Steel Seizure Hearings Open Today
Senator Edward Martin declares the Presidents seizure of the steel industry a pivotal issue and the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments starting Monday. The case involves the government versus the steel mills and CIO Steelworkers with wage disputes and constitutional questions at stake.
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Washington
Edward Martin
R-Pa
Truman
Supreme Court
Justice Department
CIO Steelworkers Union
Federal District
David A. Pine
Pine
Steelworkers Union
Philadelphia
Philip Murray
CIO
Martin
Pennsylvania
Speakers Named for Montana Cattlemen's Meet
The Montana Stock Growers Association convention in Butte May 22 24 will feature Rep Wesley O Fwart and S C Hyatt among speakers. The 68th annual meet includes leaders C K Warren G R Milburn Dan Fulton and E A Phillips. Topics cover federal legislation railroad rates law enforcement price supports veterinary research and livestock taxation. Officers to be elected at the final session.
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Wesley O’'Fwart
R.-Mont
S.C. Hyatt
Hyattville
Wyo
American Cattlemen's Association
Montana Stockgrowers Association
Butte
Montana
C. K. Warren
Deer Lodge
G. R. Milburn
Grass Range
Dan Fulton
Ismay
E. A. Phillips
Helena
D’'Ewart
Hyatt
Edwin
D’ewart
Booth
Ralph Miracle
Montana Livestock Commission
F. L. Parsons
Minneapolis
Federal Reserve Bank
H. F. Wilkins
R. L. Warden
Montana State College
R. H. Painter
Lethbridge
Alta
Livestock Insect Laboratory
Canada
Jerry Sotola
Chicago
Armour
Livestock Bureau
W. D. Embree
Denver
National Livestock Committee
Tornado Strikes Alapaha Wrecks Town Historic Twister
A tornado hit Alapaha Georgia Sunday eight hours after earlier storms in Dixie. The blast injured three, destroyed a dozen businesses, a school and 12 homes, damaged 28 more, smashed the town water tank and prompted a rush for portable water from nearby Valdosta. Two schools were half destroyed as 7 am weather powered the disaster.
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Alapaha
U.P
Dixie
Valdosta
Week's Political Calendar by Associated Press
The schedule lists state conventions and primaries across the nation. Wyoming plans 12 Republican and 10 Democratic delegates to the national conventions. Rhode Island to name eight votes. West Virginia holds primaries for governor and Congress. North Dakota Democrats and Vermont Democrats hold two day meetings to finish delegations. Georgia, Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Hawaii sections with various delegate counts. President Truman addresses Americans for Democratic Action in Washington.
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Wyoming
Rhode Island
West Virginia
Senate
North Dakota
Vermont
Georgia
Oregon
Chicago
Washington State
President Truman
Americans For Democratic Action
Washington, D. C
Truman declines to keynote Chicago party convention
President Truman rejects a national committee request to serve as the keynote speaker at the Chicago nominating convention. Gov. Paul A. Dever and Sen. O Mahoney are mentioned as possible substitutes, with Rayburn for permanent chairman and McCormack for platform committee chairman.
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Washington
Truman
Democratic Party
Chicago
National Committee
Frank E. McKinney
McKinney
Paul A. Dever
Massachusetts
Dever
Senator O'Mahoney
Wyoming
House
Rayburn
Texas
Representative McCormack
Explosion damages Kiel storage dump near Kiel
A wartime German torpedo and mine storage dump exploded near Kiel on Sunday night causing structural damage to several houses and shattered windows over a mile away. No casualties were reported.
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Kiel
Germany
Train Wreck Sparks $3 Million Fire in Texas Wreck
A Fort Worth and Denver freight train derailed near Corsicana Texas after a broken rail, sparking a $3,000,000 fire. The blaze consumed 35 derailed cars including 16 fuel oil tankers and four high octane gasoline cars. four engines and other cars were moved to safety. No injuries were reported.
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Corsicana
Texas
Here
Fort Worth
Denver
Highway Collision Kills Montanan Near Culbertson
John Derhak 26 of Great Falls died when his car and a truck collided on Montana Highway 16 nine miles north of Culbertson at 12:15 a m Sunday. Derhak had hauled lumber to Williston and was returning with an unidentified friend. three in the truck escaped injury. He leaves a widow and at least one child. The 1952 Montana highway fatality toll rose to 49, down from 52 a year earlier.
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Wolf Point
John Derhak
Great Falls
Montana
Culbertson
Lyman Clayton
Derhak
Williston
N. D
Plentywood
Clayton
Mothers and daughters freed after Bronx gambling raids
Forty one women told magistrate Joseph A. Martinis they were mothers. He dismissed disorderly conduct charges and sent them home after raids in three Bronx gambling operations.
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New York
Bronx
Joseph A. Martinis
Contested General Elections Open in Panama
Panama's bitterly contested general elections began on Sunday as voters headed to the polls amid tight races and political tension.
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Panama
Hope Forecast for Settling Big Oil Strike
A settlement between Standard Oil of California and the Independent Union of Petroleum Workers could end the national oil strike. The pact includes a basic wage increase of 182 cents, the first major concession in the 12 day walkout. The U S and Britain urged fuel conservation as civil aviation may face worldwide restrictions.
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Denver
Standard Oil of California
Independent Union of Petroleum Workers
United States
Ministry of Fuel
London
Essen
Ridgway Leaves Japan for European Allied Command
Gen. Matthew Ridgway quits as UN commander in Tokyo and heads to Europe to assume command of Allied powers, surrendering duties to Gen. Mark Clark. The move follows MacArthur’s departure and precedes Ridgway’s U S mission to Washington before joining Eisenhower in Brussels.
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Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Pentagon
MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Ridgway
Haneda
Asia
Japan
Truman
Maeda
United States Navy
Matt, Jr
U. S
Robert Murphy
Matt Ridgway
United Nations
Mark Clark
Ridgways
Honolulu
San Francisco
Washington
Eisenhower
Houston Refinery Fire Wages On At Eastern States Plant
Houston crews battle a large refinery fire at the Eastern States Petroleum plant on the ship channel. The blaze covers about five acres with multiple exploded or ruptured tanks and injuries to at least two firefighters. Cause undetermined, flames visible up to 25 miles away. The refinery is not involved in the oil strike.
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Houston
Eastern States Petroleum Company
Houston Ship Channel
Storm panic at boxing arena leaves five dead
In Pachuca Mexico a crowd panicked during an electric storm at a boxing match when the power failed. An unknown shout spurred a stampede at arena exits, killing five people including a six month old infant and two young boys and injuring 14 others.
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Pachuco
Mexico
Korean Ceasefire Held Up By POW Question
Talks at Panmunjom stall over repatriation of prisoners as UN and Red negotiators adjourn after 52 minutes. Peiping radio says the prisoner repatriation issue blocks progress and repeats opposition to voluntary return.
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Tokyo
U.P
Panmunjom
Peiping
China
United Nations
Red
Peiping Radio
Voice of Red China
Tanks Used to Free General on Kose Island
An International News Service correspondent reports that the Army massed at least 20 medium tanks to threaten and help free Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd on Kose island. The correspondent, who reached the prison site by fishing boat, said Dodd was unharmed and remained under guard as tanks moved to Compound 76 amid heavy rain.
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International News Service
Kose Island
Army
All American
Francis T. Dodd
Associated Press
Seoul
Dodd
Compound 76
Nehru Again Leads Indian Parliament
In New Delhi on May 11 the ruling Congress party in India's newly elected federal parliament unanimously chose Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as their leader. This designation would automatically reappoint him as prime minister and allow him to form a new cabinet if he wishes. The current cabinet, in office for two years, is expected to resign to give him freedom to choose his team.
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New Delhi
Congress Party
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru
Rough Little Fight On UN Battlefront North Korea Front
Fifteen Reds attacked an Allied position northwest of Kumhwa on the central Korean front. The assault was repelled after a rough little fight as Communist probing continued along the western front near Yonchon and in Mundung valley on the eastern front. Casualties and captures reported for the week ending May 7 included 1,149 Reds killed and 1,364 wounded, with 21 captured.
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Seoul
Kumhwa
Eighth Army
Yonchon
Mundung
Huichon
Korea
Fifth Air Force
Dalmatian Dog Saves Owners as Home Burns Down
In Dumont New Jersey on Sunday police credit 11 year old Dalmatian Tally with awakening Mr and Mrs William E Scott and helping them escape a fire that gutted their five room bungalow. Scott later found Tally suffocated in the hallway and the home destroyed.
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Dumont, N. J
Tally
William E. Scott
Scotts
Scott
Allied troops blot radio ads in wartime broadcast cut
Allied troops suppress a Communist broadcast aimed at front lines by blackout music and a call to become prisoners of war. The reaction: Allied artillery fire interrupted the transmission and ended the broadcast.
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Seoul
US war aid bill eyed as Kremlin threat debated
The House foreign affairs committee reported top U.S. military leaders see no clear Kremlin decision on all-out war, though Soviet forces are mobilized and ready. The panel trimmed the foreign aid bill to about 6.9 billion, preserving military aid and defense equipment plans with vessels, aircraft, tanks, and guns slated for future delivery.
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Washington
Kremlin
West
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Taft
Ohio
Vorys
United States
Germany
Near East
German Autobahn Still Blockaded
Berlin notes a Russian blockade of the Berlin to Helmstedt Autobahn affecting Western military patrols. Authorities expect the ban to lift by week’s end with Allied officials cautious, hoping new documents will ease restrictions and permit patrols to resume normal traffic.
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Berlin
Helmstedt
Soviet Control Commission
Vassily I. Chuikov
Berlin-Helmstedt
Chuikov
Reynolds News demands general election after local gains
London May 11 Reynolds News called for a general election accusing sweeping Socialist gains in local polling of giving Winston Churchill's Conservatives notice to quit.
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London
Reynolds News
Winston Churchill
West German police fire on rioters in Essen clash
In Essen, police opened fire to break up a Sunday clash between anti Reds and some 30 000 Communist youths protesting West German rearmament. A 21 year old Communist from Munich was killed, first postwar death in police riot suppression. Dozens injured, arrests reported as bloodshed ended the day’s street battles.
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Essen
Germany
West Germany
Munich
Christian Workers’ Youth Organization
Berlin
ADN
Gerhart Eisler
Five Year Old Survives Five-Story Tumble
New York on May 11 reports David Burgos, five, plunged from a five story roof to a sandpile after clotheslines failed to restrain him. He escaped with scratches and bruises as neighborhood children watched.
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New York
David Burgos
Gasoline barge explodes near New Orleans injuring two
A Gretna gasoline barge exploded on Sunday causing $650000 in damage. Three men are missing and two were injured in the incident, authorities reported.
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New Orleans
Gretna
Weather Outlook for Butte and Montana Regions
Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers for Butte and Montana areas. Monday highs reach the mid to upper 60s with lows in the 30s to 40s. Airport and School of Mines readings show similar patterns with slight cooling west and south.
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Butte
Airport
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
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NEA
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Lorraine Voss
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UN Battlefront
Pusan
Hamyang
South Korea
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Livingston
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