Truman Won't Spurn UN For Soviet Parley
President Truman said the United States will not reject the United Nations for separate talks with Russia. He endorsed Acheson’s rejection of Stalin’s indirect peace talk and said any meeting with Stalin would involve UN participation. He also discussed military governance in Germany and reorganization authority for the executive branch.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations
Russia
Dean Acheson
Stalin
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Potsdam
Acheson
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Executive Department
Chinese Regime In Big Muddle Namxing
Acting President Lie Sun Jen governs with almost no cabinet as Beijing struggles to secure peace with the Communists. Nanking ministries show near total closure while Canton prepares a limited reopening and reports of a garrison move against Wang I-Tung for attempting a local peace surrender.
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Namxing
Lie Sun
Jen
Nanking
Foreign Office
George Yeh
Information Ministry
Defense Ministry
Canton
Hsueh Yueh
Wang I-Tung
II Chi- Shen
Wane
17 Million New Homes Needed for U S Slum Clearance
Federal housing chief Raymond Foley told the Senate banking committee the nation needs 17 to 18 million new dwellings in the next decade. He urged grants and loans to cities to clear slums, citing infant mortality and crime in blighted areas. Debate over cost and scope followed, with calls for a 1,050,000 unit plan and objections about private materials and labor.
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Washington
Raymond M. Foley
Congress
Senate Banking Committee
Foley
Boston
Newark
N. J
Sparkman
D.-Ala
Senate
Eliender
D.-La
Flanders
R.-Vt
Cain
R.wash
Sausage Tree Robberies Reported by Bradenton Chamber
In Bradenton on February 3 the chamber of commerce beautification committee reported thefts from the local sacred sausage tree. Residents note the so called sausages resemble meat but are not edible and originate from west Africa where the tree is revered.
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Bradenton
Fla
Chamber of Commerce Beautification Committee
West Africa
Navy Cuts 72 Ships to Boost Anti Submarine Readiness
Secretary of the Navy Sullivan announced a major fleet reorganization to emphasize anti submarine warfare. 72 ships will be mothballed with 30 fighting ships added to the operating fleet, trimming personnel by 30,000 and reducing planes by about 400 as part of a budget plan to cap armed forces at 15 billion dollars.
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Washington
Navy
Sullivan
Truman
Pacific
Virginian Tracks Down Captures Two Gasoline Thieves
Suffolk Virginia February story recalls William Chandler pursuit of two North Carolinians who stole five gallons of gasoline and cigarettes. Chandler chased them across the state line to Hollands and forced a tire release before trapping the men in his car trunk. They were jailed in Suffolk and later sentenced to 90 days for gasoline theft.
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Itate Virginian
Suffolk
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
William Chandler
Chandler
Nansemond County
Hollands
North Carolina Line
James Martin
Roy Carter
Winston-Salem
N. C
N. T. Gray
Portsmouth
Mindszenty Trial: Cardinal Acknowledges Escape Letter
Cardinal Mindszenty faces treason and espionage charges in Budapest as prosecutors present a prison escape letter to U S diplomat Selden Chapin. He acknowledges the note in court and offers to step back from duties to ease church state tensions.
Rail Mediators To Reopen Talks On Rail Strike Dispute
A presidential emergency board will reconvene next Monday to refine its December 17 recommendations resolving a 10 month dispute between railroads and one million non operating employees. Key issues include the practical application of a 40 hour week and potential wage increases, with unions not ruling out a strike after cooling off rules expire.
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Chicago
William M. Leiserson
Truman
David L. Cole
Paterson, N., J
George A. Cook
Sarasota, Fla
George E. Leighty
St. Louis
Dane] L. Loomis
Carriers
Emergency Board
Leighty
Factfinding Board
Loomis
Strike Closes Two Mines In Alabama
Birmingham Alabama February 3 Republic Steel Corp says No 1 and No 2 coal mines were shut when union miners refused to pass a picket line. About 650 workers are affected. District 50 United Mine Workers says delay stems from a dispute with a private timbering contractor supplying timbers to Republic mines. No dispute with Republic Steel.
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Birmingham
Ala
Republic Steel Corporations
Sayreton
District 50
United Mine Workers of America
Republic
Republic Steel
Strike Ends At Big AEP Plant In West Virginia
A one day strike at the Philip Sporn plant of Appalachian and Ohio Power companies near Graham Station West Virginia ended after talks. Estimates of idle workers ranged from 200 to 500 with 200 pipefitters stopping work over a materials handling dispute. Work resumed as the walkout was described as settled satisfactorily and the site patrolled by pickets.
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D. W. Parson
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Graham Station
Ohio River
Pomeroy, O
Philip Sporn
Miscegenation Case Dismissed In Richmond
In Richmond Virginia Willie E Purcell a 35 year old truck driver avoided a miscegenation charge after the defense produced a certified birth certificate and army discharge papers listing him as white The papers clarified Purcell is the son of Joe Purcell who testified that he and his wife are white The alleged marriage to Stella Mae Rhoton occurred December 21 according to Mrs Ada Rhoton the complainant
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Richmond
Willie E. Purcell
Purcell
Ada Rhoton
Stella Mae Rhoton Purcell
Rhoton
Sixth Child Born To 59-Year-Old Woman
Helena Arkansas February report of a 59 year old Mrs Fred J Turley nurse giving birth to her sixth child a five pound four ounce boy born Saturday night. Father is 65 year old barber. She will be 60 in April. Two daughters killed in 1941 bus accident. A son and two daughters died in World War II service.
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Helena
Ark
Fred J. Turley
Army Frees 4 856 Persons In Storm Shaken West
Army airlift frees 4 856 people in the storm torn west as Nebraska South Dakota and Wyoming face continued snow and wind. Relief crews work against new snow while 912 aircraft and 3 994 men plow drifts in Nebraska South Dakota and Wyoming.
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Army
Nevada
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Congress
Air Force
Rockies
Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Chicago Weather Bureau
Missing Soldier Reunites With Wife After Five Years
Donald Meyer who was reported missing in action in Germany five years ago is back home in California. The war department declared him dead for years while his wife in Wyoming collected his pension. After learning he was alive, the government stopped payments. Meyer, wounded in shell fragments, traveled through English hospitals before returning to the United States. He found his wife in Pacoima and they remarried in a small ceremony with Municipal Judge H. A. Decker, elated by the reunion.
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San Fernando
Calif
Donald Meyer
Germany
War Department
Douglas
Treasury
Mother's Insistence Leads to Discovery of Long-Lost Son
In Fulton Missouri a hospital identifies a patient as Ray Howard but speaks with a Grove family member who confirms the man is Bryan T. Grove of Arkansas City. Grove, declared legally dead in 1932, had vanished in 1925 and later learned his true identity after his mother recognized handwriting.
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Fulton
W. J. Cremer
Ray Howard
Montgomery County
Ryan T. Grove
Arkansas Itr
Eas. Grove
Denoya
Okla
Grove
Ed Grove
Arkansas City
Ivan Grove
Hendrix College
Conway
Ark
J. W. White
Cremer
Tient
Hinton
McKitrick
Yankton
S. C
Harry Chandler
Howard
Dr. Cremer
Veterans Hospital
Jury convicts Louise Boone of voluntary manslaughter
Louise Boone was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of her husband Clarence Boone on July 11 in Frederick Street. Defense motion to set aside the verdict was filed. hearing set for February 28. Bonds maintained at 5,000.
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Louise Boone
Walter G. Burton
Mercer County
Boone
Clarence Boone
Bluefield
Joseph Shaffer
Burton
Dale Stevens
Frederick Street
F. Morton Wagner
Harriet Sue
Walter F. Thompson
Falls Mills
Trudy Orander
Thelma Anderson
Hazel Hedrick
Maybeury
South Bluefield
Boones
AFL Leaders Seek Narrow TaftHartley Revisions
The AFL executive council in Miami proposes limited changes to the administration plan to repeal TaftHartley. They favor preserving non Communist affidavits union financial reports and employer free speech, while seeking precise language for craft unit bargaining and secondary boycotts.
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Miami
Fla
AFL
William Green
Green
Executive Council
Senate
Laod
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