Legislature Delays Action On Vet Bonus In West Virginia
The West Virginia Senate delays final action on a veterans bonus including a tax rider while also approving abolishing the eight year old court of claims. House activities focus on hunting and fishing license changes and reorganizing the National Guard with raises for the adjutant general.
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W. Va
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Court of Claims
House
National Guard
Johnston ‘Dmercer
Boreman
R-Wood
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee
Young
D-Brooke
West Virginia
Charleston Gazette
del. Ballard
R-Monroe
Justices of the Peace
State Athletic Commission
Seniat
Truman defends Vaughan amid criticism over Peron medal
President Truman lashed out at opponents of his military aide Major General Harry H. Vaughan at a Arlington banquet. He warned against attempts to force staff changes by critics and defended Vaughan's reception of a Peron medal as not involving policy. The speech also touched on polling and loyalty, calling attacks on Vaughan attacks on himself.
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Washington
Truman
Harry H. Vaughan
Vaughan
Drew Pearson
Peron
Argentina
Pearson
Mr. Truman
Army- Navy Country Club
Arlington
Reserve Officers Association
Chicago Tribune
Pearson remarks on Truman aide Vaughan reception
Drew Pearson criticizes Gen Harry Vaughan receiving a decoration from Dictator Peron at an Argentine embassy event. He cites Washington principles forbidding gifts from foreign governments and argues the act harms U.S. democratic aims. Pearson notes limited attendance and says he would act to ease Latin American backlash.
New Nazi Poison Tabun Revealed in War Secrets
Mountain View Calif Feb 22 The Nazis had a liquid death spray called Tabun capable of killing a man in two minutes with a dime sized skin application. A U S army engineer Maj James M Graham said it could penetrate clothing and some gas masks. Intelligence found 125000 tons in Bavarian caves and reports 1000 tons were shipped to Aberdeen Maryland under a chlorine label.
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Mountain View
Calif
U. S. Army
James M. Graham
Don’t pity the Army recruit the star-studded brass
Washington reports testimony before a house subcommittee on boosting pay for the armed forces. Lawrence H. Whiting stated recruits gain about 183 dollars monthly in pay and allowances, while generals earn top salaries near 15 thousand dollars yearly. The plan would raise pay across services by up to almost 50 percent for top ranks, with the lowest enlisted grades seeing small gains and new recruits excluded.
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Congress
Lawrence H. Whiting
Whiting
House
Armed Services
Uniformed Services
Chicago
Whithighen
Ing
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Air Force
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Public Health
National Defense
Secretary of Defense
Forrestal
Prisoners Flee Pound Camp
State and local police were alerted last night to search for four inmates who escaped from the Pound Va state road camp about 7 30 o clock. The escapees Glenn Tweed Grady Music Frank E Trimm and Allen Baugher were serving sentences in Rockingham Rockingham and Bristol counties for house breaking criminal assault grand larceny and robbery. Camp officials said the break occurred without violence or theft of camp property and no trace had been found as a general alarm was issued.
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Pound
State Road
Bristol
Glenn Tweed
Rockingham County
Tweed
Mercer County
Grady Music
Corporation Court
Emergency Classes Set Up In Hamlin
Hamlin West Virginia students from Hamlin high school displaced by a $250000 fire will resume classes next Monday in make shift sites including a mortuary prep room a funeral home work room a county jail basement and a church recreation room. Officials say 375 pupils will attend in these locations while sewing machines donated by mothers support home economics lessons.
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Hamlin
W. Va
Taylor Cremeans
Lincoln County
Johnson-Koontz Funeral Home
German Court Frees Kuhn From Nazi Leader to Two-Year Term
Fritz Kuhn, former German American Bund leader, freed by a German appellate court reducing his 10-year sentence to two years served. He grinned at the decision and shouted at witness John Carlson during the exchange. Kuhn, born 1896 in Munich, sought to regain U.S. citizenship lost in 1943.
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Munich
Germany
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Kuhn
John Carlson
Carlson
Detroit
U. S. District Court of New York
United States
Denazification
U S Diplomats Target Of Russ Attacks
A newly published Soviet book blames American diplomats for espionage and wartime aims. It names Annabelle Bucar and claims U S officials fanned anti Soviet sentiment, with charges denied as baseless by Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith and Elbridge Durbright.
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U.S
Moscow
Annabelle Bucar
Pennsylvania
U. S. Information Service
U. S. State Department
Soviet Union
Walter Bedell Smith
Elbridge Durbrow
San Francisco
United States
Ambassador Smith
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Miss Bucar
Konstantin Lapshin
Pittsburgh University
Clairton
Literary Gazette
State Department
Patricia Grady Davies
John Davies
Davies
Modern Techniques Invade Puppy Love Notes In School
A Denver teacher confiscated a boy’s note reading Dear Herbie Do you love me Yes or No, signaling a quirky clash of modern efficiency with elementary romance in a classroom setting. The incident highlights how time saving production line ideas permeate even school life.
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Denver
Herbie
Bristol Man Slain In Hotel
The bloody nude body of James A. Mahoney a Bristol Virginia millionaire was found in a room at the Monteleon hotel in New Orleans. Autopsy doctor said death came from a broken neck and a battered head likely by a strong man. Police saw no robbery motive as checks and valuables remained. Mahoney arrived by air from Bristol and planned a Yucatan vacation. He was about 50 and not married. He owned shares in Bristol property and in radio station YCYB.
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New Orleans
French Quarter
Monteleon Hotel
James A. Mahoney
Bristol
Virginia-Tennessee
Philip Montelepre
Mahoney
James Blass
Airlift Planes Set New Record in Berlin
American and British planes flew into Berlin at 90 second intervals setting a new airlift record. In the 24 hour period ended at noon 7 513 tons were sent in nearly matching pre blockade train shipments. Weather aided the haul with 895 planes lifting the prior record and 876 flights today.
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Berlin
U. S. Air Force
Prosecution of 15 Bulgarian Churchmen Amid Spy Allegations
Bulgarian churchmen face trial on espionage charges with claims of confessions from several accused. The Communist press and religious bodies debate alleged U S and Britain links as observers join the proceedings. Bishop Paul N Garber and Rev Yanko Ivanov feature in contested confessions and mistreatment allegations.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
iThe Communist Party
United States
Britain
Paul N. Garber
Central
Europe
Geneva
Yanko N. Ivanov
Ivanov
Garber
London
Legation
Rabotnichesko Delo
Hungarian Congregational Church
Vassil Ziapkov
St Enener
P. Fortunoy
Italy's No 1 Red Attacks Pope Pius XII
Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's top Communist, publishes proof sheets in Via Nuove accusing Pope Pius XII of seeking a Holy Alliance against Communist nations. The move signals a potential shift in Communist policy in largely Catholic Italy, breaking with the prior Vatican tolerance.
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Rome
Italy
Palmiro Togliatti
Pius XII
Togliatti
Via Nuove
Vatican
Virgil Bank Ends After Third Robbery in Four Months
The Virgil State bank in Virgil Illinois plans liquidation after three holdups in four months. Directors set March 24 for a stockholders meeting to vote. Robberies sapped patron confidence prompting security upgrades. deposits to be refunded, notes liquidated. Suspects Peterson Rabensburg Hornan Otowski Minister faced sentencing in Minnesota and Illinois.
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Virgil, Ill
Virgil State Bank
Spencer Peterson
Little Rock
Joseph Hornan
Aurora
Peterson
Louis Rabensburg
Arthur Otowski
John Minister
Chicago
Rabenburg
Minnesota
Hornan
Otowski
Minister
National Bank and Trust Company
Sycamore
Virgil
Warnings of New Coal Strikes If Taft-Hartley Is Weakened
Washington reports a Southern Coal Producers leader warns Congress that without continued Taft-Hartley safeguards another crippling coal strike could occur. James W. Haley of the National Coal Association cites 12 major strikes since 1935 and cites the act as essential to orderly bargaining.
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Congress
Senate Labor Committee
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Moody
James W. Haley
National Coal Association
Haley
Senator Morse
Rore
Morse
J. Gerhard P. van Arkel
National Labor Relations Board
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