East Zone Reds Draft Constitution
East German Communists reveal a Soviet style draft constitution via the People's Congress. Hermann Kastner calls it a draft not yet binding while 2000 delegates prepare for Paris talks. Otto Grotewohl denounces Bonn constitution as tearing Germany apart.
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People’s Council
Paris
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People's Council
Gerhart Eisler
America
Kastner
Liberal Democrats
Russia
Soviet
Otto Grotewohl
East Germany
Bonn
Strike Ends Ford Starts Back to Work
Ford Motor Co 106000 production workers begin returning to plants after a strike ended in 24 days The Key Rouge facility resumes limited operations as the company and CIO United Auto Workers renegotiate a new contract with goals including a $100 monthly pension plan wage increases and health and accident insurance
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Ford Motor Co
Ford
CIO
United Auto Workers
Rouge
Ford-Uaw
Columbus Area Extended Forecast
The forecast shows temperatures 3 to 6 degrees above normal with highs near 71 and lows around 50. Expect a warm Wednesday and Sunday with cooler Friday and scattered showers Thursday and again Sunday totaling about a quarter to half an inch.
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Ohio House to vote on ballot bill urged by Gov Lausche
Ohio's House of Representatives will vote on a ballot integrity bill backed by Gov. Frank Lausche after Senate approval. The measure would permit counting ballots when voter intent is clear and limit independent presidential electors, with signatures for central committee candidates raised to five to twenty five. The biennial Appropriation Bill faces delay and further Senate review.
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House of Representatives
Frank J. Lausche
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Henry A. Wallace
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Franklin County
George B. Marshall
Franklin
House Finance Committee
Auto Crash Kills Julian U S Treasurer Near Bethesda
W A Julian treasurer of the United States since the Roosevelt era died in a Sunday head on collision near Bethesda Maryland. His body was extricated after a half hour. The other occupants William Ellis and Paul Smith suffered only minor injuries. His wife Gertrude Means Julian died previously on March 26. Julian was born in Kentucky and rose from bank clerk to shoe manufacturer and bank president.
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W. A. Julian
United States
Here
William Ellis
Paul Smith
Maryland
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Gertrude Means Julian
Cincinnati
Frankfort
William Alexander Julian
Queen City Trust Company of
Japanese Gift Noted At Columbus Memorial Day
Columbus Ohio remembered its war dead with Memorial Day events highlighted by a Japanese gift to Urbana. Yokohama residents presented a bronze bust of Lt Gen Robert L Eichseberger to Urbana in a ceremony at Oakdale Cemetery.
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Yokohama
Robert L. Eichleberger
Urbana
Eichseberger
Eighth U. S. Army
Okahama
Oakdale Cemetery
Gozo Kawamura
John Quincy Adams Ward
Toledo
Cleveland
Frank J. Lausche
Thomas Burke
Armed Services
Youngstown
Cincinnati
Dayton
Springfield
Jury convicts pediatrician in Hartman murder case
A St. Louis pediatrician, Robert C. Rutledge Jr., was convicted of second degree murder in Cedar Rapids for the slaying of Byron Hartman, a 29 year old St. Louis aircraft engineer. The jury spent about 3 hours 41 minutes deliberating before returning the verdict.
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UPI
St. Louis
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Byron C. Hartman
Rutledge
Hartman
Aly Khan and Bride Leave for Honeymoon
Prince Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth depart Cannes in rain for a nonstop drive to Paris. Emry Williams serves as chauffeur as Aly Khan drives a grey Alfa Romeo from Chateau de La Horizon with Rita onboard. Arrival in Paris expected in about ten hours.
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France
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Rita Hayworth
Prince Aly
Chateau de la Horizon
Rita
Emry Williams
Williams
Paris
Reunion Planned For GI And Wife After Five Years
A Connecticut woman traveling to New York hopes to reunite with her husband believed killed in combat five years ago. The couple’s story centers on Anthony V. Martini, a Waterbury, Connecticut native listed as missing in France in 1944 and later presumed dead, now identified as a taxi driver in New York.
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Connecticut
Anthony V. Martino
Waterbury
Famed German Spy Franz Von Rintelen Dies at 72
Captain Franz Von Rintelen, a renowned German spy and saboteur in World War I, credited with destroying 32 munitions ships, died on Monday at age 72 in London.
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London
Franz von Rintelen
United States
Eisler Lands in Prague After London Escape
Gerhart Eisler arrived in Prague from London en route to Germany, expressing happiness to be in Czechoslovakia and not the United States. He dodged U S authorities and criticized Tom Clark as he praised British treatment and denied extradition, noting his wife’s detention by U S authorities.
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Gerhart Eisler
London
Germany
Czechoslovakia
United States
Eisler
Southampton
England
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America
Northolt
Tom Clark
Clark
U.S
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U. S
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Britain
Police Hunt Lynch Slayers
IRWINTON Ga with no clues or motive investigators search for white men who abducted Caleb Hill Jr 28 from a jail and shot him to death. Sheriff George Hatcher says they have no motive and no leads while Hill seized the sheriff’s pistol during the arrest and was taken away by two white men.
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Irwinton
George Hatcher
Caleb Hill, Jr
Hill
Georgia
Hatcher
Denison University Holds Five Day Self Evaluation Convocation
Denison University starts a five day convocation to self evaluate as a higher education source. A star studded speaker list will join the Denison Family Observation event with thousands invited to attend two sessions daily for four days. Alumni reunion caps the fifth day.
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Granville
Denison University
Denison
Gen Lucius D. Clay Retires After 31 Years of Service
General Lucius D. Clay, 52, former U. S. governor in Germany, retired from the Army in a Fort Myers Virginia ceremony. He served 31 years and was advanced to full general by presidential recommendation and congressional approval for his combat record in the last war and Cold War service in Germany.
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Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Germany
Fort Myers
Truman
Congress
Police Chief Delivers Chaney High Baccalaureate Address
Police Chief Edward J. Allen will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to Chaney High School graduates Friday morning. The student body organizes the service with scripture reading prayer and music by students.
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Youngstown
Edward J. Allen
Chaney High School
Second Charge Filed Against Lancaster Police Chief
Lancaster Police Chief Sam Hutsler faces a second charge criminal libel as an affidavit by Attorney Russell Cunningham alleges a statement about his indictment. He pled innocent, bound over to Fairfield County Grand Jury on a 500 dollar bond, while hearings and requests for prejudice against Judge Kilburger were noted.
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Sam Hutsler
Russell Cunningam
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Cunningham
Hutsler
Fairfield County
Justice of Peace
Ollie B. Jones
Common Pleas
Harry Kilburger
Fires Investigated After Three McAllister Fires Hit Dairy Group
Arson is suspected as investigators look into three fires at McAllister Dairy Farms properties in two weeks. Kenneth McAllister, vice president, cites a 200000 dollar loss from the main processing plant blaze near Warren. Police note broken windows at several stores amid recent labor trouble.
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Warren
McAllister Dairy Farms, Inc
Kenneth McAllister
McAllister
Willie Sandlin Dies at 59 Former Medal of Honor Recipient
Louisville report announces the death of Willie Sandlin 59 a World War I Medal of Honor recipient who single handedly killed a German machine gun crew during the war and earned the nation’s highest decoration.
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Louisville
Willie Sandlin
Auto Mishaps Kill 247 People Over Holiday
Nation records nearly 400 deaths from violent accidents during the Memorial Day weekend with 247 highway fatalities as traffic surged to about 30 million vehicles. California led with 47 deaths, Illinois 33, and Ohio 26 in a grim national toll.
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National Safety Council
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Illinois
Ohio
Senator Aiken Sees GOP Losing Farm Votes
Senator Aiken warns Republicans may lose midwestern farm votes after the Senate rejected a farm storage bill 47 to 33. He blamed administration delays and Brannan for the action, noting the conference continued between Senate and House as farmers risk lacking storage facilities for price support loans this year.
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Aiken
Brannan
Senate
GOP
Senate House
Farm
House
Coroner Rules Death by Own Action
Coroner A J McCracken ruled the death of Archie A Guillaume 69 a restaurant proprietor was by his own hand. Guillaume who had been ill five years used a yardstick to discharge a shotgun into his abdomen while seated on his apartment back porch.
Spotted Bride Infected At Santa Barbara Wedding
Socialite Sylvie HKryce contracted chickenpox around her private wedding at a ranch estate near Santa Barbara. The ceremony for RB Clifford Potter, Jr. of New York and Tucson proceeded with the bride ill, and about three hundred guests noted she was unspotted at the reception while later news revealed the illness.
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Califo
Sylvie Hkryce
Clifford Potter
New York
Tucson
Arta
Lewis backs U S Mine Safety Bill
John L. Lewis denounces state officials and coal operators for unsafe mines. He urges Congress to pass a bill giving federal inspectors power to close mines in imminent danger. He cites 1,299,081 miners maimed or killed in 19 years and notes wartime mine casualties.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers’ Chief
Congress
Lewis
Senate Labor
State of Siege Declared Across Bolivia Amid Hostage Spree
Bolivia declares a nationwide state of siege as striking mine workers seize hostages and halt mines and a railroad in Catavia. At least 27 people are killed in weekend violence including American engineers T. J. H. O Connor of Pasadena and Albert Krefting of Seattle.
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Bolivia
Catavia
Andes
Mamerto Urriolagoitia
Interior Ministry
T. J. H. O'Connor
Pasadena
Calif
Albert Krefting
Seattle
Wash
Western ministers plan next move after German talks fail
The three Western foreign ministers met secretly to plan actions if four power talks collapse over East and West Germany unification. They consider pursuing an economic arrangement to guarantee transport and communications between the East and West as Soviet leader Vishinsky rejects the Bonn constitution plan. The aim is to salvage some form of German economic unity under four power oversight.
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Russia
West Germany
Dean Ache
Eon
Ernest Bevin
Robert Shuman
Wall
Andre Vishinsky
Moscow
Germany
Reich
Bonn
Vishinsky
Vishnnsky
Kremlin
Power Leaders Predict Rate Hikes At Industry Meeting
Atlantic City leaders in the electric power industry opened a three day meeting with a flat statement that higher rates are inevitable. They forecast continued declines in industrial production into 1950 but expect no repeat of the Great Depression era mood.
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N. J
Anti-Trust Suit Filed Against Building Group
The government filed a civil anti trust suit in federal court at Cleveland accusing 14 building materials companies and one individual of unlawful price fixing. Attorney General Clark announced the action yesterday.
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Washington
Government Today
Cleveland
Clark
Federal District Court
Ohio Triplets Born Only One Survives
Triplets were born Monday to Mrs. Walter Lowes of Oxford. Two of the babies, a boy and a girl, died within 24 hours. The surviving 2½ pound boy is in good condition at Fort Hamilton Hospital. Mr and Mrs Lowes also have a boy and a girl.
Soviet Press Criticizes Acheson Over Distortion Claim
Moscow reports accuse U S Secretary of State Dean Acheson of distorting Russia's proposals at the Paris Council of Foreign Ministers. The Soviet news agency Tass says Western ministers tried to whitewash their plans and present the USSR position in a one sided light. The piece blames Bonn constitutional rhetoric on German occupation authorities and questions West German public will.
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Prena
U. S
Dean Acheson
Russia
Council of Foreign Ministers
Paris
Tasa
Minsters
Ussr
Acheson
Bonn
Ple
Western
Germany
Writers To Revisit 1-Day Beachheads
A group of forty four former war correspondents who covered D-Day will return to Normandy on the fifth anniversary to report progress. The trip, titled Beachhead Revisited, was announced by American Overseas Airlines.
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Normandy
Beachhead
American Overseas Airlines
Two Convicts Escape Under Prison Fire
Salem Oregon police tightened road blocks in a search for two convicts who fled the state penitentiary under gunfire. John Pinson aged 29 a life former who killed a state police man and William P Benson aged 41 climbed over the wall early yesterday. Guards opened fire from the towers but their condition was not known. Pinson was described as a bad character.
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Ore
John ©. Pinson
William P. Benson
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