Senators Quiz Jobholders On Grain Trading
Washington reports Senate appropriations subcommittee members pressed for FBI data on grain trading tied to President Truman's physician Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham. John F. Beacher refused to disclose specifics after a closed session while public hearings were prepared featuring Harold E. Stassen and others. The panel also sought brokers and accounts information from state department staff with ties to commodity dealings.
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Washington
Jan
Knowland
Calif
FBI
Justice Department
John F. Baecher
John F. Sennett
Senate Appropriations
Sennett
Wallace H. Graham
White House
Beacher
Harold BE. Stassen
Stassen
Minnesota
Priday
Senate
Appropriations
State Department
Ferguson
Mich
William Cc. Hrnster
Institute of Inter- American Affairs
Truman
Graham
Bache and Company
Lodge to Speak at West Virginia Lincoln Day Dinners
U S Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. will headline Lincoln day dinners across West Virginia next month. Charleston hosts February 12 with Walter S. Hallanan arranging support from Charleston and Kanawha County Republicans. Planned stops include February 11 Fairmont with Clarence J. Brown and February 13 Clarksburg with John Bricker. Wheeling hosts Carroll R. Reece.
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Charleston
W. Va
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
West Virginia
Walter S. Hallanan
August P. Gardner
Lincoln
Kanawha County
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Fairmont
John W. Bricker
Clarksburg
Carroll R. Reece
Republican National Committee
Wheeling
Virginia Escapees Held In Utah After Narcotics Find
Police held five suspects in Salt Lake City on auto theft and general charges after a car containing $20,000 worth of narcotics was found. An escapee from a Virginia prison was identified as William G. Midgett, known in Virginia as John Woods, aged 25. Also detained were James Dove 35 of Oklahoma and Robert Morris 22 a transient. two Salt Lake City women were involved.
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Salt Lake City
Jack E
Blazzard
Virginia
John Woods
William G. Midgett
Themelves
James Dove
Oklahoma
Robert Morris
15 Killed In Paris Le Bourget Crash Including 3 Americans
Paris report says a Air France DC-4 from Brussels crashed while landing at Le Bourget, killing fifteen and leaving only one survivor among 11 passengers and five crew. Americans Burrell Libre Power among victims. names and hometowns pending.
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le Bourget Field
Paris
Air France
Brussels
le Bourget Air Field
Burrell
Libre
Power
Jane Burrell
United States
Honoe
Minnesota
Stephen Nathan
Gitkill
le Bourget
Air Line
Italian girl wed to army lieutenant in New York church
Luciana Parri, 14, married Army Lt Ralph H. Bassett Jr., 24, at The Little Church Around the Corner with the blessing of Manhattan's children court after obtaining a license earlier the same day. The couple, who plan to reside in San Francisco, met in Leghorn in 1946 and bride later claimed she was 13 at the time they met. Bassett is set to report to Aberdeen Proving Ground on Jan 12.
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New York
Luciana Parri
Army
Ralph H. Bassett
Manhattan
Children Court
Leghorn
Italy
Bassett
Aberdeen, Proving Grounds
San Francisco
Bluefield Board Probes Gas Service and Health Chief Post
Bluefield city directors pressed City Attorney Luther Scott for a progress report on natural gas for Bluefield after residents complained of high rates and poor supply. They also discussed filling the health department vacancy left by Dr. Lepper, favoring a part time local doctor until a full time MD health head is found.
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R. A. Sisson
Bluefield
City Board of Directors
Luthr G. Scott
Sisson
Luther Scott
T. C. Tanner
Tanner
Public Service Commission
Health Department
E. P. Mitchell
Lyle Gage
State Health Commissioner
David P. Lepper
State Health Department
County Health Department
Lamarre Pleads Guilty To Three Perjury Charges
Lamarre H Lamarre a 35 year old gasoline station attendant and former president of Aviation Electric Corp pleaded guilty in U S district court to three perjury counts. Sentencing deferred for probation report. Meyers scheduled for arraignment tomorrow on six perjury and inducement charges. Indictments stem from testimony to a Senate war investigating committee about Meyers private business during wartime procurement.
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Washington
Bleriot H. Lamarre
Aviation Electric Corp
Bennett E. Meyers
U. S. District Court
Meyers
Army Air Force Procurement
Lamarre
Senate
Air Forces
War Contracts Under Scrutiny
Baltimore January 6 officials said a federal grand jury is examining the Garsson brothers wartime munitions contracts. Frank H Patton noted five to seven weeks for government facts on Murray and Henry Garsson. The trio had appeals pending their bribery convictions linked to former Rep Andrew J May.
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Baltimore
Garsson Brothers
Kentucky
Frank H. Patton
W. Calvin Chestnut
Murray
Henry Garsson
Garssons
Washington
Andrew J. May
Horse Military Committee
May
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Garrions
Batavia
Elgin
Chemical Warfare Services
Edgewood
Senate
Garsson Munitions
Nimitz asserts U S control of seas and mobile airbases
Washington reports Fleet Admiral Nimitz declaring the United States has absolute sea control and can establish floating airbases to safeguard security and world stability. The navy plans peacetime tests of his war strategy while advancing offshore air fields and mobile bases worldwide.
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Washington
Chester W. Nimitz
United States
Navy
Nimitz
Forrest P. Sherman
Mediterranean
Balkan
Louis E. Denfeld
America
United Nations
Europe
Asia
Polar
Midway
Red Cross Fund Drive Stirs Chapter Protests
Chapters in Birmingham Alabama and El Paso Texas challenge the 1948 national goal of 75 million dollars while Van Wert Ohio faces possible charter revocation for refusing to disband joint fund raising with the community chest. Basil O Connor defends the policy as well known to all chapters and cites the Van Wert case.
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Washington
Red Cross
Birmingham
Ala
el Paso
Texas
American Red Cross
van Wert
Ohio
Community Chest
Howard Bonham
A. C
Bonham
Marcile Borden
Basil O'Connor
The
Norfolk
Recluse Levi Stranger Found Dead in Mansfield Shack
Levi Stranger sixty six is found dead in a kitchen chair with his boots near the stove after keeping his brother Frederick wrapped in blankets to ward off cold for two weeks. Frederick Stranger sixty three was earlier found dead December twenty third, the medical examiner ruling natural causes. Police and state investigators said both men were lifelong Mansfield natives.
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Levi
John Yaskulka
Arthur A. ‘Korss
Frederick Stranger
Frederick
Gilman
Levi Stranger
Mansfield
Palestine Government Rebukes Hagana Over Semiramis Hotel Blast
Jerusalem January 6 1948 The Palestine government rebukes Hagana for the Semiramis hotel blast claiming it killed innocent people. Rescue crews freed a 28 year old woman trapped 34 hours beside her four year old son. Civil order worsens with 600 killed since UN partition vote and British security stretched.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Hagana
Jewish Defense Army
Semiramis
David Ben-Gurion
Jewish Agency Executive
Alan Cunningham
Government House
Holy Land
United Nations
Partition
Katamon
Truman Tax Plan Sparks Political Labels
Washington reports Republican leaders denounce a proposed tax cut as political. President Truman may seek lower taxes for low income Americans and higher corporate levies in his state of the union, with speculation of an excess profits tax to fund relief. Knutson delays a House hearing to January 16 to gather data for the measure.
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Washington
Repor
Truman
Congress
State of the Union
Knutson (Rminn
House
Ways and Means Committee
White House
CIO
Mr. Trumans
Rep
Dingell
D-Mich
Capitol
Knutson
Stalin Reported Seriously Ill in Rio de Janeiro
Ambassador Brandao says Stalin suffers paralysis on his right side and uses crutches. Brandao, who just returned from Moscow, says Molotov would likely succeed if Stalin dies or resigns. A Swedish cancer specialist was summoned for consultation, but patient identity is not disclosed.
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Rio de Janeiro
Mario Pimentel Brandao
Moscow
Brazil
Russia
Stalin
V. M. Molotov
Brandao
Lenin
Elis Berven
Stockholm
Electrical Workers To Seek Pay Hike
The CIO United Electrical Workers union announced plans to seek substantial wage increases from General Electric Westinghouse Electric and General Motors electrical division. The decision followed a two day conference with 300 UE delegates representing about 300 000 workers. The union also urged wider price reductions on basic necessities including food rent fuel and clothing.
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New York
CIO
United Electrical Workers Union
General Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Electrical
General Motors
General Electric
Three Earth Shocks Felt In Mexico
Mexico City reports three tremors causing rattling dishes and swinging chandeliers during New Year greetings with President Miguel Aleman. The epicenter was about 226 miles southeast of the capital, on soft lakebed soil that dampens shocks.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Miguel Aleman
National Palace
Mild Weather Brightens Plains and Great Lakes Region
Mild weather eased snow and ice in the lower Great Lakes as plains skies warmed Tuesday. Forecasters predicted fresh snowfall for New Jersey Delaware Virginia and parts of New York and Pennsylvania while Washington Oregon and Northern Idaho saw rain. Temperatures at noon ranged from 77 in Browns ville to 42 in Omaha with Canadian stations Aklavik and Fort Good Hope at 51 degrees below zero. No immediate severe cold expected though New England and northern Atlantic states may cool somewhat.
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Great Lake Region
Midwest
New Jersey
Delaware
Virginia
New York
Pennsylvania
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Brownsville
Texas
Miami
Fla
Denver
Colo
Sidney
Neb
Des Moines
Omaha
Dodge City
Kas
Aklavik
McKenzie
Fort Good Hope
United States
New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Snow Clamps West Virginia Roads Amid Snowstorm Woes
In West Virginia up to five inches of new snow worsened driving on mountain highways. Preston county measured four to five inches with 8 degrees in the afternoon and 25 in Aurora and Terra Alta. Elkins area thawed but slush and ice remained on higher levels. Joe G. Gentry announced his candidacy for Cabell County sheriff as a Democratic nominee.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Road Commission
Preston County
Aurora
Terra Alta
Elkins
Huntington
Joe G. Gentry
House of Delegates
Demos
Itions
Cabell County
Truman to Outline State of the Union in Capitol Address
Congress readies for the presidents State of the Union with a 5000 word address on Capitol Hill at 1 30 pm est. He will push for a European recovery program a multi billion dollar budget higher taxes and possible wage price controls while Republicans warn against costly foreign aid and tax hikes.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Capitol Hill
Airman
Taber
R.N
House Appropriations Committee
Congress Ad
Veterans Administration
Greek Rebels Establish Temporary Capital Near Albanian Border
Greek war correspondent reports Markos Vafiades set up a temporary capital for a separate communist state in the Grammos mountains near the Albanian border. Villagers say Lykorrakhi, northeast of Konitsa, hosts the base defended by guerrillas and 20 millimeter anti aircraft guns.
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Athens
Markos Vafiades
Grammos Mountains
Vasso Tsimberados
Embros
Grammos
Lykorrakhi
Konitsa
Tsimberados
Vasiades
London
Britain
Bulgaria
Albania
Yugoslavia
Greece
Markos
United States
John Howard
National Guard
Howard
U. S. Congress
Hill 915
American Soldier Fights for Samoan Crown in Germany
Pfc Raymond J. Brown Jr. a military policeman at Rhein Main Air Base in Frankfurt claims to be the native high chief of Samoa known as Lafoia Lutu Peni. He says a rival seeks to seize his chieftain title while he remains in Germany awaiting discharge in 1949.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S. Army
Raymond J. Brown, Jr
Rhein-Main Air Base
American Samoa
Lafoia Lauvale Lutu Peni
Brown
Samoa
Tojo Ends Testimony As War Crimes Trial Closes Itself
Hideki Tojo finished cross examination at the international war crimes tribunal in Tokyo admitting the emperor reluctantly agreed to war in light of his advice. He defended his ruler while clashing over details and insisting he did no wrong as the trial neared its end.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
International War Crimes Tribunal
Tojo
William Webb
Cordell Hull
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