Defense secretary cites enemies learning U.S. secrets
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson said enemies have learned vital military secrets through security breaches and ordered immediate action to prevent further disclosure. He urged disciplinary measures, including court martials, and prosecution of civilians, regardless of rank, for future violations. The steps follow two memorandums dated March 26.
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Washington
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
America
Wilson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense Dept
United States
Independent voting guide on civic improvements and school board
A marked ballot bearing The Independent's recommendations for Friday's election on civic improvements and the school board is published in today's issue on Page 2.
Southland Gas Strike Expands Picketing in California
CIO Utility Workers began picketing Southland California Gas Co. offices in Bellflower Lakewood and Compton as the second major utility strike in a month affects 3500 of the firm’s 5500 workers. Negotiations collapsed after a proposed arbitration and fact finding were rejected. Despite the first company strike in its history, mediation was set for Friday as union seeks a 10 percent wage hike and union shop, while the company offers 3 percent and no union shop. A separate Edison Co. strike remains at a standstill with a court hearing on picketing restrictions slated for next Monday.
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CIO
Southern California Gas Co
Bellflower
Lakewood
Compton
Ssecond
Long Beach
AFL
Southern California Edison Co
Starry I. Young
Utility Workers Counsil
San Joaquin Valley
Sierra Country
Frank S. Swain
Stock market dips as peace talks spark cautious mood
The market slides about 10 points after peace feelers from Russia and Red China, reflecting investor attention to corporate earnings and war material output. Analysts say a potential agreement with the Communists could lift shares, while the outlook remains sensitive to further whispers.
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Russia
China
New York Stock Exchange
Japan and U S sign 10 year trade treaty
Tokyo and Washington sign a friendship commerce and navigation treaty to guide postwar trade for ten years. Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki signs for Japan and Ambassador Robert D Murphy signs for the United States after fourteen months of negotiations.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
Katsuo Okazaki
Robert D. Murphy
Suit Filed Over Long Beach Oil Fund Uses
A taxpayer suit filed in Los Angeles by attorney Charles C. Stratton challenges Long Beach’s transfer of more than 36 million dollars to the Public Improvement Fund. Felix Mahian, an oil-well equipment dealer from Signal Hill, is petitioner. The action seeks a writ to move funds back to Harbor Revenue and related accounts, restricting oil money to shoreline use and clarifying legal trust provisions before city improvements vote.
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Long Beach
Public Improvement Fund
Los Angeles
State Supreme Court
Felix Mahian
Cerritos Ave
Signal Hill
Stratton
Frank W. Brejeha
Supreme Court
House Votes States Title to Tidelands
The House passed tidelands legislation by 285 to 108 to grant coastal states title to the ocean floor outward to historical boundaries. The bill keeps most submerged territory under federal control, aiding oil exploration while meeting Eisenhower campaign pledges. Senate debate begins with aim to send final version to the president.
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Washington
Ae House
Senate
Eisenhower
House
Five Die Fire In Kansas City Apartment Inferno
Fire swept through a 60 unit apartment building killing five tenants and injuring 15 including nine firefighters. Among the dead were Mrs Betty Coen and her 2 year old daughter Mary. Firemen Don Nastasio Melvin Kurts and Joseph Cooney died as a canopy collapsed over them. Tenants and rescuers, led by Willard Coen, frantically escaped as flames raged. Firefighter Thomas Cook owed his life to Melvin Browning who lifted him to safety.
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Kansas City
Betty Coen
Mary
Willard Coen
Donastasio
Melvin Kurts
Joseph Cooney
Thomas Cook
Dennis J. Kroker
Bob Anderson
Earnest’ Sharpe
Melvin Browning
Angelo Charnello
James Ginet
Roy Hancock
Walter Revers
Nastasio
Revers
Communists plan April 6 talks on POW exchange
TOKYO thursday UP reports the Communists set Monday April 6 to arrange exchange of injured and sick prisoners of war and to discuss date for resuming armistice negotiations.
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Tokyo
Vishinsky Breaks Ground On Korea and Disarmament
At the United Nations Andrei Vishinsky shifted from hard line rhetoric to endorsing Western disarmament work and continuing talks on arms control. He proposed studying balanced armament reductions and placing atomic energy under mutual controls while omitting earlier demands for immediate, unilateral cuts. Concurrently Red China and North Korea proposed settlement terms for the armistice and repatriation of prisoners of war, signaling a possible thaw in seven years of stalemate.
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Russia
Andrei Y. Vieshinsky
U. N. Disarmament Commission
Vishinsky
Churchill sees new hope in Korea peace push
Prime Minister Churchill on Wednesday said the latest Communist proposals seem to offer a new hope of peace in Korea but warned many difficulties remain. He urged caution before pushing for Biz Three talks with Soviet Premier Marenkov and called for proof the Russian peace offensive is sincere. The note to the U.N. and its signatories, Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh-huai, was handed to U.N. officials at Panmunjom and supports resumption of armistice talks as proposed by Clark.
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Mark Clark
Red
North Korea
Kim Jl Sung
Peng Teh-huai
Red China
London
Churchill
Korea
United States
Britain
Marenkov
Clark
Kim 0 Sung
U. N
Panmunjom
U.N
Rubber Plants Strike Widens Across 19 U S Plants
Approximately 2300 workers at the Los Angeles plant of the U S Rubber Co joined a nationwide strike that began in New York. CIO rubber workers report 35,000 across 19 plants walking out with another 400 shifting in New England. Talks continued at the Park Sheraton Hotel but progress remained unsettled with union wage and benefit demands in play.
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L. A
Los Angeles
U. S. Rubber Co
New York
Associated Press
CIO United Rubber Workers
Naugatuck
Conn
Joseph Nardello
CIO Union
Clifford Owens
New York City
Nardello
U. S
New England
Park Sheraton
CIO
THAT DUMMY WAS NO COP ON THE TRACKS
Motorman William S. Damron reported a deceased man lay across the tracks near Watts while he was southbound. The body wore a Los Angeles police uniform without a badge, and Damron believes April Fool pranksters shortened the man’s life by years.
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Pacific Electric
William S. Damron
Watts
Los Angeles
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Browning
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Soviet Union
Peiping
Reds
Chou En-lai
Chou
United Nations General Assembly
Lester Pearson
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