Reds Soft Prey for Chinese Planes
Hong Kong March 7 The Chinese Communists face a fragile air situation as Nationalist air power targets Shanghai and Tientsin. Despite captured air fields and training centers in Manchuria the Reds lack sufficient planes and fuel to defend cities or threaten Nationalist airfields, prompting fear of a larger attack on Formosa while ports like Tsingtao and Tientsin face ongoing pressure.
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China
Shanghai
Tientsin
Manchuria
Chushan Island
Formosa
Tsingtao
Taku Bar
Administration seeks power to suspend indiscreet federal workers
Washington March 7. The administration urged Congress to grant authority to suspend any federal employee deemed a security risk whether loyal or merely indiscreet. The proposed bill requires written charges, opportunity to answer, a hearing, and agency head review before a final adverse decision.
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Washington
Congress
House Civil Service Committee
Murray
D-Tenn
The
Atomic Energy Commission
League Interscholastic Meet Set for Llano April 14 15
SAN SABA March 7 The grammar school Interscholastic League meet will be held in Llano on April 14 and 15. Principal Leon Lane released the assignments for faculty duties including declamation spell ing story telling plain writing and spelling track and field events boys and girls baseball tennis ready writers number sense and choral singing with named teachers and helpers.
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San Saba
ANL
Llano
Leon Lane
Smith
Roberts
Lidstone
Stroble
Lane
Harris
Golden
Colburn
Taylor
Parks
Schumann
Davenport
Winsman
Shaw
G. Kuykendall
Walker
E. Kuykendall
Miss Page
Glasscock
Terry
Hopkins
Baker
US and Britain rejected partial German surrender offer
Thirteen days before Germany’s official capitulation, Truman refused a partialWestern front surrender. Leahy recounts in I Was There that Churchill relayed a Himmler offer via Downing Street, but Truman insisted on full surrender to all Allies and informed Stalin. No agreement followed.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Holland
Denmark
Norway
Truman
William D. Leahy
Saturday Evening Post
Pentagon
George C. Marshall
Army
No. 10 Downing Street
London
Churchill
Sweden
Heinrich Himmler
Count Bernadotte
Himmler
Hitler
America
Leahy
Stalin
Lufkin Councilman Dies in Car Wreck
Lufkin March 7 A city councilman D M Trash aged 50 died from a broken neck in a traffic crash five miles south of Nacogdoches. C E Cordis executive vice president of the Lufkin National was injured along with two men in the other car while city manager J B Early and city engineer Joe E McClendon escaped unharmed. Highway Patrolman A L Ferrell said the car was rammed from behind by the other vehicle whose occupants suffered unspecified injuries.
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Lufkin
D. M. Trash
Thrash
C. E. Cordis
Lufkin National
Nacogdoches
J. B. Early
Joe E. McClendon
Iury
A. L. Ferrell
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