UAW Uses Stock in Major Motor Firms
The CIO United Auto Workers Union disclosed it has bought stock in every company it contracts with to monitor management. Secretary-Treasurer Mazey reported $1,918 invested and $129.80 in dividends over the last year. President Reuther noted one share in each employer, but said firms routinely overrule union input as a stockholder.
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Milwaukee
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Emil Mazey
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
Reuther
Uni
Fear Cold War Revival Orbits Berlin Truck Crisis
Russian authorities allowed four trucks to move to Berlin from Western Germany on Monday. Western allies warned the Cold War truce in the region might be ending as meat fish and perishable foods rotted in the sun. Vehicles crowded the Helmstedt control point at the western end of the highway to Berlin, the sole route along the 409 mile zonal frontier.
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Berlin
Germany
Helmstedt
French Plane Crashes Off Morocco Coast
A Junkers passenger plane with 12 passengers and 4 or 5 crew, likely from the French air force, went down Monday near Agadir Morocco after departing Dakar. Salvage crews moved in immediately as military and naval personnel were aboard.
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Paris
Junkers
Agadir
Morocco
Dakar
NAACP Opens 40th Annual Convention in Los Angeles
More than 500 delegates gathered in Los Angeles for the opening session of the six day 40th annual NAACP convention.
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Los Angeles
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
State Group Maps 1949 Ad Campaign To Boost Idaho Spuds
Boise Idaho will spend about the same amount as 1948 on potato advertising the Idaho Advertising Commission announced. The budget for 45 key markets mirrors last year which totaled roughly 105000 dollars. The campaign starts in fall using newspapers and trade journals for hotels restaurants and retail dealers. Revenue comes from a one cent per hundred pounds assessment on growers.
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Boise
Idaho
Commission
Lee Heller
Advertising Commission
Groweys
State Polio Cases Rise in Idaho
The Idaho Department of Public Health reports six new polio cases, bringing the total to 72 since January. An elderly man’s death in Idaho Falls raises outbreak fatalities to three, with 24 cases in the first ten days of the month and 26 in June. New cases include a 12-year-old girl in Moscow and a 28-year-old woman in Orofino among others, as officials mobilize resources to prevent epidemic spread.
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Idaho Department of Public Health
Idaho
Idaho Falls
Moscow
Orofino
Rexburg
Pocatello
Boise
Wood rejects calls to probe judge Kaufman
Washington AP chairman John S. Wood of HUAC denounced Monday as political efforts a push for inquiry into Federal Judge Samuel Kaufman of New York. Reps Nixon and Velde urged the probe, citing alleged partiality in the Alger Hiss perjury trial. Wood said the request is a political move and that the committee has no right to judge a judge’s impartiality.
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Washington
John S. Wood
D. Gay
House
UnAmerican Activities Committee
Samuel H. Kaufman
New York
Richard M. Nixon
Cal
Harold H. Velde
Wood
Kaufman
Alger Hiss
Aid Bill Gets Senate OK
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 1950 European Recovery Program bill totaling 3.778 billion dollars and added a 50 million dollar loan to Spain. The figure is 10 percent below Truman’s request of 4.198 billion and above the House 3.56847 billion for 10 months of the next fiscal year.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Spain
Truman
House
Weather Drought Cuts U S Summer Crop Yields
Agriculture Department predicts this year's summer truck crop harvest will be slightly below last year's despite larger acreage. Drought, especially in southern New England, Long Island, New Jersey, and parts of Pennsylvania, lowers yields for most crops except beets, watermelons, and cantaloupe.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
New England
Long Island
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Copon Coplon Cold To Ex Flame In New Court Appearance
Judith Coplon and Valentin Gubitchev met in a federal courtroom in New York on Monday as they sought a definite date for their joint trial on conspiracy to commit espionage. Coplon, 28, had been convicted previously on an individual espionage charge and is appealing. both defendants remain on bail.
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New York
Judith Coplon
Valentin Gubitchev
Miss Coplon
Gubitchev
William Benday
Washington
Two New Fires Break Out In Boise National Forest
Two small fires started Monday in the Boise National Forest with one blaze south and east of Barber Flats on the middle fork of the Boise River and another on Marble Creek. At Bear Valley a Sunday lightning fire remained out of control covering about 300 acres, with 41 of 107 volunteers from Boise joining the firefight alongside Forest Service personnel.
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Boise
Boise National Forest
Forest Service
Barber Flats
Middle Fork
Boise River
Idaho City
Marble Creek
Bear Valley
Conservationists Train SCS Workers On Irrigation Near Tyhee
Eighteen U S Soil Conservation Service employees trained Monday on four farms near Tyhee to learn proper irrigation water application. George Welch of the service said participants came from Montpelier Grace Lava Preston Malad and Downy. They will resume field instruction tomorrow.
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U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Tyhee
George Welch
the Conservation Service
Montpelier
Grace
Lava
Preston
Malad
Downey
Senate approves dock strike bill to end Hawaii stoppage
Senate Labor committee unamously backs a bill to let President Truman name a fact finding board and bind both sides to its final and binding recommendations in the 72 day Hawaii dock strike. Striking longshoremen threaten to unload no more relief ships if Matson Lines operate or are island-agent handled.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Honolulu
Matson Lines
Lines
CIO International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union
Matson
Governor dedicates lookout in honor of C. L. Billings
Governor C. A. Robins and state officials traveled to Northern Idaho to dedicate a timberland lookout point for the late C. L. Billings former general manager of Potlatch Forests Inc Robins praised Billings foresight in long term timber resource preservation program.
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Billings Point
C. A. Robins
Timberlands
Idaho
C. L. Billings
Potlatch Forests, Inc
Robins
Billings
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