Harlan mine dispute escalates as troops patrol rugged hills
State troops exchanged gunfire with an ambushed group near the Harlan Central mine as federal mediators rushed to ease tensions over operators’ refusals to sign a union shop contract with the CIO United Mine Workers. Snipers fired at a high mine tipple while guardsmen returned fire, with no injuries reported.
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Harlan
United Mine Workers (Cio
Harlan Central
Totz
Ellerbe Carter
Carter
Luis Ofuer
Frankfort
John Conner
United States Labor Department
Washington
A. B. Chandler
William C. Burrow
Emmett Burnett
Conner
W. E. Arnold
Harlan Kentucky Utilities, Inc
Benham
Adjutant General
Read
Ne's
Legality of Union Shop to be Tested in Court in West Virginia
In Charleston on May 18, Attorney Claude L. Smith of the Progressive Mine Workers of America says the legality of the union shop contract between coal operators and the United Mine Workers will be tested in court. H L Browden says Island Creek Coal Co. will be named co defendant in the suit. The action may be filed within 30 days in West Virginia or another part of the eight state Appalachian area where 70 percent of soft coal is produced. The suit will argue that the union shop via is unlawful.
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Charleston
W. Va
Sao
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Claude L. Smith
Progressive Mine Workers of America
AFL
H. L. Browden
Logan
Island Creek Coal Company
Smith
West Virginia
Appalachian
Union Shop
House Rules Convoy Trucks Off Highways in Pa
Pennsylvania lawmakers voted to ban factory to dealer convoys on state highways by year end. A general motor scope revision by Rep. Harry E. Trout would have phased out convoys starting January 1, 1942, prompting broad House debate.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Harry E. Trout
Lancaster
Captive Mines Renew Pact For Two Years
U S Steel subsidiaries sign two year renewals for captive mines in western Pennsylvania without a union shop clause. The move aims to reopen nine mines including four in Gary West Virginia, plus Lynch Kentucky, with no penalty clauses. Union leaders push for union shop terms in other operator agreements as talks continue.
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Pittsburgh
Steel
Harry Moses
U. S. Steel
Pennsylvania
Independent “Workmen's Brotherhood
Bethlehem
P. T
Pat) Fagan
District 5
UMW
John L. Lewis
Fagan
New York
Gary
W. Va
Fayette
Allegheny
Mercer Counties
Lynch
Somerset Pro ducers Agree With Union
Unanimous agreement announced by two Pennsylvania producer groups and United Mine Workers leaders on terms of a bituminous miners contract. Charles ONeill and William Miller led negotiations refining terms of the current contract with a union shop clause. Territory covers 11 counties and about 50 000 workers producing 40 to 50 million tons annually.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Organ Gations
United Mine Workers
Charles O'Neill
Central Pennsylvania Coal Producers Assocation
Somerset County Coal Operators’ Association
William Miller
New York
Appalachian
United Mine Workers of America
James Mark
Steel Company
Clearfield
Jefferson
Armstrong
Indiana
Centre
Lycoming
Tioga
Cambria Elk
Huntingdon Bedford
Somerset Counties
Republic Steel charged with Wagner Act violation
William Hynes president of District 4 United Mine Workers said the national labor relations board has charged Republic Steel Corporation with Wagner Act violations at two Fayette County mines. He told a mass miners meeting that workers in captive mines should return to work next week.
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Uniontown
William Hynes
District 4
United Mine Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Republic Steel Corporation
Fayette County
Hynes
Jerusalem street rioting injures over one hundred
In Jerusalem on May 18 clashes between police and Jewish youths protesting Britain’s policy left well over 100 injured including several police officers. Thousands gathered as 18 to 35 year olds mobilized, with rioting in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and a 24 hour strike declared.
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Jerusalem
Britain
Jaffa Road
Tel Aviv
Palestine
Holy Land
Labor and Conservatives oppose new Palestine policy
Laborites and some Conservatives prepare to oppose the government's Palestine plan in a two day Commons debate. A Labour amendment calls the plan for an independent Palestine under Arab control inconsistent with the League mandate and urges examining the white paper proposals before Parliament commits. Some Conservatives are expected to push a similar amendment.
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London
Palestine
House of Commons
League of Nations
Britain
Holy Land
League
Permanent Mandates Commission
Four Alarm Blaze Ravages Pittsburgh Gray-Steel Foundry
A four alarm fire at the Pittsburgh Gray-Steel Foundry caused about 1.25 million dollars in damage according to General Manager Ray Holtz. Fire crews fought the blaze through the night, limiting further loss.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Gray-Steel
Ray Holtz
Royal Welcome Floods Montreal for King George and Queen Elizabeth
Montreal greets King George and Queen Elizabeth with a six hour parade and massed crowds around Windsor hotel. Indian regalia and school choirs add pageantry as the royal pair travel toward Ottawa on a cross country tour spanning 6000 miles.
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Montreal
Que
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Canada
Quebec
New York
Pas d'Armes
Sieminion Square
Windsor Hotel
Canadonia
Ottawa
United States
Elizabeth
Mount Royal
Great Windsor
Dominion
Pacific
Ottawa Prepares for Royal Visit by King George and Queen Elizabeth
Flag bedecked Ottawa readies for the royal couple as crowds surpass 300000 in the capital on the eve of their arrival. King George and Queen Elizabeth are due to step from the royal train onto a canopied platform in the southwestern suburbs, with Ottawa Hull expected to swell beyond its normal population.
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Ottawa
George
Queen Elizabeth
Hull
Que
King George
House of Parliament
Quebec
Maurice Duplessis
French Flying Ship Crosses Atlantic to Port Washington
The 42 ton French flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris completed a Transatlantic experimental flight arriving at Port Washington seaplane base at 5 47 p m EST after a hop from Hamilton Bermuda The craft departed from Bicarose France Tuesday and stopped at Lisbon Horta Azores and Hamilton during the journey Air France Trans-Atlantique previously ran a similar roundtrip flight last year.
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Port Washington
N. Y
de Vaisseau Paris
Hamilton
Bermuda
Bicarose
France
Lisbon
Horta
Azores
Air France Trans-Atlantique
Three at roadside accident injures funeral party in Beaver Falls
Beaver Falls May 18. Three persons parked on a highway to change a tire were struck by a passing car and injured while a funeral was planned. The victims were Russell Deens 34 his sister in law Mrs John Duss 39 and Harvey Kearns 36 all of Bentleyville. John Hartman 32 of New Brighton who helped with the tire suffered contusions.
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Beaver Falls
Russell Deens
John Duss
Harvey Kearns
Bentleyville
John Hartman
New Brighton
Veterans of Foreign Wars Poppy Day Saturday May 20
Poppy Day by the Veterans of Foreign Wars occurs Saturday May 20 with poppies sold on the streets by auxiliary members and disabled veterans, supporting the organization’s fund drives.
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Vv. F. W
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Widow linked to nationwide murder plot in Philadelphia case
FBI moves processed Rose Carina the "death-kiss woman" from New York to Philadelphia to face charges in the Pietro Stea poisoning case as authorities pursue a broad insurance murder ring. Police name four additional suspects including Woloshyn's widow and Herman Petrillo as connections to other deaths and a double indemnity fraud.
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Philadelphia
Uesday
New York
Rose Carina
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Greenwich Village
Philadesphia
Carina
Pietro Stea
Assisant
Vincent P. McDevitt
Seaboard
FBI
James A. Kelly
John Woloshyn
France
Caesar Valenti
Herman Petrillo
Woloshyn
Valenti
Ricker’s Island Penitentiary
Kelly
Petrillo
Orson
Dominic Radio 51
Cleveland
Joseph Arena
Sea Isle City
N. J
Rodin
Arena Bt
Arena
Rodio
Rehearsal at Fairview Church in Kingwood
A musical rehearsal will be held Sunday at 7 45 p m at the Fairview church of the Brethren near Kingwood. The event invites attending musicians and listeners to join in preparing upcoming performances.
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Fairview
Dairymen Seek Help Amid Price Support Concerns
At a Washington conference nearly 200 dairy reps urged renewal of government surplus purchases to raise prices and called for changes to the wage hour act. Charles W. Holman, secretary of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, warned of opposition in the House to a 113 million dollar surplus purchase appropriation and said the Norton bill threatens dairy exemptions.
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Washington
Charles W. Holman
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Avredic
Holman
House
Senate
Japanese Amoy Settlement Crisis Deepens With Allied Presence
In Kulangsu Amoy international settlement a Japanese landing party faced combined American British and French naval forces reporting trio to one ratio. Forty two Japanese sailors, joined by equal numbers from US Britain and France, occupy a hospital while patrols ease. Delegations vow indefinite protection while Japan presses for greater control despite local rejection.
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Amoy
China
Kulangsu
Amy
Amoy Harbor
Hung Lih-Son
Emile Bertin
Marblehead
Birmingham
United States
London
Dewey orders grand jury probe into Bund tax case
New York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey announced a grand jury investigation of misdemeanor tax avoidance accusations against the pro Nazi German American Bund. He also signaled a broader inquiry into alleged substantial felonies by his office.
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New York
Bund
Thomas E. Dewey
Potter D'Orsay Pal Death Attributed To Streptococcic Infection
In Sarasota on May 18 44 Peace Justice Franklin Redd Jr said physicians agree an overwhelming streptococcic infection caused the death of playboy heir Potter D Orsay Pal. A coroner s jury would accept this as official cause tomorrow.
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Sarasota, Fla
Franklin Redd Jr
Potter D'Orsay Pal
Playboy-Heir
Lincoln plank urged to curb federal waste and restore economy
Senator N. H. urged Republicans to adopt a Lincoln era plank advocating rigid economy and accountability to check federal extravagance and corruption. John Hamilton joined calls for reform, warning that the nation drifts toward economic chaos under current policies.
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Chicago
N. H
Rep’ Ht
John Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Abraham Lincoln
Wigwam
Lincoln
Hamilton
Miss Vogel Attends Wheeling Meeting
Miss Ella King Vogel of West Race street will travel to Wheeling West Virginia for a three day state convention of West Virginia Business and Professional Women's Clubs. She will conduct an international relations forum and speak at a Sunday luncheon before heading to Wooster Ohio to address the Wooster Women's Club Monday evening.
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Ella King Vogel
West Race Street
Wheeling
West Virginia
Miss Vogel
Wooster
Ohio
Women's Club of
Agreement Near in Anthracite Parley
Negotiators for anthracite coal operators and the United Mine Workers CIO said they expected to put in writing a new labor contract formula tomorrow and possibly reach final agreement by tomorrow night. They gave no details on the content.
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New York
United Mine Workers (Cio
Dies Probers Open Secrets On Anti Semitic Campaign
Washington reports Chairman Dies of the House HUAC said evidence shows an organized anti Semitic campaign in the United States. He cited letters allegedly by George Van Horn Moseley and by Moseley to others, describing removing Jewish influence and signaling a national reach through mailings and club conversations.
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Washington
Dies
House Committee On un-American Activities
United States
George van Horn Moseley
Army Reserve
American Legion
New York
Atlantic
Pacific
Dudley P. Gilbert
New Yorker
Gilbert
James Erwin Campbell
Owensboro
Campbell
Moseley
Charles Coughlin
Detroit
Germany
Italy
Somerset Weather Summary for 24 Hour Period
Daily weather notes list a 24 hour period from 5 30 p m Wednesday to 5 30 p m Thursday with reported maximums around 57 and minimums near 40. Data appears garbled with repeated letters and unclear figures.
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Raman
David Grove
U. . Weather Observer
Maxum Assisvesecesesssesetensecesserssesscerttenes
MAMA
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Nearby Regions
Mostly cloudy and cooler in south and west West Virginia on Friday. Showers and thunderstorms develop in the west by Friday afternoon or night. Saturday brings more showers and thunderstorms.
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West Virginia
West Portion
Pennsylvania
Maryland
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