Lewis' Signal and Labor Strikes Across Industries
Lewis' Signal reports coal miners returning to work while 400,000 remain on strike and 513,000 C. S. O. steelworkers also idle. Optimism for settlement of the 186 day 1 6 strike looms as Hawaii longshoremen may settle soon. Detroit's auto industry tensions ease as Ford pattern eyed by Chrysler. AFL convention in St Paul discusses shorter workday and week. United Mine Workers hint idleness not vital to wage talks. 80,000 hard coal and 22,000 soft coal workers affected. Steel and iron ore strikes fuel possible government mediation. Truman refrains from direct action, Ching to push talks. Union chiefs demand company paid pensions and insurance. companies resist. Pennsylvania railroad mediation to determine bargaining representation for 48,000 shop workers amid eight AFL crafts and URW. Result expected mid November.
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John
Lewis
C. S O
Hawaii
Detroit
C. SO
Ford
Chrysler
A.f.‘L
St. Paul
Miaon
Federation
United Mine Workers
Idlerness
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
U.M
White House
Truman
Ching
Aoe
Explosion Rocks New York Garage Near West 20th
An explosion at a New York garage building on West 20th shook the area today. Authorities say several tenants were evacuated as flames and debris damaged nearby businesses and windows. No further details on casualties were immediately available.
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New !York
Stu Biew
Ings
Gulf Coast Braces for Major Gale Assault
A 100 mile per hour hurricane moved toward the Texas coast from Corpus Christi to Galveston with rain and high tides. Texas cities prepared with shelters, evacuations, and boarded storefronts as winds 55 to 63 mph near gale force and cen tered about 125 miles east southeast of Brownsville. Beach communities, oil facilities, and naval air centers ordered precautions while Miami meteorologists monitored a parallel Atlantic disturbance.
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Texas
Brownsville
Corpus Christi
Galveston
Associated Press
Orpus Christi
Gulf Coast
Naval Air Training Center
Goodfellow Field
Dan Amnalh Destract
Weather Bureau
Waa
Bureau
Louisiana
Lake Charles
Pensacola
Fin
North Beach
Red Cross
Corpus Christ
Port Lavaca
Houston
Air Force
Ellington Field
Angleton
West _ Columbia
Bay City
Rockport
Ferugio
Linton
Freeport
Palacios
Brazoria
Aransas Pass
Miami
Florida
India Center
Vandenberg Undergoes Five Hour Lung Operation
ARBOR Mich Oct 3 Senator Arthur H Vandenberg Republican foreign affairs expert underwent a five hour operation at University of Michigan Hospital today He was on the operating table at 1 pm and entered the hospital last Monday for a checkup The nature of his illness was not disclosed Dr John Alexander surgeon in charge said the operation was on a lung lesion and Vandenbergs condition was satisfactory The operation began shortly after Sam-
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Ann
Arbor
Mich
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R-Mich
University of Michigan Hospital
Vandenberg
John Alexander
Sam
Tanker Crippled Off South Coast Near Atlantic
A 10,000-ton American tanker lost its pier about 400 miles east of Wilmington, N C, while en route from Aruba to Boston. A tug from Baltimore has been dispatched to assist, per Coast Guard reports. The vessel is S. Clarke's Wharf, operated by Trinidad Corporation of New York.
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New York
Atlantic
Wilmington
N.C
Baltimore
Coast Guard
Clarke's
Trinidad Corporation
Aruba
Netherland West Indies
Boston
Navy kills floating bomb tale on Potomac river
Washington dispatch says a floating bomb in the Potomac interrupted river traffic for an hour yesterday. Police harbor boats halted river traffic while the Navy investigated. The object was a float tied to a demolition charge but no charge remained. it had exploded Saturday during a demonstration.
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Washington
Potomac River
Navy
Bracelet finds honesty rewarded by postman in Long Beach
The Long Beach mail carrier Fred Oehlman found a bracelet on Gavoita Avenue and, after checking classifieds, learned an insurance company item valued at 4500 dollars had been lost. His honesty was recognized with a substantial reward.
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Long” Beach
Fred’ Oehlman
Gavoita
Ave
Columms
Bulgaria Renounces Yugoslav Border Pact
London report says Bulgaria denounces the border agreement with Yugoslavia. Sofia radio quoted the foreign minister delivering a note to the Yugoslav ambassador stating Bulgaria can no longer consider itself bound by the frontier convention allowing free passage across the border.
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London
Bulgaria
Yugo- Islavia
Sofia
Bugaria
Tminister
Yusslav
Fron
Sand Gravel Strike Risks Major LA Area Construction
A wave of sand and gravel workers walk off jobs, idling pits in Lomita and halting ready mix concrete in Long Beach. The International Union of Operating Engineers claims six paid holidays as the dispute’s aim, threatening 100000 unemployed if prolonged. Cox Brothers suspends Huntington Beach State Park work and L and Whaley reports pending tasks for hundreds of dwellings and streets in Long Beach area.
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Los Angeles-Long Beach
Graham Brothers
Rreee
International Union of Operating Engineers
Lomita
Long Beach
F. L. Teamsters
Harry Ferrand
Southern California Rock Products Association
Forthcom
Ansco
Cox Brothers Construction Co
Anaheim
Huntington Beach State Park
Clark Ave
Wardlow Rd
Spring St. Long Beach
L. & Whaley Co
Pacific Coast Hwy
Anaheim St
Bellflower Blvd
Atherton
Stearns St
Cape Cod home looted by two gunmen stops escape
Two pistol brandishing robbers from San Francisco and Milwaukee roused a Woods Hole couple at 4 am looting their Cape Cod home of about $20,000 in valuables. They bound the parents and fled toward the mainland but were halted by Bourne and Sagamore bridge roadblocks. the car with the valuables was seized at Bourne, the Parsons reporting the theft.
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Osterville
Mass
San Francisco
Milwaukee
Cape Cod
Donald Parsons Jr
Woods Hole
Marine Biological Laboratory
Phyllis
Parsons
Hyannis
Cape Cod Canal
Sagamore
Bourne
Cape
Bourne Bridge
College Sorority Quarters Vandalized Over Weekend
Reported vandalism at a college sorority house over the weekend describes slashed chairs and furniture burned by acid. Mirrors scratched trophies battered and purple paint poured on woodwork, with six weathered chairs noted as damaged. Names mentioned include Davenport and Moses in partial accounts.
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Davenport
Moses
Long Beach Realtors Convene At California Meet
News highlights note California realtors open a Long Beach convention on page B 7. Other items list notices and features across sections A and B including Soltek Eisenhower remarks and various page references.
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California Realtors
Long Beach
Soltek Eisenhower
Boyle
Rodin
Dead Listed in Ontario Bus Collision Victims Named
Officials at March Air Force Base report casualties after a bus crash with a Union Pacific passenger train near Ontario. Several names are listed as dead or injured, including Rhyneta and Juanita McVaughlin, Gloria Myers, and Marguita Pearce, with fingerprint confirmation and next of kin notifications underway.
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Jim Hubbart
Onearig
U.S. Air Force
March Field
Air Force Base
Riverside
Ontario Hostis Club
Ruby McLaughlin
Juanita McLaughlin
Nedyawe Eafa
Buiyinusa
Corong
del Mar
Long Beach
Edward P. Doyle
Union Pacific
Chicago
al -Hall
Iwo Jima
Dick Kienhard
Omega
Marquita Fearce
Ontario
Charles Joseph Plevniak
Naval
Marquita
Seu Poe Greele
Brooklyn
Si Tao
March Air’ Force Base
Union
Pacific
Déai Bane Rhyneta
Tazio
Juanita
Mcvaughlin
oaMgry
Alles
Alta ‘Loma
Acon’ de Bra
Oafetta
Bigley
Upland
Gloria
Myers
Pearce
Marguita Pearce
Charles Plevniak
Maret
Peter Grisolin
wNso
Mareh’ Air Base
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Mines
Sik
Gulf
Sen
South Coast
Potomac
P.T. Ad
L.B
Ai Force
Seleded Prass
Dual Air Force
Poe
Lape von Snytt
United States
Henry Leo’ Schnitzer
San
Arit
South St. al
U. S
State Department
Moscow
Hell
Livingston
Al.Co
Palos Verdes
T. Meschter
Kinderhook
N. Y
Albert Willis
Brooking
Lyn
Associated Gen 1
ECA
Eral
Neers
South Tion Co
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