Wilson Calls For Giant Effort In Next Three Years
Defense Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson urged a three year push to expand productive strength and prepare an arsenal. He warned against fear and disunity while backing a tax levy and wage policy changes. Dewey warned against blocking troop deployments and isolationism in Europe. Stassen supported executive troop policy and peak air power as key to victory without war.
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Washington
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Truman
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America
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U. S
Russia
Stassen
Taft
Ohio
Wherry
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Miami U Gets 44 Bids For Coaching Job
Miami University received 44 formal applications and inquiries for its football coaching vacancy. Athletic Director Johnny Brickels reported the count at an Athletic Advisory Council meeting, with no decisive action taken and another session planned for early next week.
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Miami University
Athletic Advisory Council
Johnny Brickels
Attlee Faces Commons Question On Atomic Bombs
London AP report says Prime Minister Attlee will face MPs Tuesday to state if Britain possesses the know-how for atomic bombs. The government claims British plants now produce plutonium, the fissionable material for such bombs, but there is no definite plan to build one.
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London
Attlee
House of Commons
Britain
U S Says It Won't Fund Community A-Bomb Shelters
Washington AP reports Millard Caldwell head of Civil Defense announced federal funds will not cover new large shelters. Towns must fund construction themselves, with federal aid only for adapting existing structures for public shelter use.
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Washington (Ap
Uncle Sam
Millard Caldwell
Civil Defense
Reliance
New Subway Ready Chicago Opens After Long Build
The city announces its second subway line in Chicago is complete four miles long at a cost of 391.6 million dollars after twelve years of construction and is ready to operate.
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Chicago
Atom plane contract eyed by United States and GE
The United States and General Electric are negotiating to build the first atom powered aircraft engine with Air Force authorization. Plans include the nuclear power plant for the airplane as negotiations continue.
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Washington
Air Force
General Electric Company
Ghostly BAR Hero of Second Division Becomes Legend
Near Wonju on the central front in Korea the stranger with a BAR joined and saved a besieged A company of the Ninth Infantry. After several one shot rescues and a bayonet dash, he vanished leaving a legendary deed amid Chinese machine-gun fire.
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Central Front
Korea
Wonju
Ninth Infantry
Marine Corps couple custody fight ends with divorce trial
In Los Angeles a custody hearing reveals Marine Cpl. John E. Hosford and his wife Ida Mary Hosford and Sgt. David E. Guy in a tangle of infidelity. The judge orders the Hosford children to stay with John and ejects Ida from the family home while the divorce proceeds.
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LOS Angeles
John E. Hosford
Korea
Ida Mary
David E. Guy
Guy
Hosford
Hspford
John
Cheryl
Corporal Hosford
Congress RFC inquiry widens on influence and letters
A Senate subcommittee probes RFC loans and influence pledges as it examines letters from lawmakers and White House aides. President Truman says no evidence of illegal influence, while calls grow to review letters the President saw and possible reform of the RFC.
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RFC
Donald Dawson
Truman
White House
G. Milton Kelly
Washington
Senate
Congress
House
Subcommittee
Joseph Short
Ress
Short
RFC Board of Directors
Taxpayer's Dream Backfires in Shotgun Incident
Har vy A. Chandler faces a $1,000 bail after allegedly chasing Deputy Tax Collector Oren K. Gilbert from his property with a shotgun while the latter attempted to serve an arrest warrant for delinquent taxes in Shelburne Falls Massachusetts.
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Shelburne PF
Palls
Mass
Harvey A. Chandler
Oren K. Gilbert
Survivors Sighted After Florentine Sinking Near Iwo Jima
Far East Air Force reports sighting of survivors in a lifeboat about 275 miles southwest of Iwo Jima after the Florentine sank in a midweek storm. A B-29 with a lifeboat and supplies dispatched from Guam. Takelma tug heading to assist. 32 total crew reported aboard with 12 remaining.
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Tokyo
Far East Air Force Headquarters
Twe Jima
Guam
Takelma
San Francisco
Philippines
Iwo Jima
Probe of Reds in Defense to Get Underway
Committee may sidetrack Hollywood hearings to launch an extended inquiry into Communist influence in defense industries. Chairman Wood says hearings will open soon to examine Communist labor infiltration in sensitive defense plants. He notes expelled CIO members are employed in defense industries including munitions plants.
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Washington
Hollywood
Wood
D-Ga
CIO
Thaw of Auto Prices Coming
An Office of Price Stabilization official said a general price order on manufactured goods may adjust auto prices before March 1. Some factory car prices could rise while others fall. prices are currently frozen at the December 1 level.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
General Bryant E. Moore Dies After Helicopter Crash
West Central Front dispatch reports General Bryant E. Moore commander of the Ninth Corps died after he walked away from a crashed helicopter in the Han River north of Yoju.
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West Central Front
Korea
Bryant FE. Moore
United States
Ninth Corps
Han River
Yoju
Senators Urge 18 Draft To Offset Reds
Senate Armed Services Committee urges universal military training and service UMTS including an 18 year old draft to bolster manpower against the Soviet Union. Senator Lyndon Johnson will handle the bill on the Senate floor as the panel notes the balance of power favors the United States only if a strong draft exists. The plan delays induction of 18 year olds until all 19 to 25 year olds are processed and aligns with House revisions setting the minimum at 18 a half with no overseas duty until 19.
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Washington
Russia
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
Democrats
McFarland
D Ariz
Umts
Lyndon Johnson
D-Tex
United States
House Armed Services Committee
Probers Forced Back by Fire in Central Korea
American forces pressed into Hoengsong twice and withdrew after three hour fights with Chinese lines north of the town. United Nations troops, including air and tank units, faced heavy artillery and Ming resistance as they, along with French and American contingents, broke a Chinese counteroffensive near Chipyong Pangnim and Hoengsong with fresh airlifts and supplies.
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Tokyo
Hoengsong
Mph Trols
U. S
Chipyong
Sanggosong
United Nations
West Central
Lin Piao
South China
Lin
Red China
Korea
Peng Teh Hai
Peng
Soengjin
38Th Parallel
British Scientists Test Atomic Burns on Themselves
British researchers led by Dr. W J H Butterfield exposed their arms to a high heat lamp to simulate flash burns from an atomic blast. They recorded burn levels from sunburn-like reddening to third degree parchment-like damage at distances up to 5 000 yards, noting clothing protection and skin type effects.
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Frank FE. Carey
Washington
W. J. H. Butterfield
Britain
Medical Research Council
Butterfield
Virginia Medical College
Richmond
Naval Medical Research Institute
E. R. PD. Seager
J. Dixey
E. Treadwell
England
Three Nazis Freed in Landsberg Release
Three more German war criminals were freed from the U S war crimes prison at Landsberg Germany today on executive action by General Thomas T Handy forces commander in chief of the U S occupation army.
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Landsberg
Germany
U. S
Thomas T. Handy
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