General Motors Next Target Of Auto Union
The CIO United Auto Workers sharpen a strike threat against General Motors as talks drag on under the Taft-Hartley law. The union demands include wage and pension boosts, with 89,000 Chrysler workers just back on the job after a lengthy strike and Ford already granting pension benefits. GM talks began March 29 with 235,000 GM workers to be polled for strike approval once notice is served.
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DETROIT
CIO
United Auto Workers union
Chrysler corp
UAW
General Motors corp
Ford Motor co
Michigan
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
T. A. Johnstone
Reds Defeated In Austria Vote
Vienna reports that Austrian municipal elections in Lower Austria, under Soviet control since 1945, delivered a decisive win for the two government coalition parties. The right wing People’s Party secured 13,462 mandates, the Anti Communist Socialists 6,233, while the Communist bloc and allied groups won only 39.7 percent. Russians previously resisted the election law but withdrew objections after facing charges of blocking the vote to keep their men in power.
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VIENNA
lower Austria
wisig peoples party
Jett bloc
adt
Israel to Meet Arab Delegates in Geneva Talks
Geneva May conference approved as Israel agrees conditionally to direct negotiations with Arab delegates on concrete peace proposals under the United Nations Palestine conciliation commission. The move signals progress toward formal discussions in Geneva with involvement by UN mediators and regional representatives.
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GENEVA
Switzerland
Israel
United Nations Palestine conciliation commission
Move to Close Spy Hearings Move to Close Spy Hearings
Senator Flanders urged the Senate to bar further public hearings on McCarthy charges of Communist infiltration in the state department. He proposed a subcommittee review of loyalty procedures and warned that continuing hearings harms public servants and foreign relations. McCarthy kept pressing new charges, naming a U.S. envoy as a foreign agent. The subcommittee planned a closed-door session to study state department files on 91 individuals.
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WASHINGTON
Flanders
senate
McCarthy
state department
senate foreign relations
Wisconsin
U.S
Janesville
Wis
United States minster
Truman
Truman Tour Through Midwest on His Sixtieth Birthday
President Truman rode a 13 car special train through Ohio Indiana Illinois and Iowa on his sixty first birthday seeking votes for Democrats and promoting the Fair Deal and Brannan plan with a major farm speech planned for Lincoln Nebraska.
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Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Lincoln
Neb
Presidential associates
Typhoon Expected to Hit Guam With 90 MPH Winds
A military outpost hunkered down as a typhoon with 90 mile per hour winds loomed. The storm was forecast to strike at 10 a.m. tomorrow, Monday, with full fury as authorities warned residents and crews to brace for impact.
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GUAM
Acheson Opens Cold War Talks With French
Paris May 8 U S Secretary of State Acheson began a round of cold war talks on French plans for rapid American aid to Indochina in return for genuine independence. He met with Foreign Minister Schuman to discuss Bao Dai and Ho Chi Minh and the future of French Indochina amid Western hope to contain communist expansion.
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Burma
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Germany
Georges Bidault
Atlantic council
Rail Executives seek strike law in congress testimony
Gustav Metzman of the New York Central and Walter S. Franklin of the Pennsylvania railroad urged Congress to pass a bill outlawing rail strikes. They argued the Railway Labor Act cannot protect national welfare and supported compulsory arbitration as a last resort.
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WASHINGTON
congress
Gustav Metzman
New York Central railroad
Walter S. Franklin
Pennsylvania railroad
senate
Donnell
RMo
Fire Destroys Rail Trestle Over Jamaica Bay
A spring gale sparked a million-dollar blaze that destroyed a 2500 foot section of the Long Island Rail Road trestle linking New York City to Rockaway. Firefighters fought the blaze into today as the long span burned, marking the worst in 50 years with prior fires frequent on the structure.
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NEW YORK
ca bay
Long Island railroad
New York City
Queens
Rockaway
Floods Replace High Winds As Midwest Surveys Damage
The three day storm which killed at least 25 and caused widespread destruction eased but flood damage grew in Minnesota North Dakota and across Canada to Winnipeg New York and New England. Winnipeg faced red river cresting nine feet above flood stage threatening 350 000 residents. Crookston and Grand Forks faced evacuations and rising crests. More rain and snow continued in the plains and mountains while the nation mostly enjoyed fair weather in the south.
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North Dakota
Canada
Winnipeg
New York
New England
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New York state
New York City
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Red River
Red Lake
Grand Forks
N. D
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Wyoming
Nebraska
South Dakota
wheat belt
Concordia
Kans
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Progress Seen In Rail Talks
Federal mediators report progress in talks with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to avert a strike set to begin Wednesday. A railway mediation board spokesman said sessions Saturday and Sunday made headway though one issue remains unresolved. The walkout would affect Santa Fe and portions of Pennsylvania and New York Central lines, with the union seeking a second fireman on multi unit diesels.
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CHICAGO
Brotherhood of Locomotive
national (railway) mediation board
Santa Fe
southern
Pennsylvania and
New York Central
U S Readies Asia Aid Program
Washington May 8 The United States is reported ready to begin its long delayed arms aid program for Southeast Asia. Plans for early action were discussed last Thursday by the National Security Council chaired by President Truman. Some officials expect a formal signaling within days.
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WASHINGTON
United States
South- east Asia
national security council
Truman
Court Rules In Picket Case In Washington State
Supreme Court rules that states may forbid picketing aimed at forcing union membership. Justice Minton cites abuse of public policy and upholds order restraining picketing at Enetai Inn Bremer ton. Union fined $500 for picketing. Gaz zam denies workers’ union membership.
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supreme court
tor
Minton
Douglas
Washington state
Buiding Service
Gazzam
state
Gazearn
Trap Sprung On Cop Killer
Albert Nicholas Gnatz a 55 year old ex convict died in Chambersburg hospital from bullet wounds after a police trap set during a manhunt for the Philadelphia patrolman James J. Donahoe killer. Gnatz had attempted to rob a Shippensburg supermarket when cornered by state police and killed in the ensuing confrontation.
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Philadlphia
Albert Nicholas Gnatz
Pennsylvania
James J. Donahoe
Philadelphia
Gnatz
Shippensburg
Arrest Demonstrators Clash With Police in London
Sixty nine persons were arrested yesterday as police clashed with demonstrators, many carrying pro Communist banners and shouting anti American slogans in London.
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LONDON
AFL Ponders United Front
Philadelphia May 8 The AFL's top policy makers met behind locked doors to discuss a proposal that could reshape national politics. William Green and 13 executive council members gathered at the Ritz Carlton amid a secret session, considering CIO President Philip Murray's bid for a united labor front.
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PHILADELPHIA
AFL
William Green
Ritz-Carlton
CIO
Philip Murray
United labor front
John L. Lewis
labor
Green
Author on China Dies in London
Agnes Smedley, 56, American writer famed for China reports, died in a London nursing home on Saturday. She had been accused last year in a U S army report of being a Soviet spy, but the charge was later withdrawn.
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OXFORD
England
Agnes Smedley
China
Rimouski Fire Leaves 2,500 Homeless and $20 Million Damaged
Stunned Rimouski residents faced ruins after a weekend fire scorched 312 homes and more than a score of buildings. Wind gusts to 80 mph fanned flames from Price Brothers mills, destroying the western city and hospital, four-story St Joseph, orphanage, seminary, schools, hotels, and theater. Army troops and Red Cross supplied blankets and tents as officials weighed housing and employment challenges for the city of 15,000.
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St. Lawrence
Quebec
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Rimouski hospital
Price Brothers
Red Cross
Edouard Portugais
army
Price Brothers lumber company
Chinese Leader Seeks More Aid
President Chiang Kai-shek asked the United States for more aid to nationalist China, seeking technical and military assistance but not troops. He urged sanctions against aggressors and said the Nationalists would consider any plan that does not infringe China’s sovereignty, replying to a MacArthur defense proposal with caution.
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TAIPEY
May
Chiang Kai-shek
oday
United States
China
Russia
Chiang
MacArthur
Renmin
State Dog Owner Defends Right To Bite Own Dog
Washington police took a 23 year old man to a hospital for observation after finding him biting a dog in his kitchen. He claimed the dog was his and he could bite it if he wished.
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WASHINGTON
Civil Rights Bill Heads Senate Activity List
The May Senate opening centers on FEPC legislation to ban job discrimination by color race or creed. Taft signals opposition to Truman labor plan while House pursues final action on the vast annual appropriation bill. Barkley to appoint five senators to lead Kefauver crime probe with broad powers and funding.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Lucas of
Ahnos
FEPC
fair employment practice commission
house
Taft R
Ohio
National Labor Relations Board
Barkley
Kefauger
D-Tenn
Deaths Aftermath Of Red Coup In Mosinee Wisconsin
Mosinee mourns two community leaders from last Monday’s mock Communist coup. Mayor Ralph Kronenwetter, removed by “Red troopers” at dawn, died after a cerebral hemorrhage suffered before Mosinee’s liberation four weeks ago. Rev Will Bennett, 72, died at home from a heart attack following a pretend struggle in a barbed wire camp during the event.
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MOSINEE
Wis
Ralph HKronenwetter
Wausau hospital
Will La Brew Bennett
MacArthur Sees Western Pacific Safe From Direct Attack
General MacArthur told Australian newsmen that the western Pacific is safe from direct military attack but vulnerable to Communist infiltration. He said air power from present allied bases could disrupt any attempt to reassemble an amphibious assault from Asia in a world war II pattern.
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WASHINGTON
MacArthur
western Pacific
lony
Asis
Senator's Wife Ill in Georgetown Hospital
Mrs. Arthur H. Vandenberg, wife of Michigan Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, remained seriously ill at Georgetown University Hospital, the senator's office said. The report notes the condition as of May.
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UPI
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Georgetown university hospital
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