Red armies close on Shanghai amid race to trap 300000 Nationalists
Shanghai waits as Communist forces push from Nanking toward the Yangtze. Nanking fell with little resistance, embassies and government buildings seized. Taiyuan warned of heavy losses as the Red advance threatens Hangchow, with new reports of clashes and fires.
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Shanghai
Hangchow
Nanking
Great Asiatic
Seymour Topping
Associated Press
Nuhiot
Wandels
Judicial Yuan
Peiping
Taiyuan
Shansi
Yangtze
Raleigh closes 1949 Legislature ends record session
The 1949 North Carolina legislature adjourned after 94 days passing more than 1,300 laws and authorizing $225 million in rural road bonds. A record $427 million biennial budget funds state agencies with pay raises and school raises. Bond votes and a one cent gasoline tax spark dispute, surplus funds cover most appropriations though a $5 million gap remains.
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Raleigh
Scott
House
General Assembly
West Pocket Plane Crash Kills Stunt Flier Fischer
Decorah Iowa born Billy Fischer 23 a noted light plane ace died in a crash at an air show near Jackson Mississippi. The 463 pound vest pocket plane lost a wing after a propeller blade broke causing motor vibration and wing separation. Fischer had flown since age 16 and served in World War II before his death reported live at 100 feet altitude and 220 miles an hour.
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Jackson
Miss
Decorah
Iowa
Billy Fischer
Rex English
Fischer
W. P. Fischer
Delcorah
Ten Die As Train Strikes Sunday Truck In Tennessee
A fast freight train hit a Sunday worshipper crowded truck at Gordonsville Lancaster Road crossing near Carthage Tennessee killing ten people nine from one family and injuring another. All eleven victims were returning home from church when the crash occurred. Ruth Robinson survived after being hospitalized with a broken pelvis.
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Carthage
Tenn
Here
Tennessee Central
Hogan's Creek
Gordons- Ville - Lancaster Road
Jess Bennett
Mattie Bell Bennett
Douglas
U. S
Melvin Earl
Paulien Dickens
Bennett's
Paulie Dickens
Catherine
W. E
Coonie) Bennett
Linnie Gibbs
Lebanon
Ruth Robinson
Bennetts
John Overstreet
Un-American Committee Secrecy in Witness Handling
The House Un-American Activities Committee kept a key witness in secrecy amid a probe into communist networks. Focus centers on the American Slav Congress and CIO United Electrical Workers union, with a witness reportedly denouncing the Communist party after an earlier card-carrying past. Judge Blair F. Gunther of Pittsburgh aided the inquiry as the hearings began to widen from the Slav congress to allied groups.
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Izyador
Rudolf Modelski
House Un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Modelski
Ignace Zlotowski
Poland
U. N. Atomic Energy Commission
Mica Zymierski
Douglas B. Cornell
American Slav Congress
Cio-United Electrical Workers Union
Communist Party
Blair F. Gunther
Common Pleas Court of Pittsburgh
Gunther
British Reinforcements to China Waters Ordered
London reports Britain is reinforcing its China fleet with two aircraft carriers and submarines to join the Far East forces. Admiralty confirmed orders but gave no details on origin or arrival. Hong Kong bases currently include two cruisers eight destroyers and four sloops with no air cover.
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London
Great Britain
China
Yangtze
Admiralty
Hong Kong
Amethyst
Black Swan
Duchess of Windsor Faces Cold Shoulder in England
London notes report the Duchess and Duke Windsor leaving for Paris after a 10 day stay marked by royal doors staying closed to her. Evening Standard urged Britain to end the cold reception of the American-born former divorcee who has not been received by royal relatives or many friends.
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London
Duchess of Windsor
England
Paris
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
Duke
Lord Dudley
Sunningdale
Top Communist Of Britain Mauled By Mob in Plymouth
Britain's top communist visited Plymouth last night and was mobbed by about 5000 chanting protesters who smashed doors and threw objects amid the confrontation. Police formed a barrier to separate demonstrators and protect the visitor.
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Britain
Plymouth
England
Payroll Tax Insurance Plan Backed in Congress
Legislation to enact President Truman's health program is introduced proposing payroll tax insurance to cover medical, hospital, and dental care for about 120 million people at an estimated $6 billion yearly cost. The measure would expand grants for medical education hospital construction public health and research plus aid to farmers health cooperatives and a child life research program.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Mr. Truman
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Senate Law and Public Welfare
Murray
Montana
Wagner
Pepper
Humphrey
D-Minn
Dingel
D-Mich
Biemiller
D-Wis
1949 General Assembly Seen as Good byMost
Historic session ends with broad view that the 1949 assembly was largely good despite debate over a 427 million dollar next biennium appropriation. Opinions vary on revenue estimates and whether taxes should rise for more education and social services. The contingent spending includes about 200 million for rural new programs.
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General Assembly
Lewis To Frame Coal Contract In 1949 Bargaining Pattern
John L. Lewis summoned the United Mine Workers policy committee to craft new soft coal contract demands likely to set a 1949 bargaining pattern for other unions. The group will consider reducing the work week and expanding welfare benefits as miners push for shifts and pensions amid a slower postwar economy.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
CIO
Philip Murray
Steelworkers' Union Policy Committee
Pittsburgh
Murray
Thomas Kennedy
UMW
Quiet New York Stock Market Edges Higher
A very quiet session in New York stocks edged up slightly with more leaders gaining than falling. Texas Pacific Land Trust, Vanderbilt Corps, and Douglas Aircraft led advances while Standard Oil opened up but retraced gains, with several other majors like Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, Transcontinental and Western Air, Western Union, Anaconda, Air Reduction, American Tobacco, Goodrich, and Sears Roebuck climbing, and Gulf Oil, Union Carbide, Richfield Oil, International Paper, VA Rubber, Oliver Corporation, and Caterpillar Tractor easing.
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New York
Texas Pacific Land Trust
Vandium Corps
Douglas
Standard Is
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Transcontinenal & Western Air
Western Union
Anaconda
Air Reduction
American Tobacco
Goodrich
Sears Roebuck
Gulf Oil
Union Carbide
Richfield Oil
International Paper
Italy drought ends after prayers in Rome churches
Rome priests prayed in over 400 churches as rain fell across central Italy ending a 30 year drought. The meteorological office said rain reached Rome,Seria, Florence and other regions with promising clouds over Sardinia, easing electricity rationing.
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Rome
Italy
Metorological
Seria
Florence
Sardinia
Blue Baby Fund Reaches 1300 for Graham Langston
In Goldsboro on April 25 a local drive raised 1300 for Graham Langston seven son of Elbert and wife to travel to Johns Hopkins Baltimore for a delicate heart operation. County Health Officer Dr S D Mc Pheeters said the operation is essential and physicians will operate without charge. If not performed the prognosis is hopeless.
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Johns Hopkins
Baltimore
Coplon Seeks Dismissal Of One Indictment
Judith Coplon asked the U S district court to throw out one of two indictments tied to an alleged rendezvous with a Russian agent. Her New York lawyer argued that nine of 17 Washington grand jurors were government employees. Government lawyers said jury eligibility for government employees has been settled by courts.
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Washington
Judith Coplon
U. S. District Court Today
Archibald Palmer
New York
Justice Department
Municipal Primaries Spark North Carolina Voter Turnout
North Carolinians cast ballots in municipal primaries across Charlotte Raleigh Greensboro and other cities to trim fields for May 3 elections. Key races include Charlotte mayoral contest between H H Baxter Victor Shaw and Manley R Dunaway and Raleigh city court judge race with Paul F Smith facing Albert Daub.
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Associated Press
Charlotte
Raleigh
Greensboro
H. H. Baxter
Victor Shaw
Manley R. Dunaway
Burlington
Gastonia
Brannan stalls on cost estimate for new farm program
Secretary Brannan told the House Agriculture Committee it is not possible to forecast the cost of the proposed farm program because estimates depend on overall business conditions. He rejected lawmakers' figures of 3 to 10 billion dollars yearly as Reckless and aimed to prevent farm income depressions by stabilizing markets. The plan would end government purchases of surplus perishables to prop up prices.
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Washington
Brannan
Congress
House Agriculture Committee
House
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