Arabs Reject Open City Plan For Jerusalem
Arab League and Trans-Jordan officials rejected Count Bernadotte’s proposal to declare Jerusalem an open city arguing it would breach cease fire terms and prompt Arab troop evacuations. The Arab League also declined a table invite with Jews for Palestine peace talks. Tensions rose as truce fronts and access to holy shrines remained contentious.
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Max Boyd Gairo
Arabs Today
United Nations
Jerusalem
Fawzi Mulki Pasha
Trans-Jordan
Arab League
Folke Bernadotte
League
Palestine
Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha
Bernadotte
Azzam Pasha
Lebanon
Arab League Committee
Rhodes Island
U. N
Egypt
Talmadge predicts overwhelming defeat of Thompson in Georgia race
Albany AP June 16 Herman Talmadge flatly predicted an overwhelming defeat of Gov. M. E. Thompson in the upcoming Georgia gubernatorial race. He criticized Rivers-Arnall relations and outlined a platform including anti graft measures, school funding, a constitutional highway board, a GI Bill effort, hospital expansion, and prudent state spending. He argued the state takes in over 100 million in revenue while only 60 million is appropriated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Herman Talmadge
M. EB. Thompson
Rivers-Arnall Alliance
Thompson
Eugene Talmadge
E. D. Rivers
Constitutional Highway Board
Georgia
Camilla
Young Talmadge
Augusta Chronicle
General Assembly
Jekyll Island
House Leaders Predict Draft Passage By Night
Washington reports say House leaders push to keep the draft issue in play until January with Shafer proposing a delay and Andrews forecasting a wide margin vote. Amendments on discrimination were defeated as the debate moved forward amid competing plans for enlistment terms and pay boosts.
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Howard Dobson Wa Hington
Januers
Atamn
Congress
Joint
Congressional Committee
House
Halleck Rand
Hep. Folger
D-Nc
Ron
Javits
R-Ny
Powell
D-Ny
National Guard
Air National Guard
Senate
House again blocks funding for TVA New Johnsonville plant
Washington June 16 AP The House refused a $4,000,000 appropriation to begin construction of a TVA steam electric plant at New Johnsonville Tennessee. The Senate approved the initial outlay last night after the House earlier refused May 11 to add funding to the government corporation's bill. A Senate House conference committee was appointed to resolve differences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
New Johnsonville
Tenn
Senate
Government Corporation
Senate House Conference
U S Birth Rate Drops Slightly Below Boom Level
Washington reports the U S birth rate eased slightly in early 1948 with 1,149,000 births in the first four months, down from 1,270,000 a year earlier, according to the Office of Vital Statistics.
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Washington
America
Office of Vital Statistics
Mercury Dips Toward Freezing in Great Lakes Region
Chicago date shows cool air sweeping the Great Lakes as temperatures fall into the 30s in northern Wisconsin and parts of lower Michigan for the second straight morning. Readings run roughly 10 to 12 degrees below normal, while hot weather persists in the southern United States with Texas cities above 100 degrees.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Wisconsin
Lower
Michigan
Texas
New Survey Ordered to Widen Smith Avenue
Chairman Jim Keyton reports state approval for a new survey on Smith avenue to widen and pave the street. The plan uses land from both sides, improving a narrow, dangerous highway segment to Valdosta. Governor Thompson supports the project, with early plans for contracting widening and paving plus paving at the State Farmers Market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Keyton
Board of County Commissioners
State Highway Board
W. R. Neel
Smith Avenue
Valdosta
Gov. Thompson
W. H. Thames
Funeral Pyre Described At Wallace Trial
Newnan Georgia June 1 6 AP Land owner John Wallace burned the body of former tenant Wilson Turner at an old still place in a funeral pyre the prosecution contends at his murder trial Witness Robert Lee Gates and Albert Brooks said they aided the cremation in a swampy wood and scattered three sacks of ashes in a creek Wallace a wealthy dairyman owning 2000 acres in Meriwether county faces trial along with four others Turner had a falling out over liquor and was accused of stealing a cow before a dramatic pursuit ending in a shotgun attack in Coweta and Meriwether counties
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Newnan
John Wallace
Wilson Turner
Robert Lee Gates
Albert Brooks
Gates
Wallace
Meriwether County
Turner
Meriwether
Greenville
Coweta
Herring Sivell
Global Aid Bill Heads For House
The Senate approved a 6.125 billion global aid bill by 60 to 9 and sent it toward a stormy House vote. The measure restores a 12 month funding basis, raises overall aid beyond the House version, and moves to a conference committee for compromise before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver W. Dewolf
Washington
Senate
House
Weather forecast for Georgia and Northwest Florida
Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and evening in Georgia, turning warmer in the south and cooler in the north Thursday. Northwest Florida sees partly cloudy conditions this afternoon tonight and Thursday with a few afternoon thundershowers and light to moderate southerly coastal winds.
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Georgia
Florida
Army push-button plane makes daily hops to Washington
Bowling Green Ohio June 16 AP an Army push button plane has flown daily between Wilmington and Washington since August 1 1946 Maj Gen Frank Q Carroll director of R D Air Material Command Wright Patterson spoke at Ohio Aviation Clinic saying the four engine C 54 with automatic course and landing gadgets has only failed to take off on two days due to weather and has conquered all weather on its daily trips to the capital
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Bowling Green
Wilmington
Washington, D. C
Frank Q. Carroll
General Carroll
Air Material Command
Wright-Patterson Airforce Base
Ohio Aviation Clinec
Army
Carroll
Stassen May Lead Move for Vandenberg If Denied Vote
Washington dispatch reports Stassen could back a move to draft Senator Arthur Vandenberg if he fails to clinch the Republican nomination. Supporters note Stassen's rising standing after the Oregon and Nebraska primary results as delegates head to Philadelphia for the convention.
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Stassen
Vandenberg
Jack Bell Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Arthur Vandenberg
Thomas Dewey
Oregon
Stissen
Stassen Sin
Philadelphia
Nebraska
Staxysen
Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Ohfto
Gurney
Michigan
Taft
Wart Warren
California
Truman
Missouri
Indiana
Washington
Hoosier Party
Fiumiah
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Dixie Group
Truman Pictures Self as Champion of the People
President Truman frames his cross country campaign as a fight against special privilege. On the Truman Train en route to Kansas City he tells Albuquerque crowds he represents the people and plans to press Congress, while preparing to visit his Missouri home after his mother’s death.
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Truman
Kansas City
Albuquerque
N. M
Washington
Congress
Jackson County
Missouri
Martha FB. Truman
Grandview
Mao
Unions Bow To Federal Court Order
A nationwide ship crew and longshoremen strike was averted as unions obeyed federal injunctions issued in New York Cleveland and San Francisco delaying action for 10 days. The stoppage had involved seven unions representing about 100 000 workers with contracts expiring June 30. Also noted were talks to avert a coal contract collapse and a separate wage dispute at Ryan Aeronautical where the CIO United Auto Workers went on strike.
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New York
Cleveland
San Francisco
Washington
U. S. Conciliation Service
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
San Diego
Calif
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ryan Aeronautical Company
Coal negotiators face stalled talks amid Lewis walkout
Government conciliator Cy Ching schedules a meeting after John L. Lewis and operators halted sessions citing tough bargaining. Moody and directors reschedule as the union prepares a strike strategy. welfare and retirement demands top the agenda with a $40 million precedent cited. Lewis plans a Washington policy committee session June 24 to review future steps and a possible wage offer.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
Cy" Ching
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Fms
Ching
Coal
Ery
Corenege
Association
Moody
SCPA
Worstat Y
PeReane Mig
Lea D I
O'Neill
Indictment Details Lobbying Violations Tied to Farm Officials
A federal grand jury indicted Texas Agriculture Commissioner J. E. McDonald and Georgia official Tom Linder along with Ralph W. Moore of Texas and Robert M. Harris of New York City for conspiring to lobby for higher commodity prices without registering as lobbyists. The National Farm Committee and Farm Commissioners Council, led by Linder and McDonald, allegedly kept commodity accounts to profit from price movements. The case centers on lobbying for price increases and keeping prices high to protect personal financial interests.
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Washington
Agriculture Commissioners of
Texas
Georgia
Clark
Congress
J. E. McDonald
Tom Linder
Ralph W. Moore
Granger
Linder
Farm Commissioners’ Council
Justice Department
McDonald
Moore
Oeta
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TVA
U. S
Rmich
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Bridges
Senate Appropriations Committee
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Capehart
Ind
Jenner
Kem
Langer
Hawkes
Malone
Nev
Johnston
O'Daniel
Tex
Taylor
Idaho
Chamber
Congreg
Europe
Appropriations Committee
Economic Cooperation Administration
State Department
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John
William Turner
J. H. Turner
Dulla Windom Turner
William
Hfe
Young Turner
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