UN May Be Required To Use Force In Balkans
The United States warned the UN Security Council that further warfare along the Greek frontier may require force as a counter measure. Warren R. Austin urged a permanent UN border commission to curb Soviet influenced Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria after the Balkans inquiry. Gromyko declined to comment.
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Warn
Balkans
Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
Andrei A. Gromyko
United States
Warren R. Austin
Security Council
Balkan Investigating Commission
Austin
United Nations Border Commission
Greece
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Gromyko
Local Motor Truckers Are State Officers
J Albert Kramer of Philadelphia heads the Pennsylvania Motor Truck association. Elected vice presidents include Edward Gogolin Harrisburg William F Grossett Warren Thomas Palmer Scranton and Edward McCrady Pittsburgh. Treasury went to Edson Gerks Harrisburg secretary J R Gray Pittsburgh. Executive committee members: Neil J Bast Fred K Geiger Samuel A Mooney Floyd B Noerr Jr Lewistown Maurice E Trexler Scranton Orel J Brown Eric. Paul W Keely New Castle elected VP American Trucking associations for Pennsylvania. ATA directors named Ted W Rodgers Sr Scranton Fredy B Noerr Jr Lewistown Fred K Geiger Philadelphia A E Brice Pittsburgh Charles S Rosen Pittsburgh Orel J Brown Eric and Harry L Gorm levy New Castle.
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Harrisburg
J. Albert Kramer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
PMTA
Edward Gogolin
William F. Grossett
Warren
Thomas Palmer
Scranton
Edward McCrady
Pittsburgh
Edson Gerks
J. R. Gray
Neil J. Bast
Allentown
Fred K. Geiger
Samuel
A. E. Brice
Charles S. Rosen
Orel J. Brown
Eric
Harry L. Gormlevy
New Castle
Pa Newc Observes City Traffic and Road Work
Workmen elevate manhole tops on South Jefferson street from Washington street to Neshannock creek ahead of resurfacing. A farmer operates a tractor mower in public square traffic on Friday afternoon. A Route 422 machine with New Jersey plates and another labeled Assistant Fire Chief pass through town. Numerous new buses head eastward through the city daily.
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Jefferson Street
Washington Street
Neshannock Creek
Pa Newc
New Jersey
Daily Weather Report Summary
United States weather statistics show a 24 hour period ending at 9 a.m. with a maximum of 87 and a low of 52. Precipitation is listed as traces and the river stage is 6 feet 3 inches. A second low and high are given as 88 and 65 respectively for the same date.
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United States
Ten Thousand Steel Workers Laid Off in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh June 28. Ten thousand Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. workers were laid off due to coal shortages from miners pre vacation stoppage. The firm also shut 10 blast furnaces and cut coke output at the Clairton plant to 38 percent.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Clairton
Paris Talks Open as Big Three Seek Details on Aid
In Paris British and French ministers begin the second session without direct U S participation to calm Soviet suspicions about the Marshall plan. Radio Moscow urges the United States to clarify the extent and form of economic aid to Europe, warning the conference could face difficulties without specifics.
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Paris
Moscow
Radio Moscow
United States
U. S
Tass
Two Die As Plane Crashes Into Connecticut House
A small four passenger plane crashed at Canaan Airport during takeoff igniting a fire that destroyed a house where Mrs. Marshall Stapleton and her three children dined. Pilot Herbert Ansin 32 of Brookline Mass and Fayette Card 32 Navy veteran and instructor at the airport were killed. Card was recently married to Zoe Brimdy of Sheffield Mass.
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Canaan, Conn
INS
Canaan
Marshall Stapleton
Stapletons
Herbert Ansin
Brookline
Mass
Fayette Card
Cardl
Zoe Brimdy
Sheffield
Shipyard Workers Strike Enters Third Day Across Coast
New York June 28 INS At least 41 500 east coast ship yard workers held to a third day of strike with no negotiations. Nine Bethlehem Steel and independent yards from Boston to Baltimore were paralyzed. Officials said 70 000 more could join at 12 01 am Tuesday if demands are not met.
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New York
INS
Boston
Baltimore
Bethlehem Steel Company
Brooklyn
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
Police Bolster Security for Taft Wedding Picket Protest
In St Joseph Michigan police said they would prevent CIO pickets at the wedding of Lloyd Taft son of Senator Robert Taft co sponsor of the Taft Hartley Act. Officers outnumber any demonstrators and would make arrests if needed to maintain order citing a state law forbidding church picketing.
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ST. Joseph
Mich
INS
CIO
Lloyd Taft
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Oliver Slater
Michigan
Allentown Robbers Take 26500 In Jewelry And Bonds
Four armed bandits raided the West End home of Lewis Weiner and three other couples in Allentown at 1130 p m stealing 25000 in jewelry and safed bonds worth up to 150000. Victims bound gagged and phone lines cut before a quick escape in a new car. No description of the robbers was available.
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Allentown
INS
Lewis Weiner
West End
Weiner
Harry Neff
Irvin Salitsky
Claire
Midwest Flood Threatens St. Louis Area As Waters Rise
Mississippi River floods push hundreds from homes and inundate farmland between St. Louis and Chester. Levee breaches at Stringtown-Fort Chartres and Harrisonville inundate thousands of acres, evacuating about 2,500 people. Shelters open for evacuees as crest nears St. Louis.
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ST. Louis
Chester
Stringtown
Fort Chartres
Degognia
Fountain Bluff
Missouri Pacific
Ilinois Penitentiary
Harrisonville
Kemper’s Landing
Valmeyer
Ill
Prairie du Pont
Dupe
Owers
Nagel Street
Venice
De Gaulle Plans Speech as Ramadier Government Struggles
Paris June 28 General Charles de Gaulle prepared to attack Prime Minister Ramadier, signaling a bid to succeed him in a Lille address. Observers anticipate a call for France to choose between communist influence through labor unrest and de Gaulle, targeting the labor unions in the volatile political climate.
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Paris
INS
Charles A. DeGaulle
Paul Ramadier
Ramadier
Lille
DeGaulle
de Gaulle
France
Free French
Yugoslavia Seeks U S Aid Under European Plan
Yugoslavia submitted a bid for United States aid under Secretary Marshall's European self assistance plan. Foreign ministers of Britain France and Soviet Russia met for a second session as Yugoslav ambassador offered to join preliminary talks. Secrecy shrouds deliberations while President Auriol schedules an official luncheon at the Elysee Palace.
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Paris
INS
Yugoslavia
United States
Marshall
Great Britain
France
Soviet Russia
Vincent Auriol
Elysee Palace
Meadville Man Freed After Chaining Case
Charles H. Mehaiko of near Conneautville was cleared of cruelty to a minor charge after authorities found his daughter Mary chained to a bed last month. Justice L. P. Aldrich dismissed the case. Mary and Raymond Smith of Meadville later married.
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Meadville
Charles H. Mehaiko
Conneautville
Mary
Justice of the Peace
L. P. Aldrich
Mehaika
Raymond Smith
Pastor To Ask For New Trial
Dr. John Lewis a 73 year old pastor convicted of setting fire to his church sought a new trial today before Milwaukee municipal judge. Defense attorney Harry V Meissner moved to set aside yesterday's verdict and said he would appeal to the Wisconsin supreme court if needed.
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Milwaukee
INS
John Lewis
Herbert J. Steffes
Harry V. Meissner
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Death Notices in Saturday Ledger
Jacob I. Stouffer aged 91 of Vo lant dies. Mrs. Walter L. Landgraf of Darlington Pa. Lucien C. Black 49 of 221 East Winter Avenue. Funeral details not provided in the listing.
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Walter L. Landgraf
Darlington
Lucien C. Black
East
Winter Avenue
Jessica Dragonette Weds Nicholas Turner in Cardinal Spellman Ceremony
Opera soprano Jessica Dragonette married Nicholas Meredith Turner in a private chapel ceremony conducted by Francis Cardinal Spellman at the Episcopal residence Gothic House rear of St Patrick's Cathedral. Cardinal Spellman celebrated the nuptial mass and led the marriage service.
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New York
INS
Jessica Dragonette
Nicholas Meredith Turner
Francis Cardinal] Spellman
Cardinal Spellman
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Fire Rips York Shipley Plant in Supposed Spontaneous Blaze
A spectacular general alarm fire tore through the two story York Shipley plant in York Pennsylvania. Firefighters battled the blaze that started before midnight and caused about 30000 dollars in damage. The glow was visible for miles as the city’s entire department fought the flames. The fire is believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion.
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York
INS
York-Shipley, Inc
Coal Shortage Forces Idleness In Industries
Miners start ten day vacation as 10 000 Carnegie-Illinois Steel workers idle amid broad coal shortage. Coke plant at Clairton cut to 38 percent of normal. 10 furnaces banked and eight open hearths shut. Republic Steel suspends four blast furnaces and pays off hundreds as Bessemer at Youngstown ends with two furnaces banked.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
U. S. Steel
Carnegie-Illinois
Clairton, Pa
Republic Steel Corp
Bessemer Steel
Youngstown, O
Republic Steel
Identify Body Of Woman Found In Philadelphia
Homicide detectives confirm the body found in an oil drum on a Northeast Philadelphia vacant lot on May 2 is Miss Margaret C Dougherty, 45, of Philadelphia. Identification rests on a closet belt and matching stockings and shoes. Dougherty was a wartime employee of the International Resistance Company.
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Philadelphia
INS
Margaret C. Dougherty
Congress Races To Meet Fiscal Deadline Tuesday
Congress races to meet the Tuesday deadline for fiscal legislation as the Senate passes temporary funding to bridge the budget gap. Only one of nine annual appropriation bills has reached the White House, with departments allowed to continue spending at year end rates pending new allocations.
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Washington
INS
House
Senate
White House
Plan to Raise Funds for Margaret L. Henry Home Improvements
The ladies auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles plans a drive to fund remodeling of the Margaret L. Henry Children's Home on Friendship Street. Co chairs are Mrs. Alvin Herberg and Mrs. Samuel Jackson. The campaign targets replacing the third floor and other needed upgrades, with Community Chest support covering current operations but not upkeep.
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Fraternal
Order of Eagles
Margaret L. Henry
Friendship Street
Alvin Herberg
Samuel Jackson
Eagles Auxiliary
Community Chest
Greater
Unions Plan Legal Challenge to Taft Hartley Act
In Washington AFL allies assemble over 75 union lawyers to plan a constitutional challenge to the Taft Hartley law. CIO and AFL reject general strikes while Murray invites Green to coordinate action to erase the measure. Green declines comment as AFL chiefs meet July 9 to set a program.
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Washington
INL
American Federation of Labor
Joseph A. Padway
AFL
CIO
Philip Murray
William Green
Green
Murray
Harriman Threatened With Subpoena Over Export Names
Washington June 28. Rep Weichel Ohio, chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, warned Secretary Harriman he will issue a subpoena unless he reveals the names of all American firms exporting petroleum products overseas. The demand follows Ely of the Census Bureau saying only the secretary may disclose such confidential data.
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Washington
Commerce Harriman
Congressional
Reseas
Rep
Weichel
Ohio
House Merchant Marine Committee
Census Bureau
J. Edward Ely
Ely
Brain operation not enough to avert prison term
Millard Wright who underwent a prefrontal lobotomy to curb criminal habits faces a prison sentence after pleading guilty to 10 Pittsburgh burglaries in 1945. Judge McDonald rejects parole, saying the court cannot risk releasing a habitual offender and would be flooded with similar requests.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Millard Wright
Wright
Malcom G. McDonald
Secret Meeting With Lewis Reported by Philips Peck
A secret meeting involving Lewis was reported by Philips J. Peck, L N.S. staff correspondent. Details remain undisclosed as sources offered limited information on the discussion and participants.
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Philips J. Peck
L N.S
Miners Receive $13.05 Wage Offer Amid Vacation
Four leading steel officials met John L. Lewis and offered to grant the miners their 1947 wage demand of 13.05 for an eight hour day. The offer comes as 400,000 miners take a 10 day vacation ending July 8, with a new contract due to avert a summer coal strike. Federal officials said a July 8 agreement is unlikely. a 30 day shutdown could idle up to one million workers.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel
Harry Moses
H. C. Frick Coal Co
George M. Humphrey
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Charles O'Neill
Lewis
Schwellenbach
Landon Visits White House to Pay Respects to Truman
Former Kansas governor Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican presidential nominee, visited President Truman at the White House. He said he spoke of politics in Washington but would not comment on 1949 presidential chances, noting plans to confer with Gov. Dewey in Pawling, New York.
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Washington
INS
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Truman
White House
Martin
Landon
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Pawling
N. Y
Candidates Burst Forth in Rhetoric Amid 84 Degree Weather
The speaker notes political speeches focus on self-interest as candidates promise swift, courteous governance while the weather sits at eighty four degrees. The passage critiques loud propaganda used in campaigns today.
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Georges Bidault
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Russia
V. M. Molotov
George C. Marshall
International Radiopoto
Balkan
James L. Kilgallen
SN. S
Daily Weather Report
Big Three
Leon Pearson
Connecticut
Midwest
Jacob I. Stouffer
Volant
Congress
Margaret Henry
Frederic Murphy
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
Harriman
Congress Committee
Coal and Steel
Arthur Mometer
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