Marshall Lands Seek 5 Billion in Aid for Two Years
Paris dispatch reports Western Europe seeks 4.7 to 5.0 billion dollars in American Marshall Plan aid over the next two years to counter communism. Congress will decide funding levels amid economy pressures. The plan’s future hinges on OC(B)RC figures and European balance of dollar accounts in 1951-52.
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Marshall Lands
Paris
Feo
Europe
Buray Fean
Arena
George CG. Marshall
Congress
Waspare
Wongrass
Newia
Truman
EQUA
Sen
Connally
Texs
Senate Foreign Relations Commritten
Washington
Res Park
OBRC
Boyd Scorkinne
Western Europe
United States
Meria
Marshall
Carol Acquitted In Mercy Slaying
In Bridgeport Connecticut Carol Ann Paight, a 21 year old college senior, was found not guilty tonight of second degree murder in the mercy slaying of her father. The verdict came after jurors deliberated through the evening as Carol sobbed with relief and thanked the jury. Her mother Mary Daight and brother Carl supported her as the court indicated possible charges. The defense labeled the verdict just and safe.
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Bridgeport
Conn
MNSI
Carol Ann Paight
Mary Daight
Carl
Teforisa
David Goldstein Diakey
R Mont
Carol
O Ff
Carel
Willie Willis Feels The Strain In Quiet Town Tale
Local speech captures Willie Willis grappling with fear and manners as he speaks on interruptions and his inability to change the moment. A humorous vignette reflects small town patience and daily frictions in a rambling monologue.
Hoover links Fuchs to Canadian spy ring in Senate briefing
J Edgar Hoover told Congress that the alleged atomic espionage by Klaus Fuchs was tied to the Canadian spy ring exposed earlier and that Fuchs used several couriers to pass information to the Soviet side. The disclosure followed Strauss resigning as Atomic Energy Commissioner heightening security tensions. Hoover testified in a closed Senate appropriations session amid signs of further hydrogen bomb arrests.
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Strauss
ARC
Washington
INS
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress Todiv
Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs
U. S
Atomic Energy
Lewis L. Stra
Congress
Strarss
Congressional
FBI
Hoover
Senate Appropriations
New York
Fucha
Senate
Capitol
Treasury Eyes Taxes on Exempt Income Sources
The Treasury urged closing tax loopholes used by labor unions and tax exempt groups by applying regular corporation levies to income from sideline businesses not tied to exempt purposes. It warned significant legal hurdles and noted potential to raise funds to offset excise tax cuts. Examples include university book stores, agricultural college farms, and clubs selling food tax free.
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Washington
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Truman
Arguson
Ténathy Lithdakion
Congress
Truman P
Telephone Walkout Postponed For 16 Days In Wage War
Nationwide telephone strike threat delayed to February 24 to allow federal mediation. Communication Workers of America sought pause as Cyrus S. Ching urged intensified negotiations. Both sides faced verbal clashes amid talks between Western Electric AT and T and CWA in New York.
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Washington
Cio-Communication Workers of America
U.S
Cyrus S. Ching
Ching
CWA
Bell Telephone System
Western Electric Co
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
A i T. and
T. Long Lines Department
Division 10
Western Electric
Southwestern
Truman panel opens coal study talks with Lewis
President Truman's fact finding board in the soft coal crisis held informal talks today with John L Lewis and small operators amid looming hearings. The three man panel aims to finish its probe by Monday and seek a court order to return miners to work. Lewis may appear without a subpoena, while coal executives from major companies were contacted in preliminary sessions.
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Washington
Truman
John Lb. Lewis
Lewis
George H. Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coat Co
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Assoc
Harry M. Moses
U.S. St Cars Foration
H.C. Frick Coke Co
Ching
Cyrus S. Ching
U. S. Mediation Service
James Boyd
Federal Bureau of Mines
Fim
David L. Cole
Ouget
Cole
Bridges testifies he joined IWW in labor career
In San Francisco on February 7, Harry Bridges testified in federal court that he had been an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. The 48 year old Australian born labor leader described his early days in the movement, his sea career beginning at age 15, and his first arrival in San Francisco in 1921. He faced perjury charges over a 1945 naturalization testimony denying Communist ties.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
IWW
Industrial Workers of the World
Bridges
Communist Party
Labor Movement
Vincent Hallinan
Wobblirs
Act
U S Recognizes Indochina States
The United States formally recognizes the French backed governments of Vietnam Laos and Cambodia in Indo China. The move comes shortly after Britain aligned with the three regimes while Russia backs a rival Ho Chi Minh led government. A single U S minister will represent all three states as the consulate general in Saigon becomes a legation.
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Washington
United States
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Tide of Toys Flows To Europe's Children
In Philadelphia on February 7 a wave of goodwill sent 900,500 toys aboard the S S American Defender to Rotterdam where CARE will distribute them to Austria France Germany Italy Greece Norway Poland Yugoslavia the Netherlands Scotland Denmark and Ireland. The campaign, inspired by News Columnist Drew Pearson and George N Craig national commander of the American Legion, aims to deliver more than 4 million toys to Europe this year as a symbol of friendship and postwar unity. Eleven year old Judith Ann Fay of Westmont N J spoke for American children as the ship sailed from Pier 38 and urged lasting ties to erase war driven prejudice.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic
Good-Will
America
Europe
Rotterdam
Netherlands
CARE
Austria
France
Germany
Italy
Greece
Norway
Poland
Yugoslavia
Scotland
Denmark
Ireland
American Legion
Drew Pearson
George N. Craig
Legiontala
Craig
Legion
Pier 38
Judith Ann Fay
Westmont
N. J
Children of America
Chastened Germany Ready to Toe U S Mark
Frankfurt Feb 7 West German leader Adenauer met with U S High Commissioner McCloy in a three hour session described as friendly yet strained. McCloy pressed aims to curb unemployment and keep U S influence on German politics while noting Germany would resist propaganda in foreign affairs.
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Frankfurt
Germany
John J. McCiloy
McCloy
Konrad Aden~lauer
Stuttgart
United States
Adenauer
Canadian potatoes cheaper here shocks New Orleans broker
New Orleans broker Anes Segali reports 7k million pounds of Canadian potatoes unloaded from a boat as the government offers surplus spuds to farmers at one cent per hundred pounds. He notes imports from Canada undercut Maine and Idaho prices and says boats bring potatoes to Savannah and Jacksonville every two weeks. The piece explains how government price supports drive farmers to sell to the government while brokers buy from Canada.
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New
Orlwawa
Canada
Jd. Segali
New Orleans
Consignee
Maine
Idaho
Segali
Savannhah
Tampa
Fla
Jacksonville
Segari
Opinion Polls Indicate Close British Election
London polls forecast a photo finish for Britain's February 23 general election. A survey of 400 newspapermen predicted a Conservative majority of 44 seats, while the floating vote remained between 3 and 4 million undecided between Labour and Conservative sides. Bookmakers favored Attlee's Labour 4 to 7 over the Conservatives.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Winston
Churchill
Attlee
Laboutes
New York Businessman Wins $5 Million Legacy
A Queens businessman won a $5,000,000 fortune from elderly recluse Mary Bullock Powers. Hollis Powers Gale, a carton company executive and first cousin once removed, is entitled to the entire estate after Surrogate William T. Collins ruled, dismissing 173 prior claims. Powers died in July 1848 at age 72 after years in a $30 daily hotel suite.
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New York
Queens
Mary Bullock F Powers
Hollis Powers Gale
Carton Company
Multiple Sentences in Chesapeake Court Ranges Fo r Crimes
Plea deals yield sentences for rape attempt forgery and theft across several defendants. William Jasper Nottingham pleaded guilty to attempted statutory rape of a teen girl and received one to five years. Raymond H. Woodrum confessed to two forgery indictments and got two terms of two to 10 years, concurrent. Charles Chapman sentenced to one to 10 years for breaking and entering and theft. Donald Harless jailed 11 months for auto theft. Russell Harding and Warren Harding sentenced to 12 and nine months for assault and battery on a police officer. Indictment charging disturbing public worship dismissed.
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William Jasper Nottingham
Chesapeake
States Penitentiary
Cyrus W. Hall
Raymond H. Woodrum
Reynolds St
Woodrum
Charles
Chapman
Charleston
Gordon Drug
Washington St. E
Hall
Donald Harless
J. W. Derrick
Poca
Russell Harding
Warren Harding
Sissonville
Hornthy
Stewart Urges WVU Financial Plan to Grow to Great University
West Virginia University President Irvin S. Stewart urged a new financial management program to expand the school from good to great. He spoke to Kanawha County Alumni at a Bard anniversary banquet, outlining budget procedures and noting the Board of Public Works often sees only the university’s proposals rather than its detailed recommendations.
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Irvin S. Stewart
West Virginia University
Stewart
Kanawha County
Ob. Charleston Woman's Club
Bard
Board of Public Works
Stassen Speaks At University Day Address
Harold E. Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, told about 7,000 at West Virginia University Day that freedom must not be a license to destroy loyalty. He warned that academic freedom and other freedoms must not justify treason against the nation or its people. The former 1948 Republican presidential hopeful said his remarks had no political undertones.
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Morgantown
Harold E. Stassen
A Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
West Virginia University
Stassen
Chinese Urge Red Expulsion From UN Over China Row
Nationalist China urged United Nations observers be sent to monitor any direct Soviet role in Red China’s expected assault on Chiang Kai-shek’s Island retreat. They called to eject Russia from the UN for interference, while admitting a wider majority might not support it.
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Tsiang
Lake Success
China
United Nations
Navalo
Ching Kai-Shek
Formosa
Russia
U.N
T. F. Tsi
C-47 Missing in Yukon Air Search
WHITEHORSE Yukon February 7 A United States C 47 with 12 aboard was reported missing while a wide search was launched. The plane took off from Whitehorse early today with fuel for about 12 hours and disappeared after contact was lost at 3 PM PST as other search planes scouted the Yukon wilderness.
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U. S
Whitehorse
Y. T
Air Force
Yukon Wildern
Whites Horse
Psycho Sex Offenders Put Into Three Classes
A Huntington State Hospital official outlines three offender types the dangerous pedophile and other categories. The article cites a Charleston man sentenced for a penitenary offense and notes confidential case histories from Kanawha County files. Detective Williams says records are too confidential for the public.
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Edward F. Reaser
Huntington State Hospital
Charleston
Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney's Office
Dewey Williams
Gazette
Coal Strike Hits State Industries
The statewide coal strike spreads to other sectors as Wheeling Steel plans a 50 percent cutback with furnace shutdowns at Wheeling and Steubenville. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway trims 429 mechanical and 129 transportation jobs in Huntington and Hinton amid reduced coal traffic. Weather limits strip mine output as nonunion mines operate with minimal disruption.
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Wheeling Steel Corp
Wheeling
Steubenville
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Ca.r
Huntington and
Hinton
Transportation Department
Weather Map Note From Charleston Sky Summary
Forecast map on page shows sunrise and sunset times with planetary positions and temperatures. Mentions prominent stars and planets including Saturn Mercury Venus and Moon phases with data columns. Odds of visible objects and weather indicators are implied for the day.
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Fea
Stark
Saturn
Maes
South Mercury
Ris
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John Dunlop
Harvard
Patterson
W. William Wirtz
Northwestern University
Gazette Telephoto
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Indochina
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Bonn
Economic Cooperation Administration
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Maxwell D. Taylor
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