Robeson Defies Senate Question on Communist Ties
Paul Robeson refused to answer if he is a communist during Senate judiciary hearings on the Mundt Nixon anti communist bill. He pledged to go to jail if necessary, stating this as defense of his secret ballot and right to silence. He praised some Americans as Red friends, contrasted views with Republicans, and warned against the bill labeling it fascism.
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Paul Robeson
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R-Oka
Wiley
Rwis
Judiciary Committee
Robeson
Judiciary Group
Ferguson
R-Mich
Roberton
Dentin Party
America
Amt
Hollywood Writers
House
United States
Russia
Bisson
U. S
Greece
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Italy
China
Spain
Communist Party
Power Brown Out Planned For Oregon
In response to a growing power shortage, municipal and private power firms across Washington and northern Oregon agreed on a limited brownout starting tomorrow. Industry, business and households are urged to curb electricity use from 7 am to noon and 8 pm to 10 pm, with Seattle officials predicting the measure will likely be needed throughout the week.
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Seattle
Washington
Oregon
Cubans Brace For Presidential Voting Tonight
Havana reports 31 candidates issued final appeals on the eve of Cuba’s presidential election as voters prepare to cast ballots.
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Havana
Cuba
Industry Gets Primer For War
Washington May 31 The defense department munitions board issues an industrial primer for total war urging factory owners to plan now for quick war production. The guide outlines needed materials and contacts, notes government holdings of industrial capacity, and warns against postwar scrambling while detailing which service buys what under the new military establishment plan.
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Washington
Defense Department
Munitions Board
V. Board
Thomas J. Hargrave
Army
Navy
Air Force
Hargrave
National Military Establishment
WVU Graduation Largest Class Sees 1188 Commence
West Virginia University awarded 1188 degrees at commencement, the largest class yet, with about 5000 spectators in the field house. Honoraries went to John M. Crawford of Parkersburg for his role in business and Karl Taylor Compton of MIT for the commencement address.
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
John M. Crawford
Parkersburg
Parkersburg Big and Reel Company
Karl Taylor Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Irvin Stewart
Raymond E. Salvati
Huntington
University Board of Governors
Ninety? Women to receive Notre Dame diplomas
Eighty women in South Bend will receive diplomas at Notre Dame on Thursday. The diplomas are for wives of war veterans, not academic degrees, and acknowledge their postwar hardship in housing and weather as they helped their husbands graduate.
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Notre Dame
South Bend
Ind
University of Notre Dame
Old Notre Dame
Indiana
Holiday Toll Climbs To 328
A three day memorial period saw at least 328 deaths from accidents not counting the Vanport flood, with over half from automobile crashes and 180 traffic deaths versus an earlier NSC forecast of 225. Drownings reached 60, drownings plus other causes total 308, California leading with 24 traffic deaths.
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Vanport
Oregon
National Safety Council
California
Ninety Sailors Overboard As Launch Overturns
Norfolk Va May 31 Ninety crew members of the aircraft carrier Kearsarge were dumped into Hampton Roads when a 40 foot launch swamped a half mile off Norfolk Naval station. Weather was rough at 9 25 p m EST as the liberty party returned to the ship. Tugboats and small craft were dispatched and some men were rescued. A muster aboard the Kearsarge will determine casualties after other sailors on liberty return. The carrier, set to sail at 6 a m tomorrow for the Mediterranean, may delay departure.
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Norfolk
Hampton Roads
Norfolk Naval Station
Lhe
Naval
Mediterranean
Chinese Girl Claims 21-Day Fast In Chungking
Yang Mei a twenty year old girl in Chungking says she has not eaten for nine years and has fasted 21 days under hospital observation without ill effects. Doctors and nurses observe her daily while officials decide future care. She clutches five peanuts and shows no hunger while relatives await guidance.
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Chungking
China
Yang Mei
Chungking Medicos
Ae Eet
Ediouimlice
T. Y. Gan
Municipal Hospital
Czechs Wary Of Vote Outcome In Prague May 31
Prague reports show Premier Gottwald's communist front won 89.2 percent of the vote with 6,429,145 ballots. Blank protest votes totaled 770,701 while 806,041 voters stayed away. President Eduard Benes' fate looms as age and health rumors spark talk of resignation and a possible oath dispute over the new constitution.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Klement Gottwal
Eduard Benes
Ministry of Interior
National Front
Benes
London
Thirteen Picknickers Hurt In Wreck In Carter Cave Park
Thirteen Sunday school picnickers from Huntington W Va were injured when a bridge at Carter Cave state park collapsed sending them onto rocks 30 feet below Two were seriously hurt Mrs Lawrence Watson with chest injuries and Wanda Connelly with a concussion and ankle injury They were taken to Grayson hospital The bridge keeper Ersie Bush had just guided 42 across and returned for 37 when it gave way on the way to X cave
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Olive Hill
Fifth Avenue Church of God
Huntington
Casecade Cave
Carter Cave
X” Cave
Ersie Bush
Presbyterians Vote Not to Withdraw From Federal Council
The Presbyterian Church in the U S South rejected a move to leave the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. By a 274 to 108 vote after a two hour debate, the assembly denied Meridian Mississippi and Augusta Georgia presbyteries requests to withdraw. The council, a 25 denomination body, was criticized as pacifistic and anti business and accused of links to communist front groups.
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Atlanta
Presbyterian Church
U. S
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Meridian
Miss
Augusta
Federal Council of Churches
Housing Bill Shelving Seen By Lawmaker
A Democrat warned Congress will fail to enact the Taft El-Wagner housing bill and that housing will be a major issue in the next presidential campaign. Rep Spence said the comprehensive home building bill will be sidetracked as Congress nears adjournment, with opposition and support hearings noted. The measure aims to construct 500,000 public housing units in five years with federal aid, while some lawmakers push state responsibility and opponents label it socialism.
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Washington
Congress
Spence
Kentucky
House Banking Committee
Senate
Banking Committee
House
America
Taft
Ohio
Interned Jews Ponder Cyprus Fate in Cease Fire Blur
London May 31 The fate of 24000 Jews interned at Cyprus remained uncertain amid conflicting Jewish and British readings of a UN cease fire order. A British foreign office spokesman said the inmates were under consideration while Maurice Rosetti of the Jewish Agency said Israel authorities would press on with shipping to Palestine. He noted 500 had already left and two transports were in port. He argued the UN amendment aimed to bar soldiers, not immigrants, and that Cyprus internees are immigrants to Palestine.
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Cyprus
United Nations
Spekesman
British
Foreign Office
U. N
Palestine
Maurice Rosetti
Jewish Agency
Israel
Rosetti
U. S
Britain
U.N
Christopher Mayhew
Commons
Jewish National Home
Palestine Mandate
Accidental Shot Wounds Logan Man
Logan West Virginia May 31 Deputy Lon McCoy fired while breaking up a tavern brawl. The shot wounded Willis Browning in the left thigh as deputy defended himself after being knocked down by several men. Sheriff Frank White said two men, E Sampson and William Thomas, were jailed for resisting arrest.
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Logan
W. Va
Frank White
Lon McCoy
White
McCoy
Guyandotte River
Willis Browning
E. Sampson
William Thomas
Vanport Flood Devastates City Amid River Dikes Break
The Vanport disaster left 18,700 residents displaced as flood waters spread from the Coweeman and Lewis River dikes. Rescue boats searched wreckage while Red Cross reports trimmed missing lists and officials warned of potential casualties. Nearby towns Kelso and Woodland faced rising waters and evacuations as authorities expected dike failures.
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Vanport
Ore
Washington
Lewis River
Woodland
Here
Columbia River
South
Kelso
Ex-Bluefield residents caught in Vanport flood disaster
Three former Bluefield residents and a Bramwell youth faced disaster as Vanport Oregon was wiped out by floods on Sunday. Henry L Edmunds his wife and their young son escaped by wading through shoulder deep water to higher ground. Edmunds parents in Bluefield were told by phone of the peril and loss of belongings with no salvageable items. Don Tabor of Bramwell, Henry Edmunds brother in law, also involved, a University of Oregon student.
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Vanport
Red Cross
Portland
Martin T. Pratt
Bluefield
Bramwell
Ore
Henry L. Edmunds
O. N. Edmunds
Vineyard Street
Edmunds
Don Tabor
University of Oregon
Convict Will Face Double Killing Charge
Charles Edward McClelland a Colorado state penitentiary convict who admitted killing Mr and Mrs Robert L May II is to be returned to Omaha to face two counts of first degree murder. Authorities joined a fruitless two day search in Pecos Canyon Texas for the gun used in the slayings near Alexandria Virginia last August 27.
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Omaha
Charles Edward McClelland
Colorado State Penitentiary
Robert L. May
Nebraska
McClelland
Pecos Canyon
Pecos
Tex
Alexandria
Mays
Pilot recalls Vanport flood from air in Oregon City bystander account
Flying instructor Calvin Hulbert described the moment Vanport unleashed a wall of water 10 feet high after a sudden breach in the dike. He watched apartments burst, people fleeing, and a man racing with a wagon as the flood swallowed buildings before he fainted from shock.
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Oregon City
Portland
Ore
Vanport
Calvin Hulbert
Arent
Hulbert
Arab Warriors Begin incidents Near Tel Aviv
Allied Arab armies push toward Tel Aviv along a 40 mile front from Jerusalem to Tulkarm as fighting widens in Palestine. Iraqi troops reportedly cut Tel Aviv from Matfa and battles raged on coastal towns with aerial clashes near Tulkarm and troops encircling Jerusalem. King Abdullah's legionnaires reported no overnight offensive as David Ben-Gurion urged resolve.
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Israel
Jerusalem
Tulkarm
Palestine
Arab Higher Committee
Matfa
Natalya
Haifa
Natanya
Tulkarm Road
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Lydda
el Ramle
Arab League
Amman
Trans-Jordan
United Nations
U.N. Security Council
U. N
Bab el Wad
Abdullah
Holy City
David Ben-Gurion
Schoolboy 16 Shoots Sweetheart Then Kills Himself
In Livingston Tennessee on May 31 a 16 year old boy fatally shot his 13 year old sweetheart Frances Reece and then died by suicide. Deputy Clude Roberts said both families named Claude Roberts and Frances Reece lived nearby. Shots were heard in a wooden section near their rural homes eight miles north. The couple died from shotgun chest wounds and were to be buried tomorrow in identical caskets.
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Overton County
Clude Roberts
Roberts
Claude Roberts
Frances Reece
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