Congress Faces Year-End Money Bills Logjam
Washington, June 23. The annual year-end logjam of money bills is facing Congress with a week left before the 1949 money runs out. House leaders blame the Senate as every agency except Congress itself awaits appropriations for the coming year. Many bills may be approved before July 1 or require stop-gap measures to avoid moneyless agencies.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Department of Government
Congressional
Truman action to deport Harry Bridges praised by critics
June 23 report notes the Truman administration opens another deportation case against Harry Bridges, the fourth in a decade, alleging Communist affiliation and perjury. The piece mocks Justice Douglas and cites political bias in the Supreme Court’s 1945 decision, linking Bridges to labor and GOP critiques. It references Felix Frankfurter, Stone, Roberts, and Lee Pressman, casting a conspiratorial view of the era.
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New York
Truman Administration
Harry Bridges
Supreme Court
Communist Party
Bridges
William O. Douglas
Democratic Party
Douglas
Bridge
Dave Beck
Teamsters
United States
Americans For Democratic Action
Felix Frankfurter
Justice Stone
Justice Roberts
Lee Pressman
Harvard Happy Hot Dogs
Pressman
Frankfurter
Congress May Adjourn Late After Unfinished Business
Washington June 23. Democratic leaders seek late July or early August adjournment but unfinished items may block. Acheson proposes immediate vote on arming Western Europe after North Atlantic pact ratification, likely lengthy hearings. A Senate petition seeks a 5 to 10 percent cut in next fiscal year spending, prompting debate.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
State Acheson
Western
Europe
Senate
President Truman
McClellan
D.ark
Senate Expenditures Committee
Speegle Given Life For Killing Trooper Pavatt
Kenneth D. Speegle, 24, a veteran, was sentenced to life imprisonment after a jury found him guilty of first degree murder for the September shooting of State Trooper S. V. Pavatt. Prosecutors may pursue a second charge for the Crook death. defense argued insanity.
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Yellville
Ark
Kenneth D. Speegle
S. V. Pavatt
Gene Moore
Speegle
Zoe E. Crook
Pavatt
Ozarks
Crook
Lewis In For Tough Scrap Over Coal Pact
John L. Lewis leads United Mine Workers in high stakes talks with northern western and southern operators in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia The union also faces U S Steel negotiator Harry Moses with typical wariness over captive pits The June 30 pact deadline looms as Southern Coal Producers push to end employer funded benefits and tighten welfare provisions Moody asserts the strike risk rises as July 5 vacation ends and bargaining continues on page Seventeenth.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Harry M. Moses
U. S. Steel Corporation
Bath
Southern Coal Producers Association
Joseph E. Moody
Moody
Southern Association
Bluefield
U. S
Tulane to study Louisiana swamp life for new PhD program
Tulane University announces a broad zoology program to study the Gulf coast swamps. Dr. Fred R. Cagle will head the project, aiming to uncover solutions to zoological problems and train graduate students in situ. The fall program leads to a PhD.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Tulane University
Fred R. Cagle
United States
America
Gulf Coast
Tulane
Rufus C. Harris
Roger P. McCutcheon
Justice Department and Congress to Probe Floggings in Alabama
Washington June 23 The justice department and Congress join in a full fledged inquiry into hooded gang floggings in Alabama. Representative Celler chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says a Civil Rights section attorney will assist the inquiry and the federal case law will be examined for possible violations. The probe aims to avoid hindering prosecutions while detailing the scope of civil rights law violations.
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Washington
Justice Department
Congress
Alabama
Celler
New York
House Judiciary Committee
Department of Justice
Department
Congressional
Veterans’ Committee
Birmingham
Ala
Carl K. Wells
White House
Senate
House
Treasury Department
Morrison Seeks Re-Election In New Orleans 1950
Mayor deLesseps Morrison, 37, announced plans to run again in the 1950 New Orleans city elections. He will tour Europe for a month with an America’s Town Meeting of the Air program, saying campaigning is premature but prepared to serve four more years.
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New Orleans
deLesseps Morrison
America
Europe
Ford wage freeze plan denounced as counterfeit security
Detroit June 23 Ford's wage freeze proposal drew sharp denunciation from the United Auto Workers led by Walter Reuther who called it a flight into fantasy and upside down economics The union rejected Ford's demand to pause economic demands for 18 months while pegging wages to the cost of living Negotiations for about 106 000 Ford production workers continued toward a July 15 contract expiration Ford claimed higher wages would reduce jobs and pointed to a weaker car market and lower living costs Reuther warned the plan echoes 1929 economic ills and urged increased consumer purchasing power through wage growth
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Detroit
Ford
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Reuther
John S. Bugas
Veterans’ Committee Against Crime and Violence
Birmingham
Celler
Hobbs
Alabama
Wells
Six ship survivors reach Queen Elizabeth sans luggage
Six survivors of the sunken Princess Astrid sailed on the Queen Elizabeth with no baggage. They wore night clothes borrowed from the purser, saved only passports and money. Mrs. Anna Duda and her sons head to Bridgeport, Conn., to join her timber foreman husband. Mrs. Elena Klembus, 22, joins her upholsterer husband in Arnold, Pa., after Hungary.
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Southampton
England
United States
Czechoslovakia
Anna Duda
Duda
Thomas
John
Bridgeport
Conn
Elena Klembus
Arnold
Archbishop Beran Is In Wall Of Silence
In Prague Czechoslovakia four Catholic priests reported the government has sealed a wall of silence around Archbishop Josef Beran. He remains semi-captive in his Prague palace with contact to him cut off since last weekend. Vatican and diplomatic sources fear a formal arrest may follow. He has denounced state control over the church and warned of no compromise in the church state dispute. The Catholic Action leadership allied with the regime accused Beran and his followers of anti state activity amid government warnings.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Vatican
Beran
Catholic Action Society
Antonin Zapotocky
Prisoner risks life in repeated medical tests at Sing Sing
Louis Boy a 49 year old life term prisoner in Sing Sing has volunteered for multiple medical experiments over the years. He helped test brine as a weapon against malaria and later a Rockefeller Institute influenza vaccine and a blood exchange for a Leukemia patient. Doctors say his condition remains precarious but hopeful for recovery, with months needed to judge outcome.
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Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing
Louis Boy
Boy
New York City
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roy
Rockefeller Institute
F B I Men Are Witnesses In Rose Shears Murder Trial
In Greenville Mississippi on June 23 the state begins the Rose Shears murder case against Socialite Mrs John Dickins with no opening statement. A jury was sworn as District Attorney Stan Sanders plans to present Walter Parsons Jr. as first witness and blueprint evidence from the bungalow in Leland where Idella Long Thompson was slain. Mrs Dickins, daughter of J Wood Thompson, claims innocence and recounted battling an intruder with pruning shears.
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Greenville
Miss
Rose Shears
John Dickins
R. A. Worthington
Ben Wilkes
Worthington
Worthingham
Stanny Sanders
Mississippi
Sanders
Walter Parsons, Jr
Parsons
Leland
Thompson
Dickins
J. Wood Thompson
Mississippi Levee Board
Hugh Foote
Young mother slain in violent tavern murder
In Grundy County Illinois a 22 year old mother, Mrs Harvey A Stahlhut, was found nude and mutilated in a walk in cooler of her tavern. Sheriff John A Meyer said the killer cut her throat from ear to ear, removed her breasts, and slit the body. The husband discovered the body and the tavern receipts were intact while their one year old son slept nearby. No suspects named.
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Salinas
Calif
Hortense Ramos
Robert Kovac
Robert
John Kovac
Eva Ramos Kovac
Kovac
Hortense
Monterey County
Wmorrison
Grundy County
John A. Meyer
Harvey A. Stahlhut
Meyer
Dutch Constellation Crash Off Bari Kills 24
A KLM Constellation crashed into the sea near Bari Italy killing at least 24 people. Victims include Americans Turks Dutch and Albanians with 16 men 5 women and 3 children among the recovered. No survivors confirmed as wreckage and seas hinder recovery.
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Bari
Italy
Dutch Airlines
KLM
Batavia
Amsterdam
Rome
Java
Mauritius
Aden
Cairo
Holland
Greece
Yugoslavia
Germany
Pilot's skill saves 43 aboard airliner crash
Memphis June 23 An American Airlines Convair crash landing after takeoff from Municipal Airport left 38 injured aboard the Fort Worth to New York City of San Antonio. Captain Ed Hatch steered to a field, skidded across a highway into a tree, sparking a fire as 18 were later released from hospitals. Passengers recalled terror and quick help as crew opened emergency hatch and rushed injured to safety.
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American Airlines
Memphis
Tenn
Fort Worth
Tex
New York
Ed Hatch
San Antonio
Hatch
Henry D. Bovie
New Orleans
Yvonne Hanavan
Hicks L. Youngs
Bowie
Farmers Protest Booby-Trapping of Watermelon Trucks
Mobile Alabama farmers claim Mississippi officers booby trap trucks by stopping produce laden vehicles and allowing passage after taking some fruit or vegetables. Farm agent Brockway cites constant checks at Mississippi weigh stations and a six cent gas tax on trucks not bought in Mississippi. Mississippi comptroller McMullen says weight limits apply under an interstate reciprocal agreement. Brockway seeks reports and will interview local growers to confirm dates and places of incidents.
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Mobile
Ala
South Alabama
Mississippi
Charles J. Brockway
Brockway
Guy McMullen
Mississippi Motor Vehicle Comptroller
Alabama
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mobile County
Battle lines form as Taft-Hartley injunction vote looms
WashingtonJune 23 In a tight Senate showdown over the Taft Hartley act injunction against crippling strikes backers scored preliminary wins by defeating two alternative strike plans. Supporters predicted a very close vote while opponents urged optimism they can prevail. Senate leaders Lucas and George voiced cautious optimism about the outcome, with the final tally pending.
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Washington
Senate
Lucas
George
D.-Ga
Birmingham Will Oppose Mobsters
Birmingham residents form a permanent body to fight white robed night riders in a mass meeting of 200+ church civic and fraternal leaders. The group vows to aid law officers, not act as vigilantes, amid waves of flogging cross burnings and threats. A Washington inquiry was ordered and Alabama Klan actions faced a state anti masking bill. John Temple Graves I urged dissolving the Klan. No arrests yet.
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Birmingham
Ala
Washington
Byrne
D.N. Yo
Alabama
Senate
House
John Temple Graves I
Birmingham Post
Ku Klux Klan
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