Doubt Unions Realize Face Of Suits
Government attorneys doubt unions will recoup much from back portal pay suits, now totaling over 1.17 billion dollars after CIO United Steelworkers filed a 200 million claim against Bethlehem Steel. They foresee compromises and limited recoveries under the Mt Clemens ruling.
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Norman Walker
Washington
Bethlehem Steel Company
CIO
United Steelworkers Union
Supreme Court
Mt. Clemens
Mt. Clemens, Mich
High Court
Federal District Courts
Three Families Flee as Fire Hits Homewood Row
Flames forced three families to flee and a fireman was injured when Captain William Beresford fell through a roof during a three alarm fire in Homewood Pittsburgh. Damage was estimated at six thousand dollars.
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Pittsburgh
Homewood
William Beresford
No. 8 Company
Bethlehem Steel CIO workers sue for portal to portal pay
Philadelphia attorneys file a 200,069,600 suit on behalf of 13,090 CIO United Steelworkers against Bethlehem Steel, with potential growth to 50,000 workers. The petition claims daily work time uncounted since 1938 under the wage hour law, seeking overtime and liquidated damages. Bethlehem plants span multiple states including Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and California operations during war and peacetime periods.
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Philadelphia
Bethlehem Steel Corporation Cio
U. S. District Court
Cio-United Steelwork Attoreneys
CIO
New York
Harold Cammer
of Witt and
Cammer
Lee Pressman
Cl. B
Nathaniel Richter
Bethlehem Steel
Lackawanna
Hambure
Woodlawn
Blasdell
Buffalo
N. Y
Bethlehem
Johnstown
Lebanon
Leetsdale
Pottstown
Rankin, Steelton
Williamsport
Sparrows Point
Alameda
Vernon
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Canif
Seattle
Wash
Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corporation
Cornwall
Hanover, Naginey and
Steelton
Poorbaugh Buys Friedline Home for 17000
Ralph A. Poorbaugh of Stoystown purchases the late Mrs. Sarah M. Fried line’s brick dwelling at 324 West Main Street Somerset for 17000. After remodeling, the couple plans it as their home. They also schedule a Pittsburgh airport trip to Honolulu January 9 to visit Lt. Vernon A. Zeitler and his wife and newborn Arthur William Zeitler, born December 19. They will return February 13 stopping in Phoenix to see Mrs. Poorbaugh’s sister Alverda Branta.
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Ralph A. Poorbaugh
Stoystown
Sarah M. Friedline
Main Street
Somerset
Poorbaugh
Poorbaughs
Pittsburgh
Honolulu
Los Angeles
Vernon A. Zeitler
Arthur William Zeitler
Thelma Poorbaugh
Zeitler
Hickam Field
Air Corps
Ariz
Weimer Reaches Fifteenth Blood Donation Record
P M Weimer of Pittsburgh formerly Meyersdale and Somerset has given his fifteenth blood transfusion. The last call was December 9. He worked as a bank receiver in Somerset County and now is employed by the Federal Reserve in Pittsburgh. He hopes to join the emergency donor register. Twelve donations went to the Red Cross and three to hospitals.
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Park M. Weimer
Pittsburgh
Somerset
Federal Reserve Notes
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
O. Weimer
Meyersdale
Somerset County
Federal Reserve
Weimer
Red Cross
Deficit Forecast Prompts Tax Talk in Pennsylvania
Governor-elect James H. Duff warned that maintaining current services without new revenue could yield a $96,000,000 deficit for 1947-49. He urged raising additional taxes to fund higher teachers salaries and noted proposed increases in education costs and public assistance amid a looming revenue drop.
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Harrisburg
James H. Duff
Duff
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Association
Commonwealth
Ex-Pittsburgh detective admits gambling away nearly $11,000
Assistant District Attorney William H. Colvin said formal charges are being drawn against Ernest C. Dunbar who admitted to gambling away about 11 thousand dollars of others money. Dunbar surrendered after being sought for swindling Mrs Carol Voltz of 1222 dollars to obtain a car. He is held without bail pending filing of charges. He reported losing funds on bad checks and promises in Wheeling West Virginia and Steubenville and claimed losses of over a thousand dollars per night.
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Pittsburgh
INS
William H. Colvin
Ernest C. Dunbar
Dunbar
National Labor Relations Board
Carol Voltz
Colvin
Wheeling
W. Va
Steubenville
Ill Wind Busy Over Xmas In Mountain Community
The ill wind brought sleet and snow before Christmas then warm breezes melting the snow and a late white Christmas. Rain followed by south winds raised temperatures to Easter levels. Radiators held anti freeze then aired out ice products as a spring runoff appeared near Showman summit along Route 31. A roadside spring refilling glass for tourists was placed by Philip Baker.
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Santa
Southland
Laurel Hills
Route 31
Philip Baker
Lines In Water Dies at 101 in Pasadena
Oliver M. Haney aged 101, who voted for Abraham Lincoln, died in Pasadena today. He reportedly was the city’s last Civil War survivor and served with the Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. Born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
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Pasadena
Calif
Oliver M. Haney
Abraham Lincoln
Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
Brownsville
Outlook Critical For British Coal Union Head Says
William B. King reports Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, calls the immediate outlook for British coal critical as the industry nears government nationalization. He supports home ownership but foresees no quick relief from nationalized control amid low fuel stocks and absenteeism in mines.
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British Coal Union
Londn
Will Lawther
National Union of Mineworkers
York
Cyril Garbett
Church of England
Britain
Brit
Ain
National Coal Board
Lawther
Winter Cold Wave Hits Central U S From Dakotas To Texas
Extreme cold spread across the central U S with subzero readings in North Dakota and Nebraska and 25 below in places. Snow fell around Chicago, and ice and sleet snarled New York transit while flights were grounded.
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Associated Press
Dakotas
Texas
Mississippi Valley
Iowa
North Dakota
Nebraska
Spencer
Chicago
Camp Campsbell
Soldier admits he murdered Champaign girl
A 21 year old soldier Pfc Maurice T Garrett confessed to murdering and raping 20 year old Helen Marie Cler whose body was found on the front porch of her Champaign rooming house after he escorted her home from a tavern. Garrett signed a statement describing the assault and strangling.
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Champaign
Ill
Helen Marie Cler
Philo
Maurice T. Garrett
Akron
Ohio
John Parth
Garrett
Miss Cler
Barth
Wagner Bids GOP Betray The Voters
Washington December 29 The new Senate opens with Republicans in control and push for labor regulation and tax cuts amid intra party clashes over committee assignments and leadership. Rep Case and Sen Ball want to move a new labor measure while Republicans weigh extending tax curbs and government controls. Democrats prepare to organize with Barkley as minority leader as warring factions test cooperation on broad policy.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Senate
House
Rep. Case
R-Sd
Ball Itviinn
Cove
Bail
R-Minn
kKepublican
Enator Bilbo
D-Miss
Hursday
Senator Barkley
Wagner
SDP
Hold Kinkaid’s Extortionists in McKeesport
Angelo J. Peluso, 22, a disabled former paratrooper, is held for court on attempted blackmail charges after Mayor Charles A. Kinkaid accused him of demanding 2000 dollars. The mayor said Peluso would reveal the authors of four threatening letters if the money was left in a set place. Peluso claimed he meant no harm and had been drinking. The Kinkaid family has received several death threats tied to the mayor’s anti gambling and vice drive.
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Mckeesport
Angelo J. Peluso
Charles A. Kinkaid
Peluso
Kinkaid
Frederick H. Bradley
Elect Elders and Deacons at Old Trinity Lutheran
At a Friday church business meeting at Trinity Lutheran, Elders elected George A. Dickey and Martin L. Viarkel Sr as elders and Carl M. Friedhofer Sr Parker G. Miller and Wayne W. Pile as deacons. Installation set for January 5 service.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Eldrs
George A. Dickey
Martin L. Viarkel
Carl M. Friedhofer
Parker G. Miller
Wayne W. Pile
U S Plans Russian Language Broadcasts From Munich Relay
The United States will begin Russian radio broadcasts around Jan. 15 as part of a state department plan to bypass Moscow censorship. The program, routed through a Munich relay station, aims to present news music and culture fairly to Russian listeners and may later include debates.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Byrnes
Moscow
Russia
Munich
Germany
Algiers
Joseph MacNarney
William Benton
McNarney
Governor Edge Breaks New Jersey Gas Stalemate
Governor Walter E Edge averted a curtailment of northern New Jersey gas supplies and breached the stalemate between Public Service Gas and Electric Co and striking AFL workers. He obtained union approval to move 15 carloads of coke through picket lines at the Harrison plant and ordered talks to resume to restore normal operation. Supervisory workers kept normal output as plant employees had struck Friday.
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Newark
N.J
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Public Service Gas and Electric Company
AFL
Harrison Gas Plant
Public Service
Edge
Irish boy recalls Constellation crash near Shannon
Irish boy Michael Donellan recounts the Constellation liner crash near Shannon airport that killed 12. He describes scrambling through mud and river, finding a baby, and witnessing injured and mutilated victims as rescuers worked through swamps to remove bodies.
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Shannon
Bire
Michael Donellan
Russian ultimatum to navy vessel at Dairen sparks conflicting accounts
Two U S Navy officers aboard the courier ship tell of a Russian ultimatum ordering the vessel to leave Dairen within 20 minutes or face consequences. They describe a tense gate incident with a Russian major and a translator, while a State Department spokesman denies any ultimatum.
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International
Shanghai
INS
United States Navy
Dairen
Comar
W. Gordon Cornell
Todt Hill Rd
Dongan Hill
Staten Island
N. Y
Chales D. Arthur
Oskmont St
Pittsburgh
Cornell
Arthur
Navy
United States State Department
Benninghoff
Fhussten
Ray White
Silver City
N. M
Koons
Yates
Chester man held on charge of killing former boss
George Whiteley aged 36 was jailed in $1500 bail for grand jury action on a charge of fatally shooting Peter Morrison 40 as Morrison forced entry into Whiteley’s Chester home Morrison, a former employer at a filling station, reportedly fired the shot during a struggle after obtaining a revolver as Morrison broke the door glass, investigators said
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Chester
George Whiteley
Peter Morrison
Rooming House
Fred Jack Said Whitely
Morrison
Jack
Whitely
Cold air moves into Maryland and nearby states
Partly cloudy and windy conditions bring much colder temperatures across Maryland and Pennsylvania. Snow flurries are expected in the mountains Monday with colder conditions continuing through Monday night and lingering into Tuesday as fair, but cold, conditions develop.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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