Sander Stricken From Med Roll
The New Hampshire Board of Registration in Medicine revoked the license of Dr. Hermann N. Sander for moral misconduct. The decision, announced by Dr. John S. Wheeler after a six hour session, bars reinstatement before June 19 1950 and notes his air injection into a cancer patient as morally reprehensible.
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Concord
N. Y
New Hampshire Board of Registration In Medicine
Hermann N. Sander
John S. Wheeler
Sander
Mysician
Liquidating RFC Urged by Jones
Jesse Jones former head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation urged its complete liquidation or at least closing its 32 branches and limiting loans to cooperative efforts with banks. He criticized RFC loans to Kaiser-Fraser Lustron Texmass Waltham and urged scrutiny by Senator Fulbright's banking subcommittee amid an $11.1 million Texmass Vaan loan dispute.
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Washington
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congress
RFC
Jones
Houston Chronicle
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Banking
Kaiser-Fraser Corporation
Lustron Housing Corporation
Texmass Company
Waltham Watch Company
Senators Vote Awards For 10 Killed In Baltic
The US Senate unanimously approved a resolution praising and honoring 10 US airmen killed in a Baltic incident, calling the Russian attack barbarous and criminal. The motion, 66 to 0, urged the Navy to award decorations to the airmen and extend condolences to their families.
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Baltic
US Senate
Harry P. Cain
Rwash
State
Defense Departments
House
Truman
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Lucas
Senate
Kremlin
Those Snarls and Tales Across the Pages
A collage of quirky notes from a newspaper page spans topics from store clerks and foot myths to a modern Paul Revere, a crime fiction factory eight miles from a telephone, Mollie’s pups arrival, driving caution, and playful slang about cattle rustlers.
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Paul Revere
Rail unions call walkout against four railroads
On April 26 at 6 a.m. the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen called a nationwide strike against New York Central west of Buffalo Pennsylvanian west of Harrisburg Santa Fe and Southern Railway systems. About 18 000 firemen would participate as the Brotherhoods press for an extra man on diesel units and for some yards not run by a lone engineer. Presidential boards had ruled against the extra man but the walkout proceeds under the Railway Labor Act with potential pre deadline talks possible.
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Chicago
David B. Robertson
Cleveland
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
National Labor Railway Act
New York Central
Buffalo
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Santa Fe
Southern Railway
Robertson
Reds Reinforce Hainan Warfront in Far East Clash
Reports from Hainan Island say Chinese Reds landed fresh troops and were reinforced by Formosa warplanes as Nationalists pressed air and sea operations. Navy officials warned beachheads may be erased soon while ground battles continued inland amid conflicting casualty rumors. Chiang Kai-shek met his service chiefs to coordinate response.
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Taipei
Formosa
Hainan Island
Hainan
Hong Kong
Luichow Peninsula
Hainan Strait
Kwei Yung-Ching
Associated Press
Chiang Kai-Shek
Thornberry Files Reelection Bid for 10th District
Homer Thornberry announces reelection to Congress for Texas 10th District with Travis County Democratic Chairman J M Patterson. A former district attorney and UT Law School graduate, Thornberry lists a long public career and military service after 1942. He will face at least one opponent, Magnesse L Foster, who also ran in 1948.
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Homer Thornberry
Travis County
J. M. Patterson
Thornberry
Congress
Patterson
Washington
Magnesse L. Foster
Foster
University of Texas Law School
Navy
Eloise Engle
Molly
David
Five Year Suspended Sentence In Pittsford Slaying
Edgar Pittsford received a five year suspended sentence in 53rd District Court for the shotgun slaying of Robert Southwell Jr. on January 1 at Club 13 on the San Antonio Highway. The jury deliberated two and a half hours after a three day trial that included conflicting testimony and grand jury contrasts.
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Edgar Pittsford
53Rd District Court
Robert Southwell Jr
Southwell
Club 13
San Antonio Highway
Pittsford
San Antonio
Polk
Emmett Shelton
Grand Jury
Long
Fugitive Race-Baiting Leader Faces Three-Year Term
Emory Burke head of Columbians Inc fled to avoid starting a three-year sentence for three counts of usurpation of police powers. Superior Court Judge Claude Shaw issued a warrant and ordered forfeit of Burke’s $6,000 bond amid his 1948 conviction linked to the beating of Clifford Ines.
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Atlanta
Columbians, Inc
Emory Burke
Burke
Superior
Claude Shaw
Clifford Ines
Dog steals purse then drops it on sidewalk
Christine Hutchinson reported a big dog entered her home and carried a ten dollar pocketbook away. A neighbor saw the dog drop the purse on the sidewalk and a Black woman allegedly picked it up and fled. Captain Miller said there is no known connection between the dog incident and the woman.
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Montgomery
Ala
Christine Hutchinson
Is Miller
Czechoslovakia closes USIS and treason trials unfold
Prague ordered the US Information Service libraries shut by noon April 22 and its director Kolarek to depart. Six defendants faced high treason and espionage charges with Nechansky pleading guilty. sentences ranged from death to two years for others. A second treason trial sentenced 15 Czechs and a student to prison terms from 18 years to two years.
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Czechoslovakia
United States
US Information Service
Prague
Berlin
Washington
State Department
USIS
Michael McDermott
Bratislava
Joseph C. Kolarek
Kolarék
Baltimore
Associated Press
Information Service
Ellis O. Briggs
Kolareka
Pankrac
Jaromir Nechansky
Veleslav Wahl
Milos Sprysl
Jiri Dohnalek
Karel Loris
Zdenka Vackova
Nechansky
J. Hermansky
J. Cernousek
J. Anderle
J. Bervida
Ministry of Transport
Germany
Mail service cuts trigger GOP anger and union protest
Postmaster General Donaldson ordered mail reductions citing overspending. Senator Wiley denounced the cuts as harming taxpayers and veterans. Union leader Philip Lepper warned 10 to 15 percent of New York carriers face furloughs, with clerical staff also reduced. The plan limits deliveries to once daily and closes windows earlier, stirring congressional debate over a 29 billion dollar fiscal package. Donaldson said further personnel cuts follow as the department faces a 2.207 billion dollar next year appropriation set, smaller than requested but higher than this year.
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Washington
Donaldson
Wiley
R-Wis
New York
Philip Lepper
Lepper
House
Postoffice Department
Congress
Post Office Department
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Post Office
Truman
Vet Land Loans Ready With $10 Million Bond Issue
Texas veterans will have land loans approved and completed by May 1 under Bascom Giles Veterans Land Board after signing $10 million in bonds. The new bonds double pending loans and finance about one fourth of a $50 million program, with loans averaging around $5,800 each.
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Bascom Giles
Giles
Veterans Land Board
Austin
Chicago
Veterans Land Program
First National Bank of Chicago
Clearing Skies and Mild Temperatures Forecast
Weather outlook for Austin shows clearing skies and mild temperatures with a 50 to 70 degree range. A trace of rain on Wednesday brings the Jan 1 total to 8.90 inches, 0.29 inch short of normal. Wednesday highs reached 65 with a 55 low, while West Texas and East Texas were forecast fair to warming and clear to cloudy respectively.
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Austin
West Texas
East Texas
Pilot Rescues Woman From Death Plunge Over Lansing
In Lansing on April 19 a pilot recounted flying the plane with one hand to prevent a woman passenger from leaping from the aircraft. The woman told slot Owen Keller she believed her husband was a Navy crew member aboard a plane shot down by Russians in the Baltic.
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Lansing
Mich
Owen Keller
Baltic
Aureomycin Shown To Counteract Deadly Radiation
Atlantic City reports that aureomycin saved about 80 percent of animals exposed to lethal X rays in studies by Col. Roy D. Maxwell and Maj. Gerald M. Mof, with similar results from Rochester researchers. The drug, an antibiotic, may help humans exposed to radiation or atomic fallout.
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Atlantic City
Roy D. Maxwell
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
Col. Maxwell
Army Medical Department Research and Graduate School
Army Medical Center
Washington
Gerald M. Mo
Armed Forces Special Weapons Project
Joe W. Howland
Frank W. Furth
Molly Coulter
University of Rochester
Ath
Atun Colnell
Rochester
Howland
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