Truman Seeks Broad Reorganization of Federal Agencies
President Truman submitted 23 measures to Congress to reorganize agencies including abolishing the Maritime Commission and creating a Federal Maritime Board and maritime administration under Commerce. Sawyer would set broad rate and subsidy policies as top decision maker. The plan shifts power to cabinet officers and aims for more efficient government but faces congressional and shipping opposition.
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Truman
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Maritime Commission
Sawyer
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National Labor Relations Board
Robert N. Denham
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NLRB
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Iuse
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Reorganization Commission
Herbert Hoover
Commerce Department
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Maritime Administration
Secretary of Commerce
Commerce
Commissions Reguluing
Crash of Tudor airliner kills 80 in Wales inquiry opened
Cardiff AP reports aviation experts, led by Lord Pawkenham, opened a probe into a Tudor four engine passenger charter crash near Cardiff. The plane en route from Dublin with 78 passengers and crew crashed into a field killing 80, with only three survivors.
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Wales
Tudor
Britain
Lord Pawkenham
Dublin
Owo
Dow
Here
Hori
Freak Blast Kills Woman in California
An explosion of gas over a highway by the San Francisco Bay east shore near Or eam killed Ursula Adams of Alameda and seriously burned Pvt. Burnett Hale and John Esta. The cloud likely escaped from an overhead pipe carrying refinery waste and may have been ignited by car sparks. Three cars caught fire as the blast occurred amid a foggy roadway.
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Burnett Hale
John Esta
Berkeley
Cal
Hale
Fairfield- Suistin
Esta
Bomber Crashes at MacDill Field. All Crew Escape
A B 29 bomber crash landed at MacDill Field during a 20 hour training flight from Barksdale Lao base. All 13 aboard escaped with only Captain Charles L Erickson of Shreveport injured by a fractured vertebra. Several crewmen suffered cuts and bruises. The aircraft, en route to Maxwell Field Alabama, diverted to Tampa due to bad weather.
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Kia
MacDill Field
Charles L. Erickson
Shreveport
Barksdale Wir Force
Louisiana
Maxwell Field
Ala
Tampa
Senators Eye Florida primary in Pepper Smathers race
Senators watching the Florida May 2 Democratic primary where Claude Pepper faces Rep. George Smathers in a tough fight. Pepper backs Truman's fair deal while Smathers opposes civil rights controls. Other incumbents like Hill in Alabama and several Democrats could face stiff primaries shaping upcoming Senate chances.
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Florida
Claude Pepper
Pepper
George Smathers
Truman
Smathers
Hill
Alabama
Dmocratic
National Organization
Senate
Thurmond-Wright States’ Rights
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Frank P. Graham
North Carolina
Sheridan Downey
California
Olin D. Johnston
South Carolina
Glen H. Taylor
Idaho
Graham and Johnston
Stalin Leads Russian Vote On One State
Moscow reports Prime Minister Joseph Stalin led Russians to vote for a single slate of candidates for the Soviet Union parliament. Nearly 671 nominees for the Council of the Union and 631 for the Council of Nationalities were unopposed, with Stalin as a candidate in Moscow. Officials expect near total turnout, with full results due in about a week after the 1946 precedent of 99.7 percent turnout.
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Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Bering Stratt
Danube
Council of the Union
Supreme Soviet
Council of Nationaliies
Communist Party
Pravda
Lenin
Stalin
Truman Begins Three-Week Vacation Aboard Williamsburgh
President Truman sails from Washington aboard the Presidential Yacht Williamsburgh with escort William C. Lane for a Key West vacation hoped to last three weeks. Fog and rough seas mark the Atlantic passage as radar aids navigation until the fog clears. White House staff accompany him to assist with duties at Key West.
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Truman
Key West
Fla
Mr. Truman
Williamsburg
Washington
Donald MacDonald
William C. Lane
Thomas H. Suddath
Virginia Capes
Atlantic
Smith Point Light
Potomac
Cape Hatteras
White House
Dayton Building Hit by Fire Damages Reid Hotel Site
Firefighters could not estimate damage to a five story Dayton building formerly the Reid Hotel with 75 rooms. The blaze, of undetermined origin, swept through the structure across from Dayton City Hall, damaging four business establishments on the first floor and one in the basement.
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Dayton
Dayton City Hall
Reid
House Ways and Means Committee Starts Tax Bill Task
The House Ways and Means Committee opened work on a tax bill to cut excise taxes by hundreds of millions with a possible offset to avoid net government loss. Republicans pushed for a $1 billion immediate excise cut, while President Truman demanded offsets and warned of a veto. The panel eyed expanding the President’s list, with July 1 as the earliest impact date.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Jo Ma
Means Committee
Truman
Tanx
GOP
Alt. Truman
Ttax-Training Committee
Capitol Hill
Man Is Killed In Lodge Fight
Hank Wolford 45 regional director of the CIO died after a fight at the Moose Lodge. Coroner F X Schuller reported the body found in a lodge restroom with a preliminary finding of death from unknown injuries. Police held six lodge members for questioning with no arrests as of morning.
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B. T
Hank) Wolford
CIO
Moose Lodge
F. X. Schuller
Lodge
Wolford
Manchester
N. HW
Hermann No Sander
New Hampshire Medical Society
Trulsborough Connit Medical Society
State Board of Registration In Medicine
Candia
Abbie Boiato
State Society
House of Delegates
Sander
State Medical Societ
Housing Bill Backers Stand Firm Amid Senate Push
Supporters of a middle income housing program say they are standing firm as the Senate campaigns to defeat the bill. Senator Sparkman notes many still on the fence while Bricker and Cam maneuver on amendments. The plan would aid earners 2400 to 4700 with cooperative and nonprofit loan provisions and a national mortgage corporation with a 100 million treasury loan backing initial loans.
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Senate
Sparkman
D- Ala
House
Bricker
Senate Banking Committee
National Mortgage Corporation For Housing Cooperatives
Treasury
Federal Housing Administration
Tax Time Lament by Gordon Martin
A comic verse about the income tax crunch as midnight oil burns and the deadline nears. It lampoons exemptions and deductions from Uncle Sam and the tax burden that drains a person’s cash, ending with a humorous tightrope between relief and ruin.
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Gordon Martin
Sam
Martin
Belgian Vote Favors Return Of Monarch In Referendum
Belgian voters backed King Leopold II's return with 57.68 percent of valid ballots while regions varied. Premier Evskens prepared to brief Leopold as ministers met in Brussels on a crisis over the monarchy and cabinet leadership amid a 37.68 percent turnout.
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Belgium
Leopold II
Gaston Evskens
Fphegns
Geneva
Leopold
Voice
Leoard
Flindes
Volk Nraver Ces Threbeendum
Ot Ors
Leopold Tures
Evskens
Pregny Belgim
Interior Ministry
Flanders
Brabant
Walloon
HoldUp Men Escape After Police Open Fire Near Akron
Two stickup men fled as police fired ten shots to stop them after a 1 am holdup at the O K parking lot near Akron police station. The pair abandoned a Mercury and a Cadillac, one with a New York plate, as roadblocks boomed and pursuit continued.
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Akron
O. K
Stanley Carowick
Clementine H. Sprout
St. Joseph, Jr
Carowick
Dalla Kracker
Peter Rusyn
Mercury
Hartville
New York
Three Die In Fire In Ventuon Iowa One Room House
A father Leland Rouse and his two young sons Bobby and Dickie perished in a house fire last night in Ventuon Iowa. Two relatives escaped the blaze. The victims were Leland Rouse 41 Bobby 2 1/2 and Dickie 1.
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Dickie
Senator McCarthy targets scientist in probe of Reds
Senator McCarthy urged a Senate inquiry into Stephen Brunauer a former Navy commander and alleged Communist citing top defense secrets. He named Haldore Hanson a State Department official as a pro Communist linked to technical cooperation projects and criticized State Department loyalty.
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McCarthy
Wis
Navy
Stephen Brunauer
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Senate
Haldore Hanson
Hanson
Virginia
Minn
China
Esther Caukin Batnauer
Department
United Nations
Owen J. Lattimore
Walter Hines Page
Johns Hopkins University
Lattimore
Inter-Departmental Committee On
Offic Crs
Michael McDermott
United Army
Tru
Truman
Jnst
McCar
Hansen
Tthe State Department
Peiping
Asia
Europe
Investigators Boost In Tax Office For 1949 Returns
The Internal Revenue Bureau adds 3,300 investigators and seeks 3,000 more to intensify scrutiny of an estimated 54 million 1949 returns. Machines handle routine clerical work while investigators target large incomes and flagged deductions. Most filers are honest, with fewer than 500 prosecutions for deliberate fraud.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Congress
Bureau
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