Steel Strike Enters Third Week Amid Negotiations
Washington June 16 national steel strike enters its third week as Acting Defense Mobilizer Steelman waits for companies and CIO United Steelworkers before new talks. White House meetings collapsed and Truman refrains from invoking Taft-Hartley. Congress may press. Officials prep for extended stoppage to conserve supplies and keep steel moving for military needs.
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House
First dahlias bloom and hot weather hit the town
First dahlias of the season are in bloom with Mrs E W Hagerty's garden noted in Matilda avenue. Air flights over the city drew crowds for cooling. Temperatures rose to 98 in the shade and traffic lines were painted on East Washington street near Mill street. Traffic officers directed cars during the work. Tomato plants in gardens show early blooms signaling an early tomato crop, though more rain is needed. City buses toward Cascade Park were crowded as residents sought cooling, while a southeast cloudburst in Little Beaver Township dumped floodwaters on roads. Manhole covers were raised in anticipation of street blacktopping affecting Montgomery avenue and West Washington.
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Matilda Avenue
Pa Newe
Cascade Park
Pa Nene
Cascade Pool
City
Montgomery Avenue
West Wash
Daily Weather Report
Fair and not quite so warm in the north portion today. Tomorrow scattered showers and thunderstorms by afternoon or evening. United States weather stats show a 24 hour period ending 9 am with max 93 and min 61 and no precipitation. River stage is 5.5 feet. In the prior 24 hour period ending Sunday 9 am the max was 85 with a 64 min and 21 inches of precipitation.
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United States
Gen Ridgway Arrives in Rome for Allied Talks
Gen Matthew Ridgway and Mrs Ridgway with staff arrive in Rome for a three day visit to the Italian peninsula for talks with Allied military officials. An honor guard greets them at Ciampino airport before security restrictions cordon off the area to prevent demonstrations.
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Matthew B. Ridgway
Ridgway
Ciampino
U.S
Seven Lost When Sloop Capsizes Off Dennis Coast
Coast Guard crews search Cape Cod Bay for three missing members of a sailing party after their seven person sloop overturns off Dennis. Four bodies recovered. the 18 foot sloop towed to Provincetown harbor for inspection to determine cause.
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Cape Cod Bay
Salem
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Cape Cod Canal
Stella Sanchioni
Needham
Donald Anastasia
Newton Upper Falls
Angela
Eric Sanchioni
Stella
Delores Giametti
James R. Murley
Boston
William Mainini
Framingham
Anastasia
Provincetown Harbor
Russia Adds Jets in Austria, 125 Mig-15s Reported
London based dispatch cites trusted sources claiming Soviet air units in Austria include 125 Mig-15 fighters plus 100 bomber planes. Washington notes Senate battles over Truman veto of the Tidelands Bill may delay July adjournment as debate opens. FBI ties lumber dealers to a overseas military construction scandal involving fraudulent lumber upgrades for Army Engineers in North Africa and Greenland.
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UN Ammunition Dump Blows Up Near Pusan
A large United Nations ammunition dump near Pusan exploded in a chain of blasts killing at least one Korean and wounding 28 Americans. Four more Americans were reported missing. authorities suspect Communist agents. About 20,000 civilians from Haeunde were evacuated as fires raged and a fourth blast occurred later. Plasma supplies, ambulances and twelve doctors were deployed to the area.
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Haeunde
UEF Machinists Strike At Foundry Over Jobs
Machinists and welders at United Engineering and Foundry began a 9 30 A M strike with about 1100 workers involved. Picket lines form outside the plant as talks continue on a dispute over duties of a furnace watcher who also marked weld shop shipments.
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International Association of Machinists
Chinese Reds Attack U N Sector On Korean Front
Seoul June 16 Chinese troops in battalion strength attacked newly won American positions on the central front and were driven back after seven hours of fighting. In the Iron Triangle sector allied positions were raided and an American outpost abandoned. American Saberjets shot down three Mig-15s over Sinuiju with one pilot credited as jet ace James F Low. Flaming onion rockets made their combat debut as Royal Australian Air Force Meteors supported strikes near Yonan Kaesong.
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Yalu River
America
James F. Low
Sausalito
Calif
Korea
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Yonan
Kaesong
Defense seeks delay in Butler County murder trial
Butler Pa June 16 Defense counsel will ask the Butler County Court to postpone the murder trial of Pvt Edward Rebilas until next fall. The 24 year old Air Force private has admitted choking his wife during a quarrel at their Cooperstown home. The woman had been missing eight months before her body was found in a shallow grave. He was arrested at an Air Force base in Hong Kong.
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Butler
INS
Butler County
Edward Rebilas
Arnold R. Congolani
Air Force
Cooperstown
Rebilas
Hong
Murer
Brewster Faces Tough Maine GOP Primary Challenge
Senator Owen Brewster's bid for a third term faces a stiff test in Maine on June 16 as Governor Frederick G. Payne challenges him with a campaign built on corruption allegations in the state liquor monopoly. Nomination in the GOP primary is seen as a near certainty for the winner.
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Augusta
Owen Brewster
Maine
Brewster
Senate
Frederick G. Payne
Eisenhower at Denver headquarters discusses farm policy
General Eisenhower operates from his Denver headquarters and plans to expand his farm policy views in a talk with farm editors. He prepares to address farm price supports and soil conservation, with potential remarks on reclamation and western convention votes. He has had little public comment beyond general statements since returning to the U S and entering active politics.
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Eisenhower
Ike
U. S
West
New York
Taft presses bid with new convention speeches
Senator Taft of Ohio grows more confident on securing the GOP nomination after a week of major speeches aimed at Democrats and his chief rival General Eisenhower. The Washington report notes a robust pre convention campaign as Taft steps up criticism of opponents and touts his leadership.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Charge Red High Command Ordered Riots In Prisons
MUNSAN June 16 Allied armistice negotiators accused the Communist high command of ordering bloody prisoner of war riots at the United Nations camp on Koje Island. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison called the Reds to stop endangering captured personnel to further their schemes.
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Koje Island
Erie Conference Opens June 18 In Meadville Pa
Erie Conference opens June 18 at Allegheny College Meadville with 48 Grove City district Methodist pastors and ministers from Western and Northwestern Pennsylvania. Sessions begin 10 30 a m Holy Communion service memorial and business sessions Itinerants club and W S C S on opening day led by Bishop Lloyd Wicke of Pittsburgh. Closing Sunday assigns ministers and names successor to Rev Floyd A Duncan in New Castle.
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Lloyd €. Wicke
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New Castle
Wicke
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Croton
Woman Secret Agent In War Is Found Slain
London police charge Dennis George Muldowney a 41 year old Reform club porter with stabbing murder of Christine Granville a former Polish countess and wartime secret agent awarded the Order of the British Empire and King George Medal Granville was found unconscious in her hotel room died later a butcher knife found nearby witnesses heard screams and authorities searched for her friends The killer faces framing charges in connection with the high profile wartime figure
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INS
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Christine Granville
Granville
Nighbors
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Poland
British Defense Minister Tours Koje Prison Camp
British Defense Minister Lord Alexander visited Koje Island prison camp as American guards searched for more bodies from prisoner murders by Communist Kangaroo courts. He was shown two secret escape tunnels dug by prisoners of war in former compound 66.
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Koje Island
INS
Lord Alexander
Train Derailment Injures 17 on Georgian Streamliner
A broken axle caused the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Georgian derailment near Farmersburg Indiana. Seventeen people were injured, none seriously, with 365 aboard. only Mrs Catherine Dixon of Evansville required brief hospitalization.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Chicago and Eastern Ilinois
Farmersburg
Catherine Dixon
Evansville
Death Records Tuesday June 16 1952
George Falatko aged 48 of West Pittsburg and Aniello Basile aged 80 of Mora via Street Extension listed in death records.
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George Falatko
West Pittsburg
Aniello Basile
Moravia Street
Swedish Air Force plane attacked by Soviet fighters
An unarmed Swedish flying boat with seven crew members was fired on by two Soviet Mig fighters over the Baltic Sea and crash landed. All seven were rescued by a German ship as Sweden protests to Russia. crowds gathered at the Russian embassy and in Stockholm. The missing eight aboard another Swedish plane was reported later.
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Stockholm
INS
Baltic Sea
Russia
Tage Erlander
Oesten Unden
K. K. Rodionov
Erlander
Rodionov
Strike Crunches LIRR Paralyzes commuter transit
In a surprise move the Long Island Rail Road engineers and motormen walked out at 11:30 last night, cutting off rail service for about 300,000 riders. The LIRR said no trains would run until further notice, forcing travelers to rely on auto, bus, and subway options as city transit lines rushed to cover the loss.
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Weather Reflections on Heat and Hard Times
A fragmented musing recalls a bygone cold season and a coal pile shortage. The speaker contrasts harsh weather with current warmth, noting its impact on wheat and community morale. The tone remains informal and nostalgic, with a plea for steady mood.
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