Isidor Lipschutz Awarded U S Citizenship After Prolonged Case
Judge Edward Conger of the Southern District of New York ruled in Lipschutz's favor, granting him U S citizenship after a lengthy dispute. Lipschutz, Belgian by birth, headed private espionage activities tied to the anti Nazi League and served as treasurer and major backer of its operations.
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Edward Conger
United States Court of the Southern
Manhattan
New York
Isidor Lipschutz
Belgium
United States
Conger
Lipschutz
The
League
Department of Investigation
Roosevelt
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Washington
anti-Nazi League
Society For the Prevention of
Teachers to Convene for South Central Regional Meet
The South Central Regional conference of Classroom Teachers will meet at Hotel Virginia in Monrose on January 16 and 17 1948. About 250 to 300 delegates from Nebraska Kansas Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma Texas and Louisiana will attend. National president Miss Mary Ernst of St Louis will participate. This marks the first Louisiana hosting of the conference with Miss Eloise Cann of Sherron Monroe as state president.
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Louisiana
Mineral Wells
Tex
Eloise Cann
Sherrouse School
Monroe
Classroom Teachers Association
Body of Wilson Taken to Amite
The body of Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Harry D. Wilson was taken to his Amite home for final rites and burial after his death in Baton Rouge. Funeral services were to be held at his Amite home with clergy from Amite and burial in Amite Cemetery. Wilson, a 32 year state official, was renowned as dean of agriculture commissioners and former president of regional and national associations. He had announced retirement in May.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Harry D. Wilson
Philip Werlein
St. James Episcopal Church
Friends of
Harry
Howard S. Giere
Church of Annunciation
Amite
Sam Gordon
First Baptist Church
National Association
Absentee Voting Opens at Ouachita Courthouse Saturday
Ouachita parish registrar Miss Lillian Collins announces absentee voting begins Saturday at 8 a.m. at the Ouachita parish courthouse and continues through the week ending Saturday January 17 at 5 p.m.
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Ouachita Parish
Lillian Collins
Registrar of Voters
Committee To Probe Morgenthau Trading Practices
A Senate appropriations subcommittee under Sen. Ferguson will investigate Henry Morgenthau Jr. trading activity in grain markets. Morgenthau acknowledged selling 195000 bushels of corn futures last June 30 and said he lost money. Secretary Anderson may be recalled to testify alongside Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham.
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Washington
Senate
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Secretary of Treasury
Ferguson
Michigan
Appropriations
Morgenthau
Agriculture Anderson
New York
Plane crash near Savannah kills 17 with 9 hurt
A New York to Miami chartered C-47 crashed in marshes near Savannah eight miles southeast of the city. Seventeen dead and nine injured, mostly Puerto Ricans, were pulled from the wreckage. Rescue crews worked for hours through mud and water to recover victims. Two Philadelphians, Harry Woodcock and Gerson Brody of the U S Internal Revenue Service, were among the dead. The manifest listed 25 aboard. investigators planned further searching.
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Savannah
New York
Miami
Savannah River
Here
U. S. Army
U. S. Coast Guard
Aurora
Isabelle Maldonado
Marine Hospital
Philadelphia
Harry Woodcock
Gerson Brody
U. S. Internal Revenue Department
Wood
Raymond Eick Qeft
Trenton
N. J
Coastal Airlines
Frank Rossiter
Savannah Morning News
Truman Tax Plan Deadlock Sparks House Battle
Washington dispatch reports a sharp start to the election year clash as Representative Knutson states the president's tax program is dead while Ways and Means plans a $5.6 billion tax cut bill. President Truman proposes a $40 cost of living tax cut for households to aid 10 million low income earners, offset by $3.2 billion in corporate levies amid partisan divisions. Speaker Martin distrusts the plan, while Rayburn backs the White House and vows a tax bill favoring the common person and business growth.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Representative Knutson
Minnesota
House
Knutson
Martin
Massachusetts
Rayburn
Texas
White House
Allies propose broad reform of Bizonia administration
German officials reacted with surprise to the sweeping Allied proposals for reorganizing and strengthening the Bizonia administration. The plan would empower an economic council with a second legislative body a supreme court a central bank and a prime minister style cabinet while withholding political power. Communist critics dismissed it as camouflage.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States
Bizonia
German “Economic Council
Senate
Supreme Court
Europe
Ship's condition better after 780 imperiled
Fifty foot waves battered the Russian ship Dvina off northeast Japan as officials said the vessel's condition improved and towing to safety might be possible. Three rescue ships stood by, six more hurried to aid the leaking liner with 780 passengers aboard. A nightlong American led effort faced heavy seas and communications challenges.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Japan
Far East Air Force
Dvina
Greece orders 40 000 rifles for augmented guard
Maj. Gen. William G. Livesay disclosed that Greece will buy 40,000 rifles and ammunition from England at $3,000,000 to arm a national guard raised to 50,000. The U S aid mission approved increasing the army to 132,000 and shifting focus to fighting Communist guerrillas.
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Athens
William G. Livesay
U. S
Greece
England
Britain
United States
Livesay
Metsovon
Konitsa
Frederika
Grand Jury Calls 25 New Witnesses in Ouachita Probe
Twenty five more prospective witnesses are set to appear as the Ouachita parish grand jury resumes its gambling probe after a holiday break. Widespread interest followed a late session remark from Fred Fudickar, assistant district attorney, about Rainbow Inn owner W H Smith. City Commissioner C R Tidwell attended as the inquiry nears its fourth day amid a morals crusade sparked by ministers and a radio station owned by James A Noe.
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Ouachita Parish
Grand Jury
New Orleans
W. H. Smith
Rainbow Inn
Fred Fudickar
Smith
Fudickar
C. R. Tidwell
James A. Noe
Stalin Death Rumors Stir Swiss Newspapers in Bern
Two Bern papers speculated Stalin may be dead with the Soviet embassy in London denying the reports. Der Bund cited government sources in Bern and said the topic was discussed at Moscow and by the Swiss federal council with a Swedish cancer specialist said to be summoned to Moscow. Berner Tagwacht suggested credence given past illness rumors.
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Bern
Switzerland
Stalin
London
der Bund
Federal Council
Moscow
Berner Tagwacht
Elis Berven
Berven
Ex Police Chief Kills Son-In-Law in Dallas Jewelry Store
Former Dallas police chief Robert L. Jones, 51, was released on a 7500 dollar bond after being charged with murder in the shooting of his son-in-law, private detective George A. Vadere, in a downtown Dallas jewelry store. Vadere ran into the street after a struggle, but was shot as he fled. Jones, a former FBI agent and longtime liquor-store operator, had led Dallas police from 1935 to 1939.
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Dallas
Tex
Robert L. Jones
Liberty
George A. Vadere
Jones
Vadere
Marjorie
Collin County
Texas
Chicago
John Dillinger
Machine Kelly
Los Angeles
Gladys M. Bowman
Bowman
Republicans label Truman a left winger in election year clash
Republicans in the House attack President Truman's budget proposals as a political sop to Navajo Indians and predict bankruptcy and dictatorship while criticizing revenue sources for health insurance and universal military training. Democrats mock the charge as election-year demagoguery.
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Washington
Truman
Rep
Busbey
Illinois
Rich
Pennsylvania
Henry A. Wallace
Congress
Rep. Potts
New York
Union
Rep. Rankin
Mississippi
McGrath
Rhode Island
Democratic National Committee
Floods Ravage Pacific Northwest Across Oregon Washington Idaho
Flooding rivers inundate vast lowlands in Oregon Washington and Idaho with five deaths in Oregon and millions in damage. The Willamette Valley braces for six to eight foot crests as homes and farms face rising waters isolating towns and forcing travel delays. University of Idaho students shelter in a veterans village while Princeton reports two feet of water on main street.
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Associated Presse
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Pacific Northwest
Williamette
Eugene
Corvallis
Albany
Salem
University of Idaho At Moscow
Princeton
Marshall urges Congress for bold European Recovery Plan
Secretary of State Marshall told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States can lead a Western Europe recovery program despite Soviet and Communist opposition. He rejected a new government corporation plan, insisting administration under a single secretary, with a $6.8 billion first year, is essential to initiation and lasting recovery.
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Washington
Marshall
Russia
Communist Party
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Western
Europe
Lewis W. Douglas
England
State Department
Republican Congress
America
Truman
Congress
Communists Ousted as Brazil Strips Party of Office Posts
Rio de Janeiro reports after Congress votes to remove all Communists from elective posts. Four wounded in clashes as police storm printing plant printing the action filled edition. Law affects senator, 14 deputies, 60 state legislators and 18 city council members.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Communist Party
Chamber of Deputies
Tribuna Popular
Communist Legislaturs
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Senate
Supreme Electoral Tribunal
Brazil
Soviet Union
Luis Carlos Prestes
Five More Killings in Palestine Violence Escalates
In Jerusalem and throughout Palestine, five more people die as Arab and Jewish factions clash. At Jaffa Gate Arabs arm as rumors spread of a new Jewish attack. Seven Jewish escapees from a hospital aid a wounded comrade after a daylight assault that killed 17 Arabs and three Jews. Uri Cohen, 20, identified as a member of Irgun, is freed from the Red Shield clinic amid police tensions.
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Carter L. Davidson
Jerusalem
Palestine
Jaffa
Hagana
United Nations
Partition
Red Shield
Uri Cohen
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Cohen
Big sales forecast for home furnishings in 1948
Lawrence H. Whiting of the American Furniture Mart estimates national retailers will buy about 7 million dollars in home furnishings this year. He notes furniture alone could reach 1.5 billion in manufacturer to retailer shipments and radios about 1 billion. He cites strong demand for floor coverings refrigerators washers ranges and vacuums and predicts continued demand through 1948.
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Chicago
Lawrence H. Whiting
American Furniture Mart
Whiting
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Pegler
Wilson
Morgenthau Trading
Henry Deutschendorf
Tulsa
31St Reconnaissance Squadron
Taft
REDS
Republican Party
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