Truman urges moral values to curb organized crime
President Truman called for a national moral crusade against organized crime and urged education, religious instruction, and home training to back a stronger legal framework. Attorney General McGrath stressed fighting gambling through federal support, naming bookmaking, slot machines, and the numbers racket as major drains on legitimate business.
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Truman
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J. Howard McGrath
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J. Edgar Hoover
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National Association of
State) Attorneys General
American Municipal Association
U. S. Conference of Mayors
National Institute of Municipal Law Officers
Frank E. Flynn
U. S
Arizona
Flynn
de Lesseps Morrison
New Orleans
Municipal Association
Congress
Eight Die As B-29 Search Plane Crashes In Rain
A B-29 search mission to locate a missing B-36 superbomber crashed near Great Falls Montana. Eight crewmen died, seven of fifteen aboard escaped injury. The incident occurred as more than 70 planes joined dawn patrols across Seattle Tacoma Vancouver and coastal British Columbia to aid the search.
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Queen Charlotte Sound
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U. S. Air Force
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Navy
U. S
Royal Canadian Air Force
Tacoma
Vancouver
Great Falls
British Columbia
Queen Charlotte Islands
Vancouver Island
Storms and Floods Hit Much of the United States
Storms and floods lash the South Midwest and East causing at least 16 deaths and millions in damage. Homes flood in Louisiana and Missouri while Illinois Indiana Ohio and Tennessee face evacuations and rising rivers. Snow and ice shut roads and flights with widespread power and phone outages reported.
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Associated Press
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Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Tennessee
U. S. Weather Bureau
Middle West
Gulf
North Atlantic States
Wedemeyer To Tour Sixth Army Area Here
Lieutenant General Albert C. Wedemeyer arrives at Sky Harbor 11 a.m. to launch a tour of the Sixth Army area. He will meet the Arizona Army Advisory Committee, confer with Adjutant General A. M. Tuthill, visit Governor Dan E. Garvey, tour the Valley with W. Wesley Knorpp, and dine at the Kiva Club before departing for California Friday. The advisory committee outlines state involvement in the Sixth Army and Wedemeyer’s prior World War II duties and a 1947 report urging aid to Nationalist China with cautions about wider conflict.
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United States
China
Sixth Army
Wedemeyer
Sky Harbor
Arizona Army Advisory Committee
A. M. Tuthill
Arizona
Dan E. Garvey
Arizona Military District
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Washington Street
W. Wesley Knorpp
Knorpp
California
West Point
Orient
Far East
Harry S. Truman
Asia
Fall Of Slate Traps Miners In Kentucky
Two men were trapped in a small truck mine near Whitesburg Kentucky after a slate fall last night. Rescuers worked to reach them this morning and reports indicated both men were alive. Consol coal safety director M E Prunty led a rescue team from Jenkins with equipment called by the state Mines and Minerals department. The mine was operating under a new United Mine Workers contract.
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Here
Consolidation Coal Company
Jenkins
M. E. Prunty
State Department of Mines and Minerals
United Mine Workers
Top Dog Missing In LA Crime War
Mafia boss Jack Dragna vanished and may be sought by both the secret society’s killers and police. Governor Warren’s Crime Commission exposed Dragna’s activities, with Police Captain Lynn White commenting on the situation.
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Los Angeles
Jack Dragna
Secret Society
Dragna
Earl Warren
Crime Commission
Lynn White
Dragna Rivalry With Mafia Triggers Manhunt and Bomb Suspects
A Los Angeles manhunt follows the public release of a crime commission report linking Dragna to the Mafia. Police arrest four Dragna family members and one associate on suspicion of conspiring to murder Mickey Cohen after a bombing at a small-time gambler’s home. The commission says Cohen and Dragna were rivals and may implicate Dragna in the attack. Meanwhile county supervisors demand action over Sheriff Biscailuz’s alleged neglect of bookmaking operations and seek talks with the DA and administration about reform.
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Mafia
Sicilian Crime Organization
International Gang
Commission
Dragna
Mickey Cohen
Little Gambler
Louis Dragna
Jack
Tom Dragna
Louis
Frank Paul Dragna
Tom
Guillermo Adamo
White
Dragnas
Cohen
County Board of Supervisors
Eugene Biscailuz
Biscailuz
William Simpson
Admi
William Standley
Crime Commission
Jack Dragna
Lynn White
Budgetary Requests To Exceed 2 Million
Budgetary requests totaling over 2 million dollars will be placed before the Arizona Legislature's special session next Monday. The State Department of Public Welfare and the State Hospital for the Insane seek about 1 million each to cover deficiencies and carry into the next fiscal year. A separate 1 million would fund the Arizona Public Employee Retirement Fund. Smaller sums are requested for the Racing Commission, Tax Commission, state veterinarian, Supreme Court, and attorney general. The retirement fund covers this year and next, with roughly 500 thousand for each period. The Public Welfare plan seeks 579 thousand, and the hospital about 573 thousand. The attorney general funds would address Colorado River litigation with California. House hearings begin tomorrow due to time pressure. the session runs until March 11.
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Racing Commission
California
Colorado River
House Appropriations Committee
Carl Morris
Cochise County
Hunted As Driver's Kidnapers in Arizona
Three hitchhikers who reportedly kidnapped Los Angeles photographer Jack Mershon near Blythe California reportedly robbed him of his car money and clothing before dumping him in South Mountain Park. Mershon, 50, walked into the sheriff's office last night to report the alleged crime.
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Blythe
Calif
South Mountain Park
Jack Mershon
Sheriff's Office
About & O
India
Arizona
Colorado River
Mershon
Phoenix Park
Mersham
Tucson
U S Open to Talks with Soviet Union on Key Issues
Deputy Under-Secretary Dean Rusk told a Senate subcommittee that the State Department is prepared to discuss outstanding issues with the Soviet Union and keep doors open for views exchanges through the United Nations or ordinary diplomacy. He said the U S will not sit passively while other nations’ basic interests are decided behind their backs. The remarks come amid pressure to ease Cold War tensions and curb the atomic arms race. Churchill had urged direct talks with Stalin, a proposal not addressed in Rusk’s testimony.
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Soviet Union
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Winston Churchill
Josef Stalin
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Churchill
Noted Leaders Comment On Gambling and Atomic Age Power
International News Service surveys remarks from Attorney General McGrath Gen Romulo Churchill and Lilienthal. McGrath condemns private gambling at scale as corrupting. Romulo warns against money or bombs breaking American influence. Churchill eyes new high level talks with Soviet on the Atom Bomb. Lilienthal expresses cautious optimism about world end predictions.
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Washington
J. Howard McGrath
New York
Carlos Romulo
United Nations Assembly
America
Soviet Chinese alliance hailed as world historic pact
Moscow reports announce a 30 year treaty of alliance between Russia and Communist China. The pact commits mutual aid against aggression from Japan and its allies, covers the Changchun railway and Port Arthur status, and extends commercial aid totaling 300 million dollars over five years.
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China
Mao Tze-tung
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Great Britain
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Manchuria
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Darien
U. S
Five Rescued From Debris After Building Explosion
Eight to ten people feared buried in debris from a restaurant explosion in Portland Indiana area flooded by the Salmonie River. Five rescued including Ben Hawkins former Jay County sheriff. others named or identified as relatives of Hawkins and Ohio Valley Gas employees. Rescue workers reported debris flying in all directions and several people unaccounted for.
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Ind
Ben Hawkins
Jay County
Salamonie
Hawkins
Rohn Slick
Sherman Armantrout
Ohio Valley Gas Company
E. D. Cissell
The
Portland Sun
Sam Kiser
Vern Kizer
Winchester
Armantrout
Bailey
Muncie
Trial Group Asks Ouster of Mine Union
A CIO Trial Committee urged removing the Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Union from the CIO for Communist control. The recommendation, described as based on shocking evidence of direct Party influence, was presented to a closed CIO Executive Board session. Similar charges target three other unions. The Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Union has thousands of Arizona members in mining centers.
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INS
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
United Office and Professional Workers
United Public Workers
The
Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers
Communist Party
CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union
Arizona
Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers Union
Salt River
Yuma
Conventions This Year Will Bring 15 000 Here
Conventions this year in Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun will attract more than 15,000 people. The Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Convention and Tourist Bureau lists 36 major gatherings, led by the Arizona Education Association with 3,500 teachers. The California Arizona Cotton Association plans its 27th annual conference with 600 delegates April 14 and 15, among many others scheduled through spring.
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Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Convention and Tourist Bureau
John B. Mills
Arizona Education Association
California-Arizona Cotton Association
State Hospital Association
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