Big Four Agree on Troop Removal After Italian Pact
Paris AP reports the Big Four foreign ministers agreed to postpone Italy colony actions for a year and to withdraw Allied troops from Italy and Soviet troops from Bulgaria within 90 days after the Italian treaty. Bevin tied Bulgaria evacuation to Soviet withdrawal and Molotov had blocked previous talks. Byrnes agreed to U.S. troop withdrawal on Bevin terms and a 12 month Rome commission will interpret treaty language.
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Italy
Foreign Ministers Council
Bulgaria
Bevin
Balkans
Molotov
Byrnes
United States
Rome
Stock Prices Fall Sharply Amid Market Rout
In New York, the market slump intensified with Thursday marking the heaviest rout in months. Eastman Kodak plunged about $20 in the final hour, traders citing profit fears and reports of slackening business as the primary excuse.
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New York
Sns
Eastman Kodak
Wyatt Seeks Building Union No-strike Vow
Washington AP expeditor Wilson Wyatt investigates AFL and CIO building unions on a six month no-strike pledge to allow the homes for veterans program to proceed without disruption. The move aims to speed up housing efforts for veterans.
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Wyatt
Washington
Wilson Wyatt
AFL
CIO
Mass Escape In Canada by German Vets
A large group of German war prisoners escaped from camps in Ontario Manitoba and Saskatchewan prompting a joint manhunt by Minnesota police Canadian authorities and the FBI. Five prisoners were captured while eight more escaped. Some attempted to reach Minnesota by boat and others fled into southern Canada leaving many believed dead or unaccounted for as rivers and swamps hinder pursuit.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Canada
Twin Cities
FBI
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Mounted
United States
New Orleans
City Buys Ground For Fire Station In Kenwood
Cedar Rapids officials authorize a contract to purchase lot 2 block 4 east Kenwood park addition at 81 by 152 feet for a Kenwood fire station. The one story building will house two trucks with offices dormitory and utilities, starting as soon as costs are set.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank K
Hahn
Maude Krebs
First Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Kenwood
Gordon Hughes
R. R. Mayberry
Hughes
Mayberry
Yuill and Gohmann
Igram and
Kalell
Grocers
Hassan Igram
East Kenwood Park Addition
Nehru Arrested for Defying Kashmir Entry Ban
In Bombay Kashmir authorities seized Jawaharlal Nehru president designate of the Indian National Congress for attempting to enter Kashmir against a ban. Reports place the arrest at Damel near the frontier. Nehru is jailed on charges of agitating against local rule.
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Bombay
Kashmir
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian National Congress Party
Nehru
Damel
Lahore
London
Shiekh Mohamed Abdullah
Kashmir National Conference
Mikado Urges Diet to Renounce War and Embrace New Constitution
Emperor Hirohito told the newly convened diet to renounce war and secure liberty by adopting the proposed constitution approved by General MacArthur. The open session featured an imperial rescript praising the supreme will of the people and fundamental human rights.
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Tokyo
INS
Hirohito
Gen. MacArthur
Egypt Refuses To Yield Grand Mufti to British
Egypt's foreign minister declared that the grand mufti of Jerusalem will not be surrendered to Britain even if London sends a formal request. He called Haj Amin el Husseini a political refugee and said Egypt has received no British capture demand. The mufti reappeared in the king's palace after vanishing from exile in France, prompting Cairo to view his refuge as a tactical move.
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France
Farouk
Middle East
Cairo
Jhim
Haj Amin
Nuernberg
Holy Land
Jew-high Resistance Movement
Palese
Army's Biggest Peacetime Budget Clears House Floor
The House floor heard a $7.091 billion peacetime Army budget plus $175 million for atomic energy development. The panel trimmed $150 million from relief abroad, backstopped by plans for an active air force of 70 combat groups. Ike and Groves urged secrecy on the A bomb while salaries, construction, and reserve forces funding are outlined for 1947 and beyond.
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Washington
Army
Appropriations Committee
Budget Bureau
Atomic Service
Air Corps
Carl Spaatz
Spaatz
National Guard
Air Force
Atomic Service Fund
Dwight D. Heisenhower
Leslie R. Groves
Flood Damage in Southeastern Iowa Tops $100000
Southeastern Iowa flood damage estimated as high as $100000 with rivers swollen after four days of heavy rain. Wapello County roads reach $50000 in damage. Mystic area reports 15 to 20 homes badly damaged. Additional rises expected on Des Moines river near Tracy. Eddyville crest at 2014 feet. Eddyville highway 137 closed. rescue of Alphonso March near Bloomfield. Cedar Rapids sees cooler then warmer with midweek temperatures in 50s and 60s.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Wapello
Orville T. Upp
Mystic
Des ‘Moines
Tracy
Eddyville
Ottumwa
Highway Commission
Cantril
Alphonso Marchand
Bloomfield
Soviet Proposal Demands U S Pledge to Scrap Atomic Stockpiles
At U N atomic energy session Andrei Gromyko urged the United States to destroy its atomic bomb stocks and end production within 90 days after international ratification of a universal ban on atomic warfare. He urged an ironclad treaty with no universal veto and global possession of atomic knowledge.
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Associated Press
United States
Bernard M. Baruch
Russia
Andrei Gromyko
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Gromyko
New York
Canada
Great Britain
Baruch
United Nations
U.N. Security Council
France
China
Induction age set at 19 ending 18-year-old draft
Washington insiders report Senate House conferees agreed to fix the draft age minimum at 19, eliminating 18-year-olds from conscription. The deal ends months of cross chamber debate and abandons an escalator plan. House leaders signaled little chance of calling up 18-year-olds. Conferees also endorsed pay scale increases for Army and Navy personnel.
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Washington
INS
Senate-house
Sen. Bridges
R-N.h
Army
Navy
Sparkman
D-Ala
House
Rep
Andrews
RN. Y
Bikini
Ousted Nebraska draft chairman ends protest
Anton Odvarka, Clark son Nebraska draft board chairman, was removed by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey on Brig. Gen. Guy Fenninger’s recommendation. Odvarka had halted inductions since April 24 in Colfax County protesting congressional handling of selective service law.
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Washington
Anton Odvarka
Draft Board
Clarkson
Neb
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Guy Fenninger
Nebraska
Odvarka
Colfax County
Congress
House
Army Plane Sets Speed Record of 413 MPH
The U S Army XA 26F plane, partly jet propelled, flew a round trip between Wright Field and St Louis and set a speed record of 413 miles per hour over a 1000 kilometer course with a 1000 kilogram payload.
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Dayton, Ohio
Wrightfields
St. Louis
Woman Bites Cop in Denver Disturbance
Policeman Ernest Flora wearing an arm sling after a clash with Anna Pasternack 35. Flora found her behind a reported disturbance and attempted to arrest her. Pasternack objected and bit him severely, gaining a notable bite of the law.
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Denver
INS
Ernest Flora
Flora
Anna Pasternack
Louis Conn bout purses frozen amid inquiry
Rep. O'Toole demanded that purses for the Conn Louis boxing bout be withheld while investigators probe the Louis Conn fight. He sent a telegram to Edward Eagan, chairman of the New York State Boxing Commission, requesting the action.
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Washington
Ins
O'Toole
D-N
O’toole
Edward Eagan
New York State Boxing Commission
Hoover Clarifies OPA Talk Misunderstanding
Former U S official Hoover said a telephone talk with William L Clayton caused a misunderstanding over OPA meat and dairy controls. He said he believed he spoke to William L Batt and spoke about rubber and grain exchanges in a Rio de Janeiro call with Ambassador Pawley.
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Washington
Lee Hoover
William L. Clayton
Hoover
Clayton
State Department
Mr. Hoover
William L. Batt
Rubber Reserve Office
Rio de Janeiro
William Pawley
Brazil
Argentina
Pawley
Batt
Ambassador.Pawley
Georgia Moves To Dissolve Ku Klux Klan Charter
Georgia filed a Fulton county suit to dissolve the Ku Klux Klan charter, charging the group aims to seize state power and control government agencies. The action names Klan leaders and accuses conspiracies to terrorize citizens and corrupt public safety.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Ku Klux Klan
Fulton County
Eugene Cook
Klan
Jap Propaganda Deluge Depicted at War Crimes Trial
Tokyo witnesses describe a broad propaganda campaign by Japan portraying the United States and Britain as obstacles to Asia’s growth. Nobufumi Ito testified that the bureau aimed to promote the Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere though it admitted limited success in fostering friendship.
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Tokyo
United States
Great Britain
Information Bureau
Nobufumi Ito
Japan
Far East
America
Washington
Greater East Asia
Ito
Canadian Communist Gets 6 Years as Spy
Montreal reports Fred Rose, a Communist MP, was sentenced to six years in prison for furnishing secret information to Russia via a Soviet spy ring. Igor Gouzenko testified as the key witness, saying he was dispatched to Canada in 1943 with a team including Col. Nicolai Zabotin for espionage.
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Montreal
Fred Rose
Russia
Rose
Igor Gouzenko
Gouzenko
Canada
Nicolad Zabotin
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