Six Billion Budget Cut Approved By House Senate Panel
Washington news notes that a budget committee vote 50 to 22 backed a six billion dollar reduction from Truman's 37.5 billion dollar fiscal plan, overriding Army and Navy concerns and aiming for a 20 percent cut in personal income taxes. The plan needs Senate and House consent and could force job cuts of at least 500,000 civilians.
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House
Senate Budget Committee
Truman
Army
Knutson
R-Minn
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Navy
Congress
Sen. Tait
Ohio
Gurney
R-S.d
Senate Armed Services Committee
Army and Navy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate-House
Dingell
Barkley
Kentucky
Witness Samuelson Quits U S in Eisler Case
Washington United States House committee on un American activities heard that key witness Samuel Josephson in the Gerhart Eisler case has left the country. Sources said Josephson is now in Mexico after refusing to answer a subpoena on grounds of insufficient notice. Investigator Robert Stripling said the committee was assured by Josephson's attorney he would be available when called.
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Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
Gerhardt’ Eisler
Samuel Josephson
Mexco
Josephson
Robert Stripling
Superintendent Is Suspended After Denver High Strike
Westwood high school students forced the suspension of superintendent William C. Gehrke by striking and marching on the state capitol. The school board suspended Gehrke indefinitely after 50 students urged his removal. Principal Lawrence Phelps named acting superintendent and pledged amnesty to strikers including Mark McClanahan who defended students’ right to a good education.
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Denver
Westwood High School
State Capitol
Nrc
William C. Gehrke
Lee Knous
Richard H. Simon
Gehrke
Lawrence Phelps
Mark McClanahan
Gehrken
McClanahan
Florida Train Crash injures about fifty on Seaboard line
MAXVILLE Florida AP reports about 50 people were injured when the Seaboard Air Line Orange Blossom Special derailed Friday night near Jacksonville. Six sleeping cars and a diner left the tracks, with roughly 30 receiving first aid at the scene and more than 20 transported 22 miles to Jacksonville for care. The train did not overturn and remains tilted about 45 degrees while Seaboard officials investigate the cause.
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Maxville
Fla
Seaboard Air Line
Miami
New York
Seaboard
Corner Turned British Believe Turned Corner
London AP reports the government saying Britain has turned the corner toward industrial production and lighted homes amid coal shortages and rising unemployment. Prime Minister Attlee and the coal cabinet discuss resuming power to industry with no firm switch-on date, while officials stress it may be only a partial turn.
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London
Britain
Attlee
Guy Nott-Bower
Ministry of Fuel and Power
Indefatigable Burma Surgeon Dr Gordon Seagrave Speak
Dr Gordon S Seagrave famed Burma surgeon addressed the Executives Club at the Montrose hotel. He described years in Burma since 1922 and leading a mobile medical unit after escaping the Japs with Stilwell in 1942. He warned of bloodshed when Far East policing ends and praised American spirit in Burma.
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Burma
Executives Club
Montrose Hotel
Little Baptist
Joe” Stilwell
Times Square
New York
States
Indiana fugitive nabbed in Tulsa
Indiana state police said David Edman a 40 year old war contractor sought in Columbus for the slaying of his divorced wife Ruth 38 was arrested in Tulsa Oklahoma He admitted shooting her and waived extradition back to Columbus He cried hysterically during interrogation and was arrested by city detectives at a telegraph office while awaiting a money order from a Los Angeles friend.
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Indiana
Tulsa
Oklo
David Edman
Columbus
Ind
Ruth
Edman
J.F. Jackson
L. R. Brown
Los Angeles
Index of Hints and Notices From a Local Page
A fragmented newspaper page lists sections including Comics Deaths Editorial Features Marion Movies Radio Sports and State with scattered filler letters indicating column headers and page layout. The readable parts identify a typical local paper structure rather than a cohesive story or report.
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Couple Accused Of Kidnapping Baby Found In Toledo
A nationwide search for 14 month old Donald Waltman ended with his discovery with Robert Humburger and his wife in Toledo. Police say the couple, once stationed at Camp Crowder, took the child with the mother's permission during a transfer in 1946 and refused to return him. The baby was in good condition and is now hospitalised while the couple await charges.
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Toledo, Ohio
INS
Donald Waltman
Neosho
Robert Humburger
Camp Crowdey
Toledo
Donald
Margaret Slater
Charles Hennessy
Virginia Waltman
Hamburger
Camp Crowder
Vandenberg Urges Fair Play in Soviet Relations
Washington senator Arthur Vandenberg voiced that Moscow has not reciprocated U S fair play in foreign relations noting failure to settle lend lease accounts and to respond to four American diplomatic requests. He urged mutual goodwill, stronger U S defense, and multilateral disarmament through the United Nations.
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Vandenberg
Russia
Arthur Vandenberg
R-Mich
Kim Sigler
Michigan
Center
Homer Ferguson
United States
Washington
Sen
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Moscow
Michigan Chambers of Commerce
State Department
Soviet Seizure of B-29s Told by U S Airman
An American airman recounts how his B 29 was forced down by Soviet gunfire near Vladivostok in November 1944. He says several B 29s were seized, 131 Americans held at a camp in Tashkent, and that the Russians took his aircraft after the forced landing.
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Washington
INS
Vladivostok
William J.“ Mickish
America
Tashkent
Mickish
Perry
Okla
Russia
United States
Red Army
NAM urges voluntary labor reform while backing some GOP curbs
Washington NASM urged Congress to drop certain GOP labor plans seen as government intervention but supported measures to curb labor courts mediation boards and compulsory arbitration. NAM backed banning closed shops and warned peaceful settlements may risk monopoly and drive large groups of unions against large employers in self defense.
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Washington
INS
National Association of Manufacturers
Congress
G.O.P
Ira Mosher
N.A.M
Senate Labor Committee
Ferguson
Smith
N.J
Mosher
S. M. Cooper
Fafair Bearing Company
New Britain
Conn
AFL
Cooper
Coal Miners End Sitdown at Lansford Colliery
Thirteen Pennsylvania anthracite miners ended a 60 hour underground sitdown at the Lehigh Navigation Coal Company's Lansford mine. The strike ended after the company promised to pay wage deductions that sparked the action.
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Lansford, Pa
Lehigh Navigation Coal Company
Lansford
United Mine Workers
Mild Weekend in Store for Iowans
The Cedar Rapids area is forecast for a mild weekend with partly cloudy skies through Sunday and increasing cloudiness Sunday night. Temperatures hover near 28 degrees tonight, with Saturday 2.30 p.m. reading 39 degrees and Friday’s high of 38 degrees. The mercury fell to 31 by 7 p.m. Friday and 30 at midnight, holding at 28 degrees at 7 a.m. Saturday with no precipitation.
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Cedar Rapids
High Tribunal To Get Sugar Issue
Government attorneys prepared Saturday to take their appeal to the Supreme Court as they seek to overturn a lower court ruling they say endangers the sugar rationing program. Officials assured housewives and large sugar users that the program would continue on its present basis until the high court acts.
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Washington
INS
Supreme Court
High Court
Tommy Dorsey and Pat Dane Separate in Hollywood
Hollywood AP report says band leader Tommy Dorsey and actress wife Pat Dane have separated. Dorsey’s representative Arthur Michaud said there is no immediate divorce, noting Dorsey left Pat Dane in New York and then appeared in Hollywood. The pair had a noted balcony dispute in 1944 involving actor Jon Hall.
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Hollywood
Tommy Dorsey
Pat Dane
Arthur Michaud
Tommy
Florida
Michaud
Dorsey
Miss Dane
New York
Jon_Hall
Truman flies to Grandview to see ailing mother
President Truman flew Saturday from Washington to Grandview to be with his 94 year old mother after a serious right hip fracture from a Thursday fall. Brigadier General Wallace Graham and Major General Harry Vaughan accompanied him. The White House asked for privacy until landing. Doctors will decide on fracture treatment.
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Grandview
Truman
Washington
Explosion Engulfs Gas Truck. Trucker Narrowly Escapes
B. B. Kerby of 313 G Avenue NW escaped serious injury Friday afternoon when flames engulfed his gasoline truck after an explosion near Oe Street and Eleventh Avenue West. Kerby was atop the truck with a hose loading gasoline from Super Service Oil Company supply tanks when the blast occurred.
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Cedar Rapids
B. B. Kerby
G Avenue NW
Oe Street
Eleventh Avenue
Kerby
Super Service Oil Company
Explosion Sparks Fire at Pump House and Tank Truck
Photo on Picture Page. The blast stemmed from a short circuit in a pump. The truck tank was nearly full when the explosion occurred. Kerby said the blast blew his hat off but caused no injuries. The truck, pump house, and adjoining garage were quickly engulfed in flames. He escaped through the flames with no burns. Two fire alarms were sounded. firefighters prevented the blaze from reaching nearby fuel tanks.
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Gromyko Demands U S Ditch Bombs Atoms Stated
At Lake Success Andrei Gromyko urged the United States to destroy its atomic bombs without waiting for an international inspection system. He accused Washington of disarmament talk while continuing to develop and use nuclear weapons as a political lever against other nations.
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Vandenberg
United States
Russia
Lake Success
N. J
Andrei Gromyko
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