Seek Final Action On Foreign Aid Bill Thursday
Congressional conferees pressed to finalize a 5.5 billion dollar European recovery authorization. House and Senate leaders Kee and Connally aimed for quick accord with a potential vote by Thursday as Easter recess looms and a quorum risk grows.
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W. Va
Sen. Connally
Tex
Connally
Rayburn
Texas
White House
City Scene Notes Include Eclipses and Early Blooming Trees
Cloudy skies briefly hid the total lunar eclipse but periods of clear view allowed observers to enjoy the spectacle. Downtown water line work is planned around May 1 as city crews connect facilities. Early peaches and plums are blooming ahead of schedule, offering signs of a mild season. The sun spurred sunbathing and reading outdoors as workers applied hot tar on a downtown roof. Route 18 improvements progress as Alfred Martin reports the county highway department seeks state approval for replacement.
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Daily Weather Report
Scattered showers and mild temperatures tonight with a mostly cloudy and cooler Thursday. Maximum 75, minimum 54, precipitation .25 inches. river stage 5.9 feet. Year ago: max 60, min 41, precipitation .54 inches.
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Moon Eclipse Blotted Out by Clouds in New York
Moon eclipsed in a rare blackout as clouds ice smoke and haze dimmed the coppery hue. Scientists say a blanket of rare clouds and atmospheric particles muted the show and interfered with televiewer and observer reports.
Green Pennant Program Starts in New Castle
New Castle launches the Green Pennant safety drive with all public schools entered and a no accident goal this month. The Castleton hotel hosted the New Castle chapter of the Lawrence County Safety Council, with a county chapter to follow. By fall term, all public and parochial schools should be enrolled in Governor Duff's no accident campaign, led by David McBride.
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Russia Plans Mass Maneuvers Near U S Forces
Berlin April 13 IN S Reliable sources say Russia will soon stage large troop maneuvers in the Soviet zone of Germany backed by new jet planes. The North South attacks will put 400000 Red Army troops against U S occupation forces to prove the Elbe line cannot be held. The maneuvers would be the strongest display of Russian power outside its borders since World War II.
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Bandits Hold Up Follansbee Bank
Three bandits robbed the Follansbee National Bank at 11:15 a.m. Officers said the trio fled in a 1941 Ford with West Virginia plates. State police set roadblocks as investigators believed they were headed toward Wheeling, sixteen miles away.
Spring Outlook In Pennsylvania Is Best In Years
The Pennsylvania agriculture department reports the warmest winter since 1932 boosting an optimistic early spring for 1949 crops. Frost damage is light. oats show green, pastures and hay are in good shape, and fruit trees bloom early with apricot plum peach cherry pear and apple buds in various stages.
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Meyer Is Third Mystery Witness In Trial Of Reds
In New York on April 13 the government presented its third mystery witness in the U S Communist party conspiracy trial. Frank S Meyer age 39 a writer and lecturer testified as a former Communist agent on the University of Chicago campus linking internal party operations.
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U. S
Communist Party
Frank S. Meyer
University of Chicago
Louis F. Budenz
Communist Daily Worker
Herbert A. Philbrick
FBI
Philbrick
Senate Will Not Rush Action On Atlantic Treaty
Senate Majority Leader Lucas says domestic legislation must come first before taking up the North Atlantic Pact. He warns troop deployment issues will be debated on the floor and expects hearings to run about a month to six weeks, delaying treaty action into late April.
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William Theis
Washington
Lucas
Foreign Relations Committee
Unification Plan Not Working Well
Senate committee heard Air Secretary Symington testify that the military establishment has not operated satisfactorily under unification. Army Secretary Royall also said the current arrangement is unsatisfactory and costly, noting the nation is worse prepared for war than if unification had not passed.
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Royall
Greater Amount Of Steel Released For General Use
Commerce Secretary Sawyer ordered 173000 tons of steel monthly released from voluntary allocation to general use. The action followed a sharp cut in freight car building and aims to let private builders obtain more steel through normal channels.
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Commerce
Sawyer
Four Die In Georgia Tornadoes Hit West-Central Towns
Four people were killed and at least 30 injured as tornadoes swept across west-central Georgia. Oliver Griggs died in Manchester when a railroad boxcar toppled. Booze Passmore died at Zebulon as his house collapsed. Two unidentified children perished near McDonough in Bethany as a house folded in the storm.
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Arab bloc presses to bar Israel from UN agenda
At the United Nations in Flushing Meadows on April 13 the Arab bloc led a final push to keep Israel out of the General Assembly agenda. Spokesmen from 58 nations urged referring Israel's admission to the political committee. Pakistan’s Zafrullah Khan Lebanon's Charles Malik and Denmark's Rasmussen backed the measure, noting unresolved issues around Count Folke Bernadotte's assassination. Britain aligned with Arab calls to send the application to the political committee.
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State banks report sought by secretary Brumbaugh
Harrisburg April 13 state banking secretary Emmet D Brumbaugh issued a call for a report on the condition of all state banks bank and trust companies trust companies savings banks and private banks as of April 11 body of institutions required to disclose their status and financial health through this inquiry.
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Emmet D. Brumbaugh
East Brook F.F.A. Fetes Tenth Anniversary Banquet
East Brook F.F.A. marked its tenth anniversary with a banquet at East Brook high school. William Pontius chaired as toastmaster and W. A. Martin, Pennsylvanian education official, spoke on a nine point plan for member success. Gene Downing welcomed guests, with a response from his father W. M. Downing. Howard F. Fox introduced as adviser and instructor.
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House Expected to Vote on $16 Billion Defense Budget
The House is set to override Truman’s economy ceiling and approve a $16 billion defense measure for a 70 group air force. The only major dispute involves a $300 million Navy plane contract addition. The budget totals $15.909 billion, up $630.7 million from Truman’s request for the new fiscal year.
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U S Woman Is Arrested in Prague
The U S Embassy reports Czech police arrested Miss Vlasta Adele Vraz head of American relief for Czechoslovakia in political investigations. Vraz, from Berwyn NL, has been in Prague since October 1945 and was arrested April 9. a U S official visited her yesterday with Czech foreign office and police present.
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Crippled Children Examined At Jameson Memorial Clinic
Fifty two children were registered this morning at the semi annual crippled children's clinic at Jameson Memorial hospital under the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Dr Cc C Yount of Pittsburgh led the clinic with Dr Meyer De Roy assisting. Grace Ackerman state nurse and local nurses helped. Recommendations for treatment and appliances were made to a shoemaker physio therapist and appliance maker to correct deformities.
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Cc. C. Yount
Pittsburgh
Meyer de Roy
Grace Ackerman
Col Sir Arthur Evans Remarries Former Wife in London
Col Sir Arthur Evans aged 50 a former British MP and veteran of both world wars remarried his former wife today at Caxton Hall London. His second bride Mary Stewart Claflin of Morristown New Jersey was identified in the report.
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Death Notices for W Willis Alben Ben Caraway John F Wilson
Obituaries list wills and ages for W Willis Alben 74 of Slippery Rock Ben Caraway 64 of 7 West Home street and John F Wilson 59 of Ellwood City in the death records published April 13 1949.
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Slippery Rock
Ben Caraway
West Home Street
John F. Wilson
Ellwood City
Basic German Plants Retained To Aid European Recovery
The United States Britain and France agreed to retain 159 German industrial plants for postwar recovery. Thirty-two steel plants, 88 metal working, 32 chemicals, and seven non ferrous plants will stay in Germany. The accord aims to boost western Germany’s capacity by about 165 000 tons annually while keeping crude steel limits in place.
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Britain
France
Economic Cooperation Administration
George M. Humphrey
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Senate Panel Approves Early for Defense Post
The Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously approved President Truman's nomination of Stephen T. Early as undersecretary of defense. The brief hearing questioned Early about resigning from Pullman Inc. and his intent to take the defense post.
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Pullman, Inc
Springtime Weather and Baseball Signs in Dixie
The piece notes spring signs from blooming shrubs to children and spinning tops, with onions sprouting and a water cooler doing brisk business. It predicts summer and baseball activity in Dixie, calling the day a 76 degree springtime.
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