Meat price crackdown outlined by Price Director
Washington AP Price Director Michael V. DiSalle warned the first meat black marketeer will be made a national example. An OPS order tightens slaughterer curbs to enforce ceilings while FBI and other agencies aid enforcement. Violations carry up to one year in jail and a $10,000 fine. Officials expect the order to be issued soon and plan to limit slaughterers to simplify policing.
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Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
FBI
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Agriculture Department
Wife 79 Wins Divorce From Amorous 80 Year Old Husband
In Los Angeles a 79 year old wife was granted a divorce from Dwight F. Stratton 80 after alleging he violated a prenuptial agreement and made amorous advances. The court recognized the agreement naming her as wife in name only and joint tenancy of Stratton’s property. Stratton kept his home while Mrs Stratton received community property including a stove and refrigerator.
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Los Angeles
Mary Jane Wells Stratton
Dwight F. Stratton
San Francisco
Stratton
Danish Tax Collectors Receive Mock Gift Suit
In Copenhagen Danish income tax collectors seeking to promote Pay your taxes gladly were mailed a suit of clothes with a note saying they may as well have it since they will be stripped to the shirt.
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Copenhagen
INS
16 Die in Two Home Fires in Georgia and Texas
In Dillard Georgia a stove topple sparked a blaze in a three room shack killing eight people including six children. Survivors recount Edgar Teague rushing in to save the trapped family. In Lamesa Texas eight of a family died when kerosene poured on a stove with live coals started the fire. Only two escaped.
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Dillard
Edgar Teague
Teague
Billy
Carl
Bobby
Lucille
Bessie Talley
Ruth Talley
Jessie Ballew
Lamesa
Texas
Albert Lemons
Narcariza
Mary
Janie
Lorenzo
Alicia
Albert
Albert, Jr
Reunited O'Brien Family Welcomes Shirley Ann In LA
The O'Brien family from San Francisco, including 11 year old Shirley Ann, reunites after being separated. Milton J. Stevens funds a hotel stay near Juvenile Hall and offers father stable work and a home, with court hearings set for February 19 to confirm Shirley Ann’s story.
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Los Angeles
INS
William J. O’brien
Mama
Papa O’brien
San Francisco
Shirley Ann
O'Brien
Milton J. Stevens
Juvenile Hall
O’brien
Colorado Prison Warden Freed of Theft Charge
A district court jury in Canon City acquitted Colorado State Penitentiary Warden Roy Best in an embezzlement trial. The verdict came Saturday, after the jury deliberated overnight, finding Best not guilty of theft of state property.
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Colorado
Canon City
Colo
INS
Roy Best
Ford Maps Wide Security Program Against Bombing
Ford Motor Company announced a company wide disaster preparedness program led by Ford Security Committee to guard Rouge plant and other facilities against external bombing, sabotage, and espionage. John S Bugas heads the panel as it studies external danger defenses and protection of confidential records and productive capacity.
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Ford
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
Ford Security Committee
John S. Bugas
FBI
Bugas
VA Offers Housewife's Aid Pie Slice Marker
The Veterans Administration unveiled a pie marker device that punctures holes in unbaked crust to guide uniform slices and vent steam. Invented and used at a Midwest veterans hospital, it keeps pies fresh when served to patients. The pre-slice market was among 3,000 improved methods adopted by VA last year.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Midwest Veterans Hospital
Doomed Trio Coffin March Planned to White House
Demonstrators organized by the Civil Rights Congress plan a four coffin march to the White House this Sunday to protest the Martinsville seven case. Survivors James Hairston John C Taylor and Francis Grayson face execution Monday as protests spread nationally with mass meeting in Washington and demonstrations in Harlem Los Angeles and Chicago.
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Richmond
Martinsville
Truman
White House
Civil Rights Congress
U. S
Virginia
Alabama
Scottsboro Boys
James Hairston
John C. Taylor
Francis DeSales Grayson
Aubrey Grossman
New York
Washington
Harlem
Los Angeles
Chicago
John Battle
Battle
Daniel Howard
Connecticut
The
Benton and Acheson Clash Over Foreign Broadcasts
Senator William Benton challenged the State Department over the overseas information program saying it has failed and may need investigation. Secretary Dean Acheson urged a careful study before any transfer, arguing removal could hinder momentum and coordination of broadcasting in support of foreign policy. Eisenhower endorsed expansion after a Europe defense survey.
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Washington
William E. Benton
D-Conn
State Department
Department
Dean Acheson
Congress
Acheson
Benton
Voice of America
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cold Wave Deepens Across Florida and Nation
A severe cold spell grips the Dixie and Ohio Valley with a major natural gas shortage in Ohio leaving thousands without heat. The Midwest eases as the Arctic blast wanes there while Florida faces a forecast freeze and potential citrus crop damage risk.
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Chicago
Dixie
Ohio Valley
Ohio
Upper Midwest
West
Gulf States
Arkansas
Tennessee
Georgia
Carolinas
Toledo
Columbus
Parma
Grove City
Cleveland
Tampa
Fla
St. Augustine
Florida Peninsula
Yugoslavs Sentenced For Anti Tito Plots
Belgrade AP reports one Yugoslav was sentenced to death and 15 others received prison terms from six years to life for plots to overthrow the Tito regime and restore exiled King Peter II.
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Belgrade
Tito
Peter II
Burglar Finds Hidden Body in St Louis Home
A burglar telephoned police from 5910 Arsenal street reporting a body. Officers found Mrs Blanche Musskopf, 65, dead in the kitchen and her fox terrier beside her. Death judged natural several days prior. $668 in cash found near the body. back door forced, house ransacked, lights off. Neighbor and sister-in-law had not heard from the widow in days.
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ST. Louis
Arsenal Street
Blanche Musskopf
Musskopf
Harold Musskopf
Relief Easy To Take
An unemployed man with five children explained his refusal of a four pound weekly job saying he already receives three pounds eighteen shillings on relief, so he would not work for an additional two shillings. English magistrates heard the remark on Saturday.
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Rochester
Eng
Ins
Warner Baxter III Critically Ill at Santa Monica Hospital
Hollywood veteran Warner Baxter III is reported critically ill at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica after a sudden illness Saturday. He is 59 and due to turn 60 in March.
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Warner Baxter III
Hollywood
INS
Warner Baxter
St. John’s Hospital
Santa Monica
Russian Court Sentences 25 in Kickback Scandal
A Soviet high court convicted 25 people in a $1,000,000 graft scheme involving fake state building cooperatives. Eight ringleaders received up to 25 years in prison with civil rights loss and asset confiscation. The Artel builder network falsified contracts and inflated estimates to siphon state funds.
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Moscow
Pravda
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Artel Builder
Artel Byzprom
Artel Progress
Artel
Russia
Man buried by 20 feet of snow is dug out alive
Gerhard Freisegger a 27 year old construction worker was buried under 20 feet of snow on Gross Clockner mountain for 12 days. He was dug out Friday conscious and coherent though in extreme shock frozen legs and a heart attack had occurred. Doctors expect he will live. He survived by moving arms and legs and keeping awake during the ordeal.
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Vienna
Austria
Gerhard Freisegger
Gross Clockner Mountain
Freisegger
Allies Press on in Korea Despite Chinese Counterattack
United Nations forces faced heavy Communist resistance in western Korea as the frontline shifted. Chinese counterattacks near Ichon intensified in cold weather, with U N forces advancing toward Seoul and reporting about 18 000 casualties over nine days.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Korea
Ichon
Seoul
U.N
Earl D. Johnson
U.S
Eighth Army
Jim Becker
Railroading Foreman Fatally Injured at Derailment Site
W L Louie Knodle 55 of Waterloo an Illinois Central wrecker foreman died after a crane cable snapped while clearing wreckage from a derailment near Earlville 36 of 46 cars jumped the track on Plumb Creek Bridge. He died at Delaware County Memorial Hospital after being transported from Earlville depot.
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The
Earlville
W. L
Louie” Knodle
Waterloo
Illinois Central Railroad
Here
Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Robert Masseik
O’keefe
Probe of Negro Officer Dropped
The Air Force dropped disloyalty charges against Capt. Charles A. Hill Jr., 25, a Detroit Negro, after Air Force Secretary Finletter personally reviewed the case. Hill had said he was ordered to resign or face a board over alleged Communist links and for reading the Daily Worker, which he denied. Finletter cited Hill’s World War II record and regret over the inquiry.
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Washington
Air Force
Finletter
Charles A. Hill, Jr
Detroit
Hill
Wac
Daily Worker
American in Vienna Freed By Russians
An American student William Rogavin, 21 from New Haven Connecticut, was arrested and released by Russian authorities in Vienna after intervention by American officials. Two other Americans Richard Winter and Robert Wilson remained missing as Austrian and American authorities searched the capital under four power occupation.
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Vienna
William Rogavin
New Haven
Conn
Rogavin
U. S. Army
Silent Danube
Richard S. Winter
Wilton
Robert C. Wilson
Oakland
Calif
Winter
Paris
Wilson
Solons Say Troops Must Be Checked
Washington talks on the railroad dispute recessed after a four hour exploratory session sponsored by the National Mediation Board. Union and railroad representatives discussed the Dec 21 plan while post offices faced mail snarls and Congress considered anti strike action to protect the defense program.
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Gazette
Washington
National Mediation Board
CST
Francis A. O’neil, Jr
Sala
O’neil
Post Office Department
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Capitol Hill
Morse
R-Ore
Truman
Barden
D-N.c
House Labor Committee
Congress
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Rabun Bald Mountain
Florida
Margaret Chastain
O'Briens
Robert Bunson
Radio Record
Town News
Marion Crossword
Financial
Tee
Wien
Ieee Ee
Ween Ween
BRT
W. W. Satterwhite
Atlanta
Brotherhood
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