Communists Seize Key Rail Town Southwest of Shanghai
Communists captured Kashing, a strategic rail town 70 miles southwest of Shanghai, after a brief battle with Nationalist forces. Nationalists evacuated Kashing, retreating 10 miles and abandoning a route that would link Hangchow to Shanghai. Reds push along the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway, holding over 130 miles, and aim to join with forces from Hangchow to advance on Shanghai while air raids and naval movements continue to be reported.
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Shanghai
Kashing
Peiping
Hangchow
Red
Chekiang
Chekiang-Kiangsi
Auto Plants Calling Back Thousands
The Ford strike at River Rouge and Detroit's Lincoln-Mercury division left 62,000 CIO UAW workers idle as of day five while Hudson Motor Car Co in Detroit recalled 25,000 workers. Briggs Motors Detroit 16,800 and Plymouth division of Chrysler 5,800 also planned recalls. Evansville Briggs and Plymouth plants to resume after weekend walkout. In Waterloo Iowa 5,000 John Deere CIO workers voted to take a work holiday and consider formal strike action.
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Chicago
Ford Motor Co
Ford
CIO
United Auto
River Rouge
Lincoln-Mercury
Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Co
Bendix Aviation Corporation
South Bend
Ind
Hudson
Bendix
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Plymouth
Chrysler Corporation
Briggs
Briggs Body
Evansville
Waterloo
CIO Auto
John Deere Tractor Works
TF Ialpany
Diene
UAW Cempany
John Deere
Ford Motor Company
Key River Rouge
Detroit, Mich
Sanitarian to Inspect Milk in Northern Idaho
W. R. McLean, state health department sanitarian, leaves today to inspect milk in northern Idaho. He will visit Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint, Coeur dAlene, Moscow, Lewiston and other communities to check producers and distributors. He reports complete compliance with grading rules after southwestern Idaho inspections. He plans to travel through southern and eastern Idaho.
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Boise
W. R. McLean
State Health Department
Sanitarian
Idaho
Bonners Ferry
Sandpoint
Coeur d'Alene
Moscow
Lewiston
McLean
Drunkometer Clears Boise Driver in New Test
Boise police use of the drunkometer to measure blood alcohol in breath cleared a driver of a drunk driving charge. In service for under two weeks it has already acquitted at least two drivers. The first acquittal was Ben Rummerfield of Boise yesterday.
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Boise
Boise Police Department
Ben Rummerfield
Idaho Democrats split over anti Taylor club clash
Two state Democratic leaders rebuked national committeeman Dan J. Cavanagh of Twin Falls for joining an anti Taylor group aiming to defeat U S Senator Glen H Taylor in 1950 Democratic primary. Brennan and Swope defend party neutrality and say officials must not back primary candidates.
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Dan J. Cavanagh
Twin Falls
U. S
Glen H. Taylor
Taylor
E. P. Brennan
Potatello
Lavera Swope
Boise
Beat-Taylor” Forces
anti-Taylor Club
A. E. Hancock
Hancock
Idaho
Ed Brennan
la Vera Swope
Harmonius Democratic
Car Stalled on Tracks Leads to Train Collision
Rupert Weeks 30 of Ft. Washakie suffered three broken ribs after a Union Pacific freight train struck his stalled car one mile north of American Falls. Accompanying him were Wainnie Chedahar 26 and a 15 year old girl of Ft. Hall who were not injured. all three were questioned as Weeks was hospitalized with multiple injuries. The two accomplices remain in Power county jail. the girl has been missing from Ft. Hall for a week.
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American Falls
Rupert Weeks
Ft. Washakie
Wyo
Union Pacific
Weeks
Wainnie Chedahar
Ft. Hall
Chedahar
Power County
William Hoehnen
Chedaharp
Extra Session of Congress Seen But Truman Likely to Be Kicked
An extra session of Congress seems likely this year though President Truman may not win his aims. The Senate must finish major bills including the reciprocal trade act changes, Taft Hartley repealer, and Atlantic security pact ratification, likely consuming eight to ten weeks.
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Congress
Truman
Washington
Senate
Scott W. Lucas
Illinois
Dixiecrats Have No Future in Democratic Party McGrath Says
Washington D C Sen J Howard McGrath chair of the Democratic national committee declared that a Dixiecrat has no future in the party. He said patronage should follow the party platform and that bolting southern Democrats are not welcome. Senator Kefauver backed the view arguing southerners should join a stronger Democratic coalition with federal aid to education school health programs and other measures.
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Washington
J. Howard McGrath
R. I
Democratic Nationalmittee
Democratic Party
National Committee
Truman
McGrath
Congress
Estes Kefauver
Tenn
WPIK
Southland
South
Coal Fuels Seen Ahead in Krug Remarks
Louisiana Missouri U P reports Secretary of the Interior Krug says synthetic liquid fuels from coal or oil shale could reach prices near oil and that strong private interest and research support have advanced the program. He cites vast shale and coal deposits as part of the liquid fuel reserve.
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Louisiana
J. A. Krug
Krug
Body found in Portneuf River near Idaho Refining Co
The 66 year old Ashmer T Miller missing since April 28 was found floating in the Portneuf River near the Idaho Refining Co plant west of Pocatello at 1 30 p m Sunday. The body was spotted by Mrs Thomas Isenhart and her husband as they walked along the riverbank during a police search.
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Pocatello Police Department
Ashmer T. Miller
Miller
Gate City
N. Grant
Portneuf
Idaho Refining Co
Portneuf Park
Thomas Isenhart
Clarice
Isenhart
Ray Shreve
Ford Rejects Mediation in UAW Strike at River Rouge
Ford Motor Co rejected mediation offers in the five dayold CIO UAW strike over a speedup at its River Rouge and Lincoln Mercury plants. Detroit leaders sought talks with Henry Ford II and Walter Reuther as union activists staged a Dearborn rally in solidarity with 62,200 workers.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
U. S
George Edwards
Orville L. Hubbard
Dearborn
Ford
Great River Rouge
John 8. Bugas
Hubbard
Henry Ford II
UAW
Walter Reuther
G. Mennen Williams
Reuther
Williams
River Rouge
Lincoln Mercury
Edwards
Citizens Committee
Bugas
Boy Killed by Shotgun Boobytrap in Memphis
Police report an 11 year old boy Samuel Hughes was killed by a shotgun boobytrap at a coal company building aimed at stopping prowlers. The incident occurred during an apparent burglary in Memphis Tennessee.
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Memphis
Tenn
Samuel Hughes
President Truman Observes Mother's Day Amid Grief
President Truman marked his 65th birthday with a muted observance tied to his late mother Mrs. Martha Ellen Truman. He attended morning services and spent the day quietly with family as aides note his deep personal loss since her July 1947 death in Missouri.
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Washington
Truman
Martha Ellen Truman
Grandview
Mr. Truman
White House
Charles G. Ross
Ross
First Baptist Church
Edward Hughes Pruden
Martha Truman
Pruden
Soviet Radio Calls Western Propaganda Lies in Tape Broadcast
Moscow accused Voice of America and BBC of spreading slander about Russia on its English program Mail Bag. Officials said Western broadcasting demoralizes listeners yet admitted propaganda efforts are partly succeeding as BBC used 23 high powered transmitters and 58 were used in a joint onslaught against jamming.
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London
Radio
Moscow
Voice of America
British Broadcasting Corporation
Russia
BBC
Voice
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Nea-Acme
Nanchang
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Quinsan
Kunshan
Nanking-Hangchow
Taichang
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Kashuan
Chunpao
Sunkiang
United Press
Yangtze
Brennan
Ford River Rouge
Demos
Army
Curtis E. Calder
New York
Electric Bond and Share Co
Defense
Louis Johnson
Kenneth E. Royall
Calder
War Production Board
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