Spy Ring Probe Revival and Berlin Vote Upset
Western Newspaper Union analysis outlines renewed espionage hearings in Washington with microfilm evidence tied to Whitaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. The report notes indictments sought against alleged spies and cites veterans’ civilian employment trends postwar. Berlin votes tighten political lines amid broader foreign policy anxieties.
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Washington
Stalin
House UN American Activities Committee
United States
Committee
State Department
Whitaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Alger Hiss
Carnegie Foundation For International Peace
Russia
Hiss
Chambers
Summer Welles
Hambers
Senators Propose Modified Excess Profits Tax Amid 1929 Parallels
President Truman's call for a wartime style excess profits tax faces business opposition as Senator O Mahoney argues for targeting large profits while shielding small independents. The piece links current earnings to 1929, notes a 20 billion dollar profit figure, and signals looming tax policy debates.
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Truman
Wyoming
Senator O'Mahoney
Congress
O’mahoney
Potatoes Define the Ideal Market Potato
The U S department of agriculture after surveying 3300 housewives says market potatoes must be clean medium sized with few eyes light in color undamaged and cook up soft and mealy. Housewives prefer medium potatoes for peeling and portioning while the survey notes many suffer handling injuries and urges growers to improve curing and handling.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department
Robot Ear Demonstrates Light-Activating Phone Ring
At the American Medical Association meeting in St Louis a new robot ear device was shown that converts phone ring vibrations into electricity to switch on lights. The system uses a salt crystal within a box connected to the telephone and lamp circuit. The device, using wartime submarine detection tech, could respond to phone calls while occupants are away and is already being used by FBI agents and undertakers.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Tom Edison
American Medical Association
St. Louis
FBI
Undertakers
Rain-Making Bag Baffles Kern County Archeologist
Franklin Fenenga, a California university archeologist, claims possession of a bag said to have rain making powers. The bag, once belonging to a medicine man, contains a beaver tail, snapdragon seeds, eagle down, fossil fish vertebra and various charms. rainfall followed its display in Kern County and in Berkeley. The bag is now at the university.
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Franklin Fenenga
California University
Kern County
California
Fenenga
Berkeley
University
Poor Richard's Almanac Anniversary Highlights
The 1949 anniversary of Poor Richard's Almanac notes its lasting influence on American life. Benjamin Franklin used the nom de plume Poor Richard, and the almanac's popularity grew, with rural homes displaying it and its pages guiding calendars, astronomy, pest control, poultry care, and staying awake in church.
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Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin
Rankin Faces Challenge Over Un-American Committee
Rep John E Rankin a leading opponent of Truman civil rights faces a push by northern Democrats to remove him from the House Un American Activities Committee under a rule that a chairman may hold only one committee post Rankin would otherwise chair the Veterans Affairs Committee based on seniority.
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John E. Rankin
Miss
House
Truman
Congress
House un-American Activities Committee
Rankin
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Bikini blast findings denied by President at news conference
President Truman rejected claims that the White House suppressed a final Bikini atomic test report. He said no lid was clamped on the Bikini findings, responding to charges by Mr Bradley Dewey at a news conference.
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Bikini
Truman
White House
Atoll
Bradley Dewey
New Year Dates of 1948 in Washington Digest
Baukhage chronicles a year’s worth of 1948 events from January to December as seen from the Washington press gallery. He notes Eisenhower’s nomination denial, Truman’s candidacy, Berlin airlift timing, the Dewey campaign, Palestine upheavals, and the year’s political shocks with dates and places.
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Baukhage
Associated Press
Truman
New York
Assembly of the United Nations
Palestine Commission
White House
Connecticut Avenue
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gandhi
MacArthur
Jan Masaryk
House
Wallace
Stephanove Kasenkina
New York City
Babe Ruth
Count Bernadette
United Nations
Dewey
Bankhage
Daily
Christmas racketeers prey on the season
The article warns against Christmas racketeers who imitate charities and religious groups and exploit generous people. It cites past street scams with blue uniforms and tambourines and estimates over 100 million dollars taken in yearly. It advises giving to established agencies like Red Cross and Community Chest.
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Army
Salvation Army
The
Red Cross
Community Chest
Christmas Caroling By Swiss Brethren in Rhein felden
Swiss writer Gottlieb Wyss notes the Sebastiani Brotherhood began in 1540 to guard Rhein felden from plague. Twelve men in dark clothes sing at seven fountains on Christmas Eve starting at the Frosch weide, shedding hats as Christ is named in their medieval song.
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Switzerland
Sebastiani
Rheinfelden
Gottlieb Wyss
St. Sebastian
Froschweide
Christ
Long Christmas Celebrations Through the Middle Ages
The article describes extended medieval Christmas observances lasting from late December to early January or February. It notes Puritan bans in 1644 and restoration of Christmas by Charles II in 1678, illustrating changing attitudes toward the holiday.
Boar Credited With Early Plowing Legend
A historic note credits a wild boar with teaching humans to plow by rooting into soil with tusks. The tale ties boars to ancient rituals and winter solstice celebrations, linking the animal to nourishment and festive menus in pre Christian times.
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Freya
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Jason
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Reich
Britain
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Moscow
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Linda Brown
San Antonio
Tex
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Robert B. Greene Hospital
Washington Digest
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Harlan Kelly
General MacArthur
Taft
Stassen
Bogota
Marshall
T. Allen Goldsborough
John Lewis
Palestine
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Israel
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Smuts
South Africa
Vanport
Schwellenbach
Washington State
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John J. Pershing
Arlington
Yule Crooks
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
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