Junking Of Laws Surprises as Truman Announces End of Hostilities
Republicans rushed to catalog remaining emergency controls while awaiting details from President Truman on which wartime powers to revoke. Michener of Michigan urged repealing nonessential authorities, but party leaders favored a careful, full review after the end of World War II hostilities. The proclamation, effective July 1, also triggers tax cuts and a lapse in the farm price support program by December 31, 1948, reshaping fiscal planning and government powers.
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Washington
Truman
Pmict
GOP
Rep
Michener
Michigan
House
Congress
Treasury
Triplets Born In Newton
Robert Bost Jr of Newton welcomed triplets two girls and a boy born at Catawba county hospital after a recent birth. The newborns weighed a total of 14 pounds. Mrs. Bost, formerly Metta Louise Ennis of Smithfield, and the couple also have a 3-year-old son.
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Newton, Jan
Robert Bost, Jr
Newton
Catawba County Hospital
Bost
Metta Louise Ennis
Smithfield
Bosts
Weather Forecast Reports Freezing Hover Over North Gar
A fragment indicates continued delay in the North Gar ee and Thur area with a freezing hover over a portion today. Details are unclear due to OCR.
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North Gar - Ee
Thur
Dela
Bilbo Is Problem For Republicans
Senators seek to oust Democratic Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi as GOP leaders plan a New Year strategy. Taft chairs a steering committee meeting to discuss a Justice Department inquiry, Bilbo’s pledge of innocence, and pending Senate investigation actions.
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Washington
Senate
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Taft
Ohio
Justice Department
Bilbé
Woman Found Decapitated On Railroad Tracks in North Wales
Police report a 27 year old telephone supervisor Gertrude Grimer was found decapitated along the Reading railroad in North Wales. She had reportedly planned an engagement to be announced that Saturday. The victim wore only a slip and a topcoat.
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North Wales
Reading Railroad
Edward Veit
Veit
Gertrude Grimer
Two New Year Babies Reported At Local Hospital
In Wilmington two boys were born at 12 01 a m today marking the new year. Parents are Mr and Mrs Carl Bland and Mr and Mrs Mel Scruggs.
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Wilmington
Carl Bland
Meil Scruggs
New Year's Weather Bites Nation From Plains to Northeast
The first day of 1947 brought a rough New Year’s weather pattern across the nation. A frigid belt stretched from the plains to New England and into Brownsville Texas with subzero temperatures in several midwestern areas.
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Ly Associated Press
Plains States
Atlantic Seas
New England
Brownsville
Tex
Mid-West
Heroic Mother Delivers After Fire Rescues Family
Mrs H R Roye of Idalou Texas saved her five children from a blaze in subfreezing weather and gave birth to an eight pound son hours later. The 38 year old mother and her 84 year old farmer husband are staying with relatives as a community relief fund forms.
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Lubbock
Tex
H. R. Roye
Idalou
Roye
Harmony In Ranks Of GOP
Congressional Republicans start the year with leadership shifts as Clarence J. Brown withdraws from the race clearing Charles A. Halleck to be the GOP floor leader. Senate leaders also settle on Taft as steering chair Vandenberg as pro tem and White as majority floor leader amid lingering intra party tensions. Brown insists he seeks harmony and asks supporters not to vote for him, while Jenkins and Brown continue in the race.
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Washington
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
GOP
House
Thomas Jenkins
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Brown
Halleck
Nist Brown
Thomas F. Dewey
New York
Senate
Taft
Vandenberg
Michigan
Senator White
Maine
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
New House
Martin
Jenkins
Portal wage suits filed in 19 cities claim over 400 million
Associated Press reports hundreds of new wage suits across 19 cities totaling more than 400 million dollars, pushing on file claims toward two billion. In Chicago 32 suits add about 671 thousand to the record, lifting Chicago’s total to about 1897 thousand. many suits omit explicit amounts, but leaders predict final sums could exceed five billion.
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Associated Press
Portal To Portal
Chicago
Old World Welcomes New Year With Mixed Optimism
Across Europe and beyond the old world greeted 1947 with optimism and hardship. Britain eyed social reforms as 700,000 miners faced a government program shift. Russia hailed a victory for peace on Moscow radio. France cut prices by five percent with Blum promising another cut, Argentina launched a $1.625 billion five year plan under Peron for roads dams housing and industry.
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Guondon
Wales
Europe
Britain
Govna
Will Lawther
Russia
Moscow Radio
Soviet Union
France
Leon Blum
Argentina
Juan Peron
Enrique Adolfo Jimez
Science Gets Woman's Body
Philadelphia dispatch reports Helene Bradley left a brief testament before death in a gas oven incident. Starrett described the gas as directed toward the oven area and noted a short note claiming intent to give her science work opportunity.
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Philadelphia
Helene Bradley
Alexander “Starrett
Cape
Twelve Persons Lose Lives In Holiday Traffic Accidents
A national survey shows 12 people died in traffic crashes during New Year’s Eve into New Year’s Day with motorists largely cautious on icy roads. The National Safety Council had estimated 130 fatalities for the period, but cautioned the toll may rise as reports continue.
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Associated Press
The
National Safety Council
Council
Assembly To Debate Alcohol
Raleigh reports that the 1947 legislature is likely to devote more attention to alcoholic beverages than any session since 1933. The article notes prior moves expanding county unit voting in 1935 and 1937 to all 100 counties, framing the debate path for liquor policy.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Firemen Rescued After Manhattan Loft Collapse
Firemen rescued four comrades buried under debris as three floors collapsed in a four alarm Manhattan loft fire. The last trapped firefighter, Michael Bennett, was pulled free after hours beneath crushed concrete and twisted steel.
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New York
Manhattan
Michael Bennett
Fires And Road Deaths Mar New Year's Arrival
The new year began with fires highway deaths and a last minute strike darkening celebrations. In New York 900000 gathered at Times Square as four firemen were freed from rubble after a downtown building collapse near Greenwich Village. A San Francisco blackout of celebrations was dampened by a Yellow Cab strike affecting downtown crowds. Twelve people died in auto crashes nationwide. Atlantic City hotels offered rooms from 2 to 12 dollars and 28 merchants offered prizes. Virginia liquor contracts ended as a statewide prohibition remained in effect.
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Associated Press
New York
Times Square
Greenwich Village
San Francisco
Atlantic City
Five Die As DC 3 Freighter Crashes Near Charleston
Charleston police report five people on a DC 3 freighter bound Newark to Miami were killed when it crashed three miles northwest of Charleston in drizzle. Capt Amos Austin pilot and Walter Stennell of Miami listed as owner contact with airport control at 10:43 pm. All aboard burned beyond recognition.
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International Airlines
Jami
Walter Stennell
Miami
Sald Lice
Amos Austin
Beaver St
San Fernanfour
Pinood F. Fennell
Poice
Midland Ark
Fennell
Circus Fires Victims Get Additional Million Dollar Payment
Hartford report states a $1,000,000 check for payments to victims of the July 6 1944 circus fire that killed 168. The fund on hand includes a £? 536 000 payment from a London insurer. Earlier, survivors and estates received 25 percent of total claims of about 4 million.
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Hartford
Conn
Hess
Lieyds
London
Seven Injured In Auto Accident At Intersection
Seven people were injured in a mid afternoon crash at Hillcrest Drive and Palatka Street. A 196 Mercury collided with a Plymouth, injuring six occupants plus the Mercury driver. Victims include Virgil Nose 23 and the Norman family with minor children. All were taken to Light Point Hospital with various injuries.
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Palatka Street
Ligh Point Hospital
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Mercury
Hillcrest
Plymouth
Palatina
Virgil Nose
High Point
Wayne Norman
Nancy Norman
Peggy Norman
Marieart
Lorine Board
Brinson
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