Secret German Papers Reveal Soviet Plans to Join Axis
State Department records published by the Voice of America lay bare a 1940 Soviet offer to join the German Italian Japanese Axis for strategic gains. The 362 page volume details Molotov’s interactions with Ribbentrop and proposals to divide Europe Asia and Africa, including Dardanelles control and a wide Soviet sphere.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Voice of America
Europe
State Department
Moscow
Berlin
Hitler
Soviet Union
Germany
Poland
Stalin
Finland
Dardanelles
Middle East
Nuernberg
Molotov
Italy
Japan
von Ribbentrop
Ribbentrop
Asia
Africa
America
Britain
House Democrats Plan To Trim Republican Tax Cut Bill
Congress debates tax reductions as Rep Doughton and Rep Knutson push rival plans. Doughton favors 4 000 000 000 total cuts with 15 percent up to 1 000 and 5 percent over 4 000, Knutson seeks 30 to 10 percent across brackets. House vote eyed for February 2.
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Washington
Truman
House
House Committee
Rep
Doughton
Ways and Means
Knutson
Third Party Support Voted Down by Union
Cleveland Federation of Labor AFL central body rejected a resolution to back Henry A. Wallace's third party movement. The measure, offered by Ernest Paskell, a typographical union delegate, stated it reflected his personal view and not the union's official stance.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Federation of Labor
AFL
Henry A. Wallace
Ernest Paskell
Attorney Levering Seeks 17th District Dem Nomination
Robert W. Levering of Mount Vernon a survivor of the Bataan death march today accepted an invitation from Democratic chairmen in six counties to seek the party nomination for district congressman in the 17th district.
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Mount Vernon
Robert W. Levering
Bataan
Court House Moved to Urbana Post Office Space
Champaign County Ohio officials secure temporary courthouse space in Urbana post office after county building sustained fire damage Monday. Rep Clarence Brown notes government approval and temporary relocation status.
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Court House
Washington
Champaign County
Ohio
Urbana
Postal Department
Clarence Brown
Greek Offensive Underway in Northern Greece
Athens reports a general offensive against guerrilla forces in Northern Greece. Elements of six Greek divisions were said to be attacking, signaling a major military action in the region.
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Athens
Greece
Strike Threat Looms Over Bavaria Amid Food Shortages
In Munich the Bavarian Trade Union Federation urged a 24 hour walkout of nearly all workers in Bavaria starting at midnight to protest food shortages. Reports say about 200,000 workers walked out in Nuernberg and Cologne with potential general strikes across the region.
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Munich
Germany
Bavarian Trade Union Federation
Bavaria
Nuernberg
Cologne
United States
Grand Hotel
U. S. War Crimes
Army
U. S
Ruhr
Inflation control views urged by Green before Senate
Washington Senator requests UL President William Green's stance on curbing the price spiral. He faces a Senate Banking Committee hearing as an overtime session aims to fast track inflation legislation. Grain industry witnesses will testify as Truman seeks hold-in-reserve powers for wage and price controls if needed. Hoover joins Republican critics calling fixes insufficient.
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Washington
William Green
Senate Banking Committee
Truman
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Plane Missing With 3 Aboard
A Civil Aeronautics Administration C-47 carrying Pilot Fred Snavely Co Pilot Warren Lings trum and Ross C Brown disappeared west of Denver after reporting severe turbulence and snow squalls at 14 500 feet during a Denver Grand Junction flight.
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Denver
Rocky Mountains
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Grand Junction
Colo
Fred Snavely
Kansas City
Kas
Warren L. Lingst
Fire damages hospital wing in Warren
A fire at Trumbull Memorial Hospital Warren Ohio damaged a wing and forced 32 babies 30 mothers and other patients to new rooms. Fire Chief Edwin Oldacres estimated damage at 25000 dollars and said the blaze likely started at the bottom of an air ventilator.
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Warren
Trumbull Memorial Hospital
Edwin Oldacres
Arab victim from Ohio in Hadassah attack near Jerusalem
Miss Ann Halle Strauss, 24, of Shaker Heights Ohio, is hospitalized in Jerusalem after Arab sniper fire struck a Jewish auto convoy outside the city. Two people were killed and eight wounded. Strauss works in public relations for Rothschild Hadassah University Hospital and is the daughter of Abraham Strauss, national president of Hadassah.
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Ann Halle Strauss
Shaker Heights
Jerusalem
Holy City
Miss Strauss
Rothschild Hadassah University Hospital
Abraham Strauss
Hadassah
Zionist Organization
NEA
Ohio Sets May 4 Primaries In Statewide Ruling
Columbus Ohio Attorney General Hugh Jenkins issued an opinion declaring all Ohio primary elections must occur on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May. The ruling, for Secretary of State Edward J Hummel, resolves post war law changes moving primaries from August to May and will select delegates and alternates to the national conventions.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hugh Jenkins
Edward J. Hummel
Jenkins
Blast shakes three states near Savanna ordnance depot
An underground dump at the Army ordnance depot near Savanna Illinois exploded last night releasing 150 tons of anti-tank mines. The blast was felt across a 100 mile radius in parts of northwestern Illinois southern Wisconsin and eastern Iowa. No casualties were reported and a 100 by 50 foot crater was created.
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Savanna
Army
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Fire disrupts Greenville phone service after switchboard destruction
A Greenville fire destroyed the Ohio Telephone Service Company switchboard service 4500 subscribers in the 8000 population town. Local manager H M Clapper said restoration would take ten days to three weeks and damage exceeded 30000 dollars.
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Greenville, CO
Ohio Telephone Service Company
H. M. Clapper
Guadalcanal War Dead Arrive in Honolulu
All American war dead from Guadalcanal have been exhumed and are being transported to Honolulu. The Cardinal O'Connell arrived yesterday with 3,358 bodies from Guadalcanal and Australian cemeteries, as announced by the Army.
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Honolulu
Guadalcanal
Army
Cardinal O’connell
Coach Files for State House Seat in May Primaries
Arthur Preston a 41 year old athletic coach at Wheelersburg High School in Portsmouth announces he will seek the Democratic nomination for state representative in the upcoming May primaries.
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Portsmouth
Arthur Preston
Wheelersburg High Schoo
Four Die in Powder Blast at Colton Quarry
Four men in a blasting crew were killed in a powder explosion at the California Portland Cement Company quarry in Colton. One victim was on his first day on the job.
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Colton
Calif
Ca Dfornia Portland Cement Company
Jones asks Senate for RFC extension beyond June
Former Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones urged the Senate Banking Subcommittee to extend the Reconstruction Finance Corporation past June 30. He argued RFC remains useful as a lender when private credit dries up and as a stabilizing force for banks and credit markets. He opposes Federal Reserve or Treasury control and outlined proposed powers for a longer living RFC.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congress
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Senate Banking
RFC
Jones
Buck
R-Del
Houston Business Leader
Federal Reserve Board
The
Treasury
Roosevelt
Arab Village Is Attacked Near Tel Aviv
Hagana said it struck the Arab village of Yazur killing 12 Arabs after seven Jewish settlement police were slain at a roadblock on the town’s edge. Officials confirmed seven police deaths and four wounded. Arab attackers killed three. Casualties rose to 951 in ongoing Arab Jewish fighting since the UN partition decision.
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Jerusalem
Hagana
Yazur
Tel Aviv
United Nations
Holy Land
Bevin Says Soviet Union Pursues Ruthless Communist Spread
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the House of Commons that the Soviet Union uses every means to extend communist control across eastern Europe and, it now appears, into the west as well. He framed this as a continuation of the Yalta decisions and a ruthless policy.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Russia
Europe
Yalta
Bevin
House of Commons
Soviet Union
West
Dewey urges farmers to pay debts to avert recession
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey told New York farmers at the 116th annual Agricultural Society dinner that paying debts now is best protection against recession and that government subsidies should favor sustaining high agricultural production rather than crop curtailment. He warned against making farmers a department class with guaranteed minimum incomes.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
New York State Agricultural Society
Dewey
Long and Jones Top First Louisiana Primary
New Orleans reports Earl Long and Sam H. Jones lead Louisiana's first Democratic primary field with a Feb 24 runoff set. Jones and Long, arch foes, led a four candidate field while Appeals Judge Robert F. Kennon and Rep. James H. Morrison trailed.
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New Orleans
Earl K. Long
Huey P. Long
Sam H. Jones
Long
Louisiana
Robert F. Kennon
James H. Morrison
Institution Robbed Third Time in Four Years
In Cincinnati two men held up the Pleasant Ridge Building and Loan Association yesterday marking the institution’s third robbery in four years. Secretary Fred Wormus said the cash loss was between 200 and 500 dollars as the gunmen forced three employees to kneel facing a wall.
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Cincinnati
Pleasant Ridge Building and Loan Association
Fred Wormus
Designer Blames Padded Styles on Women's Failures
Hollywood designer Ilyana argues padded hips ruffles and corsets signal women hiding marital and maternal failures. Speaking to War Wives in Beverly Hills she says modern fashion regresses to a past maternal image and that clothes are sex symbols reflecting failed roles.
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Hollywood
Ilyana
Beverly Hills
War Wives
Motherhoood
Harold Dreyfus
Christian Dior
New York
Miller Earns Broad Support In Dem Gubernatorial Bid
Ray T. Miller’s campaign reports a dozen county endorsements and pledges from 47 more counties. He announced a statewide mental health survey to assess current care and to shape a new program of care prevention and rehabilitation before making any program recommendations.
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Springfield
Ray T. Miller
Joseph E. Hurst
Clark County
Democratic Executive Committee
Miller
Cleveland
Ohio
Fire Sweeps Garage Wrecks Buses in Chester
A $500000 blaze in a center city garage of the Southern Pennsylvania Bus Company in Chester, Pennsylvania, triggered 15 explosions and forced about 2000 residents to flee as embers traveled 1500 feet. The oil fed fire burned for an hour with all Chester fire companies responding. 36 buses were destroyed and damage was estimated by on scene firemen.
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Chester
Southern Pennsylvania Bus Company
2000 Kentucky Miners Idle During UMW Holiday
In Paintsville Kentucky about 2000 miners from union and non union camps were idle as United Mine Workers declared a holiday to picket non union truck mines and coal loading ramps. An operator who requested anonymity predicted the stoppage would last long.
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Paintsville
Johnson County
United Mine Workers
Innocent plea entered in Tuley death charge
Harold A. Beach 22 entered an innocent with reservations plea on a first degree murder indictment in the January 1 killing of eight year old Sheila Ann Tuley. Judge Samuel E. Silbert accepted the plea and gave Beach until Monday to alter or withdraw it.
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Cleveland
Harold A. Beach
Sheila Ann Tuley
Samuel E. Silbert
Beach
Torch Dancer Betty Blossom Dies in San Francisco
Betty Blossom stage name of Mrs. Fred Pizzirulli died after a long illness at age 40 in San Francisco. Her fiery torch act once sparked a nightclub tragedy in the city.
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San Francisco
Fred Pizzirulli
Betty Blossom
Flaming Torch
Retired Merchant Levy Dies in Cleveland Plunge
Louis E. Levy 80, a former New York merchant, died yesterday after leaping from a third story hotel suite window in Cleveland. Police classify the death as a suicide. no further details available.
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Cleveland
New York
Louis E. Levy
WSAI Names Robert H Boul as General Sales Manager
Cincinnati radio station WSAI announces the promotion of Robert H. Boul to General Sales Manager. Boul takes over duties immediately, overseeing the sales department and client relations at the station.
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Cincinnati
WSAI
Aretateae
Robert H. Bouliware
Cold Wave Halts Midwest Warmth Reaches East
A fierce cold wave from Hudson Bay grips the Midwest and eastern states, with subzero readings reaching into Iowa and northern Illinois. Temperatures plummet to 30 below in the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, while snow bands drift southeastward across the western plains and into the mountains.
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Chicago
Hudson Bay
Midwest
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Missouri
Ohio
Nebraska
South Dakota
Iowa
Illinois
H. L. Jacobson
Florida
North Dakota
Montana
New England
California
Kentucky Tobacco Volume and Prices Decline Across Markets
Kentucky burley tobacco saw lower volume and prices as auctions on 18 markets yielded 6,627,412 pounds for $3,196,981.62. The average price was $48.24 per hundredweight, down 64 cents from Tuesday, with both poundage and prices slipping.
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Louisville
Kentucky
State Department of Agriculture
Navy Vet Seized After Weekend Holdup Spree Across West
Charles Mc Clary a 19 year old Navy veteran from Kansas City Missouri is jailed after a weekend of alleged robberies from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Police say a half hour bus layover occurred during which he robbed a store of 211 dollars. In San Francisco he allegedly robbed two more stores and a hotel of 310 dollars. He hired a limousine to rob another hotel of 250 dollars after asking a waiter to hold his table. He then paid his bill and robbed two liquor stores of 298 dollars before being arrested and reportedly confessing.
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Charles McClary
Kansas City
Los Angeles
San Francisco
UN Hits Snag In Partition
The report notes Brtain's plan to withhold full Palestine control until mandate ends and the Palestine partition commission drafts a report for the Security Council amid the UN plan’s first failure. Pakistan warns of a very acute crisis with India and possible military action if the Security Council delays action.
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Lake
Brietain
Palestine
United Nations Assembly
Holy Land
Palestine Partition Commission
Security Council
Pakistan
India
Farm Training Plan Open To Partnerships
The Veterans Administration opened its farm management training program to two man farm partnerships. Previously the program limited participation to one war veteran per farm who owned or controlled the farm, forcing brothers living on the same farm to divide property.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Hollywood Prodigy Seeks Normal Life After Runaway Fame
Fifteen year old piano prodigy and actress Jace queline Horner proposed a compromise between pleasure and music after an eight day fling that pulled her from a cloistered life. She ran away from fame following a spat with her mother and was found yesterday in a San Francisco hotel room with a sailor.
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San Francisco
Jacequeline Horner
Hollywood
Cuban radio fans sing Patricia Schmidt tale abroad
Havana broadcasts carry the ballad of Patricia Saura Schmidt the Toledo dancer serving 15 years for slaying John Lester Mee of Chicago. The song by Felix Manuel Rodriguez a.k.a Bobby Capo praises her as a beautiful swallow and a dancer who will dance again.
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Havana
Cuba
Patricia (Saura) Schmidt
Patricia
Toledo
John Lester Mee
Chicago
Felix Manuel Rodriguez
Bobby Capo
Laura
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