Three ships collide on Mississippi River injuring crew
In New Orleans three vessels collided at the river docks with the SS New Rochelle Trials badly damaged. Crewmen Michael D Angelo and Morris Hemel were injured, Elton Wolfe washed into the river but rescued, while the John W Meldrum and Alcoa Pioneer sustained minor damage. Coast Guard crews worked to beach the trials or dock her as currents ran strong.
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Mississippi River
Coast Guard
Michael D'Angelo
Morris Hemel
New Rochelle
Hemel
D'Angelo
Elton Wolfe
John W. Meldrum
Alcoa
Meldrum
Alcoa Pioneer
Miners Celebrate Lewis Birthday Across Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh AP reports coal miners honor John L. Lewis on his 69th birthday. All western Pennsylvania mines are closed for the occasion, with minimal production impact as many bituminous shafts run on a five day week and are idle Saturday. Anthracite mines also shut. UMW President Lewis is vacationing in Florida. Observance as a legal miner holiday was authorized at the 194? convention.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
Florida
Lewis
UMW
Major GOP Lincoln Day talks across the nation
The 140th Lincoln Day celebrations feature key addresses by Gov. Thomas E Dewey in New York and Senator Vandenberg in Detroit. National chairman Hugh D. Scott will speak in Bridgeport with a push for a 1950 congressional win and a knockout 1952 presidential bid. Bricker plans a Kansas City address.
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Thomas E Dewey
New York
GOP
Dewey
Vandenberg
Michigan
Detroit
Abraham Lincoln
Hugh D. Scott
Bridgeport
Conn
Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Kansas City
Escapee Meekly Gives Self Up
Herbert H. Fisher, 19, who escaped from police while being treated at University Hospital, meekly surrendered at his apartment today. Fisher, charged with robbing a wine store and filling station, had notified police to pick him up. He explained he didn’t wish to risk being shot. Patrolman Clark W. Baker was suspended because of the escape, which occurred yesterday.
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Columbus
Herbert H. Fisher
University Hospital
Fisher
Clark W. Baker
Pope Pius Calls For Special Masses Worldwide
Pope Pius urged Catholic clergy worldwide to hold special masses on April 10 to expiate what he called the crimes of the enemies of God. He hinted at Mindszenty’s Hungary trial and praised Western unity efforts to avert future wars and civil strife.
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Pope Pius
Vatican City
Pius
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
St. Peter's
Cardinal Mindszenty
People’s
College of Cardinals
Pope
Wright Field major to receive Weatherhead trophy
Major Richard L. Johnson of Wright Field Dayton Ohio will receive the Weatherhead trophy for the world's fastest mile at the air foundation home Monday. Johnson flew a North American F-86 fighter 670 miles an hour to establish the official world record at Muroe Lake last year.
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Cleveland
Richard L. Johnson
Wright Field
Dayton
Weatherhead
Air Foundation
Johnson
Muroe Lake
Russians rebuff Yugoslavs over ECMA protest note
London reports say Russia rejected Yugoslavia’s protest about being excluded from ECMA. Tass broadcast the Soviet note in Belgrade, accusing Yugoslavia of hostile stance toward the USSR and its allies. Cominform meetings in Prague and possible Yugoslav moves on Austria were noted as context. Bebler offered to cooperate with Western deputies on Austria treaty questions.
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Economic Council of Mutual Aid
ECMA
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Warsaw
Cominform
Communist Information Bureau
Czechoslavia
Austria
Russia
Communist Party
Moscow
Bulgaria
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Belgrade
U.S.S.R
Prague
Andrei Vishinsky
Jakub Berman
Council of Ministers
Aleksander Sawadzki
Ales Bebler
U. S
Bebler
Crown Victor in Irish Vote in Belfast
Complete returns from the Thursday poll show the kings men winning 37 to 11 in the House of Commons. Four other Belfast seats remain unsettled, with postal voting and a likely Unionist gain. Easter Monday April 18 marks Eire becoming a republic as nationalist celebrations flare in the North.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
King’s Men
House of Commons
Queens University
Britain
Eire
Republic of Ireland
4000 Persons Marooned in Western Area Amid Snow
Heavy snows strand more than four thousand people in California and Idaho. A cold Canadian airmass moves south and east, freezing highways and rail lines. Snowbound workers fear floods. a National Guard plane delivers food to Stibnitz, Idaho, as roads and towns face isolation and shortages.
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Associated Press
California
Idaho
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Dakotas
Kansas
Minnesota
Iowa
Illinois
Feather River Canyon
Quincy
Cal
Western Pacific
Oroville
Stibnitz
Ida
National Guard
Pocatello
American Falls
Glenns Ferry
Anderson Ranch Dam
Executive Dies in Cincinnati At Globe Wernicke Head
Jarl S. Sprott aged 67, president of the Globe Wernicke Company, died yesterday. He arrived in Cincinnati in 1932 as vice president and GM of Office Equipment Manufacturing Company and became president in 1934.
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Cincinnati
Jarl S. Sprott
Globe- Wernicke Company
Philadelphia Transit Strike Enters Second Day
The AP reports 11,000 transit workers strike into day two with $10 million daily cost to business and industry in Philadelphia. CIO union head Michael Quill warns of a possible long stoppage while mediation moves proceed and PTC offers wage terms amid continued talks.
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Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Transportation Company
U.S
Michael Quill
CIO Transport Workers Union
Andrew J. Kaelin
Kaelin
William J. MacReynolds
PTC
John Murray
U. S. Conciliation Service
Boxer Wounded in Gun Battle in Akron
Eddie Elton a 24 year old middleweight boxer was shot during a running gun battle with two Akron police officers near a south cafe. He was listed in fair condition at the city hospital after being hit once in the left side. Officers Sergeant Michael Yarcheck and Patrolman Robert King said Elton fired three shots at King as he approached the cruiser and then was shot while fleeing.
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Akron, O
Eddie Elton
City Hospital
Michael Yarcheck
Robert King
Akron
King
Elton
Yarchecki
Cold Facts Push Norway Toward Western Alliance
Washington officials say Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvard Lang received substantial data but limited persuasion as five days of talks focused on NATO membership and Scandinavia's defense. Lang to report to Oslo and then meet Bevin in London before Norway responds to Moscow.
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Washington
United States
Norway
Russia
Halvard Lang
Lange
Oslo
Acheson
Scandinavia
New York
Scandinavian Airlines
London
Bevin
Europe
Moscow
United Nations
Gifts From France Arrive in Columbus for Display
The France gratitude train arrives in Columbus carrying 49 state and DC gift cases. Ohio will display 40 cases including vases tapestries glass panels and manikins then ship them to state museums. A ceremony at the McKinley monument will see Gov Lausche accept the car as veterans groups stand by.
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Columbus
France
Ohio
Capitol Grounds
State
District of Columbia
McKinley Monument
Frank J. Lausche
GOP Senators Plan to Offer New Labor Act
Two Republican senators Morse and Ives say they will propose a new labor bill without an emergency injunction for strikes. They hope Taft may support it, trimming the 80 day injunctions while preserving other Taft Hartley provisions. The measure mirrors the 1947 bill but drops court orders to halt strikes endangering health or safety.
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Washington
National
Morse
R-Ore
Ives
R-Ny
Taft
Ohio
Senate Labor Committee
Morselves
Patterson Foundry to Build Modern Plant in Scarborough
East Liverpool based Patterson Foundry and Machine Company says it will construct a modern foundry in Scarborough Ontario to handle its Canadian business. The announcement ties the expansion to growth in Canada and establishes Scarborough as the company’s new production hub.
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Patterson Foundry and Machine Company
Scarborough
Toronto
Ont
Eisenhower to Lead Joint Chiefs of Staff as Temporary Chairman
General Dwight D. Eisenhower is recalled from Columbia University to serve temporarily as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The move aims to resolve policy questions on Atlantic versus Pacific defense and allied arms support while addressing leadership gaps from Fleet Admiral Leahy’s illness.
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Washington
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Navy
Air Force
Eisenhower
Columbia University
Defense
Forrestal
William D. Leahy
Truman
Defense Forrestal
Pacific
Europe
Tokyo
Asia
Royals
Pacific Zone
Manare
Truman and Churchill to Address MIT Convocation
President Truman and Winston Churchill will address MIT convocation in Cambridge Massachusetts on consecutive days with a potential meeting undecided. Churchill speaks March 31 and Truman speaks April 1 according to the White House announcement.
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Washington
Truman
Winston Churchill
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Mass
White House
Britain
Mr. Truman
Exiled man released from hospital ordered to leave state
Cedric C. Carpenter, 28, of near Groton, is banished from Connecticut as a condition of his release from the state hospital in Preston after being acquitted on insanity grounds of an assault with intent to murder. He must depart the state immediately, not passing through Groton, with a $5,000 bond and monthly whereabouts reports to the state’s attorney. The judge cited a state law granting such action and noted a prior similar ruling in New Haven.
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Carpenter
Nicholas Shepler
Shepler
Treland
Connecticut
Groton
New London County
California
New Haven
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