Taft Pushes 1950 GOP Principles at Chicago Platform
Senator Taft urges Republicans to adopt the 1950 statement of principles to avert a convention fight. Eisenhower voiced general support at a Abilene news conference. The document calls for a united foreign policy, tax and spending cuts, anti monopoly laws, revenue balance, and loyalty checks.
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Robert A. Taft
Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Abilene
Kan
Senate
House
GOP
Republican National Committee
United Foreign Policy
Commission
Brannan
Senate Unit Votes Against Truman Reorganization Plan
The Senate government operations committee voted 8 to 2 against President Truman's plan to place postmasters under Civil Service and remove Senate confirmation power. The action sends the proposal to the floor with a June 20 deadline for passage by both houses.
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Senate
Washington
Senate Government Operations Committee
Truman
House
Truman warns against Taft Hartley style injunctions in steel row
President Truman argued that blocking wage increases for workers would violate equal justice under the law and urged Congress to consider government operation of steel mills or a Taft Hartley style labor injunction. He warned that choosing the injunction would favor companies over workers as peace talks stalled.
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Truman
Congress
Industry
Union
Walter Plundeke Services Tomorrow
Funeral services for Walter C Plundeke former resident of Winchester and husband of Virgie Hillyard will be held tomorrow at 2 PM at Omps Funeral Home. Dr William Archer Wright of Braddock Street Methodist Church will lead with Masonic rites at Mt Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Masonic Lodge members. remains arrive Winchester tonight.
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Walter C Plundeke
Winchester
Virgie Hillyard
Mt Vernon
N. Y
Omps Funeral Home
William Archer Wright
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Plundeke
Mt Hebron
Masonic
Russell Holland Rites Thursday
Funeral services for Russell Holland aged 50 of 2 W Leicester Street will be held Thursday at 2 pm at Omps Funeral Home odist Church. Interment in Mt Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. body resting at Omps.
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Russell Holland
Leicester St
University of Virginia Hospital
Charlottesville
Omps Funeral Home
William Archer Wright
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Mt. Hebron
Earl Clark
Herbert Harmer
John Clayton
Irvin Hottle
John Pelter
Brownie Jenkins
Virginia Traffic Toll Rises to 376 After Two Fatalities
Virginia State Police report two more deaths on state roads. Tyler Evans, 24, assistant manager at the State ABC store in Tappahannock, died after his motorcycle skidded on wet pavement on Route 147 near Rappahannock. George A. Huggins, 23, of Dover New Hampshire, died in Arlington Hospital after his motorcycle hit a parked car on Route 50 near Chantilly in Fairfax County.
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Virginia
Tyler Evans
ABC
Tappahannock
U. S. Route 147
Rappahannock
George A. Huggins
Dover
N. H
Arlington
Chantilly
Fairfax County
White House meeting on steel production for defense
The House summoned top defense and production officials to plan resuming steel output to meet critical defense needs. Truman offered no details on why direct union management talks failed, reported to hinge on the union shop issue despite union spokesmen faulting wage concessions. President Assistant John R. Steelman announced the talks had collapsed.
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Truman
John R. Steelman
General Assembly Of Presbyterians Nears End
Charleston West Virginia reports the 92nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U S draws to a close with two reports from the Standing Committee on Inter Church Cooperation and Union. The majority favors cooperation in evangelism and stewardship with other Presbyterian bodies while the minority urges more study during the remaining year. An East Hanover Presbytery overture requests 30 minutes for Dr John Allen MacLean to speak on support for the International Christian University in Tokyo, a cause the Assembly previously declined to fund. Dr MacLean leads Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond Virginia.
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W. Va
Presbyterian Church
U. S
General Assembly
District of Columbia
Standing Committee On
Inter Church Cooperation and Union
Presbyterial Church
East Hanover Presbytery
Richmond, Va
Presbytery
John Allen MacLean
Southern Presbyterian
Internabeg Christian University of
Togo
MacLean
International Christian University
Ginter Park Presbyterian Church
Richmond
New Gambling Probe Possible In Hopewell
Hopewell Virginia faces renewed gambling rumors as Augustus Robbins Jr editor of the Hopewell News and D W Irvine a Colonial Heights plumber prepare grand jury testimony on alleged resumption of numbers racketeering. Irvine claims records show how corruption operates in Hopewell and offers to present them to civic groups. Previous grand jury probes led to a Richmond man’s lottery conviction and Virginia bans all gambling including church bingo with misdemeanor penalties.
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Hopewell
Virginia
Augustus Robbins Jr
Hopewell News
Robbins
D. W. Irvine
Colonial Heights
Irvine
W. A. Sampson
Richmond
Two Divorces Granted In Corporation Court
Two divorces have been granted in the city court. Patricia Capper Smith is listed in one decree separating from John with filings noted in the corporation court records.
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Patricia Capper Smith
John
Desertion final decree for Clark and Forrest Clark cases
Legal notices report final decrees of desertion involving Walker Smith and Betty Forrest Clark from William Smith Clark Jr. The brief item notes two separate cases of desertion and asks about the status of a Tan na Tuva entry that is not found in the record.
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Walker Smith
Betty Forrest Clark
William Smith Clark, Jr
Atlas Note on Anx North of Mongolia
The small state north of Mongolia in central Asia once semi independent has been annexed by Russia since the end of World War II and is now an Autonomous Area of the Soviet Union.
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Mongolia
Central Asia
Russia
Soviet Union
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