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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1950
Page
2
Philadelphia officials and CIO Transport Workers Union leaders reach a tentative agreement to avert a Saturday transit strike. The pact requires union approval and allows workers to select runs by seniority, with no extension of one-man trolley operation beyond the summer.
Pittsburgh June 29 United Dairy workers will vote again tonight on a proposal to end the seven county strike in western Pennsylvania. Details of an offer from the Greater Pittsburgh Milk Dealers Association will be discussed with local 205 AFL Milk and Ice Cream Salesmen and Dairy Employes. The earlier offer was rejected 1429 to 1282 by union members. About 2.3 million consumers have lacked dairy products since June 9. The union seeks a shorter work week and higher pay.
Four Hollywood writers were sentenced to one year in jail and fined $1,000 each for contempt after refusing to answer Congress about Communist ties. Judges Pine and Curran imposed the sentences, with bail denied pending appeal. Adrian Scott’s sentence was postponed two months while Samuel Ornitz’s case continued due to illness.
The article reports the U S armada boosting air operations in Korea with jet fighters and medium bombers, claiming North Korean artillery losses and predicting the Red invasion will be crushed as air strikes intensify and tempo rises.
The Miss America contest started in 1920 as a simple promotional effort by several Atlantic City hotels off the boardwalk to boost business and draw crowds.
General Douglas MacArthur visited the Korean front and conferred with President Syngman Rhee and Ambassador Muccio. He expressed optimism about halting the North Korean invasion with aid from the United States as B 29s bomb Kimpo and Seoul endures continuing sporadic fighting along the Han River.
American military advisers with South Korean forces suffer three killed and 12 missing amid ongoing hostilities. Air Force reports 14 missions and 60 sorties with 21 B-26 bombers and 23 jet fighters, including four B-29s dropping 500 pound bombs, while weather hampers operations but later improves. North Korean troops strafed. no tanks reported destroyed. heavy South Korean casualties noted with no rout or mass surrender.
The House will recess for ten days through July 10 as the Far Eastern crisis casts uncertainty on final adjournment. Majority Leader McCormack of Massachusetts said all bets are off on when the final gavel may fall. The tax bill fate remains doubtful with possible Senate Finance Committee action.
Multiple notices report deaths in this city and surrounding areas. Anna White Bonzo aged 73 at 207 Richelieu Avenue died after a long illness. Warren S Wilson Jr 57 of 214 Spring Avenue Ellwood City died after two years of illness. Hallett H McCombs 81 of 612 West Clayton Street died after a long illness. Ruth A McConnell Dwyer 63 of 40 North Mill Street died after a long illness. Carroll Uber 72 of Slippery Rock died en route home from Seattle. Burial and funeral details follow in each notice with family survivors listed.
A solemn mass at 9 o'clock in St. Vitus church celebrated by Rev. Fr. Nicholas DeMita with Rev. Fr. Raymond Heintz as deacon and Rev. Fr. Sebast ian Ippolito as sub-deacon. Commital at St. Vitus cemetery conducted by Father Heintz. Pallbearers listed. Mother of Sorrows Society attended. Funeral services for Elizabeth Frengel at DeCarbo funeral home and burial at St. Vitus cemetery. Rose Kuksa Smith funeral at Noga funeral home with requiem mass at SS Philip and James church and interment at St. Mary's cemetery. pallbearers named.
Eyewitness Sgt. J. R. Brewbaker of Vandalia Illinois says Soviet flyers controlled the Suwon raid. He notes four Yak incursions, ground fire hit a C-54, and North Korean advances pressed toward Suwon within ten miles.
The report details heavy weather and poor communications hindering air cover over Korea. An army signal corps unit is flown in to boost links, risking ground combat exposure. Communist defenses of Russian tanks with Japanese AA guns complicate air strikes, and naval power lacks a landing force to reach the 10,000 enemy at five east coast beachheads.
Motorists warned to avoid crossing wet road lines as workmen from Route 422 east of the city to Perry highway area proceed. City crews install traffic lights at Greenwood and Atlantic avenues to improve flow while damaged Public Square pillars are replaced after a truck collision.
Lt. Walter A. Della Chiesa of Quincy Massachusetts was killed when his jet fighter crashed into the sea about 65 miles from Naha air base on Okinawa. The body was not recovered. The article also notes there are 1 692 islands in the Thousand Islands on the St Lawrence in New York.
In memory of Mrs. Dan Richards who died June 29, 1946 today. Sadly missed by those who loved her best. Dan Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Dugan and sons.
Harrisburg June 29. Idle draft boards ready to swing into action on orders from national selective service headquarters. Board members have served without pay since the January 1949 draft call to keep the system ready. Boards now register youths when they reach 18. During the war 422 local boards existed. after World War II the number was cut to 175.
The United Mine Workers contract grants 480,000 coal miners a 10 day vacation starting Saturday with 100 vacation pay each. Production resumes in July as workers take the break.
The House Un American Activities committee cited three atomic scientists and the editor of the Communist Daily Worker for contempt of Congress. David Bohm Giovanni Rossi Lomantis and Irving David Fox from the University of California radiation laboratory and editor Philip Bart refused to answer questions on grounds of possible self-incrimination.
The Australian government announced that ships of the Australian Navy now in Japanese waters will be placed at the disposal of the United States to enforce the United Nations cease fire order in Try News Want Ads for Results.
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