UN Set To Answer Parley Demands
The United Nations Command plans to respond on Friday to Communist requests to resume armistice talks in Korea and is expected to say yes. The UN asked for a meeting to deliver a letter, with negotiations suspended since October. Allied officers plan a staged POW exchange and prisoner returns, including about 600 Allied POWs and thousands of Koreans and Chinese, as talks frame the exchange.
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Korea
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U. N
Saesong
Panmunjom
U.N
U. S
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Red PO
Kaesong
Sinmak
Pyongyang
Pusan
Red
United Nations
Washington
Mark Clark
Far East
Clark
Tokyo
Eisenhower urges Soviet leaders to end cold war and fund peace
President Eisenhower challenged Russia to end the cold war and disarm world. He proposed investing savings in a global fund to fight poverty and need, warning of atomic war or fear if no peace is pursued. He asked what the Soviet Union is ready to do and asserted the United States is ready to act.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Soviet Union
Korea
Indochina
Malaya
Germany
U. S
Kremlin
Flanders urges world truce plan amid Korea talks
Senator Flanders pressed President Eisenhower to seize the initiative by publicly outlining acceptable Korean truce terms after conferring with congressional leaders. He urged a phased plan including a 40 mile neutral zone, Chinese withdrawal, and free elections, paired with broader peace talks and a global disarmament framework. Senator Humphrey urged broad talks with Russia to end the Korea war through Moscow.
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Sen
Flanders
Eisenhower
Korea
Humphrey
D-Minn
Russia
U. S
Mark Clark
Hisenhower
American Society of Newspaper Editors
United Nations
United States
Congress
Sen. Humphrey
Foreign Relations Committee
Moscow
18 Killed In Separate Chicago Fires
Two fast moving fires driven by high winds killed 18 in Chicago. At Haber Screw Machine Co. 864 W North Ave a pile of more than ten bodies was found on the upper floor and 16 killed were indicated. In a nearby three story building at 1701 N Washtenaw Ave two children died and several others injured. Fire crews battled flames as survivors described a chaotic scene and authorities reported multiple casualties.
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Chicago (Ap
Chicago City News Bureau
Haber Screw Machine Co
W. North Ave
Fire Alarm Office
N. Washtenaw Ave
Florence Haislip
Haislip
Augustana Hospital
Frank Thielman
Crew Abandons Burning Vessel off Lower California
The British tanker Menestheus, 7 800 tons, had an engine room fire prompting abandonment 130 miles west of Lower California. At 4:45 a m EST the SOS reported the blaze and 60 of 80 crewmen were rescued by the Navajo Victory with the captain remaining in a lifeboat. No casualties reported and the ship was described as burning badly and a total loss.
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San Francisco
Lower California
Navajo Victory
Los Angeles
Menestheus
Walcott bill moves to end rent ceilings on millions
The House Banking Committee approved an administration opposed bill by Chairman Wolcott to knock out rent ceilings April 30 on about five million housing units in 32 states. The vote was 16 to 10 in a closed session with Republicans backing the proposal despite Eisenhower calls for an extension of general rent controls to Oct 1.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Walcot R-Mich
Wolcott
Eisenhower
Attack on U.S. sites in Shiraz prompts State Dept alert
The State Department reported mobs attacked American government offices and homes in Shiraz Iran. Officials said no American citizens are known to have been killed or injured.
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Washington
Shiraz
Iran
State Department
Girl Burns after Life Saving Rescue of Children
A 14 year old married girl, Margaret Ross, saved five children from a burning Buckroe Beach house before leaping from a window. Two little girls, Delores Baker and Shirley Bowne, died in the blaze. Fire officials cite careless smoking as the cause and note several other children survived with burns.
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Hampton
Margaret Ross
Norfolk
Delores Anne Baker
Shirley Anne Bowne
Buckroe Beach
Ross
Cleveland J. Baker Jr
Bulgarian Communist Leaders Sentenced in Vienna Trial
Bulgarian refugee sources report 11 leading Bulgarian Communist officials sentenced to up to six years hard labor in a Vienna trial ended February 21. The informants say the defendants were blamed for failures of Stalin irrigation projects still under construction in the Raschijan area.
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Vienna
Austria
Raschijan
Soviet Bloc Withdraws Catch-All Peace Plan at UN
Poland acting as the Soviet bloc's voice withdrew the Korean cease-fire section of its peace package. The move shifts support to a Brazilian resolution noting Panmunjom progress and urging armistice talks resume if needed, amid Western fears of POW hostage leverage.
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N. Y
Poland
Stanislaw Skrzeszewski
U. N
Korea
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Panmunjom
India
V. K. Krishna Menon
Vishinsky
Soviet Union
Britain
France
U. S
China
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Russia
Brazil
General Assembly
Riots Rock Buenos Aires After Peron Rally Bombings
Six killed and 92 injured as two bombs exploded during a Peron rally in Plaza de Mayo Buenos Aires. Pro-Peron mobs burned opposition HQs and the Jockey Club while police failed to curb violence. Esteban Jacyna of Herkimer New York, a circus trainer, was arrested linked to the bombing.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Plaza de Mayo
Peron
Viva Peron
Jockey Club
Esteban Jacyna
Herkimer
N. Y
Hotel Mayo
Government House
Jacyna
U. S
Brazil
Copter Drops With Adlai
A Royal Navy helicopter carrying Adlai Stevenson made a forced landing in Malaya’s jungles due to engine trouble. The craft landed in a muddy clearing at Ulu Langkat, eight miles from Kuala Lumpur. Stevenson, editor Barry Bingham and Walter Johnson were uninjured. a second helicopter ferried Stevenson to the capital.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Royal Navy
Adlai Stevenson
Ulu Langkat
Stevenson
Barry Bingham
Louisville
Red Trucks Roll Toward Korean Front Amid Fierce Battles
In North Korea, Chinese Reds push toward front lines with up to 350 troops attacking Pork Chop Ridge and other western outposts. U S Sabre jets down two Red Mig fighters as a large convoy of supply trucks moves toward the front. American and South Korean units halt multiple assaults including at Jackson Heights. California pilot Capt. Joseph McConnell downs his ninth Mig over the Suiho Reservoir. Nine B29s drop 90 tons on shelters and supply targets along the Central Front.
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Seoul
U. S
North Korea
U. N
Panmunjom
Central Korea
Calif
Korea
Brooklyn at New York Postponed by Rain
Milwaukee at Cincinnati also postponed due to cold weather as the schedule notes rain and cold air forcing delays in the day’s games.
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Brooklyn
New York
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Meteorologist Johnson Delayed By Weather For Lunch Talk
Ernest C. Johnson, meteorologist in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau in Albany, arrived late to a scheduled luncheon talk due to unexpected weather conditions.
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Ithaca
N.Y
Ernest C. Johnson
Johnson
U.S. Weather Bureau
Albany
Malan Gains Ground as Nationalists Near Majority in South Africa
South Africa reports show Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalists winning 16 of 19 key seats with early returns indicating a strong path to a formal majority. United party led by J G N Strauss captures several seats, while white voters outside Cape Province continue to favor the Nationalists amid tense polling and police presence.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Daniel Malan
Malan
United Party
J. G. N. Strauss
Nationalists
Labor Party
Bloemfontein City
Vasco
Brakpan
Pretoria City
Port Elizabeth North
Mampaass
Johannesburg
Cape Province
Uni
South A
Inca
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