MacArthur Bans Hatoyama From Japanese Diet Roles
General MacArthur ordered Japan to bar Ichiro Hatoyama, leader of the ruling party, from Diet membership and any official post for anti democratic actions dating back two decades. The move follows a purge directive and cites his 1927 29 peace preservation edits and 1931 34 education era actions along with wartime expansion stance.
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Tokyo
Gen. MacArthur
Ichiro Hatoyama
Diet
Hatoyama
Baron Kinjuro Shidehara
B. M. Fitch
Maison
Tanaka
Chinese Reds Suffer Defeat Near Mukden
Chinese army headquarters in Mukden says government forces routed about 60,000 Communist troops in a two day battle for Penhsihou southeast of Mukden. Nationalist casualties estimated at 5,000 to 7,000. Gen Tu Linin reports Penhsihou occupation completed Friday after starting Wednesday. Chou En Lai says Russians pulled diplomatic and railroad reps from Manchuria, calling relations worsened. Five American correspondents to be evacuated from Changchun. Chou holds press conference in Nanking and prepares peace talks with Gen Marshall and Chiang Kai-shek.
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Mukden
Penhsihou
Tu Li-ning
Chou En-lai
Nanking
Manchuria
Changchun
China
Peiping
Yeh Chien-yin
Chou
Gen Marshall
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
Doty Building on Third Ave Sold to Ribble Firm
The two story Doty building at the northwest corner of Eighth Street and Third Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids sold by Mrs. George Doty of Long Beach to the Third Avenue Investment Company. The buyers officers are Harry W. Ribble Erwin J. Wasta and Russell Landis. The Baxter Motor Company leases the building until July 1 for its new site on 625 A Avenue NE. The deed lists a sale price around 50 000 with assessed value 20410.
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Cedar Rapids News
Eighth Street
Third Avenue SE
George Doty
Long Beach
Calif
Third Avenue Investment Company
County Recorder's Office
Des Moines
Harry W. Ribble
Erwin J. Wasta
Russell Landis
Baxter Motor Company
Avenue NE
Collins Radio Company
Doty
Hedges Company
Farm Union Asks Labor to Oust Anderson
The National Farmers Union urged organized labor to join in pressuring for Secretary of Agriculture Andersons ouster amid fierce meat price control battles. President Truman defended continued meat and livestock controls as lawmakers debate shifting policy.
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Washington
National Farmers Union
Anderson
Truman
Farmers Union
Speaker Rayburn
Texas
Agriculture Department
London paper calls Warden Johnston during Alcatraz battle
A London newspaper placed a telephone call for Warden James A. Johnston at the height of the Alcatraz battle. A prison official said Saturday he had to inform the papers the warden was busy.
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San Francisco
INS
London
James A. Johnston
Battle of Alcatraz
Reprieve Granted in Survived Death Chair Case
Will Willie Francis, 17, condemned for the murder of a St. Martinville druggist, receive a reprieve from Gov. James Davis as Louisiana studies the case after the electric chair failed to kill him on the first attempt. An electrician will examine the chair while the state considers next steps.
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ST. Martinville
Willie Francis
James Davis
Francis
Fred S. le Blanc
Brady Jarrad
Shreveport
Leonard Resweber
Express Shipment Embargo Ordered
Washington AP The Office of Defense Transportation ordered an embargo on express shipments due to the coal strike. The restriction matches the railway freight ban and takes effect at 12 01 a m May 10. Exemptions include fuel food and medical supplies to prevent diverting freight to express service using coal burning locomotives.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Railway Express Agency
ODT
Truman Seeks Taylor Back as Vatican Ambassador
President Truman announced he asked Myron C. Taylor to return to Italy as his personal representative at the Vatican with ambassadorial rank. He said he consulted religious leaders worldwide to help establish enduring peace amid renewed relations with Pope Pius.
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Washington
Ins
Truman
Myron C. Taylor
Italy
Vatican
Pope Pius
Tremendous quake reported by Franklin Institute Seismograph
Frankin Institute records a tremor described as tremendous by director J Roy K Marshall. The quake supposedly occurred late Friday about 12 000 miles away in the South Pacific according to the seismograph report.
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Philadelphia
Franklin Institute
J. Roy K. Marshall
Institute
South Pacific
Phantom Killer Terrorizes Dixie Area
TEXARKANA Texas residents feared a phantom killer after his fifth murder in six weeks. Virgil Starks a 36 year old farmer was shot in his Ho man Ark home along with his wife who survived. ballistics and a mobile lab were dispatched as Texas Rangers and FBI expanded a cross state manhunt.
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Texarkana
Texas
Virgil Starks
Homan
Ark
Texas Rangers
Starks
Richard Griffin
Polly Ann Moore
Austin
Rangers
Arkansas
FBI
Predict Rainy Weather's End
A weather report describes a conflicted forecast for a friend asking for a spring-like day. Saturday brings a dark damp day with only a sliver of sun, while Sunday should be warmer and sunnier. Rain totals include .10 inch during Friday night and Saturday morning.
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Cedar Rapids
Ife
End of Armed Services Family Allowance Program
Cedar Rapids recruiting officials confirm the family allowance program for enlisted service members ends for new recruits after June 30. Eligible men who enlist before that date will receive full allowances during their first enlistment. current personnel with families continue to receive benefits. The program, a wartime measure, provides a $50 wife allowance and per-child payments, funded partly by the government, to aid civilian soldiers during wartime service.
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Cedar Rapids News
Armed Forces
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Cedar Rapids
Congress
Fisherman's Lucky Find In East River Yields 1941 Car
New York AP report says Captain Harry Matson, a dredge engineer, hauled up a rare catch from the East River a 1941 automobile that police say was stolen in 1943. The discovery occurred while he and crew were scooping silt from the river bottom.
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NEW York (Ap
Harry “Matson
East River
American Clerk in Moscow faces charges of insolent acts
Waldo Ruess, an embassy clerk from Hollywood, was summoned to Moscow city prosecutor's office to answer charges after an actress from a Moscow state theater said he insulted her. The Moscow paper Trud labeled the incident hooligan acts by an American citizen.
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Japan
Fitch
United States
Europe
Fumimaro Konoye
Pearl Harbor
Moscow
Waldo Ruess
Hollywood
Calif
Ruess
Trud
Allies Pulling Out of Levant
New York AP report says Britain and France are evacuating Syria and Lebanon per UN council guidance. Britain and France announced they will withdraw all troops from Syria by April 30 and most forces from Lebanon by June 30, shifting focus to Iran and Palestine.
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New York
Great Britain
France
Syria
Lebanon
United Nations Security Council
Middle East
Iran
Palestine
Britain
Security Council
Arab Groups to Seek UN Involvement on Palestine at Moscow
An Arab League spokesman said Palestine reports indicate Arab groups plan to send a delegate to Moscow to urge the Soviet government to submit the Palestine problem to the United Nations.
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London
Arab League
Moscow
United Nations
Blasts Hit German Ammunition Factory Near Regenbach
Several score explosions rocked a German poison gas and ammunition plant at Regenbach eight miles from Mauernberg on Saturday night. No immediate casualty reports were available.
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Feucht
Germany
Regenbach
Mauernberg
Settlement Seen in Westinghouse Electric Strike
Pittsburgh report notes a speedy settlement after negotiators reach virtual agreement on six of seven major issues in the Westinghouse Electric labor dispute.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Youths Held In Kidnaping Of 2 Iowans
Omaha police announce the Saturday arrest of two youths Earl Lorentzen 18 and Howard Brisby 19 who allegedly abducted and robbed two Council Bluffs men William Keenan and John Wadsworth on Friday driving them through Iowa and Nebraska and later shooting Wyoming rancher Thomas Dale 37 after kidnapping him April 7 near Omaha.
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Omaha
Fred Franks
Council Bluffs
Wyoming
Thomas Dale
Franks
Earl Robert Lorentzen
Howard Lee Brisby
Lorentzen
Marine Corps
William Keenan
John Wadsworth
Atlantic
Manilla
Nebraska
Blair Bridge
Keenan
Brisby
Wadsworth
Columbus
Neb
Dale
Iowa
Bodies of three Alcatraz mutineers recovered
San Francisco report says Bernard Coy Joseph Cretzer and Marvin Hubbard were found in a utility corridor of Alcatraz after the bloody insurrection. Coy wore an officer's coat with a rifle beside him. Cretzer had a .45 revolver and officer's holster. Hubbard wore Coy's blue coat. Authorities continue searches as guards and Marines fought the remaining inmates and prepared for continued interrogations.
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San Francisco
Alcatraz Island
James A. Johnston
Bernard Paul Coy
Joseph Paul Cretzer
Marvin Franklin Hubsbard
Johnston
Coy
Cretzer
Hubbard
Buckner
Oliver Implement Shutdown Is Seen
The Chicago Tribune reports Oliver, a farm equipment maker with seven Midwest plants, warned OPA it will suspend operations unless price relief is granted by Tuesday. President Alva W. Phelps said the April 9 price increase request reflects higher labor and material costs and ongoing operating losses. The firm has been forced to sell at a 23 cent loss on the dollar. Charles City, Iowa, hosts one plant.
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Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Oliver Corporation
Midwest
OPA
the Tribune
Alva W. Phelps
Porter
Oliver
Charles City, In
Limit on Loan Debate Blocked in Senate
Senate leaders failed to secure unanimous consent to limit debate on the British loan bill. Majority Leader Barkley sought a one week flow to a vote by next Thursday amid objections from Sen. Johnson who argued no gag rule was needed. Backers prepared to move for cloture but stood down as lawmakers saw little chance for passage.
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Washington
INL
Senate
Barkley
D-Ky
Sen
Johnson
D-Colo
Mihailovic Refuses Defense Offer in Treason Trial
Belgrade Yugoslavia General Draja Mihailovic rejected an offer from American attorney Morris Ernst of New York to defend him at his treason trial. Rankovic minister of the interior announced the decision on Saturday.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Draja Mihailovic
Morris Ernst
New York
Alexander Rankovic
Anti-Red Scheme Foiled in Hungary
Hungarian political police announced they had broken up a neo Fascist plot against democracy with discovery of an arms cache and the arrest of 89 men. The statement said the plotters, wearing masks, killed three Russian army officers on Hungarian soil.
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Budapest
Forlevss
Cials
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