Senate Backs Hobbs Bill Against Union Racketeers
The Senate approves the Hobbs bill to strip union racketeers of immunity in interstate commerce cases. It repeals a Supreme Court exemption and aligns with House action, targeting extortion by Local 807 teamsters and other gangsters to shield commerce from violence and robbery.
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New York
Senate
Supreme Court
Congress
Hobbs
House of Representatives
Sam Hobbs
Alabama
House
Truman
White House
James Byrnes
Secretary of State
A. F. of L
Political Action Committees
Teamsters’ Union
Stone
Byrnes
Department of Justice
William Green
Fatal Staten Island ferry terminal fire claims three lives
A massive $2,000,000 blaze at the Staten Island ferry terminal in St George yesterday killed three people including a ticket agent and a city worker, with around 40 injured. Fire spread from a basement shop as a spark from an electric train is suspected. the terminal served thousands of Manhattan commuters. Ferry service partially resumed after four hours.
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New York
Staten Island
Cornelius White
Harold Clendening
MM White
Jeremiah Cronin
Airine and
Aviation Department
Manhattan
Island
St. George
Nation Nears Meat Shortage Amid OPA Clash
The Associated Press reports a virtual meat famine across the United States as the Senate debates the House approved OPA meat price controls bill. Industry spokesmen warn shortages could worsen or persist for months with possible plant shutdowns and scarce cold cuts in many cities.
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Associated Press
Senate
OPA
Los Angeles
Nework
Nine Die As Truck Hit by Train Near Harlingen
Nine workers killed and 12 seriously injured when a Missouri Pacific locomotive struck a truck carrying Latin American agricultural laborers near Harlingen Texas. Victims and wreckage stretched 10 feet along the right of way. The crash occurred at 8 25 p m with ambulances arriving from Harlingen and Mercedes. Nick Hernandez was among the identified dead.
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Harlingen
Tex
Here
Missouri Pacific
Mercedes
Marvin Gordon
State Highway Patrol
Nicholas Hernandez
Adams Gardens
Gordon
State Leases Eight Tracts of Land in Baton Rouge
State mineral board leased eight tracts totaling about 25 000 acres for cash bonuses of 519 355 plus royalties. Bids included Stanolind Oil and Gas Company 76000 100 and 13000 on several LaFourche Timbalier tracts, Amerada Petroleum on Bayou Teche tract, Shell Oil on Shark Island area, and Crown Central Petroleum on Avoyelles land.
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Baton Rouge
State Mineral Board
Richard and Madison Parishes
C. J. Murphy, Jr
Terrebonne
LaFourche
Timbalier Bay
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company
Grand Pass
Timbalier
Avoyelles
Crown Central Pet. Company
Byrnes Molotov Talks Stir Trieste Peace Hopes
Paris dispatches say Molotov may receive a Moscow call that could shift the Trieste dispute in Italian peace talks. Byrnes reportedly encouraged by private talks with Molotov as a Yugoslav Tito official rejects a 10 year internationalization compromise. A foreign ministers council commission began work on Italy's colonies, deferring final decisions.
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Paris
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Trieste
Byrnes
Molotov
Italy
Yugoslavia
Council of Foreign Ministers
Adriatic
Foreign Ministers Council
Marshal Tito
Tito
Russian observer paces Panamint deck en route to Bikini
On the Panamint bound for Bikini a lone Russian observer, Dr. Michael Mescheryakov of the State Radium Institute, paces the deck in silence. He speaks little English, avoids conversation, and shares little with the group of scientists aboard, unlike colleague Prof. Semyon Alexandrov who chats readily.
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Frank Berwick
Edwin F. Black
Bethesda
Black
Semyon P. Alexandrov
Mescheryakov
Belief grows on assassination theory of King Ananda
A Bangkok report says medical findings by 18 physicians support a theory that King Ananda Mahidol was assassinated. The 20 year old monarch died June 9 and an earlier official claim said he shot himself accidentally. A royal commission examined the body after it was removed from the golden urn for x rays.
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Bangkok
Siam
Ananda Mahidol
Switzerland
Dusit Hall
Trial Opens Against Lt Nicolai Redin in Espionage Case
The United States government begins an espionage trial against Naval Lt. Nicolai G. Redin a Soviet purchasing commission representative. A seven man by five woman jury will decide on charges of inducing a shipyard engineer to provide plans for a destroyer tender and its equipment. The case unfolds in Seattle with Judge Lloyd L. Black to rule on juror accommodation.
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Seattle
United States
Naval
Nicolai G. Redin
Soviet Purchasing Commission
Allan Pomeroy
Federal
U. S
Lloyd L. Black
Target ships soon to tick
Associated Press reports that Bikini lagoon target ships and nearby islands will begin ticking after the detonating bomb above them around July 1. Ticks from radioactive waves will be detected by Geiger counters and radio mikes, signaling safety status for entering personnel and ships in the crossroads fleet.
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U. S. S. Appalachian
Bikini Lagoon
Geiger-Mueller
Bikini
New Mexico
Earth
House Senate feud over bills stalls Louisiana legislature
Baton Rouge coverage shows a growing House Senate feud as neither chamber acts on the other's measures. House members accuse the Senate of dodging the anti closed shop bill while the Senate balks at House bills. Speaker Norman Bauer calls the Senate childish as debate over registration and minority voting heats up.
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Senate
Norman Bauer
Bauer
Webb
House
Rapides
John Hunter
Pay hike eyed by servicemen
Washington reports the military pay raise and draft extension cleared Congress swiftly. The plan for a nine month draft beyond June 30 and pay increases ranging from 25 dollars to 166.67 dollars monthly will take effect the first day after the president signs, with total annual cost estimated around 632 million dollars.
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Washington
White House
Army
Navy
Marines
Truman
Armed Service
West Monroe Rodeo Arena Opens August 29
A five day West Monroe Rodeo and Horse Show opens August 29 after a July 2 parade through Twin City led by 20 officials on white horses. The arena near McGuire Park will seat 3,000 in the grandstand and 4,200 in bleachers for events produced by the Gentry brothers and Homer Todd of Fort Smith. Todd brings a top herd of bucking horses and Brahma bulls with announcer Pete Adams.
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B. A. Gentry
H. A. Gentry
New York Hardware & Furniture Company
Monroe
Gentry
Jackson Parish
McGuire Park
West Monroe
Homer Todd
Fort Smith, Ark
Todd
Pete Adams
Two Children Slain. Machinist Under Warrant
San Francisco report states a murder warrant was issued for Vorhas Newton, 24, missing machinist. His two young children Barbara Anne and Caroline Lee were found dead with crushed skulls 25 miles south, while Mrs Lorraine Newton was dazed nearby after an automobile ride with her husband. Sheriff John McGrath called for a statewide search.
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San Francisco
Vorhas Newton
Here
Lorraine Newton
Barbara Anne
Caroline Lee
San Mateo County
John McGrath
California
Newton
Alameda
Ballot Tests Build Support for Louisiana Anti-Closed Shop Bill
In Baton Rouge on June 26 the Louisiana Senate approved several test votes on the Cleveland anti-closed shop bill. Measures to suspend rules and to overrule chair rulings passed by narrow margins while amendments to delay or block passage were tabled, amid debate by Sen. Guidry and supporters of wage and labor regulation aims. The session included plans for a new bill addressing wage standards separate from the Cleveland proposal.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
House
Senate
Rep
C. O. Webb
Red River
Sen
Oscar Guidry
W. J. Cleveland
Acadia
Drayton Boucher
Springhill
Medical Association
Bar Association
Church Point
Guidry
Brooks Oliver
Bastrop
Lloyd Hendrick
Shreveport
Hendrick
National Labor Relations Board
Aubrey Gaiennie
New Orleans
William Gruber
Gaiennie
Degnan death suspect held in Chicago report
Two officers planned a flight to Phoenix to question Richard Russell Thomas about the Degnan case. Phoenix sheriff says the 42-year-old ex convict linked to the January 7 kidnapping and slaying of Suzanne Degnan. Chicago detectives cited discrepancies in Thomas statements as 2,000 people were questioned in 600 inquiries over six months.
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Chicago
Phoenix
Ariz
Suzanne Degnan
Walter Storms
Richard Russell Thomas
Storms
Thomas
Degnan
John A. Olson
Arizona
North Dakota Senate Races See Close GOP Contest
In Fargo on June 26, U S Senator Milton R Young held a strong lead over Gerald Nye for the Republican nomination as U S Senate race results show Young far ahead of Nye and P W Lanier. Nearby J B Bridston led W Langer for the regular Republican nod with Langer trailing. In other races Lemke Robertson and Randahl led in their respective GOP quests amid factional splits and veteran candidates.
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Fargo
N. D
U. S
William Langer
J. B. Bridston
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Gerald P. Nye
Bill Lanier
Milton R. Young
Bradston
Langer
Nye
Young
P. W. Lanier
Lanier
Senate
John Moses
Bridston
Nonpartisan League
Republican Party
League
Republican Organizing Committee
Congress
William Lemke
Charles R. Robertson
Lemke
Robertson
John Hiellum
George Schatz
Lynn C. Paulson
Hiellum
Schatz
14 year old held on murder charges in Vaughn case
District Attorney Carl S Shelley filed murder charges against 14 year old John Allen Howells accused of attempted rape and strangulation of Margery Ann Vaughn age 3. Howells admitted choking and beating the girl and disposing of her body in a creek after the crime. He faces trial in general sessions court with mental status evaluation pending.
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Harrisburg
Carl S. Shelley
John Allen Howells
Margery Ann Vaughn
Atrists
Howells
Shelley
Joseph Sh Pochyba
R. Paul Vaughn
Lawnton
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Westbrook
Pegler
Spokane
Wash
Howard Blakeslee
Associated Press Science Reporter
Rodeo Arena
Gentry Brothers
Bill
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