Wage Board Sets Special Meeting on Steel Dispute
The Wage Stabilization Board schedules a rare Saturday session and contemplates Sunday as it races to craft recommendations before a possible March 24 steel strike. The panel hints at 8 to 34 1/4 cents per hour, with union demands for 18 percent raises and broader benefits, while OPS price increases may cap relief.
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Washington
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Philip Murray
Steelworkers Union
CIO
Murray
Harry Shulman
Yale Law
Tax Agents Outline Ways They Gained By Gambling and Gifts
House investigators scrutinize five figure spending by four figure IRS salaries. Three NYC tax office employees cited gambling winnings and stock market bets to explain large expenditures. Witness Paul Hofrichter linked $18,350 earnings on a $3,500 salary to gambling with a bookie Packy. Others cited lavish gifts and loans as offsetting sources.
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B. L. Livingstone
Washington
Internal Revenue Workers
House
Ways
Rep. King
Dcalif
New York City
King
Internal Revenue Bureau
Internal Revenue
Joseph D. Nunan Jr
Daniel Bolich
Paul Hofrichter
Brooklyn Tax Office
Brooklyn
Packy
Brutal Trio Rob $131000 From Coal Operator Home
Butler, Pa.: Police seek three bandits who beat wife of Craig Saul owner of Eagle Coal Co after gaining entry under pretended package delivery. They escaped in a gray Cadillac with $131,000 total. $26,000 missing from the safe. Saul, 42, and wife, with nine children, describe the assault and crime.
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Butler
Craig Saul
Eagal Coal Co
Saul
Sauls
Young Girl Succumbs To Deadly Nephritis
Nephritis victim Charlotte Cohen died in Culver City after doctors treated her with watermelon. Readers sent fruit by air from frozen supplies and contributions arrived from Arizona Arkansas and Mexico to aid the 18 year old.
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Culver Cry
Calif
Charlotte Cohen
Arizona
Arkansas
Mexico
Twelve Red POWs Killed In Koje Camp Riot
A second violent riot at Koje Island prison camp killed 12 North Korean prisoners and wounded 26 others, with one American officer and a South Korean civilian injured. The incident prompted international Red Cross involvement and a U.N. inquiry, as guards opened fire to restore order after diehard Communist prisoners attacked a cooperative work party.
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Tokyo
U. N. Command
Koje Island
General Headquarters
International Red Cross
U. N
U. S. 27Th Infantry Regiment
Koje
Red Truce
Panmunjom
Vote Monday On Proposal To Hear Ike
Senator McMahon predicts Senate Foreign Relations Committee will approve Monday inviting General Eisenhower to testify on the Foreign Aid Bill. Opposing senators Lodge Sparkman Gillette and Smith argue against, with Sparkman noting NATO duties. Connally schedules a closed session at 10 a.m. to decide, then open hearings with Harriman follow. Eisenhower has no immediate plans to return.
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Washington
McMahon
D-Conn
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sen
Lodge
R-Mass
Eisenhower
Sparkman
D-Ala
NATO
Connally
D-Tex
Senate
Mc Mahon
W. Averell Harriman
Mutual Security
Foreign Aid Agency
Gillette
Dta
H. Alexander Smith
RNJ
Jet action fuels 15 to 1 MiG-15 tally in week
Seoul reports that American Sabre jets destroyed at least 15 Russian built MiG-15s this week with only one swept wing fighter lost. Seven UN planes were lost to ground fire and other causes. Four F 80 Shooting Stars conducted a surprise attack on a Communist mortar platoon north of the Punchbowl, killing about 40 soldiers and neutralizing 12 gun positions. Red infantry probed Allied lines along the peninsula as UN troops repelled them in brief battles.
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Seoul
Korea
Fifth Air Force
United Nations
North Korea
Punchbowl
Korean Peninsula
U.N
Sound Off Too Loud in East Bloomfield Fire Siren
In East Bloomfield Ontario County a fire siren sounded from 12 30 a.m. to 3 a.m. waking residents. Volunteer firemen repaired a short circuit to restore sleep and safety.
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East Bloomfield
N.Y
Ontario County
Storm Bets California With Heavy Snow and Flood Alerts
A winter storm battered Northern California with heavy snow and rain, stranding Marines en route to Camp Pendleton on U S Highway 395, closing major highways, and prompting Civil Defense and Red Cross alerts in Los Angeles and San Diego. Echo Summit and Donner Summit reported top snow depths while trains faced delays. Reno received fourteen inches of fresh snowfall as weather spread to surrounding states.
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Camp Pendigton
Picket Meadow
California
State Division of Highways
Bishop
Bridgeport
Sonora Junction
Los Angeles
San Diego
Civil Defense and
Red Cross
Donner Summit
Southern Pacific Railroad
Western Pacific
Reno
Nev
Missouri Valley
Maine
New York State
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
National Round-Up Hints From Truman Speech in New Hampshire
President Truman weighed silence on his re-election chances after Kefauver swept New Hampshire. he spoke to 3,000 high school editors in New York on citizenship. Other items note Taft forces' gains at GOP district conventions, Eisenhower talks with Hoffman, and California Governor Warren criticizing war instincts regarding China.
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Truman
New York
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Fuller Warren
Florida
Kefauver
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Robert A
Louisiana
Republican State Central Committee
Eisenhower
Baton Rouge
Taft
North Carolina
Illinois
New Mexico
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Paul G. Hoffman
Ford Foundation
Paris
Hoffman
Citizens For Eisenhower
Earl C. Warren
California
Wisconsin
Chiang Kai-shek
China
United States
Mysterious Sailor Questioned Over Caribbean Submarine Reports
U S agents quiz a sailor found near Panama Canal Zone amid reports of Russian submarines in the Caribbean. The man, age about 23, gave varied identities including Finn and Lithuanian and claims to have been a ship crewman trafficking arms between Miami and Dakar. He is held for questioning as Panamanian and U S officials probe the link.
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Panama
U.S
Caribbean
Prmfter
Atlantic
Miami
Fla
Dakar
French West Africa
Allies Offer Compromise In Deadlock At Korean Armistice Talks
In MUNSAN Korea United Nations negotiators proposed a compromise package to resolve five disputed issues in policing a Korea armistice. The Communists indicated they would accept only part of the plan and pressed for all prisoners to be repatriated. The talks adjourned with staff officers to meet again Sunday to pursue voluntary repatriation and port inspections while N and Communist negotiators traded concessions.
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Munsan
Korea
U. N
Kose Island
United Nations Command
U.N
Reds
Chang Chun Sang
Andrew J. Kneey
War Vet Needs Visa To Stay
A Korean War veteran, Alberto Gonzales, 21, returned to Monterrey, Mexico, rather than face deportation after being picked up as an illegal entrant following discharge at Fort Sam Houston. He reportedly earned a Purple Heart. He will be given a chance to reenter legally by qualifying as an immigrant and applying at the American office in Monterrey, with plans for a March 23 wedding to a San Antonio girl.
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San Antonio
Monterrey
Mexico
Alberto Gonzales
Immigration Service
Fort Sam Houston
Korea
W. L. Meuhlhouse
Immigration Office
Gonzales
Finnegan Cleared On Bribery Counts In Tax Office Case
A federal jury in St. Louis found James P. Finnegan, former internal revenue collector, guilty on two misconduct charges for accepting payments from outside firms to influence government matters. He was acquitted on three bribery counts. sentence set for March 24 with a maximum four years in prison and $20,000 fine. Finnegan, 51, linked to President Truman, resigned last April as investigations began. He remains free on bond pending sentencing.
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ST. Louis
James P. Finnegan
Finnegan
Truman
U. S
Rubey M. Hulen
Warewick Hotel Corp
Coast Guard
American Lithofold Corp
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Karol Kell
RFC
Mie
Hulen
Roosevelt
Ford Local To Undergo Full Purge
DETROIT The International Executive Board of the CIO United Auto Workers set up a six member Board of Administration for Ford Local 600 and ordered the firing of officers found to be members of or subservient to the Communist Party. Carl Stellato, Patrick Rice, William Hood and W G Grant were cited for failing to abide by the union constitution. The action followed HUAC hearings naming Local 600 officials as communists and could lead to an election within 60 days to replace the officers.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Today
Ford Local 600
Communist Party
Carl Stellato
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
House Un-American Activities Committee
Local 600
Stellato
Reuther
Stellate
Rattling Bones Too Near To Home
New York police raided an East Side chapel arresting 36 people for gambling. Thirty-five were playing dice around a candlelit altar. owner Anthony Piragnoli, 63, charged with allowing gambling for $25 a night. seized a large table, five dice, and paraphernalia. altar moved to make room.
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New York
Upper East Side
Anthony Piragnoli
Actors' Relief Fund Gets Herbert's Money
The Motion Picture Relief Fund has been will ed nearly all of comedian Hugh Herbert's 200000 estate, his attorney said yesterday. Herbert's former wife Rose Herbert of Fort Worth received only 10000. They were divorced after 27 years of marriage. The relief fund aids needy film workers.
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Los Angeles
Motion Picture Relief Fund
Hugh Herbert
Herbert
Rose Herbert
Ft. Worth
Paducah Plant Walkout Idles 15000 Workers Today
A walkout of AFL laborers halted work at the $500000 Paducah Atomic Energy Plant in Paducah Kentucky. About 15000 workers were idled and no reason was given for the stoppage.
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Paducah
Paducah Atomic Energy Plant
Jenner Proposes Reservations on Japanese Peace Treaties
Senator Jenner from Indiana drafts nine amendments to the Japanese peace treaty and three Pacific security pacts. He seeks to preserve U.S. sovereignty, deny Russian claims to the Kuriles, and support Nationalist China's claim to Manchuria Formosa and the Chinese mainland. The State Department opposes the changes as causing delays and aims for swift approval by midweek.
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Sen
Jenner
R-Ind
Senate
State Department
Connally
D-Tex
Wiley
R-Wis
Ing
Foreign Relations Committee
Russia
Kurile Islands
Yalta
Potsdam
United States
China
Manchuria
Formosa
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
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Lacy King
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Owen Lawson
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Dick Vice
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Easino
Karol Kell Garment Company
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