House Approves Third Money Bill With Major Reductions
The House passed its third major money bill, $50 million in departmental appropriations, 124 to 8, after cutting about $791,000 from the original. It axed all funding for the State Aeronautics and State Veterans Affairs Commissions and trimmed Health Department maintenance by $622,006 for the two-year period.
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State Aeronautics Commission
State Veterans Affairs Commission
Health Department
Leslie King
Vernon
Department of Public Safety
Veterans Affairs Commission
Billie Jobe
Putman
Abraham Kazen Jr
Laredo
Labor Agrees To Accept Some Taft Hartley Provisions
Washington CIO and AFL reach partial acceptance of Taft Hartley provisions while opposing strike injunction powers. In Brownsville James G. Hurst, 27, convicted of illegally exporting an A-20 bomber to aid Nicaraguan rebels, waives jury trial. judge to sentence next morning. San Francisco daredevil Robert Niles posts bail after 500 foot Bay Bridge jump. plans a dual leap from Empire State Building with his girlfriend.
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Washington
CIO
AFL
Brownsville
James G. Hurst
US Air Force
Allen B. Hannay
San Francisco
Robert Niles
Bay Bridge
Empire State Building
End of Berlin blockade triggers Allied rush to enter
After the Russian blockade ends at 12:01 a.m. Berlin time, Allied and German vehicles flood the city and Western trains roll into Berlin from Helmstedt. The airlift continues, with officials citing supplies of over 1.58 million tons in 194,531 flights as Berlin rejoices and authorities restore trade and services.
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Berlin
Frankfurt
Germany
United States
Great Britain
France
Helmstedt
Walter Rundle
United Press
Charles Wichton
London Daily Express
Rundle
Robert Inglis
John K. Cannon
Europe
Lucius D. Clay
Hitler
Big Four Talks Hinge on Russian Attitude in Germany
Secretary of State Acheson said the success of the May Paris talks on Germany depends on Russian willingness to propose or accept binding principles. He warned that unity arrangements must guarantee civil rights and that Berlin blockade relief does not solve the German question, noting persistent East West tension.
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Washngton
Acheson
Germany
Paris
Britain
France
Panel Approves New Pension Bill Amid Division
The House veterans committee endorsed a pension plan giving $72 monthly to low income veterans over 65 who are unemployable. The bill transfers pension rate authority from the Veterans Administration to Congress and could add about $10 billion in benefits over 50 years, with income and dependents qualifiers and higher amounts for helpless or disabled veterans.
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Washington
House Veterans Committee
Rankin
D-Miss
Teague
Dtexas
Congress
Israelis Win UN Seat as Arabs Walk Out
Israel was admitted to the United Nations as the 58th member by a 37 to 12 vote with nine abstentions. Arab delegations left the General Assembly while the United States Britain and other nations supported the admission amid a two year fight for recognition. Australia’s Dr. Herbert Evatt announced the result and called Moshe Sharet to accept Israel’s representative.
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New York
Israel
United Nations
General Assembly
United States
Russia
China
France
Britain
Belgium
Brazil
Denmark
el Salvador
Greece
Siam
Sweden
Turkey
India
Australia
Herbert V. Evatt
Assembly
Moshe Sharrett
Air Force urges Texas to keep rent controls amid decontrol debate
A senior Air Force officer warns Governor Jester and the Texas Legislature that ending rent controls would harm many Texas based air personnel and hinder reenlistments. The letter from Major General Robert W. Burns was released after House Bill 808 advanced to a later stage.
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Air Force
Beauford Jester
Texas
House
Byrne
Jester
Pearce Johnson
Austin
Raymond Foley
Public Housing Administration
Washington, D. C
Johnson
Moore
Frankie Laine seeks divorce from Nellina Lo Vecchio
Frankie Laine 33 sues wife Nellina Gidland Lo Vecchio 24 in Los Angeles for cruelty. He alleges the couple has a property settlement and his attorney says she will receive reasonable maintenance from his 5000 dollar weekly earnings.
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Los Angeles
Frankie Laine
Superior
Laine
Frank Paul Lo Vecchio
Nellina Gidland Lo Vecchio
Acheson Rejects US Franco Ties
Secretary of State Acheson told Senate leaders the United States will not name an ambassador to Spain while the Franco regime is described as fascist and denies basic civil rights. He urged compliance with trial by jury and religious freedom before acceptance as a Western partner. The stance follows demands from Senators for faster envoy exchange and amid UN reactions to Madrid.
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Acheson
Senate
Spain
United States
United Nations
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Connally
D-Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Taft
Ohio
Doctor Hears Crash and Father Killed in Beverly Hills
Dr. Chester Bonoff heard a traffic collision near his Beverly Hills home on a Wednesday in May. He rushed to aid and found his father Dr. Karl Bonoff 57 dead and his mother Edna 53 seriously injured.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Chester Bonoff
Karl Bonoff
Edna
Slaw Warns Senate of Red Agents Active in US
Congressional witness Bogdan Raditsa testified that Communist agents are visiting the United States under diplomatic immunity to aid world revolution. He cited Dr. J. Vilfan as a Yugoslav UN delegate and central committee member, alleging a secret police network in a Fifth Avenue building. He urged stricter immigration rules and possible deportation for subversive aliens.
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Washington
United States
Bogdan Raditsa
Senate Judiciary
Fifth Avenue
New York
J. Vilfan
United Nations
Communist Party
America
Batitsa
Senator McCarran
D-Nev
Cominform
Marshal Tito
Raditsa
Soviet Union
Tito
Stalin
United Nations Assembly
Srd
Nip War Criminal Suspect Hangs Self
Kotaro Watanabe a 31 year old former Japanese Army sergeant questioned on brutal mistreatment of Soviet war prisoners hanged himself from a tree near his Utsonomiya home north of Tokyo on Wednesday according to dispatches from Tokyo authorities.
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Tokyo
INS
Kotaro Watanabe
Utsonomiya
Reds drive on Hankow as South China threat grows
Communist forces from Manchuria press toward Hankow with reports of drives toward Hwangpei and Nanchang while defending lines on the Yangtze. The Nationalists withdraw some troops as Shanghai inflation flares and a crackdown targets alleged plots.
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Associated Press
Manchuria
Hankow
Canton
Hwangpei
China
Pai Chung-Hsi
Nanchang
Pai
Huang Hu
Huang
Yangtze
Lin Piao
North Bank
Wuchang
Shanghai
South China
Kinki
Nancheng
Yangtze River
Fukien Province
Formosa
Kashan
Ross Murder Case Rehearing Denied by Appeals Court
The Court of Criminal Appeals refused a motion for rehearing for Dr. Lloyd I. Ross the San Antonio surgeon condemned to die for the 1947 killings of Mrs. Willard York and three York family members near Comal County. The court upheld the insanity defense standard and affirmed the death sentence based on the right and wrong test.
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Associated Press
Lloyd I. Ross
San Antonio
Court of Criminal Appeals
Wharton
Ross
T. W. (Buckshot) Lane
Ohip
Willard York
Comal County
John
Mary York
York
Ann York
Defenes
la Grange
Harvard
Yorks
Harry N. Graves
His Wife Too Cruel Even for the Judge
In Baton Rouge on Tuesday Judge Charles A. Holcombe granted a husband a divorce on cruelty grounds after the husband complained his wife blocked him from smoking cigars reading the newspaper or having sugar. The judge commented sympathy for the husband and said he would not tolerate such treatment.
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Baton Rouge
Charles A. Holcombe
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