Atlantic Fleet Wargame Shows Carrier Weaknesses
Atlantic Fleet reporters describe Navy wargames near Puerto Rico that revealed weak defenses in tactics used against a simulated super carrier Roosevelt. A snorkel submarine and airborne A-bomb attack simulated crippling strikes, with Roosevelt deemed severely damaged and Kot Kearsarge and Leyte avoiding radiation clouds as decontamination squads moved in.
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James P. Strebig
Atlantic
Caribbean
Adm
W. H. P. Blandy
Puerto Rico
Franklin BD. Roosevelt
Kearsarge
Leyte
Vieques Island
Carey
Rying
Roosevelt
Gen Clay May Retire Soon as U S Boss in Germany
General Lucius D. Clay may retire soon from his post as US military governor of Germany. Reports say he hopes to relinquish duties by June 30 but declines to comment. If civilian administration takes over, the State Department would gain policy control amid Soviet pressure and Berlin airlift context.
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Erlin
Lucius D. Clay
Segarates Rantary
TriMany Ap
Clay
Washington
War Department
State Department
U.S. Army
Germany
France
Britain
Soviet Union
Berlin
Third GI Dead in Reich Shell Explosion
STUTTGART Germany Feb 28 The U S Army Provost Marshal announced a third American constabulary soldier has died from Friday’s explosion of a dud shell at the Vilseck training grounds. His name was withheld pending notification of next of kin. The announcement identified the two other men as Pvt Purvian Brandt Monee Illinois and Sgt Willary E Gilles South Fork California
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Stuttgart
Germany
U. S. Army
Vilseck
Pyt
Pur Vian Brandt
Monee
Til
Willary E. Gilles
South Fork
Republican Senators Claim Huge Saving on Housing Bill
Two Republican senators Taft of Ohio and Flanders of Vermont say the compromise housing bill would save more than 5.68 billion dollars over 40 years compared with the Democratic plan. They note the difference lies in subsidized unit totals and annual costs, with local communities supplying land utilities and plans while the federal government covers deficits.
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vAs HineTon
Taft
Ohio
Flanders
Vermont
Senate
Jow Rentatl
Congress
Bloodless Coup ousts Paraguay's President Rolon
In Asuncion on February 23 Paraguay witnessed its second revolution in four weeks as Felipe Molas Lopez seized power in a bloodless coup, ousting Raimundo Rolon who had overthrown J Natalicio Gonzales in January. The army backed Molas Lopez who sworn in yesterday, forming a Colorado party cabinet and planning elections for April to elect a constitutional president. Gonzalez is in exile in Brazil and Rolon’s followers were at a wake for Archbishop Bogarin when the coup occurred.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Felipe Molas Lopez
Raimundo Rolon
J. Natalicio
Gonzales
Buenos Aires
Molas Lopez
Pelt
Schedul
Rolon
Gonzalez
Brazil
Rn Molas Lopez
Juan Sinforiano Bogarin
Moses Lopez
States Weigh Bans on Communists for Public Jobs
A wave of bills across 15 states seeks to bar Communists from public employment and require loyalty oaths for teachers and university staff. Proposals range from statewide bans on public payrolls to affidavits for all state workers, with New York and California among states weighing non Communist oaths and public-office disqualification.
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Maryland
Ilinois
Communist Party
U. S
Exlahoma
Nebraska
New Ham
California
Texas
New York
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Massachusetts
Oregon
West Virginia
Posimeta Et Pena
Frank J. McMullen R.brook
Lyn
Alabama
Texas Colonel Tried on Cruelty Charge
Fort Meade, Md. Feb. 28. Col. Henry H. McClune of San Antonio Texas faced trial today in the fourth and final court martial over alleged cruelty to American prisoners in the Theresburg Germany disciplinary barracks. Three officers who served under him as commanding officer at the camp have already been acquitted. Witnesses said prisoners were without sufficient clothing blankets and cells reportedly unheated during January.
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Fort Mmade
Henry H. McClune
San Antonio
Texas
Therzburg
Germany
McClune
Churchill Urges Unity Against War in Brussels Rally
In Brussels on February 28 Winston Churchill urged European unity as the sole way to prevent another war. Speaking to 10,000 at Place de la Bourse, he began in English then shifted to French amid Communist heckling. Belgian Premier Spaak rebuked the crowd, while police arrested 150 hecklers including a senator and deputies.
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Brussels
Belgium
Winston Churchill
Place de la Bourse
Wall St
Europe
Churchill
Council of the European Movement
United States of Europe
Britain
Paul-Henry Sprak
Speakax
Spaak
Poland
Chamber of Deputies
Siamese naval clash triggers 11 deaths in Bangkok
In Bangkok a Saturday night clash between Siamese army and navy units left 11 people dead and many injured. The government blamed plotters who seized Radio Bangkok and urged a return to order as Direk Jayanam denied involvement. Navy units were deployed after six sailors were disarmed near a bridge.
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Bangkok
Phibunnggram
Direk Jayanam
Great Britain
Radio Bangkok
Direk
Navy
K Jen
Wife Slain and Baby Buried Alive at Nudist Camp
Fairfax report states J Charles Holober 40 confessed to shooting his wife Mia Frances Holober 37 three times and burying her in a nudist camp grave. He then buried their eight month old daughter June alive when the gun jammed. Victims had been missing since Friday and were found in a shallow improvised grave as searches neared the camp main building.
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Fairfax
Salghter
J. Charles F. Holober
Washington
D. C
George E. Cook
Holober
Mia
Frances
June
Princess Elizabeth and Philip Attend Home Exhibition Visit
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh appeared together in public for the first time since Prince Charles's birth. The royals attended an ideal home exhibition staged by the Daily Mail at the View Model Home display in London.
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London
Elizabeth
The
Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Charles
Daily Mail
Woman Poses as Man Till Quarrel With Kin
Denver scene unfolds as Billia Morrison, long masquerading in male attire, argues with her daughter Judy after a bar dispute. Police arrest mother and daughter for investigation. Morrison left her husband after marriage and has lived as a man in Texas towns and Denver for years.
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Denver
Morrison
Texas
William Sanders
Sanders
Judy
Amarillo
Stage Version of Book Banned in Santa Barbara
A stage version of Pat Frank’s satire Mr. Adam was banned in Santa Barbara for tasteless content. The world premiere planned before March 12 at the Lobere Theater was halted by the Lobere Foundation executive committee, which controls the house, deeming the play unsuitable for a public theater.
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Santa Barbara
Mr. Adam
Lobere Theater
Lobere Foundation
Playhouse
Pat Frank
New Snows Block Roads in East North Dakota
Snowstorm disrupts travel across the central states with heavy accumulation in the east and blizzard conditions in North Dakota. Officers in charge of Operation Snowhound push to clear roads amid winds up to 35 miles per hour, while flooding fears ease along the Missouri and nearby rivers. Rescue planes deliver supplies to snowbound residents in Idaho, and a Coast Guard boat sustains damage after striking a submerged log near Port Townsend.
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Midwest
Weather Bureau
Newark
Fifth Army
North Dakota
Missouri River
Plattsmouth
Nebraska
Leavenworth
Kan
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Missouri
Sumner
Chariton
Noveninger
Des Moines
Eddyville
Iowa
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South Dakota
Atlanta
Idaho
Port Townsend
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Louis H. Breininger
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Finland
Los Angeles
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Gen. Clay
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Chicago
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H. W. Schultz
Swift Research Laboratories
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