Veterans Pension Bill Advances After Stormy Committee Meeting
Washington reports the House veterans committee approved a multi billion dollar pension bill amid a walkout by six Democratic members led by Rankin. The plan would grant $90 monthly at age 65 to 18.8 million World War I and II veterans and $120 monthly for disabled veterans needing attendants. The bill faces opposition from President Truman and uncertain House paths.
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Washington
House Veterans Committee
Rankin
D-Miss
Congress
House
Truman
Rayburn
White House
House Ways and Means
West Virginia Proposes $50,000 Per County for School Building Fund
The administration proposed distributing a flat 50,000 to each of five counties as the first step in a 10 million school building fund. The plan allocates 27.5 percent by county, with the rest based on net school enrollment. Counties must levy maximum rates for school funds and debt, with site approval limits and possible deposits to the state sinking funds commission.
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Charleston
W. Va
House
Senate
Board of School Finance
State
Sinking Funds Commission
Creel
R-Wood
Powell
R-Pleasants
West Virginia
Adkins
D-Wayne
Hardesty
Marion
McKown
Hudgins
D-Mercer
Young Radio Actress Patricia Ryan Found Dead in New York
Patricia Ryan a 27 year old radio actress was found dead in bed in New York today. Police reported her husband George Robert Gibson called authorities when he could not awaken her this morning. Miss Ryan starred as Kathleen on the Aldrich Family radio show and led the NBC play Valentine For Sophia opposite Glenn Ford. NBC said she complained of a head pain during last night's program and other actresses read her lines until she recovered enough to resume.
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New York
Patricia Ryan
George Robert Gibson
Miss Ryan
Kathleen
Aldrich Pamily
Glenn Ford
National Broadcasting Company
Valentine
Sophia
NBC
Bulgarian Religious Persecution Report From Europe
A traveler reports that starting January 1948 Bulgaria's communist authorities jailed 30 to 40 members of the United Evangelical church amid a drive against religion. Leaders say 15 top church figures were charged with spying for the U S and Britain and breaking currency laws.
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Sofia
Associated Press
Taveller
Europe
United Evangelical Church
U. S
Britain
Communist Central
Fatherland Front
The
Communist Party
United Nations Hear Testimony On Russia Slave Labor
The United Nations heard sworn affidavits from former Russian slave labor camp inmates claiming hundreds of thousands die yearly from beatings and starvation. The American Federation of Labor compiled the testimony and presented it to the Economic and Social Council while the United States backs a resolution urging the International Labor Organization to investigate slave labor abuses.
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United Nations
Russia
Lake Success
American Federal of Labor
Economic and Social Council
United States
AFL
International Labor Organization
CIO
Bag Stolen From Hotel With Gems Worth 75000 Dollars
Worcester Feb 15 Lawrence Bodenheimer a New York jeweler reported he was robbed of 75000 in diamonds today while checking out of the Sheraton hotel He said the bag containing the gems was on top of his luggage near the bulletin board and he did not witness the theft.
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Worcester
Mass
Lawrence Bodenheimer
New York
Sheraton
Bodenheimer
Authority For Control Living Costs Asked
Washington reports the administration asked Congress for standby authority to impose wage and price controls and to build plants if needed to speed production amid rising living costs. Speaker Rayburn warned taxpayers of a probable spring deficit boost and signaled possible tax legislation to fund expanded social security and health programs.
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Washington
Congress
Rayburn
D-Tex
Truman
Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan
White House
Estranged Husband Nabbed After Sister-In-Law Slaying
Harry Vaughan of Bellaire captured in a Benwood cafe after a dawn shooting that killed Violet Ruckman and wounded her mother. Police credit Benwood Patrolman Rudy Yarnezch and off duty officers for the arrest. Vaughan, 26, had two stolen pistols and faced formal charges.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Roy Jolliffee
Harry Vaughan
Bellaire
Benwood
Vaughan
William Swisher
Violet Marie Ruckman
Frank Ruckman
Rudy Yarnezch
Force
Yarnezch
Wheeling News Register
Gunmen rob Baltimore bank for over thirty thousand
Police pursue three armed suspects after a Walbrook Union Trust branch robbery about 10 am. The trio, using revolvers, seized more than 30 000 dollars in a shopping bag and fled before detectives arrived. A rented car from a U drive it firm carried the bandits’ earlier victim name.
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Baltimore
Walbrook
Union Trust Company
Paralyzing strikes shut Philadelphia transit system
Philadelphia faced a public transit paralysis as a five day CIO Philadelphia Transportation Company strike idled 11 000 workers and 3 850 AFL Yellow Cab drivers. Independent cabs and police taxis moved limited traffic while officials pushed for compulsory arbitration and a bill to curb shutdowns.
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Philadelphia
CIO
Philadelphia Transportation Company
AFL
Yellow Cab Company
Pennsylvania
State Senate
Cio-Philadelphia Industrial Union
Quaker City
Jury To Hear Lester Case In Tazewell Circuit Court
Dale Stuart Lester faces a shotgun slaying case in Paint Lick near Wardell as the first matter before Judge W L Sexton. Earlier docket included Walter C Houchins found guilty of larceny from a person and given one year in the penitentiary.
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Dale Stuart Lester
Henry Patton Brown
Paint Lick
Wardell
W. L. Sexton
Tazewell
Walter C. Houtchins
Richlands
Wess
Manchester
Brown
Houchins
Jewel Ridge
Bill Dan Franklin
Shelton Cockrum
Pocahontas
Commonwealth
Pearl Davis
Willie Lloyd Abshire
Eddie Turner
Peery Whited
Secret spy trial to open under military commission rules
Munich reports a highly secret spy trial opening tomorrow before a U S military commission charged with selling sensitive information to the Czechoslovak government. The defendant faces possible death, with names and verdicts to be kept concealed for security reasons.
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Munich
Germany
U. S
John L. McKee
McKee
U.S
Army
United States
Norfolk Expands City Boundaries Amid Mayor Resignation
Norfolk Virginia council votes 4 to 1 to annex 39.6 square miles of Princess Anne and Norfolk counties. Mayor Richard D. Cooke opposes the ordinance and resigns as mayor. Councilman Preslon Darden is elected to succeed Cooke while remaining a council member.
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Norfolk
C A. Harrell
Princess Anne
Richard D. Cooke
Preslon Darden
Cooke
Virginia Governor Names Labor Head
Edmond MacBoggs of Richmond was named acting commissioner of labor and industry of Virginia. The appointment by Governor Tuck takes effect February 21, succeeding John Hopkins Hall Jr., who retires at that time following his January 17 retirement request.
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Richmond
Edmond MacBoggs
Labor and Industry
Virginia
Tuck
Boggs
John Hopkins Hall
Hall
Taft Accuses AFL Of Seeking Great Privilege
Senator Taft accuses the American Federation of Labor of seeking extraordinary privilege as AFL President William Green defends the Taft Hartley Act changes. Green condemns the law as impracticable, unworkable and harmful to labor rights while advocating repeal or substantial reforms. The exchange centers on closed shops and union powers under the Taft Hartley framework.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
American Federation of Labor
United States
William Green
AFL
Senate Labor Committee
Green
Senator
Morse
R-Ore
Congress
Pepper
D-Fla
United States bars strategic goods to Soviet sphere
Geneva Switzerland Feb 15 The United States will not permit strategic materials to go to the Soviet Union and its satellites spokesperson Paul R Porter told a United Nations trade conference today He stressed U S policy controls apply to all Soviet bloc states and their satellites.
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Geneva
Switzerland
United States
Soviet Union
Paul R. Porter
United Nations
Pope Pius to Address Mindszenty Trial Demonstration
Pope Pius II will make a major pronouncement Sunday on the Mindszenty trial. He is set to address a Catholic Action demonstration in St Peter's Square, expected to draw about 400000 people in protest of Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty trial.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius II
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Catholic Action
St. Peter's
Senators Rebuke Coal Exporters Over ERP Exports Plan
Washington February 15 Senators rebuked coal exporters who urged doubling coal shipments under ERP for the Marshall plan. Buckley of the Coal Exporters Association argued for two million tons monthly, but critics warned such exports would curb European coal production and undermine self help goals. Buckley cited record 1947 output and a fall in 1948. he blamed overproduction for price declines while costs rose.
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Washington
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Daniel T. Buckley
New York
Buckley
Coal Exporters Association
Economic Cooperation Administration
Connally
D - Tex
ECA
Congress
Paul Hoffman
U. S
Europe
Tydings
D-Md
Suit for Alienation of Affections in Weidetz Case
Two children of Harry Weidetz bring a $100,000 federal suit against their stepmother Frieda Delbrugge Weidetz alleging alienation of their father's affections. The case follows the death of Weidetz, who left an estate valued at about $184,786 and a will giving $5,000 to each of four children with the remainder to his widow. The plaintiffs Marion and Harry Weidetz Jr are from a former marriage. Jean and Marjorie are from the last marriage.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Harry Weidetz
Marion
Frieda Delbrugge Weidetz
Weidetz
Harry Weidetz, Jr
Jean
Marjorie Weidetz
Richmond Jewel Robbers Loot Large Sum in Weekend Heist
Police intensified the search for two suspects after the Schwarzchild Brothers jewelry store was robbed of unset diamonds, watches, pins, and cash valued at 200000 to 300000 dollars. FBI and local authorities examined scene clues and surveillance, with one suspect described as 55, 170 pounds, and another as 38, 135 pounds and foreign- accent.
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Richmond
Schwarzchild Brothers, Inc
FBI
Washington
Auerbach
John Wright
Virginia
Holt Threats Highlight West Virginia Insurance Bill Debate
West Virginia Delegate Rush D. Holt said he received threats linked to his support for an insurance bill limiting agents to five percent of state business. He implicated Homer Hanna of Charleston, a district court clerk and insurer, as behind the threats. Legislative action moved forward on several administration backed measures including liquor revenue gains and a subsistence aid reform.
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Connally
D-Tex
United States
North Atlantic
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U. S
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate
Russia
State Department
Department
Congress
Charleston
W. Va
Rush D. Holt
Holt
House
Huntington
Hanna
U.S. District Court For
West Virginia
Legislative Committee On Government and Finance
Mountaineer Insurance Agency, Inc
Meadows
Mountaineer
Liquor Commission
State Health Department
State Supreme Court
Plea Lost In Vote Tampering Case At Supreme Court
James Edward Simon a Raleigh county courthouse janitor convicted of vote tampering in the November 5 1946 election lost his bid for freedom in a 4 to 1 Supreme Court decision Judge James B Riley dissented The court held that after discovered evidence from co defendants Thornhill and Lilly did not warrant a new trial and their acquittals do not affect Simons case
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Charleston
James Edward Simon
Raleigh
Supreme Court
James B. Riley
Simon
W. A
Thornhill
W H. Lilly
Logan County
Pr@d L. Fox
Bar
Lilly
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Chamber of Commerce
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Pius
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Wast
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