Flood Threatens Missouri Valley as River Rises
Severe flooding endangers crops and towns across Nebraska Iowa Missouri and Kansas with at least 21 dead from floods and tornadoes. The muddy Missouri River rises again threatening 60 000 acres of corn belt land while levees buckle and towns evacuate.
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Nebraska
Cambridge
Neb
Missouri
Kansas City
Verne Alexander
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Iowa
Lexington
Waverly
Cherokee
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Red Cross
Wisconsin GOP delegates favor Dewey for presidential nomination
Wisconsin Republicans meet in Madison to back New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for the nomination with 321 votes, edging out Minnesota’s Harold Stassen by 35 in a statewide delegate poll.
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Wis
Wisconsin
GOP
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Herald KE. Stassen
Minnesota
Dewey
White House
Stassen
Markets At A Glance Stocks Firm Bonds Steady
United Press reports stocks firm in quiet trading with curbs irregularly higher. Chicago stocks rise while London closes lower. Silver holds at 59 1/2 cents. Cotton futures vary, grains rise in Chicago with wheat and corn up small amounts.
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U. S
Chicago
London
New York
Blaze Hampers Rescue Efforts In Tanker Blast
Flames licked the wreck of the tanker Markay hampering search for missing persons after Los Angeles harbor explosion. Four dead, 12 missing, at least 24 injured as the 6,000 ton tanker carrying nearly 3 million gallons of automotive gasoline blew up and burned across the channel. Berths at American President Lines were destroyed and six ships were towed to safety under an emergency plan.
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Los Angeles
American President Lines
Texas City
Tex
Local Man Injured In Henderson Oil Field
Clifford Dailey of 725 E Evelyn Street is hospitalized in Henderson Texas after a broken collarbone jaw and multiple head injuries from falling machinery Sunday afternoon in an oil field near Henderson. Virgil Hutchins of Mexia witnessed the incident and failed to warn Dailey.
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Clifford Dailey
Evelyn Street
Texas
Dailey
Virgil Hutchins
Hutchins
Chalugh
Services set for R. E. Cain in Dallas death
In Dallas on June 23 a 38 year old man R. E. Cain was crushed to death when a load of watermelons fell on him as he tried to jack up a melon filled trailer. The services are scheduled for tomorrow.
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Dallas
Tex
R. E. Cain
Senate Restores Navy Funds Cut by House
The Senate Appropriations Committee restored 176.5 million of the 377.5 million cut by the House to Navy requests for fiscal 1948. Net navy spending now 4.1057 billion, beneath the original 4.51 billion and House 4.136 billion. Navy personnel would average 43 000 officers and 39 000 men, versus 42 000 officers and 355 000 men under the House bill.
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Senate
Navy
House
Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Mergenthaler Co Swindler Sentenced in $804000 Case
Jimmy Collins 44, a Broadway Hollywood gambler, got 20 to 40 years after refusing to reveal fate of 350000 of 804000 swindled from Mergenthaler Linotype. Co-defendant Irving Cohen received 7 to 20 years. Judge Leibowitz noted Collins links to Bugsy Siegel in ruling.
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New York
Jimmy Collins
Playboy
Broadway
Hollywood
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
Collins
Irving
Izzy the Eel) Cohen
Brooklyn
Kings County
Samuel S. Leibowitz
Julius Lobell
Benjamin
Bugsy) Siegel
Red Headquarters In Sicily Bombed
Police struck at Fascist rings in many cities while two communist headquarters in Sicily were bombed during the night. Four people were killed in the Sicily attacks as right wing groups targeted small fascist revival cells.
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Rome
Sicily
Italy
Kappa Sigma Cook Dies. Six Members Pallbearer At Fraternity Funeral
Six Kappa Sigma members at the University of Texas served as volunteer pallbearers for Mrs. Bessie Vanzandt Overton a 56 year old cook at the fraternity house for nearly 15 years The funeral was conducted Sunday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Austin Texas.
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Austin
Tex
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
University of Texas
Bessie Vanzandt Overton
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Truman Plan for West Hemisphere Defense Favored
A United Press canvass shows a majority of Latin American countries favor the Truman plan for uniform armaments and military training in the western hemisphere. Thirteen of twenty responded on the eve of Washington hearings. Argentina Brazil Peru predicted approval while Colombia and Ecuador remained noncommittal. Bolivia Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Uruguay and Venezuela also favored the plan.
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Washington
Hight
Argentina
Brazil
Peru
Colombia
Ecuador
Bolivia
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Uruguay
Venaula
Palestine Government Attacks UN Group Over Death Sentence Ruling
In Jerusalem on June 23 the Palestine government condemned a United Nations committee for recommending commutations for three convicted Jewish underground members. Chief Secretary Sir Henry Gurney said he was bypassed in UN deliberations, issuing a strong protest from the Palestine government.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
United Nations Palestine Committee
Henry Gurney
Gurney
Molotov Three-Power Parley Accepted By Allies
Bevin told the House of Commons he and Bidault accepted Molotov's proposal for a three-power conference in Paris to review U S aid for Europe. The meeting aims to quick start a European survey of aid needs and self help, as the U S studies its resources to fund the Marshall plan.
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London
Ernest Bevin
House of Commons
Georges Bidault
V. M. Molotov
Paris
U. S
Europe
Molotov
United States
George C. Marshall
Injuries Fatal After Motorcycle Crash Near Waco
Injuries from a motorcycle overturn near Waco on Saturday proved fatal today for C. H. Dahlen of Clifton. The accident occurred as the rider fell and the machine overturned during the incident reported by United Press.
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Waco
Tex
C. H. Dahlen
Clifton
Senate Overrules Labor Bill Veto And ACCAP Charged
The Justice Department charged ASCAP and 25 foreign music societies with international cartel activity and conspiring to monopolize musical performing rights in violation of antitrust laws. The civil suit, filed in Southern New York federal court, cites La Confédération Internationale as the organizing body with Paris HQ.
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Washington
Justice Department
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
ASCAP
Tom C._ Clark
Federal District Court
New York
Australia
Canada
la Confederation Internationale Des Societies D'Auteurs Et Compositeurs
Paris
Clark
Marshall Reluctant To Publish Secret Acheson Letter
Secretary of State George C. Marshall said he would not publish a secret letter by retiring Under secretary Dean Acheson opposing Truman’s inter American military program. He told the House Foreign Affairs Committee publication would harm U S relations with Latin American nations as the committee weighs legislation to authorize the program.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Dean Acheson
Truman
Marshall
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Supreme Court Rules Lea Act Restricts Petrillo Power
The Supreme Court upholds the Lea Act aimed at limiting President James C. Petrillo of the AFL and curbing the standby musician practice in radio. The ruling confirms the act’s constitutionality in regulating recorded music employment.
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Washington
Supreme Court
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
AFL
Funeral Services For Dr E L Howard Tuesday Afternoon
Dr E L Howard died Sunday morning at his Fort Worth home after a ten month illness. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at four o clock at Robertson Mueller and Harper Funeral Home with Interment in Garden of Memory Cemetery. He is survived by two daughters Mrs Ricks of Houston and Mrs Burnham of Fort Worth, a sister and three brothers.
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Byrdville Road
Fort Worth
Robertson, Mueller, and Harper Funeral Home
Garden of Memory
Dr. Howard
Kathleen Corley
John R. Corley
Mexia
K. Ricks
Houston
J. Burnham
World News in Brief From Six Cities June 23
Reports from New Delhi San Francisco Kagosima Camden Shanghai and Frankfurt detail events including Punjab partition votes a San Andreas quake heavy Kyushu rains a church wedding interrupted by fire communist gains along Szepingkai a Rhine ferry capsizing and Britain protesting MacArthur Antarctic whaling expedition actions all dated June 23.
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N.J
Anthony Casamento
Lenore Ridgeway
See
Buck
London
Foreign Office
Britain
Washington
Douglas MacArthy
Antarctic
St. Louis Transit Strike Talks Return to Deadlock
The Public Service Company rejected the ninth proposal to end the 11 day old walkout by St. Louis transit workers. Negotiations led by Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann face renewed deadlock with no immediate path to resuming mass transportation service.
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T. Louis
Public Service Company Today
St. Louis
Aloys P. Kaufmann
Taft Hartley Labor Reform Passed Over Truman
Senate votes 68 to 25 to override the president and enact the Taft Hartley labor reform bill. The House previously approved 331 to 83, with Democrats and Republicans aligning to sustain overrides. The new law bans the closed shop, restricts the union shop, allows injunctions, and subjects unions to damages and unfair labor practice suits.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
House
Congress
Mr. Truman
White House
Hubert A. Tait
Maryland
O'Conor
High Court Rules Federal Title to Submerged California Lands
The U S Supreme Court ruled six to two that the Federal Government holds undisputed title to submerged lands under the California marginal sea. Justice Black announced the decision with dissents from Justices Reed and Frankfurter and no participation by Justice Jackson. The ruling extends federal dominion over soil and resources beneath the water area, affecting Texas and other coast states asserting similar claims.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Eilrich
California
Hugh L. Black
Stanley F. Reed
Felix Frankfurter
Robert H. Jackson
Black
Texas
Tidelands
Mexico
Price ‘Daniel
Protest at National Assembly Over Ramadier Fiscal Plan
In Paris 5 000 to 6 000 workers gathered outside the National Assembly as deputies debated Premier Paul Ramadier's financial program. Police reserves were deployed to guard the chamber while papers said Paris workers would halt 10 minutes in protest, a claim union officials denied.
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Ramadier
Paris
National Assembly
Paul Ramadier
Chamber
Roxas Seeks Extended Repayment Time for U S Loans
President Manuel Roxas told American editors and publishers aboard a round the world flight that the Philippines should be given more time to repay loans granted by the United States. The party landed in Manila after arriving from Bangkok.
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Manuel Roxas
Philippines
United States
Bankkek
Siam
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