Knudsen Dies After Illness at 69 in Detroit
William S. Knudsen former president of General Motors died at 4 58 a m after a long illness from a cerebral hemorrhage He was 69 born in Copenhagen immigrated to the U S in 1899 and led GM s wartime production He served as lieutenant general and earned the Distinguished Service Medal His wife Clara and four children were at his bedside final rites set for Thursday at Peophany Lutheran Church and body to lie in state at W R Hamilton Funeral Home
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Detroit
William 8. Knudsen
America
General Motors Corp
General Motors
Rosevelt
Copenhagen
Buffalo
Ford Motor Co
Ford Detroit
Knudsen
Chevrolet
Hupp Corporation
W. R. Hamilton
Peiphany Lutheran Church
Berlin Chief Flees Sector
Berlin authorities will seek an explanation from Russia tomorrow over Hans Kanig the chief of police fleeing to the Western Zones to avoid arrest for questioning about disciplining a policeman who lured a German citizen into the Soviet sector to be kidnapped. A western socialist press report describes a new kidnapping in the German civilian population and cites safety rules on guarding against abductions.
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Berlin
Hans Kanig
Soviet Zone
Steelworkers Keep Pledge in Wage Dispute at Republic Steel
The CIO steelworkers union upheld its no-strike pledge while opposing Republic Steel Corp's stance on a wage increase. Republic, the nation's third largest producer with about 65,000 workers, left room for future talks and said changes could be discussed if conditions shift before the contract ends April 30, 1949. It argued wage gains outpace living costs and that raises must come from profits without harming competitiveness.
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Cleveland
CIO
Republic Steel Corp
Republic
Coal Boss Calls for Younger Workforce at 1948 Convention
K. L. Konnerth of Pittsburgh warned the 1948 coal convention that the industry must attract energetic young men as mining shifts from pick and shovel to mechanized operations. He cited an average worker age around 41 and 30 percent between 50 and 65, urging the public to see coal mining as a dignified profession for Americans.
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Cincinnati
K. L. Konnerth
Pittsburgh
Konnerth
H. C. Fricke Coke Co
Kenwerth
Oleo Tax Vote Seen in House
Wisconsin lawmakers push to require triangular oleo packaging to distinguish margarine from butter while advancing a floor vote to repeal 62 year oleo taxes. The House moved to discharge the Agriculture Committee and set up a showdown despite the committee's 16 to 10 vote to shelve repealer bills.
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Washington
House
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Atomic Power Solution Seen in New Cyclotron
BERKELEY Calif A 9 000 000 cyclotron to unlock atomic energy mysteries will be built at the University of California with government funds. The main component is a 13 000 ton race track shaped magnet 110 feet in diameter, with construction likely taking about five years.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Narcotic Prescription Fraud Charged In Cincinnati
Dr. Akin L. Muegel, 34, was turned over to federal authorities on charges of uttering fraudulent narcotic prescriptions for personal use.
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Cincinnati
Akin L. Muegel
Painless girl puzzles doctors at Akron hospital
A year old Beverly Smith shows complete indifference to pain from pin pricks to burns. Doctors call her the painless baby and say the condition is congenital. Her anemia led to hospital care while a sister remains normal.
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Akron
Beverly Smith
Beverly
Victor Smith
Children’s Hospital
Barbara
Solon dismisses air plan as camouflage for universal military draft
Senator Edwin C Johnson denounces the 66 group Air Force proposal as poppycock and a camouflage for universal military training. He argues the 70 group plan is the least needed for national security as committees continue drafting military preparedness, with hearings on the Army and Air Force plans underway.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Secretary of Defense
Forrestal
Johnson
House
Colorado
Capitol
Senate Armed Services Committee
Secretary of the Army Royals
House Armed Services Group
Senate
Air Symington
Shakeup Seen in Social Security Agency and SERVE
House Appropriations Committee recommends a $969.05 million funding bill for federal agencies starting July 1, slashing $20.673 million from the Social Security Administration and banning funds for workers in unions not signed to the Taft Hartley oath. The action marks the first use of fund withholding to enforce labor law provisions alongside health and drug administration operations.
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Federal Security Agency
House
Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
Net Catches Youths Body in Scioto River
A wire net across the Scioto River near Chillicothe caught the body of Lynwood Glenn Mikell 20 of Chattanooga Tenn an inmate of the U S reformatory and fugitive convict He drowned last Wednesday while trying to escape a mile and a half upstream Warden L Clark Childer had placed the net Arthur J Desrocher 21 of New Haven Conn escaped with Mikell swam the river but was captured Both men were serving sentences for automobile theft.
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Chillicothe
Scioto River
Lynwood Glenn Mikell
Chattanooga
Tenn
Mikell
U. S. Reformatory
Here
L Clark Childer
Arthur J. Desrocher
New Haven
Conn
Arm for World Peace, Navy Secretary Says
Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan argues for a larger armed force a renewed draft and universal military training as basic necessities for the United States. He adds that scientists engineers and industrialists laboratories pilot plants and factories are needed to be effectively prepared to suppress aggression and keep the world at peace.
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Cincinnati
United States
Navy
John L. Sullivan
Police hold Dayton man for killing son in law
Dayton police report Garland T. Pugh was slain last night at his father in law's home where he, his wife, and baby had been living for two months. Det Sgt C W Martz said William Stargel, 59, the father in law, shot Pugh after being attacked.
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Dayton
Garland T. Pugh
Pugh
C. W. Martz
William Stargel
Postum President Carroll L. Post Dies at 88
Carroll L. Post former president of Postum Cereal Co. died at a sanitarium in Pasadena California at age 88 on Sunday.
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Postum
Pasadena
Calif
Postum Cereal Co
Carroll L. Post
Parade Cancelled After Coffee Douses Bagpipes
In Oxford England residents called off a parade for the royal silver wedding anniversary after someone spilled hot coffee into bagpipes, disrupting the celebration and prompting an abrupt halt to festivities.
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Oxford
England
U S Business Asked To Help ERP Group
Clem D. Johnston urged American business to volunteer its best management brains to Europe’s recovery. He spoke to 2,500 Chamber members and urged firms to furnish lists of qualified personnel to assist European industry while President Shreve called for federal economy amid growing foreign aid and defense costs.
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Washington
Europe
United States Chamber of Commerce
Clem D. Johnston
Roanoke
Johnston
Paul G. Hoffman
Earl O. Shreve
New York City
Two Nazi Saboteurs Return to Germany
Ernest P. Burger and George John Dash, convicted saboteurs who landed on the East Coast in June 1942, are freed from prison and permitted to return to Germany in the American occupation zone. President Truman approved Justice Department clemency recommendations. Burger and Dash survived execution risk by providing information on the conspiracy.
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Washington
Ernest P. Burger
George John Dash
Germany
Truman
Justice Department
FBI
Burger
Dash
Former Teacher Faces Sentence for Theft
Edward J. Phillips, 25, once a Macedonia High School teacher, awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to burglary and larceny. He is the son of a deputy sheriff and brother of an Akron police officer, accused of stealing about $800 in golf equipment from the Akron Municipal Golf Course clubhouse.
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Akron
Edward J. Phillips
Macedonia High School
Akron Municipal
Passenger Train Sideswipes Derailed Freight Car
A Big Four passenger train with about 100 passengers traveling from Cincinnati to Cleveland derailed freight car near West 73rd Street. The collision caused a 35 minute delay. no injuries were reported and few passengers noticed the incident.
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Illinois Central
Adamsville
Ala
Cleveland
Big Four
Cincinnati
West 73Rd Street
Two Alarm Fire Damages Cincinnati Bridge Building
A downtown Cambridge building in Cincinnati suffered an estimated 20 000 dollar fire last night. Six firemen were treated for smoke sickness and another had a lacerated hand.
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Cincinnati
Cambridge
Invasion Threat Drops Across Palestine Region
Arab armies from Egypt Syria Lebanon and Trans Jordan reportedly ready to invade Palestine before the weekend. Trans Jordanian forces reportedly occupied Jericho while British authorities deny any declared war. Two Britons killed in Jerusalem as tensions rise and fighting erupts near Barclay’s Bank.
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Palestine
Damascus
Jericho
Dead Valley
Trans-Jordan
Abdullah
Holy Land
Syria
Lebanon
Egypt
United Nations Security Council
London
Foreign Office
Britain
R. B. Leggett
Barclay'’s Bank
B. O. Denham
Royal Artillery
Leggett
Jewish Underground Robbers Hit Barclay's Bank in Daylight
In Tel Aviv armed youths claiming Stern group affiliation raided Barclay's Bank at dawn. They visited directors and cashiers, seized vault keys, overpowered Haganah guards, and escaped with about $1 million in cash and negotiable securities.
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Tel Aviv
Palestine
Stern
Haganah
Barclay’s Bank
Two Killed in Border Skirmish Near Trieste
Rome reports a border clash near Rauna Di Luico northwest of Venezia Giulia left an Italian soldier and a Yugoslav officer dead. Italian forces exchanged fire after a Yugoslav patrol moved a border marker, with three additional Italians wounded as 70 Yugoslav troops approached.
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Rome
Trieste
Rauna di Luico
Free Territory
Venzia Giulia
Write-In Votes Draw Interest in Pennsylvania Primary
In Philadelphia a presidential write in vote drew attention as Republican hopefuls show strength in the Keystone state. The blank ballot is seen as a sentiment survey with no pre convention impact on Pennsylvania 73 member unpledged GOP delegation. Democratic voters chose a 74 member convention delegation pledged to Truman.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Keystone
G.O.P
Truman
High Court Upholds Price Fix Charges
The Supreme Court upheld six to one the Federal Trade Commission charges that multiple cement producers formed a nationwide price fixing cartel. The ruling signals potential impact on related charges against the American Iron and Steel Institute and its members.
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High Court
Washington
Supreme Court
Federal Trade Commission
FCC
American Iron and Steel Institute
Taft Denounces Stassen Federal Housing Plan
Senator Taft blasted Stassen housing policy as government overreach saying a billion dollars yearly would crowd out private builders. Taft campaigned in Dayton and Hamilton with a major speech slated after a labor meeting. Representative George Bender predicted Ohio Republicans' support for Taft in the upcoming primary.
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Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Ohio
Stassen
Cleveland Heights
Sassen
Washington
George Bender
Robert Taft
Four men rob Chesapeake Casino in gang style
A traveling salesman among about 40 victims says four armed men with tommy guns robbed the Casino adjoining the Club Continental in Chesapeake at about 3 am. Police deny knowledge of the robbery as guests and staff were lined up and robbed individually with rumors of loot possibly exceeding $100 000.
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Chesapeake
Lawrence County
Huntington
W. Va
Jap Sentenced For Beatings
An Eighth Army tribunal in Yokohama sentenced Sgt. Hirokazu Tanaka to eight years hard labor for taking part in the B 29 beatings of Allied prisoners. The abuse occurred each time B 29s appeared over Osaka when Tanaka and a fellow sergeant struck captives numbered 29 at evening roll call. Among the victims was Coxswain Harold E. Thomas of Marion Ohio.
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Yokohama
Eighth Army
Hirokazu Tanaka
Osaka
Tanaka
Harold E. Thomas
Marion
Ohio
Produce Strike Ends as Drivers Win Raise
A six day strike by commission house drivers and helpers in Cincinnati ended last night after 54 produce commission houses met the union demands. Samuel Butcher of Local 850 AFL said the agreement provides $1.25 an hour and a 46 hour week for men and $1.00 an hour with a 40 hour week for women.
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Cincinnati
Samuel Butcher
Commission House
AFL
Ebright Urges Ohio Voters to Support Taft
Hamilton County Women's Republican Club heard State Treasurer Don H. Ebright urge every Republican voter in Ohio to back Taft. He praised Taft as the leader since 1943 in the fight against the New Deal.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Republican Club
Don H. Ebright
Ohio
Taft
Robert A. Taft
Two Men Killed as Explosions Level Brookyn Gas Building
A series of blasts and a resulting fire destroyed a Brooklyn gas company building late yesterday, killing two men. Investigators cordon the area as crews battle remaining flames and search for the cause.
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New York
Brookyn
Gunman Hunt Gets New Tip
Detroit police pursued a man who vowed to shoot Walter Reuther, CIO United Auto Workers president, after a Toledo suspect warned officers he would take a shot at him. Reuther, wounded by a shotgun blast at his home, shows signs of recovery as doctors expect possible arm repair.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter P. Reuther
Harry S. Toy
Reuther
Toledo
Toy
Last of Quadruplets Dies in Detroit
The last of four premature babies born to Mrs. Anne Borg died in a Detroit hospital after a brief survival, leaving the 28-year-old mother in good condition. Two of the siblings died in the afternoon, another at 10:55 p.m., and the final infant at 1:25 a.m.
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Detroit
Anne Borg
Wholesale Butter Price Drops in Cincinnati
The wholesale price of butter fell to 80 cents a pound in Cincinnati, down four cents over two days. A dairy industry spokesman attributed the decline to the arrival of the flush season on dairy farms.
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Cincinnati
Weekend warmth ahead with scattered showers in Columbus
Temperatures in Columbus will average 3 to 6 degrees above normal with a normal high of 57 to 62 and low of 38 to 42. A cooling trend arrives Wednesday and Thursday, with warmer conditions Friday and Saturday. Precipitation will average one percent to a fraction inch as scattered showers Wednesday and Thursday.
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Columbus
Vandenberg signals possible Western military alliance
Senator Vandenberg warned of a homegrown threat while hinting that the United States may join Western Europe in a military alliance against Communist expansion. He urged Americans to root out treason and warned Stalin not to misunderstand U.S. resolve.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Russia
United States
Europe
Michigan
Stalin
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Michigan Chambers of Commerce and Trade Associations
America
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