Greece braces as strike threat fuels riots and deaths
In Greece the royalist government imposes death sentences for anti state actions prompting new riots. The ministry of public order reports 198 killed since April 1 including 17 gendarmes and three soldiers and 14 gendarmerie stations attacked. Communists warn the emergency measures could spark civil war.
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Chakales
Greece
Ministry of Public Order
Edessa
Macedonia
EAM -Kke
Athens
Poanier
Constantin Tsaldaris
General Confederation of Labor
Yugoslavia
Nth
Phlorina
Kastoria
Fraud and unrest shadow Italy's move to republic status
In Rome and Naples protests followed a disputed plebiscite that favored Italy becoming a republic. Monarchist leaders cry foul over alleged electoral fraud and demand allied review while the supreme court faces delays in certifying the result.
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Italy
John P. McKnight
Rome
Umberto II
Naples
Palermo
Federa
Giuseppe Romita
Pagano
Supreme Court
Tullio Benedetti
National Monarchial Union
Ellery W. Stone
Umberto
Hentee Beltadenn Catth
Falcone Lucifero
Quirinale
Union opposition grows as sea labor talks continue
The AFL seamen’s union halted a strike vote and opened wage hour talks with west coast shipowners in San Francisco. Washington proposed in port paid days off while keeping a 36 hour sea week, a plan rejected by CIO and ship operators. Negotiations persisted as unions press for a 40 to 44 hour week, with many details unresolved.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
AFL
CIO
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
San Francisco
Committee For Maritime Unity
Theld Cio National Maritime Union
National Council of the National Maritime Union
NMU
Peace talks and Petrillo clash over broadcast laws
Article covers James C. Petrillo announcing a radio network ban if the Lea act is upheld, and the NAB urging industry and labor to meet for fair discussion. It notes the NAB’s stance against bypassing dialogue and signals a potential court test of the constitutionality of the Lea act.
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Washington
National Association of Broad
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Mu
Tment Burg
NAB
Petrillo
Chicago
St. Petersburg
Food Aid to German Civilians Reaches Milestone
Berlin reports that over 563000 tons of food have been shipped by the United States to the German civilian population in the U S zone since last July. The daily tally highlights American efforts to feed Germany amid Russian-controlled press in Berlin.
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Berlin
Iran
America
U. Zone
Germany
U. S
Africa
Rman
Benin
Missing Charleston Girl Found Near Lenoir Camp
Betty Caroline Mcfaskill, missing from Charleston since Tuesday, was located in a tourist camp near Lenoir by Deputy Sheriff Gene Kirby and City Policeman Johnny Gibson. The 25-year-old former Lenoir woman and a 10-year-old boy accompanying them are held as investigators seek charges. Evelyn Healan reportedly claimed the girl and was in Charleston custody for transfer.
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Lenoir
N. C
Betty Caroline Mcfaskill
Charleston
S. C
Gene Kirby
Johnny Gibson
Tith Evelyn Healan
Price
Betty
Irish prisoner ends 77 day hunger strike at Crumlin Road
David Fleming a 27 year old Irish Republican Army prisoner at Crumlin Road jail ended his hunger strike after 77 days without food and 81 days total. Prison doctors ordered a diet of brandy milk and glucose as he began to recover. Fleming had started the protest March 20 over treatment of political prisoners and refused relatives urging him to quit after Sean McCaughey died on May 11 following a 23 day strike. Fleming serves a 12 year sentence for treason and larceny.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Crumlin Road
David Fleming
Irish Republican Army
Irshjman
Iraq
Sean McCaughey
Maryborough
Dublin
Fleming
Heroine Of Hotel Fire Laid To Rest At Chicago Church
In Chicago on June 8 mourners gathered at St Brendan's for Julia Berry who died saving others in the La Salle hotel fire. Her 16 year old son Jack wept behind the coffin as Father Ward Morgan praised her devotion and duty.
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Chicago
Julia Berry
la Salle
St. Brendan's
Jack
Ward Morgan
Father Morgan
Georgia Klan Faces State Action to Dissolve
Georgia Attorney General Eugene Cook said he would file a civil suit to dissolve the Ku Klux Klan within days. Gov Ellis Arnall directed the move as Cook seeks to revoke the Klan's Georgia charter and turn over criminal evidence to prosecutors.
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Atlanta
Eugene Cook
Ku Klux Klan
Cook
Ellis Arnall
Georgia
Tos ¢ Clark
Department of Justice
Bircuit Court
Colleges Turn Back Hordes Of Veterans
Chapel Hill faces 9000 veterans seeking admission this fall with 5000 from North Carolina denied at UNC and 3500 at North Carolina State College in Raleigh also refused. Greensbo ro Woman’s College cannot house hundreds. Governor Cherry and UNC trustees heard the claims from controller W D Carmichael Jr noting salary scales push talent away as veteran enrollment is set to peak in 1949 or 1950 with 30 000 veterans and 20 000 civilians expected to enroll by then.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina At
State College
Raleigh
Woman's College At
Greens
R. Gregg Cherry
University of North Carolina
W. D. Carmichael, Jr
Sec
Bible of Queen Victoria Among Kronberg Loot Recovered
The wartime display in Washington showed a Bible once owned by Queen Victoria with inscriptions and letters dating to 1603 among 193 items recovered from Kronberg Castle near Frankfurt. Valuations of jewelry and art placed the cache at one to one and a half million dollars, not counting historic relic values.
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Queen Victoria
Kronberg Castle
Washington
Britain
War Department
Floyd L. Parks
Bureau of Public Relations
WAC
Bride
Iamond
Margerita of
Hesse
Army Plans Arctic Tactic Tests Across Alaska and Aleutians
The Army will test tactics, weapons and gear in sub zero conditions with 4500 ground troops assembling next month in Alaska and the Aleutians. Frigid force operates Oct 1 to Apr 30 from Fairbanks, Williwaw at Adak, and Frost at Camp McCoy Wisconsin.
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Washington
Arctic
Europe
America
Alaska
Aleutians
Fairbanks
Williwaw
Adak
Quintuple funeral service draws 3000 in Newton
More than 3,000 people gathered across four Newton churches for the first quintuple funeral in the city’s history. The service honored five high school friends who died in the La Salle hotel fire in Chicago, with caskets lined before the First Methodist rostrum.
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Newton
la Salle
Chicago
First Methodist Church
William Denniston
Paul Harrington
Delbert A. Roush
Joe Sam Barton
Eldon Adams
Adams
Riots Leave One Dead and Nineteen Injured
In Columbia Tennessee a two week NAACP effort to clear 26 Negro jury service charges stalls as judges and prosecutors clash over systemic exclusion. In Alexandria Egypt a second day of anti British rioting wounds nine, with one dead, as demonstrations accompany London victory celebrations and government deploys force.
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Columbia, Tenn
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Nerr
Joe M. Ingram
NAACP
Maury County
Alexandria
London
Egypt
Bandits Seize Interior Town In Philippines
President Roxas reported Pantabangan in the central outlaw country fell to Hukbalahap bandits on June 1 after hundreds of attackers looted the town and set up a local regime. Police fight about 400 assailants as the Moros hold Minasanao guns and naval patrols pursue Japanese stragglers with 150 civilians captured.
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Manila
Pantabangan
Roxas
Abalao-llongot
Mindanao
United States Army
Moros
Weather Summary North and South Carolina and Nearby Areas
Partly cloudy and fair in most regions with some afternoon clouding in mountains. Washington reports 24 hour data with stations including Knoxville Atlanta and Memphis and indicates light rainfall measurements and varying temperatures.
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Caroline
Washington
Knoxville
Atlanta
Angeles
Atlantic
Memphis
Miami
Navy tests new flying stovepipe engine in flight
Navy reveals a ram jet engine dubbed the flying stovepipe has flown at speeds above 1400 mph in tests aided by Johns Hopkins. Code named Bumblebee, the 70 pound device uses air from the atmosphere for combustion and lacks moving parts, with thrust from burning gases expelled from the rear.
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Navy
Washington
Johns Hopkins Laboratory
Develo
Bumblebee
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