Robeson Defies Senate Question on Communist Ties
Paul Robeson told the Senate judiciary committee he would go to jail rather than answer if he is a communist. He called the Mundt Nixon bill anti communist and warned he would refuse to obey it. He praised communist parties and defended his own allegiance to the United States while highlighting civil liberties concerns.
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Paul Robeson
Senate
Moore
R-Oka
Wiley
Rwis
Judiciary Committee
Robeson
Judiciary Group
Ferguson
R-Mich
Communist Party
America
Hollywood Writers
Congress
House Committee On unAmerican
United States
Russia
Greece
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Italy
China
Spain
Industry Gets Primer For War
Washington reports an industrial primer for total war going to factory owners. The Munitions Board notes two aims plan now for war production and avoid WW II scrambles. It lists government held or recallable plants and guides for mobilization and procurement contacts.
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Washington
Defense Department
Munitions Board
Thomas J. Hargrave
Army
Navy
Air Force
Hargrave
Power Brown Out Planned For Oregon Seattle
Municipal and private power companies across Washington and northern Oregon plan a limited brown out to ease a growing shortage. Industry, business and housewives are urged to cut electric use from 7 a.m. to noon and 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Seattle officials say the measure will likely be needed all week.
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Seattle
Washington
Oregon
Cubans Brace For Presidential Voting
Havana reports the last campaign appeals on the eve of Cuba's presidential election as candidates gear up for voting day May 31.
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Havana
Cuba
WVU Commencement Grants 1188 Degrees in Largest Class
Morgantown West Virginia May 31 The West Virginia University confers 1188 degrees at commencement the largest class in its history with about 5000 attendees in the field house. Honorary degrees go to John M Crawford Parkersburg and Dr Karl Taylor Compton MIT president who delivers the 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
80 Women Will Get Notre Dame Diplom as Citations
Eighty wives of war veterans will receive diplomas at Notre Dame on Thursday. The university, still an all male school, awards these titles to honor wives who endured postwar housing shortages Indiana weather and supported their husbands' graduation efforts.
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South Bend
Ind
University of Notre Dame
Old Notre Dame
Indiana
Holiday Toll Climbs To 328
The three day Memorial observance saw at least 328 deaths from accidents not counting Vanport flood victims. Over half died in auto crashes, with 180 traffic deaths against a 225 forecast. Drownings totaled 60, plus 88 other accidental deaths. California led in total and traffic fatalities with 24.
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Vanport
Oregon
National Safety Council
California
Ninety Sailors Overboard From Swamped Launch
Ninety crew members of the aircraft carrier Kearsarge were thrown into Hampton Roads when a 40 foot motor launch swamped off the Norfolk Naval Station. Tugs and small craft searched the area as sailors were rescued and brought back aboard. Casualty details awaiting muster aboard the Kearsarge. The carrier’s Mediterranean departure likely delayed.
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Hampton Roads
Norfolk Naval Station
Naval
Kearsarge
Mediterranean
Chinese Girl Claims Nine Years Without Eating Survives 21 Days
Chungking June 1 Yang Mei a 20 year old girl claims she never eats because she never gets hungry. Doctors observed her for 21 days noting she drank little water and showed no ill effects while she clutched five peanuts. Nurses will monitor and decide on her future with authorities.
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Chungking
China
Yang Mei
PAA Gmav
T. Y. Gan
Municipal Hospital
Czechs Grapple With Outcome of One-Party Victory
Prague reports show Premier Gottwald's communist led national front winning 89.2 percent of votes with 6.4 million ballots cast for the front and 806 thousand abstentions or invalid ballots. President Eduard Benes rumored to resign amid questions over oath to the new constitution and ill health.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Klement Gottwal
Eduard Benes
Ministry of Interior
National Front
Benes
London
Thirteen Picknickers Hurt As Bridge Collapses In Park
Olive Hill Kentucky May 31 Thirteen Sunday school picknickers from Huntington West Virginia were injured two seriously when a bridge over a ravine in Carter Cave state park collapsed. The two gravest injuries were internal chest injuries and a cerebral concussion with possible fracture or sprain. They were taken to Grayson hospital. The group from Fifth Avenue Church of God had visited Casecade cave then Carter cave. The caretaker Ersie Bush had just led 42 across when the structure failed.
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Olive Hill
Huntington
W. Va
Carter Cave State Park
Lawrence Watson
Wanda Connelly
Grayson Hospital
Fifth Avenue Church of God
Casecade Cave
Carter Cave
X” Cave
Ersie Bush
Presbyterians Vote to Remain in Federal Council
The Presbyterian Church in the U S south rejected withdrawing from the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. By a 274 to 108 vote, the assembly kept its membership despite Meridian Mississippi and Aveusta Georgia overtures. The council, a 25 denom organization, was criticized as pacifist and anti business.
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Atlanta
Presbyterian Church
U. S
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Meridian
Miss
Aveusta
Federal Council of Churches
Housing Bill Shelving Seen By Lawmaker
A leading Democrat says Congress may fail to enact the Taft Elmer Wagner housing bill and that housing will be a major issue in the presidential campaign. Rep Spence notes the measure is likely sidetracked before adjournment. 600 oppose time.
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Washington
Congress
Spence
Kentucky
House Banking Committee
Senate
Banking Committee
House
America
Taft
Ohio
Fate of Cyprus internee Jews in doubt amid UN orders
London May 31 The immediate fate of 24 000 Jews interned at Cyprus is uncertain due to conflicting Jewish and British readings of the UN cease fire order. A Foreign Office spokesman said the situation is under consideration. Maurice Rosetti of the Jewish Agency said Israel authorities will continue to arrange shipments to remove internees, noting 500 already moved and two transports in a Cyprus port. He argued immigrants, not soldiers, are the target of the UN wording and that Jews in Cyprus are regarded as immigrants. Britain has faced cost concerns over Palestinian statehood while allowing some transit possibilities for those released from Cyprus.
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London
Cyprus
United Nations
Foreign Office
U. N
Palestine
Maurice Rosetti
Jewish Agency
Israel
Rosetti
U. S
Britain
Christopher Mayhew
Commons
Jewish National Home
Palestine Mandate
Accidental Shot Wounds Logan Man in Bar Brawl
In Logan West Virginia on May 31 a deputy sheriff accidentally shot a man in the left thigh during a tavern disturbance. Deputy Lon McCoy fired as he fell while breaking up the fight. Willis Browning was wounded. S. 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
S. E. Sampson
William Thomas
Vanport Flood Disaster Deepens In Oregon Illinois?
In Vanport Oregon floodwaters devastated the city of 18 700 residents driving about 3 500 from nearby towns. Dikes at Coweeman and Lewis river areas weakened with Woodland and South Kelso warned of rising waters. Rescue boats and army craft continued searches as officials warned many bodies may remain beneath the wreckage.
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Vanport
Ore
Washington
Here
South Keslo
Coweeman
Lewis River
Woodland
Columbia River
South
Kelso
Arab Warriors Begin Incidents Near Tel Aviv
Allied Arab armies pushed a 40 mile front toward Tel Aviv as fighting surged across the Jerusalem to Tulkarm corridor. Reports from Amman and Cairo cited Arab troops cutting Tel Aviv communications and attacking coastal Jewish positions while Israeli air activity and night operations targeted Arab sites near Ramle.
Three Ex Bluefielders Face Vanport Flood Losses
Three former Bluefield residents and Bramwell youth were in Vanport Oregon when floods wiped out the city on Sunday. Henry L Edmunds his wife and small son escaped rising waters and are safe. Edmunds parents in Bluefield were told by a telephone call that the family waded shoulder high to reach higher ground and could salvage nothing. Don Tabor of Bramwell, Henry Edmunds brother in law, was with them. he attends the University of Oregon.
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Bluefield
Bramwell
Vanport
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 confessed to killing Mr and Mrs Robert L May 2nd is being returned to Omaha to face two counts of first degree murder in the August 27 slayings near Omaha Nebraska authorities joined a two day search in Pecos Canyon Texas for the gun he says he used The 19 year old former carnival hand was connected to the killings near Alexandria Virginia previously reported location details
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Omaha
Charles Edward McClelland
Colorado State Penitentiary
Robert L. May
Nebraska
McClelland
Pecos Canyon
Pecos
Tex
Alexandria
Mays
Pilot describes Vanport disaster from the air
Flying instructor Calvin Hulbert recounted watching Vanport smash apart from above as a six foot breach opened in the railroad embankment and a ten foot water wall swept through. He saw apartments collapse and families struggle then fled to the base unable to warn others.
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Portland
Ore
Vanport
Calvin Hulbert
Onvu
Schoolboy 16 Slays Sweetheart Then Ends Own Life
In Livingston Tennessee on May 31 a 16 year old boy shot and killed his 13 year old sweetheart and then killed himself. Deputy Sheriff Clude Roberts reports the couple Claude Roberts and Frances Reece lived in a rural area eight miles north of Livingston. Neighbors heard two gunshots near their homes and both youths died from shotgun wounds to the chest. Families said the couple had been seeing each other for some time and may have had a quarrel. Burial was planned the next day in identical caskets.
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Livingston, Tenn
Sweete Heart
Overton County
Clude Roberts
Roberts
Claude Roberts
Frances Reece
Here
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