Struck roads to run trains in face of walkouts
Chicago April 21. Two of the nation’s threatened railroad systems planned to keep trains running even if firemen walk off the job. Santa Fe said it would try to run trains with supervisory personnel. New York Central Michigan Central Ohio Central and Big Four also planned operation despite the strike. Pennsylvania and Southern officials would not say if they would operate.
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Chicago
Uu.p
Santa Fe
Big Western Road
New York Central
Michigan Central
Ohio Central
Big Four
Pennsylvania
Southern
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Reds Reject U S Protest Over Baltic Plane Incident
Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky says the plane was a B 29 and rejects U S demands for compensation after the Navy Privateer and its crew of ten are lost. Washington's protest is dismissed as unfounded while warnings are issued against unauthorized flights and repeated assurances are given that current demands are absurd.
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Thomas P. Whitney
Moscow
Russia
Washington
U.S
U.S. Navy
Latvia
Soviet Union
United States
Alan G. Kirk
Andre? Vishinsky
U. S
Baltic
Navy
Moscow Radio
Monitor
London
Want Ad Sells Water Heater For $40
A Terre Haute reader reports quick results from a one day Want Ad selling a water heater for forty dollars. The ad’s impact is highlighted during National Want Ad Week as proof of advertising effectiveness and immediate market response.
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Want Ad
Terre Haute
Spring Home Upgrades Boost Heating Demand
Spring weather accelerates home building and bathroom installation driving higher demand for heating facilities. Advertise in Want Ads to sell miscellaneous articles and earn extra cash. visit for ad advisor assistance.
Weather Summary from U S Weather Bureau
Weather notice lists sunrise and sunset times with a river gauge reading of 11.2 feet and indicates the river level is falling. Includes brief station header and forecast tone typical of a 6 Weather Bureau brief.
Local Conditions Report Highlights Mild Temperature
Yesterday reached a high of 51 degrees while last night plunged to 30. Precipitation was recorded as trace with calm conditions overall.
Forecast for Terre Haute and Indiana Regions
Fair and a little warmer tonight with Saturday sunshine and higher temperatures. In Terre Haute the low tonight should be around 38 degrees and the high on Saturday near 65. Across Indiana cool nights give way to generally fair and warmer days with frost possible in the northeast and temperatures from 33 to 36 north and east to 36 to 41 southwest tonight. Saturday highs range from about 60 to 65. The street thermometer readings show 33 at 6 am and 59 at 2 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Indiana
Soviet Demands Free Trieste Under UN Again
Moscow demands immediate withdrawal of 10,000 US and British troops from Trieste and the area be organized as a free territory under United Nations supervision. Russia urges liquidation of the alleged Anglo American naval base and immediate governor appointment under the UN mandate. US officials say troops stay legally until free territory is established, citing delays over a governor.
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Moscow
Russia
United States
Britain
Trieste
Adriatic
France
United Nations
U. S
Andrei Gromyko
Tass
Europe
Washington
Free Territory
Italy
Yugoslavia
Organization of the Free Territory
U. N. Security Council
Baltic Fisherman Finds Pilot's Jacket
A Swedish Air Force report says a fisherman found a yellow jacket believed to be American near 40 miles south of Stockholm in the Baltic. It may belong to one of 10 crewmen aboard a U.S. Naval patrol plane missing in the Baltic for two weeks, with search abandoned last weekend.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Baltic
U.S
Hulman Debuts English Jaguar At Terre Haute Station
Crowds gather at Terre Haute bus depot to view Anton Hulman’s new English Jaguar sport convertible. The low slim car, built in Coventry, reaches 132.6 mph on record, ships for Indianapolis 500 official transport, features a twin valve six horsepower, adjustable steering, aluminum body, and 6.00x16 tires.
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Anton Hulman
Jaguar
Jabbeke
Belgium
Terre Haute
Indianapolis Speedway
England
Indianapolis
Hulman
North Ninth Street
Jaguar Car Limited
Coventry
District Bar Meeting Opens In Terre Haute
Attorneys of the Sixth District arrive to register for the Indiana State Bar Association Law Institute at Hotel Deming. Lectures cover business formation and administrative law. A Missouri Plan panel debates judicial selection. Banquet planned at Terre Haute House with toastmaster Richard Ellis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Law
Terre Haute
Law Institute
Indiana State Bar Association
Hotel Deming
Lloyd C. Adamson
Vigor County Bar Association
Harold H. Bredell
Indianapolis
Administrative Procedure Act of
Indiana
Robert Hollowell, Jr
Terre Haute House
Richard Ellis
Kokomo
Ind
Hansford C. Mann
Thomas M. Patrick
Luke White
Howard C. McFaddin
Victor E. Aldridge Jr
Walter N. Haney
Ralph Waltz
James G. Hughes
John A. Kendall
Robert J. McPeak
A. A. Parr
Harold H. Wisehart
Forrest Wallace
Howard Miller
US Orders Czech Consulate in Chicago Closed by May First
The United States demanded the closure of the Czechoslovak consulate general in Chicago by May 1 in retaliation for Czech actions against USIS libraries and the Bratislava consulate. The note warned of serious consequences in bilateral relations and called for a review of Czech establishments in the United States.
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Chicago
Washington
United States
Czechoslovakia
U. S. Information Service
Bratislava
K. Lanner
State Department
Lanner
Dr. J. Letinsky
Mexico
USIS
Joseph C. Kolarek
Prague
U. S
New York City
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Heavy damage to peach crop across Wabash Valley
Warm weather confirmed near total peach losses in the Wabash Valley with about 90 percent damage from the late April freeze. Cherries also suffered 40 to 50 percent losses while apples plums and pears saw light damage per Emery Mauk Terre Haute Agricultural Conservation Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash Valley
United States Weather Bureau
Hulman
Emery Mauk
Terre Haute
The
Agricultural Conservation Association
Absent Voters Apply and Learn County Voting Machines
Vigo County announces machine locations in public sites and outlying centers. Demonstrations are led by League of Women Voters volunteers under county officials with sessions from April 24 to April 29. Two machines stay in the courthouse corridors until April 29 for public instruction.
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Terre Haute
Vigo County
South Seventh Street
League of Women Voters
Adam Bessole
League
Man Hunter Seized After Ten Year Fugitive Record
Charles F. Tucker, 59, an Indianapolis insurance agent, arrested in Russell Kentucky after ten years on a $300,000 annuity swindle. He used alias Lee Byrd, lived 18 months in Russell, and faced charges of defrauding 100 widows and retired teachers with forged contracts. He awaits removal to Indianapolis in federal custody.
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Russell, Ky
Charles F. Tucker
Indianapolis
Ezra Williams
Tucker
W. W. McBroom
Ohio River
Williams
U.S
C. Guthrie Yager
Ashland
Lee Byrd
Protective Collection Agency of
Kansas City
Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada
Boys confess killing miner and robbery in Peoria
Two boys Jimmy Chatman nine and Donald Simmons fourteen confessed to killing Ben Pannier sixty two and robbing him of forty to forty five dollars to fund a trip to Chicago. They seized at a bus station seeking Chicago tickets. Police recovered the getaway car later found abandoned on a highway.
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Peoria
U.P
Chicago
Jimmy Chatman
Donald Simmons
Jimmy
Donald
Glen Stranz
Ben Pannier
Pannier
Sikhs Turned Back at Amritsar Refugee Zone
Troops and police repelled an assault by Sikh tribesmen near Amritsar as they tried to invade land reserved for refugees. Eight Sikhs were reported killed in the clash.
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New Delhi
India
Amritsar
No Orders Here On Strike Threat
Local rail officials in Terre Haute reported no orders received about a possible strike by the National Brotherhood of Railway Firemen. E M Bowers said he had no notice, while Morris Harris was unavailable. If a strike occurs only Pennsylvania and New York Central would be affected locally. Milwaukee and C&E 1 would not strike.
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National Brotherhood of Railway Firemen
Terre Haute
E. M. Bowers
Monarch Lodge 877
Brotherhood of Railway Firemen
Morris Harris
Vigo Lodge No. 16
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Milwaukee
C.&e.1
Clinton Navy Man Killed in Patuxent Crash
Maynard H. Campbell RM 1 C 26 of the United States Navy died Thursday afternoon in an auto-truck crash at Patuxent River Naval Air Base Maryland. He served eight years including five in the South Pacific. Survived by wife Valerie Vanderhoff parents Mr and Mrs S H Campbell two brothers Charles Ray and Robert James and sister Sally Kay. Funeral at Robinson Funeral Home Leonardtown Md 10 am Sunday burial Arlington National Cemetery.
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Maynard H. Campbell
United States Navy
Patuxent River Naval Air Base
Maryland
S. H. Campbell
South Eighth Street
Clinton
Ind
Tribune-Star Publishing Company
Seaman Campbell
South Pacific
Gerstmeyer Technical High School
Valerie Vanderhoff
Hamburg
N. Y
Charles Ray
Robert James
Sally Kay
Robinson Funeral Home
Leonardtown
Clock Switching Begins as Daylight Saving Time Returns
About 50 million Americans will set clocks one hour forward on April 30 signaling the start of Daylight Saving Time. Roughly 90 million rural residents in the south, midwest, and far west will not observe the change, while industrial regions and large cities adopt the faster time. The idea traces to Benjamin Franklin and was first tried in World War I.
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New York
South
Midwest
Far West
Benjamin Franklin
United States
Levite
Shideler
Indiana
Indianapolis
U.S. Highway 40
U. S. 40
Truman Asks Rent Control Extension
President Truman urged Congress to extend rent controls past June 30 to mid-1951. He warned that ending controls would trigger higher rents, reduce purchasing power, raise public assistance costs, and worsen employment as the wartime housing shortage persists. Senate hearings on extension open Monday with Tighe Woods as main witness.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Mr. Truman
Senate Banking Committee
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
White House
Terre Haute Retailers Back Daylight Saving Time Move
The Terre Haute Retail Merchants Division voted unanimously to observe daylight saving time from 2 a.m. April 30 to 2 a.m. October 1, putting the city on daylight time for the first time in three years. The decision followed input from C L Shideler and support from the Central Labor Union and regional industries.
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Terre Haute
Retail Merchants Division
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants Division
C. L. Shideler
Central Labor Union
United Mine Workers
Salo Levite
Mets
The
Shideler
Coast Ship Union Settles Dispute
Settlement of a dispute threatening a group of shipping on the East and Gulf coasts was announced after 19 hours of negotiations between 40 shipping concerns and the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots. The strike had threatened to idle about 300000 seagoing and waterfront workers. Details of the settlement were not released.
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New York
Gulf
A.F.L. Masters, Mates and Pilots Association
Clyde M. Mills
Cyrus Ching
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Loss of Hainan Would Be Bitter Blow To Chinese Nationalists
AP analysis argues the battle for Hainan Island between nationalists and communists is intense. The piece notes Hainan’s strategic value, its resources, and impact on prestige and support for both sides as Chiang Kai-shek fortifies Formosa and Chusan.
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Hainan
Hainan Island
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Chusan
Bay
Hangchow
Shanghia
House panel cuts federal excise taxes on jewelry furs watches
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to cut excise taxes by 250 million dollars covering furs jewelry cosmetics and other items raising total cuts to 335 million over two days. Jewelry tax drops from 20 to 10 percent and watches under 65 and alarm clocks under 5 are exempt. Furs fall to 10 percent and most toilet preparations to 10 percent.
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Washington
U.P
House
Ways and Means
Truman
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Sey
REDS
U. 6 Weather Bureau
Carl J. Goff
Action
Coast Ship Union
DeWitt MacKenzie
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