Fertilizer Shortage Warns Of Smaller Crops Nationwide
Carlsbad New Mexico January report cites Rufus Poole for three potash firms as predicting a fertilizer shortage will reduce U S agricultural output this year. Strike by 1500 potash plant workers and NLRB actions cloud supply while Russian and German sources offer higher priced options.
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Carlsbad
N.M
South
Middlewest
Rufus Poole
United States Potash Company
Potash Company of America
International Minerals and Chemical Corp
Poole
National Labor Relations Board
Department of Agriculture
CIO International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
NLRB
Germany
Washington
International Chemical Workers Union
AFL
Tax Hearings Start Friday On Truman Tax Plan
The House Ways and Means Committee will begin hearings Friday on President Truman’s new tax program. Chairman Doughton said the start is a day late after Secretary Snyder, the first witness, could not appear until Friday.
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Washington
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Truman
Wreaths Placed On Roosevelt's Grave
President Truman sent a wreath for the 60th birth anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt. West Point cadets attended the ceremony across the Hudson. March of Dimes girl Wanda Wiley joined, and a large floral piece came from Alabama. Pat Russell of Birmingham accompanied the 8 year old from Austin, Texas.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
Hudson River
Wanda Wiley
March of Dimes
Roosevelt
Alabama
Pat Russell
Birmingham
Austin, Tex
Rights clash stalls House Civil Rights and Cotton Bills
Washington January 30. A mounting civil rights battle stalls House business delaying passage of key measures. FEPC opposition and roll calls slow action on a cotton acreage cuts bill while Republicans and Southern Democrats clash. Senate moves include oleomargarine tax repeal and an equal rights amendment. president via election reform proposal awaits debate.
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Washington
House
Senate
FEPC
Truman
House Rules Committee
Korea
Paddle sent to captain helps free grounded Missouri
In Hampton Virginia on January 30 ex soldiers sent Captain W D Brown a paddle with a note offering help to free the grounded battleship Missouri from a Chesapeake Bay mudflat near Buckroe Beach. They mailed it to Buckroe but the post office redirected it to the Naval base in Norfolk.
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Chesa— Bay
Norfolk
Missouri
Hampton
W. D. Brown
Chesapeake Bay
Ruckroe Beach
Roger
Rogers Lodge
Bert Hultz
Jim Hassell
Dave Mitchell
Jim Adams
Walter Russell
Roussell Shields
Bill Morrison
Buckroe Beach
Buckroe
Naval Operating Base
All the King's Men Tops AP Movie Poll of 1949
Hollywood critics vote All the King's Men best film of 1949 with 2644 votes. Twelve Oclock High and The Heiress tie for second, while actors and actresses across all categories favor Broderick Crawford Olivia de Havilland Mercedes McCambridge and others in supporting and lead roles.
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Gene Handsaker
Hollywood
Associated Press
Broderick Crawford
Richard Todd
Kirk Douglas
Olivia de Havilland
Deborah Kerr
Edward
Son
Dean Jagger
Ralph Richardson
James Whitmore
Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences
Sixty National Groups Organize Communism Fight
New York January 30 Representatives from sixty national organizations with a combined fifty million members planned a permanent anti communist federation at the All American conference sponsored by the American Legion. The group elected a seventeen member National steering committee and called for a second gathering within ninety days to formalize a unified drive. The conference branded world communism as the top domestic threat and asserted it aims to strike at God and the American way of life.
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New York
United States
American Legion
Hotel Astor
George N. Craig
Sen. Karl
R-S D
Russia
Madt
Phalanx For Freedom
Craig
Search Continues For Missing U S Air Transport
The Yukon Arctic search for a missing four engine C-54 with 44 aboard expands as sub zero temperatures raise survival fears. The aircraft departed from Anchorage bound for Great Falls with 34 servicemen eight crew members and a mother and child aboard. The operation named Mike concentrates on the last contact from Snag Yukon Territory.
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White Horse
Y. T
U. S. Air Force
Snag
Yukon Territory
Alaska
Anchorage
Great Falls
Mont
Mike
Kyle
E. McMichael
San Antonio
Texas
Man Remembers Missing Wife and Child in Yukon Flight
Whitehorse report quotes Robert Espe, radar unit operator at El mendorf Field Alaska, whose wife Joyce Espe and 23 month old Victor plus 42 others vanished on a US C-54 transport. He recalls last farewell, hopes plane ditched safely, and prays for their return.
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Robert Espe
U. S. Air Force
Elmendorf Field
Anchorage
Alaska
Joyce Espe
Victor
Yukon
Graham Trotter
Alabama Governor Folsom Calls Civil Rights Debate Tiresome
Shelby report notes Governor James Folsom urged moving on from civil rights as America grows weary of the issue. He and wife visited relatives near Shelby en route to Montgomery after attending a Southern Democrats conference in Raleigh, calling courthouse meetings the best form of democracy and denying Raleigh endorses civil rights or Truman FEPC.
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Shelby
Alabama
James Folsom
Folsom
Here
Montgomery
Ala
Raleigh
Truman
FEPC
Irregularities Found in New Jersey Disability Fund
A special committee reported irregularities in the New Jersey disability benefits fund covering Aug 1 1948 to Jan 9 1949. Trustees including Hendrickson Hoffman Marsh Harper Lindsey de Valere faced removal and a proposal to replace them with an investment expert and public advisory body. The probe cited a $185 000 profit by broker Saul Schwamm and called for broader reform of the states investment funds.
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Trenton
N. J
State Assembly
New Jersey Disability Benefits Fund
U. S
Robert C. Hendrickson
Harold G. Hoffman
Lloyd B. Marsh
Harry Harper
Lee J. Lindsey de Valere
Sen
Hendrickson
Walter T. Margetts, Jr
James B. Sautter
Sautter
State Disability Fund
Moral Perversion Leads to Naval Academy Dismissals
Twenty stewards and mess attendants at the United States Naval Academy are dismissed for acts of moral perversion. Ten have already received undesirable discharges and the rest will follow after the Severn River command completes its investigation. All 26 are reported to be Negro and served in the midshipmen's mess at Annapolis.
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Washington
United States Naval Academy
Navy
Severn River Command
Anapolis
Truman Ready to Act in Coal Dispute
Washington residents report President Truman prepared to act within 48 hours if soft coal miners do not resume work. A three day week is in effect and about 8,000 miners are striking to press for a five day contract. The White House will weigh Taft-Hartley emergency powers if workers return or fail to return.
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Washington
Truman
White House
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
UMW
Munich finds nude child’s body on trash heap
The nude body of a two year old girl was found wrapped in a blanket on a Munich trash heap by a worker salvage search. Police identified the child as Ingeborg Schuster, who had moved from Neunkirchen, Saar to Munich two years ago.
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Munich
Germany
Ingeborg’. Schuster
Saar
Neunkirchen
American Chiefs to Confer in Tokyo on Wednesday
The American joint chiefs of staff travel to Tokyo for their first face to face talks with Far East field commanders. They will hear calls to strengthen U S forces in the region and discuss expanding bases, aircraft carrier capacity, and coordinated air sea and ground power.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
Tokyo
Asia
Joint Chiefs
Far East
MacArthur
Chiefs of Staff
Japan
Formosa
Commanis
Yokosuka
America
Orient
Southeast Asia
U. S
Okinawa
Hegun
Miners Strike Expands as Work Stoppage Reaches Fourth Week
Bands of roving pickets swell the number of striking coal miners to 88,500 as the no contract no work walkout continues into its fourth week. West Virginia and Pennsylvania report large numbers idle, with Illinois and Kentucky also seeing participation. The United Mine Workers resist a three day week while seeking a new contract.
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Pittsburgh
White House
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
State Department
Kentucky
Alabama
Illinois
UMW
Pyramid Coal Company
Hug White
United Mine
Adicailly
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Companies
West Viginia
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Scott to Receive Carolina Israelite Gold Medal Award
Governor Kerr Scott will receive the Carolina Israelite gold medal for 19 for outstanding contribution to human rights. The award will be presented Thursday morning in the governor’s office by Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer. Previous winners include J. Melvil Broughton Josephus Daniels Frank P. Graham Herschel Johnson and John J. Parker.
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Charlotte
Kerr Scott
Carolina Israelite
Jonathan Daniels
Raleigh Ney and Observer
J. Melvil
Broughton
Josephus Daniels
Frank P. Graham
Herschel V. Johnson
John J. Parker
Scott
Woodrow Wilson
Democrats Explore State Meetings to Harmonize Civil Rights Debate
The Democratic National Committee weighs a series of state meetings in the south to stress harmony on civil rights. Raleigh session featured Brannan Pace Webb and Barkley with Governor Folsom hinting at a Birmingham rally to cap county meetings of Truman supporters.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
South
Raleigh
Saurday
Truman Dixie
Agriculture Brannan
the Treasury
Snyder
Webb
Frank Pace
Barkley
Bill Boy
James E. Folsom
Albama
Bimingham
Truman
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