Coal Strike Strikes Again As Talks With Lewis Continue
A renewed soft coal strike paralyzed industry as government seeks to avert a long shutdown. Troops guard Kentucky mines while John L. Lewis negotiates with Interior Secretary Krug after President Truman's intervention. Ohio and other states report large mine absences amid mounting railroad and factory impacts.
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Malmedy Survivor Seeks Orderer Over Massacre
John R. Kaiser, survivor of the Malmedy massacre, says he would punish the officer who gave orders, not all German shooters. He escaped death by a hair, bears a bullet near his heart, and recalls the 1944 attack near Malmedy Belgium. Kaiser, attending Ohio State on the GI Bill, survived after artillery and small arms rain, later aiding evacuation and surgery.
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Belgium
Strike Draft Bill Faces Senate Delays and Debate
President Truman’s strikedraft labor program meets fresh Senate resistance after swift House approval. Senators debate sweeping powers for the President, penalties for striking workers and union leaders, profits to the Treasury, and enforcement during government seizures. The measure set June 30 1947 as an expiration date while House and Senate lines redraw terms on dispute control and case measures.
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Jap Admiral to Hang For Beheading Yanks
Vice Admiral Kosa Abe was sentenced to hang and two other Japanese received prison terms today for the beheading of nine Carlson Raiders on Kwajalein Island in 1942. Capt Yoshio Obara was sentenced to 10 years and Lieut Comdr Hinkichi Naiki to five years for their part. Abe led Kwajalein forces.
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Gandhi Backs British Plan for Indian Independence
Mohandas K. Gandhi told Harijan the British cabinet mission plan is the best document the British government could have produced and urged Indians to accept its terms without perturbation. He did not agree with the mission’s note that provinces in British India would not have free choice in entering subdivisions in the constitutional body.
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India Today
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British India
New Office Opens to Handle 15000 Steel Plant Layoffs
Officials from the U S Employment Service and Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation announced a new branch office in Youngstown to process about 15,000 applications from workers idled by the suspension of operations at Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Republic Steel.
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Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Republic Steel Corp
Senator Bankhead Improves After Light Stroke
Senator Bankhead of Alabama remains in serious condition after a light stroke at the Capitol. Doctors report some improvement in the 73 year old lawmaker as he receives treatment in Washington.
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Senator Bankhead
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Whitney Foresees Truman Defeat as Rail Crisis Shifts Labor
Washington reports stirred by Whitney vowing to block Truman by mobilizing a $47 million treasury against a second term. Labor leaders split on the president’s handling of the railroad strike, while Capitol Hill observers say Truman’s swift action bolstered his prestige amid the 1940s labor turmoil.
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Milk and Butter Prices Expected to Rise
Government officials say retail ceilings will rise about one cent per quart of milk and 10 to 12 cents per pound for butter, with cheese up around 5 cents per pound. They cite higher grain costs and opposition to subsidies as reasons, and subsidy plans are withdrawn.
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Brutal Slaying of Woman in East Liverpool Probed
Authorities investigate the brutal killing of Leatha Barrett 55 found beaten along State Route 1 near East Liverpool. A 30-year-old prisoner in Hancock County, West Virginia, allegedly told a service station attendant he killed a woman Thursday night. Coroner reports crushed facial bones and head injuries. The prisoner pleaded guilty to a separate shooting charge in Newell, West Virginia.
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Newell
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Communists Win Plurality in Prague in Czechoslovakia Vote
Communist party strong in yesterday's parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia. They led in Prague with substantial returns, while results from outlying districts remained to decide if a majority in the 300 member assembly could be formed.
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Czechoslovakia
Utility Workers Plan Campaign for Public Contracts
Pittsburgh based United Utilities Unions of America announced a campaign for uniform contracts on wages hours and working conditions for about 30,000 utility workers. President George L. Mueller, re-elected here, said eight independent unions will push the plan in upcoming months.
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Mrs Rosie House 73 Meigs Resident Dies
Mrs Rosie House 73 Meigs resident died at Lincoln Hill early Monday. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 pm at Ewing Funeral Home. She is survived by husband C J House of Harrietsville and a son Bert of Pomeroy. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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Ewing Funeral Home
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Harrietsville
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Ship Tieup Ordered in Canadian Labor Dispute
About 5 000 seamen walked out as the Canadian Seamen's Union ordered a complete tieup of all lake and coastal ships in a bid for shorter hours. Union president J A Sullivan sent the strike notice to Labour Minister Humphrey Mitchell.
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Canadian Seamen’s Union
J. A. Sullivan
Huphrey Mitchell
Business For Labor Against Strike Rules
Leaders condemn Truman anti strike legislation while a cross section of businessmen hail the bill. Kansas City Chamber executive George W Catts praises the action and pledges support on labor policy. CIO unions oppose drafts to compel work and threaten democratic breakdown. Republic Steel president Charles M White applauds the railroad stance and endorses the Case Bill as the solution.
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Church Party Sweeps Voting In German City Councils
In American occupied Germany the conservative Christian Social Union led in council elections across 38 cities with final returns showing it victor in most races. The Socialist Democrats challenged closely but CSU maintained broad rural worker support. The Communist Party won 47 of 1,025 seats.
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Molotov accuses Anglo American bloc at Paris talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov charged that a United States British bloc pressed Russia at the four power foreign ministers conference in Paris. He warned against using threats to push U N treaty plans and said Britain and the United States sought to subdue nations after the war.
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News founder J M Patterson dies at 67
Joseph Medill Patterson 67 founder and president of the New York Daily News died in Doctors Hospital after treatment for a liver ailment begun May 11. He will lie in state at his Ossining home and be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday. Patterson led the News Syndicate Co to the nation’s largest circulation and was a key figure in the publishing trio known for opposing Roosevelt’s foreign policy before WWII.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tractor Trailer Crashes into Dwelling Injures Six in Massillon
A heavy tractor-trailer skidded on wet pavement and buried itself in a living room of a large Massillon residence. Six people were injured, none seriously, including Mrs. Inez Bennett who was trapped by debris. seven children upstairs escaped injury while drivers and passengers in two cars suffered minor injuries.
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Inez Bennett
Plot To Kill Roxas Reportedly Planned in Luzon
A tipster told Manila police that a plot to assassinate President-Elect Manuel Roxas had been developed in central Luzon. Ninety five? No, 75 men from Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, and Pampanga were said to have entered Manila to execute the plan.
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Manuel Roxas
Nueva Ecija
Tarlac
Pampanga
Cuba Sugar Crop Forecast Raises Export Prospects
The Agriculture Department said Cuba may export about 4,200,000 tons of sugar from this year’s crop, up from 3,470,000 tons last year due to drought damage. The United States is negotiating to buy the Cuban export supply.
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Logan Pastor Named Director Of Youth Activities
The Rev. Clinton Swengel of Logan was chosen Saturday as director of youth activities for the Ohio Methodist Conference. Dr. H. E. Bright was appointed superintendent of the Lancaster District.
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Clinton Swengel
Logan
Ohio Methodist Conference
H. E .Bright
Lancaster
Frauleins Wed by U S Soldiers in Germany
Stars and Stripes reports two former U S soldiers wed German women by a technicality that allowed marriages during Army discharge. Charles Quatt 30 Paterson N J and Philip Haeze 24 Pittsburgh wed while leaving the Army and taking War Department jobs in Germany, when neither was employed by the United States.
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Food Outlook Brightens With Export surge Forecast
Secretary Clinton P Anderson said the next five weeks will witness the greatest single movement of a food commodity in world history as the United States aims to export 400 600 000 bushels of wheat by June 30 National press tour of the Air Material Command at Wright Field has been cancelled due to the railroad strike complications
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Clinton P. Anderson
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Army Board Recommends End to officer Enlisted Ranks Split
A postwar Army Board chaired by Lt Gen James H Doo Little urged abolishing the terms officer and enlisted man and redesigning pay in promotions furloughs and decorations to reduce class divisions It also proposed that all personnel be called soldiers and ended hand salutes except on posts.
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