Long Lines Workers Cross Picket Lines in Empire State
Large groups of ATandT long distance workers crossed picket lines to reach their jobs today on orders from the union executive committee. In New York Life Magazine and the New York Times secured U S publication rights for Winston Churchill wartime memoirs, with a price reported above 1 million dollars. The Dun and Bradstreet food index stood at 6 for May 13 unchanged from a week earlier. William Z Foster, U S Communist Party chairman, criticized President Truman as a “little man” with imperialist aims during a rally in New York. The body of 12 year old Lawrence Hirsch was identified in Allegany River after three weeks missing.
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Joseph F. Hirsch, Jr
Legion Rounds Up West Point Annapolis Candidates
American Legion posts began rounding up candidates for West Point and Annapolis for next year. Each academy will have 25 openings for sons of deceased war veterans, filled by presidential appointment. In Boston, Dr James H S Bossard linked rising divorce to Hollywood driven marriage fashions. New England woolen mills idle with 7,000 workers laid off, but hope for better times ahead. The AFL Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks admitted Negroes, removing the white requirement. Detroit Free Press notes many 1947 cars, some driven little, sold for up to 3000 dollars, most around 500.
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Dewey to Visit Mother During Governors Conference
Gov Thomas E Dewey plans a trip to Salt Lake City for the governors conference in July. He will visit his mother Mrs George M Dewey in Owosso Michigan and his wife's parents Mr and Mrs O T Hutt of Sapulpa Oklahoma. An itinerary is not yet set and dates remain to be determined for these visits.
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Viceroy Mountbatten Recalled for India Parleys
London reports the British government recalls Viscount Mountbatten, Viceroy of India, for consultations on India's transfer of power. He will return briefly and head back to New Delhi by June 2 to resume negotiations on independence. The move signals imminent changes in colonial governance.
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Death notices for four prominent artists and scientists
John D. Smeraldi aged 79 a mural artist and furniture designer died in New York City. Charles M. Shipman 73 a naturalist conservationist and ornithologist died in Cleveland. Ernest D. Hey 72 a retired executive who served in World Wars and worked on relief commissions as a food expert died in New Canaan Connecticut. Stan Istlaw K Ostrowsky 66 a Polish sculptor famed in Europe and America died in New York City.
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Food Poisoning Sickens 29 at Louisville Plant
Twenty nine employees of National Distillers Products Corporation in Louisville fell ill from suspected food poisoning after lunch in the cafeteria. All but one were hospitalized, with conditions and exact causes under investigation by local health authorities.
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Truck Rules Aid Parking in New York Cities
Albany NY Twenty seven of New Yorks sixty two cities have adopted truck loading and unloading regulations to ease traffic and parking problems State Senator Thomas C Desmond said more cities plan similar controls Measures in use include loading zones time limits off street loading space and truck unloading terminals He is examining state legislation to grant partial temporary tax exemptions for building owners to alter property to provide subsurface or ground floor loading space
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Industry Blamed For Car Layoffs
A United Auto Workers official blamed industry executives for irresponsible planning causing a steel shortage and auto plant shutdowns. Richard T. Leonard, vice president and national Ford director, said union members are bearing the penalties of layoffs and unemployment.
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Leverhulme Urges Tariff Cuts to Aid World Trade
Viscount Leverhulme, head of Lever Brothers and Unilever, warned in a London speech that world trade would remain bleak unless the United States lowers tariffs. He urged payment in goods and services by creditors and called for freedom of movement as essential to trade expansion at a Liberal Party businessmen’s conference.
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