Federal Rent Control Presses for Coal Settlement Before Monday
Government mediators push hard for a quick soft coal settlement ahead of Monday court actions. Talks continue with David Cole and Cyrus Ching urging both sides to improve offers as UMW faces contempt trial and potential heavy fines.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
David L. Cole
President
Trumans Inquiry Board
Cyrus Ching
Cole
Ching
Opeators
UMW
John L. Lewis
Springfield
Ill
Richmond B. Keech
Truman
Lewis
John D. Battle
National Coal Association
Justice Department
Treasury
UMW Treasury
John Owens
Kennedy
Senate Appropriations Cuts Rent Control Funds
The powerful appropriations committee voted to provide 2.6 million dollars for the Office of Housing Expediter to wind up its rent control functions by June 30, paying off 4,135 employees. The move signals no extension of federal rent ceilings, despite President Truman's requests, spurring anticipated floor fights.
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Washington
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Office of
Cew.o
Congress
Truman
McKellar
D-Tenn
Cain
R-Wash
Maybank
D-Sc
Senate Banking Committee
Senator Sparkman
D-Ala
Sparkman
Douglas
D-Ill
Defense Arguing Sander None to Blame in Mercy Murder Trial
In Manchester New Hampshire the defense in Dr Hermann N Sander’s mercy murder case contends the physician acted to spare a dying husband Reginald Borroto the husband’s anguish rather than to end Abbie Borroto’s life. The state says the patient was dying from cancer and died after air injections.
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Tom Horgan
Howard W. Blakeslee
Manchester
N. H
Hermann N. Sander
Abbie Borroto
Sander
Two-Week-Old Girl Burned In Oil Stove Blast
Last Minute News from Charlotte reports a two-week-old Negro girl died when an oil stove exploded as her mother prepared breakfast. The seven room house burned. other occupants escaped. In Somerset Pennsylvania a westbound tractor trailer collided with three oncoming vehicles in a tunnel killing three truckers.
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Charlotte
Annie Bell Cunningham
Somerset
Bening
Prescott man admits family secret killing in Michigan
Carson W. James says his father Stanley James had intimate relations with his wife while her husband served in the marine corps. County attorney David H. Palmer released a statement signed by 27 year old James, admitting the long delayed slaying of his father in Clawson, Michigan more than two years ago.
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Prescott
Ariz
Carson W. James
Carson James
Marine Corps
David H. Palmer
James
Stanley James
Clawson
Mich
Cynthia Atwood Pike
Former state treasurer Johnson named executive VP at Bank of Charlotte
Charlies M. Johnson who ran for governor last election will become executive vice president of the Bank of Charlotte effective Wednesday. T. M. Shelton, bank president, announced Johnson resigned as vice president of First Securities in Durham to join the Charlotte institution.
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Charlotte
Charlies M. Johnson
Bank of Charlotte
T. M. Shelton
Johnson
First Securities Corporation
Durham
Leopard Escapes at Oklahoma City Zoo Prompting Police Action
A wild leopard leapt from an 18 foot pit at the Oklahoma City Zoo drawing a rapid police response. Zoo officials said the leopards were imported from India this week and director Julian Frazier ordered officers to shoot to kill after attempts to capture the animal alive failed.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
India
Zoo
Julian Frazier
Boy 12 Confesses Strangling Fox in Morris County
A 12 year old boy told Morris township police he strangled a 15 pound fox that threatened a nearby black cocker spaniel. He walked into police headquarters with the carcass over his shoulder and gave a statement about the incident.
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Morristown
N. d
Teddy Lovenberg
Morris Township
Negro Says He Was Hired To Kill Farmer
An 18 year old Negro testified he was promised 15 dollars to kill Roland Davis a 63 year old white farmer whose body was found January 30. Sheriff Britt said Robert Lee Howell named David Prevatte as the man who hired him Prevatte a 49 year old white farmer is held without bond pending an inquest. Howell admitted killing Davis in a barn but later said Davis attacked him. The case involves a boundary line feud and a pending suit between the two farmers.
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Lumberton
Roland Davis
Willis C. Britt
Robert Lee Howell
David Prevatte
Howell
Davis
Britt
Prevatte
Malcolm B. Seawell
Superior Court
Willis Smith Delays Campaign Statement
Raleigh attorney Willis Smith, seeking the U S senate seat held by Frank Graham, postponed for a few days his promised statement outlining the campaign platform. He paid the $125 filing fee as a Democratic candidate for the May 27 primary, citing an ongoing lawsuit that kept him busy last week and will require the early days of next week.
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Raleigh
Willis Smith
U. S
Frank Graham
Smith
Heex
Hopeful Turn In Tuberculosis Treatment Reported
A Baltimore man once labeled hopeless after tuberculosis treatment is said to be improving and even building a home addition. Dr. Robert H. Siver reported 60 patients showed marked progress using a two drug combination of an arsenic compound and sulfadiazine, though not yet a confirmed cure.
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Baltimore
Robert H. Silver
Maryland
American College of Physicians
Weterbee Fort
Siver
Fort
Union Memorial Hospital
Franklin
Kroehler Picks Charlotte For Southern Plant
Kroehler Manufacturing announces a new upholstered furniture plant to be built in Charlotte North Carolina. D L Kroehler president says construction will start soon and occupancy is planned for September 1. The company owns a site near the Seaboard Airline Railroad in eastern Charlotte. Kroehler’s operations span Naperville Kankakee Bradley Cleveland Shreveport Dallas Inglewood and facilities in Canada.
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Naperville
Ill
Charlotte
N. C
Kroehler Manufacturing Company
D. L. Kroehler
Seaboard Airline
Kroehler
Kankakee
Bradley
Cleveland
Midwest Battled By Arctic Storm Hitting Eight States
A blast of Arctic air sent temperatures below zero across eight midwest states on Saturday and moved toward New England. Fresh snow measured up to eight inches in eastern Iowa while roads remained snow packed and slippery.
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Midwest
Saturda
New England
Dakotas
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Bemidji
Minn
Pembina
N. D
Eau Claire
Wis
Aberdeen
Mason City
Joliet
Ill
Grand Rapids
Mich
South Bend
Ind
Toledo
Chicago
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Canada
Indiana Highway Commission
Middle Atlantic
Gulf
Witch Hunt Out Says Tydings Faces McCarthy Inquiry
Senator Tydings promised a full fair inquiry into alleged communist infiltration of the state department, heading a five member Senate subcommittee with Greene McMahon Hickenlooper and Lodge to investigate McCarthy charges. McCarthy urged access to loyalty files and warned an inquiry could fail without them.
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Washington
State Department
Tydings
D-Md
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
McCarthy
Rwis
Connally
Dtex
Greene
D-Ri
McMahon
D-Conn
Hickenlooper
R-Iowa
Lodge
R-Mass
Truman
Senate
Foreign Relations Group
House
MecCarthy
Attlee Plans New Labor Government After Election
Prime Minister Clement Attlee intends to form a new Labour government with a slim majority after Labour won 315 seats to 294 for the Conservatives in the 625 seat House of Commons. Washington officials fear a weak minority will hinder Cold War efforts and Anglo American cooperation.
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Clement Attlee
Britain
Labor
House of Commons
Conservatives
Liberals
Washington
America
Russia
Acheson
Bevin
State Department
Schuman
Congress
United States
Donald Heath
U.S
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Heath
Formosa
Namoa
Army Navy Commission to Probe Karpe Death Further
In Munich army officials announced a joint army navy inquiry will continue into U S naval Captain Eugene S Karpe’s death on a Paris bound train near Salzburg An autopsy failed to determine if he was pushed or fell The case includes an American traveler an American couple and two Britons on board with inquiry focusing on train passengers and staff
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Eugene Karpe
U. S
Bucharest
Salzburg
Austria
Army-Navy Commission
Karpe
Vienna
U.S. Naval
Eugene S. Karpe
U. S. Army
Munich
United States
Romania
Kitzbuehel
Paris
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