Detroit leaders eye Kenosha stop on Great Lakes tour
Captain Lee C. DeNike and Kenosha representatives inspected Kenosha harbor as a potential stop for 700 Detroit business leaders on a goodwill Great Lakes tour sponsored by the Detroit Board of Commerce. If confirmed, visits would occur June 12 or 18 with possible escort by USS Lapwing.
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Evening News
DeNike
Bradley M. Auten
Kenosha Harbor
Lee C. DeNike
Detroit
Great Lakes
Greater Detroit
Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company
Kenosha
Detroit Board of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Kenosha Manufacturing Association
Nash Motors
USS
Lapwing
Bradley Auten
Dixie Senators Move To Block Labor Repeal Plan
Southern Democratic leaders say they can form a solid majority to block the administrations drive to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. A Wood bill would keep Taft-Hartley on the statute books with minor amendments while reviving a coalition with Republicans to shape labor legislation.
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Dixie
Washington
U.P
John S. Wood
House Rules Committee
Truman Approves Admiral Ramsey Retirement
President Truman approved the May 1 retirement of Rear Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey after 40 years in the navy. Ramsey commands the Pacific fleet and serves as high commissioner of the trusteeship area of Pacific islands and led the Carrier Saratoga in the 1942 Solomon Islands action.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
DeWitt Clinton Ramsey
Ramsey
Navy
Pacific Fleet
Pacific Islands
Saratoga
Enterprise
Wasp
Solomon Islands
Tornadoes Hit Northwest Oklahoma Kill Two Injure Eighteen
Four tornadoes struck Canton Longdale and Blackwell in northwest Oklahoma causing heavy property damage and deaths in Canton and Longdale. A smaller twister hit near Enid with airport damage. six injured in Blackwell. Rescue efforts mobilized as rains and hail followed.
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Canton
Okla
Oklahoma
Longdale
Blackwell
Enid
Here
This Professor Not So Dumb True or False
Philadelphia. Temple University students face a mid year examination question asking true or false about a person getting lonely while thinking alone and finding solace in others paper. The remark humorously questions academic integrity in the med hall.
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Philadelphia
Med Hall of Higher Learning
Temple University
Bus Firm Seeks Earlier Fare Hike After Rejection
The Kenosha Motor Coach company plans another fare increase citing changed conditions after the PSC denied a prior request on December 31. The 1948 data show 7,331,593 passengers, 864,649 bus miles, 60 employees, and 32 buses. Racine plans higher fares in April for its lines. both firms are subsidiaries of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railway. The report also notes U.S. Army interest in Syria's government change and potential effects on an Israel armistice and a trans Arabian petroleum pipeline.
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Kenosha Motor Coach Company
Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
PSC
Chamber of Commerce
Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railway Company
Ivins Estate Left Over $100000, Milwaukee Bishop’s Wife
Mrs. Sarah S. Ivins, wife of Rt. Rev. Benjamin J. Ivins Episcopal bishop of Milwaukee, left an estate estimated at more than $100000.
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Milwaukee
Sarah S. Ivins
Benjamin J. Ivins
Boxer dies after bout in San Jose main event
Billy Cornwell of Des Moines Iowa, lightweight, died from injuries after last night's main event against Tate Martinez of Stockton California in San Jose California. Iceland votes to join Atlantic Pact Rioting communists throw stones at parliament during session approving 37 to 13 joining pact.
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San Jose
Cal
U.P
Billy Cornwell
Des Moines
Tate Martinez
Stockton
Iceland
Reykjavik
Truman Signs Radar Network Bill To Guard U S Borders
President Truman signed a radar defense bill authorizing the Air Force to build a protective network across key air approaches. The project will begin alongside a parallel Canadian radar system cooperation to secure national borders.
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Washington
Truman
Vinson accuses Truman of endangering national security
Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services committee says President Truman is cutting the defense budget below the rock bottom minimum approved by Army, Air Force, and Navy chiefs, jeopardizing national security.
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Washington
Carl Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
Truman
Georgia
Syrian army seizes control in bloodless Damascus coup
The Syrian army, led by Brig. Hosny El Zaim, ousted the government in Damascus at dawn in a bloodless coup. President Shukri Al Kuwaily, Prime Minister Khaled Bey Azem, and the cabinet were arrested. Curfew was imposed, and the army said the move was local with no foreign aims as armistice talks with Israel were anticipated. UN officials had traveled to Damascus to begin talks.
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Washington
Israel
Syria
Persian Gulf
Mediterranean
William Riley
U. S
United Nations
Ralph Bunche
Damascus
Kahled Ay Azem
Azem
Shukri Bey Kuwatli
Hosny el Zaim
House of Representatives
James Hugh Keeley, Jr
Shukri al Kuwaily
Khaled Bey Azem
Keeley
Zaim
Rhodes
Jamil Mardam Bey
Voluntary health insurance bill backed by five senators
Five senators led by Senator Hill propose a voluntary health insurance bill based on state and local controls to provide hospital and medical care through nonprofit prepaid plans. The measure would use federal funds to help states survey and strengthen health resources, with payroll deductions and provisions for unemployment periods.
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Washington
Hill
Ala
Truman
Congress
O'Connor
Withers
Aiken
Morse
Ore
Alabama
Burton
Supreme Court
Ohio
Wisconsin Assembly kills two labor control bills in session
Two bills tightening labor controls were defeated by the Wisconsin assembly. One would have made mass picketing a misdemeanor and another would hold unions liable for members actions. A separate measure to repeal the 1939 employment peace act and abolish the WERB was introduced, shifting mediation to the industrial commission.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Wisconsin Assembly
Legislative Council
Assembly Labor Committee
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Assembly
State Veterans Rehabilitation Trust Fund
Wiley Supports Atlantic Pact Defense Agreement
Senator Wiley of Wisconsin backs the Atlantic defense pact linking the United States Canada and western European nations. He says it creates a moral obligation to resist aggression if no peaceful option remains and that Congress would decide whether to declare war if needed. He notes the treaty becomes effective with presidential and Senate approval.
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Washington
Wiley
R.-Wis
Congress
Donnell
R.-Mo
Senate
House of Representatives
House
Railroad Gives Tomcat to Girl With Ceremonies
In Oxford Louisiana a passenger train stopped to present 13 year old Marlene Wendt with a black tomcat named T P. Marlene baked cake for the railroad and compared the new pet to her late cat Cinder. The gift followed a letter request dated March 1.
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Oxford
Louisiana
Marlene Wenet
Marlene
Texas and Pacific
W. H. Wendt
Cinder
T&p
Truman to Hold News Conference Tomorrow at 9:30 A.M.
President Truman will hold a news conference at 9 30 a m cst tomorrow in Washington. The event will be announced from the White House for national press coverage and public interest.
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Washington
Truman
Rent Bill Now Up to President Thurman sign likely
Administration leaders predicted President Truman would sign the compromise rent control bill as the current law nears expiration. The 15 month extension allows local option and fair return provisions, with treble damages to be pursued by the Housing Expeditor. Senate vote 78 to 11. House 263 to 143.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Joint
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
AFL
CIO
American Labor Party
Ex Army Pilot Claims Speed Mark
Former Army Major Joe De Bona says he set a new transcontinental air speed record of four hours and 57 minutes flying an F-51 fighter owned by Jimmy Stewart. He landed at La Guardia after a dash from Burbank, California, challenging the six hours seven minutes five seconds held by Paul Mantz in February 1947. Official confirmation depends on departure time from Burbank.
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New York
Army
Joe de Bona
Jimmy Stewart
de Bona
la Guardia Field
Burbank
Calif
Paul Mantz
Hollywood
Fred H
Nourse Offers Resignation as Economic Council Chair
Dr. Edwin G. Nourse said he submitted his resignation as chairman of the president’s council of economic advisors but expects to remain in the role "as far as I've heard" according to statements today.
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Washington
Edwin G. Nourse
President's Council of Economic Advisors
Soviet name new Berlin governor fuels peace offensive talk
Radio Moscow reports Vassily Sokolovsky is relieved as Berlin governor to become first deputy minister. Gen. Vassily Chuikov named to replace him, stirring Allied speculation of a possible Berlin blockade lift. Some see a propaganda move rather than real policy shift.
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Berlin
U.P
Russia
Germany
Radio
Moscow
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Sokolovsky
Vassily I. Cuikov
Stalingrad
Chuikov
Thuringia
Constance Bennett Heads Hollywood Troupe for Europe Tour
Constance Bennett leads a group of Hollywood film and radio players who will entertain U S air bases in Germany and England. The troupe tours Europe for three weeks presenting the comedy hit Over 21.
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Hollywood
A.P
Constance Bennett
Hollywood Film and Radio
U. S
Germany
England
Europe
Bevin greeted by tomato throwers as North Atlantic Pact heads ashore
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin faced tomato spitting and disorderly conduct arrests by police as he left the Queen Mary in New York. Demonstrators claim spontaneous student action amid larger anti antisemitism protest. Also aboard were Andrei Gromyko and Pact signers Spaak Bech Stikker heading to Washington.
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New York
Ernest Bevin
Joint Committee To Combat
Robert Newman
Brooklyn
Harry Hirsh
Samuel Tilden
Bevin
Andrei Gromyko
United Nations
Gromyko
Washington
Paul- Henri Spaak
Belgium
Joseph Bech
Luxembourg
Dirk A. Stikker
Netherlands
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