Fighting near Szepingkai as Chinese communists defend rail hub
In Manchuria, six day battle near Szepingkai sees Lt. Gen. Liang Hwa Sheng pledge to clear communist opposition through a northern drive. Government forces aim to reach Changchun within a week, while a cease fire team’s presence sparks tension and strict guard actions.
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Tom Imasterson
Kaiyuan
Manchuria
Szepingkai
Liang Hwa-Sheng
Liang
Szepingkal
Changchun
Manchurian
China
Three 100 Men Win Diet Seats in Tokyo Election
April 12 report shows 33 members of the 1942 Tojo Diet reelected and 40 former members returned to the House of Representatives after nationwide returns. Conservatives appear to hold a total majority though Liberals are not in control. With 394 of 468 seats decided, women have 32, and re-elected 1942 members faced checks for possible disqualification before seating. Party lineup includes Liberals 116 Progressives 86 Social Democrats 78 Communists 3, others 3, minor parties 39 and independents 72.
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Tokyo
House of Representatives
Hideki Tojo
Liberals
Progressives
Social Democrats
Communists
Indendent
Grown Sentinel Invites Mrs Digman To Strand Showings
The Grown Sentinel invites Mrs C F Digman of 405 Christiana Street S to tonight’s Strand Theatre program featuring Something For The Boys with Carmen Miranda and Michael O’Shea, Just Before Dawn with Warner Baxter, and Gunning For Premaries with Charles Starrett in a double feature at Dixie Theatre.
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the Grown Sentinel
C. F. Digman
Christiana Street
Carmen Miranda
Michael O'Shea
Vivian Blaine
Strand Theatre
Warner Baxter
Adelle Roberts
Charles Starrett Burnette
Dixie
Navy turmoil looms as Truman blast stuns officials
Washington reports say the Navy department stays silent amid talk of top resignations after President Truman’s sharp attack on Allied merger plans. Theories center on Secretary Forrestal or CNO Fleet Admiral Nimitz possibly resigning or retiring. In Boulder City, Boris Karloff wed florist Evelyn Helmar in a floral shop ceremony conducted by a justice of the peace.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy Department
Truman
Boulder City
Nev
Boris Karloff
Karloff
William Henry Pratt
Evelyn Helmar
New York
Dorothy Stine Pratt
Baltimore Mayor Files For Maryland Governor
Baltimore Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor in the June primaries. He becomes the third Republican to enter the race joining Herman L. Mills of Hagerstown and D John Markey of Frederick who had filed earlier.
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Baltimore
Theodore R. McKeldin
Republica
McKeldin
Herman L. Mills
Hagerstown
D. John Markey
Frederick
Roosevelt Estate Dedication as National Shrine
United Nations leaders and President Truman dedicated Franklin D. Roosevelt’s green acres and Hudson River estate in Hyde Park as a national shrine. The 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. ceremony featured an eight minute address from Truman on the front porch and a formal presentation by Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt to the secretary of Lee.
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Hyde Park
United Nations
Truman
Green Acres
Hudson River
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mr. Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lee
OPA Promises U S Cost Rise At 2 Billion Mark
Naples dispatch by Hal Boyle describes economic strain linked to living costs. A lighthearted aside follows about Luigi the Naples street vendor peddling black market Saint Bernard dogs, framed as a vignette of city life amid broader price pressures.
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Hal Boyle
Naples
Luigi
Saint Bernard
Committee Hears Demand for $750 Million Meat Price Increase
Washington April 12 Congress heard from OPA that Americans face a $2 billion cost of living jump as a demand emerged for a $750 million annual meat price boost. The House Agriculture Committee voted to have its chairman propose an amendment to end meat subsidies and require an equivalent increase.
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Washington
Congress
OPA
Paul Porter
House Agriculture Committee
Rep. Flannigan
D.-Va
MacArthur Leads Truman in Tokyo Diet Election
Incomplete Tokyo precinct returns show General MacArthur with a large lead over President Truman for a Diet seat. MacArthur received 12 votes to Truman's one as both were overshadowed by hunger with thirteen ballots marked more food.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
Truman
April cold snap brings deep snow across West Virginia
Charleston April 12. An April cold snap brought heavy snow to mountainous parts of West Virginia. Six inches reported in Pocahontas County with two inches on U S Route 250 in Cheat Mountain area. Plows and cinder crews worked as temperatures hovered in the low 30s and roads remained passable. |
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Pocahontas County
Chiat Mountain
Alleghany
Tucker
Harman
Preston
Parkersburg
Elkins
Beckley
Road Commission
Casey Company Will Build Elkins Flood Project
The John F. Casey Co. of Pittsburgh was the low bidder at 1,200,492 dollars for a flood protection project on the Tygart River at Elkins West Virginia. The government estimate was 1,287,583 dollars. The work includes an inversion dam, protection dam, a diversion canal, railroad relocation, and a bridge. A bond issue for easement and right of way was approved at a special election in Elkins.
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Pittsburgh
John F. Casey Co
Tygart River
Elkins
W. Va
W. E. Lowrence
Withhold Payment Until Court Case Decided
The Unemployment Compensation department will withhold jobless benefits for mine foremen and supervisors idled by the shutdown until a similar case in Kanwha County court decides. Samuel Willetts of the Morgantown local UMW union said he would meet state officials to seek payments for members. Officials noted the Kanawha case questions if coal miners and mine supervisors are the same worker class.
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Charleston
Unemployment Compensation Department
Samuel Willetts
Morgantown
UMW United Clerical
Kanwha County
Franco troop claim about Franco frontier massing
Exiled Spanish Republican leader Dr. Fernando De Los Rios said Franco has 450000 troops massed on the French frontier and that Spain’s army exceeds France’s in numbers and perhaps quality. He urged presentation of documents to the UN Security Council amid Poland charges of Franco threats.
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Charles A. Grumich
New York
Franco
Spain
United Nations Security Council
France
de Los Rios
Paris
Security Council
Council
Poland
de Uas Rios
Truman
Washington
McFarland Captured in Knoxville Extradition Awaited
Knoxville police confined Earl McFarland the nation's most hunted criminal rapekiller after his capture near the city jail by two FBI agents. He admitted hitchhiking and living rough since escaping a District jail on April 3 with Joseph Medley, awaiting removal to Washington for trial and the electric chair.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Earl McFarland
Washington
FBI
Norman H. McCabe
McFarland
District of Columbia
Joseph D. Medley
Knox County
Orror
Medley
McCabe
Guadalcanal
Three-Way Split on Draft Sparks House Debate
The House opened debate on extending the draft nine months as Chairman May proposes an amendment to bar inductions under age twenty. May cites army figures and Eisenhower testimony claiming youths under twenty are not fit as occupation forces. A three way split looms on extending suspending or allowing the draft to die on May 15.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
May
D.ky
House Military Committee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Weston State Hospital Employees Get Raises
Weston State Hospital announced raises totaling 45000 annually for staff. Financial secretary Page Hamrick said most boosts go to tower-salary bracket workers. Funds come from private patient collections and county commitments, with no new appropriations.
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Weston
Weston State Hospital
Page Hamrick
Hamrick
Widespread Layoffs Hit Coal Carriers Across Industry
Charleston report shows thousands furloughed as mine shutdown cuts demand. Baltimore and Ohio alone furloughed about 1,590 train crews and 3,000 other workers with hundreds fewer coal trains daily. Chesapeake and Ohio laid off 200 workers at Huntington and 700 at Raceland, Ky. Other lines in Coal River and Kanawha fields reduced crews. Norfolk and Western and Virginian Railway also affected with pier operations in Norfolk and Newport News. Large numbers of locomotives and freight cars idle amid halted tonnage.
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Charleston
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio
Huntington
Raceland
Coal River
Kanawha Field
Norfolk, Va
Virginian Railway
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Norfolk
Newport News
New Governor General Sworn In at Ottawa
Viscount Alexander of Tunis, former Allied commander in the Mediterranean, was sworn in today as governor general of Canada and personal representative of King George VI. The ceremony occurred in the senate chamber shortly after the Alexanders arrived in Ottawa with their three children aboard a special train from Halifax.
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Ottawa
Viscount Alexander of
Tunis
Mediterranean
Canada
George VI
Senate
Parliament
Alexander
Halifax
Police hunt for slayer in dismemberment case in Indiana
Indiana state police and county authorities identified the victim as 24 year old Leland Paul Miller from dismembered remains found in Boone and Montgomery counties. Investigators said two hands were matched to Miller and a burned headless torso was located in an abandoned farm house ruins. Early belief pointed to a female victim due to slight stature and slender hands.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Leland Paul Miller
Robert O'Neal
Miler
Bieweile
Miller
O'Neal Fett
Boone County
O'Neal
Montgomery County
Walter Eckbert
15000 Near Riot As Nylon Sale Is Canceled
In San Francisco on April 12 a crowd of about 16,000 women gathered after a department store canceled a 6:30 p.m. sale of 10,800 nylon pairs. Police cleared the street with 27 officers. three women fainted and one man was arrested as chants of we want nylons rose along Market Street.
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San Francisco
Edward Farrell
Market Street
Truman pledges to carry on Roosevelt ideals at Hyde Park Shrine
President Truman vowed to continue Roosevelt's fight against tyranny abroad and to press progressive New Deal principles at the dedication of the Roosevelt estate as a national shrine. He praised international cooperation, full employment, social security, health and education programs, and housing for veterans, tying them to postwar policy.
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Ernest Vaccaro
Hyde Park
Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Truman
America
Atay
Police Training School Building Bid Called At Sixty Thousand
Officials announce bids to construct a two story Police Training School building valued at sixty thousand dollars. The project funds a training center for recruits and for officers to take refresher courses. details note bids will be opened within ten days.
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Police Training School
Tt Algo
New Acid Ointment For Burn Skin Removal
Frank Carey reports a new acid ointment announced to the American Chemical Society. The preparation treats second degree burns by removing dead skin painlessly without surgery. Described by Drs. Albert M. Mattocks and Wilbur A. Lauter of Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama.
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Frank Carey
Associated Press
American Chemical Society
Albert M. Mattocks
Wilbur A. Lauter
Southern ‘Research Institute
Birmingham
Alp
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