Insanity Plea Marked By Mrs Bender Murder Trial
The Santa Cruz county jury to hear the case of Librada Lopez Bender 37 accused of murdering her 76 year old husband after defense motion for acquittal was denied. Prosecutor Espinosa read from a co defendant confession accusing Bender and urging the two juveniles to dispose of the body in a sludge dump.
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Nogales
Ariz
Librada Lopez Bender
Santa Cruz County
Gordon Farley
Marie Stella Rosenberg
Farley
Bender
Espinosa
Librada Lopes Bender
Santa Cruz
40 000 Close Strike Over Jurisdiction
United Press reports 40 000 Detroit workers resume tasks after tentative CIO AFL agreement to end jurisdictional fights while other areas see continued strikes. UAW warns noncompliant members lose support. Nationwide unrest includes Chicago railway workers and meat packers seeking raises.
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United Press
Detroit
CIO
AFL
United Auto Workers
CIP
R. J. Thomas
International Union
Thomas
Washington
UAW
National Building Trades Council
Packard Motor Car Co
Budd Wheel Manufacturing Co
Ford Motor Co
Chicago
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
Pennsylvania
New Kensington
The
Aluminum Co. of America
Eesset Steel Corporation
Pennsyl
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Tovrea Again Set To Deliver Meat To Tucson
The Tovrea Packing company plans to resume beef deliveries to Tucson after a two year suspension. A Tucsonite report notes OPA delays and unclear approval as meat supplies increase at feeding pens and army orders shift. Local grocers report offers for beef and a broader meat line may follow soon.
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Tovrea Packing Company
Tucson
OPA
Tocred
Tax Revision Action Passed By House Unit
The House Ways and Means Committee approved tax revision legislation to improve the cash position of business and industry by 5 billion dollars during reconversion. The measure raises the excess profits tax exemption from 10 000 to 25 000 with no other major corporate tax changes and failed to broaden to cut individual tax burdens.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Death penalty given to soldier for slayings
Kingman Arizona June 29 Up Corp Thurman E Laws 25 Kingman Army airfield yesterday was sentenced to death before a firing squad for the fatal stabbings of his wife Lila Laws and Tech Waldeman A Vernet Jr both of Kingman The slayer was convicted of murder by a general court martial The sentence awaits review and a final date will be set if upheld Laws a former North Carolina farmer and textile worker testified in a 10 hour trial
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Kingman
Ariz
Corp
Laws
North Carolina
Truman Urges Nations to Form World Union
President Truman advocates ratification of the United Nations charter as the only lasting path to peace. He calls for U.S. leadership, saying the nation must ratify first and lead the world, addressing a large audience in Kansas City while meeting with Alf Landon and receiving an honorary law degree.
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Merriman Smith
Kansas City
U.P
Truman
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Republic
United States
Jackson County
Law School
The
University of Kansas City
United Nations
U. S
San Francisco
Senate
Landing near Balikpapan oil center eyed by Japanese reports
Manila dispatch says Tokyo claimed Allied mine sweepers off Balikpapan signal preparations for a landing while MacArthur's HQ confirmed Seventh Fleet patrolling the Macassar Strait. Japanese broadcasts reported enemy ship losses and massive air attacks on Balikpapan and Pontianak with 286 tons of bombs dropped. Tarakan oil field reportedly back in production after recent destruction.
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Hugh Crumpler
Manila
U.P
Tokyo
Balikpapan
U.S. Seventh Fleet
Macassar Strait
Douglas MacArthur
Seventh Fleet
Adm
Thomas C. Kinkaid
Borneo
Celebes
Balikapapan
Pontianak
Mallpuxpe
Tarakan Island
Tarakan
Baseball Finals Reported Scores Across Leagues
In the American League Boston defeated Chicago 4 to 2. In the National League Cincinnati beat Boston 4 to 1 and New York triumphed over Pittsburgh 3 to 2. Brooklyn defeated Chicago 5 to 4.
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Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
New York
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
House and Senate Clash Over OPA Powers
Washington June 29. The conference report on the OPA extension bill passed the senate last night by 40 to 8 and heads to a house session expected to be turbulent. House Republicans plan organized action to send it back to conference for farmer favorable amendments as Rep. August H Andresen proposes granting food czar powers to the OPA.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
House
FEPC
House Speeds Action On Bill Of Succession
Washington June 29 The house passed the administration bill placing the speaker next in line for the presidency after the vice president. A voice vote sent the measure to the senate where reception remains uncertain.
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Washington
House
Senate
Succession bill gains pace amid White House debate
A house debate over a presidential succession bill moved toward final vote after quick committee work. The measure follows President Truman’s plan, placing the speaker of the house next in line if both president and vice president are unavailable, with senate pro tem next if needed.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman
Congress
Sam Rayburn
Tex
White House
Speed
Rep. Monroney
Okla
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Treasury
Morgenthau
House Judiciary Committee
Duce dismisses peace with United States as impossible
Ciano diary excerpts recount Mussolini's hard line toward Roosevelt's envoy Sumner Welles in early 1940. Entries cite lack of enthusiasm, fuel shortages, and fear of German influence, with Mussolini wary of a frontiers meeting with Hitler and plans to resist without fighting.
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Chicago Daily News, Inc
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Europe
Mussolini
Il Duce
Count Ciano
Welles
Ciano
Hitler
Brenner Pass
Italy
Austria
Pavolini
Carboni
Germany
Goering
von Ribbentrop
Percy Loraine
Britain
1942 Used Autos Live From Ration List Monday
Washington June 29. The office of price administration announced that used 1942 automobiles will be removed from rationing starting Monday. New 1942 models will remain under rationing.
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Washington
U.P
Office of Price Administration
Paris Recognizes New Polish Government
The British radio reported that the French government recognizes the new Polish government in Warsaw, marking a shift in diplomatic stance amid postwar political realignment.
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Paris
United Press
Warsaw
Tokyo raid strikes Kudamatsu refinery amid large uprising
Guam June 30 A U P report says B 29s bombed Honshu's Kudamatsu oil refinery, Japan's fourth largest, in a midnight raid. The attack followed incendiaries at Sasebo naval base and three other major cities, with fifty bombers delivering undisclosed explosive tonnage.
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William F. Tyree
Guam
U.P
Tokyo
Japan
Kudamatsu
Honshu Island
Sasebo
Bilbo's Filibuster Blocks Senate FEPC Plans
Senator Eastland denounces the Negro soldier as an utter failure in war efforts amid FEPC clash. Senator Bilbo, who vowed to make noise, is silenced briefly as the Senate conducts an all night session over funds for the fair employment practices committee.
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Washington
Sen
Eastland
D-Miss
FEPC
Senate
Europe
U.P
Theodore G
Bilbo
Huey Long
Fair Employment Practice Committee
Russians Annex South Czech Area
Moscow said the USSR and Czechoslovakia signed a treaty annexing Carpatho Ukraine to the Soviet Union. Foreign Commissar Molotov and Zdenek Fierlinger witnessed the signing at the Kremlin with Stalin present. The Ukraine would join the Soviet Ukraine and the Slovakia border would shift to a Czechoslovak Russian frontier.
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London
U.P
Moscow Radio
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Ukraine
Soviet Union
Kremlin
V. M. Molotov
Zdenek Fierlinger
Stalin
Moscow
Slovakia
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