Rules Committee Defers Vote On Clearing Bill
Washington June 14 AP The Rules Committee postponed action on clearing the draft revival bill while preparing to meet again at 12 p.m. EST. The measure would create a two year peacetime draft for men aged 19 to 25 and pass to the House with debates likely short. Six members favored sending the bill, five opposed, with Harness undecided and potentially voting to send it out before opposing it on the floor.
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Rep. Short
R-Mo
Rep. Harness
R-Ind
Harness
Leiutenant
Indiana
American Legion
Senate
Office of Selective Service Records
Powell
Anti Lynch Bill Wins Approval in Senate Committee
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the anti lynching bill 10 to 3, with Southern opposition pledging to fight it to the bitter end. Supporters include Wiley and Magnuson while Eastland vows to defeat it by any means, arguing the bill duplicates existing law.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Ferguson
R-Mich
Republican Policy Committee
Moore
R-Okla
Eastland
R-Miss
Fullbright
D-Ark
Wiley
R-Wis
Donnell
R-Mo
Cooper
R-Ky
McCarran
D-Nev
McGrath
D-Ri
Kilgore
Magnuson
Probe of mass murder starts at Columbus
Columbus Georgia June 14 AP what started in March as an investigation of a single killing four years ago shows signs of a mass murder probe by hired killers. Two bodies found another sought as officers cite a 1944 dope and liquor ring feud. Five men under murder indictments.
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Columbus
W. C. McLemore
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Florida
Raiford
Johnny Frank Stringfellow
Oceanside
St., Augustine
Fla
Lonnie Melissa
Pat) Foster
Baker County
Okefenokee Swamp
Fort Benning
William C. Archer
Archer
E. F. Howell
Muscogee
Mty
Dave Walden
Houston
Tex
Johnnie McVeigh
LaGrange
Stringfellow
Walden
Brunswick
Fitzgerald
Communist leader Gottwald takes office as Czechoslovakia president
Prague June 14 AP Czecholslovakia's first Communist president was elected and took office today. Premier Klement Gottwald was chosen by 296 votes in Vladislavsky Hall with a mostly Communist parliament. Eduard Beneš resigned last week and was not present at the ceremony.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
nKiement Gottwald
Vladislavsky Hall
Oldrich John
Gottwald
Communist Party
United States
Laurence Steinhardt
Eduard Benes
Thomas G. Masaryk
Georgia Cotton Crop Prospects Improve After Slow Start
Athens Georgia June 14 Georgia cotton crop prospects are good again despite a late start caused by heavy spring rains. Farmers and county agents from several sections told Extension Service officials in Athens.
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Athens
Georgia
Extension Service
Labor picture highlights maritime strike ban and talks
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order to avert a nationwide maritime walkout as seven unions with over 100 000 seamen and longshoremen near a strike deadline. Bargaining resumes in San Francisco Washington Oak Ridge and other sites amid broader labor actions and wage settlements across industries.
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Department of Justice
Ood
San Francisco
CIO
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Guns Quiet Today In Palestine
The day brought relative calm in Palestine as truce talks and debates over partition quieted. Jerusalem saw a besieged Jewish convoy enter on a new route despite Arab fire, while truce observers noted a lull and Count Folke Bernadotte moved to Rhodes to push peace efforts.
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Galilee
Jerusalem
United Nations
Britain
Arab Legion
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Bab el Wad
Tel’ Aviv
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Germany
U. S
Klement Gottwald
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Anton
Folke Bernadotte
Rhodes
Lake Success
N. Y
United States
New York
Russia
Security Council
Seven men eyeing Georgia governor race with two filed
Seven men compete for the Georgia governorship with only two paying the 500 dollar qualifying fee. Herman Talmadge may announce July 3 after addressing the state Democratic convention in Macon. Joe Rabin, a Baptist minister and former Navy chaplain, paid the fee. Gov. M. E. Thompson paid earlier. Johnny J. Jones, 69, Augusta attorney, latest to announce. Other Dems include Hoke O Kelly and Emory Travis. James Barfoot will run on the Henry Wallace Progressive Party ticket.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Herman Talmadge
Augusta Chronicle
Macon
Joe Rabin
Navy
Joe Boone
M. E
Thompson
Johnny J. Jones
Augusta
Hoke O'Kelly
Emory Travis
James Barfoot
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Injunction Clears Way to Avert National Maritime Strike
A U S District Court granted a temporary injunction to restrain a threatened national strike by seven CIO affiliated unions and ship operators. The order, sought by the Justice Department under President Truman, shields shipping operations and hiring halls while urging restored good faith bargaining.
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LUU
VUU Ina
Lfiuime
Gulf
West
Department of Justice
Truman
John W. Clancy
National Maritime Union
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
American Radio Association
CIO
U. S. District Court
Joseph Curran
CIO National Maritime Union
Justice Department
United States
Joseph M. Friedman
Tom Clark
Friedman
Clark
San Francisco
Cleveland
Contract to End Oak Ridge Strike Threat
Oak Ridge Tennessee June 14 AP management and labor to sign a contract ending a strike threat at the Oak Ridge national laboratory. Settlement of a wage dispute between the AIL Atomic Trades and Labor Council and Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation operator of the research center for the Atomic Energy Commission. Agreement provides about a 154 percent increase to some 75 production workers. Dispute began March 1 after Carbide took over operations. News notes a Taft Hartley injunction was issued and later dismissed.
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Tenn
AFL Trades and Labor Council
The
Atomic Laboratory
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Cio-Uaw
Budd Co
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Pord Motor Co
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
AIL Atomic Trades and Labor Council
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
Atomic Energy Commission
Carbide
Canton
Truman
Barry & Walkout
Negro woman plans Georgia industrial school for colored children
Ada Lou Johnson a Black woman who washed to support herself through high school earns a diploma at 48 and says she will return to Georgia to start an industrial school for colored youth She will enter the University of Chicago this fall using 24 years of savings and earlier taught in Butts County before moving to Florida
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St. Petersburg
Fla
Ada Lou Johnson
Georgia
University of Chicago
Jackson, Ga
Butts County
Holdout Trens Loom Over Republican Convention Balloting
Washington June 14 AP A new holdout trend among favorite sons threatens a drawn out GOP nominating fight. California Governor Earl Warren vows to hold California’s 53 votes for several ballots to test the field as Dewey Taft Stassen and Vandenberg remain contenders.
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Jack Bell Washington
Earl Warren
California
Philadelphia
Warren
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Arthur Vandenberg
Stassen
Dewey
Riots With Negro Patients Quelled at Georgia State Hospital
Milledgeville Georgia June 14 AP Thirty negro patients in the maximum security ward tried to break out but the riot was stopped within two hours. The superintendent said the inmates overpowered an attendant with the key and locked him and others in a room. Doors remained locked preventing escape. The rioters armed themselves with a razor and iron bars from the ward.
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Milledgeville, Ga
The
Dr. Yarbrough
Truman Urges Californians Watch Power Use
President Truman, aboard his cross country train, urged Southern California to monitor water power use to avoid aiding special interests. He spoke at Santa Barbara and planned a Los Angeles stop, then Kansas City for events, while calling Russia a threat to peace and urging passage of housing and welfare bills.
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Truman
Los Angeles
California
Ambe Ador
Kansas City
Pram
Kansas
Russia
University, California
Borkers
Rusy
United Nations
James D. Roosevelt
Chaiman
State Democratic Committee
St Francisco
Rivers urges national leaders to seat Georgia delegates
Lakeland Georgia June 14 AP Rivers writes to national party leaders urging them to seat Georgia groups at the Philadelphia Democratic convention. He notes two Georgia delegations may attend and discusses James Peters of Manchester as state chair.
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National Conference of Governors
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John W. Davis
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Mass
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National Committee
Georgia
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Connecticut
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National Party
Lakeland
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Manchester
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