Northern soft coal miners win new contract with higher pay
Pittsburgh AP Northern soft coal miners celebrate a new 1.90 daily wage raise to 18.25 plus 40 cents per ton to the UMW welfare fund. The deal halts a planned strike by 170,000 miners and marks a major victory for UMW President John L. Lewis and the Bituminous Coal Producers Association president Harry L. Moses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Harry L. Moses
UMW Welfare Fund
U.S. Steel Co
Robena
Uniontown
John A. Busarello
UMW District 16
America
Moses
UMW
Southern Coal Producers Association
Washington
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Group
Taft To Greet GOP Nominee In Cincinnati
Eisenhower arrives in Cincinnati 7 20 p m on a 18 car campaign train with over 100 staffers as Sen. Robert Taft personally welcomes the GOP nominee amid a near record crowd. The meeting could influence the running mate issue regarding expenses paid by California donors.
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Taft
GOP
Cincinnati
Eisenhower
Transit Strike Continues In Findlay Amid Transit Taxi Jobs
About 2000 Findlay residents relying on buses and taxis faced disruption as a city wide walkout by Transit Co. and Teamsters Local 508 persisted since Saturday. R. K. Lawrence offered a five percent raise to 27 employees while drivers seek twenty five cents more per hour.
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Findlay
Findlay Transit Co
Teamsters Local 508
R. K. Lawrence
Transit Company
City Cab
Jim Ritchie
Toledo
Point Pleasant Player Falls From Horse Breaks Leg
Point Pleasant high school halfback Jackie Pickens, 16, was riding at a Mason County Horseman's Association meeting when the saddle slipped and he was thrown, breaking his right leg. He received treatment at Point Clinic and was later sent home.
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Point Pleasant
Jackie Pickens
Paul S. Pickens
Jericho Road
Mason County Horseman's Association
Virgil Plants Farm
Ripley Road
Point Clinic
Stevenson Defends Labor Plan At AFL Address
Gov Adlai E Stevenson told the American Federation of Labor that the Taft Hartley act should be repealed and urged flexible mediation led by the president in labor disputes. He rejected charges of endorsing compulsory arbitration and contrasted his views with Eisenhower’s. He urged broad changes to align labor management and government with new procedures.
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New York
Adlai E. Stevenson
American Federation of Labor
Department of Labor
Stevenson
Columbia University
Eisenhower
Congress
AFL
Ocratic
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Detroit
Hunting Mishap Kills Athens County Youth
A 16 year old, Eldon Loomis Mc Leish, was found dead while squirrel hunting near his home in Northern Athens County. Coroner John H. Elias ruled the death accidental, caused by the shotgun discharge into the chest. Sheriff George Bateman said two fingers on the left hand were blown off, indicating the gun fired with the hand over the muzzle. The boy’s parents reported he hunted Saturday afternoon and did not return by dusk. The body was found Sunday morning by searchers led by Jeff Hogue Mc Leish, with aid from Boy Scouts from Glouster. The incident is the first fatality of the 1952 Athens County squirrel hunting season.
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Athens County
Eldon Loomis, McLeish
John H. Elias
Jeff Hogue
McLeish
George Bateman
Batemarm
Eldon
Bateman
Pearl Loomis
Glouster
Ralph Hines
Hornet Attack Leaves 4-Year-Old Injured in Cleveland
A hornet swarm stung Robert Schuschu Jr. about 200 times Sunday near his home in Cleveland. Doctors treated him with antitoxin and soothing ointment and released him.
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Cleveland
Robert Schuschu Jr
Army assigns 148th Regimental Combat Team to train 37th Division
CAMP POLK La Maj. Gen. Leo M Kreber announced the 148th Regimental Combat Team will train inductees assigned to Ohio's 37th Infantry Division for basic and advanced individual training. Col. Herbert Radcliffe of Kenton will command. The unit comprises 148th Infantry from Northwestern Ohio, 156th Field Artillery Battalion from Dayton Lebanon Piqua and Springfield, and Co D 112th Engineer Battalion from Willoughby.
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Camp Polk
Army
Ohio
37Th Infantry Division
Leo M. Kreber
Herbert Radcliffe
Kenton
148Th Infantry
156Th Field Artillery
Dayton
Lebanon
Piqua
Springfield
Co. D
Willoughby
Eisenhower Nixon Talk Over Expense Fund Cloud
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Richard M. Nixon held a 15 minute telephone discussion as Nixon faced disclosure over an expense fund ahead of a TV radio broadcast. Nixon planned to reveal his full financial history and decide on remaining on the ticket after the call.
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Eisenhower
Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Portland
Ore
St. Louis
Senate
James Hagerty
Hagerty
California
U S Tanks Pace New UN Drive On Eastern Front Hill
Allied forces press forward after 15 hours of continuous fighting to recapture a hill near Punchbowl as Red pressure shifts from the West to the East. U S Sabre jets clash with MIG 15s, four damaged, with jet ace Capt Bone Risner cited.
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Seoul
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Air Force
Washington
Korea
Blesse
Determined Bridegroom Marries After Appendectomy
Allentown youth Richard Crouthamel, aged 21, wed Joy Atiyeh of Allentown after suffering an appendicitis attack during rehearsal. He insisted on proceeding with the ceremony, aided by a nurse, a stretcher, and a wheelchair to reach the First Presbyterian Church. The couple plans a honeymoon next week once he leaves Sacred Heart Hospital.
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Allentown
Richard Crouthamel
Joy Atiyeh
Middletown
Sacred Heart Hospital
First Presbyterian Church
Richard
Thirty Ancient Cars Trek to Washington
Thirty antique automobiles head toward Washington for the American Automobile Association's 50th anniversary. The convoy is led by a wheezy 1904 Oldsmobile and includes a 1925 Will Ste. Claire among the participants as it arrives in Stroudsburg from New York.
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Stroudsburg
Oldsmobile
Washington
American Automobile Association
Pocono Mountain
New York
Five U S soldiers survive 72 hours under Old Baldy fire
Cpl Ed Berlin reports five American troops from the 2nd Division endured 72 hours in a battered bunker on Old Baldy in Korea. Surrounded by Chinese forces, they endured grenades, machine gun fire, and hunger with no water, playing dead to survive until relief arrived.
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Seoul
Korea
Old Baldy
Cpl
Ed Berlin
The
Pacific Stars and Stripes
Berlin
York City
Stars and Stripes
Ohio Traffic Kills Fourteen Over Weekend
Associated Press tally reports at least 14 fatalities in Ohio over the weekend across roads water and other incidents. Seven died on roads one drowned and six in other accidents. Names include Raymond Roberson 32 of Oregonia killed in a bridge collision near Waynesville and Samuel E Yarger 17 of Mansfield in a two car crash.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Raymond Roberson
Oregonia
Waynesville
Samuel E. Yarger
Mansfield
Delon E. Sutton
Marion
U S to Study Hospital Need in Four Ohio Counties
U S Public Health Service will survey hospital needs in Scioto, Pike, Ross and Jackson Counties in Southern Ohio as a prelude to possible federal funding for a 75 bed hospital near Pike County. The Office of Education will study school needs in the same four counties as a separate assessment.
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Washington
U. S&s. Public Health Service
Ohio
Rep. Polk
U. S. Office of Education
Scioto
Pike
Ross
Jackson
Polk
Truman
Pike County
Sparkman accuses Taft of phony liberty alarm in Ohio
Alabama Senator John J. Sparkman urged Congress to probe his opponent and charged Senator Robert A. Taft with stoking a false liberty vs socialism scare. Sparkman, speaking to 2500 Democrats at Geauga Lake Park in Springfield Ohio, attacked Taft while not naming Nixon directly.
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Cleveland
John J. Sparkman
Congress
Robert A. Taft
Alabama
Ohio
Taft
Springfield
Hoovervilles
Geauga Lake Park
Sparkman
Richard Nixon
Five Hacked At Drive In in Sharonville
A 33 year old dishwasher Lloyd Cave attacked five people at a Sharonville drive in with a meat cleaver before police fatally wounded him. Victims include night manager Mrs. Sue Jenkins 34 seriously injured with bullet wounds. two other workers were among the injured. The incident happened soon after midnight Sunday.
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Cincinnati
Sharonville
General Hospital
Sue Jenkins
Lloyd Cave
Cave
Nixon halts Western campaign to reveal expense fund
California Senator Richard Nixon suspends his Western tour to prepare a radio television address detailing his 18 000 campaign expense fund and personal finances. He says he will resume the tour and continues to seek support from Eisenhower as he faces Democratic criticism.
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California
Portland
Ore
Richard Nixon
Voters of America
Toledo Strike Ends With 4 50 Weekly Raise
Seventeen hundred workers return to Toledo’s five leading department stores after a week long walkout. The agreement covers a 4.5 dollar weekly raise for each employee in a workforce of about 3,800 at La Salle Tietdke The Fair Lion Store and Lamson’s. AFL locals and company representatives settled after an all night session.
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Toledo
LaSalle's
Tiedtke’s
the Fair
Lion Store
Lamson’s
AFL Food and Service Trades Council
Lima Hero Glenn McComas to Receive Medal
Glenn McComas 25 of Lima Ohio will be honored Wednesday in Philadelphia for sprinting several hundred feet to save three year old Tommy Schoonover from death under a passenger train at the Lima station last April 27. He will receive the railroad’s hero medal for the life saving act.
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Lima
Glenn McComas
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tommy Schoonover
Lima Station
Philadelphia
McComas
Two Escaped Convicts Dead in City Gun Battle
Two escaped convicts Joseph Nolen and Ballard Nolen were killed after a five minute firefight with 31 police in a New York apartment. Detective Philip Lamonica was mortally wounded and Detective Nicholas Cotter seriously hurt. A fourth suspect Elmer Schuer was captured. the trio had terrorized parts of Pennsylvania en route from Lewisburg.
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New York
Pennsylvania
New York City
Joseph Nolen
Ballard
Harlan County
Philip Lamonica
Ameliatert
Nicholas Cotter
Elmer Schuer
Chicago
Lewisburg
Nolen Brothers
Scranton
Schuer
Nixon orders 30 minute broadcast to voters
Senator Richard Nixon allocated a half hour of broadcast time for his finance report to voters on Tuesday night starting at 8 30 p m Eastern Time. The telecast will air on NBC with simultaneous radio on CBS and Mutual at a total expected cost over 55000 dollars.
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New York
Richard Nixon
NBC
CBS
Mutual
Justice Dept Probers Weigh Expanded Inquiry Secret Files Scan
Congressional investigators study hitherto secret FBI files to decide if the Justice Department warrants a broader probe possibly prompting testimony from Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark. The Kansas City 1946 vote fraud matter and Caudle's role are in focus as hearings continue.
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Caudle
T. Lamar Caudle
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Washington
U.S
North Carolina
Tom Clark
Justice Department
FBI
Supreme Court
House
Kansas City
Chelf
D-Ky
Rep. Keating
New York
Department
Robert Collier
Clark
Rep. Bakewell
R-Mo
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Bulgarian Priests Face Treason Charges in Sofia
Moscow radio reports 40 Bulgarian Catholics including 28 priests will be tried in Sofia on treason and spying charges. Indictment accuses group of working with French intelligence and Vatican representatives in Bulgaria and of receiving subsidies from both.
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London
Moscow
Sofia
France
Vatican
Bulgaria
Bullet Wound Fatal To Banker's Mother
Mrs. Asael E. Adams Sr., 79, mother of Union National Bank president Asael E. Adams Jr., was found dead from a neck gunshot at her Youngstown mansion. Coroner Belinky called it likely an accidental or personal safety related wound. the son reported he had left a pistol in a hallway earlier that day.
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Youngstown
Asael E. Adams Sr
Asael E. Adams Jr
Union National Bank
Gest
David A. Belinky
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Harry P. Cain
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