Untouchables in India Face Systemic Oppression and Crises
Dewitt Mackenzie reports on a state of emergency in central mill districts as caste clashes intensify. Untouchables, numbering around 60 million, face social exclusion, economic dependence, and forced labor under the Hindu caste system, while British policy and Indian independence efforts provoke debate. The piece notes villages divided by caste, the lack of economic independence for Untouchables, and ongoing humanitarian concerns.
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Bombay
Mill District
Churchill
Der
Conservative
India
France Faces Coalition Rule After Election Shock
France shows MRp as strongest party with 160 seats in unofficial returns for a new constituent assembly. Communists and Socialists suffer defeats as voters swing rightward amid foreign policy strains and a pontiff’s sermon on the Christian way of life.
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Paris
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
France
Corsica
Gerialiats
Republican Rally
Mri
Fig
Saal
Charles de Gaulle
Georggs Bidault
Russia
West
U. S
Pius
Truman Gives No Answer To Questioners
Washington June 3. Senate Majority Leader Barkley said President Truman had no idea what he would do about the case strike control bill after a White House call. The measure would curb labor unions and was under consideration by Truman with a midnight June 12 deadline to sign or veto.
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Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
White House
Truman
Congress
Whitehouse
Charles Ross
Ross
CIO
Philip Murray
William K. Jackson
United States Chamber of Commerce
House
Dep. de Lacy
Interstate Committee
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
A. KL. Lyon
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Harvey Brown
International Association of Machinists
Howe
Sen. Radcliffe
Key House
International Aspect To Maritime Labor Dispute
Washington June 30 CIO maritime leaders broaden the dispute appealing to workers abroad as wage talks drag at the labor department. The CIO unions and ship operators plan to meet again at 11 a.m. EST amid continuing talks. Bridges Curran sent a cable to the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris renewing criticism of President Truman’s plan to run merchant ships with armed forces if needed.
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Washington
America
CIO
Truman
Labor Department
Michael
Harry Bridges
Joseph Curran
World Federation of Trade Unions
WFTU
Paris
Mr. Truman
Carpenters Strike Halts Cleveland-Area Construction
In Cushahoga Lake Geauga counties a 4500 strong AFL carpenters union walked off the job demanding a 35 cent hourly raise. The district council reports workers will not report for duty until carpenters in all trades join.
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Tre
AFL Carpenters
AFL Building Trades
AFL
Weather update for Carolina region shifts to cooler Tuesday
The forecast notes mostly cloudy conditions today with cooler temperatures tonight. A temperature change is expected on Tuesday, signaling a cooler day ahead in the Carolina area.
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Carolina
Russians Have 6,000,000 Men Left In Army
MERNBERG, June 3. Soviet Russia has released more than 10,000,000 men from military service in the last 10 months yet about 6,000,000 remain under arms. An allied source estimates the Red Army at 4,500,000, with air force, navy and NKVD totaling 1,500,000 more.
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Mernberg
Resia
Red Army
Air Force
Navy
NKVD
Guilford Receives 50 000 Gift for Library Addition
Guilford College president Clyde A. Milner announces a 50 000 gift from the General Education Board of New York toward a library addition. The grant is conditional on raising 150 000 more for the library project.
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Guilford College
Clyde A. Milner
General Education Board of
New York City
Trials Of Japan's War-Makers Meet With Delay Of 10 Days
Tokyo dispatch reports the Tokyo tribunal granting a 10 day recess to 76 defendants including ex premier Hideki Tojo to prepare defenses. Chief Prosecutor Keenan will present a 15000 word opening against the accused as the court reconvenes.
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Japan
Tokyo
War Ministry
Joseph B. Keenan
Hideki Tojo
Keenan
United States
Gieneral MacArthur
William Webb
Normalcy Again Promised For Nation's Fuel-Starved Industries
The nation's 400,000 bituminous miners returned to soft coal pits after a 64 day layoff. Steel output in Pittsburgh dropped to 35 percent of capacity this week with six to seven weeks expected for full resumption. Steel Corp began a gradual recall of 41,000 workers as coal recovery continues. AFL UMW leaders toured fields to explain a new contract with a welfare fund and an 18 cent hourly wage boost.
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Associated Press
Steel Industry
1Ttsburgh
Steel
Steel Corp
Afl-United Mine Workers
Supreme Court bars state bus segregation across state lines
The Supreme Court ruled six to one that a state cannot require racial segregation on interstate buses. Irene Morgan, a Black passenger fined in Virginia for refusing a driver’s seat change, challenged the Jim Crow law upheld by the Virginia court. Justice Reed found the statute burdens interstate commerce.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Virginia Supreme Court
Virginia
Irene Morgan
Greyhound
Norfolk
Baltimore
Circuit Court
Middlesex County
Reed
Involve Yanks In Deaths Of German Girls
Two German girls died in incidents involving American soldiers. In Litzingen a girl shot herself in lieutenant Robert Hawk s quarters on May 30 as he faced redeployment. In Nuernberg a 19 year old was accidentally shot by Pfe Arthur Lee Cannell 21 of Ponyville Mississippi as they lay in bed. Cannell said the pistol discharged accidentally from his jacket. The incidents raise four German deaths in a month tied to American soldiers.
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Frankfurt
U. S. Army
U.S. Army
United States
Nuernberg
Pfe
Arthur Lee Cannell
Ponyville
Miss
Cannell
Trial postponed in Fayetteville murder case due to solicitor illness
Judge Clawson L. Williams postponed the Wall Co. Ewing murder trial in Fayetteville noting the illness of Solicitor Ertle Carlyle who must rest six weeks. The case was set to begin tomorrow and the next court term is in August with a possible governor called special term.
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Fayetteville
Clawson L. Williams
Wall Co. Ewing
Ewing
Ertle Carlyle
Earthquake in East Turkey Claims About 600 Lives
Government officials announced the Friday quake in East Turkey likely killed about 600 people. Villages in Mus and Erzurum provinces were destroyed as relief planes delivered food medicine and supplies to the stricken area.
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Turkey
Renee L
Mus
Erzurum
Peezi Kansagil
Erzincan
Modification of Report on Franco Spain Hinted
New York dispatch reports that UN Security Council members anticipate changes to a sub-committee report on Poland's charges against Franco Spain. Delegates expect modifications before the Thursday council action, with the core call to refer the Spanish case to the General Assembly for a possible universal break with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
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Spain
New York
United Nations Security Council
Poland
Council
General Assembly
Assembly
Francisco Franco
Cherry Speaks On Duty To Graduates
Governor Cherry delivered a commencement address at the Women's College in Greensboro on June 3 urging graduates to balance personal gain with duty to the community and enterprise. He warned against complacency and stressed continuing effort to avoid slipping backward.
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Cherry
Greensboro
Woman's College
Miss Pratt Gives Edge To Democrats
The Democrats lead Republicans six to five among women in the House after the swearing in of Jane Pratt of Raeford North Carolina. Pratt succeeds the late William Burgin whom she served as secretary at his death in April.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Jane Pratt
North Carolina
Miss Pratt
Raeford
N. C
William ©. Burgin
Army Air Force Planes Smash 12 Records Between May 17 19
General Spaatz announced that Army Air Forces planes set 12 world records from May 17 to 19. B-29 bombers led with eight marks on May 17, Lt Edward Grabowski and Capt John Bartlett set six more on the same route. The RAF’s P 80 Shooting Star and a Sikorsky R 5 helicopter also set records at Wright Field Ohio during a three day materiel command tour.
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Army Air Force
Dayton
Ohio
Army Air Forces
Carl Spaatz
AAF
Edward Grabowski
New York City
Wright Field
St. Louis
William L. Vavricka
del Rio
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Kenneth R. Bloom
Bend
Ore
Spaatz
The
Army And Navy Schools Smash Old Records
West Point hosts a record June week as more than 800 alumni join 875 graduates for the tradition filled celebration. The graduation parade is set for this morning with the class to hold a graduation hop in the War Department theater and South gymnasium tonight.
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West Point
N. Y
U. S. Military Academy
War Department
South Gymnasium
Naval Academy graduation to aid postwar fleet
Annapolis reports the largest peacetime graduating class will graduate 822 cadets with 54 percent having prior military service in the regular Navy or Naval Reserve. Many attended fighting fronts, and graduates are expected to help man America’s expanding postwar fleet.
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Naval Academy
America
Navy
Naval
Regula Navy
Naval Reserve
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