White House steel talks collapse over wage freeze
President Truman’s weekend talks to end the steel dispute collapsed as union and industry spokesmen cited the Supreme Court wage freeze awaiting a ruling on government seizure. CIO and U S Steel officials said the gap was too wide, with the union demanding the Wage Stabilization Board’s 17.1 cent raise and a union shop, while the industry offered proposals tied to a $1 day increase.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Supreme Court
CIO Steelworkers
John R. Steelman
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
CIO
Philip Murray
Steelman Presiden
Steelman
Murray
Wage Stabilization Board
Steel Union
Arthur B. Homer
Bethlehem Steel
Homer
Russians Not Ready for War Despite Western Pressure
U S military leaders believe Moscow will delay hot war this year due to need for readiness. Gen Gruenther and Gen Bradley cite Soviet steel output, petroleum limits, weak rail and road networks, and understrength divisions as key factors in avoiding immediate conflict.
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Russia
Soviet Union
Europe
Korea
Alfred M. Gruenther
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States
Bulgaria
California Pact May Set Pattern For Oil Settlement
Washington said no nationwide gasoline rationing despite spot shortages from the oil workers strike. In Los Angeles a wage settlement with Standard Oil Co of California for 5000 workers yielded 1814 cents an hour plus retroactive increases and shift differentials. Spokesmen say the terms may guide other oil industry settlements as the strike tightens aviation fuel supply.
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Washington
Chapman
Denver
Independent Union of Petroleum Workers
Los Angeles
Standard Oil Co
California
Local Teachers and Students to Tour Mexico
Muscatine teachers and students will tour Mexico June 11 to 29 with a study course backed by the high school school board junior college and the University of Iowa. Miss Catherine Miller directs the program with college credit for teachers. The trip departs June 11 from Muscatine with stops in Vinita Oklahoma Austin Texas and visits to Monterrey Ciudad Valles Toluca Morelia Patzcuaro Uruapan Paricutin Cuernavaca and Taxco among others.
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Mexico
Muscatine
Junior College
University of Iowa
Catherine Miller
Miss Miller
Mearly Wood
L. H. Mahrau
Kenneth Allbee
Vinita
Okla
Austin
Tex
Monterrey
Ciudad Valles
Mexico City
Toluca
Morelia
Patzcuaro
Uruapan
Paricutin
Cuernavaca
Taxco
Mississippi River Falls to 19 Feet at Muscatine
As the Mississippi River recedes to 19 feet, civilian guards remain on levees while pumps are readied in the Drury district. Army, Coast Guard, and National Guard personnel depart or shift duties as flood operations wind down. About 120 families evacuated with 25 aided by Red Cross. 18 to 19 feet expected to drop to flood stage around 16 feet by weekend.
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Mississippi
Weather Bureau
Illinois National Guardsmen
Drury District
Illinois
Muscatine
Civil Air Patrol
Illinois Wing
Army Corps of Engineers District Office
Ed Elson
U. S. Coast Guard
Iowa National Guard
Iowa
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Riverside Park
Iowa Highway Commission
East Second Street
Brannan to Answer on Wrongdoing in Farm Aid Probe
Washington AP Brannan agrees to testify before the Senate Agriculture Committee on a charge he sought to cover up farm aid program wrongdoing. The panel accepted his offer but gave no date. Senator Aiken alleges a Commodity Credit Corp official urged Walker’s release, a claim Clinton Brannan may oppose.
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Washington
Brannan
Senate Agriculture Committee
Aiken
R.vt
Commodity Credit Corp
Clovis Walker
Walker
U. S
Ellender
D-La
Justice Department
Agriculture Department
Lois Ellender
The
Production and Marketing Administration
PMA
Cargill, Inc
Minneapolis
Norris
Ill
William McArthur
Chicago
Truman proposes national system of flood insurance
President Truman urged Congress to create a nationwide flood disaster insurance program backed by 1.5 billion dollars. The plan, via the Reconstruction Finance Corp, would offer direct insurance or reinsurance for homes farms businesses and agricultural commodities on an experimental basis with a cap of 250000 per policy.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
House
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Dubuque Seeks Special Session on Flood Project
The Dubuque flood control committee asked Gov. Beardsley to call a special Iowa legislature session to remove obstacles to a local flood project. Chairman Fran L. Wagner and City Manager Laverne Schiltz led the delegation at Davenport Saturday.
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Dubuque
Benton Refuses to Testify at McCarthy Hearing
Senator William Benton refused to answer questions at a pre trial hearing in Senator Joseph McCarthy's libel suit. Benton attended the Senate committee room but declined to speak after discovering a tape recording device was set up for the proceedings.
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Washington
William Benton
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy
Senate
Benton
Seven Iowans Drown Over Weekend and Three Die in Accidents
Over the weekend seven persons drowned in Iowa rivers and lakes, including two Wartburg College and Drake University students. Three people died in highway crashes, with victims from Nebraska, Atlantic, Monticello, Central City, and Dillon, plus a toddler from Waterloo.
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Iowa
Atlantic
Cold Springs
Lewis
Clarence Oaken
Monticello
Maquoketa
Seth Wendell Albin, Jr
Central City
Wapsipinicon River
Lloyd Harrah
Montour
Harrah
Edward Niederhauser
Dillon
Iowa River
Elsie Stole
Boone
Peeline
Rawall
Fred Nagel
Cleveland
Ohio
Duranton
Kent W. Boyd
Kenneth Boyd
Waterloo
Westminster and Hope Church Unite in San Francisco Merger
San Francisco’s Westminster Presbyterian church joined with the all white Westminster Hope church in a Sunday merger marking the first such union in the west. Guest speakers cited a historic integration of congregations and a new path for regional church life.
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San Francisco
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Negro Hope Church
10 States to Name Delegates This Week See Taff Victories
The Associated Press reports Maryland votes will nominate senators and representatives and name delegates to state conventions, who in turn pick 24 Republican and 18 Democratic delegates to the national conventions. Write-ins are banned. Taft leads Eisenhower in projected delegate tally as Ohio and Florida contest early in the week.
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Associated Press
Maryland
House
White House
Kefauver
Tennessee
General Eisenhower
Theodore R. McKeldin
Eisenhower
Taft
Ohio
Florida
Alabama
Indiana
New Mexico
Illinois
Nevada
Utah
Michigan
Ex-convict robs pinball parlor for missing strong box
A 27-year-old former convict held up a downtown pinball parlor proprietor with a dagger and fled with a 100 pound strong box. Police captured him after a short 100 yard pursuit. Inside the box were about 6,000 pinballs.
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Tokyo
Dagger Point
Young Father Confesses Bank Robbery in Church Pulpit
Albert Johnson, 23, a Santa Fe sheet metal worker and church member, told a Seward Avenue Baptist congregation that God directed him to surrender after planning a $35 bank robbery in Hoyt Kansas four years earlier. He expects possible leniency and aims to enter the ministry after the case.
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s.Od
Topeks
Kas
Albert Hi. Johnson
Hoyt
Kaw
Johnson
Donald Sands
Seward Avenue Baptist Church
Santa Fe
Youth For Christ
Kansas
al Johnson
Topeka Baptist Church
Riot Quelled In Montreal Prison
Police used truncheons to break a five hour riot by about 570 prisoners at Bordeaux jail in Montreal. Prisoners demanded better food and a new governor while setting fires and injuring three people, two inmates and a guard, none seriously.
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Montreal
Bordeaux
Flood Fund Reaches 150000 As Iowa Feels Major Rivers
Iowa residents rally to aid flood victims after two record floods from the Missouri and Mississippi. Donations pour in from across the state with many small gifts totaling nearly 150000, supporting rebuilding, clothing, and food for the affected communities.
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Missouri
Mississippi
Iowa
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