Stalin Faces Weekend Decision on European Economic Plan
The article notes Stalin must decide whether the Soviet Union will join Britain France and the United States in a European economic plan or chart an independent eastward path. Bevin Ramadier Bidault urge Moscow to join by Monday. Pravda reacts then Tass says the government is considering the move.
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London
Europe
Stalin
Russia
Britain
Rance
Ernest Bevin
U. S
George Marshall
Paul Ramadier
Georges Bidault
Paris
Soviet Union
Pravda
Marshall
Tass
Reds May Reopen Soviet Iran Case
Lake Success June 21 American aid to Iran to block Communist expansion near the Soviet Union spurs talk Russia may reopen the Russian Iranian case in the United Nations Security Council. Delegates note a precedent when Andrei Gromyko pressed a special meeting to protest aid to Greece and Turmenia. The Russian Iranian case remains on the council’s reserved agenda awaiting possible revival.
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Security Council
Greece
Tur
Elsia
Iran
Azerbaijan
Council
Gambler Benjamin Siegel Killed While Reading In Beverly Hills
In Beverly Hills California Benjamin Bugsie Siegel 41 a noted gambler and former public enemy was shot to death at a home after returning from Ocean Park He sat on a divan reading a newspaper when an unidentified gunman fired through a window four shots hitting him Police Captain William W White said the killer fled Smiley a guest at the scene described hearing glass shatter and the body being found with the newspaper in Siegel s lap The event follows Siegel s years in the sporting world and prior associations with mob figures and investigations into Louis Lepke Buchalter and the murder of Harry Greenberg in Hollywood
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Calif
Benjamin
Bugsie) Siegel
William W. White
Siegel
Ocean Park
Allen Smiley
Captain White
Smiley
White
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
No. Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Murder, Inc
Sing Sing Prison
Harry Greenberg
Hollywood
Adopted Mother Praises Vets at NC DAV Convention
Miss Minnie Gwaltney of Hickory, the adopted mother of the North Carolina Disabled American Veterans, told the annual convention in Greensboro that she admires how veterans have rebuilt their lives. She recalled working as a nurse at Oteen hospital when the DAV started in 1923 and noted she has attended all but one state convention. Despite a broken hip two months earlier, she spoke with help from a nurse and a wheelchair.
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Greensboro
Minnie Gwaltner
Hickory
North Carolina
Han
North Carolina Weather Outlook and Sunday Sunrise Times
Cloudy with occasional rain and little temperature change today and tonight. Sunday remains mostly cloudy with light rain or drizzle and scattered thundershowers in the afternoon. Sunrise at 6 03, sunset at 7 40 on Sunday June 22, 1947.
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North Carolina
Five Generations Unite in Newport Wedding
A 71-year-old great grandmother Louise L. Bryer married 72-year-old navy draughtsman Allen C. Smith in Newport. The ceremony at United Baptist church followed by a reception included Bryer’s five-generation family led by her 87-year-old mother Alice Carr and her great grandaughter Celestine Schaefer, with two of Bryer’s sons present.
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R. L
Baltimore
Navy
Louise L. Bryer
Allen C. Smith
Celestine Schaefer
Alice Carr
Alice Carr. Five Generations In the Bride's Family, Including Mrs. Carr
United Baptist Church Parsonage
Plan to Free Yank In Rape Case Opposed
Hu Shih, former ambassador to the United States and president of National Keking University, said the proposed release of Marine Cpl. William G. Pierson, jailed for raping a Chinese student, is a nationwide test of American justice. Pierson received 15 years from a marine court martial, while a Navy official recommended overturning the conviction.
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Hu Shih
United States
William G. Pierson
National Keking University
Pierson
Sumter
S. C
Johnston
D-Sc
Washington
Judge Advocate General of the Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Negro Held For Theft Of $5,000 In Bank Heist
Greensboro June 21 James Washington Aiken a Reidsville Negro is jailed awaiting December federal term on charges of stealing 5000 from the Bank of Reidsville. He waived preliminary hearing. Bank president W A Trotter says 3350 was recovered yesterday. Aiken had cleaned vault walls and formerly janitored there 15 years.
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Greensboro
James Washington Aiken
Reidsville
Bank of
U. S
L. Herbin
W. A. Trotter
Aiken
Trotter
Tests Boy Friend Drowns On Bay
Elwee T Harris told police he walked with Adele Roberts 22 along pier six. She asked if he would save her and jumped in. Harris followed though not a strong swimmer. Patrolmen threw a rope and pulled him out. The girl’s body was found about half an hour later.
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Baltimore
Elwee T. Harris
Pier Six
Adele Roberts
Harris
Adele
Attlee Attacks Eastern Europe and Soviet Policy in Speech
In Barnsley England Prime Minister Attlee denounces human rights denial and "travesty" democracy in several Eastern European countries. He warns against supporting left governments practicing suppression of free speech and opposition, urging defense of personal freedom for all ideologies. This follows his earlier critique of the Soviet Union as a "wall of ignorance" between Russians and the West.
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Barnsley
England
Attlee
Europe
Yorkshire Miners
British
Trade Union Congress
Clemson Student Found Dead in Dorm Room
F S McFadden Jr of Rock Hill, a Clemson college student, was found dead in his bed by roommates. College physician Dr Lee Milford reported a heart attack as the cause.
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Clemson
S. C
F. S. McFadden, Jr
Rock Hill
Clemson College
Lee Milford
Poles Clash Over Defense Budget in Warsaw Parliament
In Warsaw the communist led parliament erupted as Zygmund Zulawski attacked a 26 billion zloty defense appropriation. He called the armed forces budget excessive and likened Poland's situation to Nazi-era control, while rival deputies sang for the army and most lawmakers supported the budget.
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Poland
Zygmund Zulawski
Zulawski
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Mikolajczyk
Sixty Six Die as Indian Riots Rage Across Provinces
Reported violence across Calcutta, Lucknow, and Lahore tied to partition moves. Bengal legislature backed separate Hindu and Muslim areas, Punjab readies similar action, amid curfews and clashes. Authorities tally casualties at dozens.
College Sophs Take First Naval Training Cruise
About 1,500 college sophomores from 34 eastern schools with naval ROTC training embark on their first training cruise aboard the Albany and Oregon City. They will serve aboard ships until August 12, drilling in gunnery and maneuvers in Caribbean waters as part of earning future commissions as ensigns. The program, started by Rear Admiral James L. Holloway Jr., passes through the Florida Straits with calls at Guantanamo, Colon, Panama, Trinidad, San Juan, Bermuda, and New York before returning to Norfolk.
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Naval Academy
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Oregon City
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James L. Holloway, Jr
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Cuba
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Panama
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San Juan
P. R
Bermuda
New York
Norfolk
Italian Regime Wins Confidence Vote in Assembly
Rome June 21. Premier Alcide de Gasperi's fourth government, the first since liberation to exclude Communists and Socialists, won a confidence vote by 43 votes. Umberto Terracini announced 274 of 509 deputies voted in favor, 231 against, four abstained.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Italy
Reds Threaten to Seize Manchurian Capital in War News
June 21 dispatches report Szepingkai abandoned by the government and Changchun facing a Red assault risk. About 6,000 Chinese Communists reportedly clash with defenders in Szepingkai while Changchun lacks troops and equipment. Government gains include two railroad towns south of Haicheng captured. Shin Pao suspended in Mukden for reporting the military situation.
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Szepingkai
Changchun
Mukden
First Army
Manchuria
Burma
Haicheng
Shanghai
Shin Pao
Body recovered from Lake Lure after drowning incident
The body of Clarence Hamrick was recovered Wednesday night from Lake Lure where he drowned June 7 while fishing. Jim Nelson, a local farmer who had searched 11 days for the body, retrieved it with long serrated hooks.
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Lake Lake Lure
Clarence Hamrick
Lake Lure Lure
Jim Nelson
Former Tent Show Thespian Takes Over Senate
Senator Glenn Taylor of Idaho, a former tent show actor, held the Senate floor for eight hours and twenty five minutes in a bid to delay a vote on overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft Hartley labor bill. He treated the scene as a soliloquy while joking about Sunday fishing trips and Wall Street plots.
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Washington
Glenn Taylor
Didaho
Senate
Truman
Taylor
Wall Street
West
Huey Long
Actors Equity
United States Senate
London
Dogs Shipped To Singapore From Australia Flight Of Pedigreed Pets
Sydney dispatch reports six five pedigreed dogs flown to Singapore aboard the converted Halifax bomber Walzing Matilda to aid the city's canine population. Seventeen breeds including Alsatians Great Danes and Dalmatians represented. Transport cost was 50 pounds per dog.
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Sydney
Singapore
Wisconsin delegates rate GOP presidential candidates in straw poll
About 2,000 Wisconsin Republican delegates cast straw votes for 11 candidates at the state convention. House majority leader Halleck criticized Harry Truman in a keynote prepared address. Ballots were tabulated by an accounting firm the next day amid mixed views on significance.
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Wis
Wisconsin
House
Halleck
Harry
Wendell Wilkie
Thomas E. Coleman
State Voluntary Committee
Leaders Worn Down as Taft-Hartley Vote Hangs Fire
Frazzled senators failed to set a vote time on President Truman s veto of the Taft Hartley labor bill after near 24 hours of continuous sessions. Senator White of Maine planned a Monday vote if Morse quits speaking, while Morse and Pepper delayed the outcome amid a large flood of telegrams supporting the veto.
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Truman
White
Maine
House
White House
Morse
R-Ore
Senate
Dicker
Pepper
D-Fia
Red Springs appoints new city manager after Snyder resignation
Reece C. Snyder, longtime Red Springs parks chief since 1941, resigns to become city manager and city clerk of Red Springs North Carolina. Snyder will leave High Point duties June 30 and move July 1 to assume the new post.
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Reece C. Snyder
Parks and Recreation
Roy S. Braden
Snyder
Red Springs
N. C
Water and Sewer Department
Parks Division
Parks and Recreation Division
High Point
Roy
Braden
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