Draft Bill Sent To House Floor In Maritime Strike Fight
The rules committee voted 6 to 4 to send the draft bill to the house floor for debate this week. Chairman Leo E. Allen said only one roll call was taken as a motion to table failed 7 to 3. Three hours of general debate were approved with amendments allowed.
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Washington
Rules Committee
House
House Armed Services Committee
Dewey Short
R.-Mo
Rules
Senate
Leo E. Allen
R.-Li
Allen
Armed Services Committee
Cafe Society Downtown plug sparks political ire in press critique
Westbrook Pegl er notes a May 31 Herald Tribune piece by Jean and Robert Boardman that advertised Mildred Bailey opening at Cafe Society Downtown. He links the puff to broader claims of communist ties, legal actions, and alleged suppression of information, citing connections to Leon Josephson and Gerhardt Eisler within a larger debate over press independence and leftward bias.
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New York
Jean and
Robert Boardman
New York Herald Tribune
Cafe Society Downtown
Mildred Bailey
Cafe Society
Lucienne Boyer
Cafes Society
Uptown
Lucy
Bernard Josephson
Leon Josephson
Libau
Soviet Russia
Latvia
Leon
Yin
Milan
Mich
Thomas Committee
House of Representatives
Theederal
Gerhardt Eisler
United States
Gerhardt
Hans
Eleanor Roosevelt
The
Herald Tribune
Hanns
Lucy Josephson
Barney
Jean
Union Voice
Wholesale Warehouse Workers Union
Local 65
Third flood crest swirls toward sea near Pacific Northwest
Fortland Ore June 14 The third flood crest from the Columbia River swirled seaward as troops and sandbag crews protected farmlands and mills. Officials warn no respite from high water for weeks. Dead total 40. Repairs and housing relief for 60,000 homeless will take months and possibly years amid health water supply concerns.
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Fortland
Ore
Columbia River
Pacific Northwest
Columbia
Wenatchee
Washington
Woman held in poison deaths in Cincinnati hearing
In Cincinnati on June 14 Mrs. Mary Clay Watts 43 appeared before Mayor R Edward Tepe for a preliminary murder hearing after her husband Willis Watts and daughter Barbara Ann died of poison. Pathologists found mercury and a barbiturate in Barbara Ann and uremic poisoning in Willis Watts.
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Cincinnati
Mary Clay Watts
R. Edward Tepe
Barbara Ann
Barbara
Herbert P. Lyle
Willis
Lyle
Charles W. Fritz
Norwood
Watts
Paris Green
Monroes Tuesday election heads to polls for two city races
Qualified Monroe voters will elect a finance and utilities commissioner and a streets and parks commissioner on Tuesday. Candidates are Frank X. Cline and Herbert Dickard for finance and utilities, J. P. Simmons and Wayne Huckabay for streets and parks. Polls open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. with four candidates expected to keep turnout light.
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Monroe
Finance and Utilities
Streets and Parks
Frank X. Cline
Herbert Dickard
J. P
Johnnie) Simmons
Wayne Huckabay
Florsheim Resigns as City Bus Superintendent
Henry P Florsheim resigns from his post as city bus department superintendent effective immediately after returning from military service He will rejoin Monroe Furniture Company where he worked before enlisting Wiley R Moseley will temporarily assume Florsheims duties Moseley previously filled the role on a temporary basis
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Henry P. Florsheim
Monroe Furniture Company
Wiley R. Moseley
South Side
Florsheim
German talks delayed amid French approval delay
In Frankfurt, June 14, Allied and German officials postponed talks with German leaders because the French national assembly has yet to approve a six nation agreement. US general Clay cited waiting for French approval as the reason. Communists in Berlin gathered signatures for a unity plebiscite amid Western plans for a German government.
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Frankfurt
Germany
National Assembly
Paris
Lucius D. Clay
United States
Clay
Brian Roberts
Pierre Koenig
German Economic Council
Ruhr
London
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Berlin
North Rhine-Westphalia
Charles de Gaulle
Nevers
Russia
Sharp attack on Chiang Kai-shek sparks legislative clash
In Nanking on June 14 China’s legislators heard a fierce critique of Chiang Kai-shek. Opposition leader Huang Yu Jen accused the government, military, and foreign policy of being controlled by one man and one family. A Manchurian woman, Yu Ju Chow, urged driving Russians from Harbin and Dairen with American arms, citing Soviet brutality witnessed by her. Russia had promised troop withdrawal from Dairen and transfer of control to China.
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Nanking
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Huang Yu-Jen
Huang
Harbin
Dairen
Manchuria
Yu Ju-Chow
Russia
Screen Star Loretta Young Seeks Father Identity
Hollywood June 14. Loretta Young reveals the man who vanished 31 years ago may be her father. Joan Earl died June 6 in a Los Angeles charity ward. Young had supported him for over a decade after a priest advised her. The tale includes her mother’s memories and a grandmother’s note about John Earle dying yesterday.
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Hollywood
Loretta Young
Salt Lake City
Miss Young
Joan V. Earl
Los Angeles General Hospital
Jack Earle
Laura Young
John Earle
General Hospital
Polly Ann Young
Sally Byane
Loretta
Gladys Young Belzer
Bastrop to Host International Paper Birthday Open House
Bastrop La June 14 special large birthday party for International Paper Company to be held week of June 14 19 at Bastrop mills and converting plants with open house June 16 17 and a ceremonial day June 15 attended by Gov Earl Long featuring chemfibre process tour and exhibits. Increased pulp and machine capacity at Bastrop chemfibre mill will raise potential output from 270 tons daily to about 430 tons.
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Bastrop
Louisiana
International Paper Company
Bastrop Paper
Earl Long
United States
M. V. Orr
J. E. Pate
Maury Quinlan
C. R. McCord
Bastrop, la
Major bills crowded out as Congress nears adjournment
Washington June 14 The push to adjourn threatens to drop several major bills from the agenda including the oleomargarine tax repeal pay raises for federal employees the tide lands measure the Mundt Nixon anti Communist bill an anti syncope bill an all poll tax proposal and a long range farm measure Speaker Martin and Senator Taft hope to recall the lawmakers but a recall provision remains a key demand.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Tidelands
80Th Congress
Martin
R.-Mass
Taft
R -Qhio
Congress
House
Senate
Favorite Sons to Woo Votes in Prolonged GOP Balloting
Washington June 14 A new holdout trend among favorite sons may stretch the Republican convention balloting. California Governor Earl Warren will withhold California's 43 votes for several ballots to see outcomes. Other leaders include Dewey Taft Stassen and Vandenberg predicting a drawn out fight, with some expecting as many as seven ballots. Warren plans talks with fellow governors while hoping for better prospects.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Earl Warren
California
Philadelphia
Warren
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Arthur Vandenberg
Stassen
Dewey
The
New Yorker
National Conference of Governors
New Castle
Taft
Clarence Brown
Wendell L. Willkie
Warren G. Harding
West Monroe Woman Killed in Wisconsin Crash
Mrs. Alice Bell Clark 25 of West Monroe died Friday in a Fox Lake crash at 4 50 p m. Her body will reach Monroe Tuesday at 7 35 a m on Illinois Central train and go to her parents home in Cheniere. Funeral services will be at Cheniere Baptist Church with Rev Marvin Stone officiating and burial in Brownlee Cemetery. Survived by husband Willie Clark son Buck Junior Clark sister Nellie Ruth Ward brothers Hugh Ward in Japan Johnnie Saville Ward in Austria half brother William Lowery and her parents Mr and Mrs Johnnie Ward.
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Alice Bell Clark
West Monroe
Fox Lake
Wis
Monroe
Illinois Central Railroad
Johnnie Ward
Cheniere
Cheniere Baptist Church
Marvin Stone
Brownlee Cemetery
Hall Funeral Home
Greek planes attack Lykorrakhi in Communist base alert
Eight Greek Spitfires bombed Lykorrakhi in the Grammos region, deemed a Communist leader Vafiades base, as guerrillas gathered there. Soulie Plateau fighting near Ioannina continued with heavy casualties, while trials proceeded for naval men and civilians on treason charges and a separate civilian court took up a Communist execution squad case.
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Athens
Lykorrakhi
Markos Vallades
Filots
Grammos
Vafiades
Soulie
Ioannina
Judge Enjoins Maritime Strike Orders Bargaining
A federal judge issued a temporary injunction halting a nationwide maritime strike until June 24 and required the I. L. O. unions and shipowners to bargain in good faith. The order names the National Maritime Union, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, and the American Radio Association, with 54 shipping firms restrained from lockouts. The hearing to decide permanency is set for June 18, amid tension as union leaders deny overreach and warn of broader action.
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New York
I. O
East
West
Gulf Coasts
Great Lakes
Gulf Coast
West Coast
Justice Department
U. S
John W. Clancy
C. I. O. National Maritime Union
Joseph Curran
Paul Palazzi
Curran
Palazzi
National Maritime Union
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
American Radio Association
Clancy
U. S. District Court
Joseph M. Friedman
Tom Clark
Department
Truman
Friedman
Clark
Truman Ends Speaking Tour In Southern California
President Truman moves aboard the Truman train en route to Los Angeles and Santa Barbara crowds greet him at dawn. He pledges to defend water power against special interests and urges Congress to pass housing and welfare measures. He urges Russia to end coercion and aggression and continues cross country talks before attending the Republican convention.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Truman
Los Angeles
California
Santa Barbara
Ambassador Hotel
S&s. T
Washington
S. T
Albuquerque
N. M
Kansas City
Soviet Russia
University of California At Berkeley
Russia
United Nations
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Albania
North Korea
South Korea
Congress
Philadelphia
West Coast
Fifth Week Begins as Louisiana Legislature Debates Budgets
Baton Rouge June 14 The fifth week opens with votes on appropriations possible this week. Appropriations committee may complete general bill on department budgets. Senate may vote to abolish LSU board of supervisors and centralize governance under a single board of regents. New Orleans measures include dock board reorganization and police fire board creation plus port investigations. Other bills address veterans affairs, severance tax limits, and education chief hiring power.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
House
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors
Board of Regents
New Orleans
Chamber For Action
Lake Charles
Department of Veterans Affairs
Superintendent of Education
State Board of Education
High Court Upheld Renegotiation Act
Washington June 14 The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the war contracts renegotiation act and none of the justices dissented on that point. Three companies challenged the law amid government efforts to recover 156 610 in asserted profits from contracts in the last war. The Justice Department said many related cases await decisions in district and tax courts and numerous out of court efforts are pending.
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Washngton
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Justice Department
U. S
U. S. Tax Court
Department
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Pegler
H. P. Florsheim
Chiang
Johnson Family
Schuyler van Johnson
van Johnson
Screen Star
Paper Mills
Armed Services
House Rules Committee
Alice Clark
Wisconsin
High Court
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