Ford Pension Plan Sets $100 Monthly Benefit For Retirees
Ford and the CIO United Auto Workers reached a 30 month contract ending a 118 day bargaining dispute and averting a Ford walkout for 115000 workers. The pact funds full pensions by Ford plus Social Security to total 100 monthly for those with 30 years service at 65, starting March 1 with payments from April 1.
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Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
Truman
Henry Ford II
New York
UAW
Sion
Ken Bannon
National
Mel Lindquist
Detroit
Workers prepare for nationwide steel strike as truce ends
The CIO United Steelworkers threaten a walkout if pensions and insurance are not provided by steel firms at 10 cents an hour. Mills idle across the nation as federal mediators intervene. Crucible Steel at Midland, near Pittsburgh, calls it a full strike with 7,000 workers idled.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
CIO
United Steelworkers
Crucible Steel
Midland
Crucible
Cabinet Officers Vote Boost in Pay for Top Federal Officials
The Senate approved 52 to 14 a bill raising cabinet members to 22500 from 15000 and elevating agency heads to 15000 in a package tied to House plans for larger raises for about 240 executives. A separate 10 per cent cut proposal failed, with Ferguson arguing it could save up to four billion dollars toward balance.
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Washington
Senate
House
Truman
Iruman
Congress
White House
Ferguson
R-Mich
Democracy union seen as key to beating communism says Clayton
Former Under secretary of State Will Clayton told a crowd in Texas that a Western democracy union would concentrate economic industrial military and spiritual power to deter attack. He spoke as vice-chairman of the National Atlantic Union Committee opening a Texas drive and warned the Cold War could turn atomic. He urged a less costly path to world peace and warned democracies risk losing the Cold War if defense plans continue.
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Will Clayton
Houston
Texas Union
Clayton
National Atlantic Union Committee
Texas
Europe
Atlantic Union
Rattlesnakes Found In Car Amid Parking Ticket Scene
Austin police halted a car for excessive tickets then, at police HQ, an ex owner checked the trunk with a flashlight. He claimed nine rattlesnakes were inside and searched the vehicle to prevent escapes.
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Austin
Pound Lot
National coal strike erupts in sabotage amid non-union labor
Dynamite blasts and rifle fire hit coal fields as 10,000 non union miners work in defiance of the United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis. The walkout idled 480,000 miners, with scattered signs of a possible end near in Hazleton and other centers. A convoy attack in Snow Shoe Mountain, Pennsylvania left no injuries, while state police investigated.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
Lewis’ Union
Hazleton
Snow Shoe Mountain
Pennsylvania
Tipples
Robert Daily
Associated Press
Virginia
Alabama
West Virginia
Iowa
Kentucky
Tennessee
Tokyo Rose Convicted on One Treason Count
Iva D Aoguri D AQuino known as Tokyo Rose was found guilty on one of eight treason charges for broadcasting about the loss of ships in October 1944 from Tokyo. The trial lasted four days and she faces a possible sentence up to death, with sentencing set for October 6.
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San Francisco
Iva Aoguri D’aquino
Los Angeles
Iva
Tokyo Rose
Leyte Gulf
Tokyo
Japan
Broadcasting Corporation of Japan
Police Department
Bob Birdsong
Attlee Wins Confidence Vote to Avert Election
The Senate approved a $5.81 billion foreign economic aid bill sent to the White House after House passage. Combined with a $1.31 billion military aid measure, the two bills total $7.12 billion to reinforce non Communist Europe and allied nations in the Cold War.
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Washington
Senate
House
White House
Europe
Greece
Turkey
Germany
Austria
Japan
Ryukyu Islands
ECA
Truman
Labor Wins Confidence Vote Over Devaluation Policy
The House of Commons backed Prime Minister Attlee's Labour government 342 to five on the devaluation of the pound from 4.03 to 2.80 dollars, defeating Churchill's no confidence motion 350 to 212. If defeated, an election would follow. now the government may set a date, with the term due next July.
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London
House of Commons
Attlee
Britain
Winston Churchill
Labor
Conservatives of Commons
Labor Party
Churchill
Leukemia Fatal To Ex Austinite Frank B Johnson
Frank B Johnson 34, son of Mr and Mrs Dan W Johnson of Park Place Houston died of leukemia in Houston. He was a research geophysicist for Humble Oil and Refining Co and previously taught in UT physics. He attended Austin public schools and UT class of 1937. Survived by parents a brother and two sisters. services set for Settagast Kopf Funeral Home in Houston at 2 p m Saturday.
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Frank B. Johnson
Dan W. Johnson
Park Place
Houston
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Austin
University of Texas
Naval Ordnance Laboratory
Washington, D. C
Humble
Truman Sees Fair Deal Lifting Incomes to Four Thousand
President Truman told Kansas City that the Fair Deal could raise family income to $4,000 yearly. Speaking at a Boyle Dinner he urged Democrats to unite for victory in 1952, praised working people, and critiqued the press as he defended his program against a recalcitrant Congress. He also welcomed Alben Barkley’s Missouri citizenship and noted strong turnout of party leaders.
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Kansas City
Truman
William M. Boyle Jr
Democratic National Committee
Boyle
Democratic Party
Alben W. Barkley
Carleton S. Hadley
St. Louis
Barkley
Missouri
Washington
Juvenile Arrests Rise Sharply in Austin
The American reports a 50 percent rise in juvenile arrests in Austin for the first six months of 1949, from 189 to 276, with most offenders being boys and girls' arrests up double. Prosecutions hinge on improved juvenile handling and the Travis County Probation Home.
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Ben Gould
Austin
Beverly Laws
Crime Prevention Division
Laws
Travis County Probation Home
Polio Victim Miss Manuela Sanchez Admitted in Travis County
Miss Manuela Sanchez, 23, of Hunters Bend, was admitted Wednesday to Brackenridge Hospital polio ward. Diagnosed Thursday, her condition listed as good. She is Travis County's 27th polio victim in 1949 with eight others in the ward, all in good condition.
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Manuela Sanchez
Hunter’s Bend
Brackenridge Hospital
Travis County
Dr. Finch Named SU Acting Head
Dr. William C. Finch, professor of Bible at Southwestern University since 1941, was appointed acting president by the Board of Trustees. He will lead the university until a successor for the late President J. N. R. Score is named.
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Georgetown
William C. Finch
Southwestern University
Board of
Finch
Hampton Sydney College
Biblical Seminary
New York
Union Theological Seminary
Drew University
Oxford University
University of Zurich
Dodgers Grab Half-Game NL Lead as Cards Fall
The Brooklyn Dodgers shellacked Boston 9-2 to seize a half-game edge in the National League while St Louis dropped 7-2 to Pittsburgh. New York Philadelphia and Boston Washington games were rained out. Bucky Walters was released as manager of the Cincinnati Reds. If Boston and New York tie a playoff game is set. a three-game series would occur if St Louis and Brooklyn deadlock.
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Brooklyn Dodgers
Boston
St. Louis Cardinals
Pittsburgh
Austin Maroons
Arlington Heights
Fort Worth
Bucky Walters
Cincinnati Reds
New York
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Football Weather Rebounds For Texas Idaho Clash
Near chilly days give way to heat as Memorial Stadium hosts Texas versus Idaho on Saturday afternoon. Frigid morning lows drop to the mid forties in parts of North Texas while highs reach the eighties across much of the state.
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Mercury
University of Texas
Idaho
Memorial Stadium
Weather Bureau
North Texas
Dalhart
Texarkana
Clarendon
Sherman
Amarillo
Tyler
Indictments Returned Against Raymond Manks in Corpus Christi
A Corpus Christi former state comptroller field representative Raymond Manks faced three new indictments for false statements in a motor fuel tax refund claim and forgery. The 126th District Court grand jury also charged others with various offenses as it prepares to begin trials on October 7 under Judge Jack Roberts.
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Raymond Manks
Corpus Christi
126Th District Court
Manks
Jack Roberts
Hanks
Leslie Proctor
Corpus Christian
Roberts
Perry Dixon Jr
Weldon Johnson
Alton McCarver
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Rock Nation
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John Mann
Wayne Collins
Tom DeWolfe
Roche
D’aquino
University of California At
Jun Toguri
Radio Tokyo
Taber
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House of Lords
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D. Clifton Brown
Dr. Finch
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Henry Sullivan
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