Hope Fades for Steel Wage Settlement as Strike Looms
Government attempts to resolve the steel wage row ahead of a looming midnight strike deadline. Wage Stabilization Board chair Feinsinger led talks with the CIO United Steelworkers and the Big Six as industry and union officials weighed possible separate meetings. Feinsinger warned a strike would hit national defense, while firms including Barnum Steel and General Electric prepared for potential shortages.
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NEW York
Wage Stabilization Board
Nathan Feinsinger
Big Six
CIO
United Steelworkers
Feinsinger
Barnum Steel Company
Pennsylvania
New Yorkers Welcome Dutch Queen on Borough Parade
New Yorkers prepared a ticker tape welcome and City Hall reception for Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands during a three day visit to New York. Officials planned a motorcade meet at 9 45 a m and a parade from the Battery up Broadway to City Hall with parade units joining en route. The queen visited Hyde Park after Palm Sunday services with Mrs Roosevelt and the Roosevelt family, and placed a wreath on Franklin D Roosevelt’s grave at Hyde Park.
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New York
City Hall
Juliana
Prince Bernhard
Netherlands
City
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
the Battery
Manhattan
Broadway
Mrs. Roosevelt
St. James Episcopal Church
Washington
Philadelphia
President Roosevelt
McMahon Details Hydrogen Bomb Progress Claim
Senator McMahon of Connecticut asserts in a radio interview that the United States is building a hydrogen bomb with great progress in atomic weapons. He heads the Senate House Atomic Energy Committee and did not clarify whether he meant theoretical blueprints or actual construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen
McMahon
D-Conn
United States
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Floods Drive 1500 From Homes Across Dakotas
Sioux Falls and Bismarck faced severe flooding as the Big Sioux and Missouri rivers burst banks. In Sioux Falls 300 families were evacuated from an airport area and housing project, while Bismarck logged 250 flooded homes as the Missouri rose to 25.8 feet. Montana’s Milk River flooded 125,000 acres of farmland. City crews battled waterworks while Braley addition residents faced possible evacuation. officials said this event surpassed last year’s damage.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Bismarck
N. D
Big Sioux
Pierre
S. C
Montana
Glacier National Park
Missouri River
Mandan
North Dakota
Northern Pacific Railroad
Braley Addition
Bert Yaeger
John Browning
Train Enroute To Cincinnati Jumps Track
A Pennsyl vania Railroad passenger train from Chicago to Cincinnati derailed near Elwood Ind. causing eight cars to leave the rails and injuring about 25 passengers. A broken rail is blamed. Gordon MacFarland and Charles Johnson were among the injured. Fr Louis Weitz Xavier University Cincinnati narrowly escaped. Wrecking crews moved cars back onto the tracks.
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Elwood
Ind
Pennsylvania Railroad
Here
Gordon MacFarland
Milwaukee
McGranery Faces Wait For Okay
Private senators say confirmation for James P. McGranery as attorney general may take weeks as the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by McCarran, ponders questions and a possible FBI check. Watkins calls for a full inquiry into his qualifications and Amerasia ties, while McCarran weighs an in person appearance. McGranery, a Philadelphia judge and former House member, faces a lengthy confirmation process following McGrath's resignation and Morris’s dismissal.
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Washington
James P. McGranery
Truman
Senate
McCarran
Dnev
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sen
Watkins
Utah
McGranery
Philadelphia
House
Justice Department
Amerasia
FBI
J.howard McGrath
McGrath
Newbold Morris
New York
Morris
J. Edgar Hoover
ABC
White House
Atty
Francis Biddle
Tom Clark
Amerasia Magazine
Pennsylvania
Congress
Rain Halts Air Action Over Korea
Rain and clouds grounded United Nations air operations across Korea, with weather reconnaissance planes active. U.S. Fifth Air Force spokesman said it was raining all over the peninsula. Sabre jet pilots claimed four MIG-15s destroyed, two probably destroyed, eight damaged in three skirmishes over Northwestern Korea, including Capt. Iven Kincheloe attaining the 10th jet ace title after a 40 minute battle near the Yalu River.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
U.S. Fifth Air Force
Peninsula
U. S. Sabre
Iven C. Kincheloe
Cassopolis
Mich
America
Polar landing attempt nets Neptune bombers on polar flight
Two P2V Neptune bombers left Point Barrow to reach the North Pole as part of Operation Ski Jump. One plane reached Thule Air Base in Greenland after engine trouble forced the other to strand on Ice Island T-3 with 12 crew aboard. The grounded crew, commanded by Cmdr. W. J. Coley, reportedly had food and heat with no emergency.
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Pole
Thule
Point Barrow
Alaska
Navy
Remai
Cmdr. C. D. Kephart
Bremeron
Wash
Greenland
Cmdr
W. J. Coley
Oakland
Calif
Senate considers budget reform for stronger fiscal oversight
The bill by Sen. McClellan creates an 18 member joint congressional budget committee with staff to audit federal spending. It allocates five members from each chamber's Appropriations panels and four from Government Operations, aiming to curb waste and require a balanced alternative budget when deficits loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Hall
Washington
Senate
Congress
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
House
House Appropriations
Appropriations Committees
Joint Committee
Congressional
McClellan
Snake Hunt Ends With Rattler Bite At Roundup
In Okeene Oklahoma a veteran snake handler Russell Strayhorn was bitten on the hand by a rattler during the 13th annual roundup that drew more than 15 000 hunters and 1 684 reptiles captured alive. First aid was given by Vern Dale Shipman who later helped haul the champion rattler as 68 inches long. Strayhorn criticized the stunt and declined antivenom, doctors deeming him not seriously harmed.
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Okeene
Okla
Russell Strayhorn
Vern Dale Shipman
Watonga
Strayhorn
Shipman
Jimmy Davis
Mild quake rattles Diamond Head Waikiki area
A mild earthquake struck the Diamond Head area of Waikiki last night, rattling windows but police report no damage. The event is noted as a minor tremor with no injuries or structural harm reported.
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Honolulu
Diamond Head
Waikiki
National Round-Up Sees Taft Ike Heading for Convention Deadlock
They forecast a deadlock at the Republican nominating convention with Taft and Eisenhower splitting delegation votes. Illinois and Kentucky boosts could push Taft toward 200, while Eisenhower lingers below 100 but holds potential in New York New Jersey and Ontario? Delegates from Michigan remain divided among Eisenhower Taft and unpledged groups, signaling a horse race with many undecided votes.
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Chicago
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Illinois
Eisenhower
Kentucky
Kansas
New York
New Jersey
Michigan
Birthday split as Fangman couple marks first child birth
INDIANAPOLIS April 5 marked Paul E. Fangman Jr’s 20th birthday while his wife Carole celebrated her 19th birthday separately in hospital. Mrs. Fangman was delivering their first child, Lee Carole, at the hospital.
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Indianapolis
Paul E. Fangman Jr
Carole
New Move For FEPC Under Way
Washington starts hearings on creating a fair employment practices commission with power to enforce anti discrimination rulings. The subcommittee chaired by Senator Humphrey will hear federal officials on manpower and Truman’s defense contract order. Action expected only at committee level this session.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Labor
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
67000 Quit Jobs In Phone Walkout Across Nation
New York AP reports about 67000 CIO communications workers striking nationwide threatening service disruption. Western Union Telegraph System also hit by strikes. Mediation failed after all night talks ending at 6 a.m. EST, with 16000 Western Electric employees joining pickets, risking phone service in 43 states.
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NEW York
CIO
Western Union Telegraph System
Western Electric Co
Red Offer To Captives May Be Test
Red broadcasts from the Korean war theater promised a peaceful welcome home to prisoners returning from the United Nations Command. The moves appear aimed at testing possible concessions on prisoner repatriation while negotiations on truce terms continue in recess. UN officials report no immediate comment as sub-delegates meet to discuss remaining issues. Given the broad scope, the story also cites a separate labor dispute involving Bell Telephone Systems, with a nationwide walkout by the CIO Communications Workers of America affecting thousands of workers across multiple states.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations Command
U.N
William P. Nuckols
U.N. Command
Russia
North Korea
Bell Telephone Systems
CIO Communications Workers of America
New Jersey
Ohio
Michigan
California
Nevada
Henry Mayer
Western Electric
Bell Laboratories
CWA
Mayer
Western Union
AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union
Gun Used to Kill Schuster Found by Police
The Daily News reports from an authoritative source that a .38 caliber pistol used to kill Arnold Schuster has been located by police. It was found in a parking lot near Schuster’s Brooklyn home and had reportedly been stolen from an Army shipment at a Brooklyn pier a month earlier. Schuster was shot four times near his Brooklyn residence on March 8 after identifying Willie Sutton on a subway train February 1.
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New York
The
Daily News
Arnold Schuster
Willie
Sutton
Schuster
Stalin Seeks Top Leaders Meeting for World Peace
In Moscow Stalin calls for a top-level gathering of world leaders to settle major international problems through discussion. Indian ambassador Sir Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan described a frank Kremlin talk amid broader Soviet moves toward peace and expanded trade, while Western observers view it as propaganda.
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Thomas P. Whitney
Moscow
Stalin
India
Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
Kremlin
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Y. D. Gundevia
Vladimir Pavlov
Sarvapalli
Telephone Strike Impacts Midlton on Page Two
A brief note reports the telephone strike affects Midlown residents with disruptions in service and daily routines. The article, found on page two, highlights delays, inconvenience, and community reactions during the work stoppage.
Picket lines threaten Western Electric strike tactics
Union officials say states would honor picket lines as a national Western Electric strike strategy unfolds in 1950. Talks broke down after installation workers negotiations and late sessions in Newark Detroit and San Francisco. Beirne announced the strike in Washington promising emergency service and urging Wage Stabilization Board review while company officials defended good faith bargaining and wage offers.
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Western Electric
Weaver
New York
CWA
Newark
N. J
Cleveland
Detroit
San Francisco
California
Nevada
Washington
Joseph A. Beirne
Beirne
Western Electric Co
C. C. Randolph
Randolph
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Piggy Bank Thief Fatally Shot In Flight
In Los Angeles Alphine Callahan, 28, was killed by police after attempting to steal a child’s piggy bank containing $17. The man fled from a residence on L T Whitinger while Whitinger’s wife alerted officers upon seeing him leaving a grandson’s room through a window.
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Los Angeles
Alphine Callahan
L. T. Whitinger
Whittey
Callahan
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Benjamin F. Fairless
Philip Murray
Pittsburgh
General Electric Company
Cincinnati
North Pole
Anchorage
Thule Air Force Base
Alaskan Air Command
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Central Avenue
Ohio Bell
Hawaii
Ike
By Jack Bell
By Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Red
Korean People’s Armed Forces
Chinese People’s Volunteers
U. N
Pyongyang
Kaesong
Bell
Ernest Weaver
M. V. Nesterov
Chamber of Commerce
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Germany
Middletown
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