Truman Challenges GOP Leadership as He Tours West
President Truman on a western tour urged Congress to stay in session until price controls housing and farm bills are enacted. He assailed Republican leadership saying they wrecked price control stymied housing and attacked the labor and employment acts. He planned stops in Washington state including Grand Coulee Dam Seattle Olympia and a Sea visit with Gov Wallgren.
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Truman
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Butte
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Grand Coulee Dam
Seattle
Olympia
Mon C. Wallgren
Missoula
Soviets Dispute Franklin's Electricity Claim
Moscow June 9 Trud the Soviet trade union organ declares a Russian scientist Lomonosov discovered the electrical nature of lightning a year before Franklin flew his kite. The paper criticized an article saying Lomonosov relied on Franklin and quotes Lomonosov denying any debt to Franklin.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Union Considers GE Wage Offer
NEW YORK June 9 The General Electric Company offers an eight percent raise to its 126000 CIO employees and union officials study the proposal. The boost would take effect once the CIO United-Workers union accepts it.
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General Electric Company
CIO
United — Workers Union
Columbus Voters Approve Municipal Income Tax
Columbus voters have approved a one half of one percent payroll income tax in a special election 34 190 to 24 003. Mayor James A. Rhodes said the levy will fund city services and position Columbus as a pay as you go metropolis.
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James A. Rhodes
Ohio City
Toledo
Springfield
Youngstown
Police Draw Line At Brooding Eggs
Bangor officers faced a quirky call as a woman asked for an inspector to investigate a setting hen that had deserted its eggs. Police advised consulting a poultry expert.
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Thomas W. Mowery Dies in Columbus at 68
Thomas W. Mowery 68 of Columbus died unexpectedly Tuesday from a heart attack at Columbus Auto Parts where he was employed. He formerly lived in Logan at 116 West Hunter Street and later at 526 Tibet Road. Funeral services are set for 1 P M Thursday at Fifth Avenue Evangelical United Brethren Church with burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery. He leaves two daughters Mary and Minnie Mowery of Los Angeles. three sons Willoughby Leonard and Albert Mowery. a grandson and great granddaughter. five brothers Eber John Andy Nicodemus Dave. two sisters Kathryn Carpenter of Brookville and Anna Redd of Logan.
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Logan
Columbus Auto Parts Co
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Forest Lawn
Jerry Spears
Tibet Road
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Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
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Minnie Mowery
Los Angeles
Calif
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Leonard Mowery
Albert Mowery
Eber
John
Andy Mowery
Nicodemus Mowery
Dave Mowery
Lancaster
Katheryn Carpenter
Brookville, O
Anna Redd
City Union Bus Strike Talks Set to End Stoppage
Springfield officials and transit union and company representatives plan a Thursday night meeting to resolve a three day strike that halted public transportation in the city.
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Springfield
Senate Civil Rights Draft Bill Faces Tough Path
Washington June 9 senators linger in a third straight session to speed a civil rights draft measure. An amendment by Russell and Maybank would let enlisted men request service in segregated units. The Senate also narrowed the selective service law to two years and allowed 25 000 aliens to serve, with citizenship after five years. House fate and GOP timing loom large as debates continue.
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Anderson Leading In Arizona Primary
In New Mexico the Democratic U.S. Senate race shows Clinton P. Anderson leading over J. J. Dempsey as ballots count slowly. With half the vote tallied from 416 of 868 precincts, Anderson held 23 551 to 15 171, reflecting party support for Truman’s endorsed former agriculture secretary.
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Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
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Truman
Carl A. Hatch
Anderson
J. J. Dempsey
Injuries Bring Death In Columbus Car Collision
Waldo Kappes aged 58 died after injuries from a March 29 car strike in Columbus. He had been hospitalized since the crash and passed away last night.
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Waldo Kappes
House Approves Dirigible Revival Measure
The House approved legislation authorizing the Maritime Commission to develop test and operate lighter-than-air craft with funds as needed. Akron Ohio is cited as a logical future center for dirigible development, with Goodyear's Paul Litchfield backing a four-year program including a 950 foot ship carrying 288 passengers or 90 tons, routing 2 500 miles with potential 11 000 mile range and a ten cent per mile fare estimate.
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Goodyear
Mittee
Akron
Paul W. Litchfield
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Weichel
Litchfield
West Coast
Honolulu
San Francisco
Coal Operators and Union Clash Over Welfare Fund in Talks
Wage and welfare program demands raise tensions as operators and United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis pursue a plan amid a court battle. The 13.05 dollar daily wage stands amid dispute over a 50 million dollar annual welfare fund and a 100 dollar pension proposal.
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John L. Lewis
Lewis
Ezra van Horn
van Horn
Senator Bridges
R-Nh
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lewis- Bridges
Russian Trade Policy Unclear
Washington reports a kept guessing phase on U S export licenses to Russia since March 1 with secrecy over approved goods. Secretary Sawyer’s planned briefing was canceled after a State Department intervention amid Congress funding debates for Western Europe aid.
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Soviet Union
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Marshall
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Western
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Wandering Bear Sighted by Clark County Farmer
In Clark County a bear hunt was underway with uncertainty about the animal. Farmer Paul Browning reported spotting a brown or cinnamon bear along Honey Creek near New Carlisle. Dogs chased and treed it, but it escaped, and Browning showed a brown fur fragment as evidence.
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Route 69
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Honey Creek
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Springfield Sun
Czech Constitution Becomes Law Amid Turmoil
Prague reports the new Czech constitution takes effect today after President Benes refused to sign it The government hints that Communist Premier Klement Gottwald may have signed the document following Benes resignation and Parliament plans to select a new president Monday.
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Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
Klement Gottwald
Benes
Gottwald
Postmaster Daubel Quits Fremont Post in June
Frank J Daubel announced his resignation as postmaster of Fremont Ohio effective June 30. He has held the post since 1934.
Vandenberg Objects to House Cuts in European Aid Funds
Senator Vandenberg denounces the House reduction of foreign aid from 6.533 to 5.98 billion dollars as dangerous and improvident. He argues the cuts undermine Europe’s economic recovery and criticize the overall reduction as capricious and impudent. He urges preserving the original congressional commitments and funding levels.
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Washington
R-Mich
House
Senate Foreign Relations
Senate Appropriations Committee
Economic Cooperation Administration
Eagles Fight Over Goat Sparks North Arizona Blackout
A clash between two eagles over a young goat perched on a cross-arm caused a 44 000 volt line to arc and burn. Charred eagle bodies and the goat were found beneath the pole, leaving half a dozen northern Arizona communities without power through the night.
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Arizona Power Co
Premier Hasan Saka Ousted in Turkish Domestic Crisis
In Ankara on June 9 1950 Turkey's Premier Hasan Saka resigned as his government collapsed amid fierce domestic criticism of economic policy. Ismet Inonu accepted the resignation and asked Saka to form a new cabinet. Saka has led since last September after Peker's ouster.
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Ident Ismet Inonu
Recep Peker
Surging Rivers Cut Into Weakened Dikes
The Columbia and Fraser rivers breached more dikes in the Pacific Northwest flood front. Padget Island in the Columbia low er valley drowned as barriers along a 100 mile Portland to sea stretch grew softer after 21 days of inundation. Engineers call conditions very critical and Canadian forces prepare evacuations.
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Chief Ellinger Added as Defendant in Public Suit
Police Chief Sol Ellinger was named a party in the mandamus case filed by city patrolman Lewis Reynolds against Boyd V. Wright city service director after a hearing before Judge Harley Meyer in the common pleas court. The motion sought to add the chief as a defendant in the action. Reynolds claimed a prior 15 year position ended with his 1945 resignation.
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Sol Ellinger
Lewis Reynolds
Boyd V. Wright
Harley Meyer
Court of Common Pleas
Reynolds
Coal Truck Topples On Maxville Road
A loaded coal truck overturned on State Route 668 near the Hocking Perry county line after hitting a chuck hole. Driver Earl Hutton of Logan Route 4 injured and treated. six tons of coal spilled. Truck owned by Ed Angle of Logan damaged. traffic blocked until cleanup.
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Perry
Earl Hutton
Logan
Bremen
Ed Angle
Hutton
Lynch confirmed as Treasury Department general counsel
Washington June 9 Thomas J Lynch of Toledo Ohio was confirmed by the Senate last night as general counsel for the Treasury Department.
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Thomas J. Lynch
Toledo
Senate
Treasury Department
Belligerents Agree to Halt Fighting Friday
Arab and Jewish spokesmen say both sides accept the four week Palestine armistice unconditionally, starting at 1 A M Friday EST. Bernadotte will announce responses at 3 P M EST. Israel seeks immigration limits and fixed borders while Britain notes no legal obligation to recognize Israel.
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Folke Bernadotte
Bernadotte
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Weizman
France
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Russia
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Richmond Elects Negro to Council
Richmond voters choose 41-year-old attorney Oliver W. Hill to fill one of nine city council seats. Hill, a World War II veteran, is elected in the first council election held in the city.
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Oliver W. Hill
Consent of Parents Given To Marriage of Princess Anne
A Romanian ex king Mihai spokesman says Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma will wed Mihai tomorrow in Athens with her parents full consent. Xavier Bourbon-Parma claimed opposition, but the family agrees and the marriage will follow Greek Orthodox rites.
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