Friendly Air Noted Around Truce Talks
UN and Communist commands opened informal negotiations on a Korean truce line in a friendly atmosphere. A four hour subcommittee meeting at Kaesong signaled possible concessions as a three week deadlock nears an end. The Red and UN sides appeared optimistic while reports noted intensified Communist buildup northwest of Seoul and heavy enemy traffic near Pyongyang.
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North Korea
Copper Stockpile Tapped for Defense
Washington announces the emergency stockpile will release 25 000 tons of copper to ease a defense production shortage. Mobilization Chief Charles E Wilson says President Truman authorized the loans from the stockpile and about 10 000 tons have already been transferred. Government stockpiles are kept for national crises.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
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DiSalle Enforces Cattle Price Lids and House approves money bills
Washington reports President DiSalle will enforce cattle price lids while the House gives final approval to three government funding bills totaling 4.086 billion dollars and a separate appropriation of 1.678 billion for action next week. The measures, cut payrolls by ten percent and await Senate action after voice vote.
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Killer On Streetcar Captured After Escape
Killer Harry Williams, 20 year old Black man, once on death row for murdering a guard, was captured reading a Bible on a Chicago streetcar after a two day city wide manhunt. Sgt. Vincent Cunningham and three officers restrained him, Williams claimed alias Bill Lilly, unarmed, and confessed to discarding the shotgun used in the jail guard bludgeoning. Sheriff John E. Babb announced a $1000 reward would be split among the four officers.
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Cunningham
Bill Lilly
John E. Babb
Two OSS claim innocence in Italy extradition case
Two former servicemen protest their innocence over potential extradition to Italy to face charges in the 1944 death of Maj. William V. Holohan, head of an OSS mission behind German lines. Aldo Icardi and Carl LaDolce deny guilt and accuse officials of prejudging the case, with LaDolce’s attorney pledging all facts will prove innocence.
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Italy
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Maly
Holohan
Aldo Icardi
Maj
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L. Landi
Victor Giannino
Elkhart
Washington
U. S
William V. Holohan
Office of Strategic Services
Defense Department
Aldo
Ike) Icardi
Preakness
Senate MacArthur inquiry rejects full report
The Senate MacArthur inquiry committee voted 20 to 3 to avoid issuing a formal report on its two months of hearings. Chairman Russell said releasing a report now would revive controversy during Korean peace talks. Members may file individual views for the hearing record to be sent to the Senate.
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Senate
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Russell
D-Ga
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Saltonstall
R-Mass
Far East
Yalta
Cain
R-Wash
H. Alexander Smith
RNJ
Pacific
Harriman clashes with Hurley over Yalta terms
Washington reports W Averell Harriman challenged Patrick J Hurley’s claim that President Roosevelt sought to soften Yalta terms with Stalin and Churchill. Harriman, ex ambassador to Russia and now ambassador at large, said Hurley gave no hint of such a mission during a April 1945 Moscow visit. The statement was disclosed by Senator McMahon, a member of the panel probing Truman's MacArthur dismissal.
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China
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Winston Churchill
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Moscow
McMahon
D-Conn
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Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Pension Veto Override In House for non service connected aid
The House overrode President Truman's veto on a bill to raise pensions for veterans whose disabilities are not service related. The 318 to 45 vote puts the measure into Senate consideration with a two thirds requirement. About 27,000 veterans would benefit, mainly World War I veterans, with monthly pensions rising from 60 or 72 to 120 dollars.
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U.P
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Senate
House Veterans Committee
Auto Truck Collision Fatal for Woman 78
Milwaukee notes Mrs Betha Wallschlaeger aged 78 died and four other family members were injured when their auto collided with a semi trailer truck Thursday.
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Milwaukee
Betha Wallschlaeger
Doctor's drug mix-up kills two in SD study
Dr Louis F Michalek of South Dakota Medical School testified at a coroner inquest that he mistakenly gave methadon instead of demerol to two test subjects, 30 year old Jack Clifford and 26 year old Ardys Pearson, who died within a day. He said bottles were labeled and read but an error occurred, with a third subject intended and an antidote prompt.
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South Dakota Medical School
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Ardys Pearson
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Turrors
Margery Staviand
Methadon
Ronald Slaughter
Tries to Run Over Wife and Children in Salina Car Attempt
Leslie Coates, 29, was jailed on a charge of trying to run down his wife and two children with the family car after an argument over taking the children to Missouri. Mrs. Coates fled with the children as he pursued through a yard, uprooting grass and a mailbox. he later said he changed his mind about the attack once within about 15 feet.
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Kans
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Coates
Missouri
Wisconsin Engineering Dean Forecasts 5000 Engineer Shortage
Madison Wisconsin. Dean Morton O Withey of the Wisconsin College of Engineering predicts a shortage of about five thousand engineers next year elevating concern over future technical manpower. The estimate reflects broader postwar demand in engineering and related fields across the nation.
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Wis
Morton O. Withey
Wisconsin College of Engineering
Wisconsin Weather Stays Below Normal as Cool Trend Persists
Wisconsin experiences below normal maximum temperatures for the seventh straight day with cooler, damp forecast ahead. Prairie du Chien reaches 80 while most areas drop to 70s and 80s, Eau Claire reports 1.13 inches of rain, Kenosha notes 76 at noon amid rainfall.
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Arizona
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Three Bradley Players Indicted In Gambling Scandal
New York three Bradley university basketball players including All American Gene Melchiorre and eight assorted fixers were indicted in a college basketball gambling scandal spanning six colleges and 31 players. VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION STILL RETRENCHING Milwaukee Carl R Gray Jr head of the veterans administration said the Korean war effect on veterans affairs is uncertain and the VA will retrench until felt. Gray spoke at the 30th annual convention of the Disabled American Veterans Tehran Iran six Iranian policemen were wounded by knife wielding Moslem terrorists breaking up an anti British demonstration. Merrill Wis Rep Alvin O Konksi considering not running for re election next year. He is serving his fifth term as 10th district representative and will decide after talking with constituents.
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Squeaky) Melchiorre
Veterans’ Administration
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V.P
Carl R. Gray, Jr
Veterans Administration
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Iran
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Wis
U.P
Alvin O’konski
$40 Million Microwave Relay Spans Continent
New York reports a $40,000,000 microwave radio beam system for long distance calls and early network television. Seventy-seven towers stretch horizon to horizon from New York to San Francisco, spaced about 30 miles apart, with line of sight operation and 1,000 feet for radio waves at each site. The system, longest in the world, opens the network later this year after trials since 1947.
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