Broadway Limited Grazes Derailed Car After Crash
In Harrisburg area a Broadway Limited passenger train grazed a derailed freight car near Duncan non causing seven injuries and delaying four trains. Engineer Sensor sustained a leg injury, a mail clerk and a woman passenger were hurt, and the wreck halted main line tracks for hours before service resumed.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Duncannon
Here
William T. Sensor
Juniata
Sensor
H. G. Coyle
Limited
Coyle
Deisel
Susquehanna River
Spirit of St. Louis
Jeffersonian
Pennsylvania Limited
Admiral
Broadway Limited
Blockade Ordered Against South Moluccas by Indonesia
Indonesia ordered a total sea and air blockade of the South Moluccas and threatened troop landings if the self declared republic does not make peace moves immediately.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Ins
South Moluccas
Chrysler Pact OK'd by UAW After 100 Day Strike
Chrysler workers voted overwhelmingly to approve the UAW Chrysler contract ending a 100 day strike. Early returns showed strong union support at 27 halls as the deal, signed by company and union on Thursday, includes $100 a month pensions plus social security and other benefits.
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Detroit CP
Chrysler
CLCO
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corp
Harvester Strike Plans Cancelled
The Farm Equipment United Electrical Workers (Ind.) called off plans for a strike set for May 9 at 11 International Harvester plants in four states. The union claims to represent 40,000 production workers at Harvester Plants in Chicago Rock Island East Moline Rock Falls Canton Louisville Richmond and Auburn.
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Chicago
United Electrical Workers
Ind
International Harvester
Rock Island
East Moline
Rock Falls
Canton
Ill
Louisville
Richmond
Auburn
N. Y
Truman Allocates New Flood Relief Funds
President Truman authorized additional emergency funds for flood areas in North Dakota and Minnesota. The exact amount will be set in the coming days.
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Washington
INS
Truman
North Dakota
Minnesota
House Votes Cut in Next VA Budget
The House tentatively approves a 5.802 billion dollar VA budget for the next fiscal year as part of an 8.535 billion dollar independent offices package. Truman requested about 6.008 billion and the current year VA funding is 6.331 billion. One lawmaker proposed a 50 million increase for veterans hospitals but was defeated.
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Washington
House
Veterans' Administration
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Allen
D-La
Bbig
Atomic Energy Commission
Appropriations Committee
Budget Bureau
Public Housing Administration
Maritime Commission
National Defense
Army Engineers
Bishop Holt Marries Southern Belle Then Heads to Europe
Montreal report notes Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt age 74, who wed 87 year old widow Mrs. H. A. Carthers of Winder Georgia on March 27. Holt, who once presided over Alben W. Barkley’s 1949 marriage, sails for Europe with wife for a trip Holt calls partly pleasure and partly business. He is to become president of
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Montreal
Ivan Lee Holt
St. Louis
Alben W. Barkley
United States
Europe
Holt
Barkley
H. A. Carthers
Winder
Bishop Holt
World Methodist Conference at Oxford 1951 Plans
The Oxford venue hosts the World Methodist Conference in 1951 as preparations continue. Key organizer works to finalize arrangements for the gathering in England.
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Oxford
England
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Scholls
S. Warren ST
America
Strickland Motors, Inc
Genesee Street
Syracuse 4
Pontiac
Illingworth-Bailey Corp
Genesee St
Syracuse 2, N. Y
Syra
Oswego
Utica
Watertown
Renee Bugs
Warren ST
Syracuse Trusts
Bath & Radio
Empire State
Radio City Music Hall
N.B.C
Radio & Television
Roy Moulton
Pccaouilly
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