Long Distance Negotiations Collapse Prompting Govt Action Consideration
In Washington the long distance wage dispute between the NFTW and AT&T stalls as both sides await a government move. President Beirne warns of a protracted strike while officials explore possible seizure under the communications act. A tentative upstate New York settlement ends a separate maintenance strike with arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph A. Beirne
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Beirne
Bell Telephone System
Administration
Truman
Schwellenbach
NFW
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
C. F. Craig
A. T
Craig
Labor Department
Upstate
New York
New York Telephone Company
Henderson Says A D A Wallace Disagree On Policy
Washington AP Leon Henderson former OPA administrator said Americans for Democratic Action do not agree with Henry Wallace's Greece Turkey policy claim that the Truman doctrine is a move toward war. He also said Wallace was not authorized to speak for the group during his Europe tour. Henderson urged peaceful methods to handle Russia on the Near Eastern question.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
OPA
Americans For Democratic Action
Henry Wallace
Truman
Greece
Turkey
Henderson
Wallace
Europe
Russia
Vandenberg Attacks Wallace Over Seas Criticism
Sen. Vandenberg of Michigan blasted Henry Wallace for criticizing Truman's anti Communist policy abroad. He called it shocking for an American to speak against his own government and urged focus on 1947 actions rather than Wallace's 1948 political plans.
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Washington
INS
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Henry Wallace
Truman
Vandenberg
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wallace
Lewis Moves To Speed Up Miner Return
Pittsburgh based United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis authorized district leaders to permit reopening of safe soft coal mines. Frank Hughes said the directive excludes 518 pits ruled unsafe by Interior Secretary Krug. CMA reported soft coal production rose to 59 percent of normal as 30 000 more miners returned to work.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Frank Hughes
UMW District 3
Lewis
Hughes
Interior
Julius A. Krug
Previo
Coal Min Administration
Washington
Coal Mines Administration
Centralia
Ill
CMA
Bureau of Mines
Reunion Pen Find Sparks Old City Park Lake Mystery
E H Koons recalled losing a fountain pen in City Park lake as a sophomore 23 years earlier while Merle G Kaetzel told how he later found the same pen in the lake. The two claimed the mystery pen was the same one they remembered, tying a shared moment to a class of 27 reunion in Hagerstown Maryland.
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Hagerstown, Md
E. H. Koons
Hagerstown High
City Park Lake
Merle G. Kaetzel
George Cohan Jr Follows In Dad Footsteps On Vaudeville Stage
Providence readers see George M Cohan’s son George Jr perform in vaudeville singing Yankee Doodle Dandy Harrigan and It’s A Grand Old Flag while acknowledging he aims to be a faithful copy. He is backed by John McLaughlin who served his father for 25 years and receives praise from Providence Journal critic Bradford Swan.
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Providence
George M. Cohan
George Jr
George
Cohan
Harrigan
George, Jr
Cohan, Sr
Friars’ Club
John McLaughlin
Providence Journal
Cohen
Vishinsky Credits Marshall with Accepting Soviet Reparations Claim
In Moscow Andrei Vishinsky cited Gen. George Marshall's compromise offer as admitting the Soviet right to reparations from Germany’s current production. He argued the West clashed from misunderstanding and defended British policy in Germany while challenging coal and patent issues raised by The Daily Herald reporter W N Ewer.
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Moscow
Andrei Vishinsky
Russia
George S. Marshall
Germany
Vishinsky
London Daily Herald
The
Labor Party
Marshall
Soviet Union
W. N. Ewer
Daily Herald
Britain
United States
Ewer
Truman flies to Missouri to check on mother’s hip
President Truman arrived at Grandview airport at 12 11 p m after a five hour flight from Washington to see how his 94 year old mother was getting along with a fractured hip on a raw cold day.
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Grandview
Mee
Truman
Missouri
Washington
Weather cools as sun shines across Iowa
The state's Saturday sun contrasted with unseasonably cold temperatures. Decorah logged a 23 degree low while Cedar Rapids stood at 49 degrees by 2 30 p m. Runoff from last week's rains pushed rivers above banks in Tracy Eddyville Ottumwa with crests about three feet. Snow fell in Charles City and rain in southern towns. Cedar Rapids saw 30 to 44 degree swings.
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Cedar Rapids
Decorah
Iowa
Tracy
Eddyville
Ottumwa
British Ambassador Will Be Iowa Visitor
Lord Inverchapel the British ambassador will visit Nebraska Iowa and Minnesota in May and June. He will make eight trips between April 20 and June 29 starting with Herrin Illinois April 21 and ending with engagements in Minneapolis and St Paul. His itinerary includes Omaha Lincoln Des Moines and McCook during late May and early June. He departs June 24 for speeches in Minneapolis and St Paul.
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Washington
Lord Inverchapel
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Herrin
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Nebraska-Iowa
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
McCook
Neb
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce
Midwest Institute of International Relations
Des Moines
Badge theft shocks Baltimore station police
Two Baltimore policemen reported that badges were stolen from their uniform coats while they left coats at the station for a wagon ride. The incident occurred on the premises, prompting an internal investigation and calls for stricter security.
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Baltimore
Daring Holdup At State's Attorney Tuohy Home
State's Attorney William Tuohy reported a daylight robbery at his Chicago home. Two gunmen in a staged ambush robbed two high society guests of furs and jewelry valued around $4,800 and fled in a car. Police suspect the pair known for North Side jewel thefts. security at the Tuohy residence has long been tight.
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Chicago
William Tuohy
Tuohy
North Side
Peter Fox
Fox-Deluxe Brewing Company
Harold Sullivan
Circuit Court
Philip L. Sullivan
Buses Back On Streets After Cedar Rapids Strike
Cedar Rapids bus service resumed Saturday as AFL drivers and maintenance workers ended an 11 day strike with a 21 cent hourly wage rise to 1.11 dollars. The company eyes a fare increase beyond five cents despite franchise rules and past nickel fares.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
AFL
Houghton
City Lines
Ottumwa
Burlington
National City Lines
CIO Leaders Rally in Washington Against Union Curbs
CIO officials from 40 national unions and councils gathered in Washington to coordinate opposition to pending congressional curbs on unions including a closed shop ban. The CIO Political Action Committee met Saturday with nine vice presidents to plan Sunday mass meeting.
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Washington
CIO
Congress
Italian Police Board Vessel Seizes Luciano in Genoa Harbor
Genoa police boarded the Turkish steamer Bakir in Genoa harbor and seized Charles Lucky Luciano, a former New York crime figure, who had arrived from Cuba. He was taken aboard rather than jailed upon docking to avoid publicity and was to be confined pending transfer to Palermo for investigation of his voyage to the Western Hemisphere last year.
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Genoa
Italy
Charles
Lucky) Luciano
New York
Cuba
Califfi Filippo
Luciano
Havana
United States Bureau of Narcotics
Alfredo Pequeno
103 Year Old Unlucky in Love Declines Proposals
Uncle Dan Young, a 103-year-old lifelong bachelor from South Bend, says he will hold out despite 28 marriage proposals from women aged 42 to 100. He notes he is not interested in younger brides and repeats his same reply to all letters, insisting he was joking.
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South Bend
Ind
Dan
Boston
Tuscaloosa
Bethlehem
Manhattan
Kan
Flint
Mich
Young
House Unit Finishes Its Work on Bill
The labor committee approved a bill to curb strikes and unions by a 18 to 4 vote with eight minutes for final passage. It bans the closed shop and limits industry wide bargaining while allowing a union shop with consent. The measure also targets unfair labor practices and reshapes the national labor board and conciliation services.
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Bill
Washington
House Labor Committee
Hartley
R-N.j
House
Lesinski
Mich
Kelley
Madden
Ind
Kennedy
Mass
Senate-Labor Committee
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Senate Labor Committee
Labor Department
National Labor Relations Board
Heari Ts
John L. Lewis
House Committee
No Agreement in Building Stoppage Looms Over Weekend
Prospects for ending a construction stoppage dimmed as no wage talks were scheduled until next week. A carpenters committee would meet contractors Saturday, while other trades including bricklayers iron workers cement finishers and laborers rode out contracts. Painters, off 10 days, were set to return Friday after a one cent hourly raise.
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Cedar Rapids
John Evans
AFL Building Trades Council
Carpenters
Memorial on F R Death Anniversary
Thousands from across the nation jammed the Roosevelt estate to decorate the grave of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the second anniversary of his death. Hyde Park hosted services while Warm Springs, Georgia marked the day.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warm Springs
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