World Capitals Ponder Russian Change of Power
AP reports global reactions to Stalin's illness and death rumors. Malenkov is seen with an inside track while officials doubt policy shifts. Churchill Adenauer Belgrade Vienna New Delhi Tokyo voices vary on post Stalin dynamics.
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Associated Press
Joseph Stalin
Washington
Stalin
Georgi M. Malenkov
London
Churchill
Bonn
Germany
Adenauer
Stalin suffers paralytic stroke casts doubt on Soviet leadership
Moscow reports Prime Minister Joseph Stalin, 73, has a paralyzing brain hemorrhage. Doctors say his condition is grave after the attack in his Kremlin apartment last Sunday night. The government has not indicated how leadership will be affected.
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Joseph Stalin
Stalin
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NAM MAKES PROPOSALS Ban Urgedon Union Shop.
The National Association of Manufacturers urged Congress to outlaw industry wide strikes and compulsory unionism such as the union shop. NAM claims 85 percent of U S manufacturing capacity and 9000+ members. AFL CIO oppose the proposals amid Taft Hartley Act hearings.
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National Association of Manufacturers Today
Congress
NAM
House Labor Committee
George W. Armstrong Jr
Association
AFL
CIO
House Committee
George Meany
Armstrong
Truman
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
United Steelworkers
Van Fleet Opens Korea War Talk in Public Hearing
General James A. Van Fleet agrees to an open public discussion before the House Armed Services Committee on Korea strategy, following a confidential briefing with President Eisenhower. He urges offensive action and contrasts his view with Gen. Omar Bradley while outlining plans for subsequent closed sessions with other committees.
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House Armed Services Committee
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Korea
Armed Services Group
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
van Fleet
Eisenhower
Generel
Rep. Short
R-Mo
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House
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United Nations
Bill Proposes Expanded Farm Price Supports
Senator Humphrey proposes a bill to require high level price supports for flax soybeans oats rye barley sorghums dairy products hogs poultry and eggs at no less than 90 percent of parity. Parity aims to keep prices fair for farmers. current law already mandates 90 percent supports for wheat cotton corn tobacco rice and peanuts through next year.
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Washington
Humphrey
D-Minn
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Ohio Highway Fund Quarrel Takes Shape
The Senate Finance Committee held an emergency session to consider a bill granting 15 million dollars from the treasury surplus to the state highway department for early spring road projects. Highway Director Samuel Linzell warned about 22 million for Pike County area projects and 20 million for Northern Ohio Turnpike feeder roads over the next two years.
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Ohio
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Highway Department
Linzell
Pike County Atomic Energy Plant
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Jelke bail efforts drop as sentencing nears
New York report that Jelke’s attorneys abandoned attempts to gain bail before a March 20 sentencing. His mother and stepfather met with General Sessions Judge Francis L. Valente to discuss a rehabilitation plan for the 23 year old playboy, though no details emerged.
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Minot
F.mickey
Jelke
General Sessions
Francis L. Valente
Playboy
Makers of Disputed Movie Warned To Leave or Else
Safety fears flare as 150 townsmen in Central New Mexico demand Salt of the Earth be removed by noon with four whistle blasts at 4 p.m. If ignored, threats of violence loom against the film crew led by Clinton Jencks. State police requested reinforcements amid vigilante pressure.
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N. M
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Owen Matthews
Central
Joe Roach
Santa Fe
Congress
Matthews
State Po
Lice
el Paso
Tex
Clinton Jencks
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
the Times
Stalin gravely ill as satellite leaders rush to Moscow
London reports Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is gravely ill after a brain stroke. Diplomats note swift calls from communist satellites to Moscow and speculation of possible death and staged disclosures. Berlin associates of Walter Ulbricht reportedly flew to Moscow on orders. German sources say top satellite officials summoned to capital.
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Georgi M. Malenkov
Joseph Stalin
Moscow
Kremlin
Malenkov
V. M. Molotov
Stalin
Nertionaliari
Neaminané Wata
U. S
Molotov
Russia
London
Europe
Communist Party
Fast Berlin
Walter Albright
East Germany
Gallia and Vinton Roads Hit by Flash Floods
State Highway Patrol reports a night flash flood washed out parts of three highways in Gallia and Vinton Counties. Ohio 775 and 218 in Gallia, and 328 in Vinton were closed with no immediate damage estimate available.
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Columbus
State Highway Patrol
Gallia
Vinton
Ohio
Vinton County
Ohio Mother Charged In Infant Death in Theater Restroom
Akron police ruled the newborn's death a homicide after drowning and loss of blood. Coroner William Pittenger noted the infant died in a downtown theater restroom and was found by a scrubwoman. The mother, unnamed in reports, is under guard in a hospital and faces a first degree murder affidavit.
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Akron
William Pittenger
Movie Actor Powell In Serious Condition
Santa Monica California Dick Powell remains in serious condition after two operations at St Johns Hospital. He is reported recuperating but with cautious outlook from medical staff and family.
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Powell
Santa Monica
Calif
Dick Powell
St. John’s Hospital
Treaty Edict Won't Affect Yalta Accord
Senator Taft said Eisenhower and Dulles agree that revising the resolution condemning Soviet oppression does not affect World War II power agreements. Democratic taunts focus on political impact rather than legal effect, potentially jeopardizing broad support. Taft stressed the resolution does not alter the status of the Yalta agreements.
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Washington
Robert Taft
Eisenhower
Dulles
Taft
Squalor Cited In Infirmary
Ashtabula county health chief reports inmates at the county home live in squalor with no activities beyond eating sleeping sitting smoking and waiting. Dr A P Lindenmayer made the findings after a surprise inspection during the advisory council annual meeting.
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Ashtabula County
A. P. Lindenmayer
Real Estate Scare Arrest Tells Of Russia Threats
A 50 year old Pennsylvanian Adolphus Hohensee of East Benton was arrested in New York on charges of selling cheap real estate at high prices by terrifying buyers with threats that Russia would blow up New York City. He was held on $500 bail for violating the real property law by failing to provide proper land identification and was quoted warning clients that Russia would come here fix the water and blow up the city and that they would have a place to go if trouble came.
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Russia
New York City
Adolphus Hohensee
East Benton
New York State
Nathaniel L. Goldstein
Hohensee Hohensee
Ohio Sesquicentennial Kickoff in Chillicothe Historic Celebration
Ohio holds a sesquicentennial kickoff in Chillicothe with Governor and officials attending. Legislators stage mock sessions then pass a bill naming the Buckeye as Ohio’s official tree. A courier is sent to Washington to urge swift action on statehood status and invites national leaders to Ohio’s year of celebration.
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Ohio
Senate
House
Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
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Stalin Critically Ill Says Columbia Doctor
Dr. Arthur J. Snyder of Columbia Presbyterian, after reading a Moscow bulletin, described Premier Stalin as critically ill and in extremely serious condition. He warned prognosis depends on the first days and indicated the illness likely stems from a cerebal vascular accident due to hemorrhage.
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New York
Arthur J. Snyder
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Stalin
Moscow
Snyder
ROKs Regain Outpost After Savage Close-Quarter Fight
South Korean infantry regain a hill outpost on the Central Korean Front after 23 hours of savage combat with an estimated 500 Chinese Reds. Allies bombed the post earlier, then ROKs counter-attacked and retook the summit southeast of Kumsong. The Eighth Army reports 30 Reds killed on the battlefield, with 90 more killed and 60 wounded overall.
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Seoul
Republic of Korea
Kumsong
Eighth Army
Secrest Asks Airline Okay For Zanesville Service
Rep. Secrest of Ohio urged the Civil Aeronautics Board to approve both trunkline and feeder air service through Zanesville airport. He asked reconsideration of its decision to end Trans World Airways trunk service, noting postwar industrial growth and expected expansion in his district. TWA did not express interest in continuing Zanesville service during hearings.
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Ohio
TWA
Zanesville
Reduce Charge In Ax Slaying
Mae Durden, 40, a housewife, was convicted of assault and battery for the ax slaying of her husband after a Dec 16 death. The grand jury pared second degree murder to manslaughter, with Judge Hanna deferring sentence pending probation report. Durden testified she beat and kicked bystander daughter Marion, who was 9, and Durden claimed a miscarriage followed.
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Cleveland
Mae Durden
Common Pleas
Harry A. Hanna
Former Middleport Pastor Dies at 84
In Loudonville Ohio funeral services will be held Thursday for the Rev. Thomas Lasley 84 a retired Baptist minister who officiated at 1220 weddings and 3010 funerals He served Baptist pastorates at Middleport Portsmouth Branchester Vermilion Bethel and Jamestown in Ohio.
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Thomas Lasley
Middleport
Portsmouth
Branchester
Vermilion
Bethel
Jamestown
Ohio
Voice Probers Seek Loyalty Files From State Dept
Sen McCarthy and a Senate investigations subcommittee sought access to the loyalty files of two State Department employees. The request, central to televised hearings about the Voice of America, follows other congressional demands and faces possible rejection by the Eisenhower administration. Reed Harris, II A official, faced questions amid a dispute over his past writings defending Marxist ideas.
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M.carthy
R-Wis
Senate Investigations
States Department
Eisenhower
McCarthy
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