Tornadoes leave towns in path of destruction across several states
A wide series of tornadoes struck midwestern and eastern states causing deaths and extensive damage. In North Carolina a rural area near Fairmont suffered one death and about 300 homeless with tobacco crop losses. Arkansas saw nine deaths in Bright Water and Garfield. Missouri Iowa Worth and Clio suffered injuries and property loss. Dallas escaped heavy impact with two dead and four injured. Indiana coal mine near Terre Haute reported eight dead and three survivors. Major disasters included Centralia Illinois with 111 deaths, Exeter Pennsylvania with ten, and Plymouth Pennsylvania with fifteen.
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Fairmont
N. C
Bright Water
Garfield
Arkansas
Missouri
Iowa
Worth
Clio
Dallas
Tex
Texas
Spring Hill
Terre Haute
Ind
Centralia
Exeter
Plymouth
Notable Names in Transit and Trial Across Headlines
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt gains reinstatement of her New York driver license after a three month suspension for involvement in a car crash that injured five. Col Jack W Durant, 37, convicted on eight counts in a 1.5 million dollar jeweled theft case and sentenced to 15 years hard labor. Vittorio Mussolini, son of Benito, secretly enters Argentina to seek residence via initial registration steps. Mrs Lillie Winter, 77, acquitted of murdering her grandson by poison, now jailed in Fairfield Illinois on charges of attempted poison murder against her daughter and granddaughter.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
New York Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Jack W. Durant
Hesse
Atlantic
Vittorio Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Argentina
Italy
Lillie
Winter
Fairfield
Ill
Mary Burton
Mar
Palestine Crisis Stymies UN Steering Committee
The 14 nation UN General Assembly steering committee rejected Arab requests to debate halting the British mandate for Palestine. Assembly president Dr Oswaldo Aranha failed to broker a compromise before the crucial meeting as Arabs pressed for a full discussion and recognition of eventual independence.
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Palestine
United Nations General Assembly
Assembly
Holy Land
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Labor report shows lowest stoppage time since war end
The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes first quarter 1947 time lost to strikes and lockouts fell to the lowest level since the war. About 290,000 workers were involved, far below 1,650,000 in early 1946, with large strikes last year hitting steel, electrical, meat packing and auto plants. The Indian constituent assembly votes to abolish untouchability, granting legal rights to outcast communities in the forthcoming constitution.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Indian Constituent Assembly
Pescaiaia
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Georgia Delegates Back Truman At 1948 Democratic Nomin tion
Georgia delegates at the Macon Democratic convention endorse President Truman for a second term in 1948. Gov. M. E. Thompson introduces the resolution as delegates cheer in support. Brewery workers secure a contract term for a 15 minute beer break titled the guzzle clause.
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Georgia
Truman
Macon
M. E. Thompson
Like a Movie Rescue Flynn Averts Actor Injury at Gettysburg
Errol Flynn led a real life rescue during the Gettysburg battle when Tom D Andrea was thrown by a horse. Both actors escaped unharmed while cinema style endings are avoided by British censors, who require twin beds in films to discourage cuddling. The remake of My Awful Wife costs $30,000 to shoot.
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Errol Flynn
Tom D’ Andrea
Battle of
Gettyburg
Union
D'Andrea
Flynn
Flying Coves
Franchot Tone
Lucille Ball
Long delayed lend lease talks begin between US and USSR
American and Soviet officials started formal negotiations over Russia's lend-lease tab totaling about 11.3 billion dollars. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai V. Novikov and Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorpe oversee the talks as Russia must disclose the secret inventory of lend-lease supplies still in use.
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Russia
United States
Nikolai V. Novikov
Willard Thorpe
Third Pennsy wrecks claims four dead near Huntingdon
In pre dawn hours a third Pennsylvania Railroad wreck in three months killed four people and injured 34, eight seriously. The American flyer hit sheet steel protruding from gondola cars, tearing a hole in the fourth car and damaging multiple cars. No derailments occurred as a second train crashed into exposed steel on the opposite side, derailing its engine and tender at Boyer Ridge near Huntingdon.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Middle Pennsylvania
New York
Boyer Ridge
Huntingdon
Truman grills Congress on housing delays and price controls
President Truman faulted congressional inaction and end of price controls for the housing shortage. He cited weak rental construction and high prices, while advocates criticized the 1947 start slump and urged quick passage of the Taft public housing bill. The dialogue involved eight national groups led by Krooth Pearce and Johnson.
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Washington
Truman
David L. Krooth
Housing Legislation Information Service
Wesley Pearce
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Lee Johnson
National Public Housing Conference
Congress
Krooth
Aleman presses for hemispheric unity and loans on first U S visit
Mexico's President Aleman, first Mexican chief executive to visit Washington, urged Pan American unity and independence for each nation through solidarity. He used the trip to probe a large U S loan for Mexico's industrialization, and to discuss treaty revisions and other cooperation.
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Pan-American Union and
Congress
Aleman
Mexico
Canada trims personal income taxes for 1947 48 year
The federal tax schedule lowers personal income taxes by about 29 percent for the 1947 48 tax year as the budget is cut to two billion dollars. The plan keeps luxury and sales taxes unchanged while the new brackets run from 10 percent at the low end to 80 percent for those earning over 250000 a year.
Unknown Child monument dedicated in Prague
The first monument to an unknown child was dedicated in Prague in front of the Cathedral of the Victorious Virgin. It honors thousands of children who died in concentration camps and during World War II, including those from Lidice whose parents were killed when the town was destroyed by Nazis.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Lidice
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University of New Mexico
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