All Garment Workers Return to Jobs in Empire State
About five thousand garment workers across four states resumed work after the industry’s first major stoppage in 25 years. A union spokesman said conditions had returned to normal and that support grows for Truman’s 40 hour week as the drive to back the president continues.
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New York
Truman Union
York
Fion
Truman
Livingston Manor
Hollywill
Biltmore Hotelswood Country Club
Hollywood Country
iClub, Inc
Molly Miller
Brothers Killed in Korea Given Military Funeral
Two brothers Pic aia Heichel and Pic Homer A Heichel were killed in Korea and buried in a military funeral conducted by Clearfield veteran organizations. They enlisted in December 1948 and died July 12 while serving. their names were publicly announced.
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Korea
Clearfield, Pa
Clearfield
Pic
Aia Heichel
Homer A. Heichel
House Tax Hike Bill Moves Through Congress
Washington A House Ways and Means Committee finalizes a bill to raise taxes totaling about 7.233 billion dollars annually. The plan would lift individual income taxes by 12 percent, target corporate taxes, and increase excise levies on liquor cars gasoline and more. A 20 percent withholding was narrowed to apply to certain corporate bonds and tax overpayments, with final action pending before the House and Senate.
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Memphis
Tenn
Elizabeth Irene Barker
Edwin L. Clair
Naright
Bionally
Coal and Steel
Charles L. Barker
J Executive
Elizabeth
Interlake Iron Co
New York City
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Oldest Polish widow sails for United States in 105th year
Mrs. Paulina off, a 105 year old displaced Polish widow, sailed from Austria to the United States with her son and daughter in law. Arrangements were through the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the International Refugee Organization, with anonymity kept for American sponsors. They travel by train to Munich and plan to fly to the United States on June 25.
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Salls
U.S
Vienna
Austria
United States
Paulina
National Catholic Welfare Conference
International Refugee Organization
Juan
Munich
Missing Diplomat's Wife Is Daughter Born
London up quotes Mrs Donald Maclean, Chicago-born wife of a British Foreign Office diplomat, giving birth to a daughter. The maternity department at London hospital said both mother and child are well. The father vanished nearly three weeks ago with Guy Burgess, and police across Western Europe conduct a massive manhunt with no trace found.
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London
Donald Maclean
Chicago
Prof Pranks and Bored Students Spur Nebraska Report
Lincoln Nebraska field ec onomics class scene as a weary student halted mid report to ask the professor if he was still with him. The professor marked the draft with a blunt comment admitting displeasure but staying engaged, reflecting campus humor and fatigue.
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Lincoln, Neb
University of Nebraska
Hotel operator seeks liquor tax refund over bartender losses
Utica based Plattsburg hotel owner Helen I Clark operator of the Cumberland Hotel sues the Government in Federal Court for 748 dollars she claims 1942 liquor losses from inexpert bartenders reduced her tax burden. The complaint argues wartime staffing shortages prevented hiring experienced bartenders and led to liquor losses and tax impact.
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Utica Ups
Plattsburg
Helen I. Clark
Cumberland Hotel
Dewey Seeks Share in Federal Power Grants
Governor Dewey urged early development of hydro power facilities on the St. Lawrence River and proposed sharing electricity with neighboring states. He argued New York and New England paid 75 to 80 percent of federal power project costs through taxes, during the opening session of a New York New England interagency committee meeting.
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Albany
Dewey
New York-New England
St. Lawrence River
New York
New York State
Trains Collide Near Mankato Killing None Yet
An Omaha passenger and mail train collided head on with a box car freight five miles south of Mankato Minnesota in the early dawn today. Initial reports indicated eight people hospitalized among the casualties, most of them crew members with details still emerging.
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Mankato, Minn
Omaha
Here
MacArthur Plans Texas Tour After Austin Speech
General Douglas MacArthur continues a six city Texas tour aboard a chartered Eastern Airlines Constellation. An estimated 500000 greeted his motorcade from Houston airport to downtown and the Shamrock Hotel where he spent the night. He will wreath WWI monuments in Galveston and receive a Cadillac from the Houston Elks Club. He criticizes officials for demobilizing at peak strength and warns that stalling the Korean War risks World War III. He calls for rapid, decisive end to Korea and laments perceived moral erosion and fear among leaders. He plans more stops in San Antonio and Dallas, with Fort Worth closing the tour.
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America
Macur
Eastern Airlines
Texas
Houston
Swank
Shamrock Hotel
Glenn McCarthy
MacArthur
Cadillac
Houston Elks Club
Galveston
Austin
Far Eastern Command
Manchuria
China
Formosa
Russia
H MacArthur
38Th Parallel
TNEHE
Amer Tica
Korea
MacArtthur
San Antonio
Dallas
Fort Worth
Dope in Schools Reveals Student Drug Trade Broad in City
Narcotics testimony described 16 to 21 year olds fueling drug use with robbery and prostitution to finance habits. An agent said random school buys let him obtain marijuana and heroin from pupils, including a buyer who entered a classroom with a dealer in Public School 52. At Boys High and a junior high, youths sold to a trusted pupil network during class hours. Three teen boys were arrested May 10. A 16-year-old testified via tape about sniffing heroin and smoking marijuana, with his 14-year-old brother involved in selling. All testimony has been recorded and names withheld.
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Joseph de Ambrose
de Ambrose
John
Public School 52
Bronx
Boys High School
Brooklyn
Boys High
New York narcotics inquiry hears shocking youth use details
Testimony in a three day NYC narcotics probe reveals children given marijuana cigarets free at first, later seduced into a habit. Buyers paid 75 cents per cigar, rising to 3 to 3.50 dollars as the habit grew. A former detention home inmate described smuggling drugs into the facility.
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New York City
de Ambrose
Nathaniel L. Goldstein
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Yugoslavia
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Pittsburgh
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Zagreb
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Tex
UPI
Ray Atterberry
North Texas State College
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Tokyo
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Germany
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