Truman's Medical Plan Faces Rough Going in Congress
President Truman unveils a national health insurance plan with added provisions for medical schools hospital construction and public health services. Taxing workers and matching employer contributions under a Social Security framework the plan aims to cover all family members and estimate costs between 4.5 and 6 billion dollars annually. Congress faces slow action with leaders predicting action next year.
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Truman
National Health Insurance Ra
Canavace
Vung Lao
Mr. Truman
Congress
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Taft
Ohio
Smith
Elbert D. Thomas
Dutah
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Board Ruling Makes Credit Terms Easier
Washington AP The Federal Reserve Board relaxes credit controls for a second time in two months easing installment terms for cars radios televisions and furniture to 24 months with a 10 percent down payment for most items and exempting goods under 100 dollars. The move aims to ease inflationary pressure and win congressional support to extend powers beyond June 30. Two Ohio Rural Electrification Cooperatives also received loans: Tri-State 230000 and Washington Electric 160000.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Maybank
D-Sc
Senate Banking Committee
Truman
Reserve Board
Captain Mary Greene Dies Pioneer Riverboat Pilot
Captain Mary Becker Greene, the only licensed woman steamboat pilot on the Mississippi Ohio system, died aboard the Delta Queen after a 59 year river career. She would have turned 81 next June 20. Born along the Ohio at Mill Island near Marietta, she and husband Gordon Greene launched a river line. after his 1927 death she ran Greene Line with son Tom, later joined by Chris. Survived by two sisters and a brother, services set for 1:30 p.m. Monday with burial in Newport, Ohio.
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Cincinnati
Mary Becker Greene
Gordon C. Greene
Ohio
Mississippi
Trucker Edward Williams Dies in Kentucky Creek Crash
Ed ward Williams about 60 of South Shore Kentucky was killed when his pickup lost control and slid into a shallow creek at South Portsmouth Kentucky across the Ohio River from Portsmouth.
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Portsmouth
Edward Williams
South Shore
South Portsmouth
Ohio River
British Red Leader Is Stoned By Crowd
Washington lawmakers pressed the Army for answers on Nazi officer versus enlisted sentences at Malmedy trials. The Army cited Dietrich and aides received light terms. McCarthy Baldwin and Hunt pressed why officers escaped death while GI defendants drew death or long terms. In Dartmouth England a stone siege targeted British Communist Harry Pollitt after a meeting on ships in the Yangtze. He escaped unharmed though faced missiles and a grape-stained face.
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Army
Senate Group
McCarthy
R - Wis
Sept Dietrich
Dietrich
Malmedy
Baldwin
R - Conn
Hunt
D-Wye
Dartmouth
Eng
Britain
Harry Pollitt
Pollitt
Communist Party
Yangtze River
Holtman
Rouge Plant F pa Workers Vote To Strike
DETROIT AP UAW CIO Local 0 reports a 7 to 1 strike vote at Ford Rouge plant with 30 290 in favor and 4 400 against after a five day secret ballot. About 60 000 workers at Rouge. Lincoln plant also voted to strike over speed up. Board meeting next Thursday to approve strikes and discuss spring bargaining. Pension demand set at 100 dollars monthly, with wage and hospitalization goals also stated.
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CIO
United Auto Workers Today
Ford
Uaw-Cio
Big Rouge
Rouge
UAW
Lincoln
UAW International Executive Board
UA W’s
Condition of Jean Henry Improves After Route 4 Crash
The 13 year old Excello resident was struck by a kite driver on Route 4 south of Middletown Thursday night. Hospital attendants reported this morning that her condition had improved.
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Wanda Moore
Jellico
Tenn
Keene Huddleston
Wanda
Jean Henry
Excello
Middletown
Bus Driver Dies At Wheel In Ohio Accident
Milton F. Beiser aged 44 a school bus driver collapsed from a heart attack on Friday while en route to pick up students. The bus crossed a gulley on Ohio 73 before stopping. Survived by his widow Myrtle a daughter his mother Mrs Ida Zilcox Beiser and one brother.
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Hamilton
Milton F. Beiser
Oxford
Ohio 73
Beiser
Myrtle
Ida
Zilcox Beiser
West Germans offered broader self rule by three powers
The United States Britain and France propose broader self governing powers to the western German states to speed a federal state. The plan aims to satisfy Social Democrats in Bonn while delaying Berlin’s inclusion. Ambassador Murphy travels to push the compromise ahead of key meetings as tensions with Soviet Russia loom.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Robert D. Murphy
Social Democratic Party
Bonn
Germany
Murphy
Frankfort
Acheson
State Department
Lucius D. Clay
Bonn Council
Berlin
West Germany
Dutch Annex German Land Expands Netherlands Frontiers
The Netherlands took possession of 27 square miles along the Dutch German frontier housing about 10 000 former German conquerors. Germans in the annexed land were made Dutch citizens under a six power Paris agreement signed by the United States Britain France Belgium Luxembourg and The Netherlands, with cooperation from British authorities in occupied Germany.
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Sittard
Netherlands
Paris
United States
Britain
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Germany
50 Million Americans To Lose An Hour Sleep Switch
New York AP reports about 50 million Americans will lose an hour of sleep as daylight savings time begins. Cities from Portland Maine to Portland Oregon advance clocks to daylight time at 2 a.m. Sunday, with many rural areas keeping standard time. major railways and radio networks adapt schedules and broadcasts to the change, while Middletown stays on Eastern Standard Time year round.
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Grand Central Terminal
New Haven Railroad
New York Central
23 British Sailors Buried After Yangtze Attacks
SHANGHAI AP Twenty three sailors killed by Communist artillery on four British warships in the Yangtze were buried with full military honors. Foreign representatives attended at Hungjao cemetery as British crews and American sailors paid tribute. Casualties total 44 dead and 82 wounded among the three ships and the amethyst support sloop.
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Yangtze
Hungjao
Consort
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Black Swan
Peter Cazalet
The
Hong Kong
Constance
U. S
Slaying Clue Fizzles Out
Atlanta AP report says a man arrested in Clinton South Carolina, driving a New York licensed car, was not involved in tenor John Garris death. A Belgian type pistol found with burglar tools sparked further inquiries. Authorities pursue a green Buick with a small, sallow man and a handsome woman.
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Metropolitan Opera
John Garris
Herman Jones
Fulton
Clinton
S. C
Garris
Jones
J.M. Pack
Musician Herman Spitalny Dies in Cleveland at 60
Herman Spitalny a noted Cleveland musician and uncle to Maurice and Phil Spitalny died last night at age 60. He played in orchestras at many Cleveland theaters and hotels across his career.
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Cleveland
Herman Spitalny
Maurice
Phil Spitalny
Innocent Plea Entered For Mother and Sons
In Dover Delaware a judge accepted innocent pleas from a mother and her two sons in the slaying of Wade Wooldridge of Bedford Virginia and two others. Police testified Robert Brennan acted as the killer with Raymond Brennan helping bury and dispose of the bodies. The judge ruled guilty pleas not possible in capital cases and ordered the trio held without bail for the grand jury.
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Dover
Del
Inez Brennan
Robert
Wade N. Wooldridge
Bedford
Raymond Brennan
Delaware
Kent County
Ernest V. Keith
Brennan
Raymond
Keith
Cleveland man given life for wife’s murder
Charles Brooks, 50, a former foundry worker, was found guilty of shooting his wife Frances, 43, to death February 21. He received a life sentence from Common Pleas Judge Harry A. Hanna.
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Cleveland (Ap
Charles Brooks
Frances
Common Pleas
Harry A. Hanna
Nanking Fall Seen as Nationalists Lose Rail Station
The Nationalists abandoned Nanking and blew up the big railway station near the capital. Red Army forces breached the Yangtze river barrier and moved toward Shanghai while looting and fires spread through the waterfront as city defenses collapsed. Negotiations for surrender to the Communists were reported as Li Tsung Jen and Chiang Kai-Shek issued a call to fight to the end.
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Yangtze
Great River
Ma Chin-Yuan
Red
Shanghai
Tang En- Po
Canton
China
Foreign Ministry
Li Tsung-Jen
Hong Kong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Hangchow
Ae Chow
Navy weighs fate of giant aircraft carrier project
The Navy awaits a final decision on completing the 45,000 ton United States carrier. Keel laid at Newport News as officials say no stop order has been issued while Air Force skeptics push land based power over sea based fleets amid strategic bombing debates.
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Navy
United States
Truman
Defense
Johnson
Virginia
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Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Forrestal
Air Force
North America
Friends of the Navy
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