Truman Seeks 17 Billion Dollar Europe Recovery Fund
President Truman asked Congress to approve a 17 billion dollar four year program to rebuild Europe and resist totalitarian aggression. The plan, seen as the largest peacetime expenditure, aims to rehabilitate 16 nations plus western Germany with aid to France Italy Austria and China debated in Congress.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Europe
Marshall
France
Italy
Austria
China
Senator White
Maine
Germany
Congress Adjourns Special Session Enacts Aid and Price Plan
Congress ends a 33 day special session with a 540 million foreign aid package for France Italy Austria and China and a voluntary industry price restraint plan. The senate adjourned at 7 18 p m est and the house at 7 32 p m. The measure also included home economic provisions and kept price controls under review. The next session begins January 6 with major tasks including the Marshall plan funding and broader economic recovery efforts.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Truman
France
Italy
Austria
China
Bill Beason
Europe
Mixed Reactions to Truman Marshall Plan Endorsement
President Truman’s Marshall Plan drew mixed support in Congress. Senate Republicans like McCarthy urged linking aid to military bases and strategic supplies, while Hatch Mahoney and others supported proceeding for peace and recovery. Republican Kem opposed expanding involvement, citing American restraint. House GOP Chair Taber questioned funding and urged need for surveys before action.
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Washington
Prsident
Truman
McCarthy
R-Wis
Europe
Hatch
D-Nm
O. Mahoney
D.wye
Nator Kem
R-M
America
Taber
R-Ny
House Appropriations Committee
Congress Approves 540 Million Emergency Foreign Aid Plan
Congress passes a 540 million dollar emergency aid package for France, Italy, Austria, and China with 522 million for Europe and 18 million for China. The bill also allocates 340 million in occupation funds for Germany, Japan, and Korea, with pending adjustments. President Truman to sign after a close House and Senate vote.
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Washington
Congress
France
Italy
Austria
China
Truman
Germany
Japan
Korea
Senate
House
Bridges
Senate Appropriations Committee
Christmas Presents To Be Re-Distribute
Decatur Illinois December 19 presents sent to Carolyn Robb four died cancer in September will be distributed to children in a girls welfare home on Christmas day. Her parents Mr and Mrs M D Robb said gifts mailed from sympathizers nationwide will serve as a double duty charity act in her memory.
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Decatur
Ill
Carolyn Robb
M. D. Robb
Carolyn
Satira Awaits Trial Verdict in Havana Murder Case
Patricia Schmidt faces possible prison terms up to 30 years after a Havana jury trial for the killing of John Lester Mee aboard his yacht in Havana harbor. She pleaded for mercy, saying she fired while resisting a beating, and thanked the judges for a fair trial.
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Havana
Patricia
Satira) Schmidt
Guanabacoa
John Lester Mee
Mee
Meepencolley
Havana Harbor
Pork Supply Year From Now To Be Less
The agriculture department forecasts the 1948 spring pig crop at about 48 million head, implying the national pork supply could be roughly nine percent smaller a year from now. This would mark the smallest spring crop since 1938, with beef lamb and mutton also predicted to be reduced.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
U N Council to Debate Veto Amid Russian Objections
The United Nations Security Council voted 9 to 2 to discuss veto reform with Russia and Poland opposing the move. The agenda cites a U N assembly letter and a January session start, while U S delegate Austin called the timing premature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Assembly
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
Warren R. Austin
U. S
U.S
China
En Iea
Aeoven
France
Jews Fight Arab Invasion in Palestine Amid Rising Toll
Jewish fighters struck Khisas near the border killing 10 Arabs and wounding five as retaliation amid ongoing clashes. Arab forces then ambushed a bus convoy in the Judean foothills, killing one Jew and wounding three. Trench warfare developed near Tel Aviv. a freight train was looted by 100 armed Arabs.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Khisas
Upper Galilee
Judean
Tel Aviv
Holy Land
United Nations
Middle East
Hagana
Fawzi Be al Kaukji
Kauji
Syria
Palestine Arab
Nablus
Syrian Defense Ministry
Damascus
Saudi Arabia
Mediterranean
Cairo
Trans-Jordan
Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Tel Errish
Marshall says lasting European peace is distant
Secretary of State Marshall told a nationwide radio audience that Soviet frustration blocks a lasting peace in Europe. He cited London talks with Molotov and the Western Allies as proving that even a paper agreement is unlikely until a clear outcome in the struggle between the Soviet Union and the West. He endorsed a Western program to restore a healthy society and noted Truman’s request for a 17 billion four year aid plan.
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Washington
Marshall
Europe
London
Russia
Soviet Union
Molotov
Germany
Truman
Congress
United States
Western Europe
National
Britain
France
Ohio Governor To Wed Doctor's Aide
Columbus reports engaged Ohio Governor Thomas J. Herbert to Miss Mildred Helen Stevenson the doctor’s secretary. Herbert, 53, will marry January 3 in Indianapolis. Stevenson is 40 and met him in 1946 at Dr. Harlan Wilson’s Columbus office where he treated a leg wound from World War II service.
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Columbus
Ohio
Thomas J. Herbert
Herbert
Indianapol
Mildred Helen Stevenson
Miss Stevenson
Harlan Wilson
France
Governor Commutes Sentence Of Former West Virginia Man
Governor R Gregg Cherry commuting the remaining terms of William Philpot and Virgil Shipes, both already rehabilitated after escapes. Philpot, returned to Guilford county camp, will be freed tomorrow. Shipes at Durham camp also slated for release. Each cited rehabilitation and lack of need for supervision.
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West Virginia
Iul
R. Gregg Cherry
William Philpot
North Carolina
Gilbert
W. Va
Virgil Shipes
Fairfax
Philpot
Guilford County No. 1
Shipes
Durham
Gilbert VV. Va
Anderson Authorized To Disclose Names Of Commodities Speculators
The House voted to empower Secretary of Agriculture Anderson to publish the names of major commodity speculators. President Truman signed the measure, with a public release likely within a week. The move aims to curb price manipulation and aid congressional investigations into speculation.
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Agriculture
Anderson
Senate
Edward F. McGinnis
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Washington
House
Truman
White House
Agriculture Department
Rep
Hoffman
R-Mich
Congressional
Treasury
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate-House Economic Committee
Republican National Committee Plans 1948 Campaign Budget
The Republican National Committee will meet in Washington January 19 and 20 to adopt the 1948 presidential campaign budget and officially apportion convention delegates among states and territories. The tentative 1,093 delegate total, up 36 from 1944 due to 1946 gains, is not expected to change.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Actress Loretta Young Stricken Aboard Train
Loretta Young, film actress, became ill on the westbound Santa Fe Chief with acute intestinal influenza diagnosed by a Chicago physician. Her representatives said fever and illness prevented her from leaving the train at a planned hotel stop as she travels from England to Hollywood after appearing in a command performance for Princess Elizabeth's wedding.
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Chicago
Loretta Young
Miss Young
Hollywood
England
Elizabeth
Duke of Edinburgh
Strikes Continue In Sicily Strife Across Caltanissetta
Premier De Gasperi survived a confidence vote as violence flared in Caltanissetta Sicily where strikersblocked the city hall and exchanged gunfire with police. The assembly backed the government 303 to 118 with 14 abstentions amid leftist criticism.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Constituent Assembly
Caltanissetta
Sicily
de Gasperi
Christian Democrats
Republican
Labor
Liberal Party
Nomo Qualunque
Common Man
Interior Ministry
Christian Democrat
Italian Lass Whose Fiance Was Killed Excluded From U S
Maria Formicola a 21 year old Italian denied entry to the United States by a special immigration board after learning her fiance James McIntosh a 19 year old from Guerrant Kentucky was killed in a December 6 automobile crash. She arrived yesterday on the liner Vulcania and waited five hours at the pier before the decision was conveyed.
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New York
Maria Formicola
Special Immigration Board
W. F. Watkins
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Ormicola
James McIntosh
Guerrant
Italy
McIntosh
Vulcania
Bill Endorses Voluntary Action to Curb Inflation
The Republican plan for voluntary action to fight high living costs passes the House 281 to 73 and goes to President Truman who may sign while criticizing it. It shields participants from anti trust actions if they join self disciplined industry wide pacts. Senate backing follows with 77 to 10. The bill aims to coordinate industry transport and inventory control through voluntary agreements.
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Washington
House
Truman
White House
Senate
Congress
Grand Jury Indicts Meyers and Lamarre in Testimony Case
A federal grand jury charged Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers and his former associate Lamarre with perjury and pressuring the other to commit perjury in a Senate probe of Meyers wartime Air Force purchasing activity. Lamarre is accused of aiding perjury and Meyers faces counts tied to a war contracts inquiry.
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Washington
Bennett E. Myers
Senate
Meyers
Ware
Air Force
Bleriot H. Lamarre
Lamarre
Myers
Senate War Investigating Committee
Air Forces
Gen. Myers
Aviation Electric Co
Dayton
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P-Ohio
Senate Republican Policy Committee
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Barkley
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Lucas
D-Ill
Edwin Pauley
the Army
Pauley
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Satira
U.N. Council
Raleigh, N. C
Mead
Gayne Company
Fairfax Va
Forsyth Superior Court
T. L
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Wolcott R.mich
House Banking Committee
Rep. Monroney
D-Okla
McCormack
Massachusetts
GOP
Grand
Meyers, Lamarre
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