Acheson recalls Yalta uncertainty on atomic bomb
Washington June 4 AP Secretary of State Acheson testified at senate hearings on MacArthur's dismissal stating the United States did not know if it had an atomic bomb when it signed the 1945 Yalta agreement to bring Russia into the war against Japan. He also noted Wallace won Chiang Kai-shek's agreement to allow aid to Chinese Communists and questioned postwar China survival.
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U N Bayonets Hack At Stiff Red Defense Of Iron Triangle
United Nations infantrymen hacked into hills guarding the Red Chinese Iron Triangle fortress in central Korea today as Allied drives pressed the Chorwon Kumhwa Pyonggang triangle. Rain limited air operations while Communist counterattacks sought to halt a bone crushing hill by hill advance.
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Yanggu
William Burson
Eighth Army
Chorwon-Kumhwa
Deputy Duels Wife's Father At Show Low
In Show Low a deputy sheriff and his 73 year old father in law were killed in a gunfight near the residence of George Hall. The deputy’s wife Lois Cobb was wounded in the hand and hospitalized. Investigators say Cobb, intoxicated, confronted Hall over an ill baby and shots were exchanged. The coroner's jury planned to reconvene later in the day.
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Mickey Cohen Goes to Trial On Tax Dodge
Los Angeles date AP report states mob figure Mickey Cohen and wife Lavonne face federal income tax evasion charges for 1946 to 1948 totaling 156123.48. Cohen denies guilt and offered to plead guilty if proof shows no payment overdue. both pled not guilty at April 30 arraignment. Judge Ben Harrison ordered 100 jurors due to Cohen notoriety. Capone comparison cited with Capone’s tax case ending in Alcatraz.
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Learn to Swim Program Opens Across Four Communities
Hundreds of children aged 8 through 14 began the 25th annual Learn-to-Swim program sponsored by the American Red Cross YMCA and The Phoenix Gazette. Free instruction runs daily 9 to 11 a.m. in Phoenix Litchfield and Sunnyslope and 10 a.m. to noon in Avondale through Friday at pools including Broadway Crystal Beach Coronado Cotton Wood Eastlake Encanto Grant Joyland Nelsons Beach Riverside St Francis Xavier University Desert Mission Avondale Sunnyslope Litchfield YMCA and YWCA.
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Air Tragedy Kills Ten in Texas Crash
Ten air force personnel aboard a C-82 Flying Boxcar died when the aircraft fell apart in a thunderstorm near New Boston Texas. Witnesses reported turbulence and a possible lightning strike, though officials said lightning was unlikely. Wreckage spread across a four mile area as the fuselage burned in a 400 acre pasture.
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C. W. Jones
Two C-119s Lost In Korea Shot By Own Artillery
Ground parties hunted seven missing U N fliers after UN artillery fired during a drop and hit two C-119 cargo planes. Three survivors among ten crewmen were found. aircraft disintegrated and plummeted after a direct hit and a looping maneuver. Despite the loss, supply drops continued with 60,000 pounds delivered within an hour to a frontline unit 15 miles away.
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Bradley Eisenhower Confer In Paris In War Plans
General Omar N. Bradley chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spent several hours today in Paris conferring with General Dwight D. Eisenhower as they discussed war plans and operations.
Arizona Vote For Telephone Strike Seen By United Press
United Press reports sixty three thousand telephone workers threaten to strike across 13 Western and Midwest states. About 51000 District 6 CIO CWA members near midnight may walk out if Southwestern Bell at St. Louis does not settle wage talks. District 8 in Denver backs a strike of 12000 Mountain States employees across Colorado to West Texas with a June 10 ballot deadline.
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What Noted People Are Saying
International News Service gathers quotes from Johnston Dulles and Margaret Truman in Washington and London. Johnston warns against harming consumers for profits. Dulles cautions that disunity alarms aggressors. Truman jokes about marrying a titled Englishman and cites her democratic father.
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London
Margaret Truman
Weather draws rain as heat scorches many regions
A Weather Bureau forecast spares the Atlantic Coast with relief for North Carolina, while the Southeast endure heat again. Drought rots Tennessee tobacco, crops fail, and western sections plow under cotton to plant soybeans. Beatrice Nebraska floodswallow blocks and San Antonio floods force 135 families from homes as Dallas river levels rise. A Pittsburgh bingo crowd endures falling plaster after a lightning strike.
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Go berserk invalid shoots landlord then guns down 50 police
In New York on June 4 a 60 year old invalid ill with asthma hid in his Bronx room firing on police after wounding his landlord Philip Figario. The standoff with 50 officers lasted over an hour ending with Rosario Virgadamo dead from five bullets after police breached the room.
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Abraham Braneman
FHA Girls Of Arizona Convene
More than 100 high school girls from across Arizona opened the state convention of Future Homemakers of America in Flagstaff on the Arizona State College campus. The theme is Stairways to Successful Homes, with Eva W. Scully directing. Sessions include workshops, a business meeting, panel discussions, a banquet, and a luncheon with a style show. Tours to the Museum of Northern Arizona and Lowell Observatory are planned, concluding with a luncheon.
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Eva W. Scully
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Russia Agrees To Big Four Meet In Washington
Paris bulletin reports Russia agreed to attend a foreign ministers conference with the Western powers in Washington on July 23. The condition set is discussion of the North Atlantic Pact and U S bases overseas.
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Butler Aide Fined Five Thousand Dollars in Election Case
Jon M. Jonkel, a 35 year old Chicago public relations man, pleaded guilty to six Maryland election law violations as campaign manager for Senator Butler. Criminal Court Judge Joseph Sherbow fined him 5000 dollars. maximum penalties could have reached 6000 dollars and 12 years in prison. The violations related to Butler's race against Millard E. Tydings, who lost by 43000 votes after 24 years in the Senate.
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Chicago
Maryland
Senator Butler
Joseph Sherbow
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Millard E. Tydings
Tydings
Guerrilla Victory In China Reported
The Chinese Nationalist Defense Ministry reported that over 100,000 guerrillas seized a vast area in western Kwangsi Province after slaughtering 7,000 Reds in a campaign ending in May. Nationalist flags were said to fly across eight occupied counties.
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Formosa
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Kwangsi Province
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South China
Boys State Governor To Address Legislators
Flagstaff June 4 AP Actions of its legislature will be the chief concern today at Arizona Boys State at the state college in Flagstaff. The newly elected governor Hadley Hicks 18 of Warren will address a joint session. Hicks won yesterday over Bob Jacobs 18 of Union High School by 135 to 0. Hicks is president elect of Bisbee High School student body and a former Bisbee football backfield ace and track sprinter. Gene Ryan Prescott defeated Bert Slater Coolidge for state auditor by one vote 111 to 110. Hicks was sworn in last night by Judge H L Russell in the absence of the state chief justice.
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Bisbee
Gene Ryan
Prescott
Bert Slater
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