Eisenhower defense plan calls for threefold military buildup
Washington AP General Dwight D Eisenhower proposes a three point plan to strengthen national defense. He urges Alaska airfields with a permanent ground force and radar, modern aircraft for the 49th group first line Air Force backed by a 12 group Air National Guard reserve, and funds for a new anti submarine Navy force with destroyers small carriers and other equipment. Senator Elmer Thomas says the letter justifies changes to the 1951 defense budget and supports Eisenhower’s proposals while noting cost estimates of three to five billion dollars.
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Loyalty oath ruling upheld by UC board
The UC loyalty oath must be taken by April 30 or face dismissal. The board of regents tied 10 to 10 over rescinding the oath provision. Gov. Warren supported the oath with backers led by Edward F. Leylan. University President Robert Gordon sided with Warren.
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University of California
Earl Warren
San Francisco
Edward F. Leylan
Goodwin J. Knight
Robert Gerden
Gov. Warren
Arren
Spreul
Census Takers Begin Nationwide Count In 1940
Census workers start counting the U S population with an estimate near 151 million plus territories. They will collect names ages race occupations and home ownership while farm forms pose only three questions. Income questions face possible opposition but are treated as confidential for statistical use.
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Washington
United States
Lustron May Get 30 Day Lease in Receivership Case
In Columbus the Lustron prefabricated housing firm faces a possible additional 30 day lease under RFC review. The RFC seeks court permission as judge Mell G Underwood considers extending the firm’s receivership begun after most government loans defaulted.
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Columbus Ohio State Journal
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U. S
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Thenes Oy
Si Wala Lustron
Federal Court
Carin Strandlund
Chicago
Philip Kultznick
Lustren Management
Truman to Face Census Taker in Key West Journey
President Harry S Truman travels by train with Margaret and Rear Admiral Dennison to Key West Florida for the 1950 census kickoff. A local census taker will interview the trio on the first day, pledging all answers will be confidential and not used for taxes or prosecutions.
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Miami
Washington
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Steelworkers Stage Strike In Portsmouth
In Portsmouth the Detroit Steel division plant kept essential departments running as about 4 000 workers walked out unexpectedly in sympathy with a pay grievance of wire drawers in the rod and wire department. Raymond A. Gulley USW director said blast furnaces continued due to furnace damage and that no dispute or reason for the stoppage was known.
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Detroit Steel Corporation
Cio-United Steelworkers
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Gulley
Chinese Reds Invasion Of Hainan Island Updates
Reports say Communist forces began a new assault on Hainan Island off the South China coast. Nationalists claimed control with fragments noting 19 of 40 Red ships sunk and 1,000 Reds ashore before being contained, with 200 surrendering at another point.
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Luichow Peninsula
South China
Foreign Aid Bill Clears House Amid Fresh Attacks
The Administration backed aid bill totaling 3.1 billion dollars passed the House 247 to 185 after a week of intense lobbying. Opponents plan new onslaughts in the Senate as the measure moves forward, with amendments reducing farm purchases and halting aid to Britain under Ireland’s partition context. The package retains the Point Four program to assist developing nations.
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Ireland
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United States
Ohio Democrats Split on Foreign Aid Vote in House
The Ohio delegation divided along party lines in a key foreign aid vote. Eleven Democrats and three Republicans supported the $3.9 billion bill while one Democrat and six Republicans opposed. two Republicans were noted as paired against the measure.
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Haye
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Young
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GOP Senator Proposes Bipartisan Approach to Foreign Policy
Senator Ferguson of Michigan urged inviting Republicans to join in major foreign policy decisions to counter President Truman and Senate factions. Bridges and Senators Wherry and McCarthy criticized the President, saying State Department officials were blocked in handling Cold War issues and urging a fuller briefing with both parties.
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Kreadin
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Tee
Viet Toreian Minster
Bomb Explosion Fuels Massillon City Fracas
A blast struck a Tremont Street building in Massillon near the square late last night injuring no one. The three story structure housed the Ehom Salex Company a juke box vendor causing shattered windows and a downtown traffic jam as residents gathered to view the scene. Police ponder immediate motives.
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Massillon
Tremont
April Fool Warning for a Day of Pranks and Caution
A historic note warns readers to be wary on April Fools Day. It urges not to trust fake messages or offers, advises watching for household pranks and risky bets, and reminds readers that the day is dedicated to harmless tricks. The tone is playful yet cautionary.
Truman Faces Problem As Gas Bill Passes By Two Votes
President Truman confronts a split Democratic caucus as the House approves a bill barring the Federal Power Commission from setting gas delivery prices to consumers. The measure passed 176 to 14 after Speaker Maybank pressed the vote, with concerns over higher costs to northern and eastern customers and influence by special interests.
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Washington
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Gee Bell
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Harvard Professor Dies in Hotel Plunge in Boston
Francis Otto Matthiesen, 48, Harvard history and literature tutor, fell from the 12th floor of the Hotel Manger in Hoston. A note requested burial next to his mother in Springfield and named Harvard Professor Kenneth Murdock and Mrs. Harold Newbrant as contacts. Professor Murdock said Matthiesen had visited him earlier and appeared in extreme low spirits, with a nervous breakdown noted five years ago.
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Harvard
Francis Otto Matthiesson
Springfield
Mass
Kenneth B. Murdock
Harold George Newbrant
North Tarrytown
Murdock
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Matthiessen
Thomas Emmet Moore Dies Aged 89 Noted Cincinnati Writer
Private funeral services will be held Sunday for Thomas Emmet Moore 89 a novelist and poet who died yesterday He formerly published the Jackson Sun and Wellston Daily Sentinel and was chief social writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer and worked on the Dayton Herald.
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Wellston Daily Sentinel
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Lattimore Attacks McCarthy as Miserable Base Creature
Owen Lattimore arrived in the United States and called Senator McCarthy a base and miserable creature. He criticized McCarthy’s charges and said he would face Senate questions when required, while awaiting further testimony at the Hartford? Morite Hotel in Manhattan.
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Owen Lattimers
United States
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McCarthy
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Reese
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Fortes
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Lewis
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Worker finds hat buried after three years in Cincinnati
Angelo Tertse, a test relman for Cincinnati Ges land Electric, recovered his hat yesterday after a cave-in during sewer digging. He identified the battered cap by the badge still attached, finding it buried in dirt at the site.
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Angelo Tertse
Gesland Electric Company
Man Burns Wife Child to Death and Hangs Himself
In Zanesville Ohio a mother and her daughter burned to death in a four room home. Cecil Norris, 38, was found hanged from a tree about 100 yards from the house. The coroner said Norris had threatened to end his life and that his wife and daughter may have been killed in a prior health incident.
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Diene
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Myre
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Peerby Tee
Senate
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Cecil Norris
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Aid Norris
Czechs Lay Churchmen Enter Pleas Of Guilty
Catholic monks in Czechoslovakia face treason espionage and anti state charges at Prague State Court trial. Ten abbots and monks are involved with two pleading guilty to high treason, others partly guilty and some innocent, with Vatican spying alleged and sessions hampered by limited admission.
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Olomouc University
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