Truck Strike to End for Most Firms
Ohio inter city truck drivers will end the strike this afternoon for most firms. AFL Ohio Drivers Council President William C Welch said the walkout began Saturday at midnight involving about 6000 drivers. A Toledo mediation session by Harry Gray was set to review contract compliance with OTEB and to separate compliant firms from violators. Governor Lausche ordered highway patrol to prevent traffic interference during the strike.
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AND
Ohio
Illiam C. Welch
AFL
Ohio Drivers Council
Columbus
Welch
Harry Gray
U.S. Conciliation Service
Toledo
OTEB
Frank J. Lausche
State Highway Patrol
Cleveland Draymen Reach End to Nine Day Walkout
Union reps and officials of the Cleveland Draymen s Employers Association reached a tentative agreement to end the nine day walkout. The plan grants a 40 hour week Monday through Friday with time and a half for overtime and a 10 cent hourly pay boost with document cents. Ohio and Cincinnati figures spoke on statewide reactions while Indianapolis officials urged observance of signed contracts and warned against sympathy strikes.
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Cleveland Draymen's Employers Association
Cincinnati
Teamsters
George P. Starling
Teamsters Union
Five Die At Speedways In Two States
A Winchester Indiana Funk Speedway crash killed Cecil Green and Bill Mackey within 15 minutes as both cars left the steep banked curve. At Williams Grove Pennsylvania a top driver Walt 41 Massapequa New York died during a time trial. Two spectators also perished at Mt Hawley Speedway near Peoria in separate incidents.
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Ind
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Cecil Green
Houston
Tex
Bill Mackey
Indianapolis
Funk Speedway
Green
Mackey
Walt 41
Massapequa
N.Y
Williams Grove
Mt. Hawley Speedway
Peoria
Taft says complete Washington housecleaning for 1952 bid
U S Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio declares a full Washington housecleaning as GOP 1952 aim and hints at a presidential run if party wants it He says decision may wait until next January and notes draft Taft talk from observers In Plymouth Mass he spoke at a Republican dedication at Plymouth Rock urging honest government and warning against overextension in world affairs He questioned war obligations without allied support and criticized Truman tax plans while calling for a consistent foreign policy
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Plymouth
Mass
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Washington
Taft
May
Bea
New England
GOP
Massachusetts
America
Asia
Europe
Favor-Taking General Fired From Detroit Arsenal Command
Brig. Gen. David J. Crawford was relieved of command at the Detroit Tank Arsenal after an inspector general report found he violated Army regulations by accepting favors from contracting companies. He admitted accepting a free Washington hotel suite and a boat keel, and using government materials for personal boats. Brig. Gen. Carroll H. Deitrick will replace him at the Arsenal.
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Washington
Detroit Tank Arsenal
Army
Secretary of the Army
Pace
David J. Crawford
Crawford
West Point
Detroit
Carroll H. Deitrick
Watertown
Mass
Congressional Committee
Cobb Backs Reserve Clause in Baseball Antitrust Probe
Ty Cobb urged preservation of organized baseball’s control over players before a House Judiciary subcommittee. He praised the reserve clause as protection for big league clubs and argued removal would let rich owners land top players. Ford Frick prepared to testify as the probe continues.
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Ty Cobb
Washington
Detroit
House
Cobb
Ford Frick
National League
Celler
D-Ny
Britain to send cabinet mission to Tehran over Iran oil
Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison announced a British cabinet mission to Tehran led by Richard Stokes to discuss an oil settlement with Iran. He noted progress after talks with Averell Harriman and said full details must be cleared before departure, while stressing Britain’s support for Iranian resource nationalization within a balanced agreement.
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London
Herbert Morrison
Britain
Tehran
Iran
House of Commons
Richard Stokes
Privy Seal
Morrison
Averell Harriman
Truman
United States
Harriman
American girl jailed in Milan over priest romance
Claire Mary Gertrude Young 20 of Chicago is in police custody for public security reasons in San Vittore jail. She aimed to marry former missionary Maciano Negrini, who said they parted in a square after she sought renewal of her Italian stay permit, with her current permit due August 5.
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Milan
Italy
San Vittore
Claire Mary Gertrude Young
Chicago
Maciano Negrini
Miss Young
Loyola University
Negrini
China
Scot 54-year-old completes double English Channel swim
Ned Barnie, an Edinburgh science teacher, became the fourth man to swim the English Channel in both directions. He completed the England to France crossing in 19 hours and two minutes, noting tides and winds made the return trip harder than his France-to-England feat done last year. Barnie was the third swimmer to complete a Channel crossing over the weekend.
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Dover
Eng
English Channel
Ned Barnie
Edinburgh
England
France
Barnie
Controls Bill Approval Seen in Washington
Congressional action on the wage price and rent controls bill appears certain with President Truman expected to sign, even if displeased. If not signed by midnight’s end, current controls on wages prices and rents would expire, ending a key wartime economic regime.
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Truman
House
Senate
Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Congress
Plane disperses hate leaflets over Detroit near Tank Arsenal
A small private plane dropped about 1000 anti Semitic handbills on two flights over the northeast Detroit Tank Arsenal area. Police from Warren Township and state agencies joined FBI observers in tracing the aircraft and its pilot as military planes monitored the scene.
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Detroit—4
Detroit
Tank Arsenal
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Arsenal
Uncle Sam
Warren Township
Selfridge Field
Warplanes Hit Pyongyang in Major Allied Raid
U S warplanes struck Pyongyang through rain in one of the Korean war’s vigorous air assaults. Two Marine Corsairs collided. an F-51 Mustang was shot down, pilot unknown. Smoke and rain hindered damage assessment as North Koreans retreated from hills northeast of Yanggu. Allied troops pressed the crest of the hill mass amid five and a half days of fierce fighting.
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U.S. Eighth Army
Korea
U.S
Pyongyang
Fifth Air Force
Air Force
Yanggu
Korea Warfront
Caterpillar Plant Hit by Large Peoria Strike
More than 26,000 workers at the Caterpillar tractor plant in Peoria Illinois walked off the job today over a wage dispute.
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Peoria, Ill
Peoria
Polish generals to stand trial over spy ring charges
Warsaw radio said four generals and five other Polish army officers will go on trial tomorrow for allegedly running a spy ring for the United States and Britain. Among the defendants is Brig. Gen. Stanislaw Tatar, former chief of operations for the Polish home army.
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London
Warsaw
United States
Britain
Stanislaw Tatar
Wright Base Named Critical Area
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton was added to the list of critical areas where credit controls will be relaxed to speed up housing construction for defense workers and military personnel.
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Washington
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
General Van Fleet Warns of Possible Red Assault
Gen James A Van Fleet at Eighth Army Headquarters Korea orders Allied troops to maintain constant vigilance as cease fire talks continue at Kaesong amid tense border conditions. The warning emphasizes readiness against a surprise attack from North Korea.
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U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
James A. van Fleet
Kaesong
U S Plans More Atom Bomb Tests
Chairman Gordon Dean of the Atomic Energy Commission said the United States will conduct additional atomic bomb tests.
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U.S
Washington
IAP
United States
Gordon Dean
The
Atomic Energy Commission
No progress on buffer zone in Korea talks
United Nations and Communist negotiators offered no progress on establishing a military dividing line in Korea as cease-fire talks continue. The 38th parallel was labeled a political boundary with no military significance, while both sides pressed for a buffer zone and discussed future cease-fire conditions.
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Korea
Red
Ahe
Korean Peninsula
United Nations
Nam Il
Joy
Kaesong
Stiles
38Th Parallel
North
South Korea
North Korea
Allied
Air Force
William P. Nuckols
Peiping
Pyongyang
U.S
United States
38Th
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