Steel Workers Seek 30 Cent Wage Hike in Postwar Talks
CIO Steel Workers President Philip Murray announced a package demand to raise wages by 30 cents per hour, plus 12 percent in a fourth round, and 11.23 cents for pensions and 6.27 cents for social insurance. The claim targets the steel industry amid a board hearing opened by President Truman to avert a strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Philip Murray
CIO Steel Workers Today
Murray
Ruman
Cocaine Smuggling Report Highlights United States Traffic
The narcotics bureau reports 1948 saw extreme increases in cocaine smuggling into the United States. Cocaine is said to be available in large quantities in Peru, Chile, and Bolivia with American seamen smuggling it here. In Harlem New York, cocaine reportedly meets local demand and moves from southern ports to New York. The bureau notes prior lack of traffic and calls for action to curb overseas diversion. Shanghai Rangoon Calcutta and Singapore are named as narco hotbeds based on seamen reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Narcotics Bureau
Peru
Chile
Bolivia
Harlem
New City
Carolina
Alabama
New York
U. S
Orworld
Shanghai
Rangoon
Calcutta
Singapore
Truman asks Clark to join Supreme Court and McGrath to replace him
President Truman announced at a news conference that he has asked Attorney General Tom Clark to become a Supreme Court justice and that Sen. J Howard McGrath would replace Clark as attorney general. The president expects both men to accept. Separately in Los Angeles, five top police officials were ousted following the death of Edward Neddie Herbert in a gang related shooting tied to rival gunmen and the Cohen gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Tom Clark
Supreme Court
Sen
J. Howard McGrath
Clark
Eral
Los Angeles
Topos Angeles
Edward Neddie Herbert
Jambler
Mickey Cohen
Reds seize new Hunan areas amid rail disruptions
Red troops seized new Hunan areas cutting the Canton Hengyang rail link and severing Nationalist communications. They reported loss of Chuchow, a rail junction, and advanced toward Kanhsien as Sun Li Jen slated to head Nationalist forces on Formosa with Chiang Kai shek setting up a base there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Moosa
Canton
China
Red
Hunan
Kan River
Taiho
Kanhsien
Kiangsi
Yangtze River
Changteh
Changsha
Sun
Police Quiz Alleged Head of $50 Million Numbers Ring
Dennison Duble, longtime Cincinnati Clearing House official, was questioned in New York about a suspected $50 million a year numbers racket. Duble signed off as secretary manager after the ring was cracked and is among 17 people tied to the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennison Duble
Cincinnati
Attor
Frank S. Hogan
Duble
Cinnati Clearing House Associ Fe York
Ring
Newak
New Jersey
Cincin
New York County
Taylor Seeks New Security For Workers
Senator Taylor introduces a bill to insure unemployed workers 85 percent of regular earnings until reemployment. It proposes 40 percent for unemployed workers aged 60 plus 60 percent with a dependent wife and 10 percent more per child up to 70 percent. Disabled workers would get the difference between wages and earned income with a physician certificate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taylor
Idaho
Unemployment Service
Public Health Service
Senate
Idaho Polio Cases Rise With Nine New Infections
Idaho reports nine new poliomyelitis cases, raising the total since July 1 to 65 and the overall tally to 113. The new cases include youths from Boise Rexburg Jefferson Bonneville county and Hammett, with existing patients still housed at St. Anthony Mercy hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
State Health Department
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Rexburg
Jefferson County
Bonneville County
Hammett
Bannock County
St. Anthony Mercy Hospital
Portugal Ratifies Treaty Amid Tight NATO Vote
The Portuguese national assembly ratified the North Atlantic treaty by an 80 to 3 vote. Opponents argued that Spain should be included in the alliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Portugal
National Assembly
Spein
Bed Rocks Stir Sleepy Home In Illinois Quake Echo
In Rock Falls Illinois Doug Unger awoke to a rocking bed and a bedroom that seemed to dance as workmen moved a house down the street. He joked about an earthquake, while noting it was his day off and he was sleepy, finding the scene odd yet harmless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Falls, Ill
Douglas Unger
Unger
City Ponders Joint Sewage Disposal Plan
Mayor W. W. Halsey proposes a joint future sewage disposal plant for Pocatello and Alameda with possible consolidated systems. He envisions building a drainage line from Alameda to the Gate City plant site near the Portneuf refinery and notes current Alameda charges to Gate City residents. He warns of rising loads from new housing and hints at a new bond election for an east side interceptor sewer, following a completed west side interceptor financed by a $130,000 bond two years ago.
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W. W. Halsey
Pocatello Housing Authority
Henry DeGiorgia
Federal Public Housing Administration
Pocatello
C. A. Carmack
Bert Reese
James Hopper
Ray Merman
Ray J. Davis
Nicholas Ifft
Authority
Neil Chase
Henry DeGiorgio
Milton Zener
Wallis C. Wright
J. P. Halliwell
Pocatello and
Alameda
Halsey
Copperville
Gate City
Portneuf
Naval Ordnance Plant
Car Truck Crash Triggers $11,759 Damages Suit
On April 7 a car truck collision on highway 91 eleven miles north of Pocatello led Ray W. Shaw to sue John W. Hudson for total damages of 11 759 19 in Fifth District Court. Attorneys Anderson and Thomas of Boise represent the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway 91
Pocatello
Fifth District Court
Ray W. Shaw
John W. Hudson
Anderson
Thomas Lof Boise
Robins Said To Be Guided By Influence
Washington officials accused of writing statements opposing long transmission lines in the Columbia basin as part of a coordinated program by the army engineers reclamation bureau. Ben Strong alleged Gov. C. A. Robins of Idaho Gov. John W. Bonner of Montana and L. C. Bishop of Wyoming echoed this stance, targeting the power industry.
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Robins
Washington
Army Engineers Reclamation Bureau
Columbia River Basin
Ben Strong
National Committee On Resources
National Farmers’ Union
Columbia Basin
Pacific Northwest
C. A. Robins
Idaho
John W. Bonner
Montana
L. C. Bishop
Wyoming
Strong
Power Trust
Arthur B. Langlie
A. G. Crane
Harold Linke
Utah
J. W. Rogers
City Growth May Hike Fire Rates
Pocatello faces higher fire insurance costs due to rapid industrial and residential expansion. Mayor Halsey and Fire Chief Girard will travel to Boise to negotiate with the Underwriters Rating Bureau to preserve current rates. They warn rates could rise unless more fire protection is funded as city limits grow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello
W. W. Halsey
A. A. Girard
Boise
Halsey
Alameda OKs Petitions For Pipeline
Alameda city council authorized circulating petitions to enable a 6000 dollar pipeline project. The plan would carry treated sewage from the disposal plant into the Portneuf river, bypassing Copperville and Pocatello creek to reduce sanitary nuisance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alameda City
Portneuf
Copperville
Pocatello Creek
Woman Spies Tot Floating Down Stream
In Layton Utah two year old Jeannine Spackman tumbled into an irrigation ditch near her home and was rescued downstream by neighbor Rex Walker whose wife shouted for help. Walker and a bystander pulled the girl from the current and performed artificial respiration to revive her as firefighters responded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Layton
Utah
Jeannine Spackman
Clare B. Spackman
Layton Subdivision
Jeannine
Rex Walker
John Ross
Highway Patrol
Layton Fire Department
Nice Young Lady Pulls Fast One in Lancaster
A 25 year old woman entered an auto repair shop and, after being told the car was ready, ordered the car driven away. Thirty minutes later Mr and Mrs Green returned to pick up their expensive sedan and found it missing. Police search for the suspect and the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster, Pa
Vincent J. Green
Harn Elected Commander Idaho Legion
Retiring Seventh District Commander Harry R. Harn of Dubois is elected commander of the Idaho department of the American Legion. The 54 year old World War I veteran and former Dubois post commander won at the state convention in Weiser after the meeting closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weiser
Idaho
Harry R. Harn
Dubois
Idaho Department of the American Legion
Ham
House Group Charts Pension Hopes for Workers
The Ways and Means Committee voted 15 to 10 to repeal the Gearhart amendment and restore about 750,000 workers to the old age insurance rolls. President Truman supports expansion of social security as party lines split over the issue and Democrats push to undo the 80th Congress action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
House
Ways and Means Committee
Gearhart
R.-Calif
Urges Prompt Arms Aid to Stop Soviets
Secretary of State Acheson urged Congress to approve a 1.45 billion arms aid program to rearm Western Europe. He warned Soviet forces threaten peacetime stability and that direct military aggression cannot be ignored. He argued aid would deter military conquest and impose great costs on any aggressor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Acheson
Congress
United States
Western
Europe
House Foreign Affairs Committee
World's Richest Heiress Wins Appeal to Keep Son
Barbara Hutton Troubetzkein wins permission for her 13 year old son Lance to remain in Europe for the summer, with court agreeing to extended custody abroad until Sept 7. The affair follows affidavits alleging the heiress is in poor health and morale, amid a shared custody arrangement with Lance's father, ex Count Haugwitz Reventlow, who sought a hearing after reports of her swimming at Venice's Lido Beach.
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Dedham
Mass
Woolworth
Barbara Hutton Troubetzkei
Arthur W. Davis
Lance
Babs
Haugwitz Reventlow
Europe
Revention
Reventlow
Ewank Lido
Venice
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H S
Bulletin
Olice Quiz
Girard
Pocatello City Lnits
Alameda OK
Carl Christensen
Christensen
State Highway Department
Billings
Burley
Butte
Chicago
Denver
Dubois Douse
Great Falls
Idaho Falls
Mala
Omaha
Salt Lake
Seattle
Yellowstone
Legion Head
Harn
Idaho Legion
House Group
Mr. Truman
Russia
Bessemer
Ala
Alvin Edwards
Jewsel
Edwards
Lacey Alexander
Solicitor
Jewel
W. H. Sessions
Sessions
Bessemer Cafe
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