Dewey Faces a Tough GOP Nomination Fight
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey announces he will run for president again and names a three man team for pre convention work. He faces strong rivals including Taft Stassen Bricker and possibly Eisenhower with primaries in New Hampshire Wisconsin Nebraska Oregon and others shaping the race. Dewey remains front runner but must contend with a crowded field and potential Ike delegate pressure.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Albany
N. Y
White House
Wendell L. Willkie
Chicago
John W. Bricker
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Bricker
Robert A. Taft
R. O
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike
New Yorker
New Hampshire
Douglas MacArthur
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Oregon
Willkie
Mac. Arthur
Phone Workers To Seek Raise In Wisconsin
Arthur B. Le Fevre, president of the Wisconsin division of the Communication Workers of America, says 9,000 state telephone workers will seek substantial wage adjustments. He will lead a Wisconsin delegation to a Washington conference starting Jan. 19 to set the national wage pattern. Contracts with Wisconsin Telephone Co expire May 8 and negotiations will begin soon. He cites higher living costs since last spring and notes dial conversion programs may affect members.
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Milwaukee
Arthur B. LeFevre
Wisconsin
The
Communication Workers of America
LeFevre
Washington
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Housing Expediter Rejects Miami Rent Increase
Washington U P reports Housing Expediter Tighe B Woods refused to raise rents in the Miami area. He also approved a Brookings county South Carolina decontrol plan except for the city of Brookings, aligning with local board recommendations.
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Miami
Washington
U.P
Tighe B. Woods
Miami, Fla
Woods
Brookings County
S. C
Brookings
Democratic tax expert differs with president on bill
Rep. Cough ton of North Carolina argues Congress would sustain a veto of the Knutson bill to cut income taxes by 5.6 billion dollars yearly. He suggests the president is wrong about no overall revenue cut and says a Senate moderates could override a veto with Democratic support. He warns against restoring excess profits tax and favors a smaller tax cut with a corporate levy to offset losses. Treasury Secretary Snyder predicts a veto and urges adopting the president's plan for a 40 dollar per person reduction financed by a 3.2 billion dollar tax on corporate profits above prewar levels.
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Washington
Rep
Coughton
Congress
Knutson
Truman
Senate
House
R-Minn
Treasury
GOP
Slaying Suspects Freed in Evanston
Two men linked to the 1942 Galvin case were released by Evanston police after a 60 day stay of execution granted at Jake Bird’s request. William Hockett and Lovell Boykins denied involvement. lie detector tests showed no knowledge of the Galvin slayings.
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Chicago
Jake Bird
Evanston
Ill
Lillian Galvin
Carl Ekman
Bird
William
Sugar Man) Hockett
Lovell Boykins
Hockett
Boykins
Galvin
Nature Jumps Gun on Australian Rain Makers
Radio Australia reported Australian scientists moved equipment to Richmond airdrome near Sydney to bomb clouds with dry ice. Rain began and continued the next day for 25 days, setting a 27-year record before the scientists packed up and left.
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San Francisco
A.P
Radio Australia Today
Richmond Airdrome
Sydney
Railroad Strike Deadline Set For February 6
Cleveland reports three operating railroad brotherhoods set a February 6 strike deadline with a 30 percent wage demand and 44 working rule changes. The mediation board and President Truman may appoint a fact finding panel, with a 30 day cooling off before any walkout. The unions, with 238000 members, warn of widespread disruption across about 240 railroads if they strike.
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Cleveland
D. B. Robertson
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Frank P. Douglass
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Chicago
Truman
Robertson
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers
Douglas
Seven Die and Sixty Hurt in Agrigento Funeral Collapse
Dispatches from Rome report seven killed and 60 injured, 19 severely, when a floor collapsed yesterday during a funeral gathering in Agrigento Sicily.
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Rome
Agrigento
Sicily
Paralyzed Veteran Silence Sparks Courtroom Dispute
In Long Island City court Sgt Arthur White, paralyzed by a Sicily battle wound, testifies that neighbor Anna Beck mocked his condition. Beck received one month probation after calling White a half dead body and accusing his guest, war casualty Thomas Hreha, of making noise and keeping people awake.
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New York
U.P
Arthur White
Sicily
Clara
Long Island
Anna Beck
Mrs. White
Mrs. Beck
Sgt. White
Senate doubts on strengthening wartime rent controls
Democratic senators Maybank Sparkman and Fulbright joined warning against any major tightening of rent laws as hearings opened on extending controls. The 1947 15 percent cap and Bricker proposals spark debate while Wag ner Murray plan seeks to roll back ceilings and restore wartime OPA authority.
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Maybank
Fulbright
Ark
Sparkman
D-Ala
Senate Banking
Secretary of Commerce
Harriman
Tighe Woods
Truman
Congress
Senate Banking Committee
Cain
Senator Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Banking Committee
Democrats
Wagner
D-Ny
Murray
D-Mont
OPA
Wisconsin Coldest State as Ladysmith Hits 54 Below
Wisconsin faced extreme cold with Ladysmith recording 54 below zero the state’s coldest mark, while Hayward and Danbury also reported frigid readings. Meteorologist Howard Thompson warned of improving temps tonight and tomorrow as lows ranged from zero to ten below, with highs near 20 above.
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Wisconsin
Ladysmith
Rusk County
Danbury
Burnett County
Hayward
Sawyer County
Mercury
U. S
Howard J. Thompson
Milwaukee
Thompson
U. S. Coast Guard
Lincoln
Pennoyer
Land O’lakes
Park Falls
Wausau
Eau Claire
LaCrosse
Superior
Green Bay
Lone Rock
Racine
Madison
Lake Geneva
Beloit
Gandhi on Deathbed Urges Pakistan India Reunion
New Delhi Mohandas K Gandhi said he was on his deathbed and urged a voluntary rejoining of Pakistan with India to form a single state He warned Pakistan could lose its dominion status if misgoverned and asked for peaceful unification to ease Hindu Muslim Sikh tensions.
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New Delhi
U.P
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Pakistan
India
Gandhi
Contracts Awarded for Vocational Building Work
The vocational and adult education board awarded plumbing and heating contracts for the new vocational school at Sixth Avenue and Fifty second Street. M. J. Corboy Plumbing and Heating of Chicago won the plumbing bid at 49820 dollars, Kaelber Plumbing and Heating of Seventh Avenue won the heating bid at 56550 dollars, with Sollitt Construction of Chicago the general contractor on 718000 dollars.
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Sixth Avenue
Fifty-second Street
Vocational and Adult Education Board
M. J. Corboy Plumbing and Heating Company
Chicago
Kaelber Plumbing and Heating Company
Seventh Avenue
Sollitt Construction Company
Morton C. Frost
F. W. McCaughey
McCaughey and Petersen
Park Ridge
Fettes, Love and Sieben
Ace Plumbing and Heating Company
Roosevelt Road
Northwestern Heating and Plumbing Company
Evanston
N. A. Thomas Heating Company
Racine
Frost and McCaughey
Ralph Y. Cooper
Vocational Board
William J. Byrne
F. E. Conner
John A. Reid
H. M. Clark
Deaf Mute Husband Accused in Divorce Case
Hattie S. Lee was granted a divorce from Harold S. Lee after witnesses testified they saw him swear at his wife. Both are deaf mutes and converse in sign language. they were married 31 years ago in Omaha Nebraska.
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Minneapolis
U.P
Hattie S. Lee
Harold S. Lee
Lee
Omaha
Neb
Truman Orders Cold War Era Fuel Use Cut In Government
President Truman ordered all federal departments to curb fuel oil gasoline and natural gas use immediately. Office buildings must not exceed 68 degrees in work hours and 60 degrees after hours, including the White House. residences follow the same limits. Heating restrictions apply unless health or safety would be endangered. Government buildings may not install fuel burning equipment without Interior’s Bureau of Mines approval. Government vehicles limited to 40 miles per hour.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
White House
Interior Department
Bureau of Mines
Freighter Simon Bolivar Run Aground Near Antwerp
The 7,176 ton American freighter Simon Bolivar en route from Rosario to Antwerp with a cargo of wheat ran around yesterday in the Schelde river seven miles from her destination. Immediate salvage operations were begun.
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Antwerp
Simon Bolivar
Rosario
Argentina
Schelde
Centennial History Reveals $200 House Sale in Kenosha
Kenosha researchers report a city block and a residence offered for $200 and $600 respectively failed to attract buyers as part of gathering family histories for the state centennial archives. Miss Carrie Cropley said the push to collect local histories has extended into February. Hastings noted early homes from 1838 remain and new findings detail the English family home built in 1846 at Third Avenue and Sixtieth Street.
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Kenosha
Carrie Cropley
Miss Cropley
H. Lawrence Hastings
Adelaide Kupfer
John English
Third Avenue
Sixtieth Street
L. E. Kaltenbach
Durkee Avenue
Fifth Avenues
Sixty-first Street
Sixtieth
Hastings
Fourth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
David Crossit
Five Cars Derail From Hummingbird Streamliner Near Gulfport
Five cars of the Louisville and Nashville Hummingbird derailed about five miles west of Gulfport Mississippi while en route from Cincinnati to New Orleans. Passengers remained in coaches awaiting buses. a club car porter was treated in Gulfport. The derailment occurred at 7 30 am in rain and cold, marking the second crash in three days after a Wales Tennessee incident with injuries.
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Gulfport
Miss
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Wales, Tenn
Greek National Forces Free 200 Peasants in Mount Paranassos
Dispatches from Athens report Greek national forces freeing more than 200 peasants after capturing 80 insurgents in the Mount Paranassos area. They say Lukas Koutsopetalos, kidnapped four days ago by guerillas, remains held under guard.
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Athens
Lukas Koutsopetalos
Mount Paranassos
Koutsopetalos
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