Luciano Rules U S Gangdom Says Probers
Senate crime investigators pictured Charles Lucky Luciano as czar of a secret underworld government in the United States. They say a second government within the country could fuel a subversive movement. The panel outlined two major crime syndicates with roots in New York Miami Chicago and New Jersey.
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Washington
Senate
Charles
Lucky” Luciano
New York
Luciano
Italy
United States
Crimesters
Kefauver
Dtenn
Miami
Fila
Chicago Capone
Tony Accardo
Fischetti Brothers
Duke Guzik
Miam
Frank Costello
Doe Adonis
Adonis
New York-New Jersey
Costello
New York City
Kidney Graft May Save Life Of Woman 38
A 38-year-old Riverside woman in Glendale Calif is living with a transplanted kidney from a dead man. Surgeon Howard Merrill performed the three hour operation at Mote Sane Hospital. The donor, an Alhambra printer who died of a stroke, had his widow consent to the removal within 20 minutes after death.
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Glendale
Calif
Riverside
Howard Merrill
Mote Sane Hospital
Alhambra
Farmers Buy 3 Million Ladybugs for Wheat Fields
Oklahoma farmers Ira Payne and Mervin Fast bought 3,000,000 ladybugs to control greenbugs over 431 acres of wheat. The insects are intended to chase the green pests, described as wheat farmers’ worst enemy.
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Altus
Okla
Oklahoma
Ira Payne
Mervin Fast
Clay Sees Western Europe Detering Soviet Strife
Former U S general Lucius D Clay told Senate committees that Western Europe can deter Soviet disputes within a year if defense forces are assembled and American ground troops are sent to support the North Atlantic defense. He urged full speed rearmament and warned against delaying action.
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Clay
Europe
Washington
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Germany
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Herbert Hoover
Eisenhower
Connally
Texas
Split in GOP over sending American troops to Europe
Six Republican leaders clash over foreign policy as they weigh Congress approval of a ground force to join a multinational army in Europe. Dewey Stassen Cooper back Ike Bradley plan. Taft Hoover Wherry seek limits and insist Congress must vote on troop deployment. Eisenhower linked as possible 1952 nominee.
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Eisenhower
Clay
U. S
Germany
Berlin
Office of Defense Mobilization
Senate
Wherry
Nebraska
Europe
Congress
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Hoover
North Atlantic
Atlantic
Russia
English Channel
U.S
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Washington
GOP
North Atlantic Defense Force
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Harold E. Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
John Sherman Cooper
State Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Kenneth Wherry
Herbert Hoover
Taft
Stassen
Dewey
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services
Taftary
Cooper
Omar N. Bradley
U S Casualties Rise to Fifty Thousand Five Hundred Seventy Five
Washington AP reports U S combat casualties in Korea stand at 50 675 with a weekly rise of 1 543 totals since June show 6 639 killed in action 33 401 wounded 9 635 missing 888 of the wounded later died and 85 of the missing are now dead bringing combat deaths to 8 612.
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Washington
U. S
Korea
Defense Department
Area crashes kill six men near Cincinnati
A truck struck by a train north of Sharonville left two dead and increased area traffic fatalities to six in less than 24 hours. Two cars collided on U.S. 52 near New Richmond killed four more, including William King and Lawrence Miller, with Lewis Douglass badly hurt.
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Cincinnati
Sharonville
New Richmond
Williams
King
Newport
Lawrence Miller
Newtown
New York Central
Hauck Road
Paul Fridshire
Lewis Douglass
Ironton
Bethesda Hospital
Douglass
William F. Jacobs
U.S. 52
Jacobs
Joseph E. Radford
William N. Radford
Louisa
Carl Sarver
Yank Troopers Push Six Miles Into Red Flank
U S forces led by the Seventh Division penetrate six miles north of Amidong on the central Korean front, linking with the Second Division along a vital supply road to Hoengsong. Reds retreat in disorder as U S patrols probe Hoengsong region and Seoul approaches. Major Gen Claude B Ferenbaugh says North Korean Third Corps defenses broken. Allied forces report heavy fighting near Chipyong.
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Tokyo
Amidong
Pangnim
U. S
Hoengsong
Tom Stone
Changdong
Hangdong
Seoul
Han River
U.S
U.S. First Marine Division
Pangnim Hoengsong
Korean Peninsula
Kangnung
Old Republic
Claude B. Ferenbaugh
Seventh Division
Third Corps
Korea
RFC probes and Dawson testim ony sparks Senate dispute
Senate investigators say they will not press White House aide Donald Dawson to testify, fearing a White House overreaction. Led by Sen. Fulbright, the banking subcommittee continues its inquiry into RFC lending amid a feud with President Truman who called the report asinine. The inquiry links Dawson, E. Meri Young, Rosenbaum, and others to favored RFC loans and moves toward public hearings on Young and related cases.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Donald Dawson
Truman
Fulbright
D-Ark
Dawson
White Mouse
RFC
White Rapher
E. Meri- Young
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Young
Carl G. Strandlund
Lustron Corporation
Columbus
Wholesale Food Price Index Drops After October Peak
The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index fell to 7.25 this week from 7.41, marking the first decline since early October. The measure covers the wholesale cost of one pound of 31 common foods and shows a 24 percent rise over the year. Only four items rose while many staples such as flour wheat corn oats barley hams lard butter cheese potatoes hogs and lambs declined.
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New York
Dayton U Accepts Bid To Play In NIT
Beloit, Dayton and Lawrence Tech accepted bids to the National Invitation Basketball tournament opening at Madison Square Garden on March 10 Asa Bushnell announced. All three will make their first appearances in the event. Seven teams now entered. the field includes St. John's Arizona Brigham Young and North Carolina State.
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NEW York
Beloit
Dayton
Lawrence Tech
Madison Square Garden
Asa Bushnell
Bushnell
St. John's
Brooklyn
Arizona
Brigham Young
North Carolina State
Sollazzo Indicted for Income Tax Evasion in College Basketball Scandal
Salvatore T. Sollazzo, identified as the fixer in the college basketball scandal, was indicted by a federal grand jury on income tax evasion charges. He allegedly reported a 1944 net income of 28,740.65 dollars while his true income was about 265,633.59 dollars.
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NEW York
Salvatore T. Sollazzo
New Jackpot Prizes for Uranium Prospects Announced by AEC
The Atomic Energy Commission offers new uranium jackpot prizes up to 35 000 dollars for prospectors who find ore at new mining sites. The program adds to regular per pound payments and pays up to ten thousand pounds at specific grades with bonuses from 15 000 to 35 000 dollars.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Colorado Plateau
UY. S
Commission
Truman Letter Sold To Connecticut Collector
President Truman threatened to beat up music critic Paul Jasme after he panned Margaret Truman's singing. The hand written letter, sent to Hume last December, was purchased by Bridgeport industrialist and yachtsman David Starring for an undisclosed amount.
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Washington
Truman
Margaret Truman
Connecticut
Paul Jasme
The
Washington Post
David Starring
Bridgeport
Hume
Margaret
Constitution Hall
Johnston approves 10 percent wage cap with urged softening
Washington AP reports labor leaders debated embracing or resisting the wage ceilings as Johnston signed regulation No 6 limiting increases to 10 percent above January 15 1950 levels and asked the board to soften the formula in seven ways. He seeks time to study effects until June 30 and promises a permanent mobilization policy.
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Washington
Eric Johnston
Johnston
Cyrus S. Ching
AFL
Wi Ibar Green
Labor
United Labor Policy Committee
Wage Stabilization Board
Talon
Permanentlyohnston
Truman
Ching
Boar
Ohio GE workers alert for possible strike over wage plan
Union leaders representing 6 000 Ohio GE electrical workers issued telegrams in Cleveland Warren Youngstown and Bucyrus signaling readiness for a strike to protest wage boosts tied to the catch up formula. CIO IVE leader William Snoots said the action follows Johnston wage plan changes and echoed the push for broader IVE mobilization before June 30.
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Dayton
Ohio
General Electric Corporation
William Snoots
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
Eric Johnston
Cleveland
Warren
Youngstown
Bucyrus
Johnston
Wage Stablization Board
General Electric Conference Board
New York City
General Electric
E. J. Kraft
Chive
General Motors Conference Board
Kraft
IVF Delco
Price Margin Freeze Aims to Restore Prewar Levels
More than 200000 retailers must recalculate to unfreeze prices and set margins to last summer levels before the Korean outbreak. The order covers clothing, rugs, lamps, textiles, shoes, and most house furnishings, excluding food, beverages, fuel, jewelry, hardware, drugs, cosmetics, and some housewares. OPS Director Di Salle cautioned that prices may rise or fall as margins adjust to normal values.
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Washington
Office of
Michael V. di Salle
Song Writer Dies in New York at 72
Harry Armstrong, 72, songwriter of the famous "Sweet Adeline," died today in New York. The veteran composer and lyricist, long associated with early 20th century music, left a lasting mark on American vocal ensembles.
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New York
Harry Armstrong
Sweet Adeline
Pleven Offers to Step Down After Election Law Deadlock
Premier Rene Pleven went to Elysee Palace to offer his resignation to President Vincent Auriol after the lower house deadlocked on changes to election laws. The chamber rejected a single ballot system by 31 to 295, amid support from the MRP and shifting Socialist stance to avoid a cabinet crisis.
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Paris
Rene Pleven
Elysee Palace
Vincent Auriol
Pleven
Auriol
National Assembly
Catholic For Republican Movement
MRP
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