implications and possible overrides.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
White House
Congress
House
Hartley
House Labor Committee
Senate Labor Committee
Ball
R-Minn
Senuor C.pyer
D-Fia
Regatta May Be Held Here on Independence Day
The Tygart Lake Development Corporation may hold a regatta on July 4 at Tygart Valley River Reservoir. Activities could include boat races open to regional sportsmen, with prizes of sporting goods and no professional purses. Directors discussed tenant housing, a small dock, and concession sandwiches by Bob White’s wife starting this Sunday.
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Tygart Lake
Bob White
Bulding
Blame Placed On Explosives in Non-Permissible Manner
A Senate subcommittee blamed the Centralia mine disaster on use of explosives in a non-permissible manner and broad negligence. The panel urged federal action to enforce a safety code, citing improper blasting contrary to federal and Illinois law.
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Washington
Senate Public Lands
Centralia
Senate
Cordon
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Truman Tilts With Taft On Economic Policies
President Truman denounces Hungary’s Communist coup as an outrage and vows not to stand idly by while diplomats review the situation. He accuses Senator Taft of advocating fallacious economic methods and defends a Greek Turkish aid program as a measure to aid starving millions and counter totalitarianism.
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Truman
Taft
Edward E. Bomar
Washington
Hungary
United States
State Department
Mr. Truman
Window Glass Scatter Crash on Hillside
A truck lost control on a hill near Smith town, plowing into a parked car and wrecking its cargo of 30,000 pounds of window glass. The trailer toppled a house foundation while Mrs. Katharine McIntyre suffered only superficial injuries. Wayne Stewart narrowly escaped when the truck barrelled past his partially built home.
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Fairmont
PAA
Smithtown
Katherine McIntyre
Harry McIntyre
Uniontown
Wayne Stewart
Rowe 73
Stewart
Truman Names Griswold Leader of Greek Mission
President Truman named Dwight Griswold former Nebraska governor to direct the United States economic mission in Greece under the 400 million Greek Turkish aid program. Richard F. Allen, veteran Red Cross relief administrator in Europe, was named field director for the 350 million American foreign relief program, separate from the Greek Turkish aid setup.
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Washington
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Dwight T. Griswold
Nebraska
Greece
United States
Treman
Dwight Griswold
Richard F. Allen
Red Cross
Europe
Jail Boy After Fatal Stabbing Last Night
Point Pleasant June 6 Lenden Pete Allen 19 of Mercers Bottom held in Mason county jail pending arraignment in a fatal stabbing of a youth his own age in a rural church yard last night. Sheriff Ernest Hesson identified the victim as John Buckle Apple Grove who died at Holzer hospital Gallipolis Ohio outside Millstone church 15 miles south of here. witnesses included several attendees.
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Point Pleasant
Lenden
Pete) Allen
Mercers Bottom
Mason County
Ernest Hesson
Hesson
John Buckle
Apple Grove
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Millstone
Here
Rutland Gas and Water Restored After Flood Damage
Rutland Vermont faced weeks without gas as emergency crews fought to restore utilities after a nine foot water surge from a dam broke, rains preceding it. Electricity and water via auxiliary lines reached the city, while tanked spring water and emergency milk deliveries aided 500 families displaced by the flood.
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Rutland
Green Mountain
Bellows Falls
Greater Boston
Wide Creek
Holland
Bubbles Of Gas From Carbide Save Fisherman's Life
Ray Evans a 30 year old miner survived a near drowning after water reacting with carbide in a pocket can produced gas bubbles that rose on Lake Lynn near Millsboro Pa to alert Ralph Hart who rescued him and artificial respiration revived him.
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Millsboro
Ray Evans
Lake Lynn
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Evans
Ralph Hart
Brownsville
Hart
Wallace signals doubt on supporting Truman in 1948
Raleigh June 5 Henry Wallace at a Raleigh press conference hedged on backing President Truman for reelection. He said his 1948 support depends on whether the Democratic Party remains liberal or shifts to a war party and he ruled out campaigning for a Republican, except possibly a cautious nod to Harold Stassen or Wayne Morse.
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Raleigh
N. C
Henry Wallace
Truman
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
Wallace
Harold B. Stassen
Minnesota
Oregon
Wayne Morse
Stassen
Morse
Labor
Betty Held as Grafton City Hospital Superintendent
Mrs Betty Sharp Held RN of Knottsville was named superintendent of nurses at Grafton City Hospital effective immediately by the hospital board in special session. A Taylor County native, she had served as temporary superintendent since May 31 and has long tied to the city hospital staff since 1923, with training at Davis Memorial and prior work at Ann Arbor General and Presbyterian hospital. The board meeting was the first in weeks with a quorum.
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Betty Sharp Held
R. N
Knottsville
Grafton City Hospital
Held
Taylor County
Audra B. Grindle
City Hospital
Davis Memorial Hospital
Elkins
Ann Arbor General Hospital
Michigan
Presbyterian Hospital
Pittsburgh
Betty Pace
Caveman hermit tells why he left army life
Clarkstown report from Clarksburg June 5 Jesse W Starr says he left his Air Forces medical detachment because he wanted to stay with his buddies. He recalled being confined in a hospital at Fort Dix and saw his unit shipped overseas. He described being pressured by others and fleeing AWOL before being reassigned to Camp Reynolds.
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Clarksburg
Jesse W. Starr
Harrison County
Fort Dix
N. J
Air Forces
Camp Reynolds
Greenville
Small Nations Blast Away At UN Force Plan
In Lake Success on June 5 the Security Council’s small nations assailed a Big Five report on a global police force. Belgium led the critique, saying major powers plan only to stow certain wars and offer no measures to block aggression by a large nation. Australia prepared to resume discussions, while Col Hodgson called the report vague and inadequate and said the 51 small nations in the UK No had been tenor ed.
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Larry Hauck Lake
United Nations Security Council
Big Five
Belgium
Ysterday
Australia
W. R. Hodgson
Check Artist Sought After Fraudulent Old Cheque
Huntington police seek a man who passed a $52.98 check drawn on a closed bank and signed with the name of a man who died six months ago. The draft came from a Huntington law firm checkbook unused for years, drawn on a bank no longer in existence, yet dated recently. Police have not determined how the suspect obtained the aged check.
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Huntington
Coal Exchange Bank
Witnesses Link Thornhill To Becketty Theft Scene
Logan witnesses testified that W. A. Red Thornhill occupied a Beckley hotel room when Raleigh county ballots were stolen last November. Police found a suitcase with rubber gloves, wax, campaign whiskey labeled Thornhill, and other items linking him to the crime. Weather noted warm with noontime sun and forecasts of warmer, humid showers tomorrow.
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Logan
Beckley
W. A
Thornhill
Raleigh Court House
Raleigh County
Anthony Scalise
Millard Tyree
Beckley Police
Casto and
Harris
Spencer
Tyree
Scalise
Hoover testifies on voting fraud inquiry before Senate subcommittee
J Edgar Hoover told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that the FBI questioned six persons in a Justice Department inquiry into alleged voting fraud in Kansas City. He said no federal grounds for prosecution existed and the inquiry was omitted on Attorney General guidance. The case involves a state grand jury indicting 78 for election law violations and ballot theft linked to the August Democratic primary in which Enos Axtell defeated Roger Slaughter but lost the general election. President Truman publicly supported Axtell. The president said the matter is not yet a federal case. FBI agent Dwight Brantley said authorization was given to conduct a full investigation.
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Washington
J. Edgar
Hoover
FBI
Justice Cement
Sas City
Sensi Judiciary
Clark
Justice Department
Auitust
Enos Axtell
Roger Slaughter
Congress
Axtell
Truman
Tain
Sear
Dwight Brantley
Federal Grand Jury
Footpath dispute linked to Breeden murder
Deputy Sheriff James L. Dent attributed a killing near Breeden to a petty argument over a foot path on Twelve-Pole Creek property. Albert Maynard, 53, allegedly shot Mrs. Alice Vance Kirk, 33, after a dispute with the Kirks who objected to his use of the path while he worked for United Fuel Gen Co.
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United, Fuel Gen Co
Maynard
Ja Ana Eitk
No Doubt Pending Bill Merges Armed Services Insists Senator
Senator Robertson of Wyoming said the Army Navy unification bill would merge the two services. He called it merger legislation and noted he would have opposed the measure had he been present when the Senate Armed Services Committee approved it by a 12 to top vote. The bill creates a unified military under a National Security Secretary.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith Washinton
Robertson
R. Wyo
Wyoming
Senate Armed Services Committee
National Secur
Shadow Of A Doubt Double Feature At Diale Theatre
The Rabbed Sens invites audiences to a double bill at Strind Theatre or iig featuring Shadow Of A Doubt with Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright. Also showing Law of the Lash starring Lee Roberts and Mary Beattie. Bever ly Simmons and Pred BRedy are listed in the cast.
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Joseph Cotton
Teresa Wright
Strind ‘Theatre
Iig
Beverly Simmons
Pred'Bredy
Law
Lash
Lee Roberts
Mary Beatt
Diale Thawte
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