Solons Rap Parley As A Secrets Raid
The House un-American Activities Committee accused Communists of steering the Paris peace conference to mobilize scientists for civil disobedience against free nations and to leak atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. It linked the New York Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace to anti Marshall Plan aims and named prominent scientists and artists with alleged Communist-front ties.
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Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
Paris
New York
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Richard Boyer
Boyer
Harlow Shapley
Harvard University
William A. Higginbotham
The
Brookhaven National Labor
Cuba seeks UN probe into Mindszenty trials
Cuba urged the United Nations to appoint a 15 nation on the spot commission to investigate prosecutions of Cardinal Mindszenty and other church leaders in Hungary and Bulgaria. The proposal asks the UN General Assembly to condemn rights abuses and bar Hungary and Bulgaria from UN membership pending the report, due at the September General Assembly.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Cuba
United Nations
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Bulgaria
Gustavo Gutierrez
UN General Assembly
UN Commission
Balkan
World Organization
Commission
Chaplain Announced to New VA Hospital
Bryan H. Keatherley former chief of the Veterans Administration branch 10 chaplaincy office has been transferred to Houston where he will serve as chaplain of the new VA hospital.
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Dallas
Bryan H. Keatherley
Veterans Administration Branch 10
Houston
Thurman Sets Higher Fines for Slot Machine Offenses
Judge Mace B. Thurman Jr of County Court at Law orders immediate higher penalties for slot machine offenses. Offenders pleading guilty face 200 fines plus costs, up from prior 100, with potential future increases on marble table cases. precincts continue probe into anonymous threats against police officials and newspapers after raids recovering 37 marble tables and one slot machine.
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Mace B. Thurman Jr
County Court-at-Law
Thurman
Farm Housing Draws Support
Washington April 18 Senate discussion highlights rural housing needs as part of a multi billion dollar measure. The plan targets 810000 public housing units over six years and a 15 hundred million dollar five year slum clearance program.
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Washington
Frear
Senate
Flanders
R-Vi
Royall seeks Senate guidance on Malmedy massacre terms
Secretary of the Army Royall urged Congress to advise on whether Nazi defendants in the Malmedy massacre should face death or acquittal if American prosecutors used coercive methods. He warned the decision will offend some whether sentences are carried out or commuted.
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Washington
Royall
Senate Armed Services Committee
Malmedy
Belgium
Congress
Senate
McCarthy
R-Wis
Army
J. L. Marbaugh Jr
Judge Advocate General's Department
Wisconsin
Kurt von Rundstedt
Antwerp
Ask Force Peiper
Joachim Peiper
Oon
Pressure In China as Surrender Deadline Nears
In Nanking on April 18, the Nationalists prepared for war as the Communists pressed for a peaceful Yangtze crossing. A high official warned that crossing would trigger a civil war with mass prisoner risk, while the Communists urged army reorganization and a 3-3-3 coalition.
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Nanking
China
Berlin Blockade Truce Rumors Stir Washington Hope
American officials anticipate a Soviet move to lift the Berlin blockade with a secret proposal likely soon. State Department probes hints of a face-saving end to the deadlock, while denying rounds of peace talks and discounting reports of a German mission.
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Washington
Soviet Russia
Berlin
Soviet Bloc
West
Moscow
State Department
Russia
Germany
London
Georgiev Malinin
Dallas Transit Workers Demand Higher Wages
Union streetcar and bus operators in Dallas served notice they would seek wage increases through Union Secretary E. R. Thompson. The Dallas Railway and Terminal Company also pressed the city council for fare changes, seeking authority to charge 10 cents per ride by replacing the eight-cent token system. Mayor Jimmie Temple said the council would not decide until an audit of DR&T books is complete.
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Dallas
E. R. Thompson
Dallas Railway and Terminal Company
Jimmie Temple
Dr&t Books
Yale Professor Bloomfield Dies After Long Illness
Leonard Bloomfield, 62, Yale professor and leading language science authority, died Monday. He helped plan Army manuals on the intensive method of language teaching and worked for the Office of War Information and the armed forces during World War II. He assisted in rapid teaching of oriental and modern languages to thousands of servicemen.
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New Haven
Leonard Bloomfield
Yale
Bloomfield
Office of War Information
Armed Forces
Elevator Fall Injures 11 in Chicago Office Building
An out of control elevator dropped five floors during rush hour in the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue. The operator and 11 passengers were injured when all cables reportedly broke as it began descending from the top sixth floor, narrowly avoiding a deadly plunge to the lobby.
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Chicago
Fine Arts Building
Michigan Avenue
21 Witnesses Called In Arthur Hester Case
Attorney Al Clyde said he subpoenaed 21 persons to testify for Arthur Hester who faces a murder trial next Monday. Hester, 19, is charged with the bludgeon slaying of Dr. John W. Lord dean of the TCU graduate school and his legal guardian. Witnesses include Lord’s neighbors and Noel L. Keith, special assistant to the TCU president.
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Cleburne
al Clyde
Arthur Hester
Hester
John W. Lord
Texas Christian University Graduate School
Lord
Fort Worth
Noel L. Keith
TCU
Keel Laid on First USA Age Carrier
Newport News Virginia April 18 The keel of the nations first atomic age aircraft carrier the 65 on United States was laid Monday The $186000000 super carrier emerged after a brief Navy Air Force clash over long range bombing rights The project has $9 million spent on engineering and blueprints and requests $43 million for next fiscal year completion is slated for 1952
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United States
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Newport News
Navy
Air Force
Truman weighs fireside chat on health plan rollout
Washington April 18 The White House confirms President Truman is considering a nationwide radio talk to promote his new health program after sending the health plan to Congress in a special message. AFL President William Green cited a White House visit and suggested a fireside chat may revive Roosevelt era radio appeals.
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Washington
White House
Truman
AFL
William Green
Congress
Roosevelt
Innocent Plea Entered To Theft of Psalm Book
Santa Monica California April 18 7 Charles J Glenn 27 year old college student pleaded innocent Monday to a charge of stealing the Bay Psalm Book a rare volume one of the world s most valuable books Glenn expelled as a post graduate student at the University of California at Los Angeles after the incident last March 4 said he borrowed the book as part of his initiation into a secret society Police said they arrested Glenn after he was caught climbing out of a library window with the volume insured for 100000
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Santa Monica
Calif
Charles J. Glenn
Glenn
University of California At Los Angeles
Morale of Occupation Troops Reported High
Mrs. Helen Murphy of Union New Jersey and Mrs. Evelyn Monaco of Gallup New Mexico, leaders of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, report excellent living conditions for US troops in Western Germany and Berlin after five days touring posts. They say morale is very good and the troops seem enthusiastic about their work.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Womens Auxiliary of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Helen Murphy
Union
N. J
Evelyn Monaco
East Green Street
Gallup
N. M
Berlin
Senate approves poll tax ban after long filibuster
The Senate passed a bill to abolish the voting poll tax by a 25 to 2 vote after more than five hours of filibuster led by Senator Wardlow Lane. The measure survived all amendments and moved to final passage with a single change setting a popular election on the issue.
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Senate
Wardlow Lane
Center
Lane
George Moffett
Chillicothe
T. G Chadick
Quitman
Rogers Kelley
Edinburg
House
Fred Harris
Dallas
Carlos Ashley
Llano
House Passes Bill To Legalize Chiropractors In Texas
The Texas House passed a bill by 100 to 18 to legalize and license chiropractors, creating a nine member board of chiropractic examiners. It sets entry standards while rejecting several changes including two years of college and broader exam exemptions. The measure moves to the Senate for a two thirds vote before final action.
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House
Senate
Henry G. Lehman
Giddings
Floyd Bradshaw
Weatherford
Chiropractic Examining Board
Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Membe
Fiesta Opens With Solemn Alamo Tribute in San Antonio
Fiesta de San Jacinto began with a solemn flowers at the Alamo ceremony as thousands of school children and elders paid respects. About 500000 are expected for a week of parades and the Battle of Flowers events with Governor Beauford Jester and King Antonio XXVII A J Lewis featured in the illuminated parade.
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San Antonio
San Jacinto
Alamo
Beauford
Antonio XXVII
A. J
Jack) Lewis
Railroad Brotherhoods Strike to Shut NY, Ont. & Western Link
Four operating railroad brotherhoods walked out in New York on April 18 shutting the coal carrying link between Pennsylvania coal fields and New England. They demand a 10 cent hourly wage raise as per a fall contract. current wages not disclosed.
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New York
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad
Pennsylvania Coal Fields
New England
Motorcycle rider killed in Marshall collision with truck
Walter Lester Cox 28 of Marshall died in a crash with a truck driven by his uncle Fern Burkham 22. Burkham was hospitalized with severe shock after the collision at the US Highway 59 and Elysian Fields farm-to-market road intersection.
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Marshall
Walter Lester Cox
Fern Burkham
East Marshall
Burkham
Elysian Fields Farm-To-Market
Amarillo Police Help Drunken Patron in Bar Incident
In Amarillo on April 18 a drunken man approached the desk sergeant and complained he was ejected from a bar. The blotter entry simply read We did, illustrating swift police action to handle a barroom disturbance.
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Amarillo
US Ambassador Douglas Eye Improves After Trout Hook Injury
Physicians reported a slight improvement Monday in the injured left eye of US Ambassador Lewis Douglas. He sustained the hook injury while flycasting near Southampton on April 4.
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London
Lewis Douglas
Southampton
Senate hears envoy Boheman in Austin session
Swedish ambassador Erik Boheman told the Texas Senate Sweden will resist invaders and "keep our powder dry" while urging friendly ties. He discussed peace hopes, Berlin blockade questions, and noted Sweden living near western civilization with free ideals.
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Austin
Erik Boheman
United States
Texas Senate
Sweden
Boheman
House
Chamber
Senate
Jimmy Phillips
Angleton
Searcy Bracewell
Houston
John J. Bell
Cuero
Protem Kyle Vick
Waco
Wardlow Lane
Center
Berlin
Stalin
Abilene
Swenson
Stamford
S. M. Swenson
Galveston
Texas
Republic
Govalle
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