GM and Union Reach Accord on Pay Boost
GM and the CIO United Auto Workers reached adjustments to pay under the 1950 five year contract affecting about 350,000 workers. Key changes include raising the annual improvement factor to five cents, adopting a new consumer price index, moving 19 of 24 cents of prior cost of living allowances into base wages, and limiting downward wage adjustments to five cents regardless of deflation.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers Today
UAW
Walter P Reuther
U. S. Department of Labor
Department
Eisenhower Proclaims Memorial Day a Day of Prayer
President Eisenhower proclaims Memorial Day May 30 as a day of prayer beginning at 10 am EST. He urges the nation to unite in solemn prayer honoring fallen soldiers and rededicating the effort for permanent peace to end all wars and the Unknown Soldier.
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W Wasmar Gilly
Eisenhower
Where to Find It Beach Combing Saga and More
The page guide lists where to locate features across the newspaper, including Beach Combing Saga on A-1 and various sections such as Bridge on A-11, Classifieds 6-8 to 15, Comics on 8-6, and Obituaries on 8-2. It also notes specials like Theaters on A-12 and Weather pages B-8.
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Boyle
Southland
Tot Missing in Wilds Rescued in Michigan Hunt
Beverly Kay Bradley, two, vanished from her grandparents' cottage in Menominee County, spent 48 hours in bear‑infested woods. A Coast Guard helicopter found her about noon, and she was flown to St Joseph’s Hospital in stable condition. Paul A Bradley, her father, joined the search after a crash en route to Greenville, Ohio.
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Menoronee
Mich
Beverly Kay Bradley
Michigan
Coast Guard
St. Joseph's Hospital
Milwaukee
Beverly Kay
Tf T
Paul A. Bradley
Greenville
Ohio
Gar
Plymouth
Wis
Menominee
Beverly
Ocalla Bradley
Bevery
Edward van Freeck
Ivan Fleeck
State Control of Sea Wealth Becomes Law
President Eisenhower signed the offshore oil lands bill at the White House with two score Congress members present. The law affirms coastal states title to submerged lands within historic boundaries including oil rich areas off Texas Louisiana California and Florida and marks a campaign promise fulfilled while pledging to resist federal encroachment on state rights.
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Eisenhower
Hebert
D.-La
Ser
Long D.lajj
Scudder
R-Calif
Arends
Billly
Rap
Younger
Hosmer
R.-Calif
Sen
Helland
Butler
Rneb
Rep
Wilson
Dexas
Cordon
R.-Ore
Associated Press
Washington
White House
Congress
Texas
Louisiana
California
Florida
Tam
New French General Gets Baptism by Fire
Paris reports that Vietminh gunfire crippled one engine of the Dakota carrying Gen. Henri Navarre during an aerial inspection in north Indochina. The plane landed safely at Nasan, a French outpost 117 miles west of Hanoi.
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Paris
Alnvcaina
Vietminh Cadels
France
Far East
AFP
Henri Navarre
Indochina
Nasan
Hanoi
Cutback Held Unlikely at Long Beach Douglas Plant
A Douglas Aircraft spokesman in Long Beach said defense budget cuts are not expected to affect production or procurement at the Long Beach plant. He emphasized there has been no intimation of a cutback and does not foresee impact on the facility.
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Long Beach
Douglas
Long Beach Douglas
Storms and Tornadoes Ravage U S Great Lakes Region
Storms and tornadoes swept the Great Lakes region and Midwest today, killing at least five in Port Huron Michigan and Sarnia Ontario, with additional deaths reported near Spring Bank and Port Huron. Flooding, downed trees, and power lines disrupted Illinois Indiana and Michigan as rescue workers searched for victims. Weather Bureau warned of more tornado chances across eastern Missouri southern Illinois and southern Indiana as fires started from damaged wires. Continued on page A-4.
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Great Lakes
Michigan-Canadian
Ilinois
Indiana
Twin
Port Huron
Mich
Sarnia
Ont
Spring Bank
Gut
Weather Bureau
Missouri
Miinois
Qoods
Louisiana
Texas
Spring Beak
Illinois
Watseka
Iinois
Lafayette
Ind
U. S
Earl Park
Dulles presses Russia on peace aims in Korea Laos Austria
U S Secretary of State Dulles urged the Soviets to prove sincerity of peace overtures on Korea Laos and Austria drawing harsh quotes about Soviet actions. Prime ministers and leaders prepared for a Big Three east west meeting in Bermuda next month to advance talks as Laos faces rebel advances and Austrian negotiations resume in London May 27.
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India
U. S
Dulles
Korea
Laos
Theeduaah
Russiaa
Hisenhower
Churchill
Bermuda
Middle East
Soviet Russia
Austria
Viet Nam
Britain
United States
France
Soviet Union
London
Weather Brief: Clear Skies with Patchy Low Clouds
Mostly clear conditions with patches of low clouds. Little temperature change expected Saturday afternoon.
Labor Dept Fund Cut Bid Passes House Vote
The House tentatively approved 235,184,000 in new Labor Department appropriations for the next fiscal year starting July 1, 194? The total is 41,634,600 less than Truman's January budget but 760,000 above the House committee recommendation. It added 700,000 to Apprenticeship and 60,000 to the Women's Bureau while denying increases for unemployment compensation grants to states and the Wage and Hour division.
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Washington
LLP
House
Labor Department
Truman
House Appropriations Committee
Bureau of Apprenticeship
Women’s Bureau
Women's Bureau
Costs rise slightly as index nears record high
Washington reports the consumer price index nudged up one tenth of a percent from mid-March to mid-April. Food costs declined modestly while other items edged higher, placing the index at 113.7 percent of the 1947-49 average and near the peak set last November.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Thief Confesses To Break-In At Chicago 79th Street Station
Richard Fitzpatrick, 27, told detectives he worked hard to break into a railroad station, steal a 40 pound safe, and move it three blocks to his home on the South Side. Police recovered the unopened safe behind a 12 apartment building after the Illinois Central Railroad reported the theft at the 79th Street Station.
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Chicago
Richard Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
Sinois Central Railroad
79Th St
Young Wife Hides After Hair Cutting Incident
An 18 year old Paramount mother Patsy Lee Hubbard is in hiding in North Long Beach after her husband Sim Hubbard allegedly attacked her with a knife and cut her hair in a family row. Deputies report the incident occurred Thursday night at a sister in law's home in Norwalk. Hubbard plans to seek a divorce as she remains secluded with her mother.
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Paramount
North Long Beach
van Ghevil
Patsy Lee Hubbard
Sawyer St
Sim
Aho
Douglas Co Offer To Be Put To Vote
Negotiators for Long Beach Douglas Aircraft and Local 148 United Auto Workers reportedly reached a tentative agreement in contract talks. The union called a special membership meeting for Wednesday to vote on acceptance or rejection of the latest offer. Oval Pierce said workers would meet at Municipal Auditorium and day shift at 8 p.m. to decide the next step. He noted amike powers remain and said negotiators were still meeting, with no firm confirmation of an agreement.
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Long Beach Douglas Aircraft, Co
United Auto Workers, Cio
Oval Pierce
Municipal Auditorium
Pierce
Anion
Triplets Arrive Doubling Family to Fifteen in Italy
In Foggia Italy Mrs Catherine Draicchia welcomed triplets three children a second boy and two girls joining her large family bringing total to fifteen offspring. The birth occurred last night with medical staff noting healthy infants and mother’s discharge planned after observation.
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Foggia
Italy
Caterine Draicchia
Dope party ends in teen tragedy in Los Angeles
Max May 19 died in a dingy E. 82nd St unit after a heroin binge at a party that began Tuesday at Dennis Carson’s home. Eight youths were arrested, including Harald Boop and James Haynes, on narcotics charges as investigators traced a supply of ten heroin cabs sold for three dollars each.
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Max Melvin May
Los Angeles
Leon D. Smith
Dennis N. Carson
James L. Haynes
Raymond Meyers
Harold J. Rapp
Clark Barton
Jap Wirephora
City News Service
H." Sheriff's Deputies
Max May
E. 82Nd St
Young May
Floyd Rosenberg
She Ssheriff
Dennis W. Carson
Ier
Harald
Jim) Boop
82Nd St
May
Boop
Laken
Felice
Boon
Firestone Park
Smith
Long Crime Career Ends in Execution
San Quentin reported the execution of 21 year old Dario Amaya for a robbery at an Oakland grocery that yielded nothing. Amaya began his police record at age 12, ending with capital punishment today at San Quentin's gas chamber.
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San Quentin
Dario Amaya
Oakland
From Lilibet to Queen Elizabeth VI Coronation Portrait
Britons place hopes on a 27 year-old woman to be crowned Elizabeth VI on June 2. A five part AP series by James F. King details her life and background, to bring the coronation to life for readers of the Press-Telegram starting Monday.
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Elizabeth VI
Elizabeth
Queen Victoria
James F. King
Associated Press
London
Liithet
Press-Telegram
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