Crime Czar Costello Walks Out Before Senate Panel
Frank Costello refused to testify before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee led by Estes Kefauver. Kefauver warned of arrest and contempt citations as Costello, a veteran figure in racketeering, resisted questioning amid broader probe.
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Virginia Hill Hauser
Senate Crime Committee
New York
Frank Costello
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Estes Kefauger
D-Tenn
Costello
United States Senate
Kefauver
Truman accused of whitewash over RFC scandal
Washington March 15 Senator Bricker charged President Truman with a whitewash in the RFC scandal during a heated Senate debate. He demanded Democratic National Chairman William Boyle and Presidential Aid Donald Dawson disclose what they know as Daw son and Boyle faced criticism over the administration plan to reorganize the RFC seen as a smokescreen to hide the full truth.
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Washington
Mar
Truman
Senate
William Boyle
Donald Dawson
Sen. Bricker
R-O
Boyle
Dawson
California State Fair switches grandstand ticket prices
The California State Fair board voted to raise race ticket prices. General admission moves to 1 dollar from 60 cents, reserved seats rise to 1.50 from 1.20, and box seats increase to 2.40. The changes take effect on the new schedule announced by the fair directors in Sacramento.
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Sacramento
Mar
California State Fair
Stop Lights Favored by Assembly Committee on Transportation
Sacramento reports the Assembly Committee on Transportation and Commerce approved a bill to require all school buses to be equipped with flashing red stop lights on front and rear. The measure moves to the full Assembly for consideration.
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Sacramento
Mar
Assembly
Assembly Committee On Transportation and Commerce
Pay Crisis Faces City Fire and Police Departments
A local pension issue delays pay raises for firefighters and police officers after nearly three years without a raise. The council fears higher pension costs for retirees and interprets a pension contract clause as paying 50 percent of the former salary to those on retirement. Continued on Page 36.
Big Windstorm Hits Pacific Northwest to Montana
A powerful windstorm with near hurricane force swept the Pacific Northwest into Montana on Thursday night, causing at least one death and triggering a major blackout in western Montana. Helena lost power for about three hours as lightning accompanied the storm. The blast rapidly shifted from lightning to blizzard conditions in Helena with a 30 degree drop in 30 minutes. Gusts reached 75 mph at Lewiston Idaho and 65 mph at Wallin Walla.
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Wauld
Pacific Northwest
Montana
Helens
Helena
Lewiston
Iaha
Wallin
Walla
Unruly Christmas Eve at Downtown Post Office
About 10 000 letters to the Bureau of Internal Revenue were dropped through the whale between 8 30 and midnight. Cars jammed streets around the post office as anxious crowds paid their last 1950 tribute to Dear Uncle amid muddled traffic and holiday bustle.
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Frank Lunder
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Third St
American Ave
Santa Claus
Resale Profits Touted In Surplus Army Trucks Scheme
Washington reports Lt. Col. Jack E. Willis said a Briton named George Dawson cornered the surplus United States Army trucks in Germany. He claimed Dawson held options on 23,000 vehicles from Steg, a German semi government concern, with profits cited as high as 1000 percent as U S firms sought parts and vehicles amid postwar shortages.
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Washington
Europe
George Dawson
United States Army
Germany
Jack E. Willis
American Army Command
Dawson
Steg
Thomas B. Curtis
R-Mo
Willis
United States
General Motors
Fall of Seoul No Decisive Victory Mac
Seoul news item reports Korea seeking United Nations authorization for bombing Manchuria to end the Chinese war, as President Rhee praises recapture of Seoul and calls for peace with fewer casualties. Seoul reentered by South Korean and UN forces.
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Seoul
Tokyo
Mar
INS
Syngman Rhee
Douglas MacArthur
Korea
United Nations
Red Ching
U. N
Manchuria
MacArthur
Rockefeller kinswoman dies in Greenwich tragedy
Greenwich police reported that Winifred Rockefeller Emery 46, a granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr., killed herself and two daughters, Winifred 12 and Josephine 6, by carbon monoxide poisoning at their Deer Park estate near Greenwich Connecticut.
Police call off search for missing John Gilmore
Police suspended the hunt for three year old John Gilmore after his parents reported he had been found asleep in a clothes closet at the family's 1881 Ramillo Avenue home.
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John Gilmore
Ramillo Ave
Berling Testifies She Protected Kay Berling
Berling, 32, testified she began caring for Kay Frances Erickson in May at the mother’s request who feared leaving the girl with her father. She said she helped to assist Mrs. Erickson and was not paid. The defense questioned motive and whether she was paid for the care.
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Violet John Berling
Kay Frances Erickson
Kay Frances
Miss Berling
Ramsey
Mrs. Erickson
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