Judge Rules Babich's Rights Not Violated Hearings Re resumed
Milwaukee magistrate rules Milton Babich rights not violated during police questioning after a day-long hearing on first degree murder charges in the February killing of Patricia Birmingham. Babich testified he was denied access to a lawyer until he admitted the slaying and claimed he was treated fairly under scrutiny.
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Milton Babich
Patricia Birmingham
Kathleen
Milwaukee
Wis
Babich
Thaddeus Pruss
Milton
Arthur Richter
Patricia
Patrica
Dist. Atty
William J. McCauley
Hot-Disputed Bill Goes To House Of Lords
London AP reports a heated bill to nationalize most of Britain's iron and steel industry goes to the House of Lords after Commons approval. The measure lets the government buy stock in 107 companies while private managers keep day to day control within a government holding framework. Plant control would begin May 1, 1950 under the plan.
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House of Lords
London
Britain
House of Commons
Lords
Postage Stamps Taken In Theft
STEUBENVILLE O AP Two men stole 50 dollars worth of postage stamps from the state tax office and threatened to beat a woman clerk with a steel bar. Miss Letha McMillen surprised them as she arrived for night work. They grabbed her arm and used the bar to menace her while forcing open a filing cabinet.
6000 Miners Idle in Indiana Coal Fields
In Indiana the number of idle miners rose to about 6000 as new work stoppages spread across the soft coal region. The walkouts, ongoing since last week, are unofficially described as sympathy demonstrations for 300 striking miners at the Saxton shaft mine near Terre Haute on April 8 over pay for construction work.
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Terre Haute, Ind
Indiana
Saxton
Terre Haute
Senator Byrd Ready For Possible Purge In Senate Fight
In Washington AP report, Senator Byrd and allies brace for a purge amid Truman remarks that there are too many Byrds in Congress. Byrd vows to fight spending cuts and contest moves by Republicans on the Armed Services panel who stalled Wallgren’s nomination to head the National Security Resources board.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Byrd
D-Va
Senate
Gilbert Harrison
The
American Veterans Committee
White House
Harrison
Senate Armed Services Committee
Mon Wallgren
Wallgren
National Security Resources Board
Jerome Nevius Granted Parole
Jerome A Nevius former Clark County prosecutor serving a one to 10 year term for bribery was granted parole effective June 15 The bribery conviction dated back to 1945 involved accepting money from Silver Dollar gambling proprietors near Springfield Ohio Supreme Court upheld the conviction in 1947 and the U S Supreme Court refused to review Nevins entered Ohio penitentiary in 1947 The parole decision by the Pardon and Parole Commission was unanimous after a one year deferral.
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Columbus
Jerome A. Nevius
Clark County
Nevius
Springfield
Ohio Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Nevins
Ohio Penitentiary
Pardon and Parole Commission
Berlin Rail Traffic Reopened As Blockade Ends
Berlin marks the end of the Berlin blockade with resumption of rail, road, and mail services. Soviet and Western authorities agree to restore transport to 1948 levels, with 16 freight trains daily and mail service back. West Berlin will fly the new republic flag on transit, while coal and food shipments begin the first day, matching airlift highs.
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Berlin
V. I. Chuikov
Germany
Ernest Reuter
West German Republic
Hanover
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Taegliche Rundschau
Soviet Union
Berlin airlift pilots hail end of blockade as victory
Airlift crews and commanders call the Berlin blockade's end a personal triumph and push for a V B Day. They praise the sustained effort by airmen like Lt Truman Lucas and Lt Col Conway Hall, citing relief for fuel and food ships and hope for leave and homecomings as trains and trucks prepare to take over.
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Celle
Germany
Berlin
Europe
Japan
Truman Lucas
Indianapolis
Ind
Corp
Joseph Howard
Taunton
Mass
Robert J. du Val
North Hollywood
Cal
U.S
Conway S. Hall
Rose City
North Little Rock
Ark
Fassberg
Hall
Eighth Airforce
Bern
Israel Headed For UN Entry
LAKE SUCCESS AP Israel won a big test vote by three to one in the General Assembly's special 58 nation political committee, 33-11 with one absent. If the full Assembly follows, the year-old eastern Mediterranean nation will become the 59th UN member. A final two thirds vote was expected tomorrow or Thursday.
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Lake
Israel
United Nations
General Assembly
Assembly
World Organization
Deadlocked jury dismissed in liquor permit bribery trial
In Columbus the liquor permit bribery case against A E Oppenheimer and Hugh H Ruel ended in a hung jury after 11 women and one man failed to reach unanimity after 11 days of testimony. Judge Cecil J Randall discharged the jurors and indicated a possible retrial while the indictment remains. Shively testified he was asked for bribes to speed a night club permit which the Liquor Department said London’s quota had already filled. Oppenheimer and Ruel were released on recognizance bonds.
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Shively
Oppenheimer
Ruel
Randall
Paul M. Herbert
Leutenant
Schwartz
Liquor Department
London
Pact hearings sped to approve North Atlantic Pact and aid
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee moved to speed approval of the North Atlantic Pact and a 1.13 billion arms for Europe program by July 1. Secretary Acheson met with Senators Connally and Vandenberg as the panel opened with four witnesses led by James P. Warburg. Connally aims to finish testimony in seven days and wrap hearings next Tuesday with a two week debate forecast.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
State Acheson
Connally
D-Tex
Vandenberg
R-Mich
James P. Warburg
New York
Teenage companion wounds 14 year old in Dayton
Kenneth Wampler, 14, was critically wounded last night in Dayton Virginia when a revolver carried by a teenage companion misfired. Police said the gun went off striking him in the ear and abdomen.
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Dayton
Kenneth Wampler
Sai
Battle for Defense of Hankow Underway
Nationalists report the defense of Hankow under threat as 600 Communist troops moved into Liangkou near Hankow. The Central News Agency cited 100 casualties for the attackers who were reinforced, while a regional peace movement was said to be in full swing. Local Hankow residents reportedly formed a security committee amid the skirmishes.
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Shanghat
Central News Agency
Hankow
mid-Yangtze
Liangkulow
Central
Liuho
Shanghai
Yangtze
Kunshan
Taichang
Crash Victims Reburied In Common Grave
Washington AP report states 23 officers and enlisted men killed in the 1945 B 29 collision over Japan were reburied in a common grave at Arlington National Cemetery. The mass burial, one of the largest since WWII, honored 12 states' victims from a 1945 February 10 crash over Guma prefecture. Home towns of next of kin include West Carrollton Ohio and Painesville Ohio.
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Washington
Japan
Arlington
National
Guma Prefecture
Ralph J. McClellan
West Carrollton
George B. Wilbur
Painesville
Fremont sewage plant delays to August with current bills
Fremont mayor Harold Whitcomb said the city’s $700000 sewage treatment plant will not start until August but water customers are already billed to build a maintenance fund. The move aims to cover anticipated upkeep costs despite the delay.
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Fremont, C
Harold Whitcomb
Executions Rise in Shanghai as Tension Mounts
AP report describes more than 20 public police executions in Shanghai over a week for espionage and economic violations. Three were shot for espionage yesterday, including two followers of Li Chi-Sen. Mao Sen, police chief, warns police on war footing and threatens punishment for ties to Communists. Shanghai denies Fifth Column activity but fund Red agents likely operate covertly.
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Shanghai
Li Chi-Sen
Revolutionary Committee
Kuomintang
Mao Sen
Chiang Kai-Shek
Convictions Upheld in Vivisection Murder of 8 American Fliers
Tokyo report says 23 Japanese convicted in the vivisection murder of eight American airmen. Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker upholds the verdicts for all but five death-penalty cases, which are sent to General MacArthur for final action.
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Tokyo
Walton H. Walker
U. S. Eighth Army
Walker
General MacArthur
Congress backs Truman council call for spending cut
Congress across parties supports a recommendation by President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers to cut government spending amid unsettled conditions. They suggest possibly trimming some excise taxes and delaying a Social Security payroll tax increase scheduled for July 1. Final decision rests with Truman who has urged $4 billion in new taxes.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
George
Senate Finance Committee
White House
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Democratic National
J. Howard McGrath
Ford and union strike talks move to peace table
Detroit AP Ford and CIO United Auto Workers agreed to negotiate on the sixth day of the speed up dispute. Initial talks set for 2 p.m. EST as Ford and UAW seek a solution to avoid mass layoffs. Ford warned of possible shutdown of 49 plants. 65,000 idled, 40,000 more at risk within a week. Chrysler also announced an indefinite layoff of 22,000 due to a windows shortage from a supplier delay.
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Detroit
Ford
CIO
United Auto Workers
Henry Ford II
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Chrysler
Dodge
de Soto
Chrysler Kercheval Avenue
Bayton Blown Into Pier at Lorain Harbor
High winds drove the 416 foot Canadian freighter Bayton into a pier in Lorain harbor as she entered to load coal. An eight foot hole opened in the bow waterline. No injuries reported. Bayton owned by Colonial Steamship of Port Colborne home port. Coast Guard cited about 35 mph winds as the ship was blown onto the pier. The freighter dropped anchor and the crew remained aboard.
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Lorain
Bayton
Lorain Harbor
Colonial Steamship, Ltd
Port Colborne
Ont
Coast Guard
Murder–Ripley wife slain. ex-husband in custody
Mrs. Florence West Hargett, 35, mother of three, was shot to death at her Ripley home. Vern Mitchell, 46, admitted firing five .38 caliber shots and was detained at the scene. Mitchell, who had contested a maintenance suit, allegedly claimed paternity of Hargett’s 19-month-old child Etta Rose. Children Etta Rose, Opal 14, and Owen 4 were present but escaped during the quarrel. The incident followed a postponed hearing on the maintenance case.
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Georgetown, CO
Florence West Hargett
Ripley
Brown County
Dwight Harmon
Harmon
Vern Mitchell
Actor's Missing Wife Back Home
Cleveland AP report says Mrs. Alys Walsh Withers 38 wife of actor Grant Withers has returned to her Bolton Square Hotel home. Sister Isabel Walsh provided no further details. Mrs. Withers disappeared Sunday afternoon while walking with their mother and had been living in Cleveland for three months.
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Cleveland
Alys Walsh Withers
Grant Withers
Bolton Square
Isabel Walsh
Truck Traffic On Turnpike Returns To Normal
IRWIN PA AP Truck traffic on approaches to the Pennsylvania turnpike returned to normal after a hectic night in which nearly 100 big vehicles were checked for overloads. About 25 state policemen operated a weighing detail as protesters parked nearby. State police said 151 arrests were made of approximately 100 drivers and vehicles. Four arrests charged drivers with violating restricted bridge limits.
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Irwin
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Lavdom
Freak Accident Claims Murray Boy In Cemetery Collapse
Jackie Young six died in a Murray hospital after a freak accident at Antioch Cemetery. He and his grandmother visited his great grandmother's grave when a tombstone toppled, pinning him for minutes before rescue. The stone weighed an estimated four thousand to fifty thousand pounds.
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Murray, KY
Jackie Young
Murray Hospital
Inj
Antioch Cemetery
Jack Young
Willia Mae Martin
Bay Village approves pay hike for teachers pending levy
Cleveland AP reports Bay Village school board approves a $300 annual salary increase and scale boosts for teachers, contingent on a special levy passing next November. Minimum for four years college rises to 2400, bachelor degree maximum to 4000, and master degree maximum to 4500.
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Cleveland
Bay Village
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