Missing Trans-Canada airliner feared near Vancouver
A Trans-Canada Airlines twin engined Lockheed Lodestar with 15 aboard vanished after failing to land at Sea Island. An oil slick sighting in Georgia strait prompts air sea search by seven RCAF planes and vessels. Most passengers from Winnipeg with one each from Montreal and London.
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Vancouver
B. C
INS
Georgia Strait
Sea Island
Gabriola Island
Isanda
Northwest Air Command
Lulu Island
Fraser River
Royal Canadian Air Force
Vancouver Island
Trans-Canada Airways
Strait
British Columbia
Winnipeg
Montreal
Lonon
New Ulcer Treatment Reported at Medical Meeting
At the American College of Physicians meeting in Chicago Prof. Leo L. Hardt of Loyola University announced a new ulcer treatment using a mucin and aluminum magnesium tricilicate mix. The regimen promises relief and cures in five to six weeks and allows patients to eat normal nourishing food rather than baby foods. The combination is described as palatable, overcoming prior unpalatability and nausea issues.
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Chicago
INS
American College of Physicians
Leo L. Hardt
Loyola University
Two Billion Seen From Rail Suits
Washington government officials say the justice department may recover two billion dollars from 964 railroads for wartime freight rate overcharges. The figure was disclosed by the house appropriations committee on Tuesday.
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Washington
Justice Department
House Appropriations Committee
Truman Mother Sits Up After Hip Injury
In Grandview Missouri the 94 year old mother of President Truman sat up in a wheelchair for about six hours marking her first upturn since fracturing her right hip in a February 13 fall. Sister Mary Jane Truman reported she was tired yet in good spirits and President Truman phoned for updates.
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Grandview
Truman
Mary Jane Truman
India Demands British Reveal Palestine Plans at U.N.
At Flushing New York India pressed Britain to say whether it will accept any UN General Assembly action on Palestine. Ambassador Asaf Ali questioned if Britain would bind itself to UN recommendations amid reports it might not. The steer committee opened with Russia backing the inquiry as it weighs agenda items on immediate independence for Palestine and end of Britain's mandate.
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Flushing
N. Y
India
Great Britain
United Nations General Assembly
Asaf Ali
Assembly
Palestine
Ali
U.n’s
Britain
Alexander Cadogan
Oswaldo Aranha
Special Assembly
Russia
Iida
Boston Dowagers Fight Brick Walk Upheaval
Beacon Hill dowagers staged a sit down protest against replacing historic brick sidewalks with cement. They warn losing Beacon Hill charm and fear property values drop, while citing local accident costs and urging court restraining action to stop the improvement.
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Boston
Beacon Hill
Boston Public Works Department
James M. Curley
Gordon Patterson
West Cedar Street
Pinckney
Cedar Rapids Sees 76 Degree Temperature Peak
Temperatures in Cedar Rapids reached a new high of 76 degrees by 2 30 PM, surpassing the previous seasonal high of 75 set on April 26. The day saw mild conditions with cloudy skies and scattered showers forecast across the state, as the five day outlook calls for 3 to 5 degrees above normal.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Vandenberg Opposes Taft Labor Bill Amendment
Senator Vandenberg sharpens opposition to Taft’s bid to broaden labor law by allowing private employers to seek injunctions against jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. He argues the amendment could undermine the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which he supported when it passed in 1932 with 75 votes.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Sen
Vandenberg
Mich
Republican Policy Committee
Taftis
Michigan
New Phone Conference Hits Wall in AT T Strike Action
Washington reports government efforts to end the telephone strike stalled as American Telephone and Telegraph refused a union wage offer. Union representative Robert Creasey said the company would not bargain, a charge denied by AT T official George S Dring.
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Washington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Robert Creasey
Long Lines
National Federation of Telephone Workers
A. T. and T
George S. Dring
A. T
T Long Lines
Russia
Marshall
Moscow
Soviet Union
Germany
Telephone workers end year-long strike in Fort Dodge
AP reports Fort Dodge Telephone Company signs a one year contract ending a strike that lasted about a year with a ten percent wage increase for the workers.
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Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge Telephone Company
Wages Bargain Talks Continue As Mediation Reopens
Dring says a cash offer on a wage boost was made and offered to arbitrate. Creasey pressed for a $6 weekly or 15 cent hourly increase, while Federal Conciliator Margolis plans separate sessions to unite the factions.
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Creasey
Dring
William N. Margolis
Negotiators Set Thursday Meeting to Resolve Telephone Strike
Gov Luther Youngdahl schedules a 9 am Thursday meeting after Northwestern Bell workers in five states rejected a 2.50 weekly raise. The governor urges arbitration if no settlement before then and notes a third party interest in the dispute. Union leaders deny reports of a $4 weekly increase in sight.
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Roy S. Anderson
Northwestern Federation of Telephone Workers
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Dakotas
J. H. Kremers
J. W. Boustead
Union General Board
President of Mexico heads for Washington
Mexico City report Its President Miguel Aleman departed in President Truman s plane en route to Washington to reciprocate the visit Truman paid to Mexico earlier last month.
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Mexico
Washington
Mexico City
Miguel Aleman
Truman
Senators for Relief Abroad Approve 350 Million Aid
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously backed 350 million in relief for five European regions and China. Chairman Vandenberg said the exact allocation would be detailed in a formal report with a State Department statement. Relief would cover Italy including Trieste, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Greece, and China. Some senators had pressed to deny aid to areas under Communist control.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
China
Vandenberg
Rmich
State Department
Italy
Trieste
Hungary
Austria
Poland
Greece
Lewis and Operators Open Bargaining on Bituminous Contract
John L. Lewis and the soft coal operators told the government they are ready to bargain a new bituminous contract. Federal mines administrator Captain N. H. Collisson said the parties expressed willingness to negotiate at a 35 minute Interior Department conference.
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Washington
INS
John L. Lewis
N. H. Collisson
Federal
Lewis
Interior Department
Alert Cab Driver Halts Death Pact in Forest Near Chicago
In Chicago a taxi driver Jess Martin prevented Leona Shelton and Wilbert Nemitz from executing a death pact. They scribbled notes and fled into the forest hours later state police arrived after a shot rang out. The couple faced disorderly conduct charges.
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Chicago
Leona Shelton
Wilbert Nemitz
Jess Martin
Forest Preserves
Nemitz
Miss Shelton
Martin
Exur Gruzinski
Gruzinski
Mystery painter proves to be Churchill at Royal Academy
London AP reports Winston Churchill, aged 72, submitted two paintings under the alias Mr. Winter to the Royal Academy. Both works were accepted with one hung on the line. An academy spokesman acknowledged the surprise discovery and praised the premier’s work, noting Churchill’s earlier amateur successes.
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Churchill
London
Winston Churchill
Winter
Royal Academy
Britain
Allied Post
America
Loup
Alpes Maritime
War Widow 18 Fends Off Kidnapper At LA Home
Los Angeles police identified the 24 year old Texas man as the would be kidnapper of Ginerva Knight an 18 year old war widow and theater assistant manager who fired a .38 pistol from her garage when he attempted to drive away with her car. Knight said she had practiced carrying a gun and would not be held after the incident with no permit.
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Los Angeles
INS
Texas
Ginerva Knight
Adelaide Boeing
Knight
Winston Churchill
Boeing
Thomas Housos
San Antonio
Housos
Fairmont
San Francisco
Tanforan
Narraggansett
Merchant Marine
William E. Boeing
Mary Elizabeth Cox
Heydrich
Curda
Prague
Gestapo
Karl Hermann Frank
Czechs Hang Betrayers of Patriots
Czech executees Karel Curda and Wiliam Gerik hanged at Pankrac prison after being sentenced by a Prague people's court. Evidence showed they defected from a British plane in 1942 and shared a 10 million crown reward for betraying eight resistance members in Prague.
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Prague
Karel Curda
Wiliam Gerik
Gestapo
Reinhard Meydrich
Pankrac
Curda
Gerik
People’s Court
Czechoslovakia
England
Pact Foiled By Soviets Marshall Pact Foiled By Soviets
Secretary of State Marshall told the nation that Stalin said compromises were possible on all main questions of a German peace settlement. He expressed hope this signals greater Soviet cooperation in future Moscow conference talks.
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Moscow
INS
Secretary of State
Marshall
Mars
Stalin
Washington
200000 Sundanese Revolt Shakes Java in May Bid
Reports from Batavia say 200000 Sundanese in western Java rebelled against the Indonesian Republic. Heavy fighting spread from Cheribon to Bantam as Jokjakarta communications were cut, with claims of a republican victory after an hour-long clash.
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Batavia
Java
Sutan Sjahrir
Sjahrir
United States of Indonesia
Cheribon
Blita
Jokjakarta
Bantam
March 1947 income tax receipts near wartime peak
March individual income tax collections reached 1.967 billion dollars, just six million under the wartime March 1943 peak, despite a 15 percent postwar tax cut. March 1947 receipts were 85 million higher than March 1946, with 1939 prewar March at about 250 million.
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Washington
INS
Internal Revenue Bureau
Penick and Ford Profits Doubled in First Quarter
Pens ick and Ford reports first quarter 1947 net income of 752,889.90 on 738,000 shares 1.02 per share up from 86 cents on 369,000 shares in 1946. Cedar Rapids plant credits expanded operations and price changes for the surge while gross profit reached 2,565,563.08 versus 1, BOT 078.08 in the prior year.
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Cedar Rapids News
Pensick
Ford
Corn and Cane Processing Corporation
On York
Cedar Rapids
Time Lost in Work Stoppages Drops to Postwar Low
Washington AP reports the first quarter of this year saw about 290000 workers involved in strikes or lockouts. Up to April 1 there were 905 stoppages causing 2330000 man days lost, excluding the later telephone strike. The March total reached 325 new stoppages with 850000 man days lost, the smallest monthly total since V J day.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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