Compromise Plan Sets One Year UMT For 18 year olds
Washington May 1 The latest universal military training compromise limits one year of training to 18 year olds while adjusting two year draft terms to 19 through 25. Gurney notes manpower shortages from 18 to 25 with many veterans and exempted reservists. The plan awaits committee action Tuesday with specific service manpower caps outlined.
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Washington
Gurney
R-Sd
Senate
Senate Armed Services Committee
National Guard
Truman
Secretary of
Defense Forrestal
Army
Navy
Marines
Air Forces
Air Force
Andrews
R-Ny
House Armed Services Committee
Jews demand UN action over Palestine invasion threat
Moshe Shertok warns that without immediate Security Council intervention large scale warfare in Palestine is inevitable and could trigger a major conflagration. Aubrey Eban condemns US backed trusteeship plan as unrealistic and urges the UN to recognize partition as an accomplished fact.
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J Wne
A Tos
UN Scotty Council
Palestine
Moshe Shertok
Security Council
Shertok
Jewish Agency
Holy Land
United States
General Assembly
Aubrey Eban
Faris el Khoury
Eban
Alliance Plans To Submit U.S. List Of Musts On Military Aid
British sources say the western alliance will send the United States a list of musts for military supplies on a peace time lend lease basis. The five nation bloc Britain France Belgium Holland Luxembourg could field about 2 million men but lacks standardized equipment and coordinated command. U.S. aid will shape how a planned Western defense coop evolves amid German and Soviet concerns.
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London
Western Alliance
United States
Britain
France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Germany
Russia
Greek Leader Ladas Assassinated in May Day Attack
Greek Minister Christos Ladas was killed by a grenade attack in Athens as part of a Communist May Day plot to strike cabinet members. Martial law was declared in the capital after the assault injuring a police officer and a civilian and killing a child. Sophoulis vowed stern measures to address the crisis.
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Athens
Christos Ladas
Themistokles Sophoulis
Sophoulis
Ladas
Constantine Rentis
Rentis
Opla
Far
Pest
Weather report highlights for cotton regions May 1 193?
Weather by report shows four hours ending pm across principal cotton growing areas including Asheville Atlanta Atlantic and Memphis with varying temperatures and rainfall. Other stations listed include New York Norfolk Philadelphia Portland Richmond and San Francisco with remarks on conditions.
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Washington
Asheville
Atlanta
Atlantic
Max Minos
Jadioontitie Kox
Laos
Age
Memphis
Law
New York Norfolk Philadelphia
Portland, Richmond & Louis
San Fren
Management Stiffens As Labor Seeks Wage Hikes
Labor seeks higher wages as management pushes back across industries. FHA powers lapse as Senate factions argue over long term housing bill. Meantime wage demands trigger plant reopenings and union planning for further action in meat, stockyards, and auto sectors.
Forest Fire Rages In South Carolina Timberlands
The state highway patrol radio station reported a raging forest fire sweeping timberlands near Pelzer threatening up state mill towns. Patrolman M. D. Yates said firefighting equipment was called in from Anderson and other nearby communities.
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Columbia
S. C
State Highway Patrol
Pelzer
M. D. Yates
Anderson
Children critique radio shows in Columbus panel
A panel of radio executives asked 11 children from Indianola Avenue elementary school what they want to hear. The responses show kids dislike certain mysteries and soap operas while preferring other formats, highlighting impact on sleep and grades.
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Columbus
David Binan
David
Daddy
18Th Institute For Education By Radio
Radio
Indianola Avenue
Thane Iles
House Group Proposes Anti-Red Bill Pattern for World Resistance
Un-American Activities Committee presents a bill to outlaw activity aimed at forming foreign controlled totalitarian government in the United States. Rep Nixon predicts a four to one House vote, with Mundt’s name attached. The measure seeks to criminalize communist leadership and foreign directed influence.
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Washington
un-American Activities Committee
House
Congress of the
United States
Nixon
Rcalif
Mundt
R-Sd
Senate
Communist Party
First Contact On ERP Set For This Week
The United States European Recovery Program agency will initiate direct talks with Paris and other nations. Three advance ECA agents depart from LaGuardia at 1 30 p m Sunday to discuss urgent European needs and a uniform purchase request reporting system. The talks involve W Averell Harriman and follow a new 15 962 million authorization for food coal and commodities to Austria France Italy and the Netherlands.
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Washington
U. S
Anl
Paris
Sephamic Cooperation Administration
ECA
Paul G. Hoffman
W. Averell Harriman
Europe
LaGuardia Field
Harriman
Hoffman
Austria
France
Italy
Netherlands
Raise In Pay Comes Due
Washington reports new reduced withholdings take effect May 1 affecting about 7.4 million workers removed from tax rolls. Taxpayers see 12.6 to 5 percent cuts with refunds possible for January to April overpayments. Economists foresee a boost to retail trade while the Treasury pushes federal savings bonds sales.
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Washington
Treasury
Methodist Attack On Public School Religious Education
Boston May 1 The Methodist church board of education sharply criticizes the lack of religious teaching in public schools and urges a four year plan targeting 1 700 000 new religious school members and 1 000 000 parents engaged in church work while proposing nursery and kindergarten expansion.
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Boston
Board of Education of
The
Methodist Church Today
de Lauens
Methodist Church
John Q. Schisler
North Arkansas
Train Kills Jonathan Nelson Near Germantown
A train struck and killed 35 year old Jonathan Nelson of Germantown in Winston Salem today. Coroner W N Dalton reported the death is an untimely fatality with investigation ongoing.
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Winston-Salem
Jonathan Nelson
Germantown
W. N. Dalton
Juror Disrupts Slaying Trial in Alabama Court
In Greenville Alabama on May 1 an attorney began closing in a man slaughter case when a juror admitted he had no memory of the case. The roll showed he had not sat in on the proceedings. Judge A E Gamble explained the mix up and the jury was sent home for the night. An auto accident kept one juror from returning and another jabbed into the wrong jury box.
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Greenville
Ala
Nough
A. E. Gamble
Ent
Gamble
UNC coed death ruled death by own action
Hillsboro May 1 coroner J M Walker ruled that Flora Elaine Patton a 24 year old UNC senior died in convulsions after collapsing in a Chapel Hill dormitory last week. He said the autopsy shows cyanide poisoning and the death was from her own action.
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Hillsboro
Orange County
J. M. Walker
University of North Carolina
Woman Challenges Government to Indict Her for Not Collecting Withholding Tax
Vivien Kellems a Connecticut factory owner publicly claims she will not deduct withholding taxes from 100 employees. She asks Secretary Snyder to indict her to test the law's legality and cites unions’ test cases as precedent. She states she stopped deductions after February 13 and sent wage receipts to prove her actions.
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Saugatuck
Conn
Vivien Kellems
Miss Kellams
Connecticut
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Il Am
Ment
Kellems
Navy
United States
Scott Asks Johnson To Resign In Campaign Dispute
Raleigh campaign clash erupts as Governor hopeful Kerr Scott calls for state Treasurer Charles M. Johnson to resign. Scott accuses Johnson of mismanaging reserve funds and using taxpayer money for campaign efforts while Johnson denies the charge citing a 1943 statute on funds and duties.
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Raleigh
Cand
Kerr Scott
Charles M. Johnson
Scott
Johnson
City of
Hhe
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