Lawmaker Reveals Europe To Muster Army Of 4 Million
Rep. Richards said European allies will raise about four million soldiers and produce 34% billion dollars worth of weapons next year. He cited Greece and Turkey totaling 500,000 and Western Europe excluding them at 1,880,000 in January 1952.
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Europe
Washington
Rep. Richards
D-Sc
The
House Today
America
Richards
Soviet Union
Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Truman
Committee
Greece
Turkey
Planes Ferry Rescuers From Jungle After Feud
Two feuding expeditions to the Pan American Stratocruiser wreckage in the Brazilian jungle are being flown out one by one as an aerial shuttle begins removing the last members of the official search party and the private group. Officials and a Miami aeronautics official were briefly held hostage, while three parachute rescue planes were recalled after the captors released their captives.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Miranda Correa
Scott
Lagoa Grande
Brazilian Air Force
Agness
U.S. Civil Aeronautics Authority
Miami
4S Insurance
Iranians Postpone Majlis Elections
Teheran government delays elections for over one third of Majlis members until Premier Mossadegh returns from The Hague World Court oil dispute hearing. Mossadegh departs next week to lead Iran's case against Britain over the Anglo Iranian Oil Company.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
World Court
Hague
Mossadegh
Britain
Anglo- Iran Oil Company
Bang-Up Business Window Breakers Nabbed in Chicago
Police seized two men at a window firm yesterday after they helped break a plate glass window for replacement. Capt. George Barnes said the pair aided other breakages among windows. They cited slack business and a four day week as motive.
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Chicago
George Barnes
Aiken Says Grain Prices Manipulated in Hearing
Senator Aiken charged political manipulators forced grain prices down by a billion dollars in 1948 and warned they would not do it again. He challenged Secretary Brannan’s defense of the 1948 Commodity Credit Charter act during Senate Agriculture Committee testimony. Brannan cited storage limits as a cause of shortages while Aiken claimed the law was misrepresented and the public blamed Congress. The hearing reviewed department findings on shortages since World War I totaling 8.32 million dollars, involving 131 private warehouses and 841 farmers.
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Washington
Sen
Aiken
R-Vt
Brannan
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Senate Agriculture Group
Ellender
D-La
Agriculture Department
Senate
Department
Air Lift Ends Lederle Laboratories Walkout at Pearl River
Striking chemical workers at Lederle Laboratories Pearl River voted to return to work, ending a five day walkout that kept about 400 non strikers inside the plant while helicopters supplied them with essentials.
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Pearl River
N.Y
Lederle Laboratories
Ridgway cites larger Korean war threat and hard line on cease fire
Washington reports Gen. Matthew Ridgway says Soviet buildup in the Far East raises communist offensive potential in Korea beyond recent times. He doubts a cease fire is likely and warns of fanatical POW camp atrocities. Sen Bridges recounts the proceedings noting Red flags, internal lines, and calls for a fifth star for Ridgway.
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Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Far East
Korea
Ridgway
Bridges
R-Nh
U.N
Priso
U. N
Kose Island
Russell
D-Ga
Rose Island
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Pace Says Army Will Never Return To Prewar Size
Army Secretary Frank Pace told United States Military Academy cadets at West Point that the current partial mobilization may endure indefinitely and that a peacetime army like the 1930s force will not return. He predicted the Army could be three to four times its prewar size within our generation. This remarks closed the Jubilee Convocation marking the academy’s 150th anniversary.
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West Point
N.Y
Army
Frank Pace
South Africa presses white supremacy fight in parliament
Capetown AP Daniel F Malans Nationalist forces continue drive against opponents of white rule. A Communist barred from Parliament and another ousted from Cape Province Provincial Council, both representing Cape Provinces colored voters. Nationalist bill to end nonwhite voting awaits Senate approval. Garment workers plan 24 hour strike to press resignations over Red charges. Labor leaders threaten legal action against justice minister for deprivation of personal liberty.
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Capetown
South Africa
Daniel F. Malan
Cape Province
Senate
Communist Party
E. S. Sachs
Sachs
South African Trades and Labor Council
Minister of Justice
Red UN Troops Fight Six Hours Near Truce Site
Near the Panmunjom truce area in Korea, a United Nations tank infantry patrol fought a six hour battle with Red forces. The U N forces engaged with artillery mortar and rocket fire while the Reds returned with small arms. A bunker was destroyed and thirty one more damaged by UN tanks.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Panmunjom
Eighth Army
U.N
Red Captive Killed In Third Koje Riot
War amid Koje Island unrest continues as a Chinese prisoner is killed by an Allied guard during a search at Camp No 10. In the hospital clash at Pusan, 85 POWs wounded as American troops use concussion grenades to quell violence. a guard lightly hurt.
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William Jorden
Koje Island
Korea
Bose
Haydon L. Boatner
Boatner
U.S. Eighth Army
Seoul
Pusan
Red
Camp No. 10
Death Toll Rises After Spain Train Collision
Rescue workers clawed through twisted wreckage after freight cars loaded with explosives and gasoline crashed into the Galicia express near Santiago de Compostela. Eleven bodies were recovered with fears of many more buried in the tangled, burning mass from the collision last night.
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Santiago DE Copomstela
Spain
Here
Wind Sinks Ship With 7 Aboard In Puget Sound
In Bellingham Washington the 35 foot sloop Prelude vanished Sunday evening. Four bodies have been recovered in Puget Sound between Bellingham and Orcas Island, with three others still missing and presumed dead. The dead are Ellen Fordyce Kenneth Fordyce 12 Ed Jukes and Donald Card. Paul Fordyce owner of the yacht along with Mrs Jukes and Donald Card are still missing.
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Bellingham
Wash
Puget Sound
Ellen Fordyce
Kenneth
Ed. E. Jukes
Donald W. Card
Here
Orcas Island
Jukes
Paul Fordyce
Donald Card
Birds Build Nest on Euclid Beach Park Merry-go-round
A nest of young robins grows at Euclid Beach Park with their mother constructing a home on a merry-go-round, implying future flights around the Cleveland area.
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Cleveland
Euclid Beach Park
UN Officers Link Reds to POW Camp Riots In Korea
High level UN officers in Tokyo say small bands of die hard Communists acted on orders to feign mistreatment of POWs. Riots occurred at Pusan hospitals and Koje Island, with one Red POW killed and 85 injured. Ringleaders used outside contact to fuel agitation as part of a worldwide pattern.
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Robert Eunson
TOKYO
United Nations Command
U.N
UNC
Pusan
Koje Island
U.S. Eighth Army
Koje
Sey
United Nations
South Korea
Korea
Indochina
Nam Voices New Protests On Outbreaks
Communist negotiators at the deadlocked Korean armistice talks protested Allied handling of riots at a Pusan POW hospital. Gen Nam Il demanded an accounting of the incident in which one prisoner was killed and 85 injured, while Vice Admiral Joy urged the Reds to accept a cessation proposal and criticized them for hypocrisy in prisoner exchanges. Joy warned Nam that progress requires willingness to end hostilities and resume POW status for unaccounted Allied soldiers.
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Munsan
Korea
Pusan
Nam Il
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Reds
Nam I
Nam
Joy
Bonn Refuses To End Reparation Parleys
West Germany said talks with Israel over reparations would not be broken up. The government rejected resignations of Franz Boehm and Otto Kuester, Boehm claiming he quit over resistance from German financial authorities to a settlement.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Israel
Franz Boehm
Otto Kuester
Boehm
Tug No. 10 Capsizes After Sailor Style Show
In Wilmington California the old Tug No. 10 once hauled large ships. It was pressed into service to tow a floating barge for a style show with models on deck. The vessel capsized and sank after returning to its dock, following the event.
Hunt Unions May Accept Rail Plan
Washington unions weigh a White House rail labor peace plan with a yes or no vote expected today. The Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers Firemen and Railroad Conductors, 150000 strong, will decide on Steelman’s contract offer promising retroactive raises and back pay, while rejecting binding arbitration on interdivisional runs.
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Washington
White House
Brotherhoods of
John R. Steelman
Steelman
John Garfield Dies Suddenly at 39 in New York
New York actor John Garfield aged 39 died of a heart ailment at his actress friend Iris Whitney's Genenony Park apartment. He was born Julius Garfinkle in Brooklyn on March 4 1913 and rose to fame on stage in Golden Boy and later in gangster film roles.
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New York
John Garfield
Genenony Park
Iris Whitney
Charles H Nammack
Garfield
Julius Garfinkle
Brooklyn
Angelo Patri
Childan
Patri
Co Odets
AF Dismisses Twelve Air Officers Without Court Martial
Washington reports the Air Force dismissed twelve of the fourteen reserve air officers who refused to fly under honorable conditions and without court martial. The remaining two officers were convicted by court martial.
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Washington
Air Force
Senate Clears McGranery As New Attorney General
The Senate confirmed James P. McGranery as attorney general by a 52 to 18 vote, with 14 Republicans joining 38 Democrats. McGranery, 56, former House member and federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 1946, promised to expose and prosecute corruption and fire any incompetent or dishonest DOJ staff. Senators Ferguson and Watkins opposed, but Judiciary Chairman McCarran praised him as honest, sincere, and god-fearing, predicting a strong administration.
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John Chadwick
Washington
Senate
James P. McGranery
Justice Department
Truman
Philadelphia
J. Howard McGrath
Pennsylvania
Duff
Martin
McGranery
House
District
McGrath
Newbold Morris
McGrawers
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sen
Ferguson
Mich
Watkins
Utah
McCarran
D-Nev
Judiciary Committee
Provision Would Cut WSB Power
A bill to extend wage price and rent and credit controls comes to the Senate Banking Committee for a vote. The measure would strip the Wage Stabilization Board of power to intervene in labor disputes and would reframe it as a public representative body. Amendments by Sen. Fulbright to widen government role in labor conditions on government contracts face opposition from AFL and CIO. The panel plans a closed session to debate amendments before voting on the bill. President Truman had urged a two year extension.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Sen
Fulbright
D-Ark
Labor Department
AFL
CIO
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
Banking
Maybank
D-Sc
House
Douglas
D-Ill
Sen. Moody
D-Mich
Truman
Congress
French Move To Smoke Out Gold Hoards
Paris reports Parliament passed a two billion dollar bond issue to flush out hoarded gold and curb inflation. Premier Antoine Pinay backs the plan as part of saving the franc, tying bond value to free market gold. Bonds offer 3 4 percent tax free interest, no capital gains or inheritance taxes, and a five year hold before cashing.
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Paris
France
Antoine Pinay
Louis
United States
ASNE Leader Denies Morse Charge on Coverage
Wright Bryan, president of the American Society of News Editors and editor of the Atlanta Journal, challenged Sen. Morse’s claim that press, radio and TV failed to fully report the steel seizure dispute. He argued News coverage by the ASNE was complete and accused opponents of not reading the news or ignoring evidence.
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Washington
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Sen
Morse
R-Ore
The
American Complete
ASNE
Wright Bryan
Atlanta Journal
Atlanta
Bryan
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