Western powers open talks on western Germany future without Russia
The United States Great Britain and France begin a conference on western Germany's future with Russia absent. Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas represents the U S while Benelux nations press for a hearing. The talks influence the Marshall plan and a proposed five power pact.
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Alex H. Singleton
London
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Russia
Italy
Japan
Foreign Ministers’ Council
U. S
Western Germany
Europe
Communist International Information Bureau
Cominform
Lewis W. Douglas
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Potsdam
Washington
Robert Lovett
Georges Bidault
Britain
Westbrook Pegler on deductibility and war fundraising
The column critiques IRS instructions allowing deductions for charitable gifts while condemning a letter seeking funds for a “fighting resistance” described as supporting guns for war. It links such appeals to wartime profiteering and the postwar inflation caused by a General Motors strike, accusing unions and politicians of cynical manipulation.
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Internal Revenue
League For A Free Palestine
Eleanor the Great
Eleanor
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Louisiana 10 Vote Tuesday in bitter governor race
Former Governors Sam Jones and Earl K. Long press final appeals ahead of Louisiana primary voting. Polls open 6 am to 7 pm statewide, with extended hours in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Weather forecast calls for clouds and scattered showers with temperatures in the sixties.
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Associated Press
Sam Jones
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Long
Jones
Eunice
Lake Charles
WNOE
WDSU
DSU
Agriculture and Immigration
Two Young Brothers Die in New York Fire
A fire in a four story Long Island City apartment killed Harold May Jr. 6 and Michael 5, while their parents Harold 37 and Anna 29 and baby Karen 14 months were injured. Fire origin unknown. neighbors alerted by a barking dog. Firemen evacuated the surviving child on the first attack.
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New York
Harold May
Andichael
Anna
Karen May
St. John’s Hospital
Long Island City
Mays
James Damiano
Ick
Chinese Reds Shake Mukden in Manchuria Advance
Chinese Communist troops near Mukden press a tightening siege as Faku falls, deepening the blockade and signaling renewed assaults from the north. Eyewitness accounts describe famine and desperation in the major industrial city with reports of starvation and improvised feeding.
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Tsingtao
China
Mukden
Manchuria
Peiping
Faku
States urged on submerged lands ownership dispute
Congress was urged to declare states own land beneath navigable waters. A joint Senate House panel heard witnesses from 44 states led by Nebraska Attorney General Walter R. Johnson who said a court decision confused the issue and that Congress must arbitrate. Texas AG Price Daniel said executive agencies favor legislation to settle the dispute and curb litigation as cabinet members prepare to argue federal ownership next week.
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Senate House
Walter R. Johnson
Nebraska
National Association of Attorneys General Committee
Supreme Court
Congress
Price Daniel
Texas
House
Senate
Judiciary Committees
Truman
Judge in German war crimes trial blasted by prosecutor
U S chief prosecutor Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor condemned Judge Charles F Wennerstrom over a Chicago Tribune interview about the Nuernberg trial. The judge said the prosecution showed vindictiveness and bias. Wennerstrom, an Iowa Supreme Court justice, was en route home after seven months in Nuernberg.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States
Telford Taylor
Charles F. Wennerstrom
Chicago Tribune
Nuernberg
Tribune
Taylor
Army
Wennerstrom
Iowa
Supreme Court
Chariton
Azores
Hal Faust
Berlin
Faust
Gen. Taylor
E. C. Deane
Jackson Now Backed by Long Campaign Leader in Education Race
State Senator Gilbert Hennegen of Beauregard endorsed Shelby M. Jackson for state superintendent of education in a 15 minute radio talk. Hennegen urged Long followers to unite behind Jackson, noting Earl Long has not endorsed incumbent John E. Coxe. Jackson entered as an independent and later won Sam Jones backing.
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Lake Charies
Gilbert Hennegen
Beauregard Parish
State Senate
Earl Long
Louisiana
Shelby M. Jackson
Jones
Long
Jackson
Hennegen
S. M. Jackson
John E. Coxe
Sam Jones
Senator Hennegen
John Coxe
Six Die in Fire at Cambridge Brewster Street Home
Six members of the Gregg family die in a blaze at their 16 room Cambridge residence on Brewster Street. Harvard graduate H Alan Gregg 40, his wife Ann, and four children Susan 9 Alan 8 Peter 3 and Thomas 10 months perished. maid Edna Roper 29 critically injured. Fire officials say fire started on the first floor and spread rapidly through the three story house.
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Cambridge
Mass
Brewster Street
H. Alan Gregg
Harvard
Ann
Susan
H. Alan, Jr
Peter
Thomas
Edna Roper
Thomas Tierney
Henry Kilfoyle
Gregg
Killing Probed in Morehouse Parish Mystery
Morehouse Parish sheriff officials probe the death of Dorothy Jones found slain in her farm home near Mer Rouge. Her husband Willie E. Jones, 27, and his close friend are in Morehouse parish jail for investigation as autopsy shows blunt force head injuries and bloodstains in the house.
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Morehouse Parish
Dorothy Jones
Mer Rouge
Investi
Harp
Willie E. Jones
Fighting Son and Father Die in Midtown Subway Plunge
In New York a 60 year old man and his 27 year old son fell under a train at the 49th Street and Eighth Avenue station after a struggle on the platform. The son Felix Lefkow sky said he pushed his father and then fell with him. The father Royal Lefkowsky died instantly and the son, badly injured, died in hospital after his legs were amputated. Police noted loud arguing before the plunge and that the men reportedly lived together in Brooklyn.
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New York
Felix Lefkowsky
Royal Lefkowsky
Magnus Waagenes
49Th Streetith Avenue
Brooklyn
Republicans to Quiz Big Steel Leaders in Hearing
Washington reports angry Republicans plan public hearings this week to quiz three major steel executives about price increases. Taft vows a orderly session while critics say steel boosted costs to pressure wage talks and potential government controls.
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Washington
Senate
House Economic Committee
Taft
Ohio
Republican Congress
Truman
G. O.P
Philip Murray
Congress
Murray
Banker W W Kelly Dies at 62 in Rayville Home
W W Kelly 62 cashier of Rayville State Bank died Monday at 1 a m in his Rayville home from a heart attack. He led in Kiwanis minstrel shows and was a Mason for 30 years and a charter Kiwanis member. He helped run a Lake St John fishing lodge. his wife Delia died last year. Survived by daughter Marie Jordan of Rayville, son W W Kelly Jr of Ferriday, and sister Dora Parker of Oak Grove. Funeral planned per article continuation.
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Rayville
W. W. Kelly
Rayville State Bank
Kiwanis Club
Kelly
Dixie Governors In Fighting Mood Over Civil Rights Push
Southern governors vow a fighting mood as President Truman’s civil rights program faces a key moment. Two Dixie senators warn insurrection could fail without law, while threatening to move to shift ballots if anti lynch, anti-poll tax and anti discrimination bills pass.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Truman
McGrath
Dixie
Congress
South
Senate
House
Truman Urges 14 Month Rent Controls and Housing Plan
President Truman sent a special message to Congress urging a 14 month extension of rent ceilings along with a long term housing program aimed at producing 1,000,000 dwellings annually for ten years. He outlined five objectives including stronger rent control and expanded low rent housing while calling for extended loan insurance and an expanded mortgage market.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
Mr. Truman
Fierce three way fight breaks out in Palestine
Jerusalem today faced paralysis as gun carrying Arabs Britons and Jews patrolled amid a fresh bombing of the Jewish sector that killed at least 52. Rescue workers pulled nine more bodies from two hotels and surrounding wreckage raising the day’s toll to 64 with eight injured. street clashes and heightened security followed the blast as Irgun warned British personnel would be executed if entering Jewish areas.
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Jerusalem
Ben Yehuda Street
Haganah
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Future of Palestine Faces Crucial U N Diplomacy
Washington diary: top level state department talks on Palestine may decide if American troops join police efforts to enforce the UN partition plan. Warren Austin to present Washington stance to the UN Security Council as Taft backs a moderate force. President Truman signals settlement on two states while Truman aides weigh enforcement questions.
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Washington
Palestine
State Department
Holy Land
United Nations
State Marshall
Warren Austin
U. N
U.N. Security Council
Austin
Security Council
Marshall
Taft
Ohio
United Nation
U. N. Assembly
World Organization
Truman
Congress
United States
Huge Woman Dies in New Orleans Sideshow Star
The 750 pound redhaired entertainer known as Baby Betty Horrell died at Foundation Hospital in New Orleans. She listed Tampa Florida as home and age 39. Brought in by trailer from Tampa winter quarters she was hoisted on a special bed after eight men moved her to the hospital. She attributed illness to a small bug and suspected yellow jaundice.
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New Orleans
Betty” Horrell
Foundation Hospital
Tampa
Fla
Betty
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