CIO Plans 2 Million Strike Fund Amid Maritime Unity Move
The CIO sponsored Committee for Maritime Unity announced plans for a 2 million strike fund and world wide conferences with maritime unions of other nations as it prepares for new contract negotiations Sept 30. CMU led by Harry Bridges and Joseph Curran seeks joint conferences and potential future labor front difficulties amid a recent settlement and optimism in the labor scene.
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Cio-Sponsored
Committee For Maritime Unity
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Harry Bridges
Joseph Curran
Cochairmen
Labor Department
Louis Goldblatt
Howard T. Colvin
U. S. Conciliation Service
Molotov Backs Austria on Ministers Conference Agenda
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov agreed to add Austria to the foreign ministers conference agenda while urging vigilance over Italy to prevent a fascist resurgence. He backed treating Austria as a problem rather than a fixed treaty issue, with US and French input shaping the plan as the talks opened.
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V. M. Molotov
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Molotov
Washington
France
Russia
Britain
Italy
United States
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Slaying Shocks Essex Wife of Rubber Executive
Anthony Russo testifies about a brutal assault on Mrs. Shetland, wife of Walter A Shetland of Trenton New Jersey. He describes grappling with her seizing a stove poker and setting the home on fire with kerosene after knocking her unconscious. A nearby workman spotted smoke and called for help as responders found the body.
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Anthony Russo
Walter A. Shetland
Essex Rubber Company
Trenton
N. J
Russo
Georgia Moves To Break Ku Klux Klan In Civil Suit
Georgia plans to file a civil suit next week seeking to revoke the Klan charter. State Attorney General Eugene Cook labeled Atlanta the national headquarters and said the organization could be dissolved as an unlawful assembly. An AFL statement linked a flogging at a clay pit to Klansmen identified by a victim. Sheriff Hambrick said the Twiggs County investigation was ongoing.
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Georgia
Ku Klux Klan
Eugene Cook
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Cook
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American Federation of Labor
Army Air Forces Day Dinner Headlined by Gen Ira Eaker
Lieut. Gen. Ira C. Eaker deputy commander of the army air forces will be guest of honor and main speaker at a dinner August 1 as part of the Milwaukee centurama celebration Ira A. Bickhart executive director announced Saturday.
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Ira C. Eaker
Army Air Forces
Local Weather Sunny Sunday With Warm Afternoon
Partly cloudy conditions on Sunday with moderate temperatures. The day will cool Sunday night with a high around 84 degrees in the afternoon.
Butter and Cheese Price Increases Set to Start Monday
An OPA official said retail prices for butter rise 11 cents per pound and cheddar cheese up six cents per pound will take effect Monday. The increases were authorized May 29 by Stabilization Director Chester Bowles, who also approved a one cent per quart milk rise. Bowles cited higher grain costs and congressional demands to cut food subsidies.
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Bowles
Doubts On Rationing Policy Faces World Shortage
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said a return to consumer rationing is unlikely as the U S shifts to rationing at the source for wheat and other short supplies. He warned bread grain meat and fat shortages may persist into 1947 while the world food situation stays critical. Four witnesses told the Senate small business committee that a domestic corn shortage threatens medicines paper and iron castings as the government supports famine relief. Anderson hopes to release corn to industry after OPA policy is settled.
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Anderson
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Congress
Agriculture Department
Senate
Small Business Committee
OPA
Last Word Of British On India Awaited
A British cabinet mission will reveal its final stance on Indian independence on Sunday an authoritative informant said. The message is expected to hinge on an interim government plan opposed by the Indian Congress party.
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India
New Delhi
India Congress Party
Prison for garden thefts in Moscow and other cities
The justice ministry announced penalties up to five years for stealing produce from victory gardens. The new rules aim to protect food grown by millions of Russians in Moscow Leningrad and other Soviet cities.
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Moscow
Victory Gardens
Justice Ministry
Leningrad
Restrictions On Coal Deliveries Eased For Domestic Consumers
Washington reports near normal Bituminous coal output prompts the Solid Fuels Administration to ease limits. Households and retail buyers may take up to 60 percent of the 1945 46 supply previously obtained. Those not storing soft coal are limited to ten days or one truckload.
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Washington
Solid Fuels Administration
Canadian Red Guilty In Conspiracy Trial
Fred Rove the sole Communist member of Parliament was found guilty by a king's bench jury after 31 minutes of deliberation on conspiring to pass wartime secrets to Russia via a Moscow directed espionage network. Sentencing set for next Thursday with potential seven year term. He faces another trial in September on four counts of violating the Official Secrets Act.
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Montreal
Fred Rove
Russia
King's Bench
Rose
House of Commons
Officer Convicted For Punishment of Prisoners in Germany
A military court at Naheum Germany convicted Lieut Granville Cubage of unauthorized punishment of American soldiers at Lichfield England. He was fined 250 dollars and given a reprimand for administering beatings with clubs.
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
Granville Cubage
Lichfield
Eng
Inflation Mounts in Budapest with One-Trillion Pengo Note
Hungary issues a one trillion pengo note labeled eggmillio milpengo as inflation hits a new peak. The note would have been about $200 billion before the war, but now it is worth roughly 35 cents, highlighting extreme currency devaluation.
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Budapest
Hungary
Slaying Suspect Questioned Over London Woman Death
Scotland Yard traced a suspect after questioning a Brighton arrestee in the slaying of Eliza Beth MacLindon 40 former royal housekeeper to King George H Greece. Her bullet wound neck body found in a fashionable London house being prepared for Princess Catherine. Pathologist says death occurred at least five days ago. Police think she was shot during a telephone call. Neighbors' milk bottles spurred a break through the door after a break in.
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Scotland Yard
Brighton
Elizabeth MacLindon
George H
Greece
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Four Milwaukee men convicted in Farina killings near Kenosha
Four Milwaukeeans were found guilty of murder and assault with intent to murder for the March 3 shooting near Kenosha that killed Mike Farina and wounded his brother Joe. Sentencing set for June 24 before Judge Edward Gehl. defense plans motions for dismissal or new trials.
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Wis
Mike Farina
Milwaukee
Joe
Here
John
Mandella
Jerome
Dominic Lampone
Louis Fazio
Edward C. Gehl
West Bend
Gene Sullivan
Nab Mate For Locking Wife In Belt At Home
A 39 year old wood worker William Truax was freed on $1000 bail after a preliminary hearing on charges of atrocious assault and battery for locking his wife Rose in a medieval style chastity belt and locking away her clothes. Rose escaped to a neighbor, then police. a locksmith cut the belt chain at headquarters.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Edward Webb
Albert Shahadi
William Truax
Webb
Rose
Truax
Romania Receives U S And British Dissent On Moscow Accord Reply
United States and British diplomats in Bucharest delivered notes to Romania expressing dissatisfaction with the Romanian reply to protests over the Moscow agreement. One source said the U S note called the reply wholly inadequate and noting inaccuracies in the response.
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Bucharest
United States
Romania
Guns Found in Chateau Near Bordeaux
The ministry of the interior said a Saturday communique uncovers an international arms trafficking case with 40 tons of guns and ammunition found in a chateau near Bordeaux, France.
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Paris
Ministry of the Interior
France
Bordeau
Maj Swancutt's Mother Reacts to Bomb Crew News
The 61-year-old mother of Maj Woodrow P Swancutt, proposed to lead the Bikini Atoll atomic test crew, expresses pride and worry in Hempstead New York. She notes her son told her not to worry but says she cannot help feeling anxious for his safety as she visits family in La Crosse Wisconsin.
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Caroline Swancutt
Mrs. Swancutt
la Crosse, Wis
Ralph Stoan
La Crosse Concert Band Plays Today in City Park
The La Crosse concert band will perform at Myrick Park at 3 p.m. Sunday. The public is invited to attend. A program of selections to be played by the group is listed on page 9.
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la Crosse
Myrick Park
A Bomb Plan To Take Time
United Nations atomic energy commission members agreed that approving an atomic control plan would be a long process with Russia’s attitude as the key factor. They anticipated Bernard Baruch’s plan as the likely base with amendments from others and warned approval would not come soon. Delegates said questions would need answers and official comment was unlikely before Wednesday when the 12 nation panel resumes talks.
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New York
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
U. S
Bernard M. Baruch
Refugee Camp Probe Sought by Yugoslav Delegate
Yugoslav delegate Leo Mattes urged the UN to appoint a fact finding committee to investigate refugee camps in Europe. He cited Pongau and Hirt camps and alleged royal Yugoslav army units in training, with reports of torture or murder for political reasons.
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Europe
Leo Mattes
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France
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Predict GOP Senate Majority Of Two
National Chairman B Carroll Reece predicted the Republican party would add eleven senators two more than a majority in the November elections He also forecast gains in the house of representatives and named probable Senate wins in Massachusetts Rhode Island West Virginia Maryland New Mexico Nevada Utah Washington Missouri Wyoming and Montana He did not specify House gains beyond expecting two or three seats in Ohio to flip from Democratic.
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B. Carroll Reece
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Montana
Justice Jackson Silent On Controversy
STOCKHOLM President Truman’s remarks about the supreme court dispute drew no comment from Justice Robert H. Jackson on Saturday. Jackson, vacationing from the Nuremberg war crimes trial, said he wished to make no statement and offered no details on the matter. He is visiting Sweden as a guest of the Swedish minister of justice.
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Truman
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Washington
Jackson
Hugo L. Black
New Truce Aims to Ease Manchuria Tension
Communists announced a signed truce implementation agreement described as a step toward a permanent cease fire in the northeast. The report cites diminished strife in Manchuria and further relaxation of tension in strategic Tsingtao as of Saturday.
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Nanking
Manchuria
Tsingtao
Sailors to Study Hairy Ain Us on Kurile Islands
Moscow reports the maritime branch of the All-Union Geographical Society will send scientists to the Kurile islands to study the Ain us aborigines and gather data on natural resources and productive possibilities, Tass said in Vladivostok.
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Moscow
Soviet All-Union Geographical Society
Kurile Islands
Tass
Vladivostok
Central Luzon clashes add to gloom with 15 dead
Governor Casteneda reports 15 peasants killed and five wounded in renewed battles near Cabanatuan as Hukbalahap guerrillas clash with civil guards and USAFFE forces in San Felipe Kabaulihan and Camadag within 25 miles of the provincial capital. The earlier four hour fight left three Huks dead in San Felipe and another farmer killed as huts burned.
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Cabanatuan
Luzon
Manual Roxas
Agrarian Commission
Isabelo Casteneda
San Felipe
Casteneda
Yet Bride To Be Slain Father Of Man Held
A World War II veteran Clayton Peter Asten and his fiancée Loma Frances Quiroz were found shot dead in the Aslon home in Dell Gardens. The brides groom’s father Samuel Aslon, 50, shot himself in a hotel room and remained alive. Police held him on suspicion of murder.
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Clayton Peter Asten
Loma Frances Quiroz
Sheriff's
Aslon
Dell Gardens
Samuel Aslon
Communists Pose Crisis In France
Paris reports a potential political crisis as the Communist party signals reluctance toward a Bidault government. Georges Bidault leads the Popular Republican movement with the largest bloc in the new constituent assembly.
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Paris
Communist Party
Georges Bidault
Republican Movement
Constituent Assembly
Truman Unveils 12 Point Plan for National Defense Unification
President Truman presents Congress with a 12 point program to unify armed services into a single national defense department headed by a civilian, with parity for the air force and a council of defense. The plan drops a single chief of staff and seeks joint chiefs guidance alongside the new national security resources board and central intelligence agency.
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