Britain's Labor split shakes Attlee as Bevan resigns
The London crisis deepens as Aneurin Bevan resigns from health minister post over cuts in free medical services for rearmament. Harold Wilson reportedly quits as president of the Board of Trade. Budget debates loom with threats of a general election as pressure heightens on Prime Minister Attlee.
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Board of Trade
Attlee
Aneurin Bevan
Labor
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Labor Party
Winston
Hugh Gaitskell
House of Commons
Duff Demands Truman Mac Come Clean on War Strategy
Senator James N. Duff called on President Truman and General MacArthur to disclose the true Korean War strategy. He criticized a perceived smear campaign and urged the president to issue a clear joint chiefs backed statement on military judgments versus political decisions.
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W. Va
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Congress
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China
Manchuria
Formosa
Joint Chiefs
Allies Give Ground In Orderly Fashion
United Nations troops fell back up to 12 miles as a major Red offensive struck along about 100 miles of the Korean front. The Reds crossed the Imjin River and faced heavy UN air and artillery fire while Allied lines held elsewhere.
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Inje
Korea
United States
James A. van Fleet
U. S. Eighth Army
China
Atomic Test To Be Staged In Few Days
Sen. Warren Magnuson said the Atomic Energy Commission will conduct a military nature experiment within days at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific. He will travel from Hong Kong in three days to witness it and stay about a week, declining to give a date or details. Magnuson noted Asia bears more potential trouble than Europe as he toured Korea, Japan and Formosa.
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Wash
Magnuson
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Washington
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Korea
Japan
Formosa
Asia
Europe
Hottest Day Ahead With 97 Degree Heat Expected
The United States Weather Bureau forecast the day would be the season’s hottest with a high of 97 degrees. Valley conditions were mostly sunny with tonight becoming increasingly cloudy, and tomorrow partly cloudy with a chance of showers in nearby mountains. Phoenix range 90 to 58 in the last 24 hours. Sky Harbor Airport readings were 89 to 55.
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Weather Bureau
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Sky Harbor
Electrocution of Boy Laid to Carelessness
An 8 year old boy died in St Johns when he touched a live power line tied to a barbed wire fence. A coroner jury blamed carelessness by the line owners and noted the line had been on the fence since March 29. rescuers Buck Simpson and Tommy Waite were knocked down by the current while freeing him.
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Stanley Waite
Roy Waite
Sheriff's Deputies
Ed Carter
Navajo-Apache Electric Co
Lakeside
Stanley
Buck Simpson
Tommy Waite
Ranch Hand Electrocuted in Arizona Accident
PRESCOTT April 23 A ranch worker Willard W. Stone about 26 was killed yesterday when a 4000 volt power line snapped and struck him as he worked on a tractor at the K-4 ranch in Chino Valley. Coroner J. J. Burleson ruled the death accidental.
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Willard W. Stone
Chino Valley
J. J. Burleson
John Garfield Defends Self Against Communist Claims
John Garfield, film star and first witness after a six day recess, told the House Un American Activities Committee he has never been a member of the Communist Party and will answer any question. He called communism a tyranny and dictatorship against democracy and said a published statement accusing him was quoted absolutely correctly.
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John Garfield
House Un-American Activities Committee
Communist Party
Garfield
Defense Draft Plan Seeks 717 Doctors in July
The Defense Department asked the Selective Service to draft 717 doctors in July and 333 in August, plus 152 in September, totaling 1,202 physicians. All are from priority 1, men trained at government expense who did not serve in World War II.
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Selective Service System
Noted Figures Comment On Crime Fight And Defense
International News Service reports from New York Senator Kefauver says there is political letdown but hints at renewed enforcement by the Crime Investigation Committee. Washington Price Chief DiSalle warns black marketeers face severe penalties for threatening a vital program. London Defense Minister Shinwell notes Russia continues massive aircraft production as armament dominates its economy.
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New York
Kefauver
Tenn
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Washington
London
Shinwell
Russia
Police rescue children in deadly apartment fire
In San Francisco on April 23 two policemen risked their lives to rescue three children and awaken 90 other residents as a blaze destroyed one apartment building and damaged five others.
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Narcotics Traffic Here Gets Setback
Maricopa County and Phoenix officials say they crippled local marijuana trafficking with four arrests including a Glendale wholesaler named Lorenzo Zuniga. Zuniga admitted selling for 18 months and produced nearly two pounds of marijuana after a deputy prosecutor fired into the ground to stop his escape.
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17Th Avenues
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Flynn
Deal Made On Release Of Vogeler
Budapest Hungary April 23 Robert Vogeler American businessman probably will remain in prison until the United States fulfills terms of an announced agreement with Communist Hungary Sources said the Hungarian government announced Vogeler a vice president of ITT will be released from a 15 year prison term on espionage charges The terms reportedly include reopening Hungarian consulates in New York and Cleveland and lifting the American travel ban on Hungary.
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Hungary
Robert Vogeler
United States
Vogeler
Internationl Telephone and Telegraph Company
U. S
New York
Cleveland
Party Hearings Open on Communist Party Registration
Washington April 23 AP Public hearings begin on whether the Communist Party in the United States must register as controlled from abroad. Attorney General McGrath says it is bossed from Moscow.
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Communist Party
United States
McGrath
Moscow
Gl Slaughters Reds With Bazooka They Won't Get Past This Time
WESTERN FRONT Korea April 23 AP A front line soldier recounts fending off a Red counteroffensive while firing bazooka rounds in the dark. He notes muting grenades with rocks, heavy machine-gun barrages, and a bayonet kill, as Reds attempt to advance across the Imjin River area and across the valley under moonless dawn.
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John Randolph
Western Front
Korea
Mansei
Sion
Blair Moody Named Michigan U S Senator
Blair Moody, Washington correspondent for The Detroit News, was named by Governor Mennen Williams to fill the Michigan senate seat of the late Arthur Vandenberg. Moody, age 49, has served since 1933 in The News Washington Bureau and was a World War II war correspondent. His appointment gives Democrats a four vote Senate edge. Moody will serve until January 1953.
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Detroit News
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United States
Michigan
Arthur H. Vandenberg
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Frank Murphy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Arthur Vandenberg
Dulles Says U S Won’t Leave Asia
John Foster Dulles told the United Nations Association of Japan that the United States will not abandon Asia and will stand against aggression. He cited expanded Far Eastern forces, two infantry divisions in Japan, Okinawa bases, a Japan security pact, possible defense ties with Australia and New Zealand, and the Philippines as a U S concern.
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MacArthur
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Asia
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Japan
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New Zealand
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