Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that thousands of additional coal miners walked out in protest of the Taft-Hartley Act, bringing the total to 200,000, about half of the nation's bituminous coal miners. More reports came of curtailment of steel production in the wake of the strikes.

Omaha's Union Stockyards stood virtually idle with 425 workers on strike. And a threatened strike of 40,000 shipyard workers still loomed at Bethlehem Steel in nine East Coast yards.

Speaker of the House Joe Martin said that he did not foresee the House going along with Representative Howard Smith's effort to extend for one more year the Smith-Connally Act to provide the President with powers to seize an industry if a strike threatened national security.

General Eisenhower testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the U.S. and Canada ought be prepared to cooperate fully in mutual defense as the next war would come by air first to the Great Lakes region and its industrial heart. He supported standardization of training, arms, and ammunition throughout the Western Hemisphere. He also stated that current military strategy did not foresee Latin America as a battleground for a war between the United States and some other great power, obviously referring to Russia. But he stressed that it was necessary to fortify Latin America. He said that if America did not supply arms to Latin America, then some other nations would, saying, without elaboration, in reply to a question by Representative Mike Mansfield of Montana, that other countries were presently seeking to sell arms to Latin American countries.

In Moscow, Pravda declared that recent incidents, alleged to have been by Russian-backed Communists along the Mongolian-Sinkiang frontier, were in fact the work of Chinese reactionaries seeking to stir support in America for aid to rebuff Soviet aggression.

Pravda also stated, via Moscow radio, that no self-respecting European nation could accept Marshall Plan aid for rejuvenating Europe if it meant American interference in internal affairs of the country. It believed the Plan to be doomed to failure if based on the Turkish-Greek paradigm. The statement came on the heels of the acceptance by the Soviets Monday of the invitation by the British and French to meet in Paris beginning Friday to discuss the Marshall Plan.

The State Department sent a diplomatic note protesting to the Communist-dominated regime in Rumania the arrests of hundreds of opposition party members and others.

In Tel Aviv, the Irgun underground organization hung banners in the city as investigators arrived from the U.N. to study the situation in Palestine. The banners demanded the ouster of the British and establishment of a Jewish homeland.

In southwestern Japan, a typhoon killed at least thirteen persons the previous day.

Treasury agents were attempting to collect $160,000 in taxes they claimed to be owed by a man who had won $200,000 gambling. The war construction worker had been turned in by an angry bystander. The man was also facing criminal charges for tax evasion. He had won the money during off hours over a four-year period.

Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker, told the Joint Congressional Committee on the Economy that he believed that American income could be doubled in the ensuing 25 years with wise actions.

The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation stated to the same Committee that a meat shortage might make it necessary to return to price controls on meat. But after the hearing, Senator Robert Taft, the Committee chairman, said that was not going to happen.

In High Point, a Charlotte resident and businessman fell to his death from the fifth floor of the Sheraton Hotel. The police had ruled it an accident, but were questioning a woman who was present in the room at the time, claiming that she had been visiting from her room on the sixth floor and fell asleep in the room. When police arrived to investigate, the woman had appeared at the door in a state suggesting that she had just awakened from a deep sleep. The Guilford County Coroner theorized that the man had fallen after awakening sick in the middle of the night and then somehow fell out of the window.

In Jackson, N.C., a black man testified in his own behalf at his trial for rape of a white woman and burglary of her home, saying that he did enter her home on April 25, was drinking heavily, but had not assaulted her. He admitted being assisted in the entry by an accomplice, against whom an indictment would shortly be sought. A knife was found on the kitchen floor of the house where the alleged rape took place and the defendant had admitted, according to a detective, that he had the knife originally. He also allegedly stated that his accomplice told him that the woman had money. The police had also found two buttons on the kitchen floor which matched a coat later found in the defendant's possession. The defendant admitted that he had $15 on him when arrested but claimed that the woman had given it to him. The woman testified that he had stolen the money after raping her. The defendant faced a mandatory death sentence if convicted of the rape and a potential death sentence if convicted only of the burglary, meaning unlawful, non-consensual, forcible entry with intent to commit at least a theft on the premises.

In Santa Ana, California, a woman was beaten up who was sitting on the jury in the cases of Louise Overell and her boyfriend George Gollum, both charged with killing her parents by beating them over the head with a ball peen hammer and then setting their remains on fire onboard the family yacht. The prosecution had sought sequestration of the jury but had thus far been denied the request.

On the editorial page, "Mecklenburg's New ABC Board" tells of Frank Sims being elected chairman of the ABC Board by the three boards with power to elect the Board. Mr. Sims, champion of ABC controlled sale for a decade, State Representative and former judge, was a good choice, says the piece, as were the other two members selected for the Board.

"The Curbing of Mr. Petrillo" comments on the Supreme Court decision on Monday upholding the Constitutionality of the Lea Act which forbade coercive or extortionate conduct in causing employers to hire more persons for a particular task than needed. The bill had been passed specifically to curtail the conduct of James Caesar Petrillo, with a past record of requiring radio stations to employ unnecessary employees from the membership of his American Federation of Musicians.

"For a New Cabinet Post" tells of the Congress getting ready to consider the Taft-Fulbright bill to create the new Department of Health, Education, and Security, with a Cabinet-level Secretary. With Senator Taft as co-sponsor, it did not appear as an expansion of Washington bureaucracy. It would serve to coordinate the functions of the Public Health Service, the FDA, and other bureaus operating under the aegis of the Bureau of Health, as well as the Office of Education. The new Bureau of Public Welfare within the proposed Department would absorb the Social Security Administration.

A piece from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, titled "Smoke That One, Professor", corrects bandleader Kay Kyser, the renowned Professor of the Kollege of Musical Knowledge, stating that his demand that the script of "The Lost Colony" at Manteo be changed to omit references to the original Raleigh colony as "Virginia", that it be properly referred to only as North Carolina, was quite in error. The state known as "Nawth Car'lina", it says, was in fact, in the 1580's and thereafter for awhile, known as Virginia. Sir Walter Raleigh, often then spelled "Rawleigh", was the Lord Proprietor of Virginia.

It was not until 1629, at the time the King granted a patent to Robert Heath, that "Carolina" came into use as a reference to the region below the Virginia line. When Mr. Heath did not settle a colony, Virginians settled on Albemarle Sound, starting about 1650. In 1663, King Charles granted Carolina to eight lords-proprietors—who may have been Leapers, once joined by Two.

The piece notes that at one time the whole North American Continent, save Florida which belonged to the Spanish, was known as Virginia.

So, Canadians, welcome to Virginia. Don't feel badly. Virginia is for lovers.

Drew Pearson reports of the President having withdrawn his reappointment to the FCC of Commissioner Ray Wakefield, a career civil servant with an excellent record. The reason, says Mr. Pearson, was that on June 13, Mr. Wakefield had voted to refuse an FCC license for a radio station to the nephew of former Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Two days later, the reappointment was withdrawn. The other reason was that Senators Taft and Bricker wanted their man on the Commission, Congressman Robert Jones of Ohio, a Republican. They got their way, working through Mr. Rayburn to the White House.

While Senator Pepper had stated that conventional wisdom among Senate Democrats was that the President would veto the bill and then let it pass to give him powers to curtail strikes, that he could have his "'penny and the cake'", they had been wrong. The President, in part spurred by the labor leaders at the Pepper meeting, worked very hard to try to achieve a vote to sustain the veto. That he came up short was not for want of one of the most supreme efforts ever made by a President to have his veto sustained.

Joseph & Stewart Alsop discuss the next phase of the labor bill, its implementation and the appointment of the labor czar, the general counsel of the NLRB, and two new administrators of the NLRB, charged with the Act's administration. This phase would be as important as the legislation itself. Management would want sympathetic administrators, as would labor. It would be up to Congress to confirm the President's appointments and so the appointees could not be antagonistic to the new law's ends. Congress would likely reject any New Dealers. The members of the present Board were planning to remain in place.

Samuel Grafton looks again at the economy, stressing the Republican problem with respect to rising prices. Calls by Democrats for investigations would serve little, as the passage of time for such hearings could lead to recession before they were done. A probe needed to be conducted which would actively lower prices by investigating the industries where inflation had been greatest and making that information public.

A letter from failed Republican Congressional candidate P. C. Burkholder blames the wool situation, requiring that the Republican Congress pass a bill to raise the wool tariff, on the New Deal.

A letter from the president of the North Carolina Nurses' Association tells of a student nurse recruitment program being underway in North Carolina.

You are, anyway.

A letter from Inez Flow takes issue with a letter writer who had congratulated the ministers supporting the ABC referendum on controlled sale of liquor in Mecklenburg County and had suggested to the opposing ministers and Inez Flow that they try in the future to help the alcoholic rather than stressing prohibition. She wonders how the drunk was being hurt by prohibition and helped by the ABC system. She supports the WCTU and Allied Church League efforts to help the drunk.

She anecdotally recounts an incident in which a young man recently had staggered from a train in Charlotte, sans hat and baggage, did not know where he was going. A man took him to the police station to sober up. She professes that such was what happened when people get liquored.

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