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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1947
Page
7
Washington reports that the United States faces a choice on European economic planning after Marshall's call. Russia's stance and Anglo French Soviet talks influence whether America leads, cooperates, or steps back as Europe seeks postwar economic recovery.
Chairman Weichel said Soviet operated tankers, built for the U S government years ago, carried gasoline and oil from the United States to Russia. He noted several ships recently departed California with large cargoes and others loading, as export controls near expiration on June 30. The Commerce Department warned controls may be reinstated to curb scarce domestic supplies.
Rep. Cox says an impartial investigation will prove Finney General Hospital in Thomasville Georgia should stay open. He trusts the House Appropriations Committee to decide, noting Finney was built by the army and remains usable. Cox and Rep. Sikes expect probes at Thomasville and Tallahassee.
Weichel stated six tankers on the west coast are owned by Amtorg Trading Corporation the Soviet purchasing agency. The ships fly the Russian flag but formerly bore U S names and were built in the United States during wartime. He will urge maritime officials to explain how Russians acquired the ships and address earlier inquiries about 95 Lend Lease vessels.
London June 24 AP Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin plans to propose to the French and Russian foreign ministers in Paris an all European conference on American aid to Europe. He will also meet US Undersecretary William L. Clayton to discuss the proposal and European economic issues tied to the British loan. The United States worries over Britain cutting food film and tobacco imports to save dollars and views it as possible loan breach.
Rep Pace says the Veterans Administration expects to begin a $3,000,000 250 bed hospital at Americus Georgia by late fall with bids to be sought within 60 days and completion aimed for late 1948 or early 1949. The VA advised Pace of the plans after his inquiry as to construction progress.
A federal slavery case opens in San Diego with Theodore Jones, 57, testifying about involuntary servitude under Alfred Ingalls, 64, and Elizabeth Ingalls, 62. Prosecutors allege the couple abducted Miss Jones from Berkeley to Coronado last Oct. 11 to keep her as a slave.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst DeWitt MacKenzie argues that postwar foreign aid serves as insurance against renewed conflict. He notes the wartime cost to America at about 330 billion dollars and warns that continued aid strains petroleum and iron resources. He cites Hoover and Senator Vandenberg urging a bipartisan study to gauge how far the U.S. should go.
Flood crests sweep through Nebraska Iowa and Missouri forcing large scale evacuations and causing renewed destruction. In Cambridge Nebraska 13 people drowned as search continues for four bodies. Dikes broke near Harlan County dam and the Republican River bridge failed delaying southwest Nebraska flood control work. Nebraska toll hits 16 with drownings and a tornado death at Oxford. Army engineers estimate 63 miles of Missouri River tributaries breachable as waters move toward St Louis.
Congress overrides Truman veto on Taft Hartley Act limiting unions. NLRB members Paul M. Herzog John M. Houston and James J. Reynolds Jr. face funding needs as Taft and Ives push for more money to run the board. Van Arkel resigns as general counsel amid concerns over the act's workability.
Washington June 24 AP reports swift labor backlash to the Taft-Hartley Act as mine shutdowns spread to Alabama Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois and West Virginia. More than 31 000 miners idle amid calls for a broad national strike while union leaders vow court challenges and political action.
A 15 year old boy Edward Bancroft five feet one inch tall and weighing 98 pounds was charged with assault with intent to kill after firing five shots at two patrolmen and using a youth as a human shield in a Boston school yard incident. Police subdued him after riot officers approached.
London June 24 AP reports an authoritative source says Russia again refused a British request for clarification of the Hungary situation. The second such rejection in two weeks underscores strain between London and Moscow over Hungary.
Partly cloudy skies and gradually rising temperatures across Georgia this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. Light rain drizzle possible in extreme north portions tonight and early Wednesday with thin chances of thunderstorms along extreme northwest Florida. Winds from the east to southeast remain gentle to moderate.
Dean Paul Chapman of the University of Athens College of Agriculture told a Chapel Hill audience that the one horse farm will disappear in the south in ten years Mechanized farming will take over and more farm jobs will move to towns and cities as time goes on
Chick Harbert of Ville, Michigan, leads Jim Ferrier of San Francisco one up through the first two holes of the 36 hole final at Plat low golf club. Ferrier trailed early with a missed birdie chance and a mishit on the second hole as Harbert carded early birdies and pressed the pace.
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