Truman Gains Idaho Political Lift In Sun Valley
In Sun Valley Idaho President Truman received a political boost as Idaho Democrats pledged all 12 convention votes and spoke of a fighting campaign for re election. He rode the Union Pacific chair lift at Dollar Mountain and met with Idaho leaders including Dan Cavanagh and W Averell Harriman before heading to Butte Montana for a late night civic addressed speech.
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Sun Valley
Idaho
Truman
White House
Dan Cavanagh
Union Pacific
Dollar Mountain
W. Averell Harriman
ECA
Commerce
Cavanagh
T. E. McDonald
Idaho Falls
Lausche and Ferguson Set to Speak at Ohio Dem Club Session
Former Gov. Frank J. Lausche and State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson will address the final session of the League of Young Democratic Clubs of Ohio. Lausche is the Democratic nominee for governor as the convention opens Friday in Columbus.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Joseph T. Ferguson
League of Young Democratic Clubs of Ohio
Lausche
Blast wrecks Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles
A gas blast at Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles wrecked the clubhouse. Five people were hospitalized and a fire gutted the building. Loss was estimated at 175000 dollars. Olina Dutra the club pro escaped injury. Victims included several staff members and patrons in the dining room and men’s grill.
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Los Angeles
Hillcrest Country Club
Olina Dutra
John Steinberg
Clarence Myers
Edward Koelbel
John Steichen
Emil Lepp
Jimmy Wanecek
J. M. Friday
Republicans Clash Over Housing Bill Ahead of Convention
Washington AP report says GOP fault lines widen over housing reform as Rep Wolcott plans a substitute to Taft's Senate bill. He will end public hearings in the House Banking Committee and push his version later in the week, with full debate expected to begin Monday or Tuesday.
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Washington
Wolcott
R-Mich
Senate
Taft
House Banking Committee
House
Iowa Gov Blue and Rep Gwynne Lose in GOP Primary
Iowa's Republican governor Robert D. Blue and congressman John W. Gwynne were unseated in the GOP primary. William S. Beardsley led Blue early, with H. R. Gross defeating Gwynne. Senator George A. Wilson won renomination easily, while other GOP incumbents faced little opposition. Democratic races featured Guy M. Gillette winning the senatorial nomination and Carroll O. Switzer unopposed for governor.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Robert D. Blue
John W. Gwynne
William S. Beardsley
New Virginia
Blue
Beardsley
Gwynne
H. R. Gross
Gross
George A. Wilson
John N. Calhoun
Burlington
Wilson
Calhoun
Henry O. Talle
Karl M. le Compte
U. S
Guy M. Gillette
Ernest J. Seeman
Carroll O. Switzer
Polk County
Senate Seeks Limited Draft Revival Action Tonight
The Senate pressed into extra hours to advance a limited draft revival bill. Leaders, aided by yesterday's seven civil rights amendments votes, expect more actions on at least seven amendments including one on race. Debates centered on enlistment, draft timing, and conscientious objectors with proposals to allow aliens to serve abroad and to restrict service by race, while the bill aims to draft 19 to 25 year olds and allow 18-year-olds to volunteer for a year of training.
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Washington
Senate
Mhamber
Wherry
Nebraska
Russell
D-Ga
Armed Services
Langer
R-Sd
Taft
Ohio
GOP
Lucas
D-Ill
Senator Lodge
Rmast
United States
Senator Capehart
Rind
Capehart
House
Morse
Child Killed In Tornado In Henryville Indiana
A tornado in Henryville Clark County Indiana killed 10 year old Gayle Mullins and injured at least four others including her parents Thomas Mullins Emma Applegate and Mrs George Smallwood. The Mullins home collapsed killing the girl and injuring the parents while Mrs Smallwood and Mrs Applegate suffered injuries from debris. Henryville lay in rubble with over 20 homes and barns destroyed and utilities out.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Henryville
Clark County
Indiana
Gayle Mullins
Thomas Mullins
Emma Applegate
George Smallwood
Mullins
Smallwood
Czechs To Name New President In Communist Move
Prague Czechoslovakia AP says parliament will elect a new president next Monday to replace Eduard Benes who resigned. Klement Gottwald is the leading candidate with Antonin Zapotocky or Zdenek Fierlinger as possible successors. Benes quit after 11 years rather than sign a new constitution drafted by the Communist regime.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
Klement Gottwald
Antonin Zapotocky
Gottwald
Czenek Nejedly
Zdenek Fierlinger
Benes
Tariff bill extension approved by Senate committee
The Senate Finance Committee voted eight to five to extend the foreign trade agreements act one year with a milder revision than the House version. A Millikin Vandenberg amendment requires the President to inform Congress within 30 days if he disregards Tariff Commission recommendations. The debate split along party lines as the bill moves toward a short extension from the current expiry Saturday.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Vandenberg
Mich
Millikin
Cole
Congress
Tariff Commission
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Ohioan
Gestapo Spy Genevieve Danelle Executed in France
In liberated France Genevieve Danelle, a Gestapo spy, was executed today becoming the first woman to face a firing squad. An accomplice, Roger Calame, was executed alongside her.
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Parish
Genevieve Danelle
France
Roger Calame
House Panel Proposes Cuts To AEC and VA Budgets
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a $5.795 billion bill for six agencies starting July 1, recommending cash cuts of 9 percent for the Atomic Energy Commission and 7 percent for the Veterans Administration. It urged halting GI bill hobby training and urged AEC officials to consider practical spending realities.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Veterans Administration
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Maritime Commission
Office of Housing
Deadlock Looms as Coal Dispute Burns On
Washington AP report says soft coal operators resist funding 14 million dollars in miners death and disability benefits demanded by John L. Lewis. Talks at the Statler Hotel resume amid signs of a new stalemate as owners balk at trustees’ welfare fund plan.
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John L. Lewis
UMW
Washington
Lewis
John Owens
John T. Jones
William Bliseard
George J. Titler
Harvey Cartwright
Terre Haute
Ind
HM. K. Cook
Knoxville, Tenn
Joseph Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
George H. Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Charles O'Neill
Central Pennsylvania
Harry M. Moses
George F. Campbell
Illinois
Statler Hotel
GE Offers Eight Percent Wage Rise for 125000 Workers
General Electric offered eight percent pay increases nationwide to about 125000 workers in GE plants. The raise equates to nine to over fifteen cents per hour and was conveyed to CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers negotiators. Union leaders questioned timing and mechanism, seeking either automatic cost-of-living adjustments or an 11 to 13 cent proposal.
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NEW York
General Electric Co
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
CIO
U.S. Department of Labor
Liquor Orders Placed by State Department
Columbus AP says the State Liquor Department ordered 16 355 cases of liquor costing 594 288 dollars last week. Most orders were for whiskey.
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Columbus, O
State Liquor Department
Dale Duniton
Five Injured As Train Cars Uncouple In Columbus Station
In Columbus Union Station five passengers in a sleeping car on the Spirit of St. Louis were seriously hurt when two cars uncoupled and smashed into the engine of the Metropolitan Limited. E D Johnson and Charles W Donker were among those severely injured. others include Hart W Reaves John Avery and Harry G Fitzgerald Jr. Fire crews freed victims after doors were forced open and a hole was cut in the car floor.
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Columbus
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union Station
Spirit of St. Louis
Metropolitan Limited
E. D. Johnson
Jennings, Mac
Charles W. Donker
Baltimore
Hart W. Reaves
Los Angeles
John Avery
Connersville
Ind
Harry G. Fitzgerald, Jr
Black Lick
Johnson
Fitzgerald
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Reaves
Donker
T. J. Dempsey
Metropolitan
Japanese officers to face Palawan massacre trial
Two lieutenant generals and 11 others will be tried for the December Palawan massacre in the Philippines. The atrocity, described as one of the war's worst, involved POWs from Corregidor and Bataan sent to Palawan to work on a Japanese air strip. The case has been investigated for two years by Vernelle Dyer of Cleveland and Masahide Yamade of Honolulu.
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Tokyo
Palawan
Philippines
Toay
Corregidor
Bataan
Vernelle Dyer
Derbyshire Road
Cleveland
Masahide Yamade
Honolulu
Aviators Seek Missing Balloon Near Dayton
Civil Aeronautics officials in Ohio urged crews to search for a 30 foot captive blimp that broke free from its mooring in Dayton late last night. Don Morgan used the balloon to promote a new drive in restaurant east of town with an advertisement painted on it and a searchlight aimed at it. The blimp snapped its 20 foot cable before 10 p.m. and the CAA warned it would order the craft shot down if not grounded by morning.
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Dayton, O
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Ohio Aircraft
Don Morgan
Morgan
CAA
Third Flood Crest Mounts on Columbia
AP reports the Columbia and Fraser rivers reached their third flood crest as scorched Pacific Northwest weather sent more snowmelt water downstream. Sand bag defense lines and reinforced dikes faced a three week siege while floods spread across Creston farmland and multiple western states. Forecasters warned the third crest could surpass prior peaks depending on sun exposure.
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Portland
Ore
Columbia
Fraser
Pacific Northwest
Kootenay
Canada
Creston
B. C
Vancouver
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
British Columbia
Labor Trouble Develops At Briggs Plant
DETROIT AP The CIO United Auto Workers executive board met as wage talks faltered at Briggs Manufacturing Company after Briggs offered a 13 cent hourly rise and talks with 23 000 Briggs workers collapsed. UAW head Emil Mazey charged the firm with bad faith bargaining as the board schedules sessions through Friday and also plans talks with Ford Motor Company beginning next Monday.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Executive Board
Auto Industry
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Briggs
Emil Mazey
UAW
Big Union
Ford Motor Company
Troops Near Tel Aviv as Truce Talks Hover
Arab troops advanced within eight miles of Tel Aviv in Israeli territory while leaders weighed a possible truce. The Jews reported Wilhelma's loss, eight miles east of their capital, with artillery range close to Tel Aviv though no immediate peril. Battles raged 23 miles south at Isdud and around the Arab triangle in north central Palestine. Egyptian naval reinforcements arrived on the coast. In Casablanca, rioting between Arabs and Jews over Palestine pushed a death toll to 42 with initial reports of five dead and 30 wounded.
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Associated Press
Tel Aviv
Wilhelma
Isdud
Palestine
Casablanca
French
Morocco
Palestine Armistice Talks In Spotlight As Red Move Stirs
The report notes renewed fighting around Isdud with Jewish casualties and captives. Russia seeks to deploy military observers to Palestine while the United States resists foreign troops there. UN mediator Bernadotte works on a four week armistice plan, with Cairo neutral observers predicting a fragile 50 50 chance of acceptance.
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Isdud
Miesanim
Nitsanim
Hor
Russia
Andrei A. Gromykov
Palestine
United States
Iran
Manchuria
Denmark
Bornholm
Red
Folke Ernadotte
Israel
Cairo
Bernadotte
Man Admits Counterfeit Bill Passing in Cincinnati
Huntington West Virginia man Charles Keetley, 36, admitted to police that he passed about 40 counterfeit bills totaling 400 dollars in Cincinnati within a four hour span. He reportedly told officers he passed 20 near the Greyhound bus station and 20 along Central Avenue after a store manager refused a bill. He was detained but not charged immediately.
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Cincinnati
Huntington
W. Va
George T. Pearcy
Charles Keetley
Greyhound
Central Avenue
Keetley
Ohio State Liquor Officials Subpoenaed in Shakedown Case
Four state liquor department officials including Director Dale Dunifon are subpoenaed to appear before a Franklin County grand jury to discuss alleged permit applicant shakedowns. Prosecutor Ralph J. Bartlett seeks records on A. E. Oppenheimer, chief of permit examining, dating 1947. Also notes a Cleveland bribe claim involving a man calling as a state liquor inspector.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
Dale Duniton
Franklin County
Grand Jury
Ralph J. Bartlett
Duniton
Donald T. Geyer
Howard E. Klinker
Canton
George Hinklin
Portsmouth
Dayton
A. E. Oppenheimer
County Grand Jury
Springfield
Howard McCall
Oppenheimer
Dunifon
McCall
Bartlett
Cleveland
Daniel Diberto
Ravaria
State Liquor Board
Diberto
Miami
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State of Idaho
Ferguson
Blast Wrecks Country Club
Gestapo
AEC
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
War Assets Administration
WAA
Budget Bureau
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Air Force
Bureau of Federal Supply
Ohio State Liquor Department
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