Woman Killer, 11 Injured In Route 25 Collision
A late Saturday crash on Route 25 near the Montgomery Warren County line killed Edna Marie Hutchinson 23 of Dayton. Eleven others were injured including Quinton Capocefalo 8 and Millard Dennis 53 among a gathered list of survivors from both cars. Funeral services for Hutchinson are planned in Salt Rock West Virginia with Riggs Funeral Home handling arrangements. Capoccfalo and Millard Dennis remain in serious condition.
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Montgomery - Warren County
Edna Marie Hutchinson
Superior Ave
Dayton
Middletown Hospital
Quinton Capocefalo
Ilinois Ave
Joseph A. Grasso
Penny Grasso
Illinois Ave
Frankie Tillburg
Irving Ave
Joseph R. Martin
Millard Dennis
W. Linden St
Miamisburg
Fire Chief Kicked From Ladder Dies After Fall
Baltimore deputy fire chief Lorenz A. Dolle died after being kicked from a three story fire ladder by William Lane a 39 year old man described as a rooftop preacher. Lane was charged with kicking and causing Dolle death. Dolle 63 died after fracturing his skull. Dolle survived by his mother his wife a son and a daughter.
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Baltimore
Lorenz A. Dolle
Dolle
William Lane
Louis J. Mitchell
Lane
Fire Department
Dolie
Young Bride Shot to Death in Carnegie
A 23 year old war veteran shot his 19 year old wife to death in a Carnegie room after offering to let her kill him. Thomas Kish, a laborer, told detectives his wife Alice Kish refused his pistol and he then fired one shot into her head. Kish served as a military policeman in Europe and the Pacific theaters.
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Carnegie
Russell Patton
Allegheny County
Saia
Alice C. Kish
Thomas
Patton
Kish
Carnegie Street
Pittsburgh
Italians Fail To Name President On Ist Vote
Enrico De Nicola led with 396 votes to Carlo Sforza's 353 on the first Italian republic presidential ballot. A two thirds majority was required. about 900 deputies and senators were seated, with 868 present. Abstentions, scattering votes for Einaudi and others noted amid Communist influence in the chamber.
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ROME
Enrico de Nicola
Popular Front
Carlo Sforza
Christian Democrats
de Nicola
Carlosforza
Comunists
Luigi Einaudi
Bank of Italy
Alessandro Casali
Cipriano Facchinetti
Ivanoe Bonomi
Senate
Cleveland Opera Season Opens with Manon in Cleveland
Two trains carried 350 artists and technicians for the Metropolitan Opera Association’s 23rd Cleveland season. The week begins with Jules Massenet’s Manon, and Giuseppe Di Stefano will replace James Melton as Des Grieux due to Melton’s cold.
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Cleveland
Metropolitan Opera Associations
Jules Massenet
Manon
James Melton
Des Grieux
Guiseppe di Stefano
Lewis serves notice to end hard coal pact
AP reports John L. Lewis issued a 60 day notice to hard coal operators ending the UMW contract for 80 000 anthracite miners and seeking a new wage contract by July 10 with wage conferences to begin May 20 unless mutually agreed otherwise.
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Lewis
Washington (Ap
John L. Lewis
UMW
United Mine Workers
Harn
Washington
New York City
Navy PBY Missing With 12 Aboard Over Caribbean
Coast Guard reports a Navy PBY flying boat with 12 men aboard has been missing since about 2 a.m. Sunday between Puerto Rico and Cuba. An air-sea search is led by Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with the craft en route from Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico to Key West Florida and due to land at Key West about 8 a.m. Sunday.
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Miami
Fla
Coast Guard
Puerto Rico
Cuba
U. S. Navy
Guantanamo Bay
Roosevelt Roads
Key West
Norman Thomas Plans For Sixth Campaign
Norman Thomas, 63, of New York, announces a sixth presidential bid for the Socialist party. The 26th national convention nominates Tucker P. Smith as vice president candidate. Thomas expects 1948 to be tumultuous and doubts a Dewey renomination.
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Norman Thomas
Reading
New Yorker
The
Socialist Party
Thomas
Tucker P. Smith
Highland Park
Mich
Olivet College
CIO
United Auto Workers
Smith
GOP
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Robert A Taft
Ohio
Taft
Seizure Ordered To Avert Railroad Strike
President Truman seized the railroads to head off a nationwide strike called by three railroad brotherhoods set to begin at 6 am local time. Alvanley Johnston of the Engineers said workers would obey any court order, while urging continued operations to protect public welfare.
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Washington
Alvanley Johnston
Johnston
White House
Truman
Mr. Truman
Uous
John Steelman
Three Brotherhoods
New York Central Cancels Planned Passen Ger Train Curtailment
New York Central Railroad announces cancellation of earlier plans to curtail passenger service in hopes of avoiding strike disruption. Truman seizure order signed earlier. Union leaders reiterate strike set to begin at 6 am tomorrow unless national leaders order cancellation.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
Truman
Fastern
Washington
Thomas J. Harkins
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Rail unions walk out as wage talks stall at White House
Union leaders from the Locomotive Engineers Firemen and Enginemen and the Switchmen depart the White House conference amid stalled wage talks. They refuse to commit to government work while the executive order maintains current pay and conditions. They seek about 30 percent raises, down from a previously offered 15 12 cents an hour, and have 190000 workers in the rail system.
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White House
Alvanley Jonston
David B. Robertson
A. J. Glover
Steelman
Mr. Truman
Secretary of the Army
Kenneth Royall
Johnston
Nation Feels Threat of Rail Strike Across U.S.
The threatened rail strike halts 88 major railroads from accepting perishable freight, triggering layoffs, price surges, and fears of widespread food shortages. California Texas Florida growers report losses up to millions daily while Bethlehem Steel and automakers warn of immediate plant suspensions without coal and rail cars.
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Chicago
New York
O'Wyer
California
Texas
Florida
Texas Citrus, Vegetables Shippers and Growers Association
Bethlehem Steel Company
Wyoming Parties Set Delegates For National Conventions
Wyoming Democrats and Republicans hold separate pow wows to pick uninstructed delegates. The GOP will elect nine delegates and a new national committeeman to replace the ailing Frank Horton. The Democrats choose six delegates with L G Pat Flannery delivering the keynote and suspected to back Senator Joseph C O Mahoney as a possible running mate.
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Wyoming
GOP
Benton Casper
Wyo
Frank O. Horton
Saddlestring
John W. Bricker
Ohio
L.G
Pat) Flannery
Joseph C O'Mahoney
D-Wye
O'Mahoney
Tampering With Rails May Be Train Wreck Cause
Reading Railroad officials and Montgomery County district attorney found indications of rail tampering after a Reading Line wreck near Valley Forge Park killed two crewmen from Allentown. The train derailed after a sideplate was removed and rails pulled, with signals remaining intact. The dead engineman Bud Demmy and fireman Howard R. Jackson were trapped and buried, respectively. Investigators cited possible switch failure or intentional track tampering as the cause being probed.
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Valley Forge, Pa
Reading Railroad
Montgomery County
Reading Company
Allentown
Philadelphia
George Washington Memorial Chapel
Valley Forge Park
E. Arnold Forrest
Bud Demmy
Howard R. Jackson
Allentown-to - Philadelphia
Reading
Schuylkill River
Park
Washington Memorial Chapel
Park Lane Villa Hotel workers strike as AFL union demands contract
About 350 members of the AFL Building Service and Maintenance Union walked out at the Park Lane Villa Hotel in Cleveland. They demand a contract with a retroactive wage increase and a union shop, accusing management of anti union stance while the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers plans a nationwide rail strike. The hotel hosts 150 guests with 500 rooms, and workers earn about 28 80 for a 48 hour week.
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Cleveland
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
AFL
Brotherents
AFL Building Service and Maintenance Union
Park Lane
East End
Sam Fisher
Rail Brotherhood
Matt Wilbur
Miami Line Coach Resigns to Join West Point Staff
Paul Metzel, line coach at Miami University, resigns to accept a similar position with the West Point coaching organization led by Sid Gilman, former Miami University coach.
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Miami
West Point
Southerners Weigh George As Truman Opponent
In Washington, Senator Walter George of Georgia is being groomed by Southern Democrats as a potential challenger to President Truman for the Democratic nominating nomination. Georgia's backers aim to place his name on a states rights platform at the Philadelphia convention. Leaders say George could head a campaign against Truman's civil rights program if Southern support materializes. The Jackson meeting of States’ rights Democrats and other names like Gov Fielding Wright and Gen Douglas MacArthur are mentioned as alternatives.
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Washington
Walter George
D-Ga
Truman
Jackson
Miss
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Douglas MacArthur
Ben Laney
Arkansas
Russell
McClellan
D-Ark
Jews push to reopen Jerusalem Tel Aviv supply route
Jewish militiamen have occupied key heights along Bab El Wad to reopen the Jerusalem Tel Aviv highway and supply 100,000 Jews in Jerusalem. Four thousand Haganah fighters conducted a two day operation to clear Arab blocks, while Arab bases and Beit Mahsir were under attack as UN and British authorities seek peace and a Palestine framework.
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Jerusalem
Bab el Wad
Tel Aviv
Haganah
Bab Wad
Here
Bab el- Wad
Beit Mahsir
Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
Palestine
Great Britain
Holy Land
Holy City
The
Arab Medical Association
Acre
Haifa
Heathn
Arab Acre
Western Galilee
Hafia
Nahariya
South Korea Votes Amid Violence in First Self Rule Election
American and Korean authorities estimate 80 percent or more of eight million eligible voters defied Communist violence in Korea's first self rule election. Weekend toll rises to 73 killed. police report 60 suspected Communists detained. bombings strike Taegu and Seoul area. rail lines sabotaged. Inchon telephone fire blamed on a woman under Communist orders.
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Seoul
South Korea
U. Zone
Taegu
Pusan
Dayton Youth Detained in Lebanon Robbery Case
Carl Wade a 22 year old Dayton native and Dunbar High School graduate is held in Warren County jail after allegedly robbing the City Loan Company in Lebanon. He was to be arraigned before Mayor Clyde C Collins after reportedly spending 284 dollars to wed Friday. The robbery Tuesday involved a revolver and victims Char Corwin and Opal Worthy. Wade said he used a rental car and that it was his first offense.
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City Loan Company
Lebanon
Carl Wade
Dayton
Wade
Dunbar High School
Warren County
Clyde C. Collins
W. H. Fulkerth
Char Corwin
Miss Opal Worthy
Tli
Fulberth
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Barbara Scanlon
Laddie
Winsted
Conn
Board of Selectmen
Cleveland Opera
NAVY
Dearborn
Steve Grasel
Arrow
Ford Motor Co
Wayne County Hospital
Chambersburg, Pa
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cumberland
London
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