Rules committee clears draft bill for House floor
The rules committee voted six to four to send the draft bill to the House floor for debate later this week. Chair Andrews urged clearance. Rep Short opposed. The measure, already passed in the Senate, is deemed virtually assured, with three hours of general debate and one recommit motion allowed.
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Washington
Rules Committee
House
Andrews
R-Ny
House Armed Services Committee
Dewey Short
R-Mo
Senate
Leo E. Allen
R-Ill
Allen
Armed Services Committee
Wadsworth
Herter
R-Mass
Cox
D-Ga
Smith
Dva
Rizley
Okla
Harness
R-Ind
Woman Held In 2 Deaths In Cincinnati Poison Case
In Cincinnati on June 14, preliminary hearing scheduled for Mrs. Marvy Clay Watts, 43, charged with murder after her husband Willis Watts and her daughter Barbara Ann Watts died from poison. Barbara Ann died May 15 after months of nausea. father death ruled a homicide with arsenic. Mrs Watts denies involvement and refuses a lie detector test.
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Cincinnati
Marvy Clay Watts
Herbert P. Lyle
Willis
Lyle
Truman to make three stops in Arizona on trip
President Truman will pause in Seligman Ash Fork and Winslow Arizona on Tuesday for arrival departures. Local officials officials including acting Gov Dan Garvey and Winslow Mayor Ralph B MaClean mobilized volunteers and the Winslow Indian band and dancers to greet the president. The Santa Fe railroad division towns plan large turnouts while Nogales Sonora officials coordinate border city reception.
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Truman
Arizona
Mr. Truman
San Francisco
Seligman
Ash Fork
Winslow
Dan E. Garvey
Garvey
Nogales
Sonora
Mex
Phoenix
Harecio Sobrazo
Gertrude Espy
Ralph B. MaClean
Morris Richards
Winslow Mail
Richards
Santa Fe
U S Holds Power To Decide Which Nation Gets Industries
U S policy makers control export licenses that determine which nations receive scarce industrial goods. The Commerce Department uses licenses to limit or permit sales to Europe, Latin America, or the Far East, shaping markets and alliances amid postwar trade. Canada remains unrestricted by the system.
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U.S
Washington
Sam
Europe
Western Europe
Russia
Latin America
Far East
Canada
U. S
France
Brazil
Austria
Office of International Trade
The
Commerce Department
Joe Smith
Minneapolis
Joe Hendricks
Antilynch Bill Advances in Senate Judiciary Committee
The senate judiciary committee approved 10 to 3 a bill to make lynching a federal crime. A Southern opponent promised to fight it to the bitter end. The measure would impose criminal and civil penalties on lynch mobs, but had little chance of passage in this session.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Philadelphia Mecca Of GOP
The 1948 Republican contest moves to Philadelphia for convention strategy as Taft Dewey and Stassen set up headquarters. Open convention with four or more ballots expected. key states California Illinois Indiana Massachusetts New Jersey Pennsylvania hold 281 votes. city hotel rates rise for the event.
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Lyle UC. Wilson
Philadelphia
Fdr
Wendell
GOP
Clarence J. Brown
Robert A. Taft
Benjamin Franklin Hotel
Herbert Brownell
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Bellevue Stratford
Harold E. Stassen
Walnut Street
California
Illinois
Indiana
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Largest Crowds Of Tour Greet President
President Truman criticized the Republican Congress in Los Angeles urging passage of price controls and housing legislation before the Philadelphia Republican convention. Speaking to over 1,000 at the Cocoanut Grove, he said Congress "still has time" to act as crowds greeted his cross-country tour through the city.
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Los Angeles
Truman
Congress
Philadelphia
Cocoanut Grove
Ambassador Hotel
Truman to Lanz Explosive Speech on Congress in LA
President Truman plans an extemporaneous 1:30 p.m. address at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles under the Greater Los Angeles Press club umbrella. He will travel by train arriving at 10:10 a.m., lead a city parade, and criticize the Republican-led 80th Congress for high prices and housing shortages.
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Merriman Smith
Truman
U.P
Congress
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles
Greater
Republican Congress
Butte
Mont
Spokane
Wash
Mr. Truman
San Francisco
International Labor Organization
David A. Morse
Snowfall on Mt Baldy Sets New Winter Record
Mt Baldy in the White Mountains recorded a new winter snow depth of 24.73 inches from Oct 23 1947 to June 10 of this year, eclipsing the 18.95 inch mark set in 1946-47 per Phoenix weather official Louis R Jurwitz. Separately Harvey Vernon Hood waived preliminary hearing on charges of attempted rape and kidnapping of 4 year old Glenda Kay Hines with bond set at 10000 after the child was held for more than 15 hours Friday.
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Phoenix
U.P
Mt. Baldy
White Mountains
Louis R. Jurwitz
Phoenix Weather Bureau
Reading
Harvey Vernon Hood
Juke Box
Glenda Kay Hines
Hines
Destructive Hermosillo Fire Ruins Capitol Building
Dispatches from Hermosillo report Friday night fire in Sonora capital caused damage over 5 million pesos, with the capitol building nearly destroyed. Gov. Horacio Lobarzo, visiting Nogales, commented after the blast as officials assess the devastation.
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Nogales
Hermosillo
Sonora
Capitol
Horacio Lobarzo
Holy Land Truce Quiet as Gaza Fighting Eases
The Palestine front appears calmer after a day of quiet amid the Israel Arab dispute over who violated the UN partition plan. Jewish convoys reached Jerusalem while Arab gunfire missed. 420 immigrants arrived in Tel Aviv and UN observers prepared for refugee camps. France delays talks on a western Germany federal government as Berlin debates the six power accord. U S senate fights foreign aid cuts while both sides accuse the other of truce violations in Galilee. Bernadotte moves to Rhodes seeking a path to renewed negotiations.
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Associated Press
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Israel
Galilee
Jerusalem
United Nations
Britain
Arab Legion
Legion
Holy City
Judaea Hills
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem
Latrun
Bab el Wad
Tel Aviv
France
Germany
National Assembly
U.S
U. S. Senate
Syria
Mishmar Hay Yarden
Kefar Szold
Ein Geb
U. S
Bernadotte
Count Folke Bernadotte
Rhodes
Holy Land
Bernadotte At Peace Labors On Neutral Ground
Count Folke Bernadotte United Nations mediator arrives on a Greek island for talks to settle the Palestine conflict. He travels from Cairo Amman Jerusalem Damascus to Tel Aviv Haifa and brings a partial staff to prepare for a four week truce and future negotiations.
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Edward Curtis Rhodes
Folke Bernadotte
United Nations
Palestine
Cairo
Amman
Trans- Jordan
Jerusalem
Damascus
Syria
Tel Aviv
Haifa
Israel
Holy Land
Hotel Des Roses
the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem
Conviction of Eisler Upheld by Appeals Court
The United States court of appeals upheld the contempt of Congress conviction of Gerhard Eisler, once named America’s No 1 Communist by a House committee. Eisler faces one year in jail and a $1000 fine for refusing to answer questions before the House American Activities Committee, and is already serving one to three years on a separate charge of concealing his Communist ties when applying for a U.S. departure permit. The case awaits final appeal decision.
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Washington
Congress
Gerhard Eisler
House
United States Court of Appeals
Eisler
An American Activities Committee
State Department
Pressure Mounts in Soft Coal Contract Talks
Growing pressure surrounds the soft coal contract negotiations with under three weeks to avert a nationwide strike. The June 30 wage pact deadline shifts to July 5 due to a industry-wide vacation, as John L. Lewis and operators resume talks. The 1947 welfare fund remains frozen amid dispute over a miners pension scheme, to be decided by Judge Goldsborough next Saturday.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Welfare and Retirement Fund
Ezra van Horn
T. Alan Goldsborough
van Horn
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
Czechs Install ed President
Czechoslovakia elected and swore in its first Communist president Klement Gottwald in Prague. He won by a near unanimous vote of 296 in Parliament, took office in Vladislavsky hall, and reviewed troops before attending a te deum in St. Vitus cathedral with Mrs Gottwald. Archbishop Josef Beran greeted the couple at the door.
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A. I. Goldberg
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Klement Gottwald
Vladislavsky Hall
Oldrich John
Gottwald
Communist Party
People’s Democracy
Hradacany
Josef Beran
St. Vitus Cathedral
Chrysler Men Will Return After Strike Truce
Detroit June 14 Chrysler plans to recall 16 500 workers as a supplier strike ends while General Motors idles 200 000 for a week due to a steel shortage blamed on the coal strike. Ford talks open Tuesday as UAW CIO seeks a 30 cent hourly raise.
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Detroit
Chrysler
General Motors
Ford
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Uaw-Cio
Baseball Scores No Games Scheduled in Either League
A brief update notes no baseball games were scheduled in the major leagues or minor leagues. No results, no standings, no player actions reported.
House Votes To Override Truman Veto On Social Security Bill
The House voted 297 to 75 to override President Truman s veto of a social security bill raising federal payments to needy aged and children and blocking some from old age insurance. The measure moves to the Senate with a two thirds override needed to become law.
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Washington
House
Truman
Senate
Congress
Capitol Hill
Rep. Dingell
D-Mich
Dingell
Supreme Court rules in favor of right to counsel in limited cases
The court ruled five to four that states must appoint counsel when defendants cannot adequately represent themselves. In Donald Wade's Florida burglary case, age thirteen at trial, indigent defense was not provided beyond capital cases. Justice Murphy led the majority citing due process under the 14th Amendment.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Donald Wade
Florida
Wade
Justice Murphy
Murphy
Rough Riders Set Reunion in Prescott June 24 25
Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders plan a reunion in Prescott on June 24 and 25, bringing about 65 of the 107 living survivors. The event centers at the Equestrian statue of Capt. William O’Neill in the courthouse plaza, with Bucky O’Neill’s widow Pauline and her son Maurice attending. David M. Goodrich of New York is president of the association and Robert W. Denney of Whittier is secretary.
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Prescott
Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Riders
San Juan Hill
1St
U. S. Volunteer Cavalry
William
Bucky) O'Neill
O'Neill
Arizona
1St Volunteer Cavalry
Theodore Roosevelt
Leonard Wood
Cuba
Bucky O'Neill
Pauline O'Neill
Hollywood
Maurice
Santa Monica
Calif
David M. Goodrich
The
Goodrich Rubber Co
New York
Rough Riders Association
Robert W. Denney
Whittier
Charles Heitman
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