Opposition To Housing Bill Seen
A Bank of Democrats poll shows near half of Truman’s House party may oppose the $2 billion cooperative housing plan for middle income families. Republicans likely swing against it, with the measure already stripped by the Senate. Taft defends the Senate version, urging private capital and implying government loans are risky.
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Washington
Truman
House
House Gop
Key West
Fla
Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Judges Shun Reprieve Case in Cleveland McClure Murder
Three judges who convicted Theodore R. McClure of murder step back from the case as the so called Court of Last Resort reviews possible mis justice concerns. McClure received a 60 day reprieve from Gov Lausche hours before scheduled execution after Michigan Governor Williams pressed the case. Common Pleas Judge Joseph Artl said the matter rests with Lausche and the Ohio Pardon and Parole Commission.
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Cleveland
Theodore R. McClure
Court of Last Resort
Lemoyne Snyder
Lansing
Mich
McClure
Frank J. Lausche
Mrs Heart Defies Doctors With Prolonged Life
An Oklahoma City widow who rationed $10,000 for a year after doctors predicted she would die in twelve months says she now feels healthier and believes she has a future. She defied the prognosis and is living to the fullest despite the earlier warning.
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Oklahoma City
Burglary Suspect Bound Over After Guilty Plea
James R. Tayner, 20, admitted committing 88 burglaries and pleaded guilty to one count. He was bound over to the grand jury under a $20,000 bond in Columbus.
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Columbus
James R. Tayner
McCarthy Claims FBI Tracked Spy Suspects to U S Contact
Senator McCarthy told a closed Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee he believes the FBI trailed four Soviet spy suspects to contacts with an American he accuses of heading an espionage ring. He named a State Department affiliate and urged investigation of loyalty and civil service files. Tydings said most meetings will be in private. public hearings depend on those accused stepping forward.
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U.S
Philip Jessup
Senate Foreign Relations
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Millard Tydings
D-Md
Theodore Green
D-R.i
Brien McMahon
D-Conn
Tom Connally
D-Tex
Tydings
Green
Sen
McCarthy
FBI
U. S
Washington
Senate
Wisconsin
State Department
Civil Service
Truman
Veal
Supreme Court Upholds Pike Fund Transfer
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that State Highway Department funds may be used to study a turnpike. The court upheld a $600,000 transfer to the Ohio Turnpike Commission by a five to two vote, with justices Matthias and Turner dissenting.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
State Highway Department
Joseph T. Ferguson
Highway Department
Ohio Turnpike Commission
Matthias
Turner
Ferguson
H. D. Defenbacher
Hoover May Testify On NLRB Reform
Senator Taft said former President Hoover may be asked to testify on Truman's plan to abolish the Independent General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. He noted he does not know Hoover's stance, with hearings by the Senate Expenditures Committee expected early in April.
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Washington
Taft
Hoover
Truman
National Labor Relations Board
Ohio Republican
Congress
Senate Expenditures Committee
Senator Taft Produces 15 Minute TV Program
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio debuts a 15 minute television program filmed in a Washington studio for Ohio stations. Congressman Clarence Brown also appears. The program covers national issues and their impact on Ohio. Cost details were not disclosed.
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Taft
Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Clarence Brown
Mounds Club Appeals State Closure Order
The Mounds Club appeals a state closure order on its gambling casino in Lake County. The club claims the order lacks warrant or authority and cites building code violations as grounds in Lake County Common Pleas Court.
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Mounds Club
Painesville
The
Lake County Common Pleas Court
First B-29s Land in Britain for Air Strike Power
Four of seventy Superfortresses landed in Britain on a Wednesday to bolster American air striking power in the region.
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Marham
England
Britain
Spring Starts Slowly With Fresh Snowfalls
Snow covers large parts of the Midwest as spring begins slowly. Fresh snow blankets sections of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley while eastern regions report some rain and cloudy skies.
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Chicago
Midwest
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Ohio lawmakers receive 150000 petitions for Hoover plan
A delegation of 53 Ohio Junior Chamber of Commerce members delivered petitions said to bear 150000 signatures to Congressmen. The petitions urge adoption of Hoover Study Commission recommendations which proponents say would cut operating costs and boost executive branch efficiency.
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Washington
Ohio
Hoover Study Commission
Scientist Millikan questions ability to create hydrogen bomb
Nobel laureate Dr. Robert A. Millikan, 82, in Pasadena says he is not certain man can make a hydrogen bomb. He notes that both sides now possess instruments to destroy each other and recalls his role in discovering the electron.
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Pasadena
Calif
Robert A. Millikan
Millikan
Burglars Take 4000 From Western Reserve University
A Tuesday night burglary at Western Reserve University netted $4000 in cash. Comptroller Samuel F. Agnew and auditor Harold R. Burke said the thieves likely knew the safe combination and the location of inner keys.
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Cleveland
Western Reserve University
Samuel F. Agnew
University Comptroller
Harold R. Burke
Rep. Young Refuses To Appear With Taft
Rep. Young of Ohio declines to attend a March 27 Ashland dinner where Sen. Taft will speak. He says he will not be just window dressing for Taft’s speech and notes the Ashland Junior Chamber of Commerce invitation.
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Washington
Rep
Young
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Ashland
Taft
Ashland Junior Chamber of Commerce
Barber Confesses Slaying In Terre Haute Shop
In Terre Haute Indiana a 56 year old barber Clarence Taylor confessed to police that he killed 54 year old George Willis Baldwin in his downtown shop during an argument over a young woman. He said he dismembered the body and dumped it in Flossmoor Illinois. Mrs Goldie Juanita Wilson age 19 of Dresser Illinois was held for questioning and reportedly present at the killing.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Clint Seward
Clarence Taylor
George Willis Baldwin
Taylor
Baldwin
Seward
Goldie Juanita Wilson
Dresser
Wabash River
West Germans Propose Unification Election
The West German government proposed an election in East and West Germany for a constituent assembly to draft a common constitution. Voting would be supervised by the four occupation powers, following a suggestion by American High Commissioner John J McCloy.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
John J. Mce Cloy
U S Appeals Court Upholds Loyalty Program Dismissal
The U S Court of Appeals upheld the government loyalty program, ruling the president may remove any federal employee not completely loyal. Dorothy Bailey, former $8000 a year FSA worker, had challenged the program after her November 1948 suspension and February 1949 dismissal.
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Washington
United States Court of Appeals
Truman
Dorothy Bailey
Federal Security Agency
Miss Bailey
United States
CIO Government Workers Union
Communist Party
U.S. District Court
Alexander Holtzoff
Fire Sweeps Cistercian Abbey Wrecking Four Buildings
North Cumberland reports a $2,000,000 blaze at Our Lady of the Valley destroying the main chapel infirmary guest house and monastery. Monks and residents fled or were rescued as flames trapped and injured several. abbot Dom Edmund Futterer narrowly escaped with singed hair. In Tennessee four young girls died in a separate home fire in Grand Junction.
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North Cumberland
R. Il—M
Dom Edmund Futterer
CSO
Grand Junction
Tenn
Mary Pirtle
Jessie Pirtle
Dorothy Anne
Bessie Jean
Elsie
Elnora
Farmers Told to Use Federal Aid Only as Last Resort
Ohio Farm Bureau officer John W. Sims urged farmers to rely on themselves first through cooperatives soil conservation and efficiency before seeking government assistance He warned prices require tight production control and warned aerial seed and fertilizer application should continue to be developed by Ralph E Young Virgil Overholt warned rainfall accelerates soil erosion as 20 000 bulldozers in effect.
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Columbus
Farm Bureau Federation
Ohio
John W. Sims
Ohio Federation
Farm and Home Week
Sims
Virgil Overholt
Extension
Ralph E. Young
Liquor Permit Ruling Sought Over County Cooperation
State Liquor Enforcement chief seeks guidance on withholding liquor permit fees from a Scioto County township after local officials allegedly refused help in a raid on the Ellis Country Club near Portsmouth. He questions whether the general code allows withholding fees if officials are deemed to be refusing or culpably neglecting liquor law enforcement.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
Scioto County
Anthony A. Rutkowski
Ellis Country Club
Portsmouth
Oscar L. Fleckner
Board of Liquor Control
Taber Seeks Major Cut in Omnibus Budget Bill
Rep Taber of New York proposes a two to three billion dollar reduction in the 29 billion dollar omnibus appropriation bill as he urges Congress to support a balanced budget and join his effort to trim the measure.
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Washington
Rep
Taber
New York
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Tucker Alleges Maliciousness in Federal Prosecution
Preston T. Tucker, head of the defunct Tucker Corporation, asks Attorney General McGrath to dismiss three federal attorneys who prosecuted his mail fraud case and sues the government attorneys and five others in Superior Court for 1 million dollars, alleging malicious prosecution after the failed bid to convict Tucker and seven associates in a Securities Act and mail fraud case tied to a $28 million rear engine auto project collapse.
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Chicago
Preston T. Tucker
Tucker Corporation
J. Howard McGrath
Tucker
Niles Man Removed From Election Board
William A. Klatt of Niles, convicted of accepting 3800 to obtain a liquor permit for a Cleveland operator in 1946, was removed Tuesday as a member of the Trumbull County Election Board by Secretary of State Charles F. Sweeney. Earlier this month he had been elected chairman and had resigned as county Republican chairman after his conviction.
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Columbus
William A. Klatt
Niles
Cleveland
Trumbull County Election Board
Klatt
Charles F. Sweeney
Labor Refuses Return Of Flogging In Britain
Britain’s Labor Government has rejected demands to restore flogging as punishment for violent crimes. The 1948 revision abolished the use of the cut o’nine tails, and recent spikes in slugging and robbery by youth targeting women have spurred calls from the press and judiciary for revival.
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London
Britain
DC4 Hits Field Lights and Heads to Cleveland
A Northwest Airlines DC4 carrying 51 passengers clipped three field lights during a fog landing at Detroit Willow Run. Pilot Bill Shaw aborted the approach, proceeding to Cleveland where municipal controllers inspected the gear as he passed overhead and then landed safely.
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ST. Paul
Northwest Airlines
Detroit
Willow Run
Bill Shaw
Cleveland
Shaw
Mechanicsburg family displays six inch prize eggs
Mrs Blanche Chensiaere and her son Robert display two prize eggs laid by a Wyandott pullet in Mechanicsburg. Each egg measures six inches in circumference. The Cunningham family keeps eight chickens at their home in Mechanicsburg.
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Mechanicsburg Des
Blanche Chensiaere
Robert
Cunningham’s
Mechanicsburg
Man Jailed for Life in Slaying of Three Children
In Kosciusko Mississippi a 38 year old white man received a life sentence for the murder of three African American children. The case details indicate a racially charged crime with a conviction at a state facility. The victims and exact dates are cited in local records.
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Kosciusko
Miss
Cincinnati Taxicab Strike Ends in 61 Day Standstill
City negotiators resume talks in Cincinnati as drivers prepared to vote again on a 61 day taxicab dispute with unions seeking better wages and service rules.
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Cincinnati
Embarrassed Officials Probe Peculiar Mexico Letters
In Laredo 246 letters from Mexico addressed to Cleveland customers were stamped as potentially lottery matter. The letters were opened and returned to recipients at the post office, revealing they were sent as a goodwill gesture by a Cleveland salesman. Officials remain embarrassed but deem the letters innocent. In Springfield, Arthur Sheridan faced a raccoon that chewed ignition wires, preventing his car from starting.
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Cleveland
Laredo
Texas
Mexico
Customs
Post Office
Springfield
Arthur Sheridan
Sheridan
Denison University to Build $1.5 Million Hall of Music and Art
Denison University plans a $1.5 million Hall of Music and Art funded by an anonymous donor. Dr. Kenneth I. Brown, the university president, says the donor's will also provides a $500,000 endowment for maintenance, the largest gift in the school's history.
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Granville
Denison University
Kenneth I. Brown
Fitch High Students Return to Hall as Rain Keeps Protests Small
In Youngstown striking Fitch High School students sought shelter in an entrance corridor to escape rain and refused to return to classes. About 50 of roughly 100 students who began the strike Monday remained in protest while about half of them joined the ranks this morning.
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Youngstown
Fitch High School
Matthew V. Fehn
Army Engineers Inspect 9000-Acre Circleville Site for Academy
Two Army engineers surveyed a 9000-acre tract near Circleville as a possible site for the proposed Air Force academy. The Kinderhook Williamsport area land south of Circleville was among about 100 tracts reviewed by the Defense National Guard.
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Circleville
Army
Air Force Academy
Kinderhook- Williamsport
Defense Nagehen
Auto Dispute Near Accord as Talks Continue
Detroit reports the Chrysler strike edging toward peace with revised pension and related terms after a bargaining session between Chrysler and the UAW. Both sides indicated minor ground given, but substantial concessions likely required to end the nine week walkout affecting 89,000 workers. A further session was planned as talks focus on pension funding and joint administration.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Mae
CIO
United Auto
UAW
Italian Factories Close As Communists Strike
Heavily armed police and troops moved to preserve order as a general strike called by Communists closed factories and disrupted transport across Italy. Hundreds were arrested in clashes between riot squads and Red demonstrators, with Rome relatively calm but the strike the most successful in months.
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Rome
Italy
Bowling Alley Closes After Carbon Monoxide Fumes
Detroit police shut Bowl-O-Crome Alleys after a vent pipe in a basement furnace released carbon monoxide fumes. About 50 people were affected, 33 of them taken to hospitals, many young girl bowlers from a confectionery store league.
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Detroit
Dining car chef killed as switch engine backs into train
A dining car chef was killed and ten others injured when a switching engine backed into a standing passenger train. Local officials investigated the collision and transported the injured to nearby hospitals for treatment.
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Pittsburgh
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