Blue Cross Chief Cautions Americans on Health Insurance
Dr. Paul R. Hawley, ex VA medical director and head of Blue Cross, told a Senate committee that compulsory health insurance is a radical leap into the welfare state. He urged a fact finding body to study U S health facilities and warned costs and defense funding could be harmed. He argued the Truman plan could cost 6 to 9 billion dollars yearly and doubted the public would tolerate high costs.
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Jashington
Paul R. Hawley
Blue Cross Program
Hawiey
Veterans Administration
Temial Re
Vol
Senate Labor Anapaxtic Welfare
Truman
Hawley
Pie
Faetead
Congress
Strike at Boeing Illegally Called by Union, Court Rules
The U S Court of Appeals ruled Boeing Seattle workers strike illegal and the Machinists Lodge 751 not the bargaining agent. It overturned a NLRB finding that the walkout followed Taft Hartley and that the union legally represented 14 500 Boeing employees. The April 25 1948 strike violated a then existing contract.
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Washington
United States Court of Appeals Today
Boeing Aircraft Co
Seattle
International Association of Machinists
Boeing
Lodge
Rhode Island Pioneer Dies at 91
Rhode Island pioneer and oldest Brown alumnus died in a hospital at nearly 60. year. He had long attended annual commencement exercises in Providence and at his alma mater Brown University, remaining active in university events.
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Rhode Island
Coronado
Wil -Ely
Rhode A
Providence
Electric Brain: Bureau Builds Robot Wizard in L A
The U S Bureau of Standards develops an electric brain at the University of California Los Angeles to translate languages. Twenty mathematicians and technicians led by Dr. Harry Huskey expect it to handle weather forecasts payments and executive replacements and to perform vast word translations with a 16000 action dictionary. It will use a cathode tube and seven tapes and may translate foreign books in time.
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Los Angeles
U. S. Bureau of Standards
University of Ria At
Harry Huskey
Huskey
Senator Fears Farm Vote Loss
Senator Aiken of Vermont warned that farm voter support could drop in the upcoming election. He attributed possible Senate action to remarks by Secretary Brannan and cautioned that poor Republican PR in the prior campaign could shift blame to the party.
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Senator Fears
Road Blocks Set for Escaped Oregon Convicts
Salem, Ore May 31 State police tightened road blocks today in the search for two escaped Oregon convicts. John Pinson 29 life term killer of a state policeman described as a bad character and William Benson 43 went over the prison wall early yesterday Guards in tower posts opened fire but it was not known if they were wounded
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Salem
Ore
Oregon
John ©. Pinson
William P. Benson
Congress Plan for Allies' Aid to Be Delayed
Washington May 31 AP Congress plans delay the 1.13 billion arms program for North Atlantic allies until next year. Senate work begins on a strong report as House leadership omits it from year-end chores. Separate action on Greece and Turkey may proceed, with ambition to skip several Truman proposals pending Senate action.
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Washington
Congress
America
House
Rep. McCormack
D-Mass
Senate Democrats
North Atlantic Alliance
North Atlantic
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connnally
Texas
Western Europe
Greece
Turkey
Truman
Czech Clerics Warn over Excommunication Threat
Prague reports Archbishop Josef Beran warned Czech priests that contributing to the Communist run Clergy Gazette could trigger automatic excommunication. The letter, circulated to clergy, declares no point in renewing negotiations with the government over a church state agreement as talks seem hopeless amid Marxist education aims.
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Prague
Josef Beran
New “Cathlete Clergy Gazette
Czechoslovakia
Beran
United States Canada Trade Barrier End Urged
Secre tary of Commerce urges removal of trade barriers between the United States and Canada to promote freer exchange of goods. Speaking at a luncheon before Canada’s Second International Trade Fair, he says relaxed barriers would set an example to the world.
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Secretof Commerce
United States
Canada
Sawyer
Burma Forces Reoccupy Rebel Town in Burma
Government troops recaptured Talk 4, a rebel-held town 40 miles north of Rangoon, as officials announced rebels fled. The operation marked a swift shift in control amid ongoing conflict in Burma on May 31.
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Rangoon
Burma
Talk 4
Ranin
Operations Resume at Big Ford Plant and Arbitration Plan
Ford Motor Co resumes operations after a 24 day strike by 106000 workers. An arbitrator for union speed-up charges is to be named within three days, failing which a board will decide. Long Beach plant aims for June 13 revival with about 1000 recalled workers. parts from Detroit to arrive in eight days. Eight thousand New York area workers receive a $840000 retroactive wage award. Estes Park rally urges broader political action by United Packinghouse Workers. Delegates plan wage and contract talks with agreements expiring August 11.
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Ford Motor Co
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
Detroit
Long Beach
Edwards
New York City
Estes Park
Colo
C. I. Lo. United Packinghouse Works
Ralph Heistein
Helstein
Aaid
Wedding Guests Miss Bride With Chicken Pox Mystery
In Santa Barbara on May 41, Sylvie Bryce Potter wed E Clifford Potter II. Guests unaware she had chickenpox attended the reception and the bride later learned she had the illness. The minister and Potter are noted as immune, and the bride’s family ties to Peter Cooper Bryce are mentioned. The report also covers a burglary in which a man named Sturm allegedly stole a pistol from the bride’s home five days after the wedding and fled to Idaho.
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Santa Barbara
Sylvie Brice
Hope Ranch Esrate
E. Clifford Potter
New York
Tucson
Ariz
Dickson Bayard -Potter
Peter Cooper Bryce
Peter Cooper
Flight in Bride's New Car Charged
INDIANAPOLIS May 31 FBI held in Oklahoma City a man accused of fleeing to evade burglary charges after taking his Evansville bride’s new car on their honeymoon. George H. Sturm 47, identified by Agent Harvey G. Foster, was arrested on unlawful flight to avoid prosecution with a complaint filed in Evansville last September. He reportedly married an Evansville widow May 10, 1948, and allegedly drove away that night in the new automobile.
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Indianapolis
UPA
Evansville
Ind
FBI
Oklahoma City
Harvey G. Foster
George H. Sturm
Sturm
Evanville
Foster
Youths and Woman Wounded in Philadelphia Arcade Shooting
In Philadelphia's Italian section a fight at a penny arcade led to a hail of bullets from a speeding car injuring three teenagers and a woman passerby. Anthony Marimaro, 19, wounded in temple and neck, with others, including Frank Menna 17 and Vincent Fulgermith 17, hit in the leg or cheek, and Mrs. Louis Pinto 39 shot in the thigh.
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Philadelphia
Frank May
Anthony Marimaro
Marimaro
Frank Menna
Louis Manna
Pontiff Greets Taylor at Vatican Meeting
Pope Pius XII received Myron Taylor, President Truman's representative in the Vatican, in a 30 minute private audience today at the Vatican City on May 31.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Myron Taylor
President Truman
Vatican
Clues Lacking in Georgia 5 Lynching Case
IRWINTON Ga May 31 AP With no clues or a motive to guide them investigators searched for white men who whisked Caleb Hill Jr from jail and shot him to death Sheriff George Hatcher said there is nothing to go on and he suspects more than two men were involved The jail is in the sheriff’s home and Hill grabbed the pistol during arrest then was killed after being taken from jail by strangers
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Irwinton
George Hatcher
Caleb Hill Jr
Hatcher
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Hill
Alabama
Hal
Carswell
American and British notes sent to Romania
Two new American and British notes were delivered to the Romanian government, aiming at Anglo American actions on the peace treaty. Romania rejected protests that Britain and the United States violated treaty guarantees on human rights, citing the Mindszenty trial as a key issue.
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Bucharest
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Josef i Cardinal Mindszenty
Churchman 71 Dies After Happiest Day
NEW YORK May 31 Dr Samuel G Trexler longtime United Lutheran Church of America leader died at 71 after calling his 50 years in ministry the happiest day. He spoke of the day on return from a church celebration and had recently recovered from pneumonia and an abdominal operation.
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New York
Samuel G. Trexler
United Lutheran Church
America
Trexler
Eisler Arrives in Prague Amid Reds Meeting Hints
PRAGUE May 31 UP Gerhart Eisler fugitive American Communist agent flew from London to Czechoslovakia where foreign Communist chiefs held a top level secret conference. Eisler’s stealthy departure followed a U.S. deportation request and a British perjury ruling. He was greeted by Prague Communist leaders and government officials as speculation swirled about a Cominform gathering in Czechoslovakia.
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Prague
Gerhart Eisler
London
Czechoslovakia
Eisler
Europe
Amtat Haldine
Sare Espe
United States
Czech Ministry of Information
Czech Airlines
Bluler
England
Bon St
Jnoslovakia
Pim
K End
Senedoslovakia
Georgikov
Cominform
International Communist Information Bureau
Eister
Germany
Leipzig University
People's Council
Czccoslovakia
Kremlin
America
British accuse German firm over wartime yard dismantling
Hamburg May 41 British accuse Blohm and Voss shipyard owners Rudolph and Walter Blohm of trying to move essential machinery to dodge reparations dismantling. The brothers will face a control commission court on June 7. The yard built much of the German navy and faces full dismantling.
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Hamburg
Germany
Rudolph and
Walter Blohm
Blohm and Voss
Control Commission
Montreal Police Nab Suspect After Capsule Swallowed
On May 31 police wrestled Edouard Helland to the ground after he attempted to swallow a capsule of dope. He coughed up the evidence during the struggle, and was arrested on the scene.
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Montreal
Edouard Helland
Bellanti
Purse Contents Used as Evidence in Espionage Trial
In Washington Judge Reeves denied a defense bid to suppress papers found in Judith Coplon's purse when arrested with a Russian last March. The defense argued rights were violated by seizure without a warrant. The government pressed that the documents are central to the case linking Coplon to secret material.
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Washington
Judith Coplon
Albert L. Reeves
Miss Coplon
Archibald Palmer
Povernet
New- York
Miss
Copion
Milier
Misa
Palmer
Milas Copion
FBI
Enue Cat At
Gen Clark and Chiefs Toast Italy Visit in Rome
General Mark W. Clark and other U.S. officers were greeted by President Luigi Einaudi in Rome. Clark, guest at a memorial near the Anzio beachhead, spent an hour with Einaudi and was presented to Generals Cannon Hoge Douglas Jr. and others, outlining Allied leadership in Europe.
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Rome
May
Mark W. Clark
U. S. Fifth Army
Italy
Luigi Entaudi
Clark
U. S. Military Cemetery
Anzio
Einaudi
John K. Cannon
U. S
Europe
William M. Hoge
Trieste
R. W. Douglas Jr
U.S Air Forces
Teacher Victim of Bandit's Shooting
LOS ANGELES May 3 A young school teacher, Dorothy Serafino 22, is in critical condition after a gunfight during a holdup outside a liquor store. A clerk named Gerson chased the robber, firing twice. the thief fired back, striking Serafino in the abdomen as she crossed the street.
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Los ‘Angeles
Dorothy Serafino
Eliese
Gerson
Serafino
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