New York launches 6.7 million road repair program
Public Works Superintendent Bertram D. Tallamy announced a state wide effort to resurface and oil rough pavement. About 1,905 miles of highway will be repaired at a cost exceeding 6.7 million dollars across the state. Auburn button works workers vote to strike after wage talks fail. A letter from an airman in Korea warns RPI students about dorm raids. A man named Howard Ring of Homer was killed by a train near a Delaware Lackawanna and Western crossing. coroner rules accidental death.
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Albany
New York State
Public Works
Bertram D. Tallamy
Tallamy
Albany CP
Korea
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Homer C
Delaware, Lackawana and Western
Howard Ring
Homer
George Nevin
House Moves to Wind Up Reorganization Bills
The House Executive Expenditures Committee framed a wind up for at least nine measures to implement Hoover Commission recommendations on executive branch reorganization with hearings to begin next Tuesday.
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House
Washington
House Executive Expenditures Committee
Dawson
D-Ill
Hoover Commission
Executive Branch
Rhee Defies Assembly in Korea Martial Law Crisis
President Syngman Rhee refuses UN and Assembly demands to end martial law and free nine arrested Assemblymen. Vice President Kim Sung Soo resigns, accusing Rhee of assault on the Constitution amid Korea’s political crisis. Brig. Gen. Aaron W. Tyer dies in jet crash in Tokyo area. pilot E. R. Crane also casualty. Belgian and Italian royal visitors hint at a forthcoming Belgian King Baudouin and Princess Margherita engagement in Rome.
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Assembly
Pusan
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Korean National Assembly
United Nations
Republic of Korea
Kim Sung Soo
Tokyo
Aaron W. Tyer
Japan Air Defense Force
Tyer
E. R. Crane
Wichita
Kas
Rowe CP
Rome
Baudouin of
Belgium
Margherita di
Deaths in Baltimore and New York City and Alberta pioneer
Walter C. Evans 53, vice president at Westinghouse Electric Corp since 1921, died in Baltimore. Will T. Gentz 3, former newspaperman and Isadora Duncan publicist, died in New York City. Captain Robert Huntington 83, retired sailing skipper and merchant marine educator, died in New York City. Samuel Newton Rimbey Sr, pioneer leader after whom Rimbey Alberta was named, died in Rimbey Alberta.
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Walter C. Evans
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Baltimore
Will T. Gentz
Isadora Duncan
New York City
Robert Huntington
Seamen's Church Institute
Samuel Newton Rimbey
Alberta
Rimbey
Alta
Presidential Quiz and Underground Railroad History
A reader quiz asks to name five ex presidents living at Lincolns first inauguration and explains the Underground Railroad before the Civil War. It notes Emancipation Proclamation year and saves history clips. Also reports plans for a $600000 75 bed VET HOSPITAL at Albany CP to expand from 229 to 304 beds.
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Lincoln
VET Hospital
Albany CP
Women’s Relief Corps
Thhe State Social Welfare Department
Veterans Institution
Cattle and Hogs Rampage in Birmingham Streets
A stockyard fire at Armour Co. yards in Birmingham destroyed pens and released 1500 cattle and hogs. Police and cowboys joined a citywide roundup, with 500 to 700 animals killed and many injured or at large across the northern section and downtown. Fire crews contained the blaze after about an hour.
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Birmingham
Ala
Armour Co
E. B. Corn
Sabotage Rise As Chinese Resist Reds
Widespread sabotage arson and resistance to the Communist Fourth Field Army's rule in four South Central Chinese provinces are reported by a Communist newspaper. The dispatch cites bandit arrests in Honan, arson and murder cases in Nanjang, landowner refusals in Li Ling to labor reform, and secret societies in Hupeh with a doctor leading a resistance core.
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Hong Kong
Fourth Field Army
China
Hankow Chang Chiang
Honan
Nangang
Hunan
Li-Ling
Mayang
Kiangsi
Hupeh
Seizure Powerslimited by Constitutional Amendment Proposal
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a McCarran led constitutional amendment to forbid a president from seizing private property except under specific Congress enacted laws. The move follows controversy over Truman steel seizure and aims to end disputes over presidential emergency power. The amendment would require two thirds in both houses and three fourths state ratification.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Congress
McCarran
D-Nev
Truman
Supreme Court
Federal District Court
Senate
House
Publishers Fight Newsprint Raise
The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association urged Canadian newsprint producers to reconsider 10 dollar per ton price increases. It called for reducing or eliminating them and asked producers who have not announced increases to study cost fallbacks to avoid a rise now.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
INS
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association Today
S.N.P.A
Swarthmore Officials Raid Student Wardrobes
Swarthmore College officials conducted a whirlwind raid on student rooms during finals to recover school apparel including T shirts shorts and athletic socks. Local haberdasheries reported a rush by students who found themselves without a thing to wear as the raid unfolded.
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Swarthmore
Swarthmore College
Commons OKs Finance Bill After 11 Days of Debate
London reports the House of Commons approved the government's finance bill after extended scrutiny. The measure, part of R A Butler's budget, sets a record peacetime revenue target of 4 24 billion pounds with a 30 percent excess profits tax and gasoline tax rise from 27 to 33 cents.
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London
House of Commons
R. A. Butiler
Envoy Calls U S Must Defend Japan in Security Pact
U S Ambassador Robert D. Murphy told the Japan Society that Soviets seek arms and Japan and the United States must rely on each other for security. He defended the postwar security treaty against hostile comments, receiving a standing ovation before an audience of 600 that included former Japanese ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura.
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Toxyrko CP
U.S
Robert D. Murphy
Japan
United States
Tokyo
Washington
Pearl Harbor
British Coal Mines Set Output Mark
Britain’s 1951 coal output reached the highest level since nationalization in 1947 at 211.9 million tons, but below prewar private ownership highs. The National Coal Board reported a manpower shortage and a 1.8 million pound deficit despite higher wages and stable prices, with imports from the United States to meet increased rearmament demand.
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London CP
Britain
National Coal Board
The
Coal Board
United States
Preacher Ivie's 39 Day Fast Probed in Cherryville
Officials of the Assembly of God whitewash concerns as Rev J B Ivie nears 39 days without solid food Diet reportedly begun April 20 with water only and occasional retches. Church leaders fear publicity harms the church and await a divine sign.
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Cherryville
Assembly of God ‘Church
Ozark
Ivie
Aviation Gas Cuts End Tuesday
Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman signed an order easing aviation gasoline restrictions, allowing airlines to use up to 78 percent of their March-day gasoline usage through Tuesday morning. He said the cuts had been tragic for some airlines and that relief would restore normal air travel.
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Washington
J Travel
OscarChapman
Chapman
Catholics Grow to 29 Million in United States Directory
The 1952 Catholic Directory shows Catholics in the United States Alaska and Hawaii rose by 172 642 last year reaching a total of 29 407 520. Chicago remains the largest archdiocese by population with 1 743 936 Catholics. Other archdioceses over a million include Boston New York Philadelphia and Newark. Brooklyn remains the largest diocese with 1 340 787.
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New York
United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Newark
WN. J
Brooklyn
Why American wives dress up, says English clergyman
Canon Hugh C. Warner told the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce that easy divorce laws cause constant anxiety among American wives about losing husbands. He described women waking early to apply paint and powder to keep their husbands from leaving.
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London
Hugh C. Warner
Royal Commission On
America
Warner
One Man Opinion on Patience and Potatoes
Walter Kiernan pokes fun at Washington politics and Truman budget friction. The piece riffs on a barber receiving six potatoes, a backyard grower, and a joke about free shaves. It ends with a grim line about keeping a razor strapped for six months.
Lines Drawn In Treaty Power Fight
Senate subcommittee examines Bricker proposed constitutional amendment to limit U S treaty and executive power. McGrath and Bar Association opponents urge caution arguing rights and foreign policy impact. Hearing not scheduled today.
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Washington CP
Bricker
Ohio
House of Delegates
American Bar Association
United States
W. L. McGrath
Cincinnati
U. S
International Labor Organization
Ll.o
Senate Judiciary
McGrath
Ll.c
Charles W. Tillett
Charlotte
N.C
Will Maslow
American Jewish Congress
Tillett
Senate
Bar Association
Congress
Maslow
United Nations
McGranery Seeks Resignations Across Justice Dept
Washington CP reports that all top Justice Department officials have submitted their resignations after James P. McGranery took office as Attorney General. The move, common when new leadership arrives, aims to let the new boss appoint preferred aides and implement desired changes.
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Washington
Noted 114 Year Old Former Slave Dies in Nassau County
Nassau County health officials announced the death of Mrs. NTL Jereeee Gelinnis, a former Nezru slave born August 20 1837 in Edgemont North Carolina. She died April 27 and was the widow of Jake Jenkins.
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Jex
Inwood
Ntl
Jereeee Gelinnis
Nassau County
Jenkins
Edgemont
N. C
Jake Jenkins
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