Truman seeks $60.7 billion defense budget in 1952 request
President Truman sent Congress a 60.679 billion dollar defense budget plus armed forces support for allies. He warned Russia’s rulers have pushed the world toward general war and stressed building strong combined defenses to deter aggression. The request breaks down into already authorized projects and future obligations, with details on a large military public works program to be proposed.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Russia
United States
House
Rayburn
Soviet Union
Aizarge
Trumen
Treasury
Senator Farland Comments on Korea Crisis After Briefing
Senate Democratic Leader Mel Farland said after a White House briefing that Korea now seemed less slack and withdrawals appeared orderly. He spoke to reporters as McFarland, Speaker Rayburn, House Leader McCormack, and Sen. Johnson joined the president and congressional leaders in Monday morning talks.
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Washington
Senate
Mel Farland
White
Allied Curtain of Fire Rains Death on Foe
Allied artillery warplanes and tank raids hammer Communist forces bearing down on Seoul as UN forces defend the historic capital. Red radio claimed proximity while massed weapons and vehicles pounded hills north of Seoul.
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Tokyo
Seoul
James A. van Fleet
Pyongyang
Red
United Nations
U. S
Toledo
George McArthur
van Fleet
MacArthur
Matthew B. Ridgway
Korea
Han River
U.N
Dad smuggles sick GI out of Fort Leonard Wood
A Chicago father said he secretly evacuated his ill son Pvt. Stanley Amborski from Fort Leonard Wood Missouri after letters claimed no care was given. The youth was later hospitalized at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Dr Meyer Cohen diagnosed peritonitis. Army officials declined to comment.
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Fort Leonard Wood
Stanley Amborshi
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Ols
Amborskis
Meyer Cohen
Stanley
John Amborski
Chicago
Missouri Army Post
Army Post
Cohen
Fifth Army
Birthday Cake Thief Shatters Family’s May Festival Joy
An open letter recounts a theft of a chiffon birthday cake from a car near Houghton Park during a May Festival. Mrs. Carl Luth explains her husband’s two year hospital ordeal, the plan to celebrate Jimmy’s birthday with twelve friends, and the loss of cake, plate, candles, and napkins, which left Jimmy in tears yet the party continued with ice cream and song.
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Houghton Park
Carl Luth
Cedar Ave
Jimmy Luth
St. Mary's Hospital
Jimmy
General's wife returns home in Murfreesboro homecoming
Jean Faircloth MacArthur arrives at Sewart Air Force Base aboard the Bataan for a five hour homecoming and wedding anniversary celebration. A 16 man salute welcomes the MacArthurs before a civilian delegation and Governor Gordon Browning greet them. The party then moves to Smyrna to place a wreath on a World War II memorial.
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Murfreesboro
Tenn
Jean Faircloth MacArthur
Sewart Air Force Base
Reacti Lned
Bataan
Air Force
Gordon Browning
Smyrna
Weather alerts for northwest winds in effect tonight
Weather brief notes northwest winds 20 to 28 mph posted until 8 p.m. Diminishing winds tonight and tomorrow with mostly clear skies tonight and scattered cloudiness tomorrow.
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Tomorow
Windstorm Leaves Long Beach in Chaos and Death
Winds near hurricane force blasted Long Beach with 65 mph gusts, toppling barges and damaging city blocks. One man died, another is missing, and 50 fishermen were marooned aboard a barge near Belmont Pier. Coast Guard cutters rescued crews as power failed and debris flooded streets.
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Long Beach
Municipal
Bud Whyte
Redondo Beach
Wade Joseph Sho- Walter
Huntington Beach
Fox
Belmont Pier
Coast Guard
Cherry Ave
Aaron Seoultz
Budget Annex
Locust Ave
Lakewood Blvd
Viking Way
Columbine Stationery Co
Third St
Peggy Danielson
Orange Ave
Orange County
Plung
S. Col
Truman Seeks Budget For Nuclear Sub, Aircraft Carrier
The defense budget sent to Congress includes 29.5 million dollars for an atomic powered submarine and 218 million for a large aircraft carrier. Budget experts say the nuclear sub could be ready by early summer 1953, with extra costs likely to be borne by another agency for the power plant, as conventional subs run about 9 million dollars.
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Washington
Defense
Truman
Congress
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
MacArthur quiz to be private Senate decree
Senators decided to hear General Douglas MacArthur behind closed doors unless he requests a public hearing. The joint armed services and foreign relations committees will meet Thursday to question him on Far Eastern policy, with a censored transcript available for the press after each session.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Sen
Sparkman
D.-Ala
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
Russell D.gal
Russell
Armed Services Committee
Harold E. Stassen
U S Awaits Word on Prague Visit for AP Chief
The U S embassy in Prague reported no answer from the Czech government to a request for permission to visit imprisoned Associated Press chief William N. Oatis. Embassy Counselor Tyler Thompson said the inquiry was made orally and in writing on April 26.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S
Prague
William N. Oatis
Associated Press
Bureau
Tyler Thompson
Contents by Page and Section Identified
The note lists where to find various newspaper sections and features across pages. It specifies Beach Combing on B-1, Bridge on A-15, Classifieds on B-3 to B-11, Comics on B-4, Crossword on 8-5, Editorial on A-14, Financial on B-6 and B-7, Obituaries on A-9, Radio and TV on B-5, Shipping table on 8-7, Sports on A-16 and 7, Theaters on A-12, Tides and temperatures on 8-7, and Women's activities on Bez 3.
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Bez
Hoover Says RFC Should Be Dropped
Former President Herbert Hoover urged liquidating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation arguing its purpose is buried in favoritism and corruption. He favored continuing some small business loans via Federal Reserve Banks and limiting government loan exposure, with a plan to shift larger deals to different tax structures. He testified before the Senate banking committee amid criticisms from Jesse Jones and Sen. Fulbright over graft and integrity concerns.
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Ashington
Herbert Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Tisky
Hoover
REC
Senate Banking Committee
RFC
Federal Reserve Banks
Sen
Byrd
D.-Va
Jesse Jones
Jones
Fulbright
D-Ark
Sen. Fulbright
Korea
Congress
State Senate Gets Measure by Klocksiem
In Sacramento on April 30 the Assembly approved a 61 to 9 measure to outlaw draw poker in California. The bill by Assemblyman Herbert R. Klockstein seeks to drive poker parlors from Gardena and other cities, sending the bill to the Senate.
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Sacramento
State Assembly
California
Herbert R. Klockstein
R.-Long Beach
Gardena
Senate
Assembly
Klockstein
Clayton A. Dills
D.gardena
Gardenans
Luther H. Lincoln
Oakland
Dow Dills
Harold Levering
R.pasadena
Charles Conrad
R.hollywood
MITTS
Runaway bus crash in West Virginia kills ten
A bus tumbled down a milelong hill near Weirton killing ten people and injuring about forty. Driver George Kraina, 35, perished in the wreck after warning passengers to brace for impact. Of 65 aboard, 46 were injured with at least three in critical condition. The vehicle plowed through a wall and struck a residential street after failing to negotiate a left turn.
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Weirton
W. Va
Crete
Llves
George Kraina
Alward
Kealna
Kralna
Snow Traps Throng of Calif Fishermen
Heavy weekend snows trapped hundreds of California trout fishermen east of Fresno. Reports said 750 marooned at Huntington Lake two miles northeast of Fresno by 16 inches of snow. Two hundred fishermen in the Sierra Nevadas were stranded 55 miles east while trying to leave. State highway patrol and Fresno County sheriff’s officers worked through Saturday night to reach them. Rescue crews used tow trucks and blankets. one man drowned in Lake Bishop during the storm. The parks superintendent called it the biggest rescue operation in the two parks’ history.
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ESNO
California
Fresno
Huntington Lake
Here
Fresno County
Sequoia and
Kings Canyon National Parks
Kings Canyon
Jerry
San Diego
Lake Bishop
Californ
Southern California ‘Edison Co
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M Arthur
S.B
Focal
Huntington Beach New
Sound
State Senate
Klocksiem
Thomas Pogis
Los Angeles
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