Parley Fails as 9000 Phone Workers Strike
Nine thousand CIO tele phone workers walked out across Northern California and Nevada after a 20 hour bargaining session failed. The strike hit overseas and long distance exchanges in Oakland with operators leaving in protest while dialing service remained intact. The union sought a 10 percent wage rise and scale changes while PT&T offered 8 percent and partial concessions. Federal mediator Hoskins had not set new talks. The union pledged to maintain military service where possible.
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Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
California
Nevada
Oakland
Communications Workers of America
Pt&t
CWA
Omar Hoskins
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Army
Navy
Air Force
Sweetheart Killer Sentenced to Die
Los Angeles July 20 A 29 year old salesman Robert G Dessauer was sentenced to death for murdering his sweetheart Libby Bershil 31 in a parked car on North La Brea Avenue April 2. Judge Clement D Nye denied a new trial motion, noting the act occurred in heat of passion.
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Los Angeles
Robert G. Dessauer
Libby Bershil
Clement D. Nye
Nye
Dessauer
Pagston
Informal Accord Aims to Limit Curbs Debate
Washington July 20 A bipartisan accord by House leaders seeks to curb debate and wrap up final voting tonight on the economic controls bill. If not disposed of, a Saturday session looms. President Truman urged opposition to lobbyists, warning that big-paid influences may prevail but promising a new start if the bill fails.
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Jeaders
Truman
Massachusetts
White House
House
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Brush Fires in Cleveland National Forest Contained
Lightning sparked brush fires in the Cleveland National Forest with about 800 acres burned. The Forest Service said lines held around a blaze in Lost Valley near Warners Springs, after it had burned over 700 acres. A separate 100 acre fire near Noble Canyon, north of Pine Valley, was under control.
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Slain Champaign High Student Found by Neighbor
Seventeen year old Janet Clark was found murdered in her Champaign home by a neighbor. Police report 40 to 50 stab wounds with a leather awl and a blue necktie around the throat. Autopsy to determine cause of death and possible sexual assault. The victim planned to be a senior at Champaign High School in the fall. The neighbor described a suspicious man seen near the yard. The father was away at work when discovered.
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Jordan King Abdullah Shot at Mosque in Jerusalem
CAIRO July 20 AP an assassin sprang from the shadows at a Jerusalem mosque and killed King Abdullah of Jordan. Abdullah 69 was entering Aqse Mosque to pray when he was struck. bodyguards killed the assassin Mustafa Shakir 35. The Jordanian capital Amman proclaimed a state of emergency and named Prince Naif regent. The heir Emir Tallal faces mental health issues in Beirut.
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Jordan
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Aqse
Omar
Israel
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Naif
Emir Tallal
Beirut
Tallal
Mustafa Shakir
Haj Amin el Husseini
Arab Palestine
Symington Warns of Surprise Blow
STUTTGART Ark July 20 Gro RFC Administrator W Stuart Symington warned the nation may face an imminent vast devastating surprise attack by Soviet Russia as its atomic stockpile grows He urged rapid domestic rearmament and expansion of aluminum industry inland from bomber bases He opposed further financing of foreign aluminum firms on the polar fringe without naming Canada directly and spoke at Reynolds Jones Mills plant dedication.
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W Stuart Symington
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Russia
Symington
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Reynolds Metals Co
Canada
Where to Find It Brief Listing of Pages
A compact index lists newspaper sections and page designations for location of feature areas such as Beach Combing on Page B-1, Boyle on Page A-8, Bridge on Page A- and, Classifieds on Pages B-7 to 11, Comics on B-6, Crossword on A-10, Editorial on A-B, Financial on B-4 and B-5, Obituaries on A-7, Radio and Television on A-10, Shipping Table on 8-5, Sports from A-11 to A-33, Theaters on A-6, and Tides and Temperatures on B-5 with Women’s Activities on B-2 and B-3.
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Boyle
Con Man Mason Testifies On Tax Evasion and Bribery Plans
Sam Mason described as a highly successful con man testified he extorted funds by claiming the money would bribe officials. He said he filed no income tax returns since 1929. Senate committee plans to forward his testimony to Justice and the IRS for possible prosecution amid questions over his use of “sewer money.”
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Washington
Sam Mason
Mason
Hoey
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Senate Investigating Committee
Justice Department
Internal Revenue Bureau
Francis’ Flanagan
Flanagan
Fifty Nations Invited to Sign Japan Peace Pact
The United States and Great Britain invited 50 nations to meet in San Francisco on Sept. 4 to complete and sign a Japan peace treaty. The draft treaty omits Russia over Sakhalin's Kurile Islands and excludes China from invitation, allowing Japan to sign with the Nationalist government or others it chooses. Japan will send delegates empowered to sign the treaty and related declarations.
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United States
San Francisco
Japan
Great Britain
Russia
Moscow
Kurile Islands
Sakhalin
Britain
China
SU. S
Peach Hauler Loses Cargo In San Fernando Road Crash
PACOIMA July 20. Edward Lerma, 24, of Dinu ba, ran a red light with a truck carrying 10 tons of peaches. He swerved to avoid a car, peaches spilled, injuring pedestrian Eleanor Ellis, 30. The truck hit a car that struck a deputy sheriff. Lerma faces a red light citation.
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Neigh Ad
Fordham Seismograph Reports Two Sharp Earthquakes
Fordham University recorded a fairly severe earthquake on its seismograph with two shocks at 3:52 p.m. and 4:01 p.m. EST yesterday. Seismologist Rev. Joseph Lynch estimated the epicenter about 4500 miles from New York.
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New York
Fordham University Today
Joseph Lynch
Weather outlook cools tomorrow with lingering fog
The forecast calls for a slight cool down tomorrow afternoon with increasing night and morning fog and low clouds. Mostly sunny conditions expected Saturday after noon with light variable winds from southwest to west at 3 to 18 mph.
Missouri Flood Halts Armistice Talks and Rips Dikes
Missouri River crest surged toward the Mississippi threatening West Alton and St Louis. The flood caused up to three feet of water in homes, disrupted power, and raised an estimated billion dollar damage as federal relief coordinate Wilson mobilizes agencies to restore the economy.
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Mississippi
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Red Tanks mass north of Kaesong
Eighth Army reports about 200 communist tanks north of Kaesong ready to strike, with forces along a 135 mile front. Weather limited air activity while U N patrols probing enemy defenses near Yonchon and Kaesong.
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Korea
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Koksan
Conference City
Jon Seoul
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Yonchon
Kaiser's Eldest Son Friedrich Wilhelm Dies in Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm's eldest son, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, dies at 69 in Hechingen after a long illness. He was the last crown prince of the Hohenzollerns and eldest son of Wilhelm II. He commanded an army group in Verdun during World War I and later lived in exile in Holland before returning to manage the family estates in Germany.
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Prince Wilhelm
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Lightning Claims Six Workers in Alabama and Strikes Across Northeast
Violent thunderstorms across the Atlantic seaboard killed at least 16 people and caused widespread damage. Six sheltering under a cedar tree near Cedar Bluff Alabama were injured lightly, while Alfred Hale aged 38 and Elmus Pierce aged 18, both sawmill workers, died. Two golf caddies were struck at Brae Burn in Newton Massachusetts and six other people were hit in Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island and Vermont. all survived.
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Cedar Bluff
Ala
Alfred Hale
Elmus Pierce
Brae Burn
Newton
Mass
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Negotiators Tackle Armistice Talks Amid Flood Disruption
Weather forced postponement of the eighth armistice session between U N and Communist teams at Kaesong. Rain-swollen streams blocked access as helicopters were grounded and delegates faced a late start. Red demand for withdrawal of foreign troops remains the central obstacle.
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Kaesong
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Long Beach
United States
Pyongyang
Slackened Wind Aids Fire Fight Near Lakeview Oregon
A forest fire driven by strong winds eased today after raging at a 200 acre per hour pace. Five hundred men and 11 bulldozers worked to build a firebreak northwest of Lakeview to contain the blaze before winds rise again. Another blaze north of Grants Pass burned over 500 acres before foresters aimed to trap it by night.
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Pacific Highway
U. S. 99
Grants Pass
Four Eager Suitors for Husband to Pay Bills
In Vicksburg Mississippi on July 20 four would be husbands answered Mrs. Jean Gregory’s plea to cover medical costs for her sick mother and her three children. She declined to reveal names or meeting details, saying only she needs a husband to help her family survive on $114 monthly aid and a $150 medical bill.
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