Ford Union Moves Toward Plant Strike in Michigan
Detroit July 2 AP final moves are underway to enable the United Automobile Workers to pull Ford Motor Co production employees out on a wage strike. A secret poll of 75 000 Ford workers in Michigan is planned as part of Bonnie Trip labor law requirements. The UAW approved a wage and pension demands package including 100 a month pensions after a 106 000 vote, and a 24 day May slowdown preceded a walkout. A 10 day strike notice has been filed while polling proceeds.
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Ford Motor Co
Michigan
Labor Mediation Board
Ford
U.A.W
Mediations Board
Noel P. Fox
Milwaukee
Auto Workers International Convention
State Labor Board
Ken Bannon
London Dock Strike Ends After 25 Day Walkout
London dockers voted to return to work Monday after a 25 day strike that disrupted exports and tied up cargo. The decision followed a mass meeting in Victoria Park and consultation with the Canadian Seamen's Union officials.
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London
Victoria Park
Canadian Seamen’ Union
C.S.U
CSU
Britain
House of Commons
George Isaacs
Turner Family Leads in Farm Family Contest Vote
With a week to go in the Typical Farm Family contest the J Lester Turner family of Carbondale holds the top spot as votes total 3910. Other entries include Clarence Moore Murphysboro A Poirot Oroville Blue Cavondale Russell Collins Herrin and Donald Lively Campbell Hill Gay with smaller tallies. Votes accepted until 5 p.m. July 30.
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Turner
J Lester Turner
Carbondale
State Fair Association
J. Lester Turner
Clarence Moore
Murphysboro
Alex Poirot
Oroville
Blue
Cavondale
Russell Collins
Herrin
Donald Lively
Campbell Hill
Gay
Polio Cases Soar in Illinois With 188 Total
Illinois and Chicago health authorities report 188 infantile paralysis cases to date as 12 new infections push state total to 183, with 43 from Cook County and 140 from Downstate regions. Marion County leads with 30 cases since July 1 as Centralia area sees 29 total. deaths total four in July.
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Springfield
Chicago
State Health Department
Illinois
Cook County
Downstate
Marion County
Centralia
Kane County
Sangamon
Clay
Vermilion
Champaign
Champaign-Urbana
Danville
Chamvaign County
John Love
Philo
Love
Blackburn College
Carlinville
St. John’s Hospital
New York Bus Strike Ends After Eight Days
New York ends an eight day bus strike on 30 routes run by the New York City Omnibus Corp and the Fifth Avenue Coach Co. About 3,300 drivers and maintenance workers return to service transporting about 1,125,000 daily passengers. Union workers vote to end the dispute and submit all issues to arbitration regarding a new contract following suspensions of four mechanics.
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New York
C.I.O. Transport Workers Union
New York City Omnibus Corp
Fifth Avenue Coach Co
Kennelly Criticizes City Aid Scrapping and Slams Plan
Chicago Mayor Kennelly condemned Governor Stevenson and legislative leaders for scrapping the 1949 state aid to cities program. He argued Chicago should receive state cash grants from surplus funds to cover police fire and health costs, while noting differences with Stevenson over sales tax extension and budget priorities.
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Chicago
Kennelly
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Citie
Senate
Stevenson
Springfield
House
Assembly
Council
Heroic rail engineer kept City of Los Angeles on track
H E Byers 55 of Las Vegas Nev credited with saving about 150 passengers by staying at the controls as flames engulfed the scene. He and second engineer Edward M Dennis were badly burned while the truck driver Harry G Fenton of Bell California died after a gasoline truck struck the train. The crash left flames towering and the truck’s drive shaft reportedly broke as it began to cross the tracks.
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H. E. Byers
Las Vegas
Nev
Union Pacific
Los Angeles
Byers
Edward M. Dennis
Turks Grant U. S. Right To Hunt For Noah's Ark
Moscow reports that Turkey’s general staff has allowed an American group to search Mount Ararat for remnants of Noah’s ark. The Tass dispatch, printed in Pravda, labels the expedition an intelligence operation under the guise of a ark search. Mount Ararat lies near the Soviet Turkish border.
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U. S
Tass
Ankara
Turkey
Turkish Army General Staff
Mount Arat
Communist Party
Pravda
Man Sought by Law Is Located in State Prison
Salem Illinois July 22 A man sought by Sheriff Tib Woolbright Wilbur Armstrong was located today at the Eddyville Kentucky state penitentiary where he is serving a five year term for bad checks The sheriff had hunted him since April 30 hoping to bring him to trial but said progress would be slow due to his imprisonment and the found letter from Armstrong to a friend here
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State Prison
Tib Woolbright
Woolbright
Wilbur Armstrong
Armstrong
State
Eddyville
Cool Weather Moves Across Midwest Amid Heat Elsewhere
Weather fronts bring drier cooler air to the Northern and Central Plains as Eastern and Southern states remain hot and humid. Temperatures reach the 90s with some areas over 100 in Texas and Oklahoma, while the Pacific coast stays near normal and scattered showers occur in the Midwest and other regions.
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Midwest
Plains
Texas
Oklahoma
Illinois
Iowa
Pacific Coast
New Mexico
West Virginia
Elorida
House Defeats Farm Program in High-Profile Vote
In Washington A 239 to 170 House defeat blocks Secretary Brannan's three crop subsidy trial aimed at eggs potatoes and wool The vote aligns Democrats and Republicans against the plan while continuing wartime price supports at 90 parity Senate leaders weigh options with Elmer Thomas signaling possible committee review and compromise efforts underway
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Washington
House
Senate
Charles Brannan
Rep. Gore
D-Tenn
Sam‘ Rayburn
Texas
Brannan
Elmer Thomas
Okla
Senate Agriculture Committee
Thomas
Food Costs Rise as Prices Increase in June
The cost of living index rose 0.2 percent for the month ending June 15, driven by higher food prices. The CPI reached 169.6 percent of the 1935 39 average, up 1.2 percent from a year earlier and 27.2 percent above June 1946. Food costs climbed 0.9 percent, while rents and fuels rose and house furnishings dropped.
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Washington
Bureau of Fabor Statistics
Manchester
N. H
Portland
Peoria
Springfield
North Atlantic Pact Clears Path for Aid and Bar on Bombs
The Senate ratified the 20 year North Atlantic treaty 82 to 13 paving the way for President Truman to ask Congress for a arms plan of over a billion dollars for Europe with a bar on supplying atomic weapons. Debate focused on whether the pact requires weapons support and how to phrase obligations without triggering an atomic energy act.
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Truman
Washington
Senate
America
Congress
Russia
United States
Taft - Wherry - Watkins
Watkins
U. S
North Atlantic
Vandenberg
Diamond Ring Found After Four Day Goodwill Search
Mrs. Sally Sherman donated clothing to Goodwill Industries and later found her engagement ring pinned inside a belt on a dress after a four day search among about 3000 bags. The ring valued at 1500 dollars was recovered after a needle in a haystack effort across 3900 bags.
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Chicago
Goodwill Industries
Sally Sherman
Weather Summary With Thunderstorms And Temps
Thundershowers and partly cloudy conditions expected tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 66 to 72, high Saturday around 88. Thur. low 73, 7 am today 80, high Thur. 91, noon 86. Precipitation 7 am yesterday to 7 am today zero. Sunrise 4 47, sunset 7 25. Crab Orchard Lake spillway levels, Little Grassy Lake below spillway, Mississippi River at Grand Tower 19.5 feet with a 3 foot rise in 24 hours.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Mississippi River Grand Tower
Weather outlook with warm, humid surface temperatures
Temperatures will run well above normal with highs near 88 to 93 and nightly warmth. The extreme south remains hot and humid with minor fluctuations. A cooler start next week gives mainly above normal nights with scattered showers and isolated thundershowers Sunday Tuesday and Wednesday.
Truman to send arms aid plan to Congress next Monday
The White House says President Truman will send to Congress Monday a foreign military aid program to back the Atlantic pact. Vice President Barkley expects quick passage of authorization and appropriation to fund the plan, with about 1.45 billion dollars total and 1.13 billion for NATO allies.
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White House
Harry Truman
Congress
Alben Barkley
Barkley
Senate
Mr. Truman
Capitol
Douglas Plans Downstate Trek
Senator Paul Douglas plans a six week speaking tour starting September 15 visiting 32 cities in Chicago and downstate Illinois. Topics include The Work of the 81st Congress The Business Outlook Problems of Labor The Government Budget and Economy in Government. He will speak to business groups at noon and labor groups at night with some church engagements. Cities listed include Chicago Joliet Streator Rockford Freeport Rock Island Moline Galesburg Quincy Springfield Carrollton Jerseyville Alton Granite City Belleville Du Quoin Harrisburg Herrin Mt. Vernon Salem Flora Newton Effingham Vandalia Taylorville Shelbyville Mattoon Charleston Decatur Pekin Peoria and Peru.
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Douglas B. Anderson
Douglas
Illinois
Anderson
Chicago
Joliet
Streator
Rockford
Freeport
Rock Island
Moline
Galesburg
Quincy
Springfield
Carrollton
Jerseyville
Alton
Granite City
Belleville du Quoin
Harrisburg
Herrin
Mt. Vernon
Salem
Flora
Newton Effingham
Vandalia
Taylorville
Shelbyville
Mattoon
Charleston
Decatur
Pekin
Peoria
Peru
Henry Angel Dies After Indianapolis Fall
Henry Angel aged 64, injured in a fall at his Indianapolis home, died last night at Illinois Central Hospital. He was a retired railroad clerk.
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Chicago
Henry Angel
Indianapolis
Ind
Illinois Central Hospital
Railroad
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London Dock
Joan
Lively
Livelys
Farm Bureau
Home Bureau
Montebello
Calif
Harry G. Fenton
Bell, Calif
Moscow
Mount Ararat
Salem, Ill
Senate House
Treasury
Memphis
Seattle
Vatican
Moscow Radio
United Front
Boris Isakov
Isakov
Soviet Union
Holy See
West
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Kenneth Wherry
Neb
Arthur V. Watkins
Utah
Tom Connally
Arthur Vandenberg
Mich
Edwin C. Johnson
Cole
Taylor
Idaho
Guy Cordon
Ore
Forrest C. Donnell
Ralph E. Flanders
William E. Jenner
James P. Kem
William Langer
George W. Malone
New
Taft
Wherry
Donnell
R-Mo
Connally
Fost
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