Union Miners Ignore Leader’s Call to Return to Work
About 14 000 striking Ohio coal miners defied United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis by not resuming production after his back to work order issued under Taft Hartley law. District Six officials report broad reluctance, with many nonunion and contract mines idle across Ohio and the West Virginia Panhandle.
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Bellaire
Ohio
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Lewis
UMW
West Virginia Panhandle
Adolph Pacifico
Hocking
Misco
Crooksville
United Mine Workers
Sunny Hill Coal Co
Mason County
West Soneana Transportation
West Oolanabae
Pacifico
United States of America
Perry County
Interstate Commerce Commission
Score
Ohio Cities
Tornadoes Kill 44 Injure 200 Across Four States
Severe storms lashed four states over the weekend killing at least 44 people and wounding about 200. Louisiana towns such as Hurricane Hills and Grand Cane reported deaths, with destruction also recorded in Texas communities including La Porte and Haslam. The Red Cross noted multiple fatalities and police departments revised tallies as details emerged.
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Shreveport
Little Tennessee
Hurricane Hills
Ripley
Red Cross
Grand Cane
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Bossier City
East Texas
la Porte
Tex
Alvin
Chapel Hill
Bremond
Baileyville
Corley
Groesbeck
Jericho
Fellowship
Haslam
Gill
Salem
Hughes Springs
Roytown
Castor
Sligo
Grande Cahe
Shreveport Times
Slack Air Force Depot
Hood's
Twisters
Lufkin
Texarkana
Navy Fliers Still Hunted Over Missing PBM-5 Plane
Corpus Christi Texas reports a three pronged search for a missing PBM-5 with nine crew. Dawn to dark hunt failed to find the aircraft or any trace of the men and a new search would begin at sunrise. The official said survival chances are slim but not zero and that the search continues until all hope is gone.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Navy
Naval
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
West German Iron and Steel Embargo to Soviet Zone Prolonged
Bonn announces the embargo on iron and steel shipments to the Soviet occupied zone will extend until at least March 15. A government spokesman confirmed the extension and its duration amid ongoing Cold War trade controls.
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Bonn
Germany
Einstein urges peace to avert extinction over H bomb threat
Nobel physicist Albert Einstein warns that the hydrogen bomb could annihilate life on earth. He calls for a ban on violence among nations and a supra national judicial body to enforce disarmament and prevent general annihilation. He speaks via transcribed remarks on NBC with Mrs. Roosevelt.
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New York
Albert Einstein
Earth
Einstein
Franklin D. Roosevelt
NBC
Institute For Advanced Study
Princeton
N. J
United States
Russia
Taft Attacks Fair Deal in Lincoln Day Address
In Oxford Ohio Senator Taft condemned President Taft s Fair Deal program calling it an untried system and warned against abandoning liberty that has sustained the nation. He spoke to about 2500 Republicans, drawing contrasts with Lincoln era Union goals.
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Oxford
Lincoln
U.S
Taft
Cincinnati Republican
Truman
Senators Seek Government Investigation
Senators Martin and McCarthy press for a government inquiry into alleged communism in the administration. They charge the state department has 57 party members on its rolls and claim 300 had been certified for discharge while only 80 were fired. They cite Alger Hiss in the context of the affair.
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Washington
Martin
R-Pa
McCarthy
R-Wis
State Department
Truman
Secretary of State
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Wherry
Nebraska
GOP
Bricker
Ohio
Hendrickson
Seven Students Dead In Montana College Crash
Seven Montana State College students were killed when their car plunged over a mountain cliff near Bozeman on Sunday night. An eighth student was injured in the crash, reported from Montana.
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Bozeman
Mont
Montana State College
Here
Coal Mine Walkout Continues Across Nation
Striking coal miners nationwide ignore John L. Lewis go to work order and vow to stay out until a contract is secured. Reports show about 370,000 miners idle, with blockades in Western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Kentucky and government threats of contempt of court citations.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Lewis
UMW
Kentucky
Canton
Springfield
Taylorville
Illinois
Indiana
Louis Austin
UMW District 11
West Virginia
Norfolk and Western
Virginian Railways
Logan County
W. Va
Harlan
Russellton
Republic Steel Corp
Paul Truckley
Curtisville
Wheeling Steel Corp
Harmarville
CITE
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Abraham Lincoln
More Government Aid For Lustron Reported
Washington sources say the government plans to lend additional millions to Lustron Corp to salvage the $37.5 million borrowed. Lustron, a Columbus Ohio prefabricated housing producer, has become a congressional focus. The Reconstruction Finance Corp. declined to confirm the report.
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Washington
Lustron Corp
Lustron
Columbus
Ohio
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Three Die In Crash Of Atomic Data Plane
Investigators sought the cause after a light plane carrying sealed atomic data crashed Saturday night near Albuquerque. Two security inspectors and the pilot were killed. Elmo Morgan of Los Alamos AEC noted the cargo was classified information and found no signs of an unusual event.
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Albuquerque
Elmo Morgan
Los Alamos Aec
Woodling pledges drive to boost Ohio primary turnout
George Woodling the Republican candidate for governor pledges to devote his major campaign to bringing out the primary vote regardless of party He plans to extend the effort into each of Ohio 88 counties speaking at Rocky River urging wider participation and backing his candidacy
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Cleveland
George Woodling
Woodling
Rocky River
Ohio
Potato Issue Seen Stopping Brannan Plan
Washington sources report critics discuss applying the Brannan Farm Plan to the potato surplus. Brannan plans to dye a large portion of 50 million bushels blue and reroute them for livestock feed or fertilizer while supporting potato prices at about 1.01 dollars per hundred pounds. The 1948 and 1949 price supports cost 225 million and an estimated 100 million respectively.
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Washington
Brannan
Congress
Jury Acquits Slaying Suspect Ferrell in Ohio
Alfred C. Ferrell, known as Spooky, 44, was acquitted of first degree murder in the death of his mother Nellie Ferrell, 71, found beaten and choked at their Dresden area home Jan 28, 1949. The case went to trial after a Fifth District Court of Appeals granted a new trial. a courtroom demonstration followed the verdict.
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Zanesville
Alfred C
Dresden
Muskingum County
Newark Police Find Body of Baby Girl
Newark police recover a fully developed baby girl’s body under a bridge in a paper shopping bag. Coroner Dr James Pollock estimates the infant was several weeks old and died 8 to 12 hours before discovery. Investigators continue the case.
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Newark
James Pollock
Seven Die Over Weekend For Low Toll In Ohio
An Associated Press survey shows seven weekend deaths in Ohio from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday. Causes included three traffic deaths, two from a fire, and one man crushed when his car slipped off a jack.
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Columbus
Ohio
Associated Press
Circleville Influenza Cases Mount to 500
Circleville students show rising influenza numbers totaling about five hundred. City schools closed for the rest of the week as a second order was issued after about a quarter of the 1800 students failed to report. Seven of the 50 teachers are ill.
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Circleville
Iron Man of Coal John L Lewis Reaches Seventieth Birthday
Washington report notes John L. Lewis the longtime leader of the United Mine Workers reaches 70 on his birthday. Despite retirement age he remains in office with the union executive board extending his term as he continues his fight for higher wages and better conditions in coal fields. He marks the day at a family birthday gathering in Alexandria Virginia.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United the Workers
UMW
Alexandria
Two Petitions Are Challenged in State Nominations
Secretary of State Charles Sweeney will hear challenges to two petitions for Republican nominations. Herbert L. Hoover of Dayton seeks state treasurer, opposed by Herbert Hoover of Columbus. L. L. Marshall of Cleveland seeks attorney general, opposed by Harry T. Marshall of Cleveland. Challenges allege improper party qualifications and technical defects in signatures and completion.
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Columbus
Charles Sweeney
Herbert L. Hoover
Dayton
L. L. Marshall
Cleveland
Herbert Hoover
Harry T. Marshall
Columbus Hoover
Four Questioned In Columbus Stabbing Case
Four people were questioned in Columbus today about the death of a cafe patron stabbed 18 times after a fight at the King's Rose Garden Cafe in the early hours Sunday. Dr. Carl E. Tetirick said Daniel M. Miller, 25, appeared to be held while another person wielded the knife. The slaying followed a brawl that began in the cafe.
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Columbus
Carl E. Tetirick
Daniel M. Miller
King’s Rose Garden
Ship sinks off Dutch coast. 11 drown including stowaway
A Finnish freighter the Karhula, 2214 tons, sank off the Netherlands coast Sunday. Ten seamen and a stowaway drowned in the incident.
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Denhelder
Netherlands
BRT backs Taft opponent in 1950 Ohio senate race
President William P. Kennedy of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen pledged union support for Taft's opponent in the 1950 Ohio senate race. He condemned the Taft Hartley act but said the union will back its friends on either ticket and avoid party alignment.
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Cleveland
William P. Kennedy
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
BRT
Taft
Church group to meet Cleveland today
Nearly 400 representatives of the Congregational Christian Churches of America will meet here today in Cleveland to discuss church affairs and related matters.
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Cleveland
Congregational Christian Churches of America
Coal strike seen costly to Democrats in elections
Sen Eliender of Louisiana charged Truman’s coal dispute handling will cost Democrats thousands of votes in the next congressional elections. He criticized delaying Taft Hartley action and urged earlier use of the law. Humphrey cautioned the issue is welfare of the American people, not votes.
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Washington
Eliender
D-La
Truman
Humphrey
D-Minn
Ellender
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Democratic Party
Congress
Coal Talks Resumption Blocked by Uncertain Pact
Washington waits as Judge Keech orders direct bargaining between John I. Lewis and 370,000 United Mine Workers to resume after a strike call. Operators and union leaders debate a Wednesday resumption while a separate court case seeks an accounting of miners welfare funds.
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Washington
John I. Lewis
Richmond B. Keech
Lewis
United Mine
UMW
Ass’n
George Livengood
Miners’ Welfare Fund
Valentine Gift Turns Fatal at Bronx Children's Shelter
Murray Goldberg, 27, a carnival worker, shot and killed his estranged wife Es telle, 27, and their year old son Kenneth at a Bronx children’s shelter during a Sunday visit. Police sought Goldberg as the killer, who carried roses and two loaded pistols, leaving a Valentine card reading with love to my wife on Valentine’s Day. Thirty five children were nearby as the slayings occurred in the dormitory visit room.
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New York
Murray Goldberg
Estelle
Kenneth
Goldberg
Bronx
Author Sabatini Dies at 75 in ADELBODEN Hotel
Rafael Sabatini the Anglo Italian novelist famed for Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk died in a hotel in ADELBODEN Switzerland early Monday at age 75. He authored more than 40 historical novels since 1904 and suffered longtime stomach ulcers. His best known works include The Sea Hawk Scaramouche The Black Swan and Captain Blood adventures.
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Adelboden
Switzerland
Rafael Sabatini
Captain Blood
Sabatini
Zanesville considers purification system for water
The Zanesville City Council will meet to discuss purchasing a water purification system after City Health Commissioner D. G. Candy declared the city water unsafe for drinking and cooking. About 7000 students across the senior high, two high schools, and 13 elementary buildings were affected. schools were closed Saturday and water should be boiled for consumption.
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Zanesville
D. G. Candy
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