Two Term Limitation Enacted For Presidency
The nation adopts a two term cap on presidents and a ten year limit under the proposed amendment. Truman exemption allows one more term if elected before the limit. Utah Nevada ratify with Nevada becoming 36th state. Minnesota and Maryland near approval as Congress set seven year deadline.
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Washington
United States
Truman
White House
Arment
Olso Republican-contre
Congress
Minnesota
Maryland
Franklin Roosevelt
George Washington
Trial hearing on Colazo murder of White House guard
Government prosecutor tells jury he expects a death verdict for Oscar Colazo for murder during the attempted assassination of President Truman at Blair House. Colazo, 37, Puerto Rican nationalist, and an accomplice targeted the President. defense keeps strategy private.
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Washington
Oscar Conmazo
White House
Truman Collazeo
Blair House
U. S
George Morris Fay
Collazo
Mr. Truman
Leo A. Rover
Prince David Mdivani Returns After Missing Trip
Prince David Mdivani the last of the three marrying Mdivani brothers is back home in Los Angeles after a report of his being missing when he failed to return from a business trip. He said I guess I should have told her I was not coming home over the weekend. His wife Virginia Sinclair Mdivani, heiress, had triggered the missing person report.
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Los Angeles
Prince David Mdivani
Mdivani Brothers
Virginia Sinclair Mdvani
Housewife Boycott May Force Meat Price Cut Soon
Washington AP reports that Agriculture Department officials say beef and veal prices could fall five to ten cents a pound by weekend in many areas due to consumer resistance and Lent abstention from meat. Officials note seasonal stock buildup and prior price freezes, with prices unlikely to drop sharply but expected to ease as spring livestock marketing rises.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
Agriculture Department
Tevers Law Nees
Allies Smash East Central Defense Line on Korean Front
American forces breached the main Korean Red defenses on the east central front as U N forces push forward. Col William C commars (sp) of the Seventh Division led gains from Pangnim to Wonju amid bold critical assaults by riflemen and artillery. The action followed five Red counter attacks repelled by the U S Second Division near Hoengsong, with fierce fighting lasting hours in windy conditions.
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Tokyo
William J. — Commarsder
U. S&s
Reeds
Pangnim
Wonju
Tom Stine
Quinn
United Nations
U U. S
Reading Mother Strangles Her Newborn Child
Cincinnati police report a Reading Ohio mother Alma Wingardner surrendered after choking death of her newborn son John Charles Wingardner at her sister’s home. She said the infant cried and she strangled him. Open charges filed against the woman.
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Cincinnati
Alma Wingardner
John Charlies Winegardner
Ex Actress Dolores Costello Sues for Divorce
In Los Angeles AP report former actress Dolores Costello files for divorce from Dr John Vruwink after twelve years of marriage.
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Los Angeles
Dolores Costello
John Vruwink
Johnston Approves 10 Percent Wage Rise as Board Reforms Weighed
Washington AP reports Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston will sign the 10 percent catch up wage increase while inviting the wage board to reconvene to consider changes. The three protest members left over the pattern, and the plan seeks pre freeze wage clauses, fringe benefits, and equity provisions under the wage ceiling. Concurrently the National Production Authority issues a DO-97 priority order to keep maintenance and repair supplies flowing to public and private institutions, excluding end product materials.
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Washington
Eric Johnston
Ofder
National Production Authority
NPR
NPA
United States
Man Bludgeons Wife as Squire Hammers Him
In Dallas a man was held under a $50 000 peace bond after striking his wife with a sledge hammer. He claimed his wife was cranky in bad weather and confessed to the assault. The wife remained hospitalized with head injuries.
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Man
Squire
Dallas
Tex
Justice of the Peace
W. E. Richbure
Two Cincinnati Girls Vanish After Roller Skate Night
Relatives fear two Hughes High sophomores Betty Rae France 15 and Edith Ree Wollin 16 were abducted or detained by two young men they met at a roller rink Friday. Police say the pair are wanted for burglaries and for failing to return a rented car. Detectives identified the youths as Johnnie and Frankie and urge contact with authorities.
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Cincinnati
Polince Saint
Alvin Grabencamp
Betty Rae France
Edith Ree Wollin
Hughes High School
Louis B. Wollin
Edith
Etta Mae Hagrave
Betty
Johnnie
Frankie
OPS Extends Auto Price Freeze to March 1
Officials from the Office of Price Stabilization said the auto price freeze will be extended beyond March 1. New car prices remain frozen at December 1 levels, with a possible extension to April 1 while OPS works on new regulations for manufacturers and considers allowing price increases to offset higher production costs.
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Office of Price Stabilization
Washington
OPS
Officals
Wherry vs Dewey Stassen on Europe troop policy fallout
Senate debate centers on Wherry resolution demanding congressional approval before expanding troops in Europe. Dewey Stassen and Hoover clash with Taft in a split Republican stance while Eisenhower’s role is cited amid calls to clarify treaty interpretation and troop levels.
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Wherry
Connally
Forwigen
Rusec
D-Ga
Armed Services
Dewey
Stassen
Taft
Hoover
Mink Coat Linked to RFC Loan Probe
Senate investigators heard testimony that an $8,540 mink coat bought by Mrs. E Merl Young was charged to a Washington lawyer tied to RFC loan influence questions. Louis O Wheeler said the coat was initialy charged to Young then switched to Joseph J Rosenbaum, described as influential in RFC loan matters. Wheeler testified Rosenbaum represented Gunther Jenckel in a $175,000 RFC loan, which was later blocked by RFC lawyers.
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Washington
Senate
E. Merl Young
RFC
Louis O. Wheeler
New York
Young
Joseph J. Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum
Joans Wheeler
Senate Banking
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Representative Sutton
D Tenn
House
White House
Wheeler
Gunther-Jenckel
Fur Reers
Clementis and Five Others Jailed in Prague Plot
Former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Vlado Clementis and four top Communist leaders are arrested in a plot to assassinate the president and align the country with the West. The Central Committee reports mass party purges since September, with 179000 members expelled in the past months.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Vlado Clementis
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovak Communist Central Committee
Soviet Union
Communist Party of Bolsheviks
Stalin
Peoples Democratic
Secret Police
Eduard Benes
Benes
Ukraine
London
Clementis
Bastovansky
Communist Party of
Slovakia
Doctor Breaks Rib to Save Life at Cleveland Hospital
At St John’s Hospital Cleveland a young surgeon broke a patient’s rib to reach the heart after the anaesthetist said the patient’s heart and breathing stopped. Dr August Becker acted without gloves cutting the chest and breaking a rib to massage the heart for six minutes restoring circulation and respiration.
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Cleveland
St. John’s Hospital
Peter M. Czarniewski
August H. Becker
Memorial services planned for Major General Bryant Moore
Memorial services will be held Thursday afternoon in Tokyo for Maj. Gen. Bryant Moore commander of the Ninth Corps. He died in Korea in a helicopter crash while on duty.
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Tokyo
Bryant Moore
Ninth Corps
Korea
Purges shrink Communist parties in satellite states
The article reports widespread Communist party purges in Czechoslovakia Romania Bulgaria Poland and Albania with tens to hundreds of thousands expelled as “enemies” or unworthy. It notes a rising fear of spies and traitors amid a broader move toward a hard core leadership in the Soviet influenced bloc.
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Romania
Bulgaria
Poland
Albania
Guerrilla forces seize two offshore islands near China
Chinese Nationalists report capturing Tapeng in Bias Bay about 35 miles northeast of Hong Kong and Nanpeng near Yengkeng 125 miles southwest of Canton. Guerrillas killed more than 200 Communist defenders at Nanpeng.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Tapeng
Bias Bay
Hong Kong
Nanpeng
South China
Yengkeng
Canton
Two Cent Post Card Urged By President
President Truman asked Congress to double second class postal rates and raise carriage fees from one to two cents. He argued the burden of the deficit should fall on general taxpayers and cited the impact on newspapers and magazines.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
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