Westbrook Pegler Reports on Pross Estate at Lake Maho Pac
Pegler visits the Benjamin Press estate at Lake Maho Pac New York to accuse unions controlled by Mr Pross of rewarding a racketeer with wealth. He parallels with a similar Lake Mamanasco scene in Connecticut and notes extensive bankruptcy histories and luxurious properties.
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New York
Benjamin Press
Lake Mahopac
N. Y
Mr. Pross
Country Club
Lake Mamanasco
Ridgefield
Conn
George Scalise
Ben Pross
Tornado Disaster Leaves Detroit Windsor Area Homeless
Aid rushed to hundreds homeless after Monday tornado that killed 14 and damaged Windsor and Detroit area. River Rouge feared hardest hit with 50 homes demolished 200 damaged 500 homeless. Canadian and American relief mobilized as troops patrolled to deter looting.
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Detroit
Windsor
Canada
River Rouge
Detroit River
Toronto
Camp Borden
Tecumseh
Ojibway
Sandwich
Michigan
Fisher
Tax effective on ready built homes in Louisiana ruling
Louisiana Department of Revenue ruled the sales tax act applies to pre-fabricated homes and materials for them. Dealers must collect the tax. A separate ruling states a one percent Use tax applies to consumers importing a pre-fabricated home, based on delivered cost including transportation.
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Baton Rouge
Department of Revenue
Still Unagreed on Reparations at Paris Talks
Paris reports the big four foreign ministers remain deadlocked over Italian reparations while moving to less divisive treaty issues. Bi udal t attends deputies session as ministers seek progress on Bulgarian Finnish Romanian pacts and a planned July 15 conference. Molotov’s offer shifts Yugoslav Albanian Greek claims to a 21 nation conference. Byrnes says it solves two thirds of the problem.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
Chamber of Deputies
France
United States
Russia
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
James F. Byrnes
Durant and wife face court martial in Frankfurt
Col J W Durant and his WAC captain wife arrived by plane in Frankfurt to stand trial for alleged theft of the Hesse crown jewels. They are guarded by military police, staying at the Carlton hotel near Hindenburg Platz as Lt Col Connolly handles arrangements.
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Jack W. Durant
WAC
Kathleen B. Nash Durant
National
Washington
Frankfurt
Germany
J. W. Durant
Rhein-Main
James K. Mitchell
Durants
Redmond J. Connolly
Carlton
Hindenburg Platz
Pfc
Harry G. Stockwell
Hartford
Baby Born With Heart Exposed Outside Lancaster
A baby girl born at St. Joseph's Hospital to Mrs. Willis Steffy had the heart on the outside of the body. Dr. Luther F. Vozel described the birth as normal otherwise. The heart remains on the left side and an operation was planned later to correct it.
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Lancaster
Willis Steffy
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Luther F. Vozel
Poles Plan Atomic Energy Proposal at UN Meeting
Polish delegate Dr. Oscar Lange will present Poland’s atomic energy plan at an early UN committee session. A unnamed informant described the plan as simple and startling but gave no details. The commission meets to discuss U S proposals on an international authority to govern atomic energy and ban the atom bomb.
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New York
Oscar Lange
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Poland
Lange
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Commission
Spain
Soviet
Russia
General Assembly
Security Council
Franco
United Nations
Francisco Castillo Najera
Mexico
Canada
Monroe's Ceiling Case Settled in Louisiana
New Orleans June 19 The city of Monroe La settled a price control case overcharging on a 1939 Chevrolet Master DeLuxe Coupe sold to Cosgrove Ritter. The overcharge was 650 dollars, 93.13 above ceiling. Treble damages were not sought due to honest error. The case marks the first Louisiana city government involvement.
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New Orleans
Gilbert J. Fortier
OPA
Monroe
Louisiana
Fortier
Cosgrove-Ritter
Senators push open hearing on feud in the Supreme Court
Senator Eastland and Senator Bridges seek to dismiss four Roosevelt appointees and force public testimony from all eight justices. The plan would cap appointments per president at three and temporarily fill vacated seats by House elections until new picks are made.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Eastland
Mississippi
High Court
Bridges
Republicpen New Hampshire
Senate Judiciary Committee
Congress
Hugo S. Black
Stanley F. Reed
Felix Frankfurter
Harold H. Burton
Truman
William L. Douglas
Frank Murphy
Robert H. Jackson
Wiley Rutledge
Fred Vinson
Senate
Hugo Black
Jackson
Black
Vote on Draft Cast by Radio From Ship in Pacific
Washington reports Rep. Walter G. Andrews cast a radio vote from the U S S Panamint near Bikini tests that broke a Senate House deadlock on 18 year old draft rules. The move backed a conditional moratorium, aligning with the Senate compromise to draft teens only as a last resort as talks proceed among seven Senate and six House conferees. The extension of the Selective Service Act is eyed to March 31 with pay raises for soldiers and privates under discussion.
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Washington
Walter G. Andrews
Pacific
Senate-House Committee
New York Republican
Andrews
Senate
House
Continued Humid Weather Expected Across Gulf States
Weather forecast predicts continued hot and humid conditions with widely scattered thundershowers for Louisiana and Mississippi. Official forecaster notes a possible cooler spell in northern portions tomorrow, but current highs around 90 degrees remain normal. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with showers forecast Thursday afternoon. Coastal winds from southeast and south are expected to be moderate.
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New Orl Kans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Norrmal
House Passes 2 Bills Boosting Teacher Pay
Senate House CPA conferes meet to chart price control fate as Wallace urges continued inflation safeguards. Wallace warns weakening price and rent controls risks boom and bust, and that profiteering charges could return if controls fall. He stresses inflation harms small business and could foster monopolies.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Wallace
Senate House Cpa
Capitol Hill
Youth, 16, Kills War Vet Brother in Louisiana
In Lake Charles Louisiana a 16 year old youth named Robert Johnson confessed to shooting his brother Fred Johnson Jr. a 20 year old Marine Corps veteran with a .22 rifle after a quarrel. Fred Johnson died en route to a hospital. The parents were away at a Kiwanis meeting in Atlantic City.
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Lake Charles
Harry Hebert
Fred Johnson Jr
Pacific
Marine Corps
Hebert
Robert
Fred Johnson
Fred Johnson Sr
Atlantic City
Kiwanis
Johnson
Gulf State Utilities
Lake Charies
Louisiana House Advances Teacher Salary Plan and Reconsiders Gas Tax
The Louisiana House passed two bills to raise teacher salaries by 7.5 million dollars annually from sales and gas taxes under the Heintz plan. The controversial gas tax bill was sent back to the calendar, with discussions on a rate cut and possible passage pending future votes.
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Baton Rouge
House
J. Howard Lafleur
St. Landry
Dubuisson
Norman Bauer
Bill Dodd
Allen
Howard Wright
Louisiana Teachers Association
Wright
Smith resigns as budget chief to join International Bank
Harold D. Smith quits as director of the federal budget to become vice-president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. President Truman accepts the resignation with regret, noting Smith's importance to the government and his status as an able public servant. Eugene Meyer to disclose new duties.
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Washington
Harold D. Smith
International Bank
Truman
Charles Ross
White House
Smith
Charles G. Ross
Eugene Meyer
International Bank For Reconstruction and Development
Ross
Industrial preparedness key to lasting peace
President Truman conferred with the army and navy munitions board on industrial preparedness for a potential emergency. The board, tasked with stockpiling materials and keeping a modernized mobilization program, aims to quickly equip the government when needed.
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Washington
Truman
Army and Navy Munitions Board
Richard R. Dupree
Sigler Wins Republican Governor Nomination in Michigan
Detroit June 19 Associated Press reports Kim Sigler a Battle Creek attorney who prosecuted graft cases won the Michigan Republican nomination for governor. With returns from over three fourths of precincts Sigler led Lt. Gov. Vernon J. Brown and other rivals and will face Democrat Van Wagoner in November. Kennedy and Coolidge appear as winners in Massachusetts races.
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Detroit
Michigan
Brown
Jefferies
Kelly
Sigler
Cody
van Wagoner
Associated Press
Kim Sigler
Battle Creek
Massachusetts
Vernon J. Brown
Raymond J. Kelly
The
American Legion
Edward J. Jeffries
Harry F. Kelly
Hollywood Kid
Murray D. van Wagoner
William J. Cody
Kennedy
Coolidge
John F. Kennedy
Joseph E. Kennedy
Congress
Bay State
Arthur Collidge
Calvin Coolidge
Boston
James M. Curley
Japanese Reds oppose no war constitution in Diet
Five Communist members in the lower house oppose the speedy consideration of Japan's new no war constitution as the 19th extraordinary session opens. Premier Yoshida aims to push the document with broad party support and General MacArthur praising the measure. Emperor Hirohito will formally open the diet tomorrow.
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Tokyo
Diet
House of Representatives
Yoshida
MacArthur
Hirohito
Curfew Imposed on Tel Aviv as Troops Seek Kidnappers
A large force of troops and police scour Jewish settlements along the Lebanese frontier and impose a strict curfew on Tel Aviv to aid the search for an armed band that abducted five British officers. Border operations extend 85 miles from Tel Aviv, with upper Galilee roads blocked and lines cut to prevent alarm spread.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Upper Galilee
Palestine
Jordan
Sy's
Daughters of Jacobs
Ail
New Sarpy Slayer Hunted in Orleans
In New Orleans on June 19 a major manhunt searched for a 32 year old Negro sought in the Sunday morning slaying of Mr and Mrs Joseph Petrolia in New Sarpy. Detective Chief Frank J Lannes said a warrant from St Charles Parish was received and he led the hunt believed to be linked to an attempted rape in New Saroy prior to the murders.
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New Orleans
Joseph Petrolia
New Sarpy
Frank J. Lannes
St Charles Parish
New Saroy
Petrolias
Bidault Elected France Interi m Government President
Georges Bidault was elected president of France's interim government by the constituent assembly. An unofficial tally indicated 38 votes for Bidault, who had been serving as foreign minister. Socialists had pledged 138 votes ensuring his election.
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Paris
Georges Biedault
France
Constituent Assembly
Bidault
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