Newsman Convicted of Treason in Boston Trial
Boston June 28 A tall gray former American writer was convicted by a 12 man panel of treason for 10 overt acts. Judge Francis J W Ford set sentencing range from death to five years in prison and a $10000 fine. The defendant stood rigid as the verdict was read with the foreman declaring Guilty.
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Boston
Las Chandler
M Today
Francis J. W. Ford
Baltimore
Chandler
James S. Allen
William D. Chappell
Foren
Adler
Communists Fire Mukden After Two-Week Siege
At Mukden, Manchuria, government forces push toward Hsingkai while Communist fighters burn the city before retreating. Officials say about 50,000 Communist troops killed or captured in the region and three-fifths of the strike force in Manchuria reportedly destroyed, with relief columns hampered by damage to the Changchun Mukden railway.
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Mukden
Manchuria
Hsingkai
Changchun-Mukden
Jes
Seach
Thetile
Sanchuria
Ing
Chicago
Meyer Kestenbaum
Hart, Schaffner and Marx
OPA
Weather summary for cotton regions report ends 8 p m
Washington weather report lists temperatures and rainfall for cotton areas and major cities. Highs include Paso 98 Fort Worth 98 Galveston 91 Little Rock 92 Memphis 94 New Orleans 95. rainfall amounts vary.
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Paso
Ft. Worth
Galveston
Jackson Ile
Wea
Little Rock
Angeles
Loubwille
Miami
Minn
Orleans
Norfolk
Nila
Phoenix
Portland
Raleigh
Meet in Paris Shows Strain Over Europe Aid Plan
Paris June 28 Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov joined British and French ministers at the aid to Europe conference. Pessimism and bickering marked the session as officials doubt Russian cooperation while Marshall’s plan remains flexible enough to work with or without Moscow. The ministers planned to reconvene at 4 p.m. Monday amid heat and strategic signaling.
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Paris
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
U. S
Marshall
Europe
Russia
Molotov
At & Po
War Assets Administration under fire by House committee
A House expenditures subcommittee accused the War Assets Administration of misrepresentation and deception and urged civilian leadership replacing military officials. The special report said WAA contracts were unconscionable and reports to Congress misleading, and recommended notifying President Truman that the disposal program is unsatisfactory under military leadership.
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Washington
House Expenditures
War Assets Administration
WAA
Justice Department
Internal Revenue Bureau
Congress
House
Truman
Robert M. Littlejohn
Violence in Jerusalem Leaves Three Dead
In Tel Aviv three British army personnel were killed and five wounded as gunfire struck a crowded street on the first night after an order barred off duty troops. In Haifa Mount Carmel cafe raid left one lieutenant dead and two officers wounded as police recovered weapons from a blood-stained taxi. Police called both attacks probable Stern gang retribution for the May 6 disappearance of 16 year old Alexander Rubowitz.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Taifa
Mount Carmel
Haifa
Stern Gang
Alexander Rubowitz
Rodman Elected President of North Carolina Bar Association
John C. Rodman of Washington was elected president of the North Carolina Bar Association at the 49th annual convention in Blowing Rock. New officers include W. J. Adams Samuel B. Underwood and Henry Anderson as vice presidents, Edward L. Cannon as secretary treasurer, and John T. Manning as executive committee chairman. A resolution calls for improving court procedure and cooperation with a 23 member commission studying judicial process.
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Blowing Rock
John C. Rodman
Washington
North Carolina Bar Association
Beaufort County
Charles R. Jonas
Lincolnton
W. J. Adams
Greensboro
Samuel B. Underwood
Greensville
Henry Anderson
Fayetteville
Edward L. Cannon
Raleigh
John T. Manning
Durham
Eisenhower Warns Army Is A Poor Second To Russia
General Eisenhower told a Senate subcommittee the army is a poor second to the Soviet Union in strength and urged restoring 435 million dollars in cuts and adding 103 million for new planes. He said current funds threaten U S defense and urged renewed pressure for peace amid wartime fears.
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Russia
Eisenhower
Senate
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
House
War Department
Department
United States Army
Gurney
R-Sd
Soviet Union
United States
Mississippi Near 103-Year High as Flood Looms
The Mississippi River surged toward a 39.3 foot high water mark, threatening rail yards and riverfront warehouses as engineers and volunteers battle to hold dikes along the Illinois side near Venice Granite City Cape Chester. Jessica Dragonette wed Nicholas Meredith Turner in New York at Cardinal Spellman’s chapel.
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ST Louis
Illinois
Venice
Granite City
Cape
Chester
Arry F. Wahlgren
U. S
Mississippi
Itessica Dragonette
New York
Jessica Dragonette
Nicholas Meredith Turner
Francis Cardinal Spellman
No-Strike Contracts Opposed by AFL Counsel
AFL counsel Joseph Padway declares all AFL unions will be advised not to sign any wage contracts with no-strike clauses. After a 160-lawyer conference he says unions will publicly defy Taft Hartley provisions on political expenditures to test the law Constitutionally. He urges defeating supporters of Taft Hartley and notes some unions may disregard the national labor relations board.
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Washington
AFL
Joseph Padway
APL
Padway
Taft
Ohio
Rep
Hartley
RNJ
Taft- Hartley
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
J V Garrett Dies While Playing Golf at Sedgefield
J V Garrett 61 of 102 Brently Circle died of an acute heart dilation while playing golf at the Sedgefield country club shortly after noon. He worked as purchasing agent for Chadbourn Mills and was a longtime Adams Millis hosiery mills employee. He leaves a wife Iva Holton, two sons, three brothers, and one sister. Funeral at Wesley Memorial church this afternoon at 4 with burial at Oakwood Memorial park.
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J. Virgil Garrett
Brently Circle
Sedgefield Country Club
Guilford County
W. W. Harvey
Chadbourn Mills
Charlotte
Sedgefield
Jamestown
Joseph D
Mary Bates Garrett
Adams Millis Hosiery Mills
Wesley Memorial Church
Stewards
Iva Holton
Jack
Greensboro
Frank
High Point
Dewey
Raymond
Asheboro
Floyd
Annie Lequer
Paul S. Hardin
Oakwood Memorial Park
Gandhi Accused of Undermining Mountbatten Plan in Frontier row
Muslim League President Mohammad Ali Jinnah charged Mohandas Gandhi with promoting views that sabotage the Mountbatten partition plan for India. He said Gandhi supported the frontier province demand for independence and favored a Pathan free state, while a referendum in the Northwest Frontier Province looms to decide joining Pakistan or Hindustan.
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New Delhi
Pakistan
Hindustan
Jinnah
Gandhi
Frontier Province
Mountbatten
Khan Sahib
Dutch Cancer Army Tactics
In Batavia Java on June 28 a late U S pledge to discuss economic aid to Indonesia prompted the Dutch to call off plans for launching military operations against the Indonesian republic next Monday. The United States urged cooperation in forming an interim federal government and noted readiness to discuss aid once established. The note also stated Indonesians should accept Dutch sovereignty in the interim government until January 1 1949 when an independent United States of Indonesia would form.
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Batavia
Java
United States
Indonesia
U. S
United States of Indonesia
Prices Higher and Goods More Plentiful After OPA
An Associated Press survey finds prices higher and goods more plentiful since the OPA expired in 1946 and later revived as a limited agency. The report cites higher indices, despite more stock in some items, with meat, eggs, fats, oils and sugar rising significantly and prices on staple goods climbing across markets.
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Chicago
OPA
Associated Press
Truman
CPA
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Industries Lead Movement To Avert Coal Strike
U S Steel and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal oppose a nationwide coal strike by signaling readiness to meet John L Lewis on wage and hour demands in full. AFL United Mine Workers in soft coal fields begin a ten day vacation, risking an industry wide walkout on July 8 if a settlement is not reached. Ben F Fairless and George M Humphrey reportedly urged operators to offer Lewis the basic wage and hour terms, including $13.05 for an eight hour day.
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Washington
U. S. Steel and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
John L. Lewis
AFL United Mine
Lewis
Mmine
Ben In
F. Fairless
United States Steel Coronation
George M. Humphrey
Big Pitts H Coal Company
Fairless
Humphrey
Clay County Quiet Amid Miner Walkout
In Clay County West Virginia 806 miners reported to work despite a 10 day vacation causing 100000 union miners to idle and coal operations to shut down affecting the state's role as the nation’s leading soft coal producer.
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Clay
W. Va
Clay County
West Virginia
Mine wage talks move to early next week after weeklong halt
The United Mine Workers seek a wage rise to $11.85 for nine hours as talks with employers resume after the weekend. Negotiations may start Tuesday under Labor Secretary Schwellenbach after Krug plans mines to return to private operation. UMW will consider the invitation, while other demands include welfare fund levy up to 10 cents, more overtime pay and six paid holidays.
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Washington
Lewis
Labor Department
Schwellenbach
Secretary of the Interior
Takeoff Rule Aims to Prevent Crashes at LaGuardia
President Truman's air safety board unveiled a new take-off regulation to limit loads based on wind direction slope runway length and temperature. Chairman James M Landis said the rule would have prevented the May 29 LaGuardia crash and the CAB and Civil Aeronautics Administration plan to implement it in four to five days with calculating tables for airlines.
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Washington
Truman
Air Safety Board
la Guardia Field
N. Y
James M. Landis
Special Board
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Landis
Carolina student drowns near Chapel Hill
John Arthur Lewis a UNC senior 27 from Bethlehem Pennsylvania drowned at Hogan's Lake seven miles north of Chapel Hill around 1130 pm Coroner H J Walker Hillsboro ruled the death accidental Dr E F M G Hergepeth said artificial respiration was attempted but failed.
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Moody Bible State
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Hinese City
Boren
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Meet
James H. Hyde
Berryville
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Frank Simpson
Hyde
CIO
Emil Rieve
The
Textile Workers Union
Jacobs S. Potogsky
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Phili Murray
Lee Pressman
CIO General Counse
R. J.thomas
Unit Auto Workers
Rodman
Bulletins
Umstead
Winston-Salem
William B. Umstead
Journal and Sentinel
Rowland Rowland
George Wilson
J. H. Godfrey
J. V. Garrett
Virgil Garrett
Dutch Cancer Army Tactics
Paul Porter
Associated Press Daily
Silas
Kansas City
Fort Worth
Texas
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