24 Jun 1948
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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1948
Page
1
New York Governor Dewey falls 31 votes short of the 548 needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination on a second ballot. Both camps jockey for delegates as the session nears.
Industrial wage dispute reports that Ingst and other soft coal operators are prepared to sign a $1 per day wage increase for workers, signaling a potential settlement ahead of labor talks.
Business interests resist proposed pension levy increases with vows to oppose changes. Officials and executives warn of financial strain and potential effects on operations as negotiations continue.
Washington reports soft coal operators ready to sign a new contract with John L. Lewis granting miners a $1 daily wage rise and doubling the pension levy to 20 cents per ton. The plan aims to fund $100 monthly for retired miners and maintain union shop provisions under Taft-Hartley rules.
Howard Rome complies with a National Labor Relations Board order and plans to move his toy factory back to Avron or hire twenty seven former Akron employees at his Kenton plant. He mails notices to laid off workers and promises pay for moving expenses if they return. The NLRB ruled the move aimed to deter unionization with the G I O.
Six guerrillas and three Communist spies were executed at Verria for participating in the shelling of Naoussa last March. The dispatches from Athens dated June 24 report the executions carried out yesterday.
No rain is forecast for the weekend as partly cloudy skies persist. Temperatures will dip to around 64 tonight with a high near 84 tomorrow afternoon.
William Tilley, a 47 year old New York city clerk, found two checks totaling 1.205 million dollars on a sidewalk near Wall Street. He turned them to the bank they were drawn from and received a 25 dollar reward for his honesty.
AP reports a draft bill sent to President Truman with a July 5 sign deadline. The measure lets 19 to 25 year olds seek exemption by joining the national guard or a training reserve before actual induction. The law delays inductions for ninety days after enactment and guidance on air national guard enrollments will come later.
Albert L. Goudvis, traveling to St Louis, remembered a vest in a Chicago hotel room. Desk clerk Mrs. Pauline Fairbanks turned in the vest with $45000 in diamonds concealed inside. Goudvis, a New York City resident and diamond importer, paid a $5 reward and continued his trip.
In Winston-Salem four men face municipal court hearings on bribery charges tied to a May 14 Carolina league game between Reidsville and Winston-Salem. Emanuel Weingarten and Barney Deforge, both banned for life from organized baseball, are among the principals. W. C. McWaters of Clover, S. C., is also charged in the case.
A witty wrap up of Philadelphia convention nights with jokes on candidates and campaigns. Observers note lack of rehearsals for demonstrations, jokes about states and eyebrows, and quips about leaders from Dewey to Taft while praising a plainspoken idealist and questioning Lincoln’s availability.
Initial roll call shows Stassen at 149 and Vandenberg at 62 with other candidates registering on the ballot totals. The tally reflects early counts as the race begins.
At Philadelphia on June 24 the Republican first roll call showed Gov. Thomas E. Dewey with 434 votes to Taft 224 and Stassen 157. Dewey trailed a needed 548 by 114 votes, with many states signaling support for a second ballot as party leaders sought a single anti-Dewey candidate.
A 20 month old named Sonny Brockman wandered from his home on Parallel Avenue in Kansas City Kansas and rode a Thirty third Street car to Twenty fourth and Jackson. Police and a dispatcher traced the child to Independence and Bennington avenues where he was returned unharmed to his relieved parents Dale and Leony Brockman.
Moscow reports that foreign ministers of Russia and seven satellite states are finalizing plans for a separate Eastern German government. Molotov and colleagues may push beyond Western powers, aiming at German unity under a government open to all Germans and supported by German Communists in the west. The move would sustain Soviet influence and cold war aims.
The Agriculture Department reports 27,440,000 people lived on farms in January, down from 27,550,000 last year. After peaking near 27,550,000 in January 1947, demobilized veterans and civilian migrants reduced farm residents despite a birth surplus of about 500,000.
Judge signs writ of attachment on Little Eva the Taft elephant in Philadelphia. Joseph Wallace, former Dailey Brothers employee, filed the petition. Chauncy Price posted a $10,000 bond to free the elephant for campaigning. Wallace claims a circus wagon crushed him last August in Bellefonte seeking damages for an arm.
President Truman signed a law providing 3,749,059,250 dollars to maintain and expand the Navy and Marine Corps for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The bill includes 127 million for a 65,000 ton aircraft carrier, the largest afloat, with a projected cost. The final appropriation, between House and Senate figures, uses wartime reserves to grant more than 5 billion dollars for the next year.
The municipal band will begin its summer program at 8 tonight in Central Park at Thirty first Street and Indiana Avenue. Conductor is N De Robertis with rain postponing Monday’s Penn Valley Park concert.
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with mild temperatures. Lows near 64 and highs near 84. Humidity steady around 89% at 6:30 a.m. and 49% at 1:30 p.m. Barometer rising from 29.99 to 30.01 inches. River stage 16.4 feet with a rise of about one foot. Lake of the Ozarks 3.1 feet above full reservoir. No precipitation in the last 24 hours ending 6.20 a.m.
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