Transport Strike Worsens Across Industries
The nation faces crippling strikes as the Marine Engineers Benevolent Association halts seagoing work from Maine to Texas and a 900 pilot walkout against United Air Lines enters its eighth day. CIO communications workers stage mass walkouts at Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, while Western Union telegraphers vote to strike for higher wages. Hudson Motor Car Co. workers approve action over production schedules, threatening 16,000 C10 UAW workers. In Windsor, Ford closes its plant until July 3, idling 11,000. Shipowners seek mediation to end the stalemate.
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Anneococa
Maine
Texas
Marine Engineers Benevolent Association
United Air Lines
Truman Wold
CIO
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
California
Telegraphers Act
Commercial Telegraphers Union
AFL
Western Union
Hudson Motor Car Co
Detroit
Ed Auto Workers
New York
International Fur and Leather Workers Union
FORD
Windsor
Canada
Ford Motor Co
Credit Rstrictions
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Yank J. Taylor
Firefighters Raise Force to 1200 in Gila Forest Fire
Silver City New Mexico June 26 three hundred additional fire fighters joined the 1200 men battling a massive Gila National Forest fire burning 50 square miles. Air cadets from New Mexico Highlands were allowed to help, as winds drive flames over McKnight and Anaimas Canyons. Traffic on the Silver City to Truth or Consequences route was restricted to firefighting units. No serious injuries reported though animals including bear and deer perished. livestock losses and property damage noted. The blaze illuminated the sky and could be seen from 100 miles away.
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Silver City
N. M
Gila National
Dawast
Ules
New Mexico
Wester Colifke
Washington
McKnight
Anaimas Canyons
Continental Divide
Emory Pass
Hillshorn Peak
Black Range
Tucker
Edwin Tucker
Praizei
Arizona
California
Montana Forest Service
Presence Won't Help Child In Dentist Chair
Dr Charles A Sweet urged at the Pacific Coast Dental Conference that parents should not accompany the child in the dentist room. He said dentists must maintain control and use positive salesmanship to reassure children, while parents should not undermine the session.
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Seattle
California
Ouera
Sweet
Charles A.jayith
College of Physicists
San Francisco
Sheared Venetian Blind Clue in Slaying of Wife
Tulsa police, aided by a sheared venetian blind fragment found near Dorothy Waldrop's apartment, rethink the wife killings in the area. Waldrop, 22, a taxicab worker and mother-to-be, was found dead after a possible strangling. Police note the clue could alter the case's narrative though other unsolved local murders since 1942 are not yet connected.
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Fred Graves
Dorothy Waldrop
Graves
Tax Liens on Gaming Group in Miami
Tax liens totaling 1,866,354 dollars issued against Miami S and G Gambling Syndicate members their wives and associates. Deputy Internal Revenue Counselor R. Cave said the largest individual demand is Harold Salvey for 1,002,972 dollars.
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Miami
Fla
Uncle Sam
S& G
Conlselor R. Cave
Harald Salvey
Union Literature Ban Held Legal
Washington reports a National Labor Relations Board ruling that employers may distribute union literature without discrimination or suppression of the employer’s activities. The Monolith Portland Cement case involved Monolith, California, AFL and CIO unions, and addressed removal of a union notice and a ban on distribution from 1945 to 1948.
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Washington
Quarry
Teard
Aris
Heroic Korean War hero injured at home party
Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Carl H. Dodd, 26, reportedly suffered a broken rib when a fight broke out at a party in his honor in Harlan County. The incident occurred after Dodd, native of Evarts, received the Medal from Truman on May 19. Police say two others, Clarence Robinson and Archie Lewis Hall, were charged with assault and drunkenness. Dodd was on leave from Korea and not available for comment.
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Harlan
Carl H. Dodd
Korea
Army
Todd
Truman
Women’s Auxiliary
The
Jeal* American Legion
Hig
Ken
Dodd
Robinson
Hall
Harlan County
J. Royce
Evarts
Benny Flynn to tour Korea in USO volunteer unit
Hollywood reports Jack Benny and Errol Flynn will lead a group of entertainers on a five week tour of the Korean area. The trip marks the first volunteer unit for the Korea circuit since the USO camp show program was reactivated, as announced by the Hollywood Coordinating Committee.
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Hollywood
Jack Benny
Errol Flynn
Korea
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