Vogeler's Aides Plead Guilty In Budapest Spy Trial
In Budapest on February seventeen the British assistant Edgar Sanders and two Hungarians confessed to spying for the West as the trial opened for International Telephone and Telegraph officials. Vogeler, a U S businessman, was not called on the first day though previously said to have confessed. Geiger and Rado, both Hungarians, admitted to spying and sabotage as the court moved to Sanders.
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Budapest
Hungary
Robert Vogeler
Vogeler
Edgar Sanders
International Telephone and Telegraph Co
Sanders
Britain
Imre Geiger
Zoltan Rado
Geiger
Rado
Attlee And Churchill End Tours
Attlee and Churchill conclude country campaigns ahead of the February 23 elections. Attlee toured about 1,200 miles, spoke at 34 stops, and praised his party’s record on employment and social security. Churchill returned from a train tour and urged the public to give his party a victory, planning a final broadcast that night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Clement Attlee
No. 10
Downing Street
Great Britain
Labor Party
Winston Churchill
Attlee
Truman
Glasgow
Scotland
Churchill
Britain
Walthamstow
Leicester
Lord Woolton
Tory Constitutional Club
British Press Association
Pelley Jailed As Fugitive
Noblesville Indiana February 17 William Dudley Pelley former Silver Shirt leader remained jailed with no judge available to set bonds after a fugitive warrant from North Carolina. Governor Schricker ordered extradition. Pelley had filed for habeas corpus and had been released on $1000 bond.
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Noblesville
Ind
William Dudley Pelley
North Carolina
Tom R. White
Henry F. Schricker
Indiana
Terre Haute
Pelley
Silver Shirt Legion
Asheville
Silver Shirts
Hundreds Evacuated as Floodwaters Rise in Louisiana and Mississippi
National Guardsmen and Red Cross workers moved hundreds more residents from flooded east central Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. About 2,000,000 acres of cotton and livestock land were inundated, forcing around 9,000 people to flee. No deaths reported though property and livestock losses were heavy.
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National Guardsmen
Red Cross
Louisiana
Missis
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Montana
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Mississippi
Plains States
Wisconsin
Minnesota
la Crosse
Wis
MacKenzie Valley
Canada
Dakotas
Roanoke Veteran Held In Slaying Of His Mother
Blood stained shoes and hair on soles led to the arrest of Clarence Decker 24 in the slaying of his mother Nettie Decker 50 at her Roanoke apartment. Detective Captain Frank H Webb said Mrs Decker was beaten stabbed and found dead in a blood pool. Norman Decker 15 was treated for multiple cuts after escaping through a window.
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Roanoke
Frank H. Webb
Clarence Decker
Nettie Decker
Webb
Norman Decker
Another Big Plane Down In Arctic
A Canadian Dakota C-47 crashed on an icy lake between Donjer River YT and Northway Alaska during exercise Sweetbriar. One of the four Canadians and 10 of the Americans aboard were injured. It is the seventh large military plane disaster in the northwest area of Canada and the United States in three weeks.
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Donjer River
Y.T
Canada
United States
Here
Northway
Alaska
Five Airmen Missing After B 36 Crash Off British Columbia Coast
Parachutes and snow tracks traced the search to the west side of Princess Royal Island as 17 airmen plummeted from the ice coated B 36 bomber. Eleven have been recovered and a twelfth prepared for airlifting. five remain unaccounted for. Coast guard officials issued the update from Ket during the ongoing operation.
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Coast Guard
White Holly
Eft
Cape Perry
Princess Royal Island
Queen Charlotte Sound
British Columbia
Tacoma
Wash
Fairbanks
Alaska
Fort Worth
Tex
Mcchord Air Force Base
Ket
Furniture Makers Eye School Contract Bids in NC
A March meeting will gather Tar Heel furniture makers in Greensboro or High Point to discuss public school furniture contracts. The State Board of Conservation and Development committee on commerce and industry led the talks with industry officials, schools, and purchasers amid an estimated 15 million dollars in next years school furniture spending.
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Raleigh
State Board of Conservation and Development
Committee On Commerce and Industry
Greensboro
High Point
North Carolina
Demand for International Peace Grows during Cold War Pause
Washington reports pile up of calls for peace moves to end the cold war. Senator Tydings urges a world disarmament conference while Kefauver backs Atlantic union and UN strengthening. State Department favors unified non Communist front and UN growth over a world federation.
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Washington
Truman
Moscow
Tydings
Senate Armed Services Committee
Acheson
Senate Foreign Relations
Alexander Klein
New York City
United Nations
Klein
Kefauver D-Tenn
State Department
Kefauver
Russia
World Federation
Atlantic Union
Maxim Litvinoff
World Scene Turmoil Driven by State Actions and Strikes
The report notes Poland placing Bishop Kazimierz Kowalski under house arrest over alleged pressure on patriotic priests as Caritas is seized. In Berlin churches oppose the East German national front, while French rail and coal strikes protest arms shipments under the Atlantic Pact. In Manila MacArthur warns of thousands of Chinese communists in the Philippines and Formosa concerns. The piece marks New Year in the Chinese calendar with Nationalist forces wary of a Soviet-backed advance.
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Associated Press
Poland
Kazimierz Kowalski
Pomerania
Caritas
Berlin
National Front’’ Movement
Konrad Cardinal von Preysing
Paris
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Truman Claims GOP Hiding Inaction Behind Socialism
President Truman assailed Republicans for crying socialism to mask their own inaction as he addressed 5,300 Democrats at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Washington. He urged speedy domestic programs and rejected GOP charges as insults to American intelligence while Taft and Wherry sharpened the campaign rhetoric ahead of the November elections.
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Truman
Gop
Washington
Taft
Ohio
ADA
Americans For Democratic Action
Cio-Pac
Political Action Committee
Great Britain
Ives
R-N.y
Olds Named Assistant to Wildlife Resources Executive
Hayden W. Olds, 46, was appointed assistant to the executive director of the Wildlife Resources Commission in Raleigh. He replaces Willis King who resigned. Olds previously led the game division and will be succeeded by Eugene E. Schwall, 40, who also serves as federal aid coordinator. Both men have ten years with Ohio’s Division of Conservation and Natural Resources.
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Raleigh
Hayden W. Olds
Wildlife Resources Commission
Willis King
Olds
Commission
Clyde Patton
Eugene E. Schwall
Schwall
State of
Ohio
Division of Conservation and Natural Resources
Negro Farmer Kills Wife and Wounds Daughters Near Warrenton
In Warrenton, a tenant farmer identified as Richard, 56, shot his wife Arlene Foster 41 and their daughters Lula 19 and Roselle 11 before turning the gun on himself. Arlene died, Lula was critically wounded, Roselle slightly injured. Richard was found bleeding and taken to a Durham hospital.
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Warrenton
Arlene Foster
Lula Foster
Roselle
Richard
Durham
After Effects of Hydrogen Bomb Explosion Explained
New York report quotes physicist Paul P Elliott of Texas Tech on how a hydrogen bomb alters its container into radioactive vapor. He warns released particles and gamma rays could make air water and soil radioactive for years. Linus Pauling also cautions global fallout could endanger life and heredity.
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New York
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Paul P. Elliott
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Tex
Linus Pauling
Baby Sitter Dies From Gas Fumes
In Baltimore on February 17 a 14-year-old babysitter died after inhaling stove gas from a flame turned on by a three-year-old boy. The child Keith Gordon Helman died shortly after. Eugene Vagenos, age 3, died Wednesday. Mrs. Rita Vagenos, mother of the boy, said the gas had been turned on once before but she was home to smell it.
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Baltimore
Keith Gordon Helman
Eugene Vagenos
Rita Vagenos
Eugene
Trainmen Vote To Strike Feb 27th
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors set February 27 at 6 am EST for a nationwide strike. The unions, representing about 250000 railroad workers, demand a 40 hour week without pay cuts, yardmen pay, and dining car stewards upgrades, with a two month delay before walkout per labor law.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of
Tampa Church Bans All Methodist Publications
Hyde Park Methodist Church in Tampa Florida bans 40 publications from the official church publishing house criticizing race coverage. The stewards voted to notify other Methodist churches and discontinue purchases by end of the current quarter.
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Tampa
Fla
Hyde Park
General Board of Education
High Road
Stewards
Advocate
A. O. Murphy
Mediators Hopeful in Coal Talks Targeting Monday Settlement
Government mediators said a weekend deal is sought to avert contempt actions as 370,000 miners ignore a federal court order to return to work. John L. Lewis and mine operators entered their third day of talks with hopes rising after a secret three hour session. The aim is to cut negotiators to four per side to speed progress.
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Washington
David L. Cole
Truman
Board of Inquiry
Cole
John L. Lewis
Southern
George H. Love
Northern and Western
Joseph E. Moody
Harvey L. Cartwright
Indiana Coal Operators Association
Harry Moses
Lewis
UMW
Thomas Kenned
John Owens
Proposals Reported by Lewis on New Coal Contract
Washington February 17. John L. Lewis is reported to have proposed a new coal contract with wage boosts to about 15 dollars a day, a 35 cent per ton welfare fund royalty, 200 days of work, 7.5 hour day, longer vacation, eight holidays, night shift pay differential, a veteran protection seniority clause, strip mining contract, new UMW Welfare fund board, dissolution of union litigation, and uniform pay by the ton. Details include operator estimates of cost and disputed raises.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers Welfare Fund
UMW Welfare Fund
Welfare Fund
Radio-Television Stocks Slide Amid Selling Pressure
New York reports a broad market decline in radio-television shares with Zenith dropping more than a point and Admiral Emerson Philco Radio Corp Avco Magnavox posting fractional losses. The overall market remains steadier with mixed fractional moves as American Woolen weakens after Thursday’s 57-8 plunge. Poor earnings and an omitted dividend drive the selling while coal strike considerations color strategy and a possible surprise settlement keeps some optimism alive.
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New York
Zenith Radio
Admiral Corp
Emerson Radio
Philco
Radio Corp
Avco
Magnavox
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