GOP Accuses Truman of Pushing Senate Gag Debate
Conservatives charge President Truman is pressuring Congress to adopt a simple majority rule to cap Senate debate on civil rights. Key figures Sen Brewster Maine and Sen Wherry Nebraska argue the move aims to polarize voters and curb southern filibusters.
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Big Question After Airport Levy Defeat: What is Next Move
Local precincts weighed the airport levy with six of the thirteen precincts opposing it. Shady Spring High School cast the third highest vote in the county for the levy, signaling mixed community support and prompting policymakers to consider next steps.
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Aides Say Royall Will Resign As 13 Precincts Remain
Raleigh County voters rejected a three year special levy to raise 486 075 for Memorial Airport Penman Park and courthouse improvements. Only 9 43 percent turnout. Beckley and North Kanawha showed mixed results with heavy support in mining Raleigh and Negro communities. Royall resignation rumors surface as Truman aides confirm plan to retire Royall within days. The Gaza Falja armistice exchange begins between Israel and Egypt on the Gaza Falija highway.
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Abductors In Louisiana Toss Coin To Decide Lynching Victim
A jailed black man allegedly escaped his captors after three white men tossed a coin to decide who would kill him. Edward Honeycut, 22, was being held on aggravated assault charges linked to an attack on a white woman. The incident occurred amid a string of violent threats in Opelousas Louisiana.
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Lucian H. Boor
Tairmont General Hospital
Opelousas
Clayton Gilbeau
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Western powers brace for possible Soviet shift after Molotov replacement
Washington officials signal readiness to meet any contingency as Moscow shakes up the foreign ministry. Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov, prompting talk of intensified internal programs and possible crackdowns in eastern Europe and tougher Soviet diplomacy toward the West. Some think a spring showdown with Tito and stronger action against Yugoslavia may follow, aligning with ongoing purges in the East.
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Speculation on New Push for Big Four Foreign Ministers Meeting
Foreign observers in Moscow weigh whether the Soviet shift in top leadership signals renewed effort to convene a Big Four foreign ministers meeting on German questions. Analysts cite Andrei Vishinsky and Andrei Gromyko as possible catalysts amid Berlin blockade conditions.
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Credit Terms Cut in Effect
The Federal Reserve Board eased installment limits in January after complaints from shopkeepers and dealers. Automobile purchases may be made on 21 months credit, refrigerators radios and televisions up to near twenty years with reduced down payments and band payments dropped to 15 percent, though cars still require cash for the top price item.
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Federal Board
Weather and crime scene report include snow flurries and lynching attempt
Weather outlook shows cloudy cold with scattered snow flurries this morning then drier and warmer tonight through Tuesday. Temperatures rise from near freezing to higher 20s. In a separate event, officers found Honeycut deceased at dawn clinging to a tree near the Atchafalaya River after a daylight courthouse jail incident where two white men abducted Henry Landry from his cell and fled by car. DA Fonteriol called it an attempted lynching.
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Secret House hearings push for new national defense powers
The House Armed Services Committee held secret hearings on a bill granting the central intelligence agency permanent statutory authority, including budget concealment and the annual entry of up to 100 aliens for information. The measure, led by Rep. Sasseen and supported by House leaders, also outlines creating an under secretary of national defense and funding radar nets and missile test facilities.
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Four-year-old Beckley girl’s death prompts Raleigh suit
A $10,000 damage case arising from the death of four year old Mary Ages McCormick of Beckley will be tried in Raleigh County Circuit Court. Jurors were impaneled to hear the action by her father Edward L C McCormick of Jarrell Street against M Spengler Claud Britts Elsie Britts doing business as White Star Taxi Company and George Prater. Mary McCormick died after falling from a cab owned by the company and driven by Prater on Lilly and West Neville Streets.
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White Star Taxi Company
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Sprague
Lilly
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Sewer Line Project Beginnings on Mercer Street
Mayor Hedrick announced tomorrow work starts on a new 200 foot sewer line connecting the Veterans Administration Hospital on Mercer Street. The line will cross a right of way acquired from Beaver Coal Company, extending sewer service.
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Odom Heads for Second Honolulu to San Francisco Light Plane Record
The Associated Press reports veteran flyer Odum, 79, attempting the Honolulu to Teterboro distance record in a Beechcraft. He faced stormy weather far out over the Pacific after departing Honolulu, with visual contact maintained by his escort as he aimed for San Francisco in about 17 hours.
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Witch Widow Recovers After Grave Hex in 1919 Altoona Case
In Bedford County Pennsylvania a reopened grave reveals a buried U S Army uniform and a salt ritual to ward off spirits. The widow Rosella Rock, 22, said to be tormented by her dead husband Reuben Rock’s restless ghost, slowly regains health after the uniform is burned and the corpse reburied.
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Seven Germans On Trial For Killing 5400 Jews
Seven former German police officials went on trial at Lauf prison before a German criminal court on charges of complicity in the extermination of about 5,400 German Jews during the Nazi era. The proceedings open as authorities pursue accountability for wartime atrocities.
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Lauf
Snow and Windcaused Minor County Accidents
Overnight snowfall and cold air blanketed the area with light accumulation. State Police logged a handful of minor wrecks as drivers faced bleary windshields and impaired vision from alcohol and snow. Only fenders were damaged in the collisions.
Senator Probes UN Hiring of U S Fired Helpers
Senator Mundt warned the United Nations may employ Americans or foreign staff who were previously fired by the State Department as security risks. He urged screening Americans by the State Department and questioned how foreign governments might use UN rolls to spy on the United States.
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Tall
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Régistre Sida
Ini
New York
Private plane mission ends with rescuer in Pacific waters
A man attempted a covert parachute landing from a private plane two miles offshore near Princeton by the Sea California. He miscalculated the drop landing thirteen miles off shore below San Francisco. A life raft was deployed and drifted 604 yards away as currents pulled him toward exhaustion before a fishing boat rescued him.
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Milwaukee to be returned from Russian service to U S Navy
The cruiser Milwaukee with a Soviet crew is due home today in a ceremony at Lewes, Delaware. It is the first of 386 U S vessels lent to the Russians during World War II to return, while Moscow plans to reclaim other ships. the Milwaukee will be towed to Philadelphia for final inspection.
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