GOP Plugs For Strike Legislation
Detroit March 8 The CIO United Auto Workers declined a $1,000,000 loan offer from John L Lewis United Mine Workers to aid the Chrysler strike but would welcome any outright contributions to the Chrysler strike fund. In Washington Truman proposed a coal industry study commission while Republicans Butler and Watkins urged including emergency strike provisions. Truman withdrew the mine seizure bill but urged a nine member panel to study long range solutions and possible use of permanent seizure powers. The pair also called for studying application of antitrust laws to the industry.
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United Auto Workers Today
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Chrysler
UAW
Lewis
Auto Union
Walter Reuther
Washington
Truman
GOP
Butler
Nebraska
Watkins
Utah
Senate Interior Committee
Humphrey
D-Minn
Morse
Douglas
Congress
Commission
Railroads Lift Most Schedule Curbs As Nations Reopen
Pittsburgh dispatch reports thousands of furloughed railroad workers recalled as government ends most coal era schedule curtailments. ICC lifts restrictions on freight and most passenger service for coal rails by 11:59 p m tonight with 75 percent passenger service for coal rails lacking 10 days supply. Baltimore and Ohio lines recall 6 161 workers and anticipate traffic rising above normal as mine tipple loads increase.
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Steel
United Mine Worker
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
B. and O
Midwest Blizzard Stuns Region With 15 Dead In Crash
Winter storms cripple Midwest towns isolating hundreds as blizzards march from the northern plains into Iowa and Minnesota. A Northwest Airlines flight crashed in Minneapolis killing 15 as winds reach 100 mph. Power lines and communication fail, schools close, and roads drift shut across North Dakota Nebraska Minnesota Wisconsin and Illinois.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Plains
Iowa
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North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Minnesota
Northwest Airlines
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Red Cross
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Plains States
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Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
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Kansas
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Texas
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West Texas
Bradley says defense ready but no pessimism from top
General Omar N. Bradley told the Women's National Press Club that the United States cannot guarantee against a disastrous blow but will have enough forces to prevent a crippling attack. He praised the Navy anti submarine program and the Army’s economy geared strength. He noted atomic stockpiles provide immediate if limited retaliation and urged continued R D to improve U S and allied defense.
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Washington
Omar N. Bradley
America
United States
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Women's National Press Club
Bradley
Russia
Navy
Harvard Physician Takes Stand for Dr Sander
Harvard medical expert testified that the left arm vein likely collapsed hours before air injections were given to Abbie Borreto. Dr. Ford said air could not have caused the death as the collapsed vein would not accept a needle after thrombi indicate ceased circulation. He based his view on an autopsy of Borreto’s exhumed body conducted six weeks after her death on December 4.
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Manchester
N. H
Abbie Borreto
Hermann N. Sander
Richard F. Ford
Department of Legal Medicine
Harvard
William L. Phinney
Ford
Phinney
Negro Children Burned To Death in Newark Fire
Four young children aged one to four died in a Newark Delaware house fire that followed a birthday party. The blaze started likely from an exploding oil stove, trapping the second floor sleepers while their uncle James Pennelton, 39, tried to enter through a window.
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Newark
Del
Sarah Coursey
Henry
Sarah Johnson
David
James Pennelton
State Democrats weigh protests at executive meeting
The state Democratic executive committee faces talk of criticizing open campaigning by party officials for candidates in the primary. National Committeeman Jonathan Daniels and National Vice-chairman Gladys Tillett openly back Senator Frank Graham, while state chairman Everett Jordan remains neutral. Charles W. Tillett, husband of the vice-chairman, has urged Graham support in letters.
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Lynn Nisbet
State Democratic Executive Committee
Everett Jordan
State Committee
Jonathan Daniels
Gladys Tillett
Daniels
Tillett
Frank Graham
Scott
Charles W. Tillett
Graham
Education Bill Heading Into More Trouble
The House Labor committee rejected a plan to fund parochial school transportation and moved toward banning any federal aid to non public schools. The Senate already passed a broader school aid bill, but the House split threatens action and could widen the stalemate on the $300 million program. A party line vote of 16 to 9 backed Kennedy’s measure to withhold aid from states prohibiting its use for parochial schools.
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Washington
Congress
House Labor Committee
Senate
House
Rep
Kennedy
D.mass
Commissioner of Education
Reynolds May Oppose Hoey in North Carolina Senate Race
Raleigh observers foresee Robert R. Reynolds possibly entering the full term senate contest against Clyde R. Hoey as Frank Graham Willis Smith and others seek the unexpired term. Some say Reynolds may return to politics after 1933 1945 service while others deem the rumor unlikely. Local supporters dismiss the chatter as wishful thinking aimed at blocking Reynolds.
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Lynn Nisbet
Raleigh
Capitol Square
Robert R. Reynolds
Clyde R. Hoey
Frank Graham
Willis Smith
Mountain Bob
Reynolds
Senate
Depesters
Willismith
Graham
Hoey
Smith
Shipkov Sentenced for Spying in Sofia Case
Michael Shipkov former translator for the U S legation in Sofia was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to spying for the United States. Four co-defendants received prison terms from four to twelve years.
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Shipkov
Sofia
Bulgaria
Michael Shipkov
U. S
United States
Vince
Sichang
Kangting
U. S. Legation
U. S. State Department
Petko Petrinski
U.S. Legation
Truman May Get Oleo Bill By Nightfall
Senate action could send a bill repealing all federal taxes on oleo margarine to the White House by nightfall. The House approved the compromise 262 to 106 amid protests, with stipulations on colored oleomargarine noting triangular servings and labeling requirements. Tax repeal would remove levies on colored and uncolored oleomargarine and related wholesalers and retailers.
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Washington
Senate
White House
House
August H. Andresen
R.minn
Oleo Trust
Claily
Four Killed In S C Plane Crash Near Marion
A single engine private plane crashed on a farm near Marion South Carolina killing three men and a boy. Victims were James Patrick Sullivan plastics maker of Middlebury Connecticut and his son James both Waterbury Connecticut passengers Errill Fortin and Walter Stevekin. The aircraft en route from Florida to Connecticut dropped from a heavy overcast around 2 30 p m and burned. Both occupants were dead on site. Sullivan 45 and his son about nine.
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Marion
S C
James Patrick Sullivan
Middlebury
Florida
Connecticut
Sullivan
Northwest Airlines Crash Kills 15 In Minneapolis Fire
A Martin 2 0 2 Mars crashed in a Minneapolis neighborhood during a March blizzard, killing 15 aboard and injuring several residents. The flight from Washington via Pittsburgh Detroit and Chicago was diverted by weather to Minneapolis, where it struck a home on Minnehaha Parkway, erupting in flames that damaged two nearby houses. Crew members Captain Donald Jones and Co pilot William McGinn died, along with stewardess Mary Alice Kennedy. passenger B. Eberhardt of Ford Motor Co. was among the listed victims.
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Northwest Airlines
Washington, D. C
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Cleveland
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Madison
Wis
Rochester
Minn
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Fargo
Grand Forks
N. D
Mal Freeburg
Fort Snelling National Cemetery
Wold-Chamberlain
Franklin Doughty
Minnehaha Parkway
Emerson Ave
Robert Cahn
Irving Luger
Janet Doughty
Tommy
Doughty
Donald Jones
William McGinn
South St. Paul
Mary Alice Kennedy
St. Paul
B. Eberhardt
Ford Motor Co
Natural Gas For N C Step Closer
Charlotte March 8 P Plans for 36 Carolinas cities to receive natural gas from the Carolina Natural Gas Corp of Charlotte move forward after the company applied to the Federal Power Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to build and operate lateral lines from the transcontinental pipeline. Communities listed include Hendersonville Asheville Gastonia Dallas Charlotte Hickory Newton Conover Granite Falls Lenoir Concord Kannapolis Statesville Salisbury Spencer Lexington High Point Thomasville Winston-Salem Greensboro Burlington Graham Durham Chapel Hill Raleigh Reidsville Draper Leaksville Spray.
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Carolina Natural Gas Corp
Federal Power Commission
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Newton
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Concord
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Spencer
Lexington
High Point
Thomasville
Winston-Salem
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Burlington
Graham
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Raleigh
Reidsville
Draper
Leaksville
Spray
McCarthy Targets Dorothy Kenyon in Communism Claim
Senator McCarthy says State Department employe Dorothy Kenyon is affiliated with at least 28 communist front organizations as he opens a senate inquiry into a suspected spy ring. He cites her as an example among others alleged to pose security risks in the department.
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McCarthy
State Department
Dorsethy Kenyon
Senate Foreign Relations
Tydings
D-Md
Senate
Dorothy Kenyon
U. S
Commission On
Stock Market Regains Balance After Morning Declines
New York stock market halted a sharp slide as fractional losses surfaced across many leaders after the opening bell. U S Steel Bethlehem Steel General Motors Chrysler Studebaker Sears Roebuck Consolidated Vultee Schenley Admiral Swift Kennecott General Electric Santa Fe Union Pacific Gulf Oil U S Gypsum fell, while Pennsylvania Railroad Southern Railway and Baltimore and Ohio showed limited gains.
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U. S., Steel
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
Chrysler
Studebaker
Sears Roebuck
Consolidated Vultee
Schenley
Admiral Corp
Swift International
Kennecott Copper
General Electric
French Assembly Passes Anti-Sabotage Bill In Vote Tally
The French National Assembly approved an anti-sabotage measure by 393 to 186 to protect American arms aid shipments headed to French ports amid a Communist filibuster. The bill mandates prison terms of five to ten years for acts against national defense or transport.
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French National Assembly
Dixmude
Norfolk
France
Indo- China
Price Support War Becoming Class Conflict
Washington report outlines a mounting clash over farm price supports as big farmers clash with small operators. The debate centers on preserving the current system versus adopting Secretary Brannan’s reform plan backed by President Truman, with farm groups and elections shaping the issue.
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Washington
Fire Wipes Out Family Of Eight In Oregon Cabin
A blaze swept a sawmill housing cabin near Sandy Oregon killing eight people including Leroy A Ludwig 34 his wife Wanda 32 and their seven children Rebecca 15 Jerry 13 Dennis 10 Michael 7 Ronnie 2 and Kathleen 5 months The mill owner Carl Wilson said his dog woke him at 1 15 a m and firefighters found the structure leveled upon arrival The cabin housed workers at Wilson sawmill about 20 miles east of Portland.
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Ore
Here Toay
Leroy A. Ludwig
Wilson
Portland
Carl Wilson
Ludwig
Wanda
Rebecca
Jerry
Dennis
Michael
Ronnie
Kathleen
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