Acheson Reverses Clubb Case Cleared for Pension
Secretary of State Acheson said he reversed a state department board finding that Oliver Clubb was a security risk. Clubb, director of Chinese affairs, retired on a pension while thanking the action as restoring loyalty and shielding his future career. His $12,400 salary faded into context as critics urged pension review.
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Washington
Acheson
State Department
Oliver Edmund Clubb
Clubb
Foreign Service
Department
Ferguson
R. - Mich
Owen Lattimore
Senate Committee
Lattimore
McCarthy
R.-Wis
Justice Department Refuses Information on Prosecutions
The Justice Department refused to provide detailed data on how government prosecutions were handled to a House Judiciary subcommittee. Rep Chaft asked McGrath to list all cases in six years with declined action, return to original department, or pending status. Joseph Duggan stated the request exceeds the committee’s resolution and did not authorize the inquiry.
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Washington
Justice Department
Congressional
J. Howard McGrath
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Rep
Chelf
D-Ky
McGrath
Department
Joseph C. Duggan
House
Judiciary Committee
Quake Relief Rushed to Victims in Japan
American occupation forces and the Japanese government rushed relief supplies to earthquake and tsunami victims in snow swept northern Japan. Planes trains and boats carried blankets medicine and food to stricken areas of Hokkaido and northeastern Honshu. Thousands were homeless amid bitter cold and snow after Tuesday's quake. The U S army tally listed 31 dead and 170 injured with 20 bodies recovered. no Americans harmed.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hokkaido Island
Honshu
U. S. Army
Senate Rules Subcommittee Eyes McCarthy Expulsion Move
A senate rules subcommittee voted to ask the full Senate whether to continue its inquiry into calls that Senator McCarthy be ousted. The panel weighs a Benton resolution aimed at McCarthy's expulsion from Congress.
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Washington
Senate
Mc,Carthy
R-Wis
Congress
Benton
D-Conn
McCarthy
Food Prices Drop Amid Confession At Market Station
A man staggered into a wholesale lice station and confessed that food prices, as measured by the Bradstreet food index, dropped this week to the lowest since Nov. 7, 1950, at $6.56 per unit, down 3.8 percent from last year. A sergeant questioned him about his wife’s fate as the suspect claimed she might be locked up.
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Bradstreet
Nevel
No U S Plan to Widen Korean War If Truce Fails
In Philadelphia a state department official said the United States will not broaden the Korean War to China even if truce talks collapse. Officials emphasize policy aims to confine fighting to Korea, with military leaders weighing what price for peace would be acceptable. Four Southwest Iowans filed Iowa legislature nomination papers in Des Moines, per Associated Press.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
China
Johnido
Allison
Philadelphia
Panmunjom Azel
Far East
Matthew B. Rideway
United Nations
U. N
Fay L. Harris
Korea
Forj
R-Greenfield
Kirk I. Nich
Otson
R-Bedford
Ralph C
United States
Reds
Jones
Two Breaks for U S Taxpayers
The Internal Revenue Bureau urged tax offices nationwide to stay open the next two Saturdays to ease the last minute rush. Returns won’t be late if filed or mailed by midnight March 17 due to March 15 falling on a Saturday.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
City Auditing Steps Lead to Meter Box Dismissal
City Finance Director Nels Hansen began a planned audit last July to count and number parking meter boxes. He was dismissed for failing to account for boxes and conduct periodic checks. Willis Shrader and Howard Mendenhall stamped numbers on 5811 boxes after receiving Hansen’s July 28 letter directing an inventory.
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Nels ‘Hansen
Fring
Willis Shrader
Howard Mendenhall
Oliver D. Comstock
Hansen
Schrader
Mendenhall
Shrader
Irwin-Imig
Irwin-Imig Company
Omaha
Certified Public Accountants
City Books
Comstock
Hansen’s Post
Truman Plan To Restructure Tax Bureau Faces Senate Vote
The Senate expenditures committee rejected President Truman's plan to reorganize the internal revenue bureau by a 7 to 5 vote after four weeks of hearings. The measure, backed by Truman, would replace politically appointed collectors with civil service regional officials and goes to the Senate floor next Tuesday for final action.
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Washington
Senate Expenditures Committee
Truman
Internal Revenue Bureau
Senate
McFarland
Dariz
George
D-Ga
Millikin
R-Col
House
Civil Service
Lattimore Says Recommendations Had No Influence
In testimony before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee Owen Lattimore insisted his June 1945 attempts to sway President Truman over aid to Chinese nationalists and communists did not influence American foreign policy. He repeated he never had any real impact, while Senator Ferguson pressed to determine if any influence existed.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Truman
Lattimore
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Ferguson
Emmetsburg Fire Destroys Restaurant as Loss Rises
A major blaze in Emmetsburg’s business district destroyed the McNally restaurant building and severely damaged the National Cash and Cook’s Drug stores. Firefighters from Emmetsburg and nearby towns battled five hours in bitter cold, with damage estimates near 100000 dollars. The fire began when a gas oven exploded at about 10 15 p.m. and the two story frame restaurant building burned completely.
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Emmetsburg
National Cash Store
Cook's Drug Store
Windsor Arrives After Queen Elizabeth Voyage
Windsor returns to New York on the liner Queen Elizabeth following the funeral of King George VI in England. The duke of Windsor traveled from England to attend the late monarch's rites and landed in the U.S. amid royal attentions.
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New York
Duke of Windsor
England
King George VI
Editorial urges timely party caucus announcements in Council Bluffs
An editorial laments the lack of caucus details for Republican and Democratic precincts. It urges party chairmen to publish times and places for caucuses that select delegates to county and state conventions and ultimately the national tickets, urging readers to participate.
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Council Bluffs
Wearin
Wearin Out for Governor Nomination in Iowa Race
Otha D Wearin a Mills county farmer and longtime Iowa politics figure announces as the second Democratic candidate for governor joining Herschel Loveless. Harold Teachout of Shenandoah says Wearin will accept if offered by Democrats. Wearin, 49, has served in the legislature and in Congress hopefuls, and sits on the state Democratic central committee. DES MOINES Iowa. DES MOINES Lew Allen 38 Onawa attorney announces for Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor the first in his party to do so. Allen previously ran for lieutenant governor in 1946 and served in the Iowa House in 1941. He later practiced law in Onawa with his father after graduating from Iowa Law in 1939.
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Hastings
Otha D. Wearin
Mills County
Iowa
Herschell Loveless
Ottumwa
Wearin
Kenneth Evans
Emerson
Harold Teachout
Shenandoah
Accpet
Teachout
Democrats of
Weerin
Conness
Ways and Means
U. S. Senate
Democratic Central Committee
Wearins
Grinnell] College
Des Moines
Sewell E. Allen
Onawa
Allen
Iowa House of Representatives
University of Towa Law College
George FE. Allen
Short Suspension for Capt Hansen
Fire Department Captain Earl J. Hansen faced a 12 hour suspension from 6 am Wednesday over handling a body from an Offutt field airman crash. Hansen cited a procedural misunderstanding while Fireman Stanley Williams avoided suspension. The incident involved two men, T/Sgt. Bud Adams and civilian Robert Elliott, with the body sent to a hospital and then to a coroner’s mortuary after an order from the hospital. The chief cited a failure to log the body’s delivery, noting a prior ban on delivering bodies to mortuaries.
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Offutt Field
Earl J. Hansen
South ‘Tenth Street
Waldo Merrill
Bure
Adams J
Robert T. Elliott
Mercy Hospital
Hansen
Williams
Elliott
Adams
Air Force
Merrill
Capt. Hansen
Slightly Warmer Readings Thursday Forecast for Southwest Iowa
A warming trend is seen for Southwest Iowa with a light snow flurry forecast on Thursday. Temperatures may reach 34 degrees, eleven degrees above Tuesday's high of 23 in Council Bluffs. Wednesday's high was modest and skies stayed cloudy with light snow. The Missouri River falls slowly with ice, at 5.2 feet, flood stage 19 feet. Highways are open but snow-packed in many places.
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Missouri
Snow blanket holds flood threat across Dakotas and Montana
The Dakotas and Montana face a potential spring flood as 15 to 20 inch snowpacks carry 4 to 5 inches of water. Brig Gen D G Shingler and hydrologists in Omaha say gradual thaw typically reduces flood risk, recalling 1949 when fears proved unfounded.
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Dakotas
Montana
Hcorps
Aran
D. G. Shingler
Missouri River Division
Omaha
Political Civil War in Korea Rhee Election Battle
In Pusan Korea a political clash unfolds as President Syngman Rhee faces a hostile one house assembly with a three month to go to a presidential election. Observers say Rhee has little chance of re election though allies push for a possible run. The proposed direct election measure fuels debate seen as a bid for Rhee’s return.
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Pusan
Korea
Syngman Rhee
National Assembly
Rhee
Associated Press
War Contracts for Unemployment Areas
Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson directed the defense department to channel negotiated war contracts to Detroit Providence R I Scranton and Wilkes Barre Pa as unemployment areas.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
Defense Department
Detroit
Providence
R. I. Scranton
Wikes Barre
House Shelves Bill to Start UMT in 83rd Congress
The House shelved an administration bill to start universal military training, voting 236 to 162 to recommit. Rep Vinson said no more UMT legislation this session as Sen McFarland doubted Senate action before Congress ends. Proponents vowed to restart in the 83rd Congress after the election.
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House
Rep. Vinson
D-Ga
Armed Services Committee
Sen. McFarland
Arizona
Senate
Vinson
Donald R. Wilson
The
American Legion
Soviet Union
Milk Truck Halts Tunnel Escape by Prison Inmates
Inmates at Washington state penitentiary nearly reached freedom when a milk truck collapsed the 100 foot tunnel 30 feet from an escape. Warden Craner noted fresh digging and the group had spent about 18 months on the project despite a prior dinner honoring them for no tunnels in 12 months.
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Walla Walla, Wash
State Penitentiary
Freedom
North Wall
John Craner
About 220 School Directors to be Named Monday
County school elections in Pottawattamie set for Monday will name about 220 school directors across 53 independent and township districts. Ernest Barker urged every qualified voter to visit polls and vote in their district.
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Ernest Barker
Pottawattamie County
United States backs Britain in Malaya fight
Acheson stated on Wednesday that the United States is solidly behind Britain in its determination to defeat communist terrorism in Malaya. He added that Washington would not promise large scale military or economic aid to bolster the British campaign.
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Washington
State Acheson
United States
Britain
Malaya
Acheson
U.S
Brownson Proposes Universal High School Military Service Plan
Brownson urged requiring physically fit high school students to serve in the military during their last two years with two summer encampments. Non students would train similarly. The House first approved the plan 260 to 145 on a teller vote, then rejected it 235 to 156 on a roll call. Rep Short expected a 40 vote margins motion but final 74 vote margin led to doubt about UMT. Brownson, a former officer, expressed surprise at the support and aims to revisit the issue soon, though Vinson indicated no action this session.
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Brownson
House
Rep
Short
R-Mo
UMT
Congress
Vinson
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