Shanghai Escape Corridor Rail Traffic Suspended
Rail service was suspended between Hangchow and Nanchang as Shanghai faced Communist pressure. Over 10,000 southbound passengers were stranded at Hangchow station while the garrison banned free trading in prewar silver dollars amid turmoil in Shanghai.
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Shanghai
South China
Hangchow
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Canton
China
Central News Agency
Hangchow Station
Lake City
Hocking County May Day Parade Draws Crowds
Hocking County held its own May Day parade Sunday as motorists from central Ohio flocked to witness dogwood and redbud in peak bloom. Despite showers Route 33 jammed. visitors at Hocking state parks set attendance records and hillsides showcased riotous blooms of dogwood and wildflowers.
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Hocking County
Ohio
Hocking State Parks
Fire Sweeps Three Columbus Buildings
Investigators seek the fire cause after a blaze in downtown Columbus Saturday damages three buildings. Fire Chief Walter Strickladen estimates losses at 250000, with the Un derwriters Salvage Co. offices the blaze origin. The Hubman Supply Co and Health Department record storage also housed there. Health records reportedly lost. Over 90 percent of Columbus firemen fought the three-hour blaze. nine firefighters injured, none seriously.
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Columbus
State Bureau of Fire Prevention Today
Walter G. Strickladen
Underwriters Salvage Co
Hubman Supply Co
State Health Department
Jessup Acheson Held Talks on Berlin Blockade
Ambassador Philip C. Jessup returned to New York after weekend conferences with Secretary of State Acheson and other officials on lifting the Berlin blockade. He represents the United States and is to meet later with Britain and France at the United Nations.
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Washington
Philip C. Jessup
New York
State Acheson
Berlin
Jessup
United States
Soviet
Russia
Britain
France
United Nations
Democrats Force Economy Vote Test
Senate Democrats pushed a test on the 2.4 billion dollar economy bill, sending it back to committee with instructions to cut. Senator Green moved to reconsider, with a likely follow up vote after debate as Republicans backed the measure 36 to 4 with 8 Democrats. Senator McKellar seeks a second test due to 15 absences.
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Washington
Senate
Green
D-Ri
Senator McKellar
D-Tenn
Appropriations Committee
Tremor Shakes South Los Angeles Area Early Today
A slight tremor rattled walls and shook pictures in South Los Angeles and the South Gate area. Police officer Hans Meyer reported the early morning quake caused minor anxiety but no major damage or injuries.
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Los Angeles
South Gate
Hans Meyer
Duroucher Summoned in Simple Assault Case
A summons charging Leo Duroucher, manager of the New York Giants, with simple assault was issued by Magistrate Doris J. Byrne in an Upper Manhattan court. The summons is returnable in the same court next Monday.
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New York Giants
Leo
Oleomargarine Bill Revival May Be Tried
In Columbus Ohio a last ditch effort to revive the oleomargarine bill may occur in the House tonight. The measure would legalize colored oleo production and sales though tabling by 71 to 59 last week left it dead unless a reconsideration motion passes. If revived it faces a November referendum risk and requires 69 113 valid signatures if four months pass without action. The Senate aims to vote on the fair employment practices bill later this week after House passage.
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Columbus
House
Senate
Secretary of State
Efort
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Line Forms On the Right Don’t Crowd Men
Gloucester Mass May 2 A group of homeward sailors from the brigantine Yankee describe the Pacific island of Rapa where women out number men seven to one. Captain Irving Johnson reports a crew member was briefly kidnapped but rescued.
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Gloucester
Mass
Cape of Good Hope
Rapa
Pacific
Irving Johnson
Columbus records first April without traffic deaths since 1946
Traffic in Columbus marked an April with zero fatalities, the first full month without a traffic death since December 1946. Local officials emphasized the milestone as a rare safety achievement for the city.
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Columbus
Home made bomb kills man and estranged wife in Ohio
In Mineral City a 21 year old operator Russell Martin died with his estranged wife Gladys when a home made dynamite bomb exploded at a doorway. The blast injured four others, including a three month old baby, with authorities reporting the couple had been separated and Martin on probation for non support.
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Dover
Mineral City
Russell Martin
Magnolia, O
Gladys
Martin
John F. Lake
Martins
Gary
Union Hos
Pital
Richard Zurfley
Peggy
Gertrude Beers
Lake
Zurfley
Zursley
William Martin
Bannister-Sliding Centenarian Dies
Florence E. Dolph aged 101 dies in Scranton after celebrated last two birth days by sliding down the bannister at home. Born May 19, 1847 in Dickson City Pa she moved to California in 1902, lived there 44 years before returning to Scranton.
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Scranton
Florence E. Dolph
Dickson City
General Electric opposes CIO wage demands
General Electric says CIO wage proposals would inflate costs and trigger layoffs in the electrical manufacturing sector. GE, a industry wage policy setter, called the CIO program inflationary and noted opposition was already present before the CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America proposals last Wednesday. The union represents about 100,000 GE employees.
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New York
General Electric Company
CIO
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Contract Extended for United Shoe Workers at Selby Shoe Co
PORTSMOUTH Ohio May 2 The contract of the United Shoe Workers of America CIO with the Selby Shoe Co was extended yesterday until May 13.
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Portsmouth
United Shoe Workers of America
CIO
Selby Shoe Co
Storms kill nine in South and Southwest
A two day tornado outbreak across the South and Southwest leaves nine dead and nearly 100 injured. Damages estimated at two million dollars. Oklahoma reports sixteen tornadoes with five deaths and about 75 injuries near Norman. Texas and Louisiana also suffer deaths and destruction including oil field damage.
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Mississippi
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
Homer
Train Bandits Face Sentencing In West Virginia
Two Ohio men Lyman Ramsdell and George L. Ashton pled guilty to the March 9 holdup of the Baltimore and Ohio Ambassador passenger train near Martinsburg West Virginia. They could receive up to 40 years in prison each. The incident left about 100 passengers robbed of roughly $1000.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio
Lyman Ramsdell
George L. Ashton
Youngstown
Harry E. Watkins
Watkins
Ramsdell
Ashton
Washington-to
Detroit
Martinsburg
Israeli and Arab Forces Clash Near Jerusalem
Israeli troops and Arab fighters clashed in a brief confrontation between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Jewish sources cited Arabs refusing to withdraw from a strategic position in the southern outskirts under the armistice with Trans-Jordan. An Israeli spokesman said relations with Trans-Jordan and the Arab Legion remain undisturbed.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Trans-Jordan
Arab Legion
Trans-ordan
Work Resumed At Natco Today
The Haydenville plant of the National Fireproofing Co. resumed production on a curtailed basis. Superintendent Clarence Matheny said about 150 workers in the clay mine and manufacturing department returned to work today with setting crews to return Wednesday and burners and drawing crews to follow. It will take about two weeks for all 300 employees to be back. Production resumes on a four day week with plans to move to six days when orders justify. The plant, Haydenville’s only industry, had shut down January 1 due to lack of orders.
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Haydenville
National Fireproofing Co
Clarence Matheny
Matheny
Clay
Math
Fire Watchers Find Own Home Hit by Flames
Cleveland May 2 A family returning from a play watched a plant fire two blocks away and then found their east end home ignited by the same blaze Fire damage totaled 25 dollars to the assembly building roof while the Mosers suffered about 7500 dollars in losses to a 12 room frame house Officials said the fire likely started from a small coal stove in the kitchen
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Cleveland
Donald Moser
Mosers
Moser
Czech Police Arrest U.S. Consul and Wife
An American consul and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bowe of Holyoke Massachusetts, were arrested in Prague for photographing the May Day parade. Police released them after about an hour. Bowe heads the permit office for travel in the American British French zones of Germany.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Martin Bowe
Holyoke
Mass
Bowe
Germany
May Day Split Between Communists and Their Foes
May Day 1949 commemorations showcased a split between the communist and non communist worlds. In Moscow Stalin saluted as Vasilevsky warned of American war plans while satellite nations held mass rallies. Western cities saw mixed reactions with loyalty day parades and anti communist demonstrations dominating in many capitals.
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Associated Press
Soviet Union
Moscow
Red Square
Josef Stalin
Politburo
Alexander Vasilevsky
Warsaw
Prague
Bucharest
Budapest
Sofia
Russia
Marshall Tito
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Communist Party
Today's Markets At a Glance
WHEAT mixed with May firm and other grains easy. CORN steady with little change. OATS steady and light trading. HOGS active rising 25 to 50 cents to a top of 18.65. CATTLE strong up to 0.75, top 28.00. STOCKS mixed in a dull narrow market. BONDS steady with selective demand for rails.
Sanity Hearing Delays Executions for Condemned Killer
Walter Gordon a 64 year old railroad worker in Cuyahoga County had his execution postponed after an unprecedented sanity hearing in common pleas court. The July 7 date was suspended until the governor rules on Gordon's mental status. he was convicted on March 18 1949 for the fatal shooting of Thomas Smathers in a railroad bunkhouse.
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Columbus
Walter Gordon
Cuyahoga County
Common Pleas Court
R. W. Alvis
Ohio Penitentiary
Thomas Smathers
Charles E. Leach
Gordon
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Athens County Common Pleas Court
PX Ship Stores Prices Questioned
The House armed services committee orders an investigation into why soldiers and sailors can buy girls' nighties, expensive jewelry and television sets tax free and at nearly wholesale prices. It plans a top-to-bottom study of Army post exchanges and Navy ship stores, a half billion dollar business.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Judge asks grand jury to investigate gambling rumors in Athens County
Common Pleas Judge Roy D. Williams directs the May grand jury to probe reports of gambling in Athens County including slot machines and the numbers racket. The move follows public accusations and a newspaper account of income tax inquiries connected to county officials and a murder case related to Eleanor E. Gifford.
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Common Pleas
Roy D. Williams
May Grand Jury
Athens County
Williams
Columbus
U.S. Treasury
Athens
Eleanor E. Gifford
Grand Jury
Frank J. Lausche
T. Vincent Martin
Attorney General's Office
Miss Gifford
Gilbert Dodds, Jr
Grover E. Rawlins
Compulsory Health Bill Defeat Forecast
Senator Lester C. Hunt predicts the compulsory health insurance bill will fail in Congress. Speaking at a Cleveland Dental Society meeting, he estimates the Senate support at about 25 votes.
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Cleveland
Congress
Lester C. Hunt
D-Wye
Cleveland Dental Society
Senate
Stab Wounds Fatal At Minford High School
William Wheeler, 13, died of stab wounds suffered at Minford High School last week. Two other boys were playing in a corridor when one accidentally struck Wheeler.
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Portsmouth
William Wheeler
Minford High School
Wheeler
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