Ford Foremen Strike Paralyzes Detroit Plants in Swing
About 3 800 FAA union foremen walk out at Ford plants in Detroit after Henry Ford II's last minute appeal fails. Production continues with 85 000 workers at their posts as FAA predicts lines could halt within a day and a half. Ford says management stance unchanged.
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Detroit
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Co
Foreman's Association of America
Ford
Robert H. Keys
FAA
Pat Mullin
Ford Chapter
Rouge
Highland Park
Lincoln
Trainman Saved From Hot Spot
In Chicago on May 21 rescuers using acetylene torches freed locomotive fireman Sherman E. Horricks a 3 year old who was pinned for 20 minutes against a hot fire box when the engine overturned near Cicero. Engineer Edward Baseda 55 escaped with minor burns after attempting a rescue.
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Chicago
Sherman E. Horricks
Edward Baseda
Chicago Outer Belt Railway
Cicero
Union Fees Face Curbs
A Senate House committee informally agreed to cap initiation and membership fees charged by unions, with House figures at 25 dollars under consideration. The talks aim to compromise differences between Senate and House labor bills, while other provisions remain under debate. The panel expected to finish most details by Friday and send the bill to the White House next week.
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Washington
Senate
House
Taft
Ohio
Dodge
Ellender
Louisiana
Joint Committee
White House
NM Gun Moll Puts Blame on Friends
Bettye Searle Harris a 20 year old in Atlanta is named in federal indictments over a Carthage New Mexico post office robbery with two former friends James Williams and Edmund Lowick. She says she knew nothing of their crimes and planned to become a beautician while working nights as a hotel cashier. Indictments cite October 9 robbery. Williams and Lowick already held. Harris released on 1000 dollar bond awaiting Albuquerque proceeding.
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Atlanta
Bettye Searle Harris
New Mexico
Bettye
Albuquerque
Huaraches
James Williams
Edmund Lowick
Carthage
Williams
Lowick
Betty
Frank A. Holden
Jurist Sticks to His Subject and It Looks Like He's Stuck With It
NEW ORLEANS May 214-4 Justice Hugo Black arrived to address a conference of Fifth Circuit judges. Reporters pressed on interpretations of the recent freight rate decision, but Black refused to discuss past or current cases or politics, saying he would only discuss Chinese art. He walked away saying he knew nothing about Chinese art.
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Hugo Black
United States Supreme Court
Alabama
Fifth Circuit
Supreme Court
Justice Black
Justice
Chaos Abroad Seen If US Halts Loans
United States undersecretary Dean Acheson warned on CBS that Europe and Asia would face economic collapse, extremism, and insecurity if emergency loans and grants to foreign nations are halted in 1948 and 1949. He stressed world trade and continued U S financing as essential to reconstruction and prosperity.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Europe
Asia
United States
Acheson
CBS
World
State Department
Marshall
Congress
White House
Truman
Steelworkers Ban Strikes For Two Years Issued
CIO president Philip Murray ordered about 2000 Local unions to forbid strikes for the life of recently signed two year contracts. He praised the wage deal of 15 cents an hour and urged adherence to grievance procedures including arbitration.
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Atlantic City
N. J
CIO
Philip Murray
United Steelworkers
Murray
Railway Safety Meet Held in Dalhart Officials Attend
Dalhart hosted a safety meeting this weekend with attendees J. P. Brindley safety supervisor from Chicago and J. A. Krause safety supervisor plus C. L. Franklin assistant general manager, both Kansas City. Also present were G. R. Huntoon division superintendent from Liberal Kansas, trainmasters F. B. Gibbs Amarillo and F. A. Weston Pratt Kansas.
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Dalhart
Rock Island
J. P. Brindley
Chicago
J. A. Krause
C. L. Franklin
Kansas City
G. R. Huntoon
Liberal
Kan
F. B. Gibbs
Amarillo
F. A. Weston
Pratt
Weather report for Amarillo and surrounding areas
Fair, warmer Thursday and Friday with scattered afternoon clouds. West Texas and New Mexico show little temperature change with highs in the 75 to 85 range. Early data note morning 52, noon 70, evening 57 with various hourly readings. sunrise 5 38 AM sunset 7 49 PM.
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S. Weather Bureau
Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Vest
Congress Grants Final OK to Huge Foreign Relief Fund
The administration wins final congressional approval for a 350 million dollar foreign relief program after a late House bid to cap it at 200 million failed. The bill funds aid in Italy Greece Hungary Austria Poland China and Trieste with at least 15 million for UNICEF and names Richard F. Allen to administer from Red Cross.
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Congress
Washington
House
Senate
Vandenberg
Michigan
Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
Red Cross
Richard F. Allen
House-Senate
Conference Committee
Italy
Greece
Hungary
Austria
Poland
China
Trieste
United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund
Turkey
Jonkman
Mich
Oilmen gather for Mid-Continent API session in Amarillo
About 400 attendees at the Mid-Continent District American Petroleum Institute Division of Production spring meeting opened in Amarillo with a non technical morning program. L L McWilliams of Phillips Petroleum presided at yesterday's session and H S Kelly led the opening program. Talks covered state cognizance of federal power and the industry public relations program, with papers on Hugoton pay zones Monroe field and carbon black developments. A dance was scheduled at The Nat, while repressuring and oil in place methods were demonstrated in afternoon sessions.
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Mid-Continent
American Petroleum Institute Division of Production
Amarillo
L. L. McWilliams
Phillips Petroleum Company
Bartlesville
H. S. Kelly
Midcontinent
Petroleum Industry
Crystal Ballroom
J. R. Evans
Stanolind Oil & Gas Co
Tulsa
John H. Murrell
DeGolyer & MacNaughton
Dallas
Hugoton
Kan
R. B. LeFever
Henry Schaefer
Monroe
Louisiana
Don T. MacRoberts
United Gas Pipeline Co
Shreveport
Preston Fergus
Union Producing Co
Ira Williams
J. M. Huber Corp
Berger
Paul D. Torrey
Houston
Chicago
United States
American Petroleum Institute
Fred J. Nessage
West Pampa
W. D. Rose
Carter Oil Company
Connate
P. S. Ervin
Haynesville
Texas Board of Education Loses Apportionment Duty
The attorney general holds the State Board of Education is relieved from determining per capita scholastic apportionment. The legislature passed a $55 per capita apportionment bill this session, ending the board's duty in this matter.
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Texas Board of Education
Austin
State Board of Education
Borger Strike Ends As Phillips Workers Return
Phillips Petroleum Company workers in Borger and tri-city area end a 20 day strike after ratifying an agreement by 943 to 148. The deal includes maintenance of membership for two years and a five cent raise. About 1,500 workers were affected and other plants resumed operations. Job openings surged at the Texas Employment Commission as Goodrich workers prepared to return.
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Borger
Phillips Petroleum Company
Tri-City
Phillips
Bonavista
United Carbon Company
Phillips Firm
International Union of Operating Engineers
AFL
Charles J. Warner
Texas Unemployment Commission
Warner
B. F. Goodrich Company
R. W. McFarlane
Goodrich Group
CIO Oil Workers Union
A. V. Dickerson
Doctor Defends Right To Die
In London Dr. E A Barton, a 40 year GP, argued at a Voluntary Euthanasia Society meeting that he has legally ended an incurable patient’s life and that the medical community must share such responsibility. Society chairman A Percy Groves says a right to die bill for those in severe pain will be introduced in Parliament.
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London
E. A. Barton
Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society
A. Percy Groves
U.S. Mission Arrives in Frankfurt for Turkey Aid Survey
A 22 man U S mission led by Maj. Gen Lunsford E Oliver and Rear Adm. Ernest Herrman reached Frankfurt en route to Turkey to assess needs under the Turkish Greek aid program funded at 400 million dollars.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States
Lunsford FE. Oliver
Ernest Herrman
Turkey
Britain Maintains Neutral Stance In War Talk
London reports Labour leaders reject claims they snub Russia or fully back the United States. The party booklet argues Britain will not join a world war lineup and stresses Anglo American cooperation while preserving independence.
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Britain
London
Labor Party
Russia
America
Konni Zilliacus
United States
Greece
Turkey
United Nations
Ernest Bevin
All 28 Freed In Lynch Case
A Greenville County jury returned straight acquittals for 28 defendants accused in the Willie Earle lynching case. Three white men were freed on four counts murder and conspiracy. remaining acquittals covered conspiracy and accessory charges. Prosecutors declined comment.
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Greenville
S. C
Greenville County
South Carolina
Willie Earle
Pickens
Robert W. Ashmore
Sam Watt
John Daniel
Iturbi Concert Adds Seats At Municipal Auditorium
One hundred seats remain available for the Amparo and Jose Iturbi concert tonight. Dolly Lynch of the Panhandle Concert Bureau said all seats were sold for weeks, but 100 more may be admitted in a special section. Tickets go on sale at 7 p m at the Municipal Auditorium box office, priced 1 50. The concert starts at 8 30 p m.
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Iturbi
Amparo
Jose Iturbi
Dolly Lynch
The
Panhandle Concert Bureau
Lynch
Municipal Auditorium
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