Operation Haylift Faces New Middlewest Food Shortage
The week-old operation to feed snowbound livestock shifts focus as food and fuel shortages loom. Officials warn planes alone cannot reach 100,000 cattle in Nebraska while roads stay blocked and blizzards continue. The army pledges all efforts to open routes and deliver aid as forecast calls for more snow and cold across the Midwest.
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Omaha
Washington
Fifth Army
Chicago
Nebraska
Chicago Weather Men
Ledo Road
China
Lewis A. Pick
Snow and Sleet Hit High Point in January Chill
High Point awoke to a winter mix as Old Man Winter visits for the first time this year. January 1948 saw milder days with frequent rains and above freezing highs, but last night dropped to 23 at Greensboro Point airport and 15 on January 31.
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Fred Flagler, JR
Enterprise
Old Man Winter
High Point
Greensan Be Point
Stalin Opens Door to Peace Talks With Truman
Stalin expressed willingness to discuss a American-Russian peace pact with President Truman at a mutually acceptable place. He said the Soviet government would discuss a joint declaration of peaceful intentions and gradual disarmament. Stalin also said Russia sees no obstacles to lifting the Berlin blockade if the allies meet two conditions.
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Moscow
Stalin
Truman
Washington
Russia
Berlin
Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers
Ously
Foreign Ministers Council
U. St
Paris
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Kingsbury Smith
International News Service
United States
Canada
Britain
France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Dixie Senators Fight to Save Filibuster
Southern senators gathered before the senate rules committee to defend unlimited debate on the Senate floor. Connally Hoey Hill Holland Johnston and Long urged against rule changes aimed at curtailing their opposition to civil rights legislation. They oppose a proposed two-thirds majority to end debate and force a vote amid civil rights push.
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Washington
Senate Rules Committee
Senate
Connally
Texas
Hoey
North Carolina
Hill
Alabama
Holland
Florida
Johnston
South Carolina
Dixie
Senator Long
Louisiana
Huey “Kingfish” Long
Royall urges stronger U S defenses in Alaska
Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall visits Alaska with Lt Gen N F Twining and Lt Gen Stanley Scott to review defenses. He favors bolstering housing and troop facilities as Kodiak and Adak airfields and quarters require upgrades to meet peacetime needs amid concerns over aging docks and rotting huts.
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Royall
U. S
Alaska
Kodiak
Kenneth C. Royall
Japan
Fairbanks
Anchorage
N. F. Twining
Stanley Scott
Alaska Sea Frontier
Alfred E. Montgomery
Adak
Aleutian
Adm
Montgomery
Kodiak Island
Drew Pearson Draws Mayor Into Furniture Controversy
Radio commentator Drew Pearson accused the Strickland Furniture Corporation of paying for government contracts and financing help, naming High Point Mayor Earl Phillips and others. Mayor Phillips issued a statement denying the slanderous report while noting a related lawsuit filed by his brother for $38,880 over promissory notes.
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Drew Pearson
Strickland Furniture
High Point
Earl Phillips
Frank Hancock
North Carolina
Ernest Howard
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hancock
Phillips
Pearson
William P. Phillips
Strickland Corporation
Strickland Concern
C. Kenneth Strickland
Strickland Furniture Corporation
Red conquerors enter Peiping amid cautious crowds
About 15 000 to 20 000 Communist troops marched into Peiping through the northwest gate led by two bands. Spectators showed curiosity rather than emotion as the Reds, grim and tired, prepared to take the city under a January 22 peace agreement and a joint committee plan.
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Peiping
Summer Palace
Genghis Khan
Television Cuts Into Movie Receipts In Two Big Cities
North and South Carolina theater owners opened their annual convention in Charlotte as television draws concern. Arthur Lockwood of Boston and Andy Smith Jr. of 20th Century Fox spoke, noting TV hurt box office in New York and Washington. Officers to be elected tomorrow.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
South Carolina
Arthur H. Lockwood
Boston
Theater Owners of America
Andy W. Smith, Jr
20Th Cen
Taft-Hartley Law Opposed By Labor Leader
Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin urged Congress to replace the Taft-Hartley Act with a bill favoring free collective bargaining. He testified before the Senate Labor Committee detailing the plan to curb court-ordered strikes and create emergency boards to settle disputes in key industries.
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Washington
Maurice Tobin
Congress
Senate Labor Committee
Tobin
Meat prices show partial relief from livestock cost drop
Chicago reports livestock analyst H. M. Conway says consumer benefit from lower livestock prices is partial as retail meat prices stay near last year's levels. Wholesale values lag, delaying price passes and widening producer to consumer margins, depressing livestock values through the year.
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Chicago
H. M. Conway
National Livestock Producer
Conway
Frigid Weather Curtails Air Road Traffic In N C
Sleet snow and ice halted commercial flights between Atlanta and New York and slowed highway travel in the Carolinas. Eastern Airlines canceled all such flights with hopes to resume by mid afternoon. Western North Carolina faced four inches of snow with warnings to drivers as conditions improved elsewhere.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Eastern Airlines
Atlanta
New York
North Carolina
Patrol
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Weather Bureau
Charleston
S. C
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Court Action May Be Taken In Rent Case
Tulsa reports show landlords oppose rent controls planning evictions and property idle protests. Federal prosecutors study eviction notices for conspiracy while Tighe Woods threatens injunctions and the American Veterans Committee plans legal aid to defend evicted veterans. Politicians forecast sweeping rent control measures and continued Truman proposals.
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Tulsa
Okla
Tom Clark
Tighe Woods
American Veterans Committee
Wallace J. Aan Epry
Tulsa Property Owners Association, Inc
Sen
Thomas
Dokla
Rep
Pathan
D-Tex
Congress
Patman
House Banking Committee
House
Senate
Truman
New Atomic Bombs Revealed With Higher Explosive Power
The United States announces in its fifth semi annual report to Congress that new atomic bombs have significantly greater explosive energy than earlier models. The AEC notes tested devices at Eniwetok demonstrated substantial energy gains and that production and new designs are advancing for the national stockpile.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
Japan
Bikini
Congress
Eniwetok Atoll
David Lilienthal
Commission
Eniwetok
Soviet Pressure on Norway Shapes NATO Expansion
Washington reports seven nation group aims to invite six more, including a Soviet-pressured Norway, to full partnership in the North Atlantic pact. Soviet and Oslo diplomacy signal intensified efforts to test Western unity as Stalin signals openness to a Truman meeting while Norway faces scrutiny due to common border with the USSR.
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Norway
Stalin
J. V. Stalin
Washington
West
Russia
Truman
White House
State Department
Foreign Office
Oslo
German Problem Is Dumped Into Truman's Lap
Army asks State Department to oversee Germany's administration. Secretary of the Army Royal heads to Japan to study economic issues and favors civilian control of occupied Germany at the earliest date. He cites the need to reduce U S taxpayer costs while noting no plan to exclude Pacific nations from Japan rebuilding talks.
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Washington
State Department
Germany
Truman
Royal
Japan
U. S
Pacific
Giant airliner makes emergency landing after midair collision
A Pan American World Airways four engined Constellation, Monarch of the Skies, diverted to Mitchell Field after a private Cessna 140 collided with it over Port Washington New York. The airliner landed safely with 23 passengers and 10 crew uninjured. The two private plane pilots were killed.
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New York
Long Island
Pan American World Airways
Port Washington
N. Y
George Knuth
Constellation
Mitchell Field
la Guardia Field
London
Arthur Cutting
Portland
Knuth
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