Rail unions sign broad merger accord ending 21 month government control
Three rail unions with 150000 members signed a memorandum of agreement with rail carriers, ending 21 months of government operation. The pact raises wages, links them to the cost of living, extends shifts toward a 40 hour week, and gives unions the right to block certain interdivisional train runs. Agreement awaits contract signing to restore private ownership.
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White House
Brotherhoods of Engineers
John R. Steelman
Army
New York Central
Bonn West German Peace Pact Reached In Principle
After a 13 hour session Chancellor Adenauer and Western allies agreed in principle on the 850 million marks a month Germany will raise for defense. Foreign ministers Acheson Eden and Schuman to attend final talks in Paris and Bonn with signing expected Monday. Saar dispute may delay the six nation army pact in Strasbourg.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
U.S
Dean Acheson
Anthony Eden
Robert Schuman
West Germany
Senate
France
St Germany
Paris
Strasbourg
Belgium
Netherlands
Italy
Luxembourg
Council of Europe
Acheson
Washington
Europe
President Truman asserts seizure power over private industry
President Truman said he can seize private industries in an emergency and will honor Supreme Court decisions on his steel seizure. He argued the power is inherent and cannot be taken away, despite a district court ruling he acted without authority. He noted a government cleanup will proceed once James P. McGranery becomes attorney general.
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Washington
Truman
Supreme Court
U. S
James P. McGranery
Taft Bricker Vote Defeats Liberal Immigration Substitute
Washington Republicans Senator Taft and Senator Bricker joined the majority as the Senate rejected a liberal substitute to Senator McCarran's immigration and naturalization bill by 51 to 27. The outcome aligns with Taft and Bricker's conservative stance, shaping the bill's direction and potential policy outcomes.
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Washington
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
John W. Bricker
Senate
Sen. McCarsan
D-Nev
Senate panel backs all public Wage Stabilization Board
A Senate Banking Committee recommendation would scrap the current 18 member Wage Stabilization Board and create an all public panel to handle wage and price controls. Labor groups industry and public favors differ, while Capehart reform to limit price ceilings faces key changes.
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Washington
Senate
Wage Stabilization Board
AFL
CIO
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Truman
House Banking Committee
Emergency Court of Appeals
Office of Price Stabilization
Senate Committee
Capehart
WSB
Flames Claim Dad Trying To Save Rescue a Child
In Columbus a 40 year old father of five died in a home fire while attempting a rescue. Burt Tolliver fled with his family but reentered the blazing house when a child was unaccounted for. His body was found on the second floor near a window. The fire’s cause remains undetermined.
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Columbus
Burt Tolliver
Tollivers
Joy Ends Role In Parleys With Speech Rapping Reds
Vice Admiral C Turner Joy delivers a pointed farewell at Panmunjom as the Allied truce delegation ends talks with North Korea and China. Joy accuses the Reds of stalling to repair shattered forces and declares there is nothing left to negotiate. Maj Gen William K Harrison Jr succeeds Joy as senior delegate and sets a recess for Friday.
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Sam Sumerlin
Munsan
Korea
Adm C. Turner Joy
Joy
Panmunjom
William K. Harrison Jr
U.N
Reds
Harrison
Nam Il
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
William K .Harrison
United Nations Command
Franklin Teacher To End Career That Began In 1900
Mrs Laura Farrell Franklin West School principal resigns to end a 52 year teaching career. She began in 1900, taught 48 years in Franklin grade schools, paused for marriage in 1914, returned in 1918 due to a teacher shortage, and will serve as a substitute next year. Chiefs Chamberlain and Farmer honored her with a plant and reminisced with former pupils.
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Franklin
Laura Farrell
West School
O. E. Chamberlain
Edgar Farmer
Farrell
Bill Weith
George van Gibson
Ranklin
Truman criticizes Congress over social security bill and VA aid
President Truman attacked Congress for blocking a bill to boost old age and survivors insurance payments, saying lawmakers bow to AMA pressure and labels like socialized medicine. He urged Senate support to restore $75 million to veterans medical services and promised uniform care for Korean War veterans matching World War II veterans.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
American Medical Association
Veterans Administration
House
National Advisory Committee
V.A. Voluntary Services
V.A
Post Office
Veterans Medical Services
Senate
FBI Nabs 3 For Holdup At Air Base
FBI arrested Howard Hildebrandt Robert La Plante and Gloria Dale also known as Gloria Fazzina for a $100000 armed holdup at Quonset Point Naval Air Station March 7. Hildebrandt and Fazzina were taken in New York City La Plante in West Warwick Rhode Island. The loot included cash portions some recovered. one bill identified by agents.
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Boston
Quonset Point R.I
Naval Air Station
FBI
New York
Howard Hildebrandt
Quonset
Rhode Island
Robert Roger la Plante
Gloria H. Fazzina
Jersey City
N.J
Gloria Dale
New Britain
Conn
Hildebrandt
Miss Fazzina
New York City
la Plante
West Warwick
Hildbrandt
Bombers Smash Major Communist Supply Area In Korea Raid
U S Fifth Air Force fighter bombers conducted an hour by hour assault on a vast Communist supply and war materiel area between Pyongyang and Chinnampo. Pilots reported 117 buildings destroyed and 80 heavily damaged. Royal Australian Air Force 77th Squadron joined US and Marine aircraft in the strike. On the ground Patton tank guns damaged fortifications along a 20 mile stretch of the Central Front with one Allied tank lost.
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Seoul
Korea
U.S. Fifth Air Force
Pyongyang
Chinnampo
1St Marine Aircraft Wing
Royal Australian Air Force
77Th Squadron
Fish Ponds and Pools Tax Adopted by Suburban Council
Akron area councils approve a new tax on outdoor fish ponds and swimming pools amid suburban Cuyahoga Falls. the ordinance imposes five dollars yearly on ponds and pools and a twenty five dollar building permit for new fish ponds.
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Akron
Cuyahoga Fall
Ridgway Denies Korean War Gas and Germ Charge Claims
General Ridgway told Congress that Communist charges of gas and germ warfare in Korea are completely false. He praised the Eighth Army’s rapid rebound after a Chinese and North Korean offensive and commented on armistice talks and Japan relations as he prepared to take over Allied command in Europe. He lauded General James Van Fleet and spoke without mentioning MacArthur.
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Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Congress
United Nations
Korea
Ridgway
United Nations Far Eastern
Secretary of Defense
Lovett
D. Eisenhower
Eighth Army
Japan
Europe
Sinewy Para
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
The
Orient
Mark Clark
Francis T
Dodd
James van Fleet
UN sees Soviet buildup in Asia near Korea risk
United Nations officers in Tokyo warn of a significant Soviet military buildup in Asia that could trigger World War III if Moscow decides to intervene in Korea. They note Moscow is arming Chinese and North Korean forces while preparing to accelerate aid as roads thaw, signaling a potential for rapid escalation if the UN launches a major assault.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Asia
Russia
Korea
Europe
Japan
Matthew B. Ridgway
Washington
China
Far East
U.N
Couple Loses Life Savings
DAYTON, 0. When Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. White marked 25 years of marriage they lived simply. Their life savings of 43,550, kept on a slip, vanished after Mrs. White saved late and burned the money in a trash fire, with the couple blaming the loss on a late banking delay.
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Dayton
Albert E. White
Lace Looting Causes College Dean Headaches Across Nation
National panty raids by male students sweep from Maine to California. Notable incidents include 2000 students at the University of Oklahoma lifting lingerie from 16 dorms in a riot that required state troopers and high pressure hoses. 12 arrests. Louisiana State University used promises of expulsion and draft for dorm invaders, with 700 men warned. Other campuses in California, Illinois, Georgia, New York, Virginia and more report similar forays, some peaceful, some violent, with tear gas and police response.
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Maine
California
University of Oklahoma
University of Georgia
Oklahoma
Norman
Okla
Trn
Troy H. Middleton
LSU
Western Reserve University
Pomona
Claremont Colleges
Southern California
Bradley
Peoria
Cornell
Ithaca
N.Y
Mercer University
Macon
Virginia Tech
Universities of
Maryland
Richmond
Kentucky
Arkansas
Louisville
Three Youths Escape From Lima Hospital For the Insane
Three inmates escaped a second story dormitory by sawing bars and lowering from the window on knotted sheets. Identified are Jack Bauer 19 from Hamilton County for burglary and larceny Theodore Butler 24 from Cuyahoga County for robbery and Richard Moxley 17 from Orient School for the Feeble Minded. They may have fled on a freight train after helping each other over the wall. Two other inmates Keith and Slusser escaped May 5 by kidnapping guards. the trio are armed and dangerous with the trail fading in woods near Cleveland.
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Lima, O
Jack Bauer
Hamilton County
Theodore Butler
Cuyahoga County
Richard Moxley
Lima
Orient School
R. E. Bushong
Lee
Bushong
Floyd Keith
Neville Slusser
Cleveland
Gas Tank Car Blame On Towns In Two States
In Lowell Indiana four railroad tank cars burned after a Monon freight derailed in downtown causing several cars to ignite and smash into the depot, which later burned. In Odessa Texas runaway tank cars crashed into a switch engine and exploded starting a large warehouse fire with no injuries reported.
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Lowell
Ind
Monon
Lake County
Anne A
Odessa
Tex
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