House Votes to End Oleomargarine Tax in Congress
The House approved a bill to repeal 63-year-old federal taxes on oleomargarine by a 217 to 39 vote. It would not outlaw interstate shipments but require yellow oleo sold in public venues to be triangular and labeled as oleomargarine. The measure heads to the Senate as dairy interests urge keeping restrictions.
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Europe Aid Paring Rejected by Senate
The Senate defeated Taft and Russell’s 10 percent cut to the 5.5 billion dollar European Recovery Program for the next 15 months. The Wherry 15 percent cut was shot down 68 to 14, while Taft-Russell lost 54 to 23. The vote kept intact the president's request for aid to Western Europe, though further amendments may delay final action.
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Woman shoots husband in downtown tavern clash
An estranged wife shot Vaughn Bays, 27, during a mid afternoon dispute at a downtown tavern. Bays is listed in critical condition after being struck multiple times. the wife, Virginia Bays, is being questioned by police. The shooting occurred at 20 p.m at 617 Virginia St. Police say Bays had allegedly abused the woman and was unfaithful.
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Kanawha Turnpike
Spring Hill
Charleston General Hospital
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Virginia Bays
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Virginia St
Walter Cavendér
Quail Raising Echoes in Pager Conversation
Fragmentary OCR quotes Ilte Willis Tsay discussing raisin quail to turn people to shoot. The speaker compares it to raising more kids as soldiers, questioning the idea.
Wage dispute halts work on 45 million building
A major construction stoppage grips Charleston and the Kanawha Valley as AFL building crafts unions and the Charleston Building Contractors Assoc fail to reach 12 month wage contracts. Picket lines block work and wage demands range from 12.5 cents to 50 cents an hour while two unions have signed. Only brick layers and carpenters keep current rates. others stay idle as talks resume.
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Linstructors Group
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Ins. Carpenters Uniion
Missing banker Crowe pays debts as $100000 pours in
New York April 1 money sent to banks and friends of missing banker Richard H Crowe 41 tops 100000 while he and about 800000 remain missing. FBI lists embezzlement charges as search centers in the south widen. Crowe last mailed a note from Jacksonville and bought a 1948 automobile there after disappearing from Staten Island.
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National City Bank
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Tacksonville
Fla
Jacksonville
Staten Island
Budenz Denies Leninist Line In Trial Testimony
New York April 1 The government witness Budenz conceded under cross examination that while in the Communist Party he did not write articles advocating violent overthrow of the United States government He also said he never read any Daily Worker pieces calling for such action between April 1 1945 and his renunciation of the party in October 1945 The indictment charges 13 Communist leaders with conspiracy to advocate overthrow by force Budenz formerly edited the Daily Worker and said he did not write violent action pieces but recommended an article by defendant John Williamson stressing Soviet history and Communist lines
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United States
John Williamson
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Soviet Union
Soviet Charge Rejected by U S and Britain Leaders
Washington April 19 American and British spokesmen rejected Moscow s charge that the Atlantic treaty is aggressive. They hailed it as a bulwark of peace with Bevin calling it a potential greatest contributor to world peace. State Department said it is strictly defensive and if Russia avoids attacks on member nations it cannot harm her. Senator Connally said the same, noting the treaty hinges on Russia refraining from armed aggression.
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Briton Admits W Dissolution
Horsham, England April 1 A prosecutor claims John Haigh, 39, factory executive, admits murdering widow Mrs Clive Durand Deacon 69 on February 18 and dissolving her body in a cistern after taking jewels and fur. E G Robey states 26 witnesses will prove the murder during a preliminary hearing before twelve magistrates.
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Clive Durland-Deacon
Haigh on trial over widow Durand Deacon murder
Haigh confessed to luring the widow into an investment scheme for plastic fingernails. He allegedly dissolved her body in a sulfuric acid drum, removed jewels and fur, and discarded remains. Scotland Yard found acid charred teeth and bone fragments in a factory yard while Haigh smiled in court.
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Lesinski drops bid to fast track Taft-Hartley repeal
Rep. Lesinski of Michigan, chair of the House Labor Committee, withdrawn his push to clear the Taft-Hartley repeal for general debate under a rules provision. The Truman labor bill, backed by the administration, would replace the 1947 act with a modernized Wagner act. Opponents seek to retain key provisions of the 1947 law.
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Lesinski
D-Mich
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Labor Committee
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
MacArthur Plan Call Sparks Asia Think Tank
Stassen urged a MacArthur plan in Asia modeled on Europe's Marshall Plan. He pressed for rapid, long term aid to southern Asia, arguing it would prevent a third world war and echo the same self help and broad objectives of the European program.
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Boston
Harold E. Stassen
Asia
Europe
University of Pennsylvania
Cauia
Winston Churchill
Stassen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Truman
Thar
Pollard Gets 99 Years In Cabellot Murder
William Norris Pollard, 26, from Cincinnati, was sentenced to 99 years in the Missouri state penitentiary for the murder of Joseph Floward Nichols, 21 months, left in his care. The infant’s severely beaten body was found in a downtown hotel dresser drawer after the FBI arrested Pollard in Chicago. He pleaded guilty to second degree murder in circuit court before Judge James E. McLaughlin, amid his shaky demeanor and his mother May Pollard watching.
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William Norris Pollard
Missouri State Penitentiary
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Cincinnati
FBI
Chicago
James E. McLaughlin
May Pollard
Jobless total falls in March as new jobs rise
The government reported March unemployment declined by 54,006 from February, first drop in five months, while the Census Bureau said 480,000 more people were employed. The labor force grew to 60.814 million as job seekers and workers increased, with unemployment at 3.167 million and employed at 47.647 million. Officials welcomed the brighter labor picture.
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Gun Blast Fatal To Rail Worker
A drinking party near Cedar Grove ended in the death of railroad section worker William Albert Elmore, about 35, from a single 12 gauge shotgun blast at 7 p.m. William Canterbury, 22, also of Cedar Grove, was jailed on murder charges. Lester Phillips, stepfather of the shooter, was held as a material witness as police said the fatality capped a gathering at the Phillips home on Big Mountain along Kelley’s Creek.
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C. B. Burner
William Albert Elmore
William Canterbury
Lester Phillips
Burner
B. F. White
Elmore
Phillips
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Kelleys Creek
Nanking Clash Leaves 144 Injured in Student Soldier Fight
In Nanking between April 1 and 7 soldiers and anti govern ment student demonstrators fought after a peace mission departed. 11 seriously hurt, 85 students and 44 soldiers lightly injured. Seven soldiers arrested. Curfew tightened and death penalty warned for campus incursions. Premier Ho Ying ching concerned as Communist delegation arrives and news is suppressed.
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Li Tsungjen
Peiping
Revamping Bill Moves Ahead
Washington April 1 A Senate executive expenditures committee approved a bill giving President Truman authority to reorganize the government while easing Congress ability to block plans The measure rewrote a House bill to require dissent from both houses to kill a presidential proposal and knocked out a separate requirement for military and other agencies to submit plans separately The Hoover Commission on reorganization reported today as part of a bipartisan effort with a 12 member panel and a long series of studies for Congress to consider
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Truman
Congress
Senate
Executive Expenditures Committee
House
Executive Department
Herbert Hoover
Hoover Group
Doctors Lift Bullet From Brain of Child
In Ann Arbor Michigan on April 1 1941 doctors at University hospital operated after a three year old girl Judy Crabb accidentally shot herself in the forehead with a .32 caliber pistol. Surgeons removed a bullet lodged behind the skull and predicted a complete recovery. The child was transported from Cordoville to the hospital and showed no loss of consciousness during the incident.
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University Hospital
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Cordonville
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Midland
Aniversity Hospital
Miners to Seek Hour Adjustment in Readjustment Talks
NEW KENSINGTON Pa April 1 Hundreds of holidaying soft coal miners were told their union will seek a readjustment of working hours during forthcoming contract negotiations. UMW Vice President Thomas Kennedy spoke to a cheering throng in Western Pennsylvania as rallies were held nationwide except for about 17 000 Progressive Mine Workers in Illinois. The day marks the 1898 adoption of the eight hour day, observed as John Mitchell day to honor an early UMW leader. Kennedy said a new schedule is needed to meet changed consumption requirements and to stabilize the industry.
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UMW
Thomas Kennedy
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Illinois
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Kennedy
Earthquake Swallows Three Iraqi Villages
A Kurdish dispatch from Suleimaniyah reports that three Northern Iraq villages were swallowed by a crater formed by an earthquake. Mosiq near the Iraqi Iranian frontier was destroyed by an avalanche, others were flood swept, with no deaths reported. Floods of Diyala threaten Baghdad as thousands lose homes.
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