Dixie revolt shadows Truman VP calculus in 1948
Dixie Democrats reassess the 10 point civil rights program and its impact on Truman’s re election strategy. Rumors link a southern vice presidential pick to placate Dixie voters while Wallace intensifies minority outreach and targets rival policies.
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Washington
Truman
Mr. Truman
Roosevelt
Dixie
Henry Wallace
House
Rayburn
Texas
McGrath
Troy
N. Y
Democratic Party
Rocally
Escape From Dachau Campsite Shocks Bavarian Officials
Fritz Kuhn former head of the German American Bund escaped from Dachau where he had been held since July for possible denazification trial. Kuhn, who became a U.S. citizen and was deported to Germany in 1945, had lingered at Dachau since July 24 last year amid controversy over his status and eligibility for trial as a Nazi offender.
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Munich
Germany
Bavarian Denazification Ministry
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
United States
Dachau
Kuhn
Julius Herss
The
Yankee Troops Land In Africa Reported By Tass
Tass quoted Italian news agency Italiane D Informazione claiming American engineers landed in former Italian North Africa. The report referenced Libya under British control near Tripoli and Mellaha air base, with Russia protesting U S reopening wartime air transport facilities. Protests were rejected by the United States.
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London
Tass
Rome
United States
Holdups at loan firms staged by same gunmen
Three northern Ohio loan companies were robbed within three hours as authorities link the Cleveland and Akron holdups to the same pair of gunmen. In Cleveland the Commonwealth Loan Co. lost 300 to 500 dollars after forcing staff into the basement. Nearby City Loan Co. yielded about 1,500 dollars with eight employees and two customers threatened. In downtown Akron the Domestic Finance Co. was robbed of about 1,800 dollars from four people.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Akron
Commonwealth Loan Co
City Loan Co
Domestic Finance Co
Hungarians Ban U S Films In Latest Censorship Sweep
In Budapest AP reports Communist interior minister Laszlo Rajk announced a ban on films starring Clark Gable Ginger Rogers and Ava Gardner Stanwyck. The ban takes effect February 12 after the ministry also barred six other actors January 16 including Adolphe Menjou Alan Jones George Murphy Robert Montgomery Robert Taylor and Gary Cooper who testified before a congressional hearing on un American activities.
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Budapest
Hungary
Laszlo Rajk
Clark Gable
Ginger Rogers
Eavore Stanwyck
Interior Ministry
Adolphe Menjou
Allan Jones
George Murphy
Robert Montgomery
Robert Taylor
Gary Cooper
Jones
Pilot Escapes Injury In Forced Landing
Lt. E J Williams of Columbus Georgia sustained minor injuries after his P 47 army fighter made a forced landing west of Pickerington Ohio. He is based at Lockbourne Army Air Field in Columbus.
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Columbus, O
E. J. Williams
Columbus
Pickerington
O. Williams
Lockbourne Army Air Field
Heads Of Rail Unions Seek Unity For Merger Effort
In Chicago last night Tim McCormick urged that action by two major rail unions could form a new consolidated body. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen have resolutions backing merger talks, while a joint committee studies details as a strike threat looms and a Presidential emergency board weighs wage and rule changes.
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CLEND
Chicago
Tim’ McCormick
Toledo, C
New York Central Railroad
Rail Union
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
McCormick
Joint Conference
Consolidated Committee of Enginemen
AFL
Senate Action On Tax Slash Facing Delay
Washington AP report notes some Senate Republicans discuss delaying the tax cut to July 1. The House passed measure would reset the cut to January 1 and remove about 6.5 billion dollars from 1948 taxes. GOP senators seek about 4.5 billion in revenue loss to win Democratic votes to override a veto, proposing a six month duration that would shave 3.25 billion from 1948 bills, though this may not satisfy all parties.
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House
Treasury
Juman
Washington
Senate
GOP
Senate panel seeks pledge to cut 500.9 million from Truman budget
A Senate House Subcommittee voted to pressure for a 500.9 million reduction in President Truman's 39.7 billion fiscal year budget starting July 1. Chairman Bridges said the panel was told by Senator George that Truman plans to request about 1 billion more for foreign aid, including aid for China.
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Washington
Senate House
Truman
Bridges
R-Nh
George
D-Ga
Congress
China
India Group Outlawed After Gandhi Assassination
New Delhi AP India declares Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh unlawful after Mahatma Gandhi's murder. Home Minister Patel orders confiscation of group property and arrests under emergency laws. Mahasabha linked suspect said to be involved. Devadas Gandhi cites prior rites for Gandhi bones. Tass Rome dispatch cites Unita claiming British Secret Service insinuation.
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New Delhi
India
Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh
RSSS
Mahasabha Party
Mahandas K. Gandhi
Mahalsabha
Sardar V. Patel
Devadas Gandhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Tass
Rome
Unita
Gandhi
Secret Service
Herbert Files Petitions For GOP Primary
Gov. Thomas J. Herbert formally launched his bid for a second term by filing nominating petitions with 5000 signatures from 88 counties for the May Republican primary. Dems Frank J. Lausche and Ray T. Miller were seen filing later, while other Republicans and some Democratic delegates also submitted petitions.
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Columbus C
Thomas J. Herbert
Secretary of State
Frank J. Lausche
Ray T. Miller
Cleveland
Lausche
Miller
Joseph L. Torok, Jr
Youngstown
Robert Cox
Millersburg
Roger W. Tracy
Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Akron
Supreme Court Law
Edward C. Turner
Alfred C. Jones
Brecksville
Supreme Court
Henry A. Middleton
Ottawa Hills
Clinton D. Boyd
Middletown
James Garfield Stewart
Cincinnati
You Can Have It I Don’t Want It House That Is
In Brooklyn a landlord facing tenant complaints over a leaky roof broken windows and inadequate heat offered to deed the house to his tenants but the tenants refused. The magistrate ordered a health department inspection to assess conditions.
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New York
Brooklyn
Sam Yachter
Yachter
Health Department
Columbus Pedestrian Killed By Auto
Columbus police report Henry G. Welker age 65 was struck and killed last night while crossing an intersection by an automobile. Funeral services will be announced by his son.
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Columbus
Henry G. Welker
Life raft sighting raises hopes in missing plane case
A Pan American pilot reported a white life raft about 700 miles south of Bermuda in the Atlantic linked to a missing British Airways Star Tiger with 29 aboard. The raft was later tied to the tanker Esso Philadelphia as searches continued amid a green flare report and radio signals mentioning the word Tiger.
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New York
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Esso Philadelphia
Bermuda
Coast Guard J
Civil Aeronautics Authority
The
Atlantic Seaboard
Ohio
British South American Airways
Star Tiger
Azores
Sir Arthur Coningham
Westover Field
Mass
Air Transport Command
Caracas
Venezuela
Robert S. Antle
Loren J
Vultee
Snow and cold grip the Midwest and East
Snow and cold spread across the midwest and eastern states with nine states reporting heavy snow in Ohio, Northern Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Winds drive more snow through New York City with up to eight inches expected while Maine and Vermont endure extreme cold. Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Nebraska report light snow and freezing rain amid fuel shortages and continued frigid conditions.
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Chicago
Midwest
Illinois
Middle Atlantic
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
New York City
New England
Maine
Vermont
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Eight-Inch Fall Delays Traffic in Middletown
Snowfall of about ten inches blanketed Middletown during the night delaying traffic and prompting school closures. City crews worked to clear streets while motorists navigated slick conditions with few accidents. Lonnie Gibson notes this as the heaviest snow since 1937, though rural buses were halted and several schools canceled a day of routine learning.
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Middletown
Lonnie Gibson
Miami Conservancy District
Ohio Heavy Snow Delays Travel Across State
Ohio faced fresh heavy snowfall with 2 to 9 inches by midmorning. Southern Ohio hit hardest as roads grew slippery and transit delayed though few serious accidents reported. Snow forecast to turn to rain in the south and remain in the north. Schools closed, bus routes disrupted, and crews cleared clogged streets as snows accumulated.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Highway Department
Weather Bureau
Ashington Cou
Cincinnati
Eee
Cleves Ene
Canton
Dayton
Clinton County
Aberdeen
John Griffith
Ripley, O
Thereaysville
Wild Ride Ends With Youths In Jail Hospital
Two 15 year old Canton youths were hospitalized and one jailed after a late night chase. State Highway Patrolmen pursued an alleged stolen 1947 car from Upper Sandusky to Beaver Dam where the duo lost control at a roadblock. They struck two moving cars, three parked cars, and a barber shop, then fled through snow. one was found unconscious under a parked car. No charges were filed locally or in Findlay at once.
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Beaver Dam
Wooster
Corp. R. L
Upper Sandusky
Highway Patrol
Findlay
Uniform Pension Plan For War Vets Urged
Washington AP veteran pension plan proposal would grant all 65 year olds $90 monthly under a uniform system. Rep Van Zandt says benefits extend to World War I and II vets, with age based and disability based payments. At 62 a teacher would get $43.20, at 65 $90, with a sliding scale for partially disabled WWI and WWII veterans. Immediate effect on WWI vets. 3.7 million alive today, aging, dying rate 60,000 yearly. Current pensions limited to permanently totally disabled WWI vets.
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Washington
van Zandt
House
Veterans of Foreign Wars
America
Old age payments reach record total in Ohio
Ohio will deliver 5 million dollars in state and federal aid to the needy this month, pushing total old age benefits for the year above 61 million dollars the highest on record. Increases totaling about 125 thousand dollars for February came from the 1947 legislature boosting appropriations to match federal funds. Gov. Herbert urged welfare boosts to aid the aged facing high living costs, with about 80,000 of 123,000 recipients set to gain from the changes and the average award near 42 dollars for February.
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Columbus
Ohio
Charles L. Sherwood
Thomas J. Herbert
Welfare Department
Dispute Develops Over Plant Sale Continued On Page 14
Washington war assets officials face a heated clash over the sale of a $28,000,000 surplus steel plant in Cleveland sought by Republic Steel Corp and Tucker Corp. The agency reports being swamped with more than 5,000 pieces of mail and telegrams and overwhelmed by calls from Congress members and Hull. An aide says the office of Almon E. Snyder is handling unprecedented inquiry and pressure.
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Washington
War Assets
Cleve
Republic Steel Corp
Tucker Corp
New Chicago
Almon E. Snyder
Jess Larson
Snyder
Hull
Two Arab Women Slain by Snipers in Jaffa
In Jerusalem AP report, two young Arab women were killed by snipers in Jaffa today. Across Palestine, another Arab and two Jews died in clashes, with three Jews dying later from bus attacks in Haifa. The toll neared 1050 unofficial deaths since the UN partition decision.
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Jerusalem
Jaffa
Palestine
Haifa
United Nations
Holy Land
Gas and Electric Manager Lifts Industrial Gas Ban
Arch Robison of the Gas and Electric Service announced that all bans on industrial use of natural gas have been removed amid a favorable weather forecast. East Works and divisions under Armee’s control had faced a shortened work week due to scarce gas supplies, and normal operation will resume gradually.
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Arch Robison
Gas and Electric Service
Armee
East Works
Son
Rural areas push pension for bus service and school closures
The countryside stretching to Germantown prompted a pension for bus service to towns including Trenton Wayne Butler Aynesville Harveysburg Ksle Springboro Hamilton Maineville Harlan Kings Mills Mason and Warren County schools. Five Franklin schools closed while Lemon Township Monte Maple Park did not suspend activities, likely due to shallow snowfall nearby per Miami readings.
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Germantown
Trenton
Wayne
Butleraynesville
Harveysburg
Ksle
Springboro
Hamilto Maineville
Harlan - Kings Mills
Mason
Warren County
Manttown
Franklin
Lemon Township
Monte Maple Park
Miami
Husband held after wife dies under city bus wheels
In Greenup County Kentucky a young woman died when a Portsmouth Ohio Ashland Kentucky bus ran over her. Sheriff Bill Adkins said her husband Ward 27 is under arrest on an open charge. Passengers said Ward struck his wife 21 as she was knocked under the bus just as it started. The Wards had been married six months and were from Fullerton Kentucky.
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Greenup
Portsmouth
Ashland
Bill Adkins
Adkins
Ward
Fullerton
Wards
Printing Shop Raid Spurs Ohio Lottery Inquiry
Alliance Ohio police, with Cleveland help, raid a printing plant tracing lottery operations across Ohio. Nearly a million tickets and slips were found. three men, Howard Rosenthal Erwin Katziv and William S Aronofsky, were arrested and released on bond.
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Alliance, O
Ohio
Cleveland
Alliance
Harry L. Stark
William T. Martin Letery
Canton
Treasury
Kopacka
Kapeli
Howard Rosenthal
Erwin Katziv
Wiliam S. Aronofsky
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