Vienna Rioters Defy Price Rise Proposals Amid Socialist Demonstration
Communist demonstrators led about 500 activists and up to 8,000 supporters in Vienna as they marched toward the chancellery to protest a government plan to raise prices with a 100 schillings minimum wage boost. Russian operated plants in Vienna caused further strikes with Soviet authorities blocking reinforcements. Traffic in the international zone halted for over an hour as police held the line.
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Vienna
Ministry of Interior
Red Army
Austrian Trade Union Federation
Ten Communist leaders freed on bail as high court mulls appeal
Justice Jackson ruled that ten U S Communist party leaders must remain free on bail to avoid harming American freedoms and possible martyrs. The order delays final disposition of their conspiracy to overthrow the government case, mirroring a San Francisco circuit ruling on Harry Bridges. Eugene Dennis remains in jail for contempt.
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Washington
Jackson
Supreme Court
U. S
Communist Party
High Court
New York
Eugene Dennis
Congress
Justice Jackson
U. S. Circuit Court
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
CIO
Alter Becomes Sixth Archbishop of Cincinnati in Ceremonial Install
The Most Rev Karl J Alter was installed as Cincinnati's sixth archbishop in St Monica Cathedral after 19 years as Toledo bishop. Cardinal Stritch led the procession and 40 domestic prelates plus 10 papal chamberlains kissed his ring in obedience ceremony.
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Cincinnati
Karl J. Alter
St. Monica
Pope Pius XII
Toledo
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Chicago
Cardinal Stritch
Alter
U S 24th Division Liberates First Korea War Prisoners
U S 24th Division infantrymen freed the first American captives from Red Korea near Yongdong. Three wounded doughboys from the Second and First Cavalry divisions were released from a jail, not abused but hungry, then treated by medics after C rations.
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Korea
Yongdong
Frank Freede
Blaine E. Mackrall
U. S. Second Division
James E. Martin
U. S. First Cavalry Division
24Th
Truth Stretching by Gordon Martin
A reflective column on the human habit of exaggeration and storytelling. The piece critiques how people embellish tales to improve them and notes the humor and social acceptance in stretching the truth rather than calling it a crime. It cites examples from bosses, businessmen, and fishermen to illustrate the lure of a better story.
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Gordon Martin
Martin
80 English Miners Die As Fire Rages In Pit
Creswell England AP reports a devastating underground fire trapped and killed at least 80 miners. About 29 workers were in the affected area as flames and dense fumes choked the men, with 120 escaping on hands and knees. Rescue was halted and the burning section sealed.
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Creswell
England
Sir Hubert Houldsworth
East Midlands
National Coal Board
Sir Hubert
Britain
New Cummock
Scotland
Hoffman Quits as ECA Chief Amid Planned Ford Role
Washington AP President Truman accepted the resignation of Paul G. Hoffman after two and a half years leading the Economic Cooperation Administration which runs the Marshall Plan. William C. Foster will succeed him as administrator. Hoffman will return to private life by Saturday and may become director of the Ford Foundation.
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Washington
Paul G. Hoffman
Economic Cooperation Administration
Truman
William C. Foster
Sagan
ECA
Hoffman
Foster
Ford Foundation
Ford Automobile Family
Ford
Studebaker Corporation
United States
Postman To Rest Feet After 41 Years Of Service
Covington AP says Robert L. Wehr retired from the postal service at 67 after walking about 256000 miles in 41 years as a mail carrier in Covington. His long career spanned four decades of daily deliveries and community ties.
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Covington
Robert L. Wehr
Postal Service
Wehr
Hiss Nemesis Named New York Police Commissioner
Thomas F Murphy, who prosecuted Alger Hiss, becomes New York police commissioner as the graft plagued department faces a purge. O'Brien resigns after a police bookie probe. acting mayor Pell vows a civilian leader to clean up the “awful mess.”
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New York
Thomas F. Murphy
Alger Hiss
William P. O’brien
Brooklyn
Miles F. McDonald
Samuel S. Leibowitz
22 Missing In Japan Crash
A Korea bound C-54 transport plane plunged into the sea off a southern Japan air base. It carried 43 passengers and eight crew, with 28 rescued, 22 missing, and one body recovered. Twenty-five passengers and three crew reached life rafts and were saved by local fishing boats.
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TOKYO
Japan
MacArthur
Kwajalein Island
Navy
Korea
Pacific
Tanks meet south of fallen city as forces close in
U S troops south of Seoul report first contact with First Cavalry tanks racing from the old southeast beachhead. If linked, thousands of North Korean troops may be trapped in southwest Korea. General MacArthur announced Seoul’s liberation, while mopping up 5 000 die hard Red defenders continues house by house, with four big blazes burning as Allied forces press to minimize destruction.
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U. S
First Cavalry
Southeast
Korea
Osan
Suwon
Tokyo
MacArthur
Toda
United Nations
Republic of Korea
Rok
U.S
Mapo Street
Seventh Infantry Division
Namsam Hill
South Mountain Park
Chowan
Inchon
Seoul Is City of Blood Fire and War Report
AP dispatch from Seoul describes flaming streets, smoke shrouding the city, and fierce fighting as Marines push toward the heart of Seoul behind tanks and artillery. General MacArthur announces the envelopment and seizure of the city, with analysts noting rapid progress and strategic gains behind enemy lines at Inchon.
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Seoul
City
U.S. Front Advances Toward Kunsan in Korea Drive
A U.S. 25th Division column moved over thirty miles northwest and captured Chinju this dawn to dusk as tanks and motorized infantry push toward the west coast of Korea. An additional armored column rolled ten miles west of Chingju, twenty miles west of Hamnan, overrunning retreating Reds. Frontline officers said the advance could reach Kunsan within 48 hours.
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Chinju
U.S
Korea
Kunsan
Chingju
Hamnan
USW Aims for Union Shop in Steel Industry Drive
The CIO United Steelworkers press wage talks with Alcoa as it seeks a union shop in steel. Alcoa offers a 10 percent raise to its 45,000 workers, of which USW covers 20,000. USW hints at accepting as groundwork for broader demands.
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Alcoa
Pittsburgh
CIO United Steelworkers
Aluminum Company of America
AFL Aluminum Workers
CIO Steel Union
National Labor Relations Board
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Gan
Carnegi- Illinois
Philip Murray
Two Crime Investigators Slain in Chicago Murders
Two investigators were killed in separate Chicago shootings before planned meetings on gang activity. William J. Drury, 48, a former lieutenant, was hit by shotgun pellets and a slug as gunmen waited in a garage for his Cadillac. Marvin J. Bas, 45, an attorney probing crime syndicate activity for a Republican candidate, was shot on a northwest side street after a struggle, finished with a shot to the left ear. Drury had been involved with the Senate Kefauver committee. Bas was known for digging up underworld information.
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Chicago
William J. Drury
U. S. Senate Crime Committee
Marvin J. Bas
Cook County
Drury
Bas
Capone Gang
Rudolph Halley
Senate
Sen
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
George S.robinson
Annabelle
Robinson
Halley
Thomas Conelly
Chicago Herald-American
Busi
Hae
Peace proposals labeled propaganda stir UN caution
United Nations diplomats cautious on Malik peace and disarmament proposals after a Maryland peace petitioners group asked questions. Malik said yes to all four, including no first use of the atom bomb and disarmament plans. State Department said words must now be matched by actions and the UN is the proper forum for talks and transparency.
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NEW York
United Nations
TT & C Data Newartmant
Jacob A. Malik
Maryland
Russia
U.S
State Department
Washington
Malik
Stockholm
John Wertheimer
Baltimore
Lincoln White
Voice of America
White
Trygve Lie
Truman
Stalin
Lie
Security Council
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