Steel hearing opening date set by board
The fact finding board in the steel labor dispute was organized at the White House and said public hearings will open July 28 in New York. Chairman Carroll Daugherty said the delay gives both sides time to prepare. The board will meet two days earlier with steel industry and CIO United Steelworkers representatives to arrange procedural matters. An executive secretary will be appointed later.
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York
White House
Carroll Daugherty
New York
Steel Industry
CIO
United Steelworkers
New York Herald Tribune
Senate
Hoey
D-Nc
Feldman
Waitt
Army
Gray
Steel industry regains momentum after holiday lull
Cleveland AP reports Steel magazine says operations in the steel making industry recovered quickly last week. Despite jitters from a steel strike threat, national ingot rate stood at 77 percent of capacity, up one point from the prior week and three points below the pre holiday level. The piece notes the potential strike would be less damaging than the 1946 walkout.
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Cleveland
Steel Magazine
Steel
Steel wage talks eye fourth postwar round and pensions
Arthur Goldberg of the CIO United Steelworkers says readiness to proceed with a fourth round on postwar wage raises and larger pension and insurance plans. President Truman supports a three member board led by Dr Carroll R Daugherty to study the steel dispute and report by August 30. Board members are David L Cole of Paterson New Jersey and Samuel I Rosenman of New York City.
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Arthur Goldberg
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
Truman
Carroll R. Daugherty
Northwestern University
David L. Cole
Paterson
N. J
Samuel I. Rosenman
New York City
Senate cuts military spending by 108 million
Economy minded senators received a 108 million dollar surprise as clerks from the Senate Appropriations Committee revealed further cuts to this year's military spending, reducing the total by 1.118 billion below the House figure of 15.908 billion. Senator Elmer Thomas led the effort, initially reporting a 1.01 billion cut based on quick calculations. The extra 108 million was found after weekend checks of Army Navy and Air Force items.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Elmer Thomas
D-Okla
Senate
Representatives Demand Truman Sack Vaughan Over Contract Probe
Washington AP report notes ongoing Army contract inquiry leading to suspensions of Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman and Alden H Waitt. Rep Shafer calls for President to suspend Maj. Gen. Harry H Vaughan amid alleged involvement in same case. Senate probes and hearings paving way for formal reviews and potential action.
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Harry P. Snyder
Washington
Truman
Inspector General
Secretary of the Army
Gordon Gray
Herman Feldan
Alden H Waitt
Chemical Corps
Senate
Gray
Shafer
Rmich
Harry H. Vaughan
White House
House Armed Services Committee
Radio Workers Called in Treason Trial of Iva Toguri
In San Francisco AP reported Tokyo Rose treason case witnesses from Radio Tokyo testified. Prosecutors seek proof that Iva Toguri D Aqquino knowingly aided Japan while the defense argues police and army pressure influenced her.
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San Francisco
Tokyo
Japan
GOD P.1
Griffey
D’aquino
Radio Tokyo
Soap Prices Cut In Major Lever Downgrade
Cambridge report: Lever Brothers cuts wholesale prices four to eight percent on Lux Flakes Swan Lifebuoy Rinso Silver Dust Breeze and Surf. The firm also reduces Spry shortening wholesale price by two cents per pound.
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Cambridge, Mass
Lever Brothers Company
Lux Flakes
Swan
Lifebouy
Rinso
Silver Dust
Breeze
Surf
Speech Is Promised On Hiss Trial Judge
Washington lawmakers announce plans for a detailed 24 page attack on Judge Samuel Kaufman over his handling of the Alger Hiss case. Keefe Nixon and Velde press for a formal inquiry into bias, while Justices Frankfurter and Reed avoid comment on the trial and its aftermath. The Hiss case previously ended in mistrial with jurors split on conviction.
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Washington
Keefe
Wis
Samuel H. Kaufman
Alger Hiss
Nixon
Calif
Velde
Ill
Kaufman
Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Pope asserts God necessary to govern in Germany
Berlin AP report says Pope Pius XII radioed Germans that no government denying God can endure. He cited Catholic resilience under Nazis and urged faith to carry Germans forward, while avoiding direct Communist references. The speech coincided with Berlin diocese’s jubilee.
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Berlin
Pius XII
Vatican
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Neues Deutschland
Germany
Soviet Zone
Otto Debelius
Bandit killed by bus driver in Cleveland holdup
Cleveland AP report says a city bus driver Stephen J. Lillis shot and killed one of three armed men who robbed him at the Bessemer Ave terminus. The trio fled after taking 85 dollars and an 8 dollar wallet. The dead man was identified as Leary Nelson, 23.
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Cleveland
Stephen J. Lillis
Peirce
Leary Nelson
Lilis
Bessemer Ave
Lillis
Marine Corps
House Moves to Expand Defense Chief Johnson Power
President Truman yields a plan to unify armed forces and empower Secretary Johnson. House advances a bill to reorganize military budgeting and accounting, part of a broader Senate bill, with hearings on a global military construction program and looming executive-order options if Congress stalls.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Johnon
House
Secretary of Defense
Johnson
Senate
Representative Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Vinson
No Trace Found Of Mystery Ship
No trace of wreckage from a plane presumed to have crashed near Blountsville Tennessee was found by Tennessee highway patrolmen and Civil Air Patrol. Civil Aeronautics Authority reported no wreckage sighted while a woman told the Kingsport Times News she saw a burning plane pass over at about 1015 p m Saturday and a piece of burning wreckage fall from it before disappearing behind a house with no trace remaining.
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Kinsport
Kingsport Times-News
Steelman to lead efforts to curb unemployment tide
President Truman designated John R. Steelman to coordinate federal spending aimed at easing unemployment. Steelman will direct 10 to 15 billion dollars in procurement and direct spending, mobilizing 20 departments to target high jobless areas. He acts as an assist ant president with authority across domestic policy.
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Washington
Truman
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Alabama College
National Security Resources Board
Etcc
Department of Commerce
Labor Department
Disarm World Urges US Lead in Global Disarmament
The American Friends Service Committee urged the United States to seal its atomic stock with the United Nations and halt fissionable material concentration. The group also backs resuming normal exports to Russia and its satellites to ease East West tensions, noting economic warfare as a two edged sword and referencing embargoes and the Marshall Plan.
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Philadelphia
American Friends Service Committee
United Nations
Quaker Organization
Russia
U. S
16 Persons Die In Ohio Accidents
The Associated Press reports at least 16 people died in Ohio accidents over the weekend with many injured. deaths included nine in traffic crashes four drownings and a fatal fire in Cincinnati. Other victims include Ellis Starks Canton Ernest Schneter Cleveland Rudolph Adre Cleveland Charles Grabowski Geneva and Leonard Eely Cincinnati.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Cincinnati
Erie
Karen Sowers
Fort Worth
Tex
Lawrence Sowers
St. Clairsville
Ellis Monroe Starks
Canton
Auburn
Ind
Ernest Schneter
Rudolph Adre
Cleveland
Brecksville
Charles Grabowski
Geneva
Leonard Eely
Peggy Ann Robinson
Dewey Urges Europe Unity and Swift Atlantic Pact
Governor Thomas E. Dewey told Lions International delegates that Western Europe should be welded into an economic unit like the United States and Marshall Plan funds should go mainly toward that goal. He urged Senate ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty with enthusiasm, warning against drifting back to World War I era mistakes. He urged timely action to bolster non Communist Europe and cautioned aid must not advance socialist or nationalist pet projects.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Western Europe
United States
Convention of Lions International
United States Senate
Dewey
Europe
Service Organization
U. S
Youth Admits Killing Couple In Kentucky Farm Slaying
In Louisa Kentucky state police say 20 year old Newby Whitt signed a statement admitting the July 3 shotgun slayings of Magoffin County farmer Mr Williams and his wife. He planned the killing for several days and took a $5 bill from the dead man’s pocketbook.
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Louisa
Newby Whitt
Charles Wiliams
Magoffin County
Rob Williams
Back Archbishop In Resolutions Read At Masses
Czechoslovak priests defy the Communist state by reading a mass resolution pledging loyalty to Archbishop Beran and the Vatican. They denounce government pressure, defend religious freedom, condemn Catholic Action as schismatic, and say signatures were fraudulently obtained.
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Beran
Atomic group cancels meeting on secret data report
Senate House Atomic Committee called off the 9:30 a m meeting to get a report on the Blair House hush hush atomic conference. Committee aides said a statement would be issued later and the session aimed to review security evidence amid Hickenlooper charges against the AEC.
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Washington
Senate House Atomic Committee
Blair House
Hickenlooper
Riowa
Atomic Energy Commission
McMahon
D-Conn
AEC Official Still Missing in Santa Fe Search
A three day search yields no trace of Hr. Tracy Snelling 37 year old AEC Los Alamos public relations director missing since Wednesday. State police report no new information as Mrs Snelling alerted officials Friday. Snelling the information chief at Los Alamos for two years was last seen in Santa Fe after asking for annual leave. He planned a picnic with his wife in the afternoon.
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Santa FE
N. M
Los Alamos
Communist Leader Declares Catholics Can Be Communists
Rome Italy AP Palmiro Togliatti told 2500 followers that Communists may be both Communists and good Catholics. He called the Vatican excommunication decree a tactic dragged from the darkest ages of humanity. He said they do not enter the conscience of militants where faith and convictions satisfy them.
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Rome
Vatican
Palmiro Togliatti
Italy
Prague church excommunication decree heightens tension
Prague read a Vatican rescript in major churches including St Vitus as government moves to tighten control over church life. Justice Minister Cepicka labeled Archbishop Beran a traitor and announced a draft law to require state approval of church appointments and seize church property. priests excommunicated for supporting Communism could be charged with treason. The Vatican called enforcement nonsense.
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Justice
Alexei Cepicka
Beran
Cepicka
Klement Gottwald
Vatican
Rude Pravo
Pary
Night Club Closure May Enter Court Appeal
In Columbus Ohio the state fire marshal's closure of the Mounds Club in Lake County may be appealed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. The club was raided Friday night by liquor enforcement chief Anthony A. Rutkowski and three state officials with inspectors.
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Columbus, O
Mounds Club
Lake County
Franklin County
Ohio
Anthony A. Rutkowski
Trial of Communists Called Vote Getter
Jackie Robinson said Paul Robeson should speak freely in public even if it sounds silly and that Negro Americans would defend the country against Russia or any enemy. He testified to the House Un American Activities Committee as the defense for a so called vote getting proposition aiding Truman’s opponents. The conference with 1300 delegates urged a national picket line to press for the release of three jailed Communist leaders while two others were bailed on a Bill of Rights claim.
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United States
Britain
Washington
Truman
Jackie Robinson
Paul Robeson
Brooklyn Dodgers
House UN- American Activities Committee
Russia
Robeson
New York
Vito Marcantonio
American Labor Party
New York City
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
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