Coal talks reopen amid strike and fuel emergency
Washington reports reopen of soft coal contract talks with federal mediators ready. Miners across the nation remain idle after a court order, while governors move to ration coal and close schools. Violence flares near Latrobe, and CIO pledges support to UMW, Auto Workers, and Communications Workers in related disputes.
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American Wire
Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Richmond B. Keech
Federal District Court
Latrobe
CIO
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corporation
CIO Communications
Bell Telephone System
Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Light Freeze To Hit Center Early Today
Temperatures near Austin dip to 30 degrees with a 60 degree high expected later. Tuesday’s 32 degree low marked the first freeze this month and the fifth day of freezing weather in 1950. Rain totals for the 24 hour period ending Tuesday evening reach 0.02 inches, bringing the year-to-date to 4.38 inches.
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Austin
Colorado River
Wharton
Churchill Urges High Level Talks to Halt Arms Race
Churchill called for another summit with Soviet Russia at the highest level to end the atomic arms race and cold war tensions. He suggested meeting Stalin and Truman, argued U.S. atom dominance underpins peace, and urged reopening grand diplomacy despite Attlee rejecting a Russian pact.
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Edinburg
Scotland
Winston Churchill
Soviet Russia
Josef Stalin
Truman
All the King's Men Leads 1949 Academy Nominations
All the King's Men tops the 1949 Oscar nominations with six nods for star Broderick Crawford supporting actor John Ireland director-writer Robert Rossen and for film editing and best picture. Other best picture nominees include Battleground The Heiress A Letter to Three Wives Twelve O Clock High. Best actor nominees feature Crawford Kirk Douglas Gregory Peck Richard Todd and John Wayne. Best supporting actor includes John Ireland Dean Jagger Arthur Kennedy Ralph Richardson James Whitmore. Best supporting actress nominations list Ethel Barrymore Celeste Holm Elsa Lancaster Mercedes McCambridge Ethel Waters. Best director nods go to Robert Rossen William Wellman Carol Reed William Wyler Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Best song includes Baby Its Cold Outside and Its a Great Feeling. Notably British films are absent from contention.
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Hollywood
Huey Long
Broderick Crawford
John Ireland
Scedes McCambridge
Robert Rossen
Crawford
Kirk Douglas
Gregory Peck
Richard Todd
John Wayne
Iwo Jima
Jeanne Crain
Pinky
Olivia DeHavilland
Susan Hayward
Deborah Kerr
Edward My Son
Loretta Young
Dean Jagger
Arthur Kennedy
Ralph Richardson
James Whitmore
Ethel Barrymore
Celeste Holm
Elsa Lanchester
Mercedes McCambridge
Ethel Wathers
William A. Wellman
Carol Reed
William Wyler
Joseph L. Makiewicz
Valentine Slayer Captured After Hotel Hideout
Murray Goldberg, 27, of Coney Island, was seized in a Times Square hotel room where he had hidden since Sunday after murdering his wife and baby son. A heart and note blaming in-laws were found on the wall. Police said he attempted suicide with 44 sleeping pills but survived.
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San Francisco
Edmund Lewis
New York
Murray Goldberg
Times Square
Goldberg
Bronx
Coney Island
Barker
Secretary Overstays Berlin Visit Permit
A blonde American secretary formerly with the Allied Military Security Board in Berlin has returned to the United States after overstaying her residence permit in Berlin. The notice was issued Monday night.
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Berlin
Allied Military Security Board
United States
Pike Named Acting Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
Sumner T. Pike, 58, Maine businessman and AEC vice chairman, to be acting chairman replacing retiring David Lilienthal. President Truman selects Pike without Senate confirmation. two vacancies to fill as Commissioner Lewis Strauss resigns. Pike plans to remain until a full five year term is set, continuing as the only remaining original AEC member.
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Sumner T. Pike
Maine
US Atomic Energy Commission
White House
Truman
Pike
Commission
David E. Lilienthal
Senate
Lewis L. Strauss
Lilienthal
Lubec
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SEC
Civilian Atomic Commission
Army
New Texas Real Estate Commission
Allen H. Hughey
el Paso
Teachers Retirement Board
Real Estate Commission
George Sandlin
Austin
Ted Logan
San Angelo
J. C. Culpepper
College Station
Robert Hawey
Texarkana
Harvey Draper
Houston
James I. Rahman
Kenedy
Elwood Hall
Industrial Accident Board
Air Force B36 Ditches Off Vancouver Island With 17 Aboard
An Air Force B36 bomber force landed in Queen Charlotte Sound northwest of Seattle after reporting engine trouble and fire. Seventeen aboard include sixteen crew members and one civilian. An international air search involving U S Navy Coast Guard Royal Canadian Air Force and other units was launched amid worsening conditions and low visibility.
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Carswell
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Royal Canadian Air Force
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Roger Ramey
Eighth Air Force
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Fairbanks
Yukon
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Spokane Air Force Base
Whidbey Island
McChord
US Coast Guard
Canadian Navy
X ray unit to visit St Edward's University Wednesday
A mobile X ray unit will be stationed at St Edward's University on Wednesday after tallying 680 X rays Tuesday and bringing total to 17 460 to date.
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St. Edward's University
Plaquemines Lock
Mississippi River
Intracoastal Waterway
Turbine kills three men at Quebec powerhouse
In St Joseph d Alma Quebec a water driven turbine accident killed Eugene Tremblay 37 Paul Emil LaChance 26 and Agemar Bergeron 35. The turbine was accidentally switched on trapping the workers who died from the turbine's immense force after the brake failed and the wheel ran for 90 minutes before stopping.
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ST. Joseph D'Alma
Quebec
Eugene Tremblay
Paul Emil LaChance
Agemar Bergeron
Soviet China 30 Year Alliance Ties and $300 Million Credit
The Soviet Union and Communist China signed a 30 year alliance in Moscow and agreed on Manchuria. Russia will grant China a $300 million credit to buy industrial and railway equipment and transfer Changchun Railway after a Japan peace treaty or by 1952. Port Arthur will be withdrawn after the treaty.
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Chou
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Dairen
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Outer Mongolia
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Edgar Confirmed for Education Post as March First Start
The Senate confirmed Dr. J. W. Edgar as state commissioner of education with a starting date no earlier than March 1. The Austin School Board will then seek a successor for Edgar as superintendent. Also approved were John Ben Shepperd as secretary of state and Tom Miller and Will Clayton as Texas State University for Negroes directors.
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American Capitol
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J. W. Edgar
Edgar
R. B. Anderson
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Austin
Jit
John Ben Shepperd
Gladewater
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Will Clayton
Houston
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State Board of Basic Sciences Examiners
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Edward M. Kott
State Board of Chiropody
Frank D. Quinn
State Parks Board
W. C. Goddard
Board For State Hospitals and
Texas State University For Negroes
Ben H. Powell
National Conference of Commissioners On Uniform
Flood evacuees rise as Black River inundates eastern Louisiana
More than 1,300 families fled flood waters in 12 parishes as Black River back waters inundated about 650000 acres. John Russell of the Red Cross reported about 1355 families displaced with 5420 people awaiting shelter. Mississippi River levels and river spillway openings affected highway access and navigation.
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Louisiana
John Russell
Red Cross
Atlanta
Catahoula-Concordia Parish
Natchez
Miss
Alexandria
Russia Boycotts Jap Panel Again
Russia boycotted the four power Allied council for Japan again in Tokyo. The United States pressed to expel the Soviets from the panel as they refrained from discussion on repatriation of Japanese prisoners of war, with more than 370,000 unaccounted for.
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Churchill
Kremlin
United States
Soviet Russia
Tokyo
Russia
Allied Council For
Japan
Council
Omnibus Tax Plan Survives House Tests
An omnibus 10 percent tax boost to fund state hospitals and schools with $15 million in revenue faced stiff opposition but survived amendments and procedural moves in the House. Debate centered on gas taxes and exemptions, with several gas tax proposals defeated or tabled. The bill’s fate hinges on a final vote after a lengthy day of action, while a separate Senate panel prepared to hear the penny per pack cigarette tax.
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Allan Shivers
Senate
Johnnie B. Rogers
Frank B. McGregor
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