State Workers Secret Meeting Draws Criticism of Meadows
Governor Meadows held a secret meeting with key state personnel to back his preferred successor Okey L. Patteson, triggering charges from rival candidates that the move violated the constitution and undermined voters freedom. James Kay Thomas and R. K. Bailey condemned the action as improper hand picking.
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Associated Press
Meadows
House of
James Kay Thomas
Bailey
R. D. Bailey
Pineville
U. S
Rush D. Holt
Weston
U.S. Senate
Okey L. Patteson
Thomas Hite
Thomas
Lauds Patteson
Patteson
Meadows Wrenilh
Okty Patteson
Senator McCarthy Proposes Bill for Low Rent Homes
Senator McCarthy proposed a housing bill to build 1.5 million new homes a year for 10 years at a government cost of about 1 billion dollars over five years. The plan aims to attract private capital with a guaranteed profit of 3.4 to 5 percent for builders and extra incentives for rentals under 50 dollars in large cities or under 40 dollars elsewhere.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
R.-Wis
Joint
Senate House Housing Committee
Senate
el Ea
UAW Seeks Prosecution Ban Test To Challenge Taft-Hartley
Washington date line reports Walter Reuther and the CIO United Auto Workers filed suit against Attorney General Tom C. Clark seeking to bar criminal prosecutions for union political spending. The UAW asks a three judge court fast ruling on constitutionality and a temporary injunction to block any prosecution until Supreme Court decision. Clark says he will enforce the law.
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Washington
Walter Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers Today
Tom Co. Clark
Philip Murray
Murray
UAW
Federal District Court
Irving J. Levy
Supreme Court
Clark
Department
Justice Department
Pittsburgh
Ares
Reuther
Paul Sifton
Poll Tax Bill Advances With Bipartisan Support
In Washington on February 27 the anti poll tax bill, long blocked by southern Democrats, moved to full rules committee after a subcommittee approved it. Backers expect swift floor action with Republican and northern Democratic support for Truman civil rights aims. The measure would let federal elections proceed without state poll taxes.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Sen
Jenner
R-Ind
Sen. Stennis
D-Miss
House
Brooks
Mr. Truman
Virginia
House of Delegates
Gay. Tuck
White House
Jackson
Miss
Herbert Holmes
Mississippi
Democratic Executive Committee
Holmes
Lamarre cites lie to shield Meyers in trial testimony
Lamarre testified Meyers urged him to lie to Senate investigators about a war plant stake. He said Meyers admitted taking large salaries via Aviation Electric Corp Dayton and claimed the general’s error in naming the plant came after drinking. Meyers faces up to 20 years. testimony continues.
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Washington
INSI
Bleriot Lamarre
Bennett E. Meyers
Senate
Meyers
Air Force
Lamarre
Aviation Electric Corp
Dayton
Ohio
Senate Committee
Howard
Aviation
Electric
Col
Taxi Drivers Strike Settled in West Virginia
The strike that idle 161 drivers from Checker White Cab Town Tops Taxi and South Charleston Taxi Co. ended last night with drivers joining Local 175 AFL Teamsters. At 6 a.m. today workers return to routes as union members after a 10:15 p.m. vote at the union hall.
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Teamster’s Union
E. A. Carter
Seat Afl Teamster’s
Checker White Cab, Inc
Town Tops Taxi, Inc
South Charleston Taxi Co
Roy W. Mundy
Checker, White Cab, Inc
Mundy
Gur
Assoc
AFL
West Virginia
Rainfall Lifts Rivers Across West Virginia
Heavy rain in the mountains raised the Elk and Kanawha rivers to a few feet above normal. The Chesapeake weather station reported no flood danger. Elk crested at Clay around 14.50 feet, receded to roughly 12 feet. Marmet lock saw the Kanawha recede slowly. Radford New River stationary, Kanawha at Hinton rising slowly. Kanawha Falls reported dropping. A warm but gloomy weekend forecast for Charleston.
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Elk River
Charleston
U. S
Chesapeake
Kanawha
Lewis E. Wooster
Clay
Marmet Lock
Weather Bureau
Radford
Hinton
Kanawha Falls
Leap Year Day takes over Aurora with 86 female rulers
On Leap Year Day in Aurora 86 single women, including 18 who actually left, took over the city from 50 000 residents. They formed a petty regime raiding the bachelors with a fake jail, fines of silk stockings and candy, and a police dragnet. Only one bachelor remained safe, Police Magistrate Bob Robinson, who was briefly jailed to see his own cell. A diamond-ring bribe failed when the magistrate Irene Youngen rejected the offer and fined a suitor.
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Aurora
Chicago
Bob Robinson
Robinson W
Priso
Wilbur E. Esser
Irene Youngen
Meno
Roolins
Stella Seraphin
Polica
Ron
Shanghai Students Reported Missing Amid Communist Camp Theories
More than 200 Shanghai teens aged 12 to 17 from various high schools have vanished since the lunar New Year. Officials say no confirmation exists while relatives cite dissatisfaction with rising government school control. Some sources suggest Communist organizers may be involved in luring students to Communist territory.
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Nanking
Shanghai
Education Ministry
Benes’s new cabinet installed amid Communist push
Prague reports show President Benes formally installed a new cabinet dominated by communists with Gottwald promising a constitutional democratic parliamentary framework. The session drew a bleak forecast as education and media strictures emerged and prosecutions of former officials were announced. The state press warned of censorship and instructed alignment with international good will.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Benes
Klement Gottwald
Zdenek Nejedly
Slovakia
Josef Lettrich
Council of Ministers
Prague Radio
Rude Pravo
Communist
Usi
Bohemia
Stalin
Loyalty Doubtful Seven Civilians Fired by Army
Seven civilians at the Army finance center in St Louis were fired for doubtful loyalty. Army officials in Washington gave no names or details. The center, employing about 10,000, runs payroll and records and had hired 1,000 for loyalty checks on former and current civilian employees. One prior case involved a veteran claim examiner suspended for associating with an organization advocating overthrow of government. Army said none of the dismissals involved tampering with records and cited a law allowing summary dismissal if continued employment risks national security.
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Louis
Army Finance Center
Army
Washington
Col
L. H. Sims
Ian
Unit-1
Secretary of the Army
Finland Mulls Soviet Defense Pact Amid Fear for Freedoms
Helsinki reports say Marshal Stalin asked Finland to join a European defense chain. Finns fear parliamentary freedoms may be extinguished as proffered Soviet style pact resembles 1943 Czechoslovak treaty. Molotov cites pacts of friendship on western frontier as model.
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Helsinki
Finland
Stalin
Europe
Russia
Juha Paasikivi
Moscow
Romania
Hungary
V. M. Molotov
Black Sea
Baltic
Klement Gottwald
Passikivi
Jews Oppose US Proposal in Palestine Consultations
Lake Success February 27 Moshe Shertok Jewish Agency representative denounced the U N proposal for Palestine consultations as a threat to the United Nations partition plan. He insisted Jews would not compromise further and urged the Security Council to halt aggressions while awaiting U N charter enforcement. The agency was invited to join council talks as Palestine Jewry’s voice.
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Palestine
Shertok
U. N
Security Council
United States
Soulevard Lighting To Be Overhauled
Sity Electrician Joe Bonham said yesterday the overhead wiring system strung between the monolight poles on the Kanawha Bird is not permanent. The boulevard lighting failed due to underground cable deterioration and was briefly replaced by overhead lines described as makeshift. Council appropriated $10,000 to repair the lighting system.
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Sity
Joe Bonham
Bonham
5 Council
New Process of Growing Foods Slated to Bring Peace and Plenty
Arkansas professor Dr. E A Spessard of Hendrix College debuts hydroponics using hydroponicums in sterilized sand fed by chemical solutions to roots. His book The Tanks Are Coming claims the method avoids soil, floods, and drought, speeds growth, and raises yields. He envisions widespread, near food production reducing waste and transport costs.
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Conway
Ars
Ginna Arkansas
E. A. Spessardi
Hendrix College
Spessard
Arkansan
Senate shelves canal measure
The Senate sent back to the foreign relations committee the St. Lawrence seaway bill by a 57 to 30 vote, effectively ending further consideration this session. Senator Smith led the move while Senator Vandenberg urged passage as a national lifeline, but opponents warned of national peril and potential harm to New England and New York transportation interests.
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Washington
Senate
St. Lawrence Seaway
Sen. Smith
R-Ni
Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Vandenberg
Bricker
Ohio
Flanders
R.-Vt
New England
New York State
Blanders
Socialist Parley On Aid Plan Denounced By Britain
London demands European Socialist conference on the Marshall plan set for March 21 and 22 at Selsdon Surrey. Labor party argues sooner or later Russia must join or share aims of American aid to Europe. Russian unions agree to discuss the plan with WFTU while remaining opposed to Marshall aid.
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London
Britain
Labor Party
Selsdon
Surrey
Russia
Europe
World Federation of Trade Unions
WFTU
James Carey
Michael Ross
American Congress of Industrial Organizations
Carey
Ross
Moscow
WETU
Moscow Radio
Hearings Ended On Foreign Aid
Washington February 27 the House foreign affairs committee completed hearings on the European recovery program ERP. Rep Monroney proposed adding 1.5 billion to 8.8 billion for the first 15 months earmarked for Export Import loans. A separate 6.5 billion civilian aid plan was submitted, split into 4.5 billion for year one and 2 billion for disease and unrest in Asia and Europe. The Senate panel suggested 5.3 billion for ERP year one, with Taft and Bridges aiming to push military aid to China when Greece and Turkey issues reach the Senate.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eaton
R.-Nj
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rep
Monroney
D.-Okla
House
Europe
Far East
R.-Mass
Japan
Korea
China
Germany
Senate
Taft
R.-Ohio
Bridges
R.-Nh
Jingling the News Voting Rites by Communists
The piece notes Communist insistence on who may vote as a Caech election nears. The author, Stan Armold, questions exclusivity and rights, implying party control over suffrage without clearly denoting eligible voters.
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Willie Willis
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Anabelle Bucar
U.S
Clairton
Miss Bucar
AFL Union
Helm
Channel’ News
Ministry of Information
Oskar Kosta
Porkkala
Kauppalehti
Soulevard
Stan Armold
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