Mosinee Mayor Paralyzed After Red Invasion Mock
May 2 Mosinee Wisconsin reports the mock May Day invasion ended with Mayor Ralph Kronenwetter, 49, critically ill from a heart attack. He was seized from bed and reenacted scenes for news photographers. Legion leaders called the event a mild democracy lesson and stressed education and defense. Local residents and onlookers reacted with mixed views, some saying the demonstration opened their eyes to communism, others noting its theatrics and timing.
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Mosinee
Wis
Wausau
Ralph Kronenwetter
Kronenwetter
Charles O. Larson
Port Washinton
Legion
America
Joseph E. Kornfeder
Bank
Florida Defense Budget Battles In 29 Billion Bill
Washington reports the house debates a 29 billion dollar fiscal year 1951 appropriation bill covering defense and army engineers. The armed services panel backs a 350 million navy modernization program and seeks more funds for the military while civil projects face cuts. House actions to date show tensions over pork barrel programs and river harbor flood control, with amendments and votes shaping funding for the interior, atomic energy, and independent agencies ahead of final passage.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Defense
Appropriations Committee
Military Department
House Armed Services Committee
House
Interior Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Engineers
Bradbury Escapes Fire After Truck Overturns Into Canal
James Bradbury, 31, of Faulk Collier Bonded Warehouses, survived a truck crash four miles south of Lutcher when his vehicle skidded on the highway shoulder, overturned, and caught fire. A passing motorist helped him exit before he was taken to Charity Hospital in New Orleans for treatment and later released.
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James Bradbury
Faulk Collier
Lutcher
Bradbury
Charity Hospital
New Orleans
Rain slows hunt for missing boy in Louisiana canal
Holly Ridge Louisiana May 2 Special heavy showers slowed dragging for seven year old Jesse Cotton Jr believed drowned near his home Sunday. A sandbag dam across a drainage canal washed out by rain. a second dam was being reinforced. Coroner Ellington focused search near Cypress Creek as Monroe firefighters aided.
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Holly Ridge
Jesse Cotton, Jr
Here
Cotton
Richland Parish
J. C. Ellington
Cypress Creek
Monroe
Building Permits In April Totaled 546 819
Building permits issued in April totaled 546 819 dollars per the monthly report by Samuel H Awl city building inspector. The tally shows 61 dwelling permits 455 403 dollars 12 non dwellings 82 593 and 19 additions 8 823. Four buildings were demolished and two moved.
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Samuel H. Awl
Pepper Seeks Re Nomination In Florida Senate Race
National focus on Florida primary where Democratic Sen. Claude Pepper seeks re nomination against Rep. George Smathers amid cross state contests in Alabama Ohio and Indiana. Pepper touts Truman Fair Deal support while Smathers accuses him of dodging the FEPC issue and courting red groups. Voter turnout expected around 600 000 in Florida and 400 000 in Alabama with November fate likely decided.
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Associated Press
Florida
Claude Pepper
George Smithers
Senate
Alabama
Ohio
Indiana
House
Pepper
Smathers
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Truman
Japans General MacArthur Urges Liberty Guard
Tokyo May 2 General MacArthur urged the Japanese to guard new constitutional liberties against international communism and suggested the possible outlawing of Japan's Communist party. He termed the party an avowed satellite of a predatory force and questioned its right to benefits and protection. He urged calm just handling of the issue with safeguards for a peaceful, law abiding society.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Communist Party
Population count near completion in 1950 census
Washington reports the national population count about 90 percent complete with officials estimating three weeks remain to finish. Precount estimates put the total around 151 million, up about 20 million from 1940. A tentative national figure will be issued by September end, with county and city estimates for populations over 10,000 to follow in the coming months.
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Washington
Alger Hiss Barred From Law Practice
New York May 2 Alger Hiss former high state department official convicted of perjury was disbarred today from practicing law in New York state by the appellate division of the supreme court. It held his two count federal conviction for felonies meant he was not a qualified attorney. Hiss was convicted Jan 21 1950 and sentenced to five years. The case is on appeal. He was found guilty of lying under oath about giving secret government papers to a courier for a pre war Soviet spy ring.
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New York
Alger Hiss
High State Department
New York State
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Hiss
State Department
Two Missing After Fire On Vessel Victory
Two men are missing after a fire on the 40 foot fishing craft Victory on Lake Superior near Traverse Point Keeweenaw peninsula in upper Michigan. The hull burned, fishermen spotted a black smoke plume and found several tied boxes that may indicate the men tried to raft away. Both owner Arthur Haikkanen and crewman Alex Simons from Big Traverse were not aboard.
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Gay, Mich
Lake Superbo
Victory
Traverse Point
Upper Michigan
Keeweenaw
Alex Simons
Haikkanen
Simons
Big Traverse
Nationalists Arrest 1,284 on Formosa in Red Hunt
Nationalist authorities in Formosa report 1,284 arrests in a Sunday sweep for illegal entry or missing proper credentials. Taipei seized 213. Kaohsiung 113. A census counted about 91,000 participants between midnight and 8 am. The release also cites Yak-21 fighters aiding Communist air force and a naval shelling raid on Kanmen with guerrilla actions and casualties near Yuhwan Island.
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Taipei
Formosa
Pescadores Islands
Kaohsiung
Russia
Far East
Soviet Russia
Yungtai
Kanmen
Yuhwan Island
Shanghai
Yuhwan
East China
Lattimore Defies Budenz Testimony as Hogwash
In testimony before a Senate committee Owen Lattimore denounces Budenz's charges linking him to the Communist party as "hogwash" and "twisted." He insists he is neither a Communist nor a Soviet spy and urges the panel to condemn Senator McCarthy for the accusations. Budenz, once a top Communist, testifies that party leaders warned him to view Lattimore as a Communist.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Louis Budenz
Communist Party
Budenz
Senate
Lattimore
McCarthy
R.-Wis
State Department
Johns Hopkins University
The
Daily Worker
Catholic Church
Fordham University
Earl Browder
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Whittington Poised for Passage of Water Projects Bill
Congress expected to pass the omnibus water projects authorization, a measure valued at 1.73 billion dollars. Rep. Whittington of Mississippi, retiring after 26 years, turns 72 on May 4 and is lauded as a leading authority on rivers and harbors. The bill funds flood control, rivers and harbors, reclamation, and Missouri basin projects, with a White House action likely this week. Whittington to receive a commemorative scroll from rivers and harbors leaders and attend a dinner with his wife as honored guests.
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Washington
Congress
Rep
Whittington
D.-Miss
House Public Works Committee
Senate
House
White House
Missouri River
McClellan
D.-Ark
Larcade
D.-La
William H. Webb
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Unidentified Sub Hunter Off Miami Sails Four-Hour Search
May 2 Miami navy patrol bombers and private hurricane hunting planes combed the Florida coast for an unidentified submarine. Comdr Lewis Tamny said they found nothing after a thorough sweep southeast of Miami, noting an old wreck may have been misidentified. Some officers suspected a submarine could originate from Key West.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Comdr
Lewis D. Tamny
Baltic Sea
Tamny
Key West
Russian Rockets Aimed at Alaska Reported by Escapee
Victor Martunk a 33 year old former Soviet concentration camp escapee testified through attorney Ivan Crap that Russia has built rocket installations in the Arctic and Baltic regions aimed at Alaska Norway and Sweden. Martunk is held in Montgomery County jail awaiting action on his lawful residence request.
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Philadelphia
Alaska
Norway
Sweden
Russia
Arctic
Baltic
Victor Martunk
Ivan M. Crap
Martunuk
Montgomery County
Norristown
House
No Letup Seen In Reds Aggression
Gen Omar Bradley urged Congress to keep the draft law, saying there has been no letup in communist aggression toward world domination. He testified as House hearings on extending the draft resumed, noting Baltic incidents and urging retention of the selection service act. Vinson proposed a two year extension with Congress dictating inductions or industry seizure, with mobilization plan study to follow.
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Washington
Omar Bradley
Congress
Joint Chiefs of Staff
House Armed Services
Bradley
Vinson
D.-Ga
Defense Department
Stuart Symington
National Security Resources Board
Defense
Johnson
State Acheson
Gambling in KC Probed by Senate Panel
Washington May 2 Officials of Continental Press Service denied a federal grand jury report that they supply racing news to Kansas City bookies. The firm said it had no KC clients and posted a $2.37 million annual gross from national horse race news. The hearing weighed a bill to ban cross state race news transmissions.
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Washington
Racing News Service
Today
Kansas City
Thomas F. Kelly
Accuntant
Joseph M. Lebit
Continental Press Service
Cleveland
Senate Commerce
Continental
Standard News Service
Kelly
Chicago
Lebit
United States
Charles Binaggio
Charles Gargotta
Gargotta
Nation Sees Wide Wet Weather Across Regions
Weather across the nation brought heavy rain from Pennsylvania to Texas and Oklahoma while snow mixed in Dakotas and Idaho. Fort Worth recorded 1.38 inches in six hours and Dallas 1.14 inches in one hour. Cool readings persisted in the Midwest and Rockies with Cadillac Michigan at 23 degrees while San Antonio reached 71.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
Texas
Oklahoma
Fort Worth
Dallas
Lufkin
Lubbock
Gulf States
Dakotas
Minnesota
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
Pacific Coast
California
Plains States
Rockies
Cadillac
Mich
San Antonio
Ark La Tex Storms Cause Widespread Damage
Severe rain wind and hail swept the Ark La Tex region around 12 30 am damaging barns uprooting trees and disrupting lines from Latex Texas to Shreveport Localities including Natchitoches Grant parish Colfax and Colfax saw fallen trees and poles Two cows died near Greenwood and three children were injured at Cloutierville Shreveport reported 1 92 inches of rain in 24 hours with total since Friday at 5 46 inches No injuries reported in the city and no major damage within Shreveport limits
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Shreveport
Ark-La-Tex
Natchitoches
Grant Parish
Latex
Texas
Western Union
Cross Lake
U. S
B. P. Hughes
Greenwood
Cotton Valley
Cloutierville
St. Joseph’s Convent
Shamsbles
Colfax
C. A. Rhoades
Kansas City
Colefax
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Hamilton County
Chattanooga
Tenn
Priscilla McCoig
Big Island
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River Bill
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