Hoover Links Collectivism to Slower World Recovery
Former President Herbert Hoover told a House appropriations subcommittee that Europe’s shift toward collectivism and utopian schemes has hindered recovery. He urged freeing industry in former axis nations to boost production and backed $725 million for civilian relief in Germany Austria Korea and Japan. He warned harvests will lag, farms face black market pressures, and western nations bear Europe’s burden while praising free enterprise.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Europe
House
Germany
Austria
Korea
Japan
War Department
Fone
Hoover
Western Hemisphere
Australia
South America
Whe
Lynching Attempt Arrests Made in North Carolina
Rich Square North Carolina May 27 police chief said seven men were arrested on kidnapping charges in connection with an attempted mob action against Godwin Buddy Bush a 24 year old Black man in Jackson last Friday morning. All seven were released on bonds of two thousand five hundred dollars each.
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Rich Square
N. C
Frank Outland
Godwin
Buddy) Bush
Jackson
Mother and three children die in Yakima fire
A mother Marguerite Stanton 27 and her children Sharon 6 Marvin 7 and Carolyn 8 were burned to death in a four room Castlevale district house west of Yakima early Tuesday. Firemen did not know the residence was occupied until after flames were subdued. Bodies suggested all tried to flee from beds. Cause undetermined. The mother’s ex husband reportedly remained in Texas.
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Yakima
Wash
Castlevale
Marguerite Stanton
Sharon
Marvin
Carolyn
Frank Tousley
Rural Fire Department
Tousley
Death ruled suicide in Mrs Emily Randolph case
Coroner Herbert P. Lyle on Tuesday issued a verdict that Emily Randolph a 30 year old socialite died by her own action. Her body was found in the front seat of an automobile in the fumes of the garage at her suburban home.
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Cincinnati
Herbert P. Lyle
Emily Randolph
Power Failure Delays Paper In Butte Substation Fire
A fire at the Montana Power Co. Montana Street substation early this morning cut power across Butte, delaying the printing of The Standard for more than five hours until service was restored around 4 o clock.
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Montana Street
Montana Power Company
Butte
President Truman Seeks Inter-American Military Cooperation
Congress showed little inclination to act on Truman's call for a law to standardize military cooperation with Latin American nations and Canada. The House and Senate deferred action while other foreign policy measures, including refugee aid and the Voice of America program, waited for floor debate.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Senate
House
International Refugee Organization
State Department
Rules Committee
Information Service
Voice of America
Foreign Affairs Committee
United Nations
Germany
Austria
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Canada
Taft
Ohio
Pepper
D-Fla
Attlee Defends Britain's Foreign Policy at Labour Conference
Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the Margate Labor gathering that Britain is subservient to none in foreign affairs and will collaborate with all on UN principles. He rejected rebels' charges of U.S. subservience and outlined transitions from war to peace and from capitalism to socialism, noting ongoing controls due to shortages.
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Margate
England
U.P
Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Great Britain
United Nations
Attlee
Ronni Zilliacus
R. H
Crossman
United States
Russia
Labor
Britain
Federal Government Breaking Counties
A House public lands subcommittee examined Toulumne County California home to Yosemite park noting a budget of about 500000 a year. County Supervisor Ernest Hodge described the finances as sad while warning that counties face strain as the federal government increases its purchases and the government itself nears hardship.
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Washington
House Public Lands
Toulumne County
California
Yosemite Park
Ernest Hodge
Voice of America workers laid off on 30 day leaves
The State department office of information and cultural affairs laid off 30 day leaves for 273 of 1,031 domestic employees in New York and Washington. If Congress does not grant Mundt bill sanctions and needed funding the leaves could become permanent after June 30.
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Washington
State Department
Office of Information and Cultural Affairs
Congress
Voice of America
New York
OIC
Truman Proposes Merged Housing Agency Plan
President Truman calls for a permanent housing and home finance agency by merging federal housing functions. The plan, sent as reorganization plan number three of 1947, would take effect in 60 days unless Congress disapproves. It aims to improve economy and efficiency while preserving the emergency program.
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Washington
President Truman
Truman
Capitol Hill
Congress
Nicaragua Names Lacayo Sacasa Acting President After Coup
In Managua on May 27 Congress declared President Leonardo Argüello unfit following the army takeover. Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa was named acting president as Argüello reportedly sought asylum at the Mexican embassy. Somoza praised a calm transition and promised free elections without violence.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Leonardo Arguello
Congress
Arguello
Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa
Lacayo Sacasa
Mexico
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
Senate Rejects Income-Splitting Plan in Budget Vote
House Republicans win 189 to 170 to slash 32 percent from presidential funds for Agricultural Department in fiscal 1948. The rule blocks over rides. Democrats denounce the move as tyranny while Hope accuses leadership of usurping rights.
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Washington
U.P
House
Agriculture Department
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Clifford R. Hope
Agriculture Committee
Appropriations Committee
Adolph J. Sabath
D-Til
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Sabath
G. O. P.-controls Appropriations Committee
Vishinsky says no danger of war after Russia abolition
Andrei Vishinsky stated in Pravda that the abolition of capital punishment in Russia shows loyalty of the people and a secure peace despite aggressive efforts. He said the act demonstrates the might of the Soviet regime and that the cause of peace is secure for a lasting period.
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Moscow
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Russia
Pravda
Vishinsky
Weather Forecast for Butte and Montana Divides
Mostly cloudy Wednesday and Wednesday night with light rain and slightly warmer. Butte highs near 60, airports show 49/43, Mines 49/41. West of divide partly cloudy to cloudy with light showers and little temperature change. high 60 to 70. East of divide, north partly cloudy, south cloudy with rain in the extreme south and scattered showers north. highs 55 to 65.
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School of Mines
Montana
Jewish Underground Bombs Rail Hub in Palestine Violence
In a new wave of Palestine violence the Jewish underground blew up a railway station at Ramleh and derailed a freight train while sabotaging tracks. An Arab woman was slightly injured. The Stern group claimed responsibility saying the action was retaliation for British defiance of UN ceasefire orders.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Ramleh
Tel Aviv
Stern Group
United Nations
Holy Land
Stern Gang
Cyprus
Truman Wallace merger seen as possible 1948 ticket plan
Former Minnesota Governor Harold E. Stassen predicted a Truman Wallace merger before the 1948 Democratic convention. He said they would resolve foreign policy disagreements and unite to lead the ticket, forming a bloc to win support including from anti-Wallace states like Texas.
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San Antonio
Texas
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Truman
Henry A. Wallace
Stassen
Wallace
President's Mother Shows Improvement
President Truman said there is some improvement in his critically ill mother. The report notes a mild rally followed by an overnight slump, with condition described as basically unchanged.
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Grandview
Truman
Married Veterans' Allowance Boost Approved by Committee
The House veterans committee voted to raise living allowances for married GI bill students from 90 to 105 dollars monthly, while leaving single veterans at 65. The plan adds 20 dollars per month for the first child and 15 dollars for each additional child, and includes an anti Communist clause denying payments to those who advocate government overthrow or belong to FBI certified groups.
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Washington
House Veterans’ Committee
FBI
Boy Tells How He Killed Playmates
Oliver Terpening Jr. a 16-year-old farm youth, admitted to killing four children including Stanley Smith and the Smith sisters Barbara Gladys Janet, as they searched for wild flowers. State police said he cited no motive beyond wanting to see someone die. Justice Perkins issued a murder warrant as Terpening described planning and carrying out the shootings.
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Imlay City
Mich
Oliver Terpening, Jr
Stanley Smith
Albert Perkins
Donald Leonard
Terpening
Leonard
Myrtle
Smith
Barbara
Gladys
Janet
Ella Mae
Stanley
Louise Overell May Not Take Stand in Her Defense
In Santa Ana California on May 27 Louise Overell faced a court decision as her defense counsel accepted for cause a six by six jury for her murder case tied to her parents yacht slayings. Co defendant George Bud Gollum faced a shift in questioning by attorney Otto A Jacobs who still holds 15 peremptory challenges.
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George Gollum
Louise Overell
Santa Ana
Calif
Miss Overell
Chubby
B. Kaufman
George
Bud) Gollum
Otto A. Jacobs
Senate rejects tax break proposal for universal income splitting
The Senate voted 51 to 29 against an Arkansas sponsored amendment to allow husbands and wives in all 48 states to file separate returns. The plan would let couples report half of their combined income separately, a system now used in 10 community property states. The measure faces future review in a broader tax revision.
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Washington
Senate
McLellan and
Pulbright
Arkansas
Millikin
R-Colp
Farlher
House
Lucas
D-Ill
Treasury
House Conferees Bow to Senate Labor Bill Concessions Reach Agreement
House conferees on labor legislation abandon three major union curbs after informal talks with the Senate. Rep. Hartley says the House will yield on bans against industry wide bargaining private injunctive power and mass picketing in exchange for Senate acceptance of safeguards allowing non strikers to pass picket lines. The move aims to secure a bill likely to pass despite a Truman veto threat.
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Washington
House
Hartley
R-N. J
Senate
New Jersey
Truman
Court Upholds Anti Portal Pay Bill In Tacoma
Federal Judge Charles H. Leavy upheld congressional action on portal-to-portal pay suits and dismissed cases involving over one million dollars in back pay and damages in Tacoma. Separate dispatch from Philadelphia reports Sen Owen Brewster proposing consideration of a United Nations without Russia in a radio broadcast.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles H. Leavy
U. N
Russia
Philadelphia
Owen Brewster
Maine
United Nations Organization
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