Nationwide telephone strike postponed but equipment workers strike continues
A national Bell system strike was postponed edging toward normal service. About 21,000 long lines workers may gain wage increases, while 10,000 equipment workers keep their walkout. CIO CWA chief Beirne cited wage talks progress. no pickets unless authorized. Negotiations via federal mediators continue.
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New York
Bell
Joseph A. Beirne
CIO Communications Workers of America
Bierne
Division 10
CWA
Long Lines
Robert T. Creasey
Creasey
Beirne
Equipment Workers Union
Earnest Weaver
CWA Equipment Workers Union
Western Electric Company
Bell System
Western Electric
Weaver
Czech Defense Chief Replaced in Cabinet Shakeup
In Prague Gen Ludvik Svoboda was replaced as defense minister by Alexei Cepicka. Svoboda becomes deputy premier and head of the state office for physical culture and sport. Cepicka also takes over as minister of church affairs with Fierlinger named to lead that portfolio. Stefan Vais becomes minister of justice.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Ludvik Svoboda
Alexei Bicka
Cepicka
Klement Gottwald
CTK
Svoboda
Russia
Communist Party
Gottwald
Obrana Lida
United States
Zdenek Fierlinger
Stefan Vais
Flood Sectors Lashed by Spring Storm
A spring storm battered flood areas in North Dakota and Minnesota with heavy snow and high winds, leaving 6500 homes homeless and threatening new floods as rivers swell. Snow covered northern Wisconsin while flooding spread into Iowa Nebraska Indiana Illinois, with levee breaches and evacuations in progress.
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Chicago
U.P
North Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Indiana
Illinois
Duluth
Minn
Superior
Wis
Grand Forks
N. D
Great Plains
Kansas
Missouri
South Sioux City
Neb
Highway 75
Blencoe
Mississippi
Keokuk
Flyers Honored in Baltic Attack DFC Awards
Washington reports the Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded Tuesday to 10 United States airmen lost in what the country calls a Russian attack on their unarmed plane over the Baltic.
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Washington
United States
Baltic
Senate subpoenas issued for big gamblers in probe
Senate crime investigators issued subpoenas for Joe Adonis and Frank Erickson to learn how bookmaking and racetrack information reaches bookies. The McFarland subcommittee will focus on gambling operations and may question Betting Commissioner James Carroll. Adonis is ill in Hot Springs Arkansas, delaying service. The panel weighs a bill to ban interstate gambling data transmission and require delay before radio race results.
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Washington
U.R
Senate
Joe Adonis
Frank Erickson
Ernest W. McFarland
Dariz
Senate Commerce
Adonis
Erickson
McFarland
James J. Carroll
St. Louis
United States
New York
Hot Springs
Ark
Army to field high altitude anti aircraft weapons
General J Lawton Collins announced the army will soon deploy weapons to shoot down planes twelve miles high. He cited advanced rockets capable of destroying aircraft above 60 000 feet and a guided missile offering longer range and greater accuracy.
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Washington
Army
Arrest of AP and Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondents
Dis patches report the arrest in Bucharest on Tuesday of Leonard Kirschen an Associated Press correspondent and Marcel Pohne of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Two of five Romanians on trial for espionage testified the correspondents were informants for American and British official information services
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London
Dispatches
Bucharest
Leonard Kirschen
Associated Press
Marcel Pohne
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Baby found thriving in home-made incubator after kidnapping
A premature Bronx baby snatched from Lincoln Hospital nearly a month ago was found alive in a storeroom nursery at a midtown hotel. The accused kidnapper, an 18-year-old Negro chambermaid, cared for Chaneta Holden with a makeshift incubator while the mother, Mrs. Evelyn Jane Jordan, faced heartbreak over twins' deaths.
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New York
Bronx
Tiny Chaneta Holden
Lincoln Hospital
Chaneta
Evelyn Jane Jordan
Manhattan
Leaders of Copper Industry Laud Chilean President
At a New York luncheon, copper industry leaders praised President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile and outlined four conditions for Truman’s Point Four aid to underdeveloped nations. C D Dallas of Revere Copper and Brass cited capital exit rights, protection of life and property, fair nondiscriminatory taxes, and equal ownership rights as essential. He lauded Chile’s pro democracy stance and noted its foreign investment protections. Cornelius F. Kelley of Anaconda Copper introduced Gonzalez Videla.
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New York
U.P
Truman
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla
Chile
C. D. Dallas
Revere Copper and Brass, Inc
Dallas
Gonzalez Videla
Wipes Out Reds in Korea After Border Guerrillas
U S general commends South Korea army and police for clearing guerrilla bands. Defense ministry reports the last of 700 guerrillas who crossed the border in March have been killed or captured. Brig Gen William L Roberts notes normal conditions and advisers moving freely for six months.
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Seoul
United States
South Korea
Defense Ministry
William L. Roberts
Korea
Montana highway contracts total about 1.78 million dollars
The Montana highway commission awarded 14 road and bridge contracts totaling about 1,780,000 dollars to bidders including McLaughlin company Great Falls Keily Construction Butte and Peter Kiewit Sons Sheridan Wy. The board also accepted resignations of Myles J. Thomas and W O Whipps effective May 1 after prior hearings with Gov Bonner and named new appointees to the commission. Bids for road and bridge work are set to open May 26.
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Helena
Montana Highway Commission
McLaughlin Company
Great Falls
Forsyth West
Forsyth-Miles City Road
Walter Mackin and Sons
Billings
Keily Construction Company
Butte
St. Ignatius-Pablo
Keily Company
Stanley Arkwright
Roundup North
Union Construction
Missoula
Missoula-Clinton
O’brien Company
Eureka-Roosville
Lou Richardson
Miles City
Ingomar-Canada
Charles Shannon
Jackson- Dillon
Charles B. Snyder
Seal Coat
Manhattan South
H. F. Emme Company
Rapid City
S. D
Wyoming Line
Broadus
Union Company
Hot Springs
Albert LaLonde
Sidney
Myles J. Thomas
W. O. Whipps
Montana Examiners Board
Thomas
Whipps
John W. Bonner
Bonner
Whipp
Highway Department
Lee Ford
A. W. Heidel
H. H. Kincaid
Walter Bolkovatz
Anaconda
T. W. Elliott
Kalispell
Harry Soderberg
Havre
John R. Graham
Red Lodge
Nels N. Bach
Business Sees Continued High Sales in 1950
The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that business as a whole expects sales to stay high in 1950, at least at 1949 levels. Within groups, manufacturing, electric and gas utilities anticipate modest gains, while trade and transportation firms excluding railroads expect slight declines.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Department
Legality of Slot Machines Argued in Court
In Helena on April 25 the Montana Supreme Court heard arguments on whether state license fees make slot machines legal and if a slot machine constitutes a lottery. The session included a Billings case where eight machines were seized and Engle and Gibb faced charges of illegal gambling equipment.
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Helena
Montana Supreme Court
Albert Thomas
Billings
Ross Engle
John Gibb
Guy C. Derry
Engle
Gibb
Horace S. Davis
Davis
Economic Pressure May Be Used to Make Mexico Yield
The State department considers possible economic pressure against Mexico to back its protest over the seizure of five American shrimp vessels off the Gulf coast. Ambassador Thurston filed the protest in Mexico City, asking for an explanation, while officials hint at broader measures tied to Mexico’s shrimp exports and a $1.25 million loan request.
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Washington
State Department
Mexico
Gulf Coast
Mexico City
Walter Thurston
Foreign Office
Professor Kills College Proxy Instructor Self in Neb
In Peru Nebraska on Tuesday psychology professor Dr. B K Baker killed two college leaders Dr William L Nicholas 48 president and Dr Paul A Maxwell 56 head of education then killed himself. County Attorney Pred C Kiechel found Bakers body near his home with a note saying Willie tried to fire the wrong person. The two slain men sat at their desks when shot, and Baker who taught psychology under Maxwell also died. No inquest planned and this was ruled premeditated murder with the killer’s self-inflicted death. The professor’s firing had been anticipated with a department reorganization not public knowledge read in the new fall catalog.
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Peru, Neb
Peru State Teachers College
Pred C. Kiechel
Willie
William L. Nicholas
Paul A. Maxwell
Southeastern Nebraska School’s Department of Education
B. K. Baker
Maxwell
Riechel
Dr. Baker
Rail talks set to open in Chicago Thursday
Washington April 25 New conferences to settle a labor dispute threatening a four-railroad strike will begin Thursday in Chicago. The strike was postponed to May 10 under a truce sponsored by Francis A O Neill Jr chairman of the national mediation board. The talks involve the carriers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen over adding a fireman to Diessel locomotives now run by an engineer and one fireman.
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Washington
Chicago
Francis A. O'Neill, Jr
National Mediation Board
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood
Diessel
Evidence of Baltic Plane Crash Wheel Found
Swedish fishermen retrieved a wheel from a Baltic Sea airplane with bullet holes. Customs suspects it came from an American Navy plane missing since April 8 and shot down by Russians over open sea. The wheel was turned in at Burgsvik on Gotland island near Sweden.
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Stockholm
Sweden
U.P
Baltic Sea
United States
Burgsvik
Gotland
Russia
British Labor Faces Crucial Votes in Parliament
London April 25 The nine Liberal members decided to oppose the government in two life or death votes Wednesday threatening Prime Minister Attlee's Labor government with resignation if defeated. The rallying issues are the gasoline tax and the new purchase tax on trucks. Labor holds 311 seats versus 305 for Conservatives and Liberals, with several Labor MPs absent and a couple of Churchill Conservatives possibly missing. If full strength is present, Labor would win 305 to 303. small disruptions could alter the outcome.
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London
House of Commons
Attlee
Labor Party
British Press Association
Winston Churchill
Labor
Hainan Falls to Red China as Formosa Invasion Readies
AP reports that most of Hainan was overrun by Chinese Communist forces with guerrillas near Yulin and Nationalist leaders heading to Formosa. Peiping broadcasts claim lessons from Hainan amphibious operation and pledge to hasten Taiwan liberation.
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Hainan
Red China Army
Taipei
Formosa
Yulin
South China
Peiping
Shanghai
Red Third Field Army
China
Taiwan
Red Radio
Associated Press
San Francisco
Butte Weather Forecast Across Districts
Partly cloudy Wednesday with scattered showers and little temperature change. Highs range 32 to 55 across divisions. School of Mines and Airport see 48 as maximum, lows near 20s to 23. Northwest winds bring light snow west of Divide. east of Divide remains cloudy with colder conditions.
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School of Mines
Divide
McCarthy Alleges Proher Identified in State Dept
Senator McCarthy said Louis Budenz named a State Department official as a Communist and gave a police record holder with a sensitive CIA post as a homosexual. Wherry predicted more resignations as the committee pursued Lattimore testimony and subpoenaed Browder and Stachel.
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Washington
McCarthy
Senate
Louis F. Budenz
State Department
Tydings
D-Md
Central Intelligence Agency
Wherry
R-Neb
Owen Lattimore
Bella V. Dodd
Lattimore
Budenz
Red
L Lattimore
Earl Browder
Communist Party
United States
Jack Stachel
Stachel
Browder
Northern Montana College President Dismissal Dispute
Havre dispatch reports G H Vande Bogart, dismissed Northern Montana College president, says he cooperated though Chancellor Selke and the state board claim otherwise. He cites bond issue allocations and a court fight over a $5 million construction fund as central issues.
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Havre
G. H. Vande Bogart
Northern Montana College
State Education Board
Vande Bogart
G. A. Selke
Helena
Selke
Executive Council
State Board of Education
Federal Hospital Building Fund Increase Is Voted
The House voted 125 to 66 to raise the federal hospital construction program to 150 million dollars for the 1951 fiscal year starting July 1. President Truman had urged the full amount, but the appropriations committee cut it in half. The panel refused a further 25 million cash allotment to cover existing contractual authorization. The bill also provides 100 million cash for that purpose as part of a 29 billion package.
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Washington
House
Truman
Appropriations Committee
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Red River Rampage
Red River
Grand Cath
British Labor Party
Montana
Utotha
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