Rivers Reach Record Crests as Floods Spread
The Missouri Des Moines and Mississippi rivers reach new record crests flooding vast farmland and displacing thousands. Over 1,000,000 acres inundated and about 24,000 homeless. Keokuk to Louisiana flood expected to be the era’s worst. Highways and rail travel crippled across Illinois Iowa Missouri. services slowly returning to near normal in parts.
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Missouri
Des Moines
Mississippi
Army Oe
Atule
Neb
Ottumwa
Herschel Loveless
Tucker
Burlington
Keoku
Detroit man nabbed in $8000 extortion plot
A 31 year old factory worker admitted attempting to extort $8000 from Mrs Marie Schweitzer the widowed mother of his friend and the mother of missing Richard Schweitzer 19. Police trapped him at Mt Olivet cemetery with officers posing as toy balloon sellers and detected the hoax after interrogation and a lie detector test.
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Bruce Coapman
Marie Schweitzer
Schweitzer
Richard
Coapman
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Detroit
Elkhart
Ind
Mt. Olivet
Krug
Immell Urges Peace Amid Flag Day Reflections
Madison attorney and WWI major general Ralph M. Immell urged lasting peace as next decade tests faith. He spoke in Riverside Park after a parade by civic groups, stressing the need to replace force with secure world order and U S leadership in peacetime prosperity. The program included a Logan High School band performance and lodge and chaplain activities. See FLAG DAY, Page 2.
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Ralph M. Immell
Madison
State National Guard
U. S
Riverside Park
Court House Square
Logan High School
Frank Italiano
Ellis’ Lodge
A. Wolfe
B. W. Ingli
Oger Hafner
Plane crash on Blue Ridge kills 50 aboard Capital Airlines DC-4
Rescue teams battled rain and rough terrain as fifty bodies were recovered from a DC-4 that crashed on a Blue Ridge mountainside near Leesburg Virginia. Most victims were not identified. one infant was named Judith Christine Bryan. FBI and Red Cross assisted with identification as bulldozers prepared to clear a path for the retrieval effort.
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Leesburg
Blue Ridge
Red Cross Emergency Headquarters
Capital Airlines
Gordon Stone
Red Cross
Washington National
Jerry Korn
Associated Press
Julian Brooks
Alexandria
L. T. Easley
Judith Christine Bryan
Martha Helen Bryan
Indianapolis
Ind
Norfolk
GOP Readies Counter Blast at Truman Over Tax Bill
Republicans mobilize to counter a potential veto on the tax reduction bill. Taft and Taber condemn the president’s economy stance and predict a final budget cut totaling billions. The bill would cut income taxes by 30 to 105 percent starting July 1, with an estimated $4 billion annual saving to taxpayers.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Senate
GOP Policy Committee
Taber
R-Ny
House Appropriations Committee
House
Rep. Grant
R-Ind
France signals step to discuss Marshall Plan
Paris reports France has taken the first step to discuss the U S Secretary of State Marshall's proposed multi billion dollar recovery plan. Bevin is due in Paris Tuesday for two days of talks as diplomats expect Britain, France, and the United States to align on economic aid for Europe.
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Paris
France
U. S
Marshall
Assassia
Yacht Explodes Off Manor In Stamford Incident
A yacht exploded off Manor Saturday night near Stamford and sank immediately. Police said all aboard were rescued, with injuries reported but details unclear. The incident prompted emergency response as investigators began reviewing what caused the blast.
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Stamford
Conn
Ehay
Manorich
Tribune Office Hours Changed
The La Crosse Tribune announces new summer office hours starting Monday. Business and editorial offices operate 8 am to 4 pm with emergency clerk service. Readers may call or report missing papers until 7 pm.
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la Crosse Tribune
Quadruplets Born To Montana Woman
Miles City Montana reports a quadruplet birth to Mr and Mrs Randash of Baker. Three girls and one boy were born Saturday and placed in an incubator. Dr Elna M Howard notes the pregnancy was detected weeks ago via X rays and mentions a five year old sibling in the family.
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Miles City
Mont
Edward Randash
Baker
Mon
Elna M. Howard
Howard
Randash
Curran Warns NMU Work Stop Tonight Amid Talks Collapse
Curran president of the CIO national maritime union said he and his delegation were invited out of a conference with shipowners and predicted a midnight Sunday work stoppage. He called it a lockout and said there is no contract as of June 15. The union plans a Sunday council session to decide next steps while shipping interests prepare strike headquarters and member registrations.
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New York
Joseph Curran
CIO National Maritime Union
Curran
American Merchant Marine Institute
NMU
Mye
Council of the Union
Paul Palazzi
Port of
National Maritime Union
Murray Winocur
Benevolent Juke Box Saves Passenger From Plane Crash
Robert Quick of Arlington a Capital Airlines mechanic credited a loud juke box in the air restaurant with saving him from death in a Washington bound crash. He was in Pittsburgh Friday and had booked a Washington flight, but the noise made him miss the departure. He told reporters the cup of coffee moment saved his life.
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Leesburg
Robert Quick
Arlington
Capital Airlines
Quick
Pittsburgh
Washington
Case Employes Vote To Accept Wage Boost
RACINE Wisconsin UAW CIO local 180 voted to accept a wage offer from J. J. Case company described as more than 15 cents an hour. The union also agreed to drop a contract provision that would reopen wage negotiations next September, a clause tied to ending a 14 month strike at the Racine plant last March.
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Racine
Wis
Uawcio
J. J. Case Company
Harvey Kitzman
Kitzman
Snow Falls Over Chicago Saturday
Federal Forecaster J. W. Brunk said what appeared as snow at 6,000 feet was visible only to observers in a plane. The precipitation turned to rain, with a low of 49 degrees cited, one degree above the all time record for the date. a 48 degree temperature had been registered in 1875.
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Leesburg Cemetery
FBI
Washington
Truman
James M. Landis
Civil Aeronautics Board
New York
White House
West Virginia
James M. Franklin
Chicago
J. W. Brunk
Dads threaten strike over breakfast in bed in Oklahoma
Broken Arrow fathers threaten a Father’s Day strike if breakfast in bed is not served as a sign their demands are met. A 20 father group backed by Cal Tinney of the Broken Arrow Ledger issued five points including late return home, equal speak out rights, no forking over funds for their gifts, consent to calls, and respectful address as Papa or Dad. If unmet, picketing in automobiles was discussed but deemed impractical.
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Broken Arrow
Cal Tinney
Broken Arrow Ledger
General Edson resigns citing military power shift
Brigadier General Merritt A. Edson, Medal of Honor recipient, announced he was leaving the Marines to return to civilian life, denouncing what he called the military assuming power in Washington. He spoke at the University of Vermont alumni luncheon, warning that the military directing policy risks losing the nation's core values.
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Burlington
Washington
Merritt A. Edson
University of Vermont
Nurses Parade Here at St Francis School of Nursing
The St Francis School of Nursing marks a two day homecoming with a 855 graduates parade next Saturday afternoon. Ten floats will depict nursing service in war at home and in industry with the Florence Nightingale float and a nurse as queen as central symbols. The parade forms at 3 30 p m and runs through La Crosse routes to the hospital, followed by a banquet. The Sunday program includes a 9 a m pontifical high mass at St Rose convent chapel led by Most Rev John P Treacy.
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St. Francis School of Nursing
Senoel
St. Francis
Aquinas
Erickson’s
VFW
American Legion
St. Francis Hospital
King
Pearl
Main
la Crosse
School of Nursing
St. Rose Convent
John P. Treacy
Wallace Names And Notables In Un American Affairs Report
Washington report ties Henry Wallace Melvyn Jas and others to the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. The House un American Activities Committee labeled the group a Camouflaged Communist front and pledged further hearings. Conference leader Clark Foreman dismissed the report as dull and urged investigations into un Americanism in the south.
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Washington
House Committee On un-American Activities
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
House
Henry A. Wallace
Melvyn Jas
Marshall Field
Harold L. Ickes
Joseph E. Davies
Dorothy Parker
Paul Robeson
Clark Foreman
Wallace
Henry Wallace
Truman
Zero Mostel
American Youth For Democracy
The
Young Communist League
Not Like 1816 Forecasters Still Predict We Will Have A Summer
Chicago government forecasters warned of a cooler week ahead for the upper Midwest, with a persistent low pressure pattern over Canada likely to keep spring cool and wet. In the corn belt Kansas Missouri Nebraska and Oklahoma face three to seven degrees below normal rainfall, while Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa see normal to slightly below temperatures and varying precipitation.
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P. F. Sutton
Chicago
Canada
Corn Belt
Suttons
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Notes to Russia May Signal Change in Policy
An American informant said the state department may issue another note to Russia detailing alleged unilateral actions by Soviet elements of the Allied Control Commission for Hungary. The move marks a shift from prior efforts to appease the Russians. Dezso Sulyok, leader of the Freedom party, plans a rally Monday in Szeged to challenge Communist restraint, inviting American and British reporters. Hungarian politicians expect limited Soviet interference due to Sulyok's growing international attention.
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Immell
Russia
America
Budapest
State Department
Allied Control Commission
Hungary
Commission
Dezso Sulyok
Freedom Party
Szeged
Sulyok
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Arthur L. Christensen
A. C. Wolfe
John Horihan
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the Pacific
Northwest Missouri
Rock Island Line
Rocky Mountain Limited
Rock Island
Omaha
Burlington Railroad
Denver
Chicago Motor Club
United States
Stone
By Jack Bell
Tribune
Montana
Maritime Union
Benevolent Juke Box
Mary
Mother
Rey
Torvin
Case
Communist Front
Washington Committee
Robert Ware Straus
Office of Emergency Management
Ruth McKenny
Daily Worker
New Masses
Morris
Samuel Rodman
Metropolitan
Ee Co
Gifford Ot
Women's International Democratic Federation
J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
Mundt
R-Sd
Mec Dowell
R-Pa
Nixon
New England
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