Bell Strike Fails To Halt Much Telephone Service
Nationwide CIO Communications Workers strike across four states and Western Electric workers in 43 states causes few immediate delays. Union leaders warn picketing will intensify outages, potentially crippling long distance calls and maintenance if prolonged. Western Union and CTU actions add to a nationwide disruption with federal mediators involved but no quick resolution.
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NEW York
CIO
CIO Communications Workers of America
CWA
Bell Telephone Systems
Western Electric Company
Western Union
AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union
CTU
Henry Mayer
Western Electric
John A. Broderick
United Telephone Organizations
New York City
Telephone Company
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Rhode Iand
Montana
New Jersey
Michigan
California
Ohio
Nevada
Reds Believe New War Coming but In No Rush
Witness in federal conspiracy trial of 15 California Communist leaders testifies that the American Communist party viewed World War II as inevitable but should be delayed until Russia is ready. William M. Foard, a San Francisco Communist from 1945 to 1948, says party schools taught that war would be forced by Wall Street capitalists and aimed to spare the United States only to allow the Soviet Union to rebuild.
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Los Angeles
American Communist Party
Russia
California
William M. Foard
San Francisco
Communist Party
Wall Street
Norman Ward
Soviet Union
United States
Foard
Mule Day marks Paris Tenn centennial celebration
About 20 000 people packed Paris Tennessee to celebrate Mule Day as the 100 year old holiday. Mules once pivotal to the local economy remain symbolic though farmers favor tractors. The annual event showcases the mule as king for a day in West Tennessee.
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Paris
Tenn
West
Tennessee
Stevenson May Decide To Try Race
Illinois Governor Adlai E. Stevenson debates a run for the Democratic presidential nomination. He would be a reluctant candidate if he enters, risking his current goal of finishing his state reorganization program, while Kefauver Kerr and Russell push for delegates amid Truman’s exit. Stevenson weighs foreign policy stakes and party unity before deciding.
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Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Ested Kefauver
Tennessee
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Richard Russell
Georgia
Stevenson
Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower
State Department
United Nations
Re Ublicans
A. Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
Kefauver
Truman
Estes Kefauver
Big Muddy Rampage Threatens Pierre Flood City
Pierre faces worst flood in 71 years as the Missouri River swells with snowmelt and rain. Forecasters warn water levels could reach 23 to 24 feet, potentially submerging about 20 blocks. Nearby towns report homelessness and rising flood dangers across North Dakota and South Dakota.
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Big Sioux
Sioux Falls
S. D
Pierre
Missouri
Nils P. Jensen
South Dakota
Linton
Bismarck
North Dakota
Red River
R. W. Schultz
Fargo
Navy furnishes Korean action in weather slump
In Seoul, 70 miles from Soviet Russia, the Endicott sweeped Chongjin harbor as Red shells shelled the minesweeper. Shore batteries fired 75 rounds at the converted destroyer while Endicott and other U.N. ships returned fire, silencing Red batteries. Navy did not confirm a hit.
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Seoul
Korea
Endicott
Chongjin Harbor
Soviet Russia
U.N
U.S
Philippine Sea
Reds Hint At Deal On Neutrals In Korean Armistice Talks
In Munsan Korea communist negotiators floated a trade offering to allow neutral nations to supervise a truce if Allies permit Reds to repair airfields. The hint from Maj Gen Hsieh Fang was indirect. UN negotiators gave no formal notice. Gen Omar Bradley voiced hope for peace in Georgia as Harrison denied airfield talks were dropped from staff meetings.
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Munsan
Korea
Russia
Hsieh Fang
Hsieh
U. N
Omar Bradley
Macon
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Panmunjom
William K. Harrison
U.N
Write-In Drives Boost Illinois Presidential Primary Interest
Illinois voters faced a big turnout forecast as write in strategies and high interest clustered around the presidential primary. Taft Stassen and Eisenhower write ins plus Kefauver and Stevenson dynamics shaped a contest with about 4.8 million registered voters and 50 delegates per party at stake.
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Illinois
Chicago
Morris Condemns McGranery a Whitewasher Charge
Newbold Morris charged James P. McGranery is a real whitewasher as his nomination for attorney general designate faced Senate scrutiny. The Judiciary Committee prepared a full hearing in about two weeks, with Morris expected to testify if he volunteers or is subpoenaed.
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G. Milton Kelly
Washington
Newbold Morris
James P. McGranery
Congress
McGranery
Senate Judiciary Committee
Morris
New York
McCarran
D-Nevy
Three Killed On Air Trip To Cincinnati
Morgantown West Virginia A search party locating a light plane missing for hours found it crashed on Mitchell Knob six miles east of Morgantown Airport. All three occupants died including Vaughn C Stanger 43 his wife 36 and Edward D Lyman. Stanger headed the Telephone Secretarial Service Co Cincinnati and Mrs Stanger wed last June. Lyman represented the Cincinnati office of the Crouse Heinds Electrical Co Syracuse New York. The trio had been on a business trip to New York. Lyman had joined the couple in Syracuse for the flight to Cincinnati.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Mitchell Knob
Cincinnati
Vaughn C. Stanger
Edward D. Lyman
Stanger
Telephone Secretarial Service Co
Lyman
Crouse-Heinds Electrical Co
Syracuse
N. Y
Stangers
New York
Justice Douglas Hails Peasants Revolt For Social Justice
In a National Conference address Justice William O Douglas urged a non Communist American revolution of social justice to promote peasants in undeveloped countries. He criticized Point Four aid as preserving current conditions and called for spreading production benefits more evenly. President Truman spoke as keynote.
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Washington
United States
Sureme Court
William Duglas
Truman
Douglas
Money Needed To Enforce New Gambling Tax Law
Revenue Commissioner John B. Dunlap urged Congress to fund or repeal the gambling tax. He warns the federal tax system risks collapse without enforcement funds and calls for restoring a 35 million dollar budget cut. The 10 percent take tax on bookmakers and related operators has yielded only about two million through February.
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Washington
Revenue
John B. Dunlap
Congress
Dunlap
Sen. Kilgore
D-Wva
Revenue Bureau
Senate
House
The
Epidemic Slows Probe Of Tax Cases
Washington witnesses sick again delaying tax scandal hearings as half the scheduled speakers seek postponements. Former IRS commissioner Joseph D. Nunan Jr. is hospitalized in New York and cannot appear as planned, forcing a recess until April 21 after Easter.
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Washington
King
D-Calif
Internal Revenue
Joseph D. Nunan Jr
New York
House
Ways and Means
Nunan
Committee
Boy Follows Drowned Brother in Tragic Rescue
In Chattanooga Tennessee two brothers Paul Russell ten and Donald seven drowned in a city garbage trench. The younger slipped from a 15 foot embankment into 20 feet of water. The older brother ran for playmates, returned and leaped into the trench to save Donald. A playmate recalled Paul cried briefly before jumping in.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Paul Russell
Donald
Paul
W. H. Ponder
Butler County Home Man Burns To Death In Chair
Stanley Huffman a 69 year old resident at the Butler County Home in Hamilton died after a chair in his room caught fire shortly after 11 a m He was found burned almost to ashes and either died in his sleep or from the fire after smoking a cigarette Huffman a Collinsville native left a sister Mrs da Symnes of Hamilton as his only reported survivor The body was removed to Campbell Funeral Home for burial and an autopsy was to be held to determine cause of death beyond the fire
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Hamilton
Stanley Huffman
Butler County
Garrett Boone
Huffman
Collinsville
da Symnes
Cde
Campbell Funeral Home
Steel strike close to shut down nation’s industry
Washington reports government move to seize control as Truman weighs action while CIO United Steelworkers threaten a nationwide walkout. Pittsburgh notes 100000 workers idled across 98 plants as Lone Star Steel in Texas sees 900 of 1200 workers quit amid stalled wage negotiations.
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U. S. Steel Corp
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
America
CIO United Steelworkers
Feininger to meet steel reps in final wage talks
Federal Wage Chief Nathan P. Feininger was to hold an 11th hour session with steel industry representatives today as he fights to stave off a midnight strike. The meeting aimed to reach a quick agreement on wage disputes threatening widespread stoppages.
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New York
Nathan P. Feininger
Steel Strike Threat Pushes Nation Toward Shutdown
CIO President Philip Murray warned on NBC that steel production would halt at midnight as talks collapsed. Murray blamed steel firms for the deadlock, insisting they could meet wage demands without raising prices, while companies argued against wage boosts without price increases. Government intervention appeared the only path to avert a strike affecting defense and civilian production.
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CIO
Philip Murray
United Steelworkers
New York
NBC
Murray
Ben Moreell
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Wage Stabilization Board
Te Wsb
WSB
Pittsburgh
Trumance
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E. Stassen
Minnesota
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Taft
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Park Livingston
William G. Stratton
West Virginia
Sen
Watkins
Utah
Atty
McGrath
Justice Department
Philip B. Perlman
FBI
Sen. Watkins
J. Edgar Hoover
Rep
Keating
R-Ny
Hoover
Charles F. Barrett
Commerce Department
William G. Smock
Allied Industries
Lone Star Steel Company
Texas
Lone Star
W. R. Bond
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