65 000 Involved In Dispute Over Wages
Sixty five thousand employees of the Railway Express Agency threaten a 12 01 a m Friday strike over wages. AFL clerks chief George M. Harrison says the vote shows no mood to delay. Agency offered 10 cents an hour. national pattern of walkouts cited. Continued on Page Two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway Express Agency, Inc
George M. Harrison
AFL Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Cincinnati
Ee Poe
Emplo
Gernment
Chief Justice Stone Dies Suddenly
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone died unexpectedly cutting the Supreme Court to a seven member tribunal. The 73 year old had just issued two dissenting opinions and faltered while drafting the first of three major opinions, prompting wide speculation about President Truman's next appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul M. Yost
Washington
Harlan F. Stone
Supreme Court
Truman
Ighest
Stone
Byrnes Heads to Paris Peace Conference
Secretary of State Byrnes leaves for Paris to seek a breakthrough in Europe’s peace settlements aboard President Truman’s plane The party includes aides and top lawmakers who will join Molotov Bevin and Bidault in the talks starting Thursday Senator Connally and Senator Vandenberg are among the aides slated to accompany him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Byrnes
Paris
Europe
Truman
Molotov
Russia
Bevin
Britain
Bidault
France
Benjamin V. Cohen
State Department
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
Convicts Threaten to Hang Hostages in Milan Prison
In Milan at San Vittore, 25 hostages held since Sunday faced a threat to be hanged if liberty demands were not met by tomorrow. Police surrounded the prison with 1,000 officers firing at windows as 2,500 inmates fired back, while guards were seized during the revolt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
Italy
San Vittore
Ethiopia offers UNRRA 100000 tons of wheat for famine relief
Ethiopia today proposed to supply UNRRA with 100000 tons of wheat and other foodstuffs over the next year and a half to relief famine. The offer included 10000 tons of coffee and asked UNRRA help to overcome transport hurdles to a port of embarkation. Getahoun Tesemma, Ethiopian chargé d affaires, relayed the proposal to UNRRA director Federico La Guardia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ethiopia
UNR
UNRRA
Getahoun Tesemma
Transmi
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Rival Labor Unions Bid For Southern Memberships
In Washington AFL and CIO race to organize southern workers sparks fear of AFL CIO clashes in Dixie industries. CIO heads campaign with Van A. Bittner at $1,000,000. AFL aims for 1,000,000 new members in a year with plans for Asheville meeting May 11-12 led by Green Meany Lewis Hutcheson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
AFL
Cio-Afl
Dixie Industries
CIO
van A. Bittner
United Steel Workers Union
William Green
Carpenters Union
Florida
Green
Asheville
N. Y
George Meany
John L. Lewis
William L. Hutcheson
Ers
Bittner
South
Philip Murray
George Googe
AFL Southern
American Federationist
Congress
Funeral for Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Planned
The funeral is set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Washington Cathedral with burial in a Washington cemetery to be chosen. Supreme Court Marshal Thomas F E F Waggaman said no other details have been finalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harlan F. Stone
Washington Cathedral
Thomas Fef. Waggaman
Supreme Court
Death of Chief Justice Stone Triggers Truman Shock
The court session ended abruptly as doctors reported Stone had indigestion and died hours later of a massive cerebral hemorrhage. President Truman, shocked by the chief justice's death, left Washington to observe naval maneuvers off Virginia as talk swirled about filling the court vacancy with a Republican or a Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stone
Truman
Washington
Virginia
GI Lt. Tells of Rejected Moro Crown Returns Home
Worcester Massachusetts April 23 An American army lieutenant who declined a sulu and a Moro palace with an 18 wife harem is back with his wife Florence Christopoulos and their son Lt. William C. Patterson. He joked that his wife is “the best wife in the world” and dismissed cinema portrayals of princesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mass
William C. Patterson
Moros
Florence Christopoulos
Buzzards Bay
Dorothy Lamour
Anniversary of Shakespeare Birth Observed in Stratford
Thousands of Britons celebrated the 382nd birthday of William Shakespeare in Stratford on the Avon as Cymbeline featuring Valerie Taylor of the London stage was staged at Memorial Theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratford-On-Avon
Eng
Warwickshire
Avon
William Shakespeare
Desperate LST Massacre On Yangtze Sees Nine Sailors Slain
A 19 year old U S Navy seaman on an LST moored on the Yangtze River opened fire killing nine shipmates and wounding a tenth before stabbing himself. Kenneth M Stainecker, 18, and an unnamed mortally wounded sailor escaped as the assailant armed with a carbine and pistol shot victims in the crew’s sleeping area. A court of inquiry was ordered as the navy investigates the massacre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Yangtze River
Navy
L. B. Smith
Kenneth M. Stainecker
Shan An 'Do-50
Chance Harbor
Wen
Smith
United States
LST
Starnecker
Two Hurt in Franksfort Fights Prompt City Bar Closings
In Frankfort Kentucky on April 23 police reported street violence between Black and white residents in the Crow section. Fireman Bixie Fallis reported his wife was pushed while three Black youths allegedly insulted her. Fallis was knocked unconscious and hospitalized. James Owens a Kentucky State College student was charged with disorderly conduct after suffering head and facial injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Guy Wainscott
Hard Fighting Forecast In Manchuria
A dispatch from Peiping reports 80 000 Communist troops concentrated near Kungchuling in Manchuria. The note from Chungking says bitter fighting would follow and cites the government’s army reaching the area as the basis for the forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchuria
Chungking
Apon
Kungchuling
American Aerial Claims Stir Szepingkai Action
Communist dispatches say Chinese pilots were strafed by U S fliers over Szepingkai as American planes operated in the area. General Marshall’s HQ was informed and a Mukden field team note reports Lt Chen a Chinese P 51 pilot missing in the Szepingkai operation wearing an American flying suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Szepingkai
United States
Marshall
Mukden
Chen
Szepingkal
Communists Push Through Manchuria Amid Broad Attacks
The dispatch notes Kungchuling lies 40 miles south of Changchun and 30 miles north of Szepingkai as both towns see fighting with government and Chinese red armies. Reports say first army units may head toward Szepingkai while other communist thrusts in Manchuria and Chungking advance with no clear climax. Small groups are reported moving toward Harbin, the northern industrial center, amid open threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kungchuling
Changchun
Szepingkai
Manchuria
Chungking
Harbin
Four Foreign Ministers Meet in Paris To Shape Postwar Peace
The world watches as Byrnes Molotov Bevin and Bidault prepare for talks on peace treaties with Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria and Finland. The conference centers on redefining spheres of influence and securing Mediterranean influence amid secrecy and doubt on US Britain and Soviet unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Paris
Byrnes
America
Molotov
Russia
Bevin
Britain
Bidault
France
United Nations Peace Organization
U. N
Luxembourg Palace
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
Mediterranean
Bri
Tain
Far East
England
Europe
North Africa
Middle East
United States
Body Of Mussolini Taken From Grave In Milan
Milan officials report Mussolini's body removed overnight from Maggiore cemetery by unknown persons. An inquiry is under way to find those responsible. Mussolini buried in pauper’s grave near Claretta Petacci and five henchmen after execution in April 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
Milan
Benito Mussolini
Maggiore
Ceme
Guilford Tops Counties In Road Deaths
North Carolina reports 74 traffic deaths in March up from 54 last year with 521 injuries. Deaths spread across rural areas, Guilford leading with seven, while Franklin, Mecklenburg, and Wilson each have four. Roddie Ward calls for safety education and driver training in schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Guilford
Franklin
Mecklenburg
Wilson
Bladen
Columbus
Forsyth
Gaston
Hoover to Meet Gandhi in New Delhi
April 23 Herbert Hoover honorary chairman of Truman famine emergency committee will meet Mohandas K Gandhi in Gandhi’s settlement quarters during his New Delhi visit ahead of a plane trip to Bangkok and Bombay.
Millions of European children need food, says Pate
Maurice Pate, adviser to Herbert Hoover on child food problems, estimates 20 to 30 million European children urgently need food. He calls for a supplementary feeding program costing 200 to 300 million dollars, proposing at least one daily meal of 600 calories. He surveyed Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Yugoslavia and Greece. The worst conditions were found in Poland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Maurice Pate
Herbert Hoover
Europe
Pate
New York
Poland
Finland
Sweden
Norway
Land
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Yugoslavia
Greece
U N Security Council Deliberations Resume Over Iran and Spain
In New York on April 23 the Security Council resumes its month long clash over Russia seeking dismissal of the Iran case. Debate delays may push Spain's Franco issue to tomorrow as the council discusses a full investigation before Poland's push for a collective break with Franco. Gromyko signals limited support. the US and Britain back keeping jurisdiction until Russia withdraws troops from Iran by May 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Nations Security Council
Iran
Russia
Spain
Poland
Franscisco Franco
Andree A. Gromyko
France
United States
Great Britain
Senate panel backs debt cut to $275 billion mark
The senate finance committee voted unanimously to reduce the public debt from 325,000,000,000 to 275,000,000,000. Byrd said the move would base treasury borrowing on a core figure and exclude the full face value of outstanding notes. Vinson supported listing bonds at actual due amounts to shave about 10 billion off the statutory debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Treasury
Mens Or Son Ag
Eee
Victory
Vinson
Iran Promises No News Censorship for U S Reporters
The state department stated that Iran has given assurances no dispatches to the United States are censored and that American reporters will be notified if their stories are suppressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iran
Washington
State Department
United States
Lionel Atwill Dies End of an Era in Hollywood
Hollywood mourns Lionel Atwill, famed character actor who trained on the London stage and built a distinguished screen career in film. His passing marks the end of a notable chapter in early cinema.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lionel Atwill
Hollywood
Aprilee
London
Filipinos Vote Peacefully in 3 Million Ballot Election
Manila reports show nearly 3,000,000 Filipinos cast ballots as Manuel Roxas and Sergio Osmena vie for the presidency ahead of independence. Roxas predicted victory by about 300,000 votes while Osmena touted four decades of public service. A third candidate, Hilario Camino Moncado, campaigned for dominion status amid a quiet Election Day with no violence reported by late afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Manuel Roxas
Sergio Osmena
Roxas
Osmena
Nacionalista Party
Islands
United States
U.S
Hilario Camino Moncado
Lou Salvador
Eulogio Rodrigues
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miet
MacArthur Airport
Farmingdale
N. J
Gerald Bruder
Glen Ridge
Marine Corps
International
MEET
Chief Justice
Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Lrate
Shakespeare
Peiping
The
U.N. Council
Senate
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!