Taft-Hartley Action Aims to End Coal Strike Crisis
President Truman invoked the Taft Hartley Law to restore coal production. A Board of Inquiry led by David L. Cole will report within a week, with Wirtz and Dunlop as members. The move could lead to a federal court injunction of up to 80 days if the miners ignore it, amid widespread idle soft coal miners and heating shortages.
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Truman
Washington
David L. Cole
Paterson
N. J
William W. Wirtz
John Dunlop
MR. Truman
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Capitol
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Owen Brewster
Maine
Congress
Charles G. Ross
Stroble Sentenced To Death In Glacoft Case
LOS ANGELES FEB 6 A.P. Fred Stroble 68 was ordered to die in the gas chamber for the brutal sex slaying of 6 year old Linda Joyce Glacoft. Superior Judge Charles W Fricke pronounced the sentence ending his bid for a new sanity trial. Stroble was convicted of first degree murder with no leniency recommendation making the death penalty mandatory. The judge ruled Stroble sane after he had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
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Los Angeles
Fred Stroble
Linda Joyce Glacoft
Charles W. Fricke
Baker
Stroble
Fricke
Noted Figures Comment On Marshall Plan And Education
International News Service reports diverse views from Pat McCarran Albany and Oscar R Ewing. McCarran says Europe favors tapering Marshall Plan gradually. Dewey warns GOP cannot retreat to 19th Century. Ewing flags a looming higher education crisis alongside ongoing primary and secondary education challenges.
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International
Washington
Pat McCarran
Nevada
Europe
New York
Oscar R. Ewing
Gray resigns to head University of North Carolina
Army Secretary Gordon Gray announced his resignation to become president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will assume office no later than September 1950 and will remain available to the department as possible. Gray is a Baltimore native and UNC alumnus who later earned a Yale law degree.
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Washington
INS
Army
Gordon Gray
University of North Carolina
North Carolina University
Gray
Chapel Hill
N. C
Baltimore
Yale
North Carolina
Journal and
Twin City Sentinel
Winston-Salem
Royall
Nine Die Violently in Arizona Weekend Deaths
Nine persons died in Arizona over the weekend in traffic crashes and violent incidents. Five traffic deaths raised the 1950 highway toll to 39 and included a four year old, Jimmy Ray Sears, killed when a rifle discharged in Avondale. A dump truck crushed a Phoenician at South Mountain Park jail compound. An alleged holdup man was slain near Duncan in a gun battle that wounded a sheriff's deputy and a civilian. George Budd perished when a fire destroyed his living quarters, his restaurant and grocery near Somerton. In Phoenix, Lisner, a truck driver, died from injuries in a drive collision at 23rd Street and Palm Lane. Police noted inquests set for Budd and Lisner's cases.
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Arizona
Jimmy Ray Sears
Vernon Session
Delmar Stilwell
Avondale
Sears
James A. Reed
George D. Stilwell
South Mountain Park
Duncan
George E. Budd
Somerton
Budd
Albert Gehring
Lon Ray
Yuma
Detroit
Seymour Lisner
North 16Th Street
William J. Shirley
Wickenburg
Russell T. Robinson
Edinburg
Tex
Anna Hanson
Velva
N. D
Donald R. Wooton
T. K. Wootan
Phoenix
Lisnek
23Th Street
Palm Lane
Suspect Arrested In Hospital Slaying
In Las Vegas Nevada a former Johnstown Pennsylvania man, Robert Francis Costlow 23, is in custody on murder charges after police found nurse Margaret Gabler 43 dead from three bullet wounds in a Clark County General Hospital utility room. Gabler had been estranged from her husband and Costlow reportedly visited the hospital to see her.
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Las Vegas
Nevy
Johnstown
Roy Trahan
Bob Owens
Clark County General Hospital
Robert Francis Costlow
Margaret Gabler
Virginia Jolley
Costlow
Mrs. Gabler
Kingman, Ariz
Gabler
Gunman Kidnaps Pair In Wild Flight Across Colo
Golden, Feb. 6. A young gunman holed up in a mountain cabin with guns and supplies kidnapped two people and fled in three stolen cars. He identified as Andrew Cecil McCauley, 23, of Houston. Barbara Carroll, 28, of Houston, accompanied him. Police pursued over icy roads, shots fired, hostages held, and a series of car takings culminating in a dramatic escape aided by a witness finalizing the pursuit.
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Golden
Colo
Andrew Cecil McCauley
Carl Enlow
McCauley
Barbara Jean Carroll
Houston
Tex
Enlow
Brinks Agency
Boston
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Donald
Miss Carroll
Kitterman
Les Miller
Miller
Dilock
Bomb hits Cohen home in dawn blast injures none
A radar-protected Cohen residence survived a pre-dawn blast that wrecked the seven room house and damaged half its foundation. Police said the attack appeared to place the bomb near the front, while Cohen, his wife, and a maid were unhurt.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Mickey
Cohen
Kathryn Jones
West Los Angeles
Miss Jones
Trapped Passengers Rescued After Fraser Canyon Slide
Thirty seven travelers were trapped seven hours when Fraser Canyon slides partially buried a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train, near Vancouver B C, until work crews freed them. Senator Millard Tydings proposed a resolution urging President Truman to convene a world disarmament conference. An explosion and fire struck a Cities Service Oil refinery distilling unit in East Chicago Ind leading to a blaze across three other units.
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Fraser Canyon
Vancouver
B. C
Canadian Pacific Railway
Millard Tydings
Maryland
President Truman
Cities Service Oil Company
Chicago
Ind
Markets At A Glance
Markets at a glance show mixed New York stocks amid buying demand, bonds lower as rail prices slip, and cotton hedging. Chicago wheat firm with money moving to Germany to cover later losses. hog and cattle markets generally steady, with choice steers absent.
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New York
En Orleans
Chicago
ECA Rong
Germany
Temperatures Today at Sky Harker Station Readings
Temperature readings show hourly values from early morning through afternoon with highs around 72 and lows near 30. The list includes 1:30 am 30 degrees, 6:30 am 4 30 pm 72, and peak around 69 at 12:30 pm.
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Sky Harker
FBI Declares Atom Scientist Long-Time Communism Friend
Senator Brien McMahon said FBI reports show Klaus Fuchs had been sympathetic to Communist ideologies since youth. He noted Fuchs knew about the hydrogen bomb and that the FBI did not check his security in 1943. McMahon clarified the FBI was not part of Manhattan District duties during 1943 to 1947.
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Cohen
FBI
Washington
Brien McMahon
Democrat
Connecticut
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Klaus Fuchs
Russia
Micimlannon Laikkea
Senate
House Atomic Committee
J. Edgar Hoover
McMahon
Fuchs
Congress
Britain
Army Manhattan District
Manhattan
Army
Editor Claims Soviet H Blast
London February six 1949 AP reports Kenneth De Courcy editor of Intelligence Digest says the Soviet Union has already produced and exploded a hydrogen bomb and cites sources on both sides of the Iron Curtain. He asserts there is evidence of the H bomb having been made.
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London
Soviet Union
Kenneth de Courcy
Intelligence Digest
Russia
de Courcy
GOP House Members OK Policy Draft
The 21 member Policy Committee draft was approved with minor changes at a party conference. GOP leaders cited three or four dissenting votes and said Senate Republicans planned a late public release by the Republican National Committee. Taft and Lodge expressed reservations as Senate talks continued.
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Washington
House
Joseph M. Martin
Massachusetts
Senate Republicans
Republican National Committee
Guy Gabriel‘son
Senate
Miami Bus Collision Involves 24 Injured In City Crash
A Miami Transit Company bus collided with an automobile, injuring 24 people, three seriously. The impact hurled the bus across the street and buried it 16 feet into a building.
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Miami
Fila
Miami Transit Company
McFarland Defends Central Arizona Project in Senate
Senator E W McFarland opened debate on the 708 million dollar Central Arizona Project asserting California must not take water that Arizona needs. He accused California of propagandizing and said Arizona would use its share, with benefits including groundwater relief, salt balance, and supplemental water for 725000 acres and Tucson. Downey and Knowland attended but did not interrupt as the clash over water rights from the Colorado River intensified.
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Winifred Nelson
Gall Gazette
Washington
E. W. McFarland
Senate
Arizona
Congress
California
Sheridan Downey
William Knowland
McFarland
Senator Downey
Downey
Colorado
Salton Sea
Salt River Valley
Tucson
Bureau of Reclamation
Mathews Considered As A Regent
Arizona Daily Star editor William R. Mathews is under consideration by Governor Dan E. Garvey for a Board of Regents seat alongside Henry Coleman of Yuma. Mathews would be subject to senatorial approval and may replace John M. Scott who resigned to join the Arizona Highway Commission. Coleman already has Democratic endorsements.
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William R. Mathews
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson
Board of Regents
University and State Colleges of Arizona
Dan E. Garvey
Mathews
John M. Scott
Show Low
Arizona Highway Commission
Scott
Senate
Highway Commission
Henry Coleman
Yuma
Coleman
Goleman
Arizona
Four Perish In Hotel Fire in Eureka Montana
A flash fire destroyed the Montana Hotel in Eureka yesterday leaving a charred stairway and four confirmed deaths. Searchers recovered Ed La France a hotel clerk, Charles Cameron a farmer, John Powell and Delano Gray, Browning High School players, with a fifth victim William Peterson still unaccounted for.
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Eureka
Mont
Montana
William Peterson
Great Northern Railway
Ed la France
Charles Cameron
John Powell
Delano Grayson
Browning, Mont
YMCA Victory Dinner Sets Stage for $1.2 Million Building
At First Presbyterian Church, over 500 volunteers plan a victory dinner as Y expected to raise the remaining 77,364 of 422,636 already subscribed for the 1.2 million YMCA building project. Campaign chair J Howard Pyle warns persistence is needed to reach the goal tonight. Names tied to contributions include Dr. J C Norton 83 and Lewis E Haas new Exe Club recruit. funding supports lobby construction and construction bids open tomorrow.
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First Presbyterian Church
J. Howard Pyle
Dewey Swihart
A. L. Krohn
Lehman-Walker
King-Weld
J. C. Norton
YMCA
Norton
Phoenix
Iowa State Agricultural College
Ames
Iowa
Executive Club
Lewis E. Haas
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
Henry B. Sargent
Kenneth Clark, Jr
Philip S. Hack
Joe Knight
Charles W. Moore
Harrison Duff, Jr
Wayne Ketchum
Charles T. Francis
James E. Engdahl
Kenneth C. Chatwin
Frank E. Amick
Ona Mae Martin
Robert Dunn
Milton A. Morey
James (. Miller
John H. Cassell
J. L. Mennis
William A. McLeod
Frank Spicer
Clifford R. Crowl
Roland Harford
John W. Pederson
Robert C. Bohannan, Jr
Bruce
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Young Kitterman
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Nowell
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Field
Sherry
Sunset Strip
Neddie Herbert
International News Service
The
Associated Press
United Press
GOP
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
U.S. Senate
Young Men's Christian’ Association
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