Phone Union Sets 43-State Strike Monday
New York April 4 AP The government pressed for new steel wage talks to avert a nationwide strike set for Wednesday by 700,000 steelworkers. CIO United Steelworkers leader Philip Murray signed strike notices sent to firms and locals. Nathan Feinsinger was named to assist, and Steelman sent to New York to push a settlement. The union warned the strike rests on employers in the basic steel industry and claimed their cause is just, aligning with government support.
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New York
CIO
United Steelworkers Union
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Nathan Feinsinger
Wage Stabilization Board
The
Union
Truman
Warren Signs Billion Budget
Governor Earl Warren signed a 1.182 billion state budget in Sacramento. He cut 5 million from a sinking fund for a school bond and shifted it to the surplus. He left open the possibility of a special session to consider a new school construction bond if the Legislature can reach agreement.
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Sacramento
Earl Warren
McGranery Named Attorney General Sparks GOP Attack
Rep. Velde labeled James P. McGranery a whitewash artist amid Amerasia and Communist-in-government probes. The Philadelphia judge and former U S attorney general aide was chosen to replace J Howard McGrath at the Justice Department, in a case tied to the Amerasia magazine and wartime espionage charges involving five suspects and one employee.
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Washington
Truman
Rep. Velde
Illinois
James P. McGranery
Velde
McGranery
Amerasia
U. S
Philadelphia
McGarnery
J. Howard McGrath
Justice Department
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wils
Ammanuel S. Larsen
State Department
Truman Cleanup Blows Up as McGranery Nears AG Post
Philadelphia judge James P. McGranery appears set to become attorney general as the Truman administration’s anticorruption cleanup collapses. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath resigns in a blunt move with Newbold Morris dismissed amid accusations of a whitewashed probe, signaling turmoil in Washington and questions over the program’s future.
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Washington
Philadelphia
James P. McGranery
McGranery
Senate
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
J. Howard McGrath
McGrath
Harry Truman
Clong
Newbold Morris
Morris
Bribe to Foreman Hinted in Costello Jury Oust
New York April 4 The foreman of the jury in gambler Frank Costello contempt case was discharged after she said the judge was told she could be paid 250 to sway her verdict A second juror was also removed without explanation as the trial stalled amid illness and rumor of an envelope containing money Two alternates stood ready to replace them as U S Attorney Myles J Lane and Judge Sylvester Ryan faced a disrupted court session and an uncertain path to verdict in the second trial of Costello on Senate crime committee charges.
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New York
Frank Costello
Helen Louise Mason
Sylvester Ryan
Costello
Mason
Ryan
U.S
Myles J. Lane
U. S. Senate Crime Committee
Ex-Congressman Denies Knowledge of Tax Case Fees
Former Congressman T Vincent Quinn told House investigators he did not knowingly share in any fee paid to his law partnership in civil tax cases while he served in Congress. Internal Revenue records list him as attorney of record in 28 tax cases from 1945 to 1950.
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Washington
T. Vincent Quinn
House
Congress
Internal Revenue Bureau
New York Democrat
Quinn
Queens County
New York City
Martin Schwaeber
James B. Saver
Ways and Means
Adrian Wdewind
Internal Revenue
Little Temperature Change Forecast Tomorrow
The forecast calls for little change in temperatures tomorrow with fog late at night and in the early morning. Otherwise the day should be clear and calm with light winds and no precipitation expected.
Train wreck kills two on Great Northern line
At Fort Belknap Montana a westbound Great Northern mail train struck a derailed unit from an eastbound train. Engineer James C. Haines of Havre and Fireman Henry Brazier of Glasgow died. Three mail clerks were seriously injured and hospitalized at Fort Belknap. John F Budd GN president was unhurt.
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Havre, Mont
St. Paul
Minn
James C. Haines
Havre
Henry Brazer
Glasgow
Martin H. Coley
Williston
XN. D
Marcus Greenwald
H. J. Ecklund
Shelby
Mont
Fort Belkknap
Here
AGN
John F. Budd
Fort Belknap
Budd
University student kills wife and hides body amid eight days
Harold Markham, a 35 year old University of Chicago student, said he shot his wife Mary Elizabeth Markham, 35, in their south side apartment after an argument over her working. Police found the body on the bedroom floor with a note and three empty cartridges nearby. He told officers he slept, ate and studied for eight days with the body, and contemplated suicide after the shooting.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Harold Roland Markham
Frank O'Sullivan
South Side
Mary Elizabeth Markham
Wane Markham
Markham
Marietta
Ohio
Tornadoes Sweep Gulf Coast Killing Six In Louisiana and Alabama
A series of small tornadoes and violent windstorms swept southern Louisiana and Alabama early today killing six people and injuring at least 19. In Arnaudville near Lafayette a family of four perished when their home was demolished. A Mobile Alabama twister caused injuries and widespread damage. A man died when his Mississippi River home in Violet was blown into the river. At Bridge City another death was reported from shock. Hospitalized in the New Orleans area were fourteen injured or in shock.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Alabama
Arnaudville
Lafayette
Jerome Haas
Alex Olivier
Shirley
Peart
Haas
Olivier
Harry
Donald
Breaux Bridge
Earl
Mobile
Ala
Albert Ruiz
Mississippi
Violet
St. Bernard Parish
Bridge City
Taft Eisenhower Split At Iowa GOP Convention
Des Moines delegates divided the 26 national convention slots between Sen. Taft and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eight Eisenhower and seven Taft delegates were chosen in district caucuses, with one neutral delegate leaning Taft. The convention then selected ten delegates at large, with signs of a further even split possible.
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Des Moines
P Town
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Iligon
Five Communists and Lawyer Fined in Smith Act Case
Five Communists and a party lawyer were sentenced to two to five years in prison and fined 10000 to 1000 for conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the government. Philip Frankfeld received the maximum five years. Regina Frankfeld two years. George Meyers four years. Leroy Wood Maurice Braverman and Dorothy Blumberg three years each. They were the first party second teamers convicted under the Smith Act. Defense plans an appeal as Judge Chesnut imposed the sentences after a two jury verdict following three weeks of testimony.
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Baltimore
Philip Frankfeld
Regina Frankfeld
Frankfeld
George A. Meyers
Cumberland, Md
Leroy H. Wood
District of Columbia
Maurice L. Braverman
Dorothy Rose Blumberg
Braverman
Blumberg
Brooklyn
N. Y
Enikfeld
Cleveland
New York
W. Calvin Chesnut
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