Acheson Signals Long Term European Arms Aid Plan
Secretary of State Acheson plans to tell Congress that the United States should provide military arms to Western Europe for a long period to safeguard security. Officials expect a minimum three year program with possible end around mid 1952, depending on Cold War developments and allied force needs.
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Washington
Acheson
Congress
Europe
Armed Services Committee
Gurney
South Dakota
Bridges
New Hampshire
Barkley
Russia
State Department
Truman
Five Die in Gun Battle at Pullman
Five men were killed and three injured in a gun battle in Pullman Washington. Police say George McIntyre an electric store operator opened fire wounding officer Ross Claar and others before being killed by a posse. Also dead were Sheriff L M Parnell Deputy Gilbert Gallagher Ernie Buck and a civilian who joined the posse.
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Pullman
Wash
Pole
Art Ricketts
George McIntyre
L. M
Pete’ Parnell
Gilbert Gallager
Ernie Buck
Ross Claar
McIntyre
Claar
Red Cross Surpasses 1949 Fund Goal With 62.2 Million
Washington reports the American Red Cross has topped its 1949 goal of 60 million, with total subscriptions reaching 62.2 million. Chairman E Roland Harriman noted some chapters such as New York and Los Angeles have not met local quotas.
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Washington
American Red Cross
E. Roland Harriman
National Drive
Harriman
New York
Los Angeles
U.S. May Lose Berlin Voice in Cold War Radio Battle
Berlin reports say America is about to lose RIAS, the sole American voice behind the Soviet bloc in Berlin. The station relays Voice of America programs and directly targets Germans with anti Soviet messages, staffed by three Americans and 600 Germans with an annual budget of 15 million marks. Funds are idle in German banks while U.S. agencies withhold support.
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Berlin
America
RIAS
United States
Europe
U.S
Germany
Voice of America
Angen
Wonderful Easter Relief Worker Freed In Prague
Miss Vlasta Vraz an American relief worker for Czechoslovakia was freed after a week in prison following arrest on April 9. Authorities held her incommunicado for three days during an anti government inquiry. US Ambassador Joseph E. Davis pressed for her release.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Vlasta Vraz
Vlasta
American Relief For
United States
Joseph E. Davis
Brakeman Killed as Train Wreck Blocks Main Line
A Pennsylvania railroad freight train wreck near Johnstown killed brakeman R. W. Cook of Pittsburgh. The locomotive overturned and over 30 cars were derailed, blocking all four tracks. Cook was 38. cause of the accident was not known.
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Johnstown
Pennsylvania Railroad
R. W. Cook
Pittsburgh
Cook
Muted Jazz Campaign In Soviet Zone Hits Weimar
In Berlin the Die Welt reports jazz is banned in the Soviet occupation zone. Russians call it alien music and suppress such concerts. Weimar residents cancel a tea dance as a hot trumpet group lame to perform under the restriction.
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Berlin
Germany
Die Welt
Weimar
UN Is Stymied On Major Issues At Lake Success
The United Nations general assembly enters its third week with decisions pending on key questions. Only a resolution urging voluntary veto restraint has passed. Russia with 30 vetoes is unlikely to heed it. Debates resume on Italy’s prewar African colonies Mindszenty Hungary trials Indonesian relations and Israel membership. Some see four extra weeks needed to finish.
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United Nations General Assembly
Security Council
U. N
Assembly
Italy
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Israel
World Organization
South Africa
Spain
Paris
Eight-Year-Old Boy Killed by Train at Chelyan Crossing
In Charleston on April 17, eight-year-old Glenn Ballard of Chelyan was decapitated by a yard train at the Creasy crossing of the Chelyan railway yards. Magistrate Ed Smith said the boy was returning from an ice cream parlor and crawled under the moving train.
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Charleston
W. Va
Chelyan
Ed Smith
Glenn Ballard
Easter Parade Draws Record Crowds Amid Quiet Finery
The New York Easter parade drew about 1.5 million people around St Patrick’s Cathedral as crowds viewed eye catching hats, furs, and models on Fifth Avenue. Celebrities were scarce aside from ex postmaster general James J Farley. fashion and novelty hats drew attention while pacifists faced police action and a Marine escort.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
James J. Farley
Jim, Jr
Farley
Raquel Villamil
Santiago
Chile
Adelaide Smith
Park Avenue
St. Thomas's
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal
St. Patrick's
Fulton Sheen
Chapin Attacks Hungarians Over Religious Persecution
Selden Chapin, ousted American minister to Hungary, denounced Eastern Europe’s red dominated regimes for turning churches into state mouthpieces. He linked prosecutions such as Cardinal Mindszenty’s case to a broader Communist drive against religion and free institutions, broadcast with State Department support.
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Washington
Selden Chapin
Hungary
Europe
Chapin
Cardinal Mindszenty
State Department
George Allen
NBC
Taft Predicts New Labor Law Replacing Taft Hartley
Senator Taft and fellow Republicans signal a five part substitute to the Lesinski bill. They expect a new labor law that re enacts core Taft Hartley principles while opposing the administration measure which would replace the act with a Wagner style reform. Debate timeline points to late April in the House and a delayed Senate action.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Senate Labor Committee
Senate Ives
Thomas Lesinski
Secrecy Over U S 65 000ton Carrier Decision
Washington reports secrecy surrounds the possible start of a 65 000 ton United States supercarrier project. Officials decline comment as shipyard workers prepare fabrication at Newport News. Government spending nears 9 million with 43 million more sought. completion may top 186 million. Mahon urges re examination of the plan.
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Washington
United States
Newport News
Truman
Louis Johnson
Mahon
D-Tex
House Appropriations
Choir Coats Looted During Easter Anthem at Church
Huntington West Virginia April 17 Police Detective Cecil Kes sick said a thief looted choir coats in the Johnson Memorial Methodist church choir room while the singers performed Easter anthems. The loss was over $300.
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Huntington
W. Va
Cecil Kessick
Johnson Memorial Methodist Church
Senate weighs tighter armed service unity to cut costs
A drive in the Senate seeks to unify the army navy and air forces under a single chief to trim the $15.9 to $16 billion military appropriation. Byrd and Gurney push expedited action, citing potential savings of up to several billions and urging passage of a unity bill before broader appropriations. Hoover commission amendments may frame new military budgeting and accountability rules.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
Gurney
South Dakota
Congress
Army
Navy
Guerney
Armed Services Committee
Herbert Hoover
Air Force
Stymington
Secretary of Defense
Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Tydings
D-Md
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Truman
Land Reform in Italy Plans to Distribute Millions of Acres
Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi announced in Il Messaggero that about 3,000,000 acres would be allotted to peasants. The plan would source land from state and municipal holdings with proportional reductions of private property, while church lands remain untouched.
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Rome
Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Il Messaggero
de Gasperi
Four Are Shaken Up In Crash Landing
Four St. Louis men including Brig. Gen Winston Kratz were shaken up after a B 26 bomber made an emergency landing at Washington National airport. The right engine caught fire. the plane slid about 450 feet with wheels retracted. No serious injuries were reported. Kratz was en route to serve on the air advisory board.
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Washington
St. Louis
Air National Guard
Washington National Airport
Winston Kratz
Kratz
Air National’guard
71St
Guard
Long Range Housing Plan Faces Likely Senate Passage
Senator Ellender predicts the multi billion dollar long range housing bill will escape economy drives this year. The measure would create 810000 public housing units in six years and a five year slum clearance program with up to 308 million annual federal aid, 1 billion in blight area loans, and 85 million first year public housing. The Senate resumes debate and backers seek a Tuesday vote before sending the bill to the House.
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Washington
Ellender
D-La
Congress
Senate
House
Wherry
Neb
GOP
Cain
Wash
Bricker
Ohio
House Appropriations
Communists Give Chinese Government April 20 Surrender Deadline
The Communists demand surrender terms by April 20 and threaten invasion of south China. Three red armies position on the Yangtze north bank with crossings requested between Nanking and Shanghai and up to Hankow. If granted, they could press toward Hangchow and Shanghai railway routes as water rises next month.
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Nanking
South China
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Hankow
Shanghai-Nanking
Chinkiang
Chiangyin
Hangchow
Peipin
Chinese Newspapers Priced in Rice in Soochow
In Soochow 50 miles west of Shanghai on April 17 newsapers move to price their copies in rice worth 65 pounds per pound era? The item notes the unusual barter like pricing to curb inflation with rice as payment.
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Soochow
China
Shanghai
Three Die in Virginia Car Crash north of Fredericksburg
A three-vehicle collision on Route One near Fredericksburg, Virginia, killed a 12 year old girl Jennette Creech and Morrisville residents Eugene Ellwood Kemper and Marjorie Coppage. Seven others were injured including a four year old boy. State Trooper H L Powers identified two victims from papers at the scene.
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Fredericksburg
Morrisville
Route One
Here
H. L. Powers
Eugene Ellwood Kemper
Marjorie Coppage
Mom's Easter reunion after baring wartime parole
New Bedford Mass April 17 AP Little Jimmy Ybarbo greets his mother Mrs Wilma Ybarbo who arrived from Westover air base after her sentence for slaying her army sergeant husband was set aside. She calls Jimmy a big boy and describes her post release plans while adjusting to life with her grandson.
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New Bedford
Mass
Jimmy Ybarbo
Wilma Ybarbo
Westover Air Base
Jimmy
Eunice Bailey
Germany
John Ybarbo
Goliad
Tex
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Louseness
Ybarbo
Army
East Germans urge lift of Berlin blockade through interzonal trade
Die Welt reports Soviet ambassador Dekanosov advising on resuming interzonal trade as East Germans press Moscow to end the blockade. Lawrence Wilkinson notes informal German requests to restart west–east commerce, despite Allied counter measures, to avert economic collapse in the Russian zone.
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Berlin
East Zone
Die Welt
Hamburg
West Germany
Vladimir Dekanosov
Germany
Hitler
Soviet Union
Dekanosov
Lawrence Wilkinson
U. S
Lucius D. Clay
Wilkinson
Economic Commission
Soviet Zone
Frankfurt
East Germany
Friedrich Ebert
East Berlin
German Economic Commission
John Masefield Reported Seriously Ill at Home
British poet laureate John Masefield, age seventy, is said to be seriously ill at his home in Burcote Brook Abingdon Berkshire after recent influenza complications. The report comes from Berkshire on April 17.
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Burcote Brook
Abingdon
Berkshire
John Masefield
Masefield
Endurance Pair Still Aloft on Easter Sunday
Endurance fliers Bill Barris and Rick Riedel remained aloft in the SunKist Lady over Fullerton California as they chase a new 1,000 hour record. Riedel thought of his 10 year old son Richard Jr who is immobile due to a crippling arthritis relapse. Ground contact by radio with families continued as the pair neared 795 hours in the air.
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Barris
Riedel
Ice Breaker Laurel Delivers Food to Labrador Outpost
The ice-breaking ship Laurel broke through heavy drift ice to reach St Charles harbor on Labrador, carrying $25,000 in supplies for isolated communities short of food. It left St John's, Mid., on Tuesday.
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Laurel
Labrador
St. Charles Harbor
St. John’s
Mid
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