Truman pushes social security expansion over tax hikes
Washington dispatch reports the House Ways and Means Committee set aside tax legislation to first consider President Truman's proposal for a broad social security program expansion. Hearings begin Feb 28, with potential delay of tax action until May. Senate critics doubt new taxes, while backing larger social security revenue.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Truman
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Capitol
George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Fair Enough On Unions Turning Fascist And Corporate Control
A column argues that as unions grow powerfully they tilt toward fascism or communism, with New York garment contracts pressuring unions to organize other shops and San Francisco forming an employers’ union to enforce a closed shop, dictating bargaining through joint labor orgs and limiting individual deals. The piece notes potential legal hurdles and images a future where employers, like workers, lose unilateral bargaining power.
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Roosevelt
New York
San Francisco
Employers’ Union
Clerks’ Union
Clerks
Employers
New Orleans Man Held in Slaying
Homer Garland Odum, a 22-year-old New Orleans man, is held in the county jail on charges of fatally shooting William Alexander McDonald, 71, a storekeeper on the Warrior highway in Fultondale. Odum signed a statement admitting the crime and said he took $1.50 from McDonald’s pockets. The victim was found wounded Wednesday morning. Odum said he had been living in New Orleans with his wife and child and came to visit his mother last week.
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Birmingham
Ala
Wilton Hogan
New Orleans
William Alexander McDonald
Hogan
Homer Garland Odum
McDonald
Warrior Highway
Odum
Oolum
Fultondale
Remington Cleared to Return to Commerce Dept Post
William R. Remington, 31, returned to work at the Commerce Department after being cleared of disloyalty charges. He will take a new assignment handling general imports, with the same $10,330 salary, a role described as not involving national security. His suspension followed congressional spy hearings that named him as director of the export program. Senator McClellan called the decision a mistake.
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Washington
William R. Remington
Commerce Department
Remington
Department
Russia
Francis E. McIntyre
Office of International Trade
McIntyre
Senator McClellan
Arkansas
Infant saved as parents die in carbon monoxide
In New Orleans on February 11 a six month old boy survived carbon monoxide poisoning that killed his parents Earl Benoit Sr. and Bernice Benoit in their apartment at Lockport. The infant slept in the same bed and suffered no ill effects as neighbors were alerted by his cries. Coroner Dr Leo Kerne said the fumes came from a heater left burning in the bathroom.
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New Orleans
Earl Benoit, Sr
Bernice
Lockport
Leo Kerne
Lafourche Parish
Kerne
Labor hearing recess marks three day pause in Taft Hartley debate
Washington report on Senate Labor Committee proceedings as it moves into the second half of hearings on the Truman administration bill to repeal Taft Hartley and restore Wagner act principles. Key figures Humphrey Carey Morse criticize and defend the act amid political tension.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Senate
House of Representatives
Humphrey
Minnesota
Communist Party
James B. Carey
Woodruff Randolph
A. F. of L. International Typographical Union
Senator Morse
Oregon
Thomas
Congress
Minister criticizes Cardinal Mindszenty crusade
Brooklyn minister Dr. John Paul Jones urged Americans to think twice before joining the Holy Crusade for Cardinal Mindszenty. He criticized both the Catholic Church and the Hungarian government for questionable tactics and urged objective view of the trial. Protestant leaders called for prayers for Mindszenty, described as a Christian martyr.
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New York
Brooklyn
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
John Paul Jones
Cardinal Mindszenty
Dr. Jones
Union Presbyterian Church of
Bay Ridge
Protestant Council of the City of
Jones
Darwin
James Pernette DeWolfe
Long Island
Radar wall plan to shield U S from air attack
General Muir S. Fairchild and Maj. Gen. Gordon P. Saville testified before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington outlining a radar detection wall for continental defense. The exhibit maps coastal and seaborne radar stations and indicates how warning would flow to defense headquarters in New York, Syracuse, Tallahassee, St. Paul, Albuquerque, Seattle, and San Francisco with air national guard centers in major cities.
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Muir S. Fairchild
Air Force Staff
Gordon P. Saville
Air Defense Command
House Armed Service Committee
Washington
United States
Air Force Chiefs
Continental
New York
Syracuse
Tallahassee
Fla
St. Paul
Atlanta
Columbus
Chicago
St. Louis
Houston
Bismark
N. C
Denver
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
Albuquerque
Bulgaria To Try 15 Protestant Leaders
A wave of cold air sweeps western states as snow and floods threaten roads and rail lines. Army, Red Cross, and agencies organize aid for isolated communities including at Rawlins and Burke Idaho where at least ten families are in distress.
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Associated Press
Pacific Northwest
Rawlins
Wye
Army
Red Cross
Burke
Idaho
Full Confession To Spy Charges Is Claimed By Officials
In Bulgaria 15 Protestant ministers and officials face trial on treason currency law violations and spying for Britain and the United States, after government claims of full confessions. Indictments name 12 American and British churchmen, with earlier hints of arrests from January. A Northern Baptist Convention official in New York condemned the charges as part of a Communist persecution alongside Mindszenty.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Britain
United States
Vladimir Topencharov
Dimiter Iliev
New York
Northern Baptist Convention
Truman
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
State Department
United Evangelical Church In
Cardinal Mindszenty
Europe
Robin E. Steussy
U. S. Legation
Stephen Koczak
Florian
Sik
Russian Spying in Japan Linked to U S Espionage
Washington reports reexamination of spy files reveals two threads linking Soviet espionage in Japan and the United States. Whittaker Chambers testified he helped recruit for a Japan apparatus in the mid 1930s, and an individual tied to that network is named in an Army release about a Tokyo ring active 1933 to 1941. The committee may pursue ties to Chambers’ U S work. a meeting was held to discuss service cooperation.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Congressional
Japan
United States
Whittaker Chambers
America
House
American Activities Committee
Chambers
Army
Tokyo
Navy
Wood
D.-Ga
Red
Moscow
Philadelphia Transit Strike Halts City Travel
Philadelphia faces a massive transit strike by 11,000 CIO Transport Workers Union members, shutting down bus, subway, and trolley service. Nearly all riders walk or hitch rides as 3.2 million daily trips are disrupted amid a four inch snowfall. Negotiations stall over a 17 cent spread after initial 25 cent demand, with no progress reported.
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Philadelphia Transportation Company
C. I. O.’s Transport Workers Union
Pennsylvania
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Broad Street
City Hall
New York
Times Square
C. I. O. Transport Workers Union
Navy and Marine
Army
Three Dead in B-26 Crash Near Milton Delaware
A four motor B-26 aircraft crashed near Milton Delaware, killing three crewmen and leaving two missing. The plane nearly struck two buildings, skimmed a highway edge, crashed beside a pond and exploded. The pilot died with parachute half open. another crewman was found near wreckage and a third in a tree. Fort Miles guards secured the scene.
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Milton
Del
Delaware
Mitchel Field Air Force Base
Long Island
N. Y
Greenville
S. C
George B. Atkins
Sussex County
Edwin Moore
Norman Lawson
GOP Takes Watchdog Role in Foreign Policy Debate
Washington ordered Hungary to expel John G. Florian, first secretary, after Budapest ousted two American officials. In Detroit, Senator Vandenberg pledged the GOP will watchdog U.S. foreign policy, retiring in 1952 after 25 years in the Senate and urging continued UN support amid Cold War tensions.
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United States
Hungary
Budapest
John G. Florian
Legation
State Department
Andrew Sik
Florian
Michael J. McDermott
Detroit
Vandenberg
Michigan
United Nations
Russia
Senate
Connally
Texas
Vandenbers
Rummel Named Pontifical Aid With High Church Honor
Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans is named assistant at the pontifical throne and count of the apostolic palace by Pope Pius XII. The 72 year old prelate, in episcopacy 20 years, is praised for leadership and religious labor. No ceremony is planned. a Vatican brief notes the recognition for his zeal, Catholic activities, and 1958 Eucharistic congress work.
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New Orleans
Joseph F. Rummel
Pius XII
Apostolic Palace
Vatican
Washington
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Deep South
Jules B. Jeanmard
Lafayette
Rummell
Napoleon Joseph Perche
Placide Louis Chapelle
John W. Shaw
RIOT IN I O U BATTLE AT EAST MOLINE PLANT
About 20 people were injured at the East Moline Works of International Harvester in a 300 worker clash between rival C I O unions. Two U A W leaders John W Livingston and Pat Greathouse were arrested on disorderly conduct charges after the 20 minute brawl. Local 104 president Arvid Sheets said warrants would be sought against the C I O officials for inciting a riot.
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East Moline
Ill
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
International Harvester Company
United Farm Equipment Workers Union
John W. Livingston
Detroit
Agricultural Implement Department
Pat Greathouse
Chicago
Livingston
Greathouse
Arvid Sheets
Sheets
Louisiana Contracts Total 214 Million In Seven Months
Lt. Gov. Dodd reports 322 contracts worth 214606000 signed in seven months under Gov. Earl K. Long. Read before Natchitoches Chamber banquet. 16015 new jobs created. Old age pensions bring 45000000 in federal funds to Louisiana. Dodd notes payroll larger than railroads or Standard Oil.
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Earl K. Long
William J. Dodd
Louisiana
Standard Oil Company
Dodd
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