Vandenberg and Taft Push Unity Amid Senate Clash
In Washington, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan and Senator Taft of Ohio move to forestall splits in the Republican leadership. Vandenberg seeks Taft’s inclusion in Truman invite for a Monday conference on the international situation while Taft invites Vandenberg to join the policy committee for domestic and foreign discussions. Both avoid open conflict as they face Lilienthal’s AEC nominations and a trade act dispute, aiming to project unity ahead of 1948.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Vandenberg
Michigan
Taft
Ohio
Friends
Senate
Truman
Senate Atomic Committee
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Millikin
R-Colo
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Labor Witness Voices Fear For His Life
Oscar Schatte, superintendent of a motion picture set building group and AFL Carpenter member, told the House labor committee he faced danger to his life and loss of his $10,000 yearly job after testifying on Hollywoods jurisdictional dispute. He described violence at riots where hundreds were jailed and warned of retaliation ahead of possible Hollywood visits by an investigating subcommittee. He also said Communists are present in Hollywood.
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Washington
Hollywood
House Committee
Oscar Schatte
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
AFL
House Labor Committee
Schatte
Carpenters
International Alliance of
Richard F. Walsh
Painters Union
Walsh
Herbert Sorrell
The
Painters Forced
Hollywood v
Schatter
Fred A. Hartley
R-N. J
Brown
House
United Nations
Truman
U.N
Five Killed in Tel Aviv Clashes Amid British Strike
In Tel Aviv and surrounding areas, a British soldier and four Jewish extremists died as bombs and gunfire rocked Citrus House, Sarona camp, and Jaffa police station. Dozens were wounded as power outages and fires spread, marking a wide military seizure zone and a night of terror.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Citrus House
Sarona
Jaffa
Haifa
Witness risks life as Hollywood strike hearing testifies
Carl Head of the AFL Conference of Studio Unions warned that a witness before the House labor committee investigating the Hollywood movie strike faced possible danger while testifying on Saturday.
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Hollywood
Carl Head
AFL Conference of
Studio Unions
House Labor Committee
13 Year Old Admits Plot to Wreck Fast Streamliner
Lennie Sims, 13, confessed he placed 30 pounds of scrap iron on railroad tracks to wreck the City of Portland streamliner. Officials credited the fortuitous spotting by a freight engineer as averting a disaster at high speed. Sims, son of an NW express messenger, lived near Geneva, Illinois and was later surrendered by his mother.
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Geneva
Ill
INS
Kane County
Lennie Sims
Portland
Chicago & North Western Railway
Charles G. Seidel
Lennie
The
North Western
Los Angeles
Moonee
Murder defendant nabbed in West
Rubin Shetsky was arrested in Sunland California after jumping bond in September 1945 during his trial for the murder of union organizer Al Schneider in Minneapolis. He admitted identity as Lou Gimmel and was captured following reports of his presence in Mexico. He had been tried in absentia after vanishing during a weekend recess.
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ST. Paul
Rubin Shetsky
Minneapolis
Sunland
Calif
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Shetsky
Mexico
Los Angeles
FBI
M. B. Rhodes
Rhodes
Lou Gimmel
al Schneider
Interest Law in School Election in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids 1947 school election set for Monday with two board seats at stake. Incumbents are the only candidates and three public measures on the ballot concern the sale of three schools. Polling places listed on page four.
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Cedar Rapids
Edgewood school sales proposed by Cedar Rapids district board
Cedar Rapids district voters consider a public measure to authorize the sale of Edgewood school Nos. 1 2 and 3 along Vinton road Wilson avenue and Zika avenue NW. The Cedar Rapids board, now part of the Wood district since last September, features candidates Mrs. Dwight Krumholtz and Dr. Carl C. Kesler for three-year terms.
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Wood
Cedar Rapids
Dwight Krumholtz
Carl C. Kesler
Penick and Ford Research
George Kosek
Kesler
Iowa State School Board Association
Edgewood School No. 1
Vinton Road
Edgewood No
Wilson Avenue
Edgewood No. 3
Zika Avenue
Ellis Park
Americans To Leave Peiping This Week
Preparations were completed for 440 Americans to evacuate from Peiping to Tangku on the north China coast. They will travel by train with U S marine guards on board and marine planes providing air cover for the 115 mile journey through civil war areas. The group includes army and civil service personnel and dependents and will depart Tangku aboard an American transport next Friday.
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Peiping
INS
Tangku
North China
U.S. Marine
Army
Civil Service
Mrs. Don Vernon Named GOP Program Chairman
Mrs Don Vernon of Woodward Iowa was named program chairman of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs. The appointment was announced by federation president Mrs Ad B Green. Vernon is a former president of the Iowa Federation of Women's Republican Clubs.
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Don Vernon
GOP
Washington
Woodward
National Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs
Ad—— B. Green
Federation Presient
Vernon
Iowa Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs
Stone Woman Finds Happiness Despite ailment and marriage
Mrs. Tola Warren of Chicago once feared she would turn to stone from myositis ossificans. Now married, raising a foster son, writing songs with her organist husband Theron Warren, and sewing dresses, she credits a happy marriage and medical treatment with halting her body’s progression.
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Chicago
Tola Warren
Mrs. Warren
Mme
Theron V. Warren
Herbert Taylor
Liquor and Beer Bill Opinions In Section 4
An Eastern Iowa roundup surveys opinions on the Iowa Senate liquor and beer bills now awaiting House debate. The Senate action broadens the debate on alcoholic control and temperance as legislators return to Des Moines tomorrow.
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Iowa
Iowa Senate
House
Senate
Des Moines
Forrestal cancels Caribbean trip amid White House frame
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal canceled his Caribbean trip he had planned to observe Atlantic fleet training maneuvers. The Navy gave no reason but noted the departure was set for Monday. Officials did not confirm a connection to President Truman’s Caribbean visit cancellation.
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Washington
Forrestal
Caribbean
Navy
True
Harvester Plans Price Cuts Across Major Lines
International Harvester, a leading farm equipment maker, announced price reductions aimed at saving about 20 million dollars annually. Chairman Fowler McCormick said moves depend on settled union talks, no strikes, and no rise in input costs, with reductions effective before April 1 on tractors, farm machinery, motor trucks, and industrial power equipment.
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Chicago
International Harvester Company
Harvester
McCormick
United States
Burglars Hit Eight Algona Businesses In Heist
In Algona Iowa eight business places within a three block area were broken into late Friday night or early Saturday. Authorities say the burglars grabbed about $200 in cash and merchandise.
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Algona
Miss Truman Concert Postponed One Week
Miss Margaret Truman, daughter of President Truman, postpones her debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for a week due to laryngitis and an upper respiratory infection. White House physician Maj. Gen. Wallace H. Graham advised delaying the Sunday radio appearance. She will return to Washington to recover and reschedule the broadcast.
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Detroit
Margaret Truman
White House
Truman
Miss Truman
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
American Broadcasting Com
ABC
Thomas J. Strickler
Washington
Wallace H. Graham
Graham Sai
Baby Dies in Fire on Des Moines Outskirts
A four month old, Gary Ritter, died in a two room Des Moines area blaze that left brothers Frederick 3 and Robert 2 with burns. Neighbors pulled the children from a window as fire destroyed the home while their mother Ruth Ritter was away. Coroner speculates an oil stove explosion as the blaze origin.
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Des Moines
Gary Ritter
Frederick
Robert
Ruth Ritter
Ted Ashley
Harold McCoy, Jr
Harry Pontious
A. E. Shaw
Britain Objects To U S Island Trade Preference
Great Britain protests U S plans to grant favored commercial treatment to United States nationals in Japanese mandated islands. Britain will raise objections at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday after joint talks failed to reach agreement.
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Great Britain
Security Council
Bipartisan Move Faces Criticism Over Greece Crisis
Washington scene as President Truman seeks bipartisan support to act in Greece and block Soviet influence. Republicans urge United Nations referral and debate whether the U.S. should lead or involve Britain and allies, amid warnings against imperialist aims and overseas war.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Great Britain
Greece
Congress
Balkan
Sokol Instructor Arrives in Cedar Rapids
Karel Vavra from Pilsen Czechoslovakia arrives in Cedar Rapids as the first postwar Sokol instructor to America. He is hired for two years as chief physical education instructor, joining Cedar Rapids Sokol with 600 members led by Andrew Polehna. Other U S Sokols seek instructors, but Cedar Rapids acts first. An all American Sokols meeting occurs in Chicago in June and a world gathering is planned for Prague.
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Cedar Rapids
Karel Vavra
Pilsen
America
Sokols
Vavra
Chicago
Andrew Polehna
U. S
Sokol
Czechoslovakia
Sokol Hall
Soldiers Field
Prague
Flu closes Gale lipolis public schools
An influenza epidemic caused Gale lipolis public schools to close on Saturday as 302 students were absent from classes.
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Gallipolis
Ohio
INS
Gale Lipolis
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