Government orders 25% cut in coal burning passenger trains
Washington AP The Office of Defense Transportation orders a 25 percent reduction in coal burning passenger train service due to coal mine shutdowns. Effective at midnight March 21, the action, issued under war powers, bans substitute locomotives and all coal train special services.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
OCT
Bureau of Mines
ODT
Cyrus S. Ching
Ezra van Horn
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lea
Dieseil-Electric
Ching
van Horn
Lewis
Soviets Fight UN Inquiry Of Czech Crisis
The Soviet Union vowed to oppose a United Nations inquiry into the Czechoslovak crisis as UN Security Council members voted to hear testimony on the matter. Andrej Gromyko denounced Chile’s complaint as slanderous and warned of Kremlin directives behind the stance. The council scheduled debate to begin next Monday.
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Czech
Lake
Russia
United Nations
Czechoslovakia
Europe
UN Security Council
Andrej A. Gromyko
Chile
Gromyko
Jan Papanek
Coal Walkout Begins As Steel Industry Feels Reductions
The four day old soft coal strike begins to bite into steel production with Youngstown Sheet and Tube shutting a blast furnace at Briar Hill. Sharon Steel will bank one furnace and five open hearths at Farrell while Bethlehem Steel plans cutbacks if the walkout persists. About 344,000 miners are idle across 19 of 28 coal producing states. River barge workers face furloughs and railroads report drastic coal loadings. Washington agencies push for facts to decide further steps.
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Pittsburgh
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Briar Hill
Youngstown
Sharon Steel Corporation
Farrell
Bethlehem Steel Company
Pennsylvania
Ohio Valley
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Huntington
W. Va
Virginia
Norfolk and Western
Virginian
N. and W
Baltimore and Ohio
West Virginia
Washington
Federal Conciliation Service
Congress’ Labor Relations “Watchdog
Congressional
Senator Ball
R-Minn
Ball
Cyrus S. Ching
Concilation Service
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ezra van Horn
Calves Die, Roam After Ohio Truck Crash Near Lebanon
A double decker truck carrying 140 calves overturned on Route 42 northeast of Lebanon early today, killing 25 animals and releasing 115 others that wandered onto the highway and nearby fields. Deputies hounded bystanders and farmers chased the roaming cattle to clear the road while authorities searched for the driver, believed to have fled after the wreck en route to Cleveland. Traffic was halted from 3 to 6 a.m. while the scene was cleared.
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Route 42
Lebanon
Warren County
Kentucky
Cleveland
Ten Die in B-29 Crash at MacDill Field Tampa
Ten men killed and four injured when a B-29 from Spokane based 92nd Bomb Squadron crashed on landing in dense fog at MacDill Field Tampa. Survivors admitted to base hospital in good condition. crash occurred at 2 32 a m as plane touched runway edge scattering wreckage across the field. The aircraft had stopped at Maxwell Field en route from Montgomery and the MacDill accident board opened an investigation. Survivors named First Lt Roy M Walsh pilot likely First Lt R H Hathaway Staff Sgt C C Miller and Corp J M Miller.
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Tampa
Fla
Spokane
Wash
MacDill Field
George G. Byrnes
Byrnes
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Ala
Roy M. Walsh
R. H. Hathaway
C. C. Miller
Corp
J. M. Miller
Truman Board Pushing Meat Strike Probe
Chicago AP reports President Truman's new board of inquiry investigates the nationwide meat strike as supplies dwindle and prices edge up. A wage dispute report due April 1 covers 100,909 CIO meat packing workers. shipments to markets are down about two thirds.
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Chicago
Prospect
Truman
Board of Inquiry
Packer
CIO
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Boston
New England
National Association of Retail Grocers
Three Shot In Patrol Wagon Gun Fight In Cleveland
In Cleveland last night a patrolman and two suspects were wounded aboard a patrol wagon after a gunfight. Patrolman Nelson Belcher was hit in the hip by a Giordano shot. Giordano was wounded in the arm and William Nichols in the leg as Patrolman Julius Murer returned fire. Giordano, 32, was a fugitive from Mahoning County jail. Belcher’s condition was not believed serious.
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Cleveland
Nelson Belcher
Joseph Giordano
Mahoning County
Giordano
William Nichols
Julius M. Murer
Murer
West Side
Belcher
Salem
Record Crowd To Hear Democratic Executive In Talk Here Tonight
A sold out Jackson Day dinner at the Manchester Hotel will feature Gael Sullivan of the National Democratic Committee as principal speaker. The event follows President Truman’s Congressional address and is billed as a national and international policy forum with Sullivan expected to urge Truman’s renomination and caution against changing leaders amid world tensions. Sullivan attended a Cincinnati dinner yesterday and then a Hamilton reception and Manchester luncheon today with Ray T. Miller among the headliners.
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Manchester
Gael Sullivan
National Democratic Committee
Congress
Truman
Sullivan
Cincinnati
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Jack Bosch
Hamilton
Frank Dobrozsi
Anthony Wayne
Manchester Hotel
Ray T. Miller
Cleveland
Lausche Blames Party Bosses for 1946 Loss Bid
Ohio Democrat Frank J. Lausche accuses party bosses of scuttling his 1946 gubernatorial reelection bid. Speaking at a Seventh District meeting with county chairmen, he argued bosses harmed candidate support and urged backing the people’s will. Ray T. Miller and Lausche planned to share a platform in Middletown that night, with Miller present but offering no firm endorsement.
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Springfield
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Lausche
Reed
Winegardner
Fayette County
Democratic
Ray T. Miller
Cleveland
Middletown
Miller
Hamilton City Clerk Ordered To Issue Recall Petitions
Ohio Supreme Court forces Hamilton city clerk to issue recall petitions against Councilman Edward Beckett or show cause by April 17. The action arose from a dispute over suspension of Hamilton city manager Frank R. Buechner. Petitions were sought by taxpayer K Lewis Hackley who said Beckett thwarted voters and harmed citizens’ welfare.
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Hamilton
Frank R. Buechner
Counc
Common Pleas Court
Fred B. Cramer
Buechner
Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Edward Beckett
K. Lewis Hackley
Adale Edmonds
Hackley
Edmonds
Beckett
Congressmen Split Over Truman Plans
Congress divided over President Truman's proposals to raise military strength through universal training and a revived draft. Support tilted toward adopting one measure, with Universal Military Training favored though unlikely in the House, while senior leaders moved quickly to push the Marshall Plan for European recovery.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Congress
Truman
Russia
Uick
Senate
House Foreign Affairs Committee
New York
Woman Dies as Dance Hall Floor Collapses in Chicago
In Chicago a third floor dance hall floor failed during a St Patrick’s Day event at 3239 North Clark near Belmont Avenue. One woman, Ann Hunt, 35, died. over 100 injured, 12 in serious condition. The Connnaught Men's Social Club sponsored the gathering.
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Chicago
North Cla Street
Clark Street
Belmont Avenue
Connaught Men’s Social Club
Ann Hunt
John
Four In Family Burn To Death
Four members of the Higgins family died from burns suffered in a house fire that destroyed their five room frame home near Aultman in Stark County. Earl Higgins Sr., 47, and son Charles Dennis Higgins, 18 months, perished in their beds. Earl Jr. and Charlotte Higgins died at Mercy Hospital. Frances Higgins, 31, in hospital with extensive third degree burns. Two-year-old Michael escaped, treated at Aultman Hospital for an unrelated ailment.
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Canton
Mercy Hospital
Aultman
Stark County
Earl Higgins Sr
Charles Dennis Higgins
Earl Jr
Charlotte
Mercy
Michael
Aultman Hospital
Dismissed workers awarded damages in CIO dispute
Cleveland AP Rozak and Taylor, ousted from the CIO local after backing rival union candidates, won damages and reinstatement. Each man received damages and full seniority restored at E. F. Hauserman Company. The union was ordered to reinstate them and protect employment rights moving forward. Rozak and Taylor sought 20000 dollars each for wrongful ouster from the local and closed shop plant.
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Cleveland (Ap
John Rozak
John Taylor
CIO
Rozak
Taylor
E. F. Hauserman Company
Russia’s Answer May Be Further Aggressive Acts
Diplomatic officials fear the Kremlin may escalate beyond the Soviet bloc and strike outside the USSR. officials note Truman’s strong warning signals on Premier Stalin after a month marked by fatalities the AP reports as the most deadly since 1939.
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Russia
Kremlin
Ussr
John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Stalin
Truman Speech Praised and Criticized Across Europe
European reaction split along lines as non Communist papers praised President Truman’s defense of freedom against communism while Communist outlets dismissed it as warlike. London welcomed the speech’s defensive tone, but Moscow Berlin and Helsinki echoed warnings of war and panic. Analysts fear Soviet pressure and possible miscalculations could escalate toward wider conflict before April 18 elections in Italy and looming Soviet demands in Finland and Norway.
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London
Europe
Truman
Moscow
New York
Thesident
Repney Short
R-Mo
Henry A. Wallace
Vito Marcantonio
Leo Isaacs
Glen Taylor
Paris
Washington
Brussels
Britain
Themistokles Sophoulis
Greece
United States
Athens
Stalin
Russia
America
Kremlin
Communist Party
Finland
Norway
State Department
Soviet Union
Pirate raids reported in Chinese seas today
AP reports Chinese pirate raids on lonely lighthouses as ships sail the China seas.
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Shanghai
China
House Of Horrors Found Woman And Two Children In Venice
Police say two elderly women kept a 27 year old woman and two emaciated children in a strange three room Venice apartment. Misses Josephine Cleavey and Marie Clavey were jailed for false imprisonment and inhuman treatment. A 13 year old boy dressed in girls clothes was found emaciated on a curbstone, while a nine year old girl lived with the women until recently. Police described the woman as mentally underdeveloped and the boy and girl as fostered under irregular circumstances.
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Venice
Cal
Avenue Twenty
Josephine
Marie Clavey
Dolores Perkins
James Federicks
Clavey
Vella
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