Hays Leads Southern Block Against Truman Civil Rights Drive
Washington UP Rep. B Hays D Ark opens the opening drive for a civil rights program acceptable to Truman and southern foes. He vows to lead opposition to federal enforcement of equal rights for Negroes while Congress holds hearings on FEPC and poll tax repeal. The plan includes a constitutional poll tax repeal and a federal labor division to curb discrimination, with a moderate anti lynching measure.
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Ashington
Ks Hays
Ark
Truman
Lays
House Werners
House
Iys
Eastman Kodak Cuts Prices Across Cameras and Projectors
Eastman Kodak Company announced reductions averaging 12.5 percent with some items up to 7.5 percent lower. The price cuts apply to still and movie cameras and projectors with typical reductions of 40 cents to 3.15 dollars for cameras and 36.50 dollars for a projector.
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York
Kodak Company
Idaho beet sugar crop falls from 1947 peak
The United States Department of Agriculture reports Idaho beet sugar crop at 1,233,000 tons in 1948, down 30 percent from 1947’s record. Value about $12.7 million with government payments near $2.50 per ton. Yield per acre 15.4 tons, above the 1937-46 average but below 1947.
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Oise
Idaho
U. S. Department of Agricul
Chicago cabinetmaker wins $30,000 on Stop the Music
Francis Lubien, 61, of Chicago, won $30,000 in prizes by correctly identifying as Buffalo the mystery lady on the American Broadcasting Company's radio quiz show Stop the Music.
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Jew York
Francis Lubien
Chicago
Buffalo
American Breathing Company
Crackpot Scientist Denounces Man Walking Upright
Izvestia publicized a Soviet biologist S D Antipin who argued humans began decline upon walking erect. The paper labeled him an ignoramus and traced his career from Kolchak era to Kishinev. Antipin mocked by Lavrenev as a former white guard and adventurer with controversial views on biology and human anatomy.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Boris Lavrenev
Antipin
Admiral Kolchak
White Guards
Red Army
Kolchak
Lavrencv
Woman Killed By Customer Then He Took Own Life
In St Louis a restaurant customer killed Mrs Elva Burrow 24 mother of a six year old after she reminded him of his dead wife. He shot her with a revolver taken from his roommate a police officer and fatally wounded himself. The assailant had threatened her with a knife earlier.
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ST. Louis
Elva Burrow
Doersam
General Lucius Clay Leaves Berlin for Retirement Trip
Gen Lucius D Clay the retiring American military governor for Germany left Berlin by plane with his wife at 6 p m for Washington arriving Tuesday morning. A Berlin street now bears his name General Lucius Clay Strasse as thousands gathered at Tempelhof to bid farewell and watch his C 54 take off for retirement in Georgia.
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Lucius D. Clay
Germany
United States
Washington
Clay
Lucius Clay Strasse
America
Tempelhof
Ray
Georgia
Female Matador Conchita Cintron Kills Bull in Bordeaux
Peruvian matadora Conchita Cintron, hailed as the only woman in her field, killed a bull before about 10,000 spectators in Bordeaux. Rain halted the event, and a second bull was not fought. another appearance was planned for today as Cintron had previously fought in Paris with restricted methods.
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Bordeaux
France
Conchita Cintron
Paris
Pacific Pact Hinted Soon
Australian Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley announced plans for a Pacific defense pact modeled on the North Atlantic treaty. He said Australia Britain and New Zealand would be charter members with the United States and other Pacific nations to join later, aiming to create a regional security framework.
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Australia
Joseph B. Chifley
Chifley
Britain
New Zealand
United States
Pacific
North Atlantic
Belgium
Denmark
Norway
Italy
Iceland
Portugal
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Bomb attempt targets Latin American consulates in Barcelona
Police in Barcelona found an automobile used by terrorists who planted crude bombs at the Peruvian Bolivian and Brazilian consulates in an unsuccesful strike. Colombian consulate may have been targeted but resistance halted the plot. One device exploded only lightly damaging the Peruvian building. two bombs exploded simultaneously.
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Barcelona
Spain
United Nations
Peru
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Tenant Evicted After Feeding Garlic to Landlord’s Dog
Milwaukee case reports tenant Charles Baumgartner admitting to feeding garlic to his landlord’s dog to improve the animal’s system. The judge adjourned the case with a recommendation that Baumgartner find a new place.
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Milwaukee
Charles Baumgartner
Ba Baumgartner
Willkie Kin Hurt in Rainy Cambridge Crash
Phillip H. Willkie, 29, and his mother Edith Willkie were injured when their 1946 sedan skidded on a rain slick curve near Fairview, Belmont County, rolled over, and landed in a field. Phillip suffered a throat hemorrhage but was not in serious condition. Edith received severe shock and possible internal injuries. The pair had left New York for Rushville Indiana earlier.
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St. Francis Hospital
Indiana
Edith W. Willkie
Rushville
Ind
Philip Willkie
Fairview
Belmont County
Highway 40
Willkies
Government hiring handicapped folk
The civil service commission reports that in six years the federal government hired 98 700 physically handicapped persons, including 33 800 permanently disabled veterans. It also seeks agency reports on blind and deaf employees in the Washington area to aid disabled job seekers.
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Washington
The
Civil Service Commission
Catalina flying boat crash on Detroit River kills two
Two crewmen died when a Catalina flying boat crashed during landing practice in the Detroit River. Nine other Navy Reserve fliers were rescued with minor injuries. Divers recovered the two enlisted men's bodies as divers searched the wreck. Names were withheld pending next of kin notification.
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Detroit
Detroit River
Navy
James P. Walsh
Grosse Isle
Naval Reserve
Lake Erie
Agricultural seeds first sold commercially in U S
The note recalls that agricultural seeds began commercial sale in the United States around 1747, marking an early milestone in American farming commerce.
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United States
Furloughed Killings Trace McClary Pattern of Fury
In Kingstree South Carolina prison officials allowed John McClary a weekend furlough. He did not return and was found to have slain his third wife Alma Burgess McClary. McClary had previously killed his first wife in 1937 and another wife with a male companion in 1947. He was serving a ten year manslaughter sentence.
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Alma Burgess McClary
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