Republicans May Select New Leader
Washington reports a GOP leadership scramble after last Tuesday's election with Harold Stassen among contenders. Dewey, defeated again, may step back, while Vandenberg Taft Wherry Martin Halleck lead the old guard. New hopefuls include Ives Knowland Baldwin Saltonstall Lodge Ferguson and governors Driscoll Gibson Youngdahl Carlson. Stassen, ahead at the University of Pennsylvania, would pursue politics with a free hand.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Congress
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
House
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Stassen
Irving M. Ives
New York
William Knowland
California
Raymond Baldwin
Connecticut
Leverett Saltonstall
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Homer Ferguson
Clarence Brown
Alfred E. Driscoll
New Jersey
Ernest W. Gibson
Vermont
Luther W. Youngdahl
Minnesota
Frank Carlson
Kansas
University of Pennsylvania
Russian Plane Wreck Sighted In Greenland
Berlingske Tidende reports a Soviet military plane crashed in northern Greenland near Upernavik. An American reconnaissance crew photographed the site on a routine flight and confirmed a Red Star marking. fate of the crew unknown. A U S rescue party will proceed when weather allows.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Berlingske Tidende
Greenland
London
U. S
Upernavik
Dewey Takes Vacation at Arizona Ranch
Former presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey arrives in Tucson Arizona for a two week rest at a guest ranch with his wife mother and two sons. He cites sun and rest as his need and is welcomed by a crowd including Acting Gov Dan E Garvey and Al Beuhman with vigilantes firing a ceremonial salute on arrival.
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Tucson
Ariz
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Arizona
Dewey
Annie Dewey
American Airlines
Chicago
Dan E. Garvey
al Beuhman
Congress
Bride Regains Nose After Honeymoon Car Crash
Mrs Flora Lee Griffin 25 and her husband Edward were returning from their honeymoon when their car went off an embankment. Her nose was severed and found on the running board. Doctors reattached the nose and reported it “looks pretty good” today.
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New Hall
Cal
Flora Lee Griffin
Edward
E. C. Innis
Free Book Offer At Powell Sr Bookstore
SAN FRANCISCO AP reports Powell Sr bookstore gave away a $2.50 book titled How To Predict Flections to the public today. The event drew readers and patrons to the outlet as staff distributed copies free of charge.
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SAN Franciso
Powell Sr
Hopeless Situation in China Probed by U S Pilot
Arthur C. Young, an American pilot returning from six months delivering relief to Mukden, says corruption and face saving among northern nationalist leaders doomed the regime. He witnessed towns fall with stockpiled rice and ammunition, soldiers indifferent as Communists advanced, and officials falsifying losses. He urges education and systemic change over aid.
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Cleveland
China
Arthur C. Young
Berea
Chinese National Aviation Corporation
Mukden
Young
Canton Man and Musician Adam A. Shorb Dies at 76
Adam A. Shorb, 76, longtime president of the United Showmen's Association, died yesterday. He also played bass viol with the Canton symphony orchestra for 10 years.
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Canton, O
Adam A. Shorb
United Showmen’s Association
Canton Symphony Orchestra
Marshall plans visit to U S to report on Paris talks
Secretary of State Marshall is expected to visit Washington before month end to brief President Truman on the United Nations meeting in Paris and to review American foreign policy issues. Officials weigh whether Marshall will stay in the cabinet after January 20 and discuss possible military alliance with Western Europe and the North Atlantic allies.
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Truman
United Nations
Paris
Marshall
Senate
Western
Europe
North Atlantic
Russia
Molotov
Moscow
Fear Of Being Put In Asylum Slaving Cause
Mrs. Mary Pappas, 50, told Cincinnati police that fear of being placed in a mental institution prompted her to shoot her husband, John, 55, in their home Saturday night. She hid overnight, planned self harm, and was arraigned in police court after being found by her sister.
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Cincinnati
Mary Pappas
George T. Pearcey
John
Pappas
Harriet Kallas
Captain Pearcey
Sawyer Urges Revision of Farm Price Supports
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer called for revising farm price support to ease taxpaying households. He noted the Aiken bill would not take effect until January 1, 1950 and would keep parity levels until then on a sliding scale. About 2,000 delegates attended the National Foreign Trade convention in New York.
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New York
Charles Sawyer
Sawyer
Truman
Agriculture Department
Commerce
Pickets Given Hour To Quit In Columbus
Sheriff Ralph J. Paul ordered 30 CIO pickets at the American Zinc Oxide Co plant to disperse in one hour or face arrest for rioting. He read the riot act at 8 30 a m after inviting workers to return, but the line held as Raymond Dennis of Cleveland said the union would maintain its picket lines.
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Columbus
Ralph J. Paul
CIO
American Zinc Oxide Company
Paul
Raymond Dennis
Cleveland
CIO Smelters Workers Union
Goat in Jail Highlights Patrolman Pa nado Case
Fellow New York City police officers have humorously jailed a goat belonging to patrolman John Panado after the animal escaped twice from his home.
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N. Y
John Panado
Tax revision urged as Truman tax policy eyed
Representative Eberharter predicts President Truman will push a revision of the 1948 income tax cut to funnel more savings to low income groups while reviving an excess profits tax proposal. He notes advisers doubt its impact on business and mentions a possible broadened plea to industry to lower prices. The plan echoes Truman's earlier cost of living tax cut proposal amid debate over tax fairness and business effects.
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Washington
Eberharter
D-Pa
Truman
Tax-Framing House
Ways and Means Committee
Mr. Truman
80Th Congress
Man Loses Arm in Mill Walks Mile for Help
A 62 year old lumber mill worker Henry Francis Meeker of Sandy lost his right arm at a mill near Boring Oregon when his sleeve tangled in a planer. He walked over a mile to town to summon an ambulance to Portland for treatment.
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Boring, Ore
Portland
Henry Francis Meeker
Sandy
Here
De Gaulle Rally Wins Big in French Upper House
In Paris nearly complete results show De Gaulle’s anti Communist Rally of the French People scoring a sweeping victory. Communists, previously majority in the Council of the Republic, lose over four fifths of their seats and become a low ranking party in the new chamber.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Council of the Republic
Man Admits Killing Mother of Two After Birthday Kiss
Providence AP report says 32 year old Henry A. Williams confessed to strangling Genevieve Singleton after a night out and a birthday kiss 32 times. He claimed she refused to go to California and he tied her throat with a necktie before police discovery.
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Providence
R. I
North Providence
Anthony B. Caranci
Henry A. Williams
Genevieve Singleton
Caranci
Williams
Providence District Court
California
Singleton
Truman Takes Florida Vacation From White House Worries
In Key West Truman enjoys sun and privacy at a submarine base two weeks from return to Washington. He may make cabinet changes before leaving and is said to be pleased with his team though seeking a new Defense Secretary.
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Key West
Fla
Harry S. Truman
Florida
United States
Naval Submarine Base
White House
Naval Base
Truman
Washington
Knotnn
Defense
James V. Forrestal
Robert A. Lovett
Negotiations To Reopen In Coast Strike
In San Francisco the coast strike nears settlement as National CIO representatives prepare to join talks. A two sided peace formula underwrites any accord and would have CIO and the San Francisco Employers Council police local unions and waterfront employers to prevent future disputes.
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San Francisco
National Cio
Washington
Employers’ Council
CIO
AFL Preparing For Convention in Cincinnati
Three AFL departments meet in Cincinnati this week to prep for the annual convention. The Building Construction executive committee held a closed session as Rich ard Gray items move to general sessions opening Wednesday. The Metal Trades department began today with John P. Frey and William F. Patterson as speakers, while the Labor Trades department meets Friday. William Green, AFL president, will speak Thursday at theBuilding Construction group.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Building Construction Department
Richard Gray
s@ch
Metal Trades Department
John P. Frey
William F. Patterson
Bureau of Apprenticeship
U. S. Department of Labor
Representative And Secretary Charged Jointly
Rep J Parnell Thomas chairman of the House Un American Activities Committee and the secretary were indicted in Washington on charges of conspiring to pad the congressional office payroll.
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Washington
Rep. J. Parnell Thomas
House Un-American Activities Committee
Helen Campbell
Thomas
Miss Campbell
Myra Midiff
Court Upholds Meyers Conviction in Senate Subornation Case
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Maj Gen Bennett E Meyers conviction for subornation to perjury in a wartime Air Force contracts probe. The 2 1 ruling upheld that Meyers urged a witness to lie to the Senate committee. Several related indictments involved payroll fraud within Rep Thomas's office.
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Washington
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Bennett E. Myers
Senate
Meyers
U. S. District Court
Air Force
Aviation Electric Corporation
Dayton
Bleriot H. Lamarre
Concern
Lamarre
Wilbur K. Miller
James M. Proctor
Court of Appeals
E. Barrett Prettyman
Extensive Hunt For 38 Missing In Planes Fails
SEATTLE AP Hope ebbed today for 38 persons on three planes missing along the north Pacific shore. More than 40 planes and several surface ships searched the Vancouver Island area for a U S Navy patrol bomber with nine men aboard last Thursday. Clouds hindered searches for the other two missing craft, a Pacific Alaska Air Express liner with 17 aboard near Sitka Ketchikan and a Navy privateer with 12 aboard near Kodiak after a Wednesday flight over the Aleutians.
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Seattle
North Pacific
Coast Guard
Vancouver Island
British Columbia
U. S. Navy
Pacific Alaska Air Express
Sitka Ketchikan
Kodiak
Aleutian Islands
Supreme Court agrees to rule on Taft Hartley affidavits
The Supreme Court today agreed to rule on the constitutionality of the Taft Hartley law provision requiring ion officials to file non Communist affidavits to use the National Labor Relations Board machinery. The validity of the requirement was challenged by the CIO American Communications Association.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Ion
National Labor Relations Board
CIO American Communications Association
German Communist Herrera Ejiser Appeals Contempt Conviction Claiming HUAC Authority
Gerhard Ejiser files an appeal challenging his contempt of Congress conviction. He argues the House Committee on Un-American Activities lacked authority to compel witnesses to testify.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Gerhard Ejiser
House Committee On
UN condemns Albania Bulgaria Yugoslavia over Greece aid
The United Nations Political Committee voted 47 to 0 to condemn Albania Bulgaria and Yugoslavia for aiding Communist rebels in Greece. It marks the strongest action yet by any UN Assembly body in the Balkans dispute.
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PARIS
United Nations Political Committee
Albania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Greece
UN Assembly
Balkans
Body Found in Sandusky Bay Identifies Elderly Resident
The body of 76 year old Charles Pankow, resident of the Erie County home for the aged, was recovered from Sandusky Bay in Ohio.
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Bay Sandusky, O
Charles Pankow
Erie County
Sandusky Bay
Race In Ohio Senate Settled Democrats Hold One-Vote Edge
The Ohio Senate outcome gives Democrats control with a 17 to 16 margin after the Lucas County race between Raymond Hildebrand and Robert Ragan favored Ragan by 32 votes. The next Senate will have 33 members due to reapportionment. An error briefly showed Hildebrand as winner before the official count. Ohio officials cite outdated voting methods as cause for delay and propose machines and universal voter registration to speed counts.
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Ohio
Senate
Toledo, O
Ragan
Hildebrand
Mak
Don Ebright
Forme
Frank J. Lausche
Leland Dougan
Edward J. Hummel
Dougan
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