700 A-C Construction Men Laid Off Over Union Talks
The Allis-Chalmers Terre Haute plant construction laid off 700 workers amid a looming strike at the pilot plant. Mayor Ralph Tucker seeks mediation with UAW Local 1164 as talks hinge on contract terms. Air Force removal of 194 machine tools threatens production of jet engine components, complicating a potential restart by Monday.
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Austin Company
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
North Thirteenth Street
Allis- Chalmers
Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute
Ralph Tucker
Citizens’ Committee
Martin L. Carson
AC Terre Haute
Air Force
Air Force Pool
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Allis-Chalmers
Buick
Oldsmobile
General Motors Corporation
Wright Aeronautical
General Motors
Europe
C.I.0
United Automobile Workers
Red Men’s Hall
North Twelfth Street
Citizens Committee
A.F. of L. Building Trades
A-C
Control Of Three Strategic Hills Is Kept By U.N. Force
Fresh American and Filipino infantry replacements repelled the largest Communist assault of the year west of Chorwon in a six hour battle for control of three strategic hills. More than 400 Chinese killed or wounded as the 179th Regiment of the U.S. 45th Division and the Philippine 19th Battalion combat team held the heights. American Sabre Jets claimed a MiG-15 over Pyongyang while U.N. troops fought hand to hand, bayo nets, and grenades as US bombers pounded enemy concentrations.
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Seoul
Korea
U.P
Chorwon
U.S
Pyongyang
Jonn W
Mike O’daniel
1St Army Corps
45Th
United Nations
Weather Forecast and River Stage Update
Cloudy with showers in the morning. Temperatures range from a low around 65 to a high near 82. Sunrise at 5 23, sunset at 8 20. River stage reads 9.3 feet and is falling.
Local Weather Highlights From Yesterday
Local conditions report yesterday shows a high temperature near 63 degrees, a low around 63, and measurable precipitation totaling .57 inches. Humidity averaged .58, indicating damp conditions across the day.
Weather Outlook for Terre Haute and Indiana
Cloudy skies with showers and thundershowers tonight and Sunday. Low around 65 tonight, high Sunday near 82. Indiana forecast shows showers mainly in the southwest Saturday night into Sunday, with little temperature change. Highs range from 55 in the north to 65 in the south Saturday night, 70 to 75 north and 86 to 90 south on Sunday. Street thermometer readings: 66 at dawn, 83 at 2 PM.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Ghia River
Two Die In Windstorm Across Hoosier Kentuckian Areas
A Friday night wind, rain and lightning across southwestern Indiana and nearby Illinois Kentucky left one man electrocuted in Darmstadt Indiana and another fatally injured in Henderson Kentucky. Ed Purtzer said rural electric service disrupted in Perry Spencer and Warrick counties with restoration due today.
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Associated Press
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
C.C.T
James Grant
Darmstadt
Evansville
Boney Sanders
Henderson
Ed Purtzer
Tell City
Southern Indiana Rural Electric Co
Perry
Spencer
Warrick
Carmi
Ill
Mt. Carmel
Weather Bureau
Ohio River
India to mediate Korea armistice reps dispute
New Delhi June 21 India offered to help break the Korea armistice deadlock over repatriation of prisoners Premier Jawaharlal Nehru said India could mediate since it is friendly with all sides in the UN and Communist camps He added India would go all out to find a solution the repatriation issue is the sole blockage to an armistice.
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New Delhi
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
United Nations
Korea
Envoy returns to Karachi after talks in Washington
Ambassador Avra Warren, the U.S. envoy to Pakistan, arrived in Karachi on June 21 after returning from Washington where he met with State Department officials for consultations.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Avra Warren
U.S
Washington
State Department
Taft Ike fight flares in Republican nominating race
The Taft Eisenhower contest for GOP delegates heats up with taunts over solid defenses and a punchy speech plan. Eisenhower shifts from polite campaigning as Taft questions breakthrough momentum. AP tally shows Taft 467 to Eisenhower 392 of 604 needed for Chicago nomination.
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Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Texas
Nevada
G.O.P
Ohio
Sen
Robert Taft
Washington
Eisenhower
Chicago
Taft
Associated Press
State Dept To Refuse Visa To Lattimore
The State Department ordered customs exits barred to Johns Hopkins professor Owen Lattimore while it investigates an alleged plan to visit the Soviet bloc. McCarthy critics had branded him a Red spy. Lattimore denied ties to Communism. The action, disclosed after a day of no comment, halted possible exit pending the inquiry.
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Washington
State Department
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
Joseph McCarthy
R.wis
Senate
McCarthy
Truman
Institute of Pacific Relations
U.S
Baltimore Sun
United States
Department
U.S.S.R
Customs Bureau
U N Sponsored Inquiry Sought Over Germ War Charges
United States asks the United Nations Security Council for a U N sponsored probe into Soviet germ warfare charges. Russia could veto or China and North Korea could bar entry, risking a political setback for the allies. The plan makes Red Cross involvement a key condition, spurring Soviet opposition.
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United Nations
United States
Russia
U.N
U.N. Security Council
Council
China
North Korea
Aue«esia
Tank explosion rattles Valley Stream youths in dare
In Valley Stream New York two 11 year old boys ignited a fire cracker inside a one ton 2000 gallon gasoline tank stored under a trestle. The blast lifted the tank twisted it around a steel beam and burned the boys Carl Heather and Robert Muhr.
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Valley Stream
N. Y
Carl Heather
Robert Muhr
Desperate convicts escape island prison in Brazil
Troops, air force planes and boats rushed to assist three coastal towns in southern Brazil after 400 inmates seized weapons at Anchieta Island Prison and escaped to the mainland. A warden was killed, guards injured, and 16 prisoners captured near Ubatuba as authorities hunted the fugitives.
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Rio DE Janfiro
Anchieta Island
Brazil
Ubatuba
Sao Vicente
Caraguatuba
Sao Paulo
House Votes To End Controls On Commodities
The House tentatively voted to lift price controls on most consumer goods and overhaul the Wage Stabilization Board. The vote, 146 to 88, advances a provision urging President Truman to invoke Taft Hartley injunctions in the steel strike while administration factional split and absences weaken support. The measure mirrors a Senate version and faces further action next Wednesday.
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Washington
House
Wage Stabilization Board
Truman
Senate
Talle
Riowa
Polish fire team named in new Marines outfit
June 21 Korea report notes Pfc. Michael Lewandowski asking about Polish comrades. His squad leader confirms the unit includes five men in a fire team: Cpl. Thaddeus Garbowski and Privates First Class Sylvester Jaworski Joe Piorkowski and Joseph Burzynski.
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Korea
Michael Lewandowski
Cpl
Thaddeus Garbowski
Sylvester Jaworski
Joe Piorkowski
Joseph Burzynski
Schricker Enters Indiana Senate Race. Democratic Nomination Seen
Indiana Governor Henry F. Schricker announces he will seek the U S Senate seat held by William Jenner, saying he will run if delegates at the Democratic state convention nominate him. He plans to pay the $1200 assessment before Monday’s filing deadline and expects a formal nomination.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Henry F. Schricker
United States Senate
William E. Jenner
Indiana
Jenner
Schricker
Democratic Party
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Schricker Said That Politics Was Not Discussed, Adding That Gov. Stevenson
Stevenson
Russia Favors Repatriation, Nam is Told
MUNSAN Korea June 21 United Nations truce negotiators told the Communists that Russia favored voluntary repatriation of prisoners from World War I. The stalemate in armistice talks stems from Communist demands for all Allied-held prisoners, even those unwilling to return. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison noted contempt for any nation supporting no forced repatriation. The Allied negotiator warned that the Soviet Union had previously used this principle.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Russia
William K. Harrison
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Interstate Commerce Commission suspends order on free pickup service
Terre Haute railroads were notified that the ICC has suspended the order abolishing free pickup and delivery for less than carload lots and that the service will continue until Sept 1. The decision impacts numerous Terre Haute industries merchants and general shippers by rail.
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Terre Haute
Interstate Commerce Commission
Assistant Treasurer of U S Visits City on Hoosier Honesty
Mrs Maybell Kennedy the assistant treasurer of the United States visited Brazil Indiana and Terre Haute. She recalled losing and recovering a purse containing a large sum of money at Albright's Service Station praising local honesty. She plans to spend a month in Pawhuska Oklahoma before attending the democratic national convention in Chicago.
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United States
Maybell@ Kennedy
Brazil
Indiana
Terre Haute House
Kennedy
Tribune
Albright
Terre Haute
Don Bolt
Pawhuska
Okla
Chicago
Ireland
Truman
Federal Reserve
Pigs Flight To Korea For Livestock Aid Operation Pig Lift
A DC-4 carries 200 pigs and goats toward Korea as part of a United Nations effort to rebuild Korea's ravaged livestock. Gen Hinds of UN Korea Reconstruction Agency thanks farmers, while volunteers load crates on the rain soaked airfield. Captain Hohag and co pilot Smith anticipate a smelly but hopeful journey.
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Des Moines
Korea
Pacific
United Nations
Bill Woods
Daniel Dunn
Catholic Rural Life Conference
Woods
Earl Hohag
Edwin J. Smith
Minneapolis
Smith
Prize Guernsey Cow Real Milk Producer
A registered Guernsey cow Sandcut King’s Madam owned by Raymond Stultz & Son Sandcut Guernsey Farm Terre Haute produced 8226 pounds of milk and 418 pounds of butterfat during 297 days. Madam, a junior three year old, is daughter of sire Kenfluer’s King d’Or, with six daughters in the ARCC performance register. Record supervised by Purdue University.
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Guernsey
Raymond Stultz & Son
Sandcut
Guernsey Farm
Terre Haute
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Kenfluer
Purdue University
CAP MANEUVERS CALL AUXILIARIES TO REPORT
Call to all auxiliary firemen and policemen to report to Paul Cox Airport Sunday morning for a state wide Civil Air Patrol mock search and rescue mission directed from the airport. Capt John K Lamb civil defense director says volunteers report at 10 AM to assist with traffic and duties. Civil defense helmets will be issued. Private pilots from across the state will fly to Terre Haute for the mission.
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Paul Cox
Civil Air Patrol
John K. Lamb
Civil Defense
Terre Haute
Steel Cleared for Jet Engine Parts Movement
Two truckloads of steel totaling 19 tons from Inland Steel Co at Indiana Harbor Works have been cleared by the union for shipment to Armstrong Furnace Co in Columbus Ohio. Joseph Jeneske of the United Steelworkers said pickets will permit the move despite the strikebound plant.
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Chicago
Ind
Indiana Harbor Works of Inland Steel Co
Joseph Jeneske
C.I.C. United Steelworkers
Armstrong Furnace Co
Columbus
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