Record floods control appropriations set up by House panel
Record $534,600,300 for navigation and flood control projects was recommended by the House Appropriations committee, a near 20 percent cut from Truman’s request but about 80 percent higher than this year’s funding. Chairman Engel said the total would exceed any previous waterways budget and the Senate may seek increases. The plan awaits House action, with Senate action hoped by May 1. The president’s budget proposal for the Army engineers’ program was $665,894,000. current funding stood at $415,535,525. The committee shifted funds, providing $127,294,000 from Truman’s estimate but boosting the current figure by $123,047,000, and cut next year’s new construction by $208,682,000. The backlog includes Savage River Dam in Maryland and Latrobe in Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred J. Zuly
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Engel
R.-Mich
Army Civil Functions Subcommittee
Senate
House
Army Enginers
R. A. Wheeler
Army Engineers
Congress
Corps of Engineers
State May Get 6000 Control Money
The House appropriations committee recommends over 8 million dollars for West Virginia flood control projects. Blue Stone Reservoir on New River is slated for 5 million. Parkersburg flood wall work gets 2.46 million, Point Pleasant protection 700 thousand, and Morgantown to Fairmont Monongahela River channel improvement is not listed. A separate request for immediate action was made.
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Washington
West Virginia
House Appropriations Committee
Blue Stone
New River
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Monongahela River
Morgantown
Fairmont
Red controlled: Czech police seize Social Democratic HQ
In Prague on February 24, security police armed with bayonets entered the Social Democratic party headquarters on Prikopy street as unions held a solidarity strike. The force, under Communist direction, aimed to tighten control while National Socialist leaders faced searches. Students and professors protested, and Premier Gottwald forecast swift Communist victory.
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Prague
Social Democratic Party
Czechoslovakia
Prikopy
National Socialist Party
Communist Party
Klement Gottwald
Minneapolis Teachers Strike Over Pay and Year Length
Minneapolis public school teachers struck for higher pay and a full school year. The AFL Teachers Federation called the action, representing about half of the city's 2,200 educators. Pickets appeared before several schools at the 8 am strike hour. no classes were held. The district includes 94 schools with about 65,000 students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
AFL Teachers Federation
Four Die In Fire In New York State Home
Four children and a 65 year old housekeeper died when a fire swept a two story wooden house ten miles west of Glens Falls New York early today. Elizabeth Hack 30 mother of the children was burned seriously and taken to Glens Falls hospital with injuries to arms hands back and face. Victims named Janice Hack 5 Amos 8 Richard 6 Ronald 4 and housekeeper Elizabeth Center Vernon Dunkley 10, jumped from the second floor and survived.
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Glen Falls
N. Y
Here
Elizabeth Hack
Glens Falls
Janice Hack
Amos
Richard
Ronald
Elizabeth Center
Vernon Dunkley
Hack
Taylor Sends Harsh Jabs at Democrats on Wallace Ticket
Idaho Senator Glen Taylor, now Wallace’s running mate, says the Democratic party left him and condemns Wall Street and the military. He blasts a two-party choice as a tweedle dum and tweedle dummer and promotes the third party as the arena for his principles. Taylor urges belief in peace with Russia and claims Wallace is the only leader to guide that stance.
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Hal Cooper
Washington
Glen ‘Taylor
Idaho
Henry A. Wallace
Taylor
Wall Street
Wallace
Russia
Leo Taylor
United States Urges Korean Vote at UN
Larry Hauk reports from Lake Success that the United States urged the United Nations to ignore a Soviet boycott and push for nationwide elections in divided Korea. Dr. Philip C. Jessup called on the Korean people to elect a national assembly and said Soviet non cooperation should not block the UN plan for a free Korea. He even hoped Moscow might permit balloting in its zone as directed by the General Assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Hauck Lake
United States
United Nations
Korea
Philip C. Jessup
Little Assembly
U. N
Jessup
Russia
U.N
Ae E
Iowa Judge Wennerstrom Stands By Trial Objectivity
Judge Charles F. Wennerstrum defended the Nurnberg war crimes trials as objective and not vindictive. He challenged Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor’s subversive-talk accusation, saying he would match loyalty to the United States against the general’s critique. Wennerstrom’s remarks followed his arrival from Nurnberg after presiding over trials of 10 German commanders.
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James Calogero
Westover Air Force Base
Mass
Charles F. Wennerstrum
United States
Wennerstrom
Iowa
Telford Taylor
Germany
Nuernberg
Edward F. Carter
Nebraska Supreme Court
George J. Burke
University of Michigan
Wennerstrum-Taylor
Wilhelm List
Wennerstrum
United Nation
City Hires Sapp To Compile Maps and Records
Charles Sapp, 33, of 212 East Longstreet, a four year eleven month veteran topographical draftsman with the U S Army, is hired by the City of Grafton to draw maps and a water department survey. City Manager Curtis D. Decker says Sapp will create records required by the Public Utilities Commission and may become city planning engineer as he works under GI on the job training. He served in the 201st Infantry, formerly the W Va National Guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Sapp
East Longstreet
United States Army
Grafton
Water Department
Curtis D. Decker
Sapp
G. I
Decker
Public Utilities Commission
Mr. Sapp
201St Infantry
W. Ya. National Guard
Ste City
Justice Dept orders 10 prob steel price probes
On White House orders, Attorney General Clark sent FBI agents to 16 leading steel firms to probe last week’s price rise. The aim is to determine if producers conspired to violate antitrust law. President Truman, at sea aboard the Williamsburg, urged nationwide inquiry and possible probes into the price spike.
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Washington
White House
Clark
FBI
Truman
Caribbean
Williamsburg
Justice Deppartment
Commerce Department
Council of Economic Advisers
Congress
Clary
Justice Department
Edwins G. Nourse
President's Economic Council
Joint
Congressional Economic Committee
House
Rep. Poulson
R.calif
Red Cross Drive Plans Set For March Start
Taylor County Chapter launches its annual Red Cross fund drive March 1 with a $4000 goal. Richard Leonard chairs the effort, targeting a 10 day house to house canvass within city limits by Grafton Women’s Club members and volunteers from the Business Girl's club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
American Red Cross
Richard Leonard
A. E. Leonard
Leonard
Grafton Woman’s Club
Business Girl's Club
RED Cross
Democrat Revolt Deepens After Southern Governors Meet
Washington February 24 The civil rights dispute within the Democratic Party intensified as four southern governors pledged to block President Truman’s race equality program. J Howard McGrath said the meeting showed improved understanding, while Thurmond Laney and others warned the south is no longer "in the bag" and urged use of whatever means necessary to resist.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Dixie
J. Howard McGraw
Truman
Democratic Party
McGrath
Southland
Gevs. J. Strom. Thurmond
South Carolina
Ben T. Laney
Arkansas
Rosier Returned To Taylor County Jail
Glen Rosier, who escaped the Taylor County jail on Sunday, was brought back to the jail at 2 pm yesterday by Deputy Sheriff W H Canfield. He was picked up in Cumberland Maryland after an arrest there Saturday night. Rosier faces two charges theft and jail break and will await grand jury action at the April term of Taylor County Circuit Court.
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Glen Rosier
Taylor County
WH. Canfield
Cumberland
Rosier
Charles H. Self
Canfield
West Virginia Weather Forecast Extended Period Summary
Weather forecast for West Virginia covers Feb 25 to 29. Temperatures near normal with a milder Wednesday turning colder, then warmer on Saturday. Rain is expected Wednesday and again with possible rain or snow Saturday or Sunday. Total precipitation about half an inch.
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West Virginia
Millions For Nation’s Cemetery Program Outlined
Washington Feb 24 The house appropriations committee approved a multi million dollar cemetery program to honor World War II dead. It funds 30 national cemeteries in the continental United States and new military trial grounds in Hawaii and Puerto Rico as part of the war department’s non military activities. The total appropriation stands at 606,058,766 with 131,542,889 below Truman’s budget estimates. flood control and harbor projects make up 538,600,300 of the total.
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Washington
Congress
House” Appropriations Committee
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
War Department
Truman
Five Business Buildings Levelled By Butane Blast in Pocahontas Ark
Five business buildings were leveled and the block was burning after a morning explosion in Pocahontas Arkansas suspected to be caused by escaping butane gas. One man, Henry Taylor, was killed and several others may have been trapped or injured.
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Arkansas
Red Cross
Henry Taylor
Pocahontas
Ark
Themen
Tyo
Dallas Rowden
City Grocery and Market
Offerman
Bob Allen
Ente Allen
Rowden
Éimploye
Clyde Newton
Ed Rose
Memphis
Tetis
Hospital Board Meeting Thursday in Graftam City
City Hospital board convenes at 12:30 PM Thursday with Ex-Officio Chairman Mayor Russell G Dotson presiding. They will name two new board members to fill Fleming and Poe vacancies as Poe’s resignation takes effect March 15. The board seeks a new manager to replace W A Cebun while Norma Jean Moyer plans major surgery keeping her away a month.
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City Hospital Board
Russell “G. Dotson
Graftam
O. J. Fleming
Fleming
B. F. Poe
Poe
Seventeen Year Old Admits Sex Killing Of 13 Year Old
Colorado Springs police report a 17 year old boy named Alvin Lee Bundy orally admitted killing James Fox, 13, with a hammer after forcing him to undress in a ravine near the Garden of the Gods. Bundy later wrote a ransom note to the dead boy’s father.
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Colorado
Springs
Colo
James Fox
I. B. Bruce
Bruce
Alvin Lee Bundy
Bundy
Dr Flanagan Heads Leii- Up Drive in Grafton
Dr James V iatagan a prominent Grafton dentist and former exalted ruler of the local lodge was named chairman of a city wide clean up campaign to be launched soon. The Taylor County Board of Trade nominating committee selected him at a meeting last night. Charles Jarrett announced the choice today. H A Appel was named vice chairman and Mrs T W Hetronimis Jr was named secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James V
Iatagan
Grafton
Fldke Lodge
Taylor County’ Board of Trade
Trade Board
Charles Jarrett
H. A. Appel
Walnut
Estore
T. W. Hetronimis, Jr
Flanagan
Wallace Attacks Marshall Plan as War Instigator
Henry A. Wallace told reporters in Washington on February 24 that Wall Street monopolists have twisted the Marshall plan into an instrument for enslaving Europe. He charged the European recovery effort is a blueprint for war and warned the current program could trigger conflict.
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Relman Morin
Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Wall Street
Europe
Wallace to testify before foreign affairs committee tonight
Theatre ticket notes Wallace will attend the foreign affairs committee hearing on stage as Humphrey leads a 11,000 word Walter Huston prepared statement. Robert Hutton stars in a feature linked to the presentation with Reynolds appearing on page 4.
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Wallace
House Foreign of “Treasure Bierra
Humphrey
Walter Huston
Alwarne
Robert Hutton
Reynolds
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Savage River Dam
AED
National Socialist
Minneapolis, Minn
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Owa
Pat OW
City
Justice
Wilmington
Del
New Castle
Charles L. Murray
Charles Bungy
Evi
Roger
Donald Bungy
Miss Jackson
Murray Cald
University of California At
Los Angeles
John G. Hallock
Hall
St. Clair
Ed C. St. Clair
DR. Flanagan
Marshall Plan
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