Severe Southern California quake rattles region
A sharp earthquake lasting about a minute shook most of Southern California at 7 59 am Pacific. No deaths or major damage were reported, though a Glendale window broke and Laguna Beach saw minor harm. San Barbara and San Bernardino felt light tremors while El Centro and Owens Valley showed little effect. Caltech said the depth suggested a strong local impact.
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Los Angeles
California
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Santa Barbara
Imperial Valley
el Centro
Crrenace
Pheenix
Ariz
Phone Strike Foes Meet To Initial Settlement
Washington April 10 long distance strike talks progress as company and union officials initial a draft settlement. arbitration on four national wage issues with local deals on six points could end the nationwide stoppage and avert a cross country strike. Moran says workers will not return until all unions settle.
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Washington
Long Lines
National Federation of Telephone Workers
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
John J. Moran
Long Lines Workers’ Organization
Weather Outlook With Showers and Clearing Skies
Increasing cloudiness with scattered showers in the west this afternoon. Friday starts with forenoon showers, cooler conditions in the west and central portions, otherwise little change. Considerable wind tonight into Friday.
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Carolina
Rives
Detroit Honors Henry Ford with Funeral Observances
Detroit paused to honor Henry Ford with a citywide tribute as his funeral and last rites were held at St Pauls Cathedral. Governor Sigler urged statewide silence and a minute halt in production while Mrs Ford and family attended services for the auto pioneer.
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Henry Ford
Greenfield Village
Dearborn
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Ford
Bers
St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral
Woodward Avenue
Kim Sigler
Michigan
Ford Motor Empire
America
Truck Driver Admits Theft in Greensboro Hearing
A Greensboro postal truck driver, Herman Moose, 45, admitted stealing a registered package containing about $35,000 and damaging government property during a hearing before U S Commissioner L Herbin. Moose, held on $5,000 bond in Guilford County Jail, was brought from Albemarle. inspector Hefner said the theft and abandonment of ordinary mail were admitted.
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Greensboro
C. H. Hefner
Herman Moose
South Elm Street
L. Herbin
United States
Bryce R. Holt
Moose
Guilford County
Albermarle
Hefner
Engi
Connally Labels Russia a Threat in Senate Address
Senator Tom Connally declares Soviet expansion must be stopped before Greece and Turkey. He warns Moscow seeks world domination and control of Europe, urging U S aid to counter Soviet influence amid debate on Truman’s 400 million dollar package.
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Washington
Tom Connally
Europe
Connally
Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Five Miners Die In Underground Anthracite Blast
An explosion 350 feet underground at Knox Coal Company in Exeter Pennsylvania killed at least four miners and injured nine others two critically. Two miners were reported missing hours after the blast while two emerged unharmed. Police said gas caused the incident and the company did not comment.
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Exeter
Knox Coal Company
Ed Petrilo
Explosion at Pennsylvania coal mine kills nine near Wilkes-Barre
A 350 foot underground explosion at an eastern Pennsylvania coal mine near Wilkes-Barre killed nine men and wounded nine others. The mine employs 175 workers. 17 were reported in the shaft at the time. About five hundred people gathered by the shaft as relatives arrived. Priests went to the site to administer last rites, including Rev. George Jockel.
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Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre
Exeter
George Jockel
Forest Blazes Under Control
Five forest fires in this area were brought under control, according to Fire Warden E P Simmons. One fire started yesterday along the Lenoir Blowing Rock Highway, another at Dockery in Wilkes county near the Caldwell line burned a mile and a half of pine and hardwood before being controlled.
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Lenoir
E. P. Simmons
Richlands
Blowing Rock
Dockery
Wilkes County
Caldwell Line
Truman Says Wages Rise If Prices Not Cut
President Truman told reporters that higher wages will be justified unless prices are reduced. He noted the justice department studies price fixing within anti trust law limits and said price controls are unlikely to return. He urged business to bear responsibility and expressed no need for a recession.
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Washington
Truman
Justice Department
Supreme Court
One Dolly Sister Injured in Santa Fe Rail Wreck
RATON NM April 10 4 The Santa Fe Super Chief derailed in northern New Mexico injuring seven and blocking the northern main line. Among the injured was Mrs Rosika Netcher one of the famous Dolly sisters and her husband Irving of New York and Chicago. Officials found a loose steel piece near the first car suggesting possible equipment failure.
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Dolly Sisters
Santa Fe
Krug Blames Miners For Neglect In Safety Record
Secretary of Interior J A Krug told a Senate subcommittee the record of John L Lewis and his miners on coal mine safety shows almost unbroken neglect. He said the union failed to use new mine safety committees created under the Krug Lewis coal contract amid the Centralia Illinois disaster that killed 111 people.
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Washington
Secretary of
Interior
J. A. Krug
John L. Lewis
Senate Public Lands
Krug-Lewis
Senate
Centralia
Ill
Interior Department
Ministers Caught In Deadlock Over Poland Frontier
In Moscow on April 10 the council of foreign ministers reached an absolute deadlock over British and American plans to revise Poland’s western border in favor of Germany. Indications pointed to a wider stalemate on the German boundary issue as Ruhr Rhineland and Saar questions awaited discussion by the Big Four, with failure to agree seen as likely to continue the impasse.
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Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministers
Poland
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Saar
Wallace Leaves Something Unsaid on Threat of War
DEWITT MACKENZIE notes AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Henry A. Wallace on a London trip warned Truman lending to Greece and Turkey may set a pattern for war in three months. He urged caution while asserting America will counter aggression and keep free nations intact amid Soviet expansion.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Henry A. Wallace
Europe
London
Truman
Wallace
America
Russia
United States
Moscow
Greece
Turkey
Deadly tornado leaves Panhandle towns in ruin
A Texas state highway department Red Cross estimate places deaths at 152 to 154 across Woodward Shattuck Higgins and nearby Gage areas after a tornado devastated the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma border region. Over a thousand injured and millions in damage reported as fires burned and rescue crews scoured rubble.
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Woodward
Okla
Texas State Highway Department
American Red Cross Today
Texas- Oklahoma Panhandle
Shattuck
Higgins
Tex
Glazier
Gage
Southwest
Southwestern Telephone Workers
Washington
FRW
Red Cross
Texas Panhandle
Howard Boxwell
Con
Ambuw
Two Men Burned as Tank Explodes at Miller Trucks Office
At 1 49 PM a five gallon gasoline tank exploded at D W Miller Trucks 800 Wa Street injuring Archie Meeks badly and David V Miller owner who helped rescue him. Fire Chief Eli Ingram said kerosene soaked on live coals caused the blast. Meeks is in grave condition at High Point Memorial Hospital.
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D. W. Miller Trucks Company
Wa Street
Archie Meeks
Low Main Street
David VY. Miller
Miller
Ward Street
Eli Ingram
Meeks
Ingram
High Point Memorial Hospital
Sechrest
Koonce
Meek
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