Taft Eisenhower Battle Tightens In South Dakota Primary
In Sioux Falls Taft leads Eisenhower by about 800 votes with 1703 of 1947 precincts counted for 14 Chicago convention nominating votes. Keefeauver gains eight Democratic delegates. Rural areas favor Taft while cities boost Eisenhower. UMT divides farmer voters.
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Sioux Falls
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
South Dakota
Chicago
Taft
Eisenhower
Ohio
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Black Hills
Midwest
Nebraska
UMT
White House summons union and industry leaders to steel pact talks
The White House invited CIO President Philip Murray and six steel industry heads to a top level conference in the old State Department Building at 10 am EST Thursday to seek a settlement of the steel strike. The meeting follows stalled talks and a recent Supreme Court ruling affecting mill operations.
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Washington
White House
CIO Steelworkers Union
John R. Steelman
Old
State Department
Philip Murray
Steelworkers Union
Supreme Court
Truman
Steel Milla
Steelman
Stockmans
CIO
United Steelworkers
Pittsburgh Company
New York
California Primary Delivers Warren Kefauver Big Delegations
In San Francisco Earl Warren and Estes Kefauver won California's major delegations by large margins. Warren captured all 70 GOP delegates, while Kefauver led a 68‑delegate Democratic slate. Knowland swept both party nominations under crossfiling, defeating Truman ally Clinton McKinnon.
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San Francisco
Earl Warren
Estes Kefauver
California
Warren
Thomas H. Werdel
Tennessee
Kefauver
Edmund G. Brown
Truman
Werdel
Brown
William F. Knowland
Independent Heads Slate Triumph In New Haven Election
B M Stephan elected mayor and K M Wiles recorder on Independent ticket. Five councilmen chosen: Roush Layne Stein Powell Wolpert. Zoning ordinance passed 118 73. Citizens Ticket tallies show Johnston Wiles Gibbs McGrew Roush Layne Lloyd Roush. Layne and Roush vote recounts conducted three times.
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Point Pleasant
M. B. Stephan
New Haven
K. M. Wiles
Donald Roush
Harry O. Layne
E. L. Stein
W. “Buz” Powe!r
P. J. Wolpert
Citizens
W. W. Johnston
R. V. Gibbs
J. W. McGrew
Lloyd Roush
Independent
Frank Zerkle
Denies Guam Fraud Charge by Gov Skinner
Washington Gov Carlton Skinner told the House Interior Affairs Committee there is no fraud or mismanagement in Guam. He refuted claims by former Guam employees William McKinley and Norman A. Peltier alleging tax frauds contract favoritism and suppression of free speech.
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Washington
Carlton Skinner
Guam
House Interior Affairs Committee
Skinner
William McKinley
Norman A. Peltier
Congressional Record
Jensen
Iowa
Island
Miners Escape Death After Cave-In at Ironwood Prospect
Five miners were trapped at the Penokee mine in Ironwood Michigan after a cave-in. Three escaped unaided. Perma Olkonen, 36, was found dead beside his machine. Victor Cox 51 Christopher Hocking 46 and Mack Kypecker 54 were entombed 24 hours before rescue crews broke through to reach them in good condition. Serafin Zacharaewski 36 remained missing feared crushed.
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Ironwood
Mich
Penokee
Perma Olkonen
Serafin Zacharaewski
Purge Hinted For One Time Red Darling
Vienna reports say Romanian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, once a leading Communist, faces a Red purge after a Bucharest radio broadcast accused her of pro capitalism and counter revolution. Also targeted were former Finance Minister Vasile Luca and former Interior Minister Techari Georgescu as Romania’s economic woes blamed on a scapegoat trio.
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Vienna
Austria
Ana Pauker
Bucharest
Pauker
Romania
Romanian Communist Party
Farm eviction sparks mauling in Michigan county
In Lapeer Michigan irate neighbors assaulted a sheriff and deputy during eviction proceedings against Elizabeth Stevens a 60 year old widow on her 80 acre farm The farm had been sold to Grace S White after Stevens failed to pay a 17 assessment tied to a 1935 mutual fire insurance program The incident follows a Lansing meeting with Governor Williams and the state board.
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Lapeer
Mich
Elizabeth Stevens
Here
Lansing
G. Mennen Williams
State Administrative Board
Demand List of Prisoners
United Nations and Communist negotiators at Panmunjom exchanged sharp notes on prisoners of war. Gen Nam Taek protested what he called barbarous treatment of captured Reds on Koje Island, while Maj Gen William K. Harrison Jr demanded immediate accounting for nearly 1000 UN soldiers thought captured but not listed. The UN note added 91 names to a December total of 895 prisoners.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Nam T
Panmunjom
Kose Island
William K. Harrison Jr
George Gruen Dies Headed Watch Firm
CINCINNATI. George J Gruen, chairman of the Gruen Watch Co, died of a heart attack Tuesday. He was 74 and the last survivor of Dietrich Gruen’s three sons who founded the firm in Columbus, Ohio in 1874. He leaves his widow two sons George T in Cincinnati and Robert D in Indianapolis and a daughter Mrs Emily Seaman of Portland Oregon.
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Cincinnati
George J Gruen
Gruen Watch Co
Gruen
Dietrich Gruen
Columbus
George T
Robert D. Indianapolis
Emily Seaman
Portland
Ore
Food Price Index Shows Slight Drop
New York reports a small decrease in wholesale food prices for the second consecutive week. The Dun and Bradstreet index stands at 6.43, down from 6.45 a week ago and 92 percent below the 7.08 level from the previous year. The index sums the cost of one pound each of 31 general use foods.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Abilene Welcomes General Ike For First Political Push
Abilene Kansas hosts a mass gathering as Dwight D Eisenhower returns to his boyhood field to launch a two day campaign drive for the Republican nomination. A parade and a cornerstone ceremony for an Eisenhower museum precede a park speech outlining his political stance.
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Abilene
Kan
Dwight D Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Red Strike Flops as Paris Sits Quiet
A paralyzing Red Strike in Paris failed as Prime Minister Antonine Pinay ordered police to mobilize nationwide. Communist led CGT walkouts attracted little support. three million CGT members returned to work and most industry and transport stayed normal.
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Paris
Antonine Pinay
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Jacques Duclos
Communist Party
Duclos
NATO
Matthew B. Ridgway
Air Reserve Training Set to Resume Limited Flight
The Air Force will restart flight training for reservists at 22 locations this summer, using conventional aircraft at first with jets and advanced types later. Training centers will reintroduce flying elements where only ground training exists, after a yearlong suspension due to aircraft shortages. In New London Ohio a coroner investigated a boy’s death by hanging found by his father in a barn.
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Washington
Air Force
Leon W. Johnson
Continental Air Command
Johnson
New London, CO
Huron County
Charlies Ede
Paul Ward
Graydon Ward
Here
Polio Victim Ralph Jones Dies in Wooster Ohio
Seventeen year old Ralph Jones of Burbank dies as Wayne County's first polio fatality of 1952 in Wooster. In Tiffin, Ohio the Ohio Cities Water Co receives a three cent rate increase from the city council.
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Wooster, CO
Ralph Jones
Burbank
Wayne County
Tiffin
Ohio Cities Water Co
Post President Would Be Czar Of Men’s Wear Industry
Ben Projan proposes naming former haberdasher Harry Truman as czar of the men’s wear industry after his White House term. The job would arbitrate disputes and promote proper dress for occasions, with Truman praised as a leading fashion influence alongside the Duke of Windsor. Olan of Phoenix heads the National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers.
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Rochester
N. Y
Harry Truman
Ben Projan
White House
Truman
Projan
Duke of Windsor
Olan
Phoenix
Ariz
National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers
Murder Blame Placed On Convicted Marine
Newark D C reports that counsel for Pvt Harmon Cordray 18 of Mooresville Ind says Cordray had nothing to do with the murder of Allen Drake 43 Columbus writer on March 4 along U S Route 40 near Kirkeraville Cordray faces first degree murder charges for the roadside slaying and his companion Pvt Louis Allen Angel 18 of Huntington W Va who was the triggerman was convicted last month and awaits a death sentence August 14
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Newark
Harmon Cordray
Mooresville
Ind
Cordray
Allen Drake
Drake
Columbus
U.S Rt. 40
Kirkeraville
Louis Allen Angel
Huntington
W. Va
Seek quick vote on cut foreign aid
Washington leaders push for fast approval of a foreign aid authorization about 1.3 billion below Truman’s request. A 6.4477 billion omnibus was agreed by Senate House conferees, with money to be fixed by separate appropriation bills and future reductions likely.
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Washington
Truman
Senate House
House Appropriations Committee
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
House
Dwight D Eisenhower
Reds Relax Berlin Blockade Moves Amid Allied Patrols
Berlin authorities report the Soviet side eased half of the two way blockade of the autobahn aiding Allied patrols. An American police jeep was allowed eastbound from West Germany to Berlin after a 10 day ban, while jeeps traveling west from Berlin were turned back. American officials planned a test run tonight as Communist defenders in radio Berlin remained defiant.
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Berlin
Radio
Nine Convicts End Sit-Down Strike at New Jersey Prison
Nine hardened criminals ended a near week long sit down strike at the New Jersey State Prison. They walked out peacefully after grievances cited by a committee for 14 inmates were presented to warden William H Carty. The specifics of the settlement were not disclosed.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey State
William H Carty
Drowning of 16 year old Richard Loar in Licking River
Newark reports a 16 year old, Richard Alien Loar of Tobosa, Licking County, drowned Tuesday while swimming in the Licking River. Authorities investigated the incident as a tragic water accident with no immediate signs of foul play.
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Newark
Richard Alien Loar
Tobosa
Licking County
Licking River
Senate moves to end steel strike crisis
Washington AP reports President Truman silent after Supreme Court rebuff as the Senate opens debate on continuing wage and price controls. Sen Maybank pilots the bill seeking an agreement to halt the steel strike and restore plants with plans ranging from a 12 to 14 day work return to potential plant seizures for national emergency, while Taft opposes emergency legislation until all laws are exhausted. Maybank criticizes Truman steel seizure amid Korea fighting.
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Washington
Truman
Supreme Court
Senate
Congress
Sen. Taft
Ohioan
Sen
Maybank
Korea
POWs Watch Yanks Remove Red Banners on Koje Island
Korean American infantrymen and tanks knocked down and burned Russian, North Korean and Chinese flags at three Communist POW pens. No shots were fired as leaders were hauled away and 17 anti Communist prisoners were rescued from one compound while 75 others were moved from a second.
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Koje Island
Two More Kentucky Towns Seek A Plant
Two Kentucky groups asked the Atomic Energy Commission to build a billion dollar atomic plant in their area. The Corbin Somerset Pineville Middlesboro region was pitched to AEC general manager M W Boyer. Rep Golden Ray supported Southeastern Kentucky sites possibly Corbin or Albany. The AEC is considering Ohio Valley sites including Point Pleasant West Virginia.
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Washington
Kentucky
Atomic Energy Commission
M. W. Boyer
AEC
Corbin
Somerset Pineville
Middlesboro
Golden Ray
Albany
Ohio Valley
Point Pleasant
W Va
Allied Planes Rake Red Bases in Force
Allied fighter bombers attacked North Korean targets in force, with seven B26s hitting front-line positions at dawn. In night action 29 supply vehicles were destroyed, rain muddied the 155 mile ground front, while tanks southwest of Munsan reportedly killed or wounded about 30 Chinese.
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Seoul
Hains
Munsan
Steel Strike Pinch Grows as Workers Idle
The national steel strike idle figure nears 71 000 with 79 000 total idle nationwide including coal miners and railroaders. White House summons industry and union leaders to confer as six largest steel producers hold private talks seeking to resume bargaining with Steelworkers Chief Phillip Murray within 48 hours.
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Pittsburgh
Nationale Steel Stake
White House
CLO United
Defense
Steaty
New York
Tte
Phillip Murray
Murray
Bot the Cio
Wedding Bells Climax Controversial Romance
A white youth Robert McAllester 23 and Grace Cunningham 22 a Negro girl wed in Ithaca New York after campus disapproval. They arrived from Earlham College Richmond Indiana with McAllester’s mother. Both graduates of the Quaker school.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Robert McAllester
Grace Cunningham
Berkley
Calif
Earleham College
Richmond
Ind
McAlelester
Allen McAlelester McAllester
Miss Cunningham
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