Southern Governors threaten split over Truman civil rights plan
Six Southern states Arkansas Alabama Georgia Mississippi South Carolina and Texas moved to oppose Truman’s civil rights program threatening a convention split that could cost him the 1948 election. Maryland Governor Lane says he will send copies of the manifesto to other Southern governors.
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Truman
Mr. Truman
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Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas
United States
William Preston Lane, Jr
Maryland
J. Howard McGrath
Democratic National Committee
McGrath
Congress
Spring brings graduations and June weddings in Idaho shops
The piece notes warmer weather returning after a cold spell and highlights spring gifts for graduates and brides. It promotes shopping early, features watches and take home silverware, and touts the expertise of three generations at Idaho’s oldest jewelers. It also advises consulting experts and asks newcomers to seek guidance from seasoned locals.
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Idaho
United States France and China Seek Palestine Truce
The United States France and China urged Arabs and Jews to accept a truce in the Holy Land as UN powers hold a closed Palestine session. The Arab high committee and Jewish agency were asked to negotiate while Russia refrained from objecting. The effort aims to suspend bloodshed ahead of a UN Security Council plan.
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China
Holy Land
Richard Witkin
United Press
New York
United States
Russia
Arab Higher Committee
Jewish Agency
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Egypt
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Palestine
Arab High Committee
UN Palestine
Security Council
Empire State Building
Park Avenue
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Nakhleh
League
Middle East
Taft Plane Forced Down on Kennebec River
Republican presidential hopeful Robert A. Taft and Senator Owen Brewster escaped injury when the Maine state plane developed engine trouble and made a forced landing on the Kennebec river. Pilot John T. Clark, Taft’s escort, kept the craft under control before landing. Both senators and Clark reached shore and continued by car to Orono for Taft to speak at the University of Maine.
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Vassalboro
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Sen
Owen Brewster
Maine
Kennebec River
John T. Clark
Maine Aeronautics Commission
Taft
University of Maine At
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Brewster
Augusta
Horace A. Hildreth
State Aeronautics Commission
Clark
Weather Outlook For Southern Idaho Tuesday
Partly cloudy conditions persist with little temperature change. Snow flurries are expected in mountain and southeast regions while the southwest stays fair and warmer. Highs range from 40 to 50 in the southwest and 35 to 45 in the southeast with lows near 25 to 40. The steel industry consumes about two billion gallons of fuel oil yearly for furnace heating.
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New York
Pett & Morris
Bers
New York Stock Exchange
Alleghany Ludlum Steel
Allied Stores
American Tel & Tel
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Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler Corp
Curtiss Wright
Farnsworth Television
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General Motors
Greyhound
Idaho Power
Kaiser Frazier
Kennecott Coppe
Montgomery Ward
National Dairy
Ohio. Oil
J. C. Penney
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Radio. Corp
Republic Steel Seepe
Sears Roebuck
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Joe Palooka in Unaccustomed Space
Cartoon character Joe Palooka is featured in a space themed storyline. The strip promises readers a thrilling retelling and asks fans to follow ongoing installments over the next few days.
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Joe Palooka
Amerka
Sicily Reds Stage Strike
Sicily's leftist workers staged a two hour general strike across the island in protest of political terrorism. Observers said about 40 percent effectiveness as shops closed during the siesta and the action marked the first direct labor intervention in the election campaign.
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Rome
Sicily
Market Trends Show Irregular Stocks and Mixed Livestock
Stocks were irregular in quiet trading as traders weighed soft coal strike impacts and war talk. Dow averages drifted with modest gains in aircraft shares, while cattle rose 1.00 to 1.50, hogs steady to mixed, and sheep active with varied prices in Ogden and New York reporting.
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Santa Fe
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Cerro de Casco
Dow Jones
Ogden
Nude torture victim rescued by Cincinnati police
A 22-year-old woman Miss Barbara Savage was found bound and bruised in a one room apartment after two weeks of torture. Harold Boehm, 32, held for investigation as officers file the case. Savage said a man transported her from their home 13 days earlier in a taxi to the hideout. Her initials were cut into her arm with a pocketknife.
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Cincinnati
Barbara Savage
Harold Boehm
Miss Savage
Klan Probes Begun After Newspaper Accusations
Columbus journalists Jim Bellows Carleton Johnson and photographer Joe Talbot allege they were roughed up drugged and forced to drink whiskey during a Ku Klux Klan night meeting. The Enquirer owners push for state and federal probes with Governor Thom son and the FBI involvement announced. Matches consuming over 100 tons of wood daily.
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Columbus
Columbus Enquirer
The
Enquirer
Georgia
M. E. Thomson
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Jim Bellows
Carleton Johnson
Joe Talbot
Washington
Tom Clark
FBI
Elderly gunman fires on teens near Manhattan armory
A 65 year old man Marco L Markovitch opened fire on a crowd of about 30 high school students outside an armory on Manhattan's west side injuring seven and killing one student Thomas Brady 16. He fled pursued by a mob and police before being captured after a chase ending at a building near Central Park.
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New York
Marco L. Markovitch
Manhattan
West Side
Markovitch
Thomas Brady
Brady
Department of Sanitation
The
Power Memorial Academy
Columbus Avenue
61St Street
Central Park
Organization To Battle Reds Proposes 10 Point Plan
In New York Common Cause Inc proposes a 10 point program to halt Soviet aggression. The plan includes a military treaty to guarantee Italy's independence and cites world condition parallels to pre World War III.
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New York
Common Cause, Inc
Italy
Rain Eases California Drought With Widespread Showers
Rain showers eased drought in California and across much of the nation. Temperatures rose above freezing from coast to coast with 60s in St. Louis and Fresno receiving nearly an inch. California power and water rationing remain in place as reservoir reserves build. A San Bernardino official caused cloud seeding with dry ice.
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California
Capolis
Seaboard
St. Louis
Fresno
Calif
San Joaquin Valley
Santa Barbara
Quick Method To Produce Yarn
The University of Minnesota developed a process to convert flax straw into linen yarn in under five hours. The key is removing gums and wastes from flax fibers in under an hour. Minnesota and the Dakotas produce 72 percent of the nation's flax.
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
Dakotas
Meyers Is Sentenced For Suborning Perjury In War Firm Case
Federal judge Holtzoff sentenced Meyers to prison for inducing Bleriot Lamarre to lie to a Senate Investigating Committee about Meyers and Aviation Electric Corp. Lamarre pleaded guilty to perjury. Meyers did not testify. The case tied to wartime defense contracts and kickbacks totaling about 150000 dollars.
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Alexander Holtzoff
Air Force
Meyers
Bleriot H. Lamarre
Senate
Aviation Electric Corp
Vandalia
O. Lamarre
Lamarre
Holtzoff
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