Truman Signs Draft Law Halting Enlistments for Now
President Truman signed the two year selective service bill ending the flood of enlistments in reserve units. The law requires 19 to 25 year olds to register with about 4,000 draft boards ready by Aug. 16. Action defers many veterans and students while funding expands army, navy and air force to 2,000,000 personnel.
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Washington
United States
Truman
Mr. Truman
National Guard
Jary Forrestal
Army
Air Force
Navy
Smelter Workers Set Strike Deadline
The Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers union has set a midnight June 30 strike deadline unless wage demands are met. They seek a 30 cent per hour raise while Inspiration Consolidated Copper offers 11 cents and Miami Copper 9 cents.
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Miami
Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co
Miami Copper Co
Nations Rise To Halt Red Drives
AP analysis notes a new Western unity forming against Bolshevik pressure. Western Europe s union grows through the Western European union and Marshall plan while the United States aligns with the bloc. Soviet moves against Berlin draw combined Allied resolve, as Gen Clay warns Russia cannot drive them out short of war.
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United States of Europe
Western Europe
America
Western European Union
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France
Belgium
Netherlands
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West Europe
Washington
State Department
Western
Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Wrecked pilots found alive after 10 days missing
William C. Brewster and Roy Mangels, both uninjured, walked from a Canadian wilderness near Plaster Rock New Brunswick after their light plane crashed on June 15. They survived on grain ferns and frogs legs then pancake flour and sardines found in a trapper cache. More than 20 planes from the United States and Canada had searched for them.
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William C. Brewster
Roy Mangels
Brewster
Maine
Owen Brewster
Associated Press
Plaster Rock
N. B
Autoists Held In Huge Slide On Mount Lafayette
Two landslides descended a mile and a half down Mt. Lafayette in Franconia Notch New Hampshire burying 20 feet of highway. Seventeen cars were trapped for a time but no injuries were reported among 35 occupants. A large slide poured into a lake near The Old Man of the Mountain while bulldozers cleared a path.
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Mt. Lafayette Vn
White Mountain Chain
Franconia Notch
Pay Raise Will Not Help Motor Bureau
Phoenix June 25 motor vehicle bureau personnel will not gain from a $15 monthly blanket raise approved for other highway department divisions. Officials say budget restrictions force the unequal treatment though they acknowledge the situation is unjust.
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Phoenix
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The
Highway Commission
Highway Department
Train Derailed Near Shelton Injures Five
Five Union Pacific sleepers derailed from the eastbound City of San Francisco near Shelton Nebraska injuring five passengers slightly. Charles B Postle 53 Omaha hip injury taken to Kearney hospital. Mrs Mertz 77 Richmond Hill L I fractured rib M Sloegel 74 Oakland right shin skinned Mrs M Sloegel 61 left shin skinned Mrs William A Lee 64 Detroit high blood pressure. About 1200 feet of track damaged.
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Omaha
Union Pacific
City of San Francisco
Shelton
Neb
Charles B. Postle
Kearney
Mertz
Richmond Hill
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M. Sloegel
Oakland
Calif
William A. Lee
Detroit
Rail Valuations In State Are Increased
Arizona rail road valuations are increased by 3,672,010 to 96,108,489 under a state tax commission order. The Southern Pacific is raised from 50,563,091 to 52,763,583 and the Santa Fe from 40,374,879 to 41,909,647. The new assessments will be reviewed when the commission sits as a board of equalization.
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Arizona
State Tax Commission
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Board of Equalization
FASTEETH Powders Keep Dentures Firm Without Slippage
FASTEETH powder for upper or lower plates keeps false teeth in place with an alkaline non acid formula. It avoids sliding and slipping, has no gummy taste, and helps prevent denture odor. Available at drug stores.
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Schick—Sunbeam
Remington Catalina Typewriter Company
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Nkham
Redit Jewelers
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