Central Front Action Stalemate and Renewed Red Pressure
Front line reports from the central Korean theater describe US and South Korean units repelling renewed Chinese attacks on both flanks near Senaul and Chechan. American and allied forces inflicted heavy losses, with Red casualties tallying over 49 hundred on Thursday and surpassing 100,000 since January 25.
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Tokyo
al- Hed
Senaul
Senul
Han River
Chipyoung
Won
Chechan
Chachon
Wonju
Eighth Army
Cheehon
Hatte
Chinyong
Vania
Chipsong
Chipseng
Won Uu
Chechin
Rossellini Film Barred From N Y
Albany New York state education board bans the Italian film The Miracle by Roberto Rossellini, deeming it religiously offensive and linked to drunkenness seduction and lewdness. Cardinal Spellman condemned the picture as an attack on Catholic faith prompting Catholics to shun it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N.Y
New York
Yerenis
Key Punchboard Firm Linked to Gambing Scheme
Federal Trade Commission lawyer testifies before Sen Kefauver on a California firm, Sportsman’s Supply House, that distributes punchboards with a winning-number key. Estimates potential annual losses up to 100 million dollars, while some boards are fixed to deny prizes. Brookfield cites literature and a Long Beach address. the firm’s officers and signatures are under investigation.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
California
John W. Brookfield
Brookfield
Sportsman's Supply House
Long Beach
Calif
Sen. Kefauver
D.-Tenn
W. E. Lee
San Francisco Police Recover 500 Stolen Auto Slips
San Francisco police retrieved 500 blank automobile ownership certificates stolen in 1949 from the State DMV, seizing them in a city apartment. A woman confessed receiving them from George E. Woodward, a 2 year old escapee from Alameda County prison farm. Woodward is still at large. Authorities fear remaining slips may be used to conceal stolen car sales, possibly outside California.
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Say
Sacramento
Woodward
Alameda County
Sanchee
Woodwards
Uable
California
Wage Lid Delayed as Labor Walks Out on Plan
Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston weighed ordering a 10 percent wage ceiling despite a labor walkout on the proposed national wage-control formula. The Wage Stabilization Board vote and three labor members’ withdrawal threaten full support for the plan as officials seek to salvage the program.
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Ashington
Eric Johnston
Johnston
George M. Harrison
labor-Industry Public Board
Churchill Blasts Attlee Regime Over Peanut Fiasco
Churchill attacks the Attlee government over the peanut scheme costing Britain. the issue sparked a fresh motion of censure as parliament considers a 25 million pound plan to extract fats from Tanganyika plantations. The government survived this 21 vote test and announced plans for broader shipbuilding and air force expansion to counter Soviet submarine threats.
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London
Britain
Winston Churchill
Ple
Attlee
Tanganyika
Food Ministry
Dan
Labor
Churchill
Air Force Coastal Command
U S and Britain Consider Warning on Yugoslavia
London reports a government source says Britain and the United States weigh warning Russia and its satellites against attacking Yugoslavia. Britain may not guarantee automatic Western aid if Yugoslavia is attacked, but favors deeming any move against Yugoslavia as aggression. The United States is studying the situation and has not decided on a course yet.
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London
Britain
United States
Russia
Yugoslavia
Smuggling Bust Ties Queen Elizabeth With Gold Seizure
Customs authorities seized over 300 pounds of gold aboard the Queen Elizabeth before sailing. Hidden cubes were found in a car attached to the ship. Passenger Saul Chabot of New York was arrested for illegally exporting gold. Swiss resident was questioned overnight by federal agents. Gold valued at $126,000 at $35 an ounce, governed by export rules.
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New York
Saul Chabot
Zurich
Switzerland
U.S
Weather Outlook With Showers And Cooler Days
Occasional showers through tonight give way to partly cloudy skies Saturday. Cooler days ahead with light variable winds. South to easterly at 10 to 25 mph, at times shifting to north 10 to 20 mph.
Nurse Tells Slaying of Girl Friend on Blind Date
A nurse from Amarillo told San Pedro police of a fatal shooting and escape after a bitter quarrel with her girlfriend Marjorie Williams of Galveston. Adams described two armed men, a Buick convertible, and a cross-country trip with the trio, involving jewelry-store robberies. Police issued a statewide pickup for the car and suspects.
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Rebecca Adams
Archie Gargan
San Pedro
Det
A. L. Thornberry
Miss Adams
Amarilla
Texas
Marjorie Williams
Galveston
Miss Williams
Los Angeles
Waco
Oregon
Mississippi
Indiana
Kansas
Illinois
California Highway Patrol
Kentucky
Boyle Wins VEW Award in Off the Teletype Column
Assecited Press notes Hal Boyle, a columnist, receives the VEW award in a roundup of news items. Other items listed include Beach Combing on B-1, Boyle on A-9, and various pages across the paper such as Sports on A-12 and A-14, Theaters on A-9, and Women’s Activities on B-2 and B-3.
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Hal Boyle
VEW
Boyle
70 000 Workers Strike Worsted and Wool Mills
The CIO led walkout cripples wool and worsted centers with about 70,000 workers striking nationwide. Pickets appeared at New England mills and in several states as TWUA presses for higher pay and annual raises. At lawrence mass the American Woolen Co operates two large mills amid a tense breakdown in negotiations.
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Oston
CIO
Bickets
New England
Lawrence
Mass
American Woolen Co
Skowhegan
Maine
New York
Textile Workers ofAmerica
American Wool‘en Co
TWUA
Emil Rievei
American Woolen
Sur Hee
House Group Red Quizzers to Hear Labor Unionists
The House un American activities committee tentatively agreed to open an inquiry into Communist infiltration of labor unions in key defense industries. Chairman Wood said hearings on the subject are expected soon while the panel also plans to revisit Hollywood influence probes and Communist labor activities in the District of Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
Wood
D,-Ga
Hollywood
District of Columbia
Bradley says four more US divisions to Europe would aid defense
Gen Omar Bradley told Senate committees that transferring four additional American divisions to Europe would greatly strengthen two already in Germany and that expanding to about six divisions would enhance their defense. He argued against a large ground force buildup while noting allied contributions. Secretary Acheson cited plans to double Western Europe's defense and urged linking Spain Turkey and Greece into mutual defense.
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Washington
Omar N. Bradley
Europe
Germany
Russia
Bradley
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Acheson
Western
Spain
Turkey
Greece
U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brussels
Order Would Ban Whitewall Tires in Rubber Rationing
Washington February 28 The National Production Authority prepared an order to halt manufacture of white-walled tires and certain other rubber products. The plan would ban new rubber usage in more than one line style or color for any one purpose, affecting tires hoses belts wires and cables to conserve critical supplies for military and essential civilian needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Production Authority
Governor Warren Improves and Resting in Hospital
A UC Hospital supervisor said Governor Earl Warren was feeling better and able to get out of bed as he wishes. He has neuralgia and has been confined for nearly two weeks. officials declined to set a release date.
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San Francisco
University of California Hospital
Earl Warren
Warren
Selim Sarper Named U.N. Sanctions Committee Chairman
Selim Sarper, head of Turkey's U.N. delegation and Security Council member, was elected chairman of a U.N. committee to study sanctions against Red China. The group, limited attendance from 12 of 14 nations, considers diplomatic and economic measures amid ongoing Korea hostilities.
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Selim Sarper
Turkey
U.N
Security Council
U. N
Korea
U.N. Assembly
Burma
Yugoslavia
Assembly
Peiping
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Life Magazira
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Willis E. Lre
First St
Sportsman Supply House
S. F
Harold W. Ward
U. S. Britain
Nurse
Harbor Police
Red
Joint Chiefs
Turk
China
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