Truman vetoes rail rate immunity bill in anti trust clash
President Truman vetoed the Bulwinkle bill for exempting railroad rate agreements from anti trust laws. He argued it would immunize an important economic segment and lacked public safeguards. Congress pressed a busy agenda on tax farm and social security measures amid adjournment pressure.
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Senate Today
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ICC
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Association of American Railroads
AAA
William J. Fariey
Rate Bureau
Fariey
Interstate Commerce
Vsy
Soviets Block Rail Freight To Berlin Food Zone
Soviet forces cut all rail shipments of food and coal to the western Berlin zones affecting about 2,000,000 Germans and 25,000 Allied personnel. US officials warned the move could become a permanent impediment, while Allied authorities sought a swift lift and questioned congestion claims.
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Berlin
Richard Kaische
U. S
Helmstedt-Marienborn
Lucius D. Clay
Helmstedt
Frank Howley
Violations by Both Sides Threaten Palestine Truce
Cairo reports charges of truce violations by Arab and Jewish forces as Bernadotte plans Rhodes talks. A bombed front, mortar fire and regional clashes trigger warnings that Arab patience may end.
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Cairo
Arab League
United Nations
Folke Bernadotte
Bernadotte
Rhodes
Trans-Jordan
Jerusalem
Holy Land
Ard
Bernadette
U. S
Damascus
Jisr Banat
Georgia Fair Weather Outlook for Sunday
Georgia fair with warmth increasing in the north and east this afternoon through Sunday. Northwest Florida sees partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers this afternoon tonight and Sunday and winds from the east at gentle to moderate strength.
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Georgia
Florida
Dixie Solons to Filibuster Antilynch Bill
Southern senators vow a filibuster if an anti lynch bill reaches the Senate floor despite Republican moves in the Judiciary Committee to pass watered down measures. The panel struck a harsh provision fining communities up to ten thousand dollars for lynchings and trimmed other tough clauses.
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Washington
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Dixie
Touchdown Club to Build Stadium on School Grounds
Touchdown Club announces a four thousand seat stadium to be named Thomas County Veterans Memorial Stadium on school property. The project involves local contractors and the Board of Education funding five thousand dollars from the Athletic Fund with a stadium authority planned.
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WCRI
Thomas County Veterans Memorial Stadium
Thomas County
Touchdown ‘ Club
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Board of County Commissioners
Ralph Kotner
Jacksonville
Frank L. Forrester
Leo &. Kelly
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Ane
City Commission
Vowehdo
U S Expands Foreign Aid Role to Include Military Support
The Senate approved a broad foreign policy resolution 64 to 4 backing U S participation in regional defense under UN aims. It envisions expanding foreign aid to include military assistance to a Western European defense body and supports a Brussels pact framework while preserving nonbinding status.
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Washington
Senate
Vandenberg
R-Mich
U.S
United Nations
America
Truman says Stalin not strongest red, world at stake
President Truman on his way to Berkeley defended that Soviet Premier Stalin is not the strongest red and that Russian forces threaten world peace by failing to honor agreements. He spoke at the university of California in Berkeley after touring flood damage in Oregon and promising federal aid.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Truman
Berkeley
Joe
Gerber
Renae
California
T. Berkel
Stalin
Eugene
Ore
Congress
Oregon
Intensive Manhunt Ends in Macon Capture of Suspect
Macon Georgia June 12 a manhunt in the city ended with the arrest of a 24 year old black veteran for the murder of W L Sparky Cain a longtime Macon detective Moore of Macon is jailed on murder charges after identification by two black witnesses officers from Chief Ben T Watkins and sheriff E Pulian Peacock led the search as a pistol bullet struck Cain at Macon hospital. Police and railroad detectives aided in the pursuit including a halt and search of an Atlanta Central of Georgia freight train communications and tracking led to the suspect’s arrest at a girlfriend’s home.
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Okefenokee
C. C. Underwood
Georgia Highway Patrol
Dave Walden
Columbus
Baker County
Fla
Georgia
Georgia Highway Department
Underwood
Johnny McVeigh
LaGrange
Stringfellow
Fitzgerald
St. Augustine
Oceanside
Walden
Rafford State Prison
Howell
Macon
W. L
Sparky) Cain
Junior
Shine) Moore
Bibb County
O’cain
Ben T. Watkins
E. Pulian Peacock
Atlanta
Aund Central of
Moore
Jfferg
Felice
Cain
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London
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Haifa
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Lake Galilee
Jewish High Command
el Aviv
Arab High Command
Amman
U. N
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Antilynch
South Bend
Ind
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James W. Aldrich
Mishawaka
Aldrich
W. Jd. Loucks
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W. I. Scott
Scott Construction Co
Messrs
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Frommy Lturrison
H & H Construction and Supply Co
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