Truman Vows All Possible Help Over British Coal Shortage
President Truman ordered a study of emergency actions to relieve Britain's coal shortage and said the U S would help land coal at British ports. He urged diversion of coal now at sea and informed a British official in London to back the plan.
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Washington
Truman
Granville Conway
United States
European Coal Commission
London
Attlee
London Gas Company
1800 Miles Via Covered Wagon Heads West to Parsons
Ira Kyle and wife begin a reverse 1800 mile journey from Los Angeles to Parsons Kansas. They plan 12 weeks at 20 to 30 miles daily, cost about $500. They travel two wagons with seven horses and live aboard wagon. chickens ducks dogs and two goats accompany them.
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Los Angeles
Ira Kype
Parsons
Kan
Kyle
British Name New s Chief in Palestine
Maj. Gen. G H A McMillan, famed for storming the Rhine with the 51st Highland division, assumed command of British troops in Palestine and Trans-Jordan on Thursday, succeeding Lt. Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker who faced Jewish criticism over curfews and searches aimed at suppressing the underground.
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Jerusalem
G.H. A. McMillan
Rhine
51St Highland Division
Palestine
Trans-Jordan
Evelyn Barker
Barker
U S Court Sentences Four Japs to Execution in Manila
A United States war crimes military commission in Manila sentenced three former Japanese thought police officials to death by hanging, one to a firing squad, and three others to life imprisonment for the decapitation of five American Navy flyers near the war's end.
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Manila
United States and Canada agree on military data exchange
The United States and Canada disclosed an agreement for full exchange of military intelligence as part of broader wartime collaboration. The five point program covers personnel exchanges, observers at exercises, standardized equipment, mutual use of facilities, and keeping national controls intact.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Ottawa
Mild Weather Prolongs Iowa Warm Spell For Now
The Weather Bureau forecasts another 24 hours of mild, partly cloudy weather across Iowa with temperatures near or above 50 degrees in many areas. Snow from recent storms is dwindling but runoff remains slow and streets are icy overnight. Des Moines notes a 29 to 33 degree swing, while Cedar Rapids reports 45 degrees at 2:30.
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Cedar Rapida News
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Lamoni
Quarantine At Fort Monmouth Over Influenza Outbreak
An influenza outbreak at Fort Monmouth forces a quarantine of 6 000 military personnel. The public relations office announced the order which confines all personnel to the post except those living off post. Troop movements and separations are halted while 200 men are hospitalized.
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Fort Monmouth
WN. J
Army Signal Corps
Dr. Carl Kesler Seeks Cedar Rapids School Board Seat
Dr. Carl C. Kesler Penick and Ford research director and current Cedar Rapids school board member announced his candidacy for the March 10 election. Kesler, 2nd year on the board, has pushed teacher experience policy changes and supply teacher salary plans while supporting Superintendent Clyde Parker and serves on the Iowa School Board Association board. He holds degrees from Southwestern College, Iowa State College, and the University of Pittsburgh, served in World War I, and resides at 2168 Linden Drive SE with two children.
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Carl C. Kesler
Penick and Ford
Cedar Rapids
George lXosek
Jrules
Kesler
Clyde Parker
Iowa School Board Association
School Board Association
Iowa
Southwestern College
Iowa State College
University of Pittsburgh
Penick and
Ford
Mary Alice
Carl
Johnson School
Linden Drive
Tojo’s Uppers To Help Him Remember Dec 7
Dr. Jeff B Bruton a 24 year old naval reserve officer wrote home that he and two companions were ordered to Sugamo prison to take impressions for dentures for Hideko Tojo the wartime premier. The upper denture plates will be engraved with Remember Pearl Harbor in Morse code.
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Dallas
Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Jeff B. Bruton
Sugamo
Hideko Tojo
Bruton
Hoover Visits Vienna After Germany Food Survey
Herbert Hoover moved from West Reich to Vienna after concluding a three day program in western Germany. He planned three days of talks in Vienna before traveling to Rome and reportedly pledged to recommend all possible aid to boost food imports under current economic transport and weather conditions.
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Berlin
Herbert Hoover
Europe
Vienna
Rome
Germany
Fourteen Miners Sit Down 600 Feet Deep in Lansford Shaft
Four teen anthracite miners huddled 600 feet underground at the Lansford colliery protesting payroll deductions for leaving early. They stayed on the fifth level after receiving two weeks of pay docked for quitting before the scheduled time, arguing the union contract requires only a seven hour shift to earn full pay. One miner Fritz Redash wed just hours earlier and his wife visited but could not talk to him. A fifteenth man joined briefly but surfaced ill. This marked the first sitdown in the region since October 1937.
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Lansford
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Fritz
Redash
Taft Outlines Five-Point Program For Senate Action
Senator Taft lays out a five point program to be completed by April 1 including a union control bill and a budget cut of four and a half to six billion from Truman's proposal. He expects about two weeks of debate on the labor measure and notes a two term presidency amendment may pass with Democrats holding the two thirds needed. The plan also includes expiry of the second war powers act and renewal of control bills on scarce commodities. A portal to portal bill debate is slated in about two weeks.
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Columbus
Ohio
Sen
Taft
Senate
Truman
Ohioan
House
Land Owner Awarded 8759 From Railroad
A district court jury ruled in favor of H. J. Schoonover owner of land used for a Rock Island railroad cutoff from Ainsworth to Brighton awarding 8759. plaintiff had sought 16600 in damages.
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Washington, Ia
H. J. Schoonover
Rock Island
Ainsworth
Brighton
G O P Maintains Stand Over Defense Budget Slash
Washington Republicans refuse to yield on trimming the 1948 budget by 6.0 billion while army and navy leaders warn deeper cuts threaten national security. Secretary Patterson cites risks to missions in Japan and Germany plus potential manpower and research reductions.
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Washington
Patterson
MacArthur
Japan
McNarney
Germany
Eisenhower
Gen. MacArthur
Carl A. Spaatz
Army Air Forces
Hunt Author of One-Man Crime Wave
Two mounted Texas Rangers and a 300-strong posse surrounded a 15 mile square forest in Monkstown Texas as they hunt a tall blond fugitive linked to a multi state crime spree. He stole cars kidnapped two filling station operators and indirectly caused a Dallas officer’s death.
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Monkstown
Texas
Texas Rangers
Bonnie Parker
Clyde Barrow
Dallas
Greensville
Red River
Oklahoma
P. D. Hale
Hale
Henrietta
Edward
William Stewart
Bogota
Greenville
Commerce
Mrs Glick Dies After Vehicle Crash Near Tipton
Mrs. Oscar Glick 32 of Solon route 1 died at 5 15 am in a local hospital from injuries in an automobile accident near Tipton February 6. Her husband was injured and released from Mercy Hospital. The crash involved a head on collision with a car driven by Lawrence Morrison Far Rockaway Long Island Morrison blinded by snow flurries entered the wrong lane. Mrs. Glick born January 28 1915 is survived by husband a daughter Sandra a son Larry and her mother Maud Fankhauser. Body taken to Sheets funeral home Tipton.
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Cedar Rapids
Oscar Glick
Solon
Route 1
Tipton
Mercy Hospital
Glick
Lawrence Morrison
Far Rockaway
Long Island
Morrison
Cedar County
Sandra
Larry
Maud Fankhauser
the Sheets
Chicago Police Look for Restaurant Promised To Return
Chicago police joined a search Thursday for a restaurant Pat Gallagher claimed he left his upper plate as security for hamburgers and coffee. He said he would return with 40 cents after fetching funds, but could not find the place again.
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Chicago
INS
Pat
Gallagher
Wallace Bomb View Foolish Declared by Hick and Others
Washington lawmakers many reacting to Henry Wallace New Republic article on sharing atomic bomb secrets. Hickenlooper calls Wallace naive and damaging to public calm while Johnson Green Connally urge cautious moves toward international control and treaty backed inspection to guard the secret.
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Washington
INS
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Joint
Senate-House Committee On Atomic Energy
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
New Republic
United States
Concre
Sen. Johnson
D-Colo
Congressional , Atomic Energy Committee
Sen. Green
R-R.i
Green
Sen
Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Woman Slain as Husband Sought in Columbus Shooting
Mrs. Ruth Clark Edman, 38, was killed by a shotgun early Thursday at her home in Columbus. Her estranged husband David Edman, 40, a retired electrical contractor, is being sought. Edman, once committed to Madison State Hospital, had ties to Winston-Salem and Des Moines. Her father Nathan Clark, 69, was wounded while trying to protect his daughter.
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Ind
Ruth Clark Edman
Robert O'Neal
David Edman
Edman
Nathan Clark
Marvin Thayer
Clark
Des Moines
Iowa
Winston-Salem
N. C
Thayer
Madison
Ind., State Hospital
Eight Million Mental Cases in Nation Reported
Surgeon General Thomas Parran estimated that 8,000,000 Americans have mental disorders to some degree. He warned the nation is woefully short of personnel to treat them and that mental patients fill half the hospital beds while current hospitals cannot care for the seriously ill.
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Washington
Thomas Parran
Parran
Finish Fight Looms Over Nomination
President Truman will not withdraw David E. Lilienthal’s nomination to chair the Atomic Energy Commission, signaling a final battle as opposition in the Senate grows. Sen. McKellar and others press to recall the nomination amid charges against TVA under Lilienthal and debates over public ownership of utilities.
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Washington
INS
White House
Truman
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Lilienthal
Senate
Clark Clifford
Charles G. Ross
Republican Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
Sen. McKellar
D-Tenn
TVA
McKellar
Wherry
Edwin Pauley
Senate Atomic Committee
Rioting Plot Alleged in Korean Communist Letter
Police found a letter in Seoul purportedly from a Russian army official ordering a Communist leader to foment student disorders in the American zone of Korea. The note, directed to Wo Hun of the Labor party, linked to a plan to time upheaval with Moscow talks and to rile students against the military government.
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Seoul
Korea
South Korea
Labor Party
Maj
Nicholi Gusonof
Pyong Yang
Wo Hun
Red Army
Foreign Ministers
Moscow
United States Army
Legislative Assembly
John R. Hodge
Collegian Held in Trainman's Death
IPSWICH Mass The assistant conductor on a Portland bound Boston and Maine train was killed in a fight early Thursday Donald Mead 22 Dartmouth College sophomore was arrested Arraigned in district court Mead pled innocent to assault with intent to murder and was held without bail case continued to Monday He was remanded to jail Railroad authorities said Mead had abused the train crew from the outset over the No Smoking regulation.
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Ipswich
Mass
Donald Mead
Dartmouth College
Mead
Meads
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