Senate Passes Draft 78 To 10
The Senate approved peacetime conscription for men 19 through 25 by a 78 to 10 vote, sending the bill to the House with a June 19 adjournment target. The plan would draft for two years, register ages 18 to 25, expand military forces, allow alien enlistment, and grant presidential authority to seize noncompliant plants. World War II veterans are exempt if meeting service criteria.
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Armed Services
Senate
House
GOP
Congress
House Rules Committee
Army
Regular Army
Air Force
Navy
Marines
Smpowers
National Guard
Truman
Air Forces
Judge Advocate General Corps
Pearl Harbor
Housing Bill Wins Approval
Washington June 10 Democrats hold full control as the house banking committee approved 14 to 13 all major Taft Ellender Wagner housing bill provisions. Three Republicans joined 11 Democrats to pass public housing urban development slum clearance and farm home aid measures as amendments to Rep Wolcott substitute bill. Wolcott opposed TEW provisions and reported after the closed door meeting.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Rep
Wolcott
Rmich
Taft
Ohio
Homesteaders For Gila Project Draw Set
Fifty four homesteaders and fifty four alternates will be drawn in Yuma Arizona on June 29 from 600 names. The selections are for 54 farms on the Yuma mesa division of the Gila project and include veterans from World Wars I and II the Spanish American war and the Philippine insurrection.
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Boulder City
U.P
Yuma Mesa
Yuma
Ariz
Bureau of Reclamation
Truman Urges Mine Owners to Fight for Western Work Stoppage
President Truman urged Northwest mine owners to pursue a tough fight in Congress to develop river basins, stop floods, and provide cheap power. He backed public power against private lobbyists, cited Shasta dam, and praised Tennessee Valley Authority as a path for regional multi purpose development. He spoke in Seattle with Gov. Walgren, toured floods, and planned Friday flood talks in Portland.
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Seattle
Truman
Pacific Northwest
Congress
Sriver
California
Shasta
Columbia River
Nations
Washington State Press Club
Memorial Stadium
Olympia
Mon C. Walgren
Columbia
Grand
West
Changes In Charter Are Effective Soon
The 10 changes to the city charter pass Tuesday become effective after Acting Gov Dan Garvey approval and three notices in a Tucson newspaper. City Atty Thomas J Elliott says the procedure is mechanical as a governor signs, then a state secretary of state files the copy. Voters repealed a tax limit of $1 per $100 and a 10 percent budget increase cap, and approved salary raises for the mayor and council.
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Dan Garvey
Tucson
City Atty
Thomas J. Elliott
Secretary of State
One-Eyed General Liu Po-Cheng Doubles Deployed
Reports from Kaifeng and Central News Agency explain that Liu Po-Cheng is employing eight doubles, each missing one eye, to confuse observers amid central China warfare. The sightings across distant sectors prompted the CNA clarification.
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Nanking
Liu Po-Cheng
China
Central
Liu
Kaifeng
Truce Takes Effect Friday In Palestine War Halt
The truce in Palestine goes into effect Friday at 1 am EST following UN mediated armistice efforts. Despite cautious UN optimism, four weeks of arms embargo and wrangling on Rhodes offer little chance for a permanent peace solution. Irgun threatens defiance while UN mediator Bernadotte seeks observers and coast patrols to enforce the halt.
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Associated Press
Palestine
United Nations
Rhodes
Folke Bernadotte
Cairo
Israel
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Irgun
Stern Gang
Haganah
Army of Israel
Russia
Red Army
Bernadotte
U. S
France
Belgium
Garvey Seeks Swift Transfer of Florence Camp Papers
War assets office in San Francisco informed Acting Gov. Dan E. Garvey that transfer papers for the former Florence prisoner of war camp are en route to Washington. Garvey presses for action before June 30 to prevent lapsing a $60,000 appropriation to convert the camp for an intermediate prison and a state hospital annex.
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Phoenix
War Assets Administration
San Francisco
Dan E. Garvey
Florence
Arizona
Washington
Garvey
Airbase Takes Rincon Vista Housing Over
Rincon Vista on South Plumer near Broadway will be vacated by mid August as 45 civilian tenants receive 60 day notices. Davis Monthan officials say the 137 unit development houses 72 enlisted families 20 officers 22 government workers and 23 civilian families. The expansion at Davis Monthan has forced the housing transfer for noncommissioned use.
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Rincon Vista
Tucson
U. S. Department of Air Forces
Davis-Monthan Air Base
Air Force
South Plumer Avenue
Broadway
Davis- Monthan Air Base
Air Force Department
Automatic Suspension Rule Repealed By Arizona Commission
The Arizona Corporation Commission has canceled a 32 year old rule requiring automatic suspension of any order upon appeal. The rule was rescinded as it often caused hardship to those favored by the orders issued by the commission.
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Phoenix
Arizona Corporation Commission
Illness Fades Labor Secretary Schwellenbach at 53
Secretary of Labor LewisB Schwellenbach died after a long illness at Walter Reed hospital. The 53yearold former senator and judge died at 1 40 am with President Truman informed in Olympia. Morse serves as acting secretary while Schwellenbach had fallen and suffered a vertebral fracture during early labor disputes and his illness weakened him.
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Washington
Secretary of Labor
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Truman
Senate
Schwellenbach
Olympia
Labor
White House
Walter Reed Hospital
David A. Morse
Labor Department
Frances Perkins
Roosevelt
Schnellenbach
Congress
Department
Lewis Schwellenbach
No Marriage Vatican Holds
Vatican prelates say Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma married Mihai I of Romania in Athens in the Greek Orthodox faith is a grave sin in the eyes of the church. The Holy See had hoped they would marry in the Catholic Church with Catholic children. The Orthodox church does not recognize Rome's primacy and Romanian law requires heirs to be raised in the state religion. Pope Pius XII refused dispensation last March.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Anne of
Bourbon-Parma
Mihai I
Romania
Athens
Damaskinos
Holy See
Anne
Mihai
Rome
Pius XII
Anne Becomes Mihai's Bride in Greek Rite Ceremony
ATHENS June 10 Mihai I of Romania wed Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma in a Greek royal palace ceremony using borrowed crowns. Archbishop Damaskinos officiated in Greek as Anne, 24, in white satin with orange blossoms, joined Mihai who wore Romanian marshal uniforms. About 30 royals attended, including King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece.
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Athens
Mihai I
Romania
Anne of
Bourbon- Parma
Greece
Damaskinos
Denmark
Anne
Rome
Mihai
Anne B
Constantine
Karl
Hesse
Duke of
Aosta
Royal
Eric
Paul
Frederika
Helen
Prince Eric
King Paul
Isaiah Horepse
British irritation with U S Palestine policy grows
AP analysis notes rising British irritation as Sir Oliver Franks arrives as ambassador to Washington amid strained U S Britain ties over Palestine policy. The piece argues the long history of British influence in the Middle East and the likely mutual friction ahead as policies diverge under the Marshall plan.
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Belman Morin
Oliver Franks
Washington
Britain
Federal judge bars coast to coast railroad strike
Judge Goldsborough extended a temporary injunction halting a nationwide railroad strike after government seizure of the railroads. He set five days for unions to file a response, scheduled another hearing after the answer, and noted the final outcome could change with a speedy hearing.
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Washington
T. Alan Goldsborough
Goldsborough
Justice Department
Graham Morison
Morison
Carl McFarland
McFarland
Congress
John L. Lewis
Supreme Court
Truman
Open Bids For Power Line Project In Arizona
Parker June 10 bids opened for a transmission line from Hoover dam to Davis dam then Prescott to Phoenix. Eight bids across three schedules with costs near 3 million dollars. lowest bids from Wonderly Construction and consortium Seabrook Elliott Eisenman. Reclamation officials will evaluate and submit recommendations to the U S reclamation commissioner, with contracts possibly awarded by July 1.
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Parker
Colorado
Arizona
U. S. Reclamation
Hoover Dam
Davis Dam
Prescott
Phoenix
Reclamation Bureau
Wonderly Construction Co
Long Beach
Calif
Stoke, Inc
Oakland
Ralph A. Bell
United Concrete Pipe Corp
Baldwin Park
Arizona Sand & Rock Co
Seabrook, Elliott & Eisenman
Chula Vista
U S Reveals XS-1 Rocket Plane Speed Claims
Washington June 10 Air Secretary Symington said the XS-1 rocket plane has flown much faster than sound at times and that no other plane yet exceeded the sonic barrier. Captain Charles E Yeager the first to break it is a pilot at Wright Field Ohio. The XS-1 aims to reach speeds of 1017 mph at 40000 feet and 1700 mph at 80000 feet as tests continue.
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Washington
Symington
Air Force
Charles E. Yeager
Yeager
Myra
W. Va
Air Materiel Command
Wright Field
Ohio
Miller to Head Tucson Little Theatre Next Season
James Miller, longtime Tucson actor and Fairhaven Summer Theatre associate director, named managing director of Tucson Little Theatre replacing Sherman Headley. Miller outlined plans with Marvyn Harbert as committees study play selection patronage and workshop management at the new Randolph Park TLT building. He previously appeared as Jonah Goodman in Gentle People and has held staff positions at Catholic University of America and in various summer stock and road companies.
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James Miller
Tucson
Little Theatre
Fairhaven Summer Theatre
New Bedford
Mass
Tucson Dramatic Group
Sherman Headley
Miller
Marvyn Harbert
TLT
Randolph Park
Arizona
Jonah Goodman
University of Arizona
Gordon Davis
Ralph Brown
Peter Marroney
Thestaff
Catholic University of America
Washington, D. C
University of Iowa
Huntington
Long Island
Ogunquit
Roadside
Bethesda
Taft Community Players
Taft
Calif
Horatio
Baseball scores in national and american leagues
Chicago defeated New York 6 to 4. Philadelphia topped Detroit 10 to 4. Other games listed include Brooklyn at Pittsburgh, Boston at St Louis, Chicago at New York postponed, and St Louis at Washington with night schedules.
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New York
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Boston
St. Louis
American League
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Detroit
Washington
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