Pathologist Refutes Air Injection Death in Murder Trial
Harvard pathologist Dr. Richard Ford testifies that Abbie Borreto, age 59, did not die from air injections used by Dr. Hermann N. Bander in the Borreto case. Ford, a legal medicine professor, cross examines four hours as defense seeks to wrap up testimony and head toward jury instructions in Manchester New Hampshire.
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Manchester
N. H
Harvard
Abbie Borreto
Lander
Richard Ford
Harvard Medical School
Hermann N. Bander
Deeter
Mra Borrata
Bander
Mra. Borrata
Ford
Mrs. Borroto
William L. Phinney
Senators Propose Army Navy Air Force on Atomic Panel
Senators Tydings and Kilday push identical bills to require the President to appoint one active or retired service member to the Atomic Energy Commission with optional second armed services member. The move aims to place military control over civilian atomic policy as Congress debates the hydrogen bomb project.
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Washington
Congress
Tynings
D-Md
Rep. Kilday
D-Tex
Joint Sight Atomic
Senate
House
Army
Navy
Air Force
Atomic Energy Commission
Armed Services
Tydings
Hilday
Joint Committee
Senate Armed Services Committee
Kildaya
Hoare
Truman
Classified Ad Touts Repeated Calls For Property Listing
Mrs Mary Hickam of 219 West Wanda reports her telephone rang almost continuously after a Times News classified ad appeared promising results. The ad urged readers to call 3010 for an ad taker and claimed success in attracting inquiries.
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Mary Hickam
West Wanda
Times~ News
Afternoon parking hours expand to free meters downtown
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a resolution allowing Wednesday afternoon parking without coins in downtown meters. The policy applies when stores are closed in the shopping season, following a request by Thomas Phillips Jr of Johnson City Highway to aid workers in finding free space downtown.
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Board of Mayor and Aldermen
Thomas Phillips, Jr
Johnson City Highway
Nationalist Chinese Win Small Victories
Nationalist forces claim two small victories in the war against mainland Communists. They repelled an invasion attempt on Hainan Island and recaptured Kangting, capital of Bikang’s western province. About 200 Reds were killed with the rest routed or captured after attacking from the Liuchow peninsula.
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China
Hainan
Kangting
Bikang
South China
Liuchow Peninsula
Plan for Safety Lane Proposed in City Streets
Mayor E B Blankenbecler presented a plan to create pedestrian lanes across Broad and Commerce streets in the middle of the 100 blocks. He cited Cincinnati as an example where crosswalks are used and effective.
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Board of Mayor
E. B. Blankenbecler
Cltlen
Cincini
GOP Intervenes in Truman Coal Study Push
President Truman again asks Congress to set up a nine member commission to study the coal industry amid a national strike. GOP Senators Buller and Walking propose the study also cover strategies for handling strikes and potential government seizure powers. The Interior Committee will hold noon hearings on the plan and related bills by Humphrey Morse and Douglas.
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Washington
Truman
Mr. Truman
GOP
Buller
Nebraska
Walking
Utah
Benn|ate Interior Committee
Humphrey
D-Minn
Morse
R-Ore
Douglas
D-Ill
Barkley
House
Rayburn
Congress
Coal Study Commission
Butler
Butter
Influenza Epidemic Hits East Tennessee Hardest
Tennessee faces a widespread influenza outbreak with 654 new cases reported last week. East Tennessee is hardest hit with 534 cases, 384 in Johnson County, as Health Commissioner Dr. R. H. Hutcheson notes the surge.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
R. H. Hutcheson
East
Johnson County
Hutcheson
Bulgars To Sentence Former U S Employe
Sofia Bulgaria Michael Shipkey a former Bulgarian interpreter for the U S legation in Sofia and four other defendants face conviction and sentence after a two day trial ends. They pleaded guilty and confessed to spying for the United States amid claims of torture and extenuating circumstances. Prosecutor Petrinski labeled the U S legation the center of espionage and plots against Bulgaria.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Michael Shipkey
U.S. Legation
United States
Shipkov
U. S
Bosra
Petko Petrinski
U. S. Legation
Plota
McCarthy Readies Case Against Reds in Senate Hearing
Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin faces the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee as he accuses the State Department payroll of listing Communists and security risks. He vows to expand beyond the 41 named in a speech while Democrats deny political aims.
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Washington
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Inga
Senate
State Department
Tydings
D-Ma
Neas
Benale
Aldea
College Professors Refuse Loyalty Oath
Berkeley professors reject a special non Communist loyalty oath as discriminatory and a threat to academic freedom. About 900 UC professors vote unanimously against the oath and vow to stand against it, with a April 30 deadline for all 11 000 employees after the board of regents sign or quit order. The Academic Senate on four campuses of the northern section backs the move. the southern section Senate planned action in Los Angeles.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Board of
Regents
Basia
Los Angeles
Eastman Reports High Sales Level For 1949 Period
Eastman Kodak reports 1949 sales near peak year 1948 with earnings slightly below that year. Board chairman Perley Wilcox and president Thomas Hargrave cite product updates, advertising, research, and stronger services as responses to changing markets. Consolidated figures now cover U S subsidiaries due to currency and exchange controls. Net sales reach 232 518, earnings 386 232.
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Rochester, N
Eastman Kodak Company
Perley
Wilcox
Thomas J. Hargrave
Kodak Aftidala
United States
Western Hemisphere
Eastman Kodek
Salen
Consolidated
Bee Eastman
Cabinet Will Draft Utility Men In Paris
Paris premier Georges Bidault's cabinet ordered draftees from Paris gan and electricity workers into special government service to avert a threatened midnight strike. Refusal to work at vital plants could bring fines and job loss. The move follows a nationalized utility strike vote by both Communist and non Communist unions seeking wage increases starting at about 5 000 francs per month amid a transportation strike disrupting Paris transit.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
Paris Gan
France
Referendum Today Last Day for Supplemental Registration
The notice urges all legal residents in the area to register and vote in the special annexation referendum on March 30. It warns those living outside the area cannot vote and requires those not yet registered to sign up by 7 p.m. at 225 East Charle mont Street. Residents already registered at the South Ward or Dickson School may not need to re register.
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South Ward
Dickson School
East Charlemont Street
Street Scenes Echoed by Jaywalker Amid Parking Meter Hubbub
A young man jogs past a parking meter calling to friends to avoid a ticket while excitement rises from low flying planes. A loud speaker interrupts two women in a front yard as they wonder where the sound originates.
French Legislature Approves Anti Sabotage Bill
In Paris the National Assembly backed an anti sabotage bill 303 to 186 amid heated sessions and riotous floor fights. Premier Georges Bidault used the vote as a confidence test for his coalition government, sending the measure to the Council of the Republic for final approval.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Georges Bidault
Council of the Republic
Communist Bloc
Third Chicagoan Sought In Diamond Robbery Case
Nashville police announced a third Chicagoan is sought in the $100,000 diamond robbery of Pittsburgh jewelry salesman Jacob Davis last Wednesday night. Walter Jedynak, 32, was identified. warrants were to be sworn out charging highway robbery and as an accessory before and after the fact.
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Nashville
Tenn
Pittsburgh
Jacob Davis
J. Carlton Loser
Walter Jedynak
Midwest Struck By Winter Blizzards Across the Midwest
The Associated Press reports a severe winter storm crippling the Midwest with snow sleet and high winds. Hundreds of towns faced isolation and travel was halted as school closures and power outages spread. A Northwest Airlines crash in Minneapolis claimed fifteen lives and Red Cross chapters mobilized relief efforts nationwide.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Bill Vards
Areaa
Plains
Towa
Lake Michigan
Buamens
Beores
Achooly
North Dakota
Parta
South Dakota
Nebraska
Minnesota
Northwest Airlines
Minneapolis
Red Cross
Kingsport Trio Becomes U S Citizens in Court Ceremony
Three Kingsport residents Mounira El Muaris Shaheen Charles W Joseph and Bertie Normington of Kingaport Alexander Kelogeros Johnson City and Evelyn Mary Cooter McCloud were naturalized as U S citizens in a Federal Court ceremony before Judge Robert L Taylor. Oath was administered by Clerk Carroll Cate after government motion.
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Dreenaville
Spl
Kingsport
United States
Robert L. Taylor
H. T. Ferguson
U. S. Regration and Naturalization Service
Atlanta
Mounira el- Moaris Shaheen
Charles W. Joseph
Bertie Normington
Kingaport
Alexander Kelogeros
Johnson City
Evelyn Mary Cooter
McC
Groping Airliner Crashes in Blizzard Tragedy
A Northwest Airlines Martin 4 0 2 Mars crashed near Minneapolis during a blizzard, killing 15 aboard and two children in a house fire. The flight originated in Washington for Rochester Minnesota with stops planned at Pittsburgh and Cleveland before the Minneapolis diversion.
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Minneapolis
Northwest Airlines
Washington
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Derrath
Maddson
Win
Rochester
Minn
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Fargo
Grand Forks
N. D
Mickey Cohen Freed By California Jury In Hush Up Case
A Los Angeles jury acquitted Mickey Cohen and his several henchmen and three police officers of conspiracy to obstruct justice in the arrest and release of seven Cohen aides after an assault on A M Pearson. Cohen was not present but charged with engineering the release.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Cohen
Annault
A. M. Pearson
Pearson
Pace
Railroads Recall Thousands of Furloughed Workers
The nation’s railroads lifted most curtailments and recalled thousands of furloughed workers as coal railroads resume freight and passenger service. The Interstate Commerce Commission set 11:58 p.m. local time for freight restrictions to end and 11:50 p.m. Friday for passenger services with limits for coal-heavy lines. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reported 6,161 workers back, with about 10,000 furloughed at the peak.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Worker
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Baltimore and Ohio Railround
Tata
Rome
Solunar Tables and Filing Deadline for Democrats
Midnight deadline set for candidate filings for the April Democratic primary in Bolunar County. John Alden Knight notes the filing window closes tonight and requires the fee and qualifications. Lake stage updates for Charoken Lake and a brief local note on Douglas SAAS are mentioned.
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Judy Pardue
Harold Pardue
Sullivan Gardens
Judy
Tubby
Judy la
Warm Springs
Timen-News
van Trease
Bill Barnett
Times
East Tennessee
U.S
Reds
Eastman
Cabinet
Taylor
Mal Freeburg
NWA
Sea Plane
John Alden Knight
Jone Alden Knight
Eastern Handard Tims Board
W. Tipton, Jr
Atage
Charoken Lake
Douglas Saas
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