Communist Held For Deportation
The Justice Department says Carl Stachel a member of the Communist national committee and education director was picked up by immigration agents in New York City. He was sent to Ellis Island for deportation proceedings after entering the United States without a visa in 1931.
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Washington
Justice Department
Stachel
West 94Th Street
New York City
Ellis Island
Communist Party
Communist National Board
The
Daily Worker
Austria- Hungary
United States
Cuban Election Under Way Today
Cuba starts a presidential election as 2,506,754 voters may cast ballots. Four candidates campaign for 132 offices including 54 senate seats 70 house seats and six provincial governorships. Candidates span right to far left amid a high turnout expectation.
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Havana
Cuba
Senate
House of Representatives
Smuts Accepts Parliamentary Seat After Resigning Premiership
In Pretoria on June 1, Christian Smuts, 78, retired South Africa prime minister, accepted a parliament seat offered by a United Party member. He resigned after his party’s defeat by the Nationalist Afrikaner combine in last Tuesday’s elections and failed to win re election to his own seat.
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Pretoria
Union of South Africa
Jan Christiaan Smuts
South Africa
United Party
Smuts
Parlia
Navy launch sinks during liberty run killing 22 men
Norfolk Va June 1 Twenty two men nine Marines and thirteen Navy personnel perish when a 50 foot open launch swamps in wind and rain while returning a liberty party to the carrier Kearsarge off Norfolk. Rear Admiral Sprague says the loss is 22 with possible stragglers and search continues with Coast Guard ships. Task force sailing to the Mediterranean is delayed indefinitely.
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Norfolk
Hampton Roads
C. A. F. Sprague
Mediterranean
Kearsarge
Navy
Norfolk Naval Station
Coast Guard
Sprague
Vandalism Hits Rockwood Pottery in Cincinnati
Police reported vandals broke into Rockwood Pottery and laboratories of Sports Inc in Cincinnati causing damage estimated at nearly $10,000.
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Cincinnati
Rockwood Pottery and Laboratories of Sports, Inc
Three Year Old Girl Injured After Truck Incident
Police report a three year old girl, Barbara Lee Morehouse, daughter of Mr and Mrs Orville Morehouse, Gallagher Avenue, was injured Saturday noon while riding on the rear bumper of a parked truck driven by Charles Howdyshell near Heinlein's grocery. She and two companions were hitching a ride. two children fell off as the truck started, but Barbara clung on then fell to the pavement causing cuts and bruises.
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Tat
Barbara Lee Morehouse
Orville V. Morehouse
Gallagher Avenue
Charles Howdyshell
Heinlein
Greeks Intercept Guerrilla Peace Broadcast
The Greek army general staff reported intercepting a guerrilla radio broadcast claiming the provisional government of Greece would seek peace without force. It quoted Markos Vafiades as open to any peace initiative and ready to encourage dialogue.
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Athens
Greek Army
Greece
Markos Vafiades
Westinghouse Proposes Uniform Security Package for Workers
Westinghouse Electric proposes a single uniform security package for employees with pensions life and health insurance plus sickness and accident cover. The plan costs the firm about 13.5 to 16 million dollars yearly and would pay two thirds of the pension cost while workers contribute a share based on earnings and dependents.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation Today
Gwilym A. Price
Price
Surgical Insurance
Westinghouse
Mpany
Holiday Deaths Near 400 Mark During Memorial Day
The Associated Press reports the U S violent-death toll over the Memorial Day weekend nears 400 with 378 counted from Friday 6 P M to Monday midnight not including Vanport flood fatalities. Traffic crashes account for over half and 203 died in motor accidents.
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Associated Press
Vanport
Ore
Arkansas
Oklahoma
National Safety Council
Israel Accepts U N Appeal To Cease Fire
Israel says it accepts the United Nations cease-fire appeal unconditionally with its own interpretation. Arab League leaders meet in Amman to decide a course as Jewish air raids on Amman earlier stirred bitterness. Tel Aviv mails acceptance to the UN secretary general while Arab forces mass along a 40 mile front. Cairo hints at a four week truce if Israel repudiates its statehood.
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Arab League
Amman
Trans-Jordan
United Nations
Tel Aviv
Israel
Cairo
Security Council
New Delay Seen In Marriage of Mihai and Princess Anne
A palace source in Athens says the wedding of former king Mihai of Romania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma may be delayed four or five days past Saturday. Government officials caution the Athens ceremony is not absolutely certain. The couple was set to arrive the day after tomorrow, but delays of a day or so are now reported.
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Athens
Mihai
Romania
Anne of
Boubon-Parma
Themistokles Sophoulis
Anne
Armed Forces Form Unified Air Transport Service
The Military Air Transport Service absorbed air transportation duties for the Army Navy and Air Force creating a single service. It merges the former Air Transport Command and Naval Air Transport Service while continuing full operations of both.
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Washington
Military Air Transport Service
MATS
Army
Navy
Air Force
Air Transport Command
Army Air Force
Naval Air Transport Service
Methodists to End Conference Today
The Ohio annual conference of the Methodist Church was to adjourn today after announcing ministerial appointments. Retirement of eight ministers was approved and five others granted a year sabbatical leave.
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Columbus
Ohio
the Methodist Church
Stepfather Saves Youth from Death in Cleveland Fire
In Cleveland a 15 year old, George Cole, caught fire after spilling lighter fluid while lighting a cigarette. His stepfather, Joseph Yezzo, rolled him in grass and extinguished the flames. Cole is in serious condition with burns covering more than a third of his body.
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Cleveland
George Cole
Joseph Yezzo
Ousted Britisher Returns to Cabinet
Hugh Dalton is back in the British cabinet as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He had quit seven months earlier over a budget leak while chancellor of the exchequer. The Duchy post previously involved administering the British zone of Germany.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Duchy of Lancaster
Germany
Columbia River Flood Threatens Thousands in Pacific Northwest
Evacuations began as the flood-swollen Columbia River menaces a 120 mile stretch downstream from Portland. Army engineers fear farms and small cities will flood. Vanport loss estimated at 27 million dollars. Dowtown Portland’s Union Station flooded. dikes breached near north Portland. mass displacement in Clatskanie Rainier Woodland Kelso Longview Kalama. Canadian forces mobilize to help Fraser River flood response.
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Columbia River
Pacific Northwest
Portland
Ore
Army
Portland Housing Authority
Vanport
Union Station
Red Cross
Clatskanie
Rainier
Woodland
Kelso
Longview
Kalama
British Columbia
Fraser River
Secretary Resigns in Ohio Governor Announces
Governor Thomas J. Herbert says Miss Ira Reed of Cleveland has resigned as his personal secretary. The announcement was made in Columbus on June 1.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Ira Reed
Cleveland
Memorial Day Observance and Parades Reported
Memorial Day activities spanned Logan Hocking County with parades in Logan Murray City and New Straitsville. Crowds exceeded 1 000 in Logan and nearly 2 000 attended midget auto races in the fairgrounds with Paul Hooper Burn injuries treated and released. Traffic was heavy but no local accidents reported and parks drew visitors from several states.
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Logan
Murray City
New Straitsville
Logan High School
Oak Grove
Worthington Park
Women’s Relief Corps
Fairgrounds
Paul Hooper
Marion
Hocking Valley Hospital
Hocking
Hocking County
Hitler's Doctor Dies in German Interment Camp Release
Dr Theodore Morrell once Adolf Hitler's personal physician died last week in Giessen Germany. He was released from an American internment camp only a few months ago.
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Giessen
Germany
Thedore Morrell
Adolf Hitler
Anti Red Bill Opponents Threaten Protest Meeting
Washington reports belligerent opponents of the Mundt Nixon anti communist bill plan a protest at the Capitol on Wednesday. Len Goldsmith of New York says thousands will attend to demand a Senate hearing as public hearings end amid clashes over compulsory communist registration. Paul Robeson and Joseph Kehoe refuse to say if they are Communist Party members, Robeson warning he may go to jail.
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Washington
Capitol
Len Goldsmith
New York
Committee For Democratic Rights
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wiley
R-Wis
Ferguson
R-Mich
Paul Robeson
Joseph Kehoe
Communist Party
Robeson
Kehoe
CIO American Communications Association
Mine Chief Defends Refusal to Bargain With Southern Coal
John L. Lewis argued he is not required to bargain with the Southern Coal Producers Association. He filed a motion to dismiss a Taft-Hartley injunction sought by the NLRB. Lewis attacked the group as hostile and noted the 1947 soft coal contract excluded it.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Welly K. Hopkins
Fiveman Labor Relations Board
Denham
International Typographical Union
Luther M. Swygert
ITU
NLRB
Hopkins
Fire at Stockyards Ravages Minnesota Yard
Fire at the Stockyards in South St Paul Minnesota on Memorial Day razed a fifth of the area in tinder dry sheds corrals and stock chutes. Three firefighters were overcome by smoke while 2000 cattle were freed into swampland along the Mississippi River but 50 died in the blaze. The heaviest loss, over 400000, came from 88 stock cars on adjacent tracks valued at 5000 each.
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South St, Paul
Minn
Mississippi River
E. L. Hopper
Northern Pacific Railroad
Teens accused in Cleveland target shooting damage
Six teenage boys caused about 1000 dollars in property damage by shooting at neighborhood targets with small caliber rifles. Detective Edward Lotter said the youths were to appear in juvenile court.
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Cleveland
Edward Lotter
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