House approves compromise draft bill ending 18 year old inductions
The House passed a compromise measure extending the draft until next March 31 while prohibiting inductions of 18-year-olds. The bill limits service to 18 months, caps armed forces size, and allows current 18 to 19 year olds in service to request discharge after August 1, 1946. A pay raise for air service personnel was approved.
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Washington
House
Senate
War Department
Army
Rep
Thomason
Texas
Patterson
Short
Missouri
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Westbrook Pegler On US Russian Ties And Communist Threat
Westbrook Pegler argues the US Russia treaty admitted interference in American affairs and criticizes Bolshevik influence across the New Deal era. He links Dies Committee findings to traitorous activity among immigrants and calls for vigilance against Soviet aims and labor movement subversion.
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New York
United States
Russia
Labor Relations Board
Moscow
Felix Frankfurter
Dies Committee
New Deal
Hollywood
Union
Soviet Union
Europe
France
Earl Browder
Witnesses Describe Beatings at Lichfield Guardhouse
June 25 witnesses testified that guards at the Lichfield England guardhouse abused American soldiers. Col James A Kilian a US force commander urged unity as he faces court martial for alleged cruelties. Sgt Judson Smith of Cumberland Kentucky testified about beatings ands co conspirator testimony shifting after lawyers offered immunity.
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Bad Nauheim
Lichfield
England
James A. Kilian
Kilian
Highland Park
Ill
U. S
Judson Smith
Cumberland
Smith
London
United States
Pfc
W. Warren
Plainview
Warren
O Conor Leads in Maryland Primary Race
Baltimore June 25 The Democratic Gov. Herbert R. O Conor leads the state slate for national nomination with 79 655 votes against U S Sen George L Radcliffe 50 188 in 881 precincts Roughly two thirds of Maryland s 1331 polling places report Lane leads for gubernatorial nomination with 74 892 to 58 706 for Tawes third runner in the field follows with 6 739 votes.
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Baltimore
Herbert R. O’conor
U. S
George L. Radcliffe
Maryland
William Preston Lane Jr
J. Millard Tawes
Millard F. Tydings
State autos misused. label cars of Louisiana employees
A Louisiana House resolution by Rep. Horace Dugas from St. Charles condemns personal use of state cars. It requires two inch letter labeling and painting department names and "property of the state of Louisiana" on the rear. It cites employees using state vehicles for pleasure trips fishing and vacations.
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Baton Rouge
Horace Dugas
St. Charles
State of Louisiana
Russia Expels U S Newsman Markham From Romania
Acting Secretary Acheson said Russia rejected a U S protest over Romania suppressing news freedom and forced Reuben Markham of the Christian Science Monitor to leave. Markham reportedly departed Romania June 22 and is now in Athens after being ordered out by Bucharest’s top Soviet commander.
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Washington
Acheson
Russia
United States
Romania
Reuben Markham
Christian Science Monitor
Markham
Moscow
Bucharest
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Kremlin
Stalin
Truman
Attlee
State Department
Athens
Sasaikon
Three Burglaries Investigated in City
Police reported three burglaries from Monday night with no items missing. The Orange Jungle at 200 North Second Street was broken into for the second time in a week via a broken window fan blade. The Gentry Beauty Shop at 201 North Third Street was entered by cutting the screen door. Shorty's Body Shop and Garage at 309 Washington Street was entered through a back window with only a screen, the window left unlocked.
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North Second Street
Gentry
North Third Street
Shorty
Washington Street
Williams Promises Square Deal On Labor Measure
Senate Little Case labor bill moved to House labor and capital panel after Chairman Murphy Williams pledged a square deal. Williams noted a diverse committee and cited no intent to kill the measure amid protests. House defeated an $80 million World War I veteran bonus tax bill by 41 to 23.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
House “Labor and Capital” Committee
Murphy Williams
Washington
Ragan Madden
Lincoln
House
Judiciary
J. R. Fernandez
St. John
Williams
Louisiana
Remnants of Capone Gang Fire on Ragen Car
Chicago June 25 The remnants of the Capone gang hunted today after gunmen in a camouflaged truck fired on the automobile of James M Ragen publisher of Racing News. Ragen aged 65 was wounded as his bodyguards in another car exchanged fire. Bullets shattered windows as the truck sped away.
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Chicago
Capone
James M. Ragen
Ragen
South State Street
39Th Street
Pershing Road
State Street
Walter Pelletier
Marty Walsh
Atom Bomb Test Preparations Detailed Prior to Bikini Blast
Don Whitehead reports on the joint army navy task force outlining the schedule for the Bikini atoll test day July 1. The plan calls for 34,000 personnel to depart the lagoon at 10 a.m. June 30 with 140 ships en route to rendezvous points, while 296 men stay for final instrument checks.
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Don Whitehead Alcard
U. S
Appalachian
Bikini
Vice Adms
W. H
OPA Compromise Approved By House Banking Panel
Chairman Spence of Kentucky said President Truman will sign the OPA compromise reached by a Senate House conference. The measure renews OPA powers with major curtailments, maintains price controls on meat butter cigarettes and gasoline, and faces a mid afternoon vote as Congress weighs the final terms before Sunday deadline.
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Washington
Spence
Kentucky
House Banking Committee
Truman
Senate House
House
Warborn
OPA
Senate
Chester Bowles
Fight Against Pact Argued in U S District Court
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp contest a government contract with John L. Lewis for 125 J and L supervisory workers. The case concerns Western Pennsylvania mines under the federal coal mines administration, the NLRB ruling on supervisory foremen, and a contract aimed at covering 135 supervisory workers in Lewis' union.
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Washington
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
John L. Lewis
U. S. District Court
Western Pennsylvania
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
J. and L. Mines
Lewis’ Special United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Workers Union
Lewis
World champion Milch Cow dies at Carnation farms
Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, the famed milk producer of the world, died giving birth to a 95 pound bull calf at Carnation farms. The cow was nine times part of the royal family and once sold for 25 000 dollars. She set a 1942 world record with 41 943 pounds of milk and 1 392 pounds of butterfat.
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Seattle
Carnation Ormsby
Madcap Fayne
Carnation Farms
Seven Spokane club players killed in bus crash
Seattle June 25 AP. Seven members of Spokane's Western International League baseball club died when their chartered bus plunged from the Snoqualmie Pass highway near the Cascade Mountains. The driver and eight others were injured, some critically, in the flaming wreck. One survivor said the victims were scattered all over the hill.
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Seattle
Spokane
Western International League Baseball Club
Cross State
Snoqualmie Pass
Cascade Mountains
Glen Berg
Christ Hartje
San Francisco
Brooklyn
George Lyden
Tensed
Idaho
Levi McCormack
Portland
Richard Powers
Oakland
Calif
Erwin Konopka
Moscow
University of Idaho
Benjamin Garaghty
Livingston
N. J
Sacramento
Indianapolis
Peter Barisoff
Los Angeles
Darwin
Gus) Hallbourg
Boston
Hallbourg
Ellensburg
Garaghty
Hieltbourg
Young produce dealer shot in back yard
Cicero Eugene Coates, 29, partner in Ouachita Produce Co at Pine and Riverside, was critically wounded by a pistol shot to the left chest and later suffered a brain hemorrhage. Police found a 32 caliber pistol at the scene and said the shooting may have been accidental. Coates, a Army veteran, had just opened the produce firm with William Burford and lived with the Burfords.
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Cicero Eugene
Joe) Coates
Quachita Produce Company
Pine and Riverside
St. Francis Sanitarium
Forsythe Avenue
Coates
Mulhearn
Dorothy Hemler
Army
South Pacific
Philippines
Burford
North Third
Ouachita Produce Company
Burfords
William
Fred) Hemler
Twin City Gravel Company
Twenty two plead guilty in ceiling price auto conspiracy
In Detroit on June 25 twenty two of 31 defendants admitted taking part in a three million dollar conspiracy to buy used cars above ceiling prices. The scheme moved cars from Detroit to Murray Kentucky and Cairo Illinois, then resold them in southern and southwestern states. Sentencing for the guilty group was not set as bonds of $1000 were continued pending a probation report.
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Detroit
Arthur Koscinski
OPA
Murray
Cairo
Ill
Kentucky
Koscinski
Cotton futures peak at 22-year high in New Orleans
Prices climbed to the highest levels since 1902 with December at 30.05 cents, March 30.12, and May 30.05 as buying surged on Senate House conference action on the OPA extension bill. Early trading dipped on July tenders but soon recovered with gains across contracts.
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New Orleans
Senate House Conference Committee
OPA
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