Loyalty versus loyalty in the new world order
Alex H. Washburn warns that the Dark Ages taught a single vital loyalty to one’s country as the safeguard of peace and security. James Thrasher argues the Moscow conference signals a split world and US firmness against Soviet aims, urging credible military backing to match diplomatic rhetoric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Thrasher
Moscow
United States
Truman
Marshall
Greece
Turkey
Russia
Europe
Near
Middle East
Amateur Night Rescheduled For Friday At High School
An amateur night now set for Friday March 28 at 7 30 pm will feature skits by town groups in the high school auditorium. Prizes of 10 7 12 and 5 dollars will be awarded with a king and queen from senior high and a prince and princess from junior high. Class candidates include Betty Whitlow Jack Duffie Mavie Ellis Joe Rooker Catherine Cox Clarence Walker Carolyn Holdridge Wesley Huddleston Jean McCullum Reeder Huddleston Sue Willis William Martin. Hot boxes are placed in seven downtown stores and the school office to collect votes with proceeds benefiting the high school library fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Whitlow
Jack Duffie
Mavie Ellis
Joe Rooker
Catherine Cox
Clarence Walker
Carolyn Holdridge
Wesley Huddleston
Jean McCullum
Reeder Huddleston
Sue Willis
William Martin
High O the Hig School Library Fund
Labor Dept. tries to avert nationwide Bell strike
Washington reports Assistant Secretary of Labor John W. Gibson plans talks in New York with Bell Telephone officials to avert a nationwide telephone strike set for April 7. He canceled a planned flight due to budget pressures and will travel by train to press for progress toward national bargaining on a $12 weekly raise and other union demands. If Gifford or Craig do not respond by the deadline, the union will consider it rejection of a national negotiations offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John W. Gibson
New York
Bell Telephone System
Labor Department
Gibson
National Federation of Telephone Workers
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Washingon
Walter A. Gifford
C. F. Craig
Bell System
Craig
Gifford
Nine Missing Airmen Are Alive and Safe
Westover Field Mass March 25 Nine Army C-54 crew members aboard a crashed transport on a Newfoundland plateau are alive with only one seriously injured radioman William Brotzman of Warner Robins Field Macon Georgia flown by helicopter to Harmon Field. Survivors will be moved in relays due to rough terrain as ground crews reach the 1500 foot plateau near Stephenville four miles from the Newfoundland railroad. The plane en route from Westover Field Massachusetts to Stephenville was spotted by search planes yesterday and appeared little damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westover Field
Mass
Newfoundland
Army
Harmon Field
Theodore Wood
William Brotzman
Warner Robins Field
Macon
Wood
Brotzman
Harmon Field Hospital
Stephenville
Newfoundland Railroad
Marshall urges broad participation in German peace talks
U S Secretary of State Marshall urged the foreign ministers to include all nations that declared war on Germany in the final peace settlement. He proposed a peace conference with China for all wartime powers and that after the conference a final treaty be drafted with priority given to two thirds majority recommendations. The council adjourned without a decision amid ongoing debate over participation and a plan to draft terms the German people would endorse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
U. S
Marshall
Foreign Ministers Council
Germany
V. M. Molotov
Albania
Iran
Foreign Ministers Conference
China
Georges Bidault
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Molotov
Council of Foreign Ministers
Russia
Feodor T. Gousev
Stalin
Fos Aeters
Weeetstree Setarhrents
Kremlin
Gousev
Mark W. Clark
Clark
United States
Tells Last of Allied Secret Agreements
Washington reports reveal long suppressed Tehran Yalta and Potsdam clauses published by the State Department as the last wartime secrets. Dean Acheson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Turkey’s entry into the war aided the Allied cause and that Tehran military conclusions anticipated talks to bring Turkey in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tehran
Yalta
Potsdam
State Department
Roosevelt
Marshal Stalin
Churchill
Turkey
Dean Acheson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Middle East
Germany
Japan
Stalin
Bulgaria
Russia
Acheson
House Foreign Relations Committee
Greece
Cairo
Casablanca
Quebec
Truckers Fined 2500 for Rebates on War Shipments
James L. Gibson and Norman C. Heard, operators of the D. and H. truck line, were fined 2500 by Federal Judge Trimble for receiving rebates on payments for munitions shipments from the Arkansas Ordnance Plant at Jacksonville during the war. Heard served as an administrative plant employee capable of routing shipments, per Interstate Commerce Commission inspectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
James L. Gibson
Norman C. Heard
Trimble
Arkansas Ordnance Plant
Jacksonville
Heard
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tough Attitude Toward Russia Is Indicated
Washington March 25 Senator Taft signals potential backing for Truman's 400 million plan to aid Greece and Turkey against communism while seeking coordinated action among state War and Navy Departments. Senator Vandenberg calls Acheson's warning of American reaction to crisis in Greece and Turkey highly significant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Washington
Russia
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Greece
Turkey
GOP
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dean Acheson
William C. Bullitt
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Navy
Acheson
Senate
Michigan
Ameri
Bill to curb Communist led unions fuels labor debate
Washington March 25 The House Labor Committee drafted a strike-control bill to break up industrywide bargaining and let employers ignore Communist dominated unions. It would deny Wagner Act rights to such unions, allow injunctions against strikes endangering public health, permit voluntary closed shops, and impose a 20 to 30 day cooling off period in many disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Labor Committee
Fred A. Hartley, Jr
N. J
United Nations
Lilienthal
Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Sra
Senate
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Hickenlooper
Irving Ives
N. Y
Congress
Truman
White House
AFL
William Green
Communist Party
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
Carl Spaatz
Army Air Forces
National Defense
Eisenhower
U.S
Spaatz
House
Mussolini executioner says Duce died a coward
Walter Audisio, identified as Col Valerio by the Italian Communist party, told an interview Mussolini died a coward and was shot by him with five shots from a submachine gun. He described Mussolini trembling and claimed Claretta Petacci also died trying to shield him. He said Mussolini deserved his fate and claimed the body exposure marked the resistance's epilogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goerge E. Bria
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Claretta Petacci
Audisio
Mussolini
Il Duce
Congo
Red Cross Funds Boosted by Late Reports
Late reports show Red Cross contributions totaling 5371.62 with a 18.01 addition and 5.00 from Friendly Store and employees at 01 Talbot Feild Jr. The figures adjust previously reported totals to reflect the new total.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Talbot Feild, Jr
Testimony stirs House on Russia assault threat
Former Ambassador Bullitt warned that United States faces a Soviet plan to assault and conquer the country. The House Committee on Un American Activities pressed for a show of strength and reciprocity with Russia, urging A bombs and air power readiness, while warning of Soviet agents within the Communist party. The hearing drew remarks from AFL President William Green and World War II Veterans head Ray Sawyer as officials debated policy and security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
William G Bullitt
Russia
United States
House Committee On Un-American Activities Today
Thomas
Soviet Union
Rep
Bonner
D-Nc
America
Rankin
Dmiss
Bullitt
Bals
Communist Party
Omas
Marshall
Missar Molotov
FBI
Bund
Biddle
Kremlin
France
Secretary of the Navy
AFL
William Green
Ray Sawyer
German Scientist Says Russia Close To Atomic Bomb
Neustadt dispatch quotes a German atom scientist who says Russia is very near producing a bomb. He estimates a bomb within three to five years and outlines covert Russian efforts, German recruits, and 12,000 engineers and miners seeking pitchblende in Russian-occupied Germany. He stresses intense, all out Russian pursuit and dangers of exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Neustadt
Germany
Moscow
Soviet Union
America
United States
Siberia
Urals
Edison Widow Says Phonograph Remained His Favorite Invention
Fort Myers widow of Thomas A Edison recalls the inventor’s lifelong love of music and the phonograph. She describes early Fort Myers life, the Maine built house shipped in sections after a sunken schooner, and Edison’s restless curiosity. The Edison Memorial honors their Florida home and his pioneering spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Hal Boyle
Fort Myers
Fla
Thomas A. Edison
Mrs. Edison
Florida
Henry Ford
Eight Die As Storms Rake U S Across Regions
AP reports at least eight deaths from a massive storm system sweeping the nation. Fatalities include a Michigan farm fire after snowbound fire crews battled flames, a mine foreman electrocuted in West Virginia, a city man killed by a falling tree and taxi, and others from high voltage incidents in Tennessee and Chicago. Damaged trees, downed lines, and power outages accompany winds up to 80 mph as lake ice threatens shorelines and snow blankets the Midwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Michigan
Ithaca
Russelton
Clarksburg
W. Va
Chicago
Saginaw Bay
Lake Huron
Waonah
Mi Gan
Midwest
Lake Erie
St. Lawrence Valley
Illinois
Wis
Win
Missias Ley
Minnesota
Kota
Dows
Four year old calls police save mother from gas danger
Four year old Dorothy Riopper saved her mother and infant sister from a gas danger after hearing a thump. She telephoned police, led responders to 23 W avenue, and helped quiet her panicked mother as rescuers found breathless Mrs Arguerite Riopper and revived her using an oxygen tank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Turner
New York
Abice
Doorothy
Riopper
Ted
Rothy
Arguerite Per
Dorothy
Joan
Policeman
Harry J. Eagan
Surburban
Lynbrook
Fagan
W Avenue
Dow
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Alex. H. Washburn
Dark
House Committee On UN
Labor Dept
Fort Worth
Frank Boggs
Eagle Mountain Lake
Sgt. Bailey
NEA
Duce
House Committee
Ius
Maine
Myers
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