Hope Rises For Progress In Truce Talks
MUNSAN Korea February 5 Allied and Red negotiators neared a settlement in Korean armistice talks optimism rose that an early peace could come. UN spokesman Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols said chances for an armistice had greatly improved but warned major issues remained. Prisoner exchange and truce supervision discussions in Panmunjom were set for today with full armistice delegations to meet Wednesday to discuss final settlement terms and mutual safeguards amid cautious optimism.
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San Francisco
Counterfeiting ring busted in Chicago with $3 million seized
The Secret Service announced the arrest of William Skally and two others in a Chicago counterfeiting ring that allegedly distributed about three million dollars in counterfeit tens and twenties over four years. Skally was nabbed after a second $50,000 purchase at Malizia's Tavern. two more suspects were in custody with more expected. The investigation linked the fake money to a Chicago printing plant and extended to several states including New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Illinois.
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Cook County
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Steel Chief Warns Tax Loss From Wage Hikes
United States Steel head Benjamin Fairless told a Federal wage stabilization panel that broad wage boosts without price increases would slash tax revenues by about 11 billion dollars and spark inflation. He argued absorbing wage hikes would worsen costs across industry and push prices higher.
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Philip Murray
Steelworkers Union
Stringfield
Clean-Up Chief Takes Post as Anti-Corruption Lead
Washington in February 4 1948 Morris a New York lawyer and self styled Abraham Lincoln Republican is named Truman administration anti corruption chief with a pledge to publicize any government scandals promptly and no whitewash his inquiry begins with the Justice Department and could reach the highest levels he brushes off criticism from party figures like Nixon Taft and Potter and jokes about a ship sale probe while noting critics including Anna Rosenberg David Lilienthal and Dean Acheson have faced congressional scrutiny.
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California
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Ohio
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Michigan
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Secreary
Defense
David I. Lilienthal
Atom‘s Energy Commission
Secetary of
Dean Acheson
3000 French Families Rescued From Floods
Paris reports 3000 Frenchmen and their families rescued from flood stricken areas in southwestern France. Hundreds refused to leave homes and remained in peril as authorities issued warnings tonight.
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Missing Plane Hunted In Oregon
A chartered plane with three men aboard remains missing since Saturday in snowbound Silver Lake country, 70 miles northeast of Klamath Falls. Passengers Fred A. De Blois 27 guard Paul Peterson and pilot Norman Iyar 26 all from Boise Idaho were en route to a veterans hospital. Search planes faced rain and snow squalls as teams hunted the craft.
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Idaho
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Minks Also Cause Trouble In New York
Six wild minks broke from a cargo bin on a Northwest Airlines plane from Minneapolis bound for Norway. The minks delayed the airliner, valued at two million dollars, as handlers struggled to capture them. ASPCA agents eventually caged the animals after a brief scramble. Airline officials perfumed the cabin before returning the 61 passengers westward.
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Miner Admits Fatal Blow
Bluefield man Richard Hunt, 49, entered police headquarters and confessed that he struck Mack Winbush with a shotgun, causing fatal head injuries. Hunt said he learned of a warrant for murder after Winbush died at Bluefield Sanitarium following a Sunday altercation at 200 Allen Street. Mae Winbush was questioned as investigators probed the party scene and shared apartment relations with Hunt.
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Farley murder trial opens in Mercer County Court
Henry Earl Farley, 21, of Flat Top, faces murder charges in the fatal October 15 shooting of Walter Fink, 62, on his Flat Top farm. About 36 witnesses were sworn as the jury heard from prosecutors and investigators detailing the shotgun attack and related bloodstains while Farley claims innocence.
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J. C. Meadows
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Elizabeth Taylor Prepares London Wedding to Michael Wilding
Hollywood reports actress Elizabeth Taylor is packing in Palm Springs ahead of a possible departure to London for her wedding to British actor Michael Wilding. A studio spokesman said the date remains undecided and could be announced in London. Taylor recently received divorce from Conrad Hilton, while Wilding’s divorce from Kay Scott isn’t final for two months.
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Hollywood
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New York
Miss Taylor
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Wilding
Elizabeth Taylor
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London
Michael Oe
Tony
Conrad
Nicky) Hilton
Kay Scott
GOP Leaders Launch Campaign Barrage on Truman
Washington report on Lincoln Day rally where 15 speakers attacked the Truman administration over inflation corruption and Korea stalemate. GOP leaders urge change while critics call for a decisive war effort and tax relief amid national defense debates.
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Witness Tells Of Russia Massacre At Katyn Forest
Col John H Van Vliet testified before a House committee that the Russians killed more than 10 000 Polish soldiers in a Soviet prison camp in 1940 He described seeing eight layered mass graves at Katyn and noted new uniforms on many bodies implying the murders occurred soon after capture rather than after German action.
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Katyn
Smolensk
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No Clues In Hunt For Winnie Ruth
Phoenix report says the search for Winnie Ruth Judd turned toward the Mexican border with virtually no clues. A few vague reports described a woman resembling the red-haired Tiger Woman, after Judd escaped from the State Hospital for the Insane Saturday night. Hospital superintendent Dr. Conway told deputies a report placed a woman like Judd hitchhiking south of Tucson toward Mexico, consistent with her possible fifth getaway.
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Winnie Ruth Judd
State Hospital For
Mr. Conway
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Conway
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