Army Shakeup Demands Mount in Senate Hearing
Senators on the Armed Services Committee urged action over alleged shortages in Korean ammunition and lagging defense efforts. They pressed for reorganization of top Pentagon and overseas commanders amid statements by Gen. Thomas Van Fleet and others.
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Washington
Korea
Senate Armed Services Committee
Tema
van Winsée
Thom
Oie
Eighth Army
Sen
Symington
D-Mo
U.S
Defense Department
Byrd
D-Va
Pentagon
John M. Butler
Boy Admits Killing Two Schoolgirl Victims
A 16 year old boy from New York City admitted luring Esther Nagy aged five and Marjorie Boudeau aged eight to a woods and killing them. Coroner reports indicate sexual assault and fatal blows with evidence of strangulation. Police say he assisted in carrying Marjorie back to the boarding school and performed artificial respiration before later confessing. The district attorney announced first degree murder charges with arraignment planned.
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New City
N. Y
Carleton Mason
New York City
John Skah
Rockland County
M. J. Moses
Esther Nagy
Marjorie Boudeau
Esther
Marjorie
Moses
Mason
Southring Valley
OUSTER SOUGHT AS Velde FACED RED PROBER MOVE
The House Un American Activities Committee pressed to oust its chairman Rep Velde amid efforts to purge communists from schools. Senate internal security chair Sen Jenner said only more investigations will show if communism in colleges is waning, with Brooklyn College president Gideonse endorsing the probes.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Rep
Velde
Bell
Eastern University Law
Roemerere
Sen
Jenner
R-Ind
New York City
Senate Internal Security
Harry Gideonse
Brooklyn College
New York
Senate
First Riders Have Big Day
Eleven members of a Red Cross first aid training class at a Tulsa church evacuated to act as responders after four cars collided in front of the building. They diagnosed a late-arriving student with a suspected compound leg fracture, applied splints, and assisted until an ambulance arrived. doctors later said the leg was merely bruised.
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Tulsa
Okla
Red Cross
Free Asia Challenge To Reds Adlai Says
Adlai Stevenson urged a community of free Asian nations to counter communism in the Orient. He spoke to the Japan American Society calling for a free world and a Pacific nations alliance to balance Europe’s free community.
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Adlai
Tokyo
Adlai Stevenson
Orient
Stevenson
Japan-America Society
Both Parties Offer Cure For Truck Tax In Ohio
Democrats urge weight distance tax on trucks at first hearing before the House Public Affairs Committee. They say it fairly distributes highway costs due to heavy truck traffic and reference the Lausche administration plan. Republicans are crafting a similar levy and hearings point to early action.
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Columbus
House
Lausche
House Public Affairs Committee
Frank Gorman
James McGettrick
Cleveland
Gorman
Roger Cloud
R-Logan
Army plan to close Lake Erie for target practice sparks protest
Rep. Weichel of Ohio protested the Army plan to block a wide stretch of Lake Erie off Camp Perry for anti-aircraft target practice. A hearing is set in Toledo on March 19 to rule on eight months of each year with small craft barred while gunners engage moving targets.
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Washington
Lake Erie
Weichel
Ohio
Army
Toledo
Camp Perry
National Guard
Reserve
Taft seeks 1954 federal spending estimate by May 1
Senator Taft asked Treasury Secretary Humphrey and Budget Director Dodge to report to Congress by May 1 with an estimate of next year’s federal outlays. He wants an educated guess on cuts from Truman’s 78.6 billion budget and notes European business teams and Defense savings may affect the totals.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Joseph Dodge
Congress
Senate
Dodge
Truman
Ohioan
Europe
Harold E. Stassen
Defense Department
Eisenhower Seeks Cabinet Rank for Federal Security Agency
President Eisenhower proposes to reorganize the Federal Security Agency into a Cabinet level department. Oveta Culp Hobby would likely become secretary as FSA. The plan covers Social Security Public Health Service Food Drug Administration and Education Office among welfare agencies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Federal Security Agency
Ae Oveta Culp Hobby
FSA
Papen Franklin D. Rosehealt
Social Security System
Public Health Service
Food Or Drug Administration
Office of Education
White House
Capitol Hill
Jurors Acquit Jail Escapee in Chicago Trial
Williams Phillips, 34, a Negro laborer, escaped from the Criminal Courts Building as jurors weighed armed robbery charges. Though found innocent hours later, he remained jailed and faced new charges of robbery and assault to kill with prosecutors planning re indictment after the verdict.
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Chicago
Criminal Courts
Williams Phillips
Cook County
Phillips
M. Philip Scanlan
Scanlan
Livestock Cooperative Opens 18th Annual Conclave
Ohio Indiana Pennsylvania and West Virginia farmers attend the 18th annual Producers Livestock Cooperative Association meeting in Columbus. Delegates represent about 300 members and include advisory committeemen from all Ohio markets.
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Columbus
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Producers Livestock Cooperative Association
Fireman Revives Infant In Cleveland Rescue
Fireman Michael Grealis who is 32 years old revived 4 week old Gregory Funk by mouth resuscitation after the infant stopped breathing Wednesday. The child resumed breathing and was hospitalized for observation.
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Cleveland
Michael Grealis
Gregory Funk
Trapped Allied Units Escape Enemy Force
Allied soldiers on the Korean Peninsula faced heavy fighting as winter storms piled snow and a Chinese Communist force of 150 to 175 Reds surrounded an allied patrol. Reinforcements struggled through and, after a tense hand to hand engagement, the patrol escaped back to Allied lines.
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Seoul
Korean
No Man’s Land
Egypts Queen In Switzerland
Egypts Queen Narriman fled to Switzerland from Rome amid rumors of a pending divorce from ex King Farouk and fear for the dynasty. She departed from Rome airport bound for Zurich with her mother Mrs Sila de and a poodle. Farouk was not at the airport to see her off and his two Albanian bodyguards were absent.
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Rome
Egypt
Narriman
Switzerland
Farouk
Zurich
Silade
Fuad II
Red Based Planes Clash Near Iron Curtain Border
U S officials warned that renewed shooting between American and communist aircraft on the East West border could trigger a larger international crisis. A U S jet and a companion plane reportedly patrolled inside Germany's zone when two Reds approached and opened fire. Prague rejected Washington protests claiming the clash happened over Czech territory and after U S planes penetrated. Officials caution the incident may be one of many in a high tension area and note pilots may need to defend airspace with gunfire if necessary.
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Washington
U. S
Iron Curtain
Oxec
Wiesbaden
Germany
Red Ae
VU. S
Prague
West Germany
Czech
Defense Department
Czechoslovakia
Village Bars Defense Plant Standoff in Small Ohio Village
Officials in Cuyahoga Heights, a 765 resident village near Cleveland, deadlock on a $40 million Air Force forging plant permit. Opponents warn tax free government property would cut about $20,000 in annual village revenue as the 13 acre site sits within the town’s boundaries of heavy industry.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga Heights
Public Sq
Marine Corps lists Ohio airman as dead after crash
The Marine Corps declared Capt. Joseph Burns DeHaven of Columbus dead after a plane crash into the ocean Tuesday near Cherry Point North Carolina. The airman, 32, had previously been listed missing with hopes fading.
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Marine Corps
Ohio
Cherry Point
N. C
Joseph Burns DeHaven
DeHaven
Ohio Senate Debates Three Hot Issues and Floor Fights
Ohio lawmakers move three major measures to floor debate. A Hoffman bill would dismiss public employees who join groups seeking to overthrow the government by force. A Pepple constitutional amendment proposes four year terms for all state officials. Gorman proposes a 1959 deadline reward for vandals who deface a Cleveland Heights house built by ex Seabee Ralph Patterson. Additional items include banning under 16 work in bowling alleys and a statewide repeal of the 3 percent sales tax.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Sen
Fred Hoffman
R Hamilton
U. S
Elizabeth Gorman
Cuyahoga
Ralph Patterson
Cleveland Heights
Francis D. Sullivan
Don Campbell
Athens
Cleveland
Thirteen Workers Perish In Newark Brewery Blaze
Newark N J thirteen workers die in a fire at the Anheuser Busch brewery cry. All victims were construction workers suffocating in a maze of large fermentation tanks. Thirty nine hospital cases and two volunteer rescuers die in the effort. Cause of fire unknown.
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Newark
N. J
Anheuser-Busch
Coast Guard Vessels Speed To Cut Tanker
Four Coast Guard cutters and four planes searched rough North Atlantic seas for the bow of the burning tanker Angy after it exploded and broke apart. The Liberian vessel had seven men and the captain's wife missing, with the freighter Clai borne rescuing 28 crew from the aft section earlier.
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New York
Coast Guard
North Atlantic
Argentina
Nofd
Coos Bay
London
George Scarvens
British Oil Claim Seeks Rome Ruling on 5000 Tons
The Anglo Iranian Oil Company filed a new suit in Rome to determine ownership of 5000 tons of Iranian oil seized from Abadan and brought to Italy by the tanker Miriella. The Rome case follows a Venice court rejection of an AIOC claim as Italian authorities hold the oil.
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Rome
Britain
Italy
Miriella
Venice
AIOC
Abadan
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Death sentence for $1.50 theft in Atlanta
Howard Leroy Booker, 33, was sentenced to die by electric chair for a crime that netted only $1.50 from a purse theft. Mrs. Sarah Babbitt, 28, testified that Booker dragged her into a thicket, beat and cut her, then fled with her purse and two streetcar tokens.
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Atlanta
Howard Leroy Booker
Sarah Babbitt
St Laurent Plans Washington Visit May 7 to 9
Canadian Prime Minister Louis St Laurent will make an official visit to Washington from May 7 to May 9. The trip aims to discuss bilateral issues and strengthen U S Canada ties with officials in the nation’s capital.
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Washington
Louis St. Laurent
Car crashes into Broadway crowd after matinee
A Cadillac driven by Rodney Wilcox Jones of New Rochelle plowed into a crowd outside the 46th Street Theatre after a Broadway show. Twenty four people were injured, two seriously, mostly women. Jones said a stuck gas pedal sent the car Lurching before it stopped against a restaurant canopy.
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New York
Dollis
Rodney Wilcox Jones
New Rochelle
N. Y
Jones
46Th Street Theatre
Broadway
Eighth Avenue
Chillicothe Mother Of Four Found Dead
Beatrice Ellsworth of Portsmouth Ohio was found dead in seven feet of water beneath Paint Creek Bridge Route 23 Chillicothe Police reported she was a 38 year old mother of four and despondent according to her mother Mary Trainer who was with her when found
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Chillicothe
Beatrice Ellsworth
Portsmouth
Ohio
Paint Creek
Ellsworth
Mary Trainer
British Plane Shot Down Near German Frontier
A British aircraft was downed by two Soviet based fighters near the German frontier as eyewitnesses said it fell in flames near the border between West Germany and Soviet East Germany. Three crew members bailed out and one believed to have died in hospital.
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Lueneburg
Germany
Elbe
Hamburg
Hannover
Berlin
West Germany
East Germany
Air France
West Berlin
U.S. Air Force
U. S. Navy
Baltic
Soviet Russia
U. S
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Ex Film Star Mabel Monahan Slain at Home
Police say the 62 year old former actress Mabel Monahan was found slain in her Burbank home with hands tied behind her back and head crushed. The ransacked house showed blood in most rooms and an open book titled The Purple Pony Murder lay nearby. Neighbors noted lights on since last Monday and a gardener discovered the body while collecting wages.
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Burbank
Calif
Mabel Monahan
Mitchell Truesdale
President Ready To Discard Tests Held for Postmasters
A high ranking Republican senator says President Eisenhower will set aside civil service tests used to select postmasters. The plan aims to open 40,000 postmasterships to Republicans, noting about 3,000 vacancies and past Democratic dominance in top three exam results.
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Washington
Eisenhower
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