Labor Chiefs Clash Over Taft Hartley Repeal Row
CIO President Philip Murray accused John L. Lewis of rumor mongering and lack of responsibility in denying a Lewis claim that Murray and AFL President William Green settled on a pusillanimous compromise for Taft Hartley repeal. Murray praised Truman and anti Taft Hartley efforts, while Lewis labeled Murray and Green as oppressors.
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WASHINGTON
i CIO
Philip Murray
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Murray
AFL
Wiliam Green
Green
Truman
Savant Quizzed In Spy Hunt
Washington June 7 The house un American activities committee met behind closed doors with Dr J Robert Oppenheimer one of the scientists who helped develop the atom bomb He said he was asked about several people whose cases have long been before the committee He added the committee would not likely ask about fishing laws and Chairman Wood said Oppenheimer had been called to help on several matters and was cooperative.
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WASHINGTON
house
un American activities committee
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
un-American activities committee
Wood
D-Ga
Caplon Defense Wins One Round in Coplon Case
Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves ruled the jury in the Judith Coplon espionage trial is entitled to inspect all contents of her purse at arrest. He ordered disclosure of 12 data slips and the full text of numerous FBI reports, despite prosecutors objections, a decision the court has been weighing since Friday.
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WASHINGTON
Albert L. Reeves
Judith Coplon
Reeves
FBI
Peace in Holy Land Predicted by Bunche
Philadelphia June 7 AP reports Dr Ralph J Bunche says permanent peace in the Holy Land appears near He believes the fighting there is over and a settlement may be near finalization with the end of hostilities in sight and steps toward lasting peace anticipated
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PHILADELPHIA
Holy Land
Ralph J. Bunche
Senate Panel Backs Atlantic Pact Ratification
Washington June 7 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee calls for ratification of the North Atlantic pact as best to avert war. The report urges early action, says failure would endanger world peace, and notes ratification does not commit the U S to a 1 13 million rearmament program for Western Europe. Senator Connally predicts overwhelming approval and may push treaty debate if labor bill stalls.
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WASHINGTON
senate foreign relations committee
senate
wuyuae, mae
United States
Europe
Canada
Connally
D-Tex
foreign relations committee
western
Chambers Admits He Lied in Grand Jury Probe
Whittaker Chambers told federal jurors he lied seven times before the grand jury that indicted Alger Hiss on perjury charges. Judge Samuel Kaufman said the witness’s early grand jury testimony conflicted with trial statements, granting access to the minutes for cross examination.
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NEW YORK
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Chambers
state department
Samuel H. Kaufman
Hiss
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Stryker
Kaufman
Molotov Shift Believed Likely In Charge Of Russian Policy
Washington dispatch reports American officials believe Deputy Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov may now oversee Russian policies in China and other areas. The June 7 notice notes the shift in leadership could expand Molotovs influence on Asia policy.
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WASHINGTON
V. M. Molotov
China
Ohient
Gray Nominated Army Secretary by White House
The White House announced President Truman nominated Gordon Gray as secretary of the army. Gray has been acting head of the army department since Kenneth C. Royall’s resignation last month and was undersecretary before. Born in Baltimore and long based in North Carolina, Gray previously led the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel and served in the North Carolina state senate. He came to Washington as assistant secretary in 1947 and became undersecretary on May 25.
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WASHINGTON
White House
Truman
Gordon Gray
army
Gray
army department
Kenneth C. Royall
WhiteHouse
Charles G. Ross
Defense
Louis Johnson
Curtis E. Calder
New York
Baltimore
North Carolina
Winston- Salem Journal
Twin City Sentinel
North Carolina state senate
Verdi Impersonation Sparks Lawsuits And NBC Censorship
New York June 7 Opera star Verdi would be troubled by a Broadway like clash over an impersonation on NBC television. Dorothy Kirsten plans suit against Catherine Mastice for a La Traviata impersonation by Milton Berle. Mastice says Kirsten owes an apology. NBC will drop the skit from west coast rebroadcasts and offered no further comment. Kirsten also appears on SEC Performer Music Me program.
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NEW YORK
Giuseppe Fortunino
Francesco Verdi
Dorothy Kirsten
Hollywood
Milton Berle
National Broadcasting co
Catherine Mastice
Berle
Miss Matice
Johnson Denies Military Seek Atomic Control
Washington June 7 Secretary of Defense Johnson said the military does not seek control of atomic energy developments. He pledged to maintain this stance despite a letter to Senator McMahon and amid Senate House atomic committee inquiries into alleged mismanagement at the AEC. The panel remains split on naming employees with questioned loyalty.
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WASHINGTON
Johnson
McMahon
D-Conn
senate-house atomic committee
Hickenlooper
Iowa
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
CASE
Lilienthal
senate house committee
Coal Operators Seek Strike Weapon In New Contract Fight
BLUEFIELD W Va June 7 Southern coal operators demanded that John L Lewis drop two long used strike weapons from the next contract. They want removal of the able and willing clause triggering work only when miners are ready and the memorial shutdowns for diggers killed in accidents. Operators presented four major changes before awaiting Lewis reply.
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BLUEFIELD
W. Va
Southern coal
John L. Lewis
United Mine workers
Lewis
House Studies Housing Bill in Mass Meeting Push
Democratic leaders call a 3 p.m. EST mass meeting of party members to rally votes for President Truman’s housing bill. Republican Leader Martin of Massachusetts plans a GOP rally, urging halt to new spending. The House Rules Committee meets to decide advancing the measure or bypassing it under new anti bottlenecking rules.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Martin
Massachusetts
house rules committee
Ancient Remains Found in Japan Archaeologists announce 5000-year-old discovery
Pi-Meiji University archaeologists report bones of a man about 5000 years old found by two students at Hirazaka shell in Yokosuka near Tokyo. The find supports the theory that humans inhabited Japan during the stone age.
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TOKYO
Pi—Meiji university
Hirazaka shell
Yokosuka
Japan
Ministers Facing Berlin Showdown
Paris June 7 AP four foreign ministers from the United States Britain France and the Soviet Union met in the pink marble palace at 3 35 p m EST for an open session. Western ministers outlined strategy and discussed two Berlin unity proposals from Acheson and Vishinsky. Britain and France back the American plan though no broad agreement was expected.
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PARIS
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
U. S
Dean Acheson
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Acheson
Vishinsky
Russia
Labor Party Wins Battle in British Conference
Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's economic boss, defeated a vocal revolt led by small trade unions at the Labor party conference. He won a strong show of hands for hard labor policies, rejecting calls for an emergency budget and tax hikes. A general election is tentatively scheduled for next May or June after five years of Socialist rule. Cripps warned of a tough period, urging no holding back to boost production and reduce costs.
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BLACKPOOL
England
Stafford Cripps
Britain
Labor party
Cripps
Lord Strahelgi
house of lords
Fleeing Gunmen Recaptured After Wreck Near Washington Kas
In Washington Kansas two of three Minnesota gunmen wanted for police murder kidnapping and robbery were captured after their car crashed into a washed out culvert. One limped quarter of a mile to a farm house for help following the wreck. Hartman 20 and Bistrom 27 were identified. third man Beatty 21 from Tekamah Nebraska was believed to be an hitchhiker.
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WASHINGTON
Kas
Minnesota
here
Bill Smith
Allen G. Hartman
Bistrom
Hartman
Marysville
Kate Thompson
Carl Bistrom
Nebraska
Bill J. Beatty
Tekamah
Neb
Greek Airplane Crash Kills 22
Twenty two people perished last night in a plane crash north of Athens. The Greek airliner Dakota caught fire and struck a hill near Malakasa, killing 18 passengers and four crew. Maj. Gen. George Kotsalos, Kavalla military governor, was among the dead.
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ATHENS
Malakasa
George Kotsalos
Kavalla
Payroll Guards Robbed on Campus
On June 7 two Wells Fargo Express guards were robbed of $19,000 in payroll funds on the Columbia University campus. Police said two armed men emerged from a doorway at university hall, demanded the money, and fled in a waiting car toward Broadway.
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NEW YORK
Wells Fargo Express co
Columbia university
university hall
Broadway
Plane Crash Near San Juan Kills Dozens Aboard C-46
A charter flight carrying 75 aboard, including 19 children and five Americans, crashes into the Atlantic minutes after departing San Juan. Coast guard reports 28 survivors. 47 missing feared dead. Survivors and bodies recovered to hospitals. salvage work to begin. Flight en route to Newark via Miami, operated by Strato Freight.
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SAN JUAN
Puerto Rico
United States
Atlantic
U. S. coast guard
coast guard
Judith Hale
Binghamton
N. J
Newark
Miami
Strato Freight, Inc
Bradley field
Windsor Locks
Conn
Wakefield
Miss Hale
Jack Connell
Bronx
N. Y
George S. Cary
Hartford
Reno Employees Discuss Pension Plan In Mayor Office
Representatives of Reno city employees were to meet with city officials in Mayor Francis R. Smith's office this afternoon to discuss a proposed new municipal pension ordinance. The bill would strengthen the pension system, calls for greater city contributions, and sets a board to administer the fund with employees seeking the largest representation and officials preferring majority control by elected leaders.
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Reno
Francis R. Smith
San Francisco
Mitchum Friend Lands in Jail in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills on June 7 reports Lila Leeds the young actress from the Robert Mitchum marijuana case was jailed for being drunk in an automobile. The 21 year old was held after an incident in Beverly Hills.
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BEVERLY HILLS
Calif
Lila Leeds
Robert Mitchum
Revenooers Warn of Drunk Skunk After Still Robbed
In Corsicana Texas on June 14 a drunken skunk was present as officers Sheriff David Castles Liquor Control Board Inspector R T Bailey and Deputy R E Jones dismantled a homebrew still in the Trinity river bottoms The skunk approached and helped itself to the liquor as the officers collected evidence then left noting the animal would likely be skunk drunk soon.
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CORSICANA
Tex
Trinity river
David Castles
Liquor Control Board
R. T. Bailey
R. E. Jones
skunk
Postwar U.S. unemployment peaks in May 1946
The Census Bureau reports May unemployment rose by 273000 to 3,289,000, a postwar high. The rise defies usual April to May seasonal drops, with 68,000 more unemployed than February’s peak. Despite the increase, May employment rose from April and is higher than May last year as youths join summer work. Farming shifts boosted total payrolls by 875,000 to 58,694,000.
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WASHINGTON, Inc
census bureau
AMA Curtails Morris Fishbein
Dr Morris Fishbein long regarded as the spokesman for American medicine has been toppled from that height by the American Medical association. Trustees in Atlantic City curtailed his activities forbidding speeches statements or press interviews on controversial subjects with all engagements to be set by the AMA executive committee.
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NEW YORK
Morris Fishbein
American Medical association
Fishbein
western hemisphere
Europe
AMA
Atlantic City
hig
Five Charged in Philippine Airlines Death Plot
Manila June 7 five men and a listed unnamed woman were charged with murdering 13 people by bombing a Philippine Airlines plane on May 7 in Daet Luzon. Investigators say the plot aimed to let the woman claim her husband’s inheritance amid a hidden affair.
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MANILA
weeman
Philippine airlines
Daet
Luzon
John Doe
Mary Roe
Professor Wins Patent Litigation
Louis H. Cook, a Catholic university professor, won a $5,000,000 patent suit against the government. The Court of Claims unanimously upheld his claim to the invention of an ignition shielding system used by the government during the war to prevent electrical interference with radios in planes autos tanks and other vehicles.
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WASHINGTON
Louis H. Cook
Catholic university
court of claims
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