Truman Still Pushes Price Controls Amid Market Slump
President Truman maintains price controls are needed despite a sharp grain market drop. GOP leaders in Congress doubt pass. Senate Republicans urge repeal of a two month old law limiting wheat exports. Wolcott proposes a short ban on policy talks while monitoring the economy.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
Young
N. D
Bushfield
S. D
Rainy Southeast Faces Flood Risks Across Georgia Tennessee
Monotony of rain continues across the Southeast with heavy totals in Georgia and Tennessee. Atlanta records its 10th day of rain while north Georgia streams rise and flood risks grow in Rome Dalton and Chattanooga. Red Cross coordinates evacuations as rivers swell and roads become impassable.
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Be Associated Press
United States
Atlanta
Weather Bureau
Georgia
Rome
Oostanaula
Dalton
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Red Cross
Knoxville
Tennessee Valley Authority
Vandenberg Gets Support of Tobey
Providence R I Feb 13 Sen Charles W Tobey Republican told a Lincoln day dinner that the United States has splendid presidential timber in Sen Arthur Vandenberg Michigan and praised his work as chair of the Senate foreign relations committee. Vandenberg has asked Republicans in his state not to consider him for the nomination. Michigan Gov Kim Sigler said no one doubted Vandenberg would accept if urged.
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Providence
R. I
New Hampshire
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Arthur Vandenberg
Charles W. Tobey
Michigan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
German Commission Ordered By Russia
German officials in the Soviet zone were instructed by Marshal Sokolovsky to form an economic commission for their area. The order signals no move toward an east German government and rejects tying the zone to western Germany. The body can issue binding orders to all German groups in the Soviet zone and align with the Soviet military administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Heinzerling
Berlin
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
United States
Germany
Sokolovsky
Britain move to freeze consumer prices in bid curb living costs
London reports a board of trade price freeze on most consumer goods at December January levels. Sir Stafford Cripps urged voluntary wage and profit restraint or government compulsion, targeting four fifths of goods and services, including food clothing and furniture. France also acts to curb price rises while British unions push for higher pay.
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London
Board of Trade
Stafford Cripps
Cripps
House of Commons
Attlee
National Assembly
Paris
James Hyde Dies in Electric Chair at Tucker Prison Farm
James Harold Hyde, 26, convicted of killing his fiancee’s father, Frank Simpson, died in the electric chair at Tucker Prison Farm Arkansas after arranging to donate his eyes to help two partially blind people. He was strapped in at 7 a.m. and pronounced dead ten minutes later by Dr. A. R. Rollins of Sherrill.
Freezing Rain and Snow Hit Wide Region
Winter weather spreads from plains to Gulf as freezing rain sleet and snow pelt area roads become hazardous. Cold air mass nears from Hudson Bay region while New England and New York face rail freight embargoes and continuing below normal temperatures.
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Chicago
Plains States
East Gulf Region
New England
New York State
North Central
Hudson Bay District
Canadian
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Texas
Corpus Christi
Gulf
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Rockies
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
New Mexico
Florida
Wheat farmers puzzled by sudden drop in prices in Kansas
Kansas wheat growers surveyed snow covered fields to explain a week long market plunge. They cited firm demand and fair 1948 yield as reasons, with some calling for an investigation while denying panic selling and stressing long term resilience. Local operators voiced disbelief and tight belt plans amid the price break.
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Garden City
Kan
Kansas
John Boyd
Near Garden City
L. O. Lile
Near Here
Dewey Critics Truman Foreign Policy as Major Issue
Governor Thomas E. Dewey vows to make Truman foreign policy a central campaign issue. He accuses the administration of bungling and proposes an American financed federation of Europe to secure world peace. Dewey warns of Soviet expansion and previews his European recovery plan.
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James F. King
Boston
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
New York
Dewey
Europe
Western
Germany
Paul Refoule dies after troubled postwar years
French born artist Paul Refoule dies at 4 31 am after 10 weeks of illness in Atlanta He was 35 His wife Peggy Margaret Alston 31 was found strangled in Peachtree Creek months earlier Police charged Refoule with sodomy but the case was dropped after legal wrangling and a federal court decision followed by his death
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Atlanta
Paul R. Refoule
Peggy
Refoule
Peachtree Creek
Neal Ellis
Woman Will Defy Withholding Tax
Miss Vivien Kellems of Westport Connecticut, owner of a small cable grips firm employing about 30, declares she will stop withholding federal income taxes from her workers and will take the issue to court. She says the payroll is already distributed and that the company will no longer collect or pay employees income taxes.
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Los Angeles
Vivien Kellems
Westport
Conn
Kellems
Connecticut
Clare Boothe Luce
Kellems Company
Flood waters rise in Shelbyville as Duck River floods town
Shelbyville Tennessee February 13 flood waters from the Duck River cover about a quarter of the city of 8000. Depth reaches 10 to 15 feet in low areas. No deaths reported. Police and volunteer fire department evacuate residents. National Guard armory opened to house evacuees. Normandy eight miles southeast hit hard.
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Shelbyville
Tenn
Duck River
William C. Lurber
Lurber
Normandy
Kidnapped bride returns home after alleged abduction
A 14 year old bride Mildred Aspinwall returned with her husband Doniver Teston to the family farm near Blackshear Georgia after a kidnapping by James Davis 22 the couple had married the previous Friday at Alma Ga. Davis is wanted on a kidnapping warrant. Mildred said Davis molested her twice during the trip through Georgia and Tennessee and North Carolina.
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Blackshear
Doniver Teston
Doniver
Mildred Aspinwall
L. L. Taylor
Mildred
Davis
Teston
Alma
Savannah
Lookout Mountain
Chattanooga
Macon
Georgia
Youth is Defended by Girl's Mother
Marie Conn, mother of 16 year old Dolores Patsy Conn, says she will help Tommy Marsh, 15, after he admitted shooting Patsy in a jealousy killing. Marsh signed a murder confession, once claiming the shooting was accidental, and police say blood evidence contradicted that version.
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Los Angeles
Marie Conn
Tommy Marsh
Dolores
Patsy) Conn
Pat
Tommy
C. W. Lillywhite
Marsh
Lillywhite
Markets Show Some Strength
New York prices showed slight strength as grain markets wavered and butter fell sharply. Wheat and oats held steady to higher while corn swung to the full limit down before rebounding. Cotton declined, hog prices held, and soybeans hit an eight cent limit decline. President Truman endorsed market declines as progress but warned inflation risks remain.
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New York
New York Mercantile Exchange
National Association of Retail Grocers
Patsy D'Agostino
Association
New Orleans
Chicago
Truman
Congress
Utica Fire Kills Eleven in West Side House
A Feb 13 Utica flash fire in a two story Cedar Street dwelling kills eleven of one family. Among the dead are Mrs Ruth Hoage 24 and Mrs Shirley Hoage 29 with children Virginia 19 Dana 3 Mark eight months Catherine two Geraldine 10 Audrey seven Michael 11 months and Lee five months. Dana Page Sr wife and 19 year old daughter flee second floor and are hospitalized with burns. The building collapses trapping occupants as fire rages briefly before crews reach the ruins.
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Utica
N. Y
Leo Barry
Dana Page, Sr
Cedar Street
New York Central
Eugene McNally
Fire Prevention Bureau
Ruth Hoage
Shirley Hoage
Virginia
Dana
Mark
Catherine
Geraldine
Audrey
Tve
Charity
Michael
Lee
Richard Hoage
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Ella Page
Dana Page
Mary Hoage
Richard
Five American Marines Captured in China Report
Chinese Communist radio says one of five U S Marines captured near Tsingtao died of wounds and accuses U S forces of imperialist aggression. Marines named include Brayton Pollard Dickerson Hart Kapodistii. All served with the West Pacific American fleet.
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San Francisco
Chinese Communist Radio Today
U. S
China
United States
Pfe
Charles J. Brayton, Jr
Fort Jay
Governors Island
N. Y
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tsingtao
U. S. Navy
Associated Press
Peoples Liberation
Wanglintao
Shantung Peninsula
Peoples Liberation Army
Kuomintang
Brayton
Navy
William L. Pollard
Fort Worth
Dickenson
Carroll W. Dickerson
Olathe
Kas
Hart
Robert Hart
Pittsburgh
Thomas Kapodistiia
Buffalo
Gandhi Assassin Flown to Bombay After New Delhi Arrest
Nataram Vinayak Godse, Gandhi's assassin, has been flown from New Delhi to Bombay. The special plane arrived before dawn with high precautions against suicide attempts. Police traced a Bombay driver used by Godse for visits to friends before the assassination.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
New Delhi
Nataram Vinayak Godse
Gorse
Truman Targets Foreign Policy Amid GOP Attacks
Republican speakers and a Democratic southern rally assailed President Truman's foreign policy. Dewey and Taft clashed over the Marshall plan while Stassen backed Vandenberg’s leadership. The administration seeks 6.8 billion dollars to launch the Marshall plan.
Taft Opens Nebraska Campaign With Omaha Speeches
Senator Taft USA Republican from Ohio arrives in Omaha to launch the two month push toward the April 13 Nebraska preferential primary. He aims to dispel doubts about his November viability and seeks Nebraska’s 15 delegates with two Omaha talks and one in Council Bluffs Iowa. He expresses optimism about winning delegates.
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Omaha
Taft
Ohio
Nebraska
St. Paul
Minn
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Ohioan
Texan George Davis Sentenced to Death in Reichert Killing
George Davis, 28, a Texas man, was sentenced to die in the electric chair for murdering Mississippi highway patrolman Cyril Reichert during a highway gun battle in Louisiana. Reichert resided in Gulfport and died after confronting Davis as Reichert escorted a robbery victim to a New Orleans hospital. The victim, Charles McSorley of Detroit, aided by a motorist, identified Davis. McSorley later testified at trial. The electrocution date will be set by the governor.
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New Orleans
Frank T. Echezabal
George Davis
Cyril Reichert
Mississippi
Davis
Reichert
Gulfport
Louisiana
Charles McSorley
Detroit
McSorley
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Tobey
Russia
James Hyde
Massachusetts
Robert F. Bradford
Bay State
Charles M. Dale
Dale
Windy City
Paul Refoule
Gandhi
Lis
Aft
Harold E. Stassen
Germantown
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