Grand Jury Opens Secret Inquiry Into Mickey Cohen Case
The County Grand Jury began a secret investigation into Mickey Cohen and the beating of radioman Albert Pearson, with two of Cohen’s associates jailed on suspicion of murder. Witnesses were called as Cohen and two henchmen, James Rist and Eli Lubin, faced new charges and potential political fallout emerged from the case.
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Rummel
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Atlantic-treaty debate delays aid bill vote
Senator Donnell cited European leaders viewing the North Atlantic Pact as a moral pledge to defend each ally. Bonnell’s delay halted the $5.58 billion foreign aid authorization as Senate leaders consider postwar defense talks with Soviet Russia. Democratic leaders rally to block cuts, while Taft pursues a smaller European aid package and Lucas seeks a final vote today.
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R.-Mo
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Western
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Love Knows No Barriers Chicago Chef Weds Viennese Beauty
Sam Hedge, a 60-year-old Chicago chef, wooed and won Getta Rauch, a 30-year-old Viennese woman. They met via mail, he proposed by telephone, and he plans to travel to Austria in June to marry and possibly start a shared business. Hedge cites their age difference as no obstacle to happiness.
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Getta Rauch
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Rauchs
Rent-control Conferees Get Nowhere At First Meeting
Washington March 25 AP conferees from Senate and House made little progress on rent control. They failed to resolve key provisions including home rule decontrol and governor approval for local removals. House and Senate bills differ on expediter hearings and rent ceiling rules with timing for increases.
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Smith resigns as Ambassador to Moscow for Army duty
President Truman accepted Walter Bedell Smiths resignation as Ambassador to Moscow shortly after Smith asked to return to Army service. Smith, a lieutenant general, is expected to command the First Army on Governor's Island New York Harbor.
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Truman
Walter Bedell Smith
Moscow
White House
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Charles G Ross
First Army
Governor's Islands
New York Harbor
Sampsell Caught at Phoenix L A Holdup Admitted
PHOENIX March 25 ER Lisyd Edison Sampsell listed by the FBI as a top 10 criminal was captured at Sky Harbor Airport. FBI and Phoenix police arrested him en route to Kansas City after he admitted staging a 8700 bank holdup in Los Angeles. He denied involvement in a San Diego finance firm murder last March.
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Joplin
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W. A. Murphy
Folsom
San Francisco
Tornado in South Kills 5 Injures 20 in Mississippi
Greenville Mississippi March 1 ABA tornado struck a plantation area late last night killing five Negroes and injuring twenty others.
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Flames destroy mess hall at Long Beach air base
Firefighters battled a two alarm blaze that swept the consolidated mess hall at the Long Beach Air Force Reserve Training Center. The U shaped building housed a $35,000 remodel and could serve over 1000 men. The north wing sustaining post exchange suffered smoke damage while officials assessed whether the structure must be condemned.
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Twisting Winds Tear Roofs Off Dallas Buildings
March 25 dispatch reports twisting winds and hail tearing roofs across Dallas and Seymour with six Cedar Crest buildings losing roofs. A former Skyline Airport aluminum hangar was demolished. nearby crop dusting plane lifted into wires. a trailer blown apart. Dallas homes unroofed. a stairway ripped from a Rio Grande Building and flattened brick walls. Lightning set a home afire and two oil tanks burned at Kilgore.
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Rio Grande
Bert Worth
Kilgore
Russians Step Up Firing Near Berlin Air Corridors
In Berlin on March 25, amid persistent protests from the three western powers, Soviet forces intensified firing and bombing drills over the air corridors used for the Berlin airlift. The actions come as tensions over access to Berlin escalate and military exercises continue along the Western Allied routes.
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Wyman and Olivier Win Movie Academy Oscars
Wyman and Olivier win the Academy Awards in a celebrity gala. Coverage outlines ceremony highlights and reactions from the winners with downtown excitement and industry praise.
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Wyman
Olivier
Planes Pushing Hunt for Crash Victims
At Westover Army Air Base Massachusetts on March 25 a C-82 transport crashed in Labrador West over Field with three or four Army personnel aboard. The incident prompted a search as officials awaited details from the scene and the extent of casualties remained unclear.
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Labrador
Westover Field
Axis Sally Gillars Convicted of Treason and Fined
Gillars known as Axis Sally was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison for treason. Federal Judge Edward Curran also imposed a $10,000 fine and automatic loss of citizenship on conviction. The 48 year old Maine born actress faced appeals as her attorney planned to seek a new trial.
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Edward M. Cur
Iran
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James J. Laughlin
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Douges, Chandler
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Hest
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Axis Sally) Gillars
Federal District Court
Washington, D. C
Edward M. Curran
Associated Press
Police Guard Leftist Parley in Manhattan
Hundreds of pickets sang and prayed as about 8000 people marched at New York Citys Waldorf Astoria Hotel to protest the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace. Police numbered about 100 to maintain order during the three day event billed as a forum for Communist propaganda by the State Department.
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New York
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Park Avenue Hotel
State Department
Alice in Wonderland Tale Ends With Police Action
A 37-year-old University of Pennsylvania instructor Nicholas Newlin was jailed on a hit-and-run charge after mistaking a patrolman for a robber. He claimed a mattress fire on Providence Road prompted his flight and that a black car pursued him on a lonely Springfield Township road.
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