Education Aid Bill Scuttled in House Labor Vote
The House labor committee killed a Senate approved federal aid to education bill by a 13 to 12 vote after months of wrangling over aid for parochial schools. The panel then considered a substitute bill for federal help in school construction proposed by Rep. Wingate H. Lucas with the matter causing a parliamentary uproar and requiring intervention by House Parliamentarian Lewis Deschler.
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Washington
U.P
House Labor Committee
Wingate H. Lucas
Tex
Walter E. Brehm
Ohio
Brehm
Lewis Deschler
Farmhand Gets Extortion Term in Wisconsin Case
Joseph Horvath a 37 year old Stevens Point farmhand was sentenced to three years in a federal penitentiary for attempting to extort $10 000 from Carl N Jacobs president of Hardware Mutual Casualty Co Horvath confessed that on February 6 1950 he mailed a threatening letter to Jacobs and was trapped by FBI agents three days later after telephoning Jacobs from a grocery store He claimed he needed the money due to unemployment and living with his parents near Stevens Point and had no intent to harm Jacobs if his demands were met.
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Madison
Wis
Joseph Horvath
Stevens Point
Patrick T. Stone
Harvath
Carl N. Jacobs
Hardware Mutual Casualty Co
United States Chamber of Commerce
Horvath
U. S
Charles H. Cashin
FBI
Jacobs
Michael Harvath
N. M. Harrison
High Point College
Greensboro
N. C
Treasury Department
Justice Department
Tax Division
Kewaunee Woman Dies After Cars Collide
Kewaunee Wisconsin Mrs Charles Pelnar 50 died on the way to a hospital after the car she rode in with her husband collided with another vehicle at a street intersection. Her husband and other occupants escaped with minor injuries.
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Kewaunee
Wis
Charles Pelnar
Pelnar
Rep. Vorys Moves To Reshape Marshall Plan Aid Program
Ohio Republican Rep. John M. Vorys says he will sponsor revisions to next year’s ECA program aiming to curb domestic opposition. He criticizes Foreign Aid Chief Paul Hoffman’s request for 3.1 billion dollars for a third year of Marshall Plan aid and proposes cash only with currency integration, surplus commodities transfers to save at least 1 billion, and loans instead of cash grants for capital equipment.
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Washington
U.P
House Foreign Affairs Committee
John M. Vorys
Ohio
Paul Hoffman
Vorys
Moves Underway to Refinance Lustron
Washington reports two parallel efforts to salvage Lustron by refinancing the government investment of 36 million dollars in prefabricated housing. Senator Flanders proposes shifting the loan program from RFC to the Housing and Home Finance Agency and adding new loans to restart production. RFC director Gunderson says a financially solid group will offer for two thirds of Lustron stock, promising a new management structure.
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Washington
Lustron Corporation
Flanders
R-Vi
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Housing and Home Finance Agency
RFC
Harvey Gunderson
Gunderson
149 Charged With Evading Wartime Taxes
Washington reports a last minute drive to indict 149 individuals for evading more than 10 million dollars in wartime taxes. The cases cover 1943 and other years, with indictments already issued against several prominent businessmen and professionals.
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Washington
Justice Department
Department
U. S
New York
Irving H. Saypol
Samuel L. Lebis
Lebis Hotel Management Corp
Boston
Pittsburgh
Louis Morrison
Union Fountain Pen Co
Edward Abrams
Capital Undergarment Co
Henry Mindell
Woodmere, L. L
Lehigh Manufacturing Co
Christoffel Sentenced to 2 to 6 Years for Perjury
Harold R. Christoffel former Milwaukee United Auto Workers CIO leader was convicted of perjury a second time for lying to the house labor committee in 1947 about Communist ties. He received two to six years and faces an appeal as Judge F Dickinson Letts denied bail.
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Washington
U.P
Milwaukee
Harold R. Christoffel
House Labor Committee
Christoffel
Herbert J. Fabricant
F. Dickinson Letts
Letts
United Auto Workers
Gan
Supreme Court
Iowa City Murder Trial Opens Amid Admonitions Against Sensationalism
The murder trial of 24 year old psychology student Robert E Bednasek began in Iowa City with juror questioning referencing sorority members and being an only child. Judge James P Gaffney barred photographs without permission and limited courtroom crowds while Bednasek faced accusations tied to the death of 20 year old Margaret Anne Jackson of Burlington found in his campus rooming house.
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Iowa City
Robert E. Bednasek
College City
Bednasek
University of Iowa Coed
Margaret Anne Jackson
Burlington
Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
James P. Gaffney
Elinor Green
Emil Bednasek
Cedar Rapids
Gaffney
University Hospital
University of Iowa Law
Milwaukee Executive Dies While Driving
William F. Dietrich 60, vice president of Pine Lumber Co., collapsed and died Monday night while driving his car on a city street. Witnesses saw him halt the vehicle before slumping at the steering wheel.
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Milwaukee
William F. Dietrich
The
Pine Lumber Co
Dietrich
Unmasked Night Riders Rally in Alabama Mob Terror
In Alabama unmasked night riders resume terror, with Pell City killings tied to Ku Klux Klan factions. Four men face murder charges for the Feb 22 slaying of Charlie Hurst. Rev. Alvin Horn and others among nine under arrest or charged in related flogging incidents.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Pell City
Charlie Hurst
Hurst
Alvin Horn
Association of Georgia Klans
Jesse Wilson
Albert Wilson
E. L. Hudson
Talladega
Horn
Morris
Sam Roper
Wisconsin Sees Unseasonable Cold Persist Across State
Cold air keeps Wisconsin in winter mood with below zero readings in the north and only around ten above in the south. Land O Lakes records six below while Kenosha posts ten above as the Weather Bureau cites a cold mass reaching to the Gulf states. Tonight lows are eight to fifteen above in the south with little relief seen tomorrow.
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Wisconsin
Federal Weather Bureau
Gulf States
Land O'Lakes
Kenosha
Attlee's Party Wins Two Tests
Britain's Labour government secured two key policy votes in the house of Commons. It won last night by 25 votes 314 to 289 and earlier defeated a Conservative attack by 14 votes led by Winston Churchill.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Attlee
Labor
Winston Churchill
West German Radio Plans Soviet Frequencies Use
West German radio stations will begin broadcasting on Soviet frequencies tomorrow amid U S warnings in the cold war. American officials say they will not back down in the dispute over airwaves.
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Frankfurt
Germany
America
Convicted man guilty of bombing plane killing 23
J Albert Guay found guilty of murdering his wife by planting a time bomb on a plane that killed 23 people including 22 passengers and his spouse. He faces a death sentence. Milwaukee alderman Meyers questioned by grand jury for over two hours about alleged misconduct in office.
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Quebec
J. Albert Guay
Milwaukee
U.P
Fred P. Meyers
Death penalty sought in Gibbs murder case
In Lancaster Pennsylvania the state demanded the death penalty for Edward L Gibbs accused of killing a Franklin and Marshall College stenographer.
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Gibbs
Lancaster
Edward L. Gibbs
Franklin and Marshall College
Negro vagrant hints at 1-year-old Gary teacher killing
East St. Louis police questioned Paul E. Mileam 40 a former Chicago post office worker who said his conscience bothered him and he might have killed a school teacher a year ago in a Slaying that sparked a Gary Indiana crime crusade and vice crackdown.
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East St. Louis
Ill
U.P
Gary
Ind
Paul E. Mileam
Chicago
Mrs Madsen on trial for murder in fatal gunshot
In Frankfurt Germany Mrs Yvette Madsen testifies she cannot recall the October shooting death of her husband Lt Andrew E Madsen formerly of Racine Wisconsin. The 22 year old mother pleads innocent by reason of insanity and says she may have been drunk.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Yvette Madsen
Andrew E. Madsen
Racine
Wis
Jones and Laughlin Reports 1949 Profit Slump
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp reports a ten million dollar drop in 1949 income from 1948 profits but says last year ranked as the third highest earnings in the company's history.
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Pittsburgh
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Jessup Denies McCarthy Accusations During Urgent Stop
Dr. Philip Jessup, U P ambassador, angrily rejected Senator McCarthy's claim of affinity for communist causes. He affirmed the denial in a press conference before flying home to the United States and offered to testify before the Senate subcommittee. He refused further discussion on the matter.
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Hanson
Haldore Hanson
State Department
Washington
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
Wis
Michael McDermott
Department
United States
Paris
U.P
U. P
Philip Jessup
Joseph R. McCarthy
Jessup
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Senate
Senator McCarthy
Foreign Minister Resigns in Prague
Vlado Clementis resigns as foreign minister of Czechoslovakia. Deputy premier Viliam Siroky is named his successor. No reason given amid reports of a forthcoming Czech Communist party purge on Titoism charges.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Vlado Clementis
Viliam Siroky
Clementis
Jan Masaryk
Communist Party
Soviet
Russia
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Flying saucers sighted over Mexico and Colorado towns
Reported sightings spread across Mexico City Monterrey and Durango Colorado with observers describing flying bodies at 35000 to 40000 feet and notes of asteroid like thoughts. Colorado witnesses chased a fast dark flat object near Durango Cortez area and golf course discs were seen at sunset near Denver.
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Mexico City
U.P
Monterrey
Santiago Smith
Mexican Aviation Company
Durango
Colo
Colorado
New Mexico
Lloyd Locke
Harold Tanner
Cortez
Bloomfield
N.M
Tanner
Denver
John D. Padilla
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Charles W. Adkins
Irene Pryor
South Bend
Education Aid
State Dept
Senator
Moscow
Fabricant
O. John Rogge
Rogge
Kremlin
World Congress of Partisans of Peace
Harold Christoffel
Iowa
Harlow Shapley
United Nations Commission
Central Intelligence Administration
John Stewart Service
Calcutta
Loyalty Appeal Board
Civil Service Commission
Frederick L. Schuman
Williams College
Duran
Havana
Spruille Braden
Braden
United Nations
Senate Foreign Relations
Tydings
Shapley
Conference For World Peace
Acheson
Untouchables
Department of State
Far East
Edward P. Morgan
Subcommittee
Morgan
Ing
Truman
Michael Straight
New Republic
Madrid
Wendell G. Johnson
Red Army
Spain
Dorothy Kenyon
Kenyon
Claude Luker
Charlie Carlisle, Jr
Talladega County
C. M. Hunter
Klan
Lash
Luker
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Yvette
Francisco Martinez Soto
Soto
Locke
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