Arequipa Revolt In Peru Kills Forty Rebels Seized City
In Arequipa Peru a two day revolt left about forty dead with rebels holding city hall military HQ airport and radio station at one point. Loyal government troops moved in and restored order after the uprising was blamed on communists. Exiled former president Bustamante called the charge grotesque. The revolt followed clashes with striking university students.
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Arequipa
Peru
New York
Jose Luis Bustamante
Francisco J. Mostajo
Mostajo
National
Fair Enough by Westbrook Pegler
In a June New York column Westbrook Pegler urges Marshal Stalin to delay war while he finishes reading memoirs and histories about Roosevelt era events. Pegler mocks propaganda, praises Elliott’s As He Saw It, and lists works by Merriman Smith Kay Summersby and others. He warns that delay would prevent further economic decline and avoid bombing Washington.
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New York
Josef Stalin
la Boca
Herbert Hoover
Elliott
Merriman Smith
Kay Summersby
Eisenhower
Jimmy Byrnes
Arthur Bliss Lane
Poland
Marshal Stalin
Air Force
Grace Episcopal to Break Ground on New Education Building
A formal ground breaking ceremony for Grace Episcopal Church's new education building is set for 2 p.m. Saturday on North Fourth Street. Bishop Girault M. Jones of New Orleans and Rev. E. F. Hayward will participate. The $65 000 brick structure beside the church will house classrooms for 190 congregants, adult classes, a main assembly room, a visual education room, three offices, and moved administration offices. McBride and Son of Bastrop won the contract on June 5.
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Grace Episcopal Church
North Fourth Street
David Jones
Girault M. Jones
New Orleans
E. F. Hayward
Grace Church
H. H. Land
McBride and Son, of
Bastrop
Will Blacktop Road in Franklin Parish
The Louisiana Department of Highways announced three contracts for blacktopping work totaling more than 715 thousand dollars. Franklin Parish will see 8.3 miles on the Winnsboro Port Necessity road at 295,434 dollars. East Baton Rouge projects cover 10.3 miles Greenwell Springs Grangeville for 156,523 dollars, and Epps Lake Providence road in East Carroll spans 6.3 miles.
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Baton Rouge
State Department of Highways
Winnsboro
Necessity
Franklin Parish
Henry & Hall
Dubach
Greenwell Springs
Grangeville
East Baton Rouge
T. W. Kleinpeter
Epps
Young couple jailed in counterfeiting case in New York
An 18-year-old youth and his 17-year-old pregnant wife faced charges in Albany for making and passing counterfeit ten dollar bills. Secret Service identified them as William H. Zoerndt and his wife, who allegedly moved bogus money from Boston to St. Joseph via Baltimore, using photos of real notes to print fakes.
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Albany
N. Y
Secret Service
George van Fleet
Boston
Mass
St. Joseph
William H. Zoerndt
Springfield
Spartansburg
S. C
Amsterdam
van Fleet
Zoerndt
Civil service and home rule up for debate in Louisiana
In Baton Rouge on June 15, lawmakers consider compromise on civil service restoration and home rule for New Orleans. A judiciary subcommittee aims to reach agreement on a civil service bill, while a separate home rule plan undergoes talks. A contemporaneous measure would force newspapers to publish replies to criticized individuals within 10 days under criminal penalties. A ward based livestock on highways bill passed the house, mandating elections with 25 percent voter petitions. senate rejected a street trades carrier measure.
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Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Nicholas Carbajal
Guy D’antonio
Robert Ainsworth
de Lesseps Morrison
Senate
New Orleans Item
Long
Senate studies crime reports on counterfeiting and drugs
Washington June 15. Senate crime investigators heard officials say counterfeiting and illegal narcotics traffic are rising. Secret Service chief Baughman and narcotics chief Anslinger testified that counterfeiters target $10 and $20 notes, with $100000 monthly seizures and over $550000 in the first five months. Chicago and New York are noted centers. Continued on fifth page.
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Washington
Senate
United States
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Secret Service
A. E. Baughman
H. J. Anslinger
U. S. Bureau of Narcotics
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Kefauver
D.-Tenn
Mysterious Pacific haze lingers over vast region
Honolulu reports a massive haze stretching from Wake Island to east of Honolulu covering up to two million square miles. Scientists discount an atomic cause, citing low radioactivity, while Mauna Loa eruptions may contribute. Meteorologists cite volcanic dust and stratospheric winds as possible factors.
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Pacific Area
Honolulu
Middle Pacific
Nature
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Here
Wake Island
Panama Canal Zone
Wendell Mordy
Frederick A. Schram
Schram
Robert H. Simpson
U. S
Er Bureau
Kline
West Germany votes to join Council of Europe
In Bonn the Bundestag approved joining the Council of Europe by a 220 to 152 vote. Germany becomes the 15th member with associate status for Saar and no seat on the ministers council. Adenauer calls it a stance against the East, praising world peace amid broad coalition support.
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Donald Doane
Bonn
Germany
Council of Europe
Bundestag
Hitler
League of Nations
Saar
Bundesrat
Council
Consultative Assembly
Strasbourg
France
Guiding Council of Ministers
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Christian Democrats
Social Democrats
Center Party
Nine U S Airmen Killed In West Virginia Bomber Crash
A B 25 bomber bound for Utah crashed on Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Nine airmen died as the aircraft struck the peak at dawn, two bodies found in trees. Fire scorched a quarter mile of the 4,860 foot mountain. remains transported to Elkins funeral home.
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Circleville
W. Va
Spruce Knob
West Virginia
West Virginia-Virginia
Elkins
South Africa bill sparks clashes outside Parliament
June 15 in Capetown a government bill to outlaw Communist party activity provoked protests and clashes with police as MPs watched. Justice Minister Swart argued it prevents Moscow backed plots to disrupt unions and farms while opposition leader Strauss urged legal action not executive power.
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Capetown
Union of South Africa
Communist Party
C. R. Swart
Moscow
J. G. N. Strauss
United Party
Strauss
Air France Plane Crashes in Persian Gulf
A large Air France plane crashed in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain Island killing many aboard. Of 52 passengers and crew, 40 feared dead. 12 rescued, including four crew. The crash mirrored a similar incident two days earlier involving a sister aircraft. Survivors were all French. Search by sea and air ensued despite harsh conditions.
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Prince William
John H. Laney
Bahrein Island
Persian Gulf
Air France
Gulf
Indo-China
Paris
Saigon
Indo- China
Karachi
Pakistan
Milk strike in Pittsburgh yields limited agreement
In Pittsburgh and six western Pennsylvania counties a week-old dairy workers strike shows little easing as unions demand a 40 hour week and full pay, while one small firm, D and M Dairy, signs a contract. Emergency milk deliveries continue and shoppers seek milk from farms or go without. Authorities require physicians certificates for all milk deliveries.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Nelson Bennett
Washington
Harry A. Tevis
M. Dairy
Alfred Rombach
Steve Devaty
Pensylvania
Rain saves Virginia City from ghost-town fire
Early morning rain halted a blaze that threatened three old buildings including the Wells Fargo Express Co post office and George T. Marge building as wind swept through dry wooden streets. Reno and Carson City crews arrived but water pressure failed. Mat McGuirk estimated damage at $60,000 while volunteers saved some gambling equipment and whisky barrels before flames overwhelmed the town’s remaining structures.
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Ed Olson
Virginia City
Wells Fargo Express Co
George T. Marge
Reno
Carson City
Comstock Lode
Lucuis Beebe
New York
Mat McGuirk
Dems Agree On Cutting Taxes In Billion Dollar Bill
Washington June 15 Democrats report a surprise huddle left tax law drafters near agreement on a bill slashing excise taxes by 1 1 billion and raising corporate rates to 41 percent to offset the loss. A July 1 passage aim and notch elimination are under consideration as Ways and Means benches weigh a three point corporate hike and total offsets.
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Washington
House Ways and Means
Rayburn
House
Senate
Congress
Ways and Means
Truman
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Pegler
GRACE
Will Blacktop
Civil Service
NAVY
Aviation News
West Germany
Nations
European Council
By Leif Erickson
U.S
Bill
Gov. of
South Africa
Second Air France
DEMOS
Pres
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