Stassen cites 4 million profit from wartime speculation
Harold E. Stassen testified before a Senate subcommittee that administration insiders profited about 4 million dollars trading commodities since World War II. He alleged Edwin W. Pauley did not fully disclose trading and earned roughly 1 million dollars, while not losing 100,000 as implied. An inquiry expansion sought Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham to explain wheat trades as officials push for broader investigations into market speculation.
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Harold E. Stassen
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Pauley
Wallace H. Graham
Truman
Department of Agriculture
Edwin W. Pauley
Taft Attacks Truman Plan as Road to Bankruptcy
Senator Taft condemned President Truman's legislative program as moving the nation toward national bankruptcy and a totalitarian state. He vowed the GOP will not back it, will pursue major spending cuts, and push tax cuts to relieve the tax burden. Taft spoke on radio as Republicans denounced the State of the Union as a campaign speech for next fall.
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Washington
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Truman
Congress
State of the Uni
UN Calls For Parley On Palestine Strife
UN Palestine Partition Commission convened in Lake Success to urge Britain and the Jewish agency for Palestine and the Arab Higher Committee to hold immediate talks on the Holy Land crisis. The five nation body pressed for steps to implement the partition plan by October 1, and warned the Security Council would use its full powers if needed.
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Street Work Alert Urges Caution From Drivers
Chief Hugh A. King notes a Street Department worker narrowly escaped injury after a car brushed him. He warns that only a few warning signs are posted as spot crews move. Drivers are asked to use headlights in funeral processions and to not break through barricades.
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Manslaughter Charges Filed In Miamisburg Car Crash
Conley Canada, 24, of Miamisburg, is charged with manslaughter in the death of Betty Hughes from a Sunday head-on crash on Route 25 near Miamisburg. Canadian warrants to be served. Hughes, a former senior high drum majorette, died from injuries after the collision with John Eyre’s car. Eyre’s passenger James Porter remained hospitalized with a shoulder injury requiring skin grafts. Mildred Brandenburg also treated for bruises. Funeral services for Hughes were held at the Church of the Nazarene.
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Columbia Ave
Middletown
Miss Hughes
Serior High School
Church of the Nazarene
Typhoid Cases Investigated in Warren County
Dr A H Harvey Warren County Health Commissioner said tests on two typhoid cases in Franklin found no cause for worry Mrs George Boullain Sr is improving at Miami Valley Hospital Dayton and may have contracted the disease out of state Their six year old son George Boullain III is also improving at Middletown Hospital and likely contracted the illness from his mother through water exposure.
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A. H. Harvey
Warren County
Franklin
George Boullain
Miami Valley Hospital
Dayton
Middletown Hospital
Self-inflicted death reported in basement of home
Ravenne A AP deputies said 56 year old farmer George Rosenow took his own life with a shotgun blast in the basement of his home. A World War I veteran, he had recently suffered violent headaches, deputies added.
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Shevitt
George Rosenow
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Four Columbus Pastors Attack Wallace Speaking Schedule
Four Columbus pastors from the American Council of Churches attack Henry A. Wallace’s planned appearance as a keynote speaker for a January Ohio pastors convention. They call Wallace’s presence and affiliations “unbecoming” and accuse federal and state councils of inviting leftist and pro-Russian influence.
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Henry A. Wallace
del Uver
Ohio
American Council of Churches
American Council Age
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Calvary Bible Church
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Two Mansfield Boys Held In Fatal Shooting
In Quincy Illinois AP report, Richard Grubaugh 18 and Robert Livingston 17 of Mansfield Ohio are questioned after 13 or 17 year old LeRoy Miller of Ashland was shot in a downtown hotel room. Several guns found. claims involve holdups in Peoria with Bruno Gresch 22 and his wife detained.
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William J. Dieterich
Adams County
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LeRoy Miller
Ashland
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Robert Livingston
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Roy A. Welsh
Mansfield
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Dick Gvranbaugh
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Peoria
Bruno Gresch
Graubaugh
Livingston
Karen Jobbing Co
Graybaugh
Newcombe
Gravhaugh
Gresch
Wey
Europe Aid Or Face Huge Armament Costs, Senators Told
Four U.S. fleet type submarines head to Turkey and six to Greece as part of a Western alliance effort in the eastern Mediterranean. Deliveries run to April along with eight minesweepers a net layer vessel and a tanker. The push aims to bolster Greece and Turkey against Soviet influence as Marines reinforce ships in the Med. Ambassador Douglas warned that without adequate European recovery aid the United States may become an armed camp facing higher home living costs from inflation and weapon spending.
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Resignation rumor wrong says Marshall
Secretary of State Marshall dismissed as wholly incorrect reports he would resign if Congress rejects his European recovery plan. He spoke at a news conference denying any urge to quit and said he appeared before the Senate committee in an advisory role, denying any change to his stated conditions.
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Alexander Wiley
R Wis
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R-Mich
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D-Tex
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D-Ga
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Alben W. Barkley
Carl D. Hatch
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Congress
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Leesburg
Europe
60 000 Italian Bank Workers Still Striking
Rome AP reports a nine day bank workers strike of 60 000, snarling Italy's economy and threatening a broader action possibly a nationwide general strike. The Communist dominated Chambers of Labor in Milan and Rome voted full support, with Rome awaiting the General Labor Confederation's disposition before concrete action.
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Police seize 91 tons of TNT in New Jersey raid
A tip led to discovery of 37 tons of surplus army explosives linked to a Palestine bound shipment. Nine men were arrested after raids on a Wall Township farmhouse and an Ashbury Park truck trailer. Charles Lowy of Asbury Park faced $5,000 bail on a charge of storing explosives without a permit.
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J. Victor Carton
Jersey City
Wall Township
Ashbury Park
Wate
Romulus
N. Y
Carton
Charles Lowy
Asbury Park
Lowy
Justice of the Peace
Fred Quinn
Freehold
USO Honored by President Truman for Discharge
President Truman awarded the USO an honorable discharge for seven years of entertaining and comforting U S armed forces and allies. He praised the organization and its volunteers and staff for outstanding wartime service and nationwide cooperation.
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Masked bandits rob New Orleans bank in daylight
Four armed men robbed the mid-town branch of Hibernia Bank in New Orleans during bank opening. They struck the vault after immobilizing staff and took about 114000 dollars, with investigators citing 60000 from one vault section and 54000 from others. A porter aided the escape, driving a car described with a state plate, as officials verify totals. In Cambridge Harvard Cooperative Society store, two gunmen seized about 30000 to 50000 dollars, used smoke bombs to cover their escape, and fled amid pandemonium in Harvard Square.
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A. P. Imahorn
Joseph Tardo Said
Ban
Joseph Thomas
Stat
Hibernia Nation Bank
Carrollton
Canal Streets
Cambridge, Mass
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Pandc
Harvard Square
Harva Yard
Ford Company and Others Face $251 Million Suit
In New York AP report, Ford Motor Co Dearborn Motor Corp and several officers are named defendants in a $251 million civil suit filed by Harry F Ferguson, Irish born inventor. Ford officials call the complaint ridiculous and full of untruths while Ferguson alleges breach of a verbal agreement and unlawful seizure of his inventions and engineering developments.
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New York
H Ford 2Nd
Ford Motor Co
Dearborn Motor Corp
Sey
Harry F Guten
Detroit
Ford
Ferguson Company
Kenny Ford
Ferguson
Lausche still undecided on 1948 Ohio governor bid
Ohio politicos ponder whether former Governor Frank Lausche will seek the Democratic nomination in 1948. At a Wayne County Jackson Day dinner in Smithville he spoke on domestic policy and international aid, offered no clear pledge on a run, and urged inflation control, tax relief, and fair tax reform while avoiding party politics.
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Ohio
Ivan Steiner
Wayne County
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