CIO Urges Federal Probe to Check Rising Prices
The CIO urged Congress to form a federal price inquiry board to expose profiteering and push lower prices. Emil Rieve warned of economic collapse risks and called for price controls and rationing if foreign demand and crop losses persist. Senator Flanders dismissed wartime controls as impractical but urged clear public explanations to curb living costs.
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CIO
Congress
Labor Organization
Emil Rieve
Joint
Congressional Committee
Truman
Rieve
Amer
Flanders
Vermont
Midwest
Joint Congressional Committee On the
Edward O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
May-Garsson bribery trial closes as jury to be asked to decide
Testimony in the May-Garsson case ended today with defense motions for acquittal to be denied. Judge Scheinhaut set final arguments for tomorrow and a week from Monday for jury deliberation on whether Andrew J. May and co defendants accepted over 53 000 in wartime payments from the Garsson munitions combine.
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Washington
U.P
May
One Killed Six Hurt in Wisconsin Crash
A teen aged girl was killed and six companions injured when their car left the road fourteen miles west of Darlington Wisconsin. The victim was Joan Hillmeyer thirteen. Authorities said the youths were advertising a Fourth of July celebration to be held at Shullsburg next week when the accident occurred.
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Darlington
Wis
Here
Joan Hillmeyer
Shullsburg
Wisconsin Assembly Votes Surtax to Boost School Aids
The Wisconsin assembly passed a 40 percent surtax on individual and corporate incomes to raise about 16 million dollars annually for school aids. The 78 to 15 vote sends the measure to the senate and would increase state support for teachers salaries transportation and construction.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Assembly
Senate
Assembly
Judge Orders Boston Mayor To Serve Term
Judge James M. Proctor ordered Boston Mayor James M. Curley to begin a six to 18 month prison term immediately for mail fraud and denied delaying tactics. Curley, 72, left a hospital for the hearing after being treated for diabetes and high blood pressure. his appeal was rejected.
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Boston
Washington
James M. Proctor
James M. Curley
Curley
Proctor
Massachusetts Hospital
Cohasset
Mass
Massachusetts
Engineering Group, Inc
Supreme Court
Salvage planned for sunken S S Wisconsin cargo
John Johnson and a five man crew aboard the Salvager plan a summer salvage of the S S Wisconsin lying in 140 feet of water off Kenosha since October 29 1929. The ship carried 55000 gallons of white lead and other cargo when it sank with 16 lives lost.
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S.S. Wisconsin
Kenosha
Lake Michigan
Racine Journal Times
John Johnson
Fourth St
Root River
Racine
Johnson
Columbus
Ohio
Douglas Wagner
Harry Johnson
Wagner
Wisconsin
Great Lakes
Bedford
Maine
Reuben J. LeClair
Coast Guard
LeClair
Truman vetoes wool price support bill over tariff fears
President Truman vetoed the wool price support bill saying tariff boosting provisions would harm U.S. leadership in world affairs. Congress seemed poised to sustain the veto. He objected to import barriers amid UN efforts to cut trade barriers and urged Congress to pass legislation aligned with international responsibilities. The vote stood 48-38 in the Senate and 191-166 in the House.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
AFL to Challenge Part of Taft Hartley Law
The American Federation of Labor will challenge portions of the Taft Hartley Act in court. AFL General Counsel Joseph A. Padway said about 75 lawyers will meet this weekend to identify sections they deem unconstitutional.
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AFL
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Joseph A. Padway
Padway
Green
UW Advertises For Bartender Beer Only
The University of Wisconsin seeks a bartender to serve beer only at the Memorial Union Rathskeller. The student employment office posted the ad today inviting applicants.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Memorial Union
Kenosha Industries Begin Summer Vacation Shutdowns
Kenosha factories launch summer layoff periods with plants like Nash Motors Simmons American Brass Tri-Clover Macwhyte Snap-In tools Dynamatic Frost Coopers Mill and Kenosha Full Fashion Mills closing for one to two weeks. Skeleton crews stay for inventories and essential maintenance while thousands enjoy vacations starting June 27 to July 14.
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Kenosha Industries
Kenosha's
Oe Aandanas
Intana
Harold E. Long
Nash Motors
Milwaukee
Simmons Company
American Brass
Tri-Clover
Dynamatic
Frost Company
Kenosha
Train Derailment Kills Six on New York Central Run
Derailment near Shiloh of the New York Central hen Louis special from Cleveland to St Louis killed six and possibly seven. Engineers Higgins and Wanke and firemen McCord and Kennedy Jr. were among the dead along with two work crew members. A third crewman was believed buried as search continued. Three passengers and one express employee were lightly injured.
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Cleveland
L. J. McCord
J. D. Kennedy, Jr
Edward Gunderson
Ontonagon
Mich
James L. Brockwell
Johnson City
Tenn
McCord
H. C. Davis
Charleston
Hearing Held On Abandoning Interurban Line
Hearings opened in the Kenosha county courthouse on abandoning the Interurban Electric train between Racine and Kenosha. Kenosha officials and the Kenosha Motor Coach president testified that the Racine Kenosha line shows losses, urging replacement by bus service.
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Racine
Kenosha
Kenosha County
Peter Lewis
Madison
State Public Service Commission
A. E. Axtell
Robert Smith
Robert Baker
Smith
Kenosha Motor Coach Company
Henry P. Bruner
Sam Meyers
Bruner
Racine-Kenosha
Milwaukee-Racine- Kenosha
Noted Clubwoman Helen Woodard Atwater Dies
Washington reports the death of 71 year old Helen Woodard Atwater nationally known home economist and club woman after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held in Middletown, Conn.
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Washington
Helen Woodard Atwater
Middeltown
Conn
Salt Lake City Plans Monument to Pioneer Arrival
Salt Lake City unveils a $200000 monument commemorating the pioneer arrival and invites bread donations to attract seagulls to the site.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Valley
Housing survey pinpoints potential small dwelling units citywide
Ward captains presented survey statements in Kenosha City Hall showing 80 to 85 percent coverage. Chairman Matt Taylor said three wards remain to report and that findings will aid the Housing Authority to ease local housing shortages with conversion potential in every ward. Reports will be tabulated by wards with addresses and required work.
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City Council
Matt Taylor
Taylor
Housing Authority
Kenosha Chamber of Commerce
Thearea
West Coast Puzzled Over Mysterious Flying Objects
Pendleton ORE Aug reports army and CAA spokesmen skeptical of Kenneth Arnold account of nine mysterious objects as big as airplanes moving at 1200 mph over Washington. Arnold, Boise businessman, described flat shiny pie pan like craft weaving over Cascade mountains toward Mt Rainier at 10000 feet, timing 47 miles in 1 42 minutes and estimating speed 1200 mph with possible error of 200 300 mph.
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Pendleton
Ove
Army
CAA
Washington
Kenneth Arnold
Boise, Idaho
Cascade Mountains
Arnold
Mt. Rainier
Mt. Adams
AFL Presidents Conference Set for July 9 in Washington
AFL President William Green announced a July 9 meeting in Washington for the AFL’s 105 unions to plot strategy against the Taft Hartley act. Green rejected general strikes, favoring court challenges and negotiations to defend union rights. The AFL also plans politically to defeat every Congress member who voted for the law, while Padway and about 75 lawyers prepare to challenge specific provisions as unconstitutional.
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Washington
AFL
William Green
Green
Walkout Totals Rise as Mines and Mills Lay Off Workers
Four day old coal stoppage triggers widespread layoffs in steel mills and railroads. About 227000 idle miners and several hundred workers affected within a week at Birmingham railroads and Youngstown and Chicago plants. Hartley Taft law cited as motive for walkouts. Alabama reports all 20000 miners idle. Carnegie Illinois and Youngstown Sheet and Tube adjust furnaces ahead of mine vacation.
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Pittsburgh
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Youngstown
Chicago
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Russia Diverts Military Call-up For Youths to Training
A June 19 decree from the presidium of the supreme Soviet directs that large groups of youths previously slated for military service be diverted to industrial and craft training in the USSR. It specifies mobilization of boys 14 to 17 and girls 15 to 16 for schooling in crafts and railway trades.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
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E. Wallace Stokes
Surtax
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Texas
Miami
West Coast
Washington, D. C
John L. Lewis
Rep
Hartley
R.-N.j
Lewis
Zen
Rep. Landis
R.-Ind
House Labor Committee
Russia
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