Warehousemen Strike Shrugs Off Negotiations in San Francisco
In San Francisco the C I O Local 6 warehousemen began a strike across the Bay Area at midnight, with 7000 workers affected and 6000 more in related unions likely to join. They seek a 20 cent hourly raise from a base rate around $1.27 for men and $1.10 for women, as Distributors' Association offers moved from 35 to five cents.
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AN Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area
Distributors’ Association of Northern California
International Longshoremen’s Union
Truman
Distributors’ Association
Pacific Coast
Local Briefs and Club Meetings Featured in Church Notices
The Maturites Club of the First Congregational Church will show sound motion pictures at 7 30 p m in Pilgrim Hall. Begonia Society Parent Chapter meets at 7 45 p m in the Robert Louis Stevenson School cafeteria to hear a Pasadena speaker on shade plants. Visitors welcome. Women's Relief Corps luncheon honors Edith Comyns of San Pedro with an official Tong Beach Corps No 93 visit at 1 00 p m at the Willmore Hotel. A business meeting follows at noon at the Veterans Memorial Building.
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Maturites Club
First Congregational Church
Pilgrim Hall
Begonia Society
Robert Louis. Stevenson School
Fifth St
Lime Ave
Pasadena
Women's Relief Corps
Edith Comyns
San Pedro
Tong Beach Corps No. 93
Women’s Relief
Willmore Hotel
Veterans Memorial Building
Memory Loss Confusion After Park Awakening
In Inglewood on June 14 Mitchell Cupp, 21, told police he woke in a park with a hurting head and no memory of the past six months. He said he had been in Dallas with his wife and 3-year-old son and asked authorities to locate his family.
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Inglewood
Mitchell Cupp
Dallas
Texas
Resort Owner Held for Bribery in Layton Oaks Scandal
UKIAH June 13 Sheriff Beverly G Broaddus held Lane's Redwood Flats owner Fred Grange for allegedly bribing a public official. Grange, accused of paying 550 to the sheriff and 100 to a deputy, faced charges of bribery and suspicion of benephacy with two slot machines seized. Also booked were Robert Gray and Willie Griffin for related gambling charges.
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Ukiah
Mendocinco County
Beverly G. Broaddus
James E. Busch
Broaddus
Fred Grange
Lane
Robert Gray
Hollow Tree
Willie Griffin
Grundy's Resort
Newly-wedded couple found dead in Colorado Springs
In Colorado Springs a 76 year old husband Leon Gallegos and his 39 year old wife Margaret Gallegos were found shot to death in their home. Sheriff Rey Slocum said Leon likely shot his wife then turned the gun on himself after a note claimed she suffered an incurable ailment and asked him to end her life. The pair married six weeks ago after a lonely hearts club correspondence.
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Colorado Springs
Lonely Hearts Club
Leon
Margaret Gallegos
Rey Slocum
Slocum
Gallegos
Policeman's Shot Hits 350 Jackpot in Pasadena
Two men with a safe carrying 350 dollars were captured in Pasadena after a radio officer identified the suspects. Names given as Vecente Guso and Florencio J Aber were from Stockton and Isleton in California.
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Pasadena
Radio 1
Ray Bartlett
Stockton
Calif
Florencio J.aber
Isleton
Cement Case May Alter U S Business Radically
A Supreme Court ruling on basing point price systems could reshape U S commerce. The decision may decentralize prices and spur new production centers, mergers, or splits while challenging uniform nationwide quotes. Further FTC enforcement could alter how basing point schemes are viewed and applied.
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U. S
New York
Supreme Court
Federal Trade Commission
Cement Institute
Justice Black
Truce Eases Palestine as U.N. Seeks Lasting Peace
Cairo reports say the Arab Israeli truce brings quiet in Palestine while U.N. mediator Count Folke Bernadotte prepares Rhodes base for peace talks. Jews accuse Syrians of violations as observers monitor the northern front a convoy to Jerusalem passes Arab roadblocks.
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Cairo
Palestine
United Nations
Rhodes
Seunneee
Ufe
United States
Tel Aviv
Aon Ting
Dyer Sevench
Jerusalem
VU. N. Checkers
U. N
Folke Bernadotte
Turkey
Holy Land
Navy unions face court action over looming maritime walkout
The National Marine Union the nine Engineers Beneficial Association and the American Radio Association with other unions and 54 shipping firms are named in a U S District Court petition seeking an injunction to resume good faith bargaining under Truman orders. The suit filed by Joseph M Friedman special assistant to Attorney General Tom Clark cites threatened shutdowns as risking national health and safety and seeks to bar interference with shipping operations and hiring halls pending court rulings on Taft Hartley law claims.
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Eldin
Curran
Anton Pega Piefery
Specifi
National
Nabel Union
Nine Engineers Beneficial Association
American Ratio Association
Pace
U.S. District Court
Justice Department
Truman
United States
Joseph M. Friedman
Tom Clark
Jation
Columbia River Flood Strain Widespread in Pacific Northwest
River basins remain under strain as public health, water supply, and relief efforts dominate efforts in Washington Oregon and British Columbia. Damage exceeds 140 million dollars with months to years of rebuilding ahead.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Washington
Columbia
Here
Pacific
Trinidad
Army Engineers Corps
Snake River
Portland
Longview
Kelso
Puget Oland
Rick Dairy Land
Oregon
Clatskanie
Sparrows Point
Astoria
British Columbia
Esterday
Argentina Plans Great Export-pushing Program
The plan envisions vast warehouses cold storage plants and processing facilities to expand markets for Argentine goods in the United States Europe and Latin America. Key sites include Cadiz New Orleans Matanzas and Panama with a Matanzas free port offering duty free storage and transit.
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Flayana
Cuba
Argentina
United States
Europe
Latin America
Diego Luis Molinar
Juan Peron
Havana
Cadiz
Spain
New Orleans
U. 2 Gulf Coast
Matanzas
Caribbean
Republic of Panama
Jorge Leonardi
Molinari
Mantanzas
Leonardi
Arturo Alvarez
Uving
Maximiliano Zincke
Banco Nunez
Atform- 4
Italian Police Seize Hidden Munitions in Two Regions
Police in two northern zones of Italy recovered large munitions caches. In Porretta Terme Bologna police found 30 automatic rifles 30 machine guns 100 new American rifles grenades and thousands of cartridges. In Novara authorities reported tens of thousands more rounds and rifle parts.
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Rome
Porretta Terme
Bologna
Novara
Giornale Della Sera
Polite
Airport-harbor Bus Route Favored by City Agency
Tanner Motor Tours, Ltd. won cautious approval from the Gre Beach Bureau of Fren h for a motor bus and limousine service plan. The proposal covers a main route from Long Beach Municipal Airport to the Catalina Island Line terminal in Wilmington via Wilton Hotel, plus an alternate direct airport to terminal route. The filing now proceeds to the California Public Vehicles Commission for final decision.
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Tanner Motor Tours, Ltd
California Public Vehicles Commission
Long Beach Municipal
Catalina Island Line
Wilmington
Gre Beach Bureau of Fren|h
Tanner Company
Wilton Hotel
Catalina Terminal
Pressure Mounts in Miners Union Contract Parley
Washington reports pressure mounting on both sides of the soft coal contract talks with three weeks left before a nationwide strike. The wage pact expires June 30, but a July 5 industry vacation raises the deadline. John L. Lewis pushed for operators to cover nearly 20 million in distress payments under the welfare fund, while operators balked at those obligations.
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Washington
John. L. Lewis
Lewis
Elven
Welfare and Retirement Fund
Ezra van Horn
Hatton
Oak Ridge
Tenn
A. F. L. Trades and Labor Council
The
Atomic Laboratory
General ‘Motors
Ford
Mead
A. W
Budd Co
I Chrysler
Briggs
Ford Motor Co
U. S. Will Fly Mexicans Home
Thirty nine Mexicans including a woman were seized in Chicago and will be flown back to the Mexican border. Merriam said all were unlawfully in the United States. The group was found in a vacant store near the Loop and taken into custody after residents alerted police. Authorities sought a man identified by Sanchez as the intended recipient for the smugglers.
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Chicago
Mexico
U. S
Merriam
Department
Loop
Ronetag
Sete 3
Grew
Rinaldo
Sanchez
San Benito
Texas
Seid Sanchez
Chi- Mainichi
Cage
Brownaville
Pante
Yreka Girl Chosen for Miss America Test
Reba Loretta Watterson 18, college student, won Miss California at a bathing beauty contest in Yreka and will represent California in Atlantic City next September. She dances and sings, with measurements listed, and is daughter of J B and wife who own a cattle ranch near Yreka.
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Qanta Cruz
de California
Atlantic City
Reba Loretta Watterson
College of the Pacific
Miss Watterson
J. B. Watterson
Reka
Alhambra
Marilyn Jane Davidson
Whittier College
Manhattan Beach
Beverly Jane Richter
Brunette
Teachers Pay Disparity Hit
Wellesley Massachusetts June 14 Dr Albert Coe pastor of Oak Park’s First Congregational Church told Wellesley College graduates that America chooses technology over human values. He criticized high salaries for movie stars while teachers receive meager wages and warned of discrimination and a false value system.
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Wellesley
Mass
America
Albert 3Boe
Oak Park
Wellesley College
Coe
Land of Plenty
Man Shot During Argument for Pay
In Fargo North Dakota Charles E. Densel a 34 year old from York Pennsylvania was critically wounded in a dispute over wages with cafe proprietor Nick Paris. Paris 4 was charged with attempted murder. Densel had begun work for Paris on Saturday. The detective said the shooting followed Paris’ refusal to pay Densel who had three meals and a night’s lodging. Police records list Provo Utah as Densel’s home when jailed recently on a liquor charge.
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Fargo
N. D
Charles E. Densel
York
Les E. Dunnweber
Nick Paris
Cafe Opera
Densel
Paris
Yes
Provo
Utah
Japs to Reprint Ex-envoy's Book
Tokyo dispatch reports former U S ambassador Joseph C Grew may become a top selling foreign author in Japan His book Ten Years in Japan drew the highest bids among 91 American and Irish titles during a large scale import bidding by allied headquarters in Tokyo for foreign books since the war began
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Tokyo
U. S
Joseph C. Grew
Japan
Allied
County Workers to Be Honored for Long Service
Los Angeles County government to honor employees with long service on July 6 in a special session of the Board of Supervisors. Seventy seven employees retiring between January 16 and July 1 1948 will receive gold buttons and oral plaudits, with hundreds more recognized for 20 to 25, 25+ years.
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Los Angeles
Under & Plen
Board of Supervisors
Aid bill for WWI veterans widows and orphans passes
The House approved a measure estimated to cost 100 million dollars yearly to aid widows and orphans of World War I and I veterans. The bill, with a 360 to 0 roll call, moves to the Senate for consideration. The plan covers dependents of veterans whose service produced the need.
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Washington
UPA
House
Senate
County Pair Honored by National Smoke Prevention Group
Dr Louis C McCabe director and Maj Harry E Kunkel chief inspector of the County Air Pollution Control District were honored by the Smoke Prevention Association of America at a New York City convention. McCabe left for Washington to confer with federal weather bureau officials. the two will return to Los Angeles Tuesday.
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Louis C. McCabe
College Degree Delays Advised at Colgate
Dr. George H. Gallup proposed that academic degrees be withheld from graduates for 25 years. He spoke at Colgate University during its 127th annual commencement, suggesting degrees be awarded conditionally after four years if proof of continued learning and growth is shown at the 25 year mark.
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Hamilton
George H. Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Gallup
Colgate University
Six Floor Fall Succeeds in Safe Landing
Kenneth Liebman aged 2 survived a fall from a sixth floor window panel in his apartment. He landed on grass below and was saved by bystanders until an ambulance arrived. His twin brother Stephen was playing with him at the time.
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Kenneth Liebman
Stephen
Kenneth
President Signs Construction Bill
President Truman approved a bill authorizing a 207000000? construction program at Army and Air Force posts and bases, with funds to be requested later by Congress. About 25 million is for Beales within the continental United States and the rest for military outposts, mainly housing and utilities for personnel. The Senate originally proposed 247 million, but the House trimmed it.
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Washington
Truman Toda Ok
Congress
Continental United States
Senate
House
Six Hurt in Crash Involving Jail Driver
Kenneth W. Tyler twenty five was held in West Los Angeles jail on drunken driving suspicion after his car struck a vehicle driven by Mrs. Margaret V. Swanson forty three at Sepulveda and Lincoln Blvds. Six persons received minor injuries in the wreck yesterday, witnesses said Tyler failed to make a curve.
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Los Angeles
Kenneth W. Tyler
Margaret V. Swanson
Alhambra
Tyler
Sepulveda
Lincoln Blvds
Long Beach Chamber President Guest at Exposition Banquet
George P F Taubman Jr president of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce was guest of honor Saturday night at the Home and Building Exposition in Pan Pan enndlortam Re Angeles taubman represent ity for Long Beach Night at the show.
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George PF. Taubman Jr
Long Beach
Railmen Lift Wage Demands
Chicago June 14 wage and rules committee members from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors met to discuss wage demands. The two unions, not involved in the current carrier dispute, had accepted a 15 percent raise plus 4 cents an hour retroactive to Sept 1.
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Chicago
Tune 14
Two
Brotherhood of Railroad_ Trainmen
Order of Railway Conductors
Washington
U S Steel Denies Wage Boost Proposal
Pittsburgh reports that United States Steel Corp denied plans for a 16 cent hourly wage increase for Steelworkers. A union spokesman said members were unaware of the proposal and rejected pay meeting discussions, while a normal policy and a price reduction measure were mentioned in the announcement.
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Pittsburgh
Steel Corp
C.F. O. United Steelworkers
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