Johnson Warns Atomic Attack Could Hit U.S.
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson told an Overseas Press Club dinner in New York that full immunity for America against atomic attack cannot be promised. He warned an enemy pilot might penetrate U.S. air defenses and that no level of spending guarantees safety.
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New York
Louis Johnson
America
Johnson
United States
Overseas Press Club
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Army
Navy
Air Force
Defense Department
Conferees Agree to Use Surplus Potatoes to Aid Agencies
Washington March 4 71 A tentative deal by Senate and House conferees would spend additional millions to move surplus potatoes rather than waste them The plan would let the government cover freight costs to transport the potatoes to tax supported state and local agencies for human consumption The government would give away the potatoes acquired under price supports about 50 million bushels remain to be decided by Congress and Brannan Brannan urged Congress on handling the surplus potatoes and other commodities under price supports The proposal is subject to final approval by the seven senators and seven representatives negotiating the emergency farm legislation
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Washington
Senate House
Elmer Thomas
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Congress
Sunday Specials and Staff Features in The Gazette
The Charleston Gazette preview highlights include Mary Chilton J Chapman's book reviews, Marcelle Ward warns against risky adoption tactics, John W Handlan previews a barber show quartet, Nilo Olin sketches Cebe Ross as Head Man, and William Maginnis recalls grist mills in West Virginia.
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Mary Chilton J. Chapman
Marcelle Ward
Ween
Nilo Olin
Cebe Ross
William
Maginnis
West Virginia
Hisory
Charleston Gazette
U S Rebels Hungarian Plea On Legation Staff Reform
Washington rejected Hungary's demand to trim the Budapest legation asserting it is not a spy center. The note also sought travel bans, closing of consulates, and staffing claims about 103 Hungarian nationals in Sofia. US replies kept consulates closed and denied travel restrictions.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Hungary
Robert A. Vogeler
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New York
Cleveland
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Sofia
United State
Air Force C-54 crashes into Lake Michigan killing six
A C-54 carrying six aboard diverged from Washington flight and splashed into Lake Michigan near Milwaukee. Search planes and boats illuminated the scene as authorities at Bolling Field confirmed the six aboard: Maj John D Schindler pilot and others including Lt Col Charles Mueris Col Ben J Moeller Maj Milton H Bender First Lt Claude Anderson Pvt O J Crouchton.
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Air Force
Sie Mer
Washington
Bolling Field
John D. Schindler
Charles Mueris
Army Disciplinary Barracks
Ben J. Moeller
Milton H. Bender
Claude Anderson
O. J. Crouchton
Fort Bragg
French Reds Try Delaying Tactics
In Paris the Communists fought a delaying action in the National Assembly against Premier Georges Bidault's anti-sabotage bill. Deputies proposed amendments to weaken the measure while clashes with police interrupted the session that lasted over 36 hours.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
French National Assembly
E Bidault
Popular Republican Movement
Compmunists
Coal pact talks delayed by legal snags and progress
Washington reports say final agreement on a soft coal contract stalled by legal wording while progress was made on major points. Delegations from John L. Lewis’s union and coal operators recessed after nine hours, with plans to resume at 11 a.m. and a committee meeting at 4:30 p.m. to ratify a possible pact.
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Washington
John L. Lewis’ Mine Workers Union
Thomas Hennedy
UYLW
George Thursby
Lewis
Fae
Saea
Wren
Tage 14
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Proposed Trustees of UMWF and All Lewis Friends
Washington dispatch reports three new trustees for the coal miners welfare fund are long-time John L. Lewis associates. Harry M. Moses and Thomas Kennedy are former miners, while Josephine Roche, a former mine owner and Denver official, has long supported UMW efforts.
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Thomas Kennedy Josephins
Washington
Coal-Miners Welfare Fund
John L. Lewis
Harry M. Moses
United Mine Workers
Thomas Kennedy
Josephine Roche
Miss Roche
UMW
Rocky Mountain Fuel Co
Colorado
Harry M. Moses Roosevelt
Kennedy
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
Nation Faces Crab Outlook In Labor Field
The nation faces a gloomy labor picture with disputes affecting almost 5,000,000 workers and potential major strikes in auto, railroad, maritime, and telephone sectors. The coal trade nears peace with a contract through 1952 and a possible April 1951 wage increase, while conflicts over mining welfare funds persist. Maritime workers fear a nationwide strike after Supreme Court rulings on hiring practices and union coalitions pledge to resist changes.
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Washington
Lewis
Miners Welfare Fund
Maritime
Supreme Court
CIO
SFL
Raiders Smash At Hong Kong In Major Cantone Raid
Chinese Nationalist air raids by about a dozen planes struck Canton hitting three railway stations and other targets. Roughly 50 bombs were dropped with Hong Kong papers estimating casualties from 700 to over 1 000 and 100 known dead. Panic and destruction followed as refugees crowded trains out of Canton after the attacks.
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Hong Kong
Canton
Hong Kong Standard
New Life Evening Post
Senate panel delays rent control bill hearings
Chairman Maybank of the Senate banking committee delays hearings on the Lucas Myers rent control bill until after April. The move blocks action before the June 30 expiration and follows a prior $1 million transfer from rent center funds for terminal leave. Maybank cites a busy schedule and pushes hearings to April at earliest.
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Washington
INS
Maybank
Senate Banking Committee
Lucas- Myers
South Carolina
U S Reveals Bulgarian Torture Pattern Used by Police
The United States released a 7000 word document detailing Bulgarian secret police methods to extract confessions. It centers on Michael Shipkov a Bulgarian translator at Sofia and describes a finger balancing method and 92 hours of interrogation ending in a forced confession.
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Washington
INS
United States
Iron Curtain
Michael Shipkov
Sofis
Shipkeov
Shipkoy
Legation
Donald R. Heath
Shipkov
Sofia
Shipley
Statesmen Over Soviet Ganning Conquest Policy
A European study group warns of Russia rapidly pursuing conquest under Molotov. It calls for military political and economic defense against the Soviet led Cominform bloc which it says has grown to 990 million people and acts like a wartime organization.
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Paris
March
INS
Russia
Molotov
International Committee For the Study of
J. Molotov
Allies move to halt Polish refugee transfers to West Germany
Western Allies ordered West Germany to stop entry of organized refugee transfers from Poland amid fears of destabilizing the German economy. The stance followed reports of 125000 Germans fleeing Polish territories east of the Oder Neisse line and the first train with 689 refugees arriving unexpectedly.
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Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
High Commission
United States
Britain
France
Warsaw
Poland
Oder-Neisse
Diggers Warned Accidents Mount After Idle Periods
West Virginia miners face rising accidents after work stoppages as officials urge caution. In Georgia a mob attack ends with a tenant freed after rifle fire. FBI investigates late-night whipping and Ku Klux Klan activity. Sheriff declines intervention. local editor notes intensified violence.
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Eastman
Georgia
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ed Methyin
Eastman Times-Journal
Ku Klux
Otho Wiggins
Mount Airy
FBI
Jessie Lee Goodman
Wiggins
Harold Ballentine
Goodman
Methvin
Peacock
Ku Klux Klan
Four Believed Killed In Plane Collision Off Misquamicut
Four Rhode Island fliers missing and presumed dead after two light planes collided mid air and plunged into the sea near Misquamicut Beach Westerly. The men were William A. McCormack 40 Weekapaug instructor Lester Silvers 25 Westerly student Reginald Delagrange 30 Westerly instructor and Arthur E. Smith 25 Charlestown student. Coast guardsmen found two oil slicks at the scene.
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Westerly
Rhode Island
Misquamicut Beach
William A. McCormack
Weekapaug
Lester Silvers
Reginald Delagrange
Park Diamond Untouched 42 Days After Date Set
Kanawha County Court announced 42 days ago that work would begin immediately on a baseball playing field at Coonskin Park. The site remains untouched six weeks later as officials eye a start this week while plans and schedules stay vague.
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Gazette
Kanawha
Coonskim Park
Lewis Hark
Coonskin Park
County Court and Park Advisory Committee
Coonskin Hollow
Industry Gears For Coal Flow
Pittsburgh, March 4 Crippled industries shift back into gear as the coal strike ends. About 600000 workers were idle including 372000 United Mine Workers. Steel mills expect 10 days to two weeks to resume high production. Emergency coal shipments to roll out within 36 hours after resumption. National Coal Association cites 56 million tons of soft coal lost. Per day costs of unmined production range from 60 cents to $10 a ton. United Mine Workers say idle diggers lose no wages as coal remains in the ground.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine
Pennsylvania Railroad
John D. Battle
National Coal Assoc
United Mine Workers
Lunar Moonrise and Planet Visibility in Charleston Forecast
Sunday forecast notes Moon rising at 3 03 pm near its March perigee. Mars appears near the Moon at 65 million miles from Earth, Venus rises, Jupiter and Saturn timing listed, with temperatures and daily timings shown for Charleston.
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