Arming Anti Reds to Be Hot Issue
United States likely to provide Western European anti-Communist allies with 2 to 3 billion dollars in arms next year. Truman may ask Congress to appropriate about 1.0 to 1.6 billion for packing shipping and new items. Berlin airlift Greek Turkish aid and China program also to frame postwar policy.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Europe
Truman
Congress
Berlin
O. K
Middle East
Greece
Turkey
China
Mme
Chiang Kaishek
Closed shop again in Congress likely move
Washington observers and labor leaders foresee a revival of the closed shop under a revised Taft Hartley era. Taft notes a prohibition may be changed but cautions exact language remains uncertain while chambers and labor heads expect a shift toward new union requirements.
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Washington
Congress
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Rep Lane Asks Army Review Ybarbo Case
Congressman Lane seeks a full Defense Department review of the conviction of Wilma Ybarbo, a former Malden girl sentenced to 20 years by an American Military Government court in Marburg Germany for the slaying of her husband Sgt John Ybarbo. She testified the shooting was in defense of her life after a party in Frankfurt.
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Boston
Lane
Mass
Secretary of Defense
Wilma Ybarbo
Malden
Marburg
Germany
John Ybarbo
Frankfurt
Slow Elevator at Jail Foils Five Prisoners Escape
Five Fulton County prisoners attempted escape from the jail’s fourth floor but were blocked when a slow ground-floor elevator and a locked gate stopped them. Deputy Dewitt alerted guards after spotting the downbound cage and the inmates surrendered, returned to their cells, and the deputy’s action thwarted the plan. Sheriff Foster confirmed the escape involved tying up a deputy.
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Tlanta
Fulton County
R. E. Dewitt
Dewitt
A. B. Foster
Officer saves child by strangling attacking dog
In East Oakland a 1-year-old boy was saved when Officer George Hazen, 29, responded to reports of a dog attack. He restrained and killed the large black dog with his bare hands to protect the child and others nearby.
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Seattle
Dee
John Hatley
Arizona State
Santa Claus
Hatley
Duluth
Minn
Hazen
Vern Bahr
Somerville
Mass
H. Murray Elliott
Peter Elliott
Christ Church
Peter
Oakland
George Hazen
East Oakland
City Stymied on Bar Fronts Policy Limitation
The city cannot require cocktail bars to be built so interiors are visible from the street. The city attorney notes local bodies lack power to prohibit and regulate fully, suggesting California state law covers the field of regulation.
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California
Jury awards Erickson 3300 in Laraway counter suit
After a weeklong trial in Superior Court Judge Orlando Hi Rhodes presiding, a jury awarded William Erickson $3300 in damages from Richard H Laraway and the Laraway Oil Co for injuries from a May 1 traffic crash at Willow Street and Santa Fe Avenue. The verdict follows a $150,000 action by M L Higgins and Jacqueline Higgins against Erickson and a counterclaim Erickson filed.
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Superior Court
Orlando Hi. Rhodes
William Erickson
Richard H. Laraway
Laraway Oil Co
Willow St
Santa Fe Ave
M. L
Jacqueline Higgins
Laraway
Erickson
C. Ransom Samuelson
Samuelson
Lawrence McAllister
Accient
County Population Near Four Million
The California Taxpayers' Association released its annual census estimate placing Los Angeles County population at 2,951,500. The figure surpasses the 1940 U S census count of 2,785,645 by about 42 percent, reflecting growth since 1940.
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Los Angeles
California Taxpayers’ Association
Los Angeles County
U. S
Knowland Urges Early Filibuster End Move
Senator Knowland proposes changing Senate rules to permit cloture at any time and avoid long blocking filibusters. He intends to seek support from Senator Hayden to back the plan, aiming to push civil rights and anti-poll tax measures through sooner by untying time limits.
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Washington
Sen
Knowland
R.-Calif
Senate
Hayden
Arizona
Rules Committee
Truman
Solons Dodge Spy Probing as House Heads to Change
Washington dispatch notes new House Democrats and many veterans avoid the un American activities committee a shift in leadership looms as Rayburn weighs drafting a fifth Democrat for the spy hunt panel with 101 new members and more than 50 veterans expressing preferences but none volunteering for the committee. The nine member panel will tilt with the new Congress next week as four Democrats return along with chairmen and Republican members.
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New House Democrats
UN- American Activities Committee
Rayburn
Texas
New Democratic House
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Congress
Wood
Georgia
Rankin
Mississippi
Peterson
Florida
Hebert
Louisiana
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Mundt
South Dakota
Senate
McDowell
Pennsylvania
Vail
Ilinois
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