Arends Attacks Truman Budget at Mercer Lincoln Dinner
Illinois representative Leslie Arends denounces President Truman's 85.4 billion budget as unaffordable and criticizes foreign policy as calamitous. He urges a return to Lincoln era frugality and accuses the New Deal coalition of corruption and socialist leanings. The talk frames Korea and global policy as failures of the current administration.
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Leslie C. Arends
Rtil
Abraham Lincoln
Truman
U.S
Mercer County
West Virginian
Arends
Missouri
Hallanan contrasts GOP peace record with costly Democrat wars
Elizabeth February 16 Republican National committeeman Walter S Hallanan condemned President Truman for proposing a peace mix from Korea and urged West Virginia Lincoln Day dinners to rally for a Republican victory in November He accused Truman of bungling leadership firing MacArthur and keeping Vaughn on the White House staff while citing war casualties and economic strains to argue for GOP policy.
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Elizabeth
Truman
Korea
Walters
Republican National
White House
America
Russia
West Virginia
World Bank Agents Confer with Mossadegh on Oil Crisis
In Tehran on February 16 representatives of the World Bank held a lengthy 3 percent hour conference at Premier Mossadegh's bedside. They reported no substantial progress but agreed to meet Mossadegh again tomorrow, signaling it could be the last session, an Iranian source said.
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Tehran
Iran
World Bank
Mohammed Mossadegh
Mossadegh
Hossein Fatemi
Amir Alaie
Fatemi
Alcoholic Joy Ride Ends With Teenage Girl Dead In Car
Huntington police investigate the death of 17 year old Eg Madden found slumped in the rear of an automobile parked near 24th Street flood wall. Two in the car, aged 29 and 24, were questioned as autopsy results awaited to determine cause of death.
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Huntington
W. Va
Herman A. Frazier
eg _Madden
24Th Street
S. Werthammer
Frazier
Miss Madden
US Set to Be Excluded From Britain Atomic Test
Washington reports the United States likely will be barred from Britain's forthcoming atomic explosion in Australia. Britain is expected to adopt the American rule that no foreign observers attend atomic tests, a policy continued since Bikini in 1946. News reporters will only describe distant observations if allowed.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Australia
Fears Precedent in Anglo-Iranian Oil Case
Senator Wiley warns against a settlement in the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute that could enable other governments to seize properties. He doubts the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development should manage Iran’s oil industry until a deal is reached, fearing a wave of confiscations worldwide.
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Washington
Sen
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Eugene Black
International Bank For Reconstruction and Development
Iran
Britain
Great Britain
Black
Margiotti Quits Democrats to Join Republicans
Charles J. Margiotti, former Pennsylvania attorney general, left the Democratic Party in Pittsburgh on February 16 citing sick and blind leadership and corruption. He switched to the Republican Party, saying Washington needs change and that Democrats no longer uphold high ideals. Margiotti had previously left the GOP in 1934 to back Governor George Earle and later served as attorney general under Earle.
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Pittsburgh
Charles J. Margiotti
Democratic Party
Washington
Margiotti
Republican Party
George Earle
Earle
Diamond Smuggling Gets Stunning Blow
Washington reports two New York suspects Adolph Neumann and Abraham Hornstein were arrested for smuggling 145 carats of diamonds. Customs Commissioner Frank Dow announced a string of blows reducing illicit diamond traffic, noting about 7,000 carats valued at roughly $1,125,000 seized in under a year as traffickers planned a large influx of free and tax free stones.
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Washington
New York
Frank Dow
Dow
Adolph Neumann
Abraham Hornstein
Customs Bureau
U. S
Un-American Group Hays Reds In Films
The House Un-American Activities Committee accused the film industry of failing to weed out Communists. It reported that hearings since 1947 identified over 300 figures as Communist or fellow travelers, and warned of potential Communist infiltration of television. It plans to recall Oliver Edmund Clubb for diary review and urged a broad espionage law with no time limits.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Hollywood
House
Oliver Edmund Clubb
State Department Foreign Service
Department
Loyalty Security Board
Clubb
Phone Operator Weds $3 Million Heir in Canada
London Ontario February wedding joins Mary Kathleen Connell Steers, 20, a Bell operator, with John Leonard Smallman, 18, heir to a $3 million estate. Mixed Catholic Protestant ceremony at St. Martin's Church follows a Mexico honeymoon. Smallman, a Protestant, gains $2.6 million at 14 and $150,000 yearly interest at 21, plans construction work. bride formerly with Bell Telephone.
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London
Ont
Mary Kathleen Connell Steers
John Leonard Smallman
St. Martin’s
W. T. Flannery
Mexico
Smallman
Canada
Toronto
Bell Telephone Company
Temperance Book Replenishment Sought for Stroudsburg Schools
Librarian Janet Bender seeks nine more copies of Ten Nights in a Bar Room to stock Stroudsburg school libraries. A Schoonover will trust of 25,000 dollars funds nonbasic materials, with 10 copies of the temperance novel first purchase to show what drinking leads to in a village.
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Stroudsburg
Janet Bender
Samuel M. Schoonover
Monroe County
Schoonover
Florida
FBI Swoops on Klan for Kidnaping and Flogging
A North Carolina case reports a white couple abducted and flogged by members of the Ku Klux Klan. FBI agents conducted raids as part of the investigation into the violent crime and attempted kidnapping, with authorities pursuing charges and seeking suspects.
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FBI
Klan
North Carolina
Ten Arrested Including Two Law Officers
FBI raids in the Carolinas nab 19 ex Klansmen on kidnapping and civil rights charges. Victims Dorothy Martin and Ben Grainger were beaten and driven into South Carolina where the flogging occurred. Among those held is Early L. Brooks, a Fair Bluff constable and Klavern leader, with others including deputies and farmers from Cerro Gordo and Fair Bluff.
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N. C
FBI
Carolinas
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
Fair Bluff Klavern
Columbus County
U. S
Dorothy Martin
Ben Grainger
Fair Bluff
Horry County
S.C
Clayton Sellers
Myrtle Beach
Carolina
Early L. Brooks
Southlands Sports Club
W. A. Murphy
Charlotte
FBI Bureau
Martin and Grainger
Brooks
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Carolinas Klan
Thomas L. Hamilton
Leesville
S. C
Grainger
Miss Martin
Cyclops
Klavern
Bobby Brooks
Raleigh
Ross Enzor
L. W. Worley
James Robert
Bob) Hayes
Pittman Foy Strickland
George Miller
Sherwood Miller
Steve Edmund
Cerro Gordo
Horace Strickland
Allies Accept Red Proposal For Post Armistice Parley
MUNSAN Korea Sunday Feb 17 Allies accept a post armistice political conference limited to Korea with reservations to ensure recommendations go to the UN and Republic of Korea, that foreign forces means non Korean troops, and that etc does not imply other Asia issues. Nam Il sought time to study the reply as Joy stressed the scope remains Korean.
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Munsan
Adm
C. Turner Joy
U. N
Panmunjom
Joy
Nam I
United Nations
Republic of Korea
Reds
Jov
Russia
Wheeling Irishman Delivers Heart Fund Silver and Mileage
A 52-year-old Wheeling glassworker named Joe Fallon arrived in Washington Pennsylvania in the rain with a wheelbarrow filled with nearly 100 dollars in silver and greenbacks for the heart fund drive. He started from Wheeling yesterday morning and walked 33 miles, ending with 96.88 dollars for Washington fund officials and 22 dollars for Wheeling. Fallon said he joined the effort after a friend died of heart trouble and shook off fatigue to help.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Joe Fallon
Wheeling
W. Va
Fallon
Washington Heart Fund
State Line
West Virginia
Wheeling Heart Fund
Monroney Proposes National Fair Elections Commission
Sen. Monroney of Oklahoma says he may draft a bill for a bipartisan national fair elections commission with strong powers akin to a high commissioner. He also suggests raising presidential campaign spending limits to 12 to 15 million dollars per party, covering satellite groups, to curb unlimited totals. The proposal aims for new laws ahead of the 1952 campaign.
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Washington
Sen
Monroney
D-Okla
National Fair Elections Commission
Bernard M. Baruch
Owen D. Young
Party
Oklahoman
Senate
Dulles Urges Political Offensive Against Soviet Aggression
Des Moines reports U S diplomat John Foster Dulles urged a political offensive against Soviet despots to deter aggression. He warned against open military conquest and said the Kremlin fears America's atomic power. He advocated freedom and internal pressure to weaken communist rule and cited the Japan peace conference as proof of love of freedom reducing Soviet bluster.
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Des Moines
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Kremlin
Russia
Red Army
America
Japan
Water Pistol Wielder Lets Copper Have It
Patrolman James Lippert was shot between the eyes with a water pistol near the University of Tennessee campus. Samuel K. Dallas, a Havana Cuba student, leaned out and squirted him as another auto pulled alongside. Lippert arrested Dallas for disorderly conduct in a no parking zone.
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Knoxville
Tenn
James Lippert
Lippert
University of Tennessee
Samuel K. Dallas
Havana
Cuba
Dallas
West Virginia Banker Held In Embezzlement
FBI issues arrest warrant for Samuel E. Swiger vice president and cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Cairo West Virginia. Swiger is wanted for alleged embezzlement amounting to 36000 dollars and has been missing since Wednesday. He is charged under the Federal Reserve Act by a U S commissioner in Parkersburg. Swiger has a long banking career in the Parkersburg area dating to 1917 with the Cairo bank since its 1941 organization.
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Pittsburgh
FBI
Samuel E. Swiger
Farmers and Merchants Bank of
Cairo
W. Va
Swiger
Fred Hallford
Hallford
Federal Reserve Act
Parkersburg
U. S
Lawrence Renning
Howard
Clarksburg
Farmers and Merchants Bank
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