Berlin Blockade Talks Reported Quietly Progressing
Secret U S Russia talks on lifting the Berlin blockade were described as proceeding satisfactorily with no written commitments. Ambassador Jessup met with Malik for over two hours, while four power discussions may widen next week as leaders plan dates for a foreign ministers meeting.
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New York
United States
Russia
Berlin
U. S
Philip C. Jessup
Jakob A. Malik
Malik
West
Council of Foreign Ministers
Dr. Jessup
Jessup
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Britain
Jean Chauvel
France
Filipinos Battle Ambush Slayers Near Manila
In the Philippines Manila district reports say a constabulary unit engages ambush slayers of Mrs Aurora Quezon in jungle hills northeast of Manila. Mrs Quezon her daughter and son in law were among 12 killed earlier on the road to Baler. Hukbalahap guerrillas led by Colonel Alejandro Viernes identified.
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Manila
Philipine Constabulary
Aurora Quezon
Quezon
Philipines
Baler
Red Cross
Angel Magallanes
Alejandros Viernes
Stalin
Wild State Spending Assailed By Holt
Buckhannon West Virginia April 29 Former U S Senator Rush Holt Democratic member of the house of delegates from Lewis county told a Buckhannon club that state tax revenues will not sustain the expenditures approved at the recent legislative session He blamed not only the legislature but also the public for demanding more spending and warned that the surplus will be spent in two years while taxes are tied to current business
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Buckhannon
W. Va
West Virginia
U. S
Rush D. Holt
House of Delegates
Lewis County
Buckhannon Club
Holt
Cleveland Man Confesses Double Slaying At Beckley
Cleveland police report a man captured in an attempted robbery confessed to a Beckley West Virginia double murder from November 4. The suspect, Robert Charles Brown, 20, provided details that matched some elements but Beckley police remained cautious and planned fingerprint comparison. Authorities awaited Beckley confirmation before charging Brown with the taxi robbery attempt.
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Cleveland
Beckley
W. Va
Soviets Retreat In Canal Tiff
Soviet officers who tried to seize barge traffic in British sector canals acted without authority. British and Soviet transport chiefs planned a conference on barge traffic, ending a blockade within a blockade. Freight carriers moved normally through western Berlin canals under four power rules. May Day tensions rose as rival celebrations were planned. German police kept reserves on alert and clashes occurred near the U S Soviet border.
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Berlin
Europe
United States
Charlestonians Win Medals For Heroism
Three Charleston West Virginia men Delford O. Taylor Preston N. Miller and Aaron Wesley Flood received bronze medals from the Carnegie hero fund for pulling unconscious Air National Guard Lieutenant Leonard Bostic from a burning F 51 wreck on December 6 1947 near Charleston. They aided the pilot as flames rose eight feet high around the nose and a wing was ripped from the fuselage.
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Pittsburgh
Charleston
W. Va
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
National Guard
Delford O. Taylor
Preston N. Miller
Aaron Wesley Flood
Leonard Bostic
Air National Guard
Here
Infants Perish In Fire Sweeps Four Homes
In Quinnimont West Virginia four homes were destroyed by a blaze started by a defective cooking stove. Two small children, Ronald Plumley aged one and a half, and his sister aged three and a half, died after being believed asleep in the Plumley residence. The fire left three other homes, all owned by Crispa Lumber Co., vacant or occupied by neighbors. Witnesses described seeing one child stumble to the doorway and collapse as the house burned.
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Crispa Lumber Company
Carlos Goddard
Fannie Plumley
Plumley
Beckley Parents Dispute Boy’s Double Murder Confession
In Beckley on April 29 the parents of Charles Brown dispute the youth’s Cleveland confession of a double murder in Beckley. Mrs. Thomas Brown calls him a liar and says he was brought back to Beckley to reduce trouble. The family says he was home early the night of the November 1947 killings and not involved.
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Cincinnati
James Richardson
West Virginia
Brown
Black Knight Country Club
Bailey
Beckley
W. Va
Cleveland
Thomas Brown
Charles Brown
Beckey
Ralph Imhoff
Nellie Mae Rand
E. Ray Bailey
Charles
Romania Declares Verboten Zones Around Frontiers
Foreign diplomats were ordered to stay out of about two thirds of Romania’s territory. A circular note to embassies and missions listed restricted areas, including a belt 30 miles wide along the frontiers where staff may not travel.
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Bucharest
Romania
Chinese Reds Press Main Drive Aimed Southeast of Nanking
Shanghai dispatch reports Communist forces concentrating on a trap southeast of Nanking rather than attacking Shanghai directly. Seven Nationalist armies, roughly 140000 men, were said to be largely captured or annihilated along a 120 mile arc east and south from Wuhu to Wuhing, with 40000 troops reported taken.
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Shanghai
Nanking
San Francisco
Associated Press
Wuhu
Langki
Kwangteh
Wuhing
Kashing
Hangchow
Shanghai-Hangchow
Kunshan
Red 23Rd
Lake Tai
Anhwei
Anhwe
United States and Britain Seek Working Contacts with China
Washington and London said they aim to develop working contacts with Chinese Communist officials while not recognizing or approving the regime. State Department and British Foreign Office stressed the contacts are exploratory and nonrecognition in nature.
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Jessup
United States
United Nations
State Department
Washington
Malik
Cadogan
Chauvel
Cadogan’s
mid-Manhattan
Dean Acheson
Great Britain
China
Foreign Office
Heroic Reading mother rescues infant from cesspool
In Reading Massachusetts a 21 month old boy named Dennis Dugan fell through a wooden cesspool cover into a ten foot pit. His mother Frances Dugan jumped in, bailed him to a neighbor, and was pulled out by firemen. Dennis remained in Winchester hospital under doctor care.
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Reading
Mass
Frances Dugan
Dennis
Europe Confident Pact Is Success
Washington reports Ambassadors Harriman and Vandenberg testifying on the 12 nation Atlantic treaty. Harriman said the United States should rearm Atlantic pact nations to sustain peace while continuing economic aid under Marshall Plan. He warned that turning aside now could ruin the era of unity.
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Washington
W. Averell Harriman
America
Europe
Harriman
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Canada
Vandenberg
Michigan
Crippling Supply Strike Threatens Hudson Shutdown
Detroit April 29 A crippling supplier strike against Bendix Aviation Corp at South Bend Ind threatens to close Hudson Motor Car Co and idle about 25 000 more workers. If Hudson shuts Bendix idle total nears 60 000 leaving Studebaker and Willys Overland as remaining independents producing.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Co
Bendix Aviation Corp
South Ben
Ind
Bendix
Hudson
Studebaker
Willys-Overland
Pretty Blonde Telegraph Operator Rescued by Train
Cumberland April 29 A fast passenger train forced a would be attacker to release a telegrapher at Vista Pennsylvania after she struggled with a new Pittsburgh operator. Conductor F L Reed carried 21 year old Genevieve Matthews to safety and to a hospital in Connellsville where she was released. Police questioned 43 year old T M Richerson but no charges were filed.
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Cumberland
Baltimore and Ohio
Vista
Connelsville
McKeesport
F. L. Reed
Genevieve Matthews
Reed
Pittsburgh
Miss Matthews
Connellsville
Chicago
Washington
New York
Francis J. King
C. T. Williams
B. and O. Pittsburgh
T. M. Richerson
Vista Tower
House Refuses Simply To Junk TH Labor Law
Washington April 29 A coalition of House Republicans and southern Democrats advanced amendments to the Wood labor bill amid wrangling. The administration delayed a decisive vote. The day featured a 275 37 vote opposing a Taft Hartley repeal and Wagner act revival in original form. The day’s key moves included a 202 185 vote allowing strikers to vote in plant elections up to six months after replacement and a loosening on secondary boycotts removing same union requirement. No roll calls were published as debate extended and time limits failed.
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Truman
Lesinski
House
Rep
Ford
R-Pa
South
Marcantonio
Al-Ny
Biemiller
D-Wis
D-Mich
Labor Committee
CIO
Morton
R-Ky
Newberry Jury To View Death Scene In Bland County
The Bland County circuit court will transport the jury this morning to the Mechanisburg farm home where Katheryn S. Newberry was allegedly killed and beheaded. Judge V. L. Sexton Jr. granted the move after prosecution finished its testimony on the fifth day of Ralph A. Newberrys murder trial. Defense may call witnesses.
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Newberry
Bland County
Ralph A. Newberry
Mechanisburg
Commonwealth
V. L. Sexton, Jr
Katheryn S. Newberry
Newberry Farm
Big Walker Mountain
Numa Helsabeck
Ralph Newberry
H. W. Boone
George B. Kegley
Samuel L. Newberry
Ralph
Samuel
Wat
P. W. Crews
Kegley
Joe Hetherington
Newberry’s
Hetherington Farm
Bobby Mustard
Mechanicsburg
Newberry Statement Narrates Wife Death Beheading Case
A sworn police statement by Ralph A Newberry earlier read in court places the death and beheading of Katheryn Newberry on January 6 1949 and blames brother Samuel L Newberry. Ralph admits involvement in moving the body and alleges Sam carried out the killing and head removal while Ralph waited in the house.
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Commonwealth
Ralph Newberry
Katheryn
Ralph A. Newberry
Sergent Helsabeck
Virginia State Police
Sgt. H
Sam
Ninth District GOPs Meet Today
Republicans from southwest Virginia and east Tennessee will hear Senator Arthur V. Watkins of Utah at a ninth district organizational meeting in Bristol. Leonard Hall says 300 to 400 are expected for the Hotel General Shelby dinner with Fred C. Parks introducing the speaker and T. Eugene Worrell as MC. Prominent district Republicans including Hagan Richmond and several commonwealth’s attorneys will participate. Watkins, elected to the senate in 1946, is known as a strong speaker and has prior Virginia ties.
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Bristol
Va.Tenn
Virginia
East Tennessee
Arthur V. Watkins
Utah
Ninth Congressional District of Virginia
Leonard Hall
GOP
General Shelby
Fred C. Parks
Abingdon
Commonwealth
Washington County
T. Eugene Worrell
Congress
Hagan Richmond
Scott County
William Archer Royall
Tazewell County
Ralph Lincoln
Smyth County
Glenn Williams
Lee County
Wilford Martin
Watkins
Senate
Thomas E. Dewey
Public Lands Committee
Public Works Committee
Joint Committee On the Economic Report
AFL CIO Teams Up To Oppose Soviet Labor Group
The AFL and CIO have joined to form a new worldwide labor organization to rival the Soviet dominated World Federation of Trade Unions. The plan was reported today in Washington on April 29.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
World Federation of Trade Unions
WFTU
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