Iit Charge Leader With Making False Case
Coal operators accuse John L. Lewis of deliberately crafting a false case for a miners health and welfare fund during wage talks for 400000 miners. They deny his accusations while noting safety failures and deaths in 14 years, and call for a contract with minimal friction and no work stoppages.
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Washington
Mar
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Harry M. Moses
Moses
UMW
United States Bureau of Mines
Charles O'Neill
O'Neill
Vienna as cultural capital and recovery center
Dr Karl Renner sees Vienna as the postwar cultural hub and international center of culture, a base for air travel and European access. Despite heavy damage from siege bombardment, the city shows resilience with many Ringstrasse landmarks surviving and ongoing repairs signaling a revival of tourism and life.
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Vienna
Karl Renner
Little Republic
Austria
Europe
Dr. Renner
Ringstrasse
Vital Figure In Korean Policy Resigns Post
Dr. Irenes Rhee resigns as chairman of the American supported representative Democratic council of South Korea citing ill health. The move comes as the 10man Russian American Korean Commission prepares to meet to discuss unification and self rule amid Pravda’s accusations of a coup and deals with Americans.
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Seoul
Irenes Rhee
Representative Democratic Council of
South Korea
Rhee
Pravda
Krug Named Interior Secretary Succeeds Harold Ickes
Julius A. Krug took office as secretary of the interior in Washington on March 18 and named Oscar L. Chapman as undersecretary. Chapman, 49, Coloradoan, had served as acting secretary since Harold L. Ickes’s resignation and as an assistant secretary for nearly 13 years. Krug vowed to be guided by Congress, even when his views differ, and to keep department activities aligned with the will of the people.
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Washington
Julius A. Krug
Interior
Oscar L. Chapman
Chapman
Harold L. Ickes
Krug
War Production Board
Congress
Department
Red Cross Leader Miss Mabel Boardman Dies
Washington reports Miss Mabel T. Boardman, 835, longtime national secretary of the American Red Cross, died last night of heart disease after nearly fifty years of service. She became secretary in 1900 and urged nurse uniforms and the Red Cross Christmas seal drives.
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Washington
Mabel T. Boardman
American Red Cross
Miss . Boardman
Red Cross
Fair Weather In The West With Rain In East
The West enjoyed fair weather while the East faced a lingering low pressure system. Rain persisted in Southern Indiana Pennsylvania Virginia Kentucky the Carolinas and Ohio Valley with the Upper Mississippi Valley also reporting showers. Temperatures cooled in the plains and held steady in the East with New England readings in the low twenties and Florida seeing little change though rain in the north portion.
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Indiana
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Kentucky
Carolinas
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
New England
Florida
Peacetime Production Record Set Across Major Plants
General Electric workers return to refrigerators and consumer goods as peacetime production hits a new postwar high. The CIO United Electrical workers say 100,000 will restart in 16 states after an 18 cent hourly raise, with most UAW locals approving a national GM settlement. Additional back to work moves include 50,000 idle machinists in San Francisco and 14,000 Timken workers in Ohio. Overall idle workers drop to 558,000 as GM returns loom, while the Fed notes postwar production surpassing prewar levels.
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General Electric
General Motors
CIO
United Electrical Workers Union
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
Baltixmore
San Francisco
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Ohio
Oliver Corporation
South Bend
Ind
Charles City
Iowa
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Baruch Nominated as U N Atomic Energy Commissioner
President Truman nominates Bernard M. Baruch 75 a veteran financier and adviser to serve as the United States representative on the United Nations atomic energy commission. The nomination goes to the Senate the next day. Baruch previously chaired the War Industries Board and served in wartime advisory missions.
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Washington
Truman
Bernard M. Baruch
Nations Atomic Energy Commission
White House
Charles G. Ross
Senate
Baruch
War Industries Board
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lehman warns of world conflict without food relief
Atlantic City March 18 General Herbert Lehman UNRRA warned that failure to furnish relief to the world's hungry millions can sow seeds of further armed conflict. He cited UNRRA's work with 47 nations and urged widening the food board to create a central international body for relief, hoping Russia would join. He noted 7,000,000 tons shipped and 725,000 displaced persons repatriated since September.
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Atlantic City
Herbert Lehman
UNRRA
Feizure
Mission of
Mercy
Lehman
United Nations
Acoe
Ehip
Combined Food Board
Russia
Marshall Praised For Work Toward China Peace
General Chiang Kai shek lauded General Marshall for aiding China in peaceful national unification as reports say Chiang may travel to America. Marshall is in the United States to brief President Truman on his China envoy role. In Mukden, government control strengthens with reinforcements from two armies, some trained by the United States.
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Chungking
Marshall
China
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chiang
America
United States
Truman
Kuomintang
National Party
Couress
Mukden
U. S
No Advance Knowledge Of Talk By Churchill
White House says President Truman had no advance knowledge of Winston Churchill's Fulton Missouri speech. Press Secretary Ross denies reports that Truman knew Churchill's remarks or discussed the speech, noting only a prior meeting about accompanying Churchill to Westminster College.
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Churchill
Ross
Washington
White House
Truman
Winston Churchill
Missouri
Anglo-American Association
Charlies
Churchall
St. Patrick's Day
State Byrnes
Russia
Great
Fulton
Westminster College
Seven Million For Hospitals In Carolinas Planned
Funds totaling about seven million dollars for hospital building and expansion in North and South Carolina become available. North Carolina funds total five point two three two million and South Carolina one point seven twenty one million. Projects may begin soon as labor and materials are available.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
North Carolina
South Carolina
Capitol Hill Awaits Navy Under Secretary Nomination
Capitol Hill awaited President Truman's second choice for under secretary of the Navy amid pressure to support the proposed merger of the armed services. Lawmakers expect the appointee to push the single service plan and to step into Forrestal's shoes as a leading figure in the merger fight.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Truman
Navy
Armed Services
Forrestal
Woman Rescued After 14 Days Afloat On Anacapa Island
Mrs. Bernice Brown of Van Nuys Calif was saved by the U S Coast Guard from Anacapa Island where she had been marooned for 14 days following the wreck of the Nancy Lee a 50 foot fishing boat. Her husband Roy Brown and friend John Barta are believed drowned amid heavy seas after the ship sank off Santa Monica Harbor.
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Los Angeles
Bernice Brown
van Nuys
Calif
U. S. Coast Guard
Anacapa Island
Roy Brown
John Barta
Santa Monica Harbor
Marth 2
Nancy Lee
Brown
Russia and France Poised to Sign Grain Sale Pact
Moscow March 18. Russia and France near finalizing an agreement for the Soviet Union to sell France 500000 tons of wheat and barley. French Minister Pierre Charpentier Sarthe expected to sign the contract soon. Grain to be shipped from southern Russian ports in early April.
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Moscow
Russia
France
Soviet Union
Pierre Charpentier Sarthe
Eight Violent Deaths In North Carolina Mark Weekend
North Carolina suffered eight fatalities over the weekend with violence as a major cause. Only Reynolds Wall, 30, died in a car crash near Raleigh. Gunshot deaths included Julius Linville, 60, and Tillman Surratt, 58, at Greensboro after a double shootout. Joe Bragg, 19, died from a personal safety gunshot near Holly Ridge Onslow County. Mary Ossie Reynolds was found beaten to death in Asheville, with Oliver Reynolds, her husband, under investigation. Linda Kay Hicks, 2, in Hickory died after ingesting pills prescribed for her grandmother.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Charles Dermid
Oliver H. Reynolds
Linda Kay Hicks
Hickory
Woman Receives 3 to 5 Years In Killing Case
Wilmington March 18 Judge R Hunt Parker today sentenced Mrs Carene Graham Collins to three to five years in prison for the knife slaying of neighbor Mrs Edward F Bordeaux last February 10 The 30 year old defendant a Mullins South Carolina native was convicted of manslaughter by a superior court jury The state alleged she fatally stabbed Bordeaux after a quarrel between her 11 year old niece and Bordeaux's daughter The defendant pleaded self defense.
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Wilmington
R. Hunt Parker
Carene Graham Collins
Edward F. Bordeaux
Mullins
South Carolina
Crisis Near In Clothing Price Fight
Washington reports an attempt by Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles to curb rising cotton clothing costs. The move pressures Agriculture Secretary A Anderson as Bowles seeks OPA action on cotton price controls amid opposition from Southern lawmakers. Officials disagree if Anderson must sign before the order can proceed.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Pagans
Anderson
OPA
Cotton Exchange
Cotton State Congress
Irman Elmer Thomas
Dokla
Senate Agricultural Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Truman
Office of Price Administration
Friends of
Mr. Truman
White House
Congress
Office of Economic Stabilization
Winant Hopes to Retire as Ambassador to Britain
John G. Winant told reporters after a White House conference with President Truman that he hopes to retire soon as American ambassador to Great Britain. He plans to return to London around April 1 for a brief period and noted he only knows of other posts from newspaper reports.
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Washington
John G. Winant
Great Britain
Winant
Truman
London
International Administration Planned for Iranian Oil Resources
British diplomats explored a plan for international administration of Iran's oil as the UN Security Council set to meet within a week. Iran insisted on Russia troop withdrawal before negotiating oil concessions with Moscow. An ambassador returning from Tehran was said to be carrying a proposal for global control of the oil fields.
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Iran
Soviet Union
United Nations Security Council
London
Russia
Leader Bullard
Britain
Tehran
Washington
di Mats
Mier Ahmed Qavam
Thei
Byrnes
United States
United Nations
Vital Foods Objective of Truman's Plan
The White House states President Truman seeks conservation of vital foods over elimination of public dinners during the world emergency. Press secretary Ross sent a telegram to Arthur J. Hartnett clarifying that mass dinners are for conserving cereals fats and oils for relief abroad, not a ban on all banquets.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Charles G. Ross
Arthur J. Hartnett
Hotel Association of Washington
Hartnett
Mr. Treman
Collier's Congressional Awards Committee
Four Negroes Taken To Raleigh For Safekeeping
Lumberton March 18 Four Robeson county Negro men were sent to Central Prison Raleigh for safekeeping after Sheriff E C Wade filed rape charges on a white woman’s complaint Calvin Covington Grange Thompson Stacy Powell and Cliff Inman were moved to Raleigh in two trips due to lack of transport Wade said he would continue the investigation and the woman remained in a local hospital
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Lumberton
Central Prison
Raleigh
Robeson County
E. C. Wade
Wade
Calvin Covington
Grange Thompson
Stacy Powell
Cliff Inman
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