Medics Hit Health Bill At AMA Opening
At the American Medical Association annual meeting in Atlantic City on June 6, a push for compulsory health insurance and a $25 member assessment for an educational campaign dominated discussions. CIO leader James Carey criticized the AMA and asked about applying Taft Hartley to labor leaders, while debates raged over funding and access to hospital facilities for doctors who refuse the plan.
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Frank Garey Ars
Atlantic City
N. J
Truman
American Medical Association
Organizationat
House of Delegates
Association
James Carey
CIO
Taft
Ohio
Fishbein
Carey
Senate
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the
Polish luxury liner Batory sails amid continued questioning
The Batory was due to sail at noon as officials finished questioning captain Jan Cwiklinski and crew. One hundred eleven of 683 passengers remained at Ellis Island awaiting further investigation, after four crewmen were removed under armed guard late yesterday.
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New York
Gerhardt Eisler
America
U.S
Ellis Island
Jan Cwiklinski
U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Miss Clapp Named Wellesley Head
Wellesley Mass June 6 The president of Wellesley College is Miss Margaret Clapp 36 Pulitzer prize winning biographer and Brooklyn College historian She topped 180 applicants for the job succeeding wartime Wave Director Mrs Mildred McAfee Horton who led from 1938 to last Oct 22 Also a 1930 graduate and the eighth president of the 75 year old women’s college Dr Palfrey Parking said Clapp was unanimously recommended Her Pulitzer work Forgotten first citizen John Bigelow was written as a Ph D thesis at Columbia in 1946.
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Wellesley
Mass
Wellesley College
Margaret Clapp
Brooklyn College
Miss Clapp
Mildred McAfee Horton
Palfrey Parking
Boston
John Bigelow
Columbia University
Disloyalty In Official Is Charged At Bell Aircraft Hearing
The House hearings on Russian espionage at Bell Aircraft plant Buffalo focus on Soviet attempts to recruit Bell employees. Witnesses Mr and Mrs Joseph J Franey and Loren Haas are former Bell workers said to have passed information, received $200 weekly and $60 expenses, while remaining loyal. The testimony follows Lilienthal and Hickenlooper remarks on payroll safety and wartime Army connections.
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Hickenlooper
Lilienthal
AEC
Army
House-on-American Activities Committee
Bell Aircraft
Buffalo
N. Y
Bell Aircobra
Bell
Buffalo Area
Joseph J. Franey
Nigara Falls
Loren Haas
Senate Debates To Repeal Taft Hartley Act
Washington opens with Senate debate on administration plan to repeal Taft Hartley replacing it with a revised Wagner act model. The House blocked Truman’s drive a month earlier, renewing the campaign pledge issue in Congress.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
House
Congress
Galelok
Joseph
Richard
Leo
Donald
Church of the Transfiguration
Neighbors Rally After West Hazleton Tragedy
In Hazleton Pennsylvania a West Hazleton family lost five of their nine children in a fire that wrecked their home. Staven Garzick a miner, is in critical condition at Hazleton State Hospital. His wife and son Robert seven are reported in critical condition with burns and internal injuries. Local residents and veteran organizations organized relief drives to ease the family’s recovery.
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Hazleton
West Hazleton
Childern
Staven Gaizick
Lavorer
Hazleton State Hospital
Robert
Cline
Garzick
Senate Debates Truman Mea Nutre Amidst Union Backing
The article notes slim odds for enacting the Truman mea nutre as union leaders back it. Few Congress members discuss ending repeal or preserving the Taft Hartley Act intact. Senate leaders prepare separate strategy briefings as GOP and Democratic factions seek compromises. Elbert Thomas will open the debate, expected to run at least two stormy weeks.
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Congress
Senate
G. O. P. Moeta
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Senate Labor Committee
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Donnie Woodward dies after burns hospital ordeal
Vernon Texas June 6 Donnie Woodward a 10 year old farm boy died after burns covering 170 percent of his body sustained May 10 He rallied then weakened repeatedly and spoke of his dog and pet cow Old Jersey He had received oxygen therapy and blood transfusions as his family and neighbors sent gifts and prayers for weeks until his death.
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Vernon
Tex
Donnie Woodward
Aout
Donnie
Texas
James W. Woolward
Mental Patient Hacked Two To Death In Fulton
A state mental patient named Teddy Alva Lane, confined at the Fulton hospital, attacked and killed two other patients with a butcher knife and meat cleaver. An employee, Dr. W. J. Cramer, was critically injured trying to intervene. Lane had been committed in 1943 for killing his mother.
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Fulton
W. J. Cramer
State Hospital
Teddy Alva Lane
Kidnapped Mandan Cop Escapes From Gunmen
Mandan police say patrolman Ralph Senn, 24, escaped from three gunmen who abducted him early Sunday while he questioned suspects in a Minneapolis officer slaying. Senn is safe, and warrants issued in St Paul target Arthur E. Bistrom, Carl H. Bistrom, and Allen Cy Hartman.
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Mandan
N. D
Earl Vrendenburg
Norfolk
Neb
Ralph Senn
Vrendenberg
Old Senn
Nebraska
Hardington
Senn
Minneapolis
C. J. Schauss
Morton County
St. Paul
Arthur E. Bistrom
Carl H. Bistrom
Allen Cy Hartman
Schauss
Fred Babcock, Jr
Babcock
Richfield
Wherry Proposes A Little FBI for AEC Oversight
Senator Wherry of Nebraska urged adding an FBI style background check for AEC workers. He proposed a unit with J Edgar Hoover in charge to screen personnel amid hearings over Lilienthal and alleged mismanagement. The move targets stricter security clearances for emergency atomic work.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Atomic Energy Commission
Wherry
Nebraska
Senate House Atomic Committee
Senator Hickenlooper
Dtown
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
Hickenlooper
Justice Department
Obituaries Continue with Local Deaths and Legal Contention
Lola Trompson dies at nephew’s home in Blairaville on June 5. Jane Ellen Sipos, infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Sipos of Homer City, dies at Indiana Hospital. Pvt Guerino Crucis mourned in St Louis Catholic Church service. case concerns Taft Hartley contempt rulings. Angelo Triches of North Homer City dies. services set at Askew Funeral Home with burial in St Bernard’s Cemetery Indiana.
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Lola Trompson
John G. Thompson
Grafton
Blacklick Township
John G
Smeliie McCoy Thompson
Harry W. Tompson
Blacklick
Miss Thompson
Hopewell
Ralph E. Reed
First Baptist Church of
Blairaville
Blairsville Cemetery
Jane Ellen Sipos
John
Catherine Bracken Sipos
Homer City
Indiana Hospital
Guerino Crucis
St. Louis
Lucerne
Union
Rev. M. Lewis
Rosenthal
Greenwood
Indiana
August Crucis
Sara Street
Angelo Triches
Askew
St. Bernard's Cemetery
Triches
Chester
New York
Know Your Bank Week Declared By Indiana Borough
Proclamation by Burgess I J R Maloney designates June 6 to June 11 as Know Your Bank Week to encourage citizens to visit local banks and learn how banks supported war financing and peacetime reconversion, aided veterans, fought inflation, financed housing, and strengthened the free enterprise system.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
I. J. R. Maloney
Burgess
Indiana Borough
Coplon Case Secrecy Fight Over FBI Reports
Washington June 6 The judge held a decision on whether the government must reveal full text of 22 secret FBI reports in Judith Coplon's espionage trial. Archibald Palmer argues for complete reports, contending excerpts would harm the defense. The ruling could affect this and future espionage cases.
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Washington
FBI
Judith Coplon
Albert L. Reeves
Archibald Palmer
Miss Coplon
Palmer
All Night Party Ends in Triple Homicide in Chicago
Chicago news reports a birthday party in a Southside apartment ended in three deaths and one injury. Police seek former Alcatraz prisoner Thomas Holden, 52, as a person of interest. his wife Lillian Holden, 45, is among the dead. Victims include Ray Griffin, 37, a truck driver, and John Archer Jr., Board of Trade weighmaster. Griffin’s wife Elva, 34, badly wounded but likely to survive. Witness Joseph Grady, 28, said the Holdens argued on the way home from a tavern.
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Chicago
Daniel Ahern
Alcatraz
Thomas Holden
Lillian
Ray Griffin
John Archer, Jr
Board of Trade
Griffin
Elva
Widow of French Envoy Faces Tax Trial Today
The widow Eleanor Louise Patrenotre and her son Raymond Patrenotre, aged 78 and 48, are to stand trial on charges of failing to pay about $2.18 million in income tax tied to a single sale in 10930. Indicted last year, they allegedly undervalued gains from a sale to Curtis-Martin Newspaper Interests in Montreal, with expected profits and crops figures inflated in the tax filings.
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New York
Eleanor Louise Patrenotre
Raymond
Philadelphia
Curtis-Martin
Montreal
Poland Rejoices Over Prospects
In Warsaw on June 7, Poland’s peasant class celebrated a “peasants holiday” with about 15,064,000 farmers taking part in vodka, song, and folk festivities marking a day of rejoicing over prospects for the countryside and national progress.
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Warsaw
Poland
Red Cross Water Safety Classes at Indian Springs Pool
Enroll for free Red Cross Swimming Safety at Indian Springs pool. Choose Beginners Group 1 or 2, Intermediate, Junior Life Saving, Life Saving with schedules from June to August. Parent or guardian signature required for applicants under 48. mail coupon to Water Safety Service, Red Cross, Indiana, Pa., by June 7.
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Indian Springs
Red Cross Water Safety Program
Red Cross
Indian Springs Pool
Man
Water Safety Service
Seged Cross
N. 6Th &T
Indiana
Une
Tydings Defends Lilienthal Rule
Senator Tydings denies charges of inefficiency in the Atomic Energy Commission. In a radio address he said the inquiry has not proven mismanagement or loss of material and that discrepancies are likely bookkeeping issues. He noted the Joint Senate House committee investigates charges against Lilienthal. Apollo worshippers hail him for destroying mice.
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Baltimore
Atomic Energy Commission
Tydings
D-Md
U. S Atomic Energy Program
AEC
David B. Lilienthal
Commission
B 36 Tests Delayed For Months
Washington June AP reports the Weapons System Evaluation Group will require months to finish tests on the B 36 bomber. The group, under the National Military Establishment, will report findings to Defense Secretary Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, amid Air Force Navy disputes and congressional scrutiny.
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Washington
June
Military High Command
National Military Establishment
Air Force
Navy
Eastern Rockies Floods Sweep Lands and Disrupt Travel
Flooding along the eastern fringe of the Rockies and the Arkansas River valley drenched thousands of acres in Colorado, halting rail and highway traffic. Silt clogged streets. homes were isolated but there were no deaths. The Santa Fe main line was washed out at Lamar as towns like Holly Granada Bristol and Lakin faced floods.
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Denver
Rockias
Arkansas River
Colorado
Arkansas
Santa Fe
Lamar
Holly
Granada
Bristol
Cola
Lakin
Kassleo
Death Mystery In Arkansas Three Children Found In Icebox
Walnut Ridge Arkansas investigators probe the deaths of three children found jammed in a four foot icebox at a rural home. Two younger children died of suffocation. the older child died under undetermined circumstances. Funeral services drew about 3500 people to a rural schoolhouse. Police and the prosecutor said self locking seems unlikely.
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Walnut Ridgs
Ark
Here
Walnut Ridge
James Delebert Chastain
Shirley Ramsay
James
Ed Chastain
Joyce Ann Chastain
Chastain
Ramsey
Borden Chexchier
Millard Hardin
Joe Spades
Mock battlefield drills scare county amid gun club practice
Early Sunday a call to Memorial Hall reported armed men. The county detachment found a rod and gun club practicing. A local resident’s tip led to police and Army reserves coordinating road blocks and paratrooper airfield actions. The mock conflict ended at 3 PM with the enemy credited a strategic win and reserves praised for response.
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Memorial Hall
Aultman
jAuléman
Tadiana
Yanterday
Johnstown
Hamilton Airport
Indiana Fairgrounds
Indiana
Abenaburg
Brazil
United States
State College grants 1683 degrees in double commencement
In STATE COLLEGE PA on June 2 the Pennsylvania State College conferred 1683 degrees in a double commencement 150 were advanced degrees. Dr Harlan H Hatcher of Ohio State addressed morning graduates and Dr Daniel A Poling spoke to the conferred group led by valedictorian Walter I Murray with 96 honor students.
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State College
Pennsylvania State College
Harlan H. Hatcher
Ohio State University
Daniel A. Poling
The
Christian Herald
Walter I. Murray
Reynoldsville
James Milholland
Indiana County
Blairsville
John William Francis
Walnutt
Theodore Joseph Williams
Cherry Tree
William McKeage Clark
Clymer
Harry Claude Dunegan
Franklin St
Commodore
Clarence Edward Craver
Ernest Ferdinand Joseph Gezich
Homer
Nicholas Dean Altemus
Indiana
Paul Wilbur
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