Fragmented Arkansas news roundup from Rock and surrounding towns
Jan 21 22 brief clippings report political demos in Florida Cuba city consolidation bills in Kansas House, highway fund distributions in Arkansas, a golden jubilee planning for Arkansas Federated Women's Clubs, a college basketball result, a fatal fire in Little Rock, and proposed marital examinations and state hospital issues with a focus on fiscal and judicial salaries.
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Rock
Baxter
Arkansas House
Plang
Conivention
Arkansas Ation of Women's Clubs
Springs
Truman budget sparks broad Washington spending clash
Washington lawmakers opened a detailed study of President Truman's 37.5 billion budget as Byrd Taft and George clashed over spending cuts taxes and revenue. Taft argued potential cuts could reach 3 to 4 billion while George urged restraint and budget balance. Extensions to excise taxes were debated with possible revenue impacts.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Byrd
D-Va
Taft
Ohio
Georgia
George
Senate
Ebt
Hien
House Budget Committee
House
Budget Committee
Knutson
R-Minn
Aoay
Senateland
Bearden Tragedy Kills Two in Night Auto-Truck Crash
Two men died and several injured when an auto truck collision occurred on U road near Harlow Bearden last night. Victims named Hubert Benson and Elmer Jones of Bearden. Injured include Williford Pine Bluff and Tigher Jones Bearden. truck driver Negro was unhurt.
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Camden
Harlow
Les Noth
Bearden
Ater
Hubert Benson
Elmer
Big Hoy
Jones
Ares
Ad Williford
Pine Bluff
Automobile
Tigher Jones
Elmer. Jones
Two Armed Men Rob Liquor Stores Here. Escape With $1,000
Texarkana police report two heavily armed Black men robbed two local liquor stores last night and escaped with more than $1,000 in cash and goods. Suspects described as young and driving a dark sedan remain at large.
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Texarkana
Marshall Not Candidate, Strengthens Cooperation Position
Washington reports Gen. George C. Marshall has declared he is not a candidate for political office. House Speaker Martin says the stance strengthens Marshall's leverage to secure cooperation as he assumes the role of secretary of state, guiding decisions that affect the nation and world.
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Washington
Martin
Miss
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Portal pay claims debated by Senate panel
Washington reports Brig. Gen. Maurice Hirsch testified portal pay claims could erase about 3.025 billion dollars saved by renegotiation of lump sum wartime contracts. He said contractors had no legal claims against the government on such terminations, while acknowledging Congress might recognize a moral obligation if back pay were collected via labor suits. Undersecretary Royall warned of a potential 400 to 500 million dollar liability on War Department cost plus contracts, noting other services have yet to testify.
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Washington
Maurice Hirsch
Portal
Hirsch
Congress
Senate Judiciary
Kenneth C
Royall
Army
War Department
Department
Navy
Gostep
Council of Economic Advisers
United States
Council
Rotary Club
Truman
Advisory Council
Federal housing aid and rent control split at mayors meeting
Delegates at the United States Conference of Mayors forecast support for a Wagner Ellender Taft style federal housing program providing 100,000 new publicly financed homes yearly, while rent control extension remains debated. Mayor Vincent Murphy of Newark urged backing, Senator Taft signaled support for extending ceilings in some form, as the three day gathering focuses on labor issues and housing policy.
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Washington
United States Conference of Mayors
Vincent Murphy
Newark
N. J
Taft
Ohio
House
Senate
Murphy
Charles E. Wilson
General Motors Corporation
Francis Case
R-Sd
AFL
William Green
Resolutions Committee
Stanley ‘W. Church
New Rochelle
Church
Arkansas House votes to elect revenue commissioner
Arkansas House elections committee unanimously backs Rep. Roberts Faulkner bill to make revenue commissioner elective is independent with a two year term and $5 000 annual pay Otho Ay Cook holds current appointive post The bill advances to full House action while other committee recommendations include rejecting Campbell Garland proposal to review pre session joint budget actions and Criner Miller school system study measures
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Little Rock
Arkansas House
Elections Committee
Rep
Roberts
Faulkner
Otho Ay
Cook
House’resolutions Committee
Campbell
Garland
Criner
Miller
Taft Pledges Reintroduction of Long Range Housing Bill
Officials from the National Housing Agency welcomed Taft’s pledge to reintroduce a long range housing measure. The plan would create a permanent agency to supervise federal housing, encourage construction of 150,000 new dwellings yearly for ten years, and ease FHA mortgage insurance terms.
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National Housing Agency
Taft
NHA
FHA
Council of Economic Advisers report review questions value
The first annual report from the Council of Economic Advisers is criticized as dull and repetitive, rehashing business column ideas. It questions the efficiency of spending 345000 annually on three advisers and staff for largely familiar insights.
Street urchin used people for target in NY sniper case
A 14 year old known as The Gypsy was held after a spate of sniper shootings in Manhattan’s Hell's Kitchen. Police found two rifles and say the boy, who admitted firing the weapon, provided an incoherent tale about stealing the rifle. His mother is missing.
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New York
Frank
Charles Casey
10Th Avenue
49Th Street
Vincent Callahan
10Th
L1st
Anna Hughes
Ninth Avenue
Hell's Kitchen
John Wyten
France Rejects U S Plea to Return German POWs Promptly
Washington dispatch reports France refused the United States demand to immediately repatriate 620,000 German prisoners of war. Paris proposed a third-party study and long-range repatriation plan, citing manpower shortages that require keeping prisoners 20 months after V E Day for use on farms and in factories. The stance complicates U S efforts with Russia on other prisoner issues and follows Byrnes' push to secure swift releases.
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R. H. Shackford
Washington
France
United States
U. S
Russia
Siberia
China
James F. Byrnes
Truman Family Attends Blossom Time Amid Picket Incident
Washington January 23 light pickets failed to block the Truman party from seeing Blossom Time at the National Theater. The Committee for Racial Democracy charged press secretary Ross and the secret service with arranging a sneak entrance for the president into a Jim Crow theater. The Trumans entered through the main doors with their party and sat quietly in eighth row seats as the overture played. They left after the performance and returned to the White House. The group had earlier urged the president to condemn district racial discrimination and to respond to a telegram sent that day. no reply was received by press time. Leon Ransom led the committee, saying the group hopes the president will address the issue publicly.
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Washington
Truman
National Theater
Committee For Racial Democracy
Charles Ross
Secret Service
United States
National
White House
Leon Ransom
Ransom
Thompson Recognized as Acting Governor by Atlanta Bank
Acting Gov. M. E. F. Thompson said the Atlanta bank handling state business recognized him as acting governor and is honoring checks from a $100,000 executive fund. He will draw his salary on Saturday. A civic group plans a state wide meeting Monday to push a quick end to the gubernatorial dispute. Organizers include Barnesville Mayor H. J. Kennedy inviting Georgians to attend a downtown hotel gathering. Both contenders, Talmadge and Thompson, await a court ruling.
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Atlanta
M.ef. Thompson
Executive Department
Thompson
Herman Tallmadge
Citizens of
Georgia
H. J. Kennedy
Barnesville
Kennedy
Herman Talmadge
Melvyn E. Thompson
Hope to Host District Band Clinic Next Week
Hope will host a district band clinic January 31 to February 1 at Hope High School. About 150 students from across southwest Arkansas will attend, and locals are asked to lodge visitors as guests for one night. Contacts for hosting: Mrs. J. S. Gibson Jr, 898. Mrs. E. S. Franklin, 860. Mrs. George Newbern, 829.
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Hope
Arkansas
J. S. Gibson, Jr
E. S. Franklin
George Newbern
Day and Durocher photographed in El Paso after divorce
Screen actress Laraine Day and Leo Durocher pose at a hotel in El Paso Texas after returning from Juarez where she secured a divorce from J Ray Hendricks. A Justice of Peace in El Paso presented them with a watermarked award shortly after the photo was taken.
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Laraine Day
Leo
the Lip
Durocher
Brooklyn Dodgers
el Paso
Texas
Juarez
Mexico
J. Ray Hendricks
Justice of Peace
NEA
Tragic blast at Monroe City high school kills four students
Four students died and five others plus an instructor were seriously burned when an explosion and fire tore through the Monroe City vocational agriculture building during a class demonstration. Marty Redman died in a Hannibal hospital, while Don McElroy Edward Cannon and Noble Engle were killed. Police blamed sparks from welding igniting a gasoline can.
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Monroe City
Monroe City High School
Marty Redman
Hannibal, Mo
Don McElroy
Rensselaer, Mo
Edward Cannon
Noble Engle
Roy Layster
Milton Hendrix
Jan Don Corder
Albert Lee Ely
Charles Burditt
Walter Carroll
Hanibal Hospitals
Robert McClintock
John McElroy
Police probe widens in Black Dahlia murder case
Hollywood detectives interview woman friends of Elizabeth Short as they pursue leads in the Black Dahlia case. A former roommate, Lynn Martin, says Edward Wellington disappeared after a call, while Paul Simone reports a tense quarrel at apartment 501 and a 11 January confrontation. A coroner's jury rules Short’s death a murder by unknown persons as travel terminals receive bulletins.
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Olive
Elizabeth
Lynn Martin
Edward P
Duke) Wellington
Hollywood
Wellington
Miss Martin
Paul Simone
Miss Short
Simone
Black Dahlia
Robert
Red)Manley
Los Angeles
San Diego
George P. Bloomdahl
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