House Stands Firm On Slash in Budget
The House rejects the Senate limit of a 4.5 billion dollar budget cut and moves the fight to a 20 member Joint Conference committee. Speaker Martin pledges a 2 percent income tax cut, while Senate challenges warn a 6 billion cut may harm defense. the dispute centers on reducing to five to five and a quarter billion dollars.
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Washington
House
Senate
Taber
Appropriations
Martin
Mass
Takers
Truman
Massachusetts
Gurney
R-Sd
Senate Armed Services Committee
Britain
Greece
Army
Navy
Taft
Ohio
Republican Policy Committee
Britain and France Sign 50 Year Military Alliance
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin signed the Dunkerque pact, uniting Britain and France for five decades. The ceremony occurred in a sparsely furnished room in Dunkerque as Allied flags fluttered over war-scarred streets.
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Dunkerque
U.P
Great Britain
France
Georges Bidault
Paris
Vive Bidault
End Hearings on Lilienthal Post
The Senate Atomic Energy committee wrapped up hearings on David E. Lilienthal for head of the Federal Atomic Energy Commission. Acting chairman Sen. Knowland said a closed session would follow with Lilienthal and four other nominees and a possible confirmation vote was planned for tomorrow.
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Washington
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
David E. Lilienthal
Federal Atomic Energy Commission
William F. Knowland
Cal
Lilienthal
Knowland
Council Delves Into Trailer Housing Plans
Kenosha city council studied trailer housing as a solution to the housing shortage. A special committee of the whole will meet Wednesday at 4 30 PM to continue consideration, with Milwaukee’s plan cited as a model. Officials noted an ordinance blocks trailers in city limits and funding limits.
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Kenosha
Milwaukee
Bonnie Home
A. I. Marcus
American Legion
Midwest
Palestine Underground Declares Open War in Holy Land
Irgun Zvai Leumi announced open warfare as five British soldiers were wounded by a mine near Rishon Le Zion and an RAF vehicle blast injured four Arabs near Ramle. Bombings included a Haifa office and an army camp near Hadera, with Tel Aviv banks evacuated and about four million dollars withdrawn amid martial law.
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Palestine
Holy Land
Rishon le Zion
Ramle
Haifa
Hadera
Tel Aviv
Jewish Underground
G. H. A. MacMillan
Irgun
Zvai Leumi
Petah Tiqra
MacMillan
Charges Russia With Espionage in U S Patent Drive
Washington chairman Thomas of the House Committee on un American Activities testified that Russia conducts an elaborate legal espionage operation in the United States. Since 1943 the Soviet Union, via its U S agencies, allegedly obtained hundreds of industrial chemical and military patents from the patent office, impacting technological development.
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Washington
Thomas
R.-N.y
House Committee On un-American Activities
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Chinatown Silent on Death Probe as Officials Investigate
In San Francisco's Chinatown, elders offer no comment as authorities probe the death of 39 year old George Tuey whose burned body was found near Tracy California. Officials doubt tong involvement while noting Tuey’s criminal past and possible link to his murder.
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San Francisco
U.P
George Tuey
Tracy
Cal
Occidental
Tuey
Grant Avenue
Oakland
Fresno
Palo Alto
Stockton
China
Truman Honors Mexican Heroes With Wreath Laying
President Truman placed a wreath at the Ninos Heroes monument in Chapultepec Park Mexico City to reaffirm inter American good neighborliness. He noted peace at home and abroad with neighbors as he spoke after a state banquet and before a fiesta at the National stadium.
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Mexico City
U.P
Truman
Chapultepec Castle
Aleman
Chapultepec Park
U. S
Juan de la Barrera
Mr. Truman
Jaime Torres Bodet
Walter Thurston
National Palace
Foreign Ministry
Stalin Steps Down as Soviet Army Minister
London reports Joseph Stalin has relinquished the post of minister of the armed forces due to pressure from his other duties. General Nikolai Bulganin is appointed to replace him while Stalin remains premier and a leading figure in the Communist Party.
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London
Stalin
Moscow Radio
Nikolai A. Bulganin
Russia
Communist Party
Supreme Soviet
Moscow
J. V. Stalin
Council of Ministers
N. A. Bulganin
R. Stalin
Bulganin
Ministry of Armed Forces
Moscow City
Soviet Union
Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
Jackson Mayor Behan Found Dead In Car
Jackson Michigan mayor Edward Behan was found dead in his car with a bullet wound to the head. A .38 caliber revolver lay beside him. he had been missing from his office for two days.
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Jackson
Mich
Edward F. Behan
Behan
Gasoline Fire Destroys Home on Bentz Road
A gasoline spill ignited by an upset bottle destroyed the Clarence J. Martell residence on Bentz road. The two story cement block and frame house was gutted with losses estimated at 4,500 to 5,000 for the building and 3,000 for furniture, partially insured. Mrs. Hazel Martell and two children escaped. Ardys was in school. Fire units from Pleasant Prairie and Somers battled the blaze after deputies raised the alarm.
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Clarence J. Martell
Route 1
Box 275-A
Bentz Road
Hazel Martell
Austin Anderson
Pleasant Prairie Department
Arrested Man Sought Here in Two Burglaries
Robert Lee Crowder, 32, Detroit, wanted by Kenosha police in December 19 thefts of a used car from Schaefer Pontiac Sales and men’s suits from Kenosha Laundry and Odorless Cleaners, is in custody in Waukegan. FBI links him to transporting the stolen Kenosha car to Detroit where it wrecked.
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Robert Lee Crowder
Detroit
Kenosha
Schaefer Pontiac Sales Company
Roosevelt Road
Twenty Eighth Avenue
Waukegan
Wanuukegan
Crowder
James Bankston
Flint
FBI
Pontiac
Mich
Bankston
Indictments in Nationwide Sugar Ring Case Expanded
A federal grand jury indicted 10 persons in a continuing probe into a national black market sugar ring. New charges were added against several others previously indicted as merchants and runners involved in illegal stamps, with U S District Attorney J Albert Woll directing the inquiry.
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Chicago
U.P
U. S
J. Albert Woll
Massachusetts House Keeps Bean Blowers Legal for Now
The Massachusetts House reversed a prior vote to ban bean blowers and approved their continued use for at least another year. Lawmakers debated safety concerns before deciding not to outlaw the gadget, maintaining its legality in the state.
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Boston
U.P
Massachusetts House of Representatives
House
Kenoshans Urged to Aid Greece Relief Drive
Kenosha residents are urged to donate to a national Greek War Relief fund. The Kenosha committee led by R. S. Kingsley appeals for medical care, orphan support, food, clothing, and educational supplies for Greece, with a nationwide goal of 12 million dollars in 1947. Bruce Eastman is treasurer. funds go to the Greek War Relief association led by Herbert Hoover.
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Greece
Europe
Kenosha Greek War Relief Committee
R. S. Kingsley
F. E. Coniner
E. J. Ruetz
Joseph Funck
Robert Gordon
Alwin T. Hansen
Jess Minkowski
Charles H. Lockwood
Charles Dilday
Stig Wiren
Nicholas Demos
Anthony Franks
George Karras
Peter Karabetsos
Bruce Eastman
Kenosha Fund
Kenosha
Greek War Relief Association
Herbert Hoover
West Coast Defeated in Pacific Mock Battle
Navy task force and West Coast protective force prepared for mock attacks on Johnston Island and Pearl Harbor as battles in the central Pacific near Oahu conclude March 11. Helldriver Pilot G H Wilson and radio man H D Turner were credited with spotting an opposing submarine Seadog and landing beside it after radio failure.
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West Coast
Pacific
Central Pacific
Johnston Island
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Johnston
Oahu
Hawaii
G. H. Wilson
Manistique
Mich
H. D. Turner
Philadelphia
Seadog
Senate Urged To Take Quick Treaty Action
Secretary of State Marshall and James Byrnes urged rapid Senate ratification of peace pacts with Italy Romania Bulgaria and Hungary to end occupation regimes and begin postwar peace. They said withdrawal of forces should occur within 90 days of finalizing the treaties, stressing Allied consensus and the need to avoid delay.
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Washington
Marshall
James F. Byrnes
Senate
Italy
Balkan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Byrnes
Balkans
United States
U.S. weighs Greece aid as urgent national priority
Secretary of State James Byrnes said aid to Greece is a matter of primary importance to the United States and will be announced only by the President. He noted the issue has Truman’s urgent attention and has been discussed with congressional leaders. A full public statement will follow a State Department study. Britain and the U.S. are both pressing to assist Greece.
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Washington
Marshall
Greece
United States
Athens
Britain
Truman
State Department
Congress
Police Guard Teen Accused of Murder in Malden
Five officers protected 17 year old Robert L. Coombes as he faced murder charges for the death of 111 year old Jacqueline Maxwell. Relatives attacked and spat at him as he was moved from the courthouse to a Cambridge jail. He was held without bail.
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Malden
Mass
Robert L. Coombes
Jacqueline Maxwell
Cambridge
Coombes
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