Chiang Kai-shek Named to Chinese Presidency
Chiang Kai-shek, elected China’s first constitutional president with broad emergency powers, received 2430 votes from the National Assembly in a ceremony at ATANKING. Chu Cheng carried 269 votes as a nominal rival, while Li Tsung Jen and Sun Fo vied for the vice presidency amid a tense civil war backdrop and reports of a spring Communist offensive.
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Atanking
Chiang Kai-shek
China
National Assembly
Chu Cheng
Judicial Yuan (Council
Shanghai
Chiang
Sun Fo
Kuomintang
Government Party
Li Tsung-Jen
Peiping-Paoting
Manchuria
Harvard Dean Urges Unified Health Policy Council
At the American College of Physicians meeting in San Francisco, Dean James Steven Simmons of Harvard School of Public Health warned that doctors must rally to shape public health legislation. He called for a permanent national council to guide lawmaking and long term plans for medical education research and public health education.
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San Francisco
Harvard
School of Public Health
Nero
Rome
American College of Physicians
James Steven Simmons
Lone Survivor Reaches U S After Plane Crash
Marc Worst, 38, of Burbank California the lone survivor of the Pan American Constellation crash at Shannon Ireland last Wednesday arrived at La Guardia Field New York. He bore a scorch mark and described climbing out through a hole in the fuselage after the plane skidded to a stop.
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New York
Marc Worst
Burbank
Calif
Shannon
Eiie
la Guardia Field
Worst
Crash in New Guinea Claims 37 Lives
SYDNEY Australia April 19 Thirty seven persons died yesterday when a civilian plane crashed on takeoff from the Lae airstrip in New Guinea It was the worst civilian air tragedy in New Guinea history Among the dead were 33 New Guinea natives being transported to the Bulolo gold fields to work Investigating officials said the plane was hopelessly over crowded
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Sydney
Australia
Lae
New Guinea
Bulolo
Man Accused of Bigamy
An Oakland report states Louise Marian Smith filed a bigamy complaint in Alameda County alleging her seafaring husband, a New York marine engineer on Guam, married Margaret E. Shafffer in Alameda on January 13, 1947, two months after promising to go to sea.
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Oakland
New York
Louise Marian Smith
Alameda County
Guam
Alien infant born overseas held at Ellis Island
A six month old boy born abroad to an American mother was detained at Ellis Island as officials debated his eligibility for entry. His mother Mrs. Julia C. Bonati and her son Frank 12 were with him while other family members, including father Ruggero Bonati and two older children Ernest 16 and Maria 14, are expected to arrive. The law change revoking automatic citizenship for foreign born children of American mothers prompted the detention.
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New York
Ellis Island
Julia C. Bonati
Rochester
N. Y
Frank
Richard
Italy
Wallaceites Form Seattle Conclave Amid War Prejudice
In Seattle on April 19 the third party of Henry A. Wallace organized at a boisterous convention. About 1500 delegates denounced Wall Street and the Truman doctrine while endorsing a May 21 Seattle rally by Wallace. He sent a telegram to a Peoples party gathering urging no troop debarkation for war and signs attacked the draft and universal military training.
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Seattle
Henry A. Wallace
Washington State
Wall Street
Wallace
Peoples Party
Divorce Rate Drops 25 Percent in 1947
New York April 17 The nation's divorce rate for 1947 fell to a level 25 percent below the 1946 peak according to statisticians. The decline is noted after a wartime spike and reflects changing family patterns in the postwar period.
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New York
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