Tuck Proposes Major Virginia Government Reorganization
Governor Tuck outlined a plan to reorganize Virginia state government to improve efficiency and cut costs. The proposal would reduce 55 agencies to 11 departments plus auxiliary offices, consolidate overlapping units, and create a unified welfare and institutions department absorbing corrections mental hygiene hospitals public welfare and related programs.
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Richmond
Tuck
Virginia General Assembly
House of Delegates
Senate
Assembly
Exec
Tuck Out Yued
Aols
Industrial Commission and Education
Department of Welfare and Institutions
Department of Corrections
Department of Mental Hygiene and Hostails
Department of Blic Welfare
Board of Pardons
Missing Girl Found in Frisco Hotel
Hollywood piano prodigy Jacqueline Horner, 15, who ran away January 13 seeking freedom, was found in a San Francisco hotel with 19 year old sailor Wallace Wells. Wells faced a delinquency charge. Jackie said her life with her mother restricted her and that she remains a good girl.
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San Francisco
Hollywood
Jacqueline Horner
Wallace W@lls
Jacqueline
Clara Horner
Los Angeles
Wells
City
Jackie
Saxony mines employ 25000 Germans under Soviet control
Saxony minister president Max Seydewitz said 25,000 Germans work in cobalt zinc lead and kaolin mines in the Erzgebirge, far more than prewar levels. He noted workers are paid well compared with officials and that the mines around Aue Annaberg Marienberg are fully under Soviet authority.
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Leipzig
Saxony
Erzegebirge
Aue
Marienberg
Annaberg
Timoffei Dudarov
Max Seydewitz
Soviet Union
Seydewitz
Thousands of German Workers Walk Off Jobs
About 100000 workers walked off in Nuernberg and 100000 in Cologne as Western Germany faced food shortages. Trade union leaders planned a Munich meeting to decide on a general strike in the American zone. In Nuernberg 30000 gathered at Adolf Hitlerplatz to denounce occupiers and officials with hunger and unity slogans.
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Nuernberg
Germany
Cologne
Munich
Adolf Hitlerplatz
Hans Ehard
U S Imperialism Attacked At Lenin Memorial Meeting
Moscow January 21 Mikhail A Suslov chief of the propaganda administration of the communist party attacked United States imperialism at a Lenin memorial meeting attended by Prime Minister Stalin and other officials. He cited Lenin to claim US and Britain may follow Germany toward imperialist ruin and extolled Soviet achievements in 1947.
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Moscow
Mikhail A. Suslov
Communist Party
United States
Stalin
Nikolai Lenin
Soviet Union
Suslov
Lenin
Great Britain
Germany
Tito Quoted As Saying War Is Inevitable
Paris reports quote of Tito saying war with Britain and the United States is inevitable and that Yugoslavia has a weapon stronger than the atomic bomb. Editors doubt authenticity as sources dispute the speech and timing.
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Tito
Paris
la Voce
Trieste
Marshall Tito
Yugoslavia
Britain
United States
Pierre G. S. Dumas
pro-Degaulle
Dissidence 40
Dumas
Vaterland
Lucerne
Switzerland
Zagreb
Senate Sets Hearings on Meat Rationing Bill
Washington reports three day Senate Banking Committee hearings begin January 29 on a proposed meat rationing plan. Tobey names a group. Flanders chairs the subcommittee. House leaders show reluctance to grant new powers amid Hoover's support for voluntary measures. Hoover warns against compulsory wage and price controls.
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Washington
Senate
Housewives
Tobey
R-Nh
Senate Banking Committee
Flanders
R-Vi
Agriculture Department
House
Rep
Javits
R-Ny
Herbert Hoover
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hoover
Bitter Runoff Looms In Louisiana Governor Race
New Orleans, Jan 21 A bitter contest for Louisiana governor looms between Earl K. Long and Sam Houston Jones both former officeholders. After the first primary Long led with 124 840 votes to Jones 89 735 from 1 020 boxes. A second primary by law would decide since no majority. The rivals who split a 1940 runoff faced charges of financial skulduggery.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Sam Houston Jones
Jones
Long
Robert F. Kennon
U. S
James H. Morrison
Huey P. Long
Four Killed in Colton Quarry Blast
Four Riverside men were killed instantly in a powder explosion at California Portland Cement's quarry near Colton California. The blast damaged windows across Colton and nearby San Bernardino as authorities investigated the scene and noted the workers were drilling and filling holes with explosives. The victims Omar Smith 37 Charles Martinez 33 Pascual Martinez 20 and Jerry Hairston 23 died on the first day of Hairston's new job. The company attorney termed the explosion unaccounted for and no injuries were reported among Colton High School pupils.
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Colton
Calif
California Portland Cement
Colton Union High School
San Bernardino
Riverside
Omar Smith
Charles Martinez
Pascual Martinez
Jerry Joseph Hairston
Hairston
John B. Lonergan
Los Anco
Colton High School
Britain Rejects U S Port Opening Suggestion
Lake Success January 21 Britain refused the United Nations assembly recommendation to open a major port in Palestine by February 1 to allow large scale Jewish immigration. Sir Alexander Cadogan disclosed Britain will not raise the 1500 a month immigration quota nor evacuate a largest port.
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Lake Success
Britain
United Nations Assembly
Palestine
U. N. Palestine Partition Commission
Alexander Cadogan
Holy Land
Security Council
Cadogan
Cyprus
Palestine Commission
U. N
Commission
Assembly
Sod
War Dead Arrive in Honolulu on C E O Connell
The Army transport Cardinal O’Connell arrived in Honolulu with 3,358 American war dead from Guadalcanal Brisbane and Sydney Australia. Col Otho W Humphries said 2,183 will proceed to San Francisco around Feb 3 aboard the O’Connell and 723 from Schofield Barracks Mausoleum will be shipped. One thousand one hundred forty three remain temporarily at Schofield awaiting identification or disposition.
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Honolulu
Cardinal O'Connell
Guadalcanal
Brisbane
Sydney
Australia
Otho W. Humphries
Pacific Zone
Sgraves Registration Service
San Francisco
O'Connell
Schofield Barracks
Schofield Mausoleum
Punchbow Volcano
Sideshow Barker Fined Put On Probation
Detroit Jan 21 Roy B Hix 41 un barker convicted of aggravated assault for kicking out the eye of 10 year old Richard Hinson who peered under a tent at a two headed calf at the state fair The judge fined 500 and 50 costs and ordered 60 days in jail for medical treatment plus two years probation The boy had already received about 8000 in settlements from Detroit agencies including the Detroit Racing association A 50000 damage entry is on file in Richard s name
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Detroit
Roy B. Hix
Recorder's
Arthur E. Gordon
Richard Hinson
Udge Gordon
Detroit Racing Association
Enerty
Richard
GOP Chiefs Eye $3 Billion Cut in Budget Plan
Washington reports GOP leaders aim to trim at least $3 billion from President Truman's 1949 budget to finance a Knutson tax cut. Staff estimates put 1948 tax cut costs as high as $6.5 billion, driven by rising personal incomes. Debates set for February 2 as joint budget actions loom.
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Washington
Congress
Knutson
Colin F. Stam
House
Ways and Means Committee
GOP
Truman
Martin
Mass
Taft
Ohio
Senate-Houes
Republican High Command
Joint Budget Committee
Stam
Ways and Means
Hoover Urges Cuts to European Recovery Aid Plan
Herbert Hoover told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Congress should pare the 6.8 billion plan for the first 15 months and label up to 3 billion in food and aid as gifts. He warned the cost would burden the economy and risk inflation while a bipartisan commission could oversee the program.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Congress
America
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hoover
Truman
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
House Foreign Affairs Committee
White House
Dean Acheson
Atlantic City
Vandenberg A., Mich
Senate
Navy Offers To Lend Fuel Oil To Virginia
Richmond officials announce a proposed Navy loan of a large quantity of fuel oil stored in Norfolk to Virginia for statewide distribution. Senator James E. Gardner says he will push legislation if needed. the oil will be released to Virginia oil companies on condition they replace it next summer. Governor Tuck’s seizure threat accompanies the plan.
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Richmond
Washington
Navy
James E. Gardner
General Assembly
Navy Department
Norfolk
United States
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Gardner
C. F. Joyner, Jr
Tucks
Joyner
McDowell Resident Seeks Sand Gravel Settlement
Maude Clark of Avondale McDowell County files a claims petition against the West Virginia State Road Commission seeking 3769 dollars for sand and gravel unlawfully removed from her 1.3 acre property to build the Crane Creek road. She says 9231 cubic feet were taken October 1947 for four weeks, protested October 2 without effect, valuing the material at 2769 dollars and seeking 1000 dollars for alleged property damage lowering the land to a creek bed.
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Charleston
W. Va
Maude Clark
Avondale
McDowell County
Court of Claims Today
State Road Commission
Crane Creek
Logan Lincoln Day Speaker Is Chosen
William S. Livengood Jr secretary of internal affairs for Pennsylvania will address a Lincoln day dinner February 11 in Logan. Republican national committee man Walter S Hallanan announced Livengood will speak at a similar dinner in Charleston the following night.
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Charleston
W. Va
Williams
Livengood, Jr
Pennsylvania
Logan
Republican National
Walter S. Hallanan
Livengood
Three Cited On Mann Act Charge
A Chicago couple and a Memphis youth were indicted by a southern district grand jury for transporting a Memphis woman to Bluefield to engage in vice. Charles B. Sharp Jr. and Hazel Sharp of Chicago and Clifford E. Opperud of Memphis face Mann Act counts. Thirteen liquor tax cases also arose among 37 indictments.
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Chicago
Bluefield
Memphis, Tenn
Southern District
Charles B. Sharp, Jr
Hazel Sharp
Clifford E. Opperud
Memphis
Ben Moore
Sharps
Opperud
Virginia Keenum
Polic Cpl. M. C. Yoak
FBI
Keenum
Trapped Man Dies In Flaming Car Crash
Martinsville Virginia January 21 Thomas Neal Hill 23 died after his car wrecked with a Danville Martinsville bus nine miles east of town on U S Route 58 He was pinned and burned as rescuers failed to reach him quickly Eyewitnesses Charley and Robert Yancey from South Boston heard his cries for about ten minutes Catie Duncan and son Lebb Duncan escaped unharmed no bus passengers injured
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Martinsville
Thomas Neal Hill
Here
Pasengers
Danville
South Boston
Hill
Catie Duncan
Dugsboro
Lebb Duncan
Senator Dworshak Named Lincoln Day Speaker
U S Senator Henry C Dworshak Republican of Idaho will address a Lincoln Day banquet in Bluefield. Walter S Hallanan national committeeman announced the invitation in Charleston. Date and program details will be announced later.
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Senator Dworshak
Idaho
U. S
Henry C. Dworshak
Bluefield
Walter S. Hallanan
Charleston
Idle at two mines sparks protest over non union operation
Nearly 600 Red Jacket Coal workers and Ralph E. Mills strip miners in Grundy Virginia were idle on the second day of a shutdown sparked by a protest against non union strip mining. State police ordered the Red Jacket miners to disperse after mass picketing while no violence was reported.
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Grundy
Red Jacket Coal Corporation
Red Jacket
Keen Mountain
Ralph E. Mills Company
Roanoke
Wilbur F. Glenn
Mills
United Mine Workers
Glenn
M. J. Blankenship
Buchanan County
Virginia
D. E. Damron
UMW
Escape Flight Fire Leaves 25 People Safe at Snow-Covered Landing
Boston reports a big Eastern Airlines jet skidded into a snowbank after landing in bad weather. Twenty five escaped to a snowbank, fourteen injured, eight hospitalized, with crew praised for orderly evacuations. Passenger James D Johnson of Forest Hills, Long Island, highlighted doors on the left side preventing greater tragedy.
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Boston
Eastern Airlines
Merrill E. Thayer
Miami
Capt
Thayer
James D. Johnson
Forest Hills
L. I
Explosion Rocks Ordnance Plant at Savanna Illinois
An explosion at the Savanna ordnance plant 10 miles north of Savanna on the Mississippi River caused windows to blow out along the town’s main street and was felt as far as Peoria about 100 miles away. Army officials reported no casualties. A Loyola University physicist in Chicago said his seismograph detected tremors across the region.
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Savanna
Ill
Illinois
Mississippi River
Peoria
Chicago
Aloysius Schmidt
Loyola University
Lewis rejects run with Wallace on third party ticket
A United Mine Workers official said John L. Lewis has no desire to run for vice president with Henry Wallace. The statement, in a letter by John T. Jones of Labor's Non-partisan league, responded to Burr McCloskey of the United Labor party inquiry.
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Akron
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Henry Wallace
John T. Jones
Labor
League
UMW
Burr McCloskey
United Labor Party
Lewis
Documents of Nazi–Soviet Collaboration Released by State
Washington reports public release of 260 formerly secret records detailing Nazi–Soviet ties from 1939 to 1941. The volume, edited by Raymond James Sontag, shows Molotov and Ribbentrop signing Western Europe division plans and Soviet aid to Germany in grain oil and other materials.
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Washington
Marshall
Russia
Hitler
Eastern
Europe
State Department
Germany
West
Persian Gulf
Nuernberg
V. M. Molotov
Poland
Nazi Foreign Office
Americ
France
Britain
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Molotov
Adolf Hitler
Raymond James Sontag
University of California
Attacks Renewed at Yehiam and Surrounding Palestine
Arab snipers wounded two Jews near Yehiam as renewed hostilities hit the Jewish settlement area along the Lebanon frontier. Across Palestine, three Jews and five Arabs died in scattered incidents, pushing official fatalities past 931 since the UN partition decision. A Jewish policeman died from wounds in yesterday’s clash near Acre. An Arab was found dead after an attack on Nazareth area villages.
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Jerusalem
Yehiam
Palestine
United Nations
Acre
Turan
Nazareth
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