Truman Proposes New Housing Authority
President Truman urged Congress to create a permanent housing and home finance agency to replace the wartime National Housing Agency. The plan aims for efficiency and economy, with private industry bearing primary housing responsibility while the federal government stimulates construction. The proposal follows Reorganization Plan No. 3 and requires congressional action within 60 days.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Housing and Home Finance Agency
National Housing Agency
NHA
Howe
House
Missouri
Capitol Hill
Polio Preparedness Conference At Mill
At Jacksons Mill on May 7 the acting director of the State Health Department division of communicable disease told a polio conference that for every known infantil paralysis case there are about 100 carriers. Dr. Robert L. Smith said carriers often go unrecognized and are as capable of transmitting the disease as known cases.
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Jackson's Mill
State Health Department
Division of
Robert L. Smith
Five Year Fight Over Damages From 1941 Fayette Crash
Charleston May 27 A five year battle by administrators for six youths killed in a 1941 Fayette county automobile accident reached the Supreme Court for the second time today. Attorney T C Townsend asked for an order to release a 3500 appropriation approved by the legislature. The court of claims recommended payment, and the legislature in 1945 and again this year approved 3500 to each estate. Auditor Sims had refused release, arguing the state cannot insure lives on public roads. Damage suit page 8.
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Charleston
Fayette County
Supreme Court
T. C. Townsend
Roy Herbert Adkns, Jr
Edgar B. Sims
Court of Claims
Deepwater
Sms
Russia Abolishes Death Penalty Announcement
A Moscow broadcast in London reported that the Soviet presidium declared the death penalty no longer necessary under peacetime conditions. The plan would substitute 25 year labor camp sentences for crimes including political offenses and violent crime, signaling greater security and fewer executions.
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London
Moscow
Soviet Union
Russia
Presidium
Suprema Soviet
Union
Theatre Ticket Admits Robe rt Wyckoff to Strand or Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites ROBERT E WYCKOFF of 456 Pearl Street to attend tonight's showings of Blue Skies starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire at the Strand Theatre or Undercurrent starring Robert Taylor at the Dixie Theatre with admission details.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Robert E. Wyckoff
Pearl Street
Bing Crosby
Fred Astaire
Strand Theatre
Robert Taylor
Dixie Theatre
Selecting jury in Overell case proceeds slowly
Santa Ana May 27. The defense for heiress Louise Overell and George Gollum challenged jurors as questions began in the murder case. Judge Morrison allowed inquiry into possible bias while the attorney general's office had taken over the prosecution, as jurors were asked if they could set aside circumstantial evidence and judge guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Frank Frawley
Santa Ana
Calif
Eugene D. Williams
Louise Overell
George Gollum
Kenneth C. Morrison
Orange County
James Davis
Williams
Walter 3. Overell
Newport Harbor
Louise
Otto Jacobs
Z. B. West
Wmless
Miss Overell
Gollum
Davis
Wed Afternoon Closings Suggested For Grafton Shops
Taylor County Board of Trade urges grocers pharmacists and gas stations to close Wednesday afternoons in June July and August. A recent survey shows 70 percent support the idea while 30 percent oppose or abstained. The recommendation is advisory not compulsory and merchants may decide individually. The committee also advised local stores to close on Independence Day and for the summer holiday.
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Grafton Busines
Trade Promotion Committee
Taylor County Board of Trade
Trade Board Committee
Committe
Businss
Retil
Loesl
Mercury Reaches 75 Degrees At Noon Today
The sun shone at noon with the temperature at 75 degrees. Cloudiness and showers are forecast for this afternoon and tonight after a bright morning. Yesterday’s high was 75 while last night’s low dipped to 40. At 7 39 a.m. today the thermometer stood at 58.
Nicaraguan Congress Deposes President Arguella
The Nicaraguan congress declares President Leonardo Arguella incapacitated and appoints Benjamin Lescayo Sacasa as provisional president. Arguella, ousted in a coup by the army, has taken refuge with his wife at the Mexican embassy in Managua, per the U.S. State Department and embassy reports.
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Washington
Nicaraguan Congress
Leonardo Arguella
Benjamin Lescayo Sacasa
State Department
Managua
Arguella
Katharine Shepler Dies in City Hospital
Katharine Emma Shepler longtime Grafton High social studies teacher died at City hospital at 10 15 pm after a year of ill health. A resident at 301 Beech Street with Mrs Elizabeth Handley she was a prominent figure in Grafton and Taylor County schools since 1920 and an active member of the First Presbyterian church.
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Katharine Emma Shepler
Grafton Senior High School
City Hospital
Miss Shepler
Grafton
Elizabeth Handley
Beech Street
Taylor County
Grafton High School
First Presbyterian Church
Katharine Page
Mass execution of Nazi war criminals at Landsberg
At Landsberg Germany on May 27 twenty two Mauthausen operators were hanged with 27 more to follow tomorrow in the largest Allied mass execution yet. The 49 condemned camp workers were tried by an American war crimes court for murders and atrocities at the Linz area camp. Two gallows saw the first twenty two die in two hours and thirty seven minutes as an Austrian rebelled against the binding rope.
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Landsberg
Germany
Mauthausen
Linz
Cate of Landsberg
Adolf Hitler
U. S. Army
Search Today For Missing State Boy
Harrisville May 27 Volunteer airplane pilots joined a ground posse in a search for a four year old son of a Ritchie county farm family. The child, son of Mr and Mrs Jack Martin near Mahone, disappeared late yesterday afternoon. He was with his father in a field about a mile from home and last seen walking to the farm house. A posse of 50 men searched the woods and fields all night for the missing boy.
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Harrisville
Ritchie Eounty
Jack Martin
Near Mahone
Agriculture Dept Bill Faces Major Budget Cut Test
The House Appropriations Committee weighs cutting 32 percent of the Agriculture Department’s 1948 budget in a $805 million supply bill. Rep Dirksen warns of trouble and vows to block large amendments restoring funds for soil conservation, school lunch, and other programs. Republican leaders Hope Hull and Senator Aiken oppose the move.
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William F. Arbo
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Agriculture Department
House
Rep
Dirksen
Ill
Hope
Kas
House Agriculture Committee
Hull
Wis
Aiken
Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Group
Weekly carloads handled by railroad firms in May 1947
Carloads for the week ended May 24, 1947 on the Baltimore and Ohio totaled 69,067 with 45,955 loaded on line and 23,812 received from connections. This compares with 46,571 in the same week a year earlier. The preceding week, ending May 17, totaled 69,322.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Famed Gen Carlson dies of heart illness in Portland
Brig. Gen Evans F. Carlson, 51, commander of Carlson's Raiders in the Pacific War, died in Emmanuel hospital Portland at 6 30 am after being admitted last night and placed on oxygen. He had retired in 1946 to a Mount Hood area lodge and suffered two prior heart attacks.
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Portland
Ore
Evans F. Carlson
Carlson
Protland
Emmanuel Hospital
Mountain Lodge
Mount Hood
Astoria, Ore
Naval Hospital
Famed Page
President Truman says mother holding her own after setback
Grandview Missouri May 27 President Truman reports his mother Martha E Truman is holding her own after a bad night and a chill she rallied yesterday and was sleeping comfortably at 1045 am EST no material change from yesterday's improvement noted by press secretary Charles R Ross reporters were told by the President that he would assess the situation once he reaches Mrs Truman's home in Kansas City and speaks with family authorities on her condition
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T B
Ross
Kansas City
Martha E. Truman
Community Chest Favored 97 Percent In Grafton
A survey of residents and businesses in Grafton shows 97 percent favoring a Community Chest. Claude Ebert of the Taylor County Board of Trade says the trade promotion committee will provide Kiwanis as the sponsor with plans for a fall opening aimed at back to school campaigns. The August 18 tentative date and participation by Boards of Trade members are noted, with no closing deadline set.
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Grafton
Claude Ebert
Trade Promotion Committee
Taylor County Board of Trade
Trade Board
Kiwanis Club
Boards of Trade
Arrest Farm Youth Today In Killing Of Four Youngsters
May 27 report notes a UAW CIO strike vote looming among Ford production workers as talks stall. Foremen walked out last week and FAA pressure to keep plants running grows. dispute centers on wages hours and conditions. debate over a broader strike remains pending a 30 day Smith Connally act window.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Richard T. Leonard
Uaw-Cio
Ford Department
UAW
Robert H. Keyes
FAA
Leonard
Toledo Youth Arrested In Michigan Child Slayings Case
Oliver Terpenning Jr a slim one year old high school boy was arrested near Toledo after confessing to a Monday night shooting of four Imlay City Michigan children Lt Art Bartkowiak said the youth told of leaving the area hitchhiking south and being picked up by a motorist who turned him over to a suburban Toledo justice The four victims Barbara 16 Gladys 12 Janet 2 and Stanley 14 were found shot in the back of the head near a flower covered gravel pit no charges were filed pending further investigation
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Toledo
Oliver Terpenning, Jr
Imlay City
Mich
Art Bartkowiak
R. O. Stevens
Norman Dombrosky
Terpenning
Michigan
Michigan-Chigiide
Bartkowiak
Erie
Donibrosky
Mathews
Lapest
Nea R
Barbara
Gladys
Janet
Stanley
William Smith
Browntown Man Dies Of Automobile Injuries
Charleston dispatch reports Edward Gray aged 36 of Brownton Barbour county died in a Charleston hospital from injuries after a car left a Clay county road and struck a rock ledge. His friend Clarence Charlton also of Brownton sustained minor injuries and was treated and released.
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Charleston
Edward Gray
Brownton
Barbour County
Gray
Clarence
Charlton
Clay County
Carlton
Grafton Aims World War II Memorial Park Plan
Letters to about 2240 family heads in Grafton go out this week to support a modern World War II memorial at the old city park site below Grafton dam. Sponsored by the American Legion region, Veterans of Foreign Wars and AmVets, community donations cover labor and material equal to one day per family head, targeting about $17,020 locally and over $30,000 countywide.
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City
Grafton Dam
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Earlor County
Oyes
Hunting Clues To Members Of Mob Which Kidnapped Young Negro
Federal and state officers hunted a masked white mob blamed for kidnapping Godwin Buddy Bush a 24 year old African American who fled to safety from the North Carolina Central Prison after surrendering to the FBI. Investigators pursued leads as officials described the incident occurring in the predawn hours. Bush faced charges arising from an alleged attempted rape of a white stenographer on Thursday.
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N.C
Raleigh
N. C
Godwin
Buddy” Bush
North Carolina Central Prison
FBI
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Mill
Strand
Dixie
Katharine Shepler
Agriculture Dept
Delores Diaz
Ferry Branch
W. Va
Cpl
R. T. Cummings
L. E. Hampton
Domingo
Mary Diaz
Associated Press
B. & C. Carloadings
Gen. Carlson
Raiders
Truman Hilos
UMW
Ford Workers
Browntown
ASS Family
EAS
Rue Rate
Sentinel
Lockwood
Fratton ‘Theatre
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