Greek Rebel Chief Markos Is Dismissed
An underground radio broadcast claimed Markos Vafiades has been relieved of his political leadership of the Greek Communist guerrillas. The report said the central committee of the Greek Communist Party met January 31 and replaced him, with no successor named. The broadcast also announced changes to the politburo as Parliament backed the new coalition government of Themistokles Sophoulis.
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Athens
Markos Vafiades
Free Greece
Markos
Greece
Alexander Papagos
Constantine Tsaldaris
Communist Party
Greek Communist Party
Mount Grammos
Themistokles Sophoulis
China opens provisional capital in Canton as tensions rise
China moves government functions to Canton with Sun Fo and Wu Te-Chen arriving from Shanghai while Li Tsung Jen remains in Nanking awaiting a peace deal. Technically Nanking stays as capital though many ministries are not yet ready. The 39th Army arrives from Shanghai to reinforce Canton and nearby Kwangtung as embassies relocate.
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Canton
China
Shangai
Sun Fo
Wu Te-Chen
Shanghai
Li Tsung-Jen
Nanking
Russia
Ministry of National Defense
South China
39Th
Kwangtung
Hard Sentence Demanded In Cardinal Mindszenty Trial
Budapest AP: Prosecutor Gyula Elapi calls for death by hanging for Cardinal Mindszenty and six co defendants in a treason case. The court awaits verdict as the trial moves toward closure amid world scrutiny and charges against US influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hungary
Budapest
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Rresiaing
Kalman Kicko
People’s Court
Fire damages old town hall in Hillsboro
Fire partially destroyed the town hall in Hillsboro forcing the removal of two prisoners from the jail and threatening the fire department. Flames confined to the second story of the 75 year old structure and brought under control after a two hour battle. Three village fire trucks were driven from the building with aid from Greenfield Leesburg and Wilmington. Downstairs damage from water only with no immediate damage estimate.
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Hillsboro
Greenfield
Leesburg
Wilmington
Detroit man in custody in police death case
Arthur Benner Jr., 30, of Detroit, was in custody in Florida on a murder charge. The rookie officer George Biggs, 24, was killed November 3, 1948, during a holdup in Cleveland as two bandits fled.
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Sarasuia
Fla
Arthur Benner, Jr
Detroit
Fremont
George Biggs
Cleveland
Capital Of Iran Under Martial Law After Unsuccessful Try To Assassinate Young Ruler
Tehran under martial law after an assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. A would be gunman Fakhr Raiee, a newspaper reporter, fired five shots as the shah entered Teheres University for an anniversary event, injuring none severely while Raiee was beaten by bystanders. The telegraphed report notes Iran's oil wealth and long political unrest surrounding the shahs western alignment and recent divorce from Princess Fawzia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iran
Tehran
Mohammed Reza _ Pahlevi
Fakhr Raiee
Raiee
Shah
Tehres University
Persia
Fawzia
Egypt
Farouk
Farida
Indus and
Tigris Rivers
U S Economic Status Denounced as Not Alarming
Washington AP reports a softening in economic mood with falling prices and rising unemployment, yet officials insist the situation is not alarming. Stocks and bonds hit lows, grain markets declined, lard prices dropped, and 2,500 Railroad layoffs added to a January rise of 2 million unemployed versus December, though 1.3 million may be holiday or nonseekers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
America
New York
Chicago
Associated Press
Chicago Board of Trade
Pennsylvania Railroad
Census Bureau
Hamilton County Sheriff Cuts Special Deputies
Cincinnati sheriff Dan Tehan announced a drastic reduction in Hamilton County special deputy badges and commissions. He cited misuse of the privilege with applicants using badges to obtain phone help discounts car purchases and access to business prospects.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Dan Tehan
Mount Yake Erupts After 97 Years Dormant
The Tokyo weather bureau reported Mount Yake erupted violently scattering ashes over a 100 mile area. The 17,900 foot volcano lies about 150 miles from Tokyo in west central Japan and last erupted in November 1852. Ash fell in four areas for about 20 minutes as winds carried ash up to 190 miles.
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Tokyo
Tokyo Weather Bureau
Mount Yake
Japan
Weather Bureau
Taft Labor Act forecast disputed in Senate hearing
Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah challenged Taft’s claim that two thirds of the Taft Hartley Labor Act would endure. Thomas, head of the Senate Labor Committee, backed a Truman administration bill to repeal Taft Hartley and restore the Wagner Act with changes. Taft argued the two thirds figure. AFL criticized him as aiming to harass unions.
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Washington
Elbert Thomas
Dutah
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Truman
Ohioan
AFL
Parole hearing set for Canton slaying conspirator Ben Rudner
Ben Rudner, 52, a Canton man and part in the 1926 Canton Editor Don R. Mellett murder, won a July 1952 parole hearing after a 2 to 1 vote by the State Pardon and Parole Commission reversing a 1937 decision. He has served 22 years of a life term and worked 15 years at London Trusty Farm.
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Columbus, O
Canton
Ben Rudner
Don, R. Mellett
Rudner
State
London Trusty Farm
Mellett
Webb Family Fire Claims Two Young Lives in Northridge
In Dayton Ohio J R Webb aged 19 died from extensive burns suffered last Tuesday when the Webb family home burned in suburban Northridge. His sister Hulie Webb 15 also perished in the blaze. Father John Webb 49 is seriously burned and in poor condition.
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Dayton
J. R. Webb
Webb
Northridge
Hulie Webb
John Webb
Mean Thief Sought Steals Eagle From Memorial
Marion police hunt a mean thief who took a 25 pound cast aluminum eagle from the World War II Veterans memorial tablet atop the courthouse. The gold leaf emblem valued at 75 dollars was removed, prompting a local inquiry.
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Marion
Bulldozers Work On Snowdrifts In Storm Aftermath
Gordon Nebraska faced continuing rescue work as Fifth Army bulldozers breached snowdrifts during Operations Snowbound. The disaster toll rose to 24 deaths linked to the blizzard, including Roy Wade, killed while adjusting a bulldozer blade. Don Higgins reported worsened need in Holt Brown counties as isolated farms lacked essentials and fuel. In Ewing grateful citizens raised 3000 dollars to buy a plane for Carl Hubel, a rancher and Navy veteran who has flown mercy missions since November.
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Gordon
Neb
Fifth Army
Nebraska
Snowbound
Ainsworth
Holt
Brown Counties
Don Higgins
Burwell
Higgins
Ewing, Neb
Carl Hubel
Hubel
Blizzard blocks U S Highway 40 in Donner Pass
A blizzard in Donner Pass stops the heavily traveled U S Highway 40 for the first time in years. Winds to 75 mph pile deep snow over 7135 feet. Crews and equipment rush to clear the route while about 150 motorists are trapped between Baxter's camp and Donner Lake, with many taken out behind snow plows.
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San Francisco
Donner Pass
Sierra Nevada
Highway Patrol
Baxter's Camp
Donner Lake
Two Planes Crash and One Missing Near New Orleans
AP reports a B 25 bomber from Keesler Air Force base crashed into Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. Eight aboard are presumed dead as wreckage and two bodies are found. search halted by fog and to resume at daybreak with diving teams. The flight originated from Keesler for navigational training to Carswell Field, Texas.
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New Orleans
Lake Ponchartrain
M. R. Roth
Keesler Air Force Base
Biloxi
Miss
Keesler
Roth
Carswell Field
Fort Worth
Texas
EL Segundo
Calif
XAJ
Pacific
Albert W. Conover Jr
Torrance
Cal
Charles E. Brown
Hawthrone
North American Aircraft
Walter B. Tan
Ton
Soviet Zone in Germany Faces Worsening Economy
A British information service survey says the Soviet Zone of Germany is in a bad way economically and likely to deteriorate further. The counter blockade by the West has hit eastern Germany’s coal, iron, steel, textiles and machine tools harder than acknowledged, while Soviet calls for “more work” yield inferior products. Radio Leipzig and Deutschland Sender acknowledge the strain amid the 1948 currency reforms. The British trace the blockade to January 1948, intensifying through June and September, as Western retaliation gradually strangled the economy.
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Burlington Railroad
Sterling
Colo
Cheyenne
Wyo
Sherman Sigler
The
Sterling Advocate
Berlin
Germany
Radio
Leipzig
Daytonian Deaths: Dayton Burglar Executed in Ohio
John Thomas a 34 year old Dayton burglar who killed two penitentiary guards and wounded a third was executed in the electric chair last night in Columbus. He entered the death chamber with the prison chaplain and recited the 23rd Psalm and prayed as the guards strapped him in, dying at 8 11 p m after a sentence begun for burglary in Dayton.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
John Thomas
Dayton
K. F E. Wall
Thomas
Samuel P. Chessir
Walter W. Zimmer
Former inmate held in woman's death
Police say a Mansfield reform school alumnus admitted killing Miss Eleanor Gifford 52, a church worker found bludgeoned in her home near Athens Ohio on January 6. Harry Dodds Jr. 20 of Carbondale confessed after a soldier tied him to the robbery and the motive was robbery.
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Athens
Police Today
Mansfield Reformatory
Eleanor Gifford
Here
George Bateman
Paul E. Brown
Harry Dodds, Jr
Carbondale
Dodds
Miss Gifford
Brown
Percy
Rawlins
Columbus
Reformatory
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
AFL Leaders On Sub Jaunt
The Navy sent two submarines to take AFL leaders on a goodwill undersea voyage. William Green declined to go but remaining AFL executive council members planned to participate if they can fit through the hatch. After four hours, participants and newsmen would receive certificates of dunking. The AFL council is in recess until Monday. It also endorsed Congress’ Taft-Hartley repeal and Wagner Act modification.
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Miami
Fla
American Federation of Labor
William Green
AFL
Navy
Pay Boost for Top Government Workers May Be Trimmed
Lawmakers signaled possible downward revisions to administration pay hikes for 223 top executives and 13,000 lesser workers. The plan would raise cabinet officials from 15 000 to 25 000 a year and boost undersecretaries to 22 500, at an estimated total cost of 1.6 million dollars.
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Washington
Murray
D-Tenn
House Civil Service Committee
Truman
Congress
House
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Economic Cooperation
Paul G. Hoffman
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Elapi
United States
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Old Town Hall
U.S
Jobles
Yake
Lewis M. Herrmann
New Jersey
International Labor Press
Amer
Roy Wade
Chadron
S Navy
California
Yokern
Fresno - Bakersfield- Inyokern
Inyokern
Walker's Pass
Jim Jorgensen
Kern River Canyon
New Haven, Conn
William F. Fox
Glendale
Knights of Columbus
Daytonian
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