Levee Breaks Forc e Thousands From St Louis Area Towns
Flooding from 90 miles of new levee breaks on the Mississippi forced mass evacuations as the river neared 40.5 feet. Dupo Illinois with 600 residents and nearby East Carondelet faced full inundation while Grand Tower Gorham Neunert and other towns prepared to evacuate as sandbag lines failed and rail yards faced danger.
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St. Louis —i
Mississippi River
Dupo
Ill
Here
Illinois Central Railroad
Missouri Pacific
East Carondelet
Degognia Fountain Bluff
Gorham
Neunert
Grand Tower
Jesse Grammer
Mississippi
Weather Bureau
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Dwuovo
Nameoki
Venice
Til
St. Louis
R. E. Smyser
Illinois Central
Chouteau Island Levee
Train Derailment Injures 56 Near Westville Indiana
The Baltimore and Ohio streamliner bound from Chicago to Washington derailed after hitting an open switch at 78 mph. Fifty six people were injured and taken to hospitals in Michigan City Gary La Porte and Valparaiso as eight cars left the tracks. About 180 aboard, some continued on the Capitol Limited. Investigators began examining the wreck.
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Westville
Ind
Baltimore and Ohio
Chicago
Washington
Capitol Limited
Michigan City
Gary
la Porte
Valparaiso
J. R. Miller
Garrett
Man Killed as Car and Milk Truck Collide
John J. Ooosterhaus, 59, of Fond du Lac, was killed instantly when his car collided with a milk truck on Highway 67 four miles northeast of here. Passengers Cornelius Leahy, 47, Fall River, Massachusetts, and Phillip Drucker, 29, Philadelphia, were injured.
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Wis
John J. Ooosterhaus
Fond du Lac
Highway 67
Here
Cornelius Leahy
Fall River
Mass
Phillip Drucker
Philadelphia
Western Europe bloc plans amid aid talks falter
France and Britain push a western European recovery bloc to win U S loans for Europe as the foreign ministers conference heads for failure. Bevin calls Molotovs plan a blank check while Britain and France urge a joint recovery draft before seeking American aid.
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Paris
U.P
France
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Russia
Europe
United States
Molotov
Bevin
Tass
Veterans housing survey shows 241 convertible units in Kenosha
The survey by the Kenosha Chamber of Commerce and eight veterans groups counted 241 convertible units. More than 300 volunteers collected data June 16 to 21, with results forwarded to the City Housing Authority for action. Many owners already begun reconverting units and more housing space is anticipated.
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Matt Taylor
Kenosha
Taylor
A. E.axtell
George W. Anderson
Gillett School
Victory
Bonnie Home
Chamber of Commerce
City Housing Authority
Veterans’ Organizations
Veterans Council
Tavern Age Measure Moves Through Wisconsin Senate
Wisconsin state senate votes 23 to 6 to concur with assembly on a measure requiring patrons to show age proof at taverns. 21 and older receive age cards costing 25 cents outside Milwaukee and 50 cents in Milwaukee. Bill goes to Gov. Rennebohm for signature.
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Madison
Wis
Assembly
Senate
Rennebohm
Milwaukee
Sen. Schlabach
R.lacrosse
Wisconsin
Committee On Agriculture
Kaltz Explains Rent Controls Still Effective
With President Truman's Housing and Rent Act of 1947, rent controls in Kenosha County remain in place and will be administered by the Kenosha Area Rent Office. Tenants pay the same rents in July as June unless a later order or written lease changes them. voluntary leases can allow up to 15 percent increases if signed by December 31, 1947 and expiring after December 31, 1948, with leases filed for review.
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Truman
Kenosha Area
Kenosha County
Clarence T. Kaltz
Kaltz
Truman Signs Treasury-Post Office Budget Bill
President Truman signed the treasury post office appropriations totaling 12.402 trillion dollars while decrying the gross inadequacy of tax collection funds. He noted the two departments receive about 883 million dollars less than his request and objected to a 20 million cut to the internal revenue bureau.
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Washington
Truman
Treasury-Post Office
Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
Bride’s indecision a wedding shake up for ex-GI romance
Rosanna Pevers from England arrived to wed 26 year old Peter Vasquez in Chicago but felt homesick at the altar. Vasquez says if she is not certain the plan won’t work while Giovanni Castellani in London hopes she returns.
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Chicago
Rosanna Pevers
England
London
Rosanna
Peter Vasquez
Express Company
Giovanni Castellani
Peter
Castellani
United States
Hartley Unveils Draft Anti Strike Bill to Halt Coal Disputes
Washington reports Chairman Fred A. Hartley Jr of the House labor committee says a new bill with sharp teeth aims to curb a nationwide coal strike. It bans industrywide bargaining and monopolistic strikes, with plans to act within 24 hours if coal unrest grows after July 8, though its passage is uncertain.
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Washington
U.P
Fred A. Hartley, Jr
House Labor Committee
New Jersey Republican
Hartley
Congress
Nationwide cities report no traffic deaths in five months
The National Safety Council announced that 111 cities including Chicago Green Bay and West Allis Wisconsin recorded zero traffic fatalities for the first five months of the year.
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Chicago
Green Bay
West Allis
Wis
National Safety Council
Ammunition Ship Blast Kills Sixty Laborers
Rome reports sixty people died when the Italian ammunition transport Ganigalia exploded while unloading at Porto San Stefano on the Tuscan coast. Victims included crew members and stevedores.
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Rome
U.P
Rome Radio
Porto Santo Stefano
LaGuardia Sets Price For Speaking Engagement
Milwaukee officials invited former New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to speak on the fall program. He replied that he is an expensive speaker and would require $1,000, saying for that money they could get many better speakers if they still wanted him.
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Milwaukee
U.P
New York
Fiorello LaGuardia
Little Flower
Coal Operators Seek Revival of Contract Talks
Coal operators in control of their mines seek government help to restart wage talks with John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers to avert a new strike set for July 8. Lewis demands 35 cents an hour plus a ten cent per ton royalty and safety code, with the government previously subsidizing to support the 1946 pact ending the last walkout. Talks aim to avert another stoppage as 400,000 miners face potential idle time.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis’ United Mine Workers
Big Northern Group
Lewis
Union Welfare and Retirement Fund
Interior Krug
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel Corporation
George M Humphreys
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Kenosha Debt Reduction Rate Shows Strong Solvency Progress
A Washington dispatch citing the Census Bureau notes Kenosha reduced gross municipal public debt in 1945, ranking near the top among cities over 25,000. City finance chief B A Herrmann says bonded debt could be paid off by 1953 if no new bond issues for other projects occur.
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Kenosha
Washington Dispatch
Census Bureau
B. A. Herrmann
Herrmann
Twenty-eighth Avenue
Thirty-ninth Avenue
Herstmann
The
Marshall defends U.S. aid against imperialist charges
Secretary of State George C. Marshall rebutted claims that U.S. aid to Europe is imperialist and designed to dominate recipients. In remarks to the Women's National Press Club he accused critics of malicious distortion, stressed the aim of economic recovery, and outlined conditions for future aid.
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Washington
U.P
George C. Marshall
Europe
Women’s National Press Club
Marshall
V. M. Molotov
U. S
Molotov
Soviet Union
United States
Paris
America
Governor Rennebohm Signs Eleven Bills Into Law
Gov. Rennebohm signed 11 bills including a $75,000 appropriation to the conservation commission for 1,400 acres in Vernon county to establish Wildcat Mountain state park. Another bill lets vocational school boards provide teaching services to other areas for reimbursement. A third measure allows villages to issue mortgage bonds to buy parking facilities.
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Madison
Wis
Rennebohm
The
Conservation Commission
Vernon County
Wildcat Mountain
Free Army enlistment rides over Kenosha announced
Harry C. Paskiewicz 28 receives first free airplane ride for July enlistment in the regular army at the local recruiting station. He served in World War II, was a POW in southern France, and later discharged in August 1945. Officials offer rides and information through the local post office personnel.
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Kenosha
Harry C. Paskiewicz
Patricia Paskiewicz
Fourteenth Avenue
Paskiewicz
Army Air Forces
Cpl
Walter M. Helgesen
Army
France
69Th Division
Coast Artillery
United States
Robert A. Clark
Norman J. DeLaney
Lloyd E. Hunter
Police disperse masked mob at Carrollton jail incident
In Carrollton Georgia a 300 strong mob of masked white men tried for hours to storm the Carroll county jail to seize Eddie Brown Jr 20 accused of murdering a white farmer. Deputies and state police escorted Brown from the jail to Fulton Tower Atlanta as officers endured scrapes and bruises.
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Carrollton
Carroll County
Russell Lambert
Otis King
Eddie Brown, Jr
Brown
Andrew Boyd
Fulton Tower
Atlanta
Carroll Jail
Lambert
Rader Threadgill
Calcutta Rioting worsens as deaths rise
Unofficial reports say 12 to 15 people were killed and about 50 wounded in Calcutta yesterday amid sectarian riots tied to Bengal partition. Police say over 150 arrests occurred, and an automatic weapon was used for the first time in three months of unrest.
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Calcutta
U.P
Bengal
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Joseph Martin, Jr
Joseph Ball, R
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