Big Four meeting Postponed as Soviet Aide Seeks Time
Paris June 15 AP Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky asked for more time delaying a secret Big Four foreign ministers meeting. Western sources say Vishinsky postponed and Berlin rail strikes threaten any political accord. A four power commission would supervise an all German economic board to promote East West trade and guarantee free transport into Berlin in exchange for an agreed currency rate.
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Paris
Andrei Y. Nishinsky
Vishinsky
Kremlin
Germany
Russia
West
Ernest Bevin
Pink Marble Palace
Berlin
Allied Control Council
Rturn
Labor Leader Favours Plan To Discuss Coal Contracts
Pittsburg reports that labor leaders may negotiate with John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers to address contract issues as Northern operators seek a single coordinator to bring order to labor relations. Harry M. Moses of H C Frick Coke Co. is being considered for the coordinator role.
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Pittsburg
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Harry M. Moses
Pittsburgh
H. C. Frick Coke Co
U. S. Steel Corporation
George H. Jove
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Moses
H. C. Frick
U. S Steel
UMW
Southern Coal
Bluefield
W. Va
Philadelphia
U.S. Steel Corp
Western
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Love
Joseph EB. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
The
New York Times
Southern
Hooded group flogged WW II veteran in Alabama attack
A robed and hooded band dragged Billy Guy Stovall from his home in North Birmingham and whipped him with a belt after tying him to a car. The incident, part of three robed attacks in a week, followed a cross burning at a restaurant and another home. Stovall, 31, a cast iron plant worker, said he was threatened if he spoke.
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Birmingham
Ala
Billy Guy Stovall
Hugh MecDonal
Stovall
Billy
Bat Cooper
Atlanta landlord group forms to curb rent raises
Atlanta June 15 AP reports William E Dunn of 409 Park Ave South organized landlords to “return property management to rightful owners and taxpayers.” The group has held several meetings in Atlanta and aims to enlist property owners nationwide amid rising rents and widespread controls.
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Atlanta
Willam E. Dunn
Park ‘Ave
Dunn
Hickenlooper Faults AEC Over Hanford Cost Jump
Senator Hickenlooper charged the Atomic Energy Commission mismanaged Hanford cost estimates. He said the projected plant cost rose from 6 million to 25 million during 1947 48, while work under a General Electric contract sought plutonium production on an assembly line. The remarks came before the Senate Atomic Committee.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
A-Iowa
Atomic Energy Commission
Hanford
Wash
General Electric Corp
AEC
Senate House Atomic Committee
Hoover Displeased By Secret Files In Coplon Case
The story notes J Edgar Hoover’s alleged displeasure over the use of secret FBI files in Judith Coplon’s espionage trial while Attorney General Clark denies a heated dispute and Hoover’s resignation. It covers defense plans to call Dr Edward Condon and ex interior secretary Harold Ickes, and mentions new evidence in the Alger Hiss case and other Congress led inquiries.
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Associated Press
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Judith Coplon
Clark
Hoover
Washington Times-Herald
Tere
Coplon
Archibald Palmer
Edward A. Condon
Harold Ickes
Albert L. Reeves
Washington
New York
State Department
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Lovell
U. S
Gilber Green
Chicago
Frank Oppenheimer
House Un-American Activities Committee
House
Justice Department
Communit
Coplon—Palmer
Frederic March
CIO Steelworkers Demand Fourth Wage Increase Round
Pittsburgh June 15 AP The CIO United Steelworkers open a fourth round wage increase drive in talks with U S Steel Corp affecting about 175 000 employees across six subsidiaries Talks may set the industry pattern as demand lags and production falls A strike threatens if no agreement by July 16 Negotiating units include Carnegie Illinois Steel and affiliates American Steel and Wire National Tube Columbia Geneva and Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Co
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Pittsburgh
Cio-United Steelworkers
U. S. Steel Corp
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Carnegie, Pa
U. S. Steel Union
Carnegie- Illinois
American Steel and Wire Co
National Tube Co
Columbia Steel
Geneva Steel and
Tennessee Coal,Iron and Railroad Co
Georgia and Northwest Florida Warm Isolated Thunderstorms Forecast
Weather forecast notes considerable cloudiness and warm humid conditions with showers and thunderstorms this afternoon tonight and Thursday. Gentle to moderate southerly winds. In extreme Northwest Florida expect similar cloudiness and local thunderstorms through Thursday.
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Georgia
Florida
Farm Bureau Pushes Cotton Control Reform Debate
The American Farm Bureau Federation backs federal cotton controls with changes. Walter L. Randolph of the Alabama Farm Bureau proposed voting on quotas when supply meets or exceeds normal and prices hit 90 percent of parity, arguing for a steadier program than letting stocks rise to 108 percent before action.
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Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Walter L. Randolph
Federation
Randolph
Alabama Farm Bureau Federation
Senate Agriculture
County Managers Recommend Delay in Re registration
Atlanta reports that the State Association of County Managers urged delaying Georgia re registration until further study. They asked Superior Court judges to pause registration machinery and considered paying for registrar costs, with a committee to meet Governor Talmadge. The next convention was set for April 16-17 in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Board of Managers
The
State Association of County Managers
Georgia
Herman Talmadge
John 8. Bell
Association
Nake
Georgia lynching case ends with no trial for suspects
Irwinton Georgia June 15 AP Georgia adds No 26 to its unbroken string of unsolved Negro lynchings. Wilkingon county grand jury probed six hours into the lynching murder of Caleb Hill Jr but ruled there was not enough evidence for trial. Two white men Purvis and Pierce freed after investigation. Federal civil rights inquiry ongoing. Sheriff Hatcher defends actions as standard procedure. Georgia has not convic ted lynchers since 1930.
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Irwinton
Georgia
Wilkingon
County
Caleb Hill
Hill
Dennis Lamar’ Purvis
Malcolm Vivian Pierce
Plerse
Vallewhite
Athe Ribet
Whia . Wey
Baldwin
Federal Bureau of Investigations
George Hatcher
Hatcher
Thomas County
Senate Nearing Vote On Labor Bill Revisions
The Senate presses toward a vote in the labor bill debate as five days of speeches wrap up. Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois says first up is an amendment to require good faith bargaining, one of four bipartisan changes to replace Taft-Hartley with an enlarged Wagner Act. The changes would modify bargaining rules and affidavit requirements, with opposition expected to be limited.
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Washington
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
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Monroe
William L. Kilroy, Sr
Savannah
G O. Stone
Glenwood
Ben T.aunties
Macon
Legion Honor Sociery
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Hamilton Long
Talmadse
Eugene Talmadge
Herman
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