MacArthur to Seek U S Help Save Formosa and Southeast Asia
General MacArthur plans to tell Defense Secretary Johnson that Formosa can still be saved from the Reds and that American equipment should be sent without delay. He will outline this amid private talks with Johnson and Gen Omar Bradley as the occupation command assesses the far eastern threat and requests reinforcements.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Defense
Johnson
Formosa
Southeast Asia
Omar Bradley
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
America
Johnson and Bradley
Japan
Vogeler Given Hope Of Freedom
Vienna reports early today that Robert A. Vogeler an American businessman jailed in Hungary may be handed to U S officials in the next two days. Hungarian officials negotiating with the United States over Vogeler and Edgar Sanders warn the deal could still fail. Vogeler wife Lucille expressed joy saying she has waited seven months for news and noted a May talk by Dean Acheson in London carried an encouraging message.
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Vienna
Austria
Robert A. Vogeler
Hungary
Budapest
U. S
Edgar Sanders
Vogeler
International Telephone & Telegraph Co
Sanders
Lucille
U.S
Dean Acheson
London
Acheson
GOP Senators Call Lie Tool Of Reds
Washington June 18 Two Republican senators Bridges of New Hampshire and Knowland of California accused Trygve Lie secretary general of the United Nations of being a tool or ally of the Communists. They urged the administration to oust Lie unless he withdraws his proposal to seat a Chinese Communist delegate on the U N security council. They said Lie would veto to prevent the seating of a Chinese Communist and called his plan surrender and abject capitulation.
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Washington
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Bridges
New Hampshire
Knowland
California
Lie
U. N. Security Council
Senate Appropriations Committee
United States
Russia
U. N
Bridges praises McCarthy aims but criticizes methods
Senator Bridges lauds McCarthy's goal of removing Communists from government while warning against his techniques. He praises John E. Peurifoy as a capable official and defends loyalty board head Conrad Snow, noting both face McCarthy's attacks as the Amerasia case and testimony disputes unfold in Washington.
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Bridges
McCarthy
Eisenhower For President Signaling GOP Interest
New York Governor Thomas E Dewey at a news conference in West Virginia said General Dwight D Eisenhower would make a fine president though he will not seek a political role this campaign and may not in the future Dewey announced he would not seek a third term as New York governor and noted he does not know Eisenhowers current political affiliation but suspects he voted Republican in 1948 indicating ongoing GOP speculation about his 1952 bid.
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White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dewey
Eisenhower
Columbia University
Evangelist 77 Weds 74 Year-Old Molly Newman in Nashville
In Nashville on June 18 Henry H. Patterson, 77, a retired evangelist, married 74-year-old Molly Newman at the home of Patterson’s daughter. More than 200 relatives attended a lawn wedding dinner as the couple began their life together.
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Nashville
Tenn
Henry H. Patterson
Molly Newman
Patterson
E. A. Hamm
Brave Reno crash survivor jailed after bar-fueled odyssey
Allan Pearce alias John Chenau, a 23 or 24 year old from Oklahoma City, crash landed his burning Cessna 120 in the Reno mountains after a fire en route from Seattle to Albuquerque. He walked thirty miles across hot alkali beds, survived on little water, then surrendered to Washoe County jail on an air plane theft investigation.
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Reno
Nev
Veteran's Hospital
Washoe County
Allan Lee Pearce
Oklahoma City
John E. Chenau
Austin
Tex
Chenau
Stanley Power
Fernlee
Seattle
Albuquerque
N. M
Nevada
Pearce
Governors Press McCarthy Charges at National Conference
White Sulphur Springs W Va June 18 Republican governors Earl Warren and James Duff criticized Senator McCarthy for failing to prove his charges there are Communists in the State Department. They also faulted the Truman administration for not making all facts on subversives in government available.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Earl Warren
California
James H. Duff
Pennsylvania
Senator McCarthy
R-Wis
State Department
Truman
Warren
Duff
McCarthy
James Roosevelt
Duff and
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Paul G. Hoffman
Acheson
Killer Surrenders To Walter Winchell
Benedetto Macri, indicted for the May 9 1949 stabbing of William Lurge, surrendered in New York tonight. He came with radio columnist Walter Winchell who had predicted an unnamed suspect would surrender. Winchell planned to donate a $25 000 reward to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund posted by AFL ILGWU President David Dubinsky.
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New York
Walter Winchell
Benedetto Macri
William Lurge
Winchell
Damon Runyon
AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Lurye
Mundt links planned economy to tyranny and communism
Senator Mundt at the Cooperative Club convention argues the Truman era planned economy mirrors communism fascism and Nazism. He warns big government limits personal freedom through heavy taxation and state control as delegates tour Williamsburg after the opening session.
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Richmond
Karl E. Mundt
RSD
Truman
United States
Mundt
Co-Operative Club International
Co-Operation Club
Williamsburg
Ruhr Vote Defeats Reds in German State Election
In Duesseldorf on June 19, results from the western German state of North Rhine Westphalia show the Communist party crushed in the 215 seat state parliament race with about five percent of ballots. Voters backed socialization clauses in the proposed constitution, while far right nationalist candidates gained little.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Ruhr
Communist Party
North Rhine- Westphalia
Surplus Potatoes Go To Miners' Families
Morgantown West Virginia June 18 officials of United Mine Workers locals in the Morgantown area began today distributing 50000 pounds of government surplus potatoes to families of idle miners. Each local would receive about 2500 pounds for distribution. Families not in the welfare program were eligible. Potatoes shipped free. freight costs may be charged if a request for 30000 pounds of butter cheese and dried milk is granted for unions in Morgantown and Fairmont area.
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Morgantown
W. Va
United Mine Workers
Fairmont
Einstein urges world atom authority for peace
Nobel physicist Albert Einstein urged the United States and the Soviet Union to surrender atomic bomb stockpiles to an international authority. He called for systematic universal disarmament and a world government with a strong executive agency to resolve international problems.
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Einstein
United Nations
Princeton
N. J
Mutual Broadcasting System
U. S
Soviet Union
Rotary leader urges business to shed a monster image
Percy Hodgson of Pawtucket Rhode Island urged businessmen at the Rotary convention to dispel the idea that business is a hazardous monster needing chains. In a keynote after a 200000 mile tour through 79 of Rotary’s 83 countries he urged cleaner hands and fewer regulations.
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Detroit
Percy Hodgson
Rotary International
Hodgson
Pawtucket
R. L
Rotary
U S And Russia Urged To Talk For Peace
Senator Tydings urged continued talks between the United States and Russia to reach peace. He advocated diplomatic exchanges, not name calling, and emphasized meeting with Soviet leaders even without agreement. Acheson warned that strong military and economic power backs negotiations and that Russia must end aggression.
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Stalin
Tydings
Acheson
Dallas
United States
Russia
Free World
Miners seek inclusion as labor unity efforts advance
Washington reports that John L. Lewis warned the AFL and CIO against excluding the United Mine Workers from a proposed labor unity conference. Despite that, cooperation grew as AFL CIO and independent unions spoke of joint projects and a possible July meeting to discuss consolidation and common problems.
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Lewis
AFL
CIO
Washington
John L. Lewis
AFI
United Mine Workers
Joseph D. Keenan
Political Action Committee
CIO United Brewery Workers
Detroit
Troit Brewery Board
Murray
United Mine Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers of America
Pioneer Mine Inspector P A Grady Dies at 67
P A Grady of Huntington a founder and former president of the Mine Inspectors Institute of America and past presidents of the American Mining Institute and the Kentucky River Mining Institute died in Charleston General Hospital at age 67 He began in McDowell County and later worked in Floyd Perry and Logan counties at the time of his death he was with the accident prevention bureau of the West Virginia State Department of Mines
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Charleston
W. Va
P. A. Grady
Huntington
West Virginia
Charleston General Hospital
Grady
Mine Inspectors Institute of America
American Mining Institute
Kentucky River Mining Institute
McDowell County
Floyd
Perry
Logan
Accident Prevention Bureau
State Department of Mines
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GOP
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Persian Gulf
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Barrein Island
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Tom F. Walters
Arabian American Oil Company
Sen. Bridges
McCarthys
Dutt
Prober
John E. Peurifoy
Peurifoy
Service
Evangelist
Man
Mwo
Canada
Killer
HST
Europe
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Davis
Justice Department
District of Columbia
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Mary
Dorothy
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Trinton
Tina Curneacsta
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