President Seeks Fast Steel Seizure Bill After Strike
President Truman urged Congress to pass a law allowing government seizure of steel plants to resume full production amid the eight day old CIO United Steelworkers strike. He argued seizure would restore wartime output and fair treatment, despite Supreme Court limits on inherent powers.
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Western Germany
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
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U. S
Connally D-Tex
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Connally
Mle
Sesson
White House
Olin Johnson
D-Sc
High Court Takes Up Segregation in Public Schools
The Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals by Negro parents challenging school segregation in Topeka Kansas and Clarendon County South Carolina. Justices will hear arguments in the new term starting October 6, with broader implications for public schools nationwide. Governor Byrnes warned that losing the fight could lead to abandoning state public school systems.
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Supreme Court
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High Tribunal
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South Carolina
Dismiss Rail Seizure Case Washington
The Supreme Court dismissed the case over the 1950 rail seizure after unions and railroads settled the wage dispute. The court found the issue moot and ordered the Cleveland judge to vacate the no strike order, ending the litigation.
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Supreme Court
Truman
Cleveland
High Tribunal
Collapse of White House Parleys Threatens Long Steel Strike
The White House peace talks collapse exacerbates an eight day steel strike with possible weeks or months to run. CIO leader Philip Murray and U S Steel negotiator John A Stephens clash over union shop while government munitions boards prepare to outline defense production needs.
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Defense
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Truan
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Murray
John A Stephens
U.S Steel Company
Knot Tied On Bridge In Romantic Riverside Wedding
Bernard Lee Livingston and Patty Ann Kuhn wed atop the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River with Rev. M. D. Shifler officiating. The Evans and Ripley couple joined a history of bridge weddings as families looked on on a notable day.
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Evans
Patty Ann Kuhn
Ripley
IL Am
Ohio River
M. D. Shifler
West Virginia
Ohio
Third Witness Called In $2 Million Tax Case
William Reuther of Wheeling West Virginia testified as the third witness for William G. Lias in the U S Tax Court hearing on the disputed two million dollar tax case. Lias a Wheeling race track owner was previously tried and acquitted on criminal evasion charges related to income taxes.
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William G. Lias
Lias
William Reuther
William Reuther, Inc
Wheeling
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U. S
Five Day Forecast Sees Warm Humid Run Through Friday
Temperatures will average well above normal with normal highs 78 and 83 north and south respectively and lows around 57 to 59. Expect warm humid days through Friday with a likely cool down by weekend. Scattered afternoon showers likely daily through Saturday.
Deadlock Seen as Chance For Seizure Bill Passage
Senators press for a vote to arm the government with power to seize strike-threatened plants after steel contract talks collapsed. Morse Maybank Monroney urge using Taft Hartley to keep mills operating, arguing for a tougher defense industry law and a quick presidential action.
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Reinforced Allies Reds Trade Blows On Korean Front
In a fourth day of fighting on the Korean Western Front UN and Chinese forces clash near Chorwon. An Eighth Army briefing reports increased activity and longer, more intense patrols across the front. UN forces repel a red assault near a strategic hill, with 40 Reds killed and about 100 wounded after 250 attackers failed to retake the hill.
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Duel Death Ruling For Cleveland Boy In School Incident
Coroner Geer ruled 15 year old Gerald Qualls accidental death during anesthesia after a grass sickle duel with 14 year old Robert Walker at the Boys Industrial School near Lancaster Ohio. Both youths from Youngstown and Cleveland were on a work detail when the slashing occurred.
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Gerald Qualls
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Youngstown
Geer
Fairfield County
Dudley Crider
Nab Suspects In Slaying
Authorities in Wooster and Canton held two 19 year old men for Wheeling police over a fatal beating in Wheeling Saturday. John Patterson Stanton of Orrville taxi driver and David Shilling of North Lawrence Ohio are wanted for questioning in the killing of John Sabo in a Wheeling hotel room. Stanton was arrested Monday night. Shilling is jailed in Canton after being picked up today.
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Wheeling
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John Patterson Stanton
Orrville
David Shilling
North Lawrence
Rike
John Sabo
Stanton
Shilling
Boat Found After Storm Claims Two Men On Lake Erie
In Cleveland a 14 foot outboard boat believed to have carried two men to their deaths during a storm was recovered on Lake Erie near Fairport. The discovery confirms a fatal incident linked to rough weather.
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Lake Erie
Fairport
MacArthur Faces Legal Limits If He Headlines GOP Convention
The article notes Army legal experts weigh how Gen. Douglas MacArthur could campaign while on active duty or after retirement. It compares to Dwight Eisenhower who retired to campaign and suggests MacArthur would risk Article 88 penalties for contemptuous remarks about federal officials if he joins the convention scene.
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Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight JD Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Congress
Point Pleasant Adopts Gross Sales and Fire Protection Taxes
The City Council approved a gross sales tax of 0.25 to 1 percent on local gross sales with $40,000 minimums, effective July 1, funding city projects. A 0.15 percent fire protection tax on building and personal property values also starts July 1 to support the volunteer fire department and add two paid firefighters.
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Point Pleasant
Eisenhower Opens Southern Campaign for Nomination
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower presses for Southern votes while backers clash over naming Gen. Douglas MacArthur as keynote. Delegates in three states show mixed loyalties as convention preparations proceed in Chicago.
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G. Mason Owlett
Pennsylvania
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Paratroopers Crush POW Revolt on Koje Island
On Koje Island the 82nd Airborne team crushed a two hour revolt in compound 76. Thirty one prisoners were killed and 139 wounded while an American soldier died. Autopsies showed fellow prisoners killed 12 of their own, as the Reds plotted to seize the island and UN forces.
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Korea
U.S
Angels Prom Hell
Prosecution Data Sought by McGranery Across Offices
Attorney General James P McGranery ordered U S district attorneys to report immediately on the oldest pending criminal cases with no prosecution undertaken This marks his first major move since taking office May 27 a former Philadelphia judge he succeeded J Howard McGrath who left the cabinet April 3 and fired Newbold Morris earlier that day
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James P. McGranery
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Justice Department
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J. Howard McGrath
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Cugat Closes Damages Suit in Court Partnership
Oklahoma City District Court heard Xavier Cugat defend a $26,500 damage suit. After partial testimony they shook hands and agreed to become partners in a national dancing school enterprise. Judge Baker H. Melone postponed the case to September 10 while jurors requested autographs.
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Xavier Cugat
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Dallas
Garfield Estate Valued At 100000 In Probate Filing
New York report shows actor John Garfield who died May 2 at 39 left an estate estimated at 100000. The will petition filed in Surrogate's Court lists his widow Roberta Garfield as executrix and heir to most of the estate.
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John Garfield
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Roberta Garfield
Soviet Snubs Arms Ceiling At United Nations
At the United Nations Disarmament Commission in New York the Soviet Union rejects a Western plan for voluntary arms ceilings. Soviet delegate Jakob A Malik argues the proposal aims to block real reductions and to bypass nuclear weapons prohibition. The plan seeks equal limits of 12 million troops for the major powers and 800 thousand for Britain and France.
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Jakob A Malik
UN Disarmament Commission
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France
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Ohio Naval Airman Rescued After Gulf Crash
Ensign Thomas Y. Bowen, 21, from Sciotoville Ohio, was rescued after a fighter plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico about 175 miles from Key West. Bowen parachuted to a life raft and was later found aboard a freighter en route to New Orleans. His plane mate Ensign Charles G Lewis, 22, of Seymour Indiana, is listed as missing.
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Taft Urges GOP Adopt 1950 Goals
Sen. Robert A. Taft urged Republicans to adopt the 1950 statement of principles at the Chicago convention to avoid a platform fight. Eisenhower endorsed the document. some backers warned of a united front loss after the nominee is chosen. The platform calls for united foreign policy, tax and spending cuts, antimonopoly enforcement, and revamping government functions across federal, state, and local levels.
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Robert A. Taft
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Kan
Senate
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Eisenhower
Len HH
Alexander Smith
New Jersey
United Korea Truce Talks Resume Amid Propaganda Pressure
United Nations spokesman said truce negotiators will resume talks in Panmunjom at 11 am after a three day recess due to Communist propaganda. Brig Gen William P. Nuckols warned of another possible recess if propaganda becomes intolerable. Maj Gen William K. Harrison noted the recess was called over the drive to resume negotiations.
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Korea
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Panmunejom
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William K. Harrison
Rail Union Discrimination Case Upheld by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that the railroad labor act bars unions from using power to take jobs from colored workers to favor white workers. The decision required federal courts to issue injunctions to stop such unlawful actions. The court found an agreement between the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the St. Louis San Francisco Railway threatened Negro porters with job loss solely due to race.
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Supreme Court
High Tribunal
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St. Louis - San Francisco Railway
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