Senate Debates Double European Aid Cut Fails
Senate votes show Taft Russell 10 percent cut defeated 54 to 23 as lawmakers weigh a 5.58 billion dollar European recovery bill. Key senators Gillette Hickenlooper Byrd warn of global impact and possible further reductions while urging continued support for aid.
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Taft-Russell
Washington
Senate
Taft
Russell
Gillette
D-la
Len Hickenlooper
R-Ia
Hickenlooper
Stassen Calls Asia Aid Plan Aids Against Communism
Harvard and MIT event in Boston features Harold Stassen proposing a Asia wide MacArthur plan. He urges a minimum one billion dollars annually to bolster southern China and the region, funded without central government control, mirroring the Marshall plan to curb communism. Churchill praises the speech and urges Allied persistence.
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Boston
Harold Stassen
China
All
Asia
University of Pennsylvania
Winston Churchill
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Garden
Stassen
Stalin
Hitler
Europe
Japan
Burma
Truman
Cedar Rapids Bricklayers Agree on $3 Per Hour Scale
Edward J. Roddy business agent of local No 1 Bricklayers Ma sons and Plasterers International Union AFL announced the new scale in Cedar Rapids set at 3 dollars an hour with a 50 cent increase. The rate applies to bricklayers not plasterers and runs until April 1 1950. John Berger led the committee that agreed on the figure after Friday night meeting. Most Cedar Rapids bricklayers did not work Friday while some contractor bricklayers stayed on their jobs.
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Cedar Rapids
Edward J. Roddy
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union
AFL
Roddy
John Berger
Cedar Rapids Union
Berger
Radford Named Pacific Fleet Commander in Chief
President Truman named Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford to command the Pacific fleet and serve as high commissioner of the Pacific islands. He will hold the rank of full admiral, succeeding Admiral Derwin Clinton Ramsay whose retirement was announced recently.
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Washington
Truman
Arthur W. Radford
Grinnell, In
Pacific Fleet
Macific Islands
Radford
Derwint Clinton Ramsay
Weather Outlook With Increasing Clouds Tonight
Increasing cloudiness tonight with light showers likely to begin Sunday. Low tonight near 40 with Sunday high around 50.
Radio Operators End Strike At Pan American Airlines
In New York CIO Transport Workers members agreed to a $30 monthly raise, ending a strike by 250 radio operators that halted most Pan American flights across the Atlantic and Pacific. Airline spokesman said flight operations would resume immediately, with only Boeing Stratocruisers continuing service.
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New York
Pan American World Airways
CIO Transport
Atlantic
Pacific
Boeing
Savings Rolling At Record Pace
Washington (RP) Oscar R. Kreutz head of the National Savings and Loan League says Americans are saving money in record amounts. If 1949 ends as it has begun, savings and loan associations may see their largest inflow in history. He adds the saving trend shows people don’t rely on government and plan for their own future.
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Churchill
MIT
Stassen
Republic
Washington
Oscar R. Kreutz
National Savings and Loan League
Savings
Kreutz
Bus Drivers and City Lines Near Pact in Wage Talks
Cedar Rapids City Lines and its bus drivers moved closer to a contract on a five to seven cent hourly raise split by a two cent gap. The plan covers 15 months from Jan 1 1949 to Mar 31 1950 with retroactive raises and a 15 new GM coaches purchase aimed at boosting passenger business. The union will vote Monday on the offer while a strike vote is contingent on the outcome.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids City Lines
Cedar Rapids
P. J. Ganley
AFL Transportation Workers
the Gazette
Ganley
K. BE. Totten
City Lines
Totten
Actress June Knight Weds Carl Squier in Las Vegas
Actress June Knight age 35 married Carl B. Squier 55 vice president of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in a Las Vegas ceremony held Friday.
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Las Vegas
June Knight
Carl B. Squier
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Let World Know We'll Fight if We Must, Zacharias Urges
Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias urged that America must let the world know it will fight again if needed to insure peace. He called for psychological warfare, a stronger propaganda role, and a UN police force, plus a centralized intelligence agency to battle aggressors and improve peace prospects.
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Zacharias
Ellis M. Zacharias
America
Executives Club
Voice of America
United Nations
Central Intelligence Agency
Japan
No Wonder His Feet Hurt Him
New Orleans record story about John McClain who felt severe foot pain and called for a doctor. An ambulance arrived and intern Jack T. Jackson quickly diagnosed the simple cause: McClain had his shoes on the wrong feet.
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New Orleans
John McClain
Jack T. Jackson
McClain
House Votes For Repeal Of Oleo Tax
Washington reports the House approved repeal of the 63 year old oleomargarine tax by 287 to 89. The measure ends the oleo tax but requires yellow oleomargarine sold in public eating places to be triangular and labeled oleomargarine. The Senate has not acted this year.
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Washington
House
Senate
Iowans Oppose Oleo Tax Repeal In House Vote
All eight Iowa representatives voted against a Poage bill to repeal federal taxes on oleomargarine. The measure would remove levies on retail yellow oleomargarine and related products, but states banned yellow oleo. Democrats and dairy interests argued the move would steal the butter market.
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Washington
Iowa
Senate
House
Poage
Granger
Utah
August H. Andresen
Minn
Agriculture Committee
Granger-Andresen
West allies condemn Hungary Romania and Bulgaria in three-note protest
The United States and Britain warned Hungary Romania and Bulgaria for “notorious” treaty violations and demanded human rights guarantees. Canada Australia and New Zealand endorsed the protest. If rejected a three member commission could be formed and possibly U.N. action pursued. The notes cited Mindszenty trials in Hungary Romania’s judicial bias and religious persecution in Bulgaria.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
London
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
United Nations
Cardinal Mindszenty
U.N
U. N. Security Council
Mindszenty
Suit Seeks Dad's Gambling Losses Against Broadwater Beach Hotel
Guardians for Maher Jacob Weinstein and Judith Ann Weinstein sue Broadwater Beach Hotel in a U S district court seeking $83 959 claimed lost by E E Weinstein in a prohibited Mississippi gambling room between November 7 1944 and June 6 1946. The conservator is M J Weinstein grandfather of the children and a Minneapolis resident.
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Biloxi
Broadwater Beach
United States
Mississippi
M. J. Weinstein
Maher Jacob Weinstein
Judith Ann Weinstein
E. E. Weins
Guardian
Minneapolis
E. E. Weinstein
Weinstein
Bioxi
Key Found On 32744th Try frees Barnick in Minn.
Bud Barnick, 21, co owner of a sewing machine shop, was shackled on a radio show in Minneapolis. After a week of mailed keys prompted by Ralph Edwards on Truth or Consequences, Barnick located the correct key on the 32744th delivery and freed himself and his pants from the restraints.
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ST. Paul
Bud Barnick
Barnick
3’ Sewing Machine Sales and Repair Company
Ralph Edwards
Minneapolis
Edwards
Pact Ministers Rebuff Soviets
Washington reports that 12 Atlantic Pact foreign ministers rejected Moscow’s charge that the pact is aggressive and aimed at the Soviet Union. The ministers reaffirmed the defensive purpose of the treaty and emphasized collective security under the western alliance.
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Washington
12 Atlantic Pact
Russia
Soviet Union
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