Spain Crisis Faces UN Security Council
Dewitt Mackenzie analyzes the Franco regime in Spain as a potential UN Security Council crisis. He notes diverging views among Russia, France, the United States, and Britain, cites Poland and Romania moving to sever ties, and urges careful handling to avoid renewed civil war while considering the regime’s impact on peace.
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Spain
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Council
France
United States
Britain
Rumania
Poland
Security Council
United Nations
Madrid
Jose Giral
Franco
Senate debates housing subsidy fund and prefab markets
The Senate focused on a $600 million subsidy fund for building materials with Capehart proposing a halving to $300 million. Debate centered on guaranteed markets for new materials or prefab houses and the feasibility of ceiling prices on existing homes. The banking committee restored both provisions, setting the stage for a negotiated compromise aimed at boosting 2.7 million housing units by 1947.
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Washington
Senate
Ator Capehart
R-Ind
Wilson Wyatt
Congress
Capeheart
Wyatt
Taft
Ohio
House
Senate Banking Committee
Iran Debates Security Council Move on Soviet Case
Tehran officials waver over dropping the Persian case from the United Nations Security Council agenda as Prime Minister Qavam’s stance remains unsettled. A Tehran radio briefing cited May 6 as Russia’s troop evacuation deadline while a Reuters report notes Qavam ordered Caspian Mazanderan troops to the sea coast following coup rumors.
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Tehran
United Nations Security Council
Prince Sirouz
Ahmed Qavam
Gromyko
Security Council
Persia
Vam
Riers
Qavam
Reuters
Caspian
Mazanderan
New Hosiery Firm Here Incorporated
Certificates filed with the secretary of state include Thomas Nichols Corporation of High Point to manufacture hosiery. Authorized capital stock is 100000 dollars with 300 dollars subscribed by W. B. Thomas Jr Douglas Nichols and A R Thomas all of High Point.
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Raleigh
Secretary of State
Thomas Nichols Corporation of
High Point
W. B. Thomas, Jr
Douglas Nichols
R. Thomas
High Nt
Printer Hacks Family To Death In His Front Yard
A Des Moines newspaper account reports a man, William C. Irwin, 41, who was wounded in a shootout after hacking his wife Edith 38, his mother Mary Alice 64, and two sons John 8 and Henry 5 to death in their front yard. A neighbor’s child was wounded. Irwin was captured and hospitalized, later placed in a padded cell, with no charges filed immediately.
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Des Moines
William C. Irwin
Irwin
Easy 6
China Plans Large Program to Fight Plague
Chungking reports a government effort to curb plagues with hundreds of specialists and 30 million Chinese yuan allocated. The plan targets the pneumonic epidemic in the north and the bubonic outbreak in southern and western provinces, with Manchuria Suiyuan Shensi and Fukien named among affected areas.
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Chungking
P. Z. King
Chinese National Health Administration
U. S
China
Manchuria
Suiyuan
Shensi
Fukien
Nine North Carolinians Die From Violence Over Weekend
Associated Press reports nine people in North Carolina died from violence or violent incidents over the weekend. Traffic crashes caused six deaths including pedestrians Phyllis Ann Deal, Joe T. Phillips, and Emma Rippy Doster. Other fatalities include Benjamin H. Brooks in a truck collision near Monroe, Luther A. Gurley in a Wilmington oil truck overturn, Kenneth Leazer in a Landis Enockville crash, David Tillman Brogdon drowning near Greensboro, and Helika Dunn found dead after a days-long missing report. Clyde Watts was killed in a North Wilkesboro homicide. Claude Absher is jailed on murder charges.
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Associated Press
Salisbury
Phyllis Ann Deal
China Grove
Joe T. Phillips
Greensboro
Emma Rippy Doster
Monroe
Benjamin H. Brooks
Wilmington
Luther A. Gurley
Mount Olive
Kenneth Leazer
Mooresville
Landis-Enochville
David Tillman Brogdon
Asheboro
Helika Dunn
Millboro
Uwharrie
Clyde Watts
North Wilkesboro
J. E. Walker
Claude Absher
Clean Out That Attic There May Be A Bond There
Washington announces 23 million in government savings bonds matured years ago and 13.3 million in WWI era liberty and victory notes not yet presented. About 1.094 million in old bonds cashed since last June, as the government offers to redeem when found.
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Washington
Treasury
Defense
Liberty
Victory
Shipworkers Contemplate Walking Out
CIO shipworkers representing 72 000 members threaten strike as 17 shipyards refuse 18 cent pay raise while a 30 day notice is filed John Green leads the move amid broader soft coal and steel mill strikes and the Yale and Towne Philadelphia plant ending a 149 day walkout with a 12 cent raise.
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Associated Press
CIO
Labor Department
John Green
CIO Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
John L. Lewis
AFL
United Mine Workers
Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company
Philadelphia
AFL Machinists Union
Akron
Charles E. Slusser
CIO Bus and Trol
Economic Struggles in U S Zone Report Says
Berlin April 8 The American military governor’s report from Gen Joseph T McNarney notes Germany’s lack of centralized government causes economic breakdown in the U S zone. It cites depleted raw materials, inter zone trade problems, currency loss, hoarding and food shortfalls as morale falls.
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Berlin
Joseph T. McNarney
Germany
U.S
U. S
French Ammunition Dump Explodes Near Saigon Evacuations Continue
A major French ammunition dump on Saigon's northern outskirts exploded repeatedly, triggering civilian evacuations. More than 60 wounded admitted to hospitals within half an hour of the first blast, with refugees and extensive property damage reported across the city.
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Saigon
Henri Cedille
Cochin China
British Army Signal Corps
Rue Catinat
Chaplin Discoverer Reeves Dies at 69 in California
Alfred Reeves died Saturday night at his Playa Del Rey home aged 69. He brought comedian Charles Chaplin to the United States in 1910 for his first stage appearance. Reeves was a key early promoter and observer of Chaplin's rise in Hollywood.
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Chaplin
Hollywood
Alfred Reeves
Charles Chaplin
United States
Playa del Rey
Resignation Demands From Jap Premier and Cabinet
A 14 man committee of the democratic people's front demanded Premier Shidehara and his cabinet resign immediately with Japan two days from national elections. The group represented 70,000 people after a left wing demonstration that saw 10,000 Communist led protesters break windows and injure eight police. United States troops in Tokyo kept order as the crowd was dispersed.
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Tokyo
Japan
Democratic People's Front
Shidehara
WU. S
Bailey Improves After Weekend Hospital Stay
Senator Josiah W. Bailey showed improvement after an abdominal attack at the capitol. Physician Dr. Walter A. Bloehorn said Bailey continued to improve over the weekend. Bailey left the maternity section of Doctors Hospital, with secretary Kidd Brewer noting he felt fine and asked for breakfast.
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Washington
Josiah W. Bailey
Walter A. Bloehorn
North Carolina
Democrat
Kidd” Brewer
Bailey
Capitol
Doctor's Hospital
Brewer
Eisenhower calls for one year extension of draft
General Dwight D. Eisenhower told the Senate military committee that the United States will be short of soldiers if the draft expires, with estimates ranging from 165,000 to 400,000. He urged a one year extension to ensure manpower for pledged wartime tasks. He warned against assuming the war is over and said a continued draft is essential for national security.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
Army Chief of Staff
Senate Military Committee
Senate
Eisenhower
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
W. S. Paul
Isenhower
United States
Roosevelt Hyde Park shrine dedication with Truman historic ceremony
Franklin D Roosevelt's Hyde Park estate will become a national shrine in a Friday ceremony with President Truman, Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, and Interior Secretary Krug participating. The event marks the first anniversary of Roosevelt's death at the birthplace and burial site.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
Interior
J. A. Krug
Mr. Roosevelt
Conspiracy By Nazis Denied During Trial
In Nuremberg on April 8 a former chief of the German chancellery disputed the prosecution theory of a Nazi conspiracy to seize power and invade neighboring states. He argued Hitler was the Reich government and ministers learned of actions after they occurred, claiming Hitler’s seizure of power was legal under Reichstag authorizations. The testimony followed Field Marshal Keitel as the British case submitted new documents linking senior Nazi leaders to plans.
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Mernberg
Germany
Fuehrer
Hitler
Tie of Nations
Lammers
Rhineland
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Wilhelm Keitel
Russia to hold majority stake in Soviet Iran oil venture
Tehran reports that Russia will own 51 percent and Iran 49 percent of a Soviet Iran oil company for the first 25 years of its mandate. Premier Ahmed Qavam disclosed details of the agreement and invited representatives from the people of Azerbaijan to negotiate, signaling a full-state arrangement and regional talks.
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Tehran
Russia
Ahmed Qavam
Iran
Azerbaiijan
Pees
Soviet Threat to UN on Iran Case Sparks Bid for Bilateral Settlement
Russia threatened a new boycott at the United Nations Security Council unless Tehran and Moscow abandon UN scrutiny and accept a bilateral Iran Soviet settlement. Moscow broadcast a demand to remove the Iranian case from the docket and sent a telegram to Iranian Premier Ahmed Qavam.
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New York
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Iran
Soviet Union
Moscow
Ahmed Qavam
King Accepts Resignation of Regent
King George II of Greece acknowledged Archbishop Damaskinos's letter resigning as regent but asked him to stay on provisionally. A London spokesman said the exiled monarch had no comment on Athens reports Damaskinos would remain temporarily as regent.
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Athens
George II
Greece
Damaskinos
London
George
Missing British War Bride Evokes Local Police Hunt
Salisbury police continue to search for Evelyn Caroline Poston a 16 year old British war bride missing from her husband Warren H Poston near Salisbury North Carolina. The couple had arrived from New York to join him and she vanished after leaving the railway station with a man believed to be a baggage clerk. The parents in England say they have no word on her whereabouts and include a cablegram saying Eve and Hardy are together.
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London
Evelyn Caroline Poston
Salisbury
N. C
John Alfred Cripps
Eve
Hardy
America
Husberds
New York
Warren H. Poston
R. BE. Kessler
Poston
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