14 Cent Wage Boost Advocated In Strike
Honolulu AP reports a Hawaii fact finding board recommends a 14 cent raise in the basic hourly wage for CIO stevedores now on a 60 day long shore strike. ILWU opposes the offer, employers undecided, and both sides have until Friday to respond. The board also calls for a union vote and a tripartite labor management group to improve relations.
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Honolulu
CIO
Hawaii
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
ILWU
Ingram M. Stainback
Territorial Department of Labor
Oren E. Long
Fred Low, Jr
Mustache Makes Professors Happy Mustache Makes Professors Happy
Mike and Spike Chattalas Cypriot twins at Indiana University now differ in appearance after Mike grows a mustache. Identical students enrolled last October study identical courses and achieve similar high grades. To tell them apart friends call Angelos Spike. Their Limassol hometown and father’s occupation are noted.
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Bloomington
Ind
Mike
Spike
Indiana University
Yiannakis
Angelos Chattalas
Island of
Cyprus
Indiana
Angelos
Law and Policy on Unified Command and Service Testimony
The speaker argues against a single chief of staff for all services, warning it would intensify differences and costs. He urges allowing testimony from all three armed services to clarify the meaning of proposed legislation, noting their expertise and lack of consensus.
Long Distance Dialing Expands With New System
Cleveland completes a nine million dollar electronic switching installation enabling direct dialing for long distance calls to distant phones and from other cities to Cleveland. The system makes calls possible without intermediate operators and marks Cleveland as the fourth city nationwide to adopt it. The Bell System plans nationwide expansion so a single operator could dial any number across the country.
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Cleveland
H. B. Harvey
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Bell System
United States
Canada
Talking Crow School Bound
CHAMPAIGN ILL AP George M Crowham a talking crow is enrolled at the University of Illinois to study how babies learn to talk Dr O H Mowrer directs the psychological clinic and notes Crowham can say 10 words The bird was taught by David Maxfield 17 of Edwardsville Ill Mowrer believes birds and babies share early vocal efforts and warns isolation may be needed to keep the bird from mimicking other birds.
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Champaign, Ill
George M. Crowham
University of
Mowrer
George
Problem Solved By Dock Worker
A Swedish stevedore at Miami docks solved a loading problem for two Manila hawser coils. Each coil measured 1182 feet, weighed 2870 pounds, and the cargo needed to fit a plane’s small hatch. Carl A. Axelson, a former stevedore and WWII lieutenant colonel, uncoiled and pulled the lines into the cargo hold to complete the shipment en route from New Orleans to Kingston Jamaica and then to Venezuela by boat.
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Miami
Filia
New Orleans
Kingston
Jamaica
Venezuela
Carl A. Axelson
U. S
Axelson
Actress Joanne Dru and Dick Haymes Divorce Plans
Actress Joanne Dru and crooner Dick Haymes announced plans for new marriages after Dru was granted a Nevada divorce on grounds of extreme mental cruelty. Dru may receive alimony from six thousand to fifty thousand dollars yearly depending on Haymes' income, with zero if she remarries, while Haymes courts Nora Eddington Flynn as she seeks Nevada residence to divorce Errol Flynn.
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Reno
Nev
Joanne Dru
Dick Haymes
Haymes
Nora Eddington Flynn
Nevada
Errol Flynn
Miss Dru
John Ireland
Miss
Pilot Of Boat Faces Charge In Lake Tahoe Accident
PLACERVILLE Calif AP The speedboat that cut off 13 year old Imogene Wittsche of Roseville as she swam near Lake Tahoe violated California safety code District Attorney Henry Lyon said Phil Davis of Oakland the boat pilot will be charged with operating a boat carelessly around swimmers Imogene lost both legs Janet Lutz also of Roseville escaped the path Davis said he was flabbergasted and claimed he passed the girls by a wide margin.
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Placerville
Cal
Lake Tahoe
California
Henry Lyon
Imogene Wittsche
Roseville
Reno
Phil Davis
Oakland
Davis
Imogene
Janet Lutz
Fights at Anacostia Pool After Segregation Change
In Washington two injuries were reported after clashes near the Anacostia park pool as about 100 white patrons and 20 Black youths contended. Police and the District of Columbia Recreation Board responded after an order to desegregate sparked turmoil among pool users.
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Washington (Ap
Anacostia Park
Interior Department
District of Columbia Recreation Board
Quieting Title Suit in Butler County Ohio
The unknown heirs of Emma Doell must answer by July 23, 1949 in Common Pleas Court Butler County Ohio case number 63 for the quieting of title to the south seventy five feet of lot 47 and the north fifteen feet of lot 46 in the Village of Trenton. Plaintiffs Carl Haller and Gertrude Haller seek title relief and other equitable relief. If no answer is filed by July 23, 1949 judgment will be taken against the defendants. May 25, June 18-15-22-29.
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Emma Doell
Carl Haller
Gertrude Haller
Common Pleas Court
Butler County
Ohio
Trenton
Haller J Ki
Rich Rag A A. Foo
Richard Walter RK. Bender
Atto
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Hanes Givvies
Hanes
P. H. Hanes Knitting Co
Winston-Salem, N. C
DR. Edwards
Limassol
Mediterranean Island
Too
David Lawrence
NEL
Whio-Tv
Channel
Olds
Hone
Oldsmobile
Heber Jone, Inc
Verity
Talking Crow School
Louis F. Jones
Capital Finance Corp
Olot
Chase
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