Army seizes Rock Island Railroad as injunction orders return
The army seized the Rock Island system at 6 p.m. EST on Truman orders after AFL switchmen defied the president. Federal Judge John Knight issued a temporary injunction in Buffalo demanding strikers resume work. union president Arthur J. Glover said workers would return as hearing is set for July 17.
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Chicago
Thevernment
Rock Island Railroad
AFL
Truman
Rock Island
Buffalo
Glover
Army Navy urge reservists to volunteer for extended service
The Army and Navy asked enlisted reservists to return to active duty immediately with minimum tour lengths of one year for the Army and six months for the Navy, with options to extend to 12 months. They seek highly skilled specialists in radar, communications, and weapons, among others, with some officers also requested.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Sea Arm
Civil Engineer Corps
Air Force
Marine Corps and Coast Guard
Clayton Jerome
Samuel F. Gray
The
Coast Guard
Treasury Department
Enlarged Southern Furniture And Rug Market Opens Summer Show
The Southern Furniture and Rug Market begins a two week exposition featuring a ten story addition to the South Main Street building. Gov Kerr Scott Miss America 1949 Jacque Mercer and other officials attend the opening ceremonies as buyers from the southeast descend for the event with over 300 manufacturers represented.
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Fred Flagler
Southern Furniture and Rug Market
South East
Southern Furniture Exposition
South Main Street
High Point
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Sedgefield
North Carolina
Kerr Scott
Jacque Mercer
Carl Durham
George Ross
State Department of Conservation and Development
Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr
VU. S. Department of Commerce
Merrill C. Lofton
Atlanta, Ga
U.S. Department of Commerce Field Service
W. F. Bailey
Miss Mercer
Greensboro High Point
Warships Hit Enemy Supply Line In Korea Action
An Associated Press report says a U S infantry battalion cut off during the battle before Chonan fell Saturday night remains behind Red lines in Korea. MacArthur HQ says relief efforts failed. A tank and infantry column moves toward a Korean Red push after Chonan with no sign of strong American armor engagement.
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Associated Press
U. S
Chonan
Korea
MacArthur
Osan
Boyle presses for FEPC bill test vote in Senate
Democratic National Chairman William M. Boyle Jr urges party officials to mobilize senators for a Wednesday test vote on a compulsory Fair Employment Practices commission bill. The move comes as Democrats fear a cloture petition may fail to end debate, with the measure facing stiff opposition and procedural maneuvers in the Senate.
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Washington
William M. Boyle, Jr
Senate
Boyle
FEPC
Myers
Pennsylvania
Lucas
Illinois
Child Jumps, Mother Perishes In Fire
Seven year old Duane Johnson escaped by dropping from a second story window and being caught by a passing magazine salesman. His mother Estelle Johnson died in the kitchen after an oil stove exploded. husband John L. was at work in a coal mine. Fire officials attributed the cause to the stove explosion.
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Duane Johnson
William Kidd
Johnstown
Union Hospital
Estelle Johnson
John L
Lester Eshelman
Magnolia Volunteer Fire Department
CAB Chairman Resigns Post in Heated Airline Merger Fight
Joseph J. O Connell Jr resigns as Civil Aeronautics Board chairman with White House action pending on the sale of American Overseas Airlines to Pan American World Airways for 17 450 000. Board majority opposed the merger. President may overrule.
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Washington
Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr
Civil Aeronautics Board
White House
American Overseas
Pan American World Airways
O'Connell
Truman
Mr. Truman
CAB
Air Coordinating Committee
Senate Appropriations panel backs $34.69 billion budget
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a one package 34.688 billion dollar bill to fund government operations for the new fiscal year starting July 1. It is 1.473 billion less than President Truman sought after debating and removing two House approved cost cutting amendments.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Truman
Senate
House
Congress
O’mahoney
D.-Wyo
Bridges
R.-N.h
O'Mahoney
Senate Committee
Collision Kills Young Clarkton Couple
A head-on crash near Clarkton claimed the lives of Dewey Lennon and his wife Florence Guyton Lennon, both 5 months married, around 11 am five and a half miles east of town. Ernest Long, the truck driver, is hospitalized in Columbus County with fractures and shock, condition listed as fair. Poor visibility in heavy rain was blamed for the accident.
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Clarkton
Here
Dewey Lennon
Florence Guyton Lennon
Columbus County Hospital
Ernest Long
Lennon
Wilmington
Long
Woman Dead After Struck Crossing Highway Near Spindale
Mary Brackett 76 was struck and killed by a Forest City driver Russell Phillips as she crossed the highway near Spindale. Coroner T F E Hightower ruled the accident unavoidable and no inquest will be held.
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Spindale
Mary Brackett
Here
Russell Phillips
Forest City
T. FE. Hightower
Seventeen-year-old killed by tractor at Salmon Creek camp
Seventeen year old Ronald Svendsen was killed when a giant cater pillar tractor ran over him at Salmon Creek logging camp in South Fork California. The employer Charles S. Smith said he stopped the machine on a knoll to tighten a log cable and found the youth's crushed body nearby.
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South Fork
Calif
Ronald Svendsen
Salmon Creek
Charles S. Smith
Smith
John McClurn
Ronald
South Carolina Primary Sparks Integrity and Racial Debate
In Columbia Col Carolina the state faced a Democratic primary with Senator Johnston challenged by a state rights ally and James Byrnes seeking a governor's seat. Thurmond denounced Johnston amid a heated tour as candidates clashed over segregation loyalty and fair employment.
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Columbia
S. C
Truman
Olin D. Johnston
James F. Byrnes
J. Strom Thurmond
Johnston
Byrnes
Supreme Court
Thomas H. Pope
Newberry
House of Representatives
Lester L. Bates
Marcus A. Stone
Florence and Dillon
U.S
W. P. Baskin
Senate
Ellison D
Cotton Ed
National Democratic Party
Europe
Thurmond
South Carolina
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Democratic Party
New York Population Rises. City Trails London in Size
Preliminary census figures show New York City at 7,841,610, up 5.1 percent from 1940, with a metro area of 15,540,697. Manhattan stands at 1,938,551 and Brooklyn at 2,720,238, leaving New York still second to London in world population, as Greater London reaches 8,390,941.
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New York
New York City
New Jersey
Bureau of the Census
Washington
Manhattan
Brooklyn
London
Greater London
Governor Menaced in Prison Break Attempt
Four hardened convicts tried to take Governor G Mennen Williams hostage during a Marquette state prison break. Williams escaped after a knife attack on his bodyguard Sgt George Kerr who fired. Prison guards and officials contained the revolt within minutes.
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Marquette, Mich
G. Mennen Williams
Marquette State Prison
George Kerr
Williams
Kerr
Ralph Stearns
Detroit
Stearns
Don 8. Leonard
Stan Mce Whinney
Louis Mezzano
Wakefield
Sgt
Jack Hyatt
John Halstad
Stearns Sla
Sgt. Kerr
Emory Jacques
Willams
Crazy Jack
Russian flag with hammer and sickle found at Liberty post office
In Liberty North Carolina a factory made hammer and sickle flag was found atop the local post office at 7 a.m. by postal worker J. P. Martin and taken to Greensboro for federal authorities. Mayor R. D. Patterson said no known Russian sympathizers are in town and the census lists the population as 1.
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Greensboro
Liberty
R. D. Patterson
J. P. Martin
Martin
Patterson
Naval bombardment blocks Korea east coast road
General MacArthur's communique reports U S British naval forces bombarded North Korea coast near Yangyang and Samchok, causing landslides that blocked the main cliff road. Warships pounded oil storage while troops onland were raked by fire.
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Korea
MacArthur
Yangyang
38Th Parallel
North
South Korea
Samchok
Imwonpin
U S Wounded Left Behind From Korea Front
American troops in Korea face heavy losses after a withdrawal as Reds push forward. A wounded Akron Ohio machinegunner Pvt John Easterling and a lieutenant recount leaving behind fellow Americans while American medics search for personal effects on a dead comrade.
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Tom Lambert
U. S
Korea
John Easterling
Akron
Ohio
Easterling
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U.S. Infantry
Michigan
Hammer and Sickle
Liberty, N. C
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