Chinese Reds Hit Defenses at Shanghai
Reports from Shanghai say large Communist attacks on Shanghai defenses failed to break through. About 15 000 Reds in two groups struck 30 miles west and northwest of Shanghai while another force pressed near Kashing 50 miles southwest. Communique claims Reds suffered heavy losses and made little progress as forces along the Shanghai NanChang railway reportedly attacked toward NanChang with siege conditions at NanChang noted.
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Shanghai
South China
Nan- Aang
Nanang
Hankow - Canton
Seige
Yangtze
Nanchang
Hangchow
Kashing
State cuts aid to county child relief programs
Columbus Ohio AP State Welfare Department dropped extra aid to counties for dependent children. Future funding will cover 25 percent of total costs while the Federal Social Security Administration may cover up to 50 percent. Counties must pay the remaining 25 percent, aligning with October 1 1948 levels.
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Columbus
State Welfare Department
John H. Lamneck
Lamneck
Federal
Social Security Administration
Trapeze Performer Falls 40 Feet At MSG
Friedrich Huisen, 34, a Ringling Brothers trapeze artist billed as The Great Trisco, plunged 40 feet during a Madison Square Garden show before 15009 spectators. He suffered back and shoulder injuries and possible internal injuries, now listed in fair condition after slipping from a bar while his wife assisted.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Friedrich Mhersen
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and __ Bailey
Great Trisco
Derby Weather On Tap For Derby Day At Churchill Downs
Clear conditions greeted Derby crowds for the 75th Kentucky Derby with a fast track expected as post time near 5 30 p m EST. Forecasters cautioned that later today would bring partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures but no rain was indicated.
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Luu.w
Dearborn Mayor Moves To Seek Ford Strike Peace
Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard proposed a meeting of Ford and UAW-CIO leaders for a supreme civic effort to end the strike affecting 65,000 workers. Rouge and Lincoln Mercury plants idle as unions claim speed up. Ford fires 14, pickets age. A Flint Chevrolet unit votes 516 to 17 to strike pending approval, signaling broad plant-wide tensions.
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Detroit
Ford
Dearborn
Orville L. Hubbard
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW - Cio
Great Rouge
Lincoln-Mercury
UAW
General Motors
Chevrolet
Flint
Rouge
Mike Donnelly
Hubbard
Uaw-Cio
Arrests Stun Asbestos Mine Strike Roils Canadian Town
ASBESTOS Quebec AP reports a tense quiet after rioting and a police roundup of 116 to 181 people. Striking workers of Canadian Johns Manville blocked roads, fought police, and were jailed in multiple cities. Strike leaders accuse police brutality while company officials call the strike a broader social challenge.
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Johns-Manville Company
Montreal
Sherbrooke
Envoy Douglas To Stay On Job
London AP A diplomat confirms Ambassador Lewis Douglas will remain at his post at least until year end, urged by President Truman and Secretary of State Acheson. Douglas, injured when a fish hook pierced his left eye five weeks ago, faces a likely June operation to remove a cataract and restore vision.
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London
Lewis Douglas
Truman
Dean Acheson
Douglas
Big Four Talks Start From Scratch In Paris May 23
London reports the four powers plan an open agenda to avoid old quarrels as they convene in Paris on May 23 for a fourth attempt to draft a German peace treaty. American British and French experts exchange ideas on strategy to prevent Moscow from feeling ganged up, amid moves toward Trizonia and partial Ruhr control.
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London
Paris
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Trizonia
Germany
Ruhr
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Western Germans Speed Work On State Formation
Bonn reports Western Germany rejects Communist demand to halt state formation as leaders rush to finalize a West German constitution. An interim government will govern until July, with 400 Bundestag delegates elected and state representation in the Bundesrat. Russia and the Western Allies push to lift blockades amid rail strike tensions and currency issues.
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Germany
New York
Russia
Berlin
Bundestag
Bundesrat
Hope Still Held For Labor Bill
Rep Sims says there is an excellent chance the House will pass a new version of the labor bill within a month. The revised measure may include plant seizure and injunctions in national emergency disputes, whereas the defeated bill covered injunctions only. The Senate plan offers seizure or injunction or both, and aims to win Democratic support with a GOP sponsor.
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Washington
Sims
D-Cs
House
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Donnell
Smith
GOP
Three Killed In Auto Crash Near Youngstown
In Youngstown Ohio a car collided with a tractor trailer on Route 224 killing Donald Ferrell 32 from Confluence Pennsylvania and his daughter Donna six of Youngstown and Lelia Abel Lorain. Paul Umbel 21 husband of Mrs Umbel was listed in critical condition with four people in the car involved in the crash.
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Youngstown, O
Donald Ferrell
Confluence
Youngstown
Donna Ferrell
Lelia Abel
Lorain
Paul Umbel
Umbel
Route 224
Electric Workers Open Conference in Dayton
A self styled right wing faction of the CIO United Electrical Workers met in Dayton at Delco Local 755 Union Hall aiming to nominate candidates to oust officers of the International Union. Delegates from seven states and Canada attended as the conference began and planned to run through Sunday. Secretary William Snovits said the meeting would be spirited and that they were ready for anything.
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Dayton, O
CIO
United Electrical Workers
International Union
Canada
Delco
William Snocvts
Confarence
U S and Britain launch radio war on Soviet broadcasts
The United States and Britain declare a wartime style radio offensive to jam Soviet broadcasts and blast through a Moscow noise barrier using 61 transmitters. Voice of America will air charges of deliberate interference as officials note Soviet jamming began April 24.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Russia
Moscow
George V. Allen
State Department
Voice of America
Allen
Voice
Berlin
The
British Broadcasting Company
Luther J. Reid
Senate Approves State Department Reorganization
The Senate backed a Hoover Commission reorganizing bill to create 10 assistant secretaries of state to free the secretary for policy work. The measure, closely mirroring the commission plan led by Herbert Hoover with Acheson as a member, awaits House action. A second bill to centralize government housekeeping agencies was approved by the Senate Expenditures Committee.
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Washington
State Department
Hoover Commission
House
Senate
Herbert Hoover
Acheson
Body Of Trapped Miner Recovered
In Pittston Pennsylvania the body of 55 year old John Romanowski was recovered from a shaft after a rockfall. The accident occurred in workings operated by Barney Guzior and rescue teams dug for hours before locating him nearly twelve hours after the collapse. Five miners were involved in the incident with four others planning to quit early.
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Pittston
John Romanowski
Romanowski
Barney Guzior
General Clay Cleared Of Blame In German Monopolies
In Wisconsin a woman killed her husband with an axe saying he beat her and the children. Florence Conley, 45, was held without charge as authorities investigated the slaying at the family farm near Shell Lake. The two children were away at the time. Neighbors noted both were college graduates. Separately, Washington said General Lucius D. Clay, retiring military governor of Germany, is not to blame for existing German monopolies. A three member committee found decartelization policy broadly supported by Clay, though one member alleged he softened support on major targets. The panel’s main report criticized officials under Clay.
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Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Clarence R. Huebner
Grafenwoehr
Clay
AP Wirpehoto
Frankfurt
Shell Lake
Wis
Wisconsin
Floyd Bannister
Washburn County
Florence Conley
Phillip
Here
Harry Dahl
Conley
Dad
Michael
Margaret
Sunsinawa Convent
Columbia University
Lucius OD. Clay
Garland S. Ferguson
Ferguson
Berlin
Samuel S. Isseks
Isseks
Tank Diver Is Rescued Near Shark Tank
Diver Floyd Adams spent two hours trapped in a drain at the bottom of a large sea water tank in Marineland Florida. Suction trapped him as sharks and big fish swam around. Air supplied via hose then lowered water level to six feet. Two divers extracted him with a rope and he was hospitalized for shock.
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Marineland
Fla
Floyd Adams
Los Angeles to Host 1950 American Legion National Convention
Mayor Fletcher Bowron announced in Los Angeles that the 1950 American Legion National Convention would be held in the city. City leaders confirmed the plan after telephonic notification from Vic McKenzie in Indianapolis, the Legion’s National Director of Conventions.
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Los Angeles
American Legion
Fletcher Bowron
Los Angeles County Legion Council
Leland Warburton
Vic McKenzie
Legion
Indianapolis
Communism In Korea Blamed On U S For Threat
President Syngman Rhee charged Washington and Moscow with fostering Korea s Communist menace. He said Korea faces a threat not of its own making as border clashes continue and called for all out American aid if North Korea attacks while South Korea defends itself and pursues peaceful reunification.
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Seoul
Korea
Washington
Moscow
Syngman Rhee
America
Republic of Korea
Japan
Republic
Rhee
South Korea
North Korea
Cupied
North
Mass of cool air heads east as heat wave breaks
A mass of cool air moves into the eastern states ending a broad heat wave. Meanwhile violent storms from the western plains sweep into Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle, with tornadoes killing three in Sundown and Morton. The cold front reaches the Midwest then Ohio River valleys as temperatures trend toward normal.
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Associated Press
Plains
Texas
Oklahoma Panhandle
Sundown
Tex
Lubbock
Morton
Midwest
Ohio River
Pennsylvania
New York
Middletown Ends Four Day Heat Wave With Drop
A four day heat wave in Middletown ended last night as temperatures fell more than 30 degrees from 96 to 64 by 10 a.m. Saturday. The Weather Bureau cited a blocking high pressure system over the southeast delaying normal pressure movement and bringing hot southwest winds to the region.
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Middletown
Or Bureau
Gulf States
Midwest
Wyoming
Colorado
Arizona
Chicago
Milwaukee
New York
U. S. Weather Bureau
Washington
Columbus
Detroit
Memphis
Tenn
Louisville
Weather Bureau
Tornado Rips Sundown Leaving Deaths And Missing
Residents comb debris after a tornado leveled three blocks in Sundown Texas. Two dead identified Rev Bill M Scott 22 and his daughter Pamelia four injured. Mayor of nearby Brownfield cites three dead and two missing while Red Cross relays five deaths to the governor’s office. The storm tore across the flat plains from 60 miles southwest to 60 miles northwest.
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Lubbock
Tex
Sundown
Little Oil Field
Bill M. Scott
Pamelia
C. Prim
Brownfield
Texas
Convicts Freed For Helping Send Former Police Captain
In Cleveland three racketeers Luis Lorenzo Fletcher Hudson Harold Morgan were freed after Common Pleas Judge Frank J. Merrick revoked their six to 45 year terms and placed them on two years probation. The men had been convicted of kidnapping and assaulting two numbers game winners who tried to collect on a hot number.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
Frank J. Merrick
Luis Lorenzo
Fletcher Hudeson
Harold Morgan
Burglary Suspect Nabs After Cash Stolen From Willys Widow
New York police say a man broke into the home of Mrs. Florence Willys, widow of John N. Willys, and stole 98600 in cash before he was arrested. Richard Stack of Amsterdam, New York, is held on burglary charges.
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New York
Florence &. Willys
John N. Willys
Richard Stack
Amsterdam
N. Y
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Patrick Durbin
Violet Durbin
Denver
Colo
Bonn
Western
LABOR
Electric Workers Open Conference
U. S
General Clay
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