Truman Faces Decision On Treaty Or Labor Bill
Washington May 9 President Truman may face a choice between rushing senate action on the North Atlantic security treaty or on the administration labor bill. Senate leaders plan to ask for earliest possible action on the treaty, while timing of debate on labor measures remains unsettled amid opposition and procedural delays.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
White House
House
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lucas
Illinois
Robert Patterson
Southern Democrats Push for Trade Agreement Extension
In Washington on May 9 Southern Democrats pledged to back President Truman’s campaign promise to extend the trade agreements program in its original form. Senator George of Georgia will lead the administration fight in the Senate, aiming for approval in about ten days with backup from Byrd of Virginia and Sparkman of Alabama. Republicans, with some northern Democrats, plan opposition focusing on preserving the peril point provisions limiting tariff cuts and maintaining presidential restraint.
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Washington
Truman
George
D-Ga
Senate
Byrd
D-Va
Sparkman
D-Ala
Millikin
R-Colo
Taft
Ohio
Wherry
Nebraska
Conom
Tariff Commission
Congress
House
Senate Finance Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Whiteville Chief Quits Amid Municipal Shakeup
Whiteville town records announce the resignation of Chief William H. Ferrell effective soon. Town Clerk Geneva Cook says Ferrell stated he is going into business for himself. The move follows Whiteville’s recent municipal election and personnel changes.
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Whiteville
William H. Ferrell
Geneva Cook
Miss Cook
Ferrell
Disabled Vets Plan North Carolina Convention in May
Havelock DAV chapter announced plans for the North Carolina Disabled American Veterans convention at Morehead City and Beaufort in May 1922. Col Richard C Mallonee, Fort Bragg deputy commander and Bataan survivor, will speak at a banquet Saturday night. Initiation of new members and the Trench Rats honor group will occur during the event. Registration begins Thursday morning with a business session that afternoon, and a memorial service closes the convention Sunday.
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Havelock
North Carolina
Morehead City
Beaufort
Havelock Dav
Richard C. Mallonee
Fort Bragg
Bataan
Mallonnee
Jonathan Wainwright
DAV
National Order of ‘Trench Rats
The
Scabie Rats
Marooned Airmen Return Home Six Days Overdue
Vancouver reports Bill Grant and Sheila Cure return home six days late after their Canuck aircraft crashed on Mount Hozomeen during a storm. They described ice buildup, a wing snag, and a forced crash landing after leaving Cranbrook en route to Vancouver.
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Vancouver
B. C
Associated Press
Bill Grant
Sheila Cure
Mount Hozomeen
Cranbrook
Alta
Grant
Coquihalla Pass
Big Bend
Prince
Ton
Sheila
Miss Cure
Assault Case Against Giants' Boss Dismissed
New York May 9. Manager Leo Durocher of the New York Giants faced a simple assault summons by fan Fred Boysen of Brooklyn. Witnesses balked at testifying amid public opinion. Boysen withdrew the charge and apologized as Durocher was reinstated after a Cincinnati hearing.
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New York
Leo Durocher
New York Giants
Upper Manhattan Court
Fred Boysen
Brooklyn
Boysen
Benjamin H. Chasin
Durocher
Brooklyn Dodgers
Polo Grounds
Doris F. Byrne
A. B. Chandler
Cincinnati
Virginian Accepts Orphanage Berth
Dr. John G. Truitt resigns after 16 years as pastor of Suffolk Christian church to become superintendent of the Christian orphanage at Elon College North Carolina. In Fayetteville Private First Class Louis Giraldi of Buffalo New York was found dead in a downtown hotel, notes indicate he took sleeping pills. coroner called it death by own action with no inquest.
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David
George Douglas
Audubon Park Zoo
New Orleans
Argantua
Douglas
Suffolk
John G. Truitt
Suffolk Christian Church
Elon College
North Carolina
Truitt
Suffolk Church
Fayetteville
Louis Giraldi
Buffalo
N. Y
Cumberland County
J. W. Pinkston
Fort Bragg
Pinkston
Professors Named to Atomic Energy Commission
President Truman named two college professors Gordon Dean and Henry Smyth to the atomic energy commission after accepting Robert F. Bacher's resignation. Dean, 43, law professor at USC, is an attorney. Smyth, 51, Princeton physics chair who wrote the Smyth report on the atom bomb.
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Washington
Truman
Gordon Dean
Henry Dewolf Smyth
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
Robert F. Bacher
Commission
William W. Waymack
Dean
University of Southern California
Smyth
Princeton University
Fighting In China Near Shanghai And Across Vast Front
Reports from Shanghai describe clashes around Kaiting as the Chinese civil war reaches 17 miles northwest of the city. Communist forces push a two pronged offensive along a 230 mile front from Hangchow to Lake Poyang, with Red units advancing up to 200 miles south of the Yangtze at some points.
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Shanghai
Kaiting
Hangchow
Lake Poyang
Yangtze
Formosa gold use eyed to boost Chinese troops morale
Acting President Li Tsung Jen said he secured use of part of government gold in Formosa to pay Kwangtung province troops in silver. Chiang Kai-shek reportedly approved the move before his January retirement. Li's Canton visit raised hopes against Nanking abandonment. Shanghai fighting appeared small scale near Kaiting. Chinese garrison in Shanghai ordered 950 trucks and 300 jeeps seized for military use, provoking consular intercession.
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Canton
Li Tsung-Jen
Formosa
Kwangtung Province
Kwagsi
Hunan
Hopeh
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Nanking
Shanghai
Kaiting
Shanghai-Nanking
Kiangsi
Cheking
Democrats Polish Two Labor Compromises in House
Democratic leaders in the House labor committee work on two compromises. One repeals Taft Hartley and the other aims for a 75 cent minimum wage. A vote on the wage bill is planned before month end with a Taft Hartley repeal debate set for early June.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
House
Sims
D-Sc
Jacobs
D-Ind
Sim
Lesinski
D-Mich
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Rep
Wood
Dga
Sentiment survey in 20 Piedmont counties on bonds and politics
A spot check of 49 interviewees across Wake to Chatham counties gauges feeling on road and school bonds due June 4 and the legislature's treatment of schools. The survey also compares support for Scott Go Forward and Truman Fair Deal and asks if taxes should rise to expand services. More results on page 2.
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Piedmont
General Assembly
Wake
Durham
Alamance
Guilford
Forsyth
Davie
Iredell
Alexander
Caldwell
Burke
McDowell
Henderson
Rutherford
Cleveland
Gaston
Mecklenburg
Cabarrus
Randolph
Stanly
Chatham
Ashevill
Chamber of Commerce
Peace of World to Be Planned At Conference of Big Four
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said at Tempelhof that the Paris Big Four conference aims to plan the peace of the world. He will meet German leaders and UK experts before the May 23 foreign ministers meeting of the United States France the Soviet Union. Bevin urged German freedom and democracy at the talks.
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Berlin
Ernest Bevin
Tempelhof
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
United States
France
Soviet Union
Bevin
Britain
Atlantic Pact Explained By Patterson
Former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the Atlantic treaty is simple and would preserve peace because Russia would fear the united strength of pact nations. He testified as hearings consider ratification requiring a two thirds Senate vote.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
Rusia
Patterson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
United States
Roosevelt Jr in tight race for 20th district seat
In Manhattan's West Side Franklin D Roosevelt Jr fights for a congress seat in a May 17 special election. Petitions show 25 630 signatures and observers estimate about 60 000 ballots as a high target in a district that cast 124 412 votes in 1948.
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New York
Manhattan
West Side
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Congress
Roosevelt
Daniels Withdraws From Secretary Of The Navy Race
Friends of Jonathan Daniels said he declined the post after a weekend conference with Secretary Johnson. Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, had been discussed as Sullivan’s successor after Sullivan resigned in protest over halting work on a super carrier. Daniels is from a family with a former Navy secretary. He served on the White House staff under Roosevelt and Truman and later retired to private life.
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Washington
Jonathan Daniels
Sullivan
Daniels
Navy
Josephus Daniels
White House
Roosevelt
Truman
West German constitution approved for new republic
Bonn reports the western German constitutional convention approved a 146 article charter for a democratic federal republic to govern 46 million in the western zones. It sets general elections likely by July 15 and ends plans for any army while prohibiting censorship and the death penalty.
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Bonn
Germany
Western Zone
Nazi Germany
East Germany
Council of Foreign Ministers
Paris
U. S
Washington
West Germany
Re-Elect Mrs. FDR President of Body
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt was re elected president of the UN commission on human rights. Other officers re elected include Dr Pp C Chang of China and Rene Gassin of France as vice chairman and Dr Charles Malik of Lebanon as Papporteur secretary.
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Lake Success
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.N. Commission On Human Rights
Pp. C. Chang
China
Rene Gassin
France
Charles Malik
Lebanon
Papporteur
Lutheran Church Plans Iron Curtain Evangelism
The United Lutheran Church in America urges rapid evangelical work behind the iron curtain targeting Russia Hungary Bulgaria and Austria. Church leaders say UN strengths and flaws should be faced to advance peace and international cooperation.
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Lutheran Church of
Philadelphia
United Lutheran Church In America
F. Eppling Reinartz
United Nations
Reinartz
Luthéran Mission
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Austria
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Lewtown
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