Death Toll Mounts In Ecuador Quakes
Four hundred people died in Ambato Ecuador yesterday as a powerful earthquake destroyed seventy percent of homes and left the city in ruins. President Galo Plaza traveled to Ambato to oversee relief with the army and air force aiding rescue efforts and medical supplies flown in.
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WASHINGTON
Ambato
Ecuador
toaday
BVVG
secar ey
Alfonso Moscoso
Galo Plaza
the
republic
army
air force
Cardinal Spellman and Mrs Roosevelt Clash Over Aid to Education
Cardinal Spellman issued a statement aimed at clarifying the church position on federal aid to education and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt called it clarifying and fair after a telephone discussion. The archbishop said the church seeks funds only for auxiliary parochial school services and not for general support of religious schools, while advocating shared funding for transportation meals health programs and non religious textbooks for parochial students.
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NEW YORK
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
chancery office
Elpidio Quirino To Visit Truman
President Elpidio Quirino departed Manila by plane to visit President Truman in Washington. He told 50 000 Filipinos at the airport that he travels not to beg but to speak for the gratitude and dignity of the Filipino people toward the United States.
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MANILA
Elpidio Quirino
Truman
Washington
United States
Ingrid Bergman divorces Dr Lindstrom shocks Hollywood
Hollywood reports Ingrid Bergman will divorce Dr Peter Lindstrom, a move long predicted by observers. The cynical film capital notes the announcement as a routine yet significant event in the star’s career and personal life.
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HOLLYWOOD
Ingrid Bergman
Peter Lindstrom
Baseball game recap with shaky OCR odds
DETROIT and BOSTON split two games with erratic line scores and unclear pitcher notes. Cleveland and Philadelphia also played a hard to parse matchup with late-inning detail missing. Incomplete data leaves key outs, reliefs, and scoring unknown.
Hawaii Seizes Dockyards to End Waterfront Tieup
Honolulu August 6 Hawaii's legislature passed a bill to empower the territorial government to seize the island's strikebound docks. The move aims to end the 98 day waterfront tieup by taking over seven stevedoring firms and hiring up to 2000 ILWU members at the pre strike wage of 1.40 an hour. The measure cleared the conference report with votes of 24 to 6 in the House and 14 to 0 in the Senate.
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HONOLULU
Hawaii
CIO
Ingram M. Stainback
senate
house
International
Hiroshima Marks Atom Anniversary
Hiroshima observed the fourth anniversary of the first atom bombing. Mayor Shinzo Hamai outlined a 30 year plan to rebuild Hiroshima in three stages, with bells tolling for 78,000 dead. The city aims to become a permanent monument to peace by 1977 through staged redevelopment.
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HIROSHIMA
Japan
Shinzo Hamai
Scott Resigns 6.0.P. Top Spot
Rep. Hugh D. Scott Jr. of Pennsylvania resigns as GOP national committee chairman and says New York Governor Dewey should not run for president again. He cites Dewey’s defeats and endorses fresh faces like Gov. Alfred Driscoll, Gov. Val Peterson, Sen. Robert Taft, and Harold Stassen. Scott notes internal dissension and hopes successor Guy Gabrielson can unite the party to gain seats in next year’s elections.
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WASHINGTON
Thomas E. Dewey
GOP
New York
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
Pennsylvania
Scott
Dewey
Alfred E. Driscoll
New Jersey
Val Peterson
Nebraska
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Harold E.Stassen
Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
national committee
Guy Gabrielson
Gabrielson
Prince Charles enjoys first royal train ride to Balmoral
Prince Charles, nine months old on Aug from Aug 14, took his first train ride today with Princess Elizabeth aboard the royal train. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth accompanied the family on their Balmoral castle visit, while about 1,500 bystanders cheered the infant amid the station crowd.
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LONDON
Prince Charles
Princess Elizabeth
Balmoral castle
Scotland
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Charlie
European Arms Aid Bill Faces Tough Battle
Washington Aug 6. Chairman Kee of West Virginia may ask the House Foreign Affairs Committee to report the arms for Europe program to the full House as is or with cuts. Republicans and Democrats push for smaller funds. critics fear too much spending before next session. Vandenberg and others say size remains a problem amid debates on stopgap versus NATO defense plans. The panel members agree on prompt approval to bolster Western Europe against communism.
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WASHINGTON
Kee
D-WVa
house foreign affairs committee
house
senate
Rep. Vorys
Ohio
Rep. Richards
D-SC
Senator Vandenberg
RMich
esterday
Truman
Vandenberg
western
Europe
Progress on Atlantic pact talks in Paris
U. S. chiefs of staff meeting Western European commanders reported great unanimity on how Atlantic pact defenses should be organized. Adm Louis Denfeld said progress is satisfactory as defense talks near their end after a 10 day European tour with France Belgium The Netherlands and Portugal. British Norwegian and Danish chiefs meanwhile met in London and Italian and Luxembourg staff officers in Frankfurt.
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U. S
Paris
Adm
Louis Denfeld
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Portugal
London
Italy
Luxembourg
alliance
Frankfurt
Education Aid Bill In For Long Delay
President Truman urged quick action on federal aid to education as Congress faced a cooling off period. The Senate had approved a $300 million package, but House debates centered on the Barden bill seen as discriminating against Catholic and other non public schools. House leadership indicated no action this year, with the committee deadlocked and leadership predicting no immediate movement.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
House
senate
White House
congress
labor and education
Barden
Rep
D-NC
Lesinski
D-Mich
labor and education committee
McCormack
D-Mass
Summer heat sweeps western states and beyond
CHICAGO August 6 The hottest weather of the summer strikes western states with 100 plus readings in the north plains Rocky mountain and plateau regions. Temperatures top 105 in Glasgow and Phoenix 102 Salt Lake City 109 Las Vegas. Neb and Iowa expected to swing into heat as readings stay high elsewhere while skies stay mostly clear with scattered thunderstorms in the south Atlantic states.
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Rocky mountain
plateau
mercury
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Glasgow
Mont
Phoenix
Ariz
Salt Lake City
Las Vegas
Nev
south Atlantic
Wisconsin
upper Michigan
CIO Ford Stage Last Ditch Fight
Detroit August 6 Ford Motor Co and the CIO United Auto Workers clash over a state strike vote affecting 63 500 workers at Rouge and Lincoln plants. Voting Monday through Wednesday tests if a walkout will occur amid cautioned wage freezes and heated bargaining. Walter Reuther blasts Ford for not engaging in morning talks and accuses the company of trying to undermine the 1948 49 contract.
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Ford Motorco
CIO
United Auto workers
Ford
Rouge
Lincoln
UAW
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Fordham Seismograph Logs Two Tremors West of New York
The Fordham University seismograph recorded two violent earth tremors about 7,200 miles west of New York at 7:50:01 p m EST and 8:00:38 p m last night.
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NEW YORK
Fordham University
China White Paper Creates Criticism
Washington Aug 6 AP Congress split on how to halt Asia Communist advance after the state departments white paper blamed Chiang Kai-sheks government for failing to stop the Reds. Critics called it a failure, supporters called it a candid, realistic assessment. Senate and House members urged action to prevent a full communist takeover of China and beyond.
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WASHINGTON
Congress
China
Asia
state department
Chiang Kai-shek
Capitol Hill
Red banner
Bridges
Magnuson
D-Wash
armed services committee
McCarran
D-New
Japan
Philippines
Dulles
R-NY
Johnson
D-Cole
Cannon
D-Mo
Tydings
senate armed services committee
China Leaders Assess U S White Paper With Caution
Canton reports the Chinese foreign office will study the 1054 page U S white paper amid claims the Nationalists disintegrated in battle. Gen Chen Ming jen defected with 30,000 of 90,000 troops, shifting Changsha fortress to the Reds. Red troops mass near Changsha as Canton fears a major clash.
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CANTON
U. S
China
Chen Ming-jen
Reds
Changsha
Kwantung province
Montana Forest Fire Unchecked Three Die
An immense Gates of the Mountains fire near Helena Montana raged uncontrolled with flames leaping cliff to cliff. A. D. Moir Helena forest supervisor announced a momentary count of missing and 10 parachuting smoke jumpers trapped by flames as 120 firefighters battled the blaze across about 3000 acres along the Missouri river canyon.
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Ed’ Johnson
Associated Press
Missouri river
Thomas L. Hawkins
forest service
A. D. Moir
Helena national forest
Hawkins
canyon cliff
Helena
Bill Hellman
Joseph Silvia
Missouri canyon
Poland Accepts Catholic Decree
Astra reports Poland approved by the cabinet a decree protecting liberty of conscience and religious faith in response to the papal excommunication of Communists. Details of the order were not released.
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Astra
Poland
Warsaw
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