04 May 1951
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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1951
Page
1
Washington May 4 AP government orders another 5 percent cut in steel use for passenger autos and station wagons. Demand will fall to 75 percent of early 1950 levels starting June 1 with further reductions anticipated at mid year for various truck classes to free steel for defense.
In Nogales Arizona and Nogales Sonora a Cinco de Mayo celebration opens with a queen coronation and parade. Gloria Georgelos is crowned with Norma de la Vega as princess and Yolanda Valencia maid of honor. Governors Pyle and Soto, university leaders, and Fort Huachuca officials attend. The event marks Mexico independence history and shared regional holiday festivities across Arizona cities including Tucson and Phoenix.
The House Appropriations Committee recommended a 12 percent cut to the Agriculture Department for the fiscal year starting July 1, approving a $720,157,433 budget, $99,848,113 below Truman's request and $52,742,267 less than this year. About a third of the cut is a bookkeeping change with no real saving. The panel also canceled debt provisions and redirected funds from the International Wheat Agreement, allowing the department to use the $76,808,000 for other purposes. Substantial cuts hit the Forest Service and soil conservation payments, while loan authorizations totaling $251,250,000 were approved. Major loans include $100,000,000 for production and subsistence and $109,000,000 for rural electrification and telephone loans, all to be repaid.
United Nations forces on the west central Korean front moved their lines forward several miles Friday with no Communist resistance. Lt. Gen. Matthew Ridgway toured the battlefront and predicted the Reds would strike again but be defeated, saying they can only add tens of thousands to their losses.
The army issued a draft call for 20,000 men in June the smallest since the draft resumed last September. Since that time about 550,000 men have been drafted or placed on call. Navy air force and marine corps will not need draftees in June. Allied advances near Seoul and renewed UN air strikes followed a week of heavy fighting as UN forces pushed from the west central front toward Pyongyang.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff approved MacArthur’s November maneuvers that split the Eighth Army and 10th Corps toward the Yalu, a plan he defended as reconnaissance in force. Senators McMahon and Knowland pressed for released records amid censorship debates in ongoing hearings on his dismissal and Far Eastern policy.
Israel and Syria reached a cease fire in their brief border fighting under UN supervision at a Mixed Armistice Commission meeting near the frontier. Syrian and Israeli reports tallied casualties and blamed each other for attacks, with observers noting dozens killed and wounded but unable to assess all losses as fighting continued.
The Air Force announces plans to boost Women in the Air Force WAF from 7000 to about 48000 by June next year. It will commission 200 officers monthly starting June and raise enlistments from 480 to 1700 monthly, with a target of 4000 monthly in early 1952. Applicants must be 24 to 32, hold a college degree, and have three years of professional experience.
London sources said British intelligence now puts Soviet strength at about 200 divisions, up from 175 last March. The revised figure suggests improved intelligence rather than mobilization, with front line formations reportedly well equipped and trained. Satellite nations’ forces total around 6.5 million, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria.
The Defense Department announced that armed services will begin re leasing enlisted reservists as soon as practicable, signaling a resumed process for mobilization and manpower alignment across branches.
In Vienna on May 4 UP reports American MP Corporal Paul J. Gresen of New York City was killed by two uniformed Soviet soldiers after he tried to question them. Another American MP fired back, wounding one assailant. both Soviets fled. An Austrian civilian was injured. U S Commissioner Walter Donnelly seeks Soviet participation in a joint investigation, delaying formal protest.
International News Service reports on reactions from General MacArthur, Air Force Secretary Finletter, and President Truman. MacArthur questions the mode of transferring great responsibilities risking national security. Finletter rejects inevitability of all-out war and vows to work toward ending war. Truman praises Ambassador O'Dwyer as a fighter like himself.
Talks opened at 9 a.m. in the Heard Building with federal labor conciliator W P Halloran presiding as about 600 drivers from 14 firms seek a settlement. The stoppage disrupts California Arizona Texas shipments with embargoes, load delays, and perishable goods held up while unions accuse employers of low wages and poor conditions.
General Douglas MacArthur, with a salary and allowances of 18 761 a year, was offered 5 000 000 for his memoirs. The bid was disclosed by Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, MacArthur's aide, who would not identify the donor or disclose MacArthur's reaction.
The Independent London Daily Mail condemned the British government’s lamentable behavior over the ayotue of war making materials to China in a May 4 dispatch from London.
Police reported a homemade dynamite bomb discovered in the lobby of the struck Kentucky hotel moments before midnight. Detectives A J Miller and John Gutermuth said the device consisted of dynamite packed in an eight inch section of two inch iron pipe with a cap and a lit fuse.
Reports from China claim the Chinese Communists are speeding completion of a rail line to Indochina to enable an invasion this summer.
Captain Albert L. Evans flight instructor at Williams Air Force Base bailed out safely from an F-80 Shooting Star during a training flight. Crash occurred about 12 miles east of Mesa with no injuries reported after base hospital examination. Evans resided at 142 East First Street, Mesa.
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