East German Police Force Growth Held In Check
Allied intelligence reports say East Germany will not expand its police army beyond about 50 000 infantry trained officers while Big Four talks proceed. Bereitschaften, the Soviet Zone alert units, have grown little in 18 months and are not an army in being, though training remains extensive and regimental regrouping is underway with Soviet officers supervising new units.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Russia
Bereitschaften
Kremlin
East Germany
No Black Market in Rare Drug Cortisone Shortage Persists
New York March 8 AP reports Merck ad notes hundreds of thousands want cortisone but only tens of thousands can be produced. ox bile raw material is scarce and production cannot meet demand for the hormone. Merck says no black market exists and prices have fallen. supply remains limited under federal control. Cortisone aids rheumatoid arthritis and burns but does not cure. doctors seek more supply for widespread use.
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New York
Merck & Co
Rahway
N. J
Merck
Cortone
St. Merck
Truman Guard's Killer to Appeal Death Sentence
Oscar Collazo, Puerto Rican assassin, was convicted of first degree murder in the White House guard killing and faces a mandatory death sentence. His attorney will seek a new trial within days and may take the case to the Supreme Court if needed. Griselio Torresola, his accomplice, fired the fatal shot. Torresola died in the gun battle.
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Washington
Oscar Collazo
White House
Presiden Tasman
Federal Court
Collaza
Leo A. Rover
Rover
Supreme Court
Pvt
Lestie Coffelt
Blair House
Griselio Torresola
Collazo
Coffelt
Torresola
Bus Drivers Voting on Greyhound Offer
White from seven western states vote today on a new work contract expected to end week long strike by 5 a m tomorrow. Redding California and Medford Oregon crews reportedly approved the pact after Pacific Greyhound Lines granted a 10 percent wage increase. Union leaders said results will be released after outlying areas report.
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San
Lonely Hearts Killers Die Tonight in Sing Sing
Ossining March 8 AP the lonely hearts killers, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, face execution tonight at Sing Sing after a last meal allowance and last-ditch legal maneuvers. They were convicted of slaying Janet Fay and implicated in two other murders, with plans to appeal to the U S Supreme Court as a quadrouple electrocution looms alongside two youths in a separate case.
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Ossining
Lonely Hearts
Sing Sing
Martha Beck
Raymond Fernandez
Janet Fay
Albany
Valley Stream
Long Island
Deliphene Downing
Grand Rapids
Mich
Rainelle
Beck
Harold W. Kipp
Sing Sing Phyelean
Dewey
William Richter
Fernandez
Richter
U. S. Supreme Court
New York
John J. King
Richard J. Power
William Hope
Flushing
Korean Women Participate in Battle Confirmed
SAN FRANCISCO March 8 The Chinese Communist facio confirmed today that Red Korean women are fighting on the Korean battlefields The dispatch from Pyongyang said when war broke out Korean women joined the army and worked in factories and fields All college girls in North Korea served at the front Thousands of women volunteered in liberated southern areas Allied troops reported 500 Korean Red rifle women encountered near Yongwal at the front
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San Francisco
Facio
Associated Press
San Frans
Fyongyang
North Korea
Korea
Yongwal
Israel Warns Arabs Clashes Must Stop
TEL AVIV March 8 Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett warned that if clashes in the South Judean Hills continue Israel is prepared to take necessary countermeasures. An Israeli military spokesman said clashes began Tuesday after a land mine blew up Israeli tracks wounding four soldiers and two civilians. Large bands of armed Arabs were encountered as units combed the area near the late hill country southwest of Jerusalem.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Moshe Sharett
Judean
Jerusalem
Three GIs Found Murdered After Wounding by Reds
In the First Cavalry sector three American soldiers were found dead after a Feb. 13 attack near Koksu and Chipyong. The bodies showed they were wounded then murdered by Chinese Communists, bound together, with chest or throat wounds indicating execution after injury.
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First Cavalry Division
First Cavalry
Koksu
Chipyong
Diers
Army
Governor to Speak at Orange Festival in San Bernardino
Gov Earl Warren will speak at the opening ceremonies of the 1951 National Orange Show in San Bernardino. Marcia Barnhart of Upland will be crowned queen and actor Edward Arnold will serve as master of ceremonies. The festival runs through March 18.
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San Bernadino
Earl Warren
Marcia Barnhart
Upland
Edward Arnold
Free 8x10 Baby Photo Offer by Susan's
Famous baby photographer offers a free 8x10 portrait of your child with six poses. Susan's in The Press Telegraph runs 20 pictures monthly and awards a $100 War Bond. Bring this ad to Susan's before March 20 for a no obligation, complimentary portrait plus a sample image.
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Susan
Press-Telegram
Hollywood
Plea for U S Secrets Told in Spy Trial
In New York on March 8 AP reports the first atom spy trial opening with Max Blitcher testifying that Julius Rosenberg asked him to obtain plans and blueprints for Russia. Blitcher recounts Rosenberg probing for safe engineering students and aid while Sobell recruits him into the Young Communist League. Irving Saypol ties the alleged conspiracy to sketches of the atomic bomb and links the Rosenbergs to Greenglass and Gold in the case.
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New York
NJ Ordnance
Atom Oy
Russia
Max Blitcher
Julius Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Ethel
Morton Sobell
Blitcher
Soviet Union
United States
Elitcher
Washington
Sobell
Young Communist League
Navy Ordnance Bureau
Washington, D. C
Accuste
Young Communist ‘Leagues
Irving H. Saypol
Saypol
Hosenbergs
Greenglass
Harry Gold
Saybel
Philadelphia
Klaus Fuchs
David Greengrass
Air Force expands B-50 fleet as jets near readiness
The Air Force quietly beefs up its B-50 Superfortress fleet while awaiting the first B-47 Stratojet groups. Four groups currently operate with refueling gear, and progress includes in-flight refueling tech and adoption of C-37 Stratofreighters as tankers.
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Air Force
Boeinz Airplane Co
Seattle
World
Azores
Saudi Arabia
Philippines
Hawaii
Tucson
Ariz
Savannah
England
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