White House summons steel leaders for Thursday parley
President Truman calls CIO Steelworkers Union leaders and major industry chiefs to a 10 am meeting in the old State Department Building to try to end the steel strike. The talks follow six industry and union leaders who met last month and adjourned without progress. delegates include Murray Fairless Moreell Purnell White Randall and others.
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Truman
CIO Steelworkers Union
John R. Steelman
State Department
Philip Murray
Steelworkers
Supreme Court
Steel Mills
Steelman
CIO
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
Benjamin Moreell
Jones and Laughlin Steel Co
Frank Purnell
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Charles M. White
Republican Steel Corp
A. B. Homer
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Clarence Randall
Inland Steel Co
Irving Perimeter
White House
Guam Island Chief Denies Fraud and Graft
Gov. Carlton Skinner told the House Interior Affairs Committee there is no fraud or corruption in Guam government. He rebutted charges by former employees William McKinley and Norman A. Peltier, calling 50 percent false and 45 percent meaningless. McKinley, a former fingerprint analyst, was discharged in 1951 when his job was abolished. Peltier, fire marshal, was dismissed for disobeying orders and firing a subordinate.
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Washington
Carlton Skinner
Territory of
Guam
House Interior Affairs Committee
Skinner
William McKinley
Norman A. Peltier
Congressional Record
Rep
Jensen
Iowa
McKinley
Peltier
Editorial: College Code Against School Sports Excess
The Cleveland Plain Dealer in April ran an editorial on Wilmington College’s common sense code addressing commercialization and excess emphasis on football and basketball. It cites WC’s Current College Problems and lists four proposals: no special favors to athletes, coach salaries like other faculty, tenure based on coaching quality, and avoiding games with schools that breach these principles.
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Wilmington College
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Veterinarians Sentenced For Illegal Narcotic Sales
Two veterinarians from Columbus were sentenced to two years in federal prison after admitting they sold narcotics illegally. Woodrow W. Carr and William E. Porter faced 19 and 43 counts, respectively, for supplying drugs to a 45 year old Columbus man and narcotics agent Al Cook. Porter sold about $7,500 of drugs legally obtained and resold them at high prices to the addict, while Carr sold about $900. The man suffered heart issues and used the funds to stay alive.
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Columbus
Woodrow W. Carr
Caldwell
William E. Porter
U. S
Mell G. Under
Carr
Porter
al Cook
Cook
Senate Eyes Plans To End Steel Dispute
Washington June 4 The Senate moves to end the steel strike crisis with multiple proposals under debate. Senator Taft opposes emergency legislation while Maybank aims to attach a plan to wage and price controls. Proposals include 120 to 150 days of work for steelworkers or plant seizures during a national emergency. The House weighs actions as a judiciary subcommittee prepares to pigeonhole impeachment or censure moves against President Truman.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Ohioan
Maybank
D-Sc
House
House Judiciary
Truman
Yanks Destroy Red POW Flags on Koje Island
American infantrymen and tanks knocked down and burned Russian, North Korean and Chinese flags in three prisoner of war pens on Koje Island. No shots were fired as unruly leaders were hauled out and dispersal followed. Reds had boasted they would fight to the death.
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Koje Island
Russians Relax Half of Blockade on Berlin Autobahn
Berlin dispatch reports Russians eased the two way blockade of Allied patrols on the Berlin lifeline road. An East bound US military police jeep traveled the 110 mile route from West Germany to Berlin after a 10 day ban, while jeeps from Berlin to the West were turned back.
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Berlin
Germany
Taft Holds Edge as Ike Grows Tougher in War of Words
Political observers note Senator Robert Taft's longer political tenure gives him a thicker skin for criticism. Taft criticizes Eisenhower over air power while Eisenhower retorts about soldiers in any war, signaling a high-stakes clash as both seek the Republican nomination.
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Sen
Robert A. Taft
Gen
Dwight Eisenhower
Ike Is Back Home In Abilene For Welcome By Thousands
Dwight D. Eisenhower returned to Abilene Kansas to inaugurate the final phase of his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. A 30 minute address was planned at 6 pm EST and a news conference the next day. Thousands attended the homecoming as plans for an Eisenhower Museum and a life history parade proceeded.
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Eisenhower
Taft
Ike
Abilene
Kan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Casion
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
White House
Eisenhower Park
Washington
Four-Legged Economy Program Launched in Ridgefield Park
Village Commissioner Ross S. Vogt inaugurated a four legged economy plan by importing two sheep to mow grass in the village parks. If the trial run Tuesday succeeds, four more sheep will be bought to cut costs on manpower and machinery.
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Ross S. Vogt
Vogt
CCAFB Unit To Get Planes
The Air Force said Clinton County Air Force Base will be among 22 reserve training centers resuming flight training in July or within two months. A troop carrier unit is being trained at the base under Maj. Gen. Leon W. Johnson of Continental Air Command. Ground instruction had preceded flight training since the 2252nd Air Force Reserve Training Unit arrived last December to train the 910th Reserve Wing.
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The
Air Force
Washington, D. C
Clinton County Air Force Base
Leon W. Johnson
Continental Air Command
Modern Times Slow Poll Count in Rural South Dakota
Storms knocked out electric lines in isolated Jones Jackson and Ka akon counties delaying vote tallies. Auditors halted tabulation and went home unable to illuminate precincts as voters waited in the dark.
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Pierre
S. D
South Dakota
Jones, Jackson
Kaakon
Wholesale Food Prices Decline For Second Week
New York reports a slight drop in wholesale food prices for the second consecutive week. The Dun & Bradstreet index sits at 6.43 versus 6.45 last week and 9.2 percent below the year-ago level of 7.08. The index tallies the cost of 31 general use foods.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
715000 Idled By Walkout Across Steel Strike
The nationwide steel strike idled about 715000 workers including 650000 CIO United Steelworkers and 26000 coal miners. White House summoned industry and union leaders to a conference as wage talks stalled after federal seizure. President Truman urged talks while Murray demands Wage Stabilization Board recommendations.
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Pittsburgh
White House
CIO
United Steelworkers
Phil Murray
Murray
U. S. Supreme Court
Truman
Wage Stabilization Board
Steel
America
Allied Industries
Truce Talkers Trade Sharp Words Again
United Nations and Communist truce negotiators exchanged strongly worded notes on prisoners of war. North Korea protested treatment of Reds on Koje Island and warned that Red armies in Korea might march. UN lists 91 names of captured soldiers to add to 895 previously compiled.
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Munsan
United Nations
Korea
Nam Tl
Panmunjom
Koje Island
William K. Harrison Jr
Red
Hoover urges new study commission on federal reorganization
Former President Herbert Hoover urged Congress to create another commission to streamline the federal government as budget growth from 40 billion to 90 billion increases organizational challenges. He told House committee chair Dawson that he cannot testify due to prior commitments and urged proposals on reorganization be sent to the next Congress.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Hoover
Dawson
House Executive Expenditures Committee
Hoover Commission
Commission
Notable Deaths and Local News Across Ohio and Arkana
Magnolia Arkansas reports the death of Dr C C Winters 89 Baptist minister former president of the American Baptist Association Cincinnati reports the death of George J Gruen Gruen Watch Co board chair from a heart attack Wendell Dabney editor publisher of The Union dies in Cincinnati Wayne County records the first 1952 polio fatality Ralph Jones 17 from near Burbank Ohio Cities Water Co gains 50 percent rate hike Newark drowning of Richard Allen Loar 16 Pomeroy fatal crash Neil W Roush 38 Racine killed when his pickup veers off Route 338
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Magnolia
Ark
C. C. Winters
The
American Baptist Association
Wooster
Ralph Jones
Burbank
Wayne County
Children’s Hospital
Akron
Pomeroy
Neil W. Roush
Racine
Route 338
Here
Mexican President orders nationwide depistolization
President Miguel Aleman on June 4 ordered a nationwide confiscation of all illegal firearms to prevent violence ahead of the July 6 national elections in Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Miguel Aleman
Warren Kefauver Sweep California Delegates In Primary
In California on Tuesday Earl Warren and Estes Kefauver won large delegations to the national conventions by margins above two to one. Warren carried all 70 GOP delegates over a Werdel slate while Kefauver led a Brown backed pro Truman slate. Knowland also won crossfiled tickets for reelection defeating Clinton McKinnon in both parties.
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San Francisco
Earl Warren
Estes Kefauver
California
Truman
Warren
GOP
Thomas H. Werdel
Tennessee
Kefauver
Edmund G. Brown
William F Knowland
Clinton McKinnon
Knowland
McKinnon
South Dakota Primary Narrow Taft Ike Edge in Debate for Delegates
In South Dakota Taft clung to a slim lead over Eisenhower for 14 nominating delegates as counting resumed. With 1,789 of 1,947 precincts reported Taft led 62 968 to 62 050 and an estimated 15 000 votes remain. Kefauver won the eight Democratic delegates.
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Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Chicago
Eisenhower
Associated Press
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
White Youth and Negro Girl Wed at Quaker Ceremony
Robert McAllester aged 23 and Grace Cunningham 22 from Berkeley Calif wed in Ithaca New York after meeting at Earlham College Richmond Indiana. They faced campus opposition yet pursued marriage with resolve and faith.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Robert McAllester
Grace Cunningham
Berkeley
Calif
Farlham College
Richmond
Ind
McAllester
Allen McAllester
Miss Cunningham
Thomas F. Jones
Earlham
UN Airmen Bomb North Korean Front Lines
Allied B26 bombers struck front-line positions in darkness after clouds hid northern targets. Night missions destroyed 29 supply vehicles and rain hindered the 155 mile ground front. Allied tanks near Munsan reportedly killed or wounded about 30 Chinese.
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Seoul
Munsan
General To Miss Daughter's Rites
Gen Mark Clark cannot attend his daughter Ann Clark’s June 12 marriage to Capt Gordon H Ousting at Fort Monroe Virginia due to duties with UN forces. Clark left the United States to succeed Gen Matthew Ridgway as commander of UN forces.
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Tokyo
Mark Clark
U. S
Matthew B. Ridgway
United Nations
Clark
Fort Monroe
Ann
Gordon H. Oosting
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George J. Gruen
Gruen Watch Co
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Union
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Richard Allen Loar
James Johnson
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