Ramadier Expels Five Communists From Cabinet
Paris May 4 The three month old Ramadier government expelled five Communist ministers after a two to one confidence vote. Thorez Billous Tillon Croizat Marrane were replaced by Tietgen Delbos La Coste and Moch. Marrane may resign soon. cabinet now includes Socialists MR P Radical Socialists and two Independents.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
French National Assembly
Maurice Thorez
Francois Billous
Charles Tillon
Ambroise Croizat
Labor
Georges Marrane
Pierre Henry Tietgen
Thorez
Yvon Delbos
Billoux
Robert la Coste
Popular Republican Movement
M.R.P
Croizat
Jules Moch
Tillon
Marrane
Ramadier
National Assembly
Mayor Manuel Pernandez Supervielle Takes Own Life
Havana reports that Manuel Pernandez Supervielle, Cuba's second-ranking official and mayor of Havana, shot himself with a 45 caliber pistol borrowed from a police guard at his suburban villa. He cited public anger over unmet water promises and left notes to a friend and his wife. He died en route to a hospital after the pistol discharged again.
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Havana
Manuel Pernandez Supervielle
Cuba
Fernandez Supervielle
Garcia Navarro
Mira’nar
Eduardo Alvarez Napoles
Napoles
Supervielle
Navy Oil Deals Under Review by Justice Department
Washington May 4 The Justice Department reportedly scans multi million dollar Arabian oil deals already under inquiry by the Senate war investigating committee. Senator unnamed said records from the State Department on Saudi oil have been turned over to Justice. J A Moffett testified Navy paid more than 30 million dollars in excess prices for Arabian oil during the war.
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Washington
Justice Department
Senate War Investigating Committee
Senate Committee
Roosevelt
Brewster
R-Me
Senate Group
State Department
J. A. Moffett
Senate
Navy
Moffett
United States
Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Russian spring maneuvers reported near Bering Strait
The Exchange Telegraph cited an unauthenticated Swiss broadcast claiming 250000 Russian troops are starting spring maneuvers on the Bering Strait opposite Alaska. The report said Pacific fleet units and Mongolian forces would join later, but gave no source for the Swiss station.
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London
A.P
Exchange Telegraph
Bering Strait
Siberia
Mongolian People’s Republic
Soviet Union
Left Wing Demands Aid to Italy Triggers Crisis Symbols
In Rome on May 4 left wing leaders accuse U S aid to Italy of foreign intervention and warn of civil conflict. Palmiro Togliatti attacks the State Department while Pietro Nenni cautions that the workers may strike back if authorities fail to curb violence linked to Sicily protests.
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Rome
Italy
U.P
Alcide de Gasperi
Gasperi
Palmiro Togliatti
Red
State Department
Togliatti
Soviet Union
Pietro Nenni
Socialist Party
Sicily
Nenni
Ministry of Interior
Nine Die in TAC A Airways Plane Crash
Reports say a TAC A Airways flight from San Jose to Guanacaste exploded in midair, killing nine people including three children. All aboard were Costa Ricans. the pilot, co pilot, and seven passengers perished. The crash occurred on a domestic flight and the cause remains unknown.
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U.P
T. A. C. A. Airways
San Jose
Guanacaste
Franklin Romero
Foreign Policy Faces Triple Threat in Senate Greece Aid Fight
Secretary of State Marshall confronted a threefold challenge to U S foreign policy as House Republicans split over 400000.90 Greece Turkey aid, a push to shift relief to the UN, and a fight over 350 million requested for foreign relief with House cuts to 200 million and possible defunding of the Voice of America.
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Washington
Secretary of State
Marshall
House
Greece
Turkey
United Nations
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
State Department
Voice of America
Efforts to Settle Strike Continue
Washington May 4 Government moves to resolve the telephone wage dispute proceed slowly as unions and companies weigh a $4 a week rise plus extra concessions. Some Illinois and New York workers return to work Monday. others await decisions. Union ratifications, pending company replies, and federal conciliators' optimism shape the path to a speedy settlement.
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Washington
Illinois
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Marion Horn
New York Traffic Employes Association
New York Telephone Company
Federation of Telephone Clerks
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Chicago
Illinois Telephone Company
Springfield
Ill
Peace Restored at Prison Following Riots
At Fort Leavenworth Army displinary barracks quieted after a race riot that left one dead and several injured. White and Negro prisoners had eaten separately. ringleaders to be segregated with court martial possible after investigation. Reconditioning of damaged cell blocks continues.
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U. S
United States Disciplinary Barracks
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
A. P
Army Disciplinary Barracks
Henry C. Triesler, Jr
Harry L. Twaddle
Fifth Army
Chicago
Gen
Twaddle
Graeme Parks
Parks
Plane Mishap Injures Thirteen Returning Derby Fans
A Union Southern Airlines plane overshot a runway at Newark in rain and landed in a mud drainage ditch injuring 13 aboard. All were rushed to St. James and Beth Israel hospitals. four remained seriously hurt including the pilot and three passengers.
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Newark
N. J
Union Southern Airlines
St. James and
Beth Israel
Gastroenteritis Deaths Mount at Temple Hospital
Two more infant deaths were reported at Temple University hospital bringing the two day total to four. The deaths involved children less than three weeks old and followed a case load of 18 babies admitted last week to an Allentown hospital with a gastroenteritis outbreak. The illness is a form of diarrhea to which young children are especially susceptible.
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Philadelphia
Temple University Hospital
Allentown
Compromise Plans Move to Hear Jewish Agency on Palestine
United Nations delegates drafted middle road compromises to allow a Jewish agency spokesman to address the Political Committee on Palestine. Yugoslavia and Canada offered plans for Monday's plenary session while Russia and Poland sought a vote to permit the agency to speak, with possible restrictions from Britain and the United States.
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New York
U.P
United Nations
United Nations General Assembly
Yugoslavia
Canada
Russia
Poland
Jewish Agency
Palestine
General Assembly
Assembly
Commission
United States
Britain
Salvation Army Officer Lt. Col. James Dee Dies
Lt. Col. James Dee 63 territorial secretary for prisons in the Salvation Army died from a heart attack while being transported to a hospital in Albuquerque. He was en route to participate in a national prison week program at the Santa Fe penitentiary. His home was San Francisco.
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Albuquerque
N. M
James Dee
Salvation Army
Territorial Secretary For
San Francisco
State Penitentiary
Santa Fe
Dee
School For Instruction of
Salvation Army Personne
Cornell student wounded in Ithaca shooting fire death
Ithaca May 4 state police said Cornell University student Lowell L Hecht Akron Ohio was wounded critically after an argument with 45 year old Beatrice F Boyce who then set fire to a gasoline station and killed herself Hecht driven to Memorial Hospital in Ithaca was shot in thigh and kidney Mrs Boyce died later coroner ruled death by own action The incident ended with a neighbor extinguishing the fire and finding Boyce injured
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Ithaca
Lowell L. Hecht
Cornell University
Akron
Ohio
State Police Corp
J. E. Maloney
Hecht
Beatrice F. Boyce
Maloney
Seven die in Acre prison escape and clashes in Holy Land
Jewish underground fighters blast Acre prison wall freeing 251 inmates as seven are killed and eight wounded. Elsewhere in the Holy Land, at least five more people die in clashes between British forces and the Jewish underground.
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Jerusalem
Acre
Holy Land
Galilean
Palestine
Haifa
British Airborne
Nahariya
Dov Bela Gruner
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Monoxide Poison Fatal to Three in Grand Rapids Family
Three of four members of the Leonard Jankowski family died in carbon monoxide poisoning in Grand Rapids Michigan. The bodies of Leonard 29, wife Patricia 25, and their four year old son Michael were found by neighbors after a light was found burning in the home. The surviving ten month old Douglas was hospitalized.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Leonard Jankowski
Jankowski
Patrician
Michael
Douglas
St. Mary's Hospital
Ambush Killings Reported Near Lublin During May Day Celebrations
Zycie Warszawy reports seven members of a Communist backed youth militia were ambushed and killed by an underground group near Lublin during May Day events. The incident occurred as government outlets described the fighting youths as volunteers.
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Warsaw
Zycie Warszawy
Lublin
Weather Summary for Butte and Montana
Continued fair and warm Monday with possible afternoon storms. Highs around 75 at the School of Mines and Airport. Montana reports partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers, cooler in southwest and south central portions, little temperature change elsewhere.
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School of Mines
Sadistic Slayer Target of Intensive Los Angeles Hunt
Detectives in Los Angeles pursue a suspected serial killer linked to the Black Dahlia case after the nude battered body of Dorothy Montgomery was found two miles from her Firestone Park home. Aided by Lt. Pete Sutton, officers canvassed the neighborhood and questioned residents and a witness who saw a man park Montgomery’s car near the playground Friday night.
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Los Angeles
Dorothy Montgomery
Firestone Park
Pete Sutton
Slauson
Mrs. Montgomery
Maycille
James Kennedy
Martin J. Insull Dies at 75 in Orillia
Martin J. Insull, 75, industrialist and brother of the late Sam Insull, died in a hospital in Orillia after years in a rest home. A British citizen by birth, he grew up in Reading and studied at Cornell. He led roles in General Incandescent Arc Light, United Gas and Electric, Louisville and Northern Railway and Light, and Middle West Utilities before its 1932 collapse.
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Orillia
Ont
Martin J. Insull
Sam Insull
Insull
Reading
England
United States
Cornell University
General Incandescent Arc Light Company
New York
New Albany
Ind
United Gas and Electric Company
Louisville and Northern Railway and Light Company
Louisville and Southern Indiana Traction Company
Middle West Utilities Company
Hes
Middle West Utilities
Indiana child found in White River police say death by drowning
Indianapolis May 4 a seven year old boy identified as Peter Hubbell who had been missing for about two months was recovered from White river. Coroner Roy B Storms said after an autopsy that the verdict would be death by drowning.
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Indianapolis
Peter Hubbell
White River
Roy B. Storms
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