Fair Enough Fairy Tale of Barkley Medal Controversy
Westbrook Pegler in New York mocks President Truman and Vice President Barkley over a $2,500 medal, calling the award an embezzlement of public funds. He attacks Barkley as unworthy and accuses officials of corruption, citing W P A ties and Supreme Court Chief Justice Vinson in a scathing appraisal of modern governance.
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New York
Truman
Alben Barkley
Congress
Barkley
Republic
Vinson
W. P. A. Moneys
United States
Supreme Court
Eight B-29 Crash Survivors Saved Near Guam
Eight men of the eleven crew in a B-29 down 140 miles off Guam were rescued today by a crashboat. Three others are missing. The crashboat reached the survivors before dusk as other planes and boats assisted. The aircraft was returning from a practice bombing run on Okinawa. The Munsey, commanded by Lt. F. F. Sharp, is due to reach the scene at midnight.
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Tokyo
Guam
Far East Air Force
Okinawa
Munsey
F. F. Sharp
House of Commons ends long session in London
The Commons closed a marathon 14 hour day as the Labor government fended off Conservative moves to amend tax proposals. Brendan Bracken accused the government of acting as a post office for General MacArthur, calling it pressuring and unworthy of Britain while forwarding a Times Japan criticism to the newspaper.
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London
House of Commons
Labor
Brendan Bracken
MacArthur
Japan
Tokyo
The
Times
Bracken
Senate pushes vote on Western Europe weapons plan
Washington June 23 administration forces seek senate approval for a foreign arms program to arm Western Europe with modern non atomic weapons. Senator Connally guides a $1.2225 billion plan into year two amid GOP resistance and debates over credit sales to allies and use of European recovery funds. Committees emphasize mass produced postwar arms to deter Soviet aggression and forecast a vote early next week.
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Washington
Administration
Senate
America
Europe
Connally
Texas
Truman
United States
U. S
Lodge
R.-Mass
Marshall Plantations
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Western
Soviet Union
Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Fire roars through Fullerton block near upholstery shop
Flames swept a block square area in Fullerton California center and two hours later were out of control. Telephone lines were destroyed leaving radio contact as the only means of communication. Fire departments from Anaheim Brea and the state forestry service joined the fight after the blaze began in an upholstery shop.
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Fullerton
Calif
Orange County
Anaheim
Brea
State Forestry Department
Orange
Ship charter canceled as coast guard halts voyage for safety
Six hundred college students faced stranded plans after the Coast Guard blocked the 6800 ton Norwegian liner Svalbard from sailing to Europe. Inspectors cited narrow stairways, wooden bunks and no automatic fire alarm, delaying departure from New York.
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New York
Coast Guard
Europe
Svalbard
United States
National Student Association
Robert Kelly
St. Peter's College
Jersey City
N. J
Rotterdam
Helen Bryan
Sarah Lawrence College
N.S.A
Columbia
City College
Johnson Sees Far East Ties As U S Security Basis
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson said the security of America hinges on how the nation maintains its position in the Far East. In Tokyo he stated America will take necessary measures for Far East security and world peace. He and Gen. Omar Bradley plan to base policy on facts gathered in the Orient before informing the armed services chiefs.
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Tokyo
Defense
Louis Johnson
United States
America
Far East
Johnson
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Department of Defense
Bradley
Anchorage
Alaska
Washington
General MacArthur
MacArthur
Sugar crash lands on Lancaster home roof
A tractor trailer carrying 40 000 pounds of sugar toppled onto Clyde Groff's roof near Lancaster on June 23. Driver Romeo S. Egidi of Rachel West Virginia escaped injury but was fined 35 dollars plus costs for reckless driving and missing license plates. The truck and sugar did not break through the ceiling.
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Lancaster
Clyde Groff
Groffs
Romeo S. Egidi
Rachel
W. Va
Egidi
Gap Hill
Lincoln Highway
Justice of the Peace
John B. Weller
Lausche Lands U. S. President
Ohio Governor Frank Lausche met with President Truman at a governors luncheon where they discussed the Ohio senatorial race. Truman urged electing real Democrats to Congress and affirmed the need to fight Communists in government, while Lausche praised Acheson and remained noncommittal on Taft versus Ferguson.
Louisiana Senate OKs Convention Plan for Nov Vote
Louisiana voters will decide November 7 on Gov. Earl K. Long's plan for a constitutional convention. The senate passed the measure 30 to 6 after amendments were defeated. The plan would allow 20 gubernatorial delegates and extend terms for the governor and other state officers past 1952. George Wallace announced the vote results. The House already passed the proposal.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Senate
Reimer Calhoun
Mansfield
Calhoun
George Wallace
House
New Orleans
City Commissioner of Public Safety
State Division of Administration
Terror Campaign Against Presbyterians Reported in Colombia
The U S consulate in Medelin says police are waging a terror campaign against Presbyterians in Dabeiba Cabeiba driving pastors from homes and bombing the Mission School. Clifford Douglass, a 65 year old missionary, reports Nationalist police invaded Presbyterian homes stole horses seized papers burned bibles and exploded a dynamite charge at the Mission School.
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Bogota
Colombia
U. S
Medellin
Cabeiba
Luis Quiroga
Presbyterian Church Synod
Clifford Douglass
Dabeiba
Phoney new tax bill sparks GOP strategy clash
Washington June 23 Republican Leader Martin urged his policy panel to map party strategy on a bill he branded phony. Some Republicans call it political dynamite and expect a vote next week. The measure would cut excise taxes by about 1.01 billion on luxuries while offsetting with taxes on big corporations. Representative Kean said the bill shifts the burden from luxuries to necessities. Martin called it a phony tax reduction that relieves some while burdening others. Democrats and Republicans argue over wartime excise tax relief and spending cuts. Doughton faults a 633 million boost in corporate taxes as excessive.
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Washington
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Truman
Tate Acheson
Lausche
Robert A. Taft
Joseph T. Ferguson
Senate
House of Representatives
Taft
Ferguson
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Kean
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
Great Masonic Meet Planned on Fort Hill in June
Fully 1,500 Masons from the fourth Masonic district and neighboring areas are expected at the fourth annual gathering on Fort Hill near Harrisonburg Sunday at 1 30 p m The event features Robert W Cretney grand master of Louisiana Masons and a master mason degree ceremony by the Monroe degree team Directors include Elmer Gibson H P Brooks and W B Taliaferro representing Harrisonburg Jonesville Sicily Island lodges The district includes Catahoula Concordia Caldwell Franklin Tensas Ouachita parishes
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Masonic
Louisiana
Fort Hill
Harrisonburg
Jonesville
Sicily Island
Elmer Gibson
H. P. Brooks
W. B. Taliaferro
Ouachita River
Robert W. Cretney
Grand Lodge of Louisiana Masons
Grand Lodge
Monroe
Catahoula
Concordia
Caldwell
Franklin
Tensas
Ouachita
National Guard Won't Be Called in Enka Strike
Tennessee highway patrolmen will guard the Enka rayon plant scene near Morristown without invoking National Guard aid, following a gunfire outbreak that wounded four. Commissioner Sam K. Neal will maintain patrols to prevent more violence as Gov. Gordon Browning weighs the decision. About 100 people were questioned. charges may be filed against others. The I O Textile Workers Union strike, now 13 weeks old, has seen multiple violent incidents since May.
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Morristown
Tenn
Tennessee
American Enka Corporation Rayon
Sam K. Neal
Gordon Browning
Neal
Browning
Adj
Sam T. Wallace
Washington
Wallace
C. I. O. Textile Workers Union
Three Killed as Navy Jet Plane Crashes in Bedford
A navy experimental AJ-1 jet plane on its first long trip burst into flames and crashed near Bedford Virginia killing at least three people. Eyewitnesses reported a ball of fire and explosions as wreckage scattered across rugged brush. Local coroner and Edwards base officials described the scene and noted possible additional victims.
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Bedford
E. L. Johnson
Paterson Mine
Here
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Edwards
Patuxent
North American Aviation Corp
Hawthorne
Charles D. Claytor
A. C. Tweedy
Tweedy
Frank S. Mitchell
Judith Coplon New Trial Bid May Be Decided Monday
Federal Judge Albert J. Reeves may rule Monday on Judith Coplon's motion for a new trial after her Espionage Act conviction and separate conspiracy case in New York. The motion claims the government concealed wire tapping evidence. prosecutors deny the charge. Coplon was sentenced to 40 months to 10 years plus a 15 year term in the New York case.
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Washington
Albert J. Reeves
Judith Coplon
Russia
Reeves
Miss Coplon
Justice Department
John M. Kelley, Jr
New York
Valentine Gubitchev
U. S
Moscow
Solons Promise Repairs To Cheniere Spillway Break
State Senator John McCormick and Representatives Shady Wall and R. C. White Jr pledged immediate and permanent repairs to the Cheniere spillway after a Thursday break. A $30,000 appropriation will fund wall extension, concrete aprons, steel piling, and bridge lengthening to boost freeboard and prevent erosion, with work to start within 60 days after bill passage and the bridge reopened as soon as possible. Eyed Friday inspection planned as heavy rain erosion caused the breach and road closure atop the dam.
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Cheniere
John McCormick
Shady Wall
R. C. White
McCormick
McOrmick
Pool Stage
Auto unions threaten two big plant strikes
Detroit June 23 Two strikes loom over Briggs Manufacturing and Hudson Motor Car Company unions authorize 30 000 Briggs workers to walk out at 10 a m Monday and 10 000 at Hudson with no date set The dispute centers on matching General Motors contract terms and pensions hospital insurance wage boosts and elimination of wage differentials The U A W board authorized the Hudson strike after a meeting over jurisdiction with the A F L and a Ford Canton Ohio plant closure risks layoffs at Chrysler Packard and others
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Detroit
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Hudson Motor Car, Co
Briggs and Hudson
General Motors Corp
Briggs
Hudson
U. A. W.’s International Executive Board
Ford
Canton
Ohio
Chrysler
Packard
Have You Registered for the July Primaries
Voters are reminded that under state law a registrant may stay legal in the old precinct for three months after moving within the parish. If you moved since April 25 and haven’t transferred, you may return to your old precinct to vote in the July 25 primaries. Ouachita parish residents should visit the registrar on the courthouse's second floor. Deadline to register is Saturday June 24.
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Ouachita Parish
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Navy
Judith
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