Belgium Election Boosts Leopold Return Prospects
Belgium's June 5 parliamentary vote gave Catholics a slim absolute majority in both houses and signals possible royal restoration. Leopold supporters expect his return in July despite half the country opposing him and debates over whether a one‑vote margin suffices for a long‑term government.
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Brussels
Belgium
U.P
Leopold
Social Christian
Senate
House of Representatives
Albert de Vlesschauwer
Cop Accused Of Slaying Cop In Brooklyn Barroom Shootout
New York June 5 an off duty policeman Vincent Flemming 44 was accused of holding up a Brooklyn bar and grill at gunpoint and shooting customer John Sheerin 23 who died Flemming was beaten by patrons and later named as homicide suspect from a hospital bed he aided in arresting Harold Blanch 24 a drinking companion not charged yet District Attorney Miles F McDonald said Flemming would be booked later Blanch denied involvement and no money was taken
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New York
Brooklyn
Vincent Flemming
Harold Blanch
John Sheerin
Miles F. McDonald
Flemming
Blanch
Bevin Improves After Intestinal Operation
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin is recovering well from an intestinal operation performed Saturday. No further bulletins on his condition will be issued, his private secretary said today.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Weather Outlook for Terre Haute and Indiana
The forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions across Terre Haute and surrounding areas. Tonight’s low around mid fifties, Tuesday highs near eighty. Indiana and Illinois regions trend generally fair, with warmer rates in central and southern portions.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Indiana coal operators weigh northern group alliance
Indiana coal mine operators consider forming a northern alliance with a permanent association to deal with the United Mine Workers. Hugh B. Lee Sr. said both Indiana producer groups have not acted yet as Ohio, western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia operators already started the new body, named Bituminous Coal Operators Association, with headquarters in Washington.
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Indiana
United Mine Workers of America
Hugh B. Lee, Sr
Indiana Coal Producers Association
Maumee Collieries
Terre Haute
Producers Association
Indiana Coal Operators Association
Lee
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
R. Livingston Ireland
Pittsburgh Consuliation Coal Co
Harry M. Moses
Pittsburgh
H. C. Frick Coal Co
Washington
Ireland
U.M.W
John L. Lewis
Illinois
Child Saves Mother's Life In Terre Haute Gas Incident
A 10-year-old daughter found her unconscious mother Eleanor Smith 37 beside a basement gas oven at 1423 South Eleventh and one half street Terre Haute. Firemen revived her with oxygen and she was taken to St Anthony's Hospital in good condition.
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South Eleventh
Terre Haute
Eleanor Smith
Norman Fesler
Resuscitator Squad No. 1
Dilemma of American Foreign Policy Explained by Truman
President Truman asserted the world faces risks and the free nations must protect their security. He urged continued military aid to nations threatened by communism while noting a poll predicting war by 1955. Officials say his dual roles create perceived contradictions in his policy stance.
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United States
Truman
Gallup
Congress
Paul Revere
Apostle of
Truman appoints three man panel to review veterans hospitals
President Truman names Dr. How ard A. Rusk Dr. Arthur Abramson and Rear Admiral Obert L. Dennison to a three member committee. The panel will review the veterans hospitalization program with focus on paraplegics and amputees and report to the president. Protests over hospital transfers and the Hoover commission push for centralized control are linked to the issue. The American Legion opposes merging veterans hospitals into a single administration.
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Washington
Truman
Howard A. Rusk
New York University College of Medicine
Bellevue Hospital
Arthur Abramson
Veterans Administration Hospital
The
Bronx
Obert L. Dennison
Congress
Birmingham General Hospital
van Nuys
Calif
Veterans Administration
Department of Defense
Hoover
American Legion
Veterans Hospitals
Sale of Binkley Stock Reported by Truax Tract
Truax-Tract Coal Company is reported to be purchasing stock in the Binkley Coal Company which controls the Victory mine east of Terre Haute. Industry sources say no changes in company structures are expected. offices are in Chicago. The deal would give Truax-Tract control of the Victory slope mine and the Pyramid Coal Corporation’s Pinckneyville strip mine.
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Truax-Tract Coal Company
Binkley Coal Company
Victory Mine
Terre Haute
Indiana
Chicago
Binkley Stock
Truax-Tract
Victory Slope
Pinckneyville, Lil
Pyramid Coal Corporation
Ruby Glow
Arkansas
Jeanne Ann
West Columbia
W. Va
Trunex-Tracr
Illinois
West Virginia
North Dakota
Clinton Man Hurt in Plane Crash
Clinton Indiana June 5 Joseph Brazzeale 32 of Clinton RR 3 was piloting a plane that crashed in a field near the Overpeck farm by Clinton airport. He was taken to Vermillion County Hospital in serious condition with few details available due to his injuries.
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Clinton
Ind
Joseph Brazzeale
Vermillion County
Brazzeale
Orchid Winner Directs Traffic For Fire Units
Ariel Reynolds of 120 North Twenty second street received today’s Orchid for Safety. Reynolds alighted from the city bus he operates to direct traffic at Thirteenth street and Wabash avenue during a fire run, aiding the assistant fire chief, the No. 6 fire company apparatus, and a police squad car. Officers Loudermilk and J. S. Beasley praised his courtesy for expediting equipment movement and reducing collision risk.
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Ariel Reynolds
Truman signs bill authorizing foreign aid for recovery
President Truman signed a foreign recovery act authorizing 3.2485 billion dollars for European recovery Korea underdeveloped areas Arab refugees and UN children programs. Congress must appropriate the money and may cut the total while Truman lauds the plan as building a safe prosperous world.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Congress
Korea
Palestine
United Nations
Western
Europe
Board Seeks Port Money For Hulman Field Project
The Board of Aviation Commission authorized a $220000 government aided terminal project at Hulman Field with federal share. Construction may start by late summer while a paving extension at Hulman Field is granted due to waterlogged ground. The Coca Cola Bottling Co. earns a one year concession lease at Paul Cox Field for 300 dollars. 500 gallons of aviation gas will be used for naval training aircraft five days per month at Hulman Field with gas priced 5 cents above cost. The undeveloped Hulman Field section may be rented to Robert Scott to plant a soybean crop with a quarter of the yield going to the city.
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Hulman Field
Board of Aviation Commission
LeRoy White
Harry Fitch
Fitch
Paul Cox Field
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Jack Hart
U.S. Naval Reserve
Hart
Robert Scott
Brazil
Totalitarianism Doomed Says Webb
Syracuse N Y Undersecretary of State Webb said the world moves toward an era in which totalitarian ism will decay before mounting freedom demands even within Russia He added that the American program seeks a better world for others as well as ourselves and that the future depends on the audience’s help.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Webb
Russia
Syracuse University
Lava Speeds Toward Sea From Mighty Mauna Loa Eruption
Honolulu dispatch reports Mauna Loa spouting lava toward the sea in what officials call the century’s greatest eruption. Evacuation reached Kona village and nearby areas including Ohio Lodge and Opihali as 40 residents were displaced and 60 more fled. Seismographs logged 65 quakes in 60 hours as experts warned the eruption could last longer than two weeks.
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Honolulu
Mauna Loa
Kona
Hawaii
Pacific
Ohio Lodge
Opihali
Kahuku Ranch
Kau, Naalehu
Waiohinu
Hawaii Island
Oahu
Hawaii Kona
Ray H. Finch
Finch
Alaska teen acquitted in cabin murder case
A 17-year-old from Seattle testified he killed James Sugaira after being lured to a remote Portage cabin. He said Sugaira bound him and forced sexual advances for two days, then left the cabin briefly and was killed when he returned.
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Anchorage
Alaska
U.P
Garry Cooper
Seattle
Wash
James Sugaira
Portage
Cooper
Suguira
Court bans dining car segregation in railroad travel
The Supreme Court, by an 8-0 vote, outlawed Negro dining car segregation nationwide, citing a violation of the Interstate Commerce Act. Justice Burton wrote the opinion, with Justice Clark not participating. Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Black, Reed, Frankfurter, Douglas, Jackson, and Minton joined.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Burton
Clark
Vinson
Black
Reed
Frankfurter
Douglas
Jackson
Minton
Germans Regain Chemical Control Under Allied Commission
The allied high commission returned control of the west German chemical industry to German authorities today except for select war only products. Germans also gained control of some dual use chemicals and the fine mechanics optics and electronics sectors saw many controls scrapped.
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Bonn
Germany
Allied High Commission
Suspect Held in Homicide Near Dresser Wa bash Levee
Vigo county lawmen probed the murder of Fred Hubbard 37 found dead early Sunday in front of a tent on the Wa bash river levee half a mile south of Dresser. Hubbard shot through the heart and neck while living with 37 year old Richard Large who is held on a 5 000 bond on a venom technical charge and investigation.
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Richard Large
Fred Hubbard
Lafayette Avenue
Wabash River
Dresser
Vigo
Hubbard
Denzil M. Ferguson
Large
John R. Jett
John Trierweiler
John Halter
James McKinney
Elmer Brown
Brown Tavern
Tax balancing falling short in house tax plan
Washington June 5 The House ways and means committee is about 500 million dollars short of balancing proposed excise and other tax cuts. President Truman warned he will veto any measure lacking offsetting revenues. A staff confidential report outlines new steps to raise 695 million dollars annually. Tax reductions total about 1.243 billion dollars already approved.
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Washington
U.P
House
Ways and Means
Truman
Cabinet leaders seek large aid to arm free world
Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson urged Congress to approve 1 2225 million for a three to four year program to rearm the free world. They warned of dangers in Europe and the Far East from Soviet backed communism and called for beefed up western Europe for potential war use of new weapons.
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Washington
U.P
Dean Acheson
Defense
Louis Johnson
Congress
Free World
Russia
Johnson
Western
Europe
Acheson
Far East
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Acheson Rejects Cold War Label in Briefing
Secretary of State Dean Acheson said the term cold war is not good and lacks a better descriptor. He noted the phrase has been twisted since its origin describing Soviet pressure and is now used to describe U.S. and allies efforts to work for peace.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Soviet Russia
Acheson
United States
Johnson urges alliance expansion to deter aggression
Johnson argues bulwarking the free world is the best path to peace. He says the North Atlantic alliance and arms aid program are the only road to peace and security, while Russia blocked every other avenue. He calls for increased European forces to meet the threat and notes Russia's hostility. Continued on page 2.
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Johnson
North Atlantic
Russia
Czech defiant defendant calls regime dregs in court
In Prague on June 5 a mass espionage treason trial of 13 Czechs opened with Zdenek Peska calling the communist regime the dregs of society and pleading partially guilty to treason. Prosecutors labeled pamphlets slanderous anti-soviet incitement. The defendants face overthrow charges with help from western reporters and diplomats including Laurence Steinhardt.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
U.P
Zdenek Peska
Stoep
Peska
U.S
Laurence Steinhardt
Scranton Businessmen Seek Lifeline for City’s Economy
Civic leaders urge Scranton residents to mobilize for total effort to avert economic collapse. The Lackawanna valley faces population decline and job losses as coal wanes. the LIFE campaign aims to raise $2 million to attract new industries and revitalize the area.
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Scranton
Lackawanna Valley
Pennsylvania
Lackawanna County
L.I.F.E
Lackawanna Industrial Fund Enterprise
Frank C. Walker
Ralph x. Weeks
International Correspondence Schools
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