Rail workers set to strike on four major railroads
Chicago AP. A nationwide strike against four large rail systems is set for next Wednesday at 6 am local time April 26. About 18,000 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen stage a walkout that could idle 50,000 rail workers amid a dispute over an extra crewman on diesel locomotives. Union leaders hint at possible postponement if progress toward settlement is seen. railroads refuse to grant job-adding demands. The strike targets Pennsylvania system west of Harrisburg, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, Southern Railway, and New York Central west of Buffalo with related divisions.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Unon
David B. Robertson
Daniel B. Loomis
Association of Western Railways
Washington
Francis S. O'Neill, Jr
National (Railway) Mediation Board
White House
John R. Steelman
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Southern Railway
New York Central
Buffalo
Michigan Central
Detroit River
Big Four
Ohio Central
Robertson
Brotherhood
Two Men Held In $800 Holdup
Cincinnati AP report says Kenneth Anderson thirty and Raymond Struck twenty five were held by police after the Guild Theater Easter Sunday holdup of eight hundred dollars. Detectives Lytle Young Willard Ballenger and Milton Doll arrested them yesterday. They admitted the theater robbery and intended to resume crime after returning from Chicago with a loaded revolver extra ammunition and two rolls of friction tape found in their car.
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Cincinnati
Guild
Kenneth Anderson
Raymond Struck
Lytle Young
Willard Ballenger
Milton Doll
Clem W. Merz
Chicago
Arrangements For Big Three Meetings Set
Washington reports that Secretary Acheson and Foreign Ministers Bevin and Schuman have nearly completed talks for London discussions. The Western trio are expected to focus on tightening cooperation rather than new anti Russia moves, though tensions with the Soviet bloc and events in Czechoslovakia loom over the talks. Russian relations and Baltic incidents will likely be on the agenda.
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Washington
State Acheson
Bevin
Britain
Schuman
France
London
Paris
Russia
Baltic
Czechoslovakia
Kremlin
Senate Advances 200 Bills In Quick Calendar Call
The Senate approved over 200 bills in about 300 minutes under a calendar call. Most measures were minor and required committee approval, with a single senator's objection capable of blocking passage. The clerk announced bill numbers and titles as the presiding officer declared the bill passed without objection.
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Washington
Senate
State Medical Board Revokes Dr Hermann Sander License
The New Hampshire State Board of Registration in Medicine revoked the license of Dr. Hermann N Sander 41 for morally reprehensible action deliberate air injections into a patient The doctor had been acquitted of murder in the death of Abbie Borretto aged 59 at Hillsboro County Hospital last December 4 The board said no reinstatement would be entertained before June 19 1950 and the decision may be appealed Wy man said there was no evidence against Sander moral character Boroto the husband criticized the action and a legislative investigation was sought by State Rep Myhaver to explain the revocation despite acquittal
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Concord
N. H
State Board of Registration In Medicine
Hermann N. Sander
Abbie Borreto
Hillsboro County Hospital
Sander
Louis E. Wyman
Dr. Sander
State Supreme Court
Wyman
Reginald F. Boroto
Borroto
Medical Board
George A. Myhaver
Budenz To Testify In Senate Spy Probe
Former Communist Louis Budenz was summoned to the Senate witness stand amid McCarthy charges that Owen Lattimore was a Soviet agent. Budenz testified he would likely remain quiet on his testimony as the public hearing neared, with Lattimore possibly taking the stand later depending on Budenz’s statements and prep time.
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Budenz
Senate
Washington
Louis F. Budens
Owen Lattimore
Institute of Pacific Relations
Louis Budenz
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Republican
Lattimore
Communist Party
Two More Czechs Plead Guilty In Spy Case
Prague AP report notes two more Czech defendants in a spy ring tied to U S embassy officials pleaded guilty. It names Jiri Dohnalek and Milos Sprysl joining earlier pleas by Jaromir Nechansky and Veleslav Wahl while other suspects face espionage charges. Testimony linked former Deputy Premier Bohumil Lausman to the ring, with American diplomats in Prague said to be aware. Lausman is the father in law of Nechansky, the principal defendant.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
VU. S
Ar Peat
Jiri Dohnalek
Czech For Ministry
Milos Sprysl
Army
Jaromir Nechansky
Veleslav Wahl
Wahl
Nechansky
Czech Radio
Bohumil Lausman
Lausman
Czech Social Democrat Party
Strike Closes Carnegie-Illinois Steel Plant in Pa
A CIO strike over guaranteed wages idled about 12,000 workers and closed Carnegie-Illinois Steel at Homestead near Pittsburgh. Pickets blocked gates while loudspeakers urged workers not to cross. Open hearth furnaces were shut down though blast furnaces remained idle, as maintenance staff seek five paid days weekly regardless of actual days worked.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Homestead
U. S. Steel Corporation
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
Syracuse men get prison terms for Canton holdup
Frederick E. Miller Jr is sentenced to 10 to 25 years for the $318 Canton grill holdup two years ago. Stanley Toussant awaits trial on a similar armed robbery charge. Both were released from Texas State penitentiary where they served time as accomplices in a Texarkana murder.
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Canton, O
Syracuse, N. Y
Schumacher
Syracuse
Frederick E. Miller, Jr
Stanley Toussant
Texas State Penitentiary
Texarkana
Secret files key point in Maragon trial
The John Maragon perjury trial centers on whether secret government files can be opened for defense. Prosecutors seek limited disclosure while defense argues for access to FBI and Agriculture Department records tied to Maragon, Milton Polen of Milwaukee, and the Allied Molasses Company scandal.
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Washington
John Maragon
Maragon
Bootblack
Truman
Harry H. Vaughan
Senate
Irvin Goldstein
FBI
Agriculture Department
Milton R. Poland
Milwaukee
Al‘Ned Molasses Company
Perth Amboy
N. Y
U. S
Charles B. Murray
Goldstein
Jennings Bailey
Bailey
Allied Molasses Company
Truman signs multi billion housing bill
President Truman signed a multi billion dollar housing bill into law providing incentives for home building by low and moderate income families. The measure excludes the controversial cooperative plan he had proposed.
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Washington
Truman
Connally Urges Non-Partisan Foreign Policy Unity
Senator Connally a long time chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged a non partisan foreign policy to lift world peace above party politics. He spoke as the Senate opened debate on a 3 372 450 000 foreign aid bill. Republican leaders indicated willingness to cooperate with President Truman on bipartisan policy.
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Washington
Connally
D-Tex
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Senate Policy Committee
Bridges
GOP
Five Students and Boxer Die in Route 17 Crash
In a driving rain storm last night near Binghamton New York five high school students and 20 year old professional boxer Raymond Scudder of Campville were killed when their car collided with a truck on Route 17. Two teenagers and the truck driver were injured. The deceased from Binghamton were Donna Pudiack 15 Ida Diute 18 Patricia Riegal 16 Arthur Joseph Combs 14 James Winfield 146.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Route 17
Here
Raymond Scudder
Campville
Donna Pudiack
Ida Diute
Patricia Riegal
Arthur Joseph Combs
James Winfield
Easy Life and the Allure of Idleness
Philosophers argue that work is natural and idleness is dangerous, urging everyone to keep a daily job. The piece mocks the easy life, imagining luxurious freedom from alarms, clocks, and schedules, with endless leisure activities and travel from Rio to Honolulu. It contrasts fantasies of wealth with the discipline of a regimented life.
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Rio
Honolulu
Europe
Controversy Over Man Arrest By Vermont Sheriff
Haddam Connecticut father of nine Earl Goodrich was jailed in Newfane Vermont for failure to pay an $800 civil damage settlement. Vermont Sheriff Patrick J. O Keefe defended the arrest as lawful while Connecticut Attorney Bernard Kosicki denounced it as high handed and vowed to investigate. Windham County court had found Goodrich liable for willful negligence connected to a 1946 trailer accident.
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Earl Goodrich
Windham County
Vermont
Haddam
Conn
Wyman
Richard
Thomas
Paul
Dianne
Mrs. Goodrich
Baby Dale
Sharon Ann
Shirley
Gordon
Patrick J. O'Keefe
Connecticut
Bernard Kosicki
Goodrich
Windham
Stanley Furgat
O'Keefe
Hartford Indemnity Company
Furgat
Kosicki
Bridges Shouts Frameup Tale Amid Perjury Conviction
In San Francisco 7000 hear Harry Bridges recount the Bridges frameup story at a meeting. He cites a new legal gimmick to prove what he is not, referencing his five year perjury sentence and appeal. Bridges' CIO union says the rally is the first in a series in key cities though cities not listed. He denounces attacks on militants and unions as aimed at him and others.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
CIO International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Iron ore cargo heads for Cleveland in season kickoff
The first ore shipment of the season sails toward Cleveland aboard the freighter Sullivan Brothers from Escanaba Michigan. The steamers International and W. H. Wolfe were due in Escanaba today to load ore.
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Cleveland
Sullivan Brothers
Escanaba
Mich
Steamers International
W. H. Wolfe
Drive To Cut Appropriation Bill Faces Slow Hurdles
Washington AP A bid to slash 1 billion from a 29 billion federal appropriation bill stalled in the House as Republicans push cuts to the District of Columbia and legislative establishment. Taber of New York leads the effort, proposing reduced federal operating costs for DC and related agencies.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
District of Columbia
Congress
Government Printing Office
Legislative
Representative Taber
New York
Author Warwick Deeping Dies at Home in Weybridge
Author Warwick Deeping, a noted British writer, died at his Weybridge home. AP reports the novelist passed away after illness, leaving behind extensive works and influence in early 20th century literature.
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Weybridge, Eng
Warwick Deeping
Cleveland Health Museum picks new president
Dr Robert M. Stecher, a founder of the Cleveland Health Museum in 1936, was elected president last night, succeeding the late Dr Lester Baylor.
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Cleveland
Robert M. Stecher
Cleveland Health Museum
Lester Baylor
Truman Outlines Campaign of Truth to Editors
President Truman announced plans for a great campaign of truth to counter Soviet propaganda. He told the American Newspaper Editors Society that a strengthened information program will be built under Secretary of State Acheson to present the United States as dedicated to peace and freedom. He urged cooperation with publishers to expose Communist deceit and to present American aims clearly while cautioning against partisan twisting of foreign policy facts. In Berlin, Czechoslovakia, the Balkans, and the Far East he argued that Soviet talk of peace masks imperialism.
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American Society of Newspaper Editors
Achelson
Truman
Statler
Hut
Europe
Asia
United States
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Balkans
Far East
Bergman Lindstrom Settle Custody Dispute in Hollywood
Actress Ingrid Bergman agreed to relinquish physical custody and education of Pia Lindstrom to her father Dr. Peter Lindstrom with conditions. The settlement, announced by both sides lawyers, leaves questions about travel and control, including Bergman’s ability to take the child abroad during vacations and California residency requirements.
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Hollywood
Ingrid Bergman
Pia
Peter Lindstrom
Beverly Hills
Lindstrom
Rome
Roberto Rossellini
Isaac Pacht
Miss Bergman
Gregson Bautzer
Bautzer
Pacht
California
the Newsmen
Rossellini
Soviet Official Dies at 45 in Moscow
AP reports Lt. Gen. Viktor Grigorievich Nasedkin, a high official in Russia's internal affairs, died in Moscow today at age 45.
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Moscow
Viktor Grigorievich Nasedkin
Russia
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