Baruch Urges Swift Mobilization Plan For New War
Bernard Baruch criticized the Truman administration for not having a ready stand by mobilization plan as the cold war grows. He urged enacting a full plan including price controls and material allocations, prepared by the National Security Resources Board, with cabinet input and congressional concurrence.
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Washington
Bernard Baruch
Iune
Baruch
National Security Resources Board
Arthur M. Hill
Truman
Hill
John Steelman
Murman
Mon Wallgren
Faveenny
State of Washington
Wallgren
Senate
Congress
Only Bums Work Says Fleecer Engel Now Wanted in New York
International swindler Sigmund Engel faces New York County Grand Jury indictments for first degree larceny over $50,000 in jewels from Pauline Langton. Chicago police hold Engel on $50,000 bond while federal authorities press National Stolen Property Act charges. He complains of jail shaving and claims a twin brother Arthur duped the victims.
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Sigmund Engel
New York
Engel
Pauline Langton
Edward Larkin
Romeo
Newomen
Arthur
Honolulu Dock Strikers Seek Arbitration Amid Tense Clash
In Honolulu two thousand shoremen strike since May 3 over a 41.40 to 1.72 hourly wage. Union leaders push for Truman appointed arbitration to set future wages, while employers oppose extending arbitration beyond grievances. Negotiations lasted 55 minutes with wages called irreconcilable.
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Honolulu
C. I
Jonga Shoremen
Hawaii
Truman
W. Russell Starr
Harry Bridges
Reserve Fleet Repair Proposed
The U S Maritime Commission proposed a 25 million dollar program of repairs for the national reserve merchant fleet. Commissioner Fleming said funds, approved by the bureau and Congress, will fund hull, engine and electrical work across Atlantic and Pacific shipyards and new coastwise passenger trailer vessels are under consideration with bids invited on nine ships.
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Washington
U. S. Maritime Commission
National Reserve
Commission
Philip B. Fleming
Rep
Angell
R.ore
Oneudget Bureau
Tfat
Congress
Fleming
Atlantic, Pacific
Tale Annee
Mwa Vas Fleming
West Coast
Legislature to ban firing workers for dangerous jobs
Sacramento reports that final Senate passage of a bill would bar firing workers who refuse dangerous tasks. The bill, if signed by the governor, would protect employees from losing their jobs for refusing hazardous duties. A quoted remark by Arthur contrasted gentlemen with workers, prompting debate over the bill’s language.
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Sacramento
Senate
Ten Killed Four Hurt by Jap Mine Blast
Ten people were killed and four were injured when a mechanical mine picked up on the seashore exploded in a villager's house in Akita prefecture. The villager Keli Fujiwake set the mine off while attempting to fashion a farm implement. Four houses were destroyed by fire.
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Tokyo
Akita
Keli Fujiwake
G O P Strategy Committee Convenes at Washington
The Republican strategy committee, with 21 members from Congress, state GOP groups and the RNC, met in Washington to bolster party foundations amid electoral defeats. Three governors on the committee are Frank Carlson, Alfred Driscoll, and Arthur Langlie. The group, named April 24 by Hugh D. Scott Jr., emerged from a January Omaha meeting amid intra party struggles involving Dewey and Stassen aligned factions.
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Ashington
Congress
Republican National Committee
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Alfred ©. Driscoll
New Jersey
Arthur B. Langlie
Washington
Hugh D. Scott Jr
Omaha
National Committee
Opv
Thomas E. Dewey
Scott
Dewey
Jof
Harold E. Stassen
Bennent
University of Irania
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Col
Robert R. McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
Slaying of Boy 4 Confessed as Body Is Taken to Grave
In Michigan's capital city, four year old Walter Eaton known as Peewee was slain, his death listed as solved after Dudley Beatty 29 confessed on surrender to police. Beatty described luring Walter to a vacant lot where the boy was killed with a broken bottle and abused. he had known Walter's foster parents and drank earlier with the boy's real father Alfred Jones. Beatty's statement cleared Ray Lamphear a 22 year old mental hospital fugitive who had been accused but will be returned to Wisconsin.
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Poses
Mich
Tiny Walter (Peewee) Eaton
Walter
Michigan
Dudley Beatty
Happard
Beatty
Police
Paul Taylor
Taylor
Leste Eaton
Alfred Jones
Eaton
Ray Ernest Lamphear
Racine
Wis
Lamphear
Wisconsin
Baby-sitter Faces Charge After Toddlers Scalding Death
Ammonnd Minnesota report says a babysitter, 18 months old twins, Carol Gora died from scalding in bath water. Brother Robert in critical condition at St Margaret’s Hospital. Deputy Coroner notes the sitter’s statement and investigation into possible juvenile authority referral. William Sonntag recalls family sorrow after father’s death. Ruth Crook and Ruth Sonntag were found dead at home in a suspected hanging incident.
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Wiliam Sonntag
Ruth Crook
Ruth Sonntag
Bootleg Liquor Bought as Souvenir in Kansas Auction
GROVE Kansas June 28 A half pint bottle of bourbon whiskey bought by Beer Dealer Harry Hylton symbolizes the end of prohibition. Hylton paid $6 at an auction where bootleg liquor was sold in Kansas for the first time in 69 years. The bottle came from a lot seized by Sheriff Earl H Hammer in raids over two and a half years and bore Kansas alcohol beverage tax stamp No 1.
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Kansas
Mother and Daughter Found Hanged in Maryland Home
In Silver Hill Maryland an aged mother and her recently widowed daughter were found hanged in the basement of their home yesterday AP reports. The tragedy occurred at their residence and authorities began investigations into the deaths.
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Silver Hill
Two Stoned At White Pool in Youngstown
In Youngstown on June 28 two Black men were stoned at a white pool after entering it. About 25 white swimmers left the facility and threw rocks from a hillside, striking one man behind the ear but causing no serious injury. City officials closed the pool and peace was restored after the group of 25 Negroes arrived in a truck and three cars and did not exit.
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Youngstown
Steinbeck Goddard to Start Film on Cup of Gold
Hollywood report says a new company Monterey Films formed by Paulette Goddard and John Steinbeck will shoot the adaptation of his novel Cup of Gold in September. Goddard will star as the pirate Henry Morgan and help finance the venture.
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Hollywood
Paulette’ Goddard
John Steinbeck
Miss Goddard
Henry Yorgan
Monterey Films
Britain calls rush conclave on cash crisis
London reports Britain will convene Commonwealth finance ministers in early July to tackle a deepening financial squeeze. Invitations sent to Australia Canada India and others. South Africa has accepted. The talks aim to trim gold and dollar reserves which have fallen from 2.208 to 1.894 billion dollars in a year.
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London
Britain
Commonwealth
Australia
Canada
Teulon
India
New Zealand
Pakistan
South Africa
Treasury
France
Belgium
United States
Organization For ‘European Economic ‘Co-operation
OEEC
Berkeley Man Dies in Kansas Wreck
IOLA Kan June 28 UP Jacob Davidson 34 Berkeley Calif died late yesterday from injuries in a car crash near Parsons Kan. His bride to be Lorene E Kirk 25 also of Berkeley was seriously injured. Kirk suffered a neck injury. Kirk is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarence Sissel of Parsons.
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Iola
Kan
Jacob Davidson
Berkeley
Calif
Davidson
Lorene E. Kirk
Parsons
Kirk
Nation's Production Lowest in 3 Years Says Federal Board
The Federal Reserve Board reports a 10.8 percent drop in production from last November to May, with a further 2 to 3 percent likely. May output stood 74 percent above prewar 1939 levels but lagged April and May 1948. Debates over the economy pit Sawyer and Wallace on prosperity versus downturn as unemployment rises. Economists cite weak durable goods output as the main cause of the slowdown.
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Siempre Tg
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Board
Charles Sawyer
Henry Wallace
Sawyer
Wallace
Truman
Boston
Hugh D. Scott Jr
Antislot Machine Bill Vote Blocked in Senate Panel
In Sacramento on June 28 the Senate judiciary committee blocked all motions to bring two Assembly passed antislot machine bills to a vote. Attempts to move the measures, which would make possession of a slot machine a crime, failed.
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Sacramento
Senate Judiciary Committee
Assembly
Virginia Death Trial Jury Selection Nears End
Roanoke Virginia June 28 selection of a jury for 16 year old Lee Scott in a murder case may finish today. Scott is charged with slaying Dana Marie Wesver 16 at Christ Episcopal Church. Judge Dirk A Shurk must approve six more jurors for a 20 member panel. Prosecution and defense will each strike four. The panel includes many parents of teenagers.
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Roanoke
Lee Scott
Dana Marie Wesver
Christ--Episcopal Church
Mey
Hastings Court
Dirk A. Shurk
Lee
A .T. Warren
Messick
St Laurent’s Liberals win largest Canadian landslide
Ottawa reports Canada’s Liberal party achieved a historic landslide in yesterday’s election securing 191 of 262 seats with Liberals sweeping the Parliament. Conservative leader George Drew won 41 seats while the Left-wing Labor Progressive party collapsed to 12 seats. Prime Minister St Laurent secured a personal 20,000 vote margin in Quebec East as Drew conceded victory hours after polls closed.
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Ottawa
Louis St. Laurent
Liberal Party
Liberals
Progressive Conservative Party
George Drew
Ontario
Progressive Conservatives
Commonwealth Co-operative Federation
M National
Progressive
L.P
Tim Bucks
Toronto Trinity
St. Lawrent
Quebec
Drew
Carleton
St. Laurent
J W. L. Mackenzie King
Pedestrian Safety Tops New Jersey Traffic Talk
Major General Philp B. Fleming, chairman of President Truman's Highway Safety Conference, told New Jersey police chiefs that foot traffic is the worst traffic problem. He cited that nearly three of four pedestrians killed in accidents were violating traffic laws or engaged in unsafe actions, and he urged stronger pedestrian enforcement across cities of all sizes.
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Spring Lake
N. J
Philp B. Fleming
New Jersey
Fleming
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G. O. P. Strategy Committee
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