Defense Act Faces More Sharp Revision
In Washington the House tentatively moves to lift price controls on most consumer goods and overhaul the Wage Stabilization Board. The measure shapes a one year extension of price, wage, rent controls and allocations under the Defense Production Act, while abolishing credit controls with an expiration in about a week.
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Francis J. Kelly Washington
House
Wage Stabilization Board
Truman
Rep
Talle
Browa
Opposition Speaks
Spence
D-Ky
The
WSB
Labor and Management
Senate
Bergman Custody Case: Rossellini Testimony Denied Extension
Ingrid Bergman’s effort to bring Roberto Rossellini to the United States to testify in her custody case for daughter Pia failed as Superior Judge Mildred L. Lillie denied a time extension. Bergman’s attorney Gregson Bautzer argued ex husband Dr. Peter Lindstrom is vindictive and keeps the child from her. Rossellini may appeal the ruling in Rome.
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Los Angeles
Ingrid Bergman
Roberto Rossellini
Rossellini
Miss Bergman
Pia
Mildred L. Lillie
Gregson Bautzer
Peter Lindstrom
Exhusband
Move 6 000 POWs Without incident at Koje Island
About 6,000 North Korean prisoners were moved from Compound 606 at Koje Island, bringing total moved to 81,000 in Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner’s reorganization. The move proceeded orderly and without incident, per an Army release. The POWs from Compound 606 were relocated to temporary quarters to allow reconstruction work.
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Koje Island
Korea
Haydon L. Boatner
Food aid offered as steel strike widens
The CIO Steelworkers Union begins issuing food orders to hungry members amid a three week strike by 650,000 workers led by Philip Murray. A commissary will open at union HQ to cut costs while state relief agencies fast track aid. More than 100,000 allied workers furloughed. grocery sales decline as strikers seek cheaper goods.
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Pittsburgh
CIO Steelworkers Union
Philip Murray
Buffalo
N. Y
Joseph P. Molony
USW
New York
Molony
Pennsylvania Department of Public Assistance
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
The
New York Times
the Times
U. S
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company
Cleveland
Steelworkers Union
Lake Superior
Alexander C. Brown
Chinese filial law drives Hong Kong woman to suicide
A Chinese woman in Singapore hanged herself after a letter from her mother in Red China. The letter described a new Communist law forcing households to live separately and said her brother, who remarried, had thrown his mother out. The piece links the tragedy to evolving family law in China.
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Singapore
Red
China
Steel Rift in 20th Day with No End in Sight
Washington reports a 20 day nationwide steel strike continuing despite claims the nation cannot afford production loss. Talks between industry officials and CIO Steelworkers faltered, with no immediate peace talks. Plans to move defense steel from warehouses were set as shortages affect ammunition and 4.2 inch shells. GE announced layoffs in 123 plants affecting about 210,000 workers. Taft-Hartley 80 day injunction likely only after House action, with limited chance of early contract agreement.
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N. Y
New York
CIO Steelworkers Union
Steel Industry
Pittsburgh
General Electric Company
Truman
House
Senate
T-H
Philip Murray
Kefauver Opens Chicago Campaign Swing
Sen Estes Kefauver arrived in Chicago to meet midwestern Kefauver for President clubs and headline a $25 per plate fund raising dinner with invited Democratic delegates from Wisconsin Indiana Illinois Ohio Iowa Missouri Nebraska North Dakota and Minnesota He planned a CBS TV speech and suggested cutting military spending by four to five billion annually without weakening defense while opposing tax cuts until the budget is balanced and calling Republican promises daydreams.
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Chicago
Estes Kefauver
Kefauver
Wisconsin
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Minnesota
Cbs-Tv
Rock Island
Ill
Pentagon
Tennessee
30 Are Slightly Hurt in Chicago Derailment
In Chicago last night thirty persons sustained minor injuries when two coaches of the Chicago and North Western streamliner City of Portland derailed during switching at North Western Station. Eight were treated at Passavant Hospital and 22 at the railroad dispensary. two stayed overnight. A baggage car was coupled to the front, pushed harder than necessary, derailing the second and third coaches and twisting a rail. The train, delayed four hours, departed at 10:35 p.m. EST to await injured passengers' return for rail replacement.
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Chicago
Chicago and North Western Railway
North Western
Passavant Hospital
City of
Glassware term means hand blown refers to lungs
In the glassware trade the phrase hand blown denotes that the object was formed by human lungs rather than machines. This expression highlights the manual craft involved in shaping glassware.
Toaster Control Device Introduced By Honeywell
A regulator company in Minneapolis named Honeywell has developed an electronic toaster control device to regulate the browning process of breakfast foods. The system aims to ensure an eye grabbing color in the finished product and was reported from New York.
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New York
Minneapolis- Honeywell
Soviet stance on POW repatriation shocks Nam at truce talks
UN negotiator George McArthur reports that Soviets favored voluntary repatriation of World War II prisoners, stunning Communist delegates at Panmunjom. Brig. Gen. William Nuckols described Nam Il’s surprised reaction as Harrison cited Soviet wartime guarantees offering life and safe return to Germany or other countries, noting Budapest and Stalingrad episodes.
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George McArthur Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Russia
William K. Harrison
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Panmunjom
William Nuckols
Nam Il
Red
Nam
Lee Sang Jo
Hsieh Fang
Nuckols
Nam [Il
Harrison
Germany
Stalingrad
Red Army
Budapest
Institute of Law
Ussr
Academy of Sciences
Wrong Again on Romance Gov Stevenson Denies Affair
Springfield Illinois Gov Adlai E Stevenson denies romantic links to Dorothy Fosdick daughter of Harry Emerson Fosdick after Drew Pearson column claims. He says reporters have linked him with three spouses, apologizes for any embarrassment to the women involved. The 52 year old governor is divorced and has three sons.
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Springfield
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dorothy Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Drew Pearson
Stevenson
Pearson
Critical GI Sergeant Now Has Pfc. Stripe
Monterey California nine year old soldier who wrote Gen. Mark Clark that UN handling of the Rose Island prison camp riots was repugnant and disgraceful trades his sergeant stripes for private first class today A special court martial convicted C Dean Chase of disrespect to a superior officer and ordered him to forfeit 75 dollars a month for six months Chase from Salt Lake City Utah welcomed the verdict saying wonderful wonderful and phoned his parents I am a private first class now He faced potential six months confinement and a bad conduct discharge which would deprive him of veteran benefits
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Monterey
Calif
Mark Clark
U.N
Rose Island
C. Dean Chase
Chase
Salt Lake City
Utah
Leland L. Chase
High School Student Builds 200-Year Clock Model
Mike Shields crafted a mahogany clock by hand in the school shop using an old clock as a model. He installed electric works and a face, and the piece has been entered in the Ford industrial arts competition at Greenfield Village in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus, O
Mike Shields
Greenfield Village
Eisenhower Leads GOP Field Amid Long Political Backgrounds
AP feature reviews how Stassen Taft and Warren built long political careers, with Eisenhower mounting a first campaign. It covers Stassen from Minnesota governor to Navy service, Warren as California governor and DA, Taft as Ohio senator, and Ike's secretive political stance, West Point, and family.
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Warren
Stassen
California
James Roosevelt
Thomas E
Dewey
Eisenhower
West Point
Taft
White House
Yale
Harvard
White White House
William Howard Taft
Cincinnati
State House of Representatives
Senate
Washington
Ohio
Wendell Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
Martha
Bob
Tafts
Ike
General Eisenhower
Circus in Belgian Congo Draws Huge Opening Night Crowd
Leopoldville reports 6,000 natives packed the De Jonghe Brothers Circus as the first Congo tour. Europeans wore formal attire while natives observed with vivid silk robes and painted lips. The show featured a high platform balance act, juggling sun helmets, and bicycle acrobatics drawing the most engagement from the audience.
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Leopoldville
Belgian Congo
de Jonghe Brothers
Belgium
Congo
Secret Steel Conference Ends in Deadlock
New York reports say top industry leaders and CIO United Steelworkers officials held secret talks under White House auspices to settle the steel strike. Despite separate conferences and in‑house contacts, progress faded and negotiations ended without agreement, with sources noting no joint meeting and little definitive knowledge from U S Steel or CIO officials.
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New York
White House
N Washington
Philip Murray
CIO
United Steelworkers
Arthur J. Goldberg
Benjamin F. Fairless
United States Steel Corp
C. L. Austin
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Charles White
Republic Steel Company
U. S. Steel
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