War's Biggest Drop Cracks Seoul Front
Tokyo dispatch reports the 187th Regimental Combat Team parachuted 20 miles northwest of Seoul, linking with Task Force Growndon and forcing North Korean units back across the Imjin River. Covering the drop with 145 cargo planes, U.S. forces captured high ground, took 50 prisoners in five hours, and advanced toward the 38th parallel as Ridgway arrived.
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Tokyo
Seoul
Imijin River
United States
187Th
Growndon
Munsan
Japan
Hawkins
Uijongbu
38Th Parallel
U. S. First Cavalry Division
Chunchon
Frank S. Bowen
Matthew B. Ridgway
Eighth Army
Bowen
Ridgway
United Press
Jack Burley
Pittsburgh
Korea
Bricker pushes for definite law on Europe troop dispatch
Senator John Bricker of Ohio urged enacting a definite law to govern American troop deployments to Europe. He criticized pending resolutions as a fraud and said he would move to convert them into actual legislation. The measures request executive consultation with Congress before further commitments and would not bind law. The Senate resumes debate after Easter with votes set for April 2.
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Washington
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Europe
Senate
Bricker
Truman
International Defense Army
Congress
U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert H. Taft
St. David FFA Boys Capture Sweepstakes at state meet
Special to The Gazette. At the 1951 Arizona FFA state field day on the University of Arizona campus 415 youths from 24 high schools competed. St. David led sweepstakes, with Mesa second and Amphitheater third, in events across poultry, livestock, horticulture, agronomy, farm mechanics, dairy, and entomology as leaders and teams were named. Honored with State Farmer degrees were Barry Goldwater and John Dutton of Phoenix, Marian Donaldson of Mesa, W A Schafer and Bob E Taylor of Tucson, and Millard E Fourt of Yuma. Goldwater was absent.
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Andrew Mayberry
St. David
Gazette
Tucson
Future Farmers of America
Southern Arizona
University of Arizona
Mesa
Duncan
Willcox
Yuma
Tolleson
Chandler
Gilbert
Buckeye
Amphitheater
Safford
Casa Grande
Coolidge
Phoenix Technical School
Sherald Griffin
Thatcher
Kenneth Parkhurst
Reggie Ramsey
Florence
Ronnie Rainey
Philo Carter
Phoenix Tech
Richard Tripp
Dale Kartchner
Sammy Ligon
Lorin McRae
Wilcox
Sheran Lunt
Ted Kieffer
Allen Sloan
Ivan Lee
Guy Scott
Benson
Halvor Darby
Peoria
Quentin Tolby
Toll
Stanley McRae
Carl Miller
Boyd Gardner
Barry Goldwater
John Dutton
Phoenix
Marian Donaldson
W. A. Schafer
Bob E. Taylor
Millard E. Fourt
Goldwater
Teenage Trio Admits Spree Across States
FBI agents held three Bronx youths after they confessed to robbing service stations in Ohio Missouri Texas and New Mexico as part of a cross country crime spree. The teens Victor Mastrangelo 18 Franklin Mraz 17 and Robert Mattson 17 were captured after a Mesa area gas station robbery and face Dyer Act charges potential robbery charges in Phoenix. Two girls aged 14 and 15 from the Bronx were detained later as associates allegedly abandoned by the trio.
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Franklin George Mraz
Robert Charles Mattson
Bronx
N. Y
Phoenix
Duncan
Murphy
Ohio
Missouri
Texas
FBI
Saide
Elbert Kupis
Mesa
Kupis
Sheriff's Deputies
New Mexico
Mastrangelo
General Cullen Among Those On Lost C-124
A U S Air Force Globemaster II with 53 aboard including Brig. Gen. Paul T Cullen vanished over the North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Ireland in foul weather. Search planes found no trace as fuel concerns and distress signals emerged amid limited resources and white seas.
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General Cullen
London
Paul T. Cullen
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Ireland
Phoenix
Air Force
Washington
Azores
Iceland
Gander
Mildenhall
England
U. S. Third Air Division
Irish
Globemaster
North Atlantic
U.S. Air Force
Manston
British Overseas Airways
Killing Ends Argument Over Funds
Eva Ford, 54, shot laborer Charlie Jones, 52, at her East Lincoln Street home after an argument over money. Deputies found Jones with three head wounds and two arm wounds. Ford admitted taking a $10 bill from his pocket and reloading the pistol before police arrived. She was jailed for murder investigation.
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East
Lincoln Street
Charlie Jones
Eva Ford
Warren LaRue
Jones
Sheriff's Office
Grows To Keep Reds Out Of Army
Washington March 23 AP the army has boosted counter intelligence and investigation by about 50 percent since the Korean War began to ferret out Communists The effort targets internal security in the armed services with expanded manpower and espionage patrols
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Uort
Reds
Washington
Ferguson
Mich
Senate
State Department
Soviets Take Over Czech Rail Lines Link to USSR
Vienna dispatch reports Russian experts now supervise Czechoslovakia's railroads and a strategic new line is under construction to connect the country with the Soviet Union.
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Vienna
Austria
Arbeiter Zeitung
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Truman Won't Seek O'Dwyer Resignation
The White House said President Truman does not expect former New York Mayor William O'Dwyer to resign as ambassador to Mexico and does not plan to ask for his resignation.
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Washington
INS
White House
Truman
New York
William O’dwyer
Mexico
Handlers Of Meat Await Strike Call In Chicago
More than 100000 CIO and AFL meat handlers waited for a strike call as the two big unions threatened action against meat packers. The CIO union said it was ready to strike when a date is set during a committee meeting to finalize plans and set a deadline.
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Chicago
Congress of Industrial Organizations Packinghouse
American Federation of Labor Meat Handlers
CIO
British Crew Refuses Red Port Visit After Korean Action
The British merchant ship Empire Marshal crew, commended for Korea's Hungnam evacuation, votes unanimously to skip Dairen in Red China. Owners reroute to a non communist port. crew faces possible penalties but prefer UN support over aiding Reds. Several crewmen are White Russians and Nationalist Chinese.
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Tokyo
Dairen
London
Mmpppuis Illitiil Vi Ff. Dy
Farnucus
Yokohama
Pandelis
China
United Nations
Korea
D. G. MacNaughton
Plane crash injures sick baby and mother en route to Denver
A plane carrying 9 month old Vernon Binder from Hays Kansas to a Denver hospital crashed in a snowstorm 35 miles east of Denver. The infant suffered a broken arm but was out of a coma. His mother Dolores Binder also injured with a cut over the eye and back strain. Pilot Adrian McNutt and Dr Henry Foster, both from Hays, sustained facial cuts. All were in good condition at Children's Hospital.
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Denver
Hays
Kan
Here
Vernon Binder
Dolores Binder
Children’s Hospital
Adrian McNutt
Henry Foster
Noted People Are Saying By International News Service
New York Senator Wherry argues the president holds absolute power over national defense policy. New York Ambassador William O Dwyer defers judgment on his testimony before Kefauver committee. Washington betting official James J Carroll calls gambling a biological necessity shaping day dreams.
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James J. Carroll
St. Louis
Senate
International News Service
New York
Wherry
Washington
Congress Members To Arrive In Arizona For Hectic Visit
A first contingent of congressmen from Washington D C arrives today en route to Yuma for a short stop. Reps Lloyd M Bentsen Hames C Donovan A L Miller Fred Crawford and Wayne N Aspinall travel by air. They tour the Wellton Mohawk Project then head to the Grand Canyon to survey Colorado River dam sites.
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Arizona
Yuma
Washington, D. C
Lloyd M. Bentsen
D., Tex
Hames C. Donovan
N. Y
A. L. Miller
Neb
Fred Crawford
Mich
Wayne N. Aspinall
Glendale Bond Vote Set for 195,000 Expansion Plan
Glendale March 23 electors will vote on a 195000 bond issue for land and a new grammar school unit near West D Street on South Palm Lane. Superintendent Harold W. Smith says five acres now owned will gain 2.5 more acres for a 12 classroom school with cafetorium and admin rooms, plus enlarging Unit 2 kitchen. Voting is 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Unit 1 auditorium.
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Glendale
Unit 2
Unit 1
Markets closed for Good Friday except cotton markets
Good Friday observed worldwide with stock exchanges in the United States Canada and London closed. The New York and New Orleans cotton markets remained open to liquidate March 1951 contracts expiring today while other domestic commodity exchanges were shut. Most U S banking institutions stayed open.
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Associated Press
United States
Canada
London
New York
New Orleans
Two Captured In Chase After School Break-In
A watchman foiled a break-in at Phoenix Technical School on North Seventh Street. Willie Terrell, 54, was hospitalized after jumping a 10 foot fence and later arrested. Clarence Armstrong, 22, jailed after being stopped near Seventh and Polk streets. Police recovered an iron bar, gloves, and a sledge hammer from Terrell’s car.
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Phoenix Technical School
North Seventh Street
Willie Terrell
East Adams Street
Terrell
326 North 11Th Street
Harry Roberts
Charles Murphy
Clarence Armstrong
East
Madison Street
John Gardner
Francis Grundy
Seventh and
Polk Streets
Thomas J. Warner
North 33Rd Street
Gardner
Grundy
Armstrong
Murphy
Roberts
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Act of Congress
Seoul Front
Taft
Eisenhower
Joint
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
FFA Chapter
Marion Donaldson
Mesa High School
FFA
Uxbridge
Cullen
Barksdale Air Force Base
Shreveport
Second Air Force
Barksdale
Pan-American World Airways
Counter
J. Edgar Hoover
Communist Party
Army
O'Dwyer
Bulletin
Sky Harbor
Red Port
Macnaughton
Greenock
Scotland
Kefauver Committee
Warner
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