Hartley Seeks Probe of Those By-passing Law
Hartley calls for Congressional probe into efforts to bypass the Taft Hartley Act as unions and employers clash nationwide. In San Francisco the Water front Employers Association debates the six week long C I O longshore strike while Hollywood braces for labor tensions impacting film. In Detroit and Cleveland unions move toward referenda and non written contracts as labor fights unfold across multiple industries.
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I. Jongyshore Union
Tommy
Los Angeles
Carrot
D. Kearns
Detroit
Co. I. O. United Auto Workers
Ford’ Motor Co
Cleveland
A. F. L.international” Typographical Union
Washington
Hartley
AVF. L
C. I
New
Europe
A. F.L
America
Virginia Hill Recovering for Showdown
Virginia Hill shows signs of recovery after a 6.7 hour coma. Detective Chief Charles W. Pierce says a showdown with her household may follow once she is well, mentioning plans to question Virginia, her brother Charles, and secretary Jerri Mason. The case involves her former boyfriend Benjamin Siegel, shot in June, with earlier reports describing overdose treatment and a move off the critical list.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Virginia Hill
Charles W. Pierce
Pierce
Virginia
Charles
Jerri Mason
Pierre
Miss Hi
Benjamin
Bugsy
Siegel
Beverly Hills
St. Francis Hospital
Retin
Miss Hills
Russians Say They'll Free Yank Trio In Korea
Seoul Aug 23 The Russians announced three American enlisted men taken near the Soviet occupation zone in North Korea on Aug 12 will be released Sunday. The trio TS Tommy F Pugsley Renton Washington Pfc John D Hopfe Seattle and Pfc Berald K Gellen Port Chester were to be interviewed in Seoul Sunday morning by an American intelligence officer who questioned the Russian claim.
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Seoul
North Korea
Pyongyang
Tommy F. Pugsley
Renton
Wash
John D. Hopfe
Seattle
Berald K
Discovery of New Vitamin Reported in NOXVIe
A University of Tennessee faculty member and a graduate student reported today the discovery of an unidentified nutrient believed to be a new vitamin. The finding, announced in NOXVIe, marks a potential addition to known vitamins and prompts further study by researchers.
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Noxvilue
Selin
University of Tennessee
Goodman Outswung by Dorsey in Hollywood duel
In Hollywood Benny Goodman trailed Tommy Dorsey after a heated recording session. Goodman arrived late, exchanged verbal jabs with Dorsey, and left bandstand shaken while Dorsey denied striking him. a prior Hall incident was mentioned with acquittal.
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Hollywood
Benny Goodman
Tommy Dorsey
Goodman
Tommy
Dorsey
Benny
Clairne di Dorsey
Jonz Hall
Beulah Overall and Bud Gollins Face Murder Charge
The defense plans to open with Beulah Overall and fiancé George Gollins, both charged in the murder of Beulah's parents and setting off a timebomb that damaged the Overell yacht. The unnamed Sunday Punch witness is to be questioned as part of the defense strategy.
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Santa’ Ana
Als
U.P
Beulah
Louise Overall
George
Bud) Gollins
Valtorneys
Walter
B. Overell
Overell
Beirne
Two British Sergeants Executed in Palestine Hanging
In Jerusalem on August 23, police said several people were arrested connected to the July 3 abduction and hanging of British Sergeants Dif ford Martin and Merry Paice. The bodies were found bloodied and blackened, suspended from eucalyptus trees near Natanya on the Palestine coast.
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Jerusalem
Difford Martin
Merry. Price
Martin
Paice
Ai Wood
Natanya
Palestine
Romania OKs treaty as reparations loom and limits stand
The Romanian Chamber of Deputies unanimously ratified the peace treaty with Allied nations. The government cited a $300.9 million reparation payment to Russia, Bessarabia loss, and defense limits of 138000 in land and air forces plus 15 000 tons of warships and 150 planes. In San Francisco a 48 year old sailor died aboard a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Seattle, death blamed on heart ailment.
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Bucharest
Romania
Romanian Chamber of Deputies
Tatarescue
Russia
Bessarabia
San Francisco
Arg
William G. Maneely
Saliop
San Diego
United Air Lines
Los Angeles
Seattle
Baths Forbidden in Austria Amid Water Shortage
Vienna reports a severe drought with water shortages leading authorities to ban baths and prohibit watering lawns and gardens. Canal traffic and river shipping face disruption as the drought worsens.
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Austria
Vienna
Cool Weather May Aid Midwestern Crops
The U S Weather Bureau at Chicago reports a slight chance of weekend showers and cooler air from Canada reaching Montana to North Dakota Sunday and extending to northern Illinois Monday if it moves south. The long heat wave has threatened corn crops across Iowa Nebraska Indiana and surrounding states with reports of potential or actual crop failure, according to Agriculture statistician Leslie M Carl.
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Plains States
U. S. Weather Bureau
Chicago
Canada
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Nebraska
Ilinois
Midwest
mIowa
Spall
Leslie M.carl
Department of Agriculture
Indiana
British Mine Blast Claims 19 Lives in North England
NF LAM England Aug 23 U P midnight explosion deep underground in Morrison north mine killed 19 coal miners today raising weekly death toll to 123. Fourteen bodies brought to surface by late morning as five more awaited. Victims were part of a work party preparing Monday digs in a seam two feet six inches high, 432 feet down.
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NF Lam
England
U.P
Morrison North
Whitehaven
J.B. Williams
National Coa
Explosion at Missouri Cafe Injures Eight in Independence
Eight persons were injured today when a refrigeration unit exploded at a Missouri cafe in Independence. A second blast followed minutes later, hurling two people through a plate glass window. Six victims were taken to Independence Sanitarium. one treated and released, another treated for shock by a private physician. The blast appeared to involve the refrigeration unit.
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Independence
Independence: Sanitarium
Forishock
Uni
Firm Gets Share in Huge Greek Contract
A $64,000,000 highway and bridge reconstruction contract in Greece was awarded by the American Mission for Aid to Greece to the Guy F. Atkinson Company of Long Beach and San Francisco and two New York partners. Col. David W. Griffiths of the Army Engineers will supervise the project. Financing is $48,000,000 from the U.S. government and $16,000,000 from Greece. Two Atkinson employees are already in Greece.
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Greece
Guy F. Atkinson
Long Beach
San Francisco
Engineering News-Record
Trace Journal
Johnson-Drake Piper, Inc
Starr-Park-Freeman, Inc
New York City
Army Engineers
War Department
David W. Griffiths
United States
I. Two
Guy FP
Atkinson Company
B. A. Byrnes
Earl Jonnett
Enterprise
President Truman Referred Refugee Plea to State Dept
President Truman referred to the State Department an appeal from 4400 Jewish refugees aboard three British transports off the French coast. The passengers urged intervention to prevent return to Germany and to help reach Palestine. The message, written by the Jewish travelers, was forwarded by French police after leaving Port de Boue for Hamburg and was funded by a Jewish relief group.
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Washington
Truman
State Departments
Port de ‘‘Boue
France
Hamburg
Germany
Palestine
Enlarge the Doghouse Reunion Ends 8000 Mile Mixup
Mrs Gladys Barksdale of Gladewater Texas reunites with Army master sergeant husband John M Barksdale after 8000 miles of travel amid a signals mix up that sent her to Japan while he arrived from Japan at Fort Worth Army Air Field The couple met at the pier and the misunderstanding was forgiven
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John M. Barksdale
Gladewater
Texas
Jon
Gt Barksdale
Fort Worth
Army Air Field
Gladys
Japan
King Summons Chiefs to Form New Regime
Athens Aug 23 A P Premier Demetrios Maximos cabinet backed by 300000 plus 2000 in American aid collapsed as three Center Party ministers sought control of security posts. Foreign Minister Tsaldaris opposed a cabinet reshuffle and King Paul called leaders to discuss forming a new government amid UN paralysis and rising Balkan tensions. Panayotis Kanellopoulos and Sophocles Venizelos resign as Papanadreou seeks interior to war ministry changes.
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Athens
A.P
Demetrios Maximos
Center Party
Crima
Constantin
Tsaldaris
Washington
Thhe
EAM
United States
Paul
Panayotis Kanellopoulos
Napolon Zervas
Kanellopoulos
Navy
Papandreou
George Stratas
U S Wins on Intra American Aggression Issue
PETROPOLIS Brazil Aug 23 Argentine delegate La Rosa said the United States won a tentative victory in a closed subcommittee debate on Argentina’s proposal to differentiate aggression within and outside the Western Hemisphere. He noted a compromise was drafted to define aggression and call for arbitration and consultation before sanctions.
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Petropolis
Brazil
Pascual Ja “Rosa
United States
Argentina
la Rosa
Brakeman Killed as Trains Collide in Arkansas
In Rison Arkansas an UPA St Louis Southwestern passenger train collided with the rear of a freight train at a siding early today. The freight brakeman J C Garnett of Pine Bluff was killed.
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Hera
Barger
Herman Pick
Aassociated Press
Russ
Yank
J. S
Cabinet
Bud
Sunday Punich
Sds
Presentuett
Ary A.mazarik
LeVerne Davies
Missouri Cafe
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