Soviet 35 armored divisions in East Germany and Poland
The State Department says the USSR now has 35 fully armored or mechanized divisions in East Germany and Poland and has restored East German railways as potential war supply lines. It cites a Jan 15 purge in the East German Communist Party and questions Kremlin good faith ahead of a proposed Big Four peace conference.
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Washington
Soviet Union
East Germany
Poland
State Department
Russia
East German
Communist Party
Office of Public Affairs
Germany
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Paris
Asia
Kremlin
U. S
General MacArthur Eyes Limited Move on 38th Parallel
MacArthur visited the central Korean front and signaled no automatic crossing of the 38th parallel. The Allied push continues as a limited offensive while considering political risks, with British opposition noted and renewed clashes reported near Wonju and Chechon.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Red Korea
Truman
Red China
Russia
Stalin
Korea
Wonju
Hongchon
Chechon
Han River
Seoul
Belfast
Warramunga
Wonsan
U.S. 8Th Army
Yangpyong
38Th Parallel
Kangnung (3
Tax Hearings Extend Into March For Revenue Bill
The House Ways and Means Committee will hold hearings for another full month on Truman's request for 10 billion dollars in new revenue. Over 260 entities seek to testify on income tax hikes, corporate taxes, and excise taxes, with many opting to submit statements.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Truman
Rep. Cooper
D-Tenn
Guilty Plea in 4.5 Million State Office Fire
Richard C. Shay, 19, the former State Highway Department employee, pleaded guilty to arson for setting the $4.5 million state office building fire on Feb 8 in Lansing. He faces up to ten years in prison with sentencing deferred for a probation report.
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Lansing
Mich
Richard C. Shay
Shay
State Highway Department
All state offices closed for Washington's Birthday
Columbus announces that all state offices stores and agencies will be closed Thursday February 22 in observance of Washington's Birthday.
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Columbus
All
Washington
Rainmaker Rain Sparks New York Property Damage Claims
Upstate property owners seek 1,288,333 dollars in damages linked to New York City's rainmaking project. The claimants accuse meteorologist Wallace E. Howell of causing damage during the weekend after Thanksgiving Day.
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York
Upstate
Wallace E. Howell
Three-Way Pacific Defense Pact Considered
Washington officials report the United States may form a three nation Pacific defense alignment with the United States Australia and New Zealand. Secretary of State Acheson and adviser John Foster Dulles explored options during recent talks with New Zealand Prime Minister Sid ney Holland. The plan could include the Philippines and allow others to join later.
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Washington
United States
Australia
New Zealand
John Foster Dulles
Acheson
Dulles
Japan
Pacific
Philippines
Sidney G. Holland
Holland
Helen Largent Granted Parole
Helen Largent former clerk at the Nelsonville water works receives parole from the Marysville Women's Reformatory. She was jailed for embezzlement over six years totaling more than $10,000 and pleaded guilty to a $766 embezzlement. Parole becomes effective March 27 per the State Pardon and Parole Board.
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Columbus
Helen Largent
Nelsonville
Rail Wage Dispute Near Settlement
Washington reports the wage drive of one million railroad workers in non operating units is near settlement. Terms include a basic pay rise of 12 1/2 cents an hour plus cost of living adjustments up to 5 cents.
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Washington
CIO Auto
Cio-United Auto Workers
Johnston and Labor Leaders Clash Over Wage Ceiling
Washington reports economics stabilizer Eric Johnston and labor leaders hold a planned airing on a proposed wage ceiling set at 10 percent above last year’s levels. The Wage Stabilization Board saw a 6 to 3 vote amid labor protests, with four top union leaders warning that big business controls mobilization.
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Washington
Eric Johnston
Johnston
Wage Stabilization Board
United Labor Policy Committee
Truman
Defense Mobilization
Labor Committee
White House
Joseph H. Short
Peace talks by UN group to continue in Korea
United Nations three man Good Offices Committee led by Nasrollah Entezam of Iran began daily meetings in New York to seek a negotiated peace in Korea. Entezam kept proposals and contact methods secret while noting Sweden’s Sven Grafstrom may help via Peiping embassy. Sanctions group chaired by Selim Sarper of Turkey plans a 10 day draft of a working plan.
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United Nations N. Y
Korea
United Nations
Good Offices
Assembly
Nasrollah Entezam
Iran
Entezam
Peiping
Mao Tza-Tung
Sven Grafstrom
Sweden
Red
China
Formosan
World Organization
UN Committee
Selim Sarper
Turkey
Savage Bengal tiger killed by African lion in circus act
At the Shrine Circus in Detroit three thousand schoolchildren watched as Prince the African lion killed Sheba the royal Bengal tiger during a Clyde Beatty act. Beatty restrained other animals as Prince leaped from his pedestal and seized Sheba’s back. Sheba died about an hour later. Prince continued performing.
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Detroit
Sheba
Clyde Beatty
Prince
Shrine
Fair Grounds Colosseium
Beatty
Lions and Tigers
Red-Tape Cutting Experiment In Columbus
Columbus officials launch a red tape cutting trial to speed landlord tenant disputes. Under the plan the tenant, landlord and an arbitrator sit together to hear cases, replacing prior method of separate interviews. Disputes that once took weeks or months should resolve in minutes.
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Columbbus
Columbus
Rent Control
Air Force cancels recall of 18 000 volunteers
An Air Force policy shift cancels recalls for 18 000 volunteer reserves and delays up to 60 000 more. The change affects noncommissioned volunteer reserves about 60 000 airmen and about 20 000 officers called up involuntarily. It excludes organized reserve members and about 2 000 volunteer reserve specialists in certain skills.
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Ashington
Air Force
Cyril Maude Dies Famous English Actor at 88
English actor-manager Cyril Maude, 88, died of influenza at his Torquay home. He gained fame on English and American stages and starred in Grumpy 1300 times. Maude formerly ran London's Haymarket and Playhouse theaters.
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Torquay
Eng
Cyril Maude
Maude
Haymarket
The
Playhouse
London
Pettit Named Assistant Ohio Attorney General
Columbus reports Brown W. Pettit, 28, of Ottawa, was appointed today as an assistant Ohio attorney general in a move announced by state officials.
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Columbus
Brown W. Pettit
Ottawa
Ohio
Truman faces Senate clash over RFC restructuring plan
President Truman’s plan to abolish the five man RFC board and install a single administrator drew Senate opposition. Senators Capehart and Bricker warned against ceding control to one person, pressing for a bipartisan board and public hearings into Dawson ties and RFC policy.
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Washington
Truman
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
RFC
Congress
Senate Banking
White House
Donald Dawson
Fulbright
D-Ark
Subcommittee
Dawson
Senator Capehart
Rind
Capehart
Bricker
Ohio
Lorain Man Kills Wife and Daughter Then Shoots Self
Manuel Maltos, 55, a Spanish steelworker, hacked his wife Mercedes 52 and daughter Angela 18 to death and kept their bodies in the basement for two days. He then went to a creek south of Lorain and killed himself with a bullet to the mouth. Coroner Dr. Paul Tillman termed the deaths as murder and suicide, noting Maltos appeared mentally unbalanced.
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Lorain
Manuel Maltos
Paul F. Tillman
Maltos
Tillman
Mercedes
Angela
Burma Seagrave Appeal Denied Sought By Government
Burma government prosecutor Chan Tung Aung told an appeals court that Dr Gordon S Seagrave misbehaved with Burmese nurses and was no guardian of their morals The prosecutor asked denial of the appeal from a lower court decision sentencing the 53 year old Burma Surgeon to six years at hard labor for aiding rebels against the Burmese government
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Rangoon
Burma
Chan Tung Aung
Gordon S. Seagrave
Prayer by Students Fails to Save Life at College
In Naperville Illinois an earnest student prayer failed to halt the death of Phyllis Ebinger a North Central College homecoming queen and outstanding co ed. She died of acute leukemia eight days after illness began.
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Naperville
Iil
North Central College
Phyllis Ebinger
West Virginia Trucker Fined for Overweight Load in Court
William A. Frye 30 of South Charleston West Virginia was fined 816 dollars in City Court after pleading guilty to driving a truck weighing 40 050 pounds overweight. Frye was hauling a sealed load from Charleston to Indianapolis.
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Richmond
Ind
South
Charleston
W. Va
William A. Frye
Frye
Indianapolis
Denied Slaying Convict Krause Granted Parole
Julius Krause, who has served 20 years for a murder he says he did not commit, won parole from the Ohio Pardon and Parole Commission effective May 15. Former Gov. Thomas J. Herbert set the stage. Krause had been reduced to second degree murder in 1947, making him eligible after 20 years. He was convicted for shooting Charles Bartlett, a Canton grocer, in 1930 during a holdup.
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Columbus
Julius Krause
Ohio Pardon and Parole Commission
Canton
Thomas J. Herbert
Krause
Herbert
Charles A. Bartlett
Bartlett
Labannan Rohrhback
Ohio Penitentiary
Curtis Kuemerle
Kuemerle
District Attorney Bill Questioned in Senate
Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee grilled a House approved bill to rename 88 prosecutors as District Attorneys. They questioned potential confusion with U S Attorney and preferred County Attorney but doubted the bill would achieve its aims.
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Bill
Senate
Columbus
Ohio
Judiciary Committee
U. S
Death of Morehead State chief Dr William J Baird
Dr William Jesse Baird president of Morehead State Teachers College Kentucky died last night at age 60 after a two year illness. He headed the college and had been in poor health for about two years.
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Cincinnati
William Jesse Baird
Morehead
State Teachers College
Top Officials Testify for Seaway Drive in Congress
Secretary of State Acheson and Secretary of Commerce Sawyer lead witnesses for the administration’s Seaway and power project, touted as defense. Other officials including Marshall and Wilson follow, as Truman applies pressure amid coastal and regional opposition to speed approval.
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Ashington
Congress
St. Lawrence Seaway
State Acheson
Commerce Sawyer
House Public Works Committee
Marshall
Charles E. Wilson
John Small
Munitions Board
Secretary of the Interior
Chapman
House Group
White House
Truman
House Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
84 Manslaughter Indictments Against Railroad Storm
Middlesex County Grand Jury returns 84 indictments charging the Pennsylvania Railroad with feloniously killing 84 riders in the Woodbridge disaster the nation’s worst since 1918. Judge Morris sets March 2 for pleas. no individual defendants named. possible franchise action discussed.
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New Brunswick
N.J
Pennsylvania Railroad
Woodbridge
Middlesex County Grand Jury
Ther
Road
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Middlesex County
Charles M. Morris
Alexander Eber
Farmers Denounce Price Freeze Threats From Government
Washington reports five major farm groups warn that any move to freeze prices at unfair levels would trigger shortages black markets and inflation problems. They pledge abundant production but demand essential inputs fertilizers machinery gasoline insecticides and labor at fair prices. Organizations cited include American Farm Bureau Federation National Grange National Farmers Union National Milk Producers Federation and National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.
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Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
The
National Grange
National Farmers Union
National Milk Producers Federation
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Foundry Strike Ends At Independent Plant
Operations resume at one independent foundry in Cincinnati while molders continue a wage dispute strike at more than twenty other plants in the Miami Valley area including Hamilton Middletown Dayton Harrison Overpeck and Covington Ky.
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Cincinnati
Miami Valley Foundrymen’s Association
Hamilton
Middletown
Dayton
Harrison and Overpeck
Covington
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