House Passes Its Measure To Bar Beds
The House passed an anti-Communist bill despite objections to a clause that could label Henry Wallace's third party a Communist front. The measure requires front organizations to register and file annual financial statements, with penalties for noncompliance. Debate highlighted by Sen Taft and editor Ralph McGill on the bill’s reach and effectiveness.
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House
Washington
Senate
Henry Wallace
Rep. Multer
Mundt
Multer
Rep
Nixon
R-Calif
Taft
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Ohio
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
Thurman Arnold
R-Sd
Marcantonio
Al-Ny
New Yorker
Congress
Rides Bannister On Her 101st Birthday
Miss Florence Dolph marked her 101st birthday by sliding down a bannister to breakfast calling it her horse Pet. She rides the bannister on holidays and anniversaries, greeted friends, and received a plaque from the Pennsylvania Medical Society recognizing her age.
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Scranton
Florence Dolph
Miss Dolph
Dolph
Florence Robertson
Robertson
Pennsylvania Medical Society
Murder Trial To Jury Today In Flagstaff
A nine county superior court jury in Flagstaff is to begin deliberations on the Arch Penrod and Bill Key murder case. Final defense witnesses testified as the pair deny beating Leo Leonard to cause a fatal blood clot. The trial, moved from Holbrook, features testimony from Penrod and Key disputing the beer incident.
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Flagstaff
Arch Penrod
Bill Key
Holbrook
Penrod
Key
Leo Leonard
Leonard
Bill Gordon
M. T. Phelps
Building Trade Pay Hike Asked
Five thousand workers in Arizona's building and construction trades seek a 20 cent hourly raise effective June 1. A. E. Williams, head of the contract negotiating committee, leading unions and the Phoenix trades council, pressed the request on contractors. He also seeks removal of no strike and arbitration clauses and minor rule changes. The current arbitration award, granting 20 cents retroactive to Aug. 5, expires in June. He opened to further talks with employers.
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Phoenix
Arizona
A. E. Williams
Arizona State Federation of Labor
Phoenix Building and Construction Trades Council
Williams
Associated General Contractors of America
Arizona Building Contractors
Tucson General Contractors
Baseball club beer sales charged in Arizona league game dispute
A Miami complaint charges the Globe Miami Baseball Association with selling beer without a license. A hearing before Justice of the Peace John Carpenter is set for May 25. The accusation, filed by County Attorney Frank E. Tippett and signed by Rev A Luke Fritz of the Gila County Memorial association, cites beer distribution during a Sunday game at O'Brien park.
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Miami
Globe- Miami Baseball Association
Justice of the ‘Peace
John Carpenter
Frank E. Tippett
Luke Fritz
Gila
Vic Smith to Leave Yuma High School
Vic Smith resigns as Yuma high school coach and will become assistant director of athletics at Terminal Island Naval Station in Long Beach California. During three seasons his football teams posted 20 wins, four ties, and six losses. principal J. T. Rouse named three potential successors without identifying them.
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Yuma
Vic Smith
Yuma High School
Naval Station
Terminal Island
Long Beach Calif
Smith
Yuma High
J. T. Rouse
Atomic Weapon Vastly Better Part of Sandstone tests
The United States announced vastly improved atomic weapons after the Sandstone tests on Eniwetok. No details were released, but leaders said weapons worked and built on Los Alamos work. No air or underwater drops occurred. results were kept secret.
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Honolulu
United States
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Eniwetok
Mid- Pacific
Russell
Congress
America
Karol K. Froman
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
William E. Kepner
Air Forces
Yuma School Boy Dies After Tumbling Accident
Richard Le Roy a 17 year old Yuma grammar pupil died after suffering a broken neck during a school athletic show he had moments earlier regained consciousness to receive his graduation certificate in hospital his death followed his tumbling act at a parent teacher association meeting he was class president and survived by his parents and siblings
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Yuma
Richard Leroy
Yuma Grammar School
Richard
C. W. McGraw
Parent-Teacher Association
Charles Leroy
Soldier's Wife MOSCOW May 19 McMillin refuses return
Sgt James M McMillin, son of a West Point graduate, worked in the Azeri embassy ultra secret code room and has advised he intends to remain in Moscow rather than return to the United States. Embassy officials say his decision is one of those hazards to be overcome. He turned 21 last February and has been in Russia since 1946 after enlisting in 1945. A US State Department note about a seduction plot is not confirmed by embassy officials.
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Moscow
U.P
James M. McMillin
Azercan
West Point
Russia
U. S. State Department
United States
McMillin
Washington, D. C
James Marlow
Washington
Stalin
Molotov
Hate
Truman
State Marshall
Red China Bombs Mao Meeting as Gov’t Reports Casualties
Beijing said one national plane bombed a building at Fapian in Hopeh May 13 where Mao Tse-tung and 200 Red leaders met. Ninety killed or wounded were listed, while government forces faced setbacks in the Han river valley, Linfeng fell to communists, and Lao Hokow was captured, disrupting central China supplies.
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Nanking
Mao Tze-Tung
Teng Wen-Yi
Fapian
Hopeh
Chen Yi
Naional
Teng
West Hopeh
Han River
Linfeng
Shansi
Peiping
Liu Po-Cheng
Laohokow
Hankow
China
Marshall faults Russia for lack of peace efforts
Secretary of State George C. Marshall said Russia has shown no sincere effort to seek agreements in international bodies since their peace offensive began. He listed eleven issues where the United States accuses Moscow of obstruction and warned progress depends on Soviet attitude in multilateral forums.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Soviet Union
Josef Stalin
Henry A. Wallace
Korea
Berlin
Japan
V. M. Molotov
Truman
Stalin
State Department
United States
Russia
Moscow
Moscow criticizes U S diplomats over Wallace Stalin talks
Moscow radio reports the state department rejected Wallace Stalin bilateral talks, citing Tass and alleging U S policy shift from Roosevelt era. The broadcast claims the deadlock stems from Truman administration’s aggressive stance, framing U S positions as inconsistent.
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London
Moscow
U. S. State Department
Russia
United States
Tass
Ussr
State Department
U.S
Roosevelt
Wallace
Stalin
U. S
Truman
Hard to reconcile views on world peace with Russia
James Marlow reports that the United States rejects head-to-head talks with the Soviet Union on issues affecting other nations. The U S insists any such talks include Britain France and Germany and emphasizes resolving problems within the United Nations framework. May 11 Henry Wallace urged talks with Stalin, while Stalin answered May 17 with a public statement.
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Germany
Russia
Britain
France
United Nations
Henry Wallace
Stalin
Wallace
Battle Raging In Old Jerusalem
In Jerusalem the Jewish forces regained the initiative in hand to hand fighting against Arab legionnaires in the old walled city. Reinforcements linked with 1,300 Haganah Irgun and Stern gang fighters attacked Arab troops entering through St Stephens gate. The action aimed to disrupt Arab plans and prevent a collapse of Jewish positions amid daily Egyptian air raids.
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Tel Aviv
U.P
Jerusalem
Abdullah
Old City
Zion Gate
Israel
Mt. Zion
Zion
Haganah
Irgun
Senate committee backs regional European alliances
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a 13 to 0 vote for a resolution urging western European nations to form regional military alliances to ensure security. The United States could join such agreements with Congress approval, under UN peacekeeping aims. The measure adds that iron force should be used only in the common interest.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
United States
Congress
United Nations
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Committee
House
Senate
U.S
Delayed Mails When His Feet Got Tired
Pittsburgh May 19 A veteran mail man Lawrence J. Thoma 44 of Etna faced a U S commissioner on charges he delayed the mails. He was ordered held on 1000 bond for a hearing. Inspectors said he dumped some mail in bushes while claiming fatigue.
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Pittsburgh
U. S
Lawrence J. Thoma
Etna
Thoma
Hunted Youth Surrenders After Four Day Manhunt
John Maddox, 19, the target of a statewide manhunt for the slaying of Frohman Oehler outside Humboldt, surrenders at Polk Junction to Arizona Power Co district superintendent Dan Healey. Bond set at 10000, preliminary hearing postponed for counsel. Witnesses say the shooting followed a fist fight near Humboldt dance hall.
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Prescott
John Maddox
Frohman Oehler
Humboldt
Maddox
Poland Junction
Dan Healey
Arizona Power Co
Healey
Yavapai County
Justice of the Peace
George William Fryer
Oehler
Humboldt Dance Hall
Florence
Whipple Veterans Administration Hospital
Government Canyon
Here
Justice Fryer
David H. Palmer, Jr
Baseball Scores National League and American League results
In the National League New York defeated Cincinnati 5 to 0. In the American League Washington beat Chicago 4 to 1 and Detroit defeated Boston 4 to 1. Additional night games included St Louis at Brooklyn and Philadelphia at Cleveland with no offsets reported.
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St. Louis
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
New York
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Washington
Detroit
Sessions Ended With Coal Wage Talks Collapse
Negotiations for a new soft coal wage contract collapsed on Wednesday as Southern Coal Producers accuse John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers of unfair labor practices. The association seeks NLRB intervention to force bargaining after Lewis balked at seating Joseph Moody. Moody and Moody’s group urge prompt action to protect rights under Taft-Hartley as talks end with no conference in sight.
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Charles O’neil
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Washington
John Owens
UMW
Harry Moses
U. S. Steel
Southern
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Joseph E. Moody
Producers’ Group
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Robert M. Denham
Moody
Association
Denham
Baltimore
Southern Group
United Mine Workers ‘Policy Committee
COAL
Meat Strike Near Finish in National Bargaining
The nationwide meat packing strike nears settlement with the nine cent hourly raise apparently accepted by United Packinghouse Workers, though union leaders dispute the figure until discrimination against strikers is resolved. A joint conference with Swift & Co. is planned as a mass meeting is set for Thursday. Governor Youngdahl said wages are fixed, signaling an imminent accord.
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Chicago
CIO United Packinghouse
Swift & Co
St. Paul
Minn
Luther W. Youngdahl
Minnesota
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