Steel Meeting Holds Hope for Steel Strike Settlement
President Truman urged the senate to delay action to avoid derailing negotiations on the steel strike. A near term two year contract appeared likely, with talks focusing on a union shop and wage increases for workers amid ongoing bargaining at the White House.
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Truman
Senate
Sen. McFarland
Ariz
Barkley
Maybank
Dsc
Banking Committee
White House
Philip Murray
John R. Steelman
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Aera
Communists urge all out effort to settle Korea POW issue
North Korea and China demand UN back at Panmunjom to push for a full all out resumption of talks. They say prisoner repatriation remains the crucial hurdle with 70,000 former POWs seeking return to communism while 99,000 refuse. The UN rejects forced repatriation and plans no new concessions.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations
U.N
Mark W. Clark
Kim Il Sung
Peng Teh Huai
Peiping
Clark
Langmuir Cloud Seeding Sparks Nationwide Debate
A series of Daily Citizen articles on Dr. Irving Langmuir’s cloud seeding provokes broad protests and counterclaims. Langmuir defends a 21 month Army Navy and Air Forces sponsored study in New Mexico concluding rainfall patterns prove seeding works. Critics including Sen. Moody urge ending cloud seeding citing weather disruption and tourism impact. The Weather Bureau disputes consistent effects while Langmuir asserts weather shapes maps and plans to respond from Wyoming.
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Daily Citizen
Irving Langmuir
Calilig
UIL LM
Vincent Schaefer
New York
Langmuir
Lavoisier
Curie
Thomas Edison
Heas
General Electric Research Laboratory
Schaefer
General Electric Laboratory
Kansas
Virginia
Connecticut
Virginia Clark
Parker St
Manchester, Conn
Dr. Langsmuir
Seaboard
Sen. Moody
Michigan
Department of Defense
Dr. Langmuir
Congress
Department
Harry Wexler
U. S. Weather Bureau
Associated Press
Sheet Metal Strike Ends in Arizona Settlement
A Phoenix management spokesman announced a new welfare plan for Tucson sheet metal workers, with 300 AFL members returning to work in Tucson and Phoenix. The layoff had lasted one week in Phoenix and six weeks in Tucson, following negotiations led by Paul C. Johnson of the Sheet Metal Contractors association.
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Phoenix
Secieaet
Tucson Sheet Metal
Sheet Metal Worka Afl
Tucson
Paul C. Johnson
Sheet Metal Contractors Association
Taft Ike fight shapes GOP race for Chicago convention
The Republican arrangements committee opens a two day session in Chicago with strong support for Gen Douglas MacArthur as keynoter. Four weeks remain as Sen Robert Taft and Gen Dwight Eisenhower duel for the presidential nomination. Delegates total 341 in balance, with 130 committed to others, 211 uncommitted or disputed. Eisenhower presses his campaign with a long talk with Gov John S Fine of Pennsylvania. Taft plans a Taft Taft meeting. AP tally shows 462 Taft and 390 Eisenhower delegates. 604 votes needed for nomination.
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Associated Press
Republican Convention Arrangements Committee
Chicago
Douglas MacArthur
Sen
Robert Taft
Ohio
Dwight .D. Eisenhower
GOP
Eisenhower
Ohn S. Fine
Pennsylvania
Taft
Fine
Magazine Cites Pyle as GOP Keynoter
Newsweek reports in its current issue that Gov. Howard Pyle has been asked to keynote the Republican national convention. Insiders say he is poised to accept, described as a youngish fiery speaker with no clear faction, potentially shaping the party’s platform.
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Howard Pyle
Newsweek Magazine
Arizona
GOP
State Court Slaps Judges Over Ridgway Contempt Case
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled 4 to 1 that three superior judges lacked jurisdiction to cite Ft. Grant Industrial School Superintendent George Ridgway and others for contempt while inmates were on school premises. Ridgway acknowledged some punished by long walks, disputed harsher claims of forced labor and shoeless punishment.
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Phoenix
U.P
Arizona State Supreme Court
Ft. Grant Industrial School
George Ridgway
Ridgway
W. F. Patterson
Yavapai County
Fred C. Struckmeyer
Charles Bernstein
Maricopa
Fr. Grant
Patterson
Bernstein
Struckmeyer
Top Court Deliberates Segregation in Public Schools
The Supreme Court agreed to hear two appeals from Negro parents challenging school segregation in Topeka Kansas and Clarendon County District of Columbia. The cases probe constitutional equal protection as it may affect nationwide public school segregation. The court also ruled on labor law protections for colored workers, upheld insanity verdict standards, and deferred a major ship ownership dispute.
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Supreme Court
Topeka
Kas
Clarendon County
D. C
The
High Court
Morris Leland
Thelma Taylor
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Justice Department
American President Lines, Inc
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Missing Boy Found Safe Near Mt. Graham
Six year old Spencer Hoopes Jr. was found alive near Cyclone Hill ten miles north of Arcadia picnic grounds after a nightlong search by nearly 300 people including law officers bloodhounds planes and Boy Scouts. The boy wandered from his parents outing, signaling a rapid but careful rescue by authorities.
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Safford
Mt. Graham
Chet Shifler
Spencer Hoopes Jr
Cyclone Hill
Arcadia Picnic Grounds
Spencer Hoopes
Senate approves $6.43 billion foreign aid bill
The senate today passed and sent to the White House a compromise foreign aid bill totaling 6,431,249,750 dollars for military economic and technical assistance to allied nations.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Free World
Miracle young shooter survives after rifle accident
James Lane 14 was shot in the chest by a friend using a 30 30 rifle in a Lane home bedroom. Quick first aid by a former navy corpsman, blood from the Red Cross, and swift surgery saved him, though a lung lobe was removed and shoulder injury treated.
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S. C. Warman
James Lane
Jimmy
Navy
Nwo
Red Cross Blood Bank
Frank Faccio
E. 22Nd St
Whiteman
Pacific
Mancheler
Blakeley
St. Mary’s Hospital
Red Crags
Heat Wave Settles In Tucson With Triple Digits
Tucson reached 100 degrees by June 6 and stayed hot as 102 degrees followed. The nights remain cooler with a 67 degree low. Phoenix hit 105, Yuma 101, Flagstaff 81 as the forecast calls for clear skies and little temperature change with low humidity.
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Tucson
Arizona
Phoenix
Yuma
Flagstaff
Regulation X cuts down home down payments nationwide
The government lowers down payment requirements for new homes effective Wednesday under Regulation X. Veterans pay no down payment on homes 7000 or less, while non veterans initial payments drop from 10 to 5 0 percent for that price range. Changes target homes between 7000 and 10000 dollars, with many sales in that bracket. Down payment tweaks apply to all residential housing. non residential buildings unchanged.
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Washington
WUP
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Tucson
Federal Reserve Board
City To Pay Flood Damage In Tucson Culvert Case
The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed Tucson's liability for flood damages from improper culvert construction. Apache Motors Co. and others claimed successive damages after a 1933 flood when the arroyo drainage was closed and two concrete culverts built, affecting about 21 square miles downtown.
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Phoenix
State Supreme Court
Tucson
M. T. Phelps
Apache Motors’Co
Pima County
Supreme Court
Tucson Tonight and Tomorrow Rent Control Forum and Sports
Public meeting on Tucson rent control slated in City Hall council chambers tonight. Sports schedule features softball and baseball games at Santa Rita park and Hi Corbett field, including Knotty Pine Knights vs Infilco and Coco Estrada vs Telephone Co.
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Sunshine
Santa Rita Park
Tucson
City Hall Council
Phoenix
Hi Corbett Field
Knotty Pine Knights
Infilco
Coco Estrada
Telephone Co
Eisenhower Meets Republican Delegates In New Acquaintance
Index notes Ike begins getting acquainted with Republican delegates as the road map for party unity unfolds. Mentions Maricopa County supervisor charged with taking bribes and references other page topics such as weekday listings and congressional debate over extra combat pay.
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Eisenhower
Maricopa County
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