Former Mayor O'Dwyer Testifies on Bookmaking and Police Protection
Former New York mayor William O'Dwyer told Senate crime investigators that large scale bookmaking could not exist without police protection. testifying for a second day, he said he did not believe such activity existed in New York City during his tenure as mayor. He noted reports of large scale bookmaking in Brooklyn.
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NEW York
William O'Dwyer
Senate
O'Dwyer
U.S
Mexico
Frank Costello
Rosenblatt
Charles W. Tobey
R-Nh
Tobey
Herbert O’conor
R-Md
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Lester C. Hunt
D-Wyo
Sen
Rudolph Halely
Halley
New York City
Brooklyn
Frank Bals
Bals
Underworld
Police Department
Appeal Sought for Seagrave On Aid Charge
In Rangoon Burma attorneys for Dr. Gordon Seagrave the Burma Surgeon asked the Supreme Court to permit an appeal of a lower tribunal ruling that upheld his conviction for aiding rebel Kachin tribesmen. He was released March 9 after the appeal court cut his sentence from one year to seven months and overturned another treason count. The government weighs returning him to Namkham hospital but deportation is possible if treason is sustained.
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Rangoon
Burma
Gordon Seagrave
Supreme Court
Seagrave
Namkham
Ike Names Montgomery As Deputy Commander
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower designated British Field Marshal Montgomery as deputy commander in the Atlantic Pact army. The announcement also listed eight staff appointees including Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders as air deputy. France offered Gen. Alphonse Juin as ground troops commander in Europe’s central sector. Vice Admiral Robert Jaujard was named to Eisenhower’s staff.
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PARIS
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Viscount Montgomery
Eisenhower
Sir Hugh Saunders
Royal Air Force
Alphonse Juin
France
Juin
Morocco
Robert Jaujard
Europe
Jaujard
Lauris Norstad
U.S. Air Force
Patrick Brind
Royal Navy
Wilhelm von Tangen - Hansteen
Norway
Ebbe Goertz
Den
GOP Would Link Troop Limits to Draft Bill Debate
Republicans seek to tie an amendment barring U S troops in Europe without congressional approval to the Universal Military Training and Service bill. They push for a ceiling on armed forces at four million, a draft age change, and a termination date, while the Senate version lacks these provisions.
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Washington
Europe
House Rules Committee
United States
Senate
House
House Armed Services Committee
Eric Johnston Seeks Expanded Anti inflation Powers
Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston urges new anti inflation tools including changes to the Defense Production Act price provisions. He favors higher taxes and tighter credit to curb demand while proposing a slate of price measures. Congress sent to President Truman a 90 day rent control bill covering about 1300 communities as a stopgap until broader mobilization legislation passes.
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Washington
Eric Johnston
Johnston
Congress
Truman
House
Martial Law Set in Tehran
Tehran proclaims martial law after Razmara assassination and university shooting. Shah Pahlavi imposes military rule to curb gangster elements and restore order as Abdul Hejazi urges peace. Tehran remains quiet with some unpaid workers protesting in front of parliament.
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Tehran
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Ali Razmara
Tehran University
Abdul Zanganeh
Abdul Hejazi
Negro Singer Protests Seizure of Mansion
Nat King Cole, a 31 year old pianist and singer, returns to Los Angeles and protests the seizure of his $85,000 mansion by the government over $146,000 in delinquent income taxes. He says the IRS collector refused an offer to pay one third now and the remainder later.
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Los Angeles
Nat (King) Cole
Collector of Internal Revenue
New Philadelphia Holds 4 Inch Statewide Search for Missing Teen
A statewide search expanded today for David Billings aged 17 missing for a week from his Newcomerstown home. Police and volunteers scoured the area, following leads and checking reported sightings across multiple counties.
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New Philadelphia
David Billings
Newcomerstown
Truman mobilization plan hints at wage and price moves
Reports say President Truman may press Congress next month to extend mobilization law to June 30 and seek changes urged by Johnston. Changes include parity revisions, subsidies, broader licensing, and a one year rent control extension, with Johnston meeting Truman in Key West over wage disputes.
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Truman
Johnston
Key West
Wage Stabilization Board
Florida
ESA
Wilson
RFC Probe Expands Into New Influence Peddling Areas
Senators pushing an RFC influence inquiry pressed ahead despite Fulbright doubts. They questioned White House aide Donald Dawson and RFC directors while Casey resigned as liaison amid revelations of profits from war surplus tankers. Cosgriff admitted funding the 1950 Benton campaign.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Arkansas
Fulbright
White House
Donald Dawson
RFC
Field's Trial Ends Today Verdict Due
Field faces a potential verdict in his contempt of Congress trial in Washington. Judge T Alan Goldsborough presided without a jury, with defense motions for acquittal argued before final arguments. The case hinges on Field's refusal to answer 32 questions from a Senate subcommittee investigating communists in government.
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Washington
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
New York
T. Alan Goldsborough
Goldsborough
New Field
Senate Foreign Relations
Senate
Louis Budenz
Field
Institute of Pacific Relations
Communist Party
U. S
William Hitz
Hitz
Edward P. Morgan
Morgan
Public Enemy's Pal Faces Hold-Up Trial
In Springfield the trial of Charles E. Hunter, an associate of a former Public Enemy No 1, opens amid heavy security. Prosecutors rejected 22 jurors as Hunter stands charged with robbing a supermarket on March 12, 1949, with ties to Earl Bircham, the once most wanted criminal awaiting execution in Eddyville Kentucky for killing a policeman.
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Springfield
Public Enemy No. 1
Charles E. Hunter
Hunter
Earl Bircham
Eddyville
Cleveland Protest Delays on Bingo Parlor Closings
About 600 residents packed the Cleveland City Council chambers to protest the proposed bingo ordinance delays. Mayor Thomas A. Burke seeks penalties for operators who continued games after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Cleveland licensing unlawful.
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Cleveland
Solons
Thomas A. Burke
Supreme Court of Ohio
Bar Exam Passed By Gallipolis Man
Charles L. Jones of Gallipolis joined 287 others to pass the Ohio bar examination held February 6 and 7. The state supreme court reported 338 total applicants, with 49 failing to pass.
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Gallipolis
Charles L. Jones
Ohio Supreme Cover
Core
AEC Signals New Atomic Blasts Under Way at Eniwetok
The Atomic Energy Commission said a major project is being carried out at Eniwetok Atoll with danger-area restrictions for vessels and aircraft in the Central Pacific. Officials declined to directly confirm blasts but language suggested they are underway.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Eniwetok
Commission
Pacific Island Test Grounds
Central Pacific
Eniwetok Atoll
Food Shortage Fears Loom Over Nation
Washington reports an Agriculture Department forecast showing farmers intend to plant far less land for livestock feed than needed to sustain current meat dairy and poultry supplies. If plans hold, beef cattle and milk production will fall with hogs and eggs also affected. Labor shortages and reluctance to plow land hinder expansion under the defense program. Corn faces the deepest shortfall as the main feed input.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crass
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Side Payment Legislation Moves Through House
The House approved a bill to stop side payments by real estate dealers selling to veterans. Drafted on Justice Department advice, the measure targets under the table payments exceeding VA appraisals. It imposes triple damages for veterans winning suits. government actions split penalties with the veteran receiving one third.
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Washington
House
Senate
Justice Department
Veterans Administration
Plant in Indiana to produce jet parts for GE engines
Willys-Overland Motors purchases a 13 acre Anderson Indiana plant to manufacture General Electric J-47 jet engine parts. President Ward M. Canaday says a 7 million dollar retooling program will start immediately, with jet component orders reported well in excess of 63 million dollars.
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Toledo
Willys-Overland Motors, Inc
Anderson
Ind
General Electric
Ward M. Canaday
Red China's Gen Lin Piao Reported Wounded
Taipei dispatch from Formosa states Red China's Gen Lin Piao was wounded in Korea as the China Daily News reports Mao Tse tung is seriously ill. The article notes both high ranking leaders affected and local implications in the region.
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Red China
Lin
Taipei
Formosa
China Daily News Today
China
Lin Piao
Korea
Mao Tzen Tung
U S Troops Face Stiff Resistance Near Hongchon Korea
U S forces northeast of Hongchon met very stiff Communist resistance as Red troops defended dug in hills. Allied air and artillery failed to knock out the Reds and authorities imposed a Tokyo news blackout on the distance to a line near 38 parallel.
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Tokyo
United States
Hongchon
MacArthur
Korean
Red Korea
U.S. Eighth Army
Chunchon
Seoul
Uijongbu
West Central
ROK
William C. Barnard
East Central Front
Hamhung
North Korea
Kowon
Cold Weather Halts Hocking River Rise
Cold weather stopped a rise in the Hocking River after heavy Monday rain and snow. The thermometer fell to 21 degrees, rising to 31 by 9 a.m. Tuesday under sun. The river moved from 10.2 feet to 12.6 feet yesterday then leveled off by 7 a.m. Tuesday. Rain and melted snow totaled .39 inches with highs of 50 and 29 degrees.
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Hocking River
Cay
Mencken Leaves Hospital After Brief Illness
Baltimore critic H L Mencken, 70, is discharged from hospital today after a heart attack that left him near unconscious when admitted in October. He had been hospitalized twice in the past three years.
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Baltimore
H. L. Mencken
Dayton Industrialist Clarence Westendorf Dies at 70
Clarence P. Westendorf, president of the Dayton Casting Co., died yesterday at age 70. His leadership guided the firm through decades of growth in Dayton.
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Dayton
Dayton Casting Co
Clarence P. Westendorf
Frozen Girl Amputee In Chicago Medical Crisis
Dorothy Mae Stevens a 23 year old Black woman known as the frozen girl underwent emergency surgery at Michael Reese Hospital. Doctors amputated all fingers on her right hand and parts of fingers on her left hand. Her legs were removed below the knees nine inches. She was found Feb 8 in a south side alley with a temperature of 64 degrees. Despite thawing attempts her condition worsened though she recovered initially.
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Chicago
Dorothy Mae Stevens
Michael Reese Hospital
Stevens
Former FBI Agent To Advise State Group
The Ohio joint legislative committee investigating subversive activities named Sidney Isaacs as counsel. Isaacs, a Cincinnati attorney, previously served as administrative assistant to J. Edgar Hoover for two and a half years. Rep. Kenneth Robinson announced the appointment in Columbus.
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Columbus
Ohio
FBI
Kenneth Robinson
Marion
Sidney Isaacs
Cincinnati
Isaacs
J. Edgar Hoover
Physicians Operate On Three-Pound Infant
In Burbank California a five day old baby Vickie Ann Dayton believed to be the smallest to have a major abdominal operation. The infant weighed three pounds at birth and undergone surgery to relieve an intestinal obstruction. Surgeons yesterday completed a segment of the intestine above the blockage and the baby has an even chance to survive.
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Burbank
Calif
Vickie Ann Dayton
Sieons
Erickson Top Bookmaking Figure Named by Former Mayor
The former mayor said Erickson heads a $12.5 million yearly bookmaking empire and is serving a two year term on charges. He testified on gambling probes and cited police and district attorney cooperation, while deferring specifics about New York operations and past inquiries by officials.
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Frank Erickson
Erickson
New York State
O’dwyer
New York City
New Jersey
City Hall
O Dwyer and Costello Testimony on Gangsters Clashes
O Dwyer and Costello testified about gangster power and police plans to counter crime. They described meetings in 1942 and possible 1945 assistance, denying payoffs and framing a central information network for detectives. Dewey declined Saratoga testimony on gambling and Luciano, sending the panel to Albany.
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Halley
O'Dwyer
Bals
O’dwyer
Thomas E. Dewey
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
New York
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Charles
Lucky) Luciano
Dewey
Albany
New York State
Hudson River
New Jersey
Costello
Central Park West
Ohio Mine Workers Strike At Sunny Hill Coal Co
About 300 members of the United Mine Workers stayed away from their jobs at Sunny Hill Coal Co in Perry County. No reason for the strike, which began yesterday, has been given by mine officials or union leaders.
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Zanesville
United Mine Workers
Sunny Hill Coal Co
Perry County
Stork Arrives Early This Time As Baby Is Born At Home
Mrs. James Rose gave birth in an ambulance on the way to hospital years ago. She again called the same ambulance when a stork appeared. This time the stork beat the ambulance, and the new baby boy was born at the Rose home doorstep in Anderson Indiana.
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Anderson, Ind
James Rose
Rose
Extended Forecast for Columbus Temperatures Dip Then Rise
Temperatures will average 4 to 8 degrees below normal with normal highs near 50 and lows around 31. A colder midweek then a warming trend follows, though temperatures may drop again over the weekend. Precipitation expected about a quarter inch, with snow flurries Wednesday and snow likely over the weekend.
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Columbus
Budget Bill Tests House Economy Power in 1952 Plan
The bill funds Treasury and Post Office for the 1952 year starting July 1 with 2.92 billion dollars and carries 11.5 billion in permanent appropriations. Rep. Taber of New York, a senior Republican on the Appropriations Committee, hints at amendments to reduce the total by up to about 10 percent.
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Washington
Truman
House
Treasury
Post Office
Rep. Taber
Appropriations Committee
Taber
Ship Cut in Two Reassembled and Refit for Great Lakes
The ocean going Notre Dame Victory has been cut in two and joined by a 165 foot mid section. The vessel is to be christened tomorrow as it completes conversion into a bulk ore carrier for service on the Great Lakes.
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Baltimore
Notre Dame Victory
Great Lakes
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