Settlement Reached In Big Dispute With Western Electric
Washington May 20 The labor department announced settlement of the last dispute in the telephone field securing an 11 cents an hour average raise for 20000 members of the Association of Communication Equipment Workers The Western Electric company will resume work tomorrow subject to union ratification The accord includes a no strike clause union security contract termination arbitration grievances and non discrimination terms It is the second Western Electric settlement announced within two days involving 20000 workers in the Karney New Jersey plant ratified by Jersey City rank and file meeting last night
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Washington
Labor Department
Association of Communication Equipment Workers
Western Electric Company
Western Electric Employer Association
Karney
N. J
Jersey City
Debate over Navy Bill Sets Three Day House Hurdle
The $3.47 billion navy appropriation bill was sent to the House floor with an 11 percent cut from budget estimates. Republicans urged deeper cuts to army and agriculture funds while planning a three day debate and lining up potential opposition in the Senate. Rep. Sheppard of California warned that the cards are stacked against them and expressed hope the Senate will restore some cuts.
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Washington
Army
Agricultural Department
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Rep. Sheppard
Dcalif
Convulsion in Tub Blamed for Death in Durham
Durham, May 20. Coroner Dr. R A Horton ruled Mrs. W H Sutcliffe aged 24, found with her head submerged in a bath tub, died from drowning caused by an epileptic convulsion. She had been under treatment for epilepsy and appears to have suffered the convulsion during a bath. her husband, a Duke University student, was away when classmates found her.
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Durham
R. A. Horton
W. H. Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe
Duke University
Horton
Duke
North Carolina Weather Forecast May 21 1947
Considerable cloudiness and warm temperatures with showers and thunderstorms possible through today tonight and Wednesday. Extended Carolinas forecast indicates temperatures 2 to 5 degrees above normal, warmer Wednesday and Thursday, cooling Friday, with rainfall moderate to heavy mainly tonight through Thursday.
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North Carolina
Carolinas
Lewis Resumes Coal Contract Talks With Owners
John L. Lewis and mine operators representing 75 percent of the nation s soft coal output resume wage hour contract discussions in Washington. Lewis offered no hint if he would present terms at 1 30 p m EST. The talks focus on replacing the government agreement expiring June 30 and on beginning negotiations with southern producers.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Coal Mines Administration
Southern Coal Producers Association
No Time For Health Plan at 1847 Session
Senator Taft says the Republican controlled senate has no place on its 1947 schedule for a federal health bill. He notes promise of early hearings by the labor committee on health needs, despite immediate Truman appeal for national health and disability insurance programs.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
GOP
Truman
Labor Committee
State seizes Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone assets
The Virginia State Corporation Commission acting as governor's agent seized properties of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia in Accomac and Northampton counties at 6 am as traffic employees struck in seven eastern shore counties. This marks the first use of the public utility labor relations act four months after its passage.
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Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company of Virginia
Accomac
Northampton
Virginia
Public Utility
Jurist Rules Out Racial Issue At Lynching Trial
Greenville South Carolina defense lawyers argue for acquittal of 28 white men in a lynching case as Judge J Robert Martin Jr bans racial defenses. Attorneys quote unsworn statements while the court blocks racial considerations and any attempt to justify the murder of Willie Earle. The trial proceeds toward a jury verdict amid protests over procedures and motives.
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Vardry McBee Norris
Ernest Stokes
J. Robert Mertin, Jr
Greenville
S. C
Willie Earle
South Carolina
Bradley Morrah, Jr
John Marchant
Greenville County Criminal Court
J. Robert Martin, Jr
South
J. Robert Martin
Thomas Wofford
Wallace Plans To Keep Right On Speaking
Wallace told an outdoor crowd in Gilmore stadium that despite global unrest there is a basis for lasting peace with capitalism socialism and communism coexisting. The 27 000 capacity crowd heard him say he will continue speaking for peace despite threats of persecution and dismissed Truman doctrine arguments. The event featured Robert W Kenny introducing Wallace as the man for 48 with chants of Wallace in 48.
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Hollywood
Henry A. Wallace
Gilmore Stadium
Robert W. Kenny
Southern California
Progressive Citizens of America
Wallace
United Nations
Foreign Labor Officials Are State Guests
Four foreign labor officials visit North Carolina as guests of the labor department. Dorothy Moses of Calcutta India is welfare officer for the Indian Jute Association. Leonor Ferreira of Havana Cuba is inspector in the division of women and children. Manuel Argudin of Mexico City heads inspections education and publicity for industrial safety. Luis Arturo Moranti of La Paz Bolivia is supervising inspector for the Inter American public health service.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Labor Department
Dorothy Moses
Calcutta
India
Indian Jute Association
Leonor Ferreira
Havana
Cuba
Women and Children
Department of Labor
Manuel Argudin
Mexico City
Luis Arturo Moranti
la Paz
Bolivia
Inter- American Public Health Service
Gromyko Warns Atomic Monopoly May Be Temporary
At a dinner of the American Russian Institute Andrei Gromyko warned that an atomic weapons monopoly is only temporary and may reverse as nations progress. He urged UN action to outlaw weapons and support international control limited to peaceful atomic energy without harming the USSR economy.
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New York
Andrei
A. Gromyko
Ussr
United Nations Security Council
Gromyko
United States
Russia
Russian Institute
United Nations
Scientists See Sun's Eclipse Over Bocaiuva Brazil
A total solar eclipse was observed at Bocaiuva on May 20 with clear skies aiding a large group of American scientists on a wooded plateau. The eclipse began at 8:22 a.m. and reached totality at 9:34 a.m., lasting 3 minutes 48 seconds before partial phases continued to 11:03 a.m. Eastern times. Observers at Araxa, 275 miles away, saw no eclipse due to cloud cover.
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Bocaiuva
Brazil
Araxa
Immediate Prohibition of Atomic Weapons Urged in Proposals
The proposal calls for an immediate ban on atomic weapons though it seems not to follow the demands set by the International Control of Atomic Energy. The text argues for swift action to curb nuclear arms while assessing diplomatic implications.
Governor Cherry Travels to Hatters for Tar Heel Visit
Governor Cherry flew to Hatters to host a gathering for out-of-state honorary Tar Heels, mainly writers. He plans to return tomorrow.
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Raleigh
Cherry
Hatteras
Britain to cede Mediterranean defense to United States
Analysis notes two London sourced items suggesting a shift of defense responsibility to the United States for the Mediterranean and the Middle East, including Suez, while Britain maintains economic and political interests. It also reports talk of a Soviet grain for jets barter linked to Bevin at Moscow, with possible surprise diplomacy ahead.
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London
England
United States
Mediterranean
Middle East
Suez Canal
Britain
U. S
Sunday Empire News
Foundation
Bevin
Moscow
The
People
Russia
America
Uncle Sam
East Africa
Truman Plans Indefinite Stay In Missouri
Grandview Missouri May 20 President Truman remains at his mother’s farmhouse as she fights a grave illness. He will not return to Washington soon and will spend another day with Mrs Truman while authorities fly papers to him for state business. Lt Col Hank Myers pilots the Sacred Cow ready for any emergency flight to Washington.
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Grandview
Truman
Kansas City
Martha E. Truman
Washington
Jackson County
Muehlebach
Henry T
Hank) Myers
Chinese Students Clash at Nanking March
About 15 students and several policemen were hurt when roughly 6,000 striking students attempted to march to the conference hall of the people's political council in Nanking. They demanded higher food allowances, 15 percent of the national budget for education, and an immediate end to China's civil war.
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Nanking
People's Political Council
Council
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Ministry of Education
Railroads Face Anti-Trust Case Hearing In Georgia Suit
Supreme court master Lloyd K. Garrison opens hearings on Georgia charges that railroads fix freight rates and conspire to discriminate against the south. The state earned direct access to the high court by a 5 to 4 decision on March 26, 1945. Alabama failed to join.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Georgia
Alabama
May Recalled To Testify At Fraud Trial
Washington May 20 The defense at the May-Garson fraud trial recalled ex-congressman Andrew J. May to continue his denial of government charges that he obtained wartime favors for munitions-makers for pay.
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Washington
Former Rep May testifies in war fraud trial over lumber firm
Former Representative Andrew J. May told a jury he labeled himself owner of a Kentucky lumber company to sidestep labor issues. He said munitions makers Henry and Murray Garsson actually owned Cumberland Lumber Co. at Prestonsburg, Kentucky, tied to bribe conspiracy charges.
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Washington
Andrew J. May
Kentucky
House Military Committee
Henry and
Murray Garsson
Cumberland Lumber Co
Prestonsburg
May Denies Bribe Claims Amid Garsson Trial
May, 72, a Kentucky Democrat and former House military committee chair, is accused of taking more than 55000 in bribes from Henry and Murray Garsson who are on trial. The Garssons are central figures in a 78000000 munitions combine tied to Cumberland Lumber Company in Kentucky.
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May
Henry
Murray Garsson
House
Kentucky
Garssons
Cumberland Lumber Company
Indictments Faced In Kansas City Vote Fraud Case
The Jackson county grand jury issued 29 indictments against 27 persons over alleged vote fraud in the August primary. Names and specific violations remain secret pending arrests. The probe, starting March 29 with evidence from the Kansas City Star, followed April 21 indictments against 39 election workers.
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Kansas City
Jackson County
Grand Jury
Kansas City Star
Governor Lets McLeod Die For Murder Sentence
Raleigh May 20 Governor Cherry refused to intervene in the case of Ben Franklin McLeod a 28 year old negro convicted of murder last October in Scotland county McLeod faces execution in the gas chamber at Central Prison on Friday
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Raleigh
Cherry
Ben Franklin McLeod
Scotland County
McLeod
Central Prison
Birthday for quadruplets in Reidsville
In Reidsville on May 20 a 37 year old deaf mute mother Annie Mae Fultz and her former husband James Fult, 54, celebrate the first birthday of their four daughters named Mary. Each of the quadruplets weighed four pounds at birth and now weighs about 19 pounds.
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Reidsville
Fultz
Annie Mae Fultz
James Fult
Mary
United States accuses Balkan states of defying UN authority
The United States charged Albania Yugoslavia and Bulgaria with defying UN authority by refusing to cooperate with a border watch group in northern Greece. Washington opposed moves to curtail the investigators while Greece urged the Balkan states to honor UN requests. Indications pointed to a June report detailing tensions between Russia and western powers over Greek frontier incidents.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United States
Balkans
United Nations
Greece
Albania
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
U. S
Herschel V. Johnson
Security Council
Council
Johnson
Vassili Dendramis
UN Balkan Border Watch Group
Athens
Salonika
Balkan
Britain
Geneva
Council For Action
Russia
Democrats Delay Tax Action in Senate Standoff
Democrats move to postpone final action on the tax cut bill until June 10 awaiting a Republican recruit. They plan to delay a postponement vote until Senator Langer of North Dakota returns, hoping five Republicans including Aiken Morse Wilson Tobey join to support the delay.
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Washington
Senate
Science Foundation
Langer
Taft
Ohio
GOP
Aiken
Vermont
Morse
Oregon
Wilson
Iowa
Tobey
New Hampshire
Three Students Hurt in School Bus Accident Near Creedmoor
In Granville county near Creedmoor an overturned Hawley high school bus injured three students Eula Upchurch James Garrett and Annie Mae Hockaday. The driver Solomon Caudle was unhurt and 18 other pupils escaped with slight injuries. all were taken to Susie Cheatham hospital in Oxford.
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Durham
Hawley High School
Granville County
Smith Creek
Creedmoor
Eula Upchurch
James Garrett
Annie Mae Hockaday
Susie Cheatham
Oxford
Solomon Caudle
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Navy
Edward N. Little
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Fukuoka
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