Amvets Seek $100 Monthly Pensions for Vets
Washington Feb 3 Amvets urged Congress to grant $100 monthly pensions to 65 year olds until social security broadens to cover all. Harold A Keats said veterans seek broader social security but deserve old age and disability benefits now. DAV leadership avoided taking a pension position while Rankin touted a proposed pension bill with $60 at 60 and $90 at 65 plus disability scales. Pepper vowed quick probe into VA hospital cuts.
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Y ‘Ashington
UDA
Graying Wainwright
Corregidor
D.A.V
Rankin
American Medical Association
Rep
Allen
D-Tenn
AMA
Sen. Pepper
D-Fla
Veterans Administration
Mexico Holds Up U S bound Paintings
Mexican authorities seize 29 paintings awaiting export to the United States to verify they were not stolen from Mexican churches. The works, mostly religious and nearly two centuries old, bear signatures from foreign artists. The probe follows a San Francisco court case about 1100 disputed paintings.
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Mexico
Mexico City
United States
San Francisco
Death halts court dispute over faulty washing machine
In Los Angeles on February 3 Peter Mancuso aged 73 and blind collapsed and died while testifying that a washing machine from an appliance company was unsatisfactory, causing the case to be taken off the court calendar.
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Los Angeles
Peter Mancuso
Mancuso
River Pact Signed in Colorado Ratification
Denver February 3. Governor Lee Knaus completed Colorado ratification of the upper Colorado River compact. The governor signed the legislative bill ratifying the pact after it reached his desk. The compact allocates upper river water among Colorado Wyoming Utah New Mexico and Arizona.
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Denver
Lee ‘Knaus
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
New Mexico
Arizona
Sultan's Illness Calm, Says Johore Attendant
Singapore February 3 4 Dr K P Paglar who has been attending the sultan of Johore said today the sultan's illness gives no cause for alarm. The statement comes as officials monitor the sultan's health amid mounting concern in the region.
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Singapore
K. P. Paglar
Johore
Air Force Man Stationed at Tokyo Bay Island Recreation
Pvt. Williams of 1317 E. 67th St is stationed with the U S Air Force Far East in Tokyo Bay. He is assigned to a bridge connected island Tsukishima used for recreation. His wife Mrs F H Williams of the same address is noted in the station listings.
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L.B. Man
Tokyo Bay
Air Force Tc
Willams
F. H. Williams
Tokyo
The
Williams
U. S. Air Force
Far East Head
Philippines
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