One Day Red Cross Drive in Austin March 9
Sunday, March 9, Red Cross day in Austin as solicitors seek to raise the city's share of Mower county's costs. Campaign workers anticipate mild weather aiding the drive and aim to bank a lion's share of the $17,690 quota before March 9 with continued efforts afterward. County chapter chairman Glenn Kelley emphasizes urgent need to meet the full quota due to higher service demands and costs.
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Red Cross
Austin
Mower County
Glenn Kelley
McCarran Pushes Study on Truman Corruption Powers
Senate Judiciary Chair McCarran urged delaying action on President Truman’s request to empower Newbold Morris in a corruption probe. Republicans Ferguson Wiley and Watkins pressed for more study before any decision. Morris seeks immunity and subpoena power to probe government wrongdoing, with McCarran insisting on congressional access to Morris’s materials.
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Washington
McCarran
D-New
Senate Judiciary Committee
Truman
Newbold Morris
Congress
Sens. Ferguson
Michigan
Wiley
Wisconsin
Watkins
Utah
Morris
MC Carran
House Judiciary Committee
Ferguson
Stratocruiser Pilot Collapses at Controls
A United Airlines Stratocruiser captain collapsed at the controls and died two hours after takeoff from Honolulu bound for Los Angeles. First officer W A Mantross returned the plane safely to Honolulu. Captain L C Brown, 46, of Los Angeles suffered a heart attack. Flight crew, including nurse stewardess Helen Knese, Roscoe Minnesota, attempted resuscitation for an hour.
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Honolulu
United Airlines
Los Angeles
L. C. Brown
W. A. Mantross
Redondo Beach
Calif
Helen Knese
Roscoe, Minn
U S Orders Ban on Beef From Canada
The agriculture department ordered an immediate halt to most imports of live stock and meats from Canada due to a foot and mouth disease outbreak in Saskatchewan. Dr. B. T. Simms notes annual imports exceed 100 million pounds of meat and about 360,000 cattle swine and sheep. The disease is highly contagious and feared.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Canada
Saskat
B. T. Simms
Bureau of Animal Industry
Ottawa
Canadian Agriculture Department
Saskatchewan
United States
U. S
Allies Offer Limited UN Soviet Truce Supervisory Panel
UN truce negotiators propose withdrawing Norway from supervision if Russia yields. The plan would use two neutral nations per side for inspections, with Switzerland and Sweden for the UN and Czechoslovakia and Poland for the Communists. Panmunjom talks adjourned after a 58 minute session with no progress on prisoner exchanges or entry ports.
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Robert B. Tuckman
Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Norway
Russia
Switzerland
Sweden
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Pu Shan
George W. Hickman
Japanese Protest Arrest of 2 Reds in Osaka Action
About 40 Japanese protesters smashed windows at an Osaka police station Sunday night after police refused to release two men arrested for distributing leaflets advertising a Communist meeting. Police reinforcements quelled the crowd and one protester was jailed.
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Tokyo
Osaka
Two Defining Issues at Lisbon NATO Meeting
The North Atlantic Council in Lisbon faces two remaining questions: U S funding share of a 450 million infrastructure program across Europe and the streamlining of NATO bodies under a permanent secretary general. A big three talks with Acheson Schuman and Eden focus on German wartime industry controls and final NATO contributions.
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Stan Swinton
Lisbon
Portugal
Atlantic
Western
Europe
North Atlantic Council
United States
NATO Civil and Economic Organization
Germany
Austria
U. S
State Acheson
Robert Schuman
Anthony Eden
West Germany
Toy Helmet Saves Boy in Cave-in
In Los Angeles a 10 year old, Dick Stewart, being buried in a dirt cave-in, was saved by a battered shipyard helmet from his toy collection. Rescuers freed him after five minutes finding the helmet had formed an air pocket above his face, keeping him alive.
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Los Angeles
Dick Stewart
Tokyo Papers Highlight GI Uniform Robberies Across Tokyo
Tokyo newspapers report three minor stickups totaling under $50 carried out by a man in a U.S. army uniform. They urge trying Americans in Japanese courts after the peace treaty, noting the security pact may place armed personnel under Japanese arrest but U.S. military courts for trial.
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Tokyo
U. S
Philadelphia Mayor Won't Accept Gifts Policy Asserted
Philadelphia Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr. says he will not accept any gifts while in office. Since taking office on January 7 he has returned a portrait of himself, theater passes, a Liberty Bell photo, theater season passes, and a transit pass to the donor.
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Philadelphia
Joseph S. Clark, Jr
Liberty Bell
Clark
Italian Actress Says Older Actors Obstruct Romance
Italian film star Sylvana Pampanini said Hollywood needs younger, virile lovers and that actors like Clark Gable and Gary Cooper looked pitiful in an older man’s embrace. Her remarks drew snickers from the Hollywood colony, with some defending older stars and others noting publicity motives.
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Holywood
Woo
Sylvana Pampanini
Rome
Clark Gable
Charles Boyer
Gary Cooper
Humphrey Bogart
Spencer Tracy
Paul Muni
Ronald Colman
Miss Pampanini
Campaign Buildup For March 18 Presidential Primary
Republican Harold Stassen tours western Minnesota after successful southern Minnesota trip moving to Willmar St Cloud and urging sessions in Austin Rochester and Winona. Democratic Gov. G Mennen Williams urges party unity while Orville Freeman hints at a governorship bid at a Winona luncheon. Stassen backs Great Lakes St. Lawrence seaway and a barge canal linking Lake Superior to the Mississippi.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Harold FE. Stassen
Austin
Rochester
Winona
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Ican
Orville Freeman
Minneapolis
Stassen
Great Lakes
Embassy Reports Malik in Russia
The Soviet embassy announced that Russia's chief UN Delegate Jacob Malik remains in Russia. His wife and son were listed as passengers on the Queen Mary that docked in New York, but the Maliks were not aboard.
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Paris
Russia
United Nations
Jacob Malik
New York
Maliks
Supreme Court test upholds Burnquist on Minnesota primary withdrawals
Minnesota Attorney General J A Burnquist ruled withdrawals by Estes Kefauver and Douglas MacArthur from the state presidential primary do not require withdrawal affidavits. He said such affidavits and the notary requirements are invalid, allowing a three way Republican race and Humphrey no opposition on the Democratic side.
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ST. Paul
Estes Kefauver
Dtenn
Douglas MacArthur
Minnesota
Atty
J. A. Burnquist
Burnquist
Harold E. Stassen
Dwight Eisenhower
Edward C. Sleetedahl
Sleetedahl
MacArthur
Hubert Humphrey
U. S. Supreme Court
High Courts
North Dakota
Twin City Attorneys Move to Overturn Burnquist Ruling
Minneapolis attorney Frank Patrick Ryan said he will appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court against Burnquist's ruling invalidating the withdrawal section of the presidential primary law. St Paul attorney Sydney W. Goff said Minnesota Supreme Court action will aim to remove Eisenhower from the ballot unless the court orders otherwise.
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Supreme Court
Gen. Eisenhower
Burnquist
Associated Press
Frank Patrick Ryan
Minneapolis
Minnesota Supreme Court
Atty
Ryan
Sen
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Sydney W. Goff
St. Paul
Minnesota
Rayburn Bans Telecasts of House Committee Sessions
Speaker Rayburn announced a ban on televising or broadcasting house committee sessions. He said no telecasts will occur as long as he holds the speakership and House rules stay the same. He instructed Chairman Wood to stop telecasting hearings, including those in Detroit, and similar guidance was given to other chairmen.
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Washington
Rayburn
Texas
Wood
House un-American Activities Committee
Detroit
Petition for New Night Train to LaCrosse Granted
The Minnesota railroad and warehouse commission approved the Milwaukee Road petition for a night passenger train to LaCrosse. A sleeping car to Chicago via Calmar will join the new service, picked up at LaCrosse by the Pioneer limited for an early Chicago arrival. The Columbian will bring a Chicago sleeping car to LaCrosse for the return to Austin. Officials expect service soon.
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Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Milwaukee Road
LaCrosse
Chicago
Calmar
Pioneer Limited
Twin Cities
Father to be Brought Back on Abandonment
Sheriff Albert Reinartz left Sunday for Omaha to fetch Beryl Parr on a warrant charging abandonment of four minor children. They are expected to return Tuesday.
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Albert Reinartz
Omaha
Beryl Parr
Parr
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