Bill Restricting Strikes Is Approved Dhone Strike Rivals Look To Government
In Washington April 12 negotiations to end the cross country telephone tie up collapsed leaving NFTW leader Joseph Beirne and Bell officials seeking government action. Administration officials eyed possible seizure of the industry under the federal communications act though not eagerly. A face to face meeting between NFTW leaders and AT T officials was proposed with reporters invited. A separate New York strike was settled by arbitration affecting plant and maintenance workers outside New York City. New Jersey vows service restoration as anti public utility law test looms and striking operators challenge its constitutionality.
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Washington
Joseph Arne
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Beirne
Mammoth Bell Telephone System
Administration
Truman
Schwellenbach
NFTW
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
C. F. Craig
Craig
Labor Department
New York
New York Telephone Company
New York City
New Jersey
Alfred E. Driicoll
Unattended twins born to Liberty mother in rural home
In Liberty Missouri, April 12, Theda Pearson delivered premature twin daughters, Carolyn Sue and Marilyn Lou, alone at home two hours before her husband returned. Dr. C M Smith assessed mother and infants noting the unexpected birth. both babies are reported to have a good chance of survival.
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Liberty
Theda Pearson
Kansas City
Walter Pearson
Here
Carolyn Sue
Marilyn Lou
Pearson
C. M. Smith
Sara
Weather summary for North Carolina and national readings
Partly cloudy and slightly cooler tonight with fair mild conditions today and Sunday. Temperature and rainfall data from Charlotte and other cities show varied readings across the nation with scattered totals and notable regional differences.
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North Carolina
Palestine special session set for April 28 in New York
Preparations for a United Nations special Palestine session rushed forward with an April 28 opening planned in New York City. Endorsements are near complete, and final call dispatches await 28th nation approval as security and logistics are arranged amid concerns over Spaak's possible absence and ongoing strike disruptions.
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Palestine
United Nations General Assembly
New York City
New York
Flushing Meadow Park
Flushing Meadows
Paul - Henri Spaak
Spaak
Ward's Status Is Unchanged in North Carolina
Raleigh April 12 Governor Cherry said he had not received T Boddie Ward resignation as commissioner of motor vehicles. Sources report Ward planned to resign by July 1 to return to Wilson business interests. The July 1 effective date follows a new safe and sane driving bill from the recent general assembly.
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Raleigh
Cherry
T. Boddie Ward
Capital Bill
Ward
Wilson
General Assembly
New Bern Names MacDonald New Schools Superintendent
N B Smith resigns after 32 years as New Bern schools superintendent. The board selects H J Mac Donald, former assistant superintendent and high school principal, as his successor, making him the city’s fifth superintendent. Smith cites preference for lighter work due to his years.
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New Bern
N. B. Smith
Board of Trustees
H. J. MacDonald
Smith
MacDonald
Child Victim of Drowning in North Carolina Spring
A two year old boy, Rogers Paschal, son of Dessie Paschal, was found drowned in a spring on his grandfather's farm near Greensboro. Coroner Dr. W W Harvey ruled the death an accident, noting the body had been underwater about an hour with the head submerged and feet near a four inch pipe surrounding the spring.
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Greensboro
Here
W. W. Harvey
Rogers Paschal
Dessie Paschal
Route 5
W. G. Kellam
Paschal House
Burying Dead In Texas Town To Take Days
Relatives in Woodward Oklahoma prepared for the burial of 84 tornado victims from Wednesday night’s storm. The disaster left 1000 injured and caused property damage in the millions as Woodward faced the worst hit area in Texas and Oklahoma. More than 50 additional deaths were reported.
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Texas
Woodward
Okla
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Reds Insist on Reparations in German Settlement
Soviet deputy foreign minister A Y Vishinsky said Moscow would not accept a German settlement without large scale reparations. He linked acceptance of current reparations to a Marshall proposal and called a reparations treaty essential, outlining the Western powers’ main hurdle in talks on Germany.
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Moscow
A. Y. Vishinsky
Russia
Soviet Union
Vishinsky
V. M. Molotov
United States
Council of Foreign Ministers
Germany
France
Marshall
Thomasville Voters Meet Despite Rain Nomination Outcome
Rain drenched Thomasville residents packed the high school auditorium for a city nominating meeting. N. C. English won the mayoral nomination by 199 votes over Car son C. Cox after English had declined the post by letter. An entire new slate of five councilmen was also nominated.
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Thomasville
N. C. English
Ragan Hosiery Mills
Carson C. Cox
English
Cox
R. L. Pope
Howard Steed
Memorial Services For FDR Held At Hyde Park Today
Hyde Park N Y April 12 The nation marks the second anniversary of Franklin D Roosevelt death with a memorial program broadcast from his Hudson River valley mansion. President Truman speaks from Kansas City and Eleanor Roosevelt along with Henry Morgenthau broadcast from the portico. The Franklin D Roosevelt Memorial Foundation plans undertakings announced by Morgenthau and Playwright Robert E Sherwood will speak after the program.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hudson River Valley
NBC
ABC
MBS
Truman
Roosevelt
Kansas City
Eleanor Roosevelt
Vandenberg Plans Speech On Western Hemisphere Unity
Senator Vandenberg prepares a major foreign policy address for Monday’s Pan American Union gathering of 21 republics urging intensified effort to seal hemispheric solidarity. He aims to project bipartisan foreign policy while avoiding issues likely to embarrass Secretary Marshall.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate
Henry A. Wallace
London
Britain
United States
Russia
Lucas
Fastland
Americas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Marshall
Roosevelt Honored On Second Death Anniversary At Warm Springs
In Warm Springs Georgia on April 12 funeral memorial services honored Franklin D. Roosevelt two years after his death. Bess O Connor president of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation recalled his belief in permanent world peace and human dignity for all. The ceremony was led by Rev J D C Wilson and held in the small Roosevelt chapel with infantile paralysis patients present.
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Warm Springs
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bess O'Connor
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Roosevelt
J. D. C. Wilson
Foley
Ala
O'Connor
O’connor
Manual Telephone Bills Cut For Striking Services
CHARLOTTE April 11. Users of manual telephones in the Southern Bell System cut off from normal service by the strike will receive a bill reduction. F H Wasson Carolina division manager says a satisfactory adjustment will be made when the strike ends based on the interruption. No bills are being mailed during the strike and will not be until it ends unless the tie up lasts more than a month.
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Charlotte
Southern Bell System
F. H. Wasson
Carolinas
Southern Bel
Wasson
Concerted Education Drive Looms in the South
SASI leaders at Asheville outline a plan for a southwide congress to boost education in the region. The idea emerged during a two day education conference with action expected at the SASI convention in Birmingham from May 26 to 28. The proposed congress would unite more than 600 organizations to lift the south’s economic social and educational levels.
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Asheville
Southern Association of Science and Industry
Birmingham
Ala
SASI
Mother Sues Company For 300 000 Damages in Pregnancy Case
Mrs Rhoda Wenger of San Francisco sues L H Transportation of Pittsburgh in US district court for 300 000 dollars alleging she was unconscious after a November 1945 crash near Krumsville Pennsylvania. Her baby was born six months later while she was in a coma and she seeks damages for personal injuries and loss of companionship. her husband Leland sues for 100 000 dollars.
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Philadelphia
Pittsburgh Transportation Company
Rhoda Wenger
San Francisco
Leland
L. & H. Transportation Company
Pittsburgh
Wenger
Krumsville
Allentown
Hitler Fearful of B 29 Dooms Germany in Last War Months
Frankfurt dispatch cites secret U S records showing Adolf Hitler told Hermann Goering in 1944 that the American B 29 could destroy Germany and that German planes would be swept from the sky as allied bombers approached.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Adolf Hitler
U. S. Army
Hitler
Hermann Goering
Army General Staff
Europe
Luftwaffe
Goering
America
Labor Unions Also Included In Measure
Washington April 12 The house committee on labor approved 18 to 4 a bill tightening strike and union restrictions. Hartley says no major changes on the house floor next Tuesday as CIO leaders arrive to oppose labor curbs. The bill bans the closed shop and could suspend bargaining rights for a year with possible antitrust damages. Senate panel also trims a large bill as Taft faces opposition with the CIO mobilizing against both measures.
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House Committee
Hartley
R-Nj
House
CIO
Congress
Senate
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Hart
Landis
Indiana
Hoffman
Michigan
McCowen
Ohio
Max Schwabe
Missouri
McConnell
Pennsylvania
Ralph Gwinn
New York
Buck
Brehm
Wint Smith
Kansas
Kersten
Wisconsin
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Minnesota
Owens
Illinois
Kearns
Nixon
California
Burden
North Carolina
Fisher
Texas
Wood
Georgia
Lesinski
Kelley
Madden
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Senate Labor Committee
Taft
Rolly
Rich Swedish financier backs New York rail plan
The New York Herald Tribune reports Axel L. Wenner-Gren, a wealthy Swedish financier once blacklisted, as a financial backer and potential director of a proposed multimillion dollar metropolitan rail network. He aims to secure fixed rate high speed service for New York and possibly nationwide, with plans to buy Long Island Rail Road and link New Jersey to Long Island via four Manhattan stations.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
Axel L. Wenner-Gren
U. S
Long Island
New Jersey
Manhattan
Wenner-Gren
Viking Fund, Inc
William R. Daley
Otis and Company
Reland Investment - Banking
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