House Action On Extension Strikes Snag
Washington May 10 Objection by Rep Sheridan blocked immediate house action on stop gap legislation to extend the draft law. A later move seeks house consideration next Monday two days before expiration. Efforts include adding a teen induction ban while the Senate has yet to act on a companion bill.
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Washington
Rep
Sheridan
D-Pa
House
Senate
Military Committee
Labor Committee
Chamber
Barkley
Lucas
D-Ill
John L. Lewis
Labor
Coal Miners to Return to Work After White House Talks
Four hundred thousand soft coal miners return to work Monday for a 12 day truce as negotiations continue. UMW leaders push for essential protections and wage gains while the president weighs an 18 percent hourly increase and a commission supervised health fund.
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United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Truman
White House
UMW
Union
Nat Policy Committee
Klan rally in Georgia reports cross burnings and new initiates
A resurgent Ku Klux Klan held a mass cross burning at Stone Mountain drawing about a thousand robed members and spectators. The event followed Negro voting moves and CIO AFL union drives, with initiation fees listed at ten dollars and new members numbered in the hundreds.
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CIO
AFL
Ku Klux Klan
Atlanta
South
Klan
Stone Mountain
Georgia
Georgia council seeks probe into resurgent Khans group
The Georgia legislative council demands investigations by the treasury department and the FBI into the activities of the resurgent Association of Georgia Khans. The body, with AFL CIO and independent unions, accuses KKK Inc of suspending activity in 1944 for unpaid federal taxes but continuing to use its original filings and regalia. Stone Mountain is noted as 18 miles from Atlanta with carvings described. Continued on Page Two.
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Georgia Legislative Council
Treasury Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Association of Georgia Khans
KKK, Inc
Double slayings shock Anderson at Equinox Mill
In Anderson South Carolina a coroner's inquest was to be held into the deaths of Mrs. Cecil Nations age 46 and George Rainey age 25. Nations died from a pistol wound in the abdomen at her doorway. Rainey died from a self inflicted pistol wound and a shotgun blast to the head in the street. Denver Nations 46 the husband is under technical arrest and cab driver Richard Smith 21 is held as a witness as investigators study the 5 15 pm yesterday double killing.
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Denver Nations
Anderson Barber
Richard Smith
Virginia Contractor Proposes Militia Draft for Lewis and Miners
An Arlington contractor urged Gov. James H. Dalton to draft John L. Lewis and idle Virginia miners into the state militia to force a settlement of the coal strike. The governor was awaiting return from a national safety conference as confirmation of the telegram arrived.
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Richmond
Arlington
John L. Lewis
Virginiai
Tuck
National Safety Conference
Washington
Herbert V. Hudgins
Hudgins
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Virginia
Old Dominion
Stand Of Reds Opposed By U S Britain In Paris
In Paris on May 10 British Foreign Secretary Bevin criticized Soviet insistence on a full four power agreement before any peace conference. The article notes Byrnes proposing a concrete date for a June conference and continuing talks in smaller sessions to narrow disputes among the four governments over wartime treaties.
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Paris
Ernest Bevin
Yrnes
Byrnes
Furniture Makers Get Advance In Prices Under OPA Rule
The Office of Price Administration announced that furniture manufacturers may raise their ceiling prices starting Monday to reflect higher woven upholstery fabric costs. The increase will pass through wholesale and retail levels to consumers as a straight monetary rise. Simultaneously, a 25 percent ceiling price rise for casein glue used in furniture and veneer products was authorized, with manufacturers required to absorb the higher production costs.
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Washington
OPA
PAC Gives Out Its List of Marked Men
The CIO political action committee names ten U S senators and 23 representatives targeted for defeat in this year’s elections. Notable names include Theodore Bilbo John Rankin and House Minority Leader Martin with others across both parties listed by Burns of Akron and Hillman.
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Atlantic City
N. J
United States
CIO
Political Action Committee
PAC
Sidney Hillman
CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Convention
Burns
Akron
Mississippi
Theodore Bilbo
John Rankin
Hillman
Rankin
House Committee On UN
Top Generals Meet in Pacific for First Time Since War
In Tokyo on May 10 the top Allied leaders Eisenhower and MacArthur met for the first time since hostilities began. They greeted warmly at Atsugi airport before lunch at the American embassy. Plans called for further talks and inspections of occupation units, with Eisenhower departing for Kobe and the United States next week.
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Tokyo
Europe
Pacific
Eisenhower
European
MacArthur
Philippines
Mac
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Atsugi
First Cavalry
Honshu
United States
Kobe
Senate moves to enact new labor disputes law amid coal strike
The Senate prepared to draft a new labor disputes law as the nationwide coal strike neared 40 days. The stoppage idled over 1 million workers and halted rail shipments, with railroads furloughing crews and essential goods prioritized.
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Senate
General Motors
Tractor Unit Found After River Crash. Driver Missing
The battered tractor unit of a 15-ton truck trailer outfit that plunged through Bates Ferry bridge into the Congaree River near Wateree South Carolina has been recovered but no trace of the truck driver has been found.
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Wateree
S. C
Bates Ferry Bridge
Congaree River
Here
Churchill calls for United States of Europe amid East West tensions
The World Today notes Winston Churchill proposes a united Europe spanning east and west as a remedy during Russia western alliance strains. It recalls his 1940 offer of a Franco British union and analyzes the feasibility of a two bloc European polity led by co ordination of eastern and western spheres.
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Winston Churchill
United States
Europe
Britain
Russia
Soviet Union
United Nations
Churchill
France
Germany
Rusia
Balkans
Lready
Pan Europe idea revived after World War I
DeWitt MacKenzie notes the 1929 push for a United States of Europe led by Briand with League support. Stresemann backs the plan, envisioning a 1,982,000 square mile union of 250 million people, while a League commission weighs recommendations. The concept wanes but seeds remain evident in later events.
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Briand
United States of Europe
League of Nations
League
Geneva
Germany
Gustavy Stresemann
U. S. of Europe
Maxim Litvinoff
Russia
Churchill
Dresses Helped Woman Criminal Elude Officers
Postal inspectors say Mrs Helen Czarnecki a 27 year old convicted mail thief eluded them in a three year search by wearing low necked dresses while presenting forged checks. She pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Emerick B Freed and was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Her husband Harry alias Campbell 32 received a similar sentence on possessing stolen checks. She admitted looting mailboxes in Ohio and other states totaling over 10000 dollars while traveling by plane. he stayed home to care for their three children.
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Cleveland
Helen Czarnecki
Emerick B. Freed
Harry
Campbell
South Wins In Railroad Rate Battle
A federal district court dismissed a petition by nine northeastern states to block an ICC order raising northern and eastern class rates by 10 percent while lowering southern and western rates by the same amount. The three judge panel dissolved a temporary injunction blocking the rate changes set for January 1. Judge Harrie C. Chase wrote the opinion with Brennan and Knox concurring. Governor Sparks of Alabama and Walter R. McDonald hailed the decision as a southern victory.
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Utica
N. Y
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Stephen W. Brennan
Harrie C. Chase
John C. Knox
Chase
Chauncey Sparks
Alabama
Walter R. McDonald
South
Atest
Italians Plan Conference On Abdication
Rome May 10 The Italian cabinet discussed King Vittorio Emanuele III abdication as Crown Prince Umberto prepared to ascend amid leftist doubts. Ministers approved the throne's accession with powers limited until June 2 when the people will vote on continuing the monarchy.
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Rome
Vittorio Emanuele III
Umberto
Italy
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