Truman Drops New Hampshire Run But Seeks Reelection
President Truman said he will withdraw his name from the New Hampshire preferential primary yet he could still seek reelection. He declined to confirm plans, praising Ellis Arnall but offering no definite statement on a 1948 bid, while both parties eye New Hampshire as a early test of strength.
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New Hampshire
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Ellis Arnall
Georgia
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Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
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Robert A. Taft
Taft
Dwight Eisenhower
Harold Stassen
Mother Kills 3 Children and Self in Indiana Tragedy
In Gentryville Indiana a 38 year old mother feared commitment to a mental institution and killed her three children Sally 10 Kitty 7 James 5 and then herself on Wednesday authorities report the victims are Virginia Blair Rudy and her children the family.
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Sally
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James
Truman calls McCarthy a pathological character assassin
President Truman denounces Senator McCarthy as pathological and a character assassin at a news conference. He challenges McCarthy's claims about Phillip Nash and notes that McCarthy acts as a professional attacker of government workers he dislikes.
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FBI
Cincy Residents Brace for Ohio River Flood Crest
Cincinnati residents watch as the Ohio River rises toward a crest of 57.5 feet, with Kentuckiana towns wary after earlier flood damage. The ailing river could flood bottoms and neighborhoods, echoing the 1937 peak, while weather officials note slower rise and revised water estimates.
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Supreme Court Considers Bible Reading and Released Time
The Supreme Court planned to hear arguments on whether Bible reading in public schools and released time programs for religious instruction violate the constitutional separation of church and state. Two New Jersey parents challenge a law requiring daily Old Testament readings and two Brooklyn mothers contest New Yorks released time program.
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Flooding Ohio Valley Declared Disaster Area
Reconstruction Finance Corp. declared the entire Ohio River Valley a disaster area enabling government loans for flood victims. RFC has about 80 million in disaster loan authority after disbursing over 2 million nationwide last summer. approved more than 2 450 loans in the region. President Truman flew a four engine Constella tion over the flooded four state area visiting Pittsburgh Cincinnati and nearby regions with no public comment on the floods.
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Allegheny
Monongahela
Bank Lets People Make Own Change in Lobby
Yonkers New York January 31 71 Customers at Central National Bank can change money themselves from bowls of pennies nickels dimes quarters and half dollars in the lobby Each bowl holds five dollars and bank president Gerald S Couzens says not a penny is missing at day’s end He adds the system saves teller time and promotes honesty.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Central National Bank
Gerald S. Couzens
Execution Stay Granted for Oscar Collazo
The electrocution of Oscar Collazo has been delayed indefinitely pending exhaustion of legal proceedings. Collazo, who tried to assassinate President Truman by killing a White House guard on November 1, 1950, was sentenced to die. his accomplice was killed in a guard gun battle.
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Truce Talks Widened as Armistice Item Moves Forward
In MUNSAN on January 31, Allied leaders proposed tackling the final armistice clause on foreign troop withdrawal. Simultaneous talks on item five could speed a truce, after deadlocks on supervision and prisoner exchange. Meanwhile UN and Allied forces bombed rail lines and skirmished on the ground.
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C. Turner Joy
Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Congress Debates Nationwide Presidential Primaries Plan
Senator Douglas and Rep Bennett propose nationwide presidential preferential primaries with no binding delegates. The plan avoids constitutional amendment, could apply to 1952 campaigns, and would have the attorney general negotiate state primaries with federal cost sharing up to 20 cents per vote and a $10 million cap.
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D-Ill
Charles E. Bennett
D-Fla
Bennett
Wage Parley Set On Steel Wage Increase Drive
The Wage Stabilization Board will hold a hearing in New York Friday to resume the nationwide drive of steel workers for an 18 1/2 cent an hour wage increase.
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New York
Wage Stabilization Board
West Logan Halts Classes Amid County Illness Outbreak
West Logan joins New Straitsville in suspending classes as Hocking County reports rising pupil absences. 160 students and several teachers were missing at opening. Despite closures, a Junction City basketball game remains on schedule for Friday night.
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Disease closes several schools as absences rise
Across the county 35 percent of pupils were absent prompting school closures. At Carbon Hill 48 of 189 pupils were out with some ill, while Union Furnace Haydenville shut for the week. Murray City and western district schools saw fewer cases, Logan High reported 47 absentees and 66 at the junior high. Authorities described a mild influenza with various symptoms, and the county health department ordered closures to curb spread.
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County Health Department
Truman’s Shakeup Plan Cleared by House Heads for Civil Service Reform
The House gave overwhelming approval to President Truman’s plan to depoliticize the Internal Revenue Bureau by creating a merit based civil service system. It would abolish 53 collectorships and appoint up to 14 district commissioners with deputies in every state as civil service employees, with all other key bureau workers under civil service except the commissioner.
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New Budget Would Cost Hocking County $6.5 Million
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce reports the Truman budget for fiscal 1952 53 would cost Hocking County residents about 6.6 million dollars or 338 per person based on 1950 population. It compares Ohio statewide cost at 5.11 billion dollars or 643 per person and urges Congress to cut federal spending to avert deficits.
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Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
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Columbus
Congress
Weaver
America
United States
Robert A. Taft
John W. Bricker
Washington
Coal Mine Found In Coal Cellar In Pottsville
POTTSVILLE Pa Jan 31 Elmer Evans uncovered a coal mine in his cellar but cannot use the coal due to a stoker fed furnace. He found a 150 foot tunnel with a 70 foot spur while enlarging the basement. The mine will be used as a dirt dump from the project.
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Pottsville
Elmer Evans
Collision in Bhairab River Kills 33 Feared
A launch collided with a steamer on the Bhairab River in Dacca East Pakistan Wednesday night. Thirty three people are feared dead and the incident is under inquiry as rescuers search for survivors.
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Bhairab
Truman Insists Tax Hike Needed
President Truman says it is not safe to forego further tax increases a year after Moody and Monroney urged alternatives. He notes the fiscal outlook requires some tax rise though he dislikes higher taxes and cites mobilization and war costs. Senators proposed closing loopholes and five year balance averaging as options.
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Moody
D-Mich
Monroney
D-Okla
Truman
Petitions to Transfer Much of East Hocking to Logan District
Petitioners filed requests to transfer large portions of Falls Marion and Falls Gore townships Green Township and Good Hope Laurel into the Logan city school district. Signatures range from 49 to 173, meeting varied thresholds for potential transfer under state law. If standards are met, the county board will approve or object. if rejected the matter goes to the state superintendent with hearings and potential revisions by September 1.
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Samuel H. Dillon
Falls
Marion
Falls-Gore
Green Township
Good Hope
Laurel
Logan
County Board of Education
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Berne Union
Charles
Floyd R. Miller
Falls Township
Laurel Township
East Hocking District
Good Hope Township
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