Mediators Try to End New York Apartment Strike
State mediators enter the AFL building service strike affecting 12 000 workers and 70 000 Manhattan families. Union claims service is now “100 per cent effective” as mediation arrangements with operators and the mayor proceed. Owners cite the rent freeze as bar to wage increases, while arbitration is urged by Meyer.
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New York
INS
AFL
Widch
Manhattan
Building Service Union
David Sullivan
Arthur S. Meyer
State Board of Mediation
William O'Dwyer
Meyer
Snow Flurries Reported in Enon Valley Area
Residents in Enon Valley report light snow flurries around 10 30 Thursday evening. The season remains unusual with early spring flowers delayed by persistent cold. In Neshannock township a child walked to school in a straw hat despite temperatures in the mid thirties. Continued on Page Two.
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Enon Valley
Pa Newe
Neshannock Township
Daily Weather Report Forecast of clouds and cool night
Increasing cloudiness and cool tonight with a low around 34 to 38. Tomorrow remains cloudy and cool with occasional rain possible. The 24 hour period ending at 9am reports a maximum 70 and minimum 32 with no precipitation and a river stage of 11.2 feet. A year ago the high was 73 and the low 33.
Mystery In Man's Death Under Pittsburgh Trolley Bridge
Pittsburgh police investigate a man found dead under a trolley bridge. No bones broken, body warm, no ID. A nominating petition for GI's against Communism and an Erie address on a match folder found at the scene.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Bradford
Jules Filo
Erie
Census Bureau Reports Unemployment Drops 608000
The Census Bureau says unemployment fell by 608000 in April as spring hiring across agriculture and industry boosted total employment. Unemployment stood at 3,515,000, the lowest since November, with farm and industrial employment totaling 58,668,000, up 1,116,000 from March.
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Washington
INS
Census Bureau
Bureau
Saigon rattled by mortar blasts and gunfire
In Saigon the center shook for over an hour as mortar fire and machine gun bursts echoed through the city. Officials attributed the attack to French troops assaulting Viet Minh raiders who had opened fire on ships at the docks.
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Saigon
INS
Indo-China
Tito rejects inevitability of East West war
Marshal Tito told Western reporters in Belgrade that Marxism does not state war between capitalist and socialist states is inevitable. He forecast long term economic cooperation with the United States, said Yugoslavia has not asked for military aid, and urged UN recognition of Communist China as nations join the global body.
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Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Tito
United States
Yugoslavia
Russia
United Nations
China
U.N
Czech Charges Are Rejected by U S Note
The Czechoslovak government received a 1000 word U S note calling Czech accusations of ill treatment by American troops in Germany baseless. The March 24 Erd ing airport landing involved 84 Czechoslovak citizens with 27 choosing exile. The note objected to the claim that involuntary passengers were forced to land in western Germany.
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London
INS
United States
Germany
Erding
Munich
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Czech Foreign Ministry
Reuters
Catholic Masses In Daylight Saving Time In Lawrence County
Lawrence County Catholic churches will hold Sunday masses on April 30 using daylight saving time. The Lawrence County Priest Forum announced the change led by Rev. Fr. C. H. Becker of St. Joseph's Church. Mass times stay the same despite the time shift.
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Lawrence County
Krasna Divorce Award Totaling Over Two Hundred Thousand
Hollywood April 28 The divorce of Ruth Krasna from screenwriter Norman Krasna was finalized with a cash settlement of 202500 dollars along with 60000 dollars alimony over 12 years and 200 dollars monthly child support for two children. Ruth Krasna inspired the comedy Dear Ruth and had called him insultingly stupid in front of company.
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Hollywood
INS
Norman Krasna
Ruth
Perkasie operator repeats risky Germantown parking spot
Bernard Haines, a theatre operator, believes he should find a new parking place after his car rolled downgrade and smashed a clothes cleaning shop window two years ago at a Germantown intersection. He parked there again yesterday and the car went through the same window.
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Philadelphiaa
INS
Bernard Haines
Perkasie
Germantown
Westinghouse Union Vote Split Across Major Plants
The United Electrical, Workers, CIO successor, retained representation at seven Westinghouse plants after a split vote. UEW won in Sunbury Pennsylvania Trenton New Jersey Derry Pennsylvania Baltimore and Chicago and in two south Philadelphia units.
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Washington
INS
CIO
Westinghouse
United Electrical Workers
Sunbury
Trenton
N. J
Derry
Baltimore
Chicago
Philadelphia
CIO split in Westinghouse plants as UE and IUE win
National Labor Relations Board results from 40 Westinghouse plants show the CIO split its labor representation. The IUE and the unaffiliated UE each win bargaining rights at 20 plants, with 147 challenged ballots under review for a possible runoff.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union
IUE
Westinghouse Corporation
National Labor Relations Board
Cioiue
Communist Party
NLRB
Reed Johnston
Johnston
Washington
Distillery Strike Closes Schenley Plant in CHP Dispute
Schenley distillery in Pennsylvania closed today as 1,100 CIO workers walked out over working conditions. The plant’s general manager said the strike centers on a demand for more hands in an operation the company says does not need extra staff. Management will not discuss the issue until workers return and grievance procedures under contract are followed.
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Schenley, Pa
Insi
Schenley
Joseph S. Finch & Company
CIO
C. W. Young
Hoover's Plan Opposed by U N Secretary General Lie
Former president Herbert Hoover proposed reorganizing the United Nations excluding communist nations. U N Secretary General Trygve Lie and UN spokesmen rejected the plan as contrary to U.S. policy and praised the world body’s usefulness.
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New York
INS
Herbert Hoover
United Nations
U. N
Trygve Lie
Hoover
Paris
Russia
U S Policy Maintains Soviet Presence in the U N
U S policy remains firm to keep the Soviet Union in the United Nations despite pressure from former President Hoover to exclude Moscow. Ambassador Ernest A. Gross on Governor's Island argued that keeping Russia within a universal forum preserves a common meeting ground and channel for contact unless the Russians opt to split the world.
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United Nations
Mysterious red glow trails Trans-World flight over Indiana
First Officer Robert Manning reports a shapeless dull red object cruising 2,000 feet over South Bend beside a Washington to Chicago airliner. The object closely tracked the aircraft for several minutes, approaching within about a half mile before descending and vanishing among city lights.
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Washington
Chicago
South Bend
Ind
Robert Manning
Esccee
Prans-World Airline
Indiana
Kansas City Mayor Before U S Probers
Kansas City figure William Kemp told the McFarland senate gambling subcommittee that an interstate group may have influenced the double murder of Charles Binaggio and Charles Gargotta. He stressed the remarks as rumor while noting alleged gambler payments tied to Kansas City opening for betting.
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Washington
William Kemp
Kansas City
Congress Today
Charles Binaggio
Charles Gargotta
Kemp
McFarland Senate
Binaggio-Gargotta
Binaggio
Senate Defeats ECA Aid for Franco Spain
The Senate rejected ECA funds for Franco Spain by 42 to 35, seen as a green light for Marshall plan action. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Connally called the vote a good pattern for amendments and said Acheson will brief a closed session Monday on the global situation.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Spain
Senate Foreign Relations
Connally
Tex
Acheson
Correspondent Murdered In Western Java
U S officials report the bodies of Time and Life correspondent Robert Doyle and a second man found in western Java. Doyle is positively identified while the other man’s identity remains uncertain. Villagers say a gang in military uniforms shot them near Sumedang and forced burial.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
INS
U. S
Robert Doyle
Time
Life
Java
Raymond Kennedy
Yale University
Doyle
Jacob Mean
Sumedang
Kennedy
Cancer drive extended in Pennsylvania campaign
Harrisburg April 28 The 1950 cancer crusade to raise 803000 in Pennsylvania was extended two weeks to May 15 from April 30 because fund raising did not begin on April 1. Charles E. Oakes Allentown division chairman cited slack in industry and business due to the coal strike and overlapping drives.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Charles E. Oakes
Allentown
American Cancer Society
Oakes
Death Notices Friday April 28 1950
Mrs W H McDonald 74 of Slippery Rock R S Weigle 87 of Prospect Pa Mrs H B Scott 65 of Pulaski R D 2 John E Patton 82 908 Chestnut Street Thomas Hill 50 301 Preston Avenue Ralph L Selleck 445 Court Mrs Almeda Hennon 79 of Wampum
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R. S. Weigle
Prospect
H. B. Scott
Pulaski R. D
John E. Patton
Chestnut Street
Thomas Hill
Preston Avenue
Field Denies He Is Espionage Agent Of Reds
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, a New Yorker tied by ex-Communist Budenz to Soviet espionage, denied under oath that he has ever been an espionage agent for Russia. He refused to confirm or deny Communist party membership or attendance at a 1937 Communist meeting, prompting Senate counsel to seek contempt action.
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Washington
INS
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Russia
Communist Party
Louis Budenz
Senate
Owen Lattimore
Field
Edward Morgan
Tydings
Sen
McCarthy
Wis
Budenz
Far East
Lattimore
Mrs. Lattimore
Keating Named U S Chief Military Advisor in Korea
Maj. Gen. Frank A. Keating is appointed to head the U S military advisory group in Korea. He currently commands the New England military district in Boston and succeeds Brig. Gen. William L. Roberts who retires in June. Keating led the 102nd Infantry Division in Europe during the war and later served as military governor of the American sector and deputy to Gen. Lucius D. Clay in Germany.
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Washington
INS
Army
Frank A. Keating
U. S
Korea
Keating
New England
Boston
William L. Roberts
Europe
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Governor Duff's Namesake Baby Born in Drexel Hill
State Rep. Robert J. Clendening announced his newborn son, James Duff Clendening, named in honor of Gov. James H. Duff. The Drexel Hill birth was reported today by INS.
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Drexel Hill
INS
James H. Duff
Robert J. Clendening
Pennsylvania
James Duff Clendening
The Gardener Awakens in Early Spring
Arthur Mometer recalls the urge to garden as violets and anemones appear and spring warms to 60 degrees. A man with spade and rake returns to the soil and plants many seeds, imagining the fall harvest to come.
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U.S
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John Golightly
LN. 8
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Acme Telephoto
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Robert S. Lincoln
Kurt Wise
Yahara River
Lincoln
Barkley
Winchester
Alben W. Barkley
Anne Carleton Hadley
Glenn M. Green
E.C.A
Franco
W. H. McDonald
Slippery Rock
Ralph L. Selleck
Court Street
Almeda Hennon
Wampum
Reds
William Theis
Senate Loyalty Investigating Committee
Edward P. Morgan
Coun
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