Long Fight Ahead for Union Shop as CIO Targets Small Firms
CIO United Steelworkers push to recruit smaller companies into new contracts faces opposition from industry chief Charles White of Republic Steel who says a drawn out fight is inevitable. White warns ore shortages could worsen if the Minnesota iron ore strike continues. Union talks resume with Copperweld Steel and in Denver and Granite City, while Copperweld just signed a pact for 2200 workers.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Charles White
Republic Steel
Philip Murray
White
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Minnesota
Murray
New York
Denver
Colo
Granite City
Ill
Wheeling
W. Va
Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp
Pueblo, Colo
Granite City Steel Company
Copperweld Steel
Warren, O
Allies Strike Western Korea Raid In Five Hour Battle
Allied units moved into western Korea and wiped out a Chinese force while drawing back. The U S Eighth Army said 257 of about 320 Reds defending a hill northwest of Yonchon were killed or wounded in five hours. UN Tokyo added the raiding force numbered 750 to 1000 troops.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S. Eighth Army
Yonchon
Tokyo
Congressman Welchel Criticizes State Dept Over Red Ship Losses
Representative Welchel of Ohio charged the State Department with bungling chances to reclaim ships sent to Russia in World War I. He asserted several vessels have visited American ports and blamed officials for not taking them back when possible.
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Washington
Welchel
Ohio
House
Congressional Record
State Department
Report Blames Russians For Katyn Massacre
A congressional report charges Russia with killing 15 000 Polish officers in 1940 at Katyn Forest and says Soviet methods in Korea mimic the massacre. Rep. O Konski cites 150 witnesses in the U S and Europe and notes a UN and World Court inquiry possible. Witnesses include a Polish ex-soldier who testified under disguise.
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Washington
Russia
Korea
O’konski
R-Wis
House
Europe
Katyn Forest
Smolensk
United Nations Assembly
World Court
Katyn
Panmunjom
Poultry Plant Blast Kills Two In Salem Area
A boiler explosion at a Columbiana poultry plant killed two women and injured 16 others, many from ammonia fumes released after the blast near a rest area for Northeastern Ohio Poultry Association workers. Victims included Phyllis Howell 20 and Anna Mankin 18, with several others hospitalized in critical condition.
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Salem, O
Columbiana
Northeastern Ohio Poultry Association
Phyllis Howell
Anna Mankin
East Palestine
City Hospital
Thomas Renfrow
Pittsburgh
Wayne County Polio Toll Rises to 32 with Two Deaths
Wayne County reports 32 polio cases for 1952 including two fatalities. The latest patient is 21 year old Donald Leathers of West Salem. In nearby Tuscarawas County Health Commissioner R D Hildebrand urges Sug arcreek Shanesville and Baltic to suspend church services and public meetings amid six cases and one death in the Amish communities.
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Wooster
Wayne County
Donald Leathers
West Salem
Tuscarawas County
R. D. Hildebrand
Sugarcreek
Shanesville
Baltic
Tuscarawas
Writers Strike at 3 Major Radio Networks
The Independent Radio Writers Guild began a strike by about 700 members in New York, affecting news continuity and dramatics. The walkout seeks to disrupt convention coverage in Chicago, while networks deny any interruption to convention broadcasts.
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New York
Independent Radio Writers Guild
Chicago
Grants to 27 institutions total $2 395 039
Grants to 27 institutions totaling 2 395 039 were announced by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis on Tuesday. The funding supports research programs and medical initiatives across multiple locations.
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New York
National Foundation For Infan
Malik Plans To Use Veto On UN Probe
United Nations New York Russia's Jacob Malik began a sitdown strike to block U S demands for an impartial probe into Communist germ warfare charges against Korea. Malik said he would not speak but would veto the American proposal when the council votes, despite U S determination to press for inquiry.
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United Nations
N. Y
Russia
Jacob A. Malik
U. S
Korea
Security Council
Malik
Council
Ernest A. Gross
Red China
North Korea
Soviet Police Hold 4 Yanks
Soviet allied police seized four American visitors in Berlin at dueppel Zehlendorf border area. A chaplain and a woman were among those taken as a Russian officer and East zone police forced the car across the border after officers saw the occupants photographing. Eyewitnesses noted the car bore American plates, suggesting West German registration and unfamiliarity with the border issue.
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Berlin
East Zone
Dueppel
Zehlendorf
West Germany
Talks Halt as Reds Take Breather in Korea Armistice Talks
The Korea armistice talks recessed for 24 hours at Communist request. Maj. Gen. Harrison reviewed the Allied plan on prisoner exchange, suggesting a face saving way to end the stalemate. Observers said the Reds may reconsider their demand to repatriate all Allied prisoners.
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Munsan
Korea
William K. Harrison, Jr
Harrison
Nam Ii
Casualty Rate Rises Sharply in Korean War Week
The Defense Department reports the largest weekly rise in U.S. Korean War casualties since last November with 965 American deaths, wounds, or missing in the week ending Friday. The Army accounts for 799, the Marine Corps 151, Navy 11, and Air Force 4 casualties, bringing total U.S. casualties to 111,576.
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Washington
Defense Department
Department
Army
Navy
Air Force
U.S
French Red Chief Freed amid Riots in Paris
A French grand jury ordered Jacques Duclos released at once after custody since May 28 on charges of plotting against internal security. His arrest followed Communist led rioting coinciding with General Ridgway's Paris visit.
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Paris
France
Jacques Duclos
Duclos
Matthew B. Ridgway
NATO
Ro e, 65, Farmer, Dies From Auto Crash Injuries
Oliver Roe of Quaker City, a 65-year-old farmer, died in Cambridge Virginia on Tuesday from injuries suffered in a motor vehicle accident.
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Cambridge
Oliver Roe
Quaker City
GOP Platform Hopes For Harmony Amid Convention Runs
Republican policy makers worked to draft a platform free of Taft Eisenhower clashes as hearings wrap. Sen Eugene Millikin leads and John Foster Dulles backs a strong foreign policy critique of Truman. Stassen cautions on a conservative line and urges FEPC in the platform.
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Chicago
Taft
Eisenhower
Eugene D. Millikin
Colorado
Newsmen
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
GOP
Millikin
Dulles
Truman
Stassen
Fisenhower
West German Treaties Ratified by Senate
The Senate narrowly ratified two pacts with West Germany. One ends occupation and restores sovereignty. the other brings West Germany under NATO like security guarantees. The United States leads in approving the pacts, aiming to accelerate wider ratification of postwar European treaties and the six nation international army.
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Washington
Senate
Western Germany
German Republic
NATO
United States
Europe
International Army
Senate group charges Lattimore aided Soviet influence
A Senate Internal Security Subcommittee report declares Owen Lattimore an instrument of the Soviet conspiracy and urges perjury proceedings against him and John P. Davies Jr. The inquiry, led by Senator McCarran, examined the Institute of Pacific Relations over more than a year.
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Washington
Senate
Owen Lattimore
John P. Davies, Jr
State Department
Internal Security Subcommittee
Lattimore
Davies
Institute of Pacific Relations
McCarran D.ney
LP R
United States
Far East
IPR
Pacific
John Hopkins University
State Departments
West Germany
Houston Polio Study Tests Gamma Globulin in Children
In Houston, 35 000 children ages 1 to 6 began a double blind gamma globulin trial to test paralysis prevention from polio. Half receive the treatment, half a non effective substitute, while the city endures a polio surge with 163 city cases and six deaths this year. University of Pittsburgh researchers conduct the experiment for the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, noting gamma globulin may prevent paralysis though not the disease itself.
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Houston
Texas
State Health Department
University of Pittsburgh
National Foundation of
Army boosts Draft Quotas for September and year end
The Army announced September drafts of 30 000 with a plan for 54 000 monthly through October to December. The totals would top any month since March 1951, with 1 013 430 men drafted since selective service resumed in 1950.
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Washington
Selective Service
Taft Ike and GOP Hopefuls Lowdown
The piece analyzes Taft as a stubborn, capable candidate with a record of opposing key policies and facing labor opposition at home. It then presents Eisenhower as an honest, complex figure, a military man favoring civilian control, praised for conciliation yet criticized for lack of political experience and mixed ideological signals.
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Eisenhower
Taft
Ike
America
Coal Company Sells at West Virginia Sale
At a recent sale in Point Pleasant the West Virginia Coal and Transportation Co. of West Columbia was purchased by Herman Strauss Inc. of Wheeling for 154,000. The sale, ordered by the federal court of the southern district of West Virginia, was conducted by Norman C. Wein trustee in bankruptcy and Carroll Casto attorney for the trustee. The Wheeling firm bought the company as an entity including a perforation plant, loading docks and mining machinery.
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Point Pleasant
West Virginia Coal and Transportation Co
West Columbia
Herman Strauss, Inc
Wheeling
Federal Court of the Southern District of
West Virginia
Norman C. Wein
Carroll Casto
Charleston
Ohio's 37th Slated For Far East Duty
Washington reports the Army will draw replacements for Korea from the 37th Ohio and 44th Illinois Infantry Divisions this summer and fall. An aide to Senator Bricker said the draw will occur due to many Korea discharges, with most replacements between August 1 and November 1.
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Washington
Ohio
44Th Mlinois
Korea
Bricker
37Th
44Th
Mine Safety Measure Faces Stiff Opposition
Washington bill would grant federal power to close mines in imminent danger. It faces sharp scattered opposition and requires a two third vote under suspension of House rules for speedy passage.
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Washington
Truman Repeats Plea For Seaway Project
President Truman again urged Congress to let the United States join Canada as a full partner in the St. Lawrence seaway and power project. He called New York state's aid to Canada a poor second best and urged active U.S. participation.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
United States
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
New York State
Taft Forces Setting Pace In Round V Taft Faces Fight
Taft presses ahead in the pre convention phase leading Eisenhower 474 to 410 in delegate counts. The GOP committee meets in secrecy to decide Georgia delegation voting amid two rival slates and unclear rules.
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Taft
Chicago
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Fleenhower
Associated Press
GOP National Committee
Georgia
Delegates Listed From Ohio Districts for Convention
Delegates from Ohio districts are named with alternates for the Taft and Eisenhower factions. Notable figures include Dan Hartinger Racine Edwin Tones deck son and Kenneth Kay McCooneteville with alternates Gilbert Long Quaker City and Ralph Schumacher VW Woodsfield. The national committee for Taft seeks seating for all 17 delegates as disputes continue across states.
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Ohio
Ray (. Bliss
Akron
John W. Bricker
Columbus
Clarence J. Brown
Blanchester
Katherine Kennedy Brown
Dayton
Myers ¥. Cooper
Cincinnati
Willie D. Gradison
David S. Ingalls
Hunting Valley
Florence Gi
Morris
Toledo
C. William ‘Y Nedl
Marietta
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Tex
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White House
Henry Stimson
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Tional
Roscoe Pickett, Jr
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W. R. Tucker
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Gallipol
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