West and Soviet inch toward Berlin blockade accord
In New York a cautious, hopeful mood grew after a two and a half hour Jessup Malik talk. Western officials said no jokers in the Russian plan and a Four-Power Council meeting could be set for Paris in late May to discuss Germany. Cadogan and Chauvel may join, with Paris as a likely venue.
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Russia
Berlin
United States
Philip C. Jessup
Jakob A. Malik
Jessup
Malik
Tas
France
Britain
Council of Foreign Ministers
Park Avenue
Alexander Cadogan
Jean Chauvel
United Nations
Paris
Germany
Washington
Washington To Tell Secretary of State
Dean Acheson
Cadogan
Moscow radio assails warmongers in United States and Britain
Moscow radio accused the United States and Britain of mad plans for world domination following New York talks on the Berlin problem. Pravda cited May Day editorials praising peace efforts and warned that warmongers would not prevail. An AP dispatch noted cautious Moscow views on possible Berlin blockade relief and resumption of Council of Foreign Ministers meetings.
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London
Moscow
New York
Berlin
United States
Britain
Pravda
Communist Party
Wall Street
Germany
Japan
Soviet Union
Truman
Russia
Malmedy Case Probers May Go To Europe
Washington AP says Senate Armed Services subcommittee chair Senator Baldwin plans a possible trip to Europe to question German witnesses. Hearings expect about ten more sessions, amid conflicting testimony on the Malmedy massacre trials. Gordon Simpson testified that all death-sentenced defendants were present and participated.
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Malmedy
Europe
Baldwin
R - Conn
Armed Services Subcommittee
Germany
Belgium
Gordon Simpson
Texas Supreme Court
Procter and Gamble Cuts Crisco Prices
The Procter and Gamble Company announced a price reduction of two cents per pound on Crisco vegetable shortening and smaller cuts on larger bars of Ivory soap. The cuts, due to current manufacturing costs, are effective immediately.
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Cincinnati
Procter and Gamble Company
Body Recovered in Sandusky River Tragedy
Police and firemen recovered the body of 10 year old Paul Halbisen of Fremont Ohio from the Sandusky River aided by grappling hooks. He was the son of Norbert and Mrs Halbisen and one of a nine child family. A playmate Ronald McCoy nine reported the boy jumped from a rowboat to retrieve a paddle and drowned after a call for help.
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Paul Halbisen
Sandusky River
Norbert Halbisen
Ronald McCoy
Columbus Man Rounds Out Life At 73
Rol lie Clark Ebright, 73, father of State Treasurer Don H. Ebright, died yesterday from a cerebral hemorrhage. He served as a New York Central Railroad dispatcher for 40 years until his retirement in 1938.
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Columbus, O
Rollie Clark Ebright
Don H. Ebright
New York Central Railroad
Lewis Buys Time for Separate Coal Talks with Southerners
Washington AP John L Lewis of the United Mine Workers agreed to bargain separately with southern coal producers. In a letter to Joseph E Moody of the Southern Coal Producers Association he proposed talks begin around June 6 at Bluefield Virginia and extend to other producing areas. Moody asked for separate negotiations rather than nationwide bargaining as last year. Lewis called this a proper notice and accepted Moody's open conferences proposal.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Producers
The
United Mine Workers
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Bluefield
Moody
Lewis
Slayer Pays Death Penalty for Toledo Bar Murder
Ohio prisoner Andrew Berry 45 died in the electric chair at 8 09 p m for the machine gun slaying of Toledo bartender Emanuel Watkins during a November 8 1947 holdup at the Switch Inn Berry showed no emotion as guards strapped him in Calabria Berry’s companion was also convicted and given a life sentence.
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Ohio
Toledo
Andrew Berry
Sandusky
Jnhead
Berry
Emanuel E. Watkins
Watkins
Louis Calabria
Calabria
Steve Babcheck Sentenced for Axe Murder of Wife in Ohio
Warren Ohio AP reports Steve Babcheck 75 was sentenced to life imprisonment for the axe murder of his wife Katherine 65 last February. He pleaded guilty to a first degree murder count before a three judge court.
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Warren, O
Steve Babcheck
Katherine
Cooperation Pledged In Liquor Raids In Elmwood Place
Cincinnati mayor Otto Hasler pledged cooperation in future liquor raids but called for accountability if innocent people are arrested. The mayor referenced Frank Acton of the State Liquor Department, amid ongoing probes into alleged wide open gambling in Elmwood Place. Acton left for Columbus as officials plan continued raids in Cincinnati area and Middletown to curb gambling in licensed liquor stores.
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Acton
Cincinnati
Otto 8. Hasler
Elmwood Place
Hasler
Frank M. Acton
State Liquor Department
Columbus
State Department
L. Fleckner
Master
Fleckner
Greater
Middletown
Reds Close on Hangchow Near Shanghai Front
Communist columns cut to 23 miles from Hangchow as Sin Wan Pao reports government workers evacuated and militia taking over police duties. Shanghai garrison confirms one column at Teching and Nationalists withdraw from Wukang. seven Nationalist armies allegedly trapped northwest of Hangchow.
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Shanghai
Hangchow
Sin Wan Pao
Teching
Wukang
Nanking-Shanghai-Hangchow Triangle
Ford Dispute Decision Is Due Monday
Detroit AP report says high councils of the CIO United Auto Workers hold strike sanctions for 60,000 Ford employees with no decision expected until Monday. International executives met with workers at Ford Rouge Plant while Rouge Local 600 charges of a speed up halted production and 1,500 idle. 275 trim and cushion line workers quit as inquiry began. A previous sanction targeted 5,000 Lincoln Mercury workers on a similar charge. A Rouge strike could disrupt Ford’s full system and about 110,000 people.
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CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
UAW
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Great Rouge
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Local 600
Lincoln - Mercury
Senate Deadlock Over Federal Aid to Education
Washington AP report describes Senate debate over a $300 million federal aid to education bill focusing on how to allocate funds. Senator Lodge proposed a $10 annual payment per public school child, challenging the bill’s complex formula based on child counts and state income.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Lodge
Rmass
Soviets To Free British Police
Berlin AP dispatch reports Russian authorities told Britain they would release by midafternoon three British military policemen seized last night on the Soviet sector border. The detentions followed a raid by Communist police on a city-owner farm that straddles the British Soviet zone boundary. The British protested the action.
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Berlin
Administration Fights Back Against Drive To Cut Costs
Washington AP report on the administration resisting a Republican bid to cut five percent of government operating funds. Senator Myers says an effort to restore almost 11.4 million in labor and Federal Security departments funds will be made next week. Ferguson’s five percent cut plan failed in the Appropriations Committee but may return in the Senate where two-thirds support is uncertain.
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Appropriations Committee
Ferguson
R-Mich
Treasury Post Office
McKellar
D-Tenn
Hayden
D-Ariz
Russell
Dga
White House
Truman
Cordon
Oregon
Young
North Dakota
Coplon Trial Adjourned After Recess in Espionage Case
The Coplon espionage trial paused as testimony showed Judith Coplon reviewed secret FBI reports after being told to stop. Ruth M. Rosson, DOJ attorney, testified the judge adjourned the case until Monday. Former boss Foley said Coplon was instructed in late January to halt related work and sought access to a top secret FBI report on Russian agents.
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Judith Coplon
FBI
Ruth M. Rosson
Justice Department
Internal Security Section
Albert L. Reeves
Miss Coplon
William E. Foley
Foley
Pohl Death Sentence Stayed After Allied Ruling
General Lucius D. Clay announced the death sentence for Oswald Pohl, Himmler’s No. 2 man, but Pohl received a stay of execution while appealing to U S courts. The report notes the decision was confirmed in Berlin.
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Lucius D. Clay
Oswald Pohl
Heinrich Himmler
Pohl
United States
Norwalk man elected VP of Customs Relations Council
Charlie W. Hoke of Norwalk Ohio was elected vice president of the Customs Relations Council at the American Trucking Association spring meeting in Cincinnati AP reports.
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Cincinnati
Charlies W. Hoke
Norwalk
Customs Relations Council
American Trucking Association
Farm Program Proposed By Grange Head
Washington AP The head of the National Grange proposed a farm program to solve marketing problems without cash subsidies. Albert S. Goss urged a Farm Commission of producers processors and distributors to tailor plans per situation with access to government data for guidance. He opposed Brannan's income formula and direct subsidy payments. The House Agriculture Committee studied the price support program during a recess.
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National Grange Today
Albert S. Goss
House Agriculture Committee
Goss
Brannan
House
Senate
Russian Roulette claims another life in Cleveland area
Gus Poppek, 59, died after reportedly loading a 22 caliber revolver with one bullet and firing it at his head. His wife told Willowick police the man twirled the chamber and uttered a fatal line. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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Cleveland
Gus Poppek
Poppek
Willowick Olice
Plane Missing From Berlin Flight Investigated
A four engined British airlift plane with a crew of four vanished today on a Berlin to West Germany route. Search and rescue efforts were launched as officials confirmed lack of contact during the flight.
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Berlin
West Germany
Anti Communists Hit Back At Reds In May Day Ties
Anti-Communists outside the Iron Curtain plan stiff competition to the high pressure propaganda blasts the Communists will unleash during tomorrow's May Day celebrations.
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London
Iron Curtain
Truce Called On Labor Bill Fight In House
In Washington AP reports administration Democrats faced defeat as they labored to salvage their labor bill. A truce was agreed to until Tuesday after a stormy four days of debate with Republicans and Southern Democrats backing a substitute bill. House Speaker Rayburn plans to oppose the Wood substitute next week while debates continue. Pravda urged antiwar fervor in Moscow as Western Europe braces for Cold War fault lines and De Gaulle rallies supporters in France.
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Lesinski
D-Mich
Labor Committee
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D-Ga
Halleck R Toays
GOP
Rayburn
D-Tex
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Britain
Pravda
Moscow
U. S
Red Square
Iron Curtain
Europe
Germany
France
Charles de Gaulle
Heavy Rains Hit South Into Kentucky States
The south saw four straight days of rain from the Carolinas to Kentucky as showers spread northward. The Weather Bureau logged heavy rain in parts of the southern belt while western plains, northern Rockies, and Texas coast also saw wet weather. Elsewhere, skies cleared with high temperatures in central states, Williston North Carolina reaching 91 and Atlanta 50.
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Carolinas
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
U. S. Weather Bureau
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Rockies
Texas
Williston
N. C
Mercury
Atlanta
Whisky Blaze Burns Edinburgh Warehouse Fire
A fire ripped through a suburban Edinburgh warehouse last night burning one million gallons of export bound Scotch whisky. Flaming liquid flowed into the street as the casks burst and the blaze spread through the building. Fire crews battled the flames amid dense smoke.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Man admits double Lovers Lane slayings in Beckley case
Charles Brown, 20, confessed to the 1947 double murder of E. Ray Bailey and Nellie Mae Rand near Beckley W Va after being caught attempting a taxi hold up. Police report Brown foggy on details and say he claimed the crime occurred in 1948. He is detained without charge.
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West Virginia
Beckley
W. Va
Charles Brown
E. Ray Bailey
Nellie Mae Rand
Black Night Country Club
Brown
Thomas Brown
Bailey
Rand
May Day in Tokyo and Korea prompts occupancy advisories
General MacArthur's headquarters urged Americans in Tokyo to stay indoors tomorrow during May Day marches led by Communists and labor groups to prevent accidents. Authorities estimate about 600,000 will gather at Imperial Plaza. In Seoul, U S Army and police sought crowd avoidance and arrested around 100 Koreans as a precaution against Communist directed violence.
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MacArthur
Japan
Imperial Plaza
South Korea
Seoul
May Day clashes and rallies across Europe and beyond
Communists in Rome and across Europe plan rival May Day parades and meetings amid political friction. In West Berlin police brace for disorder while Britain restricts processions and Poland swells Warsaw with red banners for its pro Soviet demonstration. Israel, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Canada also see labor actions or demonstrations as tensions rise.
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Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Paul Robeson
Stockholm
Social Democrats
West Berlin
U.S
Labor Party
Britain
London
Union Movement
Oswald Masley
Trafalgar Square
Attlee
Lakenham
England
Warsaw
Poland
Tel Aviv
Israel
Montreal
Students Take Over City Offices in Citizenship Day
High school pupils seized city offices in New Philadelphia Ohio as part of National Youth Week activities. The event featured students stepping into roles at various municipal departments to learn civic processes and responsibilities.
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