Administration May Spend More Than Truman Regime
Senator Taft warned the Eisenhower administration may spend more in its first fiscal year than the Truman regime did in its last. He cautioned that unless economies are found, a deficit near five billion dollars could loom by July 1, 1954, jeopardizing GOP promises of tax cuts and a balanced budget.
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Sen
Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
Truman
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Senate
Majority
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Treasury
Aiiga
MIGs Return To Air War Action
U S Sabre jets battled 16 MiGs over Northwest Korea near the Yalu River with one MiG damaged in the clash. Navy carrier planes bombarded two eastern port areas while ground forces engaged Reds. Corsairs and Skyraiders attacked troop concentrations at Haeju and Chunghwa. Valley Forge aircraft flattened hundreds of buildings in Hungnam area. Lt John L McKee credited with 11 MIGs destroyed and one damaged.
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Seoul
U. S
U. S. Tih
Eighth Army
Korea
Yalu River
U. N
John L. McKee
Ashland
Marine Corsairs
Haeju
Chunghwa
Valley Forge
Hungnam
Hamhung
Weather Conditions Improve In Nation
The Associated Press reports rain favored the eastern quarter and some Northwest regions while fair, pleasant conditions spread widely. Summer-like heat dominated the Midwest. fair and mild weather covered the Mississippi Valley from the Canadian border to the Gulf. Duluth hit 86 degrees yesterday. thunderstorms touched the Southeast with Miami seeing the heaviest local rain.
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Associated Press
Northwest
Mid-Continent
Mississippi Valley
Canadian
Gulf
Duluth
Minn
Great Plains
Rockies
Pacific Coast
Southwest
Miami
Budget Bureau halts transfer of TVA site from Knoxville
The Budget Bureau ordered the Tennessee Valley Authority to delay moving its headquarters from Knoxville Tennessee to Muscle Shoals Alabama until Congress approves the plan. Budget Director Joseph M Dodge notified TVA Chairman Gordon R Clapp by telegram that the delay is to be observed as a House subcommittee studies the move. TVA said it would comply with the request pending a late month budget hearing.
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Washington
Bureau of the Budget
Tennessee Valley Authority
Knoxville
Tenn
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Congress
Joseph M. Dodge
House
TVA
Gordon R. Clapp
Dodge
Phillips
R-Calif
Two American Women Die in Duke of York Crash
In Harwich England two bodies identified as Miss Gilda Jordet 40 of Colorado and Miss Bernice Larson 49 of Wisconsin. A third American passenger Miss Ann Spring was found in a stateroom with U S passport nearby. Five lives total lost in collision of Duke of York with Haiti Victory in the North Sea before dawn. about 500 saved and twelve injured.
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Harwich
England
Gilda Jordet
Rocky Ford
Colo
Bernice Viola Larson
la Crosse
Wis
Ann Spring
U. S
U. S. Army Department
Washington
Germany
Haiti
Falls Fatal To Hu Anderson Dies From Elevator Shaft Fall
Jackson Tennessee Court of Appeals jurist Hu Anderson died after an elevator shaft fall at the Madison County courthouse. The 63 year old judge, who presided over a Krupp war crimes trial, was injured Tuesday and succumbed at Webb Williamson Hospital after earlier being listed resting well. Anderson, a Jackson native, had been named to the Court of Appeals in 1933 and later served as presiding judge. He attended the University of Tennessee and Cumberland University, was admitted to the bar in 1915, and was a World War veteran.
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Jackson
Tudge
Anderson
Tennessee Court of Appeals
Germany
Webb-Williamson Hospital
Madison County
Court of Appeals
Alfred Krupp von Bohlen
Krupp Armament Works
University of Tennessee
Cumberland
Man chases windblown dollars as chaos unfolds street
A man frantically pursues dollar bills blown from a wallet and swept along the sidewalk by a spring gust. A motorcycle cop in a heavy jacket rides by, collar up against the chilly breeze. A six-inch high Cocker puppy scampers after a giant Persian cat around a corner on Catawba Street.
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Catawba Street
Short Calls New Red Peace Offer A Trojan Horse
Rep. Short of Missouri, chairing the House Armed Services Committee, denounces a new Communist Korea truce proposal as a Trojan horse. He predicts the Eisenhower administration will reject it and warns France may trigger adverse effects on Indochina aid if Paris resists UN action. He says India could be decisive, not neutral, and doubts Dukes will be swayed.
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Washington
Short
R-Mo
Korea
Eisenhower
France
United Nations
Congress
Indochina
Sweden
Switzerland
Poland
Czechoslovakia
India
House Armed Services Committee
Dukes
Rep
Vorys of
Ghia
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Retreating Red Troops Regroup Near Luang Prabang
Report from Hanoi states Vietminh forces withdrawing from Luang Prabang regrouping about 50 miles northeast. French pilots estimate more than a full regiment nearby with 3000 more troops along the Plaine Des Jarres line. Rebounds in outposts Muong Sai and Mungo Khoa accompany a temporary lull at the Hong Sing sector.
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Hanoi
Luang Prabang
Laos
Red
Plaine Des Jarres
Muong Sai
Mungo Khoa
Hong Sing
No Takers For $100000 MIG Gift Offer
The U S effort to obtain an intact Soviet MIG 15 with asylum for the pilot has yielded no takers. Air Force officials say no MIG has been surrendered and stress that actual test flights by American pilots are needed to judge the jet's performance. Meanwhile, questions persist about whether some MIGs are flown by non Asian crews, despite insignia.
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Washington
U.S
Korean War
Mark
Clark
U. S
Air Force
North Korea
United Nations
China Air Force
Denmark
Poland
Copenhagen
Soviet unity drive signals internal crisis after Malenkov
AP dispatch reports a fierce Soviet press campaign on unity and the Russian superiority theme amid warnings against bourgeois nationalism and cosmopolitanism. It notes talks of faith in Soviet friendship, rights of all races, and possible unrest in Ukraine White Russia Baltic states and Central Asia after Stalin's death, with Kremlin page references. In Korea, truce observers see bugs in the Communists end the war plan, while optimism grows as Allied negotiators await higher level replies and Peiping radio backs a speedy armistice.
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William L. Ryan
Georgi M. Malenkoy
Communist Party
Soviet
Ussr
Home Front
Stalin
Ukraine
Russia
Baltic States
Central Asia
Kremlin
Panmunjom
Korea
Peiping
Communist China
Red China
William K. Harrison
U. WN
Nam Il
Washington
U. S
Britain
France
Eisenhower vows to not retreat on Korea prisoner repatriation
President Eisenhower declared the United States will not retreat from its moral stand against forced repatriation of prisoners as a condition for a cease fire in Korea. He urged a peace settlement fair to all, including captured soldiers who do not wish to return. He spoke at two Republican dinners in New York, noting no direct reference to a new UN armistice proposal. He tied U S support for asylum seekers to its Korea peace stance.
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New York
UWP
Eisenhower
America
Korea
United Nations
U. S
Twining's Choice First Of Shakeup In Joint Chiefs
Washington reports President Eisenhower taps Gen Nathan F Twining to head the Air Force replacing Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg who retires June 30 This signals a broad reshuffle among the Joint Chiefs with fellow leaders Bradley Spaatz Radford Collins Ridgway Gruenther Clark Fechteler and others discussed as potential successors or retirements as the military high command undergoes changes.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Twining
Pentagon
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Omar N. Bradley
Carl Spaatz
Bradley
Spaatz
Newsweek Magazine
Vandenberg
Arthur W. Radford
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Matthew B. Ridgway
Europe
Alfred M. Gruenther
Ridgway
Mark W. Clark
United Nations
Supreme Court Grants Writ For Gilbreath
The Tennessee Supreme Court granted a temporary writ of superseders halting contempt of court actions against General Sessions Judge S G Gilbreath Jr in Sullivan County. Associate Justice Hamilton Burnett also issued a writ of certiorari transferring the case to the Supreme Court for review.
U S Must Take Lead In Trade
Washington talks quoted Prime Minister Louis St Laurent urging the United States to take a bold lead in freeing world trade or risk a bloodless victory by communism. He warned that healthy free world economies require low trade barriers and expanding global commerce, with the U S as the greatest potential market.
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Washington
Louis St. Laurent
United States
National Press Club
Free World
Father Of Child Swim Star Held
In Miami Florida police issued a second degree murder warrant for Russell Tongay father of five year old swimming prodigy Kathy Aquator Tongay, who died after a brutal beating during convulsions after two exhibition swims. He had gained habeas corpus release before the warrant and was not found, with a hearing expected today. An autopsy cited a seizure and convulsions as linked to the death.
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Miami
Fla
Russell Tongay
Kathy
Tongay
Coast
Eighth Atomic Blast Lights Las Vegas at Frenchman Flat
The eighth detonation of the AEC spring series flashed at 10:30 a.m. EST at the Nevada proving grounds, plainly seen 75 miles away in Las Vegas. A towering mushroom cloud rose immediately and by 2.5 minutes reached about 25,000 feet. Initial indications suggested a tower shot or very low air drop at Frenchman Flat.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada Proving Grounds
Atomic Energy Commission
Frenchman Flat
German War Prisoner Surrenders To Police
German prisoner of war Henry Girth, 27, who had evaded U S detention since June 1946, surrendered at a Manhattan precinct after a friend recognized him from a Collier's magazine photo. Girth, using the alias Henry Kolmar, owned a home in Atlantic City and ran an interior decorating business and refreshment stand. he hoped surrendering would aid his bid for American citizenship.
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Girth
Fort Dix
Nlj
New York
Manhattan
Lsle
Collier's Magazine
George Dewitt
Harry Girth
Dewitt
United States
Easler
New Jersey
Atlantic City
N. J
North
Trenton Ave
New York City
Henry Kolmar
Governor's Term Debate Delayed by Convention Actions
Nashville Upset report outlines delay of full dress debate on extending the governor's term to four years at the state constitutional convention. Committees prepare reports on home rule amending clause and suffrage, with vote on lowering voting age to 18 and pay plan for legislators. The convention plans a 30 day recess after today.
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Nashville
Ben W. Hooper
Hill McAlister
Gordon Browning
Jim McCord
Solunar Tables Plan Your Fishing Days
Solunar Tables show Major Periods with peak times to fish and Minor Periods in shorter durations. The guide from John Alden Eaglehly outlines how to schedule days to access prime feeding periods in good cover and feed opportunities.
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