Colonel links Russians to Katyn Massacre of 10000 Poles
Polish Colonel George Grobicki testified to a House subcommittee that he is convinced the Soviet Union killed about 10,000 Polish officers in the Katyn mass killings. He said he was threatened, nearly sent to Katyn, and identified Brig. Zarubin as a Soviet security official linked to the camp.
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Katyn Forest
Smolensk
Russia
Poland
Katyn
Washington
George Grobicki
Moscow
Toronto
Canada
Subcommittee
London
Cam
Brig
Zarubin
Secret Police
England
Woman Held In Letter Writing Kicks Up Row
Lois Jones a 45 year old farm woman accused of sending abusive letters to President Truman kicked up a row at Jackson County jail as she was taken for a mental examination. She fought seven people, throwing a jailer, injuring a deputy sheriff and bruising a jail employee during the disturbance.
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Kansas City
Truman
Jackson County
Lois Jones
Peterson Said Offered Post As Morris Aide
Virgil W. Peterson operating director of the Chicago Crime Commission has been offered the job of chief counsel to Newbold Morris in his anti corruption investigation. The 46 year old former FBI regional director in Milwaukee St Louis and Boston is considering the offer. He left the FBI in 1942 to lead the Chicago Crime Commission for 30 years.
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New York
The
New York Herald Tribune
Virgil W. Peterson
Chicago Crime Commission
Newbold Morris
Peterson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Boston
Reds use nursery rhymes in Communist recruitment
WASHINGTON February 7 A HUAC witness Harvey Matusow of Dayton said Communists exploited sexual weakness to recruit adults and distorted nursery rhymes to indoctrinate children. He described a camp near Wingdale New York called Lenins Rock where extensive recruiting occurred and cited a jingle taught to five and six year olds about Congress. He claimed party leaders pushed youth to work at summer camps to spread Red doctrine.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Harvey M. Matusow
Dayton
U. S. Air Force
Communist Party
FBI
Matusow
Tax Probers Question Liquor Lobbyist Samish in Closed Session
San Francisco February 7 Liquor lobbyist Artie Samish spent three hours with congressional tax probers in a closed session. He praised the lawmakers but did not comment further. Chairman Cecil King indicated the session may end without further appearances. Samish had testified before Kefauver two years earlier detailing $935,943 in liquor funds used for promotion and lobbying. The Kefauver panel had urged taxes on those funds. Associate Frank Flynn also attended and was questioned by staff counsel.
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Arthur
Artie) Samish
Congressional
House
Ways and Means
Cecil R. Samish
Samish
King
Kefauver Senate
California
Kefauver Committee
Frank X
Porky) Flynn
Sacramento
Flynn
Acheson To Represent Truman At King's Rites
President Truman announced that Secretary of State Acheson will represent him at King George VI's funeral on February 15 in London. The funeral marks the end of a long reign and involves notable world leaders and dignitaries. Acheson travels to participate in the solemn ceremony and symbolize U.S. condolences and allegiance to the British monarchy.
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Truman
Washington
George VI
Adenauer urges West Germans to rearm and join NATO
Bonn reports Chancellor Adenauer urged rearmament to strengthen the West against Soviet power and pressed for German voice in NATO planning. He linked it to joining a six nation European army, warned of French moves in the Saar, and faced Socialist opposition over sovereignty and social justice.
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Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Russia
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Saar
Europe
Adenauer
France
French Assembly
United States
Britain
North Atlantic
Sit Nation
Dwight D. Leisenhower
Erich Ollenhauer
Ollenhauer
West Germany
Queen Elizabeth II Returns to London Amid Mourning
Britons welcomed Queen Elizabeth II home from a 4000 mile Kenya flight with her husband the Duke of Edinburgh. Churchill hailed the new reign and recalled King George VI, whose funeral is planned for February 15 at Windsor Castle.
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London
Winston Churchill
Elizabeth II
Equatorial Africa
Churchill
Kenya
King George VI
Windsor Castle
Queen Victoria
UMI Backers Call For Universal Military Training
Senate hearings on UMT feature William L. Clayton James Wadsworth and Adm Thomas C. Kinkaid advocating trained manpower as national security. House panel backs six months training and seven and a half years reserve service for all fit young men with civilian oversight to govern the program.
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Washington
William L. Clayton
James W. Wadsworth
Clayton
Thomas C. Kinkaid
Senate Armed Services Committee
National Security Resources Training Commission
Congress
House Armed Services Committee
Defense Department
Wadsworth
House
New York
Texas
Free Nations
Raymond S. MacClain
Soone
McClain
UMIT
13 Crewmen Die In Crash Near Tokyo
In a snow storm last night a US Superfort bomber from Yokota air base crashed about 40 miles west of Tokyo. Thirteen American crewmen died and possibly five Japanese were killed as part of the bomb load exploded, demolishing 15 houses near a village. A board of officers investigates the cause. scene cleared by Japanese civil police and U.S. MPs due to unexploded ordnance.
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Tokyo
Far East Air Forces
Yokota
Air Force
U. S
Frisco Newspaper Pry Delayed Again
A federal judge ordered a grand jury to examine whether the San Francisco Call-Bulletin obstructed justice but the inquiry was delayed as U S Attorney Chauncey Tramutolo's aide Joseph Kareh cited other duties. The judge's order followed a Call-Bulletin story about Judge George B Harris and a Carmel real estate development tied to an IRS bureau inquiry.
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San Francisco
U.S
Chauncey Tramutolo
Joseph Kareh
Kareh
Carter
Call- Bulletin
George B. Harris
Patrick Hillings
Calif
Harris
Internal Revenue Bureau
Carmel
Grandury
Wife Seeks $10000 Monthly Support In Los Angeles Suit
Mrs Clearing Lockhart testified in a separate maintenance case that she must have at least $10000 a month to live as she is accustomed. She said her husband Leslie Lockhart, a Texas oil tycoon worth about 50 million dollars and earning 167000 a month, owns a 29 room Los Angeles mansion, multiple oil firms, a 3 million dollar ranch at Hinkley California, two yachts valued at 165000, two airplanes, and five automobiles.
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Los Angeles
Clearing Lockhart
Hinkley
Calif
Delaware Senator Blames Snyder for Revenue Bureau Scandal
Senate Republican Williams accuses Secretary Snyder of tolerating corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau and urges a Civil Service overhaul. President Truman defends Snyder, proposing to replace 64 collectors with 25 district commissioners under civil service. Williams notes resignations and indictments in the bureau and urges stronger action to restore public confidence.
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Sen
Williams
R-Del
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Internal Revenue Bureau
Truman
Internal Revenue
Senate
Congressional
Treasury Department
Sen. Williams
House
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
George J. Schoeneman
Daniel A. Bolich
Charles Oliphant
Delaware Republican
Civil Service
Internal Revenue District
New York
James W. Johnson
St. Louis
Treasury
James P. Finnegan
Senators Seek Constitutional Amendment to Limit Treaties
Fifty six senators introduced a bid to restrict treaties and executive agreements that affect U S sovereignty. The move targets United Nations actions, proposing amending the Constitution to bar international bodies from defining American rights and to void executive pacts unless Congress authorizes them.
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Washington
United States
Sen. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Senate
Gress
Sen
Taft
Congress
Dapper bachelor charged in double Bronx murder scene
Police accuse John P. Kerringer of slayings of Genevieve Mitchell and Francesca Castello in a Bronx apartment in a jealous frenzy. He allegedly stabbed Castello, wounded Mitchell, then staged knives in their hands and fled. The women, both waitresses, were found dead after an alleged weekend tragedy.
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New York
Genevieve Mitchell
Francesca Castello
John P. Kerringer
Mrs. Mitchell
Kerringer
Crescent
Ohio
Watertown
N. Y
Planes Reported Over Panmunjom Armistice Site
Peiping radio quoted a Communist liaison officer in Tokyo saying an American liaison acknowledged two planes flew over the Panmunjom armistice site on Wednesday. The broadcast claimed the incident is being investigated and urged more discipline from the Americans.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio
Panmunjom
War Hardware Co. Inc receives West Virginia charter
The War Hardware Co. Inc of War in McDowell County was granted a state charter today. The retail and wholesale firm is capitalized at 50,000 dollars and is led by R. P. Liddle, A. B. Carr, and Annie A. Carr, all of War.
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Charleston
W. Va
War Hardware Co., Inc
McDowell County
War
R. P. Liddle
A. B. Carr
Annie A. Carr
West Virginia 88 mile turnpike project outlined
The State Turnpike Commission unveiled plans for an 88 mile toll expressway from Princeton to Charleston with a 42 foot width and 24 foot road. A $90 million revenue bond issue is prepared to finance the project with steel expected by mid March. A Kanawha County tunnel and a Kanawha River bridge are included as major features.
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W. Va
State Turnpike Commission
Princeton
Enoch R. Needles
New York City
Fairplain
Jackson County
Needles
West Virginia
Cabin Creek
Paint Creek
Kanawha County
Republican Politician Shot in Chicago Ward Fight
In Chicago on February 7 a West Side Republican ward official Charles Gross age 56 was killed by seven shotgun blasts. A GOP committee man for the 31st Ward he planned to run for election April 8. The Crime Commission condemned gangster infiltration, calling it a plague on both parties and urging leaders to purge hoodlum influence.
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West Side
Charles Gross
GOP
31St
Gross
Chicago Crime Commission
Commission
Colin S. Gordon
Virgil W. Peterson
Bachmann Declines U S Senate Bid in 1946
Carl G. Bachmann of Wheeling announced he will not seek the Republican nomination for the U S Senate. He cited private business pressures and declined to run against incumbent Chapman Revercomb of Charleston, urging focus on winning in November and thanking supporters for their backing.
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Wheeling
U. S. Senate
Bachmann
First District
Congress
U. S
Chapman Revercomb
Charleston
Revercomb
M. M. Neely
Fairmont
Republican Party
United States Senate
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