Truman Defends Acheson as GOP Attacks Grow
President Truman rallies support for Secretary of State Acheson amid Republican pressure in the Senate. He says Acheson runs the State Department well and instructs allies to back him. White House discussions include top leaders about the evolving legislative outlook and means to counter the opposition.
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Key West
Fla
Truman Rajhed
Senate
Acheson
State Department
Bridges
White House
Truman
Barkley
Rayburn
House
McCormack
Slence
Frank Pace
Kidnap Slayers Of Girl Sought In Vancouver Wash
Police search two men after 18 year old Jo Ann Dewey was abducted and later found slain in Wind River canyon 440 miles east. Autopsy cites death by cerebral hemorrhage. motive and killer details remain unclear. 500 volunteers aided Clark County search. plates linked to a Portland used car dealer are under review.
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Vancouver
Wash
Jo Ann Dewey
Wind River
Harry Diamond
Clark County
Roy Brady
C. N. Dewey
St. Joseph Hospital
Murf Diamond
Portland
Classified Results Highlight Ad Still Reaches Readers
Pont Owen and Mrs J C Lyons of 122 Charlmont reported in the Times-News how a classified ad placed in the paper led to tangible results. The notice underscores that Times-News classified ads deliver. Call 3010 to place an ad.
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J C. Lyons
Charlemont
Times-News
MacArthur Warns Of Explosive Far East Despite Peace Talks
In a calm, professorlike interview Alhambra Cal resident Herbert G. Hiein reports Gen Douglas MacArthur, 70, leader of American forces in Japan, urging peace yet warning the Orient remains explosive. He cites jet fighters bombers and four divisions as war prep, while noting civilian Japan supports peace and progress in arts and sciences.
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Ee Pee
Tin
Fiftien
Japan
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Asiatic
Orient
MacArthur
Far East
Courts Martial Convene For Two Officers Of Mo
General courts martial convened in Norfolk for two officers of the battleship Missouri after the Chesapeake Bay grounding on January 17. Comdr. John R. Millett, operations officer, and Lt. Comdr. Frank G. Morris Jr. face charges of neglect and inefficiency in duty. Capt. William D. Brown, Missouri’s former skipper, was ordered to stand trial but postponed until Thursday.
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Norfolk
Missouri
Chesapeake Bay
John R. Millett
Big Mo
Frank G. Morris, Jr
Williamd. Brown
Millett
Morris
Burglars Raid Six Homes in Kingasport Weekend
Police report six Kingasport homes were entered during the weekend with two suspects in custody. A downstairs window was used at Charles Anderson’s home to steal between 100 and 200 pennies, reported at 9 05 p m Sunday. Homes of Milton Drvault and Charlies Dryer on Yadkin Street were also entered.
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Kingasport
Charles Anderson
Pinedla Avenue
Milton Dr
Five Men Injured In Freight Train Collision at Biddeford
Five men were injured when a 40 car freight slammed into the rear of a passenger train in Biddeford Maine. The freight diesel locomotive plowed 30 feet into the rear coach, which was largely sheathed by the locomotive. Ray Farley, Boston and Maine Railroad agent, estimated 50 or more passengers were aboard. Head brakeman Charles A Huntington 48 of South Portland suffered the most serious injuries.
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Biddeford
Ray Farley
Boston and Maine Railroad
Charles A.huntington
South Portland
Taft Joins Move For Survey Of U S World Aid
Senator Taft joined Senator Vandenberg in urging a nonpartisan survey to assess future American aid needs for democracies worldwide. The plan would explore Truman’s Point Four while ensuring an impartial commission with broad national representation reviews needs and limits.
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Taft
Move For
Survey of
U.S. World Aid
Washington
Ohio
Vandenberg
Mich
Truman
Pen Politics
Dennis Contempt Conviction Upheld in High Court
The U S Supreme Court today upheld Eugene Dennis's contempt of Congress conviction. The ruling, a 5-2 decision, said Dennis willfully disobeyed a 1947 congressional subpoena to appear before the House Un American Activities Committee. Dennis, party secretary, was fined $1000 and given no prison term. Justices Black and Frankfurter dissented.
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Washington
Eugene Dennis
Dennis
Minton
Day
Black
Frankfurter
Clark
Douglas
Vinson
Jackson
Reet
Burton
House Un-American Activities Committee
U. S
New York
Communist Party
Blinding Dust Storms In Plains States Blamed For Eight Deaths
Dust storms battered the Plains States with gale winds causing eight highway fatalities and injuring about 50 in Kansas and Texas. Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and other states faced widespread damage to soil, buildings, and crops while fires broke out in prairie areas. Officials warned reduced winds might bring relief, though dangers of driving remained high.
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Plains
Kansas City
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
New Mexico
Nebraska
Gallup
N. M
Oklahoma City
K. D
Blood
U. S. Agricuture Department
Kansas State College
Roanoke Slaying Baffles Police
Roanoke Virginia police were baffled by the killing of 24 year old Alice Marie Taylor a Veterans Administration worker whose battered body was found near Route 460 in Montgomery County close to Blacksburg after she disappeared from the VA regional office Thursday morning. An intensive three day search yielded no clues, according to Detective Captain Frank H Webb. The case remains unsolved as officers pursue leads.
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Roanoke
Alice Marie Taylor
Veterans Administration
Frank H. Webb
U. S. Route 460
Montgomery County
Blacksburg
Skeletons Found In Plane Debris Near Phoenix
Wreckage of a plane believed to have crashed months ago was found in the mountains about 70 miles northwest of the area. An undetermined number of skeletons was reported in the crash. Civil Air Patrol had located the site by air yesterday. ground searchers trek 15 miles through rugged terrain to reach the scene at night.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Tiere
Civil Air Patrol
Soldier admits strangling WAF sergeant at Hamilton Field
A 32 year old Air Force sergeant Lyle H Buswell confessed to FBI agents that he killed 44 year old WAF sergeant Fairy E Decker at Hamilton Air Base near San Francisco. He said drinking and having no home prompted the killing and he denied rape, claiming he rearranged clothing to simulate a sex crime. An autopsy indicated strangulation with bruises and lacerations. Buswell phoned MPs reporting something amiss near the WAF quarters as his family in Rutland Vt faced crisis. The incident left Decker's family and Buswell's families reeling amid shock.
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San Rafael
Calif
Air Force
Lyle H. Buswell
Buswell
Vermont
FBI
WAF
Fairy E. Decker
York, Ps
Hamilton Air Base
Letterman General Hospital
San Francisco
Burwell
Mirlough
Los Angeles
Hamilton Field
Beth Dreker
Hye
Harry Buswell
Rutland
Lyle
Guam
Lydia
Sgt
Decker
Jacobus
Horace
Beulah Leader
Sgt. Decker
B. A. Enaminger
Chinese Sailors Claim Sinking of Communist Junks
Chinese Nationalist warships report sinking 110 Communist junks near Shanghai and 70 more in Hongchow Bay. Troop laden vessels were heavily armed and 80 tried to run the Yangtze blockade. Nationalist planes claim sinking two ships at Hainan Island and driving a third back to shore.
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Taipei
Formosa
Shanghai
East China Sea
Yangtze River
Hongchow Bay
Hainan
Central Daily News
Hong Kong
Circus Elephant Kills Little Boy In Florida
Five year old Roger Schooley of Las Vegas was killed in Sarasota when a Ringling Bros. elephant named Dolly crushed him after being fed peanuts. The boy and his brother David, six, were visiting the circus with their parents en route to the New York show opening April 5.
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Sarasota
Fla
Hig Dolly
Roger Schooley
Elmer Schooley
Las Vegas
N. Mex
Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus
Big Top
New York
Elephanta
Dolly
J.D. Brown
Winds In Nashville Cause Wide Damage
A Nashville gale with 144 mph winds caused widespread minor damage including two display windows, toppled metal structures, fallen tree limbs, and damaged power lines. A heavy rain followed a warm 77 degree day, with the weather easing after the gusts.
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Nashville
Tenn
Lattimore Denies McCarthy Spy Charge as Moonshine
Owen Lattimore, a State Department expert on Far Eastern affairs, dismisses Senator McCarthy’s claim that he is Russia’s top spy. Writing from an Afghanist an UN mission, he says he will return home in a few days to answer the charges in detail. Mrs. Lattimore and Johns Hopkins President Dr Detlev Bronk back his denial, while McCarthy’s remarks were aired on radio.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
McCarthy
Russia
State Department
United States
Lattimore
Associated Press
Afghanizatan
United Nations
Wisconsin
Ala
Baltimore
Natly
Detlev W. Bronk
Johns Hopkins University
Walter Hines Page
Tito Wins Big in Yugoslav Election Amid Cominform Clash
Belgrade reports show Premier Tito's People's Front receiving over 95 percent in a largely uncontested parliamentary vote. Nearly all of Yugoslavia’s 10 million eligible voters reportedly used the pink ballot boxes, with the Moscow-led Cominform and economic boycott cited as context for the landslide.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Cominform
Tito
Communistic People's Front
Twto
Mostar
Yugoslav Republic of Herzegovina
People's Frontera
Cherokee Lake event details unclear damper
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Cherokee Lake and Dougine Laks with a 965 figure but lack clear action, date, or source context. Likely a local notice or sports snippet. unable to determine concrete event, participants, or outcome from the readable text.
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Sec. Acheson
Betty Lou
Betty Low Marbury
Brownsville
Betty
Clay Marbury
Herbert G. Hiein
Alhambra
Phat Noore
Sen. McCarthy
Joseph BR. McCarthy
R-Win
Washington, D. C
Fairy Decker
Chin
China
Fob
Chang
Shang
World Federation of Churches
Little Boy
Florida
U.S
Afghanistan
Jahm Alden Koight
Umee
Ab Howe
AM. FM
Stiner Mujerre
Bundy Wusessaoe
Ntawe
Chergkee
Dougine
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