British Troops Headed to Honduras Amid Guatemala Tensions
The 9850 ton cruiser Devonshire carries Gloucester regiment troops to British Honduras to bolster defenses against an alleged Guatemalan threat. The unit joins the 9100 ton cruiser Sheffield already at Belize with eight and six inch guns. Guatemala's London envoy denied an armed threat but vowed to pursue international action. Britain also sent the Nigeria to the Falklands to guard Antarctic holdings amid regional claims.
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British Honduras
Guatemala
Foreign Office
Sheffield
Belize
Gloucester
Kingston
Jamaica
Miguel Ydigoras’ Fuentes
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New World
Pearl Center
Nigeria
Falkland Islands
Argentina
Chile
Strike End Effort Fails Over City Aid Plans
MINNEAPOLIS Feb 27 The four day teachers strike continued as the board of education rejected the city council proposal to raise funds via a 2 million dollar bond issue to cover current operating expenses. Acting superintendent Robert Gilchrist said the board would stay in session and noted a slim chance of a later vote change.
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Minneapolis
Board of Education
Robert S. Gilchrist
Ruling Dismisses Portal Pay Claims in Detroit
Five federal judges en banc ruled the congressional act outlawing portal to portal pay claims constitutional and dismissed $600 million in portal suits filed by Detroit labor unions. The Fifth Amendment due process basis held workers were not deprived of property for seeking wages they had not previously anticipated.
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Detroit
Finland Watch as Soviet Pact Sparks Western Alarm
The State Department monitors Soviet Finland diplomacy amid fears of Moscow steering Helsinki into its orbit. Western allies Sweden Norway and Denmark would rely on U S aid under the Marshall Plan. Finland's July elections loom with communist influence noted since 1945.
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Washington
State Department
Finland
Josef Stalin
Helsinki
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Benes Swears In Communist Cabinet in Prague
President Eduard Benes sworn in the new communist cabinet to avert internal division and chaos. The government soon rejected a joint statement by the United States Great Britain and France condemning the coup and seizure of power.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
United States
Great Britain
France
Bachelors Round Up as Girls Run Aurora on Leap Year Day
In Aurora Illinois a 50 member all female police unit arrested over 100 bachelors for loitering on the road to matrimony on leap year day 1944. Fines went to the girls not the city. The event paused eight years due to wartime and featured a special Chicago wagon aid.
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Aurora
Chicago
Soviet Is Out Of London Parley
The United States will formally reject Soviet and satellite attempts to participate in the London conference on Germany. The three Western powers opened the talks last Monday after the collapse of the big four council, with the U S state department saying protests by eastern countries will be rebuffed.
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United States
Soviet Union
London
Germany
Big Four
Council of Foreign Ministers
Russia
State Department
Republican Views Taylor in Idaho May Split Parties
In Twin Falls Idaho C W Dill Jr Lincoln County GOP committeeman warned that if the Idaho GOP convention does not endorse Harold Stassen he will campaign for Senator Taylor. Dill, a former state legislator and Lincoln County Young Republicans chairman, said Democrats could push Taylor to switch parties.
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Twin Falls
Ida
Taylor
Idaho
C. W- Dill, Jr
Shoshone
Lincoln County
GOP
Dill
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Young Republican Club
Cut in Foreign Spending Urged by Rep Herter
Rep Christian Herter urged cutting overseas relief and reconstruction funds by 500 million dollars. He proposed a world wide recovery program and limiting next year overseas aid to 6.5 billion dollars instead of seven billion.
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Washington
Christian A. Herter
Mass
Congress
Herter
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Adminion
Clipper Crashes at San Francisco Airport Flight
SAN FRANCISCO AP reports a Pan American Airways Clipper crashed at the municipal airport last night. Initial word indicated no casualties. The field will be closed for the night due to an obstruction on the main runway until Pan American Airways provides further details.
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San Francisco
Pan American Airways
Stalin Proposes Negotiations With Finland for Mutual Defense
Stalin personally proposes a Russian Finnish treaty of mutual defense and friendship to President Paasikivi. Finland's cabinet debates the idea amid opposition by most parties to a military alliance with any nation. A delegation may be sent to Moscow to start negotiations next week, with parliament expected to discuss the proposal.
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Helsinki
Finland
Josef Stalin
Juho Kpaasiki
Stalin
Russia
Paasikivi
Moscow
Soviet Union
ACF Seeks Removal of Saunders From State Government
An Idaho civic group addressed an open letter to Gov. Robins urging removal of Clarence Saunders, liquor law enforcement commissioner, from state government. The plea appears in the March issue of the Idaho Challenge, edited by Harry Kessler in Boise.
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Boise
Idaho Allied Civic Forces
C. A. Robins
Clarence Saunders
Idaho Challenge
The
Civic Forces
Harry Kessler
ACF Legal Counsel
Surgeons Find Towel Left From Previous Operation
In San Mateo a 60 year old invalid mother, Mrs. Lillian Arthur, underwent exploratory surgery and surgeons found a surgical towel bearing a Bremerton hospital’s name wrapped around her intestines. Her husband said he may sue Bremerton hospital. medical bills have reached about $30,000.
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Mateo
Cal
San Mateo Community
Bremerton, Wash
Lillian Arthur
Harrison Memorial Hospital
Bremerton
Henry Brown
Lawrence Martin
Ray Schutt
Arthur
Frank Arthur
San Francisco
Arthurs
Harold Marks
Harrison Memorial
Bremerton Hospital
Malad Firm Wins Battle Over Reservoir Survey Funds
The Samaria Water and Irrigation Co. of Malad won a dispute with the state reducing its eligible survey payment. The company had expected 3 375 dollars for a reservoir survey, based on 4.5 percent of 75 000 dollars. The board ruled the company should not be penalized for thrift and awarded the full disputed amount of 980 dollars.
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BOISE
Samaria Water and Irrigation Co
Malad
Samaria
State Reclamation Department
Board of Examiners
Warden Won’t Admit Young Slayer to Grade School
In Canon City Colorado the public school board refused to decide whether 12 year old James Melton Jr a convicted killer should attend Washington grade school The board delayed ruling requesting guidance from the state attorney general Warden Roy Best who has housed Melton says the boy is not a criminal at heart and should be rehabilitated The boy shot his sister Phyllis Marie in December and is the second youngest inmate in the state prison history
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Roy Best
State Penitentiary
James Melton, Jr
Washington
Best
Young Melton
Los Animas
Colo
Phyllis Marie
Christmaa
Pocatellan Seeks Action To Fill Post
Secretary of State Price told Homer C. Martin of Pocatello that moving the office of Commissioner of Labor Immigration and Statistics onto the ballot is unlikely via initiative. The office has not operated since 1923 due to lack of funds, and its duties would risk overlap with other agencies if redefined. Price advised drafting a bill for the next legislature.
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J. D
Cy) Price
Homer C. Martin
Pocatello
Office of
Commissioner of Labor, Immigration and Statistics
Martin
Idaho Railway Labor Legislative Association
Price
Republican Party
Locker Club Illegality Upheld in Rexburg Probate Court
A six member Rexburg jury in Madison County probate court found Lewis Butler not guilty of maintaining a room where liquor was received and kept. A patron brought and poured liquor in front of Butler at the Idamont hotel tap room, with no liquor kept on the premises, testing Idaho's 1947 liquor law locker club provision. W Lloyd Adams, Rexburg attorney, represented Butler.
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Rexburg
LLP
Antilocker Club
Idaho
Madison County
Lewis Butler
Idamont
Butler
Lewis
W. Lloyd Adams
Truman Signs Stop Gap Rent Control Bill in Key West
President Truman signed a stop gap bill extending rent control until April 1 at the temporary White House in Key West. He also signed a resolution extending wartime maritime commission authority for one year to charter, sell and operate merchant vessels.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
White House
Maritime Commission
Secret U S China air force pact details unveiled
Washington officials disclosed a long secret agreement under which the United States would provide China with 1071 aircraft including 37 B 17s 42 P 47s and 53 P 51s plus 135 planes slated for future delivery Equipping Chiang Kai Shek’s forces with a multilayer air power and training Chinese pilots and technicians both in the United States and China.
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Washington
United States
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Spain
Yugoslavia
Turkey
U.S
Emore
Cnaattaer
GOP
Senate
House
George C. Marshall
Congress
Congressional
Chiang
Jewish Agency Says It Will Form State Without International Army
The Jewish agency told the United Nations Security Council that it is ready to establish a Jewish state in Palestine without an international army if the UN refuses to mobilize one. The statement came Friday during UN deliberations in New York.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Jewish Agency
United Nations Security Council
Palestine
Severe Weather Hits Southwest and Midwest States
Tornadoes floods and cloudbursts sweep the southwest with three deaths in Texas. Cyclonic winds 60 mph wreck homes and airports, disrupt railroads, and flood central Texas towns. Snow and sleet hit Minnesota while a Midwest cold wave and blizzard warnings spread from North Dakota to the region. Damaging winds toppled structures at Abilene and Ballinger, Texas, with plane hangar losses and a $100,000 damage bill.
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Texas
Kansas
Minnesota
U. S. Weather Bureau
Midwest
North Dakota
Comanche
Brownswood
Brackenridge
Woodson
Necessity
Bartonville
Ballinger
Soviet Marshal Orders End to Denazification Deals
Berlin dispatch reports Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky, head of the Soviet occupation zone, ordered all denazification proceedings to end effective March 10. Seen as a bold Russian move affecting German support and postwar policy.
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Berlin
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Cloudy with Snow or Rain Forecast Today
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with possible snow or rain. High near 38 degrees, low around 25, according to the weather man.
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