Truman Delivers State Files to Senate Probe
President Truman allows a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee to examine 81 State Department files tied to McCarthy charges while warning the FBI raw files remain off limits. Senator Tydings notes prior investigations found no adverse reports on the listed employees.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
McCarthy
Justice Department
Office of Strategic Services
Amerasia Magazine
State Department
Russia
Wisconsin
OSS
Soviet Union
Amerasia
Frank Bielaski
Senator Lodge
R-Mass
Bielaski
Lodge
Senate Foreign Relations
Tydings
D-Md
FBI
Department
Chicago
House
Wherry
Nebraska
GOP
R-Wis
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Alger Hiss
MccCarthy
Lincoln
Neb
Former inmate setting fire at St Patrick’s School
A 21 year old former mental institution inmate admitted starting a fire at St Patrick’s Catholic School last Friday for the thrill of watching it burn. He tried to put out the flames after starting them. The blaze caused $900 damage to one room with no injuries.
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Youngstown
St. Patricks Catholic
Michael J. Melillo
Melilla
Lightning Strikes Trolley In Pittsburgh Injuring 23
A lightning bolt struck a downtown street car in Pittsburgh early Friday, injuring 23 passengers with three in serious condition. About 40 were aboard when sparks, fire and fumes filled the car. 20 were treated and released at hospitals.
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Pittsburgh
Woman Dies in Columbus Fire Blaze Ignites Mattress
Mrs. Della Booten, 42, suffocated Friday as fire gutted her second story bedroom in Columbus. Battalion Fire Chief Robert Hott said a cigarette ignited a mattress, starting the blaze.
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Columbus
Della Booten
Battalion
Robert Hott
Foreign Aid Bill Nears Senate Vote
The $3 372 450 000 foreign aid bill reached the Senate voting stage with predictions of possible cuts from 250 million to 500 million, while administration backers brace for amendments. Senators Bridges and Connally noted potential or no cuts, as the authorization bill awaits later appropriations.
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Washington
Senate
Bridges
Connally
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Subcommittee
House
Truman
States Righters Lose Control
Alabama Democrats loyal to the national party won control of the State Democratic Executive Committee, defeating the States Righters who bolted in 1948. Loyalists secured a majority of 37 posts on returns from the primary, ending a threatened 1952 revolt and leaving the States Righters with 26 seats. One winner undecided.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
National Party
Thurmond-Wright
Democratic Executive Committee
Truman
Pilot Killed in Flaming Crash Before Relatives
First Lt. Gilbert Morehouse, 28, a Columbus Ohio Air Force pilot, died in the flaming wreckage at Wood County Airport Parkersburg as his uncle and aunt watched. He waved from the cockpit before the plane failed to land and crashed.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Columbus
Clayton Pitchard
Chrysler Settlement Seen Bringing Top Production
The 89,000 Chrysler strikers who walked out for 100 days will return to work by Monday as Chrysler and the CIO UAW reach a settlement. The pact, praised by UAW President Walter Reuther as the best in the industry, promises wage gains and a boost toward volume production within weeks.
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CIO
United Auto Workers
Frank Winn
UAW
Chrysler
Detroit
Mich
Walter Reuther
K. T. Keller
Large increases eyed in $29 billion appropriation bill
The House plans a Saturday session to push a 431 page bill funding over 40 federal agencies for the next fiscal year. The package includes Atomic Energy Commission funds and a large Army Engineers flood control rivers and harbors allocation with potential hikes toward about $800 million. The Veterans Administration receives about $5.8 billion and reductions are not expected.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Veterans’ Administration
House
Appropriations Committee
AEC
Veterans Administration
Army Engineers
Lausche Seeks Man To Fill Liquor Post
Governor Frank J. Lausche announced a search for an upstanding man of integrity to join the Ohio board of liquor control. The vacancy arises as Walter W. Mitchell of Youngstown resigns to become executive secretary of the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Assn. Mitchell, formerly chairman of the Ohio liquor board, was removed by Lausche who also asked for his resignation.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio Board of Liquor Control
Walter W. Mitchell
Youngstown
National Alcoholic Beverage Control Assn
Liquor Rd
Ohio
Lausche
Mitchell
Extended Forecast for Columbus Temperatures Rise This Week
Columbus forecast shows highs near 66 and lows around 46 with 2 to 5 degree above normal. Cooler Saturday then warmer Monday and Tuesday with showers and thunderstorms bringing 1 to 1.5 inches of precipitation.
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Columbus
High School Pupils to Take Tests at Ohio U
Top students from 18 Southeastern Ohio counties will take annual District State scholarship tests Saturday at Ohio University and at three sub centers in Portsmouth New Concord and Marietta. About 1750 pupils will take one hour exams in 21 subjects with final results by the State Department of Education in Columbus.
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Ohio
Ohio University
Portsmouth
New Concord
Marietta
Southeastern Ohio
State Department of Education
Columbus
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Jackson
Meigs
Vinton
Ohio U
Lawrence
Pike, Ross
Scioto
Belmont
Guerrma Muskingum
Perry
Musk
Ingum College
Marietta College
Monroe
Morgan
Noble
Washington
Carl H. Roberts
University
R. G. Guthrie
Robert Sweitzer
Muskingum
Lincoln DeLong
F. H. MecKelvey
OU Center For Education Service
ATO Chapter Is Suspended After Pledge Death
Springfield reports Alpha Tau Omega chapter suspended indefinitely after a hazing incident ends in death of pledge Niswonger 20 of Dayton and injures another pledge Wendell 20. Dean Niswonger dies in truck accident. coroner calls it accidental.
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Springfield
Wittenberg College
Alpha Tau Omega
Clarence C. Stoughton
Dean Niswonger
Dayton
Jerry Wendell
Route 4
Austin Richards
Niswonger
VA Urges No Delay In Planning for School
Veterans planning to use the GI Bill for summer school should begin arrangements now. VA advises checking eligibility certificates and consulting about required advisement if changing courses.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
South Korea seeks more air aid to strengthen defenses
President Syngman Rhee urged the United States for increased military help, citing North Korea’s air force of 195 planes believed Russian built. He told reporters that more warplanes would make South Korea feel safer.
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Seoul
North Korea
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Athens County May Primary Vote Count Updates at Elections Office
The official count of Athens County May primary votes continued at the board of elections office. Clerk C. W. Gross said no official returns would be ready until Saturday and could not determine yet if the outcome might change.
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Athens County
Board of Elections Office
C. W. Gross
Bus Fire Claims Twelve in Heavy Rio Rain
A bus stalled in a heavy rainstorm in Rio de Janeiro caught fire, killing twelve people and injuring twenty.
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Rio DE Janeiro
United States and Soviets Clash Over Baltic Plane Incident
The United States charges Moscow with flouting international obligations in the Baltic plane case. Washington rebuts Russia’s claim that the missing American plane violated Latvia, calling the Soviet account erroneous and demanding adherence to international law.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Moscow
State Department
Soviet Socialist Republics
Union Soviet Socialist Republics
Latvia
U.S
Allan G. Kirk
Baltic
Baltic Sea
Census Bureau Hires 145 055 for March Census
The Commerce Department employed 145 055 persons during March for the nationwide census. The joint committee on reduction of nonessential federal expenditures reported a net decrease of 2 229 in other civilian executive branch employment in March versus February.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Joint Committee On
License Tag Slogan Considered by Ohio
Columbus news notes Robert E Foley registrar of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles says Ohio plates in 1952 may bear a slogan advertising Ohio resources. He notes the state is noted for many things and faces the challenge of choosing a suitable motto.
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Columbus
Robert E. Foley
The
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Ohio
Foley
Tornadic Winds Kill At Least One Across Three States
Tornadic winds lashed three states last night killing at least one person and injuring about 50. Twisters swept West Texas Oklahoma and Kansas while dust storms plagued the Southwest.
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Chicago
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Southwest
Deaths Occur Same Day in Elyria Passings
Mrs. Stephen Emody aged 64 died Thursday of cancer, 14 hours after her husband aged 69 also died from cancer on the same day in Elyria.
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Elyria
Stephen Emody
Formosa Aid Urged in Indianapolis
The American Legion's executive committee urged American aid to help Nationalist China hold Formosa. The appeal followed a meeting in Indianapolis where delegates discussed military and political support for China's defense against Communist forces.
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Formosa
Indianapolis
The
American Legion
China
Traffic Safety Winners Named in 1949 NSC Contest
Oklahoma City Lansing Mich and the state of Connecticut share top honors in the National Safety Council 1949 traffic safety contest.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Oklahoma City
Lansing
Mich
Connecticut
Syracuse area woman shoots neighbor and fires at others
Miriam Anna Holmes, 26, armed with a shotgun, wounded a neighbor and fired on two others in Pomroy area before officers stopped her with a leg wound. Mrs Charles Blake was wounded in the arm. Officers and police from Middleport Pom eroy and Pomeroy responded.
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Pomeroy
Syracuse
Charles Russell
Miriam Anna Holmes
Meigs General Hospital
Charles Blake
Russell
Holmes
Mayme Holmes
Blake
Miss Holmes
Mrs. Blake
Undecided Reno Wedding Ends With Surprise Refire
Professor Earl W. Sheets and Melba Siebold were divorced on Tuesday but rewed on Wednesday before a faculty reception for the couple at the University of Nevada. The ceremony followed a court action for extreme mental cruelty and the bride’s name restoration.
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Reno, Nev
Earl W. Sheets
University of Nevada
Melba Alice Siebold
Sheets
Reno
Senators Ask Truman To Oppose Red China
Thirty five senators urged President Truman to oppose recognizing Communist China. In a letter they asked he publicly oppose seating a Red China delegate at the United Nations and declare the US has no intent to recognize the communist regime.
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Truman
Red
China
Washington
United Nations
United States
Russia
U.N
Remington Faces Possible Loyalty Review Over Communist Ties
Washington police and the House Committee on Un American Activities push for further questioning of William W. Remington, a government economist who denies past Communist ties. Secretary of Commerce Sawyer said a loyalty board may re-examine the case if new evidence emerges.
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Washington
William W. Remington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Remington
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Department Loyalty Board
Un-American Activities Committee
Man Sentenced in Zanesville Traffic Death
Albert L. Smith 28 Martins Ferry was sentenced to one to 20 years in Ohio Penitentiary for the traffic death of Mrs. John Perkins 45 of Zanesville.
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Zanesville
Albert L. Smith
Martins Ferry
Ohio
John Perkins
William Benet Dies After Collapse in New York
William Rose Benet, 64, Pulitzer-winning poet and critic, collapsed after attending a meeting of the National Institute of Arts and Letters council and died minutes later. He was brother to Stephen Vincent Benet, served in WWI, edited for Saturday Review of Literature, and won the 1942 Pulitzer for The Dust Which Is God.
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New York UP
William Rose Benet
Benet
Council of the
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Stephen Vincent Benet
Saturday Review of Literature
Yale
Pennsylvania No Plans for D T I Passenger Service
The Pennsylvania Railroad said it has no plans to establish passenger service on the Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railroad, now freight only. The ICC last week authorized Pennsylvania and Wabash to acquire control of the D T I, which runs 463 miles from Detroit to Ironton, Ohio.
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Ashington—P
Pennesylvania Railroad
Detroit
Toledo and Ironton
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
Wabash
Ironton
Ohio
New Device Tracks Planes Installed in Jets
The Air Force is equipping late model jet fighters with automatic devices to track enemy bombers in night skies or bad weather, shoot them down, then bring the pilot home for a landing. Officials say this system is installed in new interceptors to meet threats from high speed bombers and atomic weapons.
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Washington
Air Force
Explosion Burns Esso Depot in Logan West Virginia
An explosion and fire Thursday destroyed Esso Standard Oil Company's bulk gasoline depot near Logan West Virginia. No serious injuries were reported.
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Logan
W. Va
Esso Standard Oil Company
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