Israel Says It Has No Intention of Waging War on Syria
Tel Aviv leaders downplay broader conflict after Israel bombs Syrian military positions near the demilitarized zones by Lake Tiberias. The U N monitors warn Syria may retaliate while border towns brace for renewed fighting amid claims of Syrian incursions and village demolitions.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Syria
United States
Monnett B. Davis
Felix Adouard Couillon
Foreign Office
Tiberias
Lake Tiberias
Sea of Galilee
United Nations
Ben-Gurion
Flags at half staff honor La Prensa editor Paz
Across the Americas flags flew at half staff to mourn La Prensa in Buenos Aires and condemn its suppression by Juan Peron's government. The National Press Club organized the day of mourning, urging the American flag to fly at half staff atop the National Press Building.
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Washington
la Prensa
Free Press Today
North
South America
Buenos Aires
Juan Peron
Alberto Gainza Paz
National Press Club
National Press
Phoenix Gazette
Ray Artigue
Senate panel votes to veto RFC reorganization
The Senate Executive Expenditures Committee voted seven to six to defeat President Truman’s plan to place the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under a single administrator. The resolution by Sen. Homer Capehart would veto the reorganization, which would remove five directors. The measure now goes to the Senate and may face a close vote next week.
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Washington
Senate Executive Expenditures Committee
Truman
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Homer E. Capehart
Ind
RFC
Senate
Capehart
Court Calls Greenglass For Sentence
In New York on April 6 AP reports David Greenglass the confessed atom spy and key accuser of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg faces his fate. Federal Judge Irving R Kaufman praised his courage while the sentence for Greenglass and the Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell was postponed for preparation.
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Julius Rosenberg
Ethel
Federal Court
New York
David Greenglass
Atom
Greenglass
Julius
Ethel Rosenberg
Irving R. Kaufman
Rosenbergs
Morton Sobell
O. John Rogge
April Showers Continue Across Arizona Region
More rain is expected today across Phoenix and statewide as April showers persist. Total rainfall measured last night ranged from .16 to .27 inches at key stations with light precipitation overall. Scattered showers will linger in mountain areas tonight with cooler temperatures and clouds. An additional showery period is forecast to begin the week with normal or slightly below normal temperatures through next Wednesday.
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Phoenix
Tucson
Fanatical Red Stand In Hilltop Bunkers Halts UN Advance
Tokyo April 7 Reuters Chinese Communist troops entrenched on hills in west central Korea halted the UN northward advance with fanatical resistance. Reds in bunkers beat off American attacks using mortars machine guns and rifles. Infantry nearly reached the crest several times but were driven back by grenades dropped from above. Resistance was sporadic elsewhere along the front 38th parallel as British Commonwealth troops moved northward through mountains toward objectives. Eight UN divisions including Greek Thai and South Korean forces pressed a 35 to 40 mile front. Deepest penetration came from armored units surging ahead of foot soldiers eight miles inside North Korea Thursday.
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Tokyo
Korea
United Nations
West Central Front
38Th Parallel
North Korea
Capital confirms red air buildup in Manchuria
Washington dispatch reports that the air force confirms a substantial buildup of enemy aircraft in Manchuria. The April 6 bulletin notes the confirmed intensification of hostile air strength in the region.
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Capital
Washington
Ai Force
Manchuria
Red forces mass for spring counteroffensive amid air and tank actions
The Reds gathered more than 500,000 troops northward for a potential spring counteroffensive. Tanks neared the front but U.N. planes knocked out or disabled all before contact. A lone Communist plane dropped bombs behind U.N. lines near Chunchon. Northwest, MiG-15s clashed with American F-86s near the Manchurian frontier in a six mile high, 15 minute battle that ended in Red retreat with no U.S. losses.
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U.N
Chunchon
Manchurian
U. S
U S Grand Jury Indicts Phoenicians
A federal grand jury returned secret indictments against 10 people and open indictments against 35, many in the Phoenix area. The panel heard 47 cases with two dropped for lack of evidence. One open count cites Tempe physician Dr Hubert A Achen for unlawful narcotics sales to agents posing as addicts.
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Tucson
Phoenix
Hubert A. Achen
Tempe
Noted Figures Comment on War and Spies
International News Service reports Rep. O K Arm strong of Missouri says Russia is already in the war supplying materiel and advising Chinese and North Koreans. General MacArthur warns a loss to communism in Asia could doom Europe. Judge Irving R. Kaufman says the atomic spies’ crime dwarfs in magnitude their murder, in a New York ruling.
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Tokyo
Rep
O. K. Armstrong
Russia
General MacArthur
Asia
Europe
New York
Irving R. Kaufman
Tragic case ends as physician commits suicide after Iowa murder verdict
Houston April 6 Dr Robert C Rutledge Jr a surgeon who killed Byron Hartman in 1948 was found dead by suicide in his car near Houston after the Iowa Supreme Court upheld his conviction His wife Sydney Rutledge 29 faced the aftermath with letters claiming love is fleeting and sorrow He had written to her that it was best for her and began a chain of tragedies including Hartman’s killing and his own arrest attempts in St Louis earlier He had previously attempted poisoning when officers came to arrest him the night he fled to St Louis
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Jack Gates
Houston
Tex
Sydney Rutledge
Robert C. Rutledge, Jr
Rutledge
Iowa
Byron Hartman
Diddy
Iowa Supreme Court
Hartman
Cedar Rapids
Cers
St.Louis
Ruledge
St. Louis
White House Guard Slayer Meted Death
Oscar Collazo was sentenced to die in the electric chair on October 26 for the slaying of a White House guard during an attempt on President Truman last November. He said he did not plead for life but for Puerto Rico's liberty, insisting the act was for his country’s freedom.
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Washington
Oscar Collazo
White House
Truman
T. Alan Goldsborough
Collazo
Puerto Rico
Griselio Torresola
Blair House
Torresola
Leslie Coffelt
Tribe Leases Bring Record 642553 For Northern Arizona Lands
In WINDOW ROCK Navajo Nation issued leases totaling 642553 for 15680 acres between Tuba City and Cayenta for oil and gas exploration. W J Weaver Fort Worth bought two 4320 acre tracts for 230774 and 148694 dollars, while Sinclair Oil Tulsa leased the remaining two tracts for 162700 and 100384 dollars. Additional leases covered ten tracts in San Juan County Utah and 24 tracts in New Mexico.
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Window Rock
Arizona
Tuba City
Cayenta
W. J. Weaver
Fort Worth
Tex
Sinclair Oil and Refining Company
Tulsa
Okla
San Juan County
Utah
New Mexico
U S Army Buys Communist Meat Behind Iron Curtain
German wholesalers report the American army is purchasing meat from behind the Iron Curtain paying dollars. They say beef has been imported from Hungary for U S occupation personnel in Germany and Americans have pledged help to obtain pigs from Poland.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Hungary
U. S
Poland
Federal Jury Indicts Cohen Gambler Mickey Cohen and Lavonne
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted gambler Mickey Cohen and his wife Lavonne on five counts of evading more than $156000 in income taxes for the years 1946 and 1947. The charges allege deliberate underreporting of earnings and failure to file correct tax returns, reflecting a broader federal crackdown on organized crime era figures.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Lavonne
West High Expansion Bond Vote Tomorrow
Phoenix Union High School voters face a 500000 dollar bond issue to expand West Phoenix High School and its facilities. Dr. E W Montgomery says class overflows require double sessions and the project would add a science wing, industrial arts building, gym enlargements, and a larger cafeteria. Polls open Saturday 10 am to 6 pm at multiple district schools.
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Phoenix Union High School
West Phoenix High
E. W. Montgomery
Phoenix Union High Schools
West Phoenix
Montgomery
East
van Buren Street
West Phoenix High School
Liberal Arts
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Mazraat
Elkhoury
Banqara
Huleh
Negeib
Typherias
U. N
Kaufman
Eugene Fitzgerald
Sobell
John &. McClellan
D., Ark
U.S
Claude E. Spriggs
Coronado Road
Howard Apartments
Papa
Grand Jury
Sky Harbor
U.S. Army
Cohen
George Sokolsky
the Phoenix Gazette
West High
North 19Th Avenue
Creighton
East McDowell Road
Madison School
North 16Th Street
Osborn
North Central Avenue
Alhambra
Grand Avenue
Isaac
West McDowell Road
Riverside
Murphy
Buckeye Road
Roosevelt
East Southern Avenue
Wilson
East Henshaw Road
Balsz
East van Buren Street
Cartwright Os Maricopa Road
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