Chiang Kai-Shek Backs Off Assembly to Pressure Communists
Chiang Kai-Shek postponed the national assembly and signaled possible concessions to the Communists amid fighting in Manchuria. Chiang’s party source said the generalissimo is in a mood for compromise as Communist armed strength influences settlement. The government delays follow talks with Communist leaders and other minorities over Manchuria and political issues.
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Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
National Assembly
Manchuria
Kuomintang
Chiang
Kungschuling
Changchun
Communist
New China Daily News
Szepingkai
Kingchung
Middle Course
Democratic League
Osmena Narrowly Trails Roxas In Philippine Vote
Early unofficial totals from 14 238 precincts show Manuel Roxas leading Sergio Osmena 248 344 to 204 566 with Osmena gaining 7 328 votes from 142 more precincts but still behind. The count remains indecisive as results are tallied nationwide.
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Eat
Seepee
Telegas
Manuel Roxas
Onmene
Roxas
Osmena
Clocks Set to Advancing Time Across Several States
The nation shifts to daylight saving time next Sunday at 2 a.m. with six states and parts of 18 others observing the change while 24 states and the District of Columbia remain on standard time. District of Columbia will stay on standard time. States embracing summer time include Connecticut New Jersey Massachusetts Rhode Island and Vermont. Many areas will let communities decide observance. Radio and airline networks plan to adjust schedules for listeners.
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District of Columbia
Washington
Oklahoma
California
Georgia
Alabama
Iowa
Dakne
Texas
Nebraska
Ovada
Connecticut
New Jersey
Massachusetts
New Rhode Island
Vermont
West Virginia
Illinois
Minnesota
Florida
Michigan
South Carolina
Kentucky
Missouri
New Indiana
Pennsylvania
Louisiana
Maine
Oregon
Airlines
Wier Networks
Nazi Time Bomb Near Buckingham Palace Ticks Amid Vigil
A Nazi time bomb buried near Buckingham Palace in St James Park began ticking and prompted disposal squads to monitor possible detonation. The Mall closed to traffic and royal residences were evacuated as precautions. British guards and palace staff faced ongoing fears while the German claim linked the bombs to oil storage and palace repairs continued after the incident.
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Royal Palace
Buckingham Palace
St. James Park
London
UNRRA Share Of Wheat Increased
Washington reports indicate UNRRA will increase its wheat share for hunger relief but Fiorello LaGuardia says the allowance remains far below desperate needs. The Combined Food Board, gathering US Great Britain and other nations, delayed announcing new relief portions from non UNRRA sources.
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Washington
UNRRA
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
United States
Increased LaGuardia
Weather Bureau
Great Plains Wheat Belt
Agriculture Department
Chicago Board of Trade
Harry C. Shaack
Senate Agriculture Committee
Bay
Combined Food Board
Mom
Australia
Death Ends Prison Term of Wife Slayer in WV
Vergil Buzzie Lewis died in the West Virginia penitentiary hospital less than 12 hours after entering the prison to begin an 18 year term for the 1936 slaying of his wife Laura near Cordova Greenbrier County. He was about 48 and had been a fugitive for nine years. He had tuberculosis and diabetes and had been treated at Pinecrest sanitarium before returning to Lewisburg. He had pleaded from innocent to second degree murder and was sentenced by Circuit Ludes Mark L. Jarrett. He was fingerprinted by the FBI in July prior to the United Nations meeting. He had used the name Burt Lane while employed as a package handler in this city.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Vergil
Buzzie) Lewis
West Virginia Penitentiary
Lewis
Penine
Laura
Cordova
Greenbrier County
United Nations
Burt Lane
Miners Face Pay Loss in Southern Regions During Shutdown
The Bituminous Coal Institute reports an average monthly loss of 238.98 per miner in the southern Appalachian area including West Virginia Virginia Kentucky Tennessee and Alabama amid mine shutdowns based on Southern Coal Operators Association payroll figures for 64 828 of 110 000 workers in the region The institute estimates a nationwide payroll loss of about 100 million monthly for 400 000 miners The report breaks down mandatory deductions such as 17 70 federal withholding 1 94 social security 1 88 union dues and notes additional costs for goods fought and heat doctors' fees hospital and life insurance.
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New York
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Appalachian
Special Levy for Schools Urged with Details on Rates
A civic leaders meeting chaired by W. E. Koepler urged a special levy for schools to be voted before the new fiscal year starting July 1. Plans include a 60 percent vote for approval and a $103,000 yearly building fund, with raises tied to certificates and degrees.
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W. E. Koepler
Semoaniinmntae
Pere
Commerce
West Virginian Hotel
Lambert Case Set for Jury After Case Weathers to Trial
Bowen Lambert of Rocky Gap Virginia faces murder charges in the February 1946 death of his brother Titus Lambert at Shawver’s Mill. Testimony and defense motions led to a severance and the Commonwealth’s decision to try Bowden separately with Lena Lambert. Bowen claims self defense. The judge ordered the case to jury deliberation after closing arguments and instructions.
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Bowen Lambert
Rocky Gap
Titus
Blana
A. C. Buchanan
U Ted
Severance
Commonwealth
Bowmen
Lena
Bowen
Shawver
Titus Lambert
Mill Va
Shawver's
Mill
Fork
Cores
Sailaarabe Sen
Bluefield
Ministers To Open Meeting In Paris For Trieste Accord
Four power talks in Paris on the Trieste issue near completion with an accord favored by Italy gaining Trieste while most of Venezia Giulia would go to Yugoslavia. Byrnes Molotov and Bevin arrived ahead of the foreign ministers session as plans to submit the commission’s language for nationality criteria are considered.
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Paris
Trieste
Italy
Venezia Giulia
Yugoslavia
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Byrnes
Er Investmgated Commission
Rioting Convicts Surrender at San Vittore Prison
Milan reports twenty five hundred rioting convicts at San Vittore surrendered meekly after a tank led artillery assault. The siege began last Sunday and cost eight lives, with over thirty guards and two policemen held as hostages before the prisoners were freed with no injuries. Erzio Barbieri, claimed leader of the rioters, surrendered with his arms. Civil police escorted the detainees to a new jail.
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Milan
San Vittore
Erzio Barbieri
Barbieri
Welch Youth Among Victims Slain By Berserk Seaman
Wilburn Belcher Jr son of Welch liquor king Belcher enlisted in 1945 and was to have re called. The seaman William Vincent Smith of Asheville North Carolina identified as the killer killed nine Navy men aboard the ship and wounded two more. Smith reportedly stabbed himself and is not expected to recover.
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Wilburn Belcher, Jr
Wilburn
Belcher
Navy
Conte
Smith
Truman To Attend Funeral Services For Chief Justice Stone
President Truman will join a Chesapeake Bay cruise to attend the funeral of Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone in Washington. The Williamsburg will dock at the capital for a 2 p.m. service at the Washington Cathedral before returning to the yacht. accompanying the President are Adm. Leahy Brig. Gen Vaughan and Capt. Clif. House members Tolan Kefauver Cravens Hancock Michener and Gwynne will attend as bearers.
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President Truman
Chesapeake Bay
Truman
Harlan F. Stone
Williamsburg
Cru
Chesage Bay
Washington Cathedral
William D. Leahy
Ha Vaughan
Clark Clif
Ite House
Ars
Margaret
Charles
Rock Creek
James
House Judiciary Committee
Tolan
D-Calif
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Cravens
Dark
Hancock
T-Ny
Michener
R-Mich
Gwynne
R-lowa
Three Fliers Die In Pre-Dawn Crash Near L.A. Area
In Burbank California three fliers died when a disabled transport deviated to avoid a house and crashed into a backyard two miles from Lockheed air terminal. The crash narrowly missed the Brychta children and damaged the Brychta home as families prayed for safety.
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Burbank
Calif
Lockheed Air Terminal
Mathew Brychta
Ronnie
Janet
Carol
Woman with 23 dogs stranded in Oklahoma City trailer
Marie Talley, 55, left her home to care for stray dogs and ended up in a trailer with 23 pets after her humane society closed for funds. Neighbors complained about the dogs at her home and her husband urged her to leave without them. She hopes to find good homes for the dogs. Local authorities offered no eviction or help, and Talley remains with the animals in Okmulgee, then back to Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma City
Marie Talley
Humane Society
Talley
Okmulgee
Eeciaeaen
Othce
Ley
State Highway Patrol
U S Steel Chiefly Responsible In Vienna Report
April 24 report cites Lewis stating U S Steel is chiefly responsible for events around Vienna. Soviet air activity disclosed including a second attack on a C-47 transport between Vienna and Linz. Four Russian fighters closed on the plane. no damage or reply reported.
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Vienna
Clark
Murder Robbery Suspects Nabbed Near York
Kesler J. Russell 40 formerly of Richlands Virginia and Hughie Sutherland formerly of Dicken County Virginia were moved by Pennsylvania officers to York Pennsylvania to answer charges of murder and robbery of an elderly raven keeper on March 25 1946. Russell was arrested Monday in Richlands by Virginia state trooper Sgt Ira Ratliff and Sutherland was arrested Monday in Rome Georgia. They were taken to Abingdon then to Tazewell where Pennsylvania officers detained them yesterday.
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Kesler J. Russell
Richlands
Hughie Sutherland
Dickenson County
Pennsylvania
York
Russell
Ira Ratliff
Virginia State Police
Sutherland
Rome
Abingdon
Tazewell
Bowen Co Ang
Ramen
Three held in slaying of Logansville Gun Club steward
State Police announced three men are in custody in the March 25 slaying of John Miller a 72 year old steward at Logansville Gun Club near York Pennsylvania Kinne said officers were en route to Ork with Kessler J Russell 40 and Taunton Sutherland 29 both of York County The thing man Jacob McCullough 30 was detained today on his Maryland farm Kime said Troopers went to Tazewell County Virginia to pick up Russell upon arrival
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Harrisonburghe
Kine
John Miller
Logansville
York
Kinne
Ork
Kessler J. Russell
Taunton
Tazewell County
Virginia
Russell Ar
Railway Express Strike Ends in Detroit Vote
In Detroit a union local representing about 1000 Railway Express Agency workers voted to end a three day walkout and return to work at 12:01 a m Thursday. President Truman named a fact finding board to study the dispute as 65 000 agency employees nationwide face possible strike. About 400 members attended the meeting with Richard Kowalski noting the vote to recess pending the board report and possible reinstatement if the 16 cent pay increase is not granted.
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Detroit
Railway Express Agency, Inc
Washington
Truman
Hota
Richard Kowalski
Brotherseed
Railway and Steamship Clerks
AFL
Railway Express
Emil J. Hardesty
Anti-Royalty Bill To Be Introduced In Congress
Rep A Willis Robertson said he will introduce a resolution after Easter to prohibit royalty demands like John L Lewis 10 cents a ton coal royalty. He estimates the demand could cost consumers about 60 million dollars yearly and warn of further plant shutdown impact and unemployment by mid May.
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Front Royal
A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
Congress
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Virginia
Lewis
Robertson
Court To Rule On Unemployment Compensation Case
Arguments in a 1944 spring and fall mine foremen strike unemployment case will be heard in the county circuit court. The decision may decide compensation for rank and file miners idle during the foremen strike and the later walkout. The United Mine Workers appeal a 2 1 ruling denying jobless pay to miners who left C H Mead Coal in Raleigh County.
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Charleston
W. Va
Res
United Mine Workers
Compensation Department of Review
C. H. Mead Coal Company
Raleigh
West Virginia Coal Association
Delegates Map Course On Spanish Question
United Nations delegates conferred in hotel rooms to shape a course on the Spanish question. They anticipated approval of an Australian proposal for a thorough Franco inquiry, with doubts about the five member committee’s subpoena powers and a May 17 deadline for a report.
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New York
United Nations
Pro
Security Council
SayS Steel Holds Line Against UMW
Hazelton Pennsylvania April 24 John L Lewis charged today United States Steel corporation is chiefly responsible for the breakdown in contract negotiations affecting 40 000 striking bituminous miners and warned it is near acutely distressing the economic situation in America. He attacked soft coal operators and urged a health and welfare fund while predicting hard coal workers will gain concessions unless operators adopt the same stance as financial interests in the bituminous industry.
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Hazelton
John L. Lewis
United States Steel Corporation
America
Afl-United Mine Workers
U. S. Steel
Lewis
Jows
Coalucer
UMW A
U.S. Steel
Gastier
UMW Secneary
Ae Ee
Carniontem
Troops Return as Vessels Arrive at Three U S Ports
About 6 300 veterans to debark at three U S ports on eight ships plus 1 213 war brides and children aboard two ships. West coast towns San Francisco and San Diego receive several vessels while New York handles five ships with 4 338 troops and a bride ship. Observed vessels include Sea Porpoise Bardstown Victory Sedalia Victory William and Mary Victory Frostburg Victory and Mariposa with numerous ordnance and maintenance units aboard.
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U.S
Europe
New York
San Francisco
San Diego
Brazil
le Havre
Quartermaster
Ordnance
WAC
Bardstown Victory
Bremen
Sedalia Victory
First Armored Division
Wac’s, Walliam and Mary Victory
Armored Signal
Frostburg Victory
Neous
Mariposa
Australia
Obiliedren
Ross
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LaGuardia
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James F. Byrnes
Cheslav M. Molotov
Zoo
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Ernest Bevin Ee Eee
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Stone
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Linz
UMW
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