Labor turmoil widens as auto and telephone unions strike
The Associated Press report outlines a broad confrontation on the labor front with 250000 telephone workers set to leave jobs at 6 am EST, while CIO United Auto Workers considers a secret ballot on ending the GM wage offer dispute. Government mediators in Detroit and Washington push to avert walkouts as steel talks linger and Federal courts weigh actions in Philadelphia against mass picketing at General Electric.
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Associated Press
National Federation of Telephone Workers
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Rank and
James F. Dewey
Truman
Philadelphia
CIO Electrical Workers
Austin Meehan
General Electric
Mien
Westinghouse
Ates
Tour Europe Wisely For Now Says Reader Letters
Readers advise careful planning before European travel as many countries face food and housing shortages and rising costs. Switzerland plans to welcome visitors but most nations are hurt and travel is risky. Check with consulates and embassies and travel only in warmer months if advised.
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Bern
Switzerland
Europe
Veterans Salt Away Jobless Pay Rights
Veterans are hoarding unemployment pay rights as only about 10,000 of 9,000,000 demobilized Americans have drawn all weekly GI Bill checks. Most veterans are entitled to 52 weeks of compensation unless on strike, Ray R. Adams reported. He noted 2,300,000 veterans appear on the rolls periodically, with about 11 percent dropped off or waiting for checks if job loss occurs within the law’s period.
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Washington
Eterans
G. I
Ray R. Adams
Ne Administration
Seema
Tar Heels at Southeastern regional adult education session
Adult education specialists from across the nation gather in Birmingham for the fifth Southeastern regional conference on adult education by the Southeastern Association for Adult Education and the Southern Council of International Relations. North and South Carolina delegates include Russell M. Grumman Wil son Gray Dr K C Frazer and W Ward.
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Birmingham
Ala
Southeastern Association For Adult Education
Southern Council of International Relations
North Carolina
South Carolina
Russell M. Grumman
University of North Carolina
SAAE
Wilson Gray
South Carolina State Department of Education
K. Cc. Frazer
Chapel Hill
N. C
SCIR
W. Ward
The
University of South Carolina
Duke Professor Granted Leave to Study Southern Mills
Dr. William Hays Simpson of Duke University faculty received a leave of absence to study life in southern mill communities. He will present a preliminary report at the American Cotton Manufacturers Association annual meeting in Pinehurst on May 14 to 16, per association president Dr. William P. Jacobs of Charlotte.
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Charlotte
William Hays Simpson
Duke University
American Cotton Manufacturers Association
Pinehurst
William P. Jacobs
Fof
Association
Russians Bar Door After Surprise From Newsmen
In Tientsin on March 5 Russians barred doors after 22 foreign news correspondents roamed Soviet held Manchuria. News reports prompted trains to Mukden being stopped to search for foreigners. Soviet hospitality cooled after the first week. any future foreign reporters must have credentials.
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Richard Cushing
Tientsin
Manchuria
Mukden
Cushing
Siberia
Red Army
Dairen
Byrnes says Russia China Manchuria plan rejected
Secretary Byrnes disclosed that Russia proposed joint operation of major Manchurian industries with China, which China rejected. The United States will send a message to Moscow about the Manchurian situation. Byrnes indicated U.S. stance would back China. MacArthur’s Tokyo command authority extends into Manchuria.
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Washington
Russia
Manchuria
China
Byrnes
United States
Moscow
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Manchurian
Journalists seek access to Manchuria under Wedemeyer
A group of reporters tired of bureaucratic hurdles push to cover what they deem a legitimate news story within Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer’s China theater jurisdiction. They argue for access to Manchuria to report directly on events and conditions.
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Manchuria
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
China Theater
Attorney Gets Case Against Negro In Shape
Bloomington Indiana March 5 Prosecutor Robert McCrea prepared evidence for submission to a grand jury tomorrow to consider action against Joseph Luther Woolridge a 29 year old Negro janitor on a charge of first murder in the slayings of Russell E Koontz and Mrs Phyllis Coleman Their bodies were found in an abandoned stone mill near Bloomington Friday night Woolridge signed a statement giving complete details of the slayings last Friday of the 43 year old Bloomington businessman and Mrs Coleman a 32 year old creamery office employe
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Bloomington
Ind
Robert McCrea
Joseph Luther Woolridge
Russell E. Koontz
Phyllis Coleman
McCrea
Woolridge
Coleman
Anxiety Over Safety Of American British Reporters
Anxiety spread in Shanghai and northern cities as nine American and British correspondents, last seen traveling from Mukden, failed to send news. Reports said they were stranded at Changchun awaiting air transport and three were ill. AP correspondent Richard Cushing reached Shanghai by rail and air from Dairen via Mukden and Tientsin, noting possible delays due to a blown up rail line.
Vinson Opens British Loan Campaign Speech to Senate
Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson formally opened a campaign for a proposed 3.75 billion to 8.75 billion loan to Britain. He testified before the Senate Banking Committee praising the plan as a sound investment in world peace and prosperity and pledged repayment.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred M. Vinson
Britain
Senate Banking Committee
Vinson
Senators
Franco Not To Quit Under Pressure
Washington report says Generalissimo Franco told the United States he will not quit office under allied pressure. A State Department official said Franco’s note delivered by ambassador Juan Francisco De Cardenas asserted Spain could run its own affairs without outside intervention. Similar notes may have been sent in Paris or London.
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Washington
Paris
London
Britain rejects UN Security Council talk on Franco Spain
Highly placed sources report the British government turned down a French proposal to bring the Franco regime in Spain before the United Nations Security Council. Notes were sent a week earlier to Britain the United States and Russia. Alfred Duff Cooper submitted the rejection to George Bidault while talks continue in Paris.
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London
Spain
United Nations Security Council
Britain
United States
Russia
Alfred Duff Cooper
France
George Bidault
Paris
Hopes Rise for Franco Ouster by Spanish Army
American officials pinned hopes on the Spanish army forcing Generalissimo Franco to yield to a caretaker regime. Other path to topple Madrid dictator and form a new government appears extremely thin, given the lack of any alternative force in Spain.
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Spain
Generalissimo
Ime
Madrid
Pickets Stand Guard Around Rock Hill Cotton Mill
Around Rock Hill South Carolina 600 workers have been on strike since August 32 as the mill opens inviting employees to return. J H Fullerton of Charlotte a national representative says only maintenance men enter the plant and estimates 300 to 600 pickets on duty. The mill plans to reopen offering a 65 cent minimum wage a 15 percent raise vacations with pay and arbitration. Union demands include all war labor board provisions and a maintenance of membership clause is disputed.
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Rock Hill
S. C
J. H. Fullerton
Charlotte
Textile Workers Union of America
CI0
Fullerton
Reports On Reds Espionage Probes Extend To New Names
Ottawa reports from the royal commission investigating Soviet espionage indicate additional disclosures soon. The interim data list hints at information Russians sought on atomic secrets and radar troop movements, with emphasis on U S troop units. London dispatches say Iran Premier Es Saltaneh was en route from Moscow carrying six Soviet demands, including inviting troops to stay.
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Ottawa
Royal Commission
Cana
U. S
America
London
Ahmed Qavam Es Saltaneh
Iran
Moscow
Gabfest Goes On As Infant Dies In Indianapolis
In Indianapolis three-year-old Walter Montgomery died after inserting a wire into an electrical outlet while standing on a metal register. His mother screamed for help as she attempted to reach an eight-party telephone line for aid. the father rushed the boy to a doctor but he was dead on arrival.
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Indianapolis
Walter
New Orleans Enjoys Gayest Mardi Gras Parade
New Orleans revels in its gayest Mardi Gras since wartime restrictions ended. Rex parade features Judge Wayne G. Borah as king with Emmy Lou Dicks as queen, theme myths of the Starry hosts, twenty floats, and a torchlight Comus procession to close the event. The fete, dating from 1827, marks Fat Tuesday before Lent.
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New Orleans
Canal Street
Rex
Wayne G. Borah
United States District Court
Emmy Lou Dicks
Camus
Paris
Marshall Holds Conference With Chinese Chiefs
General Marshall arrived in Yenan and met Red Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Gen Chu Teh in a historic first contact. He and allied Gen Chang Chi Chung proceed with reorganization of the government while Gen Chou En-Lai also participates amid a tumultuous welcome.
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Yenan
Marshall
Red
Mao Tse-Tung
Chu Teh
Chang Chi Chung
Chou En-Lai
VA Sum Gets Approval Of Committee
The House Appropriations Committee approved a $114,000,000 administrative fund for the Veterans Administration as the major item in a deficiency supply bill. The measure also provides funds for the Social Security Board the Agriculture Department and the Office Department. The VA allotment is described as the minimum needed with an estimated 13,000,000 veterans served by next June 30, up from about 10,500,000 a year earlier.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
House Appropriations Committee
Social Security Board
Thericulture Department
Office Department
Temperatures Will Continue To Advance Across Regions
The Associated Press reports cooler air in the northeast while the southeast may see hotter conditions than yesterday. Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas were slightly warmer with Charlotte reaching 78 and Greenville 82. Richmond hit 80, and Pittsburgh, Portland, and Providence set record highs. Internation Falls recorded 6 above as a cold mass moved over the north, not reaching the southeast until Thursday.
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Associated Press
Georgia
Alabama
Carolinas
Charlotte
N. C
Greenville
Mercury
Richmond
Pittsburgh
Portland
Providence
R. I
Internation Falls
Minn
Churchill warns of Soviet aims in postwar world
Fulton Missouri March 5 Winston Churchill warned of a shadow over Allied victory as he argued for a strong Anglo American alliance to curb Soviet ambitions. He cautioned against sharing atomic secrets and urged unity under United Nations leadership while noting Moscow seeks power and expansion through its allies.
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Fulton
Winston Churchill
Fes
Dlared
Westminster
Russia
Britain
Graly
United Nations
Soviet Union
Churchill
Relea
P Dent Truman
Washington
Halifax
Munis
Ernest Bevin
Truman
United States
Hoover to survey Europe on food relief mission
London and Washington reports say former President Herbert Hoover will travel to Europe to survey food needs and relief requirements. Secretary Anderson indicated Hoover may depart next week with a small party including Dr. F R Fitzgerald to visit war torn areas and assess actual conditions and requests for aid.
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Her Hoover
Truman
Europe
Hoover
Anderson
Chi
Anderson Hoover
F. R. Fitzgerald
Aculture Department
France
Secretary of Agricult
Rious
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