Transit Strike In Lancaster Ends After Settlement
Lancaster transit workers reach a wage settlement ending a 16 day strike. Meanwhile Detroit dairy workers push for a 20 cent raise as 400,000 families lose milk and Houston city workers face layoff threats amid widespread walkouts.
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Lancaster
Detroit
Houston
Tex
AFL
James F. Dewey
General Motors
CIO Auto
Russell Ballard
CIO Dairy Workers Union
Wildcat
J. M. Nagle
National Federation of Telephone Workers (Inc
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Western Union Co
American Communications Association
CIO
Abraham Pomerants
Western Union
Dewey
UAW
Auto Steel
United Press
Office of Price Administration
British Drive Trucks Into Egyptian Mobs
Cairo reports say Egyptian crowds attacked the Kasri El Nil barracks and were driven out by gunfire after two trucks with British markings ploughed through demonstrators. At least one Egyptian dead with several injured as 100 000 to 150 000 protests demand evacuation of troops and Nile valley unity. A separate 70 000 strong crowd gathered at Abdin palace square amid widespread strikes.
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Cairo
Kasri el Nil
Nile Valley
Abdin Palace Square
Egypt
U. S. School Fund To Be Permanent
President Truman said he discussed interior secretary status with Associate Justice William O. Douglas but would not have two Washington natives in his cabinet. Douglas, from Washington, faced pressure to accept the post while remaining on the Supreme Court.
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Washington
Truman
William O. Douglas
Interior
Douglas
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Mr. Truman
Harold L. Ickes
Supreme Court
Rodeo Draw Attracts 100 Entries For Three Day Event
More than a hundred contestants registered by noon for a three day rodeo starting tomorrow. Entry fees are expected to exceed 12 000 dollars as five events showcase bronc riding Brahma bull riding bulldogging calf roping and team roping with notable entries from across the west and Canada.
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Kermit Lewis
Arena
L. H. Dean
Phoenix
Dave Starr
Silver City
N. M
Bob Locklar
Tucson
Lee Roberts
Roswell
Shirley Hussey
Moses Lake
Wash
Jiggs Lael
Delma
Calif
Ken Jones
Santa Rosa
Jesse Jones
Huntington Park
Joe Bessler
Hanford
Turk
Edwin Gardner
Patagonia
Bobo Chapman
Tommy Cahoe
Alhambra
Pete Morgan
Springerville
Mitch Owens
Louis Fore
Marvin Shoulders
Tulsa
Okla
Pete Richards
Parade
Prizes to be awarded for La Fiesta parade entries Saturday
Prizes totaling over a thousand dollars will be awarded Saturday at the Chamber of Commerce building from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Winners must bring their parade number. The event marks the first rodeo parade since the war began. The Catalina Council Boy Scouts will patrol the parade route and act as ushers Friday through Sunday afternoons. Three San Fernando Rangers from Los Angeles attended to participate and view the parade.
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Chamber of Commerce
Fred Blanc
Catalina Council
Boy Scouts
San Fernando Rangers
Los Angeles
Calif
Bill Burns
House passes federal school lunch aid with race based limit
Congress moves $50 million annual federal aid to a school lunch program with a ban on distributing funds to districts that discriminate by race color or creed. The measure advanced amid votes 275 to 101 in the House and 258 to 109 on the amendment. Porters confirmation and commerce secretary moves followed.
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Washington
House
Senate
Powell
Rep
Clevenger
R-O
Agriculture Committee
Porter
Banking
Federal Communications Commission
OPA
RFC
Congress
Royall
Kenneth C. Royall
War Department
Indian sailors seek surrender terms at Bombay mutiny
Mutinous Indian seamen at Castle Barracks hoisted a white flag and offered to negotiate after an official report that British reinforcements were en route to quell the mutiny. Hostages were released and weapons locked in the armory while siege guns train on key Bombay sites.
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Bombay
U.P
Castle
Royal Indian Navy
Bombay Yacht Club
Taj Mahal
Bisbee Plane Forced Down Below Border
Walden Wright, 20, Bisbee, the pilot and USAF gunner, failed to return to Cochise county port and was last seen flying toward Nogales. The plane was found south of Magdalena, Mexico, with no information on the pilot. Wright is a native of Bisbee and son of Vernon Wright, a Bisbee miner.
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Arizona
Walden Wright
Bisbee
Cochise County
Ed F. Echols
Magdalena
Mexico
Wright
U. S. Air Force
Nogales
Border Field
Vernon Wright
40 Point Soldiers Begin Leaving Pacific in March
Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer announced that soldiers with 40 points or 24 months service by June 30 will be sent home, starting in early March, with up to 7,500 personnel to depart via Philippines and Okinawa ports. Officers with 65 points or 42 months service also will be discharged as eligible.
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Miami
Wilhelm D. Styer
Western Pacific
Philippines
Okinawa
Chief Hays Await Tokyo Post Assignment
Police Chief Don J. Hays awaits word on a Tokyo posting to aid in reorganizing the Japanese capital’s police force. The New York Times reported he will join seven experts, led by former New York Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, on leave from Buffalo.
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Will Rogers
Don J. Hays
New York Times
Tokyo
Hays
Davis-Monthanfield
War Department
New York
Lewis J. Valentine
Arthur W. Wallander
Valentine
George C. Gallagher
Richard J. Brereton
Brooklyn
Benjamin King
Manhattan
Thomas Nelson
Wallander
Charles la Forge
O'Dwyer
Phil J. Martin, Jr
Havy
Navy Commander Slated As New Road Engineer
Phoenix February reports say W. C. Lefebvre, a Phoenix engineer and Navy commander, will replace Bernard Touhey as state highway engineer. Touhey resigns April 1, Lefebvre may be named at the weekend meeting. Lefebvre expects release by March 15.
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Navy
Phoenix
W. C. Lefebvre
Bernard Touhey
Touhey
State Highway Commission
Lefebvre
New Cardinals Receive Red Hats at Rome Consistory
Twenty-nine of 32 new cardinals receive ceremonial red hats at St. Peter's as week of rites ends. Pontiff Pius XII denounces imperialism. Four Americans John Glennon Edward Mooney Samuel Stritch Francis Spellman among first to appear before the Pope.
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Norman Montellier
Vatican City
U.P
St. Peter's Cathedral
Pius XII
Jose Cardinal Rodriguez
Chile
Rome
John Cardinal Glennon
St. Louis
Edward Cardinal Mooney
Detroit
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Chicago
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Sistine Chapel
Gregory Peter XV Cardinal
Agamanian
Armenia
Dodd and Wilson Seek County Attorney Posts in Primary Petitions
Petitions for nomination are circulating in the Democratic primaries for Colin Dodd and Bryce Wilson, both current county attorney office deputies. Wilson, a Navy lieutenant returning from the Pacific, was named deputy by J. Mercer Johnson before World War II. Dodd has served seven years as chief deputy and two years prior as a deputy.
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Colin Dodd
Bryce Wilson
Wilson
J. Mercer Johnson
Pacific
Dodd
Johnson
Wartime Finnish Leaders Sentenced in Nazi Support Case
Eight Finland wartime leaders led by ex-President Ryti were jailed for aiding Nazi Germany. Sentences ranged from two to 10 years in prison for taking Finland into war with the Allies. Former Premier Rangell received six years, while Linkomies and Tanner drew 15 and 14 years respectively.
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Helsinki
Finland
Risto Ryti
Ryti
Germany
Juko Wilhelm Rangell
Edwin Linkomies
Vaino Tanner
Toivo M. Kivimaeki
Berlin
Henrik Ramsay
Tyko Reinikka
Antti Kukkonen
Russia Protests Spy Arrests Amid Ottawa Crisis
Ottawa report describes Canada awaiting cabinet approval of a reply to a Russian protest over disclosures about a Soviet espionage ring. Officials say the ring has worldwide links, with suspects tied to defense intel and Arctic frontier planning. Thirteen Canadians were arrested, and a royal commission was to publish findings today.
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Ottawa
Moscow
Royal Commission
Communist Party
Canada
Arctic Frontier
Russia
Finland
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Bevin Urges Calm as Soviet-Canadian Spy Row Heats
British Foreign Secretary Bevin told Parliament he cannot see Britain and the Soviet Union going to war and expressed hope for extending the Anglo-Soviet pact. Pravda accused Canada of an anti Soviet campaign to derail Bevin’s UNO diplomacy while Moscow publicized Russia's claim of obtaining insignificant secret data from Canada.
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London
U.P
Ernest Bevin
Commons
Russia
Britain
Bevin
Canada
Soviet
Great Britain
Anthony Eden
Communist Party
Pravda
W. L. Mackenzie King
Moscow
Mackenzie King
UNO Assembly
UNO Security Council
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Greece
Indonesia
Levant
Soviet Union
White House Stands by Nominee Pauley Amid Senate Probe
President Truman reaffirmed support for Edwin W. Pauley as undersecretary of the Navy despite a Senate Naval Affairs Committee inquiry into Pauley oil dealings. Senator Stewart pressed for withdrawal, but Truman refused, citing his policy of backing nominees. Forrestal offered a cautious statement and did not urge confirmation.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Edwin W. Pauley
Navy
Pauley
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Tom Stewart
D-Tenn
Mr. Truman
Congress
Senate
Stewart
Kenneth D. McKellar
Jeresee Voorhis
Chetelfield
Peaners
California
House
Secretary of the Navy
James V. Forrestal
Forrestal
Interior
Harold L
Ickes
Soviet views on spy ring seen as political bomb
The Soviet Union labeled its Canada espionage affair a political atomic bomb on the world scene. Radio Moscow warned of strained relations with Canada and possible breakups within the United Nations if open rupture occurred. The report noted Soviet military staff had obtained energy and radar data but claimed it mirrored publicly available material. The Soviet attache in Ottawa was recalled after staff involvement.
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Louis F. Keemle
Soviet Union
United Nations Organization
Security Council
London
Radio Moscow
Canada
Russia
Commonwealth
UNO
Moscow Radio
Moscow
Ottawa
Truman Seeks End to Rail Unions Strike Try
President Truman personally intervenes to avert a nationwide strike by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He meets BRT President A F Whitney and BLE President Alvanley Johnston to urge use of peaceful mediation. 300000 union members back a strike over a $2.50 daily wage rise and rules changes. arbitration steps loom for other unions and railroads.
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Washington
Truman
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
BRT
A. F. Whitney
BLE
Alvanley Johnston
Mr. Truman
Whitney
Johnston
Naval Captain Urges Caution on Army Navy Merge
Capt Ellis N Zacharias, who led psychological warfare against Japan, spoke at a noon joint Kiwanis Lions meeting at the Pioneer hotel. He warned that merging the services risks defeat, citing Rome Napoleon the Kaiser and Hitler, and urged careful procedure in any consolidation.
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Ellis N. Zacharias
Japan
Kiwanis and
Lions Club
Pioneer Hotel
Zacharias
Rome
Napoleon
Kaiser
Hitler
Salt Lake City
FBI Agent Duffey to Resign March First in Arizona
PHOENIX Feb 21 P H Duffey special agent in charge of the FBI in Arizona announced he will resign effective March 1 He may enter business in Arizona Duffey has served 14 years with the agency in 14 bureaus His successor Harry G Maynor of Detroit arrives this weekend
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Phoenix
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U. S
OPA Work
Paul Porter
Price
Tor
India
Valden Wright
Tokyo Post
Adm. Nimitz
10Th
Cardinals
Adams
Ottawa Evening Journal
By Bruce W. Munn
White House
Gop
McKellar
FBI
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