Jews Accept Truce Arabs Debate UN Peace Appeal
Israel announced it had accepted the United Nations cease-fire appeal for Palestine unconditionally, while Arab leaders debated the UN plan. Jewish airmen bombed Amman amid Arab League talks as casualties rose. observers warned the truce may be jeopardized.
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Arab League
Imman
Trans-Jordan
Cairo
Amman
Abdullah
Jordan
Telos
Enort
Telawy
Haifa
Raf Lela
Trans- Jordan
Tél Aviv
Lfe
Security Council
Jeaders
Jherisalem
Mar
Ted Aviv
Cruiser Leaves Here Today
The USS Portsmouth is scheduled to depart Portsmouth this afternoon for the convention of the 198rd district of Mary International and will return to its Newport base.
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USS Portsmouth
Mary International
Portsmouth
Newport
Tobey Urges Rotary to Live and Help Live in New Castle
Sen Charles W Tobey R N H urged Rotary International districts 193 to balance toleration cooperation aspiration inspiration and consecration for a peaceful world. He told 510 plus at Wentworth by the Sea dining room that we are our brother's keeper and that Live and Help Live expands Live and Let Live. He warned against intolerance of religion color and creed and urged daily acts as a state of mind. Delegates from Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Canada and Quebec heard that aspiration is essential and warned of danger signals in modern life.
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New Castle
Charles W. Tobey
R-N.h
Rotary International
New Hampshire
Wentworth-by-the-Sea
Rotary
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Massachusetts
Canada
Quebec
Americas
Movie Production Slated for Area in Few Weeks
Documentary Last Sundaries will film on location in Xckingham County and Durham in weeks ahead. Producer Fil de Rochemont of The Portsmouth Herald notes Lost Boundaries wraps late August and the Smutty Nose murders tale aims to modernize its 1873 setting with Isles of Shoals background. Wagner killed two women in 1873 and was hanged in Maine after a failed search for a third. A third project on Frank Jones remains tentative.
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Durham
4Ils deRochemont
Newington
The
Portsmouth Herald
Ortsmouth
Madariss
Rochemont
Keena
Pee
Portsmouth
Isles of Shoals
de Rochemont
Louis Wagner
Seacoast
Wagner
Maine
de Fiochemont
Frank Jones
McIntire Pushes Special Session to Oppose Adams
Portsmouth politician McIntire and Fred A. Jones of Lebanon circulate a petition seeking a legislative poll on a possible special session to deal with state finances. McIntire also announces a gubernatorial bid against Sherman Adams, arguing a quick session could address deficits, redesign the budget, and avoid tax hikes, despite claimed upstate support and no Portsmouth signatures.
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Heps
John R. McIntire
Portsmouth
Fred A. Jones
Lebanon
Enoch D. Puller
Associated Press
McIntire
Sherman Adams
Portsmouth | Herald
Dale
Charles M. Dale
Ernest D’amours
House
Fulltt
McIntyre
Upstate
Exeter Diner Fire Damages Water Street Kitchen
Fire chief Ray Simpson blamed a defective chimney for last night’s blaze at Kurk’s Diner on Water Street owned by Frank Kurtz. Damage confined to the kitchen. fire discovered by Charles Harvey who alerted the Exeter department.
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Exeter
Ray Simpson
Kurks
Water Street
Dier
Frank Kurtz
Bell Avenue
Charles Harvey
Ifire Department
Navy Launch Swamps. Twenty-Two Die Off Norfolk
Twenty-two men including nine marines and thirteen sailors die when a 60 foot Navy launch capsizes near the Kearsarge off Hampton Roads during a Liberty party return. Rescue efforts continue as the task force head for the Mediterranean is delayed. Survivors recall others clinging to a cold, rough sea amid wind and rain.
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Hampton Roads
Iberty
A. F. Sprague
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Kearsarge
Navy
Norfolk Naval Station
Naval Station
Coast Guard
Sprague
Atli
Thomas H. Rowe
Lewis Defies Government Over Contract Bargaining Row
John L. Lewis rejected a government move to force United Mine Workers to bargain with the hostile Southern Coal Producers association. His lawyers moved to dismiss the injunction suit by Robert N. Denham, NLRB general counsel, arguing the Taft Hartley Act does not compel such bargaining.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relalone Board
Recreation Board To Meet Tonight
The Portsmouth Recreation commission will meet at 7 30 tonight at the city council chambers in city hall.
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Portsmouth Recreation Commission
City Council
City Hall
Deadly Columbia River Flood Threatens Portland Area
Army engineers ordered evacuations along a 120 mile stretch as the Columbia River flood worsened near Portland. Deaths remain unconfirmed with Vanport city wreckage and damage estimates at $27 million, while statewide losses rise toward $30 million in the disaster zone.
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Tnica
Vallport
Portland Howing Authority
Sailor Held in Break In Court Appearance Set
A 20 year old sailor from the USS Portsmouth was arraigned in Portsmouth municipal court on charges of breaking and entering the Chamber of Commerce office. He pleaded innocent and faced a $600 ball. He was arrested with another unidentified sailor after a store owner reported a break in around 8:30 p.m. Police withheld additional details.
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Chamber of Commerce
Jeremy R. Waldron
Arthur L. Dowd,Jr
Uss
Dowd
Leonard H. Hewitt
Joseph P. Kelley
John W. McCann
Herbert M. Sessions
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Sessions
Marshal Hewitt
Not Now Please: Senate May Avoid MacArthur Visit
Gen Douglas MacArthur signals a noncommittal reply to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Far East conditions, citing risk of political unintended consequences. Chairman Styles Bridges expects no insistence on his return, while Gen Jonathan M Wainwright urges a formal committee request to bring him home. Georgia pledges 28 anti Truman votes at the Democratic convention, with delegates selected in South Dakota and Alabama as primaries proceed.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Senate Appropriations Committee
Styles Bridges
R-N.h
Bridges
MacArthur
Japan
Far East
Philadelphia
Jonathan M Wainwright
Wainwright
Georgia
Truman
GOP
Carroll Reece
Pendergast Machine
South Dakota
Alabama
Alda
Local Ordinance On Photographers Declared Invalid
The New Hampshire supreme court struck down Portsmouth's itinerant photographer licensing law as discriminatory against non residents and a barrier to interstate commerce. It required a $5 daily or $25 weekly fee with a later opt out after three months. A Boston firm challenged the ordinance.
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Conuard
Portsmouth
State Supreme Court
Boston
Petition Seeks Court Reversal On Spinney Road Rezoning
Task Petitioned Superior Court to overturn the city council refusal to rezone eight acres on Spinney Road from single to general residence. The planning board and council both denied the request after a public hearing. He seeks an order setting aside the ruling and to compel release of the council’s proceedings record claiming lack of opportunity to testify.
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Spinney Road
Superior Court
Gordon Task
Portsmouth
Task
Planning Board
Spinkey Road
Sixteen New Englanders Die in Weekend Accidents
A weekend in New England saw sixteen deaths from traffic crashes and other causes. The toll included four drownings and five other fatalities, with multiple states reporting incidents across the region.
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Boston
Suse 1
New England
U S Death Toll Over Holiday Near 400
The Memorial Day holiday death toll from violent incidents neared 400, with traffic crashes making up over half. From Friday 6 pm to Monday midnight, 378 violent deaths were reported, not counting unidentified fatalities in Vanport Hood.
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Saber
Vanport
Hood
Arkanasas
Oklahoma
National Safety Council
Pennsylvania
Illinois
New York
California
Ohio
Texas
Michigan
Nevada
New Hampshire
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Vermont
District of Columbia
Angry Red Bill Opponents Threaten Demonstrations
Washington June 1 AP belligerent opponents of Mundt Nixon anti-Communist bill threaten a protest at the Capitol Wednesday. Len Goldsmith of New York said thousands will demand hearings before the Senate judiciary committee. A group of about 30 testified as Robeson and Kehoe declined to say if they are Communists.
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Mundt Nixon
Capitol
Len Goldsmith
New York
Committee For Democratic Rights
Senate Judiciary Committee
Communista
Goldsmith
Wiley
R-Wis
Ferguson
R-Mich
Paul Robeson
Joseph Kehoe
Sanswer
Communist Party
Robeson
Kehoe
CIO American Communications: Association
Senate
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