Miners Vacation Shrinks 81 Day Coal Supply Forecast
With an 81 day coal stockpile, U S miners began a lengthy vacation though official lists show only 10 days. Talks between John L Lewis and operators aimed for July 1, while U S Steel and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal urged full wage demands. Labor officials planned talks after federal mine controls end.
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Associated Press
John L. Lewis
United States Steel Company
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Lewis
Schwellenbach
Coal Miners Strike Curbs Steel Production Across Major Firms
The government backed paid holidays for miners while wildcat work stoppages hit 73,000 workers ahead of a Taft Hartley deadline. Carnegie Illinois and other producers cut blast furnaces and open hearth units, with Wheeling Steel laying off about 6,000 by July 7. Railroads face furloughs as mines shut in the region and in Roanoke. Dunkerque’s century of rule changes noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Mine Workers Union
Washington
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
U. S. Steel
Pittsburgh-Youngstown
Republic Steel
Sharon Steel
Wheeling Steel
Norfolk & Western
Virginian Railways
U.S. Steel Corp
Lewis
Fersons
Benjamin Fairless
George M. Humphrey
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Lewis Friday
American Federation of Labor
C. I. QO
Philip Murray
Eastern Yards
East and
Gulf Yards
Omaha
U. S. Navy
Carnegie-Ilinois
Hugh Clairton
Federal Transportation
The
Roanoke
Nashville, Tenn
Southern
Louisville & Nashville
Knoxville
Air Safety Board Proposes Takeoff Safety Reforms
President Truman's special air safety board, in its first report, urges revised takeoff formulas. It calls for including runway slope, shorter paper-weighted lengths, and temperature-based weight limits, plus wind information enhancements and gust lock redesigns for DC-4s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landis
Leesburg
Dallas
New York
Nashville
Truman
la Guardia
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Special Air Safety Board
Army's Tucker Weds Childhood Sweetheart at Miami Ceremony
Lt Arnold Tucker, Army star quarterback, and Patricia Small were married in Miami and headed to New Orleans for their honeymoon. The West Point graduate will live in San Antonio at Randolph Field where he is assigned to the Army Air Forces.
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Miami
Fla
Army
Arnold Tucker
Patricia Small
New Orleans
Tucker
Doc” Blanchard
Glenn Davis
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
San Antonio
Texas
Army Air Force Base
Randolph Field
Dutch Indonesian notes bloom in Java crisis amid political shifts
The report threads military and diplomatic actions in Batavia Jogjakarta and The Hague. It cites an Indonesian army spokesman claiming a zero hour attack order from Lt. Gen. Spoor, denials by Spoor and Van Mook, and notes a possible DA Day. U S Consul Walter Fonie’s dispatch to Soewandi and Van Mook. It covers Sjahrir's push for power and U S policy timelines through January 1 1949, plus Molotov Bevin and U N discussions shaping interim governance and sovereignty.
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Siem Spoor
Netherlands
Spoor
HH. J. van Moek
Netherlands East Indies
Mondey
Java
U. S
Walter A. Fonie
Soewandi
Batavia
van Mook
Jogjakarta
Soerkarno
Sutan Ejahrir
Sjahrir
Sjabrir
London
Washington
United States
Sjahbrir
Republic
Iat
Charibon
Soviet Russia Eyes U S Role in European Aid Talks
After a long session ministers planned a 4 p m Monday meeting amid gloom and reports of Bevin and Bidault privately meeting. The Kremlin seeks a definite U S funding offer and a committee structure under the United Nations economic commission for Europe to shape a European aid program.
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Kremlin
Paris
Bevin
Bidault
Molotov
Washington
United States
Germany
Europe
United Nations Economic Commission For Europe
Soviet Bloc
London
William L. Clayton
U. S
Eisenhower warns on military cuts and Soviet strength
Eisenhower urged restoration of funds as next week’s voting looms, warning reductions threaten national defense. He cited 17,000 officers and 74,000 civilians at risk while noting U S Army morale and modernization lag amid Soviet advantage and stretched global deployments. Senator Gurney and Senator Hayden weighed in on the political clash over war department staffing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gurney
R—Sd
Hayden
D—Ariz
House
War Department
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
United States
National Guard
Price shifts test OPA era claims across markets
A survey contrasts wholesale and retail butter, flour, steel scrap, turpentine, cotton, and mens wear prices with OPA ceilings. Advocates argue legitimate markets rose but stayed controlled. critics cite persistent black market and enforcement gaps. Discussion notes Hawaii statehood has been debated since 1854.
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New York
CPA
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Savannah
OPA
Chicago
Meyer Krestnbaum
Hart, Schaffner and Marx
Monroe to Welcome Selig Furniture Plant Move
The Monroe West Monroe chamber celebrates securing Selig Manufacturing Company for a new plant. Plans call for a 26 acre site on Thomas street with a 1948 start, a $240000 machinery investment, $300000 working capital, and first mortgage bonds to fund the project. The effort credits J W Keene and Herbert Bailey Jr with leadership and outlines substantial local financing and community support.
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Mr. Keene
A. Petrus
Clifford Strauss
Travis Oliver
Dave Silverstein
T. H. Scott
G. L. Holloway
Fred F. Millsaps
W. W. McCain
W. J. Sherrouse
W. J. Riley
M. S. Biedenham
J. G. Hicks
Walter W. Kellogg
Sig Masur
A. K. Kilpatrick
H. M. James
Marion Taylor
M. M. Selig
Leominister
Mass
Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
West Monroe
Selig
Industrial Committee
Selig Manufacturing Company
J. W. Keene
Keene
Twin City
Twin Cities
Thomas W. Davenport
Hudson, Potts, Bernstein and Davenport
F. F. Millsaps
Royal Banks
Smith, Padgett and Stubbs
Monroe Realty Corporation
Seng
Massachusetts
Thomas Street
South
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Alabama Street
Polignac
Monroe to Land Large Furniture Plant as Industry Growth Sways
A Rogers Ark style of industrial success praised Herbert Bailey Jr for securing Munsingware Inc a large plant and a growing furniture project in Monroe. Local leaders foresee expansion doubling plant size and possible relocation of a Massachusetts operation to Monroe as a regional hub.
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Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Bailey, Jr
Rogers, Ark
Munsingware, Inc
Rogers
Stave Mill
Northwest
Arkansas
Twin Cities
Keene
Seltz
Massachusetts
Monroe
F. F. Millsaps
Quachita National Bank
Travis Oliver
Central Savings Bank and Trust Company
Manchuria War Report Claims Major Communist Setbacks
Lieut. Gen. Yu Ching-Chung said three of six Communist divisions assaulting Szepingkai were crippled and losses unprecedented. Communist radio claimed 16 000 government dead or captured over 12 days. Yu denied evacuation rumors and noted shortened lines to boost offense, with withdrawal from Antung cited. He warned the situation would worsen despite daily changes.
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Manchuria
Yu Ching-Chung
Tu Li-Ming
Szepingkai
Manchurian
Antung
Verdict in treason case leads to adjournment until Monday
The court adjourned after delivering the treason verdict with the death or up to ten thousand dollar penalties under judge Ford. He praised jurors for their rapt attention and explained sequestering was to keep focus on the case, while Chandler watched his two daughters in court. A final note mentions Madagascar and Reunion trees with water-storing leaves.
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St. Louis
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Illinois State Penitentiary
Menard
Missouri River
Kansas City
Hermann
Missouri
Rule
Neb
St. Charles
Jefferson City
Mississippi
Grafton
St. Joseph
Ottumwa
Des Moines
Ford
Chandler
Ynoy
Conventions Opacity List of Committee Chairs Names
A fragment lists convention attendees and committee advisory chairmen from multiple Louisiana towns including Winnsboro Columbia Jonesboro Belcher Greve Alexandria Hamburg Gueydon Basile Rayne Opelousas Baton Rouge New Iberia Houma and other locales. It names chairmen in Cotton Andrew Yerger Stephen Munson Ev erett Johnson Charles Colley H B Fairchild Ray Breaux Robert Morrison C J James W E Hanes Neil McHenry Charles Sinagro Robert Baden and W C Kennedy among others.
Arab Leaders in Ramallah and Nablus Meet Palestine Commission
The Palestine Arab executive observers met Ramallah Mayor Khalik Saleh and Nablus Mayor Soluman Tukan privately to discuss community statistics. Tulkarm officials refused to meet while the commission members dined with a Palestine official. Saleh, once a Detroit and Chicago resident, said Arabs could achieve much with little expenditure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine Arab Executive
Khalik Saleh
Ramallah
Soluman Tukan
Nablus
Tulkarm
Commission
Palestine
Saleh
Detroit
Chicago
Robbery at two households ends with car theft
A group of three masked gunmen bound and robbed the Pfinger and Wiener households in the early hours. They fled in a black sedan with New York plates at 12:30 a m. Victims described the assailants as between 35 and 50, but none identified them. Wasps prey on spiders by paralyzing them for larval food stores.
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Frank Pfingster
Wieners
Claire
Salitsky
Irwin
New York
Wiener
Western Europe to host Harriman and Anderson in July Berlin visit
The plan sends Harriman and Secretary Clinton Anderson to Berlin on July 2 with expert staffs to study Western Europe economic troubles. Their itinerary covers The Netherlands Belgium France Britain and Germany amid postwar shortages and rising concerns over Communism. Analysts in Paris Rome and Brussels voice cynicism about Paris talks and fear of renewed German and Russian demands.
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Europe
Soviet
Russia
Eastern
Balkans
Associated Press
Paris
Wes Gallagher
Germany
Moscow
Charles H. Guptill
Rome
Italy
United States
Brussels
Holland
Amsterdam
Ruhr
L'Humanite
Miners face new contract gap as talks stagger
Labor department officials push for a pre deadline agreement covering northern and western coal fields. Officials say after 13 months miners would be unemployed with no contract and not under Taft Hartley. Key talks involve UMW negotiators and major operators like U S Steel and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.
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Labor Department
Fairless-Murphey- Lewis
U. S. Steel
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
UMW
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Nebraska
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Sullivan
Congress
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