Heavy American Pressure On Britain To Help Jews
Washington pressures Britain to end the Palestine war and aid the Jews. Bevin met with the U S ambassador as lawmakers demand lifting the arms embargo and ERP scrutiny. Signs at Lake Success point to a strong UN cease-fire resolution, but Jerusalem’s fall seems likely as Arab forces advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Bevin
Lewis Douglas
London
Washington
Britain
Holy Land
U.S
Jerusalem
Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
Palestine
Israel
United Nations
Styles Bridges
R-Nh
Senate Appropriations Committee
U. S
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Lake Success
UN Security Council
Council
Holy City
Bethlehem
Promoter Riccardi Ordered to Newark Bond Seizure Threat
Phoenix promoter Constantino Vincent Riccardi 58 must report to federal court in Newark New Jersey next Thursday or forfeit a 25000 bond after evading fraud charges in the East. U S District Attorney Flynn arranged the move while Paquin vacated removal proceedings and Riccardi faced charges involving Princess Fahd Es Sultanah and a mining stock swindle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas
Constantino Vincent Riccardi
Phoenix
Newark
N. J
Riccardi
California
U.S
Frank E. Fiyon
Sam Greenbaum
U. S
Flynn
Paquin
New York
Arizona
Fahd-Es-Sultaneh
Sebastian Kresge
Jerusalem battle reports and meat strike update
May 22 dispatch describes Jewish fighters in Jerusalem's old city tunneling and holding a 300 yard square around Beit Yaacov synagogue amid heavy artillery. It also covers a CIO packing strike settlement with Swift Armour and Cudahy, ongoing Wilson plant actions, railroad labor talks, and labor row over the railway act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old City
Jerusalem
Abdullah
Arab Legion
Beit Yaacov
Lold
Mt. Zion
CIO United Packinghouse Workers
Swift, Armour, and Cudahy
Wilson
Boxing promoter Doug Smith dies from gunshot wound
Phoenix boxing promoter Doug Smith, about 30, was found unconscious in the Madi son Square garden office and died at St Monica's hospital from a gunshot wound. Police said the injury was personal safety related and that Smith had announced recently he was ending his boxing promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Doug
Cowboy) Smith
St. Monica's Hospital
Phoenix Madison Square Garden
Smith
Safford
the Garden
Jockey Angel Senna Sentenced to Aug. 13 Gas Chamber
Florence May 22 Angel Rocky Senna a 24 year old jockey was sentenced to the next August 13 in the state prison gas chamber for the slaying of Mrs Katherine Gohn last December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Hoover Names Defense Board
Hoover names a 12 member working committee under Ferdinand Eberstadt to develop plans for streamlining the national security organization. The panel includes civilians who served the government during the war and will study three armed services but not military policy.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Ferdinand Eberstadt
New York
National Security Organization
Hoover
Congress
Eberstadt
Thomas Archer
General Motors Corp
Charles W. Cole
Amherst College
Hanson Baldwin
The
New York Times
Robert E. Wood
Sears Roebuck Company
Lewis Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Frederick A. Middlebush
University of Missouri
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson, Belknap & Webb
James Knowlson
Stewart Warner Corp
John Cowles
Minneapolis Star & Tribune Company
John J. McCloy
International Bank
Raymond B. Allen
University of Washington
James Doolittle
Ira Eaker
Gilbert R. Cook
Robert W. Hasbrouck
Truman Smith
Edward Curtis
Adms
Ben Moreell
John H. Towers
R. S. Edwards
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John M. Hancock
Hancock
Bernard Baruch
Ernest J. King
Chester W. Nimitz
Carl Spaatz
Stanley D. Embick
Frederick Anderson
Aveta Daly Hobby
Women's Army Corps
Natural Resources
Ralph L. Carr
Colorado
Government Statistical Services
Frederick C. Mills
Columbia University
P. K. Whelpton
Miami University
Oxford, C
Samuel S. Wilks
Princeton University
John D. Millett
Mar
Elizabeth Prods Coventry To United Efforts For Peace
Princess Elizabeth urged Coventry residents to unite to solve national problems with wartime spirit as the city opens its rebuilt Central square. She said a new Coventry will rise from the ashes after German raids on November 14, 1940, and noted war’s nobler instincts arise from common danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coventry
England
Elizabeth
U S Consul Wounded in Jerusalem War
American Consul General Thomas C. Wasson was shot and seriously wounded by a sniper in Jerusalem. Two other Americans, Herbert M. Walker and Thomas Gannon, were wounded during fighting. Wasson was returning from a meeting of the UN security council truce commission at the French embassy.
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Washington
Thomas C. Wasson
Jerusalem
State Department
Herbert M. Walker
Navy
Thomas Gannon
Washington, D. C
Wasson
Walker
International Truce Commission
United Nations Security Council
Hadassah
English Mission Hospital
William Carter Burdett
New York City
Baptists Close Annual Session in Memphis
The Southern Baptist Convention closed its 91st annual session in Memphis with a pledge drive against alcoholic beverages led by the Sunday school board. It opposed communism fascism and anti Semitism and defended federal tax exemptions for nonprofits. Attendance set a record at 9844 messengers.
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Memphis
Tenn
World Council of Churches
Southern Baptist Convention
Amsterdam
Paul Caudill
Relief Committee of the
Baptist World Alliance
Crump Stadium
Robert G. Lee
Kansas
Oregon Baptists
Committee For Action
Approves Transfer of Florence Camp to Arizona
The U S office of education favorable to moving the Florence prisoner of war base to Arizona. Education objections to an education rehabilitation center for younger first time convicts have been withdrawn. The War Assets Administration awaits final action by the state.
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Phoenix
U. S. Office of Education
War Assets Administration
Florence
Arizona
C. L. Harkins
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
WAA
NLRB Decisions Expand Taft-Hartley Labor Reach
Three rulings clarify how Taft Hartley reshapes employer union bargaining. Pensions must be bargained as part of wages and conditions of employment and pension benefits are integral to the wage structure. The board also allowed employers to require attendance at antiunion talks on company time and property, marking a shift from prior Wagner Act interpretations.
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Waterloo
National
Rath
Army
Brotherhoods of Engineers
NLRB
James Marlow Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Congress
Air Force plans peacetime strength growth and inland shift
The Air Force aims for 70 peacetime groups and moves its strategic bomber command inland from Andrews Maryland to Omaha Nebraska. Two more units shift from MacDill Florida to Topeka Kansas as Congress advances base expansion from Alaska to Iceland. Plan total costs exceed 3.1 billion dollars with final spending subject to presidential approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Truman
MacDillfield
Fla
Topeka
Kas
Air Force
Alaska
Iceland
State Health Board Faces Probe Over Hospital Plan
Phoenix May 22 The state health board’s hospital program costing 8 million dollars in federal and state funds drew sharp criticism. Mrs Blodwen Thode president of the Casa Grande Valley Cooperative Hospital association warned of legal action unless a true county survey is conducted and findings publicly heard. She urged that all federal allocations be approved by an advisory survey and a construction council appointed by the governor and legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
State Health Board
State Board
Maricopa
Pima
Sidney P. Osborn
Blodwen Thode
Casa Grande Valley Cooperative Hospital Association
Dewey Keeps Narrow Oregon Lead In GOP Primary
Governor Thomas E. Dewey maintained a slim but growing lead over Harold E. Stassen in Oregon's Republican presidential primary as returns from about 1115 of 1861 precincts came in. Multnomah County and Portland fueled Dewey's advantage, with the New Yorker approaching 12 delegates and Stassen facing a major setback in his campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Oregon
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Portland
Ore
Harold K. Stassen
Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Multnomah
Stassen
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Seattle
Upstate
Multnomah County
Willamette Valley
Central Tier
Boat Capsize Near Manasquan Kills At Least Two
The fishing boat Squirt capsized a mile off Manasquan New Jersey on Saturday. At least two men died and 32 were rescued, including one woman, with survivors taken to Point Pleasant hospital. Police identify the dead as Charles R Heidorn and John Soehler.
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Manasquan
N. J
Atlantic Ocean
Point Pleasant Hospital
John Bauer
Charles R. Heidorn
Elizabeth
John Soehler
Cranbury
Bauer
Baseball Scores National League and American League results
The National League games concluded with St. Louis 6 over Boston 4, Cincinnati at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh 3 over Brooklyn 1, Chicago 0, and New York 11. In the American League, New York at Chicago, Boston 0, Cleveland 7, Philadelphia 9, Detroit 6, and Washington at St. Louis.
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St. Louis
Boston
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
Chicago
New York
Cleveland
Detroit
Washington
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