General Meyers Convicted on Three Counts
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers was found guilty by a federal jury on two counts of persuading a witness to give false testimony to a Senate investigation into his wartime business affairs. He faces up to 30 years in prison, bail was continued, and sentencing scheduled for soon.
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Washington
Bennett E. Meyers
Army Air Forces
Senate
Meyers
Bleriot H. Lamarre
Ilia Rae Curnutt
Alexander ‘Holtzoff
Holtzoff
Wey
LaMarre
Mildred
Aviation Electric Corp
Dayton
Ohio
Baltimore
Aviation Electric
Army
Republican Lands Regional School Plan
Senator Wiley of Wisconsin endorsed a plan for regional universities by 15 southern states. He argued united regional schools would add educational institutions for both colored and white people. Alma Wessels of New York opposed, calling it expansion of segregation and an evil.
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Washington
Wiley
Rwis
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Judiciary Committee
Alma Wessels
New York
National Association of Colored Een Nurses
Greeks Battle 800 Guerrillas Near Kastoria
In Kastoria region Greece a fierce engagement unfolds as 800 guerrillas clash with Greek forces on Mount Mourikou twelve miles northeast of Kastoria near the Albanian frontier. Officers report guerrilla advances aim to isolate the town with 65 of 82 villages under guerrilla control.
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Kastoria
Greece
Mount Mourikou
Constantious Bonis
Vets Rally Against MacArthur Nomination on campus
A Boston University rally by Veterans Against MacArthur denounces Gen. Douglas MacArthur as president. Co chair John Carr MIT student and veteran says democracy requires a president representative of the people's will and warns MacArthur's wartime actions could mean peacetime dictatorship.
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Boston
Boston University
MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
John Carr
Massachusetts Institute of Technolo
Pac Fighting
Actress Betty Grable Sprains Ankle During Rehearsal
Hollywood brief reports Betty Grable actress and horse owner broke down in the stretch while rehearsing a dance number for a new picture. She sprained her left ankle but said the studio has no intention of destroying her.
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Hollywood
Calif
Betty Grable
Senate Defeats ERP Slash Bid
The Senate rejected a Taft backed plan to cap European Recovery Program outlays at 4 billion dollars in a 56 to 31 vote clearing the way for a 5.3 billion dollar aid bill starting April 1. Debate featured Taft Vandenberg clashes over aid duration with warnings of adverse effects on U S economy.
Democrats Set Campaign Issues
The Democratic national committee chose two campaign themes peace and prices and noted civil rights disputes remain unresolved. Alabama's Lennard Thomas voiced support for Truman's civil rights stance, while Boston figures withdrew and Tokyo aides protested anti MacArthur broadcasts. The Philadelphia convention is set for July.
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Democratic Party
Democratic National Executive Committee
Lennard Thomas
Montgomery
Ala
Truman
Curley
Boston
Rep. McCormack
Tokyo
General MacArthur
Japan
Democratic Executive Committee
Frank McHale
Indiana
Philadelphia
Alabama
Democratic National
MacArthur
Armed Forces Radio
U. 8
A Friend In Need Puts A Friend In Jail
Melvin Davis, 23, was arrested for speeding while in a hurry to raise 25 dollars to help a friend arrested for speeding. The friend was released from jail when a posted pond jail. Three await decisions.
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Washington
Melvin Davis
Rent Control Extension OK'd By Lawmakers
The house banking committee moved to strip federal officials of rent control authority and to empower local boards. The panel approved a one year extension to March 31 1949 and set a Monday debate with a Tuesday showdown vote. An amendment would allow local boards to decontrol rents or order increases, prompting Rep. Monroney to warn of a hole in rent control. Oklahoma plans to seek reinstatement of a senate provision letting federal review determine substantiation.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
House
Monroney
D-Okla
Senate
Federal Housing Administer
Hitch-Hiking Family Spurns Further Aid From Peace Officers
The Cochrane family four rode with kindness through Indiana after a fire in Sault Ste. Marie. Red Cross fed them in Indianapolis and they declined further police help. Michigan police had no record of the fire, and authorities traced their pass through Michigan and Marshall County sheriffs.
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Cochrane
Indiana
Red Cross
Jack Cochrane
Jack Jr
Perna May
Kokomo
Charleston
W. Va
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Lansing
Michigan State Police
Michigan
Claude E. Houser
South Bend
Marshall County
Argentina Rapped For High Wheat Prices
The Herter committee accused Argentina of "bleeding a starving Europe" with exorbitant wheat prices. It urged the future administrator of the European Recovery Program to pressure Buenos Aires, warn of export rationing tied to cooperation, and warned high prices could raise Marshall Plan costs by over a billion dollars in four years.
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Washington
Herter
Argentina
Europe
House of Representatives
U. S
Marshall Plan
International Emergency Food Council
IEFC
Plan To Fire Alien Embassy Employes
Washington March 12 All aliens employed at American embassies in Russia and satellite nations are about to be fired. Assistant Secretary of State John E Peurifoy disclosed this today to a House Expenditures committee. For security reasons these aliens will be replaced by Americans. He didn't say how many there are or what the cost would be. The subcommittee is examining state department efforts to weed out disloyal workers.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Europe
U. S
Congress
Ohioan
Truman
Marshall
Russia
John E. Peurifoy
Peurifoy
State Department
UMW
Lewis
Ezra van Horn
Thomas E. Murray
New York
Murray
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Moody
United Mine
Illinois
High White
District 12
Ilinois
John L. Lewis
James Hanahan
Springfield
GOP Leadership Urges Tax Cut Action
Washington action underway on a bill to cut income taxes by 4.7 billion dollars with a senate vote planned next week. Taft announced the deadline at the Senate Republican policy committee meeting as Doughton of Ways and Means praised the committee’s bill. The Truman administration argued against rushing to reduce the surplus to ease the national debt.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Republican Policy Committee
Rep
Doughton
Ways and Means
Senate Committee
Truman
Huntington VA to Be Probed in West Virginia Personnel Practices
Washington reports a House sub committee will start hearings in Huntington West Virginia on Monday to investigate personnel practices at the Veterans Administration regional office. Rep W Howes Meade reports he heads the panel after being named by Edith Nourse Rogers. Beckley WV announces seven layoffs as of March 31 part of economy measures from VA headquarters. Meade cites numerous complaints about Huntington staff.
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House
Huntington
W. Va
Veterans Administration
Rep. W. Howes Meade
R-Ky
Edith Nourse Rogers
Th House Veterans Affairs Committee
Beckley
Veterans Office
Keith W. Bailes
Meade
United States
West Virginia
Kentucky
Charleston
Gromyko Snubs Jewish Leaders Over Palestine Talks
In New York on March 12 Soviet deputy foreign minister Gromyko refused to discuss the Palestine partition with Jewish leaders during a Big Four meeting. He silent for two hours while Jewish agency urged implementing the UN plan for separate Jewish and Arab states. The Arab higher committee is to be invited to speak Monday as the four powers report to the Security Council.
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New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
Palestine
Jewish Agency For Palestine
United Nations
Holy Land
Gromyko
United States
France
China
Security Council
Dixie Governors Move On Capitol Washington
Southern governors gathered in Washington to press campaigns against President Truman's civil rights program. Alabama Democrat Lennard Thomas urged party unity, while Virginia moves to bar Truman on the Democratic ticket, threatening Virginia’s electoral votes. Texas Democrat Bob Calvert and Gov. Beauford Jester arrived as talks continued.
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Washington
Truman
Lennard Thomas
Alabama
Virginia General Assembly
Virginia
McGrath
Dixie
Bob Calvert
Texas Democratic Executive Committee
Beauford
Calvert
Texas
Chile Demands UN Probe of Coup Role
Chile today called for a United Nations investigation into Russia's role in the Czechoslovak coup and pressed for the case to be added to the Security Council agenda. The move followed the death of Jan Masaryk and marked the first direct challenge to the Soviet Union before the council since its early Iran case.
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Czechoslovakia
Jan Masaryk
Prague
Security Council
Chile
Soviet Union
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Council
U.N
Wero
Chicago Air Crash Probers Seek Cause Of Plane's Plunge
A blue ribbon coroner jury failed to determine the Delta Airlines crash cause that killed 12 of 13 aboard. Survivor Mrs. Tripilina Meo underwent leg surgery as inquest continued to March 31. Pilot Grover Hallaway and crew faced separate investigations while witnesses described an unusual climb and sharp stall after liftoff from the airport.
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Tripolina Meo
Chicago
Delta Airlines
Miami
Holy Cross Hospital
Meo
Tripilina Meo
Mer Tean
Fred, Jr
A. L. Brodie
Stewart Sisson
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Grover Lee Holloway
College Park Ga
Fla
CAA
Wallace Slate Of Electors Filed In State
West Virginia's Wallace for President slate lists eight electors with one per congressional district and two at large. The party plans a state convention within a week to name remaining candidates as the Progressive group organizes. The platform opposes the Marshall Plan and endorses a $1 hourly minimum wage and labor wage demands.
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Wallace
Charleston
W. Va
Henry A. Wallace
West Virginia
Clive D. Knowles
Wallace Party
Progressive Party of
Williams
O’brien
Julian M. Barclay
Peace Point
Bethany
Solomon Tate
Fairmont
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
4356
UMW
Ervin William Dement
Point Pleasant
Cio-Pac
Carlotta Fryer
Ridgeley
Max Henry Green
Montgomery
Phyllis Hall
Matewan
Walter Ieen Pritchard
Weston
Congress
Glen H. Taylor
Idaho
Lewis announces possible soft coal walkout in West Virginia
Logan and Williamson operators react to John L. Lewis saying he could not win terms on a pension plan with soft coal operators. The move could affect 100,000 West Virginia miners and may take effect with the next workday if the walkout materializes. Operators express surprise and caution while noting the June 1 expectation.
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Logan
W. Va
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
Arthur Downing
Logan Operators Association
United Mine Workers Chieftain
Lewis
Washington
Downing
Williamson
J. J. Ardigo
Williamson Operators Association
Ardigo
Missing U S Plane Hunted In Europe
Milan Italy March 12 American Italian French and Swiss aircraft searched the Alps today for an American C 46 transport reported missing with its crew of five. The transport believed to be in commercial service left Geneva yesterday and has not been heard from since. Eight U S military planes arrived in Milan to join the search from here. The exact identity of the missing transport and its occupants is not yet established.
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Milan
Italy
Alps
Geneva
U. S
Titler Dodges Lewis Remarks On Wage Pact
In Beckley West Virginia on March 12 reporter sought comment from George Titler to John L Lewis about coal miners dishonoring the 1947 wage agreement. Titler spoke briefly then interrupted with I will tell you tomorrow and ended the call.
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Beckley
W. Va
George Titler
United Mine Workers District 29
John L. Lewis
Titler
Soft Coal Strike Hint From John L. Lewis
John L. Lewis signaled a possible nationwide soft coal strike unless mine operators meet his pension demand. He told 400000 UMW miners the 1947 wage pact has been dishonored and urged locals to advise members while talks with operators stalled. He cited a proposed $100 monthly pension for older miners and noted funds totaling tens of millions remain unspent.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
U. S
Europe Unites in Anti Red Bloc Draft Pact
Delegates from Britain France and the Benelux nations approve a draft treaty to form a western European union aimed at defending against communism. The pact binds the five to automatic joint defense in Europe and harmonizes living standards trade and legal systems with open invitation for others to join.
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Brussels
Belgium
Britain
France
Britains
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Europe
Germany
United States
European Union
Associated Press
Thousands View Masaryk's Biel
Prague mourns Jan Masaryk with crowds of women and grieving men at the foreign ministry where his bier lies in state. Officials say his death is from his own action amid a Western versus Communist clash over Czechoslovakia’s leadership.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Jan Masaryk
Foreign Ministry
Unfriendly Comment Vexes Czech Envoy in Vienna
Czechoslovak charge d affaires Dr. Zdenek Cery protested to the Austrian foreign office against an unfriendly comment in the Austrian press on recent events in Czechoslovakia. The foreign office rejected the protest, affirming press freedom to print what it wishes.
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Vienna
Zdenek Cery
Foreign Office
Czechoslovakia
Finn Parliament Eyes Russ Pact
The Finnish foreign committee plans discussion tomorrow on instructions for the seven man delegation to negotiate a Finnish Russian treaty in Moscow.
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Finn Parliament
Helsinki
Finland
Foreign Committee of Parliament
Moscow
Sweden to join Marshall Plan group study
Stockholm reports Sweden will join the group of European Marshall Plan countries in Brussels to study a customs union. The foreign office announced tonight.
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Sweden
Marshall Plan Group
Stockholm
Brussels
Foreign Office
Man Charged With Kidnapping Woman In Brooklyn Escape
New York March 12 A man accused of kidnapping the white daughter of a Pennsylvania hotel owner to force her father to drop a perjury charge was arrested in Brooklyn as a fugitive Irene Papp a 22 year old woman was also found in Brooklyn Authorities said she described a three day ride through Pennsylvania Delaware and New York during which she was under anesthesia most of the time She said she was not otherwise molested Assistant chief inspector Patrick Kenny said the suspect Wilford Jenkins 23 admitted kidnapping to pressure the father against the charge in McKeeport Pa
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New York
Pennsylvania
Brooklyn
Irene Papp
Delaware
Patrick Kenny
Wilford Jenkins
Fue
Mekeesport
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