Senate votes on test to lower draft age to 18 1/2
The Senate agreed to a Monday test vote on lowering the draft age to 18 years and 6 months. Morse proposes 18 12 and allows 18 to 19 which would shift induction rules and bypass older-man pools. Cain argues for cautious change while urging rapid passage of broader universal military training measures.
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Selective Service Act
Senate Armed Services Committee
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R-Ore
Cain
R-Wash
Korea
Oregon Republican
Mighty Mo switches captains in Yokosuka bay
In Yokosuka Japan the battleship Missouri named Capt George C Wright new commander. He replaces Capt Irvin Terrill Duke who brought the 45000 ton ship into the Korean War last September in a command change noted aboard the ship in its home port.
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Missouri
George C. Wright
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Irvin Terrill Duke
Richmond
Fruehauf Testifies Over Lustron RFC Influence Plot
Detroit industrialist Roy Fruehauf testified before a Senate Banking subcommittee that in 1949 Joseph H. Rosenbaum named RFC directors Walter Dunham and William Willett as being in his “hip pocket.” The Lustron case centers on a $37.5 million RFC loan and charges of an influence ring seeking control. Strandlund accused Dunham of colluding with RFC officials to foreclose and profit.
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Roy Fruehauf
Detroit
Joseph H. Rosenbaum
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Walter L. Dunham
William E. Willett
Fruehauf
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Carl G. Strandlund
Lustron Corporation
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Lustron
Columbus
Fruehaus
Fruehauf Trailer Company
Price Ceiling Lets Automakers Raise Car Prices
An OPS order allows a 3.5 percent manufacturer price rise on autos, with dealers permitted to add the exact dollar amount to retail prices, expected to lift overall consumer car prices by about 2.6 percent as new models reach showrooms. DiSalle defends the temporary move to ease costs and notes a forthcoming comprehensive pricing formula for other industries.
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DiSalle
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Mississippi
OPS
Prince Lion Attacks Tigress in Clyde Beatty Circus
Detroit AP report says Prince the lion again attacked Rosie the tigress during Beatty’s Shrine Circus show. Rosie was injured while Prince, after attacking Sheba earlier, retreated when trainers used a hose. Beatty valued Sheba at $10,000 and Rosie at $5,000, with Prince remaining in the act.
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Clyde Beatty
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Draft worries Ohio colleges face draft impact
Western Reserve University officials warn that 20 to 30 Ohio colleges may enter financial trouble next year if the draft proceeds. Dean John P. Barden cites layoffs of 27 faculty members and predicts a drop‑out in a whole class, with limited college training for enlisted men and officers. He notes fewer Army training programs compared to the last war and considers a possible military government training setup at Western Reserve.
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Western Reserve University
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John P. Barden
School of General Studies
Western Reserve
Barden
Cleveland
Dean Barden
Army
Civil Affairs
Priest Dies At 94 In Philadelphia
The Rev. Daniel J. O'Mahoney OSA, said to be the oldest priest of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Augustine, died this morning at Our Lady Help of Christians convalescent home. He was 94.
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Union Demands Bulk Building of Wage Panel
Union leaders pressed for a broad wage panel to handle labor disputes as well as wage controls. Economic Stabilization Administrator Eric Johnston moved to forge a new industry labor public panel after unions withdrew their three representatives. He adjusted wage ceilings for escalator contracts signed before January 25, potentially easing auto industry tensions affecting about 1,000,000 workers. A three member board was named to study full wage boosts for CIO and AFL packing house workers, while Johnston considered an 18 member panel to replace the smaller one headed by Cyrus S. Ching. The state labor policy committee demanded a reconstituted board with a mandate for a wage stabilization and disputes body.
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Eric Johnston
Organized Labor
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Charles E. Wilson
Johnston
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AFL
Cyrus S. Ching
State Labor Policy Committee
Paniel
Wage Stabilization and Genuten Board
Pilot Called Out Ball Game Goes On
Donald Jones a 23 year old student pilot overslid home during spring training causing a forced landing on a Brookside Park diamond. His plane crashed into the backstop but no players were hurt as the game resumed after the plane was moved to Brightwood airport.
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Donald Jones
Jones
Brookside Park
Brightwood
Fourteen killed in Sioux City plane crash
A Mid-Continent DC-3 crashed on approach to Sioux City Iowa around 10 11 am EST killing fourteen aboard including the pilot and co pilot and wounding survivors witnesses said visibility was fair but a snow squall struck before the impact the second crash for Mid-Continent that week with details naming Capt James Graham First Officer Philip K Toler and Marilyn Woodbury among aboard passengers
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Mid-Continent Airlines
Sioux City Journal
Mid-Continent
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Oklo
Kansas City
James Graham
Philip K. Toler
Kans
Marilyn Woodbury
LIU Star Quizzed in Fix Scandal
Former college player Lou Lippman was questioned in New York after returning from Florida amid a widening bribery plot involving 12 players from LIU NYU and City College of New York. The investigation centers on games in the 1948 49 season played at Madison Square Garden with statements from Harvey Schaff and Edward Gard.
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Lou Lippman
Long Island University
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Florida
Hogan
Lippman
Edward Gard
Nathan Miller
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Gard
Harvey Schaff
New York University
Schaff
Manhattan
Pennsy Pleads Not Guilty In Train Wreck
The Pennsylvania Railroad pleaded innocent to 85 manslaughter indictments tied to the Woodbridge rail disaster. Middlesex County Judge Charles M. Morris set April 9 as the tentative trial date, with no objection from railroad counsel James P. Haney. Indictments were returned in the names of each commuter who died in the February 6 wreck of The Broker.
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Woodbridge
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Charles M. Morris
Alex Eber
James P. Haney
Italian premier signals showdown vote over cabinet crisis
Rome AP Premier Alcide de Gasperi indicated he will demand a confidence showdown as he marshalled forces for the defense program amid a two day majority crisis. After a three hour emergency cabinet meeting he threatened to resign if his party falters, yet the government won only an eight vote majority on a defense bill phase with over 40 government front members voting with the opposition.
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Lonesome Squeeky to join GI Master at Fort Campbell
Los Angeles AP reports a 10 month old mountain lion named Squeeky traveling by Rail Way Express to join his owner PFC Baron Traub at Fort Campbell Kentucky. Traub’s father says the cat’s appetite has suffered since Baron left and nervousness among officers is noted as Beeky nears arrival.
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Friends Discount Talk Of Truman Senate Bid
President Truman teased a possible return to the Senate while visitors and officials say it is too early to decide. Barkley joked about criminals returning to scenes of crimes as Truman joked he might be returning to the scene of his past triumphs.
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Marines seize Hoengsong as Red resistance weakens
American Marines captured Hoengsong 2:40 p.m. after heavy air and artillery pounding. Reds in South Korean uniforms attacked Marines near Amidong. 35 to 40 Reds killed in hand to hand fighting. Allied forces hold Pangnim and Hoengsong highway with renewed western front patrols and continued drive across the peninsula.
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Truman Plans Florida Trip After Cabinet Review
President Truman meets with his cabinet for a final homefront briefing before boarding the Independence for Key West Florida to spend three weeks. He remains unfazed by the labor walkout and will stay in close radio contact with the little White House at sea.
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Florida
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Boca Chica
Joseph Short
Liz Arrives Without Harvard Bust for Taylor Homecoming
Elizabeth Taylor returned to Hollywood from Boston without the bronze bust fashioned by Harvard Lampoon editors as a gag gift. The Harvard Crimson reported the bust, believed stolen from Fabian Fall, was to accompany a prior award calling her the least successful actress of 1950. Taylor said she did not have the statue and offered a vague explanation, remarking it was a gag.
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Roscoe
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Fabian Fall
Crimson
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Explosion at Denman plant kills worker and injures three
An explosion at Denman's Rubber Manufacturing Company seven miles west of Warren killed Paul Abbott, 47, of Leavittsburg, and injured three other workers. Officials said fumes from phosphate cement possibly ignited by friction caused the blast, halting tire production for military cars.
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Paul Abbott
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King George VI Colds Delays Engagements in London
Buckingham Palace reports King George VI suffers a cold and fever in London today. The illness forces cancellation of immediate engagements as health guidance is observed.
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Buckingham Palace
Rent Control Lifted in Oberlin by Housing Expediter Woods
Washington AP reports rent controls were removed today in Oberlin Ohio by Housing Expediter Tighe E Woods. This action ends government price limits on rents in Oberlin and shifts regulatory oversight to local housing authorities.
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Oberlin
Bevin Returns to Work After Illness in London
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin resumes duties after a month away due to influenza and pneumonia. At 69, Bevin faces questions from Prime Minister Attlee on whether to retire or remain in office as leaders weigh his capacity to continue.
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Ernest Bevin
Bevin
What's What Sunday Local Red Cross Services Lead Feature
The Sunday edition highlights the Red Cross volunteer led services such as home nursing courses and veterans aid. A special 4-H Club picture story featuring Butler County members kicks off National 4-H Club Week starting Saturday. The Butler County Safety Conference and its speakers are outlined, and a business picture on February 4 covers construction employment and bank activity as a must story.
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Veterans Service
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Butler County Safety Conference
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