Marshall Plan loan recovery may cut overall cost
Senator Vandenberg pressed Ambassador Lewis Douglas on how much of the six point eight billion dollar Marshall Plan loan program might be repaid. Douglas testified that 20 to 40 percent of advances could be repaid, potentially reducing ultimate cost to five point five to four billion dollars depending on repayment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lewis Douglas
United States
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Douglas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Treasury
Senate
Freeze Order For Explosives In New Jersey
The War Assets Administration froze undelivered surplus army explosives in the New York region after police seized 126 to 135 tons believed gathered by Zionists for illegal shipment to Palestine. Remaining 199 tons missing. 67 tons of cyclonite blocks seized in Ulster County. 59 tons found in a warehouse and a Wall Township farmhouse. 5200 combat knives and first aid kits were also uncovered. The action, described as precautionary, aims to prevent illegal handling in cooperation with local and federal police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
N. J
New York
War Assets Administration
New Jersey
New York State
Palestine
Ulster County
N. Y
Wall Township
U. S. Navy
John R. Campbell
WAA
Waunakee boy dies after sledding accident
Donald Anderson five years old son of Mr and Mrs Andrew E Anderson Waunakee died on the way to a Madison hospital after being struck by a car while riding a sled in front of his home It was Dane counties first traffic fatality of the year The boy and his brother Kenneth rode sleds in the driveway when Donald slid into the county highway in the path of Joseph Sukowatey twenty four Mt Horeb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
U.P
Donald Anderson
Andrew E. Anderson
Waunakee
Dane County
Donald
Kenneth
Joseph Sukowatey
Mt. Horeb
Three New Orleans Bank Robbers Seized
Police captured three of the five bandits from the New Orleans bank robbery while two remain at large with about $49,000 of the $114,000 haul. Arrested were George W. Ricketts and his nephew Tommie Ricketts of Chalmette and New Orleans resident John Hassenback. A suitcase with $35,000 and a $30,000 paper bag were found linked to the suspects, with cash hidden in a floor-hole under a stone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Watters
Hibernia National Bank
New Orleans
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Gulf Coast
Joseph Scheuring
George W. Ricketts
Chalmette
Tommie Ricketts
John Hassenback
Scheuring
Ricketts
Hassenback
Feed the Birds Plea Issued by Conservationist
Malcolm R. Dalton announces a county wide winter feeding program for pheasants and small animals with feeder stations already set up in several areas. He urges further volunteers across Kenosha to install feeders before heavy snow and starvations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Silver Lake Village
George Schlitz
Wheatland
Union Free High School
Wilmot
Joe Beyers
Twin Lakes Village
Conservation Club
Highway 50
Frank Bucci
Wilmot High School
American Legion
Macwhyte
Lincoln School
Edward Quinn
The
Dalton’s
Kenosha
Quinn
Proclamations Designate Marine Corps Reserve Week
Gov Oscar Rennebohm issued two proclamations in Madison naming next week Marine Corps Reserve Week and January 15 to 30 for Wisconsin March of Dimes fundraising. He urged liberal contributions to the campaign to battle infantile paralysis. He praised the Marine Corps Reserve as the backbone of national security and noted Congress seeks a postwar reserve of 100,000 men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
U.P
Oscar Rennebohm
Marine Corps Reserve Week
Wisconsin
Marine Corps Reserve
Congress
Ambush Foils U.S. Aide Near Jerusalem
Rifle bullets fired from an ambush narrowly missed Maj. Nicholas Andronovitch U.S. military attaché in Jerusalem as he rode a bridle path on the city outskirts. The horse was struck twice in the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Nicholas Andronovitch
U. S
Syrian Girl in Racine Faces Deportation and Fraud Claim
Perouz Derdermarian, a Syrian girl in Racine, awaits a court appearance on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses after an annulled marriage to Harry Gengozian ended her residence bid. She posted $500 bail and denied altering a hotel check claiming a $33.95 bonus instead of $3.95.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
U.P
America
Perouz Derdermarian
Louis Hardy
Perouz
Sahag Vartanian
Syria
Harry Gengozian
U.S.A
George Gulbankian
Gengozian
Elmer D. Goodland
U.S. Eyes European Mineral Imports Under Marshall Plan
The State Department lists millions of tons of scarce minerals possible for stockpiles, including cadmium copper zinc and chromium from Belgian Congo. Uranium is not included as the Atomic Energy Commission holds that jurisdiction though efforts to source it continue. Congress questions push for concrete materials to match the $6.8 billion aid package with figures showing possible annual gains in bauxite copper tin chromium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
State Department
U. S
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
Federal Atomic Energy Commission
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Department
Lewis W. Douglas
Britain
W. Averell Harriman
Belgian Congo
Atomic Commission
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Mass
Marine Report Termed False
Jerusalem authorities deny any marines landing or call for troops in Palestine amid Arab Jewish strife. Consular delegates asked for protection, but no consulate requested troops. Meanwhile British troops of the Death or Glory regiment guard the Jordan headwaters as Arab volunteer forces train in southern Syria, heightening tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Palestine
London
Jordan
Holy Land
Egypt
Libya
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Syria
Lebanon
Five Killed and Forty Hurt in French Mine Blast
A fire damp explosion at the Vuillermin coal mine near Forbach France killed five miners and injured about forty. About sixty men were underground at Petite Roselle when the blast occurred and rescuers were still tallying victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metz
France
Vuillermin
Petite Roselle
Forbach
Ex Congressmen Guinn Williams Dies at 76 in Texas
Guinn Williams, a former Texas representative in Congress from 1922 to 1982 and a banker and rancher, died Friday in San Angelo Texas at age 76. The longtime public figure served during a pivotal era and was known for his legislative career and business ventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Angelo
Tex
Hitch Hiking Marine Killed On Highway 41
An 18 year old marine from Great Lakes Illinois, Jasper L. Budd, was killed instantly on Highway 41 south of West Sixtieth Street while hitchhiking. Norman H. Krenz, 23, Milwaukee, reported seeing the man wave for a ride and stepping into the path of the heavy trailer truck. Budd, a private first class, was identified by coroner James A. Crossin. officials noted no further information on his background.
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Great Lakes
Highway 41
West Sixtieth Street
James A. Crossin
Jasper L. Budd
Naval Station
Budd
Baltimore
Crossin
Leland Chartier
Chet Molinaro
Norman H. Krenz
Milwaukee
Krenz
Fine Racine Gaming House Operator Fined $350
Racine Wisconsin Frank Commodore aged 42 pleaded guilty to operating a gambling game and was fined $350 plus costs in municipal court. He was the first violator processed since plain clothes rookie officers were used to curb illegal gambling. Judge Elmer D. Goodland postponed jail, recommended by District Attorney Edward A. Krenzke, citing milder violation than recent cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Wis
U.2
Frank Commodore
Commodore
Elmer D. Goodland
Edward A. Krenzke
Lady Conductor Fends Off Passenger With Trolley Handle
Philadelphia report: James Finnegan challenged conductress Emma Maddon to eject him for not paying 10 cents. She struck him with a metal handle, Finnegan hospitalized, charged then held in 500 dollars bail for the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
U.P
James Finnegan
Emma Maddon
Finnegan
Five Men Fined For Gambling In Cigar Store
Five men were fined in a municipal court this morning for gambling after a Friday arrest at Cookie's Cigar store 2207 Fifty sixth street. Store owner Carlos Scola 46 was fined 50 dollars plus 450 costs as keeper of a gambling house. others were fined 2 dollars and 4.50 costs for gambling house attendance. Tenuta employed at the store, faced additional charges tied to the poker game. Police report the back room was also scene of a prior shooting connected to a separate assault case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cookie’s Cigar Store
Fiftysixth Street
Carlos Scola
Sixtieth Street
Scola
Frank Tenuta
Fifty-fourth Street
Emil Senteri
Sixth Avenue
Oscar William Ogren
Fourth Avenue
Lewis Sanford
Twenty-third Avenue
Tenuta
Cookie's
George Petersen
Edward Ungemach
James Buttera
Fifty-fifth Street
Camillo Migliano
Buttera
Migliano
Jailed for Illegal Hunting State Man Sees the Light
Eugene Bellino 23 of Boylston Wisconsin, jailed 80 days last year after a $685 fine and six counts of illegal deer hunting and related offences, sought a state conservation warden exam while in jail. His mother voiced opposition to the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boylston
Wis
U.P
Eugene Bellino
Bellino
Great Northern Railroad
Wesley Newcomb
Solon Springs
Edward Manthei
Plymouth
State Board of Personnel
Appeal Urges Saving Gas and Fuel Oil in Wisconsin
Wisconsin motorists were urged to halt non essential driving and cut speeds to conserve fuel oil and gasoline. The advisory committee also called for re converting heating plants, limiting oil burner deliveries, and appointing fuel oil coordinators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
State
Anthony Madler
Office of Defense Transportation
American Association of Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mahler
John E. Martin
Man Stabbed After Dispute at Ralph's Lounge
Police investigate a stabbing at Ralph's Lounge on Sixtieth Street around 5 am. William Dueitt, 36, is in custody after a quarrel with owner Ralph Guido over patronage led to Ruffalo being cut with a knife but not seriously hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph
Sixtieth Street
William E. Dueitt
Melvin Knox
William Schorn
Donald Walsh
Arthur J. Riley
Ralph Guido
Dueitz
Riley
Guido
Elmer Ruffalo
Fifty-second Street
James Norville
Dueitt
Ruffalo
Daniels Desperately Ill With Bronchitis at 85
Doctors in Raleigh report Josephus Daniels critically ill with bronchitis and in an oxygen tent. The World War I secretary of the navy and longtime editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, 85, shows little hope for recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
U.P
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
Moscow Sees Warmer Than Usual Winter Day
City records a milder winter with temperatures ranging from 32 to 36 degrees as another warm spell arrives in Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
U.P
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Rennebohm
Stones River
Nashville
Tenn
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Edward Konkel
Wisconsin Motor Carriers’ Association
Lawrence C. Whitter
Whittet
Daniels
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