Yugoslav Rhetoric on Rajk Trial Mirrors Western Tensions
Belgrade warned Russia and Eastern Europe they risk war as they oppose Tito, while Hungary’s Laszlo Rajk faces treason and espionage charges in Budapest. The Yugoslav paper condemned the indictment as warmongering and opposed Cominform. In West Virginia, John L. Lewis clashes with the soft coal industry as eastern mines shut for a possible strike, pressing back royalties and welfare fund control.
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Belgrade
Russia
Marshal Tito
Soviet Union
Laszlo Rajk
Rajk
Budapest
Yugoslavia
United States
Europe
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
John L. Lewis
Mississippi
United Mine Workers
Cleveland Trust Co
Island Creek Coal Co
I. F. Freiberger
James D. Francis
Northern
Lewis
Welfare Fund
CIO Chief Says Big Steel Is Forcing Strike
CIO President Philip Murray and U S Steel president Benjamin Fairless exchange angry telegrams as talks over the steel dispute break down. Both men refuse to budge with a strike planned for September 25, warning the other bears responsibility.
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CIO
Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
U. S. Steel Corp
Murray
Benjamin F. Fairless
Rin Ctaal
WLCTI
Alay Vais Dulous
Fairless
United Steelworkers
Navy brass rebuff delays Crommelin promotion amid unification row
Navy Secretary Francis P. Matthews blocked a plan to promote Captain John G. Crommelin after the admiralty proposed moving him to a high aviation post for his anti unification stand. Crommelin was reassigned to undisclosed duties in the Navy air warfare division.
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Washington
Navy
John G. Crommelin
Secretary of the Navy
Francis P. Matthews
Crommelin
Matthews
Air Force
Army
Adm
Louis Denfeld
Naval Operations
Joint Chief of Staff
C. P. Durgin
Air
Navy Air Warfare Division
Opium Pipe Above U S Films Sparks Chinese Artists Protest
Shanghai reports note 16 Chinese artists said American movies degraded morals more than opium and US influence. They spoke amid a campaign against Hollywood films and cited Mother Wore Tights The Postman Always Rings Twice Thunderbirds and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.
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Shanghai
Hollywood
Tokyo
Polio Victim No 55 Admitted To Hospital
The 55th polio patient this year at St. Anthony Hospital acute center was admitted Thursday. The patient is a 36 year old Soda Springs woman. Twelve persons are now being treated at the hospital. The year’s total Bannock county polio cases reach 35.
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St. Anthony Hospital
Lyon Healy
Bannock County
Soda Springs
Healy
Mother of 14 Wins Divorce in California
Mrs. Ernestina Macias, 49, of West Whittier, California, sought and obtained a divorce from Alejandro Macias, 55, on grounds he wanted more children. She stated he refused to support their 14 children and had beaten her, and she told the judge enough is enough.
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Los Angeles
Ernestina Macias
West Whittier
Calif
Alejandro Macias
Bus Line Chief Seeks City Help Over Service
F. M. Bistline, president of the Pocatello Transit Co., urges city aid to solve the bus system crisis. He warns riders are needed to restore revenue, proposes cutting the ordnance plant run and extending to Brennan addition, with Union Pacific Stages carrying 11 daily trips at 20 cents fare. Transit investment totals about $125,000. last year net profit was about $3,300 on over $100,000 in business.
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Bistline
F. M. Bistline
Brennan
Ordnance Plant
Union Pacific Stages
Pocatello
Pocatellan Found Dead in Railroad Car at Nampa Canyon
NAMPA UP reports Paul Garvin a 63 year old railroad worker from Pocatello was found dead Thursday in a Union Pacific equipment workers’ car at Nampa Canyon. Sheriff Ray Luekenga said he died of a heart attack and fellow workers located the body. No inquest is expected.
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Nampa
Paul Garvin
Pocatello
Union Pacific Railroad Equipment
Nampa Canyon Co
Ray Luekenga
Garvin
Diesel Blast Kills Two at Indiana Power Plant
A diesel engine explosion at the Southeastern Indiana Power Co plant in Rushville collapsed the roof and buried workers under brick and steel. Elbert Cross aged 34 and John Wood aged 33 lost their lives as cranes uncovered their bodies. three others escaped. The $2,000,000 facility serves 11 counties and disrupted service to about 8,500 customers until emergency crews restored power.
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Rushville
Ind
Southeastern Indiana Power Co
Elbert Cross
John Wood
Fair Marks May Topple Attendance Records at Eastern Idaho Fair
Crowds are expected to break attendance records at the Eastern Idaho State Fair as Ban nock county residents flood the grounds for a day honoring the area. County commissioners and wives will attend. Events include horse races at 2 pm, horse exhibition at 7:30 pm, and the Fair Revue of 1949 at 8 pm.
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Idaho
Eugene Whitman
Boise
Lillian Anderson
Whitman
Pearl Walstrom
Route 3
Idaho Falls
Bowns
Bannock County
U S Papers Overplay Sex Says British Journalist
London dispatch reports William Towler foreign editor of the Daily Herald says Western U S newspapers are full of sex and murder not serious news. He questions what British correspondents see in the world beyond and notes level out may happen as European reporters tour the United States with Overseas Airlines.
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London
William Towler
Texas
United States
Towler
London Daily Herald
U. S
American Overseas Airlines
Woman electrocuted by falling radio in bath
Chicago dispatch reports Mrs Eleanor Kubick thirty five was electrocuted when a table model radio she was listening to toppled into her bathtub during a bath. Authorities described the accident as a tragic mishap with no immediate signs of foul play.
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Chicago
Eleanor Kubick
New Machine Aims to Erect Modern Typesetting
Cambridge, Mass. Officials of Lithomat Corp unveiled an electronic device that uses a typewriter actuated photographic composing process to produce photographic type, replacing metal type. It can set about 20 lines a minute, about three times faster than traditional line casting machines, signaling a new era of efficiency for the printing industry.
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Cambridge
Mass
Lithomat Corp
Bolivian Revolt Ends After 20 Day Clash
In La Paz Bolivia rebel leaders flee their headquarters after a 20 day uprising by right and left wing extremists against the centrist government collapses without combat.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Bannock County OKs Bond Election For Hospitals
Bannock County commissioners gain authorization to call a special bond election to raise 550000 for two hospitals, with over 3782 valid signatures. The measure funds 100000 for Downey receiving hospital and 1400000 for the general hospital in Pocatello, pending advertisements and a 20 day objection window.
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Bannock County
Laura B. Berg
Downey Receiving Hospital
Pocatello
Radio networks seek stay on FCC ban of giveaways
Three major radio networks won court orders demanding the FCC show cause why it should not be restrained from banning "give-away" programs after October 1. The action seeks to prevent the federal agency from enforcing an impending ban.
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New York
Federal Communications Commission
Masons Meet Tonight in Keystone Lodge Session
Keystone Lodge No. 81 AF and AM holds a 7:30 PM meeting at the Masonic temple to confer the Master Mason degree.
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Keystone Lodge No
Af& AM
Masonic Temple
B-36 and B-45 Bombers Crashes Reported
A B-36 bomber crashed on takeoff from Carswell Air Force Base and sank in Lake Worth with one dead and eight injured. Thirteen aboard, three missing, cause to be determined. In California a B-45 four engine jet crashed at Lakewood Country Club after engine explosion. four crew escaped.
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Fort Worth
Carswell Air Force Base
Lake Worth
Air Force
Long Beach
Calif
Lakewood Country Club
Municipal
Sheriff's Office
Van Evera to Wed John Marble II in Kansas City
New York report says Jean Van Evera author of How to be Happy While Single will marry John Marble II Saturday in Kansas City. Marble is general traffic manager for Bell Telephone Co of Pennsylvania.
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New York
Jean van Evera
Kansas City
John Marble II
Bell Telephone Co
Pennsylvania
Federal Employee Union Leader Tins Wars and Subsidies Costs
Walter H. Fleet of Klamath Falls Oregon told Local Union No. 1054 that about 25 percent of the $42 billion federal outlay yearly funds subsidies and debt service and past and potential wars. He outlined a proposed federal classification bill creating incentives for efficient administration and a $15 000 ceiling for certain civil service jobs.
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Walter H. Fleet
Klamath Falls
Ore
National Federation of Federal Employes
Civil Service Commission
Fleet
Congress
Senate Bureaucrats Boost Reciprocal Trade Bill For Truman Victory
The Senate voted 62 to 19 to renew the reciprocal trade agreements program, a key Truman campaign plank. Vice President Barkley cast decisive votes in tying maneuvers to defeat tariff constraint amendments. Final passage extends presidential authority to negotiate reciprocal trade until June 12, 1951, and sends the bill to the White House for signature.
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Washington
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Barkley
House
White House
Truman
Truman picks Sherman Minton for Supreme Court seat
President Truman selected Sherman Minton of Indiana, a New Deal alumnus and federal appeals judge in Chicago since 1941, to replace the late Wiley B. Rutledge. Minton, 58, married with three children, was at home in New Albany when announced and expressed gratitude for the appointment.
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Washington
Truman
Sherman Minton
Indiana
Supreme Court
Minton
Senate
Federal Court of Appeals
Chicago
Roosevelt
Wiley B. Rutledge
High Bench
Rutledge
Frank Murphy
New Albany
Ind
Rail Peace Move Fails
Missouri Pacific pickets reportedly blocked adjoining Cotton Belt Line tracks as four operating Brotherhoods rejected a management plan to end a week-old walkout. The railroad offered to pay 59 of 282 grievance cases and arbitrate the rest, but unions said conditions barred acceptance and called for unfettered negotiations with manager Thompson accused of seeking unfair advantage.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Thompson
Germans elect Reich Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
The Bundestag elected Konrad Adenauer German chancellor by 202 to 142 votes, achieving the smallest possible majority in the 402-member house. Adenauer becomes the first postwar chancellor after Adolf Hitler, as CDU leader wins the role with party support in Bonn.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad
Lie
Adolf Hitler
Bundestag
Christian Democratic Party
Truman Not Troubled by Pennsylvania Victory
President Truman played down the Pennsylvania by election upset as a GOP win for John P. Saylor over Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. He noted that Republicans scored by-elections in 1947 but failed to gain national power in the 1948 elections.
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Washington
Truman
26Th
Pennsylvania
John P. Saylor
Robert L. Coffey Sr
House
Congress
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Shirley May
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Marilyn
Florence France
J. Walter France
Jackie
Shirley
Carla
Diesel
Post
Oks
Masons
U.S
Local Union No. 1054
Bannock Hotel
Elmer Thomas
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Joseph R. McCarthy
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