Stevenson Urges U S to Seek Nonaggression Pact
Adlai Stevenson proposed that the United States offer the Soviet Union a durable nonaggression pact and work toward disarmament. He spoke to a Chicago crowd at Civic Opera House with Truman and other leaders backing the plan, while Eisenhower officials offered no immediate reaction. Sparksman called the speech a challenge to Russia to sit at the conference table as the two nations seek true peace.
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Chicago
Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
United States
Russia
Civic Opera House
Illinois
Truman
Sen
Sparkman
D-Ala
Stevenson
Moscow
Denver
United Nations
New York
Washington
Free World
Europe
Soviet Union
Red Army
Austin
White House
James C. Hagerty
Communists Counter Food Propaganda in Berlin Smuggling Claim
In Berlin the Soviet zone says East Germans hoard food for smuggling to the West while the Customs Bureau reports seizing over 10 tons of fruit and vegetables and nearly 7,000 eggs at border points to West Berlin. A German Democratic Republic newspaper calls the act treasonable as it counters American relief efforts.
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Berlin
Customs Bureau
West Berlin
Neues Deutschland
West
German Democratic Republic
Soviet Zone
East
Western Free Market
Repatriated Marine Corporal Reunites With Family After Long Search
Marine Corporal Joseph Watson, released from a North Korean prison camp, locates his parents in High Point after a two-state search. The reunion follows a late-night phone call from Marion, South Carolina, with help from local police. Watson had learned his family had moved recently from Gresham to High Point, completing a tense journey home.
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North Korea
Cpl
Joseph Watson
Tom Alston
Gresham
S. C
High Point
Young Watson
Marion
Ada Watson
Corporal Watson
San Francisco
Wilmington
N. C
Chadbourn
Bennie Watson
Clara Cox Apts
Henry Grunewald Sentenced to Ninety Days in Jail
Henry W. Grunewald known as the Dutchman was ordered jailed for 90 days as a probation violator after registering under an assumed name in Newark New Jersey and leaving without probation office permission. The judge cited a serious probation violation and the Newark and Jersey City incidents. Mrs Ann Anderson and Grunewald had been involved in a gas stove incident in Jersey City.
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Washington
Henry W
the Dutchman
Grunewald
New Jersey
Alexander Holtzoff
Holtzoff
Newark
N. J
Jersey City
Ann Anderson
Catonville
Anderson
Spring Lake
N.J
Holtzon
Edward W. Garrett
Garrett
Pillar
Drought Aid Approved for NC and Nearby States
President Eisenhower declared parts of North Carolina Mississippi and Kentucky major drought disaster areas eligible for federal aid and denied a relief request from North Carolina Governor Umstead. State counties to be designated for relief later by Agriculture Secretary Benson and staff. County totals reflect long drought losses in the tens of millions.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Mississippi
North Carolina
Kentucky
Howard Pyle
William B. Umstead
Hugh White
Lawrence W. Wetherby
Ezra T.nson
Umstead
Alamance
Alexander
Caswell
Davie
Durham
Franklin
Granville
Guilford
Harnett
Orange
Person
Rockingham
Vance
Wake
Warren
Chatham
Halifax
Hoke
Iredell
Lee Mecklenburg
Moore
Randolph
Surry
John S. Battle of
Virginia
Conference Issue Drops Up Again
At the United Nations in New York Andrei Vishinsky aimed to press the assembly to revisit its postponement of Korean peace conference talks. The 60 nation body voted 44 to 10 with two abstentions to defer Chinese representation for 1953, while Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was elected president of the assembly.
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United Nations
N. Y
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
U. N. Assembly
United States
U. N
Red China
General Assembly
India
Indonesia
Yugoslavia
Norway
Sweden
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Nehru
Vishinsky
80 Year Old Judge Weds Clerk in Alabama
A. B. Foster retired judge of the Alabama Supreme Court, aged 80, married his former law clerk, 60 year old Alice Doyle, in Wetumpka Alabama. The secret ceremony at the Presbyterian Church followed years of quiet plans and a long professional bond. Foster served on the court since 1928 and retired last year. Doyle had worked for the Supreme Court since 1917.
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A. B. Foster
Alabama Supreme Court
Foster
Supreme Court
Alice Doyle
Presbyterian Church
Wetumpka
Ala
Oatis Grilled On Sources Of News By Secret Police
In Prague on April 24 1951 Associated Press reporter William N Oatis faced brutal questioning by secret police who pressed for sources and names of citizens providing unofficial news He describes coercive tactics the risk to colleagues and his reluctant confession under pressure.
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Oatis
William N. Oatis
Associated Press
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Czechoslovak Communist Secret Police
United States
Britain
Bartholomew Street
Brno
Anti-Red POW Demonstrations Escalate in Panmunjom
In Panmunjom the anti communist North Korean and Chinese prisoners rioted at five stockades, hurling stones and shouting anti red slogans as Red observer teams withdrew to Kaesong. Indian troops guard the inmates and four more NK prisoners asked for repatriation, totaling 13 NK and 1 Chinese who flipped. The U N Command seeks accounting for about 3404 remaining captives.
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Panmunjom
Demilitarized Zone
Kaesong
U. N. Command
New Dealers Sweep New York City Primary Races
New Deal Democrats secured a sweeping victory in New York city primaries led by Manhattan Borough President Robert F. Wagner Jr. over Vincent R. Impellitteri and a slate winning multiple city posts. Wagner led 335,413 to 176,003 with 4,260 of 4,392 districts reported.
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New York
New Deal
Democratic Party
Manhattan
Robert F. Wagner Jr
Vincent R. Impellitteri
Wagner
Impellitteri
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Herbert Lehman
Averell Harriman
Mutual Security
Democratic National
James A. Farley
Tammany Hall
Bronx
Harold Riegelman
Rudolph Halley
Clifford
McAvoy
American Labor Party
Ronie Sheffield Conference Slated Friday
Ronie Sheffield former head of the Woman's Prison seeks a Friday conference with Highway Chairman A. H. Graham to refute any charges. She released letters requesting a conference rather than a hearing and asked for copies of any statements, with five friends present and the press allowed.
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Raleigh
Ronie Sheffield
Woman's Prison
Highway
A. H. Graham
Miss Sheffield
Graham
Oman’'s
Albany Area Air Crash Kills 28 Aboard Convair
An American Airlines Convair crashed near the Albany airport killing all 28 aboard. Eyewitnesses described engine noise and a fiery explosion as the plane went down about six miles east of Schenectady. Ground fog delayed clearance at the airport before responders found the wreckage and pronounced everyone dead.
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Albany
N. Y
American Airlines
Convair
Boston
Chicago
Albany- Schenectady
John W. Hodd
Hodd
Allice Finne
Lester Hansen
Schenectady
Joseph Sayres
State Police
Theuol
Bardley Field
Hartford
Conn
WPTR
Alphea Craig
Eisenhower and Benson to answer farm critics today
President Eisenhower and Agriculture Secretary Benson are expected to respond to Democrats charging broken 1952 farm pledges. At vacation headquarters they planned to discuss farm problems as GOP critics urge stronger action on farm price support and program timelines.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Denver
Eisenhower
Benson
Chicago
Rep. Simpson
Simpso
GOP
Congress
Simpson
Pennsylvania
Agriculture
Sen. Anderson
D-Nm
Charles F. Brannan
Claude Wickard
Brannan
Wickard
Salt Lake City
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