Truman Considers Rail Seizure Amid Imminent Strike
The Charleston Gazette reports President Truman and cabinet weighing wartime seizure of railroads if the strike by three unions proceeds. Farley says unions seek 30 percent pay rise plus rule changes while railroads cite adherence to Truman’s fact finding board. Preparations include embargoes on perishables and airline adjustments as food prices rise in New York.
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Office of Defense Transportation
Supreme Court
United States
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Steelman
Farley
Farrey
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Engireen
City Department of Markets
Senate debates 60 day housing insurance extension conflict
The Senate hinted the House is uninterested in extending the government home mortgage insurance power for 60 days. The emergency insurance authority expired April 30 and could resume if the Taft Ebender Wagner housing bill passes. Taft expects the House bill to repeal oleomargarine taxes to reach the Senate and adjournment may occur by June 19 ahead of the Republican convention in Philadelphia.
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Walcott Committee
Walcott
House
Taft
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Philadelphia
Senate Group Debates Draft Plans and Forrester Stance
Senate and House debates hinge on a universal draft versus a selective system as Forrestal backs the Senate bill to draft men 19 through 28 with training of 181 thousand 18 year olds annually. Taft opposes the $1500 volunteer bonus and farm labor deferments surface in the discussion as postures shift before May 18.
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Senate
Defense
House
Truman
Congress
Taft
Rep. Allen
R-Im
Canada
Brooke Claxton
GOP
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate Committee
Allen
House Rules Committee
Sen
Wilson
A-lown
War Surplus Plants Guarded for National Defense
Defense orders and presidential action freeze sales of war surplus plants to study their value for national defense. Of 423 factories, 171 worth over three billion dollars remain with the military, while 158 are already under the national security clause.
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Defense
Forrestal
Three Powers Call for Soviet Role in Global Control
A fragment notes that a three powers statement stresses Soviet cooperation as essential to a global control system to avert atomic arms race. It urges the commission to seek Security Council referral and General Assembly action in Paris come September.
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Lous
Soviet Union
Paris
Rail strike threat rattles grain market and jobs
The article notes a railroad strike threat causing grain market shorts to worry as buyers back away. It highlights insufficient Chicago grain supplies and the possibility of futures buying if deliveries falter. The St Louis Chamber of Commerce estimates 200000 to 250000 layoffs would follow a strike, with other industries at risk due to coal and transport disruptions.
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Shorts
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce At
St. Louis
Britain seeks Lake Suc cess talks for Palestine talks
Britain informs the United Nations that no suitable Jerusalem mayor exists and asks Secretary General Trygve Lie to host Jews and Arabs at Lake Suc cess to propose possible candidates. Bevin sends a terse message outlining the plan while UN bodies consider Jewish agency complaints of Arab incursions with no action taken.
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Jerusalem
Lake Success
New York
Trygve Lie
U. N
Bevin
Britain
Lie
Jose Arce
Argenta
Assembly
Alexandre Parodi
France
Security Council
Francis B. Sayre
United States
Jewish Agency
Union Chiefs Defend Controversial Funeral Guard Policy
Hearing in Hudson County featured Rep Lucas and Sen Smith grilling union officials over限制 on Marine honor guards at funerals. Bayonne base sergeant testified Marines were barred unless using professional pallbearers, prompting complaints from undertaker Richmond Routh and Marine mother Nora Donnelly. Caroselli and di Rocco acknowledged contracts with 83 Hudson funeral directors and promised no further restrictions on honor guards while defending existing pallbearer charges.
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Smith R-Kans
Lucas
D-Tex
iMackinn
B.minn
Caroselli
di Rocco
Union
Roger W. Barnes
Bayonne Naval Base
Hudson County
N. J
Nora Donnelly
Sgt
Barnes
Richmond Routh
Routh
Rep. Smith
Tax repeal talk sparks Westport address by Miss Kellems
Miss Kellems blasts the income tax as Marxist policy and urges repeal through a four state skeleton organization. She claims tax resistance is a duty and warns men they will pay. she vows to shield employer records while proposing a nationwide drive to remove the tax law.
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Acanimea Froor
Lenin
United States
Kellems
Miss Kellems
Westport
Court Defers Verdict as Rights Stand Firm
A speaker declares unwavering rights, vowing to wait for the court to hand down its verdict. The statement signals resolve ahead of judicial decision.
TVA Spending Cut in House Committee Action on 37 Million Bill
TVA spread continued from Pai cut seven million seven hundred sixty five thousand five hundred thirty nine dollars from TVA requests. It approved an appropriation of twenty seven million three hundred eighty nine thousand sixty one dollars three hundred fifty four thousand four hundred one dollars asked. The TVA fund was contained in a thirty seven million nine hundred seventy nine thousand eighty one dollar appropriation bill to help finance twenty five government corporations in the fiscal year beginning July 1. These corporations which handle billions get most of their money from operating revenues. They had asked a total of fifty four million six hundred forty four thousand one hundred dollars from Congress. The committee cut from three million to two million the appropriation for the Inland Waterways Corp. It also slashed appropriations for the institute of inter-American affairs which helps health sanitation and other projects in Latin America. The institute had asked for eight million eight hundred forty eight thousand five hundred to go with two million thousand nine hundred carry over from this year’s funds. The committee approved two million five hundred thousand dollars in new funds to be added to the carry over.
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TVA
Congress
Inland Waterways Corp
Institute of inter-American Affairs
Latin America
Oleo Fight Sparks House and Senate Tax Repeal Move
Rep Andresen, head of the Agriculture Subcommittee, denies revenge motive as he notes the oleo fight predated the bill authored by Rep Reid Murray last year. Sen Thye of Minnesota proposes a compromise to speed repeal by coloring margarine deeper than butter to avoid lab tests. Senators Aiken and Young join Thye as sponsors.
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Andresen
Reid Murray
Rwise
Cleo
Sen
Thye
R.minn
Senate
House
Aiken
R.-Wu
Young H.-N. D
Public Record Notice for Malden District Candidate
Citizens urged to watch The Gazette on Sunday May 9 for the public record announcement naming Stanley Pascavis as Democratic candidate for committeeman in Malden District. This item signals official confirmation and party designation for the local race.
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Malden
Watch the Gazette
Stanley Pascavis
Prague refugees in Bavaria mutiny and seek return to Czechoslovakia
Five refugees described as unimportant polit ically were cared for by US Air Force in Bavaria after a troubled air journey from Prague. The pilot allegedly diverted toward Munich Erding and was ordered north to land. A Czech lieutenant Hans Holan accused the pilot of misdirection while a fuel shortage forced a landing. The group insisted on returning to Czechoslovakia as soon as possible saying a police state suppresses non party members in Czechoslovakia. More than 1,000 Czechs are said to have entered Bavaria since the Gottwald regime rose to power. On April 6 a Czech airliner with 26 aboard landed near Munich after a mutiny. six returned to Czechoslovakia.
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Danube
Munich
Erding
Czechoslovakia
Vs. Air Force
Vladimir Holan
Ingolstadt
Prague
Brno
Holan
Ing
Hylsa
Bavaria
Free enterprise and the American ideal of an even break
The text argues that free enterprise means giving Americans an even break to start and advance, while government entering business creates unfair competition. Government in business grants privileges denied to private citizens, undermining the American ideal of equal opportunity.
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