Hush hush Off the record war briefing barred editors
At an ASNE gathering in Washington on April 20 reporters were barred from a confidential briefing on the war outlook led by Defense Secretary Marshall and top officials. President Young noted editors’ antipathy to off the record sessions while urging guarded access and strong wartime morale amid inflation concerns.
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Ashington
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Defense Marshall
Omar Brodiey
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Anna Rosenberg
Defense
Dwight Young
Dayton
Ohio
ASNE
Young
Marshall
Bradley
Charles HB. Wilson
Tfnrt
United States
Kremlin
Wilson
Teen shoots half-sister in Indiana home
Sixteen year old Marvin King sat in a dining room chair and shot his 4 year old half sister Doris Jean Daniele with two rifle slugs. Police said he loathed babysitting and held on first degree murder charges. Sgt Bennett noted a long family grudge and resentment toward his mother and stepfather.
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North Vernon
Ind
Marvin King
Robert Bennett
Young King
Lawrence Daniels
Doris
Jean Daniele
Wine’ Bennett
Marvin
President Truman Rebuilds Wage Stabilization Board
President Truman begins assembling a new 18 member Wage Stabilization Board to curb inflation and resolve defense disputes. Dr. George W. Taylor of the University of Pennsylvania is named chairman for the organizational period, replacing the inoperative board after walkouts on February 16. The plan follows the old Little Steel formula limiting wage increases and mirrors past stabilization efforts amid industry and labor resistance.
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Ashington
Truman
White House
George W. Taylor
University of Pennsylvania
Taylor
Cyrus S. Ching
Mobilzation Advisory Board
Mobilization Advisory Board
Russians Aid Mine Laying Off Red China Coast
Chinese Nationalist intelligence reports accuse Russia of directing mine laying off eastern and southern Red China coasts. Operations slated for completion by May, with heavy activity around Swatow Amoy and the Luichow peninsula to deter a Nationalist invasion.
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Taipeh
Feormasa
Red China
Swstow
Amoy
Luichow
Soldier flies home to bury daughter never seen
ATLANTA April 20 AP A young soldier flew from Alaska to see in death his 4 month old daughter Sandra La Don May who suffocated after turning onto her stomach in her baby bed. Pvt Lewis W May will attend her funeral Monday as detectives report the infant died yesterday. May, 29, wrote to his wife that she and Sandra were all he had to live for. He serves in Alaska with an ordnance company.
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Atlanta
Alaska
Lewis W. May
Sandra la Don May
Nello Jo May
Sandra
W. S. Acree
N. M. Pack
City Hospital
May
Third Army
Ordnance
House Group Urges Interior Budget Cut
The House appropriations committee recommended a 7 percent cut to the Interior Department budget for fiscal 1952, approving 520,031,500 of the 559,286,000 requested. The largest cut hit the reclamation bureau, with 23,575,000 allotted from 252,075,000 requested.
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Ashington
Interior Department
House Appropriations Committee
House
Truman
Department
Reclamation Bureau
Treasury
Post Office
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
Federa
Bonneville Power
Warden Wash
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau
Bureau of Mines
National Park Service
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Telegram
WSB
Olver
Doris Jeat
Bennett
Red China Coast
New York
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Whalen
Douglas MacArthur
Grover Whalen
Mrs. MacArthur
Idlewild
Washington
MacArthurs
Associatad ‘Press
Manhattan
Vincent Impellitteri
Big Ho
Park Ave
Grand Central Terminal
Waldorf-Astoria
Associated Press
Rse
San Quentin
Olmsted
Mike
Goa
Veterans Memorial Stadium
Henry Gellert
Seattle
Wath
Gellert
California
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