GOP Working Out Anti-Inflation Plan In Congress
Senate Republican policy committee moves to craft a bipartisan anti-inflation program with house members. Taft says leaders will meet next week to decide if two or three measures can pass in the special session. Proposed steps include extending export controls regulating grain exchange trading and curbing installment buying in this sector.
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Washington
Senate Republican Policy Committee
House
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Congress
Mailing tax forms to be mailed by early next week
Internal Revenue collector F. Roy Yoke said about 000 income tax forms for 1947 would be mailed from his Parkerburg office by early next week.
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Parkersburg
Internal Revenue
F. Roy Yoke
Power firms warn of tight reserves for holiday demand
City officials and Monongahela Power representatives say the reserve generating capacity is strained while postwar reconversion and war-era cuts delayed expansion. A plant on the Ohio river below St Marys should be ready by early 1949, with further expansions planned. Cities like Clarksburg Fairmont and Park cooperating to avoid Christmas street lighting.
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Monongahela
Ohio River
St. Marys
Power Company
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Park
Marrello And Ferguell Convicted Yesterday
A Charleston conspiracy case ended with the conviction of three defendants, Jello, 35, and John, after a jury deliberated just over an hour. Ruth Virginia Fitzwater, 24, testified she was transported against her will from Charleston to Kingston, N. C. A possible maximum life penalty looms, but the death penalty was waived under the Lindbergh kidnapping act since no harm occurred. The judge, Federal Judge Ben Moore, deferred sentencing to review past records.
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Charleston
Jello
John
Ben Moore
Ruth Virginia Fitzwater
Kingston
Fitzwater
Buying Spree in Moscow Spurs Ruble Rumors
Reports from London and Moscow say Russians rush to buy clothing, china, and other goods amid rumors that the ruble may be devalued or replaced. Officials caution the rush may reflect nervous public confidence, not a full economic panic, with similar chatter surfacing at past discussions on exchange values.
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Cusumaca Sfom
London
Soviet Union
Washington
China
Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministers
Names and tests of loyalty cited by officials
Clark quoted President Truman noting that members of designated organizations may still be loyal. The attorney general urged that reasonable grounds are needed to judge disloyalty, a point Richardson echoed in forwarding names to agencies. The text also notes medieval shoes as a symbol of economic power and authority in weddings.
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Clark
Truman
Richardson
Joe Louis Defends Title At Madison Square Garden
Heavyweight champ Joe Louis weighed 211 pounds for his 24th title defense at Madison Square Garden tonight against Jersey Joe Walcott who weighed 194 1/2 pounds.
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Ted Smits
New York
Joe Louis
Madison Square Garden
Jersey
Joe Walcott
House Burns To Ground From Kerosene Blast
CHARLESTON December 5 A one year old father of four children was critically burned when a kerosene burner exploded while starting breakfast. Roy A Rader is burned over most of his body but has a fair chance to live. His wife Mildred 28 was treated and released. The four children were awakened and removed from the seven room house as flames destroyed the home.
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Charleston
Roy A. Rader
Mildred
Paris Blackout Hits Citywide Services and Transit
A citywide power outage in Paris during a strike by electrical workers disrupted radio telegraph and news wire relay centers. Power returned in 45 minutes in some areas, but major factories and the subway faced prolonged outages with trains resuming only later. Paris was briefly cut off from outside contact as radio and telegraph failed while long distance phone operators were silent.
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Paris
Subway
WV soldiers recaptured after Mt Sterling prison escape
Charleton West Virginia held by military district reports Harless Grayson of Harrison Clay county is recaptured at Logan and sent to Kenawha county jail. Other four prisoners remain at large while being transported to Fort Knox dis ciplinary barracks for AWOL charges. A Denver wife and local real estate secretary are mentioned in unrelated notes. A Huntington youth Jackie Stevens is sentenced to four years for auto theft. U S Army provided first government weather information service in 1870.
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Charleston
Harless Grayson
Harrison
Clay County
West Virginia
Mt. Sterling
Logan
Kenawha County
West Virginia Military District
Fort Knox
Willie James
Coal City
Raleigh County
James J. Minnich
Shinnston
Joseph S. Nasy
Bassmore
Logan County
Huntington
Harry E. Watkins
Jackie Stevens
Woman Found Strangled in Auto Trunk Near Northfield Road
In Livingston New Jersey on December 5 the body of a 35 year old woman identified as Bernice Gold Gollobith was discovered stuffed in the trunk of an abandoned car on Northfield road. Police say she was strangled and the case is under investigation by local authorities led by Sergeant Nelson Beck.
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Livingsston
N. J
Northfield Road
New Jersey
Nelson Beck
Bernice Gold Gollobith
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Marrello
Ferguell
LEE Bennett & Son
W. Main ST
Franklin Ave
Denville
Beckes
Vincent A. Gollobith
U. S. Army
United States
C. Campbell
Mgr
Queniter
Chuck
A & P Fish
Armour's
Austin's
Austin
Vee
Oka
A&p
Rome
Iceberg
Marsh
Florida
Sak
Jane Parker
White House
Zeiss
AY Arts
Roberts
W. Main Street
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