Truman Sees Growth but Warns of Postwar Slump Risk
President Truman urged rapid action to hit a target of 500 billion dollars in annual production within a decade while warning of a possible serious depression after defense spending declines. The economic message notes a 1954–56 threat, a council split on deflation policy, and a plan to expand markets to avert a deflationary spiral.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Economic Council
America
Council of Economic Advisers
White House
Leon Keyserling
Robert C. Turner
John D. Clark
Keyserling
Turner
Bi Partisan Policy Sought on Korea and Dulles Plan
Washington expects a bipartisan foreign policy as John Foster Dulles proposes talks with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after inauguration. The secretary of state may appear at an informal session Friday and committee leaders aim to advance Dulles and Harold Stassen nominations for action on inauguration day.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Korea
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
Wiley
Condition of Brodie Twins Still Critical
Chicago reports the Brodie Siamese twins remain in critical condition nearing the end of their first month as separate individuals. Rodney Dee stabilizes after two plastic procedures to cover exposed brain. Roger Lee remains unconscious following the December 17 separation surgery.
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Chicago
Brodie Siamese
Rodney Dee
Roger Lee
Jury Deliberates in Raible Paternity Suit
A Cleveland jury resumes deliberations today to decide if millionaire C Greif Raible fathered the illegitimate son of former waitress and night club singer Alice Ray del. The 12 jurors met two hours Tuesday without reaching a verdict. The plaintiff seeks a ruling that Raible is the father of Raymond.
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Cleveland
C. Greif Raible
Alice Raydel
Raible
Raymond
Steel firm halves payroll as market slows
About 130 workers at Wheeling Steel Corp plants in Martins Ferry Ohio and Wheeling West Virginia were laid off today due to worsening market conditions. The announcement cited supply and demand pressures affecting operations across the two facilities.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Wheeling Steel Corp
Martins Ferry
Party Slaps Down Morse In Assigning Key Posts
Senate vote leaves Sen. Morse of Oregon stripped of his armed services and labor committee posts after an 81 to 7 defeat. He proposed expanding the two committees by two seats to win back a placement, but the plan stalled in the rules committee as Taft urged caution and Johnson warned the move would tilt the party balance.
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Washington
Sen
Morse
Ind
Ore
Senate
Oregon
GOP
Armed Services Group
Labor Committee
Rules Committee
Humphrey
D-Minn
Jenner
R-Ind
New Rules
Taft
Ohio
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dtex
Pact Rejected: Philadelphia Busses Halted
Nine thousand Philadelphia Transportation Company workers struck, shutting down broad street subway and Frankford elevated lines. Trolleys subways and buses pulled in, railroads and taxi services expanded to meet rush, while armed forces aided with extra buses and trucks.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Broad Street
Frankford
Joint Committee of the Armed Forces
Tito Elected by Parliament in Belgrade
Premier Marshal Tito was elected Communist Yugoslavia’s first president today by Parliament under a new constitution. He promised to accelerate industrialization and raise living standards. Tito, the wartime partisan leader who has led since 1944, was the sole candidate and will hold similar powers to his prior post as president. Outside, about 100000 chanting supporters roared Hero Tito.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Tito
Adrawal
Six Missing After Windswept Nursing Home Fire
In Warren Pennsylvania a fire destroyed a 14 room nursing home early today. One elderly woman died and six people including four children were missing. Firefighters and nearby residents rescued several, with Nettie Clark among the deceased. The blaze started on the first floor where coal stoves heated the building. Mrs. Mary McComb and Mrs. J A McCoy escaped.
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Warren
Pennsylvania
Youngsville
Louis Heath
Mary McComb
Union City
Train Derails Wrecks Bellville Span in Ohio
Twenty six cars of a 96 car Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed near Bellville Mansfield area damaging a 214 foot Mohican Creek bridge span. Fire spread through wreckage until 8 30 a m no injuries reported and track 600 feet plowed. A Newark division clerk said replacement of the span is required.
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Mansfield, CO
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Bellville
Mohican Creek
A. E. Roll
Newark
Twelve Die as Air Force Bomber Crashes in California
An Air Force B-50 on a training flight crashed in a rice field near Gridley California killing all 12 crewmen. The Air Force tentatively cited mechanical trouble with clear weather conditions at the time and the scene located about 60 miles north of Sacramento.
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Oroville
Calif
Air Force
Gridley
Sacramento
Soviet Arrest of 9 Doctors Signals Possible Purge
U S officials say nine top doctors, mostly Jews, were arrested in Moscow on charges tied to the deaths of two Soviet leaders. The move sparks talk of a broader power struggle around Stalin's successor and possible anti Jewish implications amid radio criticism of security police. Beria's role and internal purges are debated by experts. Moscow announced the arrests yesterday.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
U. S
Russia
Stalin
Moscow
L. M
Avich
Buro
L. P. Beria
Beria
Gardner to die in chair April 17 appeal sought
Center manhunt in Adams area continues as authorities pursue leads after Sheriff Ben K Perry was killed while questioning hitchhikers near Bentonville. A pair of muddy blue jeans and a black coat found in an abandoned farm house near here bolsters the hunt. Rigdon, tied to the case, remains in custody with others under investigation as police reassess suspects.
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West Union
Adams County
Ben K. Perry
E. T. Gibboney
Manchester
Perry
Bentonville
Charles T. Rigdon
Rigdon
Maysville
William White
Louis Evans
Connersville
Ind
C. H. Wassenich
Highway Patrol
Harley Greems
Dave Rothwell
Ben Perry
Route 41
Jurist Reports Death Sentence For Osher Gardner Jr
Judge Lewis H. Miller sentenced Osher Gardner Jr., 22, to death in the electric chair at Moundsville for the October murder of Roy Jackson in Point Pleasant. A Mason County jury convicted him of first degree murder after arguments over the verdict and defense claims of intoxication. Gardner showed no emotion as the sentence was handed down and defense attorney William Bardin pledged to file for a trial anew, arguing intoxication precluded premeditation.
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Lewis H. Miller
Osher Gardner, Jr
State Penitentiary
Moundsville
Gardner
Mece
Roy Jackson
William Bardin
Miller
Mason County
Mason
Jackson
Roane
Calhoun
William Bartin
Ohio
Bardin
Yanks Down Red Jets in Biggest North Korea Air Battle
U S Sabre jets claimed eight MIG-15s destroyed with one probably and three damaged in North Korea, amid the sixth straight day of heavy air strikes targeting the Manchuria supply route. US Fifth Air Force and Superforts attacked transport centers and railroad bridges along Chongchon and Taeryong Rivers as Red fighters returned fire after a period of quiet.
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Seoul
U. S. Fifth Air Force
U. S
Sinanju
Manchuria
Mig Alley
Korea
Chongchon
Taer‘yong Rivers
Army medic treats dying comrade who is twin brother
Pvt Irwin Rietz of Rock Island Illinois treated a wounded soldier on a Korean battlefield without realizing at first that the man was his twin Edwin Rietz. Edwin died at an aid station. Irwin later learned the man was his brother after both were evacuated from the hill.
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Seoul
Korea
Irwin Rietz
Rock Island
Edwin
Irwin
Pacific Stars and Stripes
Ohio Seeks Admission to Join the Union
In Columbus Ohio moves to celebrate 150th state birthday by petitioning Congress for admission. The Ohio House speaker announced nostalgia plans to move the capital back to Chillicothe for a day. Washington rejected Ohio's constitutional claim, noting formal admission dated March 1 1803.
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Columbus
Ohio
Congress
House of Representatives
Chillicothe
Washington
Amex sues for $100000 over alleged Vegg burglary
The American Express Co. sues Glenn Shelton Orren Jr and Alice Boyle Johnson for $100000 in damages. The case alleges they burglarized Western Union offices across 34 states stealing thousands in express checks. Orren, 34, and Albert Johnson, 28, were arrested December 13 after police said they robbed a Chillicothe Western Union office.
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Chillicothe
The
American Express Co
Glenn Shelton Orren Jr
Alice Boyle Johnson
Orren
Miss Johnson
Albert
Western Union
Albert Johnson
Snow slide in Hokkaido kills 15. 11 others buried
Kyodo News Service reports a snow slide in Hokkaido killed 15 people, including four children, and buried 11 more. Rescue teams search the area as officials confirm casualties.
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Tokyo
Hokkaido
Kyodo
Pup Springs Jailed Chum Ruff Opens Jail Doors
In Lima Ohio Ruff the black cocker spaniel helped his master Walter H. King, 35, after King was fined $9 for stealing a ride on a Nickel Plate freight train. Ruff’s action drew public support and Judge Rockey released King with a blessing and aid for Ruff. King will ride in a baggage car to Muncie Indiana on cushions up ahead.
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Lima
Ruff
Walter H. King
King
Paul J. Rockey
Rockey
Muncie
Ind
Proud Ohio record in capital display
Washington exhibit at the Library of Congress marks Ohio’s 150th anniversary with mementos of eight Ohioans who reached the White House. The display highlights Ohio history from frontier days and will stay for three months.
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Washington
Ohio
Library of Congress
Buckeye
White House
Frontier
Eisenhower to dispatch Dulles Stassen for Western Europe survey
President elect Ike plans a global defense briefing with Dulles and Stassen to survey NATO needs and Western Europe security. The mission will also evaluate future U S economic aid under Stassen and frame foreign policy against communism.
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Eisenhower
Dulles
Stassen
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
U. S
J. T. Coleman Andrews
Richmond
Internal Revenue Bureau
Charlies R. Hook, Jr
Cleveland
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Hook
Elbert Parr Tuttle
Atlanta
Vandenberg To Get Leave From Washington Duties
Eisenhower headquarters disclosed that Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr. will be unable to accompany him to Washington to serve as White House appointment secretary because of illness. The younger Vandenberg, son of the late Michigan senator, asked for an extended leave after a visit to his doctor, James C. Hagerty said the illness is a blood condition.
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New York
Eisenhower
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr
Washington
White House
Vandenberg
Michigan
James C. Hagerty
Morse Clark Face Justice Dept Probers
Congressional investigators pressed new trails of influence peddling and Justice Department operations as Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark and Sen. Morse Calif. Ore. are expected to testify. The subcommittee awaits a file from Atty. Gen. McGranery on a 1946 mail fraud case the department junked. Russell Duke of Portland and San Francisco was questioned about an alleged West Coast influence peddling ring.
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Washington
Congressional
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Tom Clark
Sen
Morse
Ind
House Judiciary
Atty
McGranery
House
Senate Investigations Committee
West Coast
Keating
N. Y
Chelf
Russell Duke
Portland
Ore
San Francisco
Doctor Draft Calls Issued
The Defense Department says it has drafted 471 physicians and 258 dentists in March. Of the total, 271 doctors and 213 dentists go to the Army with the rest to the Air Force, bringing since July 1951 to 4,246 doctors and 2,181 dentists drafted through Selective Service.
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Washington
Defense Department
Army
Air Force
Thomas Goeglein Rites To Be Held Thursday
Funeral services for Thomas Goeglein who died Monday evening at his Mulberry Avenue home will be held Thursday at 3 pm at the Ewing funeral home. He will be buried in Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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Pomeroy
Thomas Goegilein
Mulberry Ave
Ewing Funeral Home
Beech Grove Cemetery
Streamlined Ohio Code Faces Showdown
In Columbus the drive for a streamlined Ohio code moves to a showdown as lawmakers plan a weekend recess and meet with Gov Lausche to discuss possible veto risks and an escape clause rider to preserve old law pending corrections.
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Ership
Lausche
William Laxbe
Champaign
GOP
Ex-Economist Remington Goes To Trial Again
Former Commerce Department economist William W. Remington faces a second perjury trial in New York. Jury selection begins before Federal Judge Vincent L. Leib as prosecutors pursue five counts tied to alleged false testimony while he testified in his prior seven week trial.
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New York
William W. Remington
Remington
Vincent L. Leibell
Commerce Department
Jury Rules Monroe Farmer Was Slain
Woodsdield D UP report coroner’s jury ruled that Ben-7%, a retired farmer, was slain. The charred body was found at his farm home eight miles from town by neighbor Robert Ma McCaslin, who said he went to Shook's farm after not seeing him for about a week. He found part of the body near a coal stove in the living room and the rest in the basement.
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Joe County
Ben
E. B. Weaned
Robert M
McCaslin
Shook
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