Tugboat strike threatens New York health crisis
Mayor O Dwyer said settlement prospects look favorable as ILWU AFL officials plan to propose Ed ward F McGrady as arbitrator. City board of health ordered seizure of a building for a hospital to fight a perilous fuel oil shortage caused by the six day strike, with rationing in place and emergency crews directing oil to priority users.
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International Longshoremen’s Association
AFL
Edward F. McGrady
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Board of Health
William O’dwyer
O'Dwyer
O’dwyer
Office of Defense Transportation
New Jersey
ODT
Boston
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Albert Pleydell
Michigan PAC Drops Support of Democrats
In Detroit on Saturday the UAW CIO and the Michigan Political Action committee split from the Democratic party. The Michigan PAC now backs progressive candidates regardless of party, citing labor grievances with Truman administration labor policies and a GM wage panel decision. Aug Scholle announced the split at the state PAC meeting while warning neither major party is fully progressive. The AFL and CIO plan workforce raids as the UAW CIO contrasts with AFL efforts amid upcoming elections.
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Michigan Pac
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Truman
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Roosevelt
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Fair Employment Practices Bill Killed in Senate
Washington report states the Senate stopped a bid to limit debate on a bill to create a permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission, ending chances for passage this session amid a 24 day southern Democratic filibuster. The defeat halts most hopes for fair employment legislation for now.
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Senate
Washington
Hickenlooper and Wilson
Iowa
Senate Debates FEPC Limitation Vote Amid Filibuster
Senators Hickenlooper and Wilson opposed debate limits on the FEPC bill, producing 48-36 in favor with a 56 needed for cloture. Sen. Chavez then moved to drop FEPC for a $5 billion independent offices appropriation, expressing satisfaction with the outcome and noting civil war era unity tensions. The result benefits Southern Democrats who began the opposition in January. the bill returns to the calendar, likely not to be reconsidered this session.
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Dennis Ichavez
D-N.m
FEPC
Chavez
Senate
Collins Seeks Peacetime Use For Resnatron
Noble Hale reports Collins Radio Cedar Rapids unveils Resnatron a radar master with peacetime prospects. Navy transferred wartime research from Harvard to Collins where scientists aim to repurpose the water cooled tube for peacetime high power radio uses.
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Noble Hale
Collins Radio
Collins Radio Company
Cedar Rapids
Resnatron
Harvard Radio Research Laboratory
U.S. Navy
Collins
W. W. Salisbury
J. J. Livingood
Ruby Keeler Welcomes Eight-Pound Baby Boy
Hollywood AP reports former screen star Ruby Keeler, wife of broker John Lowe, gave birth Saturday to a son weighing eight pounds minus one ounce. The Lowe family also includes two other children Theresa age 3 and Christine Ann 13 months.
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Hollywood
Ruby Keeler
John Lowe
Hickenlooper to Speak at Linn GOP Meeting
United States Senator Hickenlooper will address Linn county Republicans at the Montrose Hotel in Cedar Rapids at 8:15 p.m. Saturday. Sheriff James Smith, county chairman, announced the hometown appearance following Friday events in Des Moines. The visit precedes travel to Washington with a 6:15 p.m. prep dinner for Linn precinct leaders. the public is invited.
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Sen .R. Hickenlooper
Linn County
Montrose
James Smith
Des Moines
Smith
Len Hickenlooper
Iowa
Washington
Statewide Rent Control Pondered in Iowa
Iowa officials report rent control ideas moving from local to state level with federal review. OPA director Walter D. Kline says nationwide adoption is under serious consideration as complaints rise, while Waterloo and Mason City await funds to open rent offices. Fort Dodge is also reported as a possible candidate for control.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Washington
Walter D. Kline
OPA
Kline
Waterloo
Mason City
Fort Dodge
Walter Wagner
Webster County Industrial Union Council
CIU
Chicago
Big Five Ask Nations To Block World Wheat Famine
The Big Five urged a UN resolution for immediate broad action to avert a world wheat famine. Backed by the United States Britain France and China the Soviet delegation supported it pending Moscow approval. The appeal cited global grain shortages and warned of widespread suffering and delayed reconstruction. Herbert Lehman urged action at UNRRA to avert shortages of wheat rice and fats amid looming disaster.
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Big Five
United Nations
All Nations
UNO General Assembly
Ernest Bevin
Clement R. Attlee
United States
Britain
France
China
Moscow
Herbert Lehman
UNRRA
UNO
Credibility Of Kramer Attacked Before Pearl Harbor Probe
Senator Brewster pressed Capt Alwin D Kramer over his sworn statements about a May 1944 memorandum, alleging evasive conduct and questioning his claim he never read the document fully. Kramer admitted showing the memo to three navy officers but insisted he did not read it completely, calling the Winds message a possible false alarm and acknowledging he saw it briefly.
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Alwin D. Kramer
Pearl Harbor
Brewster
Kramer
Southwest Pacific
Navy
Japan
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L. F. Safford
England
U. S
Russia
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Wilkinson
Naval Intelligence
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Joseph Rochefort
Jamer
Exploding Star Sighted Could Aid Atomic Research
WILLIAMS BAY Wisconsin April 20 UP An ancient stellar explosion brighter than Hiroshima was observed at Yerkes Observatory. The event in star T Coronae Borealis may reveal atomic energy behavior on a cosmic scale and aid research. Astronomers note light could travel thousands of years to reach Earth and expect the phenomenon to recur under clear skies.
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Yerkes Observatory
U. S. Air Corps
Hiroshima
Japan
Sion
Aemin Deutsch
Earth
Bowles Seen As Top Boss In Wage-Price War
Washington sources say Price Chief Chester Bowles is poised as the administration’s chief authority on wage and price controls with authority to battle inflation. The White House denies Bowles will replace John W Snyder as head of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, while noting no OWMR change is planned.
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Chester Bowles
White House
John W Snyder
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Paul Porter
Federal Communications Commission
Charles G Ross
Office of War Mobilization
Ross
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Office of Economic Stabilization
Collet
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Missouri
Jefferson City
Snyder
Owma Post
Missing Dubuque Officer and Wife In Private Plane
Dubuque sheriff reports 2nd Lt. Robert Hoffman about 25 and his wife are missing in their private plane en route from Williams Field Mesa Arizona to Denver Colorado. The officer, son of Mr and Mrs Earl Hoffman, was due to be discharged Monday. The plane failed to land in Denver area airports Friday night and Red Cross help was sought as Dubuque county officials search airfields along the route.
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Robert Hoffman
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Ariz
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Colo
Red Cross
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Leutenant
Emmett Cavanaugh Fatally Injured in Basement Accident
Emmett E. Cavanaugh 64 former Iowa state senator and Webster county attorney died after a shotgun discharged when he fell on basement stairs at his home. He had gone to retrieve the gun to shoot a bluejay. the shot struck him in the face. Survived by his wife, son Capt Dean Cavanaugh in Florida, daughter Lt Vyva Kerr in North Carolina.
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Emmett E. Cavanaugh
Iowa
Webster County
Cavanaugh
J. B. Cross
Iowa Senate
Iowa Knights Templar
Dean Cavanaugh
Pan American Air Ways
Florida
Vyva Kerr
Marine Corps Womens Reserve
North Carolina
Trio weds at East Frontier hotel in Las Vegas
Las Vegas AP report states attractive Sandra Lucas Conover, model, and film actor Alan Curtis married Friday night at the East Frontier hotel and honeymooned Saturday.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Sandra Lucas
Conover
Alan Curtis
East Frontier Hotel
GM Ends UEW Strike Breaks With 18 1/4 Cent Pay Rise
General Motors reached a settlement with United Electrical workers for 18.25 cents an hour raises for about 25,000 employees in refrigeration and appliance divisions. The deal, announced in Detroit, followed long UAW-GM bargaining, while Westinghouse and GE actions remained unresolved. Ratification and recall of striking workers were pending, with NLRB review ongoing.
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General Motors
Lewis B. Schnellenbach
Commerce
Henry Wallace
Interior
Harold Ickes
Chester Bowles
OPA
Thomas
Truman
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General Motors Corporation
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Labor Department
James F. Dewey
Walter P Reuther
Frigidaire Corporation
Delco Products Company
Dayton
Ohio
Packard Electric Company
Warren
Delco Appliance Company
Rochester
N. Y
Antioch Foundry
Yellow Springs
H. W Anderson
James Matles
Anderson
Reuther
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Transit Workers Strike Shuts Philadelphia System
The Transport Workers union CIO ordered 9,600 Philly Transportation Company employees to strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday. The walkout halts the city transit system and marks the second major transit strike in Philadelphia in 18 months.
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Transport Workers Union
CIO
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Power strike threat looms near Pittsburgh area
Pittsburgh and much of Allegheny and Beaver counties faced a power strike threat set for 4 a.m. Tuesday as Duquesne Light employees prepare to strike for higher wages unless an agreement is reached. A meeting was scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday after negotiations since last August with federal conciliators meeting last week.
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