Truman and Marshall Affirm U S Backing for Europe
President Truman and General Marshall declared the United States would dedicate its strength and resources to a peaceful, prosperous postwar world. The Carlton Hotel dinner honored Marshall as ambassadors from 16 Marshall Plan nations praised American aid and urged prompt approval of the North Atlantic Pact.
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Ashington
Western
Europe
United States
Truman
George C. Marshall
Gram
Carlton Hotel
White House
Marshall
Harvard University
Leesburg
Gen. Marshall
North Atlantic
Russia
Military Salary Bill Heads Toward Rough Sledding
In Washington the new Brimmedown military pay bill faces opposition from economy-focused lawmakers and World War II veterans who seek higher boosts for junior officers. The House armed services committee advanced the $39.0 billion annual payroll expansion, with rivals pressing to trim raises and preserve earlier junior-officer pay levels amid partisan debates.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Kilday D
Texas
Vinson
D-Ga
Theneral Amalier Percen
Rep
Case
Rws. D
Kilday
Sutton
D. Tenn
Navy
Ships Collide Off Delaware Injuring Two Crewmembers
The 7600 ton cargo ship Exmouth limped into a Delaware pier after a dawn collision with the Greek freighter Hellenic Beach in fog off the coast. Two crewmen were injured, treated at Beebe Hospital in Lewes, with chest and leg injuries. The Exmouth resumed voyage to Philadelphia, while Hellenic Beach’s status remained unclear.
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Jersey City
N. J
Exmouth
Hellenic Beach
Delaware
Hellenic Lines, Ltd
New York
Beebe
Lewes
Clarence Carlson
Bronx
Miguel Rivera
Brooklyn
Australia Left Without Yanks
Sydney dispatch notes the last American service member, Capt. Robert W. Metcalf from Elmira, leaves Australia after six years. He arrived in 1943 when about one million U.S. troops were here and has been the sole wartime Army on duty since September, finishing work for the Foreign Commission and returning to the United States with his Sydney-born wife and their 15 month-old daughter.
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Sydney
Australia
Robert W. Metcalf
Elmira
Metcalf
U.S. Army
State Department
Foreign
Iguiiston Commission
U. S
Last Rites Readied for Medical Figure
In Los Angeles on June 6 funeral services awaited for Dr. Thomas Addis 68 emeritus Stanford medicine professor and kidney disease researcher. He died Saturday at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital where he joined its Institute of Medical Research after retiring from Stanford. Born in Edinburgh Scotland he moved to the United States in 1911 after university studies. He is survived by his widow Elesia and two daughters.
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Los Angeles
Thomas ‘Addis
Stanford University
Addis
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Institute of Medical Research
Stanford
Inburgh
Scotland
America
the Paltersity of Edinburgh
Elesia
Rail Strike Spreads Across Britain During Whitsun Holiday
London reports wildcat strikers on government owned railroads threaten total shutdown next weekend. Trainmen demand cancellation of a summer schedule forcing overnight absences. The third straight Sunday strike stranded about half a million travelers over the Whitsun holiday.
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London
Uf! Wildcat
Britain
Whitsundlyde
Refugees Seek to Enter Shanghai
About 200 foreigners who fled Shanghai as Communists pressed in aim to return. They are due to arrive tomorrow aboard the British ship Shengking from Hong Kong but faces possible landing denial as Shanghai authorities ban foreign departures and arrivals by ship for the time being.
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Shanghat
Jane
Shanghai
Hong Hong
Mother Charged After Beating Death Of Four Month Old Son
In Tenn Ya on June 6 a young mother Mrs Glenn Mae Thomas 22 wife of a soldier was charged with murder for beating infant Michael to death The plea followed the child's funeral and police quoted her claim of rage after the crying From Fort Lewis station husband James Thomas the family faced medical bills amid community aid efforts including Dimes for Donna and local groups giving support
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Glenda Mae Thomas
Bristol
Tann
Michael
W. J. Rogers
Rogers
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Thomas
Associated Press
Tenn
Glenn Mae Thomas
Child Begins 117th Day of Coma
Donna Marie Saunders, a seven year old from Salem Ont, marked the 117th day of unconsciousness after a February 9 collision with a coal truck near Lisbon. Despite severe injuries and blindness she remains in hospital, with doctors once predicting only two months to live. Her father Jim Saunders says she can now eat baby food and there is cautious optimism for a near full recovery.
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Salem
Ont
Donna Marie Saunders
Lisbon
Donna
Jim Saunders
Saunders
Beatrice Lillie in Smoke Evades Fire Injury
In Chicago Beatrice Lillie escaped a smoke filled apartment with a minor injury to her tooth and mild shock after a 6:45 a.m. alarm. The star of Inside U S A canceled last night’s show but expected to return tonight. The fire cause is undetermined and hotel damage is estimated at 5000 dollars.
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Chicago
Beatrice Lillie
Miss Lillie
Lady Peel
England
Mild Weather Listed in Nation Scattered Rainfall
Reports show scattered rainfall across Georgia Missouri Texas New Mexico Wyoming Idaho Nevada and Utah. A cool air mass along the Canadian border was expected to move into northern states from the Great Plains to New England by tomorrow with temperatures along the border dropping to 40 to 50 degrees.
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Georgia
Missour
Texas
New Mexico
Wyoming
Idaho
Nevada
Utah
Canada
Great Plains
New England
Notice Served on Czech Reds by Catholics
In Prague on June 6, Archbishop Josef Beran declared no true Catholic church can exist without the Vatican head. He warned the government’s push for a state church and parochial school control, while crowds attended a mass at St. Vitus Cathedral amid church-state tensions. Coins and offerings still circulated at cathedral doors.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
St. Vitus
Vatican
Beran
Communist Congress
Vaclav Kopecky
Georgians Charged with Lynching in McIntyre case
IRWINTON June 6. White men Dennis Lamar Purvis 37 operator of a cafe and Malcolm Vivian Pierce McIntyre electrician were jailed on suspicion of murder in the lynching of a Negro. Sheriff George Hatcher identified the suspects after their arrest Saturday.
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Irwinton
Caleb Hill Jr
George Hatcher
Dennis Lamar Purvis
McIntyre
Malcolm Vivian Pierce
D day anniversary honored in France by Allied memory
On June 6 1944 Allied forces stormed Normandy to break Hitler’s grip. The day’s ceremonies in France paid tribute to the fallen with wreaths by Brig. Gen. Joseph O Hare and Capt. Smith Hutton, reflecting on sacrifice and world hope.
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Adolf Hitler
Europe
France
Brooklyn
Belsen
Ynland
Dooney
Hitler
Universal Brotherhood
United States
Joseph O'Hare
Paris
Smith Hutton
First D-day Town Celebrates Absent American Presence
St Mere Eglise observes a D-Day commemoration with a French navy band and child paratroopers but no American soldiers in attendance. Brigadier General O Hara and Captain Hutton represented the US alongside British and French delegates, while locals decorated streets with flowers for the event.
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ST. Mere-Eglise
France
United States Army
82Nd Airborne Division
S2nd
United States
Ds Joseph O'Hare
Smith Hutton
Tokyo Dismisses Strike Leaders
Tokyo dated June 6 reports 16 alleged strike leaders dismissed after a walkout that halted 97 streetcars on nine routes. The stoppage began June 3 after a union member died during demonstrations against a proposed security ordinance.
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Tokyo
Hos
Remorseful Sinner Hears Sermon and Ends Life in Galveston
Robert Emmett Benjamin 33, of Crystal Lake and Chicago, shot himself after attending a church sermon on faithfulness. His companion Mrs. Martha Pfeiffer 27, Crystal Lake divorcee, aided in the attempt to shoot herself. The hotel room was littered with liquor bottles. Pfeiffer was later held on a vagrancy charge. Benjamin formerly worked as a Crystal Lake drugstore clerk and had two young sons. Benjamin was a war veteran awarded the Silver Star.
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Galveston
Texas
Chicago
William J. Burns
Robert Emmett Benjamin
Crystal Lake
Martha H. Pfeiffer
Galveston Beach
Benjamin
Jake Amytol
Burns
Pfeiffer
Audrey
James K. Tones
Checago’ Printing
Robert Jr
Bruce
Union Official Quits Red Party Cites Taft-Hartley Needs
Max Perlow secretary treasurer of United Furniture Workers of America says he resigned from the Communist party to aid his union and to become eligible to sign a non Communist with Taft Hartley law. He notes he still holds his Communist beliefs but left the party to meet the law’s requirements for NLRA facilities.
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New York
Max Perlow
United’ Furniture Workers of [America (Co. O
Communist Party
Perlow
National Labor Relations Board
Panama Police Hold Two In Plot Probe
Panama police question two brothers Harmodio Arias and Arnulfo Arias Madrid in an alleged plot to overthrow the government. Harmodio has been in custody about six weeks while Arnulfo was seized at his farm in the Farem Highlands and brought to the capital for questioning.
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Panama
Republice
Harmodio Arias
Arnulfo’ Arias Madrid
Seuer
Farerm Highlands
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Yanks
Claire Dennis
National Press Photographer
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Stevie
Chicago Press Photographers Association
A. P. Wirephoto
Jerry Schiffbauer
Bernard Schiffbauer
Morgantown
W. Va
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Salem Amvets
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Salem News
By Harvey Hudson
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