Move To Extend Economic Curbs Arouses Protests
In Washington Congress debates extending price wage rent and credit controls as OPS officials protest tentative Senate actions. Maybank pushes a one year extension while Dirksen fails to restrict rent controls to defense areas. Capehart amendment remains contentious.
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Office of Price Stabilization
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Price Control
Chicago
Sen
Dirksen
Moody
D-Mich
New York City
Sen. Capehart
Ohio set to convert Roseville dormitory for prison overflow
Welfare Director John H. Lamneck ordered work at Roseville Perry County to renovate a state dormitory for about 300 inmates to relieve Ohio Penitentiary congestion. The project could cost around 100000 dollars with repairs also planned at London Prison Farm and Marion Training School to house additional inmates.
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State Welfare Department
Roseville
Perry County
Ohio Penitentiary
John H. Lamneck
Ralph Alvis
Lamneck
London Prison Farm
Marion
State Board of Control
Alvis
Herman P. Geiser
Welfare Department
Maury Koblentz
Division of Corrections
Secret report sparks Senate probe over grain deal graft
Senate Agriculture Committee follows up on a staff report alleging fraud and influence peddling in grain storage contracts. Senator Mundt criticized secrecy and read allegations that W. M. Harris testified a War Assets Administration official named Mr. Smith sought a payoff and formed a three way split with Ed V. Turney and Glen G. Yancey, though no payments were made.
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Swift Senate
Sen. Mundt
R-S.d
Mundt
Senate Agriculture Committee
W. M. Harris
Scott City
Krans
Smith
War Assets Administration
Harris
Ed V. Turney
WAA
Glen G. Yancey
Missouri
Road Ghost Seen on Routes 30 and 45 in Wellsville
Police and the State Highway Patrol report four sightings of a phantom vehicle in the Wellsville West Point area of Columbiana County. Witnesses describe a greenish glow around the car and a screeching sound as the ghostly figure, outlined in luminous paint, appeared.
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Wellsville
State Highway Patrol
Salem
West Point
Columbiana County
Home appliances in demand washing machine for rent
Apartment size washing machine in good condition offered for ten dollars. Suitable for light fabrics and sheets. Call 27324. Messenger want ads note reads and to use.
Grudge Killer Slays Three in Nebraska Ranch Home
A shotgun attack near Merriman, Nebraska killed three people including a neighbor rancher who answered a help call. A 10 month old baby was among two wounded as authorities clamped roadblocks on the sparse northwest sandhills area. Initial speculation pointed to a grudge or berserk motive.
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Merriman
Nebr
Nebraska
Sandhills
Bishop condemns easy living at family conference
Catholic Bishop John K. Massie denounces divorce birth control free love and three room apartments as enemies of the family during a family hour service at the National Catholic Family Life Conference in Columbus. The conference with 3000 delegates from the U S and Canada urged opposition to planned parenthood and poor housing.
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Columbus
John K. Massie
Steubenville
America
United States
Canada
Planned Parenthood
Two Bomber Crashes Kill 12 Servicemen
Twelve military airmen were killed in two crashes in the southwest on Wednesday. Eight died in the flaming wreckage of a B-29 from Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson Arizona and four perished in the crash of a B-47 Stratojet from Kirtland AFB near Albuquerque New Mexico. The B-29, with one engine dead, was attempting to return to its base when it crashed and burned in the desert five miles from the base.
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Ariz
Davis-Monthan
Air Force
Kirtland Afb
Albuquerque
N. M
Robert F. Wilson Coin Dealer Die at Lima Home
Robert F. Wilson 54 a well known coin dealer and collector died Wednesday at his Lima home. He operated the Robert F Wilson and Celina coin companies.
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Lima
Robert F. Wilson
Celina
Senators Clash Over Benton Waiver In Immunity Case
Senator McCarthy sues Senator Benton for two million dollars alleging libel and slander. Benton claims to offer to waive immunity and take responsibility, a move McCarthy calls a bluff while Benton pledges to issue a statement. No court precedent cited for a waiver suit.
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Congress
Day
Sen. Benton
D-Conn
Benton
McCarthy
Senate
Reds Raise New Blocks To Armistice Talks
Korean truce negotiators exchanged prisoner exchange proposals while the UN Command pressed for compromise. A UN spokesman said neither side showed clear optimism or pessimism as weather grounded Allied planes. On the 155 mile front light communist thrusts were reported in the secret sessions. A dispute rose over how the UN Command should be named in Korea with the factions preferring Allied Forces or International Allied Forces.
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Munsan
Korea
Aled
Sproul
North Korea
Farm Bureau Proposes Major Cuts to Agriculture Funds
Washington report: American Farm Bureau Federation proposes substantial cuts in Agriculture Department funding. President Allen B. Kline testified before the House Appropriations subcommittee, drawing sharp pushback from chair Rep. Whitten who criticized the stance as undermining vital national welfare programs.
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Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Agriculture Department
Allen B. Kline
House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee
Rep. Whitten
D-Miss
Kline
Great
Farm Bureau Organization
Ohio Association debunks Lockland Wayne eligibility rumors
The Ohio High School Athletic Association stated there was absolutely no truth to rumors about Lockland Wayne players’ eligibility in the Class B tournament. The all Negro team won the finals against Nelsonville 56 to 46.
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Columbus
Ohio High School Athletic Association
Lockland Wayne
Nelsonville
Six Children Die in Somerset Rockwood Farmhouse Fire
A Rockwood Pennsylvania blaze killed six children and two others in a three story Rockwood farmhouse. Franklin Whipkey 10 escaped by leaping from a window as firefighters battled the flames and recovered multiple charred bodies when the structure collapsed. Authorities worked to identify victims.
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Somerset
Rockwood
Pennsylvania
Franklin Whipkey
John Whipkey
Play Money Real or Not Shocks Chicago Family
Mrs. Anna Mae Keys of Marion Ohio visited the Eula Mae McGlothan home in Chicago when 10 year old Eula Mae found $840. The children believed it was play money and destroyed most of it leaving only a single $100 bill. The money belonged to Mrs Keys who was visiting the McGlothans.
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Chicago
Anna Mae Keys
Marion
Ohio
Eula Mae McGlothan
Navy Opens Guided Missile Training for Future Warships
The Navy began training crews for robot weapons ships with two units ready by 1954. Unit No 21 will train officers for guided missiles as the service expands schools, while Point Mugu California remains a key missile hub. Boston and Canberra were named for guided missile conversions to ships of the line.
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Washington
Navy
Point Mugu
Calif
Norton Sound
California
Boston
Canberra
Army Agency Flood Control Funds Slashed in Budget Cut
The House Appropriations Committee urged Congress to approve 492.4 million dollars for Army civil functions for the next fiscal year, mainly for flood control and navigation. The total is 200.5 million less than Truman’s request, with rivers and harbors cut to 187.5 million and flood control at 221.2 million, reductions of 34 and 28 percent respectively.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Truman
House
Senate
FBI To Question Former Armored Car Employees
FBI agents began a roundup of former U S Trucking Corp employees after an armored truck was robbed of 681000 in Danvers Square. Police questioned known gangsters and noted keys were kept in an unlocked drawer near the garage entrance. Authorities consider a possible link to the 1950 Brink’s Boston robbery.
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Danvers
Mass
U.S. Trucking Corp
Danvers Square
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Armored Car Service
Boston
North End
US. Trucking Corp
Brink
Flaming Plane Lands Safely in Wheat Field
Two Braniff pilots guided a burning DC-4 with 50 aboard to a safe landing in a wheat field near Hugoton Kansas. One passenger injured. Pilots Jack Stanford and John Beakley from Dallas declined praise. Passenger O R Stites called the landing smooth. The plane burned out after evacuation.
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Kas
Braniff Airlines
Jack Stanford
Stanford
John Beakley
Dallas
Tex
O. R. Stites
Oklahoma City
Williamstown
Mass
George T. Mal
Jen
Millard Romaine, Jr
Williams College
Mullen
Romaine
Great Lakes Cutters Prepare Ice Breaker Mission
The U S Coast Guard announced ice breaking in the St Marys River will begin Saturday as the Mackinaw cutter traverses the river toward Lake Superior and Whitefish Bay. If smooth, ore carriers may depart for Lake head loading docks by Monday.
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Straits of Mackinac
U.S. Coast Guard
St. Mary's River
Mackinaw
Lake Superior
Whitefish Bay
Lakehead
Presidential hopefuls step up primary push in Wisconsin and Nebraska
GOP hopefuls press ahead in Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries for delegates. Taft backs write in Nebraskans while Eisenhower seeks parallel momentum. Kefauver campaigns in Nebraska as Kerr claims gains and Wisconsin voters face mixed ticket dynamics with Warren and Stassen maneuvering for support.
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Nebraska
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
New Hampshire
Minnesota
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Lincoln
Kefauver
Jack Bell
Associated Press
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Stassen
Eisenhower
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Bell
Taft
Truman
NATO Scope Too Narrow, General Says
Paris Gen Charles De Gaulle argues American troops in Europe are essential and calls NATO too limited. He backs Western rearmament, a European confederation and a Europe wide assembly. He says global danger requires a world scale response led by the United States Britain and France.
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Charles de Gaulle
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James L. Wick
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Britain
France
Son Charged With Murder In Delaware Slaying
The 34 year old former mental patient Franklin Goodrich will be charged with first degree murder for the shotgun slaying of his father Fred Goodrich 74. Sheriff Earl Frave says Franklin backed his father into a corner and shot him in the face after claiming abuse. Goodrich had been released from Columbus State Hospital four days earlier at his mother’s request. He had been in mental institutions several times in the past six years.
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Delaware
Earl Frave
Franklin Goodrich
Columbus State Hospital
Fred Goodrich
Goodrich
Jury Panel Exhausted In Portsmouth Trial
Municipal Court Judge Kenneth Cranston ordered 15 more prospective jurors for the Jerome A. Distel trial after a panel of 50 plus 15 was exhausted. Distel, 38, is charged with assault and battery against John G. Green, 48, editor of The Portsmouth Times, whom Distel allegedly slapped at a Portsmouth bowling alley on February 18.
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Portsmouth
Kenneth Cranston
Jerome A. Distel
John G. Green
Portsmouth Times
Green
Distel
Ohio Safety Congress Set for Columbus in April
The 22nd all Ohio Safety Congress and exhibit will be held in Columbus April 15 to 17. W Harper Annatt is director of the Department of Commerce.
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Columbus
W. Harper Annatt
Department of Commerce
White House faces steel wage clash over inflation risk
President Truman team debates Feinsinger's Wage Stabilization Board plan for CIO steelworkers. Wilson seeks cuts to proposed 17 percent wage hike while Feinsinger defends fair, inflation-fighting boosts. Talks touch wage rules, prices, and looming April 8 strike pressures from U S Steel and Jones & Laughlin in Pittsburgh.
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Charles E. Wilson
Nathan P. Feinsinger
The
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Roger Putnam
Ellis Arnall
Wilson
Feinsinger
CIO
Truman
Florida
CIO Steelworkers Union
Philip Murray
Mureray’s
Union
U. S. Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin Steel
Pittsburgh
Washington
Murray
Railroads Seek Six Percent Freight Rate Increase in Ohio
Five railroads including Baltimore and Ohio Erie New York Central Chicago and St LouisPennsylvania asked the Ohio utilities commission for a six per cent rise on all intra state freight. The request follows a 15 per cent hike sought last year and a series of approved and interim boosts, with coal rates affected by prior actions.
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State Utilities Commission
Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
Erie
New York
Commission
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