Ohio Legislature Prods Time Clocks For Session Drift
Ohio lawmakers hide clocks as House and Senate adjourn until 1 p.m. to avoid Saturday, while 12 conference committees work to resolve school subsidy and relief bills. Major actions include FEPC expansion, truck license fee compromise, jobless benefits rise, and school funding gaps.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
Senate
Roscoe R. Walcutt
Franklin
Senate House
House Committee
Windstorm Kills Carnival Acrobat in Detroit
A carnival acrobat died in a windstorm when the pole he performed on collapsed eight feet from the top. Alfred J. Forest, 24, of San Francisco, was with a traveling show and fell after the pole broke. Two hundred fifty spectators watched as he plummeted to the ground.
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Detroit
Alfred J. Forest
San Francisco
Olice
Forest
Man plans self funeral in Burlington Colorado
J W Gernhardt 75 will conduct his own funeral to ensure the service he wants after death. He will serve lunch to the press and others before presiding over services at the local armory. The services will be recorded and played after his death so he can know what happens.
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Burlington
Colo
J. W. Gernhardt
Gernhardt
Iran Defies Truman Peacemaking Call Over Oil Dispute
Hussein Maki, aide to Mossadegh, warned Iran would either win nationalization of oil or be destroyed, after Truman urged peaceful settlement with Britain. A Senate session heard the president’s strong note, while London pressed Britain’s 53 percent stake in Anglo-Iranian Oil.
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Tehran
Iran
Hussein Maki
Mohammed Mossadegh
Mossadegh
Senate
Truman
Maki
Joint
Aid
Britain
Attlee
London
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
June Weather Chaos Strikes Plains States
June began with extreme weather across the central United States. Torrential rains flooded Ne braska areas forcing families to flee. Snow blanketed parts of Dakota Wyoming and Montana with eight inches at Rapid City South Dakota. Temperatures varied from freezing in the snow belt to mid-summer heat across the South Midwest and East.
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South
Nebraska
Dakota
Wyoming
Montana
Rapid City
S. D
Snow Belt
Plains States
Rockies
Midwest
North Central
Price-Slashing Fight Expands Across Stores
New York retailers face a price war as manufacturers threaten to cut supplies unless regular prices are charged. The clash enters its fourth day with weekend shoppers from outside the city anticipated. Memphis joins the action reacting to a Supreme Court ruling on fair-trade price fixing as stores slash margins and reduce inventories. Eversharp halts deliveries to Macy's over price demands while Macy's and Gimbels exhaust stocks of summer goods amid fierce buying.
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New York
Memphis
Tenn
Supreme Court
Eversharp, Inc
Macy’s
Palm Beach
Gimbels
Formosa Vital To U S Defense Says Acheson
Secretary of State Acheson told Senate committees that in 1949 a government wide view held that no U S aid short of armed intervention could save Formosa from the Communists and that Formosa was strategically important to U S defense. A joint study concluded non Communist regimes in China could not survive beyond 1950 without major U S military action.
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Washington
Acheson
Truman
White House
Douglas MacArthur
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations
Timdaes Asiactianea la Lawl Tan
Wiley
Secretary of State
MacArthur
Cain
R-Wash
GOP
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
U. S
United States
State Department
Pacific
U.S
Russia
Voice of America
Taiwan
China
Coplen Could Win New Trial On Wiretap Evidence
The U S Court of Appeals upheld Judith Coplen’s spying for Russia conviction but set conditions for a possible new trial. The ruling found the arrest lawful but tied a potential retrial to whether FBI agents listened to talks with her attorney via a wiretap. Coplen, a former Justice Department worker, and Valentin Gubitchev were arrested in New York on March 4, 1949.
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Washington
U.S. Court of Appeals
Judith Coplen
Justice Department
FBI
Miss Coplon
Court of Appeals For
Second Circuit
New York
Valentin A. Gubitchev
Gubitchev
United Nations
Russia
Hot Weather Ahead Across East and Southwest
The Weather Bureau forecast warmer than usual conditions for the Eastern half of the country and the Southwest over the next 30 days. The outlook notes prolonged heat with above average temperatures across these regions.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Life In Doghouse Can Be Exciting In Martinsburg
In Martinsburg a Knox County highway worker, Robert Ewart, chased his pup from its dog house and used it as a maternity ward for a new litter of kittens. A White Rock hen then took over nursing the kittens and adding a daily egg. Mrs. Ewart repeatedly chases the hen away so the cat can feed.
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Robert Ewart
Knox County
Garli Eat
Mrs. Ewart
Costello Favored to Head Irish Government
Dublin AP reports Irish ballots show no single winner. John A Costello appears best poised to lead a new coalition. Costello led the three year old coalition against Eamon de Valera’s Fianna Fail. final seats Fianna Fail 69, Fine Gael 64, Independents 14.
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Dublin
Ireland
John A. Costello
Costello
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
Soldiers of Destiny
Fine Gael
United Ireland
Labor Fights Johnston's Wage Pattern
Labor members of the Wage Stabilization Board clash with Economic Stabilizer Bil Johnston over lifting the wage ceiling. Johnston hints at boosting the 10 percent limit by two points to cover productivity bonuses for auto workers, totaling about 12 percent with a cost of living rise. The auto industry seeks a 4 cent hourly productivity raise. a meeting is set for next week. Separately, civilian steel, copper, and aluminum quotas are tightened as the National Production Authority directs shortages for July through September.
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Washington
Wage Stabilization Board
Bil Johnston
Johnston
Bureau of Labor Statistics
WSB
National Production Authority
UN Still Will Block Red Attacks in Korea
Lt Gen James A Van Fleet says Eighth Army ends pursuit but will halt enemy aggression in South Korea. UN Allies hold near North Korea border as Chinese and Korean Communist forces reinforce. Red jets shot down. napalm raid on rail yards near Pyongyang reported. over 100000 Communist casualties claimed.
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TOKYO
James A. van Fleet
U. S
Eighth Army
North Korea
United Nations
Red Korea
van Fleet
South Korea
Korea
Pyongyang
John Erskine dies at 71 in New York home
New York AP reports novelist John Erskine died at his Park Avenue residence at about 4:30 am. He was 71 and survived by his wife Helen and two children from a prior marriage, with Fulton Oursler summoned to the scene. He authored 45 books and was a professor of English, known for his time-saving writing method.
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Charles M. Jackson
Frances Lindauer
Hudson River
New York City
Pier 90
St. Clare's Hospital
New York
John Erskine
Park Avenue
Helen
Fulton Oursler
Erskine
Oursler
Europe
Graham
Russel Crouse
Venus
Helen of Troy
Wous
University
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