Eisenhower Sweeps Massachusetts Primary Victory For Ike
Gen Dwight Eisenhower dominates the Massachusetts primary winning nearly 200,000 votes and 26 convention delegates in most districts. The result shifts national convention strength with Taft close behind, while Democratic tallies show Kefauver and Eisenhower leading in their party. Multiple precincts remain reporting as final results are scheduled.
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Relman Morin
Boston
Dwight’ D. Eisenhower
Massachusetts
Hisenhower
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Associated Press
Taft
Eisenhower
Gen. MacArthur
Warren
Fj Sen. Kefauver
Tennessee
President Truman
Gov. Dever
National
Negotiators Fight Bus Strike Risk in Blairsville Area
Negotiators met to avert a strike by 250 Blue Ridge Bus Lines drivers serving Blairsville and Maryland. AFL Amalgamated Division 1063 demands 30 cent hourly wage raise, seven holidays, and other fringe benefits. current rate is 1.52 per hour. A walkout would halt White Star and Penn lines commuter service. Tickets for "A Yea and A Dame" at ISTC Auditorium.
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Blue Ridge Bus Lines
Blairsville
Maryland
Division 1063
AFL Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railways and
White Star
Penn Lines
Leap of Death Dance at Hotel Homer Tonight
A late 219x event features music by The Five Clubmen, billed as a leap of death dance at Hotel Homer tonight. The quirky listing notes 218x as part of the scene.
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Homer
Pan American Plane Vanishes Over Brazilian Jungles
A Pan American Boeing stratocruiser carrying 50 people including nine crew members disappeared after taking off from Rio de Janeiro en route to Port of Spain and New York. Search planes scoured the Amazon region and plateau terrain from Brazil toward Trinidad as authorities from multiple nations joined the emergency hunt.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
New York
Belem
Buenos Aires
Argentina
United States
Port O of Spain
Trinidad
Port of Spain
Barreiras
Bahia State
Rio
Amazon
Atlantic
South America
Pan American World Airways
U.S. Navy
Air Force
Brazilian Air Force
County Mine and Worker Win JAH Honors in Mining Awards
Blairsville and Creekside miners receive Joseph A Holmes Safety Association honors for outstanding safety records. Thomas S. Cowie Sr. of Creekside is cited for a 52 year, accident-free coal mining career. Cowie retired from Ernest mine in 1947 after over 50 years in the industry. Born in Scotland in 1881, he came to America in 1888 and began in mines at age nine. The Holmes Association, founded 1916 to honor Dr Joseph A Holmes, is organized by Indiana County mines into local chapters.
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Blairsville
Frm
Creekside
Joseph A. ‘Holmes Safety Association
Westmoreland Mining Company
United States
Thomas ‘S. Cowie, Sr
Cowie
Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Ernest
Scotland
Erica
Holmes Association
Joseph A. Holmes
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Indiana County Council
Chamber to Meet Friday to Adopt Revised By Laws
Indiana chamber members receive notices for a Friday evening meeting in the Community Building to approve revised by laws. The event flags expansion of the Wahr estate distribution to Indiana State Teachers College and other beneficiaries, with about 65 000 dollars extra after tax to be allocated to scholarships and institutions.
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Indiana Chamber of Commerce
Philadelphia Street
Lntrance
Chamber
George Felt
A. I. Rees
Htrst
R. E. Krape
John G. St. Clair
H. E. Raymond
Vernon Taylor
A. A. Simpson
John W. Sutton
J. Brody
Penn
Indiana
George T. Buchanan
Cnnssylvania Supreme Court
State Teachers College
Ira Myers
Robert Fisher
Ana State Teachers College
Corinne Menklars
Teachers College
M. J.empt
es-Wida
Mesta
Supreme Court
Willis E. Pratt
Indiana State
Indiana State Teachers College, Teachers College
Wahr
Ready
Institut
St. Pata Pa Ery Sros
Corinne Menk Wahr
State Supreme Court
de Jwas
Penngy
Vania
Indiana County Heart Disease Deaths Fall Short Of State Average
A National Office of Vital Statistics report based on 1950 data shows Indiana County recording 427 heart disease deaths, a rate of 557 per 100 000, below Middle Atlantic and national averages. The analysis notes heart disease as the leading cause of death and disability, with rising life expectancy contributing to higher absolute numbers.
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Indiana County
Middle Atlantic States
National Office of Vital Statistics
Middle
United States
Indiana
Federal
Middle Atlantic
Pennsylvania
American Heart Association
Free Dog Tags for Serving Dogs in Hong Kong
The government orders free licenses for dogs serving with Her Majesty's armed forces in Hong Kong though the measure is not all-inclusive. Only dogs actually serving qualify, while troop mascots must still obtain paid licenses.
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Hong Kong
Her Majesty’s Armed Forces
District to Tour White House With Truman Via Video
District television stations will televise a nationwide videocast at 4 p m showing the newly renovated White House. President Truman will host the tour as WNJAC TV and WDTV provide the first public interior view since the mansion reopened after a 5 700 000 facelift.
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White House
Truman
Wnjac-Tv
WDTV
90000 Oil Workers Strike Across Refineries and Pipelines
More than 90,000 unionized refinery and pipeline workers walked out nationwide as talks with the oil industry continued. The unions pressed for a 25 cent hourly raise and higher night differential pay while government officials said they had no current plan to intervene.
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Denver
Russia Faces Stiff Note After Berlin Shootdown
Berlin reports say a Soviet fighter attack on a French Air France liner wounded two German passengers and minor injuries to two French crew. Allied high commissioners demand punishment and damages while Moscow claims the plane violated a four power corridor. Regular Berlin West Germany air service resumes after disruption.
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Berlin
Ger- Francisco
Air France
Four Power Air Safety Center
Saxony
Etstal
Schoenfeld
Dallgow
Koethen
Leipzig
West Germany
Sleep Was Fatal In Route 45 Crash Near Lewisburg
Robert Dale Smith, 30, of Millmont Route 1, was killed early today when his car crashed into two trees on Route 45 three miles west of Lewisburg. State police said Smith apparently fell asleep at the wheel.
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Lewisburg
Robert Dale Smith
Millmont R. D. 1
Route 45
Here
Smith
Oil workers strike threatens war effort and gas supply
The Oil Workers International Union in Denver urged 10 000 California members to stay on the job to back the Korean War effort. Prolonged strikes slow fuel, with long fuel lines reported in Detroit and other cities as the 12 01 a m deadline approached. Natural gas shortages loom as pipeline crews idle, with Panhandle Eastern Pipeline cutting supply to 400 communities across eight states. Supervision at compressor stations to keep gas flowing to Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Indiana Ohio Michigan. East Coast faces Midwest Southwest gas shortfalls.
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WIC Ull Sulike
Oil Workers International Union
CIU
Denver
California
Detroit
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Irngis
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Midwest
Southwest
OWIU
Chicago
Ita
Ingrid Bergman Twin Pregnancy Reported in Rome
X rays allegedly reveal Ingrid Bergman is expecting twins in June. Roberto Rossellini, her husband, announced the news. The couple already has a son, Robertino, born February 1950.
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Rome
Ingrid Bergman
Roberto Rossellini
Hosseini
Idabella
Robertino
Pittsburgh Steel Plants Shutdown Sparks National Walkout
Grim CIO United Steelworkers ordered a coast to coast steel strike across the nation. About 650,000 unionists halted work after Philip Murray’s cease work order, starting in Gary and South Chicago and spreading to Pittsburgh Cleveland Buffalo and Baltimore. Pickets appeared at plant gates as mills shut down quickly and peacefully after a court decision.
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Pittsburgh
CIO United
Great American Steel Industry
USW
Philip Murray
Gary
Chicago
Ind
Cleveland
Buffalo
Baltimore
Murray
John L. Lewis
Pickets Parade at Bethlehem Steel Plant in Steelton
About 6,000 Bethlehem Steel workers walked out, leaving a skeleton crew to wind down banking operations and maintain ovens. Pickets formed peaceful lines at plant entrances while spectators watched. nearby Harrisburg firms stayed out of the strike so far.
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Steelton
Bethlehem Steel Co
Harrisburg
Big Strike Forces Steel Mills Shutdown
Federal Judge David A Pine ruled the government overstepped in seizing the steel industry and ordered mills returned to owners. CIO workers began leaving plants as a nationwide strike paralyzed about 650000 workers and the administration sought stays and Supreme Court review to reverse the ruling.
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Bulletin Washington
David A. Pine
Washington
Truman
CIO
Federal
Pine
U.S. Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Allegheny County Pair Jailed For Kent Thefts
Two Allegheny County men, Jesse Stephenson and Calvin Taylor, are jailed in Indiana County on larceny charges for stealing Bell Telephone cable valued at 2000 dollars from a Kent location. A third suspect is being sought. authorities say the men admitted cutting and selling the cable for junk last October.
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Allegheny County
Indiana County
Bell Telephone Company
Cable Hear Kent
Luke Kelly
Jesse Stephenson
Turtle Creek
Calvin Taylor
Braddock
Justice of the Peace
Walter H. Jackson
Stephenson
Taylor
Indiana
Kelly
Bell Telephone
Boy and Girl Day Set For Indiana Tomorrow
Tomorrow is Boy and Girl Day in Indiana Joint High School. Selected students will assume duties of city county and school officials to teach governance workings. District Attorney Gordon Cunningham and others fill roles such as Prothonotary Ted Banks, Judge Jack Hartnett, Burgess Ed Stewart, Police Chief Wayne Maurdick, and County Treasurer Bill Smith among many posts.
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Indiana Joint High School
Weir
Gordon Cunningham
Ted Banks
Dick Sadowski
von Sharpe
Register
Jack Hartnett
Ed Stewart
Burgess
Wayne Maurdick
Bill Smith
Chuck Trezanic
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Fisher Orchestra
Grove Chapel
Young Neighbors
First Presbyterian Church
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Winchester
Hemington
Savage
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Patty Carbaugh
Bob Simmons
Dick Feree
Bill Shane
Jack Rice
Bob Creek
Free Beck
Dave Frick
Tom Larsen
Arlene Jeffries
Doris Edwards
Children’s Home
Steve Mrazik
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Ed Allen
Florence Falls
Sue Hammers
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Audrey Cooper
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Jimmy George
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