Steel Firms Prepare for Shutdown
United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald presses to avert a nationwide steel strike by Thursday midnight as negotiations resume with six big producers. U. S. Steel and Jones & Laughlin move to an orderly mill shutdown, with Jones & Laughlin offering a proposal largely mirroring U. S. Steel’s rejected bid. The union seeks a substantial wage increase for about 600,000 workers, citing industry boom. McDonald remains hopeful for a peaceful settlement while U. S. Steel’s John A. Stephens calls their offer substantial, aiming to avert stoppage.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
U. S. Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin Corp
Jones & Laughlin
U. S. Steel
U. S
Stephens
Inland Steel Corp
Big Steel
U.S. Steel
McDonald
John A. Stephens
Hoover Commission Critiques Ike Highway Plans and Civil Defense
The 25 member commission urges the federal government to cede some tax fields to states and cities, fund highway construction on a pay as you build basis, and transfer civil defense to Washington. It calls for forbearance on state encroachment, modernized constitutions, and a reappraisal of fiscal policies to reduce tax overlap and boost state tax autonomy.
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Washington
Commission On Intergovernmental Relations
Eisenhower
Congress
No Red Carpet Ready for These 3 POWs
Three American soldiers who refused repatriation in the Korean War face one last chance to turn back at Panmunjom. They will be informed they are subject to U.S. law and responsible for acts, with potential rights and medical checks before possible return to Seoul.
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Seoul
Panmunjom
United States
U.S
Korea
Griggs Seeks Baptist Aid to Leave Communist China
Corporal Lewis Griggs of Jacksonville Texas appeals to the Southern Baptist Convention for help to exit Communist China. Baptist officials say the letter will be sent to the Baptist World Alliance meeting in London July 16 22. Griggs joins others awaiting possible release as delays continue and life grows hard in China.
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Dallas
Tex
Lewis Griggs
Southern Baptist Convention
China
Southern Baptist
Baptist World Alliance
London
Griggs
Jacksonville
Otho Bell
Olympia
Wash
William Cowart
Dalton
Two Harbors Mayor to Be Freeman's Aide
St Paul Minnesota Mayor Cyrus E Magnusson resigns to serve as executive secretary to Governor Freeman. The appointment is effective immediately and follows former appointee George Selke who resigned June 1 to become state conservation commissioner.
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ST. Paul
Cyrus E. Magnusson
Two Harbors
Freeman
Magnusson
George Selke
House Extends Doctors Draft for Two Years
The House voted to extend the disputed doctors draft for two years and also extend the regular military draft for four years. The measure faced an unsuccessful bid to kill the policy.
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Washington
House
Armed Services
GM Workers Told to Return to Their Jobs
A 150 tool sharpeners strike idled 8000 GM workers at the Willow Run transmission plant. A court order bans trespass and violence on picket lines as the CIO United Auto Workers urge a return to work amid disputes over an 8 cent wage gap protested after a 20 cent package.
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Detroit
General Motors
Willow Run
CIO
United Auto
James R. Breakey Jr
Ann Arbor
Pay Hike Bill Signed by Ike
President Eisenhower signed a bill raising the pay of 1,073,262 federal employees by 7.42 percent on average about 325 dollars a year. The measure covers 983,057 Civil Service workers and 90,205 in other agencies with retroactive effect to March 1. Lump sum payments totaling about 110 million will be issued as soon as arranged. The current payroll for workers affected totals about 4.35 billion annually. the last general raise was in 1951.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U. S
Dulles Defuses Alaska Shootdown Row
Secretary of State Dulles blamed trigger happy Soviet pilots for the Alaska patrol plane shootdown. He said the incident likely does not reflect Soviet policy and noted Washington had not decided on reparations beyond Russia’s half-damages offer. The Navy valued the plane at over 10 million dollars.
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Washington
Dulles
Alaska
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Maine
Russia
Navy
Kodiak
Hagerty
Bering Strait
U.S
Perjury charges against Owen Lattimore dismissed
The government dropped a 1952 indictment against Owen Lattimore for perjury after appellate courts threw out key counts. Attorney General Brownell announced that with five counts left unlikely to stand, the district intends to move for dismissal and end the case.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Atty
Brownell
U.S
Appeals
Lattimore
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Youngdahl
Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
United States
Thurman Arnold
Eisenhower
Missing Marine fliers sighted on tiny Pacific raft
A search plane spotted one of two U S Marines missing three nights in the Pacific sending radio signals from a small raft south of Tokyo. Air Force and Navy units circled the area with flares as a large search armada scoured 20000 miles of foggy waters seeking the two airmen.
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Tokyo
Pacific
Air Force
B50
Western
Minneapolis
David Winton Bell
Charles H. Bell
General Mills, Inc
Navy
Bell
Bank holdup near Minneapolis nets $10,000 loot
FBI and police probe a St. Louis Park bank robbery Monday that netted about $7,900 in cash and other negotiables. The lone gunman fled as Allen Burrill fired from his office, while the car used in the crime was found abandoned near Chowen Avenue and 44th Streets.
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St. Louis Park Bank
Minneapolis
FBI
St. Louis Park
Royalton
Minn
Chowen Avenue
44Th Streets
Allen Burrill
Burrill
Twin Cities
Barker-Karpis
Third Northwestern National Bank
Disabled Vet Killed in Tractor Accident near Northfield
Northfield Minnesota state news reports 27 year old Korean veteran How ard Armstrong died when the tractor he was driving toppled into a ditch Monday night. Armstrong was visiting his brother in law Albert Remme near Dennison about 20 miles southeast of Northfield and had been helping start a neighbor's car. He was unmarried and resided in Northfield.
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Northfield
Minn
Howard Armstrong
Armstrong
Albert Remme
Dennison
Here
Crosby and Co Stage Benefit For Towns Hospital
Bing Crosby and Gary joined a fund raising trip to McArthur California where the town lacking a hospital hosted a benefit show. Phil Harris Jerry Lester Donald O Connor Red Nichols and Peggy Connolly performed to attract more than five thousand attendees who paid twenty dollars for tickets.
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Mcarthur
Calif
Bing Crosby
Gary
Crosbys
Phil Harris
Jerry Lester
Donald O’connor
Red Nichols
Peggy Connolly
Bandsmen Injured as Train Collides Near New York Terminal
A westbound freight sideswiped a passenger coach carrying 39 Great Falls High School band members near the New York Central terminal in Syracuse. Two men were injured, one hospitalized. The coach, jolted from its seats, remained upright due to its ballast. The band had been in Atlantic City for a competition en route home via Niagara Falls.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Great Falls
Mont
New York Central
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William A. Cowart
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