Chile Rallies Reserves as Public Sector Strike Intensifies
Interior Minister Osvaldo Koch predicts an end to a 60,000-strong public service strike by day’s end while reserves are activated. The emergency covers four states and disrupts railways, streetcars, buses, and postal services. a general strike threat looms from the Chilean Central Labor Union.
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Carlos Barry
Santiago
Chile
Osvaldo Koch
Koch
Carlos Ibanez
Chilean Central Labor Union
Congress
Ibanez
American Smieting & Refining Co
Phelps-Dodge Corp
Kennecott Copper Corp
Anaconda Co
Big Four
More of Same Forecast After 1.86-Inch Rain
The weatherman expects more thundershowers after 1.86 inches fell in Austin Friday night. Reports show 1.65 inches in Grand Meadow and 1.75 inches in Spring Valley with 2.44 inches at the Raymond Kumm farm near Spring Valley. A barn on the Eastvold farm burned around 2 am due to lightning. Insurance says no major claims though some small radios were claimed. No city storm damage beyond scattered twigs and downed limbs. rain chances to ease overnight and Sunday looks mostly fair with diminishing rain.
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Austin
Grand Meadow
Spring Valley
Raymond Kumm
Lloyd and Melvin Eastvold
Alvin Bandler
Mower County Insurance Co
Tragic Sleeping Bag Tragedy Kills Two Teens on Minnetonka Tracks
Two 14 year old boys, Roger Moeller and Donald Running, were killed by a passenger train while sleeping between tracks in Minnetonka township. The youths, likely returning from a slumber party, were found near the home of Norman White in Hopkins. The train approached at about 45 miles per hour and dragged the bodies 100 feet. Both victims were Burwell school classmates and friends who often camped together in the area.
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Minneapolis
Minnetonka Township
Roger Moeller
Palmer C. Moeller
Donald Running
Arnold
Hopkins
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Twin Cities
Watertown
S.D
Norman White
Minnetonka Boulevard
White Yard
Clasen
Ben Lortz
Burwell School
Minnetonka Mills
Eastland backs Times story on Korea jet claim
Senator Eastland says he accepts the New York Times word that no security violation occurred in a 1950 report about U S Air Force Sabre Jets in Korea. The committee member notes the Pentagon cleared the piece for publication while Grutzner disclosed prior Communist ties.
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Washington
Eastland
D-Miss
New York Times
U.S
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Charles Grutzner
Times
Communist Party
Grutzner
Korea
Pentagon
Nation records early Fourth of July holiday toll
The Associated Press reports 32 deaths in the first 12 hours of the holiday period, including 19 traffic fatalities, seven drownings, and six from other causes. NSC predicts 380 highway deaths by Monday. total deaths last year reached 623 and 792 for the 1950 four day period.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
State Records 6 Fatalities on Holiday Eve
Traffic accidents and drownings took six lives in Minnesota late Friday. An old car filled with 10 residents of the Red Lake Indian Reservation rolled over near Ponemah killing Mrs. Gilbert Rosebear and injuring 18 others. A 14 year old, Clarence Hardy, was involved in the rollover while passing his brother’s car. Mrs. Myrtle Varnum of Richville died in a collision at Perham where a Canadian truck driver was uninjured. Drownings claimed four lives including two year old Ruth Inez Wilson.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Red Lake Indian Reservation
Ponemah
Gilbert Rosebear
Everett Cloud
Clarence Hardy
Hardy
William
Myrtle Varnum
Richville
Minn
Perham
Steve Serby
Edmonton
Canada
Varnum
Baueh Company
Ruth Inez Wilson
Council Grants All Pinball Licenses to Austin Sales Co
Austin officials awarded the city 100 pinball licenses to Austin Sales Co on Friday night, denying Eugene Jelinek and Gopher Sales requests. Mayor Hansen invoked a late ordinance and threatened a $10 fine to Alderman Johnson to stay for the executive session, while the council later granted licenses to Austin Sales by roll call.
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Council
Austin Sales Co
Austin
Jelinek
William Hans
Gopher Sales
Faribault
Hiad
Eugene Jelinek
Gopher
Austin Sales
Johnson
Igansen
Ernest Diederich
George Dugan
Ernest Jacob
Diederich
Dugan
Wayne Austin
Jerry Lund
Charles Jones
Thomas Meany
Senting Jelinek
Hansen
Eisenhower Couples Celebrate 39th Anniversary At Gettysburg
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower spent the Fourth of July weekend in the Maryland mountains. They marked their 39th wedding anniversary with a picnic for White House staff at Gettysburg farm before moving to Camp David in the Catoctin Mountains. Six couples joined them.
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Camp David
Eisenhower
Maryland
White House
Gettysburg
Catoctin Mountains
July Freeze Nips Montana
Warm and humid weather persisted east of the Mississippi while the mountain region of Montana saw a rare July freeze with Mullen Pass at 32 degrees. Needles California reported 85 degrees as thundershowers moved through the upper Mississippi Valley and along the Great Lakes.
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Great Lakes
Mississippi River
Atlantic Ocean
Montana
Mullen Pass
Needles
Calif
Mississippi Valley
U.S. Steel Raises Prices After Settlement in Steel Strike
U.S. Steel ended a 12 hour walkout by signing with the CIO United Steelworkers. Big Six mills followed, boosting prices about seven and a half dollars per ton. The union won a roughly 15 cent per hour wage increase, lifting average pay from 2.33 to higher levels.
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Associated Press
U.S. Steel
CIO United Steelworkers
Denver
International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter
Butte
Mont
Miami
Ariz
Salt Lake City
Probe Fatal Shooting After Drinking Party in Virginia Minn
In Virginia Minnesota Bruno Hakala 41 of Zim area was shot to death Friday night after an all day drinking party. Frank Jarvisto 66 of nearby Makinen home was held for questioning in a stupor and unable to give a clear statement. Deputy Murphy said both men had been drinking all day and Hakala died from a neck wound about 6 p.m.
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Virginia
Minn
Bruno Hakala
Zim
C. P. Murphy
Frank Jarvisto
Makinen
Murphy
Jarvisto
Here
Hakala
Actress Isabel Bonner Dies On Stage At 47
Los Angeles veteran Broadway actress Isabel Bonner died during a performance of The Shrike at the Carthay Circle Theater. She collapsed mid scene and could not be revived. post mortem to be held. Understudy Edith Reis Merin will cover her two remaining Los Angeles shows. Bonner, 47, had starred on Broadway and in New York television dramas and radio serials.
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Los Angeles
Isabel Bonner
Carthay Circle Theater
Henry Staudigl
Miss Bonner
Staudigl
Dane Clark
Clark
Standigh
Edith Reis Merin
Ann Downs
Joseph Kramm
New York
Nora Drake
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Wantagh
N.Y
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Manhattan
Financial District
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Woolworth
Federal Courthouse
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Railway Express Agency
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Teamsters
New England
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Appleton Electric Co
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