Hoover commission urges cabinet rank welfare reform
The Hoover commission proposed a cabinet rank department of public welfare and education and a merged federal medical care agency under one body, a plan criticized by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. It would consolidate many services now spread across 40 federal offices to reduce cost and duplication. The proposal also suggests moving Indian Affairs to the new department, reassigning the employment service, health service, food and drug oversight, and employer compensation appeals to new or existing departments, while keeping some functions with interior and labor. The plan split the commission, with several members dissenting on specifics.
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Washington
Department of Public Welfare and Education
Hoover Commission
United Medical Administration
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Hoover Group
Hersbert Hoover
Defense
Forrestal
Orank Department of Warfare and Education
Office of Education
Federal Security Administration
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Interior Department
Ewing
Congress
Truman
Oscar R. Ewing
United States Employment Service
Bureau of Employment Security
Labor Department
Public Health Service
Medical Administration
Food and Leg Administration
Ageiculture Department
Bureau of
Legislature considers aviation registration and county care funding
In the legislature a bill to require registration of airplanes and ground units used in commercial crop dusting passed 43 to 3 and moved to the house. A bill to allow counties 34 a week for custodial patients moved from state hospitals to county care, with $500000 yearly appropriated to cover costs, passed 43 to 3 and sent to the senate. The house also passed 99 to 0 and sent to the senate an annual $15175000 appropriation for the state board of social welfare programs, matching the governor’s recommendation, and 92 to 1 for a uniform extradition procedure bill. A bill to establish a certificate of title system for automobile registrations was received.
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HOUSE
Senate
State Board of Social Welfare
William S. Beardsley
Iowa Reserve Officer to Begin 30-Day Active Duty
Lt. Col. Milo F. Mitvalsky of Cedar Rapids named among eight reserve and Guard officers who will go on 30 day active duty to help formulate future organization plans for armed forces. Secretary Royall announced Saturday that four reserve and four National Guard members will participate in the flag tour.
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Washington
Iowa
National Guard
Cal. Milo F. Mitvalsky
Cedar Rapids
Kerneth C. Royall
War Not Imminent But a Possibility
Secretary of the Army Royall told the Senate Armed Services Committee that war is not imminent but a possibility. He backed a bill to fix active Army strength at 837,000 officers and men with 750,000 in the National Guard, urging long range planning beyond crises.
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Washington
Royall
Senate Armed Services Committee
United States
USDA Sets Goal for Corn Acreage
The USDA reports farmers expect to plant 84.809 million acres to corn this year, about 1.6 percent less than last year’s record crop, aligning with a goal of 86 million acres. Spring wheat acreage is seen at 20.3 million, up from last year, with total wheat acreage around 81.67 million and a combined wheat crop near 1.286 billion bushels.
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Washington, P
Agriculture Department
Truman says bathing suit photos sparked White House action
President Truman told photographers at the White House Dinner that aides seized informal Key West vacation pictures to prevent his wife from objecting. He called it a safety measure, not censorship, noting the boss warned him to avoid bathing suit shots. Photographers claimed the images were authorized and shot from a navy blimp.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Key West
Fla
News Photographers’ Association
Charles G. Ross
Book Teens as Suspects in Murder in Milwaukee
Four teen agers were booked on suspicion of murder a few hours after the body of 16 year old Patricia Birmingham was found in the Milwaukee river. Firemen pulled the trussed, bullet mangled body from the river, and detectives say she was killed by someone she knew. A rifle and pistol were found at a boy's home.
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Milwaukee
Shremen
Patricia Birmingham
West Allis High School
Miss Birmingham
Polive
Truman to Ask Free Hand in Rearmament
President Truman plans to ask Congress for broad authority to fund Western Europe rearmament under a proposed billion dollar aid program. The package aligns with the North Atlantic Treaty and aims to secure swift Senate ratification with broad bipartisan support.
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Truman
Washington
Congress
Europe
Capitol
Senate
State Department
Department
Truyman
Vinson
House
Armed Services Committee
America
Associated Press
United States
West
Seize Pure Cocaine Valued at 1 950 000
New York police seized pure cocaine valued at 1 950 000 in underworld retail operations and arrested three alleged members of a national narcotics ring. A woman detective posing as a chambermaid aided the investigation resulting in arrests of Ralph Lopez, 82, his brother John Lopez, 8 and Jose Gonzalez, 28. They were arraigned Sunday on charges of Megal possession.
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New York
Underworld
Ralph Lopez
John Lopez
Jose Gonzalez
De Gaullists Top in French Cantonal Elections
Paris reports show extreme right De Gaullists with the largest share of the popular vote among parties in the cantonal elections, about 25 percent, while the Communists trail at roughly 23 percent. Other parties split the rest in the coalition government era. The result serves as a barometer though it does not alter the national government.
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Paris
de Gaullists
Coali- Hon
Henri Queuille
Bloc
Helicopter Rescues Four From Mountainside Crash
A lone helicopter evacuated four injured people stranded for three days beside a crashed plane. The operation, lasting about three hours, moved victims James Hardy Orville Rich and Mr and Mrs Fred Hall of Detroit from near Calderwood 30 miles south of Maryville. Pilot J N Newcomb of Glendale California landed in a Calderwood backyard. The four were reported in good condition. Hardy was the pilot of the crashed two engine plane en route from Detroit to Miami.
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Maryville
Tenn
Liry
Calderwood
James Hardy
Orville Rich
Fred Hall
Detroit
J. N. Newcomb
Glendale
Calif
Condidon
Yardy
Miami
Pen and pencil robbery at Parker Pen plant
A masked man burst into a Parker Pen plant in Janesville Wisconsin Saturday night bound and blindfolded the watchman at gunpoint and escaped with an estimated twenty thousand pens and pencils. No injuries reported. The incident is being investigated by local police.
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Janesville
Wis
Parker Pen Company
Spring Weather Flash as Winter Lingers in Iowa
The day recorded a high of 69 degrees, the season’s peak so far, while forecasts warn Old Man Winter will return with cold winds and snow Monday night. By Tuesday morning expect upper 20s with highs in the 30s and continued cold. Light rain fell early, with more precipitation and a drop in temperatures projected statewide.
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Iowa
Mercury
Cedar Rapids
Truman Denounces Trouble Makers In Congress Clash
President Truman told 600 mayors that he and Congress are working together for the country's good and denounced critics as trouble makers. He attacked the real estate lobby opposing housing and rent control, calling it the real enemy of the American home, and forecast passage of his housing plan with public housing and slum clearance.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
United States Conference of Mayors
Influenza Deaths Rise Across Britain in Week
Britain reports 321 influenza deaths in the past week across London and major towns including Wales, a figure three times higher than the previous year. The ministry of health notes the surge two months after the outbreak began on the continent.
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Britain
London
Ministry of Health
Wales
West Berlin outlaws Soviet east mark in unified economy
Western powers decree the east mark no longer legal in their sectors, unifying Berlin's currency. East mark remains usable for rationed goods this month and for rent and taxes in April. Russians threaten retaliation as exchanges plunge and stores in the Russian sector face a buying surge.
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Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Israel and Lebanon Agree to Armistice
The Associated Press reports Israel and Lebanon plan to sign an armistice, marking the second such pact involving Israel and an Arab nation since its independence last May. Details remain undisclosed as Rhodes talks with Egypt and Syria proceed.
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Associated Press
Israel
Lebanon
Rhodes
Egypt
Ralph J. Bunche
U. N
Syria
Jefferson Doctor Dies
Dr. Benjamin C. Hamilton Jr., 89, a prominent Greece county physician, died Saturday night at his Jefferson home.
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Jefferson
Benjamin C. Hamilton, Jr
Greece County
Indian Creek Diversion Plan Faces Rivers and Harbors Review
The army proposes a 4.08 million dollar Indian Creek diversion to flood protect Sioux City, divert runoff to the Missouri, and cut sediment. The plan includes a 35 foot dam and open channel, with bids for channel straightening south of the city. Congress must act after the Rivers and Harbors Board hearing by April 20.
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Upper Indian Creek
Harbors Board
Army
Indian Creek
Ben F. Jensen
Extra
Washington
District Engineering
Omaha
Board of Engineers For
Prenticett
Louis W. Prentiss
Sion
Missouri River
Big Lake
Army District
Adjourn Trial of Hiss Until April
NEW YORK General judge Simon H Rifkind Monday adjourned until April 11 the trial of Ayler Hiss a former state department official indicted for perjury by a spy probing grand jury. The adjournment was agreed by both counsel. The indictment accuses Hiss of lying to the grand jury about giving Secret government papers to Wittaker Chambers a former courier for a communist spy ring.
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New York
Feneral
Simon H. Rifkind
Ayler Hiss
State Department
Hiss
Grand Jury
Wittaker Chambers
Chambers
O Mahoney Urges Inflation Powers For President
Senator O Mahoney. D Wyoming urges Congress to grant the president mild powers to fight inflation. He contradicts Senator Taft saying the economy is in balance. He cites rising price curves since February and argues government spending, including military outlay, sustains high prices.
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Washington
O'Mahoney
D-Wyo
Congress
Isd
Wyoming
Taft
Robio
Senate
House Economic Committee
Leon Keyserling
Prsident
Economic Council
Mistaken Diagnosis Upheld by Appeals Court
London based appeals court reversed a lower ruling in favor of American engineer Whiteford who claimed a 1942 cancer diagnosis by Dr John Bowman Hunter ruined his finances. Whiteford alleged negligence after selling assets and returning to the U.S. where an American physician said no cancer existed. The court ruled the doctor was not negligent for the mistaken diagnosis.
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London
Forbes Whiteford
Whiteford
John Bowman Hunter
United States
Rail line seeks abandon and alternate freight route
The Minneapolis and St. Louis railway asked permission to abandon about five miles of track between Tracy and Fosterdale due to flood damage in June 1947. It also sought permanent authority for freight trains to bypass the section by using roughly 20 miles of track owned by the Wabash and the Chicago Burlington and Quincy between Des Moines and Oskaloosa.
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Washington
Minneapolis and St
Transformer Failure Darkens Downtown Street Scene
A transformer at the substation behind the federal building failed on a dark March morning, plunging four downtown blocks into semi gloom. Power was cut for about twenty minutes while crews switched to a standby transformer. The pot head failed, said Vern Beats, manager of Western Iowa Power. The circuit was restored at 9 38 a.m.
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Federal Building
Vern Beats
Western Iowa Power Company
Burns Fatal to 5 Year Old in Cherokee Hospital
A five year old girl from Cleghorn died Saturday night in a Cherokee hospital from burns suffered last Thursday when left alone in her parents home for a few minutes.
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Cleghorn
Cherokee
Rails Unions Agree After Long Labor Dispute
Chicago AP reports final terms reached on a 640 million dollar annual wage boost for 1 million railroad workers after 11 months of dispute with 16 non operating unions. The 40 hour week starts Sept 1 with a retroactive seven cent raise from Oct 1, plus overtime rules and staggered days off to limit overtime costs.
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Chicago
Originalé Demari
Toads
G. Kleighty
St. Louis
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Better Foods Week in Iowa House Honors Ottumwa Team
Better Foods Week opens in the Iowa House with lighthearted gifts. Rep Fred Schwengel gives each member a big red apple from Davenport. Rep James Armstrong presents Edna Lawrence a case of bacon to celebrate Ottumwa High’s state basketball title. Sen Charles Van Eaton announces banana distribution to legislators on Tuesday via South American shipper.
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Des Moines
Monnay
Better Foods Week
Iowa
House of Representatives
Fred Schwengel
R.davenport
Davenport
Ottumwa
James G. Armstrong
Waterloo
Edna C. Lawrence
Charles V. van Eaton
Sioux City
van Baten
South America
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