Truman Studies Replacements in Official Family
President Truman delays cabinet shakeup while choosing successors for defense secretary and undersecretary Lovett. Close advisers say he will seek to persuade Secretary Marshall to stay, keeping an orderly team for four years. He will not join any Berlin blockade peace talks outside the UN until Soviet Russia lifts the blockade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thuman
Defense
James V. Forrestal
Robert B. Lovett
Alate
Truman
Marshall
White House
Lie
United Nations
Evatt
UN General Assembly
Four Nations
Berlin
United States
Soviet Russia
GOP Opposition Will Depend on Demo Proposals
Senator Millikin predicts Republicans will wait for President Truman's specific proposals for the 81st Congress before taking an opposition stance. He says GOP unity may vary as different interpretations of election results emerge among leaders. The Democratic platform outlines actions on Taft-Hartley repeal standby controls education housing social benefits civil rights and foreign policy including Marshall Plan support and UN cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Milikin
R-Cole
Truman
Congress
Millikin
Conference of All
GOP
Colorado
Repub Party
United Nations
Israel
De Gaulle warns on postwar Germany and Russia balance
Paris General Charles De Gaulle warned that Western powers risk creating a united Germany that might not oppose Russia. He opposed restoring Ruhr coal mines and steel mills to German control as grave. He said England and America may fail to curb the Reich, noting Hitler once allied with Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Germany
Russia
Ruhr
de Gaulle
England
America
Hitler
Europe
Reich
Runaway Pappy Bill Aims To Enforce Child Support
Rep-elect Andrew Jacobs of Indiana to introduce a federal measure targeting fathers who ignore divorce court support orders after moving to another state. The bill would empower federal courts to enforce state child support orders when contempt occurs, addressing widespread concern over nonpayment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Pappy
Andrew Jacobs
D-Ind
Sacobs
Jacobs
OEPGO Club Organized By Minister
Franklin Indiana reports the launch of the OEPQO. The organizer, Reverend Dr Howard W Stone of First Presbyterian Church, promotes quitting organizations to save time for family faith and church duties. The group has no dues, meetings, activities, or projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Franklin
Ind
Howard W. Stone
First Presbyterian Church
Shipping Strike Settlement Near
Negotiators in the 77 day Pacific Coast shipping strike moved toward settlement as the hiring halls for CIO longshoremen remained under union control. The tentative agreement between Waterfront Employers Association and the Longshoremen's Union allows mutual adjustments after court or congressional action and focuses on wages vacations with pay and grievance procedures. A hearing was scheduled Saturday for truck driver William Crawford after a collision with multiple vehicles and a guard rail, with police noting no severe damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
San Francisco
CIO
Waterfront Employers Association
Longshoremen's Union
William Crawford
Cook Ridge
Daniels
Crawford
John J. Okes
Beaver
Okes
Willis O. Bailey
Beckley
AFL Plans Fund For Labor Fight
Cincinnati reports that the AFL convention debated financing a Labor League for Political Education with a 10 cent per member assessment. The plan aims to raise about 750000 for anti Taft Hartley activity, funded by AFL members totaling 7,220,000 as of August 31. Delegates looked to recess their sessions to vote a financial contribution without Taft Hartley conflicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Cincinnati
Labor League For
AFL
Political League
Labor League
Bylso
League
Taft-Tartley
Miners Walk Out At Black Eagle Mine
Black Eagle mine operations of Jones and Laughlin Steel are curtailed as many workers walk out after four men were refused entry today. Earl Rose says additional miners joined as lights were denied and some workplaces showed no operation. Superintendent Henry Bartrum and W. B. Keener were at the scene amid unclear scale of the disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Eagle
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Earl Rose
Henry Bartrum
McDowell County
W. B. Keener
US Britain say Reds block big four peace plan
Paris dispatch reports the United States and Britain reject Berlin compromise tied to a Russian blockade. Marshall states the US will talk to Russia only after the blockade ends, and urges Security Council action. Britain says the neutrals proposal in the Security Council is blocking progress toward a settlement. Evatt Lie letters are answered, stressing leave Berlin to the Security Council as the best path. Other briefs note Hopkins return home after surgery, Florence Prang Kahn’s death, and Oak Hill youth group hosting event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
United States
Britain
United Nations
Berlin
Russia
Security Council
H. V. Evatt
Assembly
Trygve Lie
Marshall
Truman
Evatt-Lie
Evatt
Lie
Register
Kopferston
Leonard Hopkins
Kopperston
Raleigh General
San Francisco
Florence Prag Kahn
Congress
California
Chicago Dairy Worker Inherits $600,000
Copenhagen reports Mrs. Henry P. Hansen, 81, dies in a ramshackle apartment leaving 3,000,000 kroner. A Chicago dairy worker appears set to inherit the fortune as Denmark weighs tax steps while Gunnard Eric Seaberg of Chicago asserts he is the sole living son of Hansen’s sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Copenhagen
Denmark
Henry P. Hansen
Chicago
Gunnard Eric Seaberg
Freedom Train To Tour Again
In Gettysburg on the 85th anniversary of Lincoln s Gettysburg address the second nationwide Freedom Train tour begins Attorney General Tom Clark creator of the traveling museum will attend The platform scene recalling Lincoln s 1863 speech will be staged beside the train which shows Lincoln s original notes The date also marks first day stamp sales for the anniversary postage stamp with 1 200 000 stamps received and 236 000 first day covers ordered
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Gettysburg
Lincoln
Tom Clark
Traveling Museum of Historical Documents
Crews Mop Up 18 Forest Fires in Kanawha District
Firefighters battled 18 fires in the Kanawha District yesterday with rain aiding mop up efforts last night. Six older fires were also contained, four fires reported in Raleigh County including Glen White, Glen Daniel, Cameron, and Crab Orchard. Fayette County sustained the heaviest impact with ten fires. Monroe and Kanawha accounted for three and one respectively. No new fires were reported in Summers or Mercer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kanawha
Raleigh County
Glen White
Raleigh
Glen Daniel
Cameron
Crab Orchard
Fayette County
Monroe
Summers
Mercer
West Virginia News Briefs Report Crashes Fires and Indicated Developments
AP briefs from Charleston Morgantown Williamson Hamlin Huntington and Hamlin summarize a fatal crash injuring two Black residents a planned 18 month Institute Carbide and Carbon plants project with 2000 jobs forest fires under control emergency water rates hearing concerns about hydrants a grand jury indicting a 13 year old for murder local plant labor dispute ending in temporary closure and scarlet fever case totals rising to 697 year to date
Roman Lawyer Kills Self in Vatican
A Roman lawyer named Pietro Pugileci killed himself today by leaping roughly 170 feet from the interior gallery surrounding the Vatican Cupola. The fall startled worshippers as guards cleared Saint Peter's Basilica and closed the church until its later consecration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Self
Vatican
The
Associated Press
Vvatican Clty
Pietro Pugileci
Saint Peter's Basilfica
Valiand
CIO Executive Board Convenes in Portland Amid Union Tensions
The CIO executive board gathered in Portland to review election results and labor legislation, as 51 members weighed the left wing New York CIO council rift. Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union spoke on Communist regrouping, while Walter Reuther arrived with bodyguards after being shot in Detroit last April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Portland
Obe
CIO
Congress
Joe Curran
National Maritime Union
Henry Wallace
Curran
New York City Cio Council
New York Council
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Reuther
Detroit
Also Mentioned on This Page
Key West
Fla
Day
United
Speedy Weabache
Fund For Labor
Leon Eteton
Thorehn
U. S
Det
Greyhound
Canada
Mexico
Focal
Prince Slo
Freedom
W.va
Charleston
Edward Howard
London
Tenn
Alex McFayden
Fayetteville
N. C
Ford, Bacon and Davis
New York
Institute
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
Conservation Commission
West Virginia
Morgantown
Public Service Commission
Morgantown Water Company
Mortown
Harry Pickenpaugh
Williamson
Drew FE
Liberty High School
Hamlin
Lincoln County
Leanie McClood
Harts
Hatton Adkins
Huntngton
General Cigar Company
State Health Department
N. H. Byer
Amere Gas Utilities Company
Bert
Fort Pitt
Las
Ib Lis
Princess Pet
Lee Ceesea
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!