Failure Seen in Attempts to Avert Strike
United Press reports the rail labor crisis deepened as federal mediators concede failure to prevent a strike set for May 11. C I O United Auto Workers pressed Ford for an 80 cent hourly raise and broad wage and benefit demands while other labor actions unfold including meat and coal disputes and extended wage talks.
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United Press
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
Ford
Frank Douglass
National Railway Mediation Board
Chicago
Brotherhoods
Brotherhoods of Engineers
C. I. O. United Packinghouse
Wilson & Co
Philip Murray
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Communications Workers of America
National
U. A. W. Council
General Motors
Chrysler Corp
Wilson and Co
Factory costing $300000 to be built at Signal Hill
Signal Hill plans a new factory with a price tag of 300000. Cabrillo Homes tenants vote to purchase the property. Stassen and Taft face acid test in Chico primaries today as political round up crosses pages. St Louis Post-Dispatch wins with Pulitzer awards announced.
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Signal Hill
Cabrillo Homes
Stassen
Taft
Chico
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jews Claim Arab Village Captured in Night Battle
Jewish forces say they seized Yehu dia a wealthy Arab village east of Tel Aviv after an all night clash with Arab fighters. A British mandate end date of May 15 looms as Arab leaders warn invasion unlikely before then.
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Frese
Irgun
Zvai Leumi
Yehudia
Tel Aviv
Lydda
Iraq
Marfak
Trans-Jordan
Palestine
Abdullah
Trans- Jordan
Jewish Agency
Egypt
Jerusalem
Atarot
Holy City
Etzion
Stern
Haganah
Gordon MacMillan
Crisis in Belgium Over School Subsidy Program
Brussels May 4 A Belgian cabinet crisis appeared imminent over the school subsidy program. The Socialist minister of education Camille Huysmans cannot lead the Socialist Catholic coalition while a majority of Socialists in the Chamber oppose the subsidy.
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Brussels
Belgium
Camille] Huysmand
Chamber of Deputies
Senate May Decide Fate of Oleo Measure in Tornado Hit Texas
The Senate nears a decision on where to send the House-passed oleo tax repeal bill amid a parliamentary tangle. Tornadoes in north Texas, including McKinney and Princeton, killed three, injured 53, and caused widespread damage as lines were knocked out and residents aided by Red Cross volunteers.
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Senate
Lornado
Texas
Ashington
Dleo
House
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Finance Committee
Agriculture Committee
Sen. Aiken
Rst
Oleo
Sen
Fulbright
D.ark
Mckinney
Prince[ton
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Kentucky
West Virginia
Princeton
Earl Walker
Collin County Red Cross
J. H. Maynor
U S Charges Boss and Czechs With Border Violations
Berlin May 4 The American Military Government reports border violations by Russian and Czech soldiers along Germany’s U S occupation frontiers. Czechoslovakian border Police fired on several individuals in Bavaria within the U S zone as patrols intensified to stop anticommunist refugees. Russians allegedly committed two interzonal boundary violations with the Soviet zone.
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Berlin
U. S
Germany
Bavaria
United States
Hesse
U.S
Parcel Post Mail Lost in Ship Fire
Fire at sea aboard the S. & American Producer destroyed 116 sacks of parcel post addressed to Army post offices in the European command. An additional 2672 sacks of parcel post and 61 touches of first class mail were damaged, mostly by water, part of mail accumulated at the postal concentration center in New York between April 16 and 20.
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Washington
Army
New York City
One Dead Two Hurt In B29 Crash In Germany
An American B29 bomber crashed near FUERSiniNv ELDBRUCK Germany just before midnight killing one crew member and injuring two. Nine other airmen escaped injury as the $300000 aircraft ignited and burned.
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Eldbruck
Germany
U.S
Hearings Set on Tightening Taft-Hartley Act
Congressional hearings to tighten the Taft-Hartley Labor Act were ordered to begin May 24. Sen. Ball中Minn. notes threatened nationwide railroad, coal and steel strikes and asks the committee to study bringing railroad brotherhoods under the act.
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Washington
Sen. Ball
R-Minn
Ball
Senate House
Red Sphere Urges UN Probe of Communist Spread
Eastern and central European political refugees ask the United Nations Security Council to investigate the spread of communism in their homelands. They accuse Russia of endangering peace and present a published resolution by the oppressed peoples of central and eastern Europe.
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London
Europe
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Central
Stronger U N Demand Heard in Congress
Congress Members from both parties urged a stronger United Nations to promote peace with or without Russia. Reps Hays and Judd called for leading overhauls to the U N charter, supporting cooperation with Russia if possible but ready to act without her if she vetoes.
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Washington
A.P
Congress
United Nations
Russia
Hays
D.-Ark
Judd
R.minn
United States
U. N
Agency For Peace
House Foreign Affairs Committee
America
Eaton
Ran
Bevin Puts Barrier Against Any Russian Deal
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the House of Commons there is little hope of a lasting settlement with Russia while it pursues world wide communism. He said British forces will stay in Berlin despite Russian attempts to oust them and praised the Brussels European union as a path to talks on specific issues. He rejected a European federated state.
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London
Russia
Ernest
Bevin
House of Commons
Commons
Berlin
European Union
Brussels
Germany
Providence R I Teachers Walk Out Closes Schools
Public school teachers in Providence Rhode Island went on strike closing all city schools for 30 000 pupils. The walkout backed a demand for a single uniform salary schedule with A F L Teachers Alliance and Independent Teachers Association members picketing. Officials averaged 1200 teachers total with about 600 in the A F L and 400 in the Independent group.
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Providence
A. F. L.teachers’ Alliance
Independent Teachers’ Association
Independent Association
Dennis J. Roberts
Thief Holds Up Sonora Market Then Fails
In Sonora California on May 4 a man looted a food market, stealing cash and checks totaling 432 dollars. The intruder, confronted on the mezzanine, fled as Pechenino neutralized him with a blow. Police reported the suspect had already pocketed the store’s money.
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Sonora
Calif
Pechenino
Bitter Battle Forecast After British Leave
King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan warned the United Nations that fighting in Palestine will peak after May 15 and urged intervention to halt the violence. The message suggested possible Arab invasion plans and raised questions about a unitary Arab state in Palestine. The United States and Britain clashed over Palestine policy as talks on trusteeship and a neutral commission continued. The U.N. trusteeship council sought safeguards for Jerusalem amid civil war.
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Lake Success
Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
United Nations
Palestine
Trygve Lie
U. I
Britain
Middle East
CITES
U. N
Holy Land
United States
U. S
U. 5
Russia
U.1s
Poliical Committee
Special Palestine Assembly
U.S
Warren Austin
Washington
U. N. Trusteeship Council
Jerusalem
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Associated Press
U.N
Selons
Providence, R
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