White Flag at Shanghai Post Office as Reds Advance
Nationalist troops raised a white flag atop the Shanghai post office signaling a collapse of defense along the lower Soochow Creek. Communists crossed the Grechuwan bridge and began rounding up Nationalist prisoners while Broadway Mansion and nearby areas remained under fire. Americans trapped in Broadway Mansions include residents from New Jersey, New York, Washington, California, Oregon, and Los Angeles as U S and British consulates seek a cease fire to evacuate noncombatants.
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Shanghai
Soochow Creek
Grechuwan Bridge
Garden Bridge
Broadway Mansion
United States
Broadway
Herman Bylan
Teaneck
N. J
Arthur Klein
New York City
Herman Cotton
Mukilteo
Wash
Walter Daniano
Richmond
Cal
Fred Hampson
Portland
Ore
D. Kelly
Los Angeles
Peking Road
Bund
U. S
U.S. Keeps Ministers in Red Nations
Washington reports a new American attitude toward Communist states, aiming to preserve practical relations while condemning communist methods. The policy includes maintaining diplomatic missions in Hungary and China as symbols of engagement, with Spain as a special case where no ambassador is offered.
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Washington
United States
China
Hungary
Spain
State Department
Madrid
United Nations
Selling unused items at home sale prompt
A caller suggests checking wear ing apparel, household goods, tools, bicycles and hundreds of other articles around the home that are no longer in use. The note emphasizes decluttering by offering surplus items for sale.
Airlift Again Berlin's Main Supply Source
Western Berlin remains supplied by an 8,000 ton daily airlift as rail traffic stalls. Soviet zone blockades and strikers hinder freight, with 38 West German trains blocked and perishables rotting. Allied authorities accuse the Soviets of a new blockade while planning actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Kommandatura
West
West Berlin
Soviet Zone
Police Chief Hutsler Free On Bond In Ohio Extortion Case
Police Chief Sam H. Hutsler was freed on a 500 dollar bond after an extortion arrest in Lancaster Ohio Fairfield County deputies sought Lt Everett Brown accused with the chief of taking cash kickbacks from equipment sellers The charges were filed by three suspended officers Capt Laurence Bauer Lt Merrill H Martin and Motorcycle Officer Lester Crook A habeas corpus allowed release and a May 31 hearing was set Hutsler claimed no knowledge of the kickbacks and did not comment on the suspensions
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Lancaster
Sam H. Hutsler
Fairfield County
Hutsler
Common Pleas
Harry Kilburger
Laurence Bauer
Merrill H. Martin
Lester Crook
West Demands Reds Release German Firms
Western Powers seek relaxation of Soviet control over East German industries as a condition for economic unity in Germany. Acheson said about a third of Soviet zone industries are Russian controlled, with key sectors 90 percent under Soviet sway. Informants note the policy was decided before the Big Four talks, while Vishinsky criticized extending the West German constitution to the Soviet zone.
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Paris
Russia
Germany
Dean Acheson
United States
Conference of Foreign Ministers
Acheson
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Potsdam
Vishinsky
Allied Control Council
Holdup Slayer Calmly Walks To His Death
Frank Millhouse, 23, Cleveland, was executed in Ohio Penitentiary for a $200 holdup slaying. He entered the chair calm, recited the Lord’s Prayer, and died at 8:12 p.m. for a December 29, 1947 crime that killed Yordan Randoff. Companion Tony Wilson sat in a cell. George Hightower remains sought.
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Columbus, O
Frank Millhouse
Millhouse
Yordan Randoff
Cleveland
Tony Wilson
Wilson
George Hightower
Brakeman Killed in Elyria Switching Yard Accident
A 27 year old railroad brakeman Carl H Gehring Jr was fatally injured after falling from the back of a locomotive in a switching yard in Elyria Ohio He had served six years in the Navy before joining New York Central and is survived by his widow Gladys.
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Elyria, O
Carl H. Gehring, Jr
Gehring
Gladys
New York Central
Reuther Eye Removed in Detroit Shooting Attack
Police in Detroit sift scant clues after a gunfire attack on CIO unionist Victor Reuther. A 12 gauge shotgun was found in the yard and a heel print noted. Reuther lost his right eye in the Tuesday night shooting and underwent surgery at Henry Ford Hospital. Walter Reuther suspects a communist plot behind both incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
CIO
Victor Reuther
FBI
Congress
Michigan
Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
Reuther Yard
Henry Ford Hospital
Walter
Uaw-Cio
Eleven Arrested In Midtown Narcotics Ring Sweep
District Attorney Frank Hogan announced 11 members of an alleged narcotics ring were arrested in a city wide all day roundup, bringing total captures to 19. The group sold illegal narcotics worth millions in midtown and lower Manhattan and nearby states. nine men face charges of illegal sale, two for possessing drugs.
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New York
Frank S. Hogan
Hogan
Harvard
Midtown
Lower Manhattan
Girl 16 Drowns After Fall Into River Hole
Dayton Ohio AP reports Goldie Moore aged 16 slipped into a deep hole in the Miami River about two miles north of Dayton and drowned yesterday.
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Dayton
Goldie Moore
Miami River
Foreign aid money bill to remain intact in Senate
House budget cutters promised to send the foreign aid package to the Senate with little change. Administration and Republican leaders reached a compromise keeping ECA funding at about Truman levels through May 5, 1950, without restoring earlier cuts or expanding Greece Turkey aid. The omnibus bill totals 5.54 billion dollars financing ECA occupation projects and aid, with monthly spending around 344 million.
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Washington
House
Senate
Economic Cooperation Administration
Truman
Appropriations Committee
ECA
Martin
Massachusetts
Taber
New York
Webb
Elief
Greece
Turkey
Ford Prepares Counter Offer In Strike Talks
Ford Motor Company prepared a counter arbitration proposal in the CIO United Auto Workers speed up strike. The move aims to settle and bring 106,000 Ford workers and many others back to work. Management plans to present the proposal to the union after a resumed negotiating session.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
Arthur C. Viat
UAW
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Ohio Churches of Christ names new president
Columbus AP report Rev Hoke Dickinson of Cleveland was named president of the Executive Board of the Ohio Churches of Christ yesterday. He succeeds Rev E B Pendorwood of Lima.
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Columbus
Hoke Dickinson
Cleveland
Ohio Churches of Christ
E. 8. Pendorwood
Lima
Cotton Shipper Pays Court Judgment in Rutland Jail Release
A Tennessee cotton shipper paid a $2,682.39 judgment for Ralph H. D. Fugatt, a 29 year old combat veteran held under a century old law for non payment of court judgments. Fugatt was freed after 62 days in Rutland jail aided by Ed ward Sanders of Memphis who read of his plight and sympathized with his war record. The other two veterans, Bernard J. Smith and Frederic L. Lapan, remain jailed for similar auto accident judgments.
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Rutland
Tennessee
Ralph H. D. Fugatt
Edward Sanders
Memphis
Fugatt
Sanders
Germany
New York Cotton Exchange
E. H. Sanders
Stephen J. Cushing
Mrs. Fugatt
Bernard J. Smith
Fair Haven
Frederic L. Lapan
Marshfield
Smith
Lapan
Montpelier Ail
Ohio hearing on state bill foes denounce ban on agitators
In Columbus Ohio the Senate Judiciary Committee heard opponents of a bill to bar advocates of overthrow of government from public posts. Witnesses from New York including O John Rogge and Arnold Johnson argued the measure violates constitutional rights. The hearing drew hundreds, with police on site and a warning of room clearance to prevent disorder.
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Columbus
Communist and Progressive Party
Ohio
New York
Senate Judiciary Committee
O. John Rogge
U. S
Progressive Party
Henry A. Wallace
Arnold Johnson
Communist Party
James W. Bartunek
D-Cuyahoga
Howard M. Metzenbaum
Dcuyahoga
Metzenbaum
Carl D. Sheppard
R-Summit
Rogge
Coal contract talks stall for 24 hours in Bluefield
In Bluefield West Virginia AP reports bargaining for a southern soft coal pact paused after United Mine Workers chief John L Lewis demanded credentials. Two operators groups quit talks but remain in the association limiting major policy decisions while UMW seeks a new contract before the June 30 expiry. Pittsburgh AP notes U S Steel offered to meet with Lewis to draft a new contract for its captive coal mines.
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Bluefield
W. Va
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
SCPA
Virginia
Winding Gulf
UMW
Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corporation
Bridges and aides indicted in citizenship case
SAN FRANCISCO AP Harry Bridges longshore union leader and two top aides were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on perjury and conspiracy related to Bridges' 1945 citizenship hearing. Immigration service seeks to revoke Bridges citizenship, labeling him a Communist. Bail set at $5,000 each. The ILWU denounces the indictments as a political frameup by the Truman administration.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Immigration Service
West Coast
CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union
J. R. Robertson
Schmidt
Longshore Coast Labor Relations Committee
ILWU
Henry
Truman
Atomic Chief Faces New Hearings on Atomic Security
Washington AP David E Lilienthal and senators clash over management of atomic secrets as Senate House Committee on Atomic Energy opens hearings. McMahon calls for a cool open minded appraisal while Wherry and Ferguson demand a full investigation into security and mismanagement including scholarships and uranium235 disappearance.
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Washington
David E. Lilienthal
Capitol Hill
Senate
House Committee On Atomic Energy
Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Army
Hickenlooper
A-Iowa
GOP
Joint Committee
AEC
McMahon
D-Conn
Commission
Wherry
R-Neb
Ferguson
R-Mich
Youth Held On Murder Charge In Slaying Of Sister-In-Law
Cumberland Maryland AP A 16 year old Randolph Brewster is held on murder charges after confessing to shooting his brother and sister in law 18 year old Katherine Brewster died from two shotgun wounds to the neck. Her husband Thomas was wounded in the leg and later transported to a hospital. Brewster said a bad dream prompted the shootings and he fled in the brother's car before police pursuit. The couple had two young children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland, MD
Katherine Brewster
Thomas
Morgan C. Harris
Randolph Brewster
Cumberland
Young Brewster
Someth
Harris
Thomas Brewster
Brewsters
Holiday Traffic Deaths Expected Over Memorial Weekend
CHICAGO AP The National Safety Council estimated 215 people will die in traffic mishaps over the Memorial holiday. The figure covers immediate fatalities and excludes later deaths or non traffic accidents. If weather remains good, more than 30,000,000 vehicles are expected on the road, and the toll could be halved with extra caution and courtesy from motorists.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Pere Sons
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Shelton
Earl Shelton
Evansville
Ind
Fairfield
Earl
REDS
Russian Trust
Holdup Slayer
CIO United Auto Workers
Victor
FBI Aid
James V. Forrestal
U.S.N
Sandra Sue Burchfield
Arlington
James Forrestal
Arlington National Cemetery
Johnson
Martin Coffey
Middletown
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