Some Democrats To Bolt Party On Two Big Issues
Washington June 12 Some Democratic congressional candidates will bolt the administration this year on two Truman campaign issues Brannan Farm Plan and compulsory medical insurance The plan would keep high farm prices with subsidies while aiming for lower retail food prices The compulsory insurance would cost about 6.5 billion in its first year and draw roughly 1.5 billion from general taxes the rest from payroll tax Opposition comes from the American Farm Bureau Federation the American Medical Association and others Some senators worry the national committee is pressing the two issues too hard and may hurt re election chances
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Washington
Truman
Oscar Ro Ewing
American Farm Bureau Federation
Charles F. Brannan
American Medical Association
Democratic National Committee
William M. Boyle
United Press
Brannan
Ewing
Senate
Scott W. Lucas
Everett Dirksen
Len Clinton P. Anderson
Democratic Campaign Committee
National Committee
Anderson
Boyle
Senate C
Lucas
80Th Congress
Congress
Commodity Credit Corporation
Francis J. Myers
Gor
James H. Duff
Jacob M. Arvey
Cook County
Chicago
Democratic Committee
Ilinois
Illinois
4-H Demonstration Contest Tomorrow at Lebanon High
The county 4-H Home Economics Demonstration Contest will be held in the Lebanon High School gymnasium at 1 30 p m tomorrow afternoon. Mrs Frank Kirkpatrick of Frankfort will judge. Contestants include Eben Staser Gle Township Helen Wright Parr Township Judy Thompson Kay Barnes Marion Township Joyce Gowin Janet Poynter Jefferson Township and Judy Caldwell Lindbergh Club. The judging event will continue at the high school Wednesday with juniors from 9 30 to 12 00 noon and again at 1 00 p m.
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Lebanon High School
Morrow
Frank Kirkpatrick
Frankfort
Eben Stasergle
Helen Wright
Rron
Judy Thompson
Kay Barnes
Marion
Joyce Gowin
Janet Poynter
Jefferson Township
Judy Caldwell
Lindbergh Club
Army Pirate Given Sentence For Robbery
Kokura Japan June 12 The Army sentenced Pvt John Ro Meade 17 Hayward Wis to one year imprisonment and dishonorable discharge for robbing clothing and equipment from other soldiers.
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Kokura
Japan
Army
Pvi
John Ro Meade
Hayward
Wis
War Veteran Lawrence Hughes Dies at 38
Lawrence Gud Hughes 38 a longtime resident died Saturday morning at Billings General Hospital Fort Harrison after a weeklong illness. WWII veteran encased in farming northwest of Pike's Crossing born August 17 1911 at Stafford Kansas son of John B and Sallye S Hughes married Ruth Denney December 7 1941 in Yuma Arizona survived by widow a son Lawrence parents in San Diego and three brothers Barney John and Doyle Hughes. Services set for 1 a.m. tomorrow at Russell and Hitch funeral home with Rev Wilbur Sharpe. burial Pleasant View Cemetery.
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Lawrence
Gud) Hughes
Billings
General Hospital
Harrison
Hughes
Pike's Crossing
Stafford
Karn Aw
Gust
John B
Sallye S
Hayden) Hughes
Yuma
Ariz
Ruth Denney
Christian Church
Mechancsburg
Veterans of Foreign War
San Diego
Cal
Barney Hughes
Pleasant View Cemetery
Brother of Local Residents Expires
Mark Alexander brother of John Alexander and Mrs Bertha Carey died last night at Home hospital in Lafayette He was 60 and had been in failing health since He was born in New Richmond and managed the theater at Monticello He was a Methodist and survived by his widow Mrs Alice Alexander Services set for 2 p m Wednesday at Prevo funeral home Monticello with burial at Riverview cemetery Monticello
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Mark Alexander
John Alexander
Bertha Carey
Home Hospital
Lafayette
Martech
Alexander
New Richmond
Monticello
Methodist Church
Alice Alexander
Prevo
Riverview
Deadline set for new wheat allotment filings
Basil A. Wright, chairman of the Boone county P M A committee, announced that the Indiana PMA state committee fixed July 1 as the final date to file an application for a new wheat farm allotment. The deadline applies to farms not harvesting wheat in 1948 1949 or 1950 and must be in writing and filed in the Boone County Office on or before July 1.
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Basil A. Wright
Boone County P. M. A
Indiana
PMA
Boone County
Three Indianapolis youths held in murder case near Noblesville
Three Indianapolis youths Chalfin 17 Dooley 24 and Kelly 16 are held after a beating death of Marion county prosecutor Albert Thayer 47 near Noblesville. They say Thayer fought them then they stole his car and collided with a milk truck in Missouri. Lynn Berry 31 of Aurora Missouri died from burns. First degree murder charges expected after transfer to Hamilton County authorities.
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Marion County Authority Angpolis
Springfield
Indianapolis
Albert M Thayer Thayer
Jimmie Chalfin
Indianapol
Maren County
Lynn Berry
Aurora
Berry
Chatfin
Carl FE Dooley
Michael Kelly
Hamilton County
CM Davis
Thayer
Marion County
George S Bailey
Chalfin
Noblesville
Dooley
Missouri
Kidnaper Of Wife Attempts To Kill Himself
Indianapolis man Charles Burton a former police officer charged with kidnapping his wife leaped 30 feet in Marion county jail injuring himself and was taken to General Hospital He had just faced a kidnapping petition and denied the charges while his wife Bonnie Burton testified she fled from him near Memphis after being held for days during a four state car trip setup by the ex officer Two days earlier Mrs Burton escaped and told authorities she was kept alive since leaving Indianapolis Burton later reported he attempted suicide and refused to discuss the case with police
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Indianapolis
Charles Burton
Marion County
General Hospital
Burton
Robert Murray
Bonnie Burton
William Bain
George S Dailey
Irten
MysteryGypsyPolio Case Rocks Columbus Police
A Gypsy family flee from Toledo after doctors report cerebral meningitis or polio in a boy named Harold Stanley Mitchell. Police chase near Marion. family taken to University Hospital then released after checks. Mitchell cites alleged Gypsy revenge as cause, claiming he once betrayed a band to police.
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Columbus
Chaht Siarold
Stanley Mitchell
Toledd
Ohio Highway
Mr Vand
Ark Mitchell
Johnnie
Ruby Sound Ball
Marion
Mitchells
University Hospital
Mitchell
Cleveland
Canterbury Head To Be Cracker Barrel Speaker
The Lebanon Chamber of Commerce has engaged Rev. Douglas MacLaury president of Canterbury to address Cracker Barrel at 7 15 p m Monday June 19 at the American Legion Home. He will outline plans for a Canterbury college extension center and a discussion will follow at the cracker barrel session.
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Canterbury College
Lebanon Chamber of Commerce
Douglas MacLaury
Canterbury
American Legion
Two Sisters Drown At Bass Lake Sunday
Two sisters from Cleveland Ohio, Celia Costello fourteen and Celia eleven, drowned while wading in Bass Lake during a weeklong stay at Wehbey Park. Their mother Margaret, recently widowed, arrived with them in a house trailer. Picnickers heard screams and saw them plunge in, pulling Celia from eight feet of water unconscious and unable to be saved. the second body recovered twenty minutes later. Russell Weininger suffered a cut from broken glass at the lake bottom while diving for Celia’s body and was treated at a LaPorte facility.
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Knox
Ind
Cleveland
Bass Lake
Wehbey Park
Celia Costello
Celia
Margaret
Russell Weininger
LaPorte
Milk Famine Strikes Pittsburgh and DC Area
United Press reports a milk famine affecting millions around Pittsburgh and Washington DC due to dairy strikes. Farmers dumped milk as deliveries failed. mothers fear infant health while physicians warn of severe risk without adequate quotas.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
Pao
Washington, DC
Hays
Penn Sylvania l
Bates
Dairies
Progressive Party selects candidate for U S Senator
Indianapolis reports the Progressive Party nominated Carlo Leon Eddycot of Indianapolis for the U S Senate seat held by Republican Homes Capenart. The platform calls for repeal of selective service and outlawing atomic warfare. Eddycot heads an slate with Mrs Edward L Johnson for Secretary of State and Charles Renner for State Auditor, while Willard Bo Ransom and Lawrence Meskimen were elected state cochairmen.
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Indianapolis
Carlo Leon Eddycot
Aton Cane Ephion
Eddy
Capenart
Edwardl Johnson
Charles Renner
North Manchester
Willard Bo Ransom
Aost
Lawrence Meskimen
Gary
Mafia Power Linked to Nationwide Crime Ring Says Official
Washington June 12 UP A high federal official told Senate investigators the Mafia secret Sicilian black hand society is the power behind a nationwide crime, vice and narcotics ring. Testimony by Harry J Anslinger chief of the Federal Narcotics Bureau named about 100 members of a national narcotics ring also dealing in gambling white slavery counterfeiting and other crime. The rings activities were centered in Florida New York and California but extended nationwide.
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Washington
Senate
Mafia
Senate Crone
Harry J. Anslinger
Federal Narcotics Bureau Committee
Estes Kefauver
I. Tenn
Anslinger
Flonda
New York
California
Agstingler
Matias
Anshiver
Joan Comet
Black Hand
Senate Crime Investilators
Federal Narcotics Bureau
Mafia 4
Black Hand” Society
Congressional
Big Four
Truman
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Robert L. F. Sikes
D. Fla
State Department
Con
Redpath Entertainers Cancel Midwest Tour
Redpath Entertainers cancel their Midwest tour. The group plans to reappear in September or early October if possible with a substitute program arranged by the local chapter president Ward and the committee.
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Armid
Mita
Wet Baller
Hate
Wired
Dare
Radioactivity films shown in England
British air raid wardens training for a possible atomic attack were shown secret films on radioactivity in London. Authorities said some films are so secret that only trusted veterans may view them. All will be bound by the Official Secrets Act forbidding disclosure to enemies.
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London
Britain
Aeto
Second Attempt Made At Richmond To Derail Pennsylvania Train
In Richmond Indiana Wayne county authorities detained an itinerant restaurant worker, Warner Reumer, who admitted placing tie plates and railroad spikes on the Pennsylvania train tracks. The Union passenger train from Chicago to Cincinnati hit the obstruction and was delayed. Authorities say another man, Albert Stonecipher, previously arrested for similar acts near Dublin, faces vagancy and potential ern other charges.
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Richmond
Ind
Wayne County
Pennsylvania
Warner Reumer
Tulsa
Oklo
Union
Chicago
Cincinnati
Albert Stonecipher
Dublin
Stonecipher
Week End Death Toll Hits Eight In Indiana Crises
Indiana records a heavy toll from weekend deaths in traffic drownings and fire. Eight people perished, including children Dela Costello 14 and Celia 11 who drowned at Bass Lake while vacationing with their mother Margaret. David Lee Wheat 2 died in a fire in Muncie. two siblings were rescued. Two men Walter Noo Schaffer 28 and Willam S Calentine 26 died when their car struck a tree on Ind 24 near Granger. Other victims include Eugene Strikehorn 16 of Lowell and Clarence Campbell 30 of Princeton in separate crashes and a car overturn near Martinsville.
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United Press
Indiana
Dela Costello
Celia
Bass Lake
Hear Koos
Cleveland
Margaret
Wetrley Park
Thomas Wheat
Muncie
David Lee
Granger
Ind
Walter Noo Schaffer
Elkhart
Willam S Calentine
Mishmaka
Eugene Strikehorn
Lowell
New York Central Railroad
Clarence Campbell
Princeton
Branch Sanday Sen
I Slayton
Indianapolis
Martinsville
Wiley Sons Admitted To National Holstein Group
Arthur N Wiley and Sons of Lebanon were admitted to the Holstein-Friesian Association of America by unanimous board vote at the 65th annual convention in Syracuse New York. The national group is the world's largest dairy cattle registry with about 40 thousand registered Holstein breeders.
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Brattleboro
Arthur N Wiley & Sons
Lebanon
Holstein-Friesian Associatio of America
Syracuse
National Holstein Group
Senate Defeats GOP Recommit To Rent Bill in Senate
In Washington on June 12 a GOP bid to recommit the rent control extension bill failed 44 to 25. Administration forces predicted final Senate passage this week as the chamber rejected sending the measure back to the Senate Banking Committee. The bill would extend federal rent controls on local option bases through year end and allow further extensions to June 30, 1951 with state authorization. A House counterpart was expected to pass soon after Senate action.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
Sam Rayburn
Texas
House
Senate Judiciary Committee
AFL
William Green
Senate Labor Committee
3 More Commies Under Arrest
Police say 11 Communists have been captured or surrendered in the purge started by Gen. MacArthur. Yoi chi Takagi, Tokyo ward assemblyman, was seized for circulating anti American propaganda after hiding since a Friday warrant. Kunihiko Gomo and Koreo Aoki were arrested for distributing anti occupation literature. Toichiro Iizuka, editor of Shin Sumida, turned himself in over the weekend.
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Gen. MacArthur
Communist Party
Yoichi Takagi
Tokyo
Kunihiko Gomo
Koreo Aoki
Toichiro Iizuka
Shin Sumida
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Allegheny County Medwal Society
Thersociety 4
Emergenc MK
Vaines Major Dairies
APL Union
the Union
Dairystiapager
Gn Emerient
Progressive Party
U.S
Charles “Lucky” Luciano
Italy
Laiana Slong Nadbee
Austin
Nine
Theo Sieuan
Redpath
Midwest
England
Wiley, Sons
Kumanodaira
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