Top Steel Makers To Explain $5 Price Hike To Congress
Washington reports show top steel makers summoned by the joint economic committee to explain a $5 a ton price boost next Thursday. Taft says two to three major leaders from United States Steel and others will testify in a preliminary inquiry amid anti trust questions raised by Senator Ball.
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Taft
Ohio
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Tom Clark
Ewan S. Clague
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Clague
Economic Committee
United States Steel Corporation
Ball
Justice Department
Congress
Local Weather Forecast for Sunday
Increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions expected Sunday with a high in the afternoon around 36.
Spring Worries as Weather Lingers Across the Midwest
The nation endures floods and freezes with snow in Kentucky Missouri Illinois Indiana and Montana while a forecaster warns spring remains distant. Ice jammed Powder River floods push rural Montanans from homes and Yazoo floodwaters keep engineers alert as cold air threatens the Midwest.
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Montana
Mississippi
Yazoo
Greenwood
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Kentucky
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Tennessee
Arkansas
Texas
Florida
Georgia
Nebraska
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Pacific Northwest
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Midwest
Washington Day Observed In City Monday
Washington's birthday observance will close public offices and schools in La Crosse on Monday February 23. County court house city hall libraries and banks will be closed while public schools end early at 2 30 p m Post office operations will run morning hours with windows closed at noon postal services and COD windows inactive all day. Federal income tax office 315 Hoeschler building and state unemployment offices will be closed.
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Canada May Bar Communists From Entering
Ottawa considers using existing law to bar Communist entrants from the United States after U S Senator Taft warned that American Communists are moving activities into Canada. Authorities weigh the move as officials study potential legislation and enforcement.
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United States
U. S
Taft
Ohio
Nebraska Legion Upholds Expulsion of Batterson
The Nebraska American Legion executive committee unanimously backed Omaha post No. 1 in expelling Warren Batterson of Omaha, Iowa Nebraska Kansas secretary of the Communist party, after a hearing. The panel cited Batterson’s admitted Communist membership and promotion of communism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa as clear disloyalty to the Legion.
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Neb
Nebraska American Legion Executive Committee
Omaha Post No. 1
Warren Batterson
Omaha
Iowa - Nebraska - Kansas
Communist Party
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Charles P. Howard
Des Moines
United States
American Legion
Mississippi
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
British official to name new ambassador to Moscow
London sources say a career diplomat will be named to succeed Joyce Peterson as British ambassador to Moscow. The appointment signals continuity in policy toward Russia amid current diplomatic tensions.
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London
Jnce Peterson
Moscow
Mo Lotov and Other Notables Debut in Who's Who 1948-49
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov appears in Who's Who in America for the first time alongside Frank Sinatra Roy Rogers Gandhi Frank Leahy and about 5 400 others. The new edition lists 41 194 listings over 2 976 pages with 7 505 472 words and notes three in ten thousand make the grade.
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Vyacheslav Molotov
America
Frank Sinatra
Roy Rogers
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Frank Leahy
Notre Dame
Army
Navy
Thomas J. Watson
International Business Machines Co
New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Watson
Who's Who
Southern Democrats Rally Against Truman Civil Rights Plan
Southern Democrats converge on Washington to oppose Truman civil rights proposals including anti-lynch, anti-poll tax, and desegregation measures. They push for a southern vice presidential candidate and a two thirds nominating rule while Wallace gains momentum for a new party. Wallace remains cool to a Democratic bid, urging a true peace party.
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Virginia
George
Georgia
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Truman
Florida
Caribbean
Wallace
Benes Fights To Save His Government In Prague Crisis
President Eduard Benes resisted Communist pressure to form a pure Soviet aligned cabinet. He refused to dismiss anti Communist ministers and insisted on a parliamentary government with broad representation. Communists pressed for new ministers and called resigned leaders agents of foreign reaction.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
Klement Gottwald
National Front
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Petr Zenkl
Drtina
Neillsville Pharmacist Sentenced in Federal Case
Madison Wis Federal Judge Patrick T Stone sentenced Nicholas C Feuerstein 50 Neillsville pharmacist to six months in a federal prison. He mailed bellicose postcards to a waitress in Onalaska and La Crosse and pleaded guilty to the defamation charge.
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Wis
Patrick T. Stone
Nicholas C. Feuerstein
Neillsville
Onalaska
la Crosse
Feuerstein
Sparta
Western GOP Demands Return of Submerged Lands
Denver dispatch reports the 11 state western Republican conference formally urged the federal government to relinquish submerged land claims. The move centers on federal ownership of offshore areas and resource rights.
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Denver —i
Western Republican Conference
30 Day Rent Curb Extension Receives GOP Backing
Republican leaders in Congress backed a 30 day extension of rent controls to Feb 29 and set a Tuesday House vote with the Senate to act later in the week. Senator Taft supports a 14 month extension with debates starting Friday. The House Banking Committee chair said the 30 day measure would only bar eviction in certain low cost public housing cases once other quarters are unavailable.
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Congress
House
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Rep
Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
City Manager Plan Aims to Cut Government Costs
John P. Reynolds, representative of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, spoke at the State Teachers College auditorium to a League of Women Voters and AAUW gathering about city manager government. He cited examples from 800 U S cities and argued that centralized authority and streamlined departments lower per unit service costs while leaving final voter control. Reynolds contrasted mayor council with manager systems, advocating a small at large council and a centralized administrator to improve efficiency and accountability in La Crosse.
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AAUW
John P. Reynolds
Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance
State Teachers’ College Training School
United States
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Reynolds
la Crosse
Raynolds
Trane Announces New Scranton Eastern Factory
Trane announces completion of negotiations for a large eastern branch factory in Scranton Pennsylvania. The one story brick plant on 18 acres will house convector radiators and related products with La Crosse facilities handling broader production and existing markets in the west. Construction slated to finish mid year with production to begin soon after.
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Trane Company
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Eary
la Crosse
New York
Philadelphia
Eastern Branch
U S Rejects Russian Protest Over London Talks on Germany
The United States rejected Russia’s protest against a forthcoming Anglo American French meeting in London to coordinate Western Germany’s economy. Undersecretary Lovett warned Moscow that Moscow’s stance harms German unity and European recovery efforts.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Robert Lovett
Alexander Panyushkin
Lovett
Panyushkin
Russia
London
Coal Strike Doom Sways Industry as Lewis Returns
Washington report notes uncertainty over a potential spring coal strike though industry leaders fear disruption. All eyes are on John L. Lewis and other top executives as they await return from Florida to seek a solution.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Florida
Sunshine
Woman Burned To Death In Milwaukee Kitchen
Mrs. Anna Udhart, 59, died after hot grease from a frying pan ignited her clothing in the kitchen. Firemen estimate the fire caused $2,000 in damage Saturday.
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Milwaukee
Anna Udhart
Stassen Invites Dewey to Debate National Policies
Harold E. Stassen invited Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to join in a eight topic national policy debate. He offered to travel to Albany to start programs and proposed discussing topics from the Taft Hartley act to UN policy and atomic energy regulation. Dewey had entered the Oregon primary and no comment was reported from him.
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Gov. Dewey
Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Jassen
Dewey
Oregon
Hampshire
Stasnen
New Hampshire
United Nations
Russia
Dixie Democrats Lose Ground in Civil Rights Fight
A secret senate poll shows Southern Democrats losing hope to block civil rights legislation as Republicans back limits on debate. 54 Democratic Southern House members join governors to press Truman on anti lynch anti poll tax and anti discrimination laws.
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Southern Conference Committee
McGrath Mendes
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Beauford Jester
Texas
Gregg Cherry
North Carolina
William Tue
Virginia
Ben Laney
Arkansas
Florida
Washington
Senate
Dixie
Truman
GOP
Old Confederacy
J. Howard McGrath
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Laney
Jester
Tuck
Thurmond
Cherry
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Virgin Islands
William H. Hastie
Caribbean
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