Senate vote on veto set for Monday amid GOP confidence
Senate leaders reach a voting agreement after a 30 hour 52 minute marathon session. The Taft Hartley labor bill faces a veto override with a two thirds margin and three or four GOP votes needed to spare. President Truman rallies opposition while Hartley accuses the president of misrepresentation. Two Democrats absent reduce but do not alter the expected outcome.
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Associated Press
Ashington
Reputians
Senate
Truman
Murray
D-Mont
Olin Johnston
D-Sc
Solon
HST
Rep
Hartley
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Mr. Truman
Washington
St. Louis
Sen
Wagner
New York
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Geneva
International Trade Organization
Taft
No Hike Seen In Postal Rates
A garbled wire service style brief notes that no increase in postal rates is anticipated. The text references Washington and mentions families and households in a general context with uncertain specifics. The readable fragments imply a status quo on rates without firm details or dates.
Training Bill Facing Delay
Members of the House armed services committee say an all-out drive to cash GI terminal leave bonds will likely sidetrack universal military training legislation until next year. Hearings on more than 30 bills to make the bonds redeemable immediately are set to start next week, with many members favoring postponement of training hearings until early next year.
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Associated Press
Ashington
House Armed Services Committee
Special Commission
Republican House
Ember
Drop In Mississippi Eases Flood Danger
The Mississippi River eased today as it began receding after cresting to high levels that flooded farm land and left thousands homeless in towns across Missouri and Illinois. Heavy rains elsewhere had prolonged the high water, but the river's decline reduced the danger.
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Hannibal
Mississippi
Missouri
Flow Of Grain Taxes Storage and Rail Facilities Record Wheat Crop
Avalanche-Journal reports a record South Plains harvest as a flow of wheat moves into box cars elevators and granaries. Yields range from 15 to 58 bushels per acre with area averages 25 to 35. prices sit around 1.85 to 1.90. Reports come from Gaines Terry Yoakum Lynn and Dickens counties plus shipments from Lehman O'Donnell Wilson Spur and more as showers affect Petersburg Floydada and Lockney.
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South Plains
W. R. Flinn
Stanolind Oil & Gas Company
G. G. Flinn
Lubbock County
Monroe
Ross
Avalanche Journal
C. W. Ratliff
Avalanche-Journal
Lamesa
Gaines County
W. G. Gibbs
Seminole
Lehman
Cochran County
Yoakum County
Lynn County
Santa Fe
Tohoka
O'Donnell
Wilson
Terry County
Motley County
Roaring Springs
Dickens County
Petersburg
Floydada
Lockney
War Believed Inevitable Italians Fear Middle Of U S Soviet Dispute
Italian leaders weigh bets between Washington and Moscow as East West tension grows. Balkans shifts, Soviet gains in Hungary and Bulgaria raise concern over Italy’s position and recovery prospects. Trieste stands as a sensitive frontier in Moscow’s advance toward Western influence.
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Charles H. Guptill
Associated Press
Jome
Taly
Weenington
Moscow
East
Aris
Italy
Balkans
Balkan
Maly
Trieste
Russia
Hugary
Bul
Building Costs Boosted Survey Of U S Housing
The Associated Press reports a 1947 housing survey showing a severe shortage with 37,514 new homes started in 157 cities in Q1 and average construction costs rising to 5,548 dollars per unit. Evictions far outnumber new dwellings, and 370,773 families faced waiting lists. Turn to page for more details.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Rinehart Escapes Attack as Servant Wielded Pistol
Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, 70, author of crime novels, escaped a pistol and knife assault in her Maine home as bullets failed to explode. Chef Blas Reyes, named in Abbott's report, was held on a warrant for assault with intent to murder. In Texas, Texas A&M board of directors meets at College Station at 2 p.m. to discuss an agenda expected to require three days.
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Rar Harbor
Simmer
Mary Roberts Rinehart
George A. Abbott
Rinehart
Blas Reyes
Abbott
U S Accused In Balkan Plot
A Hungarian white paper alleges former Premier Ferenc Nagy conspired with prominent Americans to turn Hungary into a southeastern European base for the United States. It names H F Arthur Schoenfeld Laszlo Eker-Racz Dean Acheson and Sol Bloom as figures tied to the plot. Nakam.
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Jack Guiin
Associated Press
Adapest
Ferenc Nagy
Hungary
United States
Nagy
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld
U. S
Budapest
Switzerland
Schoenfeld
Laszlo Eker-Racz
U.S
Legation
Déan Acheson
Sol Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Attlee Attacks Totalitarianism as Eastern Europe Debate Rages
In a Yorkshire speech Prime Minister Attlee decried denied rights and non democratic rule across eastern Europe. He linked liberty to Britain’s push for European prosperity and democracy and urged opposition to all undemocratic governments. He warned against condoning leftist actions when similar deeds by opponents would be protested.
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Tom William
Associated Press
Barnsley
England
Attlee
Generalissimu Stalin
Yorkshire
Europe
Britain
Complete Settlement Of Maritime Dispute Reported
SAN FRANCISCO June 21 Nathan P Feinsinger Labor department conciliator announced a complete settlement of the maritime dispute that threatened a long tieup of West Coast shipping. Terms of the last two agreements between employers and the CIO marine cooks and the radio operators were settled this morning on the basis of recent East coast accords.
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San Francisco
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Labor Department
CIO Marine
Bates Thornton in Impressive Post In Industry
Bates Thornton formerly of Lubbock, now Ford Motor Company planning director, has been borrowed by the State Department under Robert Lovett for special service. He will work with Secretary of State Marshall on departmental reorganization and is headed to Washington next month.
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H. I. Kiefer
Avalanche-Journal
Ford Motor Company
Charles Bates Thornton
Bates
Ford Company
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Horatio Alger
Thornton
Tech
A .J. Lewis
Avenue V
Laney
Detroit
New Mexico
Jeanette Lewis
Lubbock High School
Army Air Forces
Henry Ford
Robert A. Lovett
American State Department
Lovett
Marshall
Washington
Summer Arrives on Plains as Heat Builds Across Texas
The first day of summer brings hot weather across the plains with highs near 94 in the region and 105 in Presidio. The U S Weather Bureau forecasts not quite as hot conditions for today and Monday with partly cloudy skies, while recent drought relief brings scattered showers to eastern Texas and continued warmth elsewhere.
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U.S
Greenwich
England
Presidio
Associated Press
Texas
Lubbock
Weather Bureau
Municipal
Texas Kriegie Harvo Reunion Advances Arrival of Wainwright
Fort Worth reports the second homeland reunion of Texas Kriegie Harvo moves forward with the arrival of Gen Jonathan M Wainwright the nations top prisoner of war The event centers on a club of former prisoners of war during a daytime session and includes social matches and wedding set discussions.
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Fort Worth
Texas Kriegie-Harvo
Jonathan M. Wainwright
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