Costello Ordered to Return for Testimony at Kefauver Hearing
Racketeer Frank Costello, who walked out of a Senate Crime Committee session, is ordered to return this afternoon or face arrest. Chairman Kefauver said a U.S. marshal will notify Costello after a doctor found him able to testify for a reasonable length of time. The hearing also featured Virgin ia Hill, former Siegel confederate, denying knowledge of racketeers.
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NEW York
Frank Costello
Senate
Sen. Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
U.S
Costello
Vincent J. Panaterri
Crime Committee
Underworld
U. S
George Wolf
Estes Kefauver
Kefauver
Virginia Hill
Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel
Beverly Hills
Calif
Hans Hauser
Free Russian Radio Urges USSR Revolt Broadcasts from London
The Reuters report describes a supposed free Russian radio broadcasting from London urges Russians to revolt against Communism. It claims the Bolshevik regime is already shaking and calls listeners to form underground groups while urging letters and slogans on factory and school walls.
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London
Reuter
Russian Revolutionary Committee
Vandenberg Lingers In Michigan Home
Grand Rapids Michigan AP reports Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg remains seriously ill at his home with condition substantially the same as yesterday. Dr. A B Smith, his physician, says there has been no change in either direction in the senator's status.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Arthur H. Vandenberg
A. B. Smith
Republican Foreign Policy
Model Night Frames Middletown Camera Club Event
Sunday feature highlights Miss Betty Sebald and Miss Martha Martin posing under flood lights for a Journal photo story. Also notes Lemon-Monroe High’s all school play and a profile on Probate Judge Oscar Leiser who crafts 1000 kites for a Sunday feature.
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Middletown Camera Club
Journal
Betty Sebald
Martha Martin
Lemon - Monroe High School
Oscar Leiser
News Journal
Price Stabilization Outlook and Labor Clash in 1950 US Policy
Government officials signaled cautious optimism on price stabilization by mid year while remaining pessimistic about securing a wage labor-management accord. Price Director Di Salle expects relief from upcoming food orders, but warns food prices could rise if farm prices climb. Wage policy remains contested as Johnston withholds changes to the preexisting 10 percent cap, and credit limits on loans and purchases draw attention from bankers and unions alike.
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Washington
America
Michael V. di Salle
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Johnston
House Chiefs Delay Debate On Draft
The House Armed Services Committee approved a bill to lower the draft age to 18 and to start a Universal Military Training program. An amendment would let inductees indicate preference for segregated or nonsegregated units, challenging Truman’s desegregation goals.
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House
Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Vinson
D-Ga
Representative Winstead
Dmiss
Truman
Spy Harry Gold details how Russia obtained atom data
A jury hears Harry Gold recount undercover work and code conversations linking Anatoli Yakovlev to passing atom bomb secrets to the USSR. He Testified that Gold met Fuchs and Greenglass at Los Alamos connections, with transfers from Cambridge and Santa Fe to New York.
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Right
William Perl
Columbia University
New York City
Perl
Harry Gold
Russia
New York
Anatoli Yakovlev
Klaus Fuchs
Britain
Philadelphia
Golf
United States
Yakovlev
Gold
Dr. Fuchs
David Greenglass
Los Alamos, N. M
Fuchs
Cambridge
Mass
Santa Fe
N. M
Yakoviev
Greenglass
Albuquerque
Los Alamos Project
Postal Fund Slash Urged By House Committee
The House Appropriations Committee recommended a 36.5 million dollar cut in next year’s Treasury and Post Office budgets, about 1.3 percent below President Truman’s request. The bill totals 2.958 billion, with 11.151 million trimmed from Treasury and 25.374 million from Post Office. no major cuts to sub bureaus. Debate begins next Tuesday as first departmental bill of the year. The committee also reduced Internal Revenue by 3.5 million while approving 647 thousand for the Secret Service Wire House police. They project a 1952 postal deficit near 500 million despite estimated 1.8395 billion in postal revenues.
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Washington
House
Treasury
Post Office
Truman
Post Office Department
Internal Revenue Bureau
Secret Service
Wire House
Rockefeller Kin Kills 2 Daughters in Carbon Monoxide Tragedy
Greenwich police say Mrs Winifred Enemy 46 a Rockefeller relative killed her two daughters Winifred 12 and Josephine 6 and herself by carbon monoxide poisoning in a Greenwich garage after starting a car engine. Police call it murder and self inflected death. Her husband Brooks Enemy a Foreign Policy Association president was on tour.
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Greenwich, Conn
Winifred Rockefeller Enemy
John D. Rockefeller
Brooks Enemy
Foreign Policy Association
Winifred
Josephine
Greenwich
David W. Robbins
C. Stanley Knapp
Robbins
Emeny
Midwest
Wreck Kills 14 Britons on Express Train
An express train wreck near Doncaster, England, killed 13 adults and a baby as the train derailed at a switch and slammed into highway bridge piers.救
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Wreck
Doncaster
Eng
Awaited Kremlin Reply On German Issue at Big Four Talks
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko signaled Moscow will push for separate treatment of Germany in the European crisis. The Big Four deputies debated agenda for a foreign ministers meeting as France Britain and the United States press unity on German defense within the broader issue.
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Paris
Kremlin
Big Four
Germany
Moscow
Andrei Gromyko
France
Britain
United States
Taft Attacks Truman Morals During Southern Tour
Senator Taft accuses the Truman administration of moral bankruptcy and loss of public confidence in a remark during his Southern speaking tour following President Truman's news conference remarks. He framed the charge as a critique of the administration’s conduct.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Taft predicts Truman unlikely to run again
Senator Taft said he believes President Truman would not seek another term. In an interview with the Salisbury Post he expressed confidence that Republicans would win if the national election were held today, but he could not predict events a year and a half ahead.
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Salisbury
N. C
Snator Taft
Ohio
Truman
Salisbury Post
Fitzgerald
Ireland
Roy Crout
Crout
Truman backs Wall Graham amid Senate inquiry push
Key West report notes President Truman defends his personal physician Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham and rejects criticism of moral standards while Rep. Keating urges Senate Armed Services Committee to scrutinize Graham's 1947 48 commodity trading profits of 6165 and potential inside information concerns.
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Key West
Fla
Representative Keating
Senate Armed Services Committee
Truman
Wallace H. Graham
Graham
Keating
House
Senate
Abolish RFC Urged by U S Chamber of Commerce
The U S Chamber of Commerce board calls for abolition of the RFC citing uncertainty in RFC procedures. Senator Fulbright leads a Senate Banking subcommittee probing RFC loans amid partisan debate on continuing the inquiry.
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Washington
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
RFC
The
Business Organization
Fuirbright
Fulbright
D- Ark
Senate Banking
Senate
Fulbright Committee
Maybank
D-Sc
Full Banking Committee
Government level tax charges filed against Ralph Capone
Washington AP reports the government filed tax evasion charges against Ralph Capone, labeled a Chicago racketeer and brother of the late Al Capone. The filing marks a high profile move against the Capone family in ongoing federal enforcement.
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Washington
Government Today
Ralph Capone
Chicago
al Capone
Missouri Hamlet Hopes To Erect St Patrick Shrine
ST PATRICK Mo AP An American shrine to Saint Patrick is under way in this hamlet of 53 people the only town with the saint’s name in the United States. Father Francis O Duignan aims to build a shrine and already has an altar stone from Irish mountains and an accredited relic of St Patrick from Rome.
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Sat Patrick
Eire
Missouri
United States
Francis O'Duignan
Rome
Badman Dies in Arizona Rod Battle with Deputies
In St Johns Arizona a wild west style gun fight ends the career of Dewey Battershaw 21 Omaha jail breaker He dies after being shot by Apache County undersheriff Emmett Wilhelm and patrolmen His younger brother 17 and Victor Sweet 24 are captured after a chase from a speeding car across cedar country
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ST. Johns, Ariz
Dewey Battershaw
Omaha, Neb
Battershaw
Arizona
Here
Clifford Battershaw
Victor Sweet
Douglas County
Omaha
Ray Dahm
Emmett Wilhelm
Apache County
Wilhelm
Sweet
Heaviest Gun Duel Of War II Opens Front Line Push
AP reports a major artillery duel as Communist forces halt retreat and dig in about 20 miles south of 38th parallel, forming a 30 mile line below Chunchon. U N and allied units push from Hongchon toward the new line, with casualties swelling to about 172000 since January 25. Missouri shells the North Korean coast as battleships support the push.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Korea
Chunchon
Hongchon
South Korea
Seoul
Korean Peninsula
U. S. 24Th
25Th Infantry
First Cavalry
U. S. First Marine
U. S. Second Division
Yudong
U. S
U. S. Eighth Army
Flying Saucer Seen In India Tops All
New Delhi reports pilot C. B. Varma of the Delhi flying club saw a cigar shaped saucer about 100 feet long moving at nearly 2000 miles per hour. The object was about 5000 feet up and produced no sound and Varma described it as faster and higher than any prior sighting.
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India
C. B. Varma
Delhi
Publicker Indus. chairman dies in hotel apartment
Harry Publicker 74 chairman of Publicker Industries Inc died last night in his hotel apartment. The firm is among the world’s largest producers of industrial alcohol.
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Philadelphia
Hary Publicker
Publicker Industries, Inc
Lausche Urges Rejection of Interstate Bridge Purchase
Gov. Frank J. Lausche advised Ohio State Bridge Commission not to buy the Cincinnati Covington suspension bridge over the Ohio River for 3.6 million dollars. Highway Director T. J. Kauer had earlier advised against the purchase, citing poor physical condition and excessive price.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
State Bridge Commission
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Covington
T. J. Kauer
Edward J. Quinn
Commission
Detective Fitzgerald Prepares for St Patrick's Day Observance
Detective John Henry Fitzgerald, famed as the most insistent Irishman on the force, is described amid green attire and shamrock motifs as he braces for St Patrick’s Day festivities. The piece recalls his past antics with Detective Roy Crout and notes his yearly Irish pride and observances.
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Elsa Simpson
John Henry Fitzgerald
Police
St. Patrick's Day
Ireland
Fitz
John
St. Patrick's
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