Communists Ring Shanghai 3 Billion Deficit Talk Stirs Cries
Washington AP report notes a weekend forecast of a 3 billion dollar federal deficit next year. House and Senate leaders clash over tax hikes and spending cuts as Democrats push for tax increases while others seek reductions. Aimed at trimming Truman budget deficits, proposals target tax rises and spending cuts, with debates on European aid and overall fiscal policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Senate
House Tax Committee
Truman
House
McCormack
Mass
Russell
D-Ga
Appropriations Committee
Maybank
D-Sc
McKellar
D-Tenn
Woodruff
R-Mich
House Rules Committee
Mr. Truman
Congress
Social Security
Ways and Means
House Education and Labor Committee
Democrats Hope To Pass Housing Bill This Week
Democratic leaders push a multi billion housing bill through the House with a vote anticipated Thursday or Friday. The bill would fund slum clearance, low rent housing, and farm housing aids, heading for the President's desk after Senate approval 57 to 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis M. Lemay
Washington
Truman
House
Senate
Great Chinese City Is Isolated as Armies Press On All Sides
Chinese Communists ring Shanghai cutting off the great city on all fronts except a narrow Whangpoo River corridor. They push near Woosung forts and Hunjao air field while guerrillas reach Nanhwei district. Foreign ships diverted, trains seized for troop movements. Shanghai becomes an armed camp with barricades and armored cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blake Gearhart
Shanghai
China
Whangpoo River
Woosung
Whangpoo
Hunjao
Alte and
Wathh
Ovalue Lnt Libu
ANU
Nanhwei
U.S
LCI
Yangtze
U. S
Hangchhow
Nanking
Four Dead In Amarillo Tornado Disaster
A powerful tornado swept southern Amarillo Texas killing four people and injuring about 65. Rescue teams and Red Cross workers poured in from nearby areas as hospitals filled. The storm damaged homes crops and utilities with roofs torn off and power lines down. Names of the deceased included Lois Martin, 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Tex
Panhandle
Ama- Thi
Red Cross
St. Louis
Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Lois Martin
Hot Potato Bills Stir Alabama Legislature Start
Alabama legislators prepare for a lively session as the House plans to tackle a poll tax repeal, reapportionment of Senate seats, and a Sunday public drinking ban. The bills promise sharp clashes, especially with Black Belt lawmakers concerned by power shifts and dry advocates seeking broader weekday bans. Senate members also anticipate debated proposals as the session resumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Itate
Alabama Legisature
Cit
Legisature
House Health Committee
House
Senate
Florida beef labeling bill clears House
Tallahassee UP unamimous approval in the House for a bill requiring that all Florida produced beef be plainly labeled. Representative Edna Pearce Highlands County cattle rancher called the measure aimed at preventing mislabeling and protecting Florida beef against misrepresentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallahassee
Florida
Reeh
Edna Pearce
Highlands County
Man volunteers to be jailed for sleep in police cell
Police say no one was jailed today but a white man arrived and volunteered to stay in a cell. He demanded rest and settled into the Negro cell saying you cannot lock a man up for being tired. He left before any charge could be filed.
Public Schools Improvement Drive Formed Nationwide
A New York AP report details the creation of the Yon a Citizens Commission for the Public Schools led by Lee E. Larsen of 3 Inc. and backed by Carlile Corp and the General Station Board. The 28 member group aims to expand to 60, tackling goals such as clearer educational aims, teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and regional inequalities in schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Marke
NEW York
Lee E. Larsen
3, Inc
Car Rele Corporation
General Station Board
Larsen
Hospital election call rests with Board of Revenue
The Board of Revenue must call a special election for a four mill tax to fund a county hospital. Judge J Albert Logue says a 1947 act assigns the board the duty and notes that five percent of registered voters signed the petition. Wilton Sturges Sr led the drive and seeks an early ballot, with election machinery to be set up as needed. The election must be called within 90 days of petition acceptance. The request was delivered May 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Revenue
J. Albert Logue
Logue
Wilton Sturges Sr
Dothan
Sturges
C 54 Plucks Glider From Snow Rescue in Alaska
An Air Force C 54 rescued University of Alaska professor Bert E Griffen after his glider crashed in central Alaska two days earlier. Four feet of snow and a makeshift runway were overcome by the crew T T Robert Brims Walter Clatt and Charles Manlove as Griffen slept in a snowbound sleeping bag awaiting rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbanks
Alaska
API
University of Alaska
Isle
T.t. Robert A. Brims
Phoenix
Ariz
Walter L. Clatt
Corvus Christi
Tex
Charles H Manlove
Portland
Ore
Bert E. Griffen
Seattle
Wash
Air ‘Force
Griffen
Eisler Extradition Hearing Set for May Twenty Fourth
British Bow Street Court names May 24 as the extradition hearing date for Gerhart Eisler, the German Communist agent sought by the United States. Bail was refused as Eisler remains jailed in Brixton Prison amid protests from Poland and questions in Parliament.
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Eisler
Robert S. Musel
London
LLP
Gerhart Eisler
United States
House of Commons
British Foreign Office
John Eastwood
Bow Street Court
Eastwood
Brixton
Bow Street
Jerzy Michalowski
Foreign Office
Southampton
Michalowski
Poland
Ernest Bevin
Dudley Collard
British “Council For German Democracy
Collard
Gerhart
Germany
Zach Miller Jailed on Driving Charge
In Danielsville Georgia a man calling himself Col Zack Miller the wild west showman was jailed after a high speed trip on US 29. State troopers clocked 65 mph in a 55 mph zone and pursued the truck for miles before stopping it. Miller claimed the truck’s owner and the Texas ranch he visited were involved, naming a driver he said he had hired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danielsville
Zack Miller
Pat Coile
Georgia
Madison County
Miller
Buffalo Bill’ Cody
Valley Mills
Texas
Mrs Willkie and son injured in Ohio crash
Mrs Edith W Willkie 54 widow of Wendell Willkie and her son Phillip 29 were injured when a bright car left the road and overturned in heavy rain 29 miles east of Cambridge Ohio Officials said they were resting comfortably today in the hospital The incident occurred during a driving rainstorm and involved the widow of the late Republican presidential candidate and her son
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Edith
W Willkie
Wendel L. Willkie
Phillip
Francis Hes
Boy Guarding Girls Killed in Moonlight Picnic Attack
A Buffalo youth was killed and another grievously wounded when a gunman attacked four beachgoers at Pleasant Beach on Lake Erie. The suspect, George Szendry, 28, of Humberstone Ontario, is jailed and charged with murder. The two girls, Lydia Luisi and Geraldine Fiorito, escaped abduction as Harold Snetzky, 14, and Richard Joseph, 19, attempted to defend them and were shot.
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Port Colborne
Ontario
Buffalo
N. Y
George Szendry
Humberstone
Ont
Harold Snetzky
Richard Joseph
N.Y
Snetzky
Joseph
Lydia Luisi
Geraldine Fiorito
Lonely Pleasant Beach
Lake Erie
Neo
Lost Flying Parson Safe In Philippines
Manila AP report on Rev. Cur ran L. Spottswood Jr., 35, of Mobile, Alabama, a flying missionary missing after a May 3 takeoff at Palanan Bay when a log struck a wing. He had flown to deliver medicines and supplies to missionaries and requested a new wing by water. Mrs Spottswood, living in Manila, is linked to Miriam Hareld of Gainesville Florida. Rev Spottswood is a Moten missionary and brother of James Spottswood of Mobile.
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Manila
Curran L. Spottswood, Jr
Mobile
Ala
Luzon
Ernest Tuck
Colorado Springs
Col
Palanan Bay
Federal government steps into Ford strike mediation
In Washington the federal government intervened to push a settlement in the Ford strike. CIO Auto Workers chief Walter Reuther met with Federal Mediation Director Cyrus Ching and said the conciliation service plans to have a mediator at Detroit negotiations today. Ching had warned both sides to make progress or he would enter the case in the public interest. Reuther, in town for CIO meetings, suggested he only stopped by Ching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ford
Walter Reuther
CIO Auto Workers
Cyrus
Ching
Reuther
Conciliation Service
Detroit
Medication Service
Ching Tola Reuther
Ford Motor Co
CIO
Fall Down Mountain Kills Georgia Youth
A University of Georgia student, Tommy Swann of Covington, died when his car plunged 400 feet off a steep mountainside between Dillard and Highlands. Three other students were injured in the wreck late yesterday near Franklin, Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Wcup
University of Georgia
Tommy Swann
Covington
Swann
Dillard
Highlands
MW. C
Things to Come Sermon Ends With Realistic Note
In Port Carbon Pennsylvania the Rev Adam E Poterack preached The Shape of Things to Come at St Pauls Lutheran Church The sermon ended and the congregation sang as a 25 pound Gothic chandelier fell from the ceiling crashing to the floor in the aisle without injuring anyone The event paused the service then continued with song
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Carbon
Adam E. Polcrack
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
High Court Split On Speech Right
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that free speech includes expressions that anger and unrest. Arthur Terminiello fined $100 for a February 7 1996 Chicago speech inciting anger. Justice Douglas wrote the majority opinion while Justice Jackson dissented, warning the decision could undermine the Bill of Rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Jackson
Arthur Terminiello
Chicago Auditorium
Terminiello
Anlllnois Supreme Court
Ilnois Court
Douglas
toé@ay
Vinson
Justice Frankfurter
Burton
Temminielly
Chicago
Gerald
George Skeptic on Europe Arms Plan Questioned
Washington senator Walter F. George voiced concern that the Atlantic pact binds the Western world to a lengthy armament program. He warned the plan could undermine the treaty’s peaceful character and doubted disarmament would follow. Administrations hints say Congress may see only 2000000 in new money, with most funds coming from surpluses or current budgets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Walter F. George
D-Ga
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Charles F. Ross, Jr
Methodiiet Church
Congress
U. S&s
Truman
Negro Airman Convicted In Guam Death Of SF Girl
A 20th Air Force court martial on Guam found Pvt. Herman P. Dennis Jr. guilty of assault murder in the December death of Ruth Farnsworth, sentencing him to death. verdict subject to review by higher Air Force authorities and President Truman. Dennis faces possible testimony in related trials of Calvert Dennis and Staff Sgt. Robert W. Burns.
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San Francisco
Guam
Leif Erickson
20Th Air Force
Herman P. Dennis, Jr
Ruth Farnsworth
Gerry S. Mason
Las Vegas
Nev
Air Force Board of Review
Washington
Truman
Dennis
Barns
Burns
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