Stiff Fight Likely Over Iran Case Dismissal
The Soviet Union presses to remove the Iranian case from the United Nations Security Council agenda. Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko returns to press for dismissal while the United States opposes dropping the case before May 6. Iran’s position remains unsettled as Tehran weighs instructions from Prime Minister Qavam.
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New York
Andrei Gromyko
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Byrnes
United States
Iran
Hussein Ala
Ahmed Qavam
Tehran
Qavam
Mozaffar Firouz
Security Council
Council
United Nations
Gromyko
U. N
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Washington
Stettinius
Moscow
Plan Legal Fence Around Secrets of Atomic Energy
Eleven senators tackle building a legal fence to guard atomic energy secrets while allowing domestic control policy debate. The draft domestic control bill would let a proposed commission regulate dissemination and unauthorized acquisition of atomic information, with penalties up to 310000 and five years in jail, higher penalties for intents to aid foreign nations.
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Washington
McMahon
Conn
Special Atomic Energy Committee
Lackic
Vandenberg
Mich
United States
CAA Seeks Funds for Airport Landing System Upgrade
The Civil Aeronautics Administration asks Congress for 16,608,692 dollars to install instrument landing systems at 31 airports nationwide. The move follows a wage dispute linked to a CIO dairy workers strike and OPA price relief rulings.
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Washington
Aeronautics Administration
Congress
Naat
Colntional Wage Stabilization Board
Try
Detroit
Commerce Department
OPA
CIO
United Dairy
Family Hacked to Death In Front Yard in Des Moines
A mother grandmother and two young children were killed in the front yard of a Des Moines home after a gun battle with police. A newspaper printer, William C. Irwin, 41, was wounded by a police bullet and later jailed after treatment. A neighbor child was also wounded during the exchange.
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Des Moines
William C. Irwin
Irwin
Richest Girl in World Repays $20 Fee in Tax Suit
Newark New Jersey reports Dons Duke Cromwell the so called richest girl in the world received $20 repayment from federal court after winning a case to stop Hillsborough township from demanding more than 13 million in intangible taxes. The tobacco heiress won the suit. Troy strike by 70 CIO united auto workers set for Hobart Miz Co was called off after a new wage agreement.
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N. J
Dons
Duke Cromwell
Hillsborough
CAUL
Troy
Cio-United
Hobart Miz. Co
Durability Tests Aim Of Standards Bureau
The National Bureau of Standards seeks $100,000 to develop durability tests for common materials and plans to publish testimony on the 1947 Commerce Department appropriations bill. The bureau hopes citizens can complain to the government when shoes socks and shirts wear out too quickly.
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Washington
National Bureau of Standards
Bureau
Commerce Department
Graves Located of Bataan Soldiers Found by Army Officer
Lt Col L V Greene reports the U S Army has located graves of soldiers from the Bataan campaign. Diaries and survivor interviews help identify 1,600 American and 13,000 Filipino deaths in withdrawal and defense, with 600 Americans and 5,000 Filipinos killed in the massacre, plus 600 Americans and 11,000 Filipinos in the death march. Additional deaths occurred at Cabanatuan Prison camp.
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Bataan Peninsula
MacArthur
L. V. Greene
U. S. Amy
Bataan
Greene
Homma
Cabanatuan
Commercial Authority To Be Asked by CAA
Washington hearings report that the Civil Aeronautics Board will again seek authority over international rates for commercial air traffic. The discussion occurred as the 1947 Commerce Department appropriation bill was reported to the House.
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Washington
Congress
Civil Aeronautics Board
Commerce Department
House
Navy Says Bomb Fears Groundless in Yale Professor Letter
A Navy task force and oceanographer reviewed a letter from Yale emeritus physics professor H S Uhler who warned that atom bomb testing at Bikini Atoll could trigger chain earthquakes and a massive tidal wave. They provided records showing no ground cracking or crustal failure as a result of test detonations.
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Yale
Bikini Atoll
Navy
Roger
Revelle
Renitude
Uhier
Uhler
New York
Sion
Urey Déelkeve
Pacific
Wory
Vic Donahey Dies Rites To Be Thursday
Columbus AP report on the death of Alvin Vic Donahey a three term Ohio governor and U.S. senator. He died in Grant Hospital from histoplasmosis after a Florida trip and will be buried in New Philadelphia with funeral Thursday. Survivors include his widow six sons four daughters two brothers and notable figures Hal Donahey and William Donahey.
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Columbus
Alvin
Vic) Donahey
Ohio
United States
Tuscarawas County
New Philadelphia
Vic
Donahey
Grant Hospital
Japan
Tojo
U. S. Senate
Senate
Treasury
Cleveland
Motorists’ Mutual Insurance Company
Hal
Cleveland Plain Dealer
William
Chicago
Hyde Park Shrine Dedication Set For Friday Event
Hyde Park estate of Franklin D Roosevelt will be dedicated as a national shrine Friday with President Truman participating. Eleanor Roosevelt and Interior Secretary Krug will attend the dedication, marking the first anniversary of Roosevelt’s death. Only 700 guests will enter the house Friday. public access follows later.
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N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
J. A. Krug
Mr. Roosevelt
Move to Block Japanese Election Manipulations
Allied headquarters moved today to block manipulation of the Japanese election. Troops were ordered to watch for coercive practices by police interference, landowners, employers and other groups seeking to influence voters. Handle attempts by political machines to buy votes and ensure access to polls and secret voting.
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Tokyo
Allied
Hope to Force Vote on Presidential Term Limit
Republican leaders predicted early success for a revived campaign to cap presidential terms at six consecutive years. They aim to secure 218 House signatures on a discharge petition to force a vote and push the amendment to the people before the 1948 election. Dor othy Drake presumed lost after last week’s tidal wave. Hawaii parents notified.
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Washington
Columbus
Dorothy Drake
Hawaii
Halsey Suffering From Respiratory Infection in Hospital
Fleet Admiral William F. Byl Halsey Sr., 65, was reported resting comfortably at Philadelphia Naval Hospital after being treated for an upper respiratory infection. The Navy announced the condition early today.
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Balsey
Philadelphia
William F
Byl) Halsey, Sr
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
Navy
Industrial Layoffs Rise As Coal Talks Rally Farmers
A May 1 farm strike plan gains momentum as about 300 growers meet to push for higher prices and OPA abolition. Henry Fackler of Flymouth urges end to price controls while Clark Rader of Newark backs a strike to force 100 percent planting and withholding of produce.
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Newark
Avieriing County
Henry Fackler
Wsenung Vule
Ceouuuu
OPA
Clark Rader
Ohio Marketing, Protest Association
State Marketing Association
Rader
Churchill urged FDR to act on Japan before Pearl Harbor
Washington reports reveal Winston Churchill pressed Franklin D Roosevelt as early as February 1941 to create pressure that pourrait trigger war with the United States over Japan. New documents from State Department and White House files were cited as Senate committee hearings resumed. A message from Churchill to Roosevelt dated February 15, 1941 warned Japan aimed to strike soon, risking US involvement.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Japan
Singapore
United States
Senate House
Pearl Harbor
State Department
White House
Seth
Richardson
House Favors Draft Holiday and Election Year Pressure
Washington reports a draft holiday drew energy in the House while Senate sentiment leaned toward keeping Selective Service. Committees sought decisions on extending the draft law beyond May 15 amid election year considerations with War Department showing willingness to a four to six month ban if a full year extension is approved. The War Department declined to comment.
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Washington
House
Senate
Capitol
War Department
Congress
The
Pickets Halt Repair Operations at Mines
Pickets from the United Mine Workers halted repair work at Pageton coal mines in Southern West Virginia yesterday. Field officers in Welch said the action followed the company’s alleged refusal to sign a retroactive pay agreement allowing repair crews to resume work after the early April shutdown.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Pagetoal and Coke Company
Pageton
United Mine Workers
Welch
Cost of living fuels cross party urging in Congress
Washington reports bipartisan concern over rising living costs. Rep. Chase Going Woodhouse of Connecticut and Rep. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine draft identical resolutions calling for a special cost-of-living committee and a full investigation into the price crisis. Woodhouse notes that paying the bill falls on ordinary families.
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Washington
Chase Going
Woodhouse
Connecticut Democrat
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Unions and Employers Target Talks as Unemployment Rises
Unemployment reaches 22,000 as AFL United Mine Workers wage talks resume in Washington seeking a new contract for about 40,000 workers. Steel and tube plants report cuts while 7,000 others face layoffs in trucking, steel fabricating, and rail jobs amid Government pressure for a settlement. Labor officials warn a week could bring actions, with draft extension urged. Akron transit workers strike looms with wage demands amid broader industry disruption.
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Atria
Washington
Afl-United -Mine
U. S. Steel
Carnegie-Iilineia Steel’ Corporation
Netiesed Tube Co
Pittsburgh Ees
Carnegie-Tinois
Chicago
Bowles
Hisarges
Cincinnati Ares
Thafl Electrical
Cincinnati Gam & Electric Co
International Brotherhood
Electrical Workers
Aafl
Dwight Hisenhower
Army
House Military Affairs Committee
Akron
CIO
Akron Transportation Co
Eve
Xe Ber
New War Gas Developed by U S Revealed
ATLANTIC CITY N J Secretary of War Patterson disclosed that the United States developed a war gas that would have made the Japanese military mask useless He spoke at the opening of the 109th meeting of the American Chemical Society. Major General Alden H Waitt of the Chemical Warfare Service said chemical warfare could be as decisive as the atomic bomb In remarks he warned of agents far more toxic than mustard gas phosgene cyanides and arsenicals Our discoveries give confidence in the power of chemical weapons He added that by war’s end America was just entering stride with improved fire bombs that would have levelled enemy cities and made them uninhabitable.
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N. T
Patterson
United Sates
Waitt
America
Politician Charged After Youth Shooting in Chicago
Chicago candidate Charlies Anderson Jr. 38, a Sixth Illinois District Republican, was booked on assault to murder after Grover McClean, 15, was found unconscious in an alley with a gunshot wound. Anderson said he fired twice when the boy broke away after tying a rope to his car bumper.
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Chicago
Congress
Thomas Casey
Charlies Anderson, Jr
Illinois
Grover McClean
Anderson
Saturday Haircuts To Cost More in Chicago
Beginning next Monday Chicago prices rise for haircuts to 1.00 on weekdays and 1.25 on Saturdays and holiday eves. Shaves increase to 0.65. The hikes are 15 and 25 cents for haircuts and 15 cents for shaves.
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Chicago
Raise Ceiling Prices On Sausage Products
Washington announces higher ceiling prices for about 85 percent of sausage products, rising one or two cents per pound starting Thursday. The OPA says average general price increases will be 4.4 cents per pound due to a 16 cent per hour wage boost for packing house workers. Veal lamb and mutton prices rise today while beef and pork were raised last week.
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Washington
OPA
Spending Psychology Angers House Appropriations Panel
The House Appropriations Committee recommended deep cuts to State, Commerce, and Justice Department funding for the new fiscal year, approving a 358 million dollar bill for three departments and the Federal Judiciary. It labeled a wartime “spending psychology” entrenched in federal officials and urged elimination.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Commerce
Justice Department
House
Federal Judiciary
James Byrnes
Merchant Sailor Admits Seven Undivorced Wives
Milwaukee police say Joseph Vargas a 34 year old merchant seaman told Det Lt Niederkorn he had a wife in practically every port and will be arraigned on a probation violation in an absent case regarding the mother of his six children He plans to divorce all seven and marry the Pomona California mother whom he calls his common law wife.
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Milwaukee
Joseph Vargas
John Niederkorn
Niederkorn
Atee
Sdilor
Pomona
Calif
Chijren
Huntington Man Killed and Two Injured in Ohio Auto Crash
A Huntington man, Henry Isaacs, 47, died and two others were injured in a single vehicle crash near Chesapeake Airport on Route 52. John Bartsecendine, a Huntington prize figure, was critical with head injuries and a broken leg. George Baumgardner had minor cuts.
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Huntington
W. van Vpene
Huntingtone
Chesapeake Airport
Ohio Dawn Patrol To Begin Regular Schedule
Cleveland report states the Dawn Patrol decided last night to start its first patrol April 28 flying from various saloon locations to an airfield yet to be selected. Afterward patrols will occur biweekly until further notice.
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Cleveland
Chio
Sporsman
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