FDR Jr Wins Congress Seat Over Tammany
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr won a New York 20th district special election, capturing 41 146 votes with Liberal and Four Freedoms party lines. Opponents included Benjamin Shalleck Democrat and William H. McIntyre Republican, while Roosevelt pressed civil rights and housing within Truman era policy.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Tammany
Roosevelt
Liberal Party
Four Freedoms Party
Municipal Court
Benjamin Shalleck
William H. McIntyre
Annette T. Rubinstein
Albany
White House
Fdr, JR
Tammany Hall
House orders impartial B 36 versus jet fighter tests
The House armed services committee ordered the Defense Department to conduct impartial tests of the B 36 against navy jet fighters. The move follows navy claims a jet interceptor can shoot down the bomber, with tests to be at 40 000 feet or higher and results disclosed to the public as appropriate.
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Washington
House
Armed Services Committee
Defense Department
Air Force
Navy
Air Lant
Faenea
Defense
Louis Johnson
Air
W. Stuart Symington
Air At Me Ee
Mary
Vinson
United States Navy
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of the Air Force
House Committee On Armed Services
Committee On Armed Services
Bendix Picket Line Peaceful in South Bend
In South Bend Indiana the CIO United Automobile Workers cut its picket line to normal today and allowed 1600 non striking Bendix Aviation plant office workers to return. The union had expanded the line to 400 men to block entry but there was no disorder this day as negotiators prepared to meet Bendix officials with federal mediators for a ninth bargaining session on the strike.
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South Bend
Ind
CIO United Automobile Workers Union
Bendix Aviation
Bendix
Stuttgart Ratifies Constitution First West State Parliament
In a notable move Wuerttemberg Baden ratified the constitution as Stuttgart’s state parliament becomes the first in the western region to approve the measure.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Wuerttemberg- Baden
House Votes Extension For Crop Insurance
The House passed by voice vote a bill extending the federal crop insurance program. The measure would make about 200 counties eligible and would write off 73 million dollars in losses accumulated under the old program.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman greets Brazil's Dutra at White House signing
President Truman welcomes Brazilian President Eunice Gaspar Dutra to Washington for the signing of the inter American defense treaty. The day also features a House vote for a lobbying probe with Senate approval needed first. Dr Carl Neupert of Madison elected to lead a National PTA health committee.
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Washington
Truman
Eunice Gaspar Dutra
Brazil
HOUSE
Senate
St. Lesis
Carl Neupert
Madison
Wis
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Communist student Freistadt defends loyalty before Congress
Austrian born University of North Carolina physics fellow Freistadt, a self described Communist, told the joint atomic energy committee he remains loyal to the United States and would quit the party if it were under foreign control. He warned against discriminating scientists for political views and noted his $1 600 fellowship begins July 1 1949 while Senator O Mahoney said fiscal 1950 funds for similar programs will be cut.
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Roosevit
Roosevelt
Washington
House
Truman
Hans Freistadt
Congress
United States
Freistadt
AEC
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
University of North Carolina
O'Mahoney
Wyo
Senate
Committee Ends Long Atlantic Pact Hearings
The senate foreign relations committee closed its hearings on the North Atlantic pact after 97 witnesses in three weeks. Chairman Connally expects overwhelming approval for the 12-nation treaty but gave no timetable for a vote.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
D-Tex
Wisconsin assembly advances first redistricting step
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a proposed constitutional amendment creating a committee of state officials to redraw districts if reapportionment fails after each federal census. The panel would include the governor, chief justice, attorney general, Senate president, and Assembly speaker. The Assembly also moved on mental health advisory structures, taxation of federal lands, Christmas tree disposal fees, designation of the Waukesha Freeman as state newspaper, and a controlled-access highway plan with 500 miles cap.
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House
Supreme Court
Senate
Assembly
Burmaster
R.wauwatosa
Board of Health
Public Welfare Department
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison
State Highway Commission
Lady Deputy Seeks Missing Wallet After Driver’s License Talk
Cedar Rapids deputy sheriff Verna Kirkpatrick reported her wallet vanished from a sheriff’s office counter. She left the wallet with $3 in cash and a $25 money order inside while discussing a driver’s license renewal, and the man who spoke with her is suspected of taking it.
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Cedar Rapids
Verna Kirkpatrick
McCloy Named US High Commissioner to Germany
President Truman selects John J. McCloy to be United States high commissioner in postwar Germany, with military governor duties and diplomatic rank. Eugene Black succeeds McCloy as World Bank president, after McCloy resigns to take the Berlin post.
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Washington
John J. McCloy
World Bank
United States
Germany
White House
Truman
McCloy
Berlin
Eugene Black
Bank
New York
War
Army
State Department
Black
Federal Reserve Board
U.S
Chase National Bank of New York
U. S
Congress
World Bank Post
London
Paris
United States Authority
Secretary of State
Allied High Commission For
United Kingdom
France
Foreign Service
ECA
Paul G. Hoffman
Wm. Averell Harriman
Flood Destroys Fort Worth Area. Toll Rises in Texas Floods
Fort Worth and surrounding Trinity valley towns battled rising floodwaters with 30 injured and about 13 000 homeless as waters forced school closures and cut transit. The storms left a seventh victim and increased regional deaths to 14 with hundreds more hurt across Oklahoma and Texas. Water supplies were contaminated and frantic residents queued for boiled water and purified shipments from Camp Hood and Dallas tankers.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Trinity Valley
Texas
Oklahoma
Amarillo
West Texas
Friction Returns as Soviet Bloc Reimposes Checkpoint
Soviet traffic officers at Helmstedt halted freight trucks from the western zone to Berlin demanding new entry permits issued by the German economic commission in the Soviet zone. Hundreds of trucks stalled while fresh vegetables wilted, signaling the first Soviet move against Berlin traffic since the blockade was lifted.
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Berlin
U.P
Russia
West Germany
Helmstedt
German Economic Commission
Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers
Paris
Germany
German People's Congress
East Germany
FBI Informant Testifies in Communist Conspiracy Trial
Balmes Hidalgo Jr of New York took the witness stand as the eighth FBI informant in the 18 week trial. He testified about attending a meeting of his Communist party unit last night for the government.
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New York
FBI
Balmes Hidalgo, Jr
Italy Faces Largest Strike in Months by 40,000 Farm Workers
Rome reports forty thousand farm workers were called off their jobs in a major nationwide strike, the most serious in months, disrupting harvests and drawing government attention.
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Rome
Italy
Rain Grants Kenosha Most State Rainfall Total
Kenosha recorded the state's highest rainfall last night at .43 of an inch. A morning high of 83 degrees rose to 70 with a brief 20 minute downpour. Reedsburg hit 88, the state high, while Superior Duluth logged 49. Clear skies and cooler weather are forecast for Thursday with more rain tonight.
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Kenosha
Mercury
Reedsburg
Superior-Duluth
Covered Wagon of Gold Rush Days Comes to Kenosha
One of the original 1849 covered wagons is visiting Kenosha next Tuesday. R S Kingsley announces a 10 am welcome in front of city hall as part of the 1949 Opportunity Savings Bond Drive. The wagon will be flown from Cedar City Utah by air boxcars and hauled by a donated truck and trailer.
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Kenosha
R. S. Kingsley
Kenosha County
Forrest Conner
Lee Hancock
al Grosvenor
Hartwick Dahl
Joseph Quarles
Kingsley
Opportunity ‘Savings
Land of Opportunity
Armed Services
Cedar City
Utah
Gronway R. Parry
International Truck
Conestoga Valley
Lancaster County
Treasury
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Fdr Jr
Roosevelt Sons
Shalleck
Manhattan
Democratic Organization
Young Roosevelt
American Labor Party
Manhattan West Side
Sol Bloom
Aviate Teu Scaigntu Slc
Carl Vinson
PTA
The
of Agriculture
Charles Hawks
Midwest
Army Housing Authority
Clover Authority
Wisconsin Assembly
Waukesha Freeman
Racine
Gade and Taylor
Racine Journal-Times
Farrington
Montgomery Ward and Company
Berryville
Sheriff's
William Schmitt
Eugene Schend
Schend
Hood
Ft. Worth
Camp Hood
Dallas
Trinity River
Gen. Clay
Lucius D. Clay
Sam Rayburn
Alben W. Barkley
Clay
Dean Acheson
APW
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