Truman Warns Against Atomic Pact With No Inspection
President Truman calls for real international inspection of atomic weapons and rejects any sham agreement. He labels communism an armed imperialist threat and urges free nations to be ready to use force if needed to counter it. He spoke during the unveiling of a George Washington National Memorial statue.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Alexandria
Truman
United States
Free Nations
U. S
Russia
George Washington National Masonic Memorial
Missouri Lodge
Break With Bulgaria Sets Trend
The United States severed relations with Bulgaria signaling a warning to Soviet satellite states. Officials suggested Hungary as a possible next target while detailing Bulgarian police terror and torture against U S legation staff.
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Associated Press
United States
Bulgaria
Washington
State Department
Hungary
Robert A. Vogeler
U. S
Legation
Sofia
Michael Shipkov
Crowd gathers in snow for mercy killing trial in Manchester
An all male jury was formed today for the mercy killing trial of Dr Hermann Nelson Sander in Manchester New Hampshire. The 12 jurors average 54 and are diverse in jobs and religion with at least seven Roman Catholics. An alternate juror was added to cover potential vacancies.
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Manchester
N. H
Hermann Nelson Sander
Dr. Hermann N. Sander Faces Mercy Death Trial Day
A light snowfall gathered a crowd as Dr. Hermann N. Sander, 41, arrived for the third day of his murder trial in Manchester New Hampshire. The state will not seek the death penalty. prosecutors say the patient, Mrs. Abbie Borreto, an incurable cancer patient, died after air was injected into her veins.
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Hermann N. Sander
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William H. Craig
Sander
Abbie Borreto
Filibuster Launches In House Over FEPC Bill
A House floor clash over the Fair Employment Practices bill unfolds with prolonged roll calls and journal readings. The contentious measure aims to ban employment discrimination and establish a Fair Employment Practices Commission to enforce the ban, positioning it for a one day disposal unless a two thirds vote extends debate.
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Washington
George Washington
Rankin
D-Miss
Rep. Williams
Irving W. Swanson
Rep
Nicholson
R-Mass
Truman
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Guests Escape As Hotel Burns in Glens Falls Fire
A fast moving blaze at the Towers hotel in Glens Falls New York killed no one among 45 guests though nine were injured and four firemen hurt. The four story brick hotel built 78 years ago saw its rear wall collapse as guests leaped to safety and firefighters aided many to escape. James E Keating of Latham described the scene.
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Glens Falls
N. Y
Towers
Albany
James E. Keating
Latham
Snow and Ice Sweep Through Eastern U S Weather
Snow rain and sleet pelted a wide eastern region with travel slowed. Forecasts show three to five inch snowfalls in parts of New England and New York City saw nearly an inch. Temperatures varied from subzero in Minnesota to near 68 in Miami with hazardous driving common in several states.
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Associated Press
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Rain May Relieve Southern Forests
Rain was forecast today in the Carolinas and Georgia where forest fires have destroyed thousands of acres of timberland. Dryness and rising winds aided the blazes over the weekend with at least 40 burning in Walterboro, South Carolina. Fort Bragg soldiers joined emergency units fighting the fires in that area. No towns or lives have been lost, and other fires in western and south central North Carolina are now under control.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Georgia
Walterboro
S. C
Fort Bragg
North Carolina
Rioting in Asmara Kills Eighteen and Wounds Fifty Five
Eighteen people were killed and 55 wounded in a bloody riot between Muslims and Christians in Asmara. British troops aided police in quelling the violence sparked by religious and political feuds during the prewar Italian colony era.
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Eritrea
VU. N
Italy
Ethiopia
Stanford scientists plan large scale algae food from sun power
Stanford researchers report a two year timeline to prove a sun driven process to convert water and minerals plus algae into high protein food. The pilot plant uses chlorella pyrenoidosa in small tanks with light, carbon dioxide and nutrients to yield a 50 percent protein product for potential chicken feed.
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Rennie Taylor
Associated Press
Science
Palo Alto
Calif
Stanford University
Paul M. Cook
Stanford Chemical Engineering Lab
Cook
Efird Seeks Opposition for State Supreme Court Seat
Oscar Efird of Winston-Salem announces he will seek the May 27 party primary renomination oppose Justice Emery B. Denny. Efird, a former judge and law teacher, joins Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy and Sam J. Ervin Jr. in running for another eight year term on the bench.
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Will Allen
Goldsboro
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Chapel Hill
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Carolina Field Trial Club
N. C. Skeet Shooting Association
Gastonia
Walter P. Stacy
Sam J. Ervin, Jr
Oleo Bill Ready For Final Congressional Action
The congression al effort to repeal federal taxes on oleomargarine moves toward final action after a conference committee approved a compromise. A vote by both chambers is expected next week with President Truman likely to approve. The plan no longer requires triangular retail forms and mandates outer carton labeling and ingredient listing for oleomargarine.
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Washington
Senate
House
Truman
Congress
Nation Wide Phone Strike Likely This Friday
Washington reports a nationwide telephone labor dispute faces a wall of resistance with only a White House push possible to avert a walkout by about 100000 workers Friday. CWA President Joseph A Beirne warned a Nashville audience that a strike seems inevitable amid stalled peace talks and rebuffed efforts to bring Western Electric and CIO Communications Workers together.
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Morse
Labor Committee
Aiken
Congress
Washington
Joseph A. Beirne
Communications Workers of America
Nashville
Wireetar Cyrus S&s
Ching
Western Electric Company
CIO
President urges 60 day halt to nationwide telephone strike
President Truman asked Bell System and CIO communication unions to delay the Friday walkout for 60 days and seek to settle disputes through collective bargaining. He cited federal mediator Cyrus S. Ching saying the deadline gives too little time for a settlement.
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Washington
Truman
Bell System Companies
CIO
Cyrus 5
Ching
Telephone union negotiates in New York amid strike deadline
The company will negotiate only in New York after weeks of fruitless bargaining. Union reps refused to return to New York for talks as the 6 am Friday local strike deadline loomed. The 1947 nationwide strike by the National Federation of Telephone Workers is cited as a precedent for the current action.
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New York
Ching
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Beirne
Transient Tells Horror Story Of Cold and Hunger
Frank Zehnder a 48 year old from Houston told police he lay in a boxcar for two weeks starving and living on candle wax after being left out in a cold snap. He had no shoes and both feet were frozen and treated in hospital.
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Seattle
Frank Zehnder
Houston
Tex
L. F. Ormsby
Zehnder
Ormsby
Cement Company
Retail Prices Show Decline 2.3 Per Cent in 1949
The Commerce department reports consumer prices fell 2.3 percent during 1949 and into 1950, with food prices dropping most but remaining high relative to prewar levels. Clothing led declines at 7.3 percent, house furnishings down 6.7 percent, while rent, fuel, and other costs rose.
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Washington
Commerce Department
North Carolina Historian R D W Connor Critical
Dr R D W Connor 72 noted NC historian and former US archivist is in critical condition at Watts hospital Durham after a cerebral hemorrhage at his Chapel Hill home.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
North Carolina
United States
Watts Hospital
Durham
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