British Eye Honduras Claims Guatemala Border Tensions Rise
Guatemalan authorities report troop movements near the British Honduras border amid mounting dispute over sovereignty. Col Alejandro Maldonado says about 1,500 British troops with field cannon may have taken positions near the frontier. he travels to verify. The British government views recent Guatemalan actions as hostile and has dispatched two cruisers and additional forces to British Honduras.
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Marcha
British Honduras
Gol
Alejandro Maldonado
Péten
Guatemalan
Cuatetmala
Bonduras
Sleepy four-foot pull snake roused by young snake charmer
A four-foot pull snake was dug up near Hutchinson Kansas by Elaine's brother after a seven year old girl named Flaine Bailey failed to rouse it from a winter nap. The reptile had buried two feet underground to hibernate.
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Flaine Bailey
Elaine
Hutchinson
Kan
FCC Commission Hears Radio Editorial Debate
Washington March 4 The FCC heard opposing demands on editorial content in radio. CIO spokesman Henry C Metsher urged keeping the seven-year ban on editorializing in elections while Rev Carl McIntire urged complete freedom for radio as in the press. The discussion highlighted tensions over how openly stations may express viewpoints. The Volga river is icebound for an average of 112 days out of each year.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Henry C. Metsher
CIO
Carl McIntire
American Council of Christian Churches
Es Safe Arti Ee
Volga River
Anti Red Union Pact Studied By Five Nations
Brussels reports say a draft mutual defense pact may unite Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg for at least 50 years. Conference sources expect a general accord by Sunday addressing military political and later economic details. Cripps and other leaders discuss Marshall plan aid while currency devaluations are ruled out.
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Brussels
Belgium
Britain
France
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Stafford Cripps
Me Facheoner
Hole Ewame
Saert
Caspian Sea
Cripp
Mystery surrounds ex Czech official and wife escape
Reports claim former health minister Adolf Prochazka and his wife fled across the German border with anti communists. Milada, their daughter, 19, was reportedly taken into custody after a failed escape attempt as Czech crisis deepened. Communist and interior ministries offered conflicting statements amid a widening search.
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Miada Fronta
Emil Ranstorf
Stu Prague
Dent
Information Ministry
Adolf Prochazka
Prochazka
Czechsloi
Germany
Britain
Milada
Klement Gottwald
Vak
Rude
Pravo
Minis
Civil Rights Suit Aimed At Bus Firm
A civil rights lawsuit against Greyhound Lines opened in U S district court in Dayton Ohio March 4. Fred Hamlet of Eaton Ohio filed the suit February 27 1947 seeking $25000 damages claiming he was removed from a Greyhound bus at West Alexandria Ohio.
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Eaton, O
Greyhound Lines,Inc
U. S. District
Fred Hamlet
Eaton
Greyhound
West Alexandria
Turkish navy officers aboard Edwin L. Drake bound for Turkey
Eight Turkish naval officers and one U S navy officer and an enlisted man, along with substantial ammunition and material, are aboard the American steamer Edwin L Drake, which is scheduled to sail Saturday for Turkey and Greece, the navy announced from Norfolk Virginia on March 4.
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Norfolk
U. S, Navy
Edwin L. Drake
Turkey
Greece
Let's Break The Grip Against Liquor Devastation
A speaker denounces liquor as a chief cause of divorce and family ruin. He cites a three to one marriage failure rate, homes broken by jail, divorce, and neglect, and notes orphans in Salem, Virginia, affected by the liquor trade. He claims wives and children bear the burden for years.
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Salem
Virginia
Stevens Hotel
Chicago
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G. H. A. MacMillan
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