Mosinee Mock Communist Occupation Ends With Rally
In Mosinee Wisconsin a mock Soviet occupation unfolded on main street as 85 Legion members and civic volunteers staged a seizure of city offices. Police were briefly “executed” for noncooperation while citizens were mobilized for a rationed parade and a mass meeting.
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Mosinee
Wis
American Legion
Joseph Zack Kornfeder
Benjamin Gitlow
Communist Party
New York
Legionna
Cary Gewiss
Ralph E. Kronenwetter
Gewiss
Borscht
Pepper Faces Vote Test in Florida and Several States
Voters in Florida join primaries as Senator Claude Pepper fights for political survival against Marine veteran George Smathers. Alabama, Ohio, and Indiana also hold contests for Senate and House seats, testing Truman program support and party control amid civil rights disputes.
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Associated Press
Claude Pepper
Alabama
Senate
Ohio
Indiana
House
Governors
George Smathers
Pepper
Smathers
FEPC
New Dealer
Florida
South
Lister Hill
Lawrence McNeil
Birmingham
Navy Modernization Plan Wins Committees OK
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman won quick approval from the House Armed Services Committee for a 350 million dollar Navy modernization program. It covers six Essex class carriers, 112 ships total, and a goal to have an atomic powered submarine within three years. The plan funds 40 million to convert a heavy cruiser for guided missiles and aims to deploy the fleet with advanced weapons as soon as possible.
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Washington
Forrest P. Sherman
House
Sherman
Armed Services Committee
Vinson
D-Ga
Naval Operations
Navy
Rep. Rivers
Dsc
Rep
Lasseer
Russia
Rioting in Johannesburg Kills 13 in May Day clashes
May day violence in Johannesburg and nearby Vereeniging left at least 13 Africans dead as clashes with police spread across native quarters. Police mobilized 2000 officers, armored units stood by, while authorities moved to curb strikes and suppress Communist activity amid rising tensions.
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Johannesburg
Union of South Africa
Vereeniging
Benoni
Alberton
Transvaal Indian Congress Party
Alexandra
Newclare
Sophiatown
Eric Louw
Reds
Hypnosis Aids Painless Birth Of British Baby
Mrs Norma White of Beccles England describes a painless birth to a seven pound girl after hypnotic treatment with her doctor. She recalls a forehead touch and sleep guiding her through delivery with the baby by her side. The birth followed the doctor's arrival by about ninety minutes.
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Beccles
England
Norma White
National Phone Tieup Averted
New York May 1 A nationwide telephone strike ended four hours before the deadline as 10 000 Western Electric installers left weekend walkouts and called off picket lines around exchanges. Division 6 CIO CWA rejected support for the strike and ordered members back to work after a 15 hour bargaining session with federal mediators present.
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New York
Western Electric
Division 6
CIO Communications Workers of America
CWA
Bell System
Ernest Weaver
Classical Music Fans Protest Program Drop
Five music students picketed WBMS in Boston protesting the station’s removal of classical programs for popular music. They carried signs calling the change unfair and demanding more classical broadcasts. Station Manager George Lasker said the station would air at least one hour of classical music daily amid hundreds of protest calls.
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Boston
Wbms Today
George Lasker
Charged With Forgery Prisoner Can't Write
Indianapolis May 1 Charles Campbell Jr 28 of Indianapolis cannot write but is charged with forgery. An affidavit says he marked his X on a stolen tax refund check for 30.98 and cashed it at a grocery. Bond set at 2500 pending grand jury investigation. Federal authorities also began inquiry.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Charles Campbell, Jr
Candidate's Oratory From Jail Cell Headlines Indiana Race
Claude Strange, Republican candidate for Monroe County sheriff, will deliver his closing campaign speech tonight from the county jail cell he seeks to lead. He cannot vote in the upcoming primary while serving a 30 day sentence for public intoxication. The speech will be aired by WTTS radio.
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Bloomington
Ind
Claude Strange
Monroe County
Strange
WTTS
Berlin May Day rallies show deep split but avoid major violence
Berlin marked May 1 with rival anti and pro Communist demonstrations. Western youths clashed briefly with east Berlin police at Potsdamerplatz as 750,000 gathered west of the border and at least 300,000 east Berliners joined a Communist march along Unter den Linden. Police restrained rioters and kept lines apart.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Potsdamerplatz
West Berlin
Ernst Reuther
Tiergarten
Brandenburg Gate
Unter den Linden
Lustgarten
Stalin
Tobey Accuses AT&T of Slow Action on Gambling Curbs
Senator Tobey charged that telephone firms aid gamblers by serving Frank Erickson and other bookmakers. Witnesses from AT&T and Western Union defended public obligations and cooperation with authorities while denying company reliance on moral policing.
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Washington
Tobey
Frank Erickson
New Hampshire
Clyde S. Bailey
United States Independent Telephone Association
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Landon
McFarland
D-Ariz
US business urged to teach and sell itself to workers
At a Washington chamber of commerce convention Secretary Sawyer Harold E. Stassen and Senator Taft urged business to explain its role in national life. They urged job creation, government incentives, and promises of parity prices while warning against government guarantees and socialist temptations.
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Washington
Sawyer
United States Chamber of Commerce
Harold E. Stassen
Chamber
Herman Steinkraus
Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Taft
Ohio
Editor Defends Lattimore Against Accusations in Senate Testimony
Washington May 1 ex communist Freda Utley testified that Owen Lattimore showed subservience to Communist party discipline but Demaree Bess editor of Saturday Evening Post defended him. Utley and Lattimore clashed with senators over whether Lattimore aided Moscow or was a fellow traveler. Utley claimed Lattimore and wife were aligned with the Reds since 1940 while Lattimore denied being a Communist. Page turn.
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Washington
Freda Utley
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Demaree Bess
Saturday Evening Post
Senate
Moscow
Bess
Utley
Senator McCarthy
R-Wis
Senator Green
D-Ri
Communist Party
Russia
State Department
Far East
Johns Hopkins University
McCarthy
United States
Reds
Tydings
John S. Service
Service
India
South Pacific Wins 1950 Pulitzer Drama Prize
Broadway hit South Pacific wins the 1950 Pulitzer prize for drama while The Way West by A B Guthrie Jr takes fiction. Other journalism honors include local reporting to Meyer Berger and a photo by Bill Crouch for the Oakland Tribune.
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South Pacific
New York
A. B. Guthrie
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein
James A. Michener
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Oklahoma
Chicago Daily News
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Illinois
George Thiem
Roy J. Harris
Meyer Berger
New York Times
Howard Unruh
Camden
N. J
Edwin O. Guthman
Seattle. Wash
Times
Melvin
Rader
University of Washington
Edmund Stevens
The
Christian Science Monitor
Russia
Ste
Associated Press
Carl M. Saunders
Jackson, Mich
Citizen- Patriot
James T. Berryman
Washington Star
Washington
Berryman
Clifford K. Berryman
Bill Crouch
Oakland
Calif
Tribune
April cigarette tax receipts rise to $194,553
Charleston report shows West Virginians paid $194,553 in penny a pack cigarette taxes for April, up from $180,744 in March. Of the total, $42,703 came from stamp sales while the rest came from metering machines used by wholesalers.
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Charleston
W. Va
West
Canned Beans Blamed in Nineteenth Deaths
In Coraopolis Pennsylvania a home canned jar of yellow beans is blamed for the deaths of Mrs Vella Caponecchi aged 39 and her 14 year old daughter Joan The daughter reportedly wrote the word beans on paper before dying in Sewickley Valley General Hospital indicating the cause of illness
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Coraopolis
Vella Caponecchi
Sewickley Valley General Hospital
Joan
Labor Regime Wins By One Vote
London May 1 Britain's Labor government survived a tight test in the House of Commons as Conservatives moved to reduce the Transport Ministry appropriation by 1000 pounds. The chamber tied 278 to 278 before James Milner, acting as chairman, cast the deciding vote for the government. The vote marked the narrowest Labor majority since it took power five years ago.
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London
Britain
Labor Party
House of Commons
Ministry of Transport
James Milner
Winston Churchill
Attlee
Transport
Alfred Barnes
Transport Ministry
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Western Union Telegraph Co
Western Union
John Waters
U. S
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