Lausche Seeks Record Ohio Budget On Pay As You Go
Gov. Lausche asks for 729.1 million in appropriations for the next two years to run the state on a pay as you go basis. The request includes 586.4 million in general funds, with 123.7 million for highways and funds for the liquor monopoly and conservation. He argues the increase supports schools, pensions, new hospitals, and civil defense, while deferring non-defense programs.
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Reed Smith
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Rotary
Lausche
Senate
Wherry Urges Senators Map Defense Policy
Senator Wherry proposes two Senate committees draft an overall national defense policy before acting on troops to Europe. Senator Russell and Senator Connally oppose a policy-setting role for the joint committee. Gen. Clay urges no strings on aid and favors Western Europe’s capability. Wherry pushes exhaustive closed hearings with military leaders before reporting recommendations.
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Washington
Wherry
R-Neb
Senate
Europe
Russell
D-Ga
Joint Committee
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senator Connally
Texas
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Germany
United States
Connally
Clay
Congress
De Gasperi Threatens To Quit Over Government Defeat
In Rome Premier Alcide De Gasperi warned he would resign if defeats recur after his cabinet suffered a five vote setback in the Chamber of Deputies. The 219 to 214 vote was on a minor defense program amendment authorizing controls on vital raw materials, arriving ahead of a likely test vote on the cabinet’s 415 million dollar rearma ment budget.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Chamber of Deputies
Co-Pilot Falls From Plane Checking Door
A Pioneer Airlines flight from Amarillo to Denver lost co pilot Joseph Henry Dowd 27 of Dallas after he went to inspect an unlatched rear door. The craft remained airborne for about 15 minutes at 4000 feet over Exell, with 20 sleeping airmen aboard. The captain Glenn C. Edds reported Dowd vanished and could not be found.
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Dallas
Air Force
Pioneer Airlines
Wels
United States
Pioneer
Joseph Henry Dowd
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Lowry Field
Denver
Jack Kemp
Pioneer Public Information
Glenn C. Edds
Amarillo
Edds
Dowd
Exell
Million Rail Workers Get 12 Cent Hike
Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman announced a settlement ending the wage dispute between railroads and 15 non operating unions. The deal provides a 12 1 4 cent hourly raise for about 1 000 000 workers with annual carrier costs around 280 million dollars. Cost of living adjustments are quarterly and tied to the government index, with further raises possible if productivity provisions are allowed.
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Washington
John R. Steelman
Steelman
White House
CIO Auto
George FE. Leighty
Railway Labor Executives Association
Bidault Considered as Pleven's Successor in France
Paris AP President Vincent Auriol asked former Premier Georges Bidault to form a new French government after Rene Pleven quit his coalition cabinet over an electoral law dispute. Pleven, leading a three party coalition, resigned as deadlock over electoral changes halted plans for elections next fall.
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Paris
Vincent Auriol
Georges Bidault
Auriol
Rene Pleven
Bidault
France
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Aurion
National Union
Pleven
National Assembly
Price Cut in New York Area by Grand Union
Grand Union Company, a large Eastern food chain, reduced prices on sirloin steak by 20 cents per pound and porterhouse by 16 cents per pound citing lower wholesale costs. Sirloin now 79 cents and porterhouse 89 cents per pound in metropolitan and suburban areas. Lamb chops dropped 10 cents to 99 cents per pound yesterday.
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New York
Grand Union Company
Grand Union
Porterhouse
Senators Say U S Gambling Outlays Equal Clothing Costs
The Senate Crime Committee reports organized gambling in the United States siphons about 20 billion dollars annually, surpassing clothing and shoes and rivaling autos and parts plus gas. The figure dwarfs food and drink spending, with estimates of tax receipts and household outlays noted, while committee staff cautioning about potential double counting.
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Washington
Senate Crime Committee
United States
Commerce Department
Truman
Senate
Russia Agrees To Preliminary Big 4 Meeting
Russia accepted a Western proposal for a Big Four deputy foreign ministers meeting in Paris on March 5 to lay groundwork for a Big Four foreign ministers conference. Deputies will outline an agenda for the ministers meeting, with Paris Pink Palace as the venue, to address world tensions.
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Moscow
Russia
Paris
United States
Britain
France
Council of Foreign Ministers
Palais Rose
Austria
Soviet Union
Russia Boasts of Price Cuts in Soviet Goods
Moscow reports price reductions on commodities amid Western price comparisons. Cited items include milk at 1.35 rubles quart, bread 2.30 rubles pound, butter 17 rubles pound, pork 13.60 rubles pound, soup meat 8 rubles pound. Pravda Izvestia claim saving Russians 4.59 billion rubles yearly ($8.63 billion).
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Moscow
United States
U.S
OPS To Issue New Order On Auto Prices
The Office of Price Stabilization announced it will issue an automobile price order today, hinting it will be more than a simple extension. The current order fixes new car prices at December 1 levels and expires tonight with legal questions over the exact expiry moment.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Truman backs mobilizer as labor blocks defense program
President Truman says Charles E. Wilson will remain as Defense Mobilization Director despite labor walkout from the program. Labor leaders condemn price control and wage ceilings as big business dominance in defense, urging resignations from advisory posts and threatening broader unrest. Senators Bricker and Humphrey pledge inquiry and quick action.
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Washington
Truman
Charles E. Wilson
Key West
Fla
Labor
United Labor Policy Committee
Turman
Eric Johnston
Bricker
Ohio
Senate Hoig2
Committee On Mobilization
Humphrey
D-Minn
AFL
William Green
CIO
Philip Murray
Green
Murray
Charles FE. Wilson
Office of Defense Mobilization
Cyrus S. Ching
Wage Stabilization Board
Marines Wrest 2 Hills From Chinese Reds North of Hoengsong
US Marines mounted a two-prong assault north of Hoengsong, seizing Cloverleaf Hill crests and pressing toward Hill 315 as UN forces on a 25 mile front stretched the Chinese line. Major Maurice Roach recalled the brutal assault, while Allied tanks artillery and planes supported shallow, limited objectives along the western central and eastern sectors.
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TOKYO
U. S
Hoengsong
Seventh Division
Maurice Roach
Memphis
Twinnam River
Star Swinton
W U. S. Fighth Army
Swinton
Wealthy Youth Tries To Slaughter Family
Palm Beach Florida AP reports an 18 year old, Hugh Berry, shot his grandmother, father, and a patrolman, then fled toward the Palm Beach Country Club golf course. Grandmother Mrs Hugh Berry is listed in very critical condition, father Thomas Berry in fair condition, officer Tyler Watts lightly wounded. Berry confessed to shooting his relatives, saying the grandmother would leave him $600,000.
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Palm Beach, Fla
Hugh Her
Sly
Berry
Jamaica Lane
Hugh McClung
Good Samaritan Hospital
Thomas H. Berry
Knoxville, Tenn
Young Berry
Tyler Watts
Palm Beach Country Club
Wats
Bateman
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