Senator Vandenberg Fights House Foreign Aid Cut
Senate hearings opened on the House cut to foreign aid funding with Senator Vandenberg denouncing the reduction as a cynical back door move that guts Europe’s anti communist effort. He urged restoring ECA funding as essential to U S interests while Taber defended the cut amid a flood of letters backing lower aid.
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Vandenberg
R-Mich
House
Europe
United States
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Senate Appropriations Committee
Marshall
Rep
Taber
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Rejects Race Based Draft Unit Amendment
Southern Democrats failed to amend the draft bill to allow enlisteds to serve only in separate units by race. The Senate rejected the Russell Maybank proposal amid ongoing battles over civil rights tied to the peacetime selective service measure. The chamber also approved reducing the service limit from five to two years in a midnight session.
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Ark
Eastad
Miss
Truck Driver Burned to Death in Accident
A Kinston truck driver Horace Stroud died when his dump truck overturned on a causeway near Itford in Elizabeth City. Firefighters arrived too late as flames engulfed the vehicle while he was partly burned. State Patrolman H L White and Hertford officers investigated without release of a report.
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Kinston
Itford
Horace Stroud
Hertford Fire Department
H. L. White
Hertford
Joe Layden
T. N. White
Weather Summary for North Carolina and Nearby Cities
The forecast shows a cool to mild pattern with little change in temperatures across the west and east portions. Thursday is expected to be fair and mild with steady conditions. Rainfall amounts are noted in local records including Charleston and other regional stations. Data lists temperatures in multiple cities with daily highs and lows and precipitation readings.
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Fair Weather Expected Across Carolinas Tomorrow
The 24 hour period ending 7:30 a.m. today showed scattered thundershowers on the South Carolina coast with North Carolina and South Carolina cities recording high and low temperatures in the 80s and 90s. Greensboro reported 0.01 inches, Charlotte 0.96 inches, and Mount Mitchell 0.54 inches as a drenching shower disrupted power lines.
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Operators Propose Welfare Plan in Coal Talks
Soft coal operators moved to present their own plan in the risky contract talks led by John L. Lewis. The welfare fund proposal was quickly rejected by the operators as court-directed bargaining opened Monday, signaling a tense 48 hour checkpoint.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis proposes $100 monthly pension to keep miners on job
John L. Lewis offered to keep coal miners on the job after the contract expires if mine operators accept his $100 a month pension plan. Negotiations began last Monday under Justice Goldsborough’s order, with doubt about reaching an agreement by July 1. Lewis said he would urge the 200‑man UMW policy committee to keep the mines operating.
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John L. Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lewis
UMW
Negotiators Aim to Avert July Coal Strike With New Pact
Hourly talks produced a proposal as the negotiating conference planned to resume at 1 p.m. EST. The current contract ends June 30 and Lewis urged a wage and welfare program deal to prevent a July coal strike. Operators may offer a plan addressing only one of several disputed issues.
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Truman taunts unions over Taft Hartley act in Spokane
President Truman, at the Communication Workers of America convention in Spokane, warned that discontent with the 1948 labor act would have a political remedy in November 1948. He joked about being on schedule and joked about being AWOL as part of the speech.
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Truman
Communication Workers of America Independent
A.W.O.L
Truman appeals for November vote to overthrow GOP Congress
President Truman denounced the Republican controlled Congress in Spokane urging voters to act in November 1948 if they dis approve the Taft Hartley act. He warned labor and civic crowds that the country faces a worse Congress than any since the first session.
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Truman
Congress
Monahan Square
Voter Apathy Marked 1946 Election Turnout
In November 1946 only about one third of eligible voters cast ballots showing widespread apathy toward political reform and potential consequences. coverage notes that more details appear on Page Two.
Red Candidate Named For Czech Presidency By Front
Prague reports the national front coalition led by the communists announced premier Bohumil Gottwald as the sole candidate to replace Eduard Benes as president. Antonin Zapotocky is named premier to succeed Gottwald and the new constitution becomes law, with Gottwald expected to be elected by acclamation.
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Kelement Gottwald
Eduard Benes
Antonin Zapotocky
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Benes
Zapotocky
United States Accepts London Proposals for Western Germany
Secretary of State Marshall announced U S acceptance of London's plans for western Germany and home rule with pledges to curb rearmament. He called the program a major step toward economic recovery and stability, while congress and France weigh approval and guarantees against German remilitarization.
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France
Two Sergeants Die From Their Injuries
In Fayetteville on June 9 two 82nd Airborne Division sergeants died in Fort Bragg hospital, bringing to three the paratroopers killed and two buried from a railroad grade crossing crash last Saturday. The latest victims were Edward Moopert, 35, of Cliffside Park New Jersey, and Lewis E. Blystone, 8, of Freeport Pennsylvania.
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Freeport
Britain Hopes to Include Soviet in Four Power Pact
London reports that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the House of Commons Britain still aims to bring Russia into the four power agreement on postwar Germany. He cited approved recommendations for a federal western Germany, indefinite western occupation, and international Ruhr control, from a US Britain France Benelux conference. Moscow radio and Berlin outlets reacted against the plan as Germans resist.
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Rising Rivers Threaten West Coast Dikes And Drown Puget Island
A flood front along the Columbia and Fraser rivers deepens a soggy dike line from Portland to the Pacific. Very critical conditions prompt U S army engineers to warn of widespread danger as Puget Island is flooded. Canadian forces prepare evacuations above the Fraser. Memorial Day disaster toll climbs with Vanport fatalities bringing total dead to four as 11,000 workers remain on dike duty.
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Republicans Divided Over Housing Bill
Washington June 9 Democrats forecast housing legislation to dominate the presidential campaign as Rep. Wolcott of Michigan unveiled a Republican substitute. He criticized Taft backed provisions for 500 000 government financed low rent units slum clearance and redevelopment while labeling the senate measure as socialist.
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Rep
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Michigan
House Banking Committee
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Rep. McCormack
Massachusetts
McGrath Sees No Walkout Need at Democratic Convention
Senator McGrath of Rhode Island said southern delegates may not walk out of the Philadelphia Democratic Convention over civil rights spheres. He noted some states instructing electors not to vote for Truman without predicting outcomes. The Dixie threat lingered after Jackson meeting as Myers heads platform committee and Taft signals possible late session to push civil rights legislation.
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Washington
Truman
Ton
Philadelphia
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Miss
Francis J. Myers
Pennsylvania
Myers
Taft
GOP
Armistice Agreed Upon by Arab and Jewish Sides
Both Arab and Jewish spokesmen said they accepted unconditionally the four week armistice for Palestine effective at 1 am EST Friday under UN mediation. Reports note ongoing fighting and bombings in Tel Aviv with Egyptian attacks and Jordanian, Syrian actions. US military officers are assigned to truce duty amid tensions and British officers are cited regarding Arab forces.
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United States
Halleck Expects End of Congress by June 19
Indiana Republican leader Halleck told the House he sees no reason for adjournment on June 19 and noted Congress might return between or after party conventions. He said they could finish all measures they ought to do and can afford to do.
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Plane Crash Kills Fifteen in Mexico Near Pichucalco
June 9 report from TuxатлаGutierrez Mexico states a Ser vicios Aereos De Chiapas airliner crashed during a forced landing at La Perla ranch near Pichucalco. Fifteen killed, 138 feared dead overall, with Capt. Vicente Manzano the inspector general of Chiapas police among the dead.
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Servicios Aereos de Chiapas
Vicente Manzano
Chiapas
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