Indictments Push Senate to Probe Formosa Policy
Senators questioned Secretary of State Acheson about a 1949 State Department memorandum on Formosa as a tool against Communist gains. The hearing paused while Acheson delivered an 18 minute statement on overall policy and MacArthur’s dismissal.
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Washington
State Acheson
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
State Department
Russell
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
Acheson
MacArthur
Knowland
R-Calif
Kuwait Oil Output Surges Amid Nationalization Moves
The Kuwait Oil Company reports a 25 percent production rise after Iran nationalizes British fields. Kuwait, with 11 billion recoverable barrels, now pumps over 2,038,205 tons annually at an estimated 20 to 24 million tons per year.
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London
Kuwait
Middle East
Iran
Kuwait Oil Company
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Gulf Exploration Company
Gulf OS Corp. of America
Persian Gulf
Abadan
Anglo -Tranian Oil Company
Mint
Halley Announces Run for City Council President
Rudolph Halley former chief counsel of the U S Senate Crime Committee today announced he will run as Liberal Party candidate for president of New York City's City Council. The council president acts as acting mayor when the mayor is out of the city.
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New York
Rudolph Halley
U. S.S. Senate
Liberal Party
New York City
Hiekest
TODAY'S FEATURES ECONOMIC STABILIZER
Marquis Childs surveys postwar wage policy amid inflation fears. John Johnston flags rising prices as a danger to economic stability and hints at resisting proposed wage ceiling increases.
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Fiie Johnston
Hitler
Marquis Childs
University Board Raises Tuition After Enrollment Drop Forecast
Syracuse University trustees increased tuition by 50 dollars a year after Chancellor Tolley warned enrollments could fall to 9 500 this fall. The new 600 dollar annual rate applies to most on campus students, with some colleges already charging 600 or more. Tolley cited GI Bill completion, low birth rates, and SUNY lure as factors in declining enrollment.
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Syracuse University
William P. Tolley
Board of Trustees
Tolley
University College
Utica College
Colleges of
Liberal Arts and Business Administration
State University of New York
Lie calls for cease-fire in Korea in Ottawa speech
UN Secretary General Trygve Lie urged an end to the Korean War along the 38th Parallel and demanded Communist China and North Korea halt aggression. He outlined three conditions for settlement including repelling aggression, a free unified Korea by elections, and rehabilitation of war-torn Korea. The call came as he warned that failure to agree could trigger a larger UN troops deployment.
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Ottawa
INS
Trygve Lie
Korea
38Th Parallel
China
North Korea
United Nations Association of Canada
Lie
United Nations
Security Council
RFC Cuts Price Of Tin To Aid American Producers
The RFC reduced its tin sale price to American producers from 1.42 to 1.39 dollars per pound. Stuart Symington, the RFC’s new head, announced the three cent cut to pressure foreign prices, arguing Korea had kept them high and cost taxpayers. He noted lowering U S selling price won’t by itself lower foreign prices since the U S must import tin, but signals a stance to foreign producers.
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Washington CP
RFC
Stuart Symington
Korea
U. S
Treasury agents to inspect incomes of suspected tax evaders in NY area
Two hundred fifty Treasury Department agents have been assigned to the New York New Jersey division to check incomes of underworld figures suspected of tax evasion. Brig. Gen. John W. Dunlap says several special squads have begun operating in the area.
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New York
Treasury Department
New York-New Jersey
John W. Dunlap
Coffee Comes High in San Francisco Grocery Robbery
A young man entered Phillip Ortega’s grocery and asked for a pound of coffee. After refusing to pay 92 cents, he returned 45 minutes later with a 32 calibre automatic and robbed Ortega of $50 and a pound of coffee.
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SAN Francisco CP
Phillip Ortega
Ortega
TODAY'S CHUCKLE Fan remarks on next year’s best man
A reader quip mocks a wedding plan with a pun about a baseball shortstop and a mistaken wordplay. The Cord responds with playful confusion. The fragment captures a light era humor moment and social banter.
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Rell
Cord
Steel Slash Starts Today in Domestic Durable Goods
Washington reports the government will cut production of refrigerators washing machines and other durable goods by 30 percent in July August and September. An auto output order hit a snag with NPAs plan for a 37 percent mobile cut proposing 1 200 000 vehicles this summer down from 1 894 676 in Q3 1950.
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Washington
Ins
National Production Authority
NPR
NPA
NPAA
Manly Fleischmann
Crash Kills Driver and Fire Raze Plant Building
A truck hauling 5,000 gallons of Jasmine ran out of control yesterday and smashed into a two story office building beside the Nel logge Cereal Co plant. The driver was killed and fourteen cars and a truck parked nearby burned as flames engulfed the office and surrounding area. Workers fled in panic as gasoline engulfed the scene and the plant suffered extensive fire damage.
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Omaha
Man Beaten To Death In Ogdensburg Killing Suspect Held
A 26 year old Syracusan, John D. Rydningen, is in custody after admitting a fight with John Boyer, 41, Ogdensburg, whose battered body was found near a lower East Side gas station. Boyer died from a crushed chest and ruptured liver. A parking ticket to Boyer was found on Rydningen, who led police to his shed hideout.
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Ogdensburg
Lower East Side
John D. Rydningen
Lincoln Av
John Boyer
Ogdensiburg
Hudson St
Francis Ryan
Rydningen
Boyer
Ryan
Harry L. Gilmore
Onondaga County
Sinatra Threatens To Hit Newsman
New York report says Frank Sinatra warned a reporter not to press about his 18 month romance with Ava Gardner. He called the inquiry personal and warned, We flatten you if you ask me one more question. Sinatra is being sued for divorce by his wife Nancy.
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New York
Frank Sinatra
Ava Gardner
Reds Lose 3 MIGs in Bold Raid Over Korea
An aerial clash near the Manchurian border leaves three Communist planes downed, two over Pyongyang, as UN ground forces push toward the 38th Parallel. U S. F-86 Sabres shoot down two jets. one B-29 damaged but returns to base. Several Allied fighters lost in other raids as front reports detail gains across multiple sectors.
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Tokyo
Korea
Reds
Pyongyang
United Nations
Highth Army
Yanggu
Hwachon Reservoir
Chorwon
Wun
Imjin River
Seoul
38Th Parallel
Jordan King Plans to Name Kin Prince Feisal Crown Prince
Akher Lahza, in Amman, reports King Abdullah of Jordan aims to amend the constitution to appoint his grand nephew Feisal of Iraq as crown prince, signaling a step toward potential Jordan Iraq mergers. Talal, acting ruler during Abdullah’s absence, returned ill and is in Beirut for treatment after a nervous breakdown reports.
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Cairo
Egypt
Akher Lahza
Abdullah
Jordan
Feisal
Iraq
Amman
Tarkey
Tallal
Talal
Beirut
Robbers Take $150 From Chicago Aged Home
In Chicago the Little Sisters of the Poor Catholic Home for the Aged reported a robbery yesterday. Thieves stole 150 dollars, the total savings of fifteen elderly residents, causing concern for safety and care.
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Little Sisters of the Poor Catholic Home For the Aged
Price War Sparks Frenzied NYC Shopping Rush
Bargain seekers mobbed department stores in New York City during a three day price war. Shoppers surged to front lines for sales from Macy’s Bloomingdale’s and Gimbels as suits dropped from 49.50 to 29.65 while popular items like electric toasters sold out.
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New York
New York City
Macy's
Gimbie’s
Bloomingdale's
Bloomingdale
Tomorrow's Rain Forecast and Warm Spell Ahead
The Mercury reports a warm trend across the East and South with a likely high around 85 tomorrow after yesterday's 81. Showers or thunderstorms are forecast, with a five day outlook predicting 4 to 8 degrees above normal and temperatures cooling by midweek. Precipitation expected total 0.5 to 1 inch, locally 2 inches, as frequent showers move through the region. May rainfall ran near normal while May temperatures averaged about a degree to a degree and a half above normal, with a high of 87 on the 6th and a low of 32 on the 4th.
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Mercury
Weather Bureau
Andrey TL Meller
Misuse of Word Brings New Trial in Kingston Killing
The Court of Appeals overturned Edward H. Kelly's first degree murder conviction due to a judge misusing the word or instead of and. The Ulster County real estate broker, 51, was sentenced to death for killing Elouise McHugh with a hunting knife on Main Street in Kingston on May 22, 1950, and a new trial was ordered by a 4-3 vote.
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Albany
INS
Court of Annuals
Edward H. Kelly
Kingston
Ulster
High Court
Kelly
Elouise McHugh
Main St
Court House Bookie Confessed in Brooklyn Courthouse
Miss Maryoe Barton a 47 year old assistant clerk in Brooklyn magistrate s court for 25 years was convicted yesterday of booking horse race bets just outside her courtroom. She was arrested in a courthouse telephone booth last June 36. She will be sentenced June 11 and faces up to three years in prison.
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New York
Maryoe Barton
Brooklyn
Kids play cops and robbers in railroad yard incident
Four children aged 10 and 11 watched three others grab buckets from a brocar near Bismarca. The youths forced the others to return the items and then alerted police. No injuries reported and authorities inspected the scene for safety.
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Bismarca, N. D
UPI
APCKA 4keriaeren Beat Entry The He Toant Tert Ade
A fractured OCR line mentions a local race or team event with unclear names and places. Despite garbled text, it implies a competition outcome and participant names in a sports or school context. Further readable details are not present to verify specifics.
MISS TRUMAN FALLS FOR IRELAND DURING SHIP STOP
Margaret Truman, daughter of the U S president, on a first foreign trip aboard the liner America, admired Ireland at Cork Harbor. She called the morning beautiful and praised the emerald landscape while chatting with reporters and ignoring political questions.
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Cobh
Ireland
Margaret Truman
United States
Emerald Isle
America
Britain
Miss Truman
Cork Harbor
Costello Leads Narrow Irish Dail Result Amid Slow Returns
Prime Minister John A Costello's coalition held a slim lead over Eamon De Valera's Fianna Fail in Ireland's general election as incomplete results showed Costello's bloc with around 70 seats to Fianna Fail's 61, with 14 contests undecided. The Inter-party alliance supported by Costello kept the government ahead despite Fianna Fail's strong show in several wards.
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Dublin
Ireland
John A. Costello
Coaltion
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
Dail
de Valera Fac‘tion
Cbbloc
League
Tr Valera
Soldiers of Destiny
Cattle Rollback Is Postponed
Washington government postpones the 10 percent rollback in five cattle prices until Monday. Slaughterers were to start paying 19 percent less for live cattle during accounting periods beginning May 20, but the Office of Price Stabilization said some slaughterers were advantaged by the original deadline because their accounting periods start up to ten weeks after May 2.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
Indicted in Syracuse Trust fraud expected this afternoon
At least 15 persons are to be indicted this afternoon in the 2.1 million Syracuse Trust Company fraud. Grand jurors will file their report at 3 PM with U S Attorney Irving J. Higbee and Judge James T. Foley present. The scene on the federal building’s second floor buzzed with FBI agents, lawyers, and reporters as stenographers prepared lengthy indictments.
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Syracuse Trust Company
Irving J. Higbee
James T. Foley
Tray
Higbee
Dorothy Armstrong
Bertha McClary
FBI
Sampson Probe Continues Today
A House sub-committee holds closed hearings into alleged waste in converting Sampson Naval Station to an Air Force base. Chairman Clemente said the aim is to determine if Armed Services rules were followed from bid letting to contract filing as witnesses from the Academy Gethic engineers office testified.
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New York
House
Sampson Naval Station
Clemente
D.N. Y
Acada Gehctihegineer
Inside story of Mao power drive and wartime politics
Eye opening account chronicles Mao Zedong and key figures as they push for control within the Communist movement. Describes harsh peasant life in liberated zones and exposes cruelties, intrigues, and shifting policies shaping early China.
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China
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