Wilson Defends Air Power in Senate Hearing on Defense Budget
Wilson told lawmakers that the United States must be ready to meet any threat without flaunting military strength. He spoke after a White House briefing with President Eisenhower and while the defense budget of 34.6 billion dollars, with 900 million for the Air Force, moved toward approval. He described the strategic air command as America’s primary deterrent and noted advances in nuclear weapons and long range capabilities.
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Wilson
Free World
Eisenhower
White House
Curtis E. Lemay
Strategic Air Commander
Russia
United States
Strategic Air Command
America
Kidnapping scare turns into family misunderstanding
In East Los Angeles, a suspected kidnapping ended as a family misunderstanding when 18 year old Mrs. Dela Aguilar found her 5 month old daughter Charlene missing from her crib. Deputies learned the infant was at the grandmother's home 15 blocks away, taken without Mrs. Aguilar's knowledge while she made a phone call.
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Los Angeles
CNS
First Class Tavern Denied as Joint in Tax Claim
Colorado official George H. Allan notes air power defense spending trends for fiscal 1950 and beyond. A federal agent questions occupation during a tardy tax return, revealing a tavern operator claiming a “first-class tavern” business. He cites Air Force and Navy budget allocations and commanders’ desires for more funds.
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Denver
George H. Allan
Colorado
Internal Revenue
Slaying on Parkway In El Monte Linked To Divorce Case
Three youths described a confrontation on Parkway where a man pulled a woman from a car and fired four shots. Mrs. Gilman had filed divorce proceedings in Pomona domestic relations court amid reports of prior abuse. Gilman’s body was later taken to Addleman’s Mortuary as investigators pursued possible witnesses.
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Glen F. Stevenson
Feiipi
el Monte
Gilman
Pomona
Negro family doctor, 102, dies in Washington
James Edward Simpson, aged 102, a Negro Latin teacher who took a night course at Louisville Medical School to “doctor” his family, died yesterday. Born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, he did not practice medicine.
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Washington
James ‘Edward Simpson
Louisville Medical School
Brownsville
Riots in Poznan as Polish capital reels from unrest
The Poznan disturbances see tanks seized by marchers and clashes with troops, with reports of curfew, arson, and diversions. Witnesses say violence persisted into the night while Warsaw Radio claimed normality and workers returned to work.
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Warsaw
Poznan
Willard Barber
Posen
Berlin
Hamburger Anzeiger
Jury Selected in Fur Robbery Insurance Case
A Santa Monica jury of 11 women and one man is seated to try Beverly Hills furrier Albert Teitelbaum on charges of conspiring to stage a fur robbery at his store for an insurance claim. The panel was impaneled after four days of courtroom skirmishing.
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Santa Monica
Beverly Hills
Albert Teitelbaum
Atomic War Warns of Mass Death by Gavin Testimony
Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin warned that Communist nuclear war could kill hundreds of millions from radioactive fallout. Senator Anderson said four hydrogen bombs on the U.S. East Coast could cause millions of deaths, a view echoed amid Senate criticism of the testimony.
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Washington
Red Empire
Free Nations
Arm
James M. Gavin
Associated Press
Clinton P. Anderson
D-Nm
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
U.S
Defense Department
Senate
United Press
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Atomic and
Armed Services Committees
Anderson
United States
Russia
NAACP Convention Highlights Civil Rights Debate
In San Francisco at the 47th annual NAACP convention 80 delegates watched a live debate between California Attorney General Edmund G Brown Jr and Hugh Scott former Republican National Committee chairman. Leaders urged Negro voters to withhold party endorsements until civil rights plans are clear.
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San Francisco
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
California
Edmund G. ‘Brown
Hugh ‘Scott
Republican National Committee
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