Chiang Kai-Shek Warns Red Victory May Trigger World War III
Chiang Kai-shek returns to anti Communist stance predicting a third world war if China falls to Communists. He pledges to share his countrymen’s suffering and vows full support to Li’s government as Communist forces near Soochow. He warns against Chinese enslavement by international Communism.
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Shanghai
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Chikow
Koomintang
Soochow
Wuhsien
Chiang
Thement
Yangtze
Hex Slayer To Be Executed By Washington
Jake Bird, 47, a North Carolina man linked to 44 murders, has a death warrant signed by Superior Judge Hugh Rosellini. His execution is set for May 27 in Tacoma. Bird claimed a hex caused several deaths, though he later said he no longer believes in it. He faces charges tied to the slaying of Mrs. Bertha Kludt on October 30, 1947.
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Tacoma
Wash
Jake Bird
North Carolina
Hugh Rosselini
Jake
Bird
Bertha Kludt
Superior Court
EK. D. Hodge
Ray Scott
onPvidender
Joseph Karpach
Utilities Head Will Be New War Secretary
Curtis Calder the utilities executive will become secretary of the army with Gordon Gray promoted to undersecretary and acting secretary until Calder assumes the post. Calder chairs Electric Bond and Share and expects to take over within 60 days after discussions with President Truman and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson.
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Washington
Curtis BE. Calder
Utilities Executive
Army
Gordon Gray
Calder
Kenneth Royall
Electric Bond and Share
Louis Johnson
Truman
White House
Flying Discs Still Mystery in Air Force Files
Dayton reports the air force takes flying saucer reports seriously citing 240 domestic and foreign cases from Wright Field files. Officers note 30 percent are conventional objects like balloons, 30 percent ordinary explanations, and 40 percent remain mysterious about extraterrestrial visitations.
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Dayton
Air Force
Dayton Journal Herald
Air Materiel Command
Wright Field
Journal Herald
Mars
Baruch Day Observed In Camden S C
Baruch Day ceremonies in Camden honors financier and adviser P Bernard Baruch. He warns Americans to guard faith in government against talk of injustices and intolerance and urges Camden’s children to defend constitutional institutions against calls for a welfare state.
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Camden
S.S. C
P .Bernard Baruch
Baruch
Wilmington port project to start docks and warehouses
L George W Gillette head of the North Carolina State Ports Authority said he hopes to begin this summer on docks and warehouses at the Wilmington Shipyard. The northern part of the federally owned yard will be leased to the authority by the Maritime Commission. Negotiations on lease terms begin in 1906. The lease has remained in status quo since the commission tied it to state funding for construction.
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Wilmington
Cross Section Views State Bond Campaign Meeting
About 200 attendees from business, professional and social life gathered for a school road bond campaign meeting. Participants included bankers, lawyers, merchants, contractors, drivers, farmers, teachers, and housewives, with both parties represented. Eastern and mountain regions were underrepresented while Raleigh area showed fewer attendees. The group discussed forming a non stock nonprofit to accept tax exempt donations and debated a name avoiding partisan references to Governor Scott and his go forward program.
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General Assembly
Raleigh
Mountain
Piedmont
Outfit
Thad Eure
Scott
Civil Rights Debate Fetes Labor Bill Ties
A northern Democrat plans to attach a civil rights amendment to the Wood labor bill as the House debates a replacement for Taft-Hartley. The move risks Southern support and faces a tough path with party leaders split on passage.
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Washington
Rep. Wood
D-Ga
House
Rep. Cavalcante
Dpa
Rep
Lesinski
Dmich
Truman
Taft-Hartley
Marines Fear Junking Of Corps Under New Setup
Washington April 27 reports fear among Marines that unification of armed forces could end the Marine Corps. Secretary Sullivan denounces Johnsons order halting the USS United States and warns of likely abolition and transfer of naval aviation. Senate inquiry calls grow as Royall suggests merging marines into the army, echoing ominous concerns for sailors.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
John L. Sullivan
Secretary of Defense
Johnson
Marine Corps
Sullivan
United States
Tydings
Cmd
Senate Armed Services Committee
GOP
Army
Kenneth C. Royall
Senate Armed Forces Committee
Royall
Acheson Urges Pact Ratification and Arms Aid
Secretary of State Acheson pleaded before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for ratification of the North Atlantic treaty and the $1.45 billion arms aid program. He said both measures are necessary to build world security against Soviet aggression and stressed the agreement does not legally bind Congress to approve the arms program. The 12 nation pact and aid plan seek Western strength amid Cold War tensions.
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Washington
Acheson
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Europe
Soviet Union
Russia
Berlin
Bird Causes Cottage Fire by Striking a Match
In Lynn Massachusetts on April 27 a bird allegedly dropped and pecked a match into its nest on a roof coping starting a fire that damaged a $2,500 cottage. Deputy Fire Chief James O'Neil described the blaze as caused by the bird's actions.
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Lynn
Mass
James O'Neil
Americans Remain in Shanghai Amid Anxiety
April 27 report from Shanghai notes continued American presence with no evacuation rush. Fear grows among foreigners as Red invasion looms and rioting pressure rises, following shelling of British ships on the Yangtze. The American community numbers about 1,800, down from 2,500.
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Shanghais
Nanking
J. Leighton Stuart
U. S
China
Yangtze
New Farm Plan Tested In Hog Market Trial Run
Francis M. Le May reports in Washington that a bipartisan group backs immediate authority for a hog market trial under a new farm program. If approved, consumer pork prices may fall and farmers receive a government guaranteed price around 16.50 per hundredweight, with Brannan seeking rapid authority to apply the principle to hogs first.
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Francis M. LE May
Washington
Congress
Cooley
D.-N.c
House Agriculture Committee
Brannan
Rep. Hope
Kansas
Agriculture Committee
Branyan
Search Under Way For Missing Child
Blood hound guided searchers from Rockview penitentiary comb the Blue Ridge mountains of south central Pennsylvania for three year old Billy Clever who vanished during a mushroom hunting trip with his mother Mrs Harry Clever. The disappearance occurred on a warm sunny afternoon yesterday.
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Mercerburg
Rockview Penitentiary
Pennsylvania
Blue Ridge Mountains
Billy Clever
Harry Clever
Billy
Cross Is Burned In Front Yard Of Editor's Home
Gastonia April 27. A wooden cross was burned on the lawn of Gastonia Gazette Editor J. W. Atkins at 210 West Fourth Street. Firemen extinguished the blaze quickly. Atkins has led a campaign against the reorganized Ku Klux Klan and previously called Klan members “Ten dollar suckers.”
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Gastonia
Gastonia Gazette
J. W. Atkins
Atkins
West Fourth Street
Atkins’ Gazette
Klan
Scott Makes Appointments In Raleigh
Governor Scott announced two state appointments, John K. Barnes Jr. to burial commissioner starting May 1 and Martha Fleming to chief clerk of the utilities commission. He plans more selections for highway commission by next Wednesday as current terms expire May 1.
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Raleigh
Scott
John K. Barnes, Jr
Clayton
Martha Fleming
State Utilities Commission
State Highway Commission
United States Seeks Written Uplift For Berlin Blockade
The United States delivered a note to Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Jakob Malik in New York asking for a formal written statement on when and under what conditions the Berlin blockade would be lifted. The note aims to move talks to a formal basis and to obtain written Russian positions, with Malik expected to relay to Moscow after consultations with Andrei Gromyko.
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New York
United States
Berlin
Philip C. Jessup
Jakob A. Malik
Upper Park Avenue
Russia
Jessup
Malik
Lake Success
Truman
State Department
U. S
U. N
Park Avenue
Andrei A. Gromyko
Moscow
Sovft
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Trygve Lie
Demand for Steel Issues Dominates Stock Market
New York April 27. Demand for steel issues dominates a generally improved stock market today. Steels rose about a point led by U S Steel after word of a $1.50 a share dividend, up from $1.25. Other gains included Youngstown Sheet, Jones & Laughlin, Bethlehem, Republic and a broad list of industrials.
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New York
U. S. Steele
U. S. Steel
Youngstown Sheet
Jones & Laughlin
Bethlehem
Republic
Chrysler
Studebaker
Goodrich
Safeway Stores
United Corp. Preferred
Commonwealth ,Edison
Phelps Dodge
Kennecott Copper
American Can
Allied Chemical
Inernational Paper
Illinois Central
Nickel Plate
Baliimore & Ohio
Twentieth iCentury-Fox
Allies Move Cautiously Over Blockade and German Question
Western powers weigh Moscow offer to lift the blockade as they advance plans to create a new western German republic by July 15 while Russia holds the eastern zone. General Clay and Ambassador Murphy caution that Moscow may use the offer to disrupt a unified German state, or possibly gain control of the Soviet zone.
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Council of Foreign Ministers
Foreign Ministers
America
Britain
France
Russia
Moscow
Soviet
Lucius I Clay
U.S
Germany
U. S
Robert Dpd. Murphy
Clay
Western
Europe
Reich
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Will Rush
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Rayburn
Dtex
Priest
D-Tenn
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Senate Labor Committee
Madge Meredith
Los Angeles
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