President Truman Proposes Bold World Aid Program
President Truman asks Congress for a bold foreign aid plan to build up backward nations. He seeks a $45 million fund for engineering and assistance and export bank guarantees for private American investments. Regions include Africa, the near and far East, and parts of the Americas. The plan envisions long term, partly UN cooperative effort with government guarantees to spur capital overseas.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Africa
near
far wast
central
south America
congress
Rayburn
McCormack
Mass
Richards
D. S.C
foreign affairs committee
wiil
United Nations
Atomic Building Curbs Proposed
A Senate appropriations subcommittee voted to place new restraints on the Atomic Energy Commission. Senator O Mahoney said the aim is to brake expanding expenditures while Senator Hickenlooper criticized alleged mismanagement under Chairman David Lilienthal amid overrun concerns.
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WASHINGTON
senate appropriations
atomic energy comission
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
commission
Hickenlooper
Iowa
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
senate-house
atomic energy rcommite
Roosevelt Jr to join House committee on expenditures
Washington June 25 Rep. Franklin D Roosevelt Jr Democrat of New York was elected to membership on a major congressional investigative body. He will help guide house action on expenditures.
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WASHINGTON
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
house
congress
Baseball scoreline from an American League doubleheader
In a contained baseball recap the lines note teams Boston and another opponent with pitcher changes and batters. Players mentioned include Kennedy Papel Datrowski Sucas Parnell Tebbetts Zarilia Reeb and several fielding names. The fragment lists innings and runs with scattered defensive names.
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Judson
Burkent
Tipton
Fowler
Guerra
Boston
fix
Kennedy
Papel o. Datrowski
Sanford
ase
Maarsnail
Berra
Silvera
Sam Henry Husbands Elected President of Transamerica Corp
Sam Henry Husbands, who began in banking four decades ago as a $358 monthly runner, has been elected to the presidency of the vast Transamerica Corporation. Described as the poor boy who made good, his rise is noted as a remarkable career arc.
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Sam Henry Husbands
Transamerica Corp
Three Nations Stage Elections This Weekend
The Associated Press reports elections in Canada Belgium and Syria shape future directions. In Canada voters choose Monday between Liberal Prime Minister Louis St Laurent and opposition parties including George Drew's Progressive Conservative and M J Coldwell's CCF with minor groups also present. Belgium sees the Social Christian party backing Leopold III's restoration while Syria conducts a rubber stamp vote with Col Husni Zayim as sole candidate, the military governor who ousted the prior regime last March.
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Associated Press
Canada
Belgium
Syria
Louis St. Laurent
LIBERALS
progressive conservative
Ontario
George Drew
cooperative commonwealth federation
CCF
M. J. Coldwell
Beligium
Social Christian
Leopold Til
Switzerland
Leopold
Wilhelmina
Holland
Husni Zayim
Patronage Cut Draws Support
President Truman seeks to remove postmasters from politics and gains unexpected backing from patronage-minded lawmakers. House Democrats and supporters see it as good riddance, while Republicans are implied to gain none under a Democratic Congress. No names are disclosed.
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WASHINGTON
UPI
Truman
congress
capitol
house
Murray
D-Tenn
house- post office committee
Hiss Testimony Charges Lies and Fabrications
In blunt rebuttal over two days Alger Hiss branded Chambers allegations as fabrications. He is set to finish his testimony in federal court Monday then face cross examination as prosecutors prepare to question him. Judith Coplon may learn her fate later this week as her espionage trial proceeds in Washington. Gilbert Green testified about a Communist class linking revolutionary events to party strategy as the trial nears its 100th court day and 24th week.
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NEW YORK
UPI
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
Chambers
Judith Coplon
Washington
Archibald Palmer
justice department
Gilbert Green
Chicago
Green
California Oath Rule Questioned by Professor Hildebrand
Chemistry professor Joel P Hildebrand becomes the first faculty member to oppose the University of California loyalty oath as regents at Los Angeles vote to require all 400 faculty and staff to pledge loyalty and ban affiliated communists. Hildebrand seeks attorney input on possible constitution conflicts at Berkeley.
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LOS ANGELES
Joel P. Hildenand
University of California
University
board of regents
gath
communist party
Berkeley
Hildebrand
Coal Mine Offer Report Circulates
White Sulphur Springs W Va June 25 John L Lewis was reported today to offer to keep soft coal mines open during crucial contract negotiations next month if mine owners establish a three day work week. Negotiations with well over half the soft coal industry recessed until Tuesday for operator consultations across the nation. Lewis declined to comment and stayed at White Sulphur Springs.
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
W. Va
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Expansive Quality Of Texas Shocks Loyal New Mexicans
Loyal New Mexicans cried Caramba as a Texan allegedly claimed Albuquerque in a city directory printed in El Paso. The title page declared Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, Texas, leaving residents puzzled and surprised by the error in the regional directory.
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Texas
ALBUQUERQUE
N. M
Caramba
El Paso
Tex
Bernalillo County
Dapper Swindler Netted Millions in Robberies
CHICAGO June 25 UPDapper old Sigmund Z Engel 73 a vaudeville impersonator said I took women for millions of dollars He was arrested yesterday after being tracked by a widow in Los Angeles and a New York woman He confessed to swindling women coast to coast and claimed they taxed him but denied marrying any he took jewelry and cash from several brides and widows across the country Police recaptured him in a luggage shop with Mrs Genevieve Parra guiding the arrest He used many aliases including Paul Marshal and Sherlock Holmes in his schemes
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CHICAGO
Sigmund Z. Engel
Corrine Perry
Los Angeles
Engel
Las Vegas
Nev
Midas
Pauline D. Langdon
New York
Virginia
Peter Harlib
Lord Beaverbrook
Sherlock Holmes
Harlib
Solomon
UAW Gambling Charges to be Aired by Union
The UAW says the Paterson New Jersey local affairs including two year old gambling and racketeering charges will be discussed at the Milwaukee convention in July. The Times reported a suppressed 1947 internal report linked Paterson officers to gambling interests. the union notes discussions only.อต
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UAW
DETROIT
CIO
United Auto Workers
Paterson
N. J
Milwaukee
New York Times
UAW international executive board
New Jersey
The Times
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
Students Give Key to Ills Of World
A University of California Los Angeles psychologist reports freshmen and sophomores overrate their own personality. Men score self at 50 while rating others at 10. Women rate self at 60 and others at 10. Nine-tenths deem the average person maladjusted, revealing an inflated self view vs others.
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LOS ANGELES
George F. Lehner
psychology
University of California at
California
Lehner
Senators Oppose Move to Accept Red China Rule
Twenty one senators sent a letter to President Truman opposing formal recognition of the Communist regime in China. They urged backing a free, independent and non Communist China and stated no recognition of communist forces is contemplated. The group included five Democrats and sixteen Republicans, with critics also assailing other administration policies.
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WASHINGTON
United States
China
Truman
Cordon
Ore
Cain
Wash
Taft
Ohio
Bricker
Baldwin
Conn
Knowland
Calif
Bridges
N.H
Brewster
Reed
Kans
Mundt
S. D
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Spain
Israel
senate
Suspect Admits Slaying Woman in Morrison Iowa
Edward J. Beckwith, 27, held on an open murder charge in Grundy county for the mutilation slaying of Mrs. Irma Jean Stahlhut 22. He waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to district court after admitting in a signed statement to killing her with a paring knife in the walk in refrigerator of the tavern she and her husband ran. Police said the knife was found near Rock Island tracks in Morrison.
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John A. Meyer
Grundy county
Meyer
Beckwith
Stahlhut
Rock Island
Morrison
Max Studer
Studer
Ex-Husband Wins Alimony Claim in New York Case
Marie Hoffman Reed Robertson, heiress and grocery chain owner, must pay her ex-husband Louis F. Reed Jr. $1650 monthly for life after Supreme Court Justice Kenneth O'Brien ruled the alimony contract valid and not against public policy.
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NEW YORK
UPI
Marie Hoffman Reed Robertson
Louis F. Reed, Jr
Supreme Court
Kenneth O'Brien
Czech Partisans Attack Archbishop Beran in Protest
Prague June 25 The wartime anti Nazi underground now under Communist control denounces Catholic Archbishop Josef Beran as outside the nation’s pale. Beran, a Dachau survivor, resists subjugation of the Roman church as partisans and camp survivors publish the attack in the union’s Voice of Revolution. The group expelled Beran last summer over allegations connected to Father Josef Ploshar, linked to the government health ministry and later defrocked for cooperation with the Communists.
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Vatican
Josef Matocha
Olomouc
Josef Beran
Prague
Matocha
Czechoslovakia
Beran
Dachau
Ine warsnest
union of fighters for freedom
Voice of Revolution
alegedly
Condon Letter Chides Hoover Over Slan der Allegations
Idaho Springs June 25 Dr Edward A Condon chides FBI Director J Edgar Hoover over investigatory methods saying slanderous material about decent Americans should not become official documents He notes his demand on June 11 for an apology to Mrs Condon after her name appeared in an FBI report during the Judith Coplon espionage trial.
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IDAHO SPRINGS
Colo
Edward A. Condon
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
atomic scientist
Condon
Hoover
Mrs. Condon
Judith Coplon
Horse Can Handle Two Beers Exuberance in Miami
In Miami on June 25 a police horse named Buster enjoyed a couple of beers to cope with hot humidity. Patrolman Dave Lewis said the horse drinks like a gentleman but warns against giving him more than a couple. He joked that excess beer makes Buster imagine pedestrians as Indians and him as General Custer.
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MIAMI
Fla
Dave Lewis
Buster
Lewis
General Custer
Congress Set Next Week Votes on Housing and Labor
Washington June 25 Congress pauses floor work as housing and labor votes loom next week. House to begin housing amendments Monday with final showdown likely Wednesday. Senate faces a Tuesday choice on national labor proposals involving injunctions or seizure to avert industry disruption.
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WASHINGTON
Congress
schede
senate
house
Death by own action follows spat over dishes
SOUTH HARPERSVILLE Me June 25 The 24 year old wife of artist Stephen Ethier shot herself after a quarrel over using their automatic washer at the couple’s home after a supper with poet Robert P Coffin as a guest Deputy Sheriff Norem Emerson said Mrs Ethier formerly Jane Anne Walden Pierce of Georgetown DC married last September to painter Ethier 43 Baying The deputy said the incident occurred before Dr Coffin’s arrival and followed a grocery mix up and a high strung mood The wife shot herself with a .22 caliber pistol while at her dressing table
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HARPERSVILLE
Noreman Emerson
Stephen Ethier
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Emerson
Ethier
Jane Anne Walden Pierce
Georgetown
airlines
Dr. Coffin
Flash Flood Kills 49 in Mine Town
In Pachuca Mexico a 30 minute flash flood swept the old silver mining town. Officials say 28 injured and many killed including children. The casualty list was declared accurate though may be incomplete. Swift floodwaters submerged the marketplace and main streets under 10 to 12 feet of water. Local representatives meet to discuss regional trade and distribution concerns.
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PACHUCA
Mexico
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