Chinese Reds Watch Big Four Conference For Relations Guide
Chinese Communist leaders monitor the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference as a guide for relations with the United States Britain and France. Observers say the Paris outcome will influence Red contact patterns with the West amid rising U.S. Red friction over Mukden and the Amethyst incident. Annis Foust, 19, was killed by a car near Dayton Ohio while getting off a bus on Route 4.
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Nanking
Paris
United States
Britain
France
Russia
U. S
Mukden
Red Manchuria
U.S. State Department
Peiping
O. Edmund Clubb
U.S
Angus Ward
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Dayton, O
Annis Foust
Here
Reds Expected To Turn Down West Demand
Paris dispatch reports Russia was likely to reject Secretary of State Acheson’s demand to lift the Berlin blockade by Monday. Western authorities said an East West trade pact, near completion, could take effect soon if the Berlin rail strike ended and Soviet rail managers met strikers’ demands.
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Paris
Russia
Dean Acheson
Berlin
Acheson
Russian Officers Fight Rioting Railway Strikers in Berlin
Four fistfighting Russian officers repelled a mob of about 200 railway workers who invaded the American sector headquarters of the Soviet controlled Berlin railway. Western police then guarded the building per U S military government orders after Soviet commandant Kotikov filed a complaint. Rail strikers picketed and kept staff from reporting as the building was briefly occupied late last night until the Russians arrived and dispersed the crowd.
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Berlin
U. S
Alexander Kotikov
Spree Canal
Stalin
Lenin
Ohio Houses Vote On Time Question In Ohio
In Columbus the Ohio House advanced a constitutional amendment proposal by 88 to 27 to require standard time and drop daylight saving time. Senate approval would refer the measure to voters next November amid debate over keeping current law versus a broader time shift.
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Columbus
Ohio
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Stark County
George W. Kirkpatrick
Knox
Strike Planned By United Mine Workers To Support Lewis
Washington AP reports 450,000 United Mine Workers begin a week long strike Monday to bolster John L Lewis economics critique. He says shutdown targets 52 day coal surplus and stabilizes industry, aiding bargaining for a new contract due June 30. Industry mixed but some producers welcome reduced cargo and income strain.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Walter R. Thurmond
The
Southern Producers Association
UMW
John L
Three Killed As Storm Hits Nebraska Town
BELVIDERE Nebraska AP a tornado struck the southeastern village of about 300 killing three and wounding seven. The cafe dance hall two story brick building was leveled and nearby buildings damaged cutting power water supply and littering the street. Victims were Orville Belle Jr 11 Dwayne Kilcaid 22 and Elmer Polage 29 all in the cafe hall. Eight injured were treated at Hebron and Hastings none critically. Two additional tornadoes were sighted at Hebron eight miles away causing farmland damage.
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Belvidere
Neb
Nebraska
Orville Belle, Jr
Dwayne Kilcaid
Marysville
Kas
Elmer Polage
Hebron
Hastings
Here
Plane found in sea off Cozumel Island Merida Mexico
A nine foot long plane marked property of Army Air Forces was recovered from the sea two miles off Cozumel Island by a fishing boat. The gasoline craft had a six foot wingspan and appears to have been radio guided with no sign of a pilot aboard.
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Merida
Mexico
Army Air Forces
Cozumel Island
Yucatan Peninsula
Lewis call for strike assailed amid Taft-Hartley debate
Senators bitterly criticized John L. Lewis after he ordered a week long shutdown of coal pits, threatening the injunction provision of the Taft-Hartley Act. The move, denounced by Lewis as a repeal demand, intensified efforts in Congress to scrap or limit the law’s court order mechanism.
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Lewis
Philip Murray
CIO
William Green
AFL
Murray
Green
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Capitol
Senate
The
Four Children Die In House Fire Near Sipesville Pa
A blaze at a home near Sipesville eight miles north of Somerset, Pennsylvania killed four children aged one to six. Parents Charles and Mrs Faidley survived badly burned and could not provide a clear account. The victims were Gilbert six Barbara Diane four Charles Barron Jr two and Mary Anna one.
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Somerset
Sipesville
Pennsylvania
Charles Faidley
Somerset Community Hospital
Gilbert
Barbara Diane
Charles Barron, Jr
Mary Anna
Atom Probers View Shipping Of Materials
Senator Knowland pressed the atomic inquiry accusing the Atomic Energy Commission of loose control over shipments of vital atomic materials. He sought access to secret AEC documents tied to the uranium-235 loss from Argonne National Laboratory, a case linked to broader charges of AEC mismanagement and calls to remove Chairman Lilienthal.
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Atom
Washington
Atomic Inquiry
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Knowland
R-Cal
AEC
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
FBI
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Hickenlooper
Iowa
David EB. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
12th Convict Recaptured Near New Martinsville
Denver Vannest described as the most dangerous of 14 West Virginia prison escapees was found asleep beneath trees at New Martinsville. His capture leaves two fugitives still at large. Vannest, 35, was serving 25 years for armed robbery and malicious wounding.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Denver Vannest
West Virginia State Prison
New Martinsville
Vannest
Wife Of Chambers To Testify In Hiss Case Trial
Esther Chambers, wife of Chambers, is expected to take the stand as a government witness in federal court to support her husband who accuses Alger Hiss of espionage. The Maryland farm, a revealed site for microfilms of government secrets, figures prominently as the case unfolds.
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NEW York
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Esther Chambers
Maryland
Hiss
Chambers
Priscilla Hiss
Atomic Plant Strike Threat Is Averted By Wage Hike
In Oak Ridge Tennessee the CIO United Chemical Workers won an eight cent an hour raise for 2,000 atomic plant workers. The two year contract with Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp ends the strike threat and raises average pay to 1.67 per hour. Company and union agreed to broaden jury duty and funeral leave and improve grievance procedures and promotion raises.
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Oak Ridge. Tenn
CIO
United Chemical Workers
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
Carbide
AFL Atomic Trades and Labor Council
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
AFL
Hunger and cold force two reformatory escapees to surrender
CHILLICOTHE, D. AP Hunger and cold drove two federal reformatory escapees to surrender yesterday in Chillicothe Ohio James Watkins 19 of Helfin Alabama and Ellis Cook 19 of Mile stone Kentucky gave themselves up at the nearby prison less than 24 hours after escaping They wore only T shirts and light cotton trousers A third inmate Edgar Bow ker 19 of Bristol Pennsylvania also escaped but was captured about six hours later.
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Chillicothe
Federal Reformatory
James Watkins
Helfin
Ala
Ellis Cook
Milestone
Edgar Bowker
Bristol
Middletown Hosts Ohio Trapshooting Contest Welcome
Welcome sportsmen to Middletown for the Ohio State Trapshooting Contest. The notice mentions help with sleeping and light housekeeping accommodations and notes Middletonians listing rooms for rent under Want Ads classifications 40 and 41 to ease stays.
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Middletown
Wall collapse kills three fire chiefs in St Paul district
In St Paul Minnesota a brick retaining wall collapsed during firefighting at Waldorf Paper Products after a small wastepaper stockpile fire. Fire Chief Edward Novak Assistant Chief Frank McMahon and district chief Harold Bareck died. Fireman Bud Walters was seriously hurt. Loss estimated at $20000.
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ST. Paul, Minn
St. Paul
Midway
Edward Novak
Frank McMahon
Harold Bareck
Bud Walters
Ancker Hospital
Waldorf Paper Products Company
St Paul
Minneapolis
Novak
McMahon
Barck
Midway Hospital
Two Akron Workers Die In Crane Electric Shock
Two Akron men, Jack R. Boston 23 and T. D. Manthe 33, were killed at the Babcock and Wilcox plant in Barberton when a steel tape between two cranes touched a 23 000 volt line. Both men were on separate cranes when the fatal jolt occurred.
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Barberton
Akron
Jack R. Boston
T. D. Manthe
Babcock and Wilcox Company
FBI report links Hollywood figures to Communists in Coplon trial
Secret FBI file named Frederic March and other Hollywood figures as Communist Party members or fellow travelers. March denounced the report as absurd while colleagues and writers condemned the accusations, calling the investigation politically motivated and unstated.
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Washington
FBI
Frederic March
Hollywood
Judith Coplon
March
Communist Party
William J. McCarthy
Daniel F. Garde
Lionel Berman
Cultural Committee
Edward G. Robinson
Paul Robeson
Dorothy Parker
Donald Ogden Stuart
Ruth McKinney
Alfred Maltz
Alvah Bessie
Dalton Trumble
Millen Brand
Michael Blankfort
Canada Lee
Institute For Democratic Education, Inc
Daniel L. Marsh
Nesto
Moscow
Alvah Besgie
Dalton Trumbo
Justicepartment
Barto, Pa
Norman Corwin
Aerial Attack Planned Against Grasshoppers
Denver based report: USDA plans a 30 plane aerial strike loading hopper poison to sweep a 1 500 000 acre Wyoming and Montana area, the worst grasshopper nesting ground. The operation from Sheridan Wyoming targets a looming plague risk in the grain belt with a 30 day mission. Grasshoppers could threaten crops as in a prior 250 million dollar loss in the northern plains.
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Denver
Sheridan
Wyo
Wyoming
Montana
U. S. Departent of Agriculture
Jim R. Dutton
USDA
Grasshopper Control Division
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