Longshoremen Vote Down Plan to End Hawaii's Dock Strike
Honolulu longshoremen rejected a peace plan aimed at ending the Hawaii waterfront strike 826 to 59. The plan from a fact finding board proposed a 14 cent hourly raise, while workers sought 32 cents on top of a 1.40 base. Governor Long urged resuming bargaining as Union leader Bridges prepared to direct the struggle.
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Oren E. Long
I. O. International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union
Harry Bridges
San Francisco
Henry Schmidt
Pacific Coast
Bridges
Portland
Los Angeles Mayor Bowron Faces Police Chief Pick and Grand Jury
Los Angeles July 1 Bowron begins his fourth term with tasks including installing Police Chief William Worton, addressing a grand jury probe into vice and police corruption, and fending off rivals. Worton will lead the 4000 strong force through a civil service exam while the police commission stalls resignations during the inquiry into Brenda Allen’s allegations.
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Llos Angeles
Fletcher Bowron
Los Angeles
William A. Worton
Citizens of Los Angeles, Ti
Citizens of Los Angeles, Inc
Lloyd Aldrich
Bowron
C. 3
Horrall Bowron
Worton
Police Commission
Land Jury
Brenda Allen
Secrecy Lifts From F-94 Jet Fighter Reveal
The U S Air Force disclosed the Lockheed F-94 night fighter with extended radar nose and rear thrust booster. It will be manned by a pilot and radar operator, with 116 units ordered. Lockheed to build F-94 alongside F-80, TF-00 trainer, on parallel lines. The jet is designed to operate in pitch darkness and when water visibility grounds standard jets.
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Burbank
U. S
Lockheed
Young Democrat Directors Meet in Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY July 1 The national conference of regional directors of Young Democratic Clubs of America opened to set a date and place for the national convention Delegates from most of the 48 states and Puerto Rico attended along with eight regional directors and five convention committee members Roy G Baker of Sherman Texas and Mrs Van D Hicks of Oak Ridge Tennessee arrived yesterday Both expressed optimism about Democratic prospects in future victories.
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Salt Lake City
Young Democratic Clubs of America
Puerto Rico
Roy G. Baker
Sherman
Texas
van D. Hicks
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Cochairman
Thieves Loot Fay Bainter Vacation Home
Palm Springs police report burglars broke into actress Fay Bainter's vacation home yesterday stealing furs clothes liquor and other goods of undetermined value in a daytime break in during July.
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Palm Springs
Fay Bainter
Rocket Firing Center Enters Project Stage
COCOA BEACH Florida July 1 UP Americas newest and biggest laboratory for testing guided missiles becomes a project not a plan by order signed by President Truman in May Five years and 200000000 from now it will be a vast rocket launching center with a laboratory area spanning 12000 acres and reaching across Britain's Bahamas Island chain 3000 miles out into the South Atlantic Ocean An impact area off shipping lanes will host missile crashes Twelve officers and 25 enlisted men of the Army and Air Force have rehabilitated the former naval air station since last month Col Wallace W Millard commander says the center will later house about 4250 military personnel and civilian scientists The first rocket is not expected to fire until July 1 1951
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Cocoa Beach
Fla
America
Truman
Britain
Bahamas
South Atlantic Ocean
Air Force
Naval Air Station
Wallace W. Millard
Millard
Killer's Parents in Guilty Pleas
Salinas July 1 The Kovacs pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of their son and daughter by different marriages who are charged with murdering their illegitimate child. The two juveniles were committed to an institution yesterday by Superior Judge Henry G. Jorgenson. The girl admitted beating the infant to death with a doll to avoid punishment. The boy is accused of fathering the child and aiding in disposing of the body found buried in a tin can along a roadside. A probation hearing is set for July 14.
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Salinas
John Kovac
Kovac
Kavac
Henry G. Jorgenson
Juvenile Department of the Superior Court
Kovacs
French Paratroopers Die in Boat Blast Near Brest
Five French paratroopers were killed and six injured in an explosion at the naval air base near Brest as they waited to board a dispatch boat. The blast at Langoec-Poulniec, Quimper region, caused undisclosed damage and the cause remained undetermined.
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Quimper
France
Naval Air
Langoec-Poulniec
Brest
Acheson Pledges Senate Consultation on China Recognition
Secretary of State Acheson told Senate foreign policy leaders he will consult the Foreign Relations Committee before any decision on recognizing a Chinese Communist government. Chairman Connally of Texas was informed that Acheson will fully brief the committee when the issue arises amid bipartisan pressure over U.S. China policy.
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Ashington
Acheson
Senate
State Department
Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
China
Truman
Sen. Vandenberg
R.mich
Woman Who Hid 'Shame' Son Draws Sentence
A mother accused of hiding her 14 year old son to cover his illegitimacy was sentenced to an indefinite reform school term. Anna Sullivan, 45, also mother to three Marine Corps children, faced Judge Frankland W. Miles as the boy Gerald described years of concealment. The then neglected child, found shoeless in March wearing girl clothes, was later placed in a state home. The girl named Gerald dismissed her offer to return home, seeking a life in the country with other kids. Bail set at 10,000. a Superior Court hearing pending.
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Oston
Anna Sullivan
Marine Corps
Gerald
Sullivan
Frankland W. L. Miles
Minister Arrested After Raid on Love's Park Bingo
Rockford Illinois police raided St Bridget's Church in Love's Park, arresting Rev Raymond Patrick Gordon a Roman Catholic priest for keeping a gambling establishment. Officers seized gambling equipment from the church basement and charged Gordon with operating a bingo game. Two others, Andrew Pozzi and two unidentified men, were held on bonds of 120 dollars each and released after appearing before a justice of the peace.
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Rockford
Raymond Patrick Gordon
St Bridget's Chu
Love’s Park
Roy York
Love's Park
Andrew Pozzi
Justice of the Peace
Young man accused of aggravated sexual attack
New Orleans July 1 a 21 year old babysitter Ciliford M Hafley has been booked for aggravated sexual attack of a 10 year old The mother and Hafleys wife left the child with him at a city apartment house He denies the charge and the mother found the girl in distress after returning from a movie
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New Orleans
Ciliford M. Hafley
Harry la
Daniels
Hafley
Ex-Bataan Vet Rescued From Slide
Lanis Sasek, 27, ex Bataan death marcher who spent six years in a Japanese prison camp, was buried alive under dirt after a ladder broke and a gas main was hit on a Seattle sewer job. Fellow workers and firefighters quickly rescued him after an avalanche of dirt.
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Seattle
Lanis Sasek
Bataan
Jill Erickson
Couple to Marry Inside Airplane in Bloomsburg
A truck driver Allen Hartman plans a wedding in an airplane tomorrow with bride Grace Russell a beautician at Norristown State Hospital. Best man pilot Jack Laubach of Bloomsburg will fly. Rev Henry Hopkins Riverside Methodist Church will perform the ceremony after a brief flight trial.
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Bloomsburg
U. A
Allen Hartman
Grace Russell
Norristown
Jack Laubach
Henry Hopkins, Astor
Riverside, Pa
Daughter Stabbed Man Leaps to Death on Riverside Drive
Police report a 44-year-old waiter Hans Boeper stabbed his 8-year-old daughter Barbara early today, then jumped to his death from a ninth floor room on Riverside Drive. Barbara was in critical condition at Roosevelt Hospital.
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New York
Riverside, Drive
Hans Boeper
Barbara
Roosevelt Hospital
Balloon Missing From War Surplus Store
Police search for a 38 foot inflated barrage balloon reported stolen from a local war surplus store. The incident occurred July 1 and the balloon remains unaccounted for.
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Eatile
Wasn
Western Europe moves toward freer trade basis
Paris July 1 AP Western Europe edged toward freer competition in trade after a midnight session of top economists reached a compromise between US demands for liberalization and Britain's push for continued safeguards. The plan would allow a small multi lateral trade on a basis under 2 percent of the 500 million yearly volume, easing but not abolishing restrictions as Europe broadens Marshall Plan economic cooperation. Britain cited weak recovery and low reserves, while Europe sought to loosen postwar barter practices under the OREC scrutiny.
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United States
Europe
W. Averell Harriman
U. 8S
America
Britain
Aige
U. S
OREC
Organization For European Economic Co-operation
Legislature Praises UC Loyalty Oath System
In SACRAMENTO on July 16 the Senate and Assembly praised the University of California loyalty oath program for faculty members. Both houses adopted resolutions commending the regents for requiring the oaths.
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Sacramento
California
Senate
Berlin City Regime Faces Bankruptcy Crisis and Rail Strike End
Berlin is threatened with municipal bankruptcy amid a 321 million west marks deficit as its railway strike ends. Soviet-run trains resume in western sectors after 41 days, with interzonal traffic gradually restored. In Slovakia, rioting between Catholics and government supporters leaves two Czech police dead. travel into Slovakia is restricted. In London, Conservative leaders urge Parliament to press striking transport workers to protect exports.
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Berlin
Germany
Slovakia
Prague
London
Britain
Conservative
House of Commons
Anthony Eden
George Isaacs
Security Market Tries to Climb Out of June Low
New York July 1 The stock market awakened from a winter sleep and tumbled to a June 13 low. Through mid year the economy faced a painful postwar readjustment with rising unemployment and slashed dividends. Investors remained cautious as steel output fell and labor talks intensified amid a mood of broad market pessimism and split outlooks for the second half.
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New York
Wall Street
Floodwaters Rise in Yangtze Valley Submerging Wharves
Floodwaters threaten the Yangtze Valley with dikes near submersion at Nanking and Pukow. Emergency measures are deployed as four of twelve riverfront wharves are inundated and streets around the railway station submerged.
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Yangtze Valley
Nanking
Pukow
Yangtze
Atomic energy labor dispute sent to presidential panel
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory 300 AFL workers face a stalled two month bargaining period. The dispute over wages seniority and sick leave was handed to a presidential labor board led by William H. Davis. Ken Scott cited a wide gap with Carbide and Carbon Chemicals and the Atomic Trades and Labor Council. If panel procedures fail, Taft-Hartley national emergency provisions could be invoked.
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Tenn
Atomic Energy Labor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Atomic Research? Center
Ee Carbide
Carbon Chemicals Corporation
The
Atomic Trades and Labor Council
Atomic Energy Labor Relations Panel
Kenneth JL. Scott
Truman
Scott
William H. “Davis
New York
Edwin E. Witte
University of Wisconsin
Aaron Horvitz
Townsend Speaker at Ohio Convention
In Columbus on July 1, about four thousand delegates gathered for the ninth annual Townsend Clubs convention. Sen Claude Pepper and Dr Francis E Townsend head the speaker list, with plans outlined to form a national Townsend political party at the 193? convention.
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Columbus
Ohio
Townsend Clubs
Claude Pepper
D.-Fla
Pepper
Francis E. Townsend
Old Age Pension Movement
Townsend
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