Italy Establishes Republic Ends Savoy Monarchy
The first free election in 26 years delivers a republic with 12,160,155 votes, ousting King Humbert II and the House of Savoy. The monarchy loses its sovereignty as Manilo Bosio confirms the tally and says Lombardy remains Republican terrain and a royal exile is prepared to Portugal.
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Rome
INS
House of Savoy
Italy
Humbert III
Victor Emmanuel
Portugal
Humbert II
Savoy
Manilo Bosio
Lombardy
Senate Restores Teen-Age Draft Amid Breakneck Debate
Administration leaders hailed a 53 to 26 Senate vote to resume drafting 18 and 19 year olds and extend liability to men 18 to 45. The move included pay boosts for enlisted personnel and exemptions for scientific students, while a stalled conference awaits final action.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Congress
House-Senate
Sen. Revercomb
W. Va
Leutenants
House
La Salle Hotel Fire Claims Dozens in Chicago Loop
A Chicago La Salle Hotel blaze swept the 22 story Loop building in the early hours killing at least 57 people and injuring more than 200. The fire trapped guests, some leaping to their deaths, as 838 rooms faced devastation and a continuing search for victims ensued.
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Blaze
Loop District
International News Service
Chicago
la Salle
Loop
Chicago Fire Department
Fire Department
Michael Corrigan
James Carnahan
Red Cross
State plans salmon paper license change and 1904 Olds sighting
State Revenue Secretary David W. Harris says buff licenses will be issued this year due to salmon colored paper shortage. An antique 1904 Oldsmobile with New York plates drew onlookers at Butler Avenue and East Washington Street. The car reportedly came from Michigan's Golden Jubilee automobile celebration.
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State Revenue
David W. Harris
Motoriet S
Butler Avenue
East Washington Street
New York
Michigan
Daily Weather Report for the United States
Daily weather summary records a 24 hour period ending at 9 am with a maximum of 68 and a minimum of 40. Precipitation totals 0.01 inches. River stage is 6.7 feet. Year ago figures show a 96 degree high, 34 degree low, and 0.92 inches of rain.
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United States
Push for Shorter Work Week in Maritime Labor Talks
Washington reports government efforts to avert a maritime strike by readying to run the merchant fleet if talks fail. Coast guard discharges canceled as conciliation chiefs press unions and shipowners on a 40 hour week and overtime rules amid a CBS schedule.
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Washington
Ins
Coast Guard
CIO
Edgar L. Warren
U. S. Conciliation Service
Warren
Seek First Hand Report On German Food Situation
The Senate small business committee will question Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk for a first hand report on the nutritional status of Germans in the U S occupation zone. The exchange between Kirk and Chester C. Davis is used to illustrate public confusion over the European famine relief program and its impact on small business.
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Washington
INS
Senate Small Business Committee
Norman T. Kirk
Gen. Kirk
Chester C. Davis
Truman
U. S
Germany
Davis
Kirk
Herbert Oover
T. Kirk-Davis
Len Murray
Mont
Senate Greun
Murray
Mrs. George Glass Injured As Manhole Cover Falls
Mrs. George D. Glass of 819 West North Street is hospitalized at Jameson Memorial after a manhole cover over a catch basin at Smithfield and West Washington streets gave way as she boarded a bus. She suffered lacerations abrasions shock and sprains from the fall.
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West North Street
George D. Glass
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Smithfield Street
West Washington Street
Glass
Decision Near on Meat Control Ending June 30
Washington reports the Senate Banking and Currency Committee neared a decision on ending meat price controls by June 30. Democratic losses and a possible GOP deal loom as committee members weigh reversing the current stance before the OPA bill reaches the Senate.
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Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Senate
Sen
Tobey
N. H
Minority Committee
GOP
Coal Production Near Normal Across Regions
Western Pennsylvania bituminous coal output is near normal with few mines idle. A surge from captive mines lifts Carnegie Illinois Steel Clairton plant to 85 percent capacity. Illinois, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana run above average. OPA hints at a 35 cent per ton wage adjustment.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Solid Fuels Administration Today
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Iliinois Steel Corporation
Clairton
Naval
Coal Mine Administration
Illinois
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
Washington
OPA
United Mine Workers
Baby Sitters Form Unions Raise Rates in Arden
Arden baby sitters have formed a union in Wilmington area to meet rising living costs. Notices to parents announce the new sitters union and rate changes, with kids demanding 33 cents an hour and 50 cents after 1 am.
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Wilmington
Del
Arden
Peaceful Entry Into Harbin Hope Of Gen Marshall
NANKING June 5 INS Gen George C Marshall and Chinese government and communist negotiators ordered a section of the Peiping executive peace making headquarters to proceed to Changchun for possible Manchuria cease fire agreement. Brig Gen Henry A Byroade will represent Marshall at Changchun in what is seen as progress in the Manchurian crisis. High ranking Nationalist and Communist generals join in the Changchun move tied to a peaceful entry plan into Harbin.
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Nanking
George C. Marshall
Peiping Executive
Changchung
Manchuria
Henry A. Byroade
Marshall
Changchun
Manchurian
Harbin
Byroade
America
Battleship New York Cleared From Quarantine at Kwajalein
The battleship New York, tied up at Kwajalein for nearly two weeks due to an epidemic of bacillary dysentery, was prepared to sail for a Bikini atoll rendezvous with an atom bomb. Over 18 percent of aboard were treated, and a Navy medical team arrived from Pearl Harbor to care for about 100 patients aboard.
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Kwajalein
New York
Bikini Atoll
Kwajalein Lagoon
Honolulu
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Stow Away Crow Delays Pan American Clipper in New York
A Pan American World Clipper bound for Eire was four hours late after La Guardia departure due to a dead crewman found lodged in the No. 3 engine fuel line amid investigation of an overrich fuel mixture.
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New York
Eire
LaGuardia Field
D-Day Beachhead Memorial Planned by Veterans Group
Paris reports the French War Veterans Association Freres d Armes plans to hold a 600 yard stretch of Normandy beach at Aramanches as a memorial. They will ask the government to cede it to Anglo American allies and build a lighthouse flashing a V sign with commemorative monuments. They also intend to send souvenir lighthouse models to Eisenhower Montgomery Eleanor Roosevelt and Churchill.
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Paris
United States
Great Britain
Normandy
French War Veterans Association
Freres d'Armes
Aramanches
Veterans Group
Gen
Fisenhower
Field Marshal
Montgomery
Eleanor Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Folsom Wins in Alabama Governor Runoff
James Big Jim Folsom wins the Alabama Democratic gubernatorial nomination after a runoff, defeating Lieut Gov. Hardy Ellis. At 37, he will take office January 1, amid a lead exceeding 50,000 votes as returns come in from Cullman. He calls himself humble and grateful.
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Montgomery
Alv
INS
James
Big Jim
Folsom
Cday
Alabama
Hady Ellis
Cullman
Bevin Speech Fears Europe Splitting Into Two Worlds
London reports warn Europe may split into two political and economic worlds dominated by Russia and by Western democracy led by the United States. Bevin’s sharp attack on Soviet philosophy amplifies fears as Molotov and Byrnes exchange charges. The June 15 Paris foreign ministers conference is viewed as unlikely to bridge the gap unless Soviet policy shifts.
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London
INS
Ernest Bevin
Europe
Russia
U. S
V. M. Molotov
U.S
James F. Byrnes
Bevin
Molotov
Byrnes
Joseph Stalin
Germany
Paris
Spring Reunion Brings Largest Valley Class to 78th Rite
The Valley of New Castle Consistory hosts the 78th semi annual reunion of the Scottish Rite with the largest class in history. Commander in Chief Sll Welty O Rugh praised the service division for excellent work in building the class. Degrees continue through Friday afternoon with attendance from outside points and a dinner and entertainment planned to close the event.
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Valley of New Castle
Sll Welty O Rugh
McKeesport Man Kills Fiancee in Jealous Rage
William Leffard 52 held by police for fatal shooting of his fiancee in a tavern incident described as a rage of jealousy. He admitted firing a shot that killed his 87 year old partner after she rebuked him for making a scene. Leffard, a building contractor and father of three, had been engaged four months.
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Mckeesport
INS
William Leffard
Leffard
Miss William
Woman Dies At Post Of Duty In Hotel Fire
Chicago June 5 A telephone operator Mrs Julia Barry perished at her post warning La Salle hotel guests as flames swept the lobby and smoke filled the building She collapsed and died of asphyxia while remaining at the switchboard serving guests.
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Perry Swern
Oak Park
Eugene Preeman
Chicago Fire Department
Julia Berry
Chicago
Ruth O. Peer
Ilinois Department of Public Health
Louis Marco
Edward Schneidman
Quincy
Samuel Unger
Edward Farrar
Joseph F Barton
Beatty Dawine
San Antonio
Tex
Leonard Austin Salter
Charles Preeman
TNS
Julia Barry
la Salle Hotel
Barry
Fire Claims Dozens At City Hotel In Chaos
Msgr William J Forman of the Chicago fire department says at least 25 people died with more possible as a grease fire in a hotel coffee shop spread to the third floor. Smoke rose to the sixteenth floor while guests fled from windows and police worked to prevent panic during the blaze. About 200 guests were evacuated through the escapes as the fire raged through the building.
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William J Forman
Chicago Fire Department
Deaths of Mrs Shields Mr Powell and Mrs Hoff
Obituary notices list Mrs Br Shields aged 70 of New Bedford John Powell aged 71 of Chewton and Mrs Anne Jane Wallace Hoff aged 83 of Edenburg with brief death records.
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BR. M. Shields
New Bedford
John Powell
Chewton
Anne Jane Wallace Hoff Master
Fdenburg
Hotel Fire Injures Many At La Salle Chicago
About 1 100 to 1 200 guests were in the La Salle hotel when the blaze broke out killing more than 50. Over 200 people suffered burns or smoke injuries among the evacuees, with a list of named injured including Walter Bates William Gibbons Conrad Swoboda Downs Fred Fiedler P S Brumbaugh and others across Ohio Pennsylvania and Illinois.
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Chicago
la Salle Hotel
Walter C. Bates
Westerville
William Gibbons
Columbus
Conrad Swoboda
Alliance
Cmdr. Downs
USN
John Downs
Great Lakes
Fred J. Fiedier
Reading
P. S. Brumbaugh
Canton
R. Jones
Gene Goldman
Cleveland
O. Dale Dean
Pittsburgh
Paul Garlitz
Carmelata Smverson
William Swonger
Sydney
Refugees Report Massacre Near Batavia
Thousands of Chinese refugees from the Tangerang district recount a massacre Sunday night by Japanese forces aided by uniformed Indonesians. The Chinese Red Cross puts the death toll around 1000.
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London
INS
Reuters
Batavia
Tangerang
Red Cross
Weather notes with tomato plants and frost risk
The speaker discusses suggesting ideas to a weather building official for a few days of sunny dry weather. They mention planting tomatoes and peppers and warn that frost can harm delicate plants. They note cool winter conditions and a current 72 degree day.
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