Reds tighten hold on Hungary amid purge fear
Exile sources say Matyas Rakosi’s Budapest leadership conducts a wide purge under Moscow’s watch. Fear drives new deportations and harsher discipline as Budapest’s politburo screens the party, seizes railways, and imprisons clergy while food shortages bite and inflation soars.
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Matyas Rakosi
Hun
Joseph Stalin
Rakosi
Robert
A. Vogeler
Ns Eee
Moscow
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Slovakia
Poland
Erno Gero
Budapest
Communist Party
Russias
Austria
Tito
Laszlo Rajk
Cardinal Mindszenty
Ference Ney
Pnarthoidex Party
Nagy
Ion
Planing meeting for revived canaials at Judson Baptist
Plan program details for Rev. Charles Simonds of Percy and committee members gathered Friday night May 2 at Cambria Baptist church to plan reinstitution of canals in the Judson Baptist. A rank will be held on June 3.
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Charles Simonds
Percy
Cambria
Attack injures two in neutral air corridor flight
A plane attack in the neutral air corridor between Frankfurt and Berlin wounded two German passengers. The damaged aircraft radioed from Berlin and landed safely at Templhof airbase after completing its scheduled route through the corridor amid Allied pressure.
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Frankfurt
Berlin
Templhoof
Methodist General Conference Debates Top Level Reforms
In San Francisco on May 5, delegates face a major report urging drastic changes in church structure with possible referral to study over four years until the 1956 quadrennial conference. Other key issues include a ministerial promise ban on smoking and renaming the unofficial Federation for Social Action to drop Methodist from its title.
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San Francisco
Methodist General Conference
Methodist Federation For Social Action
Methodist
New York
Giants City Consolidated School Closes First Year
Giant City consolidated school ended its first year with a basket dinner and ball game at Giant City state park. Parents pupils and teachers participated in the closing activities.
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Giant City Consolidated School
Giant City State Park
First Merger Binds Negro and White Congregations
In San Francisco the Westminister Presbyterian church hosted the first merger of an all white church with the Negro Hope church. Guests framed the event as historic and urged unity while condemning racial self consciousness and pride. The two congregations had voted to merge.
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San Francisco
Westminister Presbyterian Church
Negro Hope Church
West
Carl Thomas
Coal Goes to College Courses in Mine Engineering
Coal education advances in University of Illinois mining engineering curriculum. Fourth year majors study mine administration personnel problems and coal preparation as core topics to prepare for industry roles.
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University Oflinois
Area Schools Shine in Music Contest Results
Zeigler led area musians with five superior ratings and three excellent scores at Bradley University. Carterville and Carrier Mills posted strong showings in various ensembles, while University School Carbondale withdrew and Cobden High failed to appear.
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Southern Sinois
Bradley University
Peoria
Zeigler
Sally Clark
Jeanette Martin
Mary McFarland
Betty Brown
Shirley Kittila
Carterville
Jim Throgmorton
Superior
Toni Oller
Val McCamish
Kay Talley
Laverne Coffey
Surprise patient ends up in hospital after dog bite
Mrs George Burrow visiting Yorkton hospital became a patient after a dog bite near the hospital. She required nine stitches.
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Yorkton,Sask
George Burrow
Origin of horsepower Traced to James Watt
James Watt coined the term horsepower after measuring how much coal a horse could lift in a minute. He concluded a horse could move 33 000 pounds of coal one foot upward in sixty seconds.
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James Watt
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