House GOP Leaders Push Peacetime Draft Law Move
Washington reports House Republicans insist on enacting a peacetime draft next week after a 78 to 10 Senate vote. Leader Ss Martin says floor action could occur Tuesday or Wednesday with minimal debate, while Rules Committee eyes an up or down vote and negotiations continue to align House and Senate provisions.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman
Ss Martin
R-Mass
House Rules
Leon Allen
R-ill
Y Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Martin
Allen
Foreign Legion
Danish Ship Kjot benhavn Strikes Mine Drowns 150
A Danish passenger liner Kjot benhavn struck a World War II mine near Aalborg in Kattegat and sank within ten minutes. About 150 passengers and crew died, with 261 survivors named by United Steamship Co. Reports say many were asleep when the explosion hit and some were rescued by the Frigga.
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Denmark
Kjotbenhavn
Kattegat
United Steamship Co
Copenhagen
Jutland
Kroebenhavn
Aalborg Bay
T Saing
Frigga
Armed Truce In Palestine Quiet After UN Mediation
Cairo reports a UN mediated four week truce in Palestine with generally observed ceasefire. Arab Legion accuses Jews of killing an Arab soldier in Jerusalem while Tel Aviv air raid alert ends soon after midnight. Jews and Arabs push to improve positions as Rhodes peace talks begin under UN sponsorship.
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Palestine
Holy Land
United Nations
Arab Legion
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Rhodes
Latrun
Amman
Trans-Jordan
Housing Bill Up To GOP's Taft-Elder-Wagner Sparked Senate Plan
Democrats narrowly take control of the 27 member House Banking Committee and approve the senate passed Taft-Elder-Wagner housing bill. The measure aims to build 15 million homes in ten years including 500,000 government financed units. The bill now moves to the House Rules Committee for clearance before floor action.
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Washington
House
House Banking Committee
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Leo Allen
R-Ill
Congress
Wolcott
R-Mich
Wisconsin GOP Leaders Head For Convention
Wisconsin Republicans head to Milwaukee for a voluntary convention to decide endorsements for state offices and adopt resolutions and a platform. About 2 500 delegates expected as fights over endorsements emerge with key figures like Rennebohm and Immell noted.
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
GOP
Milwaukee
Wis
Missing Money Pie Incident in Hagerstown
In Hagerstown Maryland Mrs Ralph Saladini found a stash of $125 in her oven after smelling something odd. Her husband had placed the money there for safekeeping and forgot to tell her, leaving investigators to sort out the unusual concealment.
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Hagerstown
Ralph Saladini
Modern Pied Piper Claims His Flute Has Sex Appeal
John Heywood an English inventor claims his wooden flute emits notes that attract rats and trigger mass rat migrations. He says he lures rodents from sewers and holes then kills them by hand club or herbal poison. Heywood told a radio interview the flute’s notes are the mating call of rats.
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London
Britain
John Heywood
Piper
Hamelin
British Broadcasting Corporation
Heywood
North
Wales
Mr. Heywood
Senate Bill Orders Adequate Upper Mississippi Pools
Senate approves a bill directing Army engineers to keep water levels high enough by maintaining a nine foot channel from April to December. The measure, aimed at conserving fish and wildlife on the upper Mississippi between Rock Island Island and Minneapolis, now goes to the house for concurrence.
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Washington
Army
Mississippi River
Senate Yestern
Island
Minneapolis
House
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Rock Island
House Passes DP Bill Allows 202000 Homeless Europeans Entry
The House voted to admit 202,000 displaced Europeans to the United States over the next two years. The measure goes to a conference committee with a displaced persons bill already approved by the Senate to reconcile differences.
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Washington
House
United States
Senate
Local Weather Outlook for Crosse and Vicinity
Local weather says a car fair tonight with increasing cloudiness. Showers are possible Saturday as conditions shift across the area.
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Crosse and Vicinity
Truman Tours Flood Areas In Oregon
President Truman halted his campaign cadence to fly over the Columbia River flood region and pledged to monitor relief efforts until the November election. He urged voters to oppose a congress led by lobbyists and pressed for price, housing, and labor welfare laws while conferred on federal relief efforts. He sent Secretary Krug as his representative to Seattle after canceling attendance at Labor Secretary Schwellenbach’s funeral.
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Truman
Congress
Columbia River
Sylvester Park
Bremerton
Tacoma
Seattle
Washington
Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works
Interior
Krug
Co-Ordine
Mon C. Wallgren
Northwest
Berkeley
Labor
Schwellenbach
Canada
Fraser
Pacific
Columbia
Red Cross
Vanport
Portland
New Jersey
Auto Workers Face Layoffs Amid Steel Shortage
Detroit reports show Ford and GM plant shutdowns affecting about 230000 production workers. GM faces a weeklong layoff starting Monday due to steel shortages tied to a coal strike, while Ford cites lack of production parts. Packard raises hourly pay 13 cents for 10000 hourily rated workers and price hikes from 75 to 200 dollars take effect June 14.
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Forld Motor Co
General Motors Corp
Ford
Packard Motor Car Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Packard
Uaw-Cio
General Motors
Bendix Corp
UAW
Bendix
Ast
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers’ Union
Washington
County Agent Dies in Dodgeville Wisconsin
William B. Noyes aged 56 died of a heart attack while serving as Iowa county agent for 14 years. A Beaver Dam native, he was well known in Wisconsin 4H club work and active in the local community.
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Dodgeville
Wis
William B. Noyes
Iowa
Beaver Dam
Wisconsin
Body of Woman Found in Trailer Identified as Mollie Hoffman
Mauston Wisconsin authorities identified the decomposed body of Mollie Dora Hoffman, 24, by fingerprints. Her husband John J. Hoffman is being sought for questioning in her death and the disappearances of their two children. Police warn he may be armed and has a criminal record in multiple states.
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Wis
Charles P. Curran
Mollie Dora Hoffman
Campbell Avenue
Chissan
Witstagor Curran
John J. Hoffman
Hoffman
Curran
John
Joe Zimmer
California
Arizona
Kansas
Minnesota
Bobby
Roberts
Chicago
Janice
Flooding Threatens Portland Airport and 10-Mile Flood Plain
Columbia River breaches flood a 10 mile strip east of Portland threatening the $6.5 million airport and the $43 million Reynolds Metals plant at Rootdale. Evacuations continue as engineers race to shore up dikes while weather forecasters warn of a new crest and rising floodwaters.
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Columbia
U. S. Army
Reynolds Metals Company
Rootdale
Shriff
Vanport
Portland Meadows
Vanport Memorial Day
Columbia River
Portland-Columbia
Salem
U. S. Weather Bureau
Oregon Metropolis
Propaganda Trick Misfires in Berlin Youth Probe
American military officials in Berlin mocked a Communist ploy to arrest youths for illegal promotion of a unity plebiscite. The plan backfired as detained youths were promptly freed and protest telegrams continued to pour in from various groups.
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Berlin
U. S
Lawmaker Fails To Join 52-20 Club
A Wisconsin assembly member failed to qualify for the 52 20 club after Veterans Administrator Carl R. Gray Jr ruled that the $100 monthly state wages counted as wages and disqualified him from a readjustment allowance.
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Lawmaker
Washington
Wisconsin Assembly
Carl R. Gray, Jr
Wheat crop forecasts revised upward for 1948
The Agriculture Department indicates a 1948 wheat crop of 1.192 billion bushels based on June 1 conditions, up 75.4 million from a month earlier. Winter wheat is forecast at 877.23 million, spring at 315.195 million, rye 24.316 million, oats 1.35721 billion, and barley 290.307 million. no corn or other crops forecasted yet.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Government crop report hints at lower prices in 1949
The agriculture department said corn for livestock feed is starting much better than last year when it nearly failed, and May wheat prospects point to a potentially record second-largest crop. Consumers would not feel the impact until the latter part of next year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Record exceeds decade average despite high last year
The figure surpasses the ten year 1936 to 1945 average of 890,306,000 though last year reached 1,364,000,000.
VFW Votes 200 Aid To Flooded Veterans
Veterans of Foreign Wars voted $200 from the poppy fund to aid flooded veterans in the Columbia and Fraser river valleys in Oregon and Washington. Commander Vernon Gibson said the action followed an appeal by National Commander Ray H. Branaman of Denver. Funds were sent to the national commander.
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Thomas Rooney Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Columbia
Fraser River
Oregon
Washington
Vernon Gibson
Ray H. Brannaman
Denver
Colo. Gibson
Garment Union Approves One Million Dollar Israel Loan
The AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union authorized a $1,000,000 loan to the new state of Israel. The general executive board acted yesterday on the recommendation of union president David Dubinsky.
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New York
Israel
AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union
David Dubinsky
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