Two Unions Oppose President Seizure Authority
Two large unions condemned a proposed power for the president to seize control during national emergencies as a threat to freedom. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and United Electrical Workers warned against any compromise including seizure powers while urging rejection of government strikebreaking and injunctions.
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Washington
House ‘Labor Committee
Congress
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Ind
United Electrical Workers
CIO
The
Trainmen’s Union
Albert J. Fitzgerald
Union loan saves Flora Sentinel publisher from foreclosure
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers offered $11,500 to cover publisher Charles A. Crowder’s Flora Illinois Sentinel mortgage. Crowder accepted to support press freedom amid a long municipal electrical works strike and local business pressure over his paper. Union officials said the loan carried no strings.
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Washington
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Jend
Flora, Ill
Sentinel
Charles A. Crowder
Crowder
Flora
The
Municipal Electric Works
International Brotherhood
Illinois
Electrical Workers
Dan Tracy
Murder Laid To Gil 13
JOLIET Ill UP The Will county grand jury indicted Diane Allen 13 for murder and confessed she drowned her seven year old boy playmate Charles Johnson after admitting she had an urge. She will be arraigned in circuit court Monday and has been held at the Illinois Girls School Geneva to remove her from jail environment.
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Joliet
Ill
Will County
Diane Allen
Illinois Girls’ School
Geneva
Charles Johnson
Diane
Charles
Court Files $12,404 Suit Over Auto Crash
Melba Rawlins files in district court for herself and son Deloy against Nadine Wright over a June 2 1948 crash on state highway 34 near Grace Preston. Alleged negligent driving caused injury and mental distress with damages sought totaling 12 404.10 plus 2000 for son and 404.10 medical costs.
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Melba Rawlins
Deloy
Nadine Wright
Rawlins
Franco Loan Turned Down
President Truman rejected a proposal for an export import bank loan to Spain. At his news conference he said he would not favor any plan for Spain to buy U.S. commodities. Secretary of State Acheson had previously labeled Spain a poor credit risk.
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Washington
Truman
Spain
U. S
Dean Acheson
Bids Opened On Hospital Project At Blackfoot
P W Larson of Salt Lake City was the low bidder at 148573 for a central heating plant at the state hospital south of Blackfoot. Other bidders included Chytrous Bros 179989 Longview Plumbing 191516 George C Tway Idaho Falls 204995 Brennan and Cahoon Pocatello 213000. The bids will be advised on. Legislature provided about 222000 for the project. Citrus juices should be left unstrained to retain vitamin C.
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BOISE
P. W. Larson
Salt Lake City
State Hospital
South
Blackfoot
Larson
Commissioner of Public Works
John McKinney
Chytrous Bros
Longview Plumbing and Heating Co
Longview
Wash
George C. Tway
Idaho Falls
Brennan
Cahoon
Pocatello
McKinney
Church Calls Pocatello Missionary to Salt Lake City
Earl Roueche son of John Roueche leaves Pocatello to enter the Mormon mission home in Salt Lake City on June 20 to serve a French mission. A 1943 Pocatello High School graduate and U S Navy veteran he will receive his Idaho State College diploma next Monday. He has held several church positions and a farewell party is planned at the Fifth Ward LDS recreation hall tonight at 8 under Bishop George McOmber.
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LDS Church
Earl Roueche
John Roueche
Fifth Ward
LDS Hall
Pocatello
Salt Lake City
U. S. Navy
Idaho State College
George McOmber
Ninth Ward
Ban Oliver Twist and Merchant of Venice in New York Schools
A state supreme court suit seeks to remove Oliver Twist and The Merchant of Venice from New York public school lists, arguing they foster anti-Semitism by depicting Fagan and Shylock in vicious light. The action names the NYC Board of Education and Superintendent William Jansen and cites a previous May 24 ruling banning The Nation from schools.
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NEW York
State Supreme Court
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
William Shakespeare
Fagan
Shylock
New York City Board of Education
William Jansen
Man swims Orinoco river in Venezuela
Demetrio Mariain, a Soviet Ukraine native, swam the Orinoco river in Venezuela yesterday making the first such crossing. He spent one hour and 55 minutes in the water at a point where the river is five miles wide. The Orinoco is South America’s second largest river after the Amazon and drains much of the continent's north.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Demetrio Mariain
Orinoco River
South America
Mariain
Soviet Ukraine
Orinoco
Amazon
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Franco
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Farr
Oz. Pepper
Idaho
Ioe
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Cliquot Club
Vienna
Tex’s
Yin
ASNOW
AJNOW
Pocatella
Ring Wholesale
N. Main
Theo. Hamm Brewing Company
St. Paul, Minn
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