Army Navy Ask Draft In Peacetime Extension
Washington March 22 Gen Dwight D Eisenhower urged a peacetime draft. Secretary of War Patterson said the administration now favors a one year extension of the Selective Service law expiring May 15. Congress committees weigh how long to extend amid secret sessions and security fears.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert Patterson
Eisenhower
Patterson
House Military Committee
Wigkingtos
America
Senate
House
State Byrnes
Hoover Aims to Ease Europe Hunger Through North American Aid
Former President Herbert Hoover, now Food Relief Administrator for Europe, plans a Rome study trip as he warns that 500 million people face hunger with only enough food for about three quarters. He expects North America to supply relief for a crucial four months while Europe faces political unrest amid rations.
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Herbert Hoover
Rome
Europe
Mr. Hoover
South America
Canada
United States
Hoover
Miners Wage Talks and Legal Delay Reported
March 22 bulletin items note prosecutor Burke delaying serving a warrant for alleged intent to kill in a nine year old farm girl's beating and shooting case against James F. Lincoln Jr. Also coal operators seek compromise to avert a miners strike on April 1 and support a health and welfare fund for injured workers and families.
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Joliet
James E. Burke
Nesgult
James F. Lincoln, Jr
Washington
Jobn L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Maryland Firearms Sale Record Act Noted by Clerk
Clerk of the Circuit Court Ellis J C Wachter highlights a Maryland statute requiring city and county pistol dealers to record sales transfers and dispositions noting date, caliber, make model and serial number plus purchaser name and address. Reports go to the State Police. penalties include fines up to 300 dollars or a year in jail.
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Ellis JC. Wachter
Maryland
Marylamt
Pittsburgh Fire Ravages Downtown Three-Block Area
A major blaze in downtown Pittsburgh destroyed a dozen food and supply buildings in a three block area from First to Fourth avenues. Fourteen firefighters were injured. losses estimated at 500 000 to 700 000 dollars. Flames reached 100 feet in the air threatening the Wabash building as investigators probed for the cause.
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Fourth Avenue
Golden Triangle
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway
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Allegheny
Monogahela
Plames
Wabash
Harvey Scott
St Mary's
Colvin Appliance Co
King Advertising Co
Atlas Paste Co
A. C. Kramer Beer Distributing Co
David Rubinstein
Criminal Informations Filed Against Escapees from Frederick Jail
Nikirk filed criminal informations in Circuit Court against Le Roy Dinterman and Harry Phelps for the October 4 escape from Frederick county jail. They are at Maryland State Reformatory in Roxbury serving another sentence. A trial date is expected soon.
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Maryland
Roxbury
Gilmore Scooped On Own Story By Moscow Radio
AP correspondent Eddy Gilmore was preempted when Moscow radio broadcast his interview with Prime Minister Stalin before his own report could be filed. The Moscow feed aired at 11:00 a.m. EST and London recorded the broadcast, with Gilmore signaling urgent text from Stalin.
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Associated Press
Eddy Gilmore
Gilmore
Stalin
Mosicow
Associated Dress
Mowroagare
Moscow
London
New York
Gil
Associated “Press
Assessors Re-elect Officers At Maryland Conference
Officers were re-elected at the Marsland Supervisors and Assessors Association annual meeting in the Francis Scott Key hotel. Ocean City, Md was chosen as site for the Fall general meeting and educational conference. The executive board includes Wilton T. Allen Stephen M Kahoe H Gerard Mueller Robert L Mainen and past presidents. About 65 supervisors from 21 of Maryland’s counties attended the two day session. Installation closed the meeting and remarks covered forest conservation and retirement system legislation.
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Marsland Supervisors and Assessors Association
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Wilton ‘T. Allen
Montgomery County
Stephen M. Kahoe
Hartford County
H. Gerard Mueller
Baltimore County
Robert L. Mainen
Baltimore City
Guy G. Gantz
Washington County
Howard E. Burkhardt
George A. Erickson
Anne Arundel County
Philip C. Dennis
Worcester County
Ernest C. Speaks
Frederick County
Maryland
Forest Conservation Committee
Avhich
Kahoe
General Assembly
A. Lamar Barrick
Charge Same Price Though Serving Less Policy Adopted
The OPA authorized restaurants and hotels to serve less bread and salad dressing to cut waste for wheat and edible oils to aid famine relief. In St. Petersburg detective chief Siers said a man claimed to be John Wright McDowell Jr faces kidnapping charges involving two seven year olds. Police halted a large mob outside Dr Marcel Petrot's mansion during his murder trial in Paris. In New York stocks, favorites advanced though many bids were weak.
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OPA
St. Petersburg
Fla
John S. Siers
John Wright McDowell, Jr
Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
Paris
le Sueur
Marcel Petrot
Hats de Boulogne
State Police Deployed to Break CIO Picket Lines at Westinghouse
Governor Edward Martin ordered Pennsylvania state police into Pittsburgh to shield supervisors trying to pass CIO picket lines at the Westinghouse plant amid a nationwide 75,000-strong CIO Electrical Workers strike. Police actions followed a melee at East Pittsburgh as 16,000 striking workers gathered, with deputies dispersing the clash.
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Associated Press
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
CIO
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
East Pittsburgh
Westinghouse
Martin
Walter C. Monaghan
Allegheny County
Common Pleas
Walter P. Smart
Kenninlen
Navy Budget Battle Heats Up Over Navy Funding
March 22 report cites a congressional push to add 2.1 billion to Navy funds with Adm. Nimitz and other admirals warning cuts to 4.225 billion would force drastic reductions in ships manpower and research. President Truman disputes Navy statements as Budget Director Harold Smith and other officials face testimony next week.
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Chester W. Nimitz
Budget Bureau
Nimitz
Naval Operations
House Naval Committee
Truman
Wee House
House
Cought
Harold Smith
Carl Vinson
Naval Committee
Smith
Vinson
Navy
Oyster Mortality Blamed On State's Heavy Rains
Washington reports the U S Fish and Wildlife Service and Maryland Tidewater Fisheries blame oyster deaths in Chesapeake Bay on heavy rains that lower salinity. Death rates ranged from seven to nine percent at upper bay. salinity has been below half normal for the year, with Solomons Island noting the lowest levels in nine years.
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Washington
Mace
Chesapeake Bay
U. 5
Fishang Wildlife Service
Maryland Departments of Tidewater Fisheries and Research and Education
AC Myemey
Lanl Grevesreey Mae
Milton Co James
The
Wildlife Service
Solomons Island
Army to unify officers and enlisted in one dress by 1948
Washington reports the Army will issue identical battle jackets and trousers for all ranks by June 30 1948 with insignia as the only differentiator. Officers may still wear grey or pink slacks with forest green coats while the Navy considers similar changes. Blue dress uniforms may return for special occasions but shortages could delay restoration.
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Washington
Air Department
Arst
Capitol Hill
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
War Department
U. S. Grent
One Held After Negro's Body Found Along Road
Samuel S. McKaig, 65, colored, Martinsburg, Md., is held without bond in Rockville jail on a murder charge in the death of Claude Russell. Russell's body was found on Route 28 near Poolesville in Montgomery County. Police say Russell was beaten after an argument with McKaig.
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Samuel S. McKaig
Martinsburg
Montgomery County
Rockville
Claude Russell
Sugarland
New Radio Equipment Arrives for Police
Chief of Police Fred Straley announced that almost all sections of the new radio equipment from the Link Company have arrived, with remaining parts due soon. Installation will follow by a company representative, and new patrol cars will be used only after the system is in place.
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Fred Straley
Seaich
Prcehared
Link Company
Iran joins US oppose delay of UN Security Council meeting
Iran formally aligned with the United States in opposing a Soviet request to delay the council meeting by 10 days. Ambassador Hussein Ali warned postponement would harm Iran’s interests as Tehran urged immediate action on the dispute with the Soviet Union. Russia and China favored postponement, while Britain and Australia opposed any delay.
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uPd
Iran
United Nations
United States
Un-Hation Security Council
Tran
Hussein Ala
Tranidt
Trygve Lie
UNO
Truman
Security Council
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
China
Australia
Great Britain
Hussein Ali
Soviet Union
Gromyko Visits Truman Amid UN Security Council Prep
Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko paid an unheralded courtesy call on President Truman at the White House, following a conference with Secretary Byrnes. Byrnes plans to represent the United States at the Security Council in the Iran dispute, with the council meeting in New York Monday.
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Washington
Andrei Gromyko
Truman
White House
State Byrnes
Gromyko
Executive Mansion
Byrnes
State Department
United States
United Nations Security Council
Council
New York
Iran
Michael J. McDermott
Department
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
U. S
Judge Vardaman’s suitability questioned by banker Hardin
Hord Hardin of St. Louis told a Senate Banking subcommittee that Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr. shows utter lack of balanced judgment for the Federal Reserve Board. The hearing concerned his nomination as secretary treasurer to the banking board amid the Truman administration.
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Washington
Hord Hardin
St. Louis
Jdames K. Vardaman, Jr
Federal Reserve Board
Hardin
Missppi Valley Trust Co
Senate Banking
Truman
Naval
Stalin calls for peace and UN role in world security
Stalin told the AP in Moscow that nations seek peace and that the United Nations is a strong instrument for preserving international peace and equality of states. He urged counter propaganda against war propagandists and urged public and press to rebuke reverberating warmongering. Speaker Rayburn called Stalin's remarks powerful and supportive of global peace efforts.
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London
Stalin
Associated Press
Moscow Radio
Moscow
Eddy Gilmore
United Nations
Staitn
United Nations Organization
Stalin Teen Wag Askel
Gene Waiueee Houde
Washington
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Wadsworth
Kilian Faces Conspiracy and Malfeasance Charges
Col James A Kilian of Highland Park charged with conspiracy to inflict cruel and unusual punishment on guardhouse prisoners. Six officers named including Maj Richard D Kearney said charges under the 7th Article of War cover misfeasance and malfeasance in office. Also notes DMV offices open March 25 for license tag purchases with year’s plates expiring March 31.
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Lonton
James A. Kilian
Highland Park
Lichfield
Richard D. Kearney
O'Conor
Maryland
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