Senate Votes to Provide Relief Funds
The Senate approved 79 to 4 a full 350 million dollars in relief aid for abroad, rejecting a 200 million alternative and House restrictions on aid to Communist ruled nations. The plan requires proof the food and medicine come from the U S and targets Austria Greece Hungary Italy Poland China and Trieste with limited emergencies elsewhere.
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Washington
Senate
House
U.S. A
Senate House Conference Committee
U. S
State Marshall
Austria
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Poland
China
Trieste
United States
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Kem
R-Mo
McClellan
D-Ark
Russia
Soldier Admits He Killed Girl
A 17-year-old soldier confessed to killing Edna Lucille Kietzman, 21, a blonde beauty operator found stabbed beaten and strangled in an alley at Rantoul Illinois. The suspect Socorro Villagran of San Pedro California was charged with murder after questioning at Chanute Field. The case links to the brutal Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles.
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Rantoul
Ill
Edna Lucille Kietzman
A. J. Lynn
Army Air Forces Training Command
Chanute Field
Socorro Villagran
San Pedro
Calif
Earl Meenach
Urbana
Joseph Clancy
Villagram
Black Dahlia
Los Angeles
Elizabeth Short
Orlando proposed as Italy's new premier amid cabinet resignation
Alcide de Gasperi announced Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 87, former WWI premier, as head of Italy's new government after resignations. The move came in a conference with President Enrico De Nicola. Orlando is seen as an independent, while Christian Democrats ponder governing with or without coalition support from Communists and Socialists.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Italy
de Gasperi
Enrico de Nicola
Orlando
Christian Democrats
Two Injured in Palestine Explosions
Two people were injured in blasts in northern and southern Palestine on Wednesday night. At Sarafand a mine exploded in the garrison movie theater wounding a soldier. In Aifa area patrols found two Jews with guns and explosives after an earlier blast.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Sarafand
Aifa
Petticoat Army Marks Five Year Anniversary
In Washington on May 14 the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps observed its five year anniversary with a tea and a large birthday cake topped by five candles. Col. Mary A Halloren, the new director, was first guest. The corps began in 1942 to undertake about a dozen jobs including clerical work, telephone, teletype and chauffeuring.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Petticoat
Wacs
National Capitol
Mary A Halloren
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Congress
Ex Communist Says Americans Trained by Reds
Washington reports a government witness testified at Carl A Marzani's trial that US students sent to Russia by the Communist party were drilled in theories to overthrow the US government. The witness said Marzani used the alias Tony Wales in New York in 1941.
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Washington
Carl A. Marzani
Russia
United States
Communist Party
Marzani
State Department
George Hewitt
New York
Tony Wales
Hewitt
Wales
International Lenin School
J. Anthony Panuch
Panuch
Jony Wales
Tire Production at High Level in 1947
Leonard K. Firestone, president of Firestone Tire and Rubber, says American tire output in 1947 will match 1946 at about 80 million tires, with 61 million in 1941 as the prewar peak. He notes ample supply except for certain sizes and tests show motorists ride on better tires postwar.
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Leonard K. Firestone
Los Angeles
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of
California
Butte
Harvey Firestone
Great
Akron
Ohio
Frank Dunbar
Firestone
R. W. Davis
George G. Sims
Salt Lake City
Mr. Firestone
Liberia
South America
Ceylon
Housewife Slain by Holdup Man in Peoria
In Peoria Illinois on May 14 a 26 year old housewife Olive Baker was shot to death on a lonely road after resisting a masked holdup. Her husband Marshall Baker worked at a brewery. The suspect demanded 5 dollars from escort William Dollard who was not detained.
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Peoria
Ill
Olive Baker
Marshall Baker
William Dollard
Baker
Dollard
Soviet Plan Seeks Jewish Arab State in Palestine
Russia urged the United Nations to create an independent Jewish Arab government in Palestine. Arab leaders rejected a dual state unless Jewish immigration is restricted. The Zionists showed conditional openness to partition while Britain’s mandate faced strong criticism. A UN political commission was to report on the Holy Land issue as truce pleas urged a pause in hostilities.
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New York
Russia
United Nations
Palestine
Holy Land
Jewish Agency For Palestine
Britain
Palestine Mandate
Andrei A. Gromyko
General Assembly
Norway
Committee Seeks Restored Funds for Western Projects
Senate Interior appropriation panel hears governors from Washington Oregon and Colorado urge restoring funds for reclamation and power schemes. Senators Wherry Bridges and Dworshak discuss justification for restored or increased House allocations including Bonneville Power Administration projects and irrigation survey funding.
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Washington
Senate
Interior Department
House
Wherry
R-Neb
Bridges
RN. H
Dworshak
Ridaho
Mon C. Wallgren
Earl Snell
Oregon
Lee Knous
Colorado
Fund For Reclamation
Bonneville Power Administration
Father Chains Girl to a Chair to Prevent Elopement
In Meadville Pennsylvania on May 14 Charles Mehalko 45 was free on bail after pleading innocent to chaining his 20 year old daughter Mary a Zip per company worker to a chair for two days to stop an elopement. Police say she was bruised from beatings and she offered to post bail but he refused and put up the money himself. A hearing is set for Friday.
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Meadville
Charles Mehalko
L. P. Stauss
Crawford County
Mary
Mehalko
Calvin H. Pickens
Thirty Travelers Reported Missing After Shipwreck
In Costa Rica on May 14 thirty of 78 shipwrecked travelers were officially reported missing after a coastwise launch carrying them from Quepos to Puerto Cortes struck a sand bar and sank. The vessel sailed from Punta Arenas with 132 passengers aboard.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
U.P
Quepos
Puerto Cortes
Punta ‘Arenas
Taylor accused of being forced into Song of Russia by government
House Un American Affairs Chairman J Parnell Thomas says Robert Taylor was made to act in Song of Russia, a film he claims served as propaganda. Donald Nelson denies WPB involvement, while Richard Arlen condemns Communist influence in Hollywood and warns actors about potential propaganda in scripts.
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Los Angeles
Robert Taylor
J. Parnell Thomas
R-N.j
House Committee On UN
Donald Nelson
Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers
Hollywood
WPB
Taylor
Nelson
Thomes
Arlen
Twenty Killed in Minerva Film Plant Explosion in Rome
In central Rome on Wednesday night a blast and ensuing fire at the Minerva Film company plant killed about twenty people and injured many more. Fire crews feared up to sixty or seventy fatalities as rain aided efforts to fight the blaze. charred clothing suggests many women among the dead and some victims jumped or were blown from the building.
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Rome
U.P
Minerva Film Company
Wallace Urges 150 Billion World Program for Peace
Former vice president Henry A. Wallace told a Chicago gathering that the administration politicizes Europe’s misery and urged a $150,000,000,000 program of American exports and investments worldwide. He blasted the Truman doctrine as a path to war and pressed a human needs based plan as the true road to peace.
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Chicago
Henry A. Wallace
Europe
Illinois
Progressive Citizens of America
Wallace
Winston Churchill
Congress
Budget Reduction Wins Approval
The House tentatively approved a 22 percent cut in the State department budget for next year while keeping the 219,128,058 recommendation intact. The bill also funds the Justice department 108,396,500, Commerce 191,057,000, and Federal judiciary 17,146,450, totaling 535,728,008, about 23 percent below the President's estimates. Final passage expected tomorrow as air traffic control tower funding seeks 34,849,000 to continue federal operation nationwide.
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Washington
State Department
House
Appropriations Committee
Department
Justice Department
Commerce Department
Federal Judiciary
Rep. Rooney
D-N. Y
Weather outlook for Butte and Montana districts
Butte stays partly cloudy and cool Thursday with a high near 55. Mines and Airport readings show highs around 57 to 59 and overnight lows from 33 to 34. West of divide expect mostly high clouds and little temperature change. east of divide becomes partly cloudy with scattered showers in the southeast and highs 55 to 65.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Butte Resident 65 Years Dies
William MacDonald a Cape Breton native and longtime Butte resident died Wednesday at his home 537 South Colorado after a long career as a structural iron worker with Anaconda Copper Mining Co. He was a First Presbyterian member and Iron Workers unionist. Survived by wife Christina, two sons Fraser and George R. MacDonald, five grandchildren, a brother-in-law and four sisters-in-law, plus a cousin and several nephews. Body at Whites funeral home.
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William MacDonald
Cape Breton
Nova Scotia
Butte
South
Colorado
MacDonald
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
First Presbyterian Church
Structural Iron Workers’ Union
Christina MacDonald
Fraser P. MacDonald
George R. MacDonald
Hot Springs
Christina Ruth MacDonald
Cleveland
Ohio
G. E. Anden
St. Paul
Minn
John W. MacDonald
Denver
Sara Jane MacDonald
Fraser P. MacDonald, Jr
R. D. MacGregor
Canada
A. G. Fraser
Tena Fraser
Boston
Mass
John MacDonald
San Francisco
Thomas MacRae
Whites’ Funeral Home
Patterson Promises Ration to Be Met from Here on
War department announces emergency measures to rush over 1.2 million tons of food to American and British zones in Germany by July 31. Secretary Patterson says regular shipments are sped up and the German ration will be met, with 400,000 tons sent monthly to the Anglo American zone May through July and the rest from the United States.
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Washington
U.P
Germany
War Department
Robert P. Patterson
United States
British Empire
Europe
Patterson
Jury to Deliberate in Romney Bank Fraud Case
The government finished a three day prosecution of Kenneth Romney former House sergeant at arms after an FBI agent testified Romney admitted losing 50 000 in Florida real estate ventures with John H Smithwick. The defense rested without witnesses and the judge ordered jurors to begin deliberations.
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Washington
Kenneth Romney
House
FBI
Romney
Florida
John H. Smithwick
Alexander Hotzoff
D-Fra
Edward Armbruster
Smithwick
Alexander Holtzoff
William D. Bankhead
D-Ala
John P. Kiley Named Vice President of Milwaukee Road
John P. Kiley election as vice president of the Milwaukee Road was announced. He has served as assistant to the president since June 1946 and is based in Seattle. A Chicago native, he is a Villanova graduate in civil engineering and has held multiple Milwaukee roles including auditor and assistant general manager.
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John P. Kiley
Milwaukee Railroad
Seattle
Kiley
Butte
Milwaukee
Chicago
The
Villanova College
Clay threatens seizure of hoarded German foods
In Berlin Gen. Lucius D. Clay pledged to jail any political agitator exploiting Germanys food crisis and warned troops could seize hoarded farm supplies. He cautioned the crisis may persist three to four weeks and urged farmers to speed shipments to markets amid sporadic strikes and demonstrations.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Clay
Communist Party
Hesse
President Signs Portal Pay Bill
President Truman signed the portal pay bill to outlaw portal to portal claims. He said the law will clarify employer uncertainty about nearly 6 billion dollars in claims and help both labor and management maintain high employment. He urged Congress to raise the minimum wage to 65 cents an hour.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Secretary of Labor
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Labor
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