Final Vote Set for Today on Housing Bill
Montana chamber official calls HR 4009 one of the costliest federal spending measures with projected 40 year costs near 19 billion dollars. He argues slum clearance aims lack guarantees of replacement and that public housing is not low cost housing.
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Tonio
Al-N. Y
Marcantonio
Powell
New York
Dawson
D-Nl
House
Bennett
D-Fla
Cole
R-Kan
Helena
U.P
National Congress
A. L. Hammerstrom
Billings
National Affairs Committee
Montana Chamber of Commerce
Hammerstrom
United States Bureau of Labor
GOP chiefs' unity urged after split over 1950 bid
Coleman attacks delay as GOP leaders push three regional grass roots conferences amid renewed party warfare over ousting Scott as national chairman following the 1948 defeat. A January Omaha meeting set a 21 member strategy panel with Scott as chair and Coleman as vice chair to coordinate the 1950 campaign.
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Coleman
Scott
Omaha
Congress
GOP
National Committee
Sailor Held in Navy Slaying Linked to San Diego Murder
In San Francisco on June 28 the FBI said sailor Jack Fannell, crewman of the Navy seaplane tender Salisbury Sound, is being questioned in the slaying of Harold Mendel Townsend, 25, of Bennettsville South Carolina. Townsend’s crushed skull was found in the Salisbury Sound armory at San Diego Naval Air Station. the ship later reached Port Chicago, San Francisco.
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San Francisco
U.P
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jack Fannell
Salisbury Sound
San Diego
FBI
Fannell
Harold Mendel Townsend
Bennettsville
S. C
Townsend
Naval Air Station
Navy
Benjamin J. Townsend
11Th
Naval
Port Chicago
Bailey Stortz Rites Will Be Today
Forsyth Montana funeral service set for Bailey Stortz prominent young lawyer fatally injured in a highway crash Saturday night. Rev. Owen Arrington will lead with graveside rites by Veterans of Foreign Wars and Masonic Hiram lodge. Stortz recently married Daryl Jones Stortz of Billings. survivors include his father a sister and a brother.
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Forsyth
U.P
Owen Arrington
Bailey Stortz
Montana
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Masonic Hiram Lodge No. 52
Stortz
Burton K. Wheeler
Daryl Jones Stortz
Billings
New York
Pretty High School Girl Murdered
The body of 17-year-old Mariel Baldridge a Prestonsburg high school cheerleader was found on the Big Sandy river bank. Coroner Brady Shepherd said she was murdered after a violent struggle though not criminally attacked. Local businessmen pledged a $1500 reward for the killer.
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Prestonsburg
Mariel Baldridge
Big Sandy River
Brady Shepherd
Brady
Tucker Trial Set for October in Chicago Case
Trial of Preston Tucker and seven co defendants on federal charges tied to marketing a rear engine car was scheduled for October 3 in Chicago. Tucker, president of Tucker Corporation, faces mail fraud securities violations and conspiracy as the company undergoes reorganization.
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Tucker
Chicago
Preston Tucker
Tucker Corporation
Securities and Exchange Commission
First American almanac printed at Bradford Press Philadelphia
An almanac produced in 1687 marked the first in this country, printed at the Bradford Press in Philadelphia, establishing a colonial printing milestone.
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Bradford
Phiadelphia
Pleads Guilty to Vicious Slaying in Michigan
Dudley Beatty 29 pleaded guilty to the murder of four year old Walter Peewee Eaton after luring him for ice cream. Beatty described beating and slashing Peewee with a broken beer bottle in a dark vacant lot before the boy's body was found two hours later. A sanity commission will determine murder degree with a possible life sentence.
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Lansing
Mich
Dudley Beatty
Walter
Peewee) Eaton
Beatty
Peewee
Paul Taylor
Coash
Sanity Commission
Michigan
Appointments to State Boards Announced in Helena
Governor Bonner named G. J. Grover of Deer Lodge to the state pharmacy board with a term through July 1, 1952. Other appointments include Burns of Wolf Creek for four years ending July 14, 1953 and William H. Meyers of Butte to the Montana School of Mines executive board for four years ending April 19, 1953.
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Burns
Wolf Creek
William H. Meyers
Butte
Montana School of Mines
Tom J. Davis
Henry B. Markus
Whitefish
State Food Distributors Board
Montana Trade Commission
H. T. Porter
Bozeman
Bonner
State Historical Society
Helena
G. J. Grover
Deer Lodge
John W. Bonner
State Pharmacy Board
Alabama signs anti masking law to dehood Klan attire
Alabama enacted a crime to wear masks or hoods on public streets. Only holiday revelers and children may wear masks as Gov. James E. Folsom signed the measure, the first southern step to dehood the Ku Klux Klan and imitator groups. Similar bills failed in Florida and Georgia.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
James E. Folsom
House
Florida
Georgia
Baruch Blasts Truman Delay on Industrial War Mobilization Plan
Bernard Baruch decried President Truman for failing to produce an industrial war mobilization plan. He warned such delays gamble with national security and called for a clear blueprint while defending military leaders from undue criticism at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces ceremony. He blamed civilian politicians for past internal threats to liberties.
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Washington
U.P
Bernard M. Baruch
Truman
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
Baruch
Mr. Truman
Paruch
Mistake by Baby Sitter Is Fatal
In Hammond Indiana on June 28 a nine year old babysitter caused the drowning death of 20 month old Carol Gora and serious burns to her twin Robert by filling a tub with water then leaving it unattended. The babysitter Joan Farrell described the fatal error to police.
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Hammond
Ind
U.P
Carol Gora
Robert
Joan Farrell
Harold Petrie
Petrie
Tragic Burns Claim Twin Childrens Lives At School
In a distressing incident two twins suffered third degree burns after an attempt to cool them in cold water at home. Both parents were at work. father Joseph Gora, 26, found the children at home. Carol died at St. Margaret hospital. the report notes a call for flag display during school days near every schoolhouse.
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Joseph Gora
St. Margaret Hospital
Carol
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