Runaway Missouri River Threatens Omaha Flood Crests
The Missouri River flood, the largest in the Missouri Valley, smashed levees and forced evacuations across Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas. A ruptured sewer line behind Omaha’s levee intensified the danger after an earlier crest had passed, prompting round the clock levee duty by volunteers and 4500 workers including university students. No lives were reported lost.
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Omaha
Nebr
Missouri
Missouri Valley
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Omaha Council Bluffs
Twin Cities
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Hamburg
Plum Creek
St. Joseph
Craig
Leavenworth
Kan
Sherman Air Force Base
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Ilinow
Jail Braces For Apple Blossom Festival Crowding
Winchester police requested Richmond State Penitentiary to send several state prisoners to Winchester before May 1 to ensure space for the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival crowd. Authorities fear the jail will be full during the event.
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Winchester
State Penitentiary
Richmond
One Killed In Barracks Fire at Brunswick Station
A two story officers barracks at the Brunswick Naval Air Station burned today. One airman died from smoke as officers tried to escape. Leroy Russell of New York City suffered foot burns while aiding 15 occupants. Omar J. D. Ifft indicated the steward's mate sounded the alarm.
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Brunswick
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Omar. J. D. Ifft
Leroy Russell
New York City
Clown Nickie Frances to Visit Local Shoe Store
Nickie Frances, the clown from a Sunday TV show, will appear at the Shoe Center on May 1 during the Apple Blossom Festival. Store manager James R. Wilkins announced he will also ride in the Grand Feature Parade on May 2 wearing the full clown costume in an old automobile.
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Nickie Frances
James R. Wilkins
Enlistments Extended Nine Months for 125000 Armed Forces
Washington reports 125000 service members whose terms end in the year starting July 1 are extended an extra nine months. The extension covers Army Air Force Navy and Marines with specific counts by service and applies to all components including reserves and National Guard. Not all will serve the full period and no one will stay longer than necessary.
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Washington
U. S
Army
Air Force
Navy
Marines
Defense Department
National Guard
U S Sabres Shoot Down Seven MiGs in Korea Week
U S Sabre jets claimed to destroy seven MiG-15s with another probably down and five damaged in the week ended Friday. One Sabre lost in air combat. one Allied plane lost to ground fire and three failed to return. Snow and fog grounded fliers as Eighth Army noted 2,348 enemy casualties April 8-14.
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Seoul
U. S
Eighth Army
Churchmen decry Easter parade commercialism on Fifth Avenue
Protestant churchmen protested the televised Easter parade in New York City saying models in tights and ad displays desecrated religious observance. They condemned promoters who used cathedral steps as a stage for commercial stunts turning Fifth Avenue into a Mardi Gras on a day of deep religious significance.
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New York
New
Fifth Avenue
Protestant Council of the City of
Hit Run Driver Sought After Car Damages in City
Police hunt a hit and run suspect after a 1949 Ford sedan owned by Gerald H. Krzwicki at 312 Amherst Street was damaged on the left doors and front fender around 4 00 this morning. Sgt Em ory Rodgers and Pvt Lester Shickle of Winchester PD lead the investigation.
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Gerald H. Krzwicki
Amherst Street
Emory Rodgers
Lester Shickle
Winchester Police Department
Krzwicki
Korean War Ace To Attend Shenandoah Festival
Capt Ralph Hoot Gibson World War II and Korean War flying ace will attend the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival May 1 and 2. He will ride in both parades, be introduced at the Queen’s Coronation, escort the Queen to the Tea Dance, and has a record of five enemy aircraft downed with two damaged.
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Ralph
Hoot” Gibson
Shenandoah
Gibson
Mt. Carmel
63Rd
Oscoda Air Force Base
Michigan
Air Force
Nina
Honey Bear
Japan
Capt
United States
Scout Air Force Base
Flyer
Lowry Air Force Base
Denver
56Th Fighter Group
Selfridge Air Force Base
Prisoner Exchange Talks Resume in Korea
In Munsan Korea two week recess ends as UN and communist negotiators resume talks on a formula to swap prisoners of war. Col George Hickman says only executive session comments are possible while subcommittees pursue disputes on neutral inspectors from Soviet Russia and ban on airfield construction during the armistice.
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Munsan
Korea
U. N
The
Red
George Hickman
Soviet
Russia
North Continental Airways Grounded After C-47 Crash
North Continental Airways was grounded by a government order after a C-46 two engine airliner crash near Puente Hills 25 miles from Los Angeles killed 29. The aircraft was en route from New York to Los Angeles and exploded on impact. A rancher found the wreckage seven hours later.
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Los Angeles
North Continental Airways
Here
New York
Puente Hills
Former Local Youth Among 29 Victims of Airliner Crash
Clen M Capper son of Harry W Capper formerly of Winches ter now in Philadelphia was among 29 killed in a North Continent Airways C 46 crash in California. He served with the Marines and was returning to duty on the West Coast after a 10 day furlough. He attended Handley High School in 1948 and leaves two aunts in the city Mrs May V Carper and Mrs Irene McDonald. Mrs Carper rushed to Philadelphia after learning of the tragedy.
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Clen M. Capper
Harry W. Capper
Winchester
Philadelphia
North Continent Airways
California
Young Capper
Marines
West
Handley High School
May V. Carper
Woodland Avenue
Irene McDonald
Cameron Street
License Tag Sales Surpass Prior Year Totals in City and State
Edwin Snider reports that about eleven thousand state car license tags were sold by the deadline Tuesday and hundreds more sold afterward for 1952 licenses. City tags reached about 3,000 by the deadline with additional sales later in the week and long lines at City Hall.
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Edwin Snider
Iun
Congressmen Defy Truman Over Defense Funding Battle
President Truman threatened daily special sessions to push defense and foreign aid funding. Senators Taft and Capehart dismissed the move as political theater while Congress trims the six to seven billion request. Senate hearings begin next week as Truman vows to resist cuts he calls election driven.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Republian
Springfield
Mass
Charles I
England
Taft
Sen. Capehart Rnd
House
Senate
Wert Faulkner Elected President of State Chamber
Wert Faulkner of Glasgow, former Virginia Manufacturers Association leader, was elected president of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce for the coming year at the chamber’s 28th annual meeting in Richmond. He will be installed in three days. The group also elected Raymond E. Henderson Danville and J. Rives Worsham Norfolk as vice presidents and re elected several district and executive officers. A resolution condemned President Truman’s steel seizure move as evidence of administrative delinquency.
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Richmond
Wert Faulkner
Glasgow
Virginia Manufacturers Association
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
R H. Bogle
Alexandria
Faulkner
James Lees & Sons Company
VMA
Raymond E. Henderson
Danville
Dan River Mills
Southside
Virginia
P. Winfree Fore
Culpeper
Piedmont
J. Rives Worsham
Norfolk
Old Dominion Peanut Company
Tidewater
Thomas E. Hassett, Jr
Staunton
Croyden Manufacturing Company
Valley
Government ends most rubber use controls in April
Government announces removal of nearly all restrictions on natural and synthetic rubber use effective April 21, with a rapid clampdown option if stockpiles fall or prices rise. It also guarantees peak operation of government plants for emergency production and ends the 10 year old allocation limits, except for pale crepe and sole crepe.
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Washington
National Production Authority
Henry H. Fowler
NPA
United States
Sawyer threatens steel wage rise as seizure drive escalates
The Truman administration threatens to raise steelworker wages in the seized industry early next week if private owners do not reach a deal with CIO President Philip Murray by Monday or Tuesday. Senate Republicans push bills to block funds for seized mills, accusing the move of dictatorial power.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Commerce Sawyer
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Sawyer
Senate
GOP
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
Ferguson
R-Mich
Hoey
D-Nc
Free Chicks Attract Crowds In Winchester
Winchester Milling Company on N Cameron Street gave 10 day old cockrels to one family member bearing a container. About 1 200 families obtained chicks in a morning event drawing crowds from Winchester Frederick County, Maryland and West Virginia. Police managed the lengthy lines as traffic slowed and many left without chicks by noon.
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Winchester Milling Company
N. Cameron Street
Fred A. Naegely
Winchester - Frederick County
Maryland
West Virginia
Apple Blossom Festival Names New Princesses for Queen Shenandoah Court
Three new Apple Blossom Festival princesses join Queen Shenandoah XXV's court. Miss Barbara Ann Lutz of Wyoming Ohio will represent Wilson College in Chambersburg Pennsylvania. Miss Eleanor Jane Ramsey of Richmond will represent the Shenandoah Conservatory in Dayton Virginia. Miss Barbara Ann Torrence of Danville Virginia will represent Averett College in Danville. Ming Torrence is co editor of Averett’s Chanticleer and Phi Theta Kappa member.
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Nina
Honey Bear
Warren
Barbara Ann Lutz
Wyoming
Ohio
Wilson College
Chambersburg
Lutz
Wilson
Kittochtinny Players
Eleanor Jane Ramsey
Herman B. Ramsey
Richmond
Shenandoah Conservatory
Dayton
Feamsey
Conservatory
Barbara Ann Torrence
John R. Torrence
Danville
Averett College
Ming Torrence
Phi Theta Kappa
National Junior College Honorary
The
Chanticleer
Queen Shenandoah
Convicts End Revolt at Trenton Prison
Sixty nine inmates in the Trenton State Prison ended a 77 hour revolt by filing out of the print shop. A sympathy mutiny of 231 inmates continued at Rahway prison farm forty miles away. An impartial investigation of the prison was sought with a survey to be requested from the Osborne Association.
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Trenton
N. J
Trenton State Prison
Rahway
F. Lovell Bixby
Hhe Deparment
Osborne Association
William H. Carty
Bixby
Mother Found Shot to Death Near Radford Bridge
Betty Jean Morris Turpin a 19 year old mother of two was found dead from multiple bullet wounds beside a Norfolk and Western bridge near Route 65 west of Radford Montgomery County authorities say her estranged husband Arnold Turpin 26 had tried to contact her for reconciliation. State Police Investigator Steve Shelton and Sheriff G W Arrington are handling the case with no arrests announced.
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Radford
Betty Jean Morris Turpin
Arnold
Montgomery County
Wilson Doyle
Christiansburg
Norfolk and Western
Turpin
Robert Lee Turpin
Eddie Arnold Turpin
Steve Shelton
G. W. Arrington
Reds Renew Germ Warfare Charges
In San Francisco a renewed Chinese propaganda push accuses the United States of germ warfare. Radio broadcasts from Peiping slam American imperialists as savage monsters and call for punishing germ war criminals, reviving the sharp rhetoric of April 10.
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San Francisco
China
Peiping
Red Sox rout Athletics in first game of doubleheader
Boston hammer Philadelpia 11 2 behind a seven run fourth inning highlighted by Don Lenhardt’s bases loaded homer. Pitching by Fowler Wright Kubncz Tipton Taylor and White.
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Boston
Boston Red Sox
Don Lenhardt
Philadelphia Athletics
Philadelphia
Fowler
Wright
Kubncz
Tipton
Taylor
White
Hodgson
Brown
Compromise Wage Increase Ends Major CIO Strike
In New York a compromise wage increase halted a 10 000 CIO In- Stallers strike at Western Electric and spurred hope for quick settlements in two remaining telephone walkouts. The agreement between the In- Stallers and Western Electric was reached early today.
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New York
CIO
Western Electric Company
Cid Communications Workers of
Telephone Picketing Ends in Virginia as WE Strike Settled
In Richmond Virginia picketing around telephone company offices concluded today as the Western Electric strike was settled. Louis Nelson of Richmond head of the area union said members were told to return to work and that the contract was one they could live with.
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Congress
Missouri
Virginia
Richmond
Western Electric
Louis Nelson
Strike Settlement Promises End to Telephone Labor Turmoil
Western Electric and 6000 CWA salesmen, distributors, and warehousemen near a wage pact may end 12 days of strikes across 43 states and DC. A separate bargaining route could resolve the Northern California and Nevada CWA walkout. The one year agreement raises base pay about 14.1 cents per hour with 17 cents in fringe benefits.
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Merica
Western Electric
Washington, D. C
CWA
Bell System
California
Nevada
Joseph A. Beirn
Washington
Bell
Ohio
Nigan
New Jersey
AFL
Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Elecetric
Woods Predicts GOP Will Elect Two Congressmen
Virginia GOP chairman Robert H. Woods of Pearlsburg said the Republicans will win two congressmen in the ninth and tenth districts and have a good chance in the sixth. Richmond GOPiders planned a district convention for May 13 to name a challenger to Rep. J Vaughan Gary in the Third District, with three or four possibles considering runs.
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Associated Press
Robert H. Woods
Pearlsburg
Virginia
GOP
Virginia Republicans
Richmond
J. Vaughan Gary
Vapor Trails Trigger Brief North American Air Alert
Alaska sighting of vapor trails prompted a precautionary alert across North America. Air Defense Command said planes over Alaska were not confirmed and radar did not detect anything unusual. The Air Force described the yellow alert as a mid level readiness between normal and red alert.
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Washington
Alaska
North America
Air Defense Command
Air Force
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