Tobey Attacks GOP Leadership in Bitter Senate Speech
Sen. Tobey of New Hampshire denounces GOP leaders as incompetent and predicts further blunders as he argues the banking committee should handle small business issues. He cites bypassing standing committees and partisan corner cutting as major inefficiencies in the new Congress.
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Washington
Tobey
R-N. H
Senate Banking Committee
Senate
G.O.P
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Sen. Wherry
Rneb
Army Doctor Blamed in Death of Baby on Negligence
Lt. John J. Warren of Loyall Kentucky accuses an army physician of murderous negligence in the death of his eight month old son. Warren cited delays and poor care aboard the transport Willard Holbrook and at hospitals in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt as factors in the infant’s illness and death. General Joseph McNarney ordered a full investigation into the case.
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Frankfurt
John J. Warren
Loyall
Joseph McNarney
Warren
New York
Germany
Willard Holbrook
Two Youths Blame Radio Crime Programs for Robbery
In Los Angeles a Superior Court judge placed George Essayian and Karnig Fessian on five years probation and fined them 300 dollars each after they pled guilty to robbing Miss Opal for 1 909 dollars. Their lawyer argued the crime was prompted by radio crime programs used as exhibits in PTA efforts to keep such programs off the air until 9 co.
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Los Angeles
Walter S. Gates
Parent Teacher Association
9 Co
George Essayian
Karnig Fessian
Siwiek
Miss Opal
Czechs Demand Munich Agreement Reversal and Frontiers Recognition
Moscow broadcast Izvestia reports a Czech memorandum seeks the Munich pact’s annulment and the recognition of 1938 Czechoslovak frontiers. The appeal is monitored in London as Czech demands grow.
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Vakia
Germany
Moscow
London
Izvestia
Czechoslovakia
Divorce Filed by Veteran Actor Conrad Nagel
Hollywood reports a divorce filing by Conrad Nagel, veteran screen actor, after a marriage that featured a youthful actress as a partner. The action signals ongoing legal steps in a high-profile case amid industry attention.
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Hollywood
INS
Conrad Nagel
Mild Weather Boosts Iowa Temperatures For Days
The weather bureau predicts warm conditions across Iowa with temperatures 15 to 18 degrees above normal for several days. A shift from earlier cold forecasts, scattered showers are possible Tuesday afternoon and Cedar Rapids logged 50 degrees by 2:30 p.m. Today, Sioux City reached 59 and Cedar Rapids 48 earlier in the day.
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Weather Bureau
Iowa
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
Eight Floors Flooded at Drake Hotel in Philadelphia
Fifty thousand gallons of water flooded the Drake hoteldr 30story building top floors eight through street avenues. A broken connection to a water tank caused the flow and guests evacuated from about 750 rooms as water ran through corridors and stairw ays. Street water froze in sub freezing temperatures and rerouted traffic.
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Philadelphia
Drake
Case Against Premier Tojo is Completed
Allied prosecutors rest their case against former Premier Hideko Tojo and 25 other Japanese war leaders after 150 days and thousands of testimonies. The defense will move to dismiss charges, while efforts to justify actions in Manchuria China Pearl Harbor and the Pacific war will follow. Two indicted figures Matsuoka and Nagano died during the proceedings.
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Tokyo
Hideko Tojo
Carlisle W. Higgins
William Webb
International Tribunal
Tojo
Manchuria
China
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Yosuke Matsuoka
Japan
League of Nations
Osami Nagano
Grandmother, 59, Seeks Lost Mine on Trip West
A 59-year-old grandmother from Joplin Missouri hitchhiked to Denver to raise funds for a quest to locate the fabled Dutchman gold mine on Wyoming's Superstition Mountain. She arrived with little more than the clothes on her back and 20 cents, confident the inherited map will guide her. Her husband and three children doubt the plan, calling her an fool, yet she remains determined to search for the mine.
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Denver
Joplin
Laura Brenstetter
Middaugh
Fogg
Santinegan
Dutchman
Wyomons
France Proposes Federal German States Model for U S Lines
Paris reports France suggests a permanent federation of German states patterned on the United States. The plan, to be debated by the Big Four in Moscow, would reserve unassigned powers to states and create a four year term state assembly led by a president. Federal ministries would cover foreign affairs economy and finance while security powers remain with the states.
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Paris
France
United States
Moscow
Foreign Office
20 Percent Cut In Flight Safety Budget Revealed
Washington AP reports a nearly 20 percent reduction in federal funds for civil aviation safety in 1948. T. P. Wright, CAA administrator, said the budget would drop from 113.89 million to 92.27 million, with some requests cut by as much as 72 percent since 1941. Wright noted airlines require pilots to be sober and cited varying rules on drinking prior to flight. He did not claim any crashes occurred due to intoxicated pilots.
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Washington
Budget Bureau
House Commerce
T. P. Wright
Civil Aeronautics Administrator
CAA
Congress
Wright
Loot 55 000 in Two Stickups Nets Westford Payroll
Bandits mask wearing robbed a Westford Mass payroll of about 55 000 in two stickups Friday and may be same gang blamed for 11 200 Lynn robbery earlier in the week.
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Westford
Mass
Lynn
Here
Robbers steal payroll from Alyn Daily Eagle office
In New York two armed men robbed the Alyn Daily Eagle payroll office Friday taking 20009 dollars from the cashier’s cage as a revolving lobby door allowed them in. About 70 employees waiting to be paid stood stunned and did not resist the swift, masked assault.
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New York
INS
Alyn Daily Eagle
Reds Back Of Portal Suits WASHINGTON AP
Chairman Thomas of the house committee on un American activities named Ben Riskin and Edward Lamb as individuals tied to a gun communist affiliation. He referenced their records amid scrutiny of a Mt. Clemens case and unrest over an art idea.
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Washington
Thomas
R-N.j
House Committee On un-American Activities
House
Souies
Sue
Mt. Clemens
Ben Riskin
Icio Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Edward Lamb
Toledo
Ohio
Truman hands Marshall full control of State Dept
President Truman announced in Washington that he gave George C. Marshall complete freedom to run the State Department. He said Marshall had been briefed on probing the Braden Messersmith dispute over U S policy toward Argentina and that Marshall would be assisted by Dean Acheson who offered his resignation but stayed on. The talks touched China South America Germany and Palestine with no firm decision on a Moscow foreign ministers meeting.
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Wherry
Tobey
Washington
Truman
George C. Marshall
Marshall
State Department
Spruille Braden
Geor S. Messersmith
U. S
Argentina
Dean Acheson
China
South America
Germany
Palestine
James F
Mr. Truman
Clement Attlee
Council of Foreign Minis
Moscow
May
Laws
Garssons
Freeman
Garsson Brothers
Wwashington
Illinois
Stolen Car Recovered After Five Years and Twelve Owners
Otto C. Schmidt reported the theft of his 1937 Studebaker on October 4 1942. The car was recovered the next day by Cook County sheriff s police but state and city police were not notified. The vehicle was later sold after being found unattended outside the International Harvester Company plant by highway patrol officers.
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Chicago
Otto C. Schmidt
Schmidt
Cook County
International Harvester Company
Charles Steinhaus
James Novak
State Highway Police
Marcus A Coolidge Died Thursday Night in Miami Beach
Former United States Senator Marcus A Coolidge of Fitchburg Massachusetts died Thursday night in Miami Beach. His passing ends a notable political career and prompts tributes from colleagues and family.
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Miami “Beach
Fla
United States
Marcus A. Coolidge
Fitchburg, Mass
Ee Coolidge
Sweden Holds Vast Uranium in Radioactive Shale
Dr Gustav Egloff, a petroleum chemist, estimates Sweden’s oil shale beds contain about 500 million pounds of uranium oxide, based on half a pound per ton in 1.6 million tons of shale mined yearly. Sweden’s shale oil plant at Kvarntorp produces 2000 barrels daily and may last 500 years.
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Chicago
Sweden
Gustav Egioff
American Chemical Society
Petroleum Division
Kvarntorp
Stockholm
Egloff
United States
United States Bureau of Mines
Co Ed Receives Ten Year Sentence For Armed Robbery
A Mobile woman, who left a suicide note for her husband and traveled to New Orleans after an Oct 30 armed robbery, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She admitted taking 700 dollars spent on clothes and fun, was stopped by Mobile detectives en route, and later surrendered to Dallas police.
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Atlanta
New Orleans
Dallas
To Ease Rent in Hardship Cases
Maj. Gen. Philip Fleming said the Office of Temporary Controls will liberalize rents in hardship cases. After talks with President Truman, Fleming noted no decision was reached but coverage was thorough. Regional directors are instructed to resolve doubts in favor of landlords using local costs as the yardstick.
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Washington
Philip Fleming
Office of Temporary Controls
OPA
Fleming
Truman
Eere Sary Almon Thane
Dante Elena
Wholesale Prices Hit Postwar High and Food Dip
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a new postwar high in wholesale prices for the week ending Jan 22, with overall prices up 32 percent from last year and 40.8 percent above 1926 averages, while wholesale food prices declined slightly. Non-food items rose 1.3 percent.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
CIO and U S Steel Open Conference In Pittsburgh
The CIO United Steelworkers presented their 1947 demands to United States Steel and began two hours of talks in Pittsburgh. CIO President Murray said a brief conference would resume Monday to set the tone for negotiations affecting about 800,000 steel workers nationwide.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
United States Steel Corporation cc
Murray
CIO United Auto Workers Meet After Contract Proposal
Pittsburgh report notes the CIO United Auto Workers executive board met in a closed session on Friday to discuss a contract proposal submitted to United States Steel and Walter Reuther.
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Pittsburgh
CIO United A
United States Steel
Walter Reuther
CIO
United Auto Work
Maximos Named To Form New Cabinet for Greece
In Athens King George II designated Dimitrios Maximos a pro royalist Populist leader to head a coalition cabinet replacing Constantin Tsaldaris who had signed two days earlier.
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Maximos
Greece
Athens
INS
George II of
Dimitrios Maximos
Constantin Tsaldaris
Solons Eye Pro Merger Books Free Distribution
Washington AP reports House Expenditures Committee aims to probe free distribution of the book The Case the Admirals. Chairman Hoffman questions war department funding and possible influence, with Huie postponing details and promising to return calls about the distribution and publisher E P Dutton.
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Solons Eye
Washington
Hoffman
R-Mich
House Expenditures Committee
Congress
War Department
Defendants Released in 2000 Bond in Fraud Case
Former chairman of the house military committee Drew J. May and three co defendants pled innocent to conspiring to defraud the government in U S district court. They were released on 2000 bond each with trial set for March 19.
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Washington
Andrew J. May
House Military Committee
Bolitha Laws
United States District Court
Freeman
Senate probe follows anonymous wartime note on Garsson brothers
An unsigned note mailed to the Senate War Investigating Committee sparked a formal inquiry into the Garsson brothers and their guardians, suggesting senators should examine wartime operations related to the Garsson family.
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Washington
Senate
Garssen Brothers
Andrew J
Senate War Investigating Committee
Garsson Brothers
30 Hour Week by 1967 Bowles Calls for Wage Doubling
Chester Bowles told the CIO United Auto Workers education conference in Cleveland that the work week must be cut to 30 hours and wages doubled by 1967 to keep U.S. labor pace with growth. He noted generations since the Civil War have doubled output every 20 years.
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OPA
Chester Bowles
CIO
United Auto
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