Rain Fills New York Reservoirs After Cloud Seeding
Rain fell across New York City and the Catskills for nearly a day as cloud seeding brought a two billion gallon partial runoff to reservoirs. In Manhattan, two empty elevated trains collided at South Ferry with no injuries reported. Medical tests probe a suburban woman's death in Depew.
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New York
New York City
Catskill Mountains
N.Y
South Ferry
Manhattan
Board of Transportation
Buffalo
Louise Wilkinson
Depew
Ellicott Creek
Rocco N. de Dominicis
Erie County
Long Island Rail Road
Pennsylvania Station
Lewis Meets Co-trustees on Mine Welfare Plan
John L. Lewis planned talks with co trustees of the United Mine Workers welfare fund to map a route for resuming pension and disability payments to miners and families. Sources said rising pensions to 125 dollars a month were considered unreasonable.
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Lewis
Mine Welfare Fund Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Welfare Fund
Evacuee Liner Heads for Hong Kong With 800 Aboard
The S. S. General Gordon sailed from Tientsin carrying 800 evacuees from Communist China, including 154 Americans mostly diplomatic staff, bound for Hong Kong and due to reach the British port midweek.
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Hong Kong
INS
S. 5
General Gordon
China
Tientsin
Notable Deaths Include Taft Sculptor Widow and Notables
An obituary list records the deaths of 80 year old Mrs. Ada Bartlett Taft widow of Lorado Taft in Greensboro North Carolina 63 year old Harry H H Robinson Cumberland News editor in Cumberland Maryland 53 year old Dr Frank Woidnholz radiologist at Stanford in San Francisco 83 year old Walter V Hutchinson British publisher and horse owner in Winchester England 36 year old Paul Becker dirt track racer and NRA official in Stanford Springs Connecticut 59 year old Col Frederic N Insinger retired banker aboard Nieuw Amsterdam en route to the Netherlands 46 year old Guy S Hyatt GE apparatus department comptroller in Schenectady ]]
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Lorado Taft
Greensboro
N. C
Harry HH. Robinson
The
Cumberland News
Cumberland
Frank Woindholz
Stanford University
School of Medicine
San Francisco
Edward H. Allen
Des Moines
Telephone Strike Ends After 15Hour Mediation
The nationwide walkout by 10 000 strikers in 43 states was halted at 1 A M after a 15 hour bargaining session with federal mediators. Division six of the C I O Communications Workers of America ordered members back to work as wage talks continue with Bell System parent American Telephone and Telegraph and Western Electric.
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New York
Bell
C.I.0
Communications Workers of America
Bell System
Western Electric Co
C.W.A
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Division Six
Ernest Weaver
Western Electric
C.W A
Joseph Beirne
NLRB Rejects Split of Kaiser Craft Units
The National Labor Relations Board refused to carve separate craft units at Kaiser permanent plants in Mead and Trentwood Washington. The ruling cites integration between maintenance and production in aluminum processing and reverses a prior Kaiser Reynolds Metals decision. AF of L unions and the Independent Machinists Union sought separate bargaining rights.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Henry J Kaiser
Permanent Corporation
United Steel Workers
Bellwood
Reynolds Metals Company
Reynolds
Kaiser
A.F.L
Machinists
Mead and Trentwood
Wash
Royal Navy Sent Mounts Bay To Aid Seized Incharran
The Royal Navy dispatched the frigate Mounts Bay to assist the British freighter Incharran after it was seized by Chinese Nationalists while en route from Hong Kong to Macao. The Incharran, carrying rice from Thailand, was intercepted by a Nationalist warship.
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Hong Kong
Royal Navy
Mounts Bay
Macao
Thailand
Yeggs Caught After Gas Pipe Break During Safe Job
New York police arrest Joseph Martinelli Jerry Cueco Joseph Bellavia and two lookouts Thomas O Keefe and Samuel Greenberg after a five hour safecracking attempt in a curio shop. A gas pipe burst as they entered and they fled clutching heads and stomachs before police seized all five. They face burglary and gun charges.
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New York
Joseph Martinelli
Jerry Cueco
Joseph Bellavia
Thomas O'Keefe
Samuel Greenberg
Martinelli
Cueco
Bellavia
O'Keefe
Greenberg
Soviet Army Vows Readiness at May Day Rally
Shtemenko on rostrum with Stalin denounces warmongers and mocks capitalist blocs. He proclaims the Soviet army and navy stand ready to defend the motherland, frontiers inviolable, and progress toward Communism as crisis looms for capitalist states. A ceremonial artillery salute closes the speech.
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Shtemenko
Stalin
Soviet Union
Greyhound Drivers Ratify New Pact
Central Greyhound Lines reports 1100 drivers and 900 maintenance workers approved a two year contract with the AFL Bus Drivers Union. The wage rise starts at 6.45 cents per mile in year one and adds a half cent per mile in year two. Maintenance workers gain two cents hourly in year one and one cent in year two. The pact covers operations in Ohio New York Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana Massachusetts and Illinois.
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Cleveland
Central Greyhound Lines
A.F.L. Bus Drivers’ Union
Central Greyhound
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Indiana
Massachusetts
Illinois
Hooded Gunmen Loot Home of Percy Miles
Three masked men broke into Percy Miles home last night, bound him and his wife, and fled with 3800 dollars in jewelry and 670 dollars in cash. Miles is brother of Marshall Miles, manager of former heavyweight champion Joe Louis.
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Buffalo
Percy Miles
Miles
Marshall Miles
Joe Louis
GOP Split Over Ending Spy Probe Amid McCarthy Fury
Washington Republicans show signs of debate on halting the inquiry into Senator McCarthy's Communist charges. Senate foes and allies discuss fast-tracking or ending the probe while McCarthy contends Lattimore and State Department policy faced major attacks. Lodges seeks closed hearings. McCarthy hints at further moves despite denials from Hull Byrnes Marshall and Acheson.
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Washington
Senate
McCarthy
Senator Tydings
D-Md
Freda Uutley
Wisconsin
Owen Lattimore
Miss Utley
Lattimore
America
State Department
Cordell Hull
James F. Byrnes
George C. Marshall
Dean Acheson
Hull
Byrnes
Edward Stetlinius
Phoenix
Ariz
Communist Party
Acheson
Jone Way
Sen. Lodge
R.-Mass
Louis F. Budenz
Lodge
Truman
Fog Grounds Planes at La Guardia
Rain and fog disrupted domestic air travel into and out of La Guardia Airport. Officials reported 82 flights cancelled, most on New York Boston and New York Washington routes.
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New York
la Guardia Field
Boston
Washington, D. C
Berlin Demonstrations Clash Across Front Line
Western demonstrators clash with East Zone police in Berlin as 750000 West Germans and 16000 Allied troops guard marches. East Berlin parades show Soviet backed force while Western crowds demand unity and free elections for Germany. White heat of tension marks a day of mass rallies and calls for end of Communist rule.
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East Zone
Ltrucks
West Berlin
Ernest Reuter
Berlin
Germany
Poland
Russia
East Berlin
Stalin
Thou
FDJ
Free Democratic Youth
Adolf Deter
Western Sector
Reichstag
Tiergarten
Christian Democratic
Jacob Kaiser
East
Two Americans Buried in Java After Slaying
Yale professor Raymond Kennedy and Time Life correspondent Robert Doyle were buried in Bandoeng Java after simple funeral services attended by several hundred Americans U S Embassy officials Indonesian and UN representatives. Police believe they were killed last Wednesday by four assassins on a lonely highway while traveling unarmed in Kennedy's jeep.
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Bandoeng
Java
Yale University
Raymond Kennedy
Time and Life
Robert Doyle
U. S
United Nations
Kennedy
Walkout by UP teletype workers shocks news service
Teletype operators and maintenance men at United Press walked out for higher wages. The AFL C.T.U. walkout affected 35 domestic bureaus and paused transmissions briefly. Union demanded 13 a week, lowered to 6.50, while UP offered 2.20.
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New York
United Press
News Service
AFL
Commercial Telegraphers Union
New York City
John Brucher
C.T.U. ‘Chapel
William N. Margolis
Federal’ Mediation Service
Jamies H. Neary
Iot.u.’S
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A.P.L. Building and Construction Trades Council
General Contracting Employers Association
Kingston
Democratic State Committee
Ulster
Tutchess
Greene
Columbia Counties
Paul E. Fitzpatrick
Catherine Friedt
Staten Island
William
Wellesley
Mass
Wellesley College
Tower Court
Pittsburgh
Tom Turner
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Westinghouse
Gwilym A. Price
Turner
Westinghouse Elevator
Jersey City
N. J
Isix Dib
Lebanon
Perrin Air Base
Sherman
Tex
Iear
Harriman IN
Frankfurt
W. ‘Averill Harriman
Europe
Economic Cooperation Administration
Paris
Harriman
John J. McCloy
Moscow
Idaho
Uss.s.r
Lenin
Politburo
U.S.R
Blackrushwe
England
Mrs. Ada Bartlett Taft
Paul Becker
National Racing Association
Stafford Springs
Conn
Walter V. Hutchinson
Winchester
Nellie A. Ogle
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green
Frederic N. Insinger
Tucson, Ariz
Nieuw Amsterdam
Netherlands
Guy S. Hyatt
General Electric Company
Schenectady
NLRB
Yeggs
Greyhound
Dax
Sumac
Ae i
Vy-Dry
Spence Dry Cleaners
Spy Probe
G.O.P
Tiergarten Park
Unter den Linden
East Germany
Lustgarten
Dr. Scholl
Nconvenients Payments
Wade
Fred Osborne
South
Salina
Jefferson ST
Auburn
Fulton, Oswego
Utica
Ithaca
Rome
Waillys
Willys
Boysen Motor Sales
Scott Ave
Rome, N. Y
Five Corners
Oneida, N. Y
Edmeston Supply CO
Edmeston
N. Y
JEEP
Cortland
J. Start Sases & Service
Tareville
Gill & Sons Sales & Service
Oneida St
Oneonta
Fred McManus
Albany
Gawern
Allen Rat Pulaski
Wallemens Service Center
Broad St
Carthore, NL
Downtown Motors
Mi State St
Watertown
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