Farm Bureau Fund Bill Approved by House in Budget Standoff
The House passed a large agriculture appropriation bill for 1948 by 315 to 38, sending it to the Senate. The measure totals $847,601,976 with major cuts from the President’s budget and a last minute addition of $40 million from Section 32 funds to aid export and domestic consumption.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Department
Midwest Snowstorm Delays Memorial Weekend Transit
A spring snowstorm swept across the Midwest from Canada, dropping a foot in Alliance Nebraska and freezing temperatures as low as 33 in Spencer Iowa. Chicago logged about 44, with Des Moines at 39, freezing crops warning and officials predicting continued cold into Saturday.
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Chicago
Midwest
Canada
Rocky Mountains
Wyoming
Colorado
South Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Alliance
Neb
Middlewest
United States Weather Bureau
North Central States
Ben J. Sallows
Alliance Times-Herald
Spencer
Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Measure Survives Its Second Test
A measure authorizing the administration to run a foreign information service including Voice of America broadcasts survived a second legislative test. The rules committee voted seven to five to send the bill to the House floor for two hours of debate after sharp criticisms in committee. The foreign affairs committee had previously approved it unanimously.
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Washington
Voice of America
House
Rules Committee
Rules
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Delegates Clash Over Atomic Control Veto
United States Britain and Canada clash with Soviet Andrei Gromyko on a veto power over atomic punishment at a UN Security Council level. Canada and Britain resist expanding the veto while seeking alignment with UN disarmament goals. US favors direct international control and full authority over atomic matters.
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Lake Success
United States
Britain
Canada
Russia
Andrei A. Gromyko
United Nations Security Council
Gromyko
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Security Council
Charles Darwin
France
United Nations Assembly
A. G. L. McNaughton
Gromykov
McNaughton
Frederick H. Osborn
Key Probe Letter Termed Forgery
Senate subcommittee hearings on a $50 million gray market steel deal revealed that a crucial delivery letter was forged. Handwriting experts, including an FBI specialist, testified the signature was not genuine and that the letterhead may have come from hotel stationery.
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Washington
Senate
FBI
New York
Pittsburgh
Herbert M. Karp
New York City
E. A. Kerschbaumer
James Boyle
Brooklyn
N. Y
Hollywood
Kerschbaumer
Boyle
Gerald Firth
Firth-Sterling Steel and Carbide Corp
McKeesport
A. R. Zapp
Karp
Plane Crash Kills Two Flyers Near Modesto
A crop-spraying plane crashed and burned west of Modesto on Wednesday killing pilot George Coker 32 of Stevinson and passenger John Simmons 25 of Modesto. Witnesses blamed possible motor failure.
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Modesto
Calif
George Coker
Stevinson
John Simmons
Officer Is Guilty of Taking Japanese Jewels
An Army court-martial in Yokohama sentenced Col. Edward J. Murray to 10 years in prison and discharged him for misappropriating diamonds from the Bank of Japan vaults. The court reduced the jewels’ value to 92 000 dollars from 210 000. The sentence awaits review by Lt. Gen. Eichelberger and War Department.
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Tom Lambert
Yokohama
Col
Edward J. Murray
Bank of Japan
Palo Alto
Calif
Robert L. Eichelberger
United States Eighth Army
War Department
Eichelberger
Andrew H. Bachison
Oak Harbor
Wash
Accord Near on Labor Bill Reaches Final Agreement
A Senate House conference committee reached agreement on most provisions of a broad labor disputes bill. The sole unsettled issue is a House plan to exclude food processors and plant guards from Wagner act coverage. Taft said the panel also scrapped a ban on industry wide bargaining and dropped proposals allowing private employers to seek injunctions against strikes and boycotts.
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Washington
Senate House Conference Committee
Taft
Ohio
House
Senate
Woman Dies After Farmhouse Stove Explosion
Mrs. C. B. Stuart of Glendive dies at home after a May 14 stove explosion caused a kitchen fire. She endured three paralysis attacks between the accident and her death on May 28. The blaze began on the Burns Circle Vida route.
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Glendive
C. B. Stuart
Circle
Vida
Sacramento pilot critically injured in Sierra crash
Kenneth S. Ray a 19 year old private pilot from Sacramento was critically injured when his light biplane crashed during a night flight across the Sierra Nevada mountains near Placerville California on Wednesday night.
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Placerville
Calif
Kenneth S. Ray
Sacramento
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Thieves Steal Evidence in Vote Fraud Mystery
Kansas City report says that evidence used by a state grand jury in 81 vote fraud indictments was stolen from the board of election commissioners vault. Ballots poll books and tally sheets were rifled less than 12 hours after the jury finished its term. The theft prompted FBI probes and sparked political tension over alleged manipulation in the August Democratic primary.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners
Truman
Roger C. Slaughter
Missouri
Slaughter
Enos Axtell
Axtell
Albert L. Reeves, Jr
United States
Senate Judiciary
Star
James Kimball
Hugh C. Moore
Jefferson City
Grover C. Dalton
Harry S. Truman
Pendergast
James Pendergast
Slaying Probe Delayed by Missing Witnesses
San Francisco May 28 Two key witnesses in the murder inquiry into Nick De John vanished as they were to appear before the grand jury. District Attorney Edmund G Brown withheld their names. Another witness, James Frazone, offered to surrender from Chicago if protected. If the two do not appear the grand jury investigation will be postponed for one week.
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San Francisco
U.P
Nick de John
Chicago
Edmund G Brown
California
James Frazone
de John
Brown
Butte Forecast Warmer Thursday With 60 Degree High
Butte area sees clear skies and a slight warming on Thursday with a forecast high near 60. School of Mines reported 53/24 today at the campus, while the Airport logged 53/21. West of divide in Montana to fair and warmer, 60 to 70, while east of divide expect little change with 55 to 65.
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Butte Clear
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Butte High Graduates Get Diplomas at Colorful Rites
Butte high school honored 307 graduates at commencement in the school auditorium. James A. McCain of Montana State University urged graduates to use knowledge for good and highlighted Montana youths as educationally elite. He noted WWII inductees and regional aptitude differences, praising Rocky Mountain youths for superior capacity.
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James A. McCain
Montana State University
Missoula
Butte High School
George Haney
Lee R. Colston
Butte
McCain
Montana
Army
Navy
Rocky Mountain States
Montana Cadets Will Graduate From West Point
Two Montanans, John J. Kirby Jr. of Butte and John R. Rantz of Glasgow, will graduate from the U S Military Academy in West Point New York next Tuesday. Kirby attended Dartmouth and MIT and was active in boxing track skiing and Radio Club. Rantz attended Glasgow High School Drew Preparatory and served in the Navy and belonged to Ski Fishing and Skeet clubs.
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West Point
N. Y
United States Military Academy
8Ki
MacArthur's Son Fractures Arm in Ice Skating
Gen Douglas MacArthur's nine year old son Arthur fractured his left arm while ice skating at Memorial hall in the allied headquarters ice rink. He is reported in satisfactory condition at the 49th General hospital.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Arthur
Memorial Hall
Armed Forces
Allied Headquarters
49Th General Hospital
Morinigo Seizes Concepcion Perimeter as War Nears End
Paraguay's government announced in a communiqué that it had seized objectives on three sides of Concepcion, rebel headquarters, declaring the 11 week civil war near its end. Rebel radio broadcasts admitted withdrawals from points south of Concepcion.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Higinio Morinigo
Concepcion
Truman Plans Return Home after Ill Mother's Illness
President Truman, after easing illness of his mother, plans to fly to Washington Thursday if weather allows. He will be joined by wife Bess and daughter Margaret. He will attend the Thirty fifth division reunion in Kansas City June 6 and address a memorial service that night before returning to Washington.
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Grandview
Truman
Washington
E. S.T
Charles G Ross
Margaret
White House
Ross
Kansas City
Hotel Muehlebach
Crash survivors located after flying fortress crash
Army headquarters reported two more survivors found from the Flying Fortress crash in the Nicaraguan jungle bringing the total rescued or located to 11 of 15 crewmen. Tech. Sgt. Peter Beale of Nashville Tennessee and Sgt. Ray English of Blair Nebraska were identified among the latest recovered. The aircraft had caught fire and crashed while en route to Kelly Field Texas.
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Balboa
C. Z
Army
Nicaraguan
Peter Beale
Nashville, Tenn
Ray English
Blair Neb
Kellys Field
Texas
Senate votes $4 billion income tax cut to return to House
The Senate approved a $4,000,000,000 annual income tax cut 52 to 34, sending the bill back to the House. Key differences include retroactive vs upcoming July 1 effectiveness and a higher exemption for seniors. The plan offers 30 percent relief for low incomes and scales down to 10.5 percent above $302,400, with an extra $500 exemption for taxpayers over 65.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate House
Truman
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Calm Restored in Nicaragua After Bloodless Coup
MANAGHDA Nicaragua May 28 Nicaragua resumed its regular schedule and calm was reported after Monday's bloodless coup that deposed President Leonardo Argullo. Acting president Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa said no new election would be called. Somoza, the former president who led the national guard, pledged the same and accused Argullo of plotting his humiliation and assassination.
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Managhda
Nicaragua
Leonardo Arguello
Managua
Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa
Congress
Arguello
Anastasio Somoza
National Guard
Somoza
Coun
Quintuplets Mark 13th Birthday in Ontario Country Home
In Callender Ontario the Dionne quintuplets celebrate their 13th birthday despite rain and cold. Annette Cecile Emilie Marie and Yvonne wake early to open gifts in their mansion home as Msgr. Martel conducts mass. The sisters receive wrist watches and necklaces and a birthday dinner with five cakes and a family concert.
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Ont
Oliva
Dionne
Annette
Cecile
Emilie
Marie
Yvonne
Msgr
Henri Martel
Diannes
Quints
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