Deadly Oklahoma Texas Tornado Strikes Heights
After a devastating storm crossing Oklahoma and Texas, 142 people died and over 600 were injured. Officials rushed funerals and grave space measures, while partial electric and communications services were restored. Red Cross and Salvation Army teams surveyed casualties as emergency filtration equipment arrived to restore water.
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Electronics Park Opens as General Electric Moves Plants
General Electric starts production at Electronics Park near Liverpool in a 25 million dollar project. First transmitter assembly lines will move from the Thompson road plant to the seven mile distant site, with full production expected within about six weeks. The transmitter division moves begin Monday night and continue nightly through May 30 except weekends. Office moves start around April 21 and are timed to minimize downtime. About 1,800 employees involved.
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Nashville man executed after chair repairs
Albert Duboise was put to death in the electric chair after a 15 minute wait while workers repaired a power line. The 1 year old chair was used to execute him for the murder of Murfreesboro taxi driver Albert Wyssilis.
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Arabs Kill Jew in Jerusalem Mosque Attack
Police report Moslem Arabs beat a Jew to death at the mosque entrance in Jerusalem. A second Jew is critically injured in the same incident.
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President J'ruman Assessed On Prices And Wages
Editorial page cites David Lawrence criticizing scapegoating business for high prices and urging wage hikes. Noted in Today’s Features section with pages 44 and 45. Also listed are comics crosswords horoscopes and regular features including Amusements Letters and Deaths.
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Louise Peete to Die by Gas in California
Louise Peete, 64, a twice-convicted homicide suspect, faced lethal gas in California as her final appeal failed. Governor Warren declined intervention amid her grim evening meal and plans to die for the murder of Margaret Rose Logan, while paroled from Tehachapi prison for a prior killing.
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C. I.0. Blasts Labor Cuts In Budget Row
The CIO charges House labor department cuts are a GOP move to curb Roosevelt era reforms. James B. Carey, CIO secretary treasurer, told a Senate Appropriations panel that the nation faces greater losses from reduced services than savings on paper. He warned Americans will grasp the issue by 1948.
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U S Urges Rapid Free Korea Setup Amid Moscow Talks
In Moscow the Council of Foreign Ministers eyed Germany and the peace framework as France pressed for an economic Saar France merger but Molotov stalled. Marshall urged a revived Korea commission and joint action, with the US seeking independence measures in its zone while Moscow and Washington review the talks this summer.
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Shut Mines Cause Railroad Layoffs
Pittsburgh reports mine shutdowns have led to the furlough of 1,135 railroad workers and threaten thousands more with idleness unless coal fields return to full production.
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Wallace Attacks Truman Red Hunt in London Speech
Henry A. Wallace denounced President Truman's foreign policy in London. He said the administration runs a domestic wild hunt that vilifies innocent people and drives men of integrity from public life, and he warned he was alarmed by the anti Communism crusade at home and abroad.
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Congress Killed UNA R A for Soviet Sphere Aid Claim
A speaker asserted Congress ended UNA R A because Ukraine White Russia Poland and Yugoslavia in the Soviet sphere were due for more aid. He argued a two world program is costly and futile, saying it fuels Communist revolutions under the banner of stopping Communism.
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New Curbs On Labor Approved By House Committee
The House Labor Committee approved provisions of a new labor bill banning industry wide bargaining and secondary boycotts and strikes. It advances for final committee action Saturday and then to the House next week. The Senate panel began a section by section review with no conclusion. The measure targets practices by unions including John L. Lewis era coal talks and would align unions with business trade associations. The panel also approved restricting the closed shop. Concluded on Page 12.
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April Showers Continue As Syracuse Temp Rises
Mild showers persist into tonight with 0.01 to 0.25 inch expected and a 37 mph wind gusts up to 45. Temperatures reach 73 degrees at noon, then ease but stay above freezing through Saturday as skies clear.
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Jones Bossed Rail Loan Handling, Congress Told
Charles B. Henderson testified that Jesse Jones, former RFC head, directed railroad loan negotiations and bankruptcy actions even after Jones left RFC in 1944. The claim, presented to Congress, suggests Jones controlled railroad financing decisions during wartime recovery.
Inspector upheld in Centralia mine death case
U S Inspector of Centralia mine, Frank Pov, was upheld by Bureau of Mines director Dr R R Sayers for allowing a fiery operation to continue despite findings of very hazardous conditions five days before a deadly explosion. Sayers told a Senate sub committee the inspector exercised reasonable judgment after eight inspections of Centralia Coal Company No 5 between 1942 and 19.
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Illinois officials split over toads chirp or croak at spring
In Jersey County Lt. Gov Lingh Cross claims toads croak while Gilbert Wright from the Sl Lafte museum asserts they chirp. State conservation director Livingstone Osborne avoids a firm label, describing a high pitched squeak instead.
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Hughes 85 Today Walks Birthday in New York
Charles Evans Hughes is 85 and spends his birthday with his children and grandchildren in New York City after a long career as chief justice. He remains tall, straight, bearded and an early morning walker while retired in Washington.
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Magnesium Blaze Lights Hiawatha Street Display
A 3 ton magnesium pile at Abe Cooper iron and metal dealer on Hiawatha blvd ignited a spectacular fire. Fire crews avoided water to prevent further combustion and focused on protecting adjacent property. Loss pegged at 2700 dollars.
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Army Seeks Recall of Polish Attache Over Anti US Remarks
The U S Army asked Polish authorities for the immediate recall of Col Tadeusz Podwysocki chief of the Polish liaison section after he allegedly made aggressively anti United States remarks in the presence of Allied officers at U S Army headquarters in Frankfurt. Lt Gen Clarence R M Huebner European command chief of staff sent the request to the Allied Control Authority in Berlin.
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Transit Troup OKLAHOMA Orry Bus And Streetcar Service
Bus and streetcar service in Oklahoma City stopped as motormen refused to cross picket lines set up by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
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Trial of 31 Nazis Over Buchenwald Murders
Thirty-one former Nazi defendants faced charges of murder in the Buchenwald horror camp era from 1937 to 1945. One defendant was a woman. All pleaded not guilty as defense teams challenged the war crimes court's jurisdiction citing U.S. Army occupancy of the Dachau-Buchenwald area.
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Open talks urged as AT&T strike widens across regions
Secretary Schwellenbach promised a quick reply to the NFWTW request and planned discussions with Joseph Beirne amid stalled strike talks. A proposed White House approach could involve a fact finding panel or possible seizure of the telephone system, while Newark police arrest three women union leaders over a two day public utility strike.
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