Lewis ready to end strike with Indiana coal operators
John L. Lewis urged Indiana Governor Schricker to negotiate a prompt peace pact with Indiana coal operators or those in any state. He said UMW representatives would meet alone with Indiana operators if they desired an Indiana-only agreement. Lewis warned negotiations could be rapid if support exists and suggested rationing stockpiles for emergency use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L. Lewis
Indiana
Lewis
United Mine Workers
United Mine Workers of America
Chicago
Philip Murray
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Illinois
Editorials and pensions clash in steel strike debate
The piece recounts a controversy over editorials funded by International Latex Corp and refutes claims of pro Communist bias by A. N. Spanel. It also critiques James W. Gerard, age 82, for linking his wealth to steel pension obligations and argues against compelling stockholders to fund pensions for 300,000 well paid workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James W. Gerard
Wilson War Party
Germany
Gerard
U. S. Steel
Blackmer Fined $20,000 for Tax Evasion
Denver reports Henry M. Blackmer, once a leading oil and mining financier, was fined 20 000 dollars after pleading guilty to four counts of federal income tax evasion. The 68-year-old exiled financier had returned from Europe and avoided imprisonment due to heart and gall bladder conditions and a medical report supporting risk of imprisonment. The judge dismissed four other indictments alleging perjury and tax evasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Henry M. Blackmer
Gray
Bent
Blackmer
Europe
Orie L. Phillips
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Justice Phillips
Harold D. Roberts
Phillips
Colorado
Boston
the Child of the Gods
Prisoner Kisses Daughter Then Flees Lock Haven Jail
State police hunted 26-year old Robert Hamm who kissed his four-year-old daughter goodbye in the Clinton county jail corridor before bolting through the front door. Sheriff George A. Hickoff said Hamm, to begin an 18 month to three year term for auto theft in Pittsburgh, fled along a side alley toward a railroad track as his wife and infant watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lock Haven
Clinton County
George A. Hickoff
Robert Hamm
Hickoff
Hamm
Thieves Take Watches at West Monroe Jewelry Store
West Monroe police report a burglary at Lee's Jewelry Store on Trenton Street where over 3900 dollars worth of watches were stolen after the plate glass door was smashed around 9 15 p m. Two suspects were arrested then released later. School board officials Mack Avants and Ed Hislop noticed the open door. Entrance was through the front door and a section of glass was knocked out. The store owner Lewis Lee and his brother Kenneth said 52 watches were taken. Local law enforcement continued investigation through the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee’s
West Monroe
Trenton
Jeff Caldwell
Shriff Bailey Grant
Grant
Mack Avants
Ed Hislop
School Board
Caldwell
Trenton Street
Lewis Lee
Kenneth
Six Die in Cincinnati Apartment Fire Tragedy
Six persons died when a three story Elm Street apartment building fire trapped residents in their rooms. Seven others were injured by jumps from second and third floor windows. four residents escaped unharmed. Firemen extinguished the blaze quickly. damage estimated at about $2000. An eight year old boy among the dead. None of the injured reported to be in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Elm Street
Harry McNay
General Hospital
Probing Explosions At Washington Post Office Building
Twin investigations opened into the fire and a series of blasts that ripped the top floors of the 11 million dollar post office department building on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House. Fourteen were injured, mostly firefighters, with damage estimated at 150 thousand. Investigations by the public buildings administration and the DC fire marshal seek the cause as FCC officials feared missing workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
Public Buildings Administration
District of Columbia
Wayne Coy
Federal Communications Commission
Coy
FCC
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
The
Communications Commission
Man Shot in Head Pursues 2 Gunmen
Philadelphia authorities sought two gunmen after a critically wounded restaurant patron, who carried a head wound and chased his attackers from a mid city eatery. Eyewitnesses described a woman and two companions fleeing in a dark convertible after identifying a man in a grey suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Joseph Valonis
Seaman's Neck Broken by Hawser in Gulf Salvage
A seaman on a tug at Southwest Pass suffered a broken neck when a hawser tied to a grounded freighter parted. He was moved to a coast guard vessel and then to Martine Hospital in New Orleans after an ambulance trip to Venice Louisiana. The man's identity was not released. The hawser snapped while the tug tried to free the freighter SS Green Mountain State which had run aground at the river mouth yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Southwest Pass
Coast Guard
Venice
Martine Hospital
Mississippi River
Mail service to be speeded between Monroe and Vicksburg
A new star mail route linking Monroe to Vicksburg and intermediate points began Wednesday to speed deliveries. Congressman Otto E. Passman announced the plan, citing Illinois Central train cessations between Shreveport and Meridian as impairing service. Passman pressed investigations and urged Paul Aiken to add supplementary service, noting a letter from Aiken on unsatisfactory Fifth District mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Vicksburg
Otto E. Passman
Ilinois Central
Shreveport
Meridian
Post Office Department
Passman
Paul Aiken
Aiken
Fifth District
Illinois Central Railway
Trial testimony targets false payees in Futch theft case
Eleven more witnesses testified in Farmerville as the P. T. Futch case moves forward alleging theft of over $40,000 in parish funds. Jurors and police jury members described difficulty tracing checks and identities while local interest in the case remained tepid amid a crowded courtroom scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Star
Farmerville
P. T. Futch
Futch
Vince Farrow
Clayton Tugwell
Dennis Long
Roy Bird
Lionel Risinger
Hugh Nelson
Lillie
Hugh Barron
Merchant
Spearsville
Cisco Barron
Lille
Sam Jones
Downsville
Lee Slade
Truxno
R. W. Rhodes
Boyd Wilhite
Rhodes
Wilhite
W. L. Wilhite
Congressmen push for fighter rules after midair crash
In Washington on November 2 AP reports urgent calls from Congress for tighter fighter regulations for military planes in civilian air lanes after a Bolivian P-38 struck an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 near Reagan National Airport. The DC-4 carried 55 people. only the Bolivian pilot survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Air Lines
Potomac River
National
Washington
Don Whitehead
Congress
Erick Rios Bridaux
Air Force
Bolling Field
Rios Bridoux
Alexandria
Sailor to Navy Chief Sherman Named New CNO
President Truman appointed Forrest Sherman as chief of naval operations, moving him from vice admiral to full admiral at age 53. Sherman aims to unify services, expects Senate confirmation, and faces questions about Denfeld’s removal and the high command’s cohesion amid ongoing unification debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Forrest P. Sherman
Naval Operations
Sherman
Senate
Louis E. Denfeld
Denfeld
Secretary of Navy
Matthews
Pentagon
Navy
Chief of Naval Operations
White House
Armed Services
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Congress
Typhoon Nearly Wipes Out Cebu City and Island
The Red Cross reports 60 percent of Cebu City's 140000 population affected as a typhoon with winds near 100 mph causes widespread damage. Eleven deaths recorded, with unofficial losses around 10 million dollars across Cebu City and 14 towns. Many bamboo homes destroyed, aviation and port facilities damaged, ships sunk, and rescue aid deployed. The storm tracks toward the South China Sea after hitting Negros and Panay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Red Cross
Cebu City
Cebu Island
Philippines
Negros Island
Panay
Puerto Princesa
Palawan
South China Sea
Mindoro Island
Thomas McDonough
Dautier Street
Jersey City
N. J
Philippines Airlines
Cebu
McDonough
Iloilo Harbor
Elope with Murderers Barred in Hinds County Jail
HATTIESBURG Miss Nov 2 jailed lovers Murdock Hinton 49 Lucedale and Mrs Kelen Ruth McLemore 22 facing life for shotgun slayings and the sheriff or his wife will not be allowed to marry while jailed jailer John Watts refused permission insisting they stay in separate cells and moved Hinton to another jail after intercept notes revealed plans to escape both have appeals pending before the state supreme court
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattiesburg
Miss
John Watts
Murdock Hinton
Kelen Ruth McLemore
Hinton
Lucedale
George County
J. E. Nelson
McLemore
Odis Barclay
Watts
Hinds County
State Supreme Court
Field of Publishers Says South No Longer Problem
Clarence B. Hanson Jr of the Birmingham News declares the South a national economic opportunity at the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association meeting Mineral Wells Texas November 2 194? The new Coosa Pines mill near Birmingham will deliver first paper in January with 100000 tons capacity annually, underscoring press freedom battles against federal rate regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Field of Publishers
Mineral Wells
Tex
South
Roosevelt
America
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Clarence B. Hanson, Jr
Birmingham
Ala
S. N.P.A
Hanson
Birmingham News and Age Herald
Coosa Pines
Lufkin
Texas
E. C. Davis
Phone book is biggest ever for Monroe and West Monroe
A new telephone directory for Monroe and West Monroe is out with about 17 700 copies delivered to homes and offices. The directory has a green cover to distinguish it from the old gray one and avoids wrong numbers by providing updated listings and information. Lonnie Clark, district manager for Southern Bell, notes the directory is not punched and has no string loop to hang it, as its size would curl pages and cause dog-earred illegibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
West Monroe
Lonnie Clark
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Clark
Short Meet Held by Quachita Parish School Board
The Quachita Parish High School board held a one hour meeting Wednesday morning approving the 1949-50 budget of 1,662,436.47 by unanimous vote. They also authorized three emergency buses, approved routine bills, and authorized Supt. Mack Avants to attend a regional NEA meeting in Tulsa as a speaker with expenses paid. A plan to include board land in Selman Field into city limits was approved, maternity leave for Mae T Osbin was granted, and a committee study on disposing of two unused Negro school buildings was authorized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quachita Parish
Mack Avants
National Educational Association
Wluskogee
Oklo
Avants
George Breece
Selman Field
Mae T. Osbin
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Henry F. Schricker
Westbrook
Pegler
International Latex Corporation
Dover
Delaware
A. N. Spanel
International Latex
Spanel
Lee
Houston
Raleigh
Durham
Charlotte
North Carolina
Atlanta
Seaman
Hawser
S. C
Margaret Gambrell
Harold W. Ward Cleveland
Executive Board
Walter P. Reumer
Resolutions Committee
United Electrical Workers
Farm Equipment Workers
U. E
F. E
U. E’s
James B. Carey
Reuther
Harry Bridges
Abram Flaxer
United Public Workers
James Durkin
Office and Professional Workers
VU. E
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