Red Delegates Renew Threat of Open War
United Nations and Communist truce negotiators clashed over prisoners of war in Panmunjom. North Korean Gen Nam II presented a protest against treatment of Reds on Koje Island while demanding liberation for about 1,000 UN soldiers not yet listed. An upcoming session was set for tomorrow as talks stalled on repatriation of 100,000 captured Reds and whether POWs may be forced to return.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Nam II
Panmunjor
Koje Island
William K. Harrison Jr
U.N
Red
Nam
Mark Clark
Far East
Clark
Kose
Roosevelts Moscow diplomacy and Standleys clashes
Fair Enough surveys the uneasy exchanges between American envoys headed for Moscow in 1942. It highlights Admiral Standleys refusal to censor talks with Stalin and Molotov, the Katyn massacre topic, and Roosevelt's behind the scenes actions. It notes lend lease figures, Willkie and Davies visits, and controversies over homosexuals shuffled out of Russia.
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San Diego
Calif
Moscow
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William H. Standley
State Department
Stalin
Katyn Forest
Roosevelt
Kremlin
Molotov
Washington
Harry Hopkins
London
France
Europe
Admiral Stand
Joe Davies
Marjorie Post Hutton
Standley
Joe
Ambassador
Wendell Willkie
Davies
Philip Faymonville
Faymonville
Tend-Lease
GIs and Tanks Storm POW Pens on Koje Island
American infantrymen and tanks knocked down and burned flags of Russia China and Korea at three prison compounds on Koje Island. Seventeen inmates were freed and 75 led from a second compound while leaders were seized. The operation lasted 15 minutes with no shots fired.
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Koje Island
Korea
San Antonio Tex
Haydon L. Boamner Kose
38Th
Willie Heywood
Chester S.C
Kim Il Sung
Warren Kefauver win in important California primary
Warren and Kefauver captured California's big delegations with margins above two to one. Warren won all 70 Republican delegates and Kefauver led Democrats. Knowland swept both party nominations under crossfiling, defeating McKinnon in both tickets.
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Ly Morrie Landsberg
San Francisco
Earl Warren
Estes Kefauver
California
Warren
Thomas H. Werde
Tennessee
Edmund G. Brown
Truman
Werdel
Kefauver
Brown
William F. Knowland
Clinton McKinnon
San Diego
Steel strike widens as idle workers near seventy five thousand
Pittsburgh dispatch notes about 75 000 workers idled in a nationwide steel strike amid a government call for talks. CIO United Steelworkers plus 650 000 members refuse to work without a new contract. Officials in New York seek resumed bargaining within 48 hours. Maybank proposes Defense Production Act powers to seize the industry. Murray demands bargaining rights and warns of court actions. prospects for a quick settlement fade.
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Pittsburgh
White House
CIO
United Steelworkers
Allied Industries
New York
Philip Murray
Murray
Washington
Maybank
D-Sc
Senate Banking Committee
Korea
U.S. Supreme Court
Eisenhower Returns Home to Abilene for GOP bid
Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Abilene in a staged welcome home marking a new political phase. Thousands gather near his boyhood field as plans include a 30 minute speech and a news conference to boost his bid for the Republican nomination. A museum foundation and a parade of 30 floats underscore the town event.
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Abilene, Kan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Abilene
Eisenhower
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
White House
Eisenhower Park
Washington
Wheat Gift Circulates From Regina to Greece
A shipment of wheat gifted by the City of Regina to Queen Elizabeth II was donated to the Canadian Save the Children Fund. The fund sold the grain to 550 buyers for 7070 dollars, who returned the grain to the fund before it was finally sent to Greece.
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Toronto
Regina
Save the Children Fund
Greece
Legislature Allows Seasonal Drainage Ban To Protect Rice
A House Agriculture Committee bill prohibiting drainage of oil well brine and salt water into irrigation streams passed with a compromise. The measure would ban year round drainage but allow release October through December, to protect the rice crop while avoiding a total ban on industry waste disposal.
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Baton Rouge
House
House Agriculture Committee
W. J. Cleveland
Cleveland
Louisiana
Sam Caldwell
Shreveport
Red River
F. E. Hernandez
Kefauver Secures Maryland Delegates and Votes
Sen Estes Kefauver gains Maryland's 18 presidential nominating votes after winning the May 5 primary by about three to one. Convention endorses his bid with no formalities and delegates bound only by conscientious judgment. D'Alesandro elected committeeman in a party squabble. Mahoney becomes Democratic senate nominee to oppose Rep Beall.
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Baltimore
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Maryland
Chicago
Kefauver
Thomas d’Alesandro
E. Brooke Lee
State Legal Department
D’alesandro
George P. Mahoney
Mahoney
J. Glenn Beall
RMD
Herbert R. O’conor
Public housing opposition to be voiced at meeting
A Monroe citizens committee hosts a 2 p m Thursday meeting on the third floor of the Ouachita parish courthouse to discuss public housing. Real estate and building trades groups oppose federal housing while the Monroe housing authority supports it citing low rents and improved low income housing. The Monroe West Monroe real estate board statement warns about government money and signals continued discussion on page seventeen.
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Quachita Parish Court House
Monroe Citizens Committee
Uilding
Twin Cities
Monroe Housing Authority
Real Estate Board of
Monroe
West Monroe
Bagasse Newsprint Could Cut Costs for Mills
Quin de la Roza, president of a New York engineering firm, says newsprint from bagasse sugar cane waste could cost about half the wood pulp price. He cites $65.92 per ton versus $126 for wood pulp and notes New Iberia in Louisiana as an ideal mill site with 18 nearby sugar mills and ample power and water.
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New Iberia
Lat
Joaquin de la Roza
New York
de la Roza
Canada
Louisiana
Iberia
Lafayette
Vermilion
Lafourche
Terrebonne
St. Mary
South Dakota Primary Tossup Narrows Taft Eisenhower Lead
In South Dakota the presidential primary tightens as Taft leads Eisenhower by a slim margin amid 14 delegates at stake. AP counts 1,722 of 1,947 precincts reporting with Taft at 61,730 and Eisenhower 60,993 and about 15,000 votes remaining. A potential recount looms as western areas favor Eisenhower while Taft dominates rural districts.
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Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Chicago
Eisenhower
Major Bills Up for Vote in Louisiana Senate
Two administration measures aim to expand civil service and require voting machines in every precinct. Sen. Robert Ainsworth plans final Senate action, with debate over a $3 million machine purchase from the low bidder and a Little Hatch Act provision shaping the civil service bill. If passed, the civil service amendment would go to voters in November.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
Robert Ainsworth
Ainsworth
Guy Lockrider
Lake Charles
Robert Kennon
Harry Howard
New Orleans
Howard
Four Rescued From Drowning in Well's Lake Accident
George Smith and his wife Mamie Smith were rescued with four others after their motorboat capsized in Well's Lake Sunday. The party included their seven year old daughter Mary Katherine and Mrs Smiths sister Ollie Mae Allen. David Chapman and Murray Martin aided the group to shore. The Smiths remained seriously ill Wednesday but recovering. the children were discharged earlier.
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Winnsboro
George Smith
Mamie Smith
Well’s Lake
Smiths
Mary Katherine Smith
Ollie Mae Allen
David Chapman
Murray Martin
Vote To Change Court Districts
Baton Rouge report: a House Judiciary C committee approved a constitutional amendment shifting 28 North Louisiana parishes among the second Circuit of Appeal. The unanimous vote backs placing Shreveport, Alexandria, and Monroe in separate districts, reshaping current assignments.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Second Circuit of Appeal
House
Judiciary “C
James Eubank
Alexandria
Shreveport
Monroe
North
Pauker Accused Of Deviation In Romania Purge
Vienna report says Ana Pauker the Romanian foreign minister and two former ministers face a purge as Bucharest broadcasts accuse them of counter revolution and causing economic woes. Rumors mount of power struggle with Gheorghiu-Dej acknowledged as premier.
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Vienna
Austria
Ana Pauker
Bucharest
Pauker
Romania
Romanian Communist Party
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