Nixon claims federal employee pushed loan bid
Senator Nixon alleges a government worker, Joseph Major of the General Services Administration, used the White House circle to back a loan bid. The Hoey committee probes five percent “five percenter” influence in defense contracting as House factions shift control between Southern Democrats and Republicans.
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Ruman
Senate
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D-Nc
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General Services Administration
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War Assets Administration
GSA
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
President's Friend Named In Five Per Center Probe Emerges
In Washington a Senate push probes the RFC amid charges of White House influence. Senator Bricker calls to abolish RFC and probes into loans to Guy Gabrielson led company. Rowe defends agency while borrowers fear applying for loans.
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Bricker
Ohio
Senate
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Donald Dawson
Senate Rfc
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Congress
RFC
C. Edward Rowe
White House
Senate Banking
Fulbright
D-Ark
Walter Cosgriff
Cosgriff
Hays
House
Guy Gabrielson
Republican
Senate Policy Committee
Truman
Jet Expert Denies Lying In Spy Case
Columbia University physics instructor William Perl pleaded not guilty to four counts of perjury for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury about knowing Julius Rosenberg Morton Sobell and other figures tied to atomic espionage. Bail set at 20000 dollars after prosecutors said a Miss Vivian Glassman offered him funds to flee.
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Columbia University
William Perl
Henry W. Goddard
Perl
Julius Rosenberg
Morton Sobell
Rosenberg
Ethel
Russia
U.S
John M. Foley
Cleveland
Vivian Glassman
Manhattan
U. S
Irving Saypol
Sobell
Train Wreck Kills Child and Two Women Near Detroit
DETROIT AP Two women and the infant child of one were killed when a Cincinnati bound New York Central passenger train derailed west of Detroit in fog. Five cars left the rails in suburban Trenton. more than 30 people injured. Victims include a Michigan State College student’s wife and child. The second woman’s identity remained unclear at Wayne County morgue. The dead woman was Mrs Grace Allen 25 East Lansing and her year old Janet. The husband was R S Al
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Trenton
Michigan State College
Wayne County
Grace Allen
East Lansing
Mich
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House rejects four million cap on troop size
The House Armed Services Committee voted 18 to 15 to strike the four million personnel ceiling from the military manpower bill. Chairman Vinson led the move to widen the draft and pursue Universal Military Training. The panel also rejected a 3.2 million main ceiling and a 3.5 million alternative.
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House Armed Services Committee
Viiison
D-Ga
Truman
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House
Representative Short
Missouri
Representative Norblad
R-Ore
Dayton Snowfall Records Reach 50.5 Inches This Season
Weather Forecaster Rex Rho ten announced Dayton’s snowfall set a new season record at 50.5 inches surpassing the previous 50.3 inches set in the winter of 1909 1910. The Air Force center observed the higher totals amid overcast skies and ongoing winter conditions.
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Air Force Center
Rex Rhoten
Banner dream: Ohio sergeant killed in Korea confirms flag link
Marine Sgt. Robert J. Wherley of Dover Ohio wanted his state to share in the war effort and earned an official Ohio pennant from Governor Lausche. He thanked state staffer Alvin E. Brookey and planned to visit, but was killed in Korea February 24, the Defense Department reports.
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Robert J. Wherley
Dover
Tuscarawas County
Ohio
Alvin E
Brookey
Wherley
Korea
Defense Department
McCabe Resigns as FRB Chairman to Return to Private Life
Philadelphia newspaper reports Thomas B. McCabe has resigned as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and will return to his former post as president of Scott Paper Company in Chester. The resignation letter was sent to President Truman last Friday and awaits action. McCabe, a Republican, had led the FRB since April 1948 succeeding Marriner S. Eccles.
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Thomas B. McCabe
Federal Reserve Board
Evening Bulletin
McCabe
Truman
Scott Paper Company
Chester
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Bulletin
Marriner S. Eccles
Luciano Still Drugs King and Probe Hints
New York AP report notes narcotics smuggling into the United States rose after Charles Lucky Luciano was deported to Italy. Senate crime probers heard Samuel Levine of the Bureau of Narcotics testify that flows from Italy increased in 1947 amid links to a Chicago syndicate and Costello axis. He cited 1936 records showing a mob headed by Thomas Luchese controlled distribution in a key port city with sources in Mexico and California. Mass arrests in 1941 barely cracked the operation. Luchese escaped punishment.
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U. S
Charles
Lucky
Chicago
Americans Asked To Spend Pennies In Piggy Banks
Washington AP. Mint director Nellie Tayloe Ross urged Americans to put pennies into circulation. She said millions are stored in piggy banks sugar bowls and bureau drawers as coin production strains grow from booming business and demand for pennies.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross
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Mint
Four Arrested In Strike Row At Cincinnati
Four men were arrested on disorderly conduct charges after windows were broken as cars carrying workers entered the Lockwood Manufacturing plant during a CIO United Steelworkers strike. About 70 people gathered. two alleged injuries were reported and a roadblock of concrete weighed over 100 pounds was noted.
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Herbert Walke
Lockwood Manufacturing Company
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United Steelworkers of America
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Ellison Jeffries
Chester Morgan
Erlanger
Robert Tittle
Covington
Ancil Wilson
Edward Moore
Comany
Elliott Roosevelt Weds Fourth Time in Miami Beach
Elliott Roosevelt the second son of the late President wed for the fourth time, marrying Mrs Minnewa Bell Ross at her Sunset Island No 1 home in a simple ceremony. The bride, a California heiress, had just divorced Dr Rex L Ross Jr of Santa Monica. The couple planned a three day Cuban honeymoon and a move to the Surf Club at Surfside after.
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Fla
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Minnewa Bell Ross
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Su Rfside
Truman Signals U S Rearm Against Possible War
President Truman declares the United States rearming mainly to prevent war but ready to meet any conflict if forced upon it. He urges a foolproof control of atomic and other weapons and calls for reduction of armaments through the United Nations while strengthening national defense. The statement was made in Key West in a letter to Senator Flanders and others.
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United Nations
Washington
Johnston Warns Cabinet Chiefs Over Indifference to Stabilization
In a Defense Mobilization Board session in Washington Eric Johnston charged cabinet officers with insufficient backing for the anti inflation program. He singled out Brannan Tobin Sawyer and McCabe as not fully supporting stabilization aims, warning the effort could fail without united White House and cabinet action. He opposed raising the wage ceiling and stressed a three sided board to handle wage cases. Ralph Helstein warned of a later strike if wage boosts are not approved.
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CIO Union
Ralph Helstein
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Srannan
Tobin
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Federal Reserve Board
Thomas B. McCabe
Brannan
Sawyer
McCabe
Fish Killing Tide Seen Near Yucatan Coast
Fort Myers AP reports a red tide sighting near the lower Gulf Coast of Mexico about 70 miles northeast of Yucatan. An area about 35 miles wide is described as a reddish stretch killer of fish by oxygen depletion, similar to the Florida event four years earlier.
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Fla
Florida
Gulf Coast
Mexico
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Foyt Myers
Yucatan
No Bomb Just Quake German Experts Say
German scientists report an earthquake centered in the Eifel Mountains in the British occupied Rhine land region. Officials at Stuttgart and Gottingen observatories agree the tremor, felt in Germany Holland and Belgium, could not have been the result of an explosion.
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Europe
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Rhineland
Stuttgart
Goettingen
Holland
Belgium
Vandenberg Weakens Further Amid Ill Health
Grand Rapids Michigan AP reports Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg 66 year old GOP foreign policy spokesman grew weaker with illness worsening after a relapse on February 26 following tumor surgeries. His physician Dr A B Smith gave cautious updates noting the decline.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Arthur H. Vandenberg
GOP
Seoul Reclaims Seoul as Allied Troops Sweep North
UN forces poured into Seoul to retake the capital as Communist hold ended after a January 4 occupation. Allied columns pressed toward Chongchon while Hongchon was recaptured amid light resistance, as civilians welcomed troops with emotion.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Seoul
Hiccups Drove Woman To Drugs Court Told
A Columbus case links a 30 second hiccup cycle to drug addiction by Virgil Vale now 54. Miss Vale suffered after a 18 year old accident triggered sustained hiccups leading to forged prescriptions and federal charges. Judge Underwood ordered treatment at the VU S&S Pu Health Service Hospital in Kentucky.
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Virgil Vale
U.S
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U. S
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Cook
Mell G. Underwood
VU. S&s. Pu Health Service
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