Chiang Kai-Shek Announces Return As Head Of China
Chiang Kai Shek announces he will resume the presidency of Nationalist China and become commander in chief of Nationalist forces. Li Tsung Jen remains acting president in the U S for surgery recovery in New York. The defense ministry reports 3800 pro Nationalists massacred by the Communists near Shanghai with 4000 volunteers, 200 spared.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
China
TAIPEI
Nanking
Li Tsung-Jen
New York
Chiang
U.S
Formosa
Maon Tae-Tung
Russia
Shanghai
Oklahoma City Leopard Dies After Drugged Capture
Oklahoma City's escaped leopard was captured alive after being persuaded with knockout drops. Zoo staff restrained the drugged animal and recaptured it at Lincoln Park Zoo where it had returned, having fled from a 18 foot pit following its escape.
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Oklahoma City
Mickey
Julian Frazier
Lincoln Park
Chiang Kai-shek Returns to Lead Nationalist China
The text notes China has lacked a president and armed forces commander amid a grim world scene after the Mao-Tse-Tung-Stalin pact. It states Chiang Kai-shek, who led the Kuomintang, plans to return to office following public opinion pressure and the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1926.
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Red China
Russia
Chiang
Rueomintang
China
Nationalist Party
Sun Yat-Sen
Folk Opera Performed at International Folk Music Festival
At Wilmington College 65 students presented the folk opera Down In The Valley as part of the third annual festival, rehearsing in a cold auditorium due to a coal shortage. The event runs through Sunday. A derailment near Warren, Ohio, involving 22 cars of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train halted progress yesterday after a wheel or track frame failure on the middle section of the 63-car train traveling from Willard to New England.
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WILMINGTON, O
Acheson Faces Inquiry Over State Department Security
Secretary of State Acheson told the Senate Appropriations Committee he would not tolerate disloyalty in the State Department and expressed sympathy for Alger Hiss, whose conviction may be upheld or reversed. The hearing opened amid questions on security risks and possible Communist influence within the department.
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WASHINGTON (AP
Acheson
Department of State
Senate Appropriations Committee
Alger Tliss
State Department
Hliss
WASHINGTON
State Acheson
Senate appropriations
Bridges
Ferguson
R-Mich
Knowland
Calif
Senate foreign relations
Alger Hiss
department
McCarthy
R-Wis
fiveman foreign relations
Sensior Tydings
D-SMD
ime McCarthy
Goodbye February Poem by Gordon Martin
A light verse bids farewell to February as harsh winter ends and March nears. The speaker ribbingly notes snow piles and frosty scenes, then cheers the coming spring and the easing of cold winds. The mood stays playful as the calendar shifts.
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GORDON MARTIN
March
Vermilion Boy Crosses Icy Lake to Aid Stranded Students
James Moses a Vermilion High School senior swam a quarter mile through ice filled Lake Erie to reach classmates stranded on a moving ice floe near Ruggles Beach between Vermilion and Huron. He removed his clothes except shorts, reached shore bruised by ice, and guided rescuers to pull three children free. An eight officer team then freed others as the ice block drifted farther from shore.
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SANDUSKY
James Moses
Vermilion High School
Lake Erie
Ruggles Beach
Vermilion
Huron
Moses
lin
Berlin Heights
Harold Bellamy
Myron Nichols
Youths Drown As Pond Ice Breaks In Bantam
In Bantam Ohio three boys age 9 to 13 died when ice on a pond broke during a play outing. Vernon Andrews Jr 13 and Paul Eckert 9 escaped after others, including Harry Moore Jr 13 and Paul Schleuter 13, perished attempting a rescue.
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BATAVIA
Bentam
here
Paul Schleuter
Vernon Andrews
Bantam
Harry Moore
Paul
Schleuter
Paul George Eckert
Schleuter Ind
Andrews
Schieuter
Harry
Paulj Moore
Sehleuter
Shamrock Club Trio Fined After Raid in Sandusky
In Sandusky, Ohio, three men pleaded guilty in Municipal Court over a Shamrock Club raid. Kelly Corder, selling illegal liquor, fined 500 dollars plus costs with 250 suspended. Harry Hoelzer, illegal liquor sales and gambling, fined 400 dollars plus costs. M Eugene Stark, selling liquor, fined 100 dollars with 50 suspended.
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SANDUSKY
Shamrock Club
Kelly Corder
Harry Hoelzer
M. Eugene Stark
Mercy killing allegation heard in Manchester trial
In a Manchester courtroom the mercy killing of Dr. Vermann Wy Sanden is described as his wife Mrs. Reginala Borrote was cared for as she suffered from illness and the doctor was accused of ending her life. Testimony says he visited daily and provided comforts including a canary and other items to ease her misery.
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MANCHESTER
GABY
Abbie Boryntaid
Vermann
Borrote
Sanders
Sinner
atien
Borroia
Case No 9 Admits Identity On Senator McCarthy List
White House aide David Demarest Lloyd identified himself as Case No 9 in Senator McCarthy’s 81 name list of allegedly Communist linked officials. Lloyd, long with White House duties, said he once faced a loyalty board and severed ties with suspected leftist groups. The Post noted his claims amid McCarthy’s push for Senate investigations into State Department allegiances.
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WASHINGTON AP
David Demarest Llord
White House
stacy
Washington Post today
pers
McCarthy
RWis
Senate
State Department
McCarthys
Daily Worker
Captain Takes Responsibility for Missouri Grounding
Norfolk, VA AP Captain William D Brown, commanding officer of the battleship Missouri, testified at a naval court of inquiry that he alone bears the safe responsibility for the grounding in Chesapeake Bay. He said it was his duty to keep the ship safe and secure and that he did not do so. He described feeling utterly alone as far as team officers were concerned and stated he could have kept the ship in deep water.
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NORFOLK
William D. Brown
Missouri
naval ‘court
Brown
sons
pet peake Bay
Lebruary
Fire at British Commons Basement Delays Opening Session
A basement fire at the House of Commons in London sent smoke through the historic Westminster building. Fire crews arrived within ten minutes as MPs aided workers cutting through supports with oxyacetylene tools. no injuries reported and damage limited to a storeroom.
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LONDON
House of Commons
Garkhimen
Westminster
Storekeeper Kills Bandit On Third Visit
Joseph J. Werner owner of an Akron wine shop says a gunman who had robbed him twice before returned for a third, was shot by Werner at point blank range after the robber demanded his son and counted. Police identified the robber as an 80 year old Akron resident. The earlier holdups included $550 and $130.
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AKRON
K. Kreuzbure
Werner
Inn Destroyed Near Blandus ey
A fire destroyed the Auto Chi Tan three miles south of here last night causing extensive damage estimated at forty thousand dollars. Fire units battled the blaze as residents reported loud flames and smoke filling the area.
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BLANDUSEY
here
Mine Chieftain Back In Capital To Direct Fight
Government moves forward with contempt trial of the United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis amid talk of possible seizure of mines. Talks to end the strike are off as negotiations remain suspended. no White House shift toward seizure law. Lewis returns from Springfield Michigan funeral as fuel shortages deepen national distress.
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WASHINGTON
John L. Lewis
miners union
White House
Truman
Lewis
Springfield
cenno Cesc
Richmond B. Reedh
jUnited
engite
Ike
Keepy
tall
Feu
Half Million Idled By Coal Dispute Across Nation
The three week general strike by soft coal miners cripples the economy as steel plants idle thousands. More than 500000 workers, including United Mine Workers members and about 184000 railroad, steel and automobile workers, are affected with no sign of ending soon.
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PITTSBURGH
Central Pennsylvania miners' strike sustains credit access
In Johnstown, 40,000 union coal miners on a three week strike in central Pennsylvania have kept pay via three day checks and company stores still extend credit. Managers report about 1000 company-store accounts totaling over a quarter of a million dollars, with typical bills ranging up to 1500 dollars.
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JOHNSTOWN
Pennsylvania
Tense Talks Over Mine Strike And Contempt Charges
A weakening stance hints at a possible mine strike without a contract as federal authorities and the White House weigh measures. Contact negotiations between Lewis and operators followed a one hour session yesterday while the UMW fights contempt charges in federal court.
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artienil
Washington
fede selmye
minespears
White House
Prue manner
beeen
Lewis
UMW
Federal District Court
union
Quake Reported Near Japanese Islands Tracking by University
An earthquake believed to lie north of the Japanese islands was recorded today on a seismograph at John Carroll University. Fr. Henry Birkenhauer said the quake measured 3,300 miles north west of Cleveland and started around 1 a.m. EST. He warned it may have caused some damage.
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Japanese islands
ana
Jotin Car- Troll University
Henry Birkenhauer
Cleveland
Birkenhaver
Judge Succumbs const NAL AP Death lust might el
The report describes a judge succumbing in a death scene tied to a blaze and a burned body found near Wooster identified as Isaac T. Yoder, 5, with fragmentary statements about the judge and local officials.
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SORE
Morrow
s. WSS
WOOSTER. O
Isaac T. Yoder
Fire Ravages Wheeling Block Injuring Five
A large fire swept a half block in Wheeling injuring at least five and damaging three buildings. Firefighters from WV and OH battled in 28 degree weather for over an hour, rescuing about 60 people including a three month old baby from the Phillips Building as flames spread to the Arlington Hotel and adjacent structures.
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WHEELING
Wo VA
APJ
ovearuy
West Virginia
Ohio
Dinns Phillips
Phillips
Arlington Hotel
strucure
ing goods store
Colonial Hotel
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