Housing Bill Delay Likely as Lawmakers Press On
Washington AP reports a housing bill with billions for federal programs faces a possible delay after nearly 12 hours of drafting. The measure, a compromise between House and Senate plans, would advance loans and disposals to housing authorities in 26 states and DC, plus funds for student housing and the Federal National Mortgage Association.
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Senate
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House Banking Committee
Spence
Maybank
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Senate Banking Committee
Congress
States
District of Columbia
Federal
National Mortgage Association
NLRB Backing President on Reorganizing Agency
The NLRB told senators its Taft Hartley era division of power with General Counsel Denham is a failure and should be abolished. Chairman Herzog supported Truman's plan to make Denham subordinate to the board, arguing it would reduce friction and uncertainty while concentrating functions in the five-member board.
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National Labor Relations Board
Robert Denam
Denham
Paul Herzog
NLRB
Senate Expenditures Committee
Truman
Herzog
National Association of Manufacturers
United States Chamber of Commerce
Taft
Ohio
Latry
Lattimore Denies All Red Charges At Group Hearing
Senator McCarthy accuses Owen Lattimore of being a top Soviet spy as the diplomat testifies before a Foreign Relations subcommittee. Lattimore calls the charges base and contends McCarthy violated his responsibilities while denying disloyalty and pledging to test claims in a court.
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State Department
United States
Wisconsin
Joseph McCarthy
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Afghanistan
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Youth 19 Confesses Strangling Sweetheart In Car
Arthur Prindle, 19, confessed to his policeman father that he killed his 18 year old sweetheart Sally Ann Humphreys after discovering she was with another man. The couple were found in a car in Contra Costa County with the girl strangled and Prindle badly injured from a self inflicted wrist wound and pills. Deputy District Attorney Wakefield Taylor said Prindle will be charged with murder and planned the act for months.
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Cal
Arthur Prindle
Leslie Prindie
Sally
Sally Ann Humphreys
Contra Costa County
Young Prindle
Wakefield Taylor
Taylor
Prindie
Alfred St. John Humphreys
Ghost Town Looming In Village Of 2500
Pittsburgh report describes Preston a riverside town once thriving near the Pressed Steel Car Company plant. Now nine tenths of workers are unemployed since last summer as the big industrial site shows no sign of reopening. The piece recalls the plant’s wartime boom and immigrant mill workforce before downsizing.
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Preston
Ohio River
Pressed Steel Car Company
Diamond Jim Brady
Oldtimers
Europe
Italy
Senate Passes Up Bill After 20 Roll Calls
The Senate approved a measure expanding the displaced persons act to admit up to 359000 refugees from Europe for a year beyond June 30. The bill eliminates 40 percent Baltic state and 30 percent farmer quotas, raises the eligibility date to January, and aligns with a House-passed version after a 20 roll-call marathon.
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Truman
Congress
House
Kilgore
D-Wva
Baltic States
Six Children Die As Flames Destroy Home in Toronto
A Toronto family home fire claimed six children aged eight to sixteen. Parents Rey and Mrs Harding escaped with three-year-old Howard and a 4-year-old, Paul, leaped from an upper window to safety. The blaze swept through the frame house shortly after midnight leaving Edith eight, Earl ten, Tim eleven, John thirteen, David fifteen, and Ruth sixteen dead.
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Ontario
Rey Harding
Harding
Howard
Paul
Navy Seeks Fire Cause On Marshall Mare Test Run
At Pearl Harbor the Navy probes why a newly mounted engine on the Marshall Mare caught fire causing an explosion. Seven crew members survived after an emergency water landing off Keehi Lagoon during a test run for the seven crew and seven passengers. The 7,500,000 Flying Boat previously sank Hawaii Mars in 1945 and later was raised.
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Marshall Mare
Alameda
Cal
Keehi Lagoon
Honolulu
Hawaii
Glenn L. Martin
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Two Cincinnati Drivers Escape Major Injury in Odd Crashes
Lee R. Snoorenaher, 29, plunged into a lake off Mill Road but escaped serious harm after leaping free from his car. Clyde Burnett crawled from his vehicle after it skidded over an embankment onto the New York Central rail line near River Road. Burnett faced charges of reckless driving and operating an automobile while intoxicated.
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Lee R. Snoorenaher
Mill Road
de Uty
William Burnett
Clyde Burnett
New York Central
River Road
Harry Hillman
Donald Shelor
Burnett
The Election Test in County Seats Seen as Show
A vivid look at campaign season with county bosses precinct captains and a woman leader stirring activity in towns. The piece notes voters gauge oats and talk politics as a farm product hopeful gains attention and crowds vie for power.
Chrysler Studies Union Peace Offer Amid Pension Talks
Chrysler, locked out for seven days, reviews a union proposal to fund pensions of 100 dollars monthly at age 65 with 25 years. The plan aims to cover back and future service credits over 30 years and continues contributions if Social Security rises.
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CIO
United Auto Workers
Servie
Worker Pleads Innocent in Bombing Case
A Goodrich Company worker, James Helton, pleaded innocent to charges of malicious destruction of property over a December bombing at the home of Henry Fortner, a CIO Rubber Workers Union officer. Helton posted 500 bond for a preliminary hearing set April 12. co-defendant Anthony Kinsinger said he helped by delivering a home-made bomb for 50 dollars.
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Helton
Ray Woodward
Kinsinger
Fortner
Mit County Grand Jury
Woodward
Damages Sought After Cafe Stairway Fall
George Kent of County Chronic Diesel Hospital files a 100000 damage suit in common pleas court against St Re gia Cafe proprietor J F Cappel and building owner Julius Payton. He alleges loss of speech and hearing and prolonged bedridden condition from a two year old fall.
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George Kent
County Chronic Diesel Hospital
Common Pleas Court
J F. Cappel
St. Regia
Julius Payton
Lerigan
Ship Makes Port Buffalo in First Arrival of Year
A five day strag in a Lake Erie gale ends as the freighter James Watt docks in Buffalo harbor with the Coast Guard Cutter Tupelo escorting. The James Watt brings scrap iron from Detroit to Hanna Fur Finance Corp to unload.
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Lake el
James Watt
Buffalo Harbor
Coast Guard
Tupelo
Detroit
Hanna Furiance Corporation
Kansas City political faction leader among two shot
Charles Binaggio, once allied with the late Tom Pendergast, and ex-convict Charlie Gargotta were slain in a political club in Kansas City. Police found both bodies, with no weapon recovered, as investigators noted their ties to Pendergast era factions and possible internal strife within local political groups.
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Charles Binaggio
Tom Pendergast
Exconvict
Charlie Gargotta
Binaggio Wae
Pendergast
Real
Wee
Wae
Harry Nesbitt
Hineggie
Nest
Gargotta
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Feder Grand Jury
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Henry W. Johnson
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Volce
Jpiaht
Sam
RST
Wayne Gideon
Garegotta
Hineggio
Court Capitol
Jefferson
James Pendergast
Tom
Harold Mohr Faces Cross Examination
Harold Mohr is to be cross examined in Lehigh County court regarding the March 8 shooting death of his brother Walter at their Coplay home. Prosecutors seek detail on Mohr’s memory of the events while his attorney Kenneth H. Koch plans lengthy questioning. Mohr, 18, faces murder and voluntary manslaughter charges and testified he lost consciousness after hearing a gunshot, regaining clarity days later.
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Commonwealth
al Ley
Mohr
Lehigh County
Kenneth H. Koch
Walter
Coplay
Merger Talk Gains Steam Between CIO and AFL
In Washington AP reports AFL President William Green says a CIO AFL merger is more possible now than in six years. Philip Murray of the CIO proposes a broad cooperative program with AFL United Mine Workers Machinists and Railroad Brotherhoods to seek unification of about 16 million members. Green stresses unity only if it strengthens labor.
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AFL
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Green
Philip Murray
CIO
Murray
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
International Association of Machinists
Railroad Brotherhoods
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