Acheson Chooses Republican Aide for London Talks
Secretary of State Acheson names John Sherman Cooper and Philip C. Jessup as principal advisers for a May London meeting of Western powers. The moves seek bi partisan backing amid Republican criticisms and aim to coordinate strategy against Soviet influence in Europe and Asia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sherman Cooper
Philip C. Jessup
Secretary of State
London
Washington
Acheson
Kentucky
State Department
McCarthy
Rwis
Europe
Asia
Bevin
United States
House of Commons
Atlantic Pact Council
Cooper
Lee Truman
Ohio to survey for turnpike across north
The Ohio turnpike commission ordered the state highway director to begin arrangements for a northern Ohio survey. Director T J Kauertorn opposed immediate action. other members urged study and potential financing methods without new state funds. Next meeting is Tuesday April 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Turnpike Commission
Ohio
T. J. Kauer
Frank J. Lausche
Murray Seasongood
Cincinnati
James W. Shacknessy
J. Gordon McKay
Cleveland
Suspended Teacher Named Red in Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh school board unanimously suspended Dorothy Albert, a Taylor Allderdice High School instructor named as a Communist by the House Un American Activities Committee. Her hearing is set for April 1 as she declines to resign and plans to face her accuser, FBI agent Matt Cvetic. The board also settled a three month maintenance strike, offering 90 percent of last year’s wages and rehiring AFL workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh School Board
House
UN American Activities Committee
Dorothy Albert
Taylor Allderdice High School
Miss Albert
Matt Cvetic
FBI
Cvetic
AFL
Churchill urges German inclusion in western defense system
In the House of Commons Churchill argued West Germany must aid in defending Western Europe. He warned against a new war and opposed rearmament only if it threatened escalation, calling for Anglo French German unity and a Franco German economic union.
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London
INS
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Germany
Churchill
Europe
Konrad Adenauer
France
Britain
Bevin Sees No New World War Amid Atlantic Pact Talks
Foreign Secretary Bevin told Parliament that a strong West with robust inspections can ensure a long peace. He noted Acheson called a May 8 Atlantic Pact foreign ministers meeting in London and that separate Big Three talks with Acheson and Schuman would occur. He and Churchill debated German participation, with Bevin opposing German rearmament and urging unity against Communism.
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London
Ernest Bevin
West
Bevin
U. S
Dean Acheson
Acheson
France
Robert Schuman
House
Churchill
Armag
Germany
United States
Margiotti Sues Perinis Over Coal Contract Breach
Pittsburgh suits claim Perini and Sons failed to remove agreed coal amounts from Somerset County operations. The Denise and Juliette Coal companies seek 307901 and 440469 dollars plus interest, with attorney William Eckert representing plaintiffs. The firms are family owned by Charles J. Margiotti and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Massachusetts
Juliette Coal Company
Denise Coal Company
Charles J. Margiotti
Margiotti
William Eckert
Perini and Sons
Framingham, Mass
Somerset County
Reds Level Allegations At U N About Formosa War Plans
Lake Success N Y March 28 rising tensions as Soviet delegates at the U N accuse the United States of a secret Chiang Kai shek Formosa arms deal and plans to seize Formosa after Nationalist collapse. Western delegates view Moscow move as smoke screen to mask China accusations of Russia divvying Manchuria and Sinkiang with Mao Tse tung.
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Lake Success
N. Y
INS
United States
U. N
Formosa
U. S
Human Rights Commission
China
Semen K. Tsarapkin
Nikolai Klimov
Chiang Kai-shek
U.S
Shanghai
Ta Kung Pao
Congress
Klimov
Russia
Manchuria
Sinkiang Province
Mao Tse-tung
Rainmakers Off For Catskills After Deluge
A New York rainmaking plane departed Floyd Bennett Field for the Catskill watershed to test weather modification. The Grumman Goose carrying 60 pounds of dry ice left at 12 03 p m est as engineers reported reservoirs at 56 8 percent capacity, the highest in months, after yesterday’s rainfall added 275 million gallons.
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New York
INS
New York City
Catskill
Nature
Grumman
Floyd Bennett Field
Harvard
Wallace E. Howell
Cooke Criticizes Highway Dept Politics in Pa Tour
Jay Cooke, GOP gubernatorial hopeful, blasts the Pennsylvania highway department for politics over road maintenance. He meets Pike and Monroe county leaders, vows to remove politicization, improve road work, and promises fair fish stock distribution and expanded recreational facilities as he campaigns through 67 counties.
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Milford
INS
Jay Cooke
Pike County
State Highway Department
GOP
Monroe County
Stroudsburg
Cooke
Duff
Highway Department
Philadelphia
Wayne County
France
Pennsylvania
Honesdale
Hawley
Commonwealth
Barndt Recommitted After Hearing on Fugitive Charge
John Barndt of Berlin was recommitted to the county jail after a hearing before Squire Charles J. Harrison Jr. Barndt is charged as a fugitive from justice and will be returned to Wellsburg West Virginia for further disposition.
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Barndt
John Barndt
Berlin
Charles J. Harrison, Jr
Wellsburg
West Va
Williams Has Solution For GOP Problem
Harrisburg reports Judge Charles Scott Williams, Lycoming County jurist, seeks the Republican nomination for governor. He claims his election ends the payroll padding and the spoils system, arguing Pennsylvania cannot risk another Democratic administration. He runs amid factional GOP divides and public critique of current Harrisburg management.
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Harrisburg
Charles Scott Williams
Pennsylvania
Lycoming County
James H. Dut
U. S
Joseph R. Grundy
Williams
Jay Cooke
Bianconi
Cooke
28Th
William J. Hamilton, Jr
Duff-Fine
Hamilton
Stack
Joseph M. Stack
Pittsburgh
National Veterans of Foreign Wars
Secretary of Internal Affairs
John Ss. Fine
Duff
Fine
Johnson Leaves For The Hague With Tydings
Secretary of Defense Johnson flew to the Hague to attend the 12 nation NATO defense talks. He was joined by Senator Tydings as the session opens in the Netherlands capital. The plan seeks to curb aggression among pact members and may influence new arms aid funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnson
Hague
North Atlantic Defense Council
Tydings
Senate Armed Service Committee
Netherlands
Pact
Congress
Italy
New York
Hill bids to oust Taylor as state GOP chair
Former Lawrence County Treasurer Frank M. Hill announces he runs for the Pennsylvania Republican committee with the aim of removing M. Harvey Taylor as state chairman. Hill calls Taylor arrogant and dictatorial and says the party must shed Taylor to regain leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle
INS
Lawrence County
Frank M. Hill
Pennsylvania Republican Committee
M. Harvey Taylor
Hill
Taylor
Pennsylvania
Coal Mines Barred Over Pollution Risk in Somerset
Harrisburg March 28 The state sanitary water board rejected five applications to operate bituminous coal mines saying they would pollute nearby streams. Dunlo Coal Co Stonycreek township Somerset County along Clear Run among the firms denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
State Sanitary Water Board
Dunlo Coal Co
Stonycreek Township
Somerset County
Clear Run
Loyalty Files Are Denied To Senators By President Truman
President Truman rejects a Senate request for loyalty files of state department employees to shield innocent people and protect the loyalty review program. He cites harm to investigations, danger to informants, and potential injustice, directing a review of confidential files and promising future communication with Senator Tydings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest B. Vaccaro
Key West
Fla
Truman
Senate
State Department
Tydings
Senate Foreign Relations
McCarthy
Rwis
Seth W. Richardson
Loyalty Review Board
McGrath
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congressional
Subpoena Files Challenge Truman Over Records
President Truman refused to surrender loyalty files to Congress prompting Senate subpoenas for state department FB and civil service records. Senator Tydings said subpoenas target about 90 people cited by McCarthy as pro Communist. The move may lead to a court fight over executive disclosure authority and congressional access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
State Department
Tydings
D-Md
Civil Service
McCarthy
Rwis
Executive
Senate Committee
Seth Richardson
Civil Service Loyalty Review Board
House
Philip C. Jessup
Joseph Duke
State Acheson
McGrath
Harry B. Mitchell
Civil Service Commission
Wisconsin
Hanson
Haldore Hanson
China
Owen J. Lattimore
United States
Afghanistan
United Nations
Lattimore
Associated Press
Ambassador Steinhardt and four others die in embassy plane crash
Russell Scharf witnessed a U S air force C 47 crash near Ramsayville Ontario killing U S Ambassador to Canada Lawrence A Steinhardt and four others. He described the exploding engine, the doomed dive, and helping Master Sgt Gwynn Long who was injured after leaping from the craft. Ambulances arrived after he called Ottawa.
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Steinhardt
Russell Scharf
Ramsayville
Ort
U. S
Canada
Lawrence A. Steinhardt
Scharf
Long
Gwynn Long
Thomas Archibald
Ottawa
No Tax For Democrats Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner
Federal tax ruling says the Democratic Jefferson Jackson Day dinner at the national guard armory was a banquet not an admission for tax purposes. The event drew 5,000 attendees and raised about 523000 for the Democratic treasury while a separate Republican Lincoln Day box supper paid 20 percent on admission receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Rep
R@&u
R-Ny
Bureau
Reed
House
Ways and Means Committee
Internal Revenue
Charles Oliphant
Oliphant
National Guard
National Party
Lena Horne
Tony
Sally de Marco
District of Columbia
Treasury
Bottlers Attack 1947 Soft Drink Tax In Dauphin Court
In Harrisburg, bottlers opposed Pennsylvania’s 1947 soft drink tax arguing its legality. A. Russell Shockley said prepayment of tax crowns harmed working capital, while Judge J Paul Rupp urged avoiding repeated questions from earlier hearings. Deputy AG Harry F Stambaugh defended the act’s constitutionality and asked for briefs on pre amendment language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
A. Russell Shockley
Philadelphia
J. Paul Rupp
Shockley
Bee
Harry F. Stambaugh
Rupp
House Cuts 250 Million From ECA Bill
House Republicans push to trim foreign aid deep in the Marshall Plan for the year starting July 1. A substitute proposing 1 billion dollars in government surplus food for cash was rejected, leaving the ECA European aid at 2.7 billion. Amendments on European spending failed, with votes by teller count and no member records.
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W. H. Mobley
Washington
House
Truman
Russia
U. S
McCornack
Mass
Rep
Smith
R-Wis
Economic Cooperation Administration
Europe
Rep. Case
R-Sd
Fulton
R-Pa
Cooley
D-Nc
Pleads With Wife To Return In Missing Person Case
Ralph Campbell, a 36 year old coal miner from New Salem RD 1 near Morgantown, begs his wife Ruth to return home with their nine children after she reportedly left Saturday for a movie in Uniontown. The family, ages 3 to 13, is distressed. the couple married in 1936 in Morgantown W V.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Ralph Campbell
New Salem RD 1
Campbell
Morgantown
W. Va
Ruth
Ralph
Air Force C-47 Crashes Near Nagoya. 3 Killed
A U S air force C-47 crashed in rain and fog about 25 miles east of Nagoya last night. Three of four crewmen were killed. The transport carried no passengers. Names of the four aboard were withheld. All were assigned to Nagoya air base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nagoya
Japan
Here
Fifth Air Force
Diplomatic envoy dies in embassy plane crash
American Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt and four other men perished when a U S embassy C 47 crashed in clear weather after breaking apart in a snowy field. Survivors report crew struggled to maintain altitude as passengers chose to bail out. Only M Sgt Gwynne A Long survived after parachuting from 700 feet.
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Ramsayville
Ont
Laurence A. Steinhardt
U. S
Thomas G. Archibald
Archibald
Steinhardt
Royal Canadian Air Force
Gwynne A. Long
Vanney
N. C
Long
U. S. Air Force
Weather Outlook for Mid Atlantic Regions
The forecast covers Western and Eastern Pennsylvania Maryland and West Virginia with a pattern of snow flurries windy and colder conditions Wednesday through Thursday. Friday to Saturday bring a temperature rise toward normal to slightly below normal with showers or rain in the north and south portions.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Mid Atlantic
South
North
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Emerick
Somerset, PA
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Catskills
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Dauphin Court
Somerset Farm Bureau Co-op Asso
AIR Force
Somerset Weather
David Grove
A. S. Weather Observer
U. S. Weather Bureau
Adam the
Louis
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