Eisenhower Resolution Rejects Soviet Subjugation Tactics
President Eisenhower’s proposed resolution condemns Soviet perversions of World War II understandings and calls for free peoples to regain self government under the Atlantic Charter. Senators Ferguson Sparkman Humphrey debate its strength while House Chair Short hails it as excellent and fully supported.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Washington
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Russia
Eisen
Capitol Hill
Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Yalta
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Congress
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
Foreign Relations Committee
Austrians Elect New Parliament and Communist Risks
Vienna report on Austria voting for a 165 seat parliament as the main race pits the Peoples Party against the Socialists. The Communist vote faces potential loss of basic mandates amid anti Semitic clashes and Soviet influence fears. The League of Independents holds 15 seats and could be a rising third party.
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League of Independence
Democrats Doubt Budget Balancing In Senate Talks
Senate Democrats Maybank and Robertson say they will cut spending but doubt Republicans can balance the budget. They target foreign aid and the Truman year outlays of 78.6 billion, with Maybank predicting a sharp cutback and possible retrenchment of foreign assistance.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
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D-Sc
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D-Va
Truman
Senate Committee
Mutual Security Administration
Harold E. Stassen
Sen. Flanders
R-Vi
Senate
House
Council
Eisenhower
Chinese Charge U N Germ Warfare Resurfaces
Peiping and Mukden broadcasts accuse the United States Air Force of ongoing germ warfare over Korea and northeast China. Reports claim American aircraft dropped spiders beetles and other insects on frozen rivers in Liao tung Province and allege the insects carried bacilli anthraxis and bacilli dysenteriae. The U S denies the charges and has urged an ICRC investigation, which the Reds have refused.
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Peiping Radio
Liaotung Province
Peiping
Cattle Price Stabilization Is Urged
Washington reports show pressure on the administration to act on a four point plan to stabilize cattle prices. The House Agriculture sub committee urged beef purchases for school lunches, stockpiling for armed forces, import timing checks, and extended cattle credit. Senator Murray urged buying American beef for Korean troops. Senator McCarran convened Western lawmakers to address falling farm prices.
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Ezra T. Benson
House Agriculture Subcommittee
New Zealand
Benson
Des Moines
Agriculture Department
Eisenhower
Clifford R. Hope
R—Kan
House Agriculture Committee
Hope
James E. Murray
D—Mont
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Pat McCarran
D—Nev
Sabre Jets Battle MIGs Over Korea to North Manchuria
U N fighter planes pounded Red war facilities from the battleline to the Yalu River as Sabres claim 10 MIG-15s destroyed or damaged in a day of air duels. B-29s hit supply depots near Pyongyang while fighters hit communications centers and a Sinmak airfield. Ground forces report 500 Chinese massing for a possible major attack at T-Bone Hill.
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Yalu River
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Kangye
Red Communications
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Manchuria
Richard N. Ellis
Montgomery
Ala
Sinmak
Pyongyang
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Boate
Mbs
Sopo
Fifth Air Force
T-Bone Hill
Voice of America urged into new cabinet level federal agency
The W U. S. Advisory Commission on Information urged placing Voice of America and all overseas psychological warfare programs in a new cabinet level federal agency. The panel, five citizens under Mark A. May, also recommended removing Voice related activities from the State Department amid mounting criticism and a Senate probe led by Sen. McCarthy.
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W U. S. Advisory Commission On Information
Voice of America
Mark A. May
Yale University Institute of Human Relations
Voice
State Department
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Department
Senate
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Eisenhower
Dulles
Walter Bedell Smith
Sen. McCarthy
Spurned Dentist Kills Woman Then Takes Own Life
A dentist, spurned by 23 year old Virginia Whalley, shot her outside her apartment and wounded her friend William Chandler before killing himself. Dr Vernon Marquez, 43, of Silver Spring Maryland, died from a self inflicted head wound after a failed marriage proposal. Police say Marquez, from Trinidad, stalked the scene for hours with a .22 pistol.
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Washington
Virginia L. Whalley
North Carolina
William Chandler
Vernon B. Marquez
Silver Spring
Miss Whalley
Dr. Marquez
Richard Felber
Trinidad
Lewis J. King
Felber
Durham bank robber seeks sentence reduction from federal pen
Wade Darnell Hamlin of Durham the gunman convicted of a Leaksville bank holdup on April 17 asks Judge Johnson J. Hayes for a reduced 25 year term He writes from Leavenworth Kansas using an antique typewriter claiming he serves more time than the man who planned the robbery.
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Greensboro
Wade Darnell Hamlin
Durham
Leaksville
Johnson J. Hayes
Leavenworth
Kan
Hamlin
Hayes
Tar Heel Legislators Brace For Budget Message
Tar Heel lawmakers face requests for supplemental appropriations totaling 145.2 million dollars as they await Gov. Umstead's budget message due Tuesday. The Joint Appropriations Committee finished hearings on agency requests, which exceed the Advisory Budget Commission’s 637 million dollar plan. Umstead’s message may include about 88 million in bonds for school buildings hospital work and the Medical Care Commission’s program, plus possible removal of the 15 dollar sales tax exemption. The legislature, meanwhile, grants the governor reorganizational powers and advances anti Klan bills, while increasing penalties for speeding and reckless driving.
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Umstead
Joint Appropriations Committee
Advisory Budget Commission
Medical Care Commission
General Assembly
Communist Party
Senate
House
Wake
Two Die and Three Injured in Wilkinson Boulevard Crash
In a rain swept three car collision on Wilkinson Boulevard near Charlotte last night two people died Fred P Peek 26 a Coast Guardsman from Blacksburg South Carolina and Louise Greenwood 23 of China Grove The injured include Sherman Douglass McClaid Kannapolis an airman at Donaldson Air Force Base Greenville South Carolina William Jackson Payne of Charlotte and Leonard Johnson 17 of Belmont McClaid and Payne listed as seriously injured Peek and Miss Greenwood were in the same car with McClaid while Payne and Johnson drove the other two cars
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Here
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Coast
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Peek
Miss Greenwood
Johnson
Raleigh Bus Fares Raised to 15 Cents by Utilities Commission
The Utilities Commission authorized White Transportation Co to raise Raleigh bus fares from 10 to 15 cents per ride, effective March 2. White may charge 15 cents or offer two tokens for 25 cents, with school children still receiving 10 rides for 50 cents.
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the Utilities Commission
White Transportation Co
White
North Carolina
Bill Would Require Notice Before Insurance Policy Cancellations
A House bill backed by the insurance department would force a definite notice period before cancelling hospital and medical service contracts or health and accident policies. Insurance Commissioner Waldo C. Cheek cited numerous complaints from policyholders whose plans were canceled after their first illness.
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Raleigh
Insurance Department
Waldo C. Cheek
Republicans seek patronage forms in North Carolina
In Charlotte, GOP leaders distribute application forms to potential federal job applicants. Chairman James M Baley Jr of Marshall directs duplicates to him, asking for routine statistics on party activities. North Carolina Republicans reportedly split on patronage along Taft Eisenhower lines.
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Charlotte
GOP
James M. Baley, Jr
Marshall
North Carolina
Royster seeks $33,000 yearly for Kerr Lake park plan
North Carolina State Senator Fred S. Royster proposes a bill to fund a park and conservation area on the Roanoke River at the Kerr dam site. The measure would authorize a lease with the federal government to use the land and may allow sub-leases for cottage sites.
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Raleigh
LLP
General Assembly
John H. Kerr
Roanoke River
Fred S. Royster
Henderson
State Board of Conservation and Development
Royster
Midwestern Snow Storm Abating
The prairie blizzard, worst since 1949, subsided but left lingering snow and cold across the Midwest. Tornadoes in AL MS LA killed one. fuels stockmen in western Nebraska fear cattle crises. Nine deaths reported. Missouri, Colorado, Kansas, Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin affected. crews work to repair lines near Loup City. Wilbur Cosley search near Goodland.
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Alabama
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Ala
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Neb
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Minn
Goodland
Kan
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Imperial
Robert Jackson
White Earth
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Dakotas
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Wisconsin
Harris Rites Slated Sunday
Asheville funeral plans honor W. Randall Harris 54 longtime newspaper figure president of the North Carolina Press Association and Asheville Citizen-Times Co. treasurer and manager. Services set for 4 p.m. at Central Methodist Church with burial in Riverside Cemetery. Survivors include his widow, a son Randall III, a brother in New York City and two sisters.
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North Carolina Press Association
Asheville Citizen-Times Co
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Riverside Cemetery
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Franklin
Randall III
North Carolina State College
James L Harris
New York City
Arthur Davis
Powder Springs
Robert Pearce
Greensboro
Local Weather Forecast With Temperature Extremes
Tonight's low expected 24 with tomorrow high around 40. Today's high was 59 and last night's low 56. Sunset today at 6 07 p m and sunrise tomorrow at 7 00 a m.
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