Convention Votes on GOP Candidates
About 2,000 Wisconsin Republican delegates cast straw votes at the state convention for presidential contenders. The poll, organized by Thomas E. Coleman, drew mixed views on its significance as observers noted Wisonsin as a key GOP state. Halleck criticized Truman era spending as hindering economy and urged tax relief, while candidates on the ballot included Dewey Stassen Taft Bricker MacArthur Vandenberg and others.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
House
Halleck
Harry
Wendell Wilkie
Thomas E. Coleman
State Voluntary Committee
Dewey For President Club
Thomas E. Dewey
New
Bernhard Gettleman
Victor Johnson
U. S
McCarthy
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Sen
Martin
Pennsylvania
GOP
Coleman
Dewey
Stassen
Gov
Green
Ilinois
Gen
MacArthur
Taft
Bricker
Ohio
Vandenberg
Michigan
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Warren
California
Postal Rate Increase Expected
Washington reporters say House Republican leaders will keep postal rates unchanged this year. The three cent first class rate stays, avoiding a July drop to two cents, due to adjournment timing. Rees proposed a bill to hold rates until a permanent measure passes.
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Washington
House
GOP
High Command
Rees
R-Kas
House Post Office Committee
Congress
Rees’ Committee
Rules Committee
Post Office Committee
Judge Promoted At Nuernberg
Berlin, June 23. Judge James T. Brand, former Oregon Supreme Court justice, named presiding judge of U S Military Tribunal No 3 at Nuernberg. He succeeds Judge Carrington T Marshall, who retires ill. Justice William Harding joins as full member. The panel also includes Judge Mallory B Blair, formerly Texas Court of Civil Appeals.
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Berlin
James T. Brand
Oregon Supreme Court
U. S. Military Tribunal No. 3
Nuernberg
Reich Ministry of Justice
Carrington T. Marshall
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
William Harding
Mallory B. Blair
Court of Civil Appts
Third District
Texas
Missing cousin of H Stimson prompts 12 state alert
Mineola New York June 21 a 12 state alert is out for Barbara Riggs Clement 24 cousin of former Secretary of War Henry W Stimson who disappeared after visiting the Stimson estate at Cold Spring Harbor She was last seen driving away in a gray sedan She appeared upset and spoke of shared world while at the house Clement mother of a 15 month old son is wife of John F Clement a former Marine lieutenant son of Brig Gen William T Clement
Monkeys Vaccinated For Polio Show Strong Immunity
Three scientists report that vaccinated monkeys resisted brain injections of live polio virus. Four or more muscle vaccinations yielded no paralysis, while unvaccinated monkeys all developed paralysis. Researchers measure resistance with a titer, noting high levels in protected animals and hinting at a future human vaccine. The Hopkins team has spent $732,000 from March of Dimes funds plus $425,000 from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for five years of work.
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Hopkins
Hopkins Center
National Foundation For
School Lunch Fund Payment Approved
Auditor General G Harold Wagner approves June payments to Montgomery Twp 232 38 and Rayne Twp 102 52 as the federal government share for Pennsylvania School Lunch Program. Britain top up meaning cooling car battery with water noted.
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Indiana County
G. Harold Wagner
Pennsylvania
Montgomery
Rayne
Britain
Manchurian Capital May Be Captured
Nanking reports a likely fall of Szepingkai to Red forces after authorities abandoned the city. Changchun faces shortages of men and munitions as 6,000 Chinese Communists press government defenders in Szepingkai and rail hubs near Mukden.
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Nanking
Jime
Szepingkai
Changchun
Mukden
First Army
Manchuria
Burma
Haicheng
Shanghai
Shun Pao
Shu Pao
China
State Council
Chiang Kai- Shek
Ma Teh-Hui
Chiang
Dairen
Port Arthur
U. S. Navy
Tsingtao
Navy
US S. Navy
Red Steel a Challenge To US Lead
Representatives of small steel operators and users, led by Smith and Martin, complained to Senators that large steel firms discriminated against them in scarce distribution. They urged hearings to airing the issue as part of ongoing public discussions.
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Red Steel
Smith
Martin
12 Year Old To Visit Shrine
Twelve year old Sally And O Leary crippled since birth will visit the Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine at Lourdes France to seek a miracle. Her mother and the Rev James R Cox of Pittsburgh will accompany her from Wilkinsburg. Sally has had many spinal operations and doctors say surgery may not restore use of her feet. She expresses strong faith and belief in a cure.
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Pittsburgh
Sally
O'Leary
Our Lady of Lourdes
Agnes
France
James R. Cox
Wilkinsburg
Sally Ann
Lourdes
Bullets End Life of Noted Gambler
Beverly Hills California June 21 Gunman shot Benjamin Bugsie Siegel 41 year old gambler and former public enemy while he read a newspaper in a Beverly Hills home. Police described Siegel as Las Vegas Flamingo club owner and noted his ties to New York mob history and prior underworld investigations. Witnesses included Allen Smiley and Charles Hill with a possible suspect unidentified.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Lato
Benjamin
Bugsie) Stiegel
William W. White
Siegel
Ocean Park
Allen Smiley
Captain White
Smiley
White
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
No. Louig
Lepke
Buchalter
Racketer
Murder, Inc
Sing Sing Prison
Harry Greenberg
Hollywood
Las Vegas
Nev
Charles Hill
Jerry Mason
P. R. Smith
Lou Shane
Smith
Shane
Hill
Siegel l
Tommy Dorsey
John Hall
Hall
Prdice
Dorsey
Pat Dane
Underworld
Greenberg
Hungarian Patriot Laky Found In Budapest Jail
Budapest reports Hungarian repatriation representative Laszlo Laky who disappeared last month is jailed in Budapest charged with plotting against the republic. In Vienna three Communists allegedly kidnaped him on Russian orders, a claim noted by Bela Varga who fled Hungary. Observers foresee possible new attacks on President Tildy as Geneva postings stir political tension.
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Budapest
Laszlo Laky
Munich
Szabay Dsag
Bela Varga
Hungary
Laky
Vienna
Varga
Laszlo Jekely
Zoltan Tildy
Jekely
Geneva
Belgium
Jon Tildy
Bela Sarossy
Wide
Ferenc Nagy
Tildy
Sarossy
Blind Flier Ringneck Pheasant Forces Train Stop
The Kuble Gillities Commission reports a ringneck pheasant caused a train to halt after crashing through a locomotive and assaulting engineer H. S. and Rita, 68, of Aberdeen. The event details are partially obscured in the report but note the remarkable bird’s impact on railway safety and personnel.
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Pirare
Jane Man
Kuble Gillities Commission R
H. S. Andrita
Aberdeen
Senate panel backs 12 million for overseas information program
Washington June 21 A Senate Appropriations subcommittee proposed supplying the administration 12 million dollars for the overseas information program for the year starting July 1. Secretary Marshall urged keeping the program funded to present American facts clearly. Opposition discussed reducing funds to about 6 million to just maintain Voice of America broadcasts abroad. The House delayed final action on Mundt’s bill approving a full program of foreign information and educational exchange after hearing Marshall’s plea.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations
Marshall
Voice of America
House
Rep
Mundt
R-Sa
State Department
Congress
Foreign Affairs Committee
Judd
R-Minn
Rep. Horan
R-Wash
The
Associated Press
United Press
Europe Faces Split Over Marshall Plan Aid
Bevin weighs Marshall Plan terms as Britain seeks coal and cash to spur Europe’s recovery. Acceptance could curb communism spread while rejection risks no funds or loans. Moscow signals cautious interest amid a looming Anglo French led decision versus a two Europe split with Stalin’s bloc. Tass cites Molotov as reacting to a three power conference request.
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Europe
Bevin
Marshall
Britain
United States
U. S
New World
V. M. Molotov
Tree Crash Kills Groom on Highway 80
In Tahoe City California a 100 foot high five foot thick tree fell across highway 80 late yesterday killing groom William Albert McVea 21 of Napa and injuring his bride Nina who was honeymooning in their coupe. Nina is reported in Reno hospital with skull injuries and shock.
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Tahoe City
Calit
William Albert McVea
Napa
Nina
Reno
Mass Killings in village near Lucknow prompt curfew
Fifty people were killed and many more injured in clashes between landholders and tenants in villages near Lucknow, capital of the United Provinces. Troops and police imposed a 24 hour curfew and restored control by morning.
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Lucknow
India
United Provinces
Ten Thousand Five Hundred Suit In Greene County
Greene County court orders James I. Meighen the county probation officer to face a $10500 civil suit for negligent duty in recommending a 14-year-old Donald Mullenaux as a “good boy” who later killed Mrs. Kate Fletcher. Fletcher accuses Meighen of concealing dangers. The case cites the boy’s murder of Fletcher’s wife on July 10 and his life sentence in Western Penitentiary.
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Waynesburg
Greene County Court
James I. Meighen
Frank Fletcher
Graysville
Meighen
Roy J. Carson
Fletcher
Donald Mullenaux
Kate Fletcher
Millenaux
Western Penitentiary
Pittsburgh
Truman Backers Still For Time To Avert Defeat
Backers pressed for more time to gauge public reaction as the Senate faced a veto clash over Taft Hartley. Truman denounced the bill as designed to weaken labor unions while Taft defended sections restricting Communist officers. Debate stretched into the evening as legislators and campaign leaders weighed the bill’s fate. A separate note explained distance judging for lightning: one mile per five seconds between flash and thunder.
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Ing
Tobey
Taylor
Senate
Taft
Truman
Ohio
United States
People’s Representatives
Democrats
House of Representatives
Haley Back With Circus Elected Pres
Haley is returned as president of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus after a Delaware Supreme Court reinstated Robert Ringling. John Ringling North elected executive VP. Haley to rejoin Monday in York Pennsylvania. Court battle over control concluded with Haley’s election, ending a year-long controversy over officers.
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Wilmington
Del
James A. Haley
Delaware Supreme Court
Robert Ringling
Ringling Brothers-Barnum and
Bailey
John Ringling North
North
John Ringling
Circus
Jim Haley
Charles Robert Ringling
Aubrey Haley
James R. Griffin
Haley
Ringling
Charles Ringling
Richard Ringling
Karl Loos
Washington
Loos
Chancery Court
Haleys
Supreme Court
Stewart's Gift To Dad Two New Sulkies By Air
Movie star Jimmy Stewart sent two all metal sulkies from Hollywood to his father Alex Stewart in Indiana for harness racer Sister Dale. The equipment arrives after a Memorial Day race where Sister Dale won once but broke a hobble in the second. The sulkies, a training cart and a racing bike, arrived by air at about $44 to be used at the Lions Fair Day on July fourth in Pittsburgh featuring harness racing, horse show, baseball, square dance, and fireworks.
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Jimmy Stewart
Alex Stewart
Indiana
Pittsburgh
Alex
Sister Dale
Jimmy
Hollywood
Stewart
Lions Club
Romance By Mail Ends In Bequest
New York telegram reports six decades ago a Brooklyn housewife, then 29, corresponded with late British author Matthew Phipps Shiel, who fell in love and proposed by mail. Shiel died at 81, bequeathing his Sussex house and garden to 13 year old Patrick Miller, son of the wife. The mother and husband comment on the unlikely romance and its aftermath.
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New York
Brooklyn
Matthew Phipps Shiel
Shiel
Millers
Sussex
England
Patrick Miller
Annamarie V. Miller
Nance
Thomas E. Miller
Local Residents Select Queen from Six-County Contest
Four Indiana County residents judged a six county beauty contest and chose a queen to represent the counties in the State Contest at Erie on June 26. Miss Glessner was selected by a panel including Mrs. Warner of Indiana, Mr. Walter Jackson of Indiana, Mrs. Nichol of Indiana, and Mrs. McMillen of Indiana. Counties represented by the new queen are Cambria Blair Huntington Somerset and Bedford.
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Indiana
Erie
Charles McMillen
Martinsburg
Blair County
Miss Glessner
Arthur Warner
Walter Jackson
Harry Nichol
R. D
Cambria
Blair
Huntingdon
Somerset
Bedford
Christian Endeavor Picnic Set June 30
The Indiana County Christian Endeavor Union will hold an all county picnic June 30 at the Lydie Farm between Cockport and Hillsdale on Route 80. Swimming, softball, and games will be in the afternoon. A picnic supper will be brought by each family, followed by Vesper Services. All young people and older church members are urged to attend to meet other Endeavorers in the county.
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Indiana County Christian Endeavor Union
Lydie Farm
Cockport
Hillsdale
Stock Dogs To Replace Eaten Ones
Sydney reports sixty five pedigreed dogs flown to Singapore to repopulate the city’s canine population after wartime consumption. Seventeen breeds included Alsatians Great Danes and Dalmatians. Transport cost was 50 Australian pounds per dog aboard the Halifax bomber Waltzing Matilda.
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Sydney
Singapore
Five-Year Extensions For Closed Shop Contracts
The CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America has negotiated five year extensions of most current closed shop contracts to preserve the closed shop despite the Taft Hartley act. The extensions cover about 300,000 of the union's 350,000 members, with the rest largely unaffected as they are not in interstate commerce. Read the Gazette Classified Ads.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
CIO
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
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