City Phonemen Strike Ties Nationwide Labor Momentum
Austin workers vote to strike effective Tuesday at 6 am as national walkout looms. Fort Worth reports Texas Oklahoma installers also walk out. CIO branch plans possible picket end of truce. Nearly 10,000 installers strike amid wage dispute and long distance jamming plan.
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Austin
Fort Worth
Texas
Oklahoma
A. M. Englehart
Ira W. Davis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Western Electric Company
Bell System
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
W.M. Wallis
Texas-Oklahoma
CIO Communications Workers of America
Wallis
San Antonio
Dallas
Oklahoma City
Lubbock
Chicago
New York
Ernest Weaver
Division 6
CIO
Weaver
Paul M. Williams
Williams
Philip Murray
Illinois Bell Telephone
Railroad Dispute Truce Reached in Nationwide Rail Strike
Washington reports a two week truce in the locomotive firemen dispute with a May 10 strike deadline. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen seeks an extra fireman on big Diesel engines amid two man crews. Fact-finders deemled diesel two-man crews unnecessary. orders halting long distance service were lifted.
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Washington
Francis A. O'Neill Jr
National Mediation Board
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Mijor
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Southern Railway System
Santa
House Approves Major Veterans Hospital Expansion Plan
The House backed a $279 million veterans hospital program and a $1 million Coast Guard reserve training project. A separate $22 million post office funding increase was defeated. The measure directs the Veterans Administration to pursue construction of 16,000 additional beds, though funds must come via separate legislation. Representative Rankin sponsored the bill. President Truman previously opposed the expansion.
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Washington
Congressional
House
Veterans
Coast Guard Reserve
Post Office Department
Larcade
Dla
Senate
Veterans Administration
Truman
Congress
Rankin
D-Miss
Veterans Affairs Committee
Davis
R-Wis
Looking for that one and only in love advice
A fragment from a 20th century page notes a mix of topics. It mentions springtime romance teaching teenagers and a veteran seeking value for his corneal transplant. It also references whooping cranes at Aransas Pass and a critique of the Texas Employment Commission.
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Aransas Pass National Wildlife Refuge
Josephine
Power Dispute Offer Shunned by City Officials
AFL trades council says it offered to double shifts for the power plant project to speed completion if Brown and Root workers also double shift. Mayor Glass disputes any official offer, while utilities director Seaholm reportedly presented the proposal to Brown and Root with no reply yet. Unions have boycotted the non union firm since March 15, stalling construction while freight cars were briefly allowed in to move equipment.
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Austin Building and Construction Trades Council
AFL
Taylor Glass
Fath
Brown and Root Construction Company
Brown and Root
Glass
Walter Seaholm
City Utilities
Trades Council
Brown and Root Company
Guston Morgan
Union Railroad
Hill
Smith
Thompson Gets 30 Year Penalty For Assault To Rape Stepdaughter
John L. Thompson of 1123 Nile Street was sentenced Monday to 30 years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to assault with intent to rape his 9 year old step-daughter. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed earlier in February on a technicality. Thompson demanded a jury in the new trial.
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John L. Thompson
Nile Street
98Th District Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Thompson
Holy Cross
Brackenridge
Charles O. Betts
Joe G. Cruz
D. C. Manor
Allie Wright
Marjorie Jane Taylor
Hor
Betts
March Opens Gov Campaign Formal on May 15
The governor candidate announced a May 15 formal campaign opening in South Bend, shifting from May 1 to secure better radio facilities. He spoke Monday about the date change and its planning implications.
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Case March
South Bend
Two Workers Hurt In Perryton Wheat Elevator Blast
A dust explosion tore through the Equity Elevator pit at 2 p.m. injuring Don Herring and Jim Woodward as fire crews fought flames in Perryton Texas. Herring suffered third degree burns. Woodward had facial and neck burns. The 108 foot elevator stored 700000 bushels of wheat and a fire crew from nearby Booker assisted.
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Perryton
Equity
Panhandle
Aldon Bell
Kansas City
Booker
Don Herring
Jim Woodward
Herring
Woodward
Three Men Charged In Gangster Style Murder Near Dallas
Three men face murder charges in the death of Edgar J. Crawford found shot in a muddy Ellis County ditch seven miles southeast of Ennis. Finley Donica 35 Adolph Phillips 36 ex cons, and Eddie Hay 32 are charged. Hay a fugitive. A fourth man is sought. Sheriff White reported the filing in Waxahachie.
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Dallas
Edgar J. Crawford
Ellis County
Finley Gerald Donica
Adolph Phillips
Eddie Daniel Hay
Donica
Phillips
Hay
Crawford
Ennis
Here
Hey
Burt White
Waxahachie
Justice of the Peace
W. C. Carroll
Supreme Court Denies Death Penalty for Cassell in Texas
The Supreme Court voided Lee Cassell's conviction and death sentence due to grand jury racial discrimination. A new indictment could be pursued, with Justice Jackson dissenting. Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Black Clark concurred. Reed delivered the majority opinion.
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Washington
US Supreme Court
Lee Cassell
Cassell
Dallas
Texas
Jackson
Douglas
Clark
Reed
Vinson
Black and Clark
Justice Frankfurter
Burton
Minton
Three Killed When Car Hits Train In Texarkana
An automobile struck an inbound Kansas City Southern train at a grade crossing on Highway 82 in Texarkana Texas about 8 55 p m killing three occupants of the car The victims are Mr and Mrs Curtis Schrader both 22 of Clarksville and Mrs Betty Tidwell 21 of Clarksville Relatives said they drove 60 miles from Clarksville to Texarkana for skating.
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Texarkana
Curtis Schrader
Clarksville
Betty Tidwell
Kansas City
Texas
Here
Prayers Answered As Boys Rescued From Cave
In Kingwood West Virginia on April 24 16 year old Robert Shrout and two younger relatives were rescued after more than 24 hours lost in Cornwell Cave The boys huddled together to pray as searchers armed with carbide lamps and twine scoured the cave for four hours Three rescue teams located the trio after a carbide lamp explosion and the boys signaled for help The boys described a night of cold darkness and fear but said they never slept.
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Kingwood
W. Va
Robert Shrout
Cornwell Cave
Meatcutter Held In Fatal Shooting Of Horida Solon
In St Petersburg Florida on April 24 a 71 year old retired meatcutter killed State Representative Charles Schuh Jr a 36 year old lawmaker and potential re nominee after meeting him on the street and entering Schuhs office with a pistol The attacker claimed a political motive but officers called it incoherent Schuh died from multiple gunshot wounds and the suspect was captured and charged with murder Governor Fuller Warren traveled to the scene to support Schuhs family.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Charles J. Schuh Jr
Gifford
Schuh
Virginia Holland
Miss Holland
Empire Building
Charles Sr
Lewis C. Deal Jr
Deal
Fuller Warren
Tallahassee
Eisenhower urges press to keep news free and informed
General Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed 1,400 publishers at the Associated Press luncheon in New York on April 24, urging free unbiased columns and informed public opinion. He warned that misperceptions could threaten peace and urged courage and truth in reporting amid global uncertainty.
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New York
Dwight D. Hisenhower
Columbia University
Associated Press
State Department accused of censorship on Newsweek issue
Senator Mundt accused the State Department of using intimidation to silence unfavorable magazine comments. Barrett denied pressuring Newsweek editor Kenneth Crawford and said he invited Crawford to review the department’s loyalty machinery. Crawford testified he was investigated but the matter was dropped.
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Washington
Senate
State Department
Department
Mundt
R-S.d
Brewster
R-Me
Free Press
Edward Barrett
Public Affairs
Barrett
Newsweek
Owen J. Lattimore
Office of War Information
Lattimore
Johns
Kenneth C Crawford
Crawford
New York
Truman Defends Subversive Raid Criticism At Dinner
President Truman denounces GOP critics as deluded while warning communism poses a real threat from abroad. He pledges continued efforts to weed subversives from government and cites FBI cooperation, the Marshall Plan, NATO and UN to bolster free nations against communist aggression.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Federal Bar Association
FBI
Russia
Mr. Truman
United Nations
Cloudy Skies and Cooler Austin Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures are forecast for Austin with 60 to 72 degrees expected Tuesday. Monday saw 0.059 inches of rain and a total since January 1 of 11.28 inches, with 84 degrees at 4 PM and 59 degrees at 7 AM.
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Austin
Wethermen
Colorado
Texas
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Martha Hochfeld
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Supreme Court
Horida Solon
Charles R. Gifford
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Ind
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Charlie Schuh
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