Teen-Age Column Debuts in the Journal Today
Nancy Mottram, 18, launches Just Between Us a new teen age column in the Journal. It will appear daily except Saturday and in the Sun day News-Journal. Readers nationwide welcome her mix of questions answers and general articles addressing teen problems with sympathetic insight and entertainment.
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Nancy Mottram
Seventeen Magazine
Nancy
Journal Today
Sunday News - Journal
Journal
Ex Government Girl Worker Goes On Trial
Judith Coplon, 27, former Justice Department employee, faces trial in Washington on espionage charges after her arrest amid an alleged rendezvous with a Soviet agent. Charged with copying and removing secret documents to aid a foreign nation, she also faces a separate New York indictment with Valentine Gubitchev. The case features top prosecutors and a possible defense claim of fiction writing.
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Washington
Judith Coplon
Miss Coplon
Justice Department
Barnard College
United States
New York
Valentine A. Gubitchev
United Nations
Archibald Palmer
Richmond B. Keech
John M. Kelley, Jr
Raymond P. Whearty
Kelley
Mildred E
Axis Sally) Gillars
Whearty
Department
Palmer
Govitchev
FBI
Packard Plant Strike Settled After Last-Minute Talks
Detriot AP report confirms eleventh hour peace talks averted a plant shutdown at Packard Motor Car Co. Some 9,000 workers were alerted for a midnight Sunday strike but were told by CIO and UAW officers to report to regular shifts. Settlement on 16 disputed points ended the threatened walkout, the first company-wide auto strike in nearly a year. Wages were not at issue.
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Detroit
Packard Motor Car Company
Packard
CIO
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corporation
UAW
Lewis and aides frame coal contract demands in meeting
AP reports John L. Lewis met with the United Mine Workers Policy Committee to set new soft coal contract demands ahead of the June 30 expiry. The aims include shorter work hours, better security benefits, and pension improvements, with broader labor relations moves noted for CIO and UMW policy actions.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
CIO
Philip Murray
Steelworkers’ Union Policy Committee
Pittsburgh
Murray
Chinese Reds Try To Trap 300000 Nationalist Men
Shanghai reporters recount rapid Communist advance toward Hangchow while Nationalist forces near Shanghai fear loss of the great city. Nanking fell quietly after Communist forces seized stations and government buildings, with foreign embassies and the American embassy unaffected. Communist radio claimed Taiyuan captured as Peiping broadcasts spread the news.
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Nanking
Shanghai
Seymour Topping
Associated Press
Peiping
Taiyuan
Shansi
Ambassador Stuart Ordered Home From China
The State Department said J Leighton Stuart US ambassador to China has been ordered home for consultations. He is in Nanking, the Communist seized former capital. He was told to return after American safety in the lower Yangtze valley is assured and will travel to Washington when he considers it advisable.
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Washington
State Department
J. Leighton Stuart
U. S
China
Stuart
Nanking
Department
Yangtze River Valley
Evacuation Sparks Uncertainty as Shanghai Crisis Grows
The report states 150,000 defenders in an industrial center 600 miles northwest of Nanking were wiped out. Shanghai faces unknown outcomes as Gen. Tank En.Po’s 300,000 government troops’ status unclear. U.S. consul general John Cabot urges Americans to seek refuge aboard U.S. Naval ships. British officials say evacuations are not yet warranted amid Yangtze shelling.
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Nanking
Shanghai
Tank En.Po
U. S
John Cabot
Yangtze
Mother and three children die in city home blaze
A mother Mrs. Thomas A. Edwards 38 and her children Henrietta 13 Thomas A. Jr 7 and Mary 5 perished when a suburban Charleston home burned after an alarm at 1 a.m. The father escaped with two other children Walter 6 and Kathleen 15, rescuing them before the seven room stucco house was engulfed.
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Charleston
W. VA
Thomas A. Edwards
Henrietta
Thomas
A., Jr
Mary
Walter
Kathleen
American Mother Named New York Mother of the Year
A 60 year old Kentucky born Fort Worth Texas resident, Mrs Pearle Owens Gillis, was named American mother of the year by the National Mothers Committee of the Golden Rule Foundation. She raised six of her own children and helped educate eight others. Her family is active in radio and college teaching.
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New York
Fort Worth
Tex
Pearle Owens Gillis
National Mothers Committee
Golden Rule Foundation
Chinese Race to Planes as Shanghai Empties in FlightRush
Rain drenched Lunghwai Airport as commercial planes fled Shanghai with panic, crowds pressing for launches toward Canton and Formosa. Refugees pleaded for space, some officials among the eager mob, fearing Communist capture more than danger of overcrowding.
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Shanghai
Lunghwai
Canton
Formosa
6000 Miners Back On Jobs In Panther Valley
Six thousand anthracite miners who walked off their jobs in support of ten sitdown strikers have returned to work in the Panther Valley pits in Lansford Pennsylvania. Full scale operations resumed as union official Fred Gallagher said the men agreed to return under an understanding that the dispute with Lehigh Navigation Coal Company would be arbitrated by UMW Chief John L. Lewis.
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Lansford
Panther Valley
Fred Gallagher
Panther Valley General Mine Committee
United Mine Workers Union
Lehigh Navigation Coal Company
UMW
John L. Lewis
Vast Health Program Sent to Congress
The bill would create payroll tax funded insurance covering medical, hospital and dental care for about 120 million Americans at an estimated six billion dollars annually. It envisions federal grants for medical education, hospital construction, public health services and research, plus an experimental aid program for farmers health cooperatives. Signed by Senators Thomas Murray Wagner Pepper as sponsors.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Mr. Truman
Elbert D. Thomas
Dutah
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Murray
Dmont
Wagner
D-Ny
Pepper
Health insurance bill outlines civil rights clause and costs
The administration's national health insurance bill includes a civil rights provision barring discrimination by race creed or color. Democratic sponsors from Georgia New Mexico Idaho Rhode Island Minnesota Michigan Wisconsin include Chavez Tayor McGrath Humphrey Dingell and Biemiller with no Republican names. Estimated annual cost about 6.0 billion dollars funded largely by a 3 percent payroll tax split between workers and employers. Hospital construction federal aid would double to 150 million dollars a year, nursing training at 15 million, with 10 million referenced in the plan.
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D-Ga
Chavez
Taylor
Idaho
McGrath
Humphrey
House GOP Leaders In Strategy Session
Washington AP House Republican leaders held a closed strategy session to prepare for the labor law debate set to start tomorrow and continue through the week. Backers of the Administration bill to repeal Taft Hartley mobilized, while GOP plans focus on a Wood bill seeing support among southern Democrats.
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Washington
House
Representative Wood
D-Ga
House Labor Committee
Labor Department
Philadelphia
80Th Congress
Truman
Capitol Hill
Congress
Senate
House Labor Committees
Russia Blocks Austrian Treaty as Four Powers Meet
London AP report says the Big Four foreign ministers' deputies failed to advance an Austrian independence treaty. Washington indicated Moscow remains immovable and not ready to break the deadlock. Observers note Russia seeks to gauge Europe, Germany, and Tito's clash with the Cominform before retreating from Austria within three months of ratification.
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London
Austria
Germany
Moscow
Europe
Marshall Tito
Cominform
Russia
Bomb Hurled Into East Side Cleveland Home
An anonymous stench bomb shattered the kitchen window of Charles Richmond, 24, amid a police probe into a $485,000 theft. Richmond signed a police statement claiming $26,000 of the loot, with a hearing on charges of being a suspicious person pending. Police seek the missing funds tied to a burglary not reported, intended to fund smuggling of soldiers, munitions, and refugees into Israel.
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East Side
Charles Richmond
Richmond
Cleveland
Israel
Child Drowns In Well In Texas Village
In Mertens Texas an abandoned water well on a vacant lot claimed the life of six year old Thomas Britton son of Mr and Mrs Otto Britton. He fell into the well while picking flowers with playmates and his body was retrieved about two hours later.
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Mertens
Tex
Thomas Britton
Otto Britton
Indiana Youths Killed Here As Auto Hits Tree
Two Bedford youths died after a car left Tytus Ave near Enoch Dr and crashed into a large tree. Wilbur Ison 17 died at Middletown Hospital. Joseph Abel 21 died later. The crash uprooted the tree, and the car overturned with the tree coming down. Ison was a Bedford High School student due to graduate in June. Abel’s funeral arrangements were incomplete. Police cited neck fractures and multiple injuries as the causes.
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Bedford
Ind
Tytus Ave
Enoch Dr
Wilbur Ison
Lincoln Ave
Middletown Hospital
Joseph R. Abel
High St
Virgil Bowling
South
Clinton St
Charles St
Columbia Ave
Thomas Wenzel
Butler County
Ison
Abel
Bedford High School
Carter Funeral Home
Spencerson
Joseph Abel
Sherwood and Ferguson
Waene
Blue Ball
Philip Senn
Yellow Springs
Dayton
Senn
Henry T. Fink
Elizabeth Pl
Cincinnati
Richard Leashore
Burton Parmeter
James Huckaby
Sean
Fink
Freight Train Hits Truck Killing 10 At Crossing
A freight train struck a truck carrying Sunday worshippers near Carthage Tennessee killing ten people including nine in one family and injuring another. The crash at Gordonsville Lancaster road left victims scattered along tracks and trapped in the cab as the truck burned and a nearby diesel halted after a 100 yard drag. Ruth Robinson survived with injuries as others were identified and transported to hospital.
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Carthage
Tenn
Here
Tennessee Central Diesel
Hogan's Creek
Gordonsville
Lancaster Road
Five Die In Blast At Mannheim Army Prison
Five U S soldiers died from burns in an explosion at an Army prison in Mannheim on Saturday. One more soldier remained in critical condition. All victims were prisoners and their names were withheld.
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Heidelberg
Germany
U. S
Mannheim
Thomson of Lima Named to Lutheran Clubs Board
Frank G. Thomson of Lima was elected to the board of directors of the Federation of Lutheran Clubs in Cincinnati on Saturday AP reports.
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Cincinnati
Frank G. Thomson
Lima
The
Federation of Lutheran Clubs
UnAmerican Activities Committee Holds Key Witness In Secrecy
Washington AP report on House UnAmerican Activities secrecy as it probes Communist links. Slavic Congress UE union ties cited. a friendly witness protection noted amid pending public hearings. Judge Gunther and John Sherman identified as aiding witnesses.
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UnAmerican Activities Committee
House UnAmerican Activities Committee
Clio-United Electrical Orders Union
Communist Party
Blair F. Gunther
Common Pleas Court of Pittsburgh
Gunther
Reds
John Sherman
Pittsburgh
Clark
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Indiana
Toledo
John Poisguy
Charles J. Vargo
Reno Beach
Anthony Patch
Alex Bertram
Tennessee
Jess Bennett
Mattie Bell Bennett
Douglas
Melvin Pearl
Paule Bennett Dickens
Bennett's
Paulie Dickins
Catherine
W. E
Coonie) Bennett
Linnine Gibbs
Lebanon
Ruth Robinson
John Overstreet
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