Georgia governors race heats with weekend meeting
In Georgia six weeks from the governor race, CIO PAC called a Sunday meeting for 67 locals to back a candidate or none. Candidates assail each other over pacts with Rivers, Talmadge, Harring and Arnall allies while pledging white primaries, county unit plans, and voter manipulation claims.
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Atlanta
CIO Political Action Committee
CIO
Eastman, & Co
Rivers
James Carmichael
Eugene Talmadge
Carmienzel
LaGrange
Talmadge
Roy V. Harrig
Allie
Carmichael
Arnall
James Cox
Atlanta Journal
Miami
Talmadge Rivers-Harris
Georgia
Moultrie
Hoke Willis
Willis
Looming Tie-up Backed by AFL Amid Seamen Strike Tensions
Bureau reports Senator Bankhead in poor condition after a stroke. AFL maritime unions show split support for the CIO seamen and dock workers strike planned for June 15. CIO leaders press for international backing while wage talks proceed at the Labor Department and Bridges Curran lead the maritime unity effort seeking a 40 hour week and raises.
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Max Hall
Washington
AFL
CIO
CIIO
Joseph Ryan
AFL International Longshoremen’s Association
William Green
America
CIO Marittme Ileaners
Truman
Labor Department
Harry Bridges
Joseph Curran
World Federation of Trade Unions
WFTU
Paris
U. S
AFI
Russia
Britain
France
Moscow
Europe
Bridges
Curran
Committee For Maritime Unity
West Coast
National Maritime Union
Atlantic
Gulf
Great Lakes
Brutal beatings at U S guardhouse in Lichfield trials
Six witnesses across three court martial cases describe prisoner beatings at the U S Army guardhouse in Lichfield England. They testify Lt. Leonard Ennis Lt. Granville Cubrage and Pfc William Norris allegedly struck prisoners with clubs rifle butts and fists. One man claims a jaw fracture and another says Norris punched eight prisoners.
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Bad Nauheim
Jne 3
U. S. Army
Lichfield
Eng
Leonard W. Ennis
Peekskill
N. C
Granville
Cubrage
Oklahoma
William B. Norris
Fred Moore
New
Raven
Conn
Noris’ Halged
Moore
Norrig
Norris
Thomas Capello
North Damen Ave
Chicago
Ennis
Capello
Cubage
Ott C. Holt
Gilman
Holt
Strike Control Labor Bill Returns for House Hearing
President Truman's emergency strike control bill returns to the House for a rump hearing with unions invited. Sixteen critics of the measure and four top union chiefs will attend the 4 p.m. session to press their views as Congress debates powers to seize plants and draft workers during work stoppages.
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Washington
Truman
House
Organized Labor
Senate
de Lacy
D-Wash
Interstate Committee
Russian military might cited at six million under arms
Nuernberg June 3 AP reports Allied sources say Soviet Russia released over ten million men in ten months yet about six million remain under arms. One high source estimates the Red Army Navy and NKVD total about 4.5 million, with air force adding 1.5 million.
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Nuernberg
Russia
Red Army
NKVD
Air Police
Gurney backs draft extension to boost volunteers
Senator Gurney argues a one year extension of Selective Service with higher pay will spur volunteers and could end the draft. He urges quick Senate passage after the House blocked inductions to October and barred drafting teenagers.
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Gurney
Washington
Senate
House
South Dakota
Selective Service
Banner Day At Georgia Farmers Market Sets Sales Record
Saturday's sale at the Georgia State Farmers Market reached 585622 dollars, with the week total near 200000 dollars. Market Manager Herbert W Singletary led daylong auctions as trucks and traffic flooded grounds prompting patrol and sheriff assistance to clear the congestion.
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Georgia State
Herbert W. Singletary
Sheriff's Office
Bingletary
Georgia and Northwest Florida Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy conditions persist in Georgia with a few light showers along the coast followed by clearing. Cooler tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. Similar pattern for Extreme Northwest Florida with light coastal showers then clearing and a slight cooldown. Tuesday temperatures show little variation.
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Georgia
Florida
House Fights Over Atomic Control Measure
Washington June 3 AP scientists battle military over domestic atomic energy control shifts to the House. The Senate favors civilian control with a five member commission and military liaison. May expects Senate bill passage and referral to the Military Committee next week. Sparkman backs quick House approval and possible substitution of the Senate measure. Both bills keep strict ownership and experiment controls with final presidential say on military issues.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Military Committee
Alreday
Army
May
D-Ky
Commission
Rep
Sparkman
Alabama
Control Commission
National Foundation Grants $10,620 to Warm Springs
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced a $10,620 grant to the Georgia Warm Springs foundation for continued graduate training in polio treatment. Basil O'Connor, president of the national group, said Dr. Robert L. Bennett directs graduate training at Warm Springs.
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Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Georgia Warm Springs
New York
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Georgian Warm Springs
European refugee arrives in Seattle with stockings and butter
Mrs Anna Lob, a former inmate of the Residentstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, arrived in New York and then Seattle. Her first words were “I am from Europe. Concentration camp. No stockings.” In Seattle she had seven pairs of stockings and a pound of butter with no explanation of the butter’s origin.
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Seattle
Wash
Anna Lob
Talmadge Warns White Primary Endangers Jim Crow Laws
Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Eugene Talmadge warned in Greensboro that abolishing the white primary would end Jim Crow, accusing federal rulings and alleged communists of pressing black voting and desegregation. He cited Judge S. Q. Sibley as guiding the fight to retain the white primary.
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Greensboro
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Moscow
Harlem
Zoot-Suiters
Talmadge
S. Qi. Sibley
Circuit Court of Appeals
U N Proposal For Break With Spain Seen Modified
In New York a U N Security Council spokesman signaled likely edits to a sub committee report urging a worldwide diplomatic break with Franco Spain The report circulated after a month long probe into Poland charges that Franco endangers world peace seeks to refer Spain to the General Assembly for a call to break with Franco if he remains in power in September Five council members France China Australia Poland and Brazil support the move but major powers may seek changes The United States and Britain oppose breaking with France while Russia supports action against Franco but resists boosting Assembly prestige at the Council’s expense
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New York
United Nations Security Counc
Spain
Poland
Council
General Assembly
Francisco Franco
France
China
Australia
Brazil
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Franco
Assembly
Security Council
Communists Falter as MRP Leads French Vote Returns
Paris June 3 AP report shows the middle-of-the-road Popular Republican Movement leading in the French constituent assembly with 160 seats, while the Communists fall to 145 and Socialists to 115. Coalition government expected. potential provisional leadership discussed amid names like Bidault, Thorez, Daladier, Mendes France.
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James M. Long
Paris
Constituent Assembly
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Ministry of the Interior
France
Corsica
Republican Rally
Althout
Popular
Eee
Maurice Schuman
MDP
L Aube
Georges Bidault
Charles de Gaulle
Maurice Thorez
French
Communist Party
Edouard Daladier
Edouard Herriot
Pierre Mendes- France
Paul Reynaud
Michaiel Clemenceau
Strike at Crompton Highland Textile Mill Grips Griffin GA
About 750 workers at the Crompton Highland Textile Mill in Griffin Georgia strike over demands for a ten cent hourly raise union security and workload changes. Federal conciliator F P Brewer met with union and management Saturday but little progress was reported and talks would continue. The Textile Workers Union of America CIO represents the workers.
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Griffin
Atlanta
Crompton Highland
F. P. Brewer
Thh Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Happy Hornbostels Arrive At Carville Leprosarium
Major Hans Hornbostel arrives with his wife at the U S Marine hospital in Carville Louisiana to join her leprosy treatment and to speak publicly that the disease is less dangerous than believed He plans to return to Letterman General Hospital for a medical check and hopes to gain employment at the hospital after a month of rest and travel with several other patients
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Elliot Chaze
Carville
Hans Hornbostel
San Francisco
New Orleans
la Carville
Hornbostel
Guam
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Bankhead
United States Naval Hospital
Senator Bankhead
Edgar L. Warren
U. S. Conciliation Service
Charlie Jett
Hapeville
R. L. Ballard
Jetts
James C. Davis
Stone Mountain Circuit
Ballard
Jim
U.N
Happy Hornbostels
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