Don’t Ban Red Party Don Brownell Proposes Tightening Subversion Laws
Attorney General Brownell told a House subcommittee that outlawing the Communist party would drive the movement underground and complicate FBI investigations. He urged tightening subversion laws, expanding union registration, firing guards in defense plants, updating sabotage statutes, extending prosecutorial time limits, potential death penalty for espionage, revoking citizenship for advocating violent overthrow, granting witness immunity, and allowing wiretap evidence in federal courts.
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Washington
Brownell Monday
Communist Party
Brownell
House Judiciary
FBI
Probers Set Up Meeting With Stevens
The Senate investigations subcommittee invited Army Secretary Stevens to a Monday conference on the scope of its inquiry into charges he and Sen. McCarthy have exchanged. A similar exploratory session with McCarthy is planned for Tuesday to lay groundwork for hearings starting in April. Mundt announced Prewitt as associate counsel and imposed a no-media rule for Jenkins and the staff. Republican leaders said McCarthy differences are not widening party rifts and Hall declined further comment.
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Washington
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Army
Stevens
Sen
McCarthy
Jenkins
Mundt
Jenkin
Leonard W. Hall
G.O.P
Hall
Unity reaffirmed by meat unions in wage talks planned
In Chicago officials of the AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and CIO United Packinghouse Workers reaffirmed their unity for wage negotiations with four area packers set to begin this summer. Pat Gorman and Ralph Helstein spoke at the Cook county district convention. A CIO spokesman said demands will be formulated in May.
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Chicago
AFL
CIO
Pat Gorman
AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters
Ralph Helstein
CIO United Packinghouse Workers
Cook County
Des Moines Council Backs Fluoridation Plan
Des Moines city council voted unanimously to fluoridate the municipal water pending review by the water works board of trustees. Only Councilman Charles Iles abstained as hearings and final action remain possible. Opposition had grown after initial consideration.
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DES Moines
INS
Charles Iles
Water Works Board of Trustees
Heavy Rain Drench Dust Bowl Area in Oklahoma Texas
Thunderstorms and heavy rains spread across Oklahoma northern Texas and southwestern Kansas marking the first substantial precipitation in months. The U S Weather Bureau logged 2.08 inches in Dallas in the 24 hour period ending 6 am.
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Associated Press
Plains
U.S. Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Dallas
Coffee and Tomato Juice Bar Crash
An Eastern Airlines Constellation on a New York to New Orleans run diverted to Birmingham after hydraulic fluid leaked from the landing gear. With no proper fluid available, crew used coffee and tomato juice aboard to pressurize the system for two hours as passengers were transferred to another plane, and the nose wheel was finally deployed by hand.
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Birmingham
Ala
Eastern Airlines
Constellation Air
New York
New Orleans
Condition of Stevenson Good After Operation
Adlai Stevenson underwent kidney stone removal surgery on Monday. The operation was performed by his personal surgeon Dr Leander W Riba, and Stevensons condition was reported as good. He is expected to leave the hospital in about a week.
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Chicago
ENS
Adlai Stevenson
Leander W. Riba
Stevenson
Viet Nam to Mobilize All Males 21-25
Saigon government decrees total mobilization to draft all Vietnamese men ages 21 to 25 by May 15 bringing the army to about 140000 extra troops. The move follows a consolidation of forces and freezes about 100000 volunteers already in service as Dien Bien Phu news reports French lines under heavy attack and heavy losses.
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Viet Nam
Saigon
Bao Dai
Binh Xuyen
Hanoi
Besieged
Dien Bien Phu
Rayburn Blocks Statehood Bill
House Democratic Leader Rayburn of Texas blocked the Hawaii Alaska statehood bill from conference with the Senate. The stalled measure now awaits a possible House vote only if the Rules Committee grants a special rule. Strong sentiment in the committee against Alaska statehood may end the effort for this session. Rayburn said he will continue to object because it isn’t the bill that passed the House. The House previously passed Hawaiian statehood. the Senate amended to include Alaska.
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Washington
House
Rayburn
Texas
Senate
Rules Committee
Alaska
Supreme Court to rule on Iowa Indian burial case
The Supreme Court agreed to decide if the Iowa Supreme Court correctly held a Sioux City cemetery cannot be sued for damages by Evelyn Rice widow of Sgt. John Rice. The case questions whether a treaty can supersede state contract law and whether a racial covenant in burial rights can bar a suit.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Iowa
Washington
Supreme Court
Korea
Sioux City
Iowa Supreme Court
Evelyn Rice
John Rice
The
United States
U S Asks U N Press Fight for Captive Release
The United States urged the United Nations to mobilize world opinion for the release of 32 Americans held by Chinese Communists, including INS correspondent Don Dixon and NBC’s Richard Applegate. U.S. delegate Preston Hotchkis warned of media suppression behind the Iron Curtain and said the issue would be raised at all appropriate U.N. forums and at the Geneva talks.
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United Nations
N.Y
INS
U.S
U.N
Don Dixon
Preston Hotchkis
Economic and Social Council
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Dulles
C Council
Hotchkis
Richard Applegate
NBC
Hong Kong
Red Ban Is Voted By Texas Solons
The Texas legislature approved a bill banning the Communist party with unanimous Senate support and 127 to 7 in the House. It carries up to 20 years imprisonment and fines reaching $20,000, awaiting Gov. Shivers signature.
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Texas Solons
Austin
Texas
Ulp
Communist Party
Shivers
Senate
House
Dulles and Eden Reject Any Sellout in Indo China
Secretary of State Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Eden agreed there can be no cease fire in Indo China without a political settlement. They aim to block Red Chinese intervention and pledge no appeasement to the Communists. A third meeting was set as Dulles prepares to travel to Paris.
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K. C. Thaler
London
Dulles
Eden
Indo- China
France
Europe
Britain
Indo-China
Southeast Asia
Churchill
China
House of Commons
Paris
Holy Land
School Wins Case At Independence Special to The Gazette
Independence Iowa The Independence school board won a key ruling in a bitter suit asking to halt a 500000 junior high construction. Judge George Heath dismissed the petition and taxed about 260 to the plaintiffs. The 78 percent completed building and compliance with the 1950 Iowa code were noted.
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Gazette
Independence
Independence School Board
George Heath
Waterloo
Heath
Iowa
Railroad Mishap Triggers Large Explosion near Columbia
A Pennsylvanian freight train derailed into a high tension tower at Columbia causing a spectacular explosion. Thirty one cars piled up and damaged an oil tank car, touching off a fire that engulfed lumber and chemical cars. Twenty cottages were evacuated as smoke spread along the right of way. initial reports indicated no casualties.
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Columbia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Explosion in North Carolina furniture store kills man
An explosion in a Goldsboro furniture store on Monday killed at least one man and may have trapped several others in the wreckage, police said.
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Goldsboro, N. C
Nebraska Senator Dwight Griswold Dies at 60
Washington AP reports Nebraska Senator Dwight P. Griswold, 60, a three term governor and former director of the American aid mission to Greece, died of a heart attack. He had served in the Senate since January 1953, filling out the late Kenneth Wherry’s term.
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Washington
Dwight P. Griswold
R-Neb
Greece
Griswold
Senate
Kenneth S.S. Wherry
Nebras- Griswoldka
Robert C. Crosby
Truman
Nebraska
U. S. Senate
Planners' Fourth Street proposal to Cedar Rapids council
Cedar Rapids Plan Commission presented an engineering study for Fourth Street issues to the city council on Monday. They proposed a joint railroad interchange yard north of the city and urged early action, with a special committee of railroad men and civic leaders to review the plan. Mayor Sedlacek said the report would be studied further by a consul unit, weighing options including an underpass at Fifth Avenue SE and a viaduct at A or B Avenue NE.
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Cedar Rapids
City Plan Commission
Milo Sedlacek
Plan Commission
Fourth Street
Chester Ainsworth
Planning Board
Railroad Transportation Committee
City Plan i
Chamber of Commerce Traffic Bureau
Ainsworth
Sedlacek
Fifth Avenue SE
B Avenue
Father’s intervention frees two Georgescu sons from Romania
In a diplomatic release Washington said Constantin age 20 and Peter age 15, sons of V C Georgescu, now in Munich, were freed after spurning a Communist spying offer. The boys had been separated from their parents for seven years and reunited with their father after U S diplomacy secured their departure from Bucharest.
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Washington
INS
U. S
Romania
Liberty
State Department
Constantin
Peter Georgescu
V. C. Georgescu
Munich
Georgescu
New York
Christache Zambeti
Legation
Department
Zamibet
U.S
Youn Georgescus
An Peter
Henry Suydam
Eisenhower
Dulles
Harold Shantz
Suydam
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Ships Take Over Morale Transit
In Pusan Korea Navy ships Monday replaced large air force C 124 Globemasters in the morale job of transporting American troops to Japan for rest leave. The Globemasters were diverted last week to the Indo China airlift. The ships will handle only a trickle of troops compared with the planes which had carried as many as 1 000 men daily.
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Pusan
Korea
Japan
Review of Denial of Board Power Refused
The Supreme Court ruled that labor unions may not be deprived of National Labor Relations Board services merely because a union officer filed a false non-Communist affidavit. However, services may be denied if a justice department conviction exists against such an officer. The court left unchanged a lower court ruling that the board cannot challenge the oath's truthfulness.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Andy Won’t Talk To Just Anyone
In Hyattsville Maryland a three year old boy named Andy Magill refused to disclose his name or address to Policewoman Thelma Baze at headquarters insisting he wanted to go home. His father later reported him missing at the police station.
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Hyattsville
Andrew Magill
Andy
Thelma Baze
Magill
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Fort Worth
Air Force Academy
John B. Montgomery
Carswell Air Force Base
Virgil M. Hancher
University of Iowa
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