Holliday Ferrer And All About Eve Win Oscars
Judy Holliday won best actress for Born Yesterday, while Jose Ferrer captured best actor for Cyrano de Bergerac. All About Eve led with five awards, including best picture, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz took writing and directing honors, as Eve’s ensemble and Sunset Boulevard also shone.
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Holliday, Ferrer and
Eve
Hollywood
Judy Holliday
Junk Dealer
Babe
Gloria Swanson
Bette Davis
Jose Ferrer
Academy
Miss Holliday
Ferrer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Miss Swanson
Miss Davis
Billie Dawn
New York
Columbia Studios
Ethel Barrymore
France objects to being left out of defense talks
France formally protested to the United States over exclusion from Mediterranean defense meetings. Foreign Minister Schuman, visiting with President Auriol, pressed for invitation to future strategy conferences on Malta and emphasized France’s willingness to cooperate in Western defense. Officials said no promises were made and Schuman may discuss the issue again before leaving.
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Washington
France
United States
Mediterranean
Schuman
Auriol
State Department
Acheson
Malta
U.S
Europe
Truman
Free World
Cincinnati Man 95 Burned to Death at Home
Cincinnati. William H. Richards aged 95 was burned to death in his daughter’s Cincinnati home. Fire Chief John Koch reported that Richards apparently was smoking in bed in a basement room when the fire occurred.
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Cincinnati
William H. Richards
John Koch
Blind Produce Exempt From Price Control Rules
Washington AP reports products made by blind individuals and sold by non profit agencies for the blind are exempted from price control regulations by the government.
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Washington
Italian Commie Glamor Girl On Trial For Offenses Against Pope
Laura Diaz, a 30 year old glamor figure of Italy's Communist party, goes on trial in Chieti for offenses against the Pope. She testified she criticized foreign state political actions and denied the charges in a June 13 1948 speech at Ortona a Mare. A verdict was expected that night with potential penalties of one to five years in prison plus a fine.
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Chieti
Italy
Laura Diaz
Communist Party
Ortonaa-Mare
Eight-Girl Lost Crew Found Towed Back Home
An eight girl crew from St. Petersburg to Havana faced a series of mishaps on their first attempt, including a signal mix up and sails blowing out. Coast Guard assistance guided the Tropicair back to St. Petersburg after a 50 mile offshore search. skipper Le Hederman praised the crew while one member, Dottie Sherriff, wondered about future sailing.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Havana
Coast Guard
le Hederman
Hederman
Dottie Sherriff
Pat Fenner
Here
Crime Probe Gets 30 Day Extension
Senate crime probers won a 30 day extension to April 30 to finish work and consider continuing investigations into organized crime. President Truman praised efforts to curb crime while the panel weighs new laws. Contempt citations were voted for Frank Costello and others, with several witnesses facing possible contempt charges. Truman also addressed O Dwyer’s ambassador status to Mexico.
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Senate
Frank Costello
New York
Congress
Jacob
Greasy Thumb) Guzik
Chicago
Capone
Morris Kleinman
Louis Rothkopf
Cleveland
William G. O’brien
Miami Beach
John Croft
Kentucky
Air Force Sgt. Charged in Double Slaying of Californians
Riverside California reports Air Force Sgt Lawrence J Walker a 20 year old Newark New Jersey Negro arraigned on double murder charges plus five other felonies in the desert killing of Richard Cook and his wife. Bail devices were removed for fear of self harm. Walker faces a preliminary hearing set for Friday April 13 with Charlene Simpson retaining Sam Houston Allen as counsel and NAACP involvement noted.
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Riverside
Calif
Air Force
Lawrence J. Walker
Newark
N. J
Richard Cook
Walker
Charlene Simpson
Sam Houston Allen
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Allen
Walker Joay
Postal Notes Scrapped In Post Office Reform
The U S postal note will go out of use after tomorrow as the Post Office concentrates money handling in the standard money order system. The discontinuance, announced last October, accompanies an accounting simplification program using automatic card tabulating machines. After June 30 money orders will be issued in read form.
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Washington
U. S
Post Office
Post Office Department
Horse maunched after rifle bullets found on barn sill
Wingham Ontario AP report states William Kelly, a nearby farmer, brought home a box of .22 caliber bullets and placed them on a barn window sill. His horse then mauched about a dozen bullets, with no further injuries or reports to date.
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William Kelly
Kelly
Ontario
Cancer Kills Mail Deluged Michigan Boy
Six year old Bobby Hiftline died in a Detroit hospital after a relapse of cancer. His mother Mrs Henry Hiftline had appealed for letters and cards, triggering a nationwide mail flood that overwhelmed his farm home near Jasper Michigan and even filled the local post office and a Baptist church in Adrian.
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Detroit
Bobby Hiftline
Bobby
Henry Hiftline
New York
Associated Press
Jasper
Mich
Baptist Church
Adrian
Chaplain Charges of Cowardice In Changjin Retreat
Navy chaplain Lt Comdr Otto E Sporrer alleged in a San Diego interview that during the Changjin reservoir withdrawal 400 Seventh Division men feigned wounds to evacuate to Japan and that the 31st Regiment left behind dead and wounded. He also claimed 11th Marines hid wounds from doctors and tied his assertions to a magazine article charging Army officers with incompetence. The Army asked for a Far East command report in response.
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Washington
Navy
Korea
Far Eastern Command
San Diego
Otto E. Sporrer
Changjim Reservoir
Japan
11Th Marine’ Regiment
Army
F. L Parks
Mink Coat Star's Husband Declares Personal Debt
E Merl Young husband of a White House stenographer disclosed debts totaling 149 792 66 and assets worth 111 491 66 in a sworn statement requested by a Senate Banking subcommittee probing loans. He lists an $8 540 note to repay a Washington lawyer who testified purchasing the coat at a $1 000 discount.
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Washington (Ap
E. Merl Young
Senate
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Young
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corporaton
Washington
Rain Floods Sweep Southland With Deluge Hits Alabama Hard
Two days of heavy rain caused rivers to surge across thousands of acres in the Deep South. Alabama suffered the worst impact with the Cahaba and Coosa rivers flooding towns near Childersburg, displacing up to 1,000 people and prompting Red Cross and National Guard aid. Other states including Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia faced rising waters, farmland losses, and delayed spring planting as the Coosa and Tombigbee crested and threatened Montgomery and surrounding areas.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Louisiana
Cahaba
Coosa
Childersburg
Red Cross
Middle
North Atlantic States
Great Lakes
Rockies
Plateau
Truman Plans in 1952 Leave lawmakers guessing
President Truman, at a White House news conference, said he has made a decision for 1952 but will not reveal it yet. Some Democrats think he will not seek re election while Republicans assume he will not run. A forecast by Michael Calvin predicting a 56 percent re election vote was denied by Truman who had seen no White House sanction for the figure.
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Kefauver
Truman
White House
Washington
Congress
Mr. Truman
Murray
Dmont
Harry Truman
Bricker
Ohio
Michael J. Calvin
Lancaster
Calvin
Democratic National Committee
New Khainyk—A Cross of Yak and Cattle Gains Note
Soviet farm periodical Socialist Agriculture says the khainyk is here to stay with over 10 000 on collective farms in the Buryat Mongol Soviet Republic. A cross between Tibetan yak and cattle, it endures Siberian winters, finds forage under snow, protects herds, hauls heavy loads, and is docile in harness.
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Moscow
Socialist Agriculture
Buryat Mongol Soviet Republic
North Central Asia
Army estimates enemy losses in Korea reach 760000
The Army reported Communist Chinese and North Korean casualties in Korea totaled 760,300 through March 22, up 136,300 since February 20. Included are 543,000 battle deaths and 76,000 non battle losses, with 141,300 Red prisoners taken. Chinese battle casualties are 260,000 and non battle losses 31,000. North Korea count shows 139,000 captured and 2,300 Chinese taken prisoner.
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Washington
Korea
Telephone threat received by Brig. Gen. Gates at Chanute Air Base
FBI and Air Force agents probed a reported threat against Brig. Gen. Byron E. Gates daughter at Chanute Air Base in Illinois. Gates said an anonymous caller warned he would “run over” his daughter and that authorities were after him. The general and his wife Charlotte were visiting in a Southern state with children Marcia and Bennett.
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Chanute Air Base
Ill
FBI
Air Force
Byron E. Gates
Gates
Enemy Seems To Be Massing For Offensive
American big guns stalled the first Chinese Red counter thrust along the western Korean front near Uijongbu. US artillery pounded the mountain as Reds fought hard for key hills. Allied forces warned of a spring offensive and predicted a strike in April, while Ridgway’s Eighth Army holds strong positions near the 38th parallel. An American Negro unit nicknamed Fearless drove within three miles of 38 on the western front.
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Tokyo
Doughboys
Uijongbu
U. S
East Central
Chunchon
U. S. Eighth Army Command
Leif Erickson
Matthew B. Ridgway
Eighth Army
Truman
Washington
Korea
Eighty Jets In Dogfights Over Korea
Tokyo AP reports more than 80 United Nations and Red air fighters clashed above North Korea. One Russian MIG was shot down, two damaged, while U.S. planes were not hit. Flight Lt. Omer J. Levesque of the Royal Canadian Air Force, flying with the U.S. Fourth Fighter-Interceptor Wing, downed the MIG with a long burst, describing the target as rolling violently until it exploded. A first engagement saw 30 MIGs versus 38 B-29s near the Yalu River, with a Sabre retreat after a downed aircraft and two hit. In the second fight, eight F-80s tangled with 12 to 18 MIGs at 20,000 feet over Sinuiju. no casualties.
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Tokyo
United Nations and
Red
North Korea
Omer J. Levesque
Royal Canadian Air Force
U.S
Sinuiju
Epidemics Ravage North Korea Amid World War II News
An inform ed military source reports thousands of deaths among soldiers and civilians in Red Korea from smallpox typhus and typhoid. The shortage of doctors and ineffective vaccines worsen the health crisis while UN teams note vaccination failures and rising epidemics as American troops are inoculated.
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Tokyo
Red Korea
United Nations
North Korea
What’s What Sunday Keeps Youths At Home
Tom Mowery of 818 Yankee Rd has built a basketball court scoreboard bleachers and maintains year round records for a neighborhood youths league. His park board is a lead feature for Sunday with photo stories planned. Preparations for safe sidewalks for the Wilson school area are a major Sunday lead.
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Tom Mowery
Yankee Rd
New Wilson School
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