Italians Vote in 1953 Election Dividing East West Path
In Italy a massive turnout marked by praise and controversy as anti Communist forces led in first unofficial Senate returns from 18 of 41 647 sections. Officials expect a record turnout well over 90 percent in this two day vote shaping Italy's future alignment.
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Rome
Italy
Europe
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Italian Republic
L'Unita
Christian Democrat
Interior Ministry
Mario Scelba
300 College Delegates Expected at Conference
About 300 delegates from 56 colleges in Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia will attend the Ohio Valley International Relations Club conference in Morgantown April 23 24. The event is sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace which funds and assists more than 700 peace clubs nationwide.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ohio Valley International Relations Club
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Cab Drivers Charged With Selling Liquor in Springfield
Seven taxicab drivers in Springfield were charged with selling intoxicants without licenses after three state liquor inspectors hired cabs at closing time. The drivers allegedly sold bottles of whiskey to inspectors who posed as customers.
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Springfield
Air Force Accepts Four Engine Jet Fighter XP-87
The Air Force awarded Curtiss-Wright a 1.5 million dollar contract for engineering and tooling of the four engine jet XP-87. Production contract wasn’t awarded yet but preliminary work has begun on the 600 mile per hour all weather fighter.
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Washington
Curtiss- Wright
Air Force
Columbus
Curtiss-Wright
Treason Guilty Plea in First Post‑Coup Trial
Prague officials report Otto Obuch secretary to ex Deputy Premier Jan Ursing pleaded guilty to treason. It marks the first treason trial since the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia.
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Prague
Otto Obuch
Jan Ursing
Czechoslovakia
Perfect Crime Who Killed Battery
Pasadena police raced to a report of a murder or self harm after a citizen relayed a car near his home with a sign reading Betty is dead. The officer found the sign read Battery is dead and the case was closed.
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Pasadena
Calif
Betty
D. M. Palmateer
Forces Battle for San Jose in Costa Rica Crisis
Civil fighting raged in San Jose as Jose Figueres’s rebel Army of Liberation set Cartago as capital for the Second Republic. Diplomatic efforts between Figueres forces and President Picardo Michalski's government were at risk as the clash began Saturday.
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Cartago
Costa Rica
San Jose
Jose Figueres
Army of Liberation
Figueres
Teodoro Picardo Michalski
Seaworthy Rescue After Drydock Sinks Off North Carolina Coast
The tug Kevin Moran returned to Norfolk with 26 seamen rescued from life rafts after their drydock, towed then sank in heavy seas off the North Carolina coast. All crew were saved.
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Norfolk
Kevin Moran
Atlantic
Moran
North Carolina
Catholics Parade Through Yokosuka Base Honor Faith
About 5000 Japanese and allied Catholics marched through the Yokosuka naval base on Sunday in a public profession of faith, drawing participation from 200 American Catholics among the crowd.
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Yokosuka
Japan
Taft Stassen Center Efforts on Ohio Votes
In Cleveland Taft and Stassen push for Ohio primary support with Taft touring Geauga County and addressing 300 Republicans in Burton. Stassen advances his bid to win delegates as both campaign across Ohio ahead of the May 4 primary. Taft criticizes Truman and the New Deal while defending liberalism as freedom.
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Taft
Stassen
Ohio
Cleveland
Taft-Stassen
Robert A. Taft
Washington
Geauga County
Burton
Harold E. Stassen
Congress
Minnesota
Senate
Truman
AFL Musicians To Play For Sick Without Charge
AFL Musicians will donate free performances totaling 1 636 721 dollars over nine months in veterans hospitals and other institutions across the United States and Canada. James C Petrillo announced the national effort to bring music to ill and needy through free concerts.
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New York
AFL
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
United States
Canada
Wagner supports Taft in housing bill fight
Senator Robert Wagner of New York declares full backing for Senator Taft in the dispute with Senator McCarthy over a long range housing bill. The plan would authorize a major slum clearance program through federal loans and subsidies as revised by Taft Ellender and Wagner.
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Wagner
Taft
Washington
Senate Democrat
Ohio
McCarthy
R-Wis
New York
Senator Ellender
D-La
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
Taft-Ellender
Banking Committee
Ohio River Flood Falls. Cincinnati Area Sees Relief
The Ohio River declined from a 64.8 foot crest after a week of rises. Engineers credited flood controls for saving millions, including a $3 million saved at Cincinnati’s Mill Creek dam barrier. Eight deaths were linked to the flood as 31,000 people in four states were affected. The river is forecast to fall below 52 feet by Friday if rains stay light.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
U.S. Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
George R. Marti
Martin Box Co
Aurora
Indianapolis Chair Co
Oscar Hesch
Newport
Army
B. B. Talley
Louisville
Mill Creek
Col. Talley
Corps of Engineers
George Gugel
Elmer H. McGrew
Camp Campbell
Main St
Pomeroy
Western Germany talks to map postwar future
The United States Britain and France will begin new talks on Western Germany tomorrow. The Benelux nations Belgian Dutch and Luxembourg will be represented by Baron Michiels Van Verduynen. Earlier meetings agreed Western Germany should have a major role in the European Recovery Program for Ruhr control and a federalized Germany. Russia did not participate.
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London
British Foreign Office
United States
Britain
France
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Baron Michiels van Verduynen
Ruhr
Russia
State Employees Seek Mileage Increase Proposal
The Ohio State Council of AFL affiliated state employees adopted a resolution to raise the mileage allowance for personal car use on state jobs from six to eight cents per mile. The request was sent to Gov. Thomas J. Herbert and state department heads.
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Columbus
Ohio State Council of State
AFL American Federation of State
Thomas J. Herbert
Ex Councilman Becomes City's Fourth Manager
Howard Wilson, a former city councilman, becomes city manager amid a history of firey departures. He succeeds Frank R. Buechner, who resigned after suspension in February. Wilson’s council term ended December 31.
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Hamilton, O
Howard Wilson
Frank R. Buechner
Wilson
San Francisco Quake Strikes on Disaster Date Anniversary
A sharp earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay area yesterday during the 42nd anniversary of the 1906 quake and fire. The tremor centered in Marin and Contra Costa counties and across the bay, but no damage was reported.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area
Marin
Contra Costa
Bay
Tno
Lauren Bacall Balks at Bathing Suit Role
Hollywood stars Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart are mentioned as Bacall refuses to appear in a film wearing a swimsuit. She says she is not a bathing beauty and would be embarrassed, amid talk of her sailing with Bogart.
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Hollywood
Lauren Bacall
Warner Brothers
Humphrey Bogart
Bogy
Chiang Kai-Shek elected China’s constitutional president
Chiang Kai-Shek was elected China’s first constitutional president with virtually dictatorial powers by the National Assembly, receiving 2,430 votes as Chu Cheng gained 269 in a gesture toward a rival. He will serve six years under the new constitution and hold expanded powers during the national crisis. Meanwhile civil war moves targeted Communist troops near the Peiping Paoting railway, with rail traffic ruptured and capture reported at Ihsien 60 miles southwest of Peiping.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
National Assembly
Chu Cheng
Judicial Yuan
Shanghai
Chiang
Peiping-Paoting
Peiping
Ihsien
Disobedience Reported Over Jim Crow Military Service
Washington Senate hearing heard Grant Reynolds state a nationwide civil disobedience campaign against segregated armed forces. Reynolds, national chair of the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, showed a card refusing draft for Jim Crow service and said 100 000 buttons would be produced. Senator Bridges urged swift action on a 70 group air force.
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Washington
Grant Reynolds
Congress
Armed Services
Reynolds
House Armed Services Committee
Bridges
Ecuador Tightens Guard Against Possible Communist Uprising
Quito authorities report a potential Guayaquil Communist uprising and move to block an influx of prisoners freed during the Bogota revolt ten days earlier. Barricades and security measures are in place as officials monitor the situation and deny outside interference.
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Quito
Ecuador
Guayaquil
Colombia
Bogota
Stock Exchange Strikers Begin Fourth Week of Pickets
In New York a prolonged negotiation failed to resolve the strike of Stock Exchange Workers. Union officials ordered pickets to start their fourth week of marching today.
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Stock Exchange
New York
Negotiations to Resume Between Union and U S Steel
Negotiations between the CIO United Steel Workers Union and U S Steel Corp were set to resume today in Pittsburgh. A previous meeting was recessed April 6 to allow the company to prepare a reply to union demands.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steel Workers Union
U. S. Steel Corp
The
Steel Corporation
U. S. Demands Help in Palestine Burden
The United States says it will not bear the Palestine burden alone and asks other nations to share responsibility. Delegates at the United Nations Assembly meet to admit Burma and discuss a possible temporary trusteeship for Palestine amid expectations the U. S. will present a formal proposal.
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New York
United States
Palestine
United Nations Assembly
Burma
Holy Land
U. S
ICC Grants Rate Increase For Freight
The Inter state Commerce Commission approves a further temporary freight rate rise for railroads about four percent above current levels, costing the public roughly 300 million dollars annually. This adds to prior temporary increases and will take effect after ten days notice pending final ruling on permanent adjustments.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
ICC
Federal Mediators Enter Chrysler Dispute
Federal mediators stepped in as Chrysler wage talks neared a union strike vote for 75,000 workers. The UAW rejected a six cent an hour raise and asked its executive board to approve a strike, with a meeting set between both sides ahead of the vote.
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Milan
Italy
Palmiro Togliatti
U.S
Detroit
Chrysler Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
Senate Panel Opens Hearings On Wage-Hour Act Reforms
D R McComb testifies that 75 cent minimum wage is feasible and necessary as Senate labor subcommittee starts hearings on revising the Wage-Hour Act. He says the current 40 cent rate, set a decade ago, is outmoded and does not reflect living costs. The hearings explore proposals by Senator Ball and others to overhaul the act.
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Washington
Senate Labor
D. R. McComb
McComb
Congress
Ball
R-Minn
Senate Labor Committee
U S Backed Anti-Red Resolution At Pan American Meet
Delegates from Brazil Chile Cuba United States and Uruguay agreed to draft a stricter anti Communist resolution at the Pan American Conference in Bogota Colombia The aim is to sharpen wording beyond Chile’s March 30 proposal Juvenal Hernandez Chilean delegate predicted the conference would close in about two weeks
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Bogota
Colombia
United States
Brazil
Chile
Cuba
Uruguay
Juvenal Hernandez
Atomic Weapon Test At Eniwetok Disclosed
Washington AP report says the Atomic Energy Commission announced a test of an atomic weapon was held at the proving grounds on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It is the first such test announced since Bikini tests in 1946, with the date withheld for security reasons.
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Washington
Proving Grounds
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshall Islands
Atomic Energy Commission
Bikini
Pacific
Jackson McArthur Boys Killed in Truck Mishaps
Raymond Ward backed a truck from his home when his 16 month old son Gary Lynn wandered into the path and was killed. Dan Jenkins Sr. reports his six year old son Dan Jenkins Jr. was struck and killed after running into a street by a truck.
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Jackson
Dan Jenkins
Dan Jenkins, Sr
37 Die in New Guinea Civilian Plane Crash
Sydney reports thirty seven people died yesterday when a civilian plane crashed on takeoff from the Lae airstrip in New Guinea. It was described as the worst civilian air tragedy in New Guinea's history.
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New Guinea
Sydney
Australia
Lae
Judge hints jail term considered in Lewis contempt case
Judge T Alan Goldsborough signaled possible jail time for John L Lewis after ruling him guilty of criminal contempt for defying a court order to return striking miners to work. He asked for government recommendations and warned the issue tests court power to protect citizens.
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Washington
T. Alan Goldsborough
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine
Goldsborough
Ing
Union
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Soldier Pulls Emergency Cord Trains Crash Kills 24
Police report a soldier admitted pulling an emergency cord to hasten off at Winsford causing a collision that killed 24 people. A speeding train struck seven crushed coaches after the unexpected stop.
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Winsford
Cheshire
Eny
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Foreign Agricultual Relations
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Buckingham
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Romesburg Coal Co
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