Target Date For Should Congress Pay Be Raised
The piece weighs whether Congress should raise its pay from 15000 to 27500 per year as recommended by a special commission. It outlines current salaries and allowances for representatives and senators, including office funds travel expenses stamps telephones telegrams and franking. It notes benefits like franking medical care retirement pensions and residence allowances and contrasts with higher federal official pay.
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Washington
House
Senate
Wayne Morse
Oregon Independent
Special Commission
Congress
Nevada
New York
Agriculture
Smith urges target date for U S troop withdrawal from Japan
Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee chief H Alexander Smith proposes setting a timeline for removing American forces from Japan within four to five years. He argues a definite date could spur Japanese self defense moves, widen markets, and reduce reliance on U S aid while cautioning against Communist China gains. He doubts a renewed Korean War or an overt anti-truce move by Syngman Rhee.
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Washington
Sen
H. Alexander Smith
United States
Japan
Smith
Senate Foreign Relations
Asia
New Jersey
China
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Long Rope for Long Life: Man Rescued From Loch Raven
Baltimore police report a suicide attempt by George A. Saportas who tied a rope to a bridge and wrapped it around his neck before leaping into the icy Loch Raven reservoir. A passer-by pulled him from the water, ending the self harming act.
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Baltimore
Loch Raven Reservoir
George A. Saportas
Hidden Motives in a New York Advertising Chief Death
Charlotte Morgan tells Lt. Chase of her promotion to advertising manager at Delafield's after Mr. Cummings fired Mario Milani. She explains she lacks interest in the job, notes office rule on dates, and reveals she fears being implicated as the truth about Cummings unfolds. The scene ends with Charlotte feeling trapped and pondering the idea of a courtroom and a cell.
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Charlotte
Chase
Sam
Grace
Eric Hay
Delafield’s
Tattler
Miss Morgan
Kingsley Cummings
Earth
Sweden Sends Medicine as Pope Improves
Sweden dispatched a new anti hiccup medicine to the Vatican for Pope Pius XII after hiccups persisted for more than a week. Vatican sources said his condition remained steady with no cause for uneasiness while his recovery progresses slowly and he continues church duties from his apartment.
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Pius XII
Vatican
Ollallo Morales
Stockholm
Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi
Ollallo
West Virginia Delegation To Federal Safety Meet Sets 39 Names
Gov. Marland announced a 39 member West Virginia delegation to the White House Conference on Highway Safety to be held February 17 to 19 in Washington. Led by State Police Supt Raymond W Boyles the group includes state officials legislators and numerous public and professional leaders from Charleston Beckley Fairmont Huntington and other cities.
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Charleston
West Virginia
White House
House
Cecil Underwood
Harry E. Moats
Harrisville
William Blizzard
George J. Titler
Beckley
Cecil Urbaniak
Fairmont
Emmett J. Bush
West Virginia Motor Truck Assn
Francis C. Farley
West Virginia Petroleum Assn
M. S. Aldrich
West Virginia Highway Users Conference
Paul Carter
John C. White
Phares
EF. Reeder
West Virginia Education Assn
Charles Hopkins
T. G. Nutter
E. Gaujotias
Williamson
American Legion
L. L. Lough
Williamstown
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Clyde Bonar
Burlington
Jack Busfield
Cutlips
C. E. Jones
James W. Witherspoon
Edward Sharp
W. D. Anderson
Parkersburg
Clarence Johnson
Morgantown
James E. Deal
Frederick A. Fitch, Jr
Michael R. Prestera
Huntington
Arthur V. G. Upton
George Brace
Clarksburg
William J. L. Wallace
West Virginia State College
Mary Sturm
Fairview
Poultry Market Reports From Virginia and West Virginia
Harrisburg Virginia area market shows unsettled demand for broilers and fryers with plentiful supplies and heavy receipts. Prices at farm to noon yesterday ranged 20 to 22 cents for broilers, with heavy hens at 20 to 22 and turkey fryers at 35 cents. small breeder hens at 32 cents. Moorefield South Branch Valley area reports plentiful supplies and fair demand, market unsettled. 50 lots totaling 121 600 head of broilers or fryers sold at 20 to 22 1/2 cents, mostly around 20 1/2.
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Harrisburg
Shenandoah Valley
Moorefield
W. Va
South Branch Valley Area
South Branch Poultry Auction Market Slips Slightly Demand Fair
Market about 14 percent lower than last week and unsettled. Demand only fair. Broilers or fryers 19-21 percent, mostly 2012-21. One lot small white turkey breeders 33 cents. Total offered 100,550 head in 37 lots.
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South Branch
Roosevelt says he was blackmailed over adultery charges
James Roosevelt denies his wife Romelle’s allegations of infidelity with twelve women. He states he signed a 1945 letter admitting nine affairs to prevent divorce and lessen his late father Franklin D. Roosevelt’s burdens. He may run in the 26th District, with April 2 as candidacy deadline.
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Los Angeles
James Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Romelle Schneider Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Three Writers Awarded National Book Awards
NEW YORK The National Book Award for fiction went to Canadian-born Saul Bellow for The Adventures of Augie March. Bruce Catton received the nonfiction prize for A Stillness at Appomattox. Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer poet, won the poetry award for Collected Poems.
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New York
Saul Bellow
Augie March
Bruce Catton
Appomattox
Conrad Aiken
Hundreds Die in Chinese Food Riots Across Canton
Hong Kong papers report mass food riots in south China with estimates of 300 killed in January near Kweilai and 400 at Luksung depot. Guards were overpowered, reinforcements fired, and hundreds arrested. Another account from Wai Yeung cites 2,000 in a ration line rioting for oil, with 1,340 arrested and 100 shot.
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Hong Kong
South China
Independent Chinese Press
Wah Kiu Yat Po
Swatow
Kwangtung Province
Red Army
Kweilai
Luksung
Kung Sheung
Remarkable Ar Pan Ex tablets ease crippling arthritis pain
A medical discovery promises fast relief from arthritis, rheumatism, neuritis, and neuralgia. Ar Pan Ex tablets claim to ease gnawing pains in joints muscles and nerves through the bloodstream. Mail orders filled Kay's Drug Store 413 Neville Street $3.19.
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Kay
Neville Street
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