Nine Communist tanks knocked out by UN airmen
In Seoul on April 24 Allied planes destroyed nine Communist tanks on the west central front and north of Pyongyang. Sabre jets also hit armored and unarmored vehicles, while fighters damaged or destroyed road bridges, vehicles, artillery pieces and bunkers. Four MiG-13s were chased back across the Yalu River. Some 10 Communist soldiers were believed killed.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
West Central Front
North Korea
Yalu River
Pyongyang
Iron Triangle
U.N
Truman Scolds Demo Sol Over Harriman Signings
President Truman at a news conference attacked Chairman Richards of the House foreign affairs committee for proposing Harriman resign as mutual security director while he campaigns for President. Truman questioned whether Richards should quit as Democrat or as committee chairman to avoid any conflict with Harriman’s political role.
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Washington
Truman
Richards
D. S.C
House Foreign Affairs Committee
W. Averell Harriman
Richard
Lawyer Tells Probers Nunan Got 24985 For 3 Or 4 Calls
Washington April 24 House investigators heard testimony that Joseph D Nunan collected 24985 for three or four telephone calls as attorney in a tax case after resigning in 1947 as revenue commissioner Thomas Sullivan Chicago attorney told the Ways and Means subcommittee investigating tax scandals that Nunan was paid the fee for services in a case involving Charles Ward president of Brown and Bigelow St Paul advertising firm Committee Counsel stressed no inference of wrongdoing by Ward The committee noted Treasury agents said Nunan received 161609 in the five year period 1945 to 1950 not reported on income tax returns including 97000 in cash in his bank and brokerage accounts
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House
Joseph D. Nunan
Thomas Sullivan
Chicago
Ways and Means
Nonan
Charles Ward
Brown and Bigelow
St. Paul
Adrian W. Dewind
Ward
Sullivan
Treasury
Nunan
Flood Surges 10 Feet Deep at Air Base
The Missouri River flood reached 30.64 feet near Kansas City, with dikes holding and no major damage to industrial areas. Army Engineers and river forecasters warned of only modest danger while Sher man Air Force base faced levee breaches, troops and civilians battling the surge to protect the field.
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Missouri
Corkill
Kaw
Kansas
Sherman Air Force Field
Old Fort Leavenworth
Eare
London
Mississippi
Iowa
Sabula
Berlin's French Sector Invaded by Youth Communists
Ten thousand young Communists entered quietly into Berlin's French sector, distributing leaflets and urging German unity and withdrawal of occupation troops. West Berlin police dispersed the illegal push with fire hoses, arresting twenty demonstrators as Blueshirted Free German Youth dominated the crowd at the sector border.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Weather outlook with showers tonight and tomorrow
Occasional showers are forecast tonight and tomorrow with little temperature change. Winds shift from west to southwest at 5 to 20 mph, expected to gust Friday afternoon.
No Plan to Ease Credit Controls
Oliver S. Powell of the Board of Governors said there are no plans to relax installment credit or residential real estate credit regulations. He noted reports of possible relaxations and credited the curbs with helping whip the inflation crisis.
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Dallas
Pt A Rnii
Board of Governors
The
Federal Reserve System
Oliver S. Powell
Mutiny Ends as Convicts Demand Dinner Fit for a King
Mutinous convicts at Southern Michigan Prison sign a surrender agreement but will not release eight guard hostages until a dinner fit for a king is served. Governor Williams grants 11 reform demands after 171 inmates threaten violence.
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Jackson
Mich
Southern Michigan
G. Mennen Williams
One-man mutiny at Stateville Prison ends in standoff
Vincent Kospreak a 29 year old inmate climbed a fence and scaled a 80 foot water tower triggering a quiet mutiny at Stateville Prison Warden Joseph Ragen said there would be no dramatic action and that Kospreak would come down when hungry Deputy Warden Vernon Fox and Ward Earnest Brooks led talks through the bars of Cell Block 15 The incident prompted a late night bargaining session and a nervous guard transfer as officials weighed reform demands and the chances the mutiny would end today
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Kenneth Moore
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Foore
Akins
Vernon Fox
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Earnest Brooks
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Luncheon at Eisenhower Headquarters With NATO Leaders
Paris April 24 Gen Dwight D Eisenhower hosted top NATO defense chiefs at his headquarters. Guests included Lord Ismay secretary general, Lord Tedder, Lord Montgomery and Allied central sector commanders. NATO council to meet Monday to pick a new supreme Allied commander before Eisenhower departs June 3. Italian sources say Gruenther or Ridgway favored as successor. Eisenhower has just recovered from a cold and will head to farewell troop visits Saturday.
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Lord Tedder
Royal Air Force
Lord Montgomery
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Italy
NATO
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SHAPE
Matthew B. Ridgway
Far Eastern
Steel Seizure Fight Advances In Courts
The steel industry seeks a temporary injunction to block President Truman from enforcing seizure of the mills. U S Steel argues the move would foist wage increases on CIO workers and disrupt production, warning of incalculable damage if Saw yer acts on Wage Stabilization Board recommendations.
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Truman
U. S. Steel Corp
CIO Steelworkers
Theodore Kiendl
U. S
David A. Pine
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Kiend
Wage, Stabilization Board
Alexander Haltzoff
Four Southland Anglers Die in Mexico Air Crash
Four men from the Los Angeles area were killed when their single engine plane exploded in midair and crashed onto a rocky hill 25 miles north of Ensenada, Mexico. Police found the wreckage scattered widely. one victim identified as Lions Club member Robert Sampson Haley of San Gabriel. Haley and three others left Ontario, California, Easter Sunday for a fishing trip to Mazatlan. Names: Marc T. Williams, 23, Arcadia. George P. Blind, Pasadena. Silas Dunke. Ambulances planned to reach within a mile of the crash. a helicopter from San Diego sought to transport bodies from the hillside.
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Haley
Tijuana
Ontario
Mazatlan
Marc T
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Arcadia
George P. Blind
Pasadena
Silas Dunke
San Diego
Truce Talks Recesses Hint at New Prisoner Proposal
In Mun san Korea on April 24 secret truce talks recessed twice as negotiators studied a new plan to break the deadlock on prisoner exchanges. Communist reporters hinted at a fresh approach, though no details or official statements were released about the talks or the long stalemate.
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Munsan
Korea
Reds
Classified ad and page guide from a newspaper header
The note lists where to find content across sections such as Beach Combing Beach Boyle Bridge and more, detailing pages for Classified Ads Comics Crosswords Editorial Financial Obituaries Radio and Television Sports Theaters tides temperatures and women’s activities across sections A B C and B- pages. It reads as a directory snippet rather than a story with specific events or people.
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Boyle
B.S
Bleachers Collapse Injures Students At Capitol Hill School
In OKLABHAMA CITY on April 24 a bleacher section used by about 300 Capitol Hill junior high students for a class picture collapsed. Initial reports listed at least 10 taken to hospital for fractures, with dozens more treated in the gym by doctors and nurses.
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Capitol Hill
Truman Clarifies Ultimatum Remarks on Iran 1946
President Truman said he used the term ultimatum in a layman sense regarding Iran in 1946 and that a note to the Soviet government had explained the position. White House aide Roger Tubby stated no note led to Russian troop withdrawal, while noting March 6 1946 and May 1946 events.
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Truman
Stalin
Iran
White House
Roger Tubby
Tubby
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State Department
Americana
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Yugoslavia
Trieste
Crowd fires on workers at New Orleans cement plant
In New Orleans on April 24 a riot at New Orleans Cement Products Co. left two entering workers gravely wounded. Joseph Collins, 25, was shot in the stomach and Carroll Belding, 41, hit by a shotgun blast as about 35 to 40 armed pickets confronted returning workers. Plant superintendent Walter Thayer cited a seven week strike over unionizing with AFL but not with UMW. Police reported the crowd fired as workers tried to resume entry.
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UPA
New Orleans Cement Products Co
Gowan Duffy
Joseph L. Collins
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Collins
Carroll Belding
Walter Thayer
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