House Keeps Draft Law On Books In Two Year Standby
The House approved a two year extension of the Selective Service law by 216 to 11, preserving draft readiness while prohibiting inductions until a national emergency is declared. The measure also prompts NSRB to back a total war mobilization plan and envisions an M day labor and manpower plan for next Congress.
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Washington
Senate
House
National Security Resources Board
NSRB
Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
W. Stuart Symington
NLRB
Air
Congress
Vinnon
Court To Name Attorney For Jack Hartman
Jack Hartman 18 indicted on two counts of first degree murder in the rifle slayings of his grandparents George W. Fisher and Eva lena Fisher at their home May 5. Hartman will be represented by a court appointed attorney with arraignment date pending. Police at Parkersburg West Virginia said he admitted shooting his grandfather when denied money for a gun.
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Here
U S Plans Aid for Indochina With France Backing
The United States announced an aid program for Indochina, urging France and local governments to lead restoration efforts. A letter from Edmund Gullion conveyed the plan, with an initial aid near 23.5 million dollars in scope, to bolster France and the Viet Nam Cambodia and Laos administrations.
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Saigon
Indochina
United States
France
Edmund Gullion
U. S
Southeast Asia
Allen Griffin
Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Bromfield backs Taft and slams Truman in Columbus
Louis Bromfield addressed about 1,000 Republican workers in Columbus praising Taft as the honest choice and branding President Truman as the cheapest leader in U S history. He urged supporters to register anti administration voters and criticized Harold Stassen and State Auditor Ferguson while noting Ferguson could not win as senator.
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Harold E. Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Truman
Bromfield
Mr. Truman
Family Quarrel Ends in Fatal Dual Shooting
In Columbus the deaths of Conan Wade Lord and Arthur Wade Wofford amid a family quarrel are reported by Coroner Robert A. Evans. Wofford was shot twice, then Lord was fatally hit by a shotgun blast from a Wofford relative in a yard at suburban Hanford Village. Self defense is cited by the coroner.
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Columbus
Conan Wade Lord
Arthur Wade Wofford
Robert A. Evans
Wofford
Lard
Hanford
Evans
Point Four Plan Near Senate Vote for Foreign Aid
Washington AP Republicans press to defeat Truman's Point Four plan as Senate weighs a $3.12 billion foreign aid bill. Chairman Connally says leadership has enough votes to pass, despite GOP opposition led by Taft aiming to strip Point Four. Decision due at 3:30 p.m. EST amid close debate on the European Recovery Program.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Senate House
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Taft
Ohio
Summer Blessing by Gordon Martin Roses in bloom praise of God and summer
A poem praising the beauty of roses in summer, listing several rose varieties such as Countess Vandal Talisman Blaze Paul's Scarlet McGredys Yellow Peace Joanna Hill and Crimson Glory. The piece laments the roses' heavenly perfection and the joy of fragrant blossoms carried by summer winds.
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Gordon Martin
Vandal
Paul
McGredy
Joanna Hill
Heckler Disrupts Rally as Clay Halts Speech
Gen Lucius D Clay, at an anti Communist Hold Berlin rally in New York, halted a prepared speech after a lone heckler disrupted the event. Police removed the protester as crowds urged him to speak while Clay called for Berliners to stay firm against infringement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heckler
Clay
New York
Lucius D. Clay
Berlin
German Court Indicts Koch for Camp Crimes
A Munich court indicted Ilse Koch for crimes against German and Austrian concentration camp inmates. She faces trial late in July for instigating the murder of 45 prisoners and attempted murder of 135 others, plus mistreatment. Koch has been jailed since last October after a four year term on war crimes.
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Clay
Munich
Germany
Ilse Koch
Koch
Buchenwald
Mder
U.S
Engineer Killed In Train Crash in Warren Ohio
An 81 car Baltimore and Ohio freight derailed onto a siding near West Farmington Warren Ohio killing switch engine engineer William H Mills Sr 59 of Painesville and injuring flagman Lewis E Barstow 39 also of Painesville Conductor G A Hunter said the switch at Fales spur siding was in the wrong position and had the main line directing into the siding.
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West Farmington
RUSSIANS POST GUARDS ALONG SOVIET BORDER
Soviet backed guards line the East West border to police about 100000 Free German Youth marchers in East Berlin. West German police report 15 FDJ members arrested for riding trucks with propaganda. East German authorities pledge to shield peace fighters from border oversteps as mass influx continues with over 100000 expected and police reinforcements noted.
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Berlin
Red
FDJ
East Berlin
Birns Jailed as Blonde Testifies on Juror Contact
Cleveland AP Birns, tavern owner, jailed six months and fined 1000 dollars after he was found guilty of hindering justice by approaching a prospective juror in his trial. A 19 year old blonde waitress testified she offered to influence the juror, and the court rebuked Birns for a brazen act.
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Mary Frans
Christopher
Uniontown
Germany
Red Cross
Cleveland
Alex
Shondor
Birns
Joan
Vickie) Kanaziz
Brichacek
Frank T. Cullitan
Kanaziz
Atomic project strike halts Oak Ridge construction
A wildcat walkout by AFL workers shut down the mammoth atomic plant project in Oak Ridge Tennessee. Laborers and hodcarriers began the stoppage yesterday and spread to all crafts, with no explanation given to the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
AFL
Laborers
Hodcarriers
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
P03
Trap Set Two Months Ago For Atomic Spy
FBI trapped Philadelphia biochemist Harry Gold two months after narrowing a list of 1,200 suspects in the Klaus Fuchs case. Gold, 11, was accused of receiving and passing atomic secrets to the Russians. Fuchs, newly sentenced in Britain, identified Gold’s photo and said the contact was a biological chemist. Officials cited a 1945 meeting in Santa Fe as the link. Gold faces war-time tonage charges, punishable by death or up to three years in prison.
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Harry Goldright
Eneral
Philadelphia
Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs
Britheth
Russia
Gold
FBI
Harry Gold
Klaus Fucha
McMahon
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U. S
Soviet Union
Newark-Philadelphia
England
Santa Fe
N. M
Los Alamos
N.M
Capitol Hill
John Doe
Donovan Data Is Awaited In Amerasia Case
WASHINGTON AP Senators investigating the Amerasia affair awaited a trial report from William J. Donovan head of the wartime OSS. Senator McCarthy prepared to disclose documentary information on his Communist charges against Owen Lattimore at a Rochester editors convention. Edward P. G. Morgan said staff members, former FBI agents, questioned Donovan and Archbald Van Beuren in New York. material would be studied by the committee.
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Washington
Amerasia
Williiam J
Wild Bill) Donovan
Srategic Services
O.S
McCarthy
R-Wis
Owen Lattimore
Far East
Rochester
N. Y
Edward P. G. Morgan
Senate Foreign Relations
FBI
Donovan
New York
Morgan
Archbald van Beuren
Ameragia
OSS
van Beuren
Plane crash kills 25 near Galeras volcano
Bogota reports Langa Airways DC-3 struck Galeras volcano sidelining near Pasto. Twenty two passengers and three crew members died with a ten year old girl as the sole survivor. Most victims were Colombian. one foreigner was a German-born resident aboard. The aircraft was en route from Popayan to Ipales on the Colombia Ecuador border.
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Bogota
Colombia
Langa Airways
Aer
el Espectador
Galeras
Pasto
Popayan
Ipales
Colombia-Ecuador
Fremont News-Messenger Publisher Named Hospital Trustee
Frank J. Daubel publisher of the Fremont News-Messenger was elected a Memorial Hospital trustee. He will succeed Edward Hilton who moved to Florida.
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Fremont, O
Frank J. Daubel
Fremont News-Messenger
Memorial Hospital
Edward Hilton
Florida
GE Workers Choose Between Two Unions
Thousands of General Electric employees in 57 plants vote to determine whether the CIO group or the rival UE union will represent them. About 95,000 workers are eligible with results due after midnight in Baltimore, where NLRB officials supervise the tally. The vote centers on union representation and reflects ongoing labor tensions amid accusations of Communist influence.
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Baltimore
General Electric
CIO
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Ers
United Electrical Workers
ICIO
Maurice J. Tobin
Philip Murray
Three Powers Decide Arms Policy at London Conference
United States Britain and France reached a three way accord in London on supplying arms and war materials to Middle East nations including Arab states and Israel. The deal allows aid only if buyers pledge not to aggress against other states and aims to bolster regional security amid the Palestine conflict.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Middle East
Arab Nations
Israel
London
Palestine
Baat-Wi
Cecil Yankey Must Die Court Ruling
Ohio Supreme Court rules on Cecil Yankey case connected to the 1947 slaying of Leroy Woodland in Greenfield. Yankey, 41, pleaded guilty to robbery murder after a 1947 trial failure, received life then, a 1949 move to Ohio pens, and later appeals led to a death sentence being set aside with a new execution date.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Cecil Key
Greenfield
Ohio
Leroy Woodland
Yankey
Highlands
George W. McDowell
Ohio Pens
Land County
Two Die In Platte Jet Crash At Air Force Base
Dayton AP report says a Radar operator and the pilot were killed when an F 94 Jet on a test flight lost power and dived into a field near the Air Force base. Pilot 1st Lt Walter les Atkinson 26 and Cpl Robert Frank Rutzen of San Mateo California identified. Wreckage scattered over several acres. craft did not ignite.
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Dayton, O
Tuaeae Air Force Base
Air Force
Walter Les Atkinson
Anm
Mary Ann A Newport
R. I
Robert Frank Rutzen
San Mateo
Cal
Fara Field
Basement safest in an air blast, expert says
Columbus AP reports at the Ohio State University meeting Dr. William G Myers associate professor of physiology and medicine advised that a basement is safest during an air explosion. He noted his Bikini Atoll experience and warned a direct hit to the center of a building would likely kill nearly everyone.
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Columbus
Ohio Stateners’ Association
William G. Myers
Ohio State University
Bikini
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FEPC
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Rmsfield
Joseph T. Ferguson
Little Joe
Ferguson
Martin
Ose Koch
Newark
Common Cause, Incorporated
Reds
American Jewish Labor Council
West Berlin
Blonde
Atomic Spy
D-Conn
Cecil Yankey
Platte
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