Interior Budget Up by 143 Million in House Vote
The House Appropriations Committee approved an Interior Department funding increase of about 143 million. The bill would provide 405,621,881 of the 459,970,835 administration request for the 1949 fiscal year, with large cuts to administration but sizable allocations for reclamation projects and power transmission in the Pacific Northwest.
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Washington
INS
G.O.P
House Appropriations Committee
Interior Department
U. P
Senate
Bureau of Reclamacion
Bieveau
Congress
Pacifie Northwest
Uno
Virden Retires Resignation After Daughter’s Tass Link
John C. Virden, 51, Michigan Representative Crawford had urged his ouster over daughter Euphemia Virden’s work for Tass, the Russian news agency. Secretary Sawyer announced Virden withdrew the resignation and will remain in the Commerce Department’s office of industry cooperation.
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Washington
John C. Virden
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Virden
Commerce Department
Cleveland
Ohio
Crawford
R-Mich
Ohian
Vil Len
Euphemia
Tass
Truman
Today’s Features Trumpet Ameli a Aid Plans and Page Tour
A jumble of editorial notes and page references describes Amelia’s foreign aid program likely remaining as nature intended in Italy. Frederick C. Othman writes a humorous column on the editorial page about pages 36 and 37 with comics and features listed across sections including Ida Jean Kain Dr Dean Crossword Mary Haworth Horoscope and more.
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Amelia
Mount Vesuving
Italy
Frederick C. Othman
Ediitorial
Ida Jean Kain
Dean
Mary Haworth
Queen Mary Keeps Busy Birthday at Palace Lunch
Queen Mary, 81, marked a quiet birthday at Marlborough House and Buckingham Palace. She greeted well wishers, answered letters, and enjoyed a luncheon with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, while Princess Margaret rested with measles. Swiss musicians serenaded the queen as she departed.
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London
UPJ
Buckingham Palace
Marlborough House
Marlborough
George
Elizbeth
Margaret
Vet Quits U S to Help Rebuild Reich
Garry Davis 26 Broadway actor denounces American citizenship to become a citizen of the world. Forecasts show a slight warming trend with fair weather today and tomorrow, cool tonight with temperatures dropping to around 43 degrees. Previous record low for the date was 39 degrees in 1942.
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U.S
Reich
Aris
Garry Davis
Gandhi Slayer Up Davis Plans Return to Germany to Work on Rebuilding Nation
An interview quotes Gandhi Slayer Up Davis, bomber pilot and Meyer Davis's son, saying he plans to go to Germany to aid the rebuilding of the nation. He faces charges over the murder of Mohandas K. Gandhi and states he will go on trial with seven associates as announced.
Filibuster Looms Over Draft Civil Rights Rider
Senator Langer of North Dakota said he would seek to attach civil rights provisions to the draft bill, aiming to bar racial segregation in any draft, require fair employment practices, and protect service members from mob violence and lynching. He noted Congress has not enacted Truman’s civil rights recommendations and warned of a Senate filibuster as House opposition grows.
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Washington
Langer
R-N. D
Truman
Senate
Tiduse
UN Spoak
Congress
House
Fire Captains Promoted to District Chief in Mercury Fire Dept
Fire Chief William J Connell y today promoted James P Fitzpatrick and Donald O Reid to district chief. Both captains are World War I veterans. Fitzpatrick and Reid will assume duties at 8 AM on June 1. Weather note: 37 degrees early, 85 by noon, with historic weather record tied to city firefighters.
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William J. Connelly
James P. Fitzpatrick
Hatch St
Donald O. Reid
North St
Syts
Case Fire Department
Fitzpatrick
Istied Civil Service
Iatane Reid
Alfred E. Wagler
Eengine Co. 5
Gwalaean
Hsen
Hendricks
Heroisen
Andrew P. Kelier
Helen Straub
Bernard
Straub
Helene Schneider
Rend
Leutenant
IMG
Rodda
Syracuse
Day
Leff
Donald 0. Reid
Frank J. Costello
Lake Survey Fund OK'd by City Board of Estimate
Lake pollutions study by state departments led to a $49,000 appropriation request from City Engineer Nelson F. Pitt to fund an official survey of Onon daga Lake sources. The fund would be drawn from the capital improvements fund for a state mandated plan due by January 1 and would hire extra staff to survey streams sewers and disposal sites.
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LHR Board OF Estimate
Nelson F. Pitt
Onondaga Lake
Common Council
State Departments of Health and Conservation
State Department of Health
Pitts
Milk Price Increase To Take Effect June First
Syracuse housewives will pay an extra cent for each quart of milk starting June 1 after a local milk dealer announced a price rise for Class 1-4 fluid milk to 44 cents per hundredweight. The dealer claimed higher production and a beef shortage push prices, noting most of the added money goes to the distributor.
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Syracuse
Soviet Reverses Self On Zone News Ban
A conciliatory letter from Soviet officials to American authorities proposes a settlement for a free exchange of publications between the Soviet and US zones. It follows Col Gordon E Vesiar of USACD halting Soviet lit imports in retaliation for sanctions on American licensed works. The letter asks to rescind the ban and outlines hopes for a mutual exchange mechanism.
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Berlin
Ebay
Gordon E. ‘Vesiar
American Information Control Division
Anillary Goversinn
George Hays
Twins Found Dead In Bed By Mother
Mrs Salvatore Billione awoke to find her infant sons Joseph and Patrick dead in their Rochester bed. Monee County Coroner David H Atwater led the investigation.
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Rochester
Salvatore Billione
Joseph
Patrick
Shey
Monee County
David H. Atwater
Czech President Eduard Benes gravely ill in London
An official Czechoslovak source reported President Eduard Benes is gravely ill and not expected to recover after two strokes. The message states the illness occurred recently while he was abroad.
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London
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Optometrists Urge Ban On Blinking Eye Advertising Sign
The New York State Optometric Association asks the State Board of Regents to curb optometric advertising by banning large flickering signs displaying lenses frames and ophthalmic equipment. The resolution from their 53rd annual convention seeks to prevent signs that imply spectacle or eye imagery to lure patrons.
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Optometrists
Buffalo
New York State Optometric Association
State Board of Regents
Associalian
Whipper Dies as Headmaster Strikes Girls at Hockey
George S Adam, 68, headmaster of a Hopeman, died after a heart attack suffered while strapping three girl pupils across the palms for playing hockey. The school closed for the day.
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Whipper
Hopeman
Georges Adam
Syracuse Adds 23 Buses to Expand City Transit
Syracuse Cron sil, Corporation orders twenty three new buses seating 44, boosting total to 94 in service by year end. William U. Clinton says the units will debut on the Westcott Dudley and University lines, with smaller buses reassigned to Lynicourt Midland and Butternut Woodlawn Milton routes. delivery expected by Nov 1.
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Syracuse Cronsil, Corporation
William U. Clinton
Transit Company
Westcott-Dudley
University
Lynicourt-Midland
Butternut
Houses Stranded as Movers Strike on Hollywood Freeway Route
About 100 houses were halted along the Hollywood freeway route as AFL House Movers Local 923 went on strike for higher wages. The stranded homes rested on dollies and wheels awaiting instructions as workers refused to proceed with removal work.
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Angeles
Hollywood
AFL
Local 923
Rm Jae
Radar Victim Seeks Speed Limit Clarification in Columbus
Harry J. Leyland was fined $10 and costs after a police radar unit showed he was driving 47 mph inside city limits. The incident occurred in Columbus and reflects the local enforcement of speed limits.
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Columbus
Harry J. Leyland
Plan Aims to End Escorts for Funeral Processions
GEORGE H W BOWLES chairman of the common council said he will renew talks with city officials to end motorcycle police escorts for funeral corteges to tighten traffic enforcement. Bowles noted a request three months ago from the Mayor's Traffic Advisory Committee and that Corporation Counsel Lyle W Hornbeck was asked to draft an ordinance but found that it should not dictate fine details.
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George HW. Bowles
Common Council
Bowles
Ratte
Lyle W. Hornbeck
Hornbeck
UN Fails Again in Peace Aim in Palestine
Arab sources say Arabs will halt shooting only if Israel abandons the state and disbands its army. Israel’s provisional government reconsiders cease fire as Arabs push to win a Jerusalem decision before the deadline. Egypt and Trans-Jordan rail at the UN plan while the Arab League drafts new conditions for acceptance. Major parties warn the truce talks may fail.
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Palestine
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The
Catro New Aniper al Anos
Nekeashy Pasha
Deir Suneid
Tel Aviv
Haganay
Army of Israel
Jerusallem
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Carter L. Davidson
Hope
Arab League
Nothing Doing in Night Club Comment Sparks Community Chest Debate
Constance Bennett criticizes a woman's dependency on a husband during a Community Chest appeal. She recalls a South Bend saying that an unmarried girl needs a husband to do anything, and that marriage will not enable her to go anywhere without him.
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Constance Bennett
South Bend
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