Air traffic curbed at LaGuardia after crashes
New York authorities order curtailment of overseas flights and a one third reduction in domestic arrivals and departures at LaGuardia to ease congestion after three crashes into Elizabeth City area. Domestic flights drop from 680 to 454 daily with other airports to absorb diverted traffic.
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United States
Missing Malta-Bound British Plane With 31 Aboard
A twin engine British airliner carrying 31 people vanished over the Mediterranean. Wreckage was found on a Sicilian mountain as Italian British and U S search teams mounted ground expeditions from Agrigento and nearby towns. Some survivors reportedly alive amid poor visibility and ongoing aerial searches from Malta and Rome.
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Lehman Blasts Senate Civil Rights Roadblock in Speech
Senator Lehman accuses cynical senators from both parties of blocking civil rights legislation. He urges amending Rule 22 to ease filibusters as NAACP led conference gathers church and civic groups to press for FEPC anti lynching and anti poll tax bills.
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Lehman
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Fair Employment Practices Commission
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Senate Rules Committee
Mugwumps Plague Election Year In The Nation
Washington dispatch notes a surge of self labeled Mugwumps in 1950s politics as readers debate the term. The National Voter article from the League of Women Voters outlines Mugwump origins with 1884 party splits and describes adherents as critics who vote across party lines. Mrs Duffield of Cincinnati defends the label while admitting no perfect alignment.
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Washington
United States
League of Women Voters
Eugene Duffield
Jay Walz
Webster
Duffield
Cincinnati League of Women Voters
Garry
New Scandals Hinted In Coming Tax Probe
Washington reports explosive new tax hearings will run beyond nine waivers for ex Internal Revenue Commissioner Joseph D. Nunan. Three other former top tax officials will testify as the King subcommittee probes wartime tax fraud cases and liquor unit practices. A New York grand jury will be convened for parallel investigations led by U.S. Attorney Frank J. Parker.
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James B. E. Olson
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Senate
American Lithofold Corp
U.S
Frank J. Parker
Brooklyn
Ise
Secret War Rising in North Korea Defies Reds
A clandestine anti-Communist partisan war operates across North Korea with guerrillas and pirates harassing Reds, many natives and some Chinese defectors. The movement has grown strong enough to divert Chinese divisions and intensify pressure behind Communist lines.
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Tokyo
INS
North Korea
Kaesong
Yalu
Eighth Army
Firm Invites U. S. Probe Into Empire Ordnance Case
Attorney Bartley C Crum asked the Justice Department and the FBI for a thorough investigation of charges against Empire Ordnance Corp and its president Frank Cohen. He offered to open books and have Cohen questioned on stock dealings and wartime orders amid ties to Democratic leaders McKinney and McHale and a $50 000 stock deal through Empire Tractor Co.
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Justice Department
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Empire Ordnance Corp
Frank Cohen
Bartley C. Crum
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Crum
Frank McKinney
Frank McHale
Indiana
Empire Tractor Co
Empire Ordnance
J. Howard McSoath
J. Edgar Hoover
Newbold Morris
Immunity Debate Grounds for Wrongdoing Cloak
Washington February 17 senators and representative denounced Truman administration plans to grant immunity to witnesses in the cleanup program. They warned such immunity could shield wrongdoers and invite abuse. Taft urged a Congress led independent probe with subpoena power, distinct from McGrath and the president. Morris heads the inquiry with broad authority.
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Washington
Erzuson
R-Minh
Rep
Keat-1 Ing
R-N
Truman
Congress
Sen
Taft
R-Ohie
McGrath
Senate
Gannett News Service
al Taree
Newnold Morris
Morris
Justice Department
Engineer Critical After Boiler Blast at Blossom Dairy Plant
A 21-year-old assistant engineer John Myers of 3319 Washington St W is in critical condition at Charleston General Hospital after a boiler explosion at Blossom Dairy Co. main plant. He suffers extensive burns over more than 95 percent of his body. Hospital and company officials declined further comment.
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Charleston General Hospital
John Myers
Washington St. W
Legion Leader Denounces Hoover VA Reform Proposals
American Legion national commander Donald R. Wilson denounces Citizens' Committee for Hoover Report ideas as fantastic and cute landish. He asks Dr. Robert L. Johnson of Temple University to prove, with figures, that reforms would cut costs and improve veteran services. Johnson had queried Legion views on VA changes while the committee plans to disband May 31.
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American Legion
Donald R. Wilson
Citizens’ Committee
Hoover Report
Veterans Administration
Wilson
Robert L. Johnson
Johnson
Temple University
Legion
Red Rockets on the Sea Nazi Test Area Revived
Soviet efforts revive the Peenemunde V-2 testing grounds with four power lines from Greifswald 33 miles inland. The closed area guards the Baltic base amid increased secrecy, with Red Army surveillance and a recent large explosion prompting nearby village volunteers to respond.
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Peenemuende
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Red Army
Six Killed as Car Collides With Train Near Phoenix
Six Allied victims died when a car crossed into a crossing and was dragged by a moving locomotive six miles west of Phoenix. Coroner reports identify five bodies. investigators consider Soviet zone tensions and possible use of the wreckage to test new military rockets.
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Yuma
al. J. Flood
Iittain
Truman Family Too Large For White House
President Truman faces a crowded White House with 279 aides and clerks and a payroll over 1.7 million annually. Remodeling planned at 5 million plus will not shrink the staff. many offices and the Budget Bureau, CIA and Defense Mobilizer Wilson occupy space across multiple buildings. The executive offices now spill into the State Department across the street and the capital, with Congress blocking further expansion.
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Devastation Warned If A Bomb Attacks America
Col Justice M. Chambers of Huntington West Virginia and holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor warned that an air attack on the United States would cause devastation beyond imagination He said that in such an attack seven of every nineteen enemy planes could reach targets and that Russia likely has atomic bombs for mass bombing He emphasized that atomic attacks strike individuals and families and that defense starts with each person even with warning procedures.
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Russia
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Harley M. Kilgore
D-Wva
Chambers
Big Three Deny Reich Full Nate Membership
London reports the United States Britain and France agreed to bar Germany from full NATO Atlantic Pact membership for now while offering a seat on a four power appeals board to review German war crime sentences. A German entry as an equal partner in defense remains uncertain amid debates on war production control.
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Cacter L. Davidson
London
Germany
Bean Acheson
Anthony Eden
Robert Schuman
Europe
Konrad Adenauer
Acheson
Schuman
Eden
U S Sifts French German ties on European Army
U S officials cautious as French National Assembly backs the European Army concept but links German recruiting payoffs to full treaty ratification. Israel's Abba Eban voices alarm at rapid German militarization while Washington negotiates Germany's future defense role with Acheson and Lovett to join in Europe.
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TNS
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French Assembly
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French National Assembly
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State Department
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Europe
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Defense
Lovett
Britain plans first atomic weapon test in Australia
Britain will test its first atomic weapon in Australia this year in cooperation with the Australian government. The exact date is not released. The test location is Australia’s central desert, chosen to minimize health risk to people and animals.
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Philippines
Manila
Philips
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Luzon
Commonwealth
Downing Street
Malaya British Patrol Ambushed in Perak State
Seven British soldiers were killed when their patrol entered a Communist ambush in Perak Malaya. No survivors in the unit. It marks the heaviest British loss since November when 15 troops died in a roadside skirmish.
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Perak
Sabre Jets Down Three Red MIGs in Korea Action
Sabre jets shot down three Communist MIGs on the Korean front as ground fighting eased for the first time in three days. Western and Eastern Front clashes were light, with only four small probing attacks repulsed. The Fifth Air Force's Operation Strangle marked six months with substantial enemy losses and rising Allied control claims.
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Korea
Pukhan River
Fifth Air Force
North Korea
Air Force
Wiliam Waltman
Grants Rapids
Mich
Today’s 30-Second Prayer for Peace
A brief religious prayer asks for courage to stand for righteousness so peace may come. The speaker Rev H M Eastes, Baptist minister in Barboursville, urges alignment with the Prince of Peace and adherence to His teaching for a righteous peace.
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Prince of Peace
H. M. Eastes
Barboursville
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