Truman to Seek Broad Social Security Health Bill
President Truman plans to ask Congress after January 6 to enact a wide social security package including an amended cradle-to-the-grave health bill. He will add Federal aid to education, extended social security for federal workers and farmers, unemployment reforms, and a possible minimum wage rise to 75 cents. The proposal faces GOP and Democratic opposition and a Senate clash with Taft leading the Republicans.
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Washington
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Senate
Taft
Ohio
Commission On
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Utah
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Tilman
Senate Labor Education Committee
G.O.P
Limman
Turbulent Anti Communist Protest Forces Resignations in Ankara
In Ankara a crowd of nearly 10 000 students clashed with police and firemen, forcing the resignations of four Ankara University professors and the dean. Police protected the Soviet embassy as the mob stormed the university, damaged windows, and dragged the dean from the building amid battles with hoses and minor injuries.
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Ankara
Turkey
Sevket Aziz Kansu
Jin
National Students’ League
Red
Georgi Dimitrov
Bulgaria
University
S. Communists
Greeks Drive to Open Road to Besieged Konitsa
Greek Army reinforcements countered Communist guerrilla roadblocks along the Ioannina Konitsa route. Heavy fighting raged all night as government forces battered multiple 66 millimeter gun positions and sought to relieve 44,000 refugees sheltering from shellfire near Konitsa. Brig. Constantine Dovas was wounded and treated in a hospital bed while orders were issued to expand the assault at dawn.
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Athens
Konitsa
Epirus
Oannina
Kalpaki
New “Free State
Constantine Dovas
Bourozani Bridge
Ioannina
Soviet Bribery and Corruption Accusations Broadcast
A brief INS report notes strong insinuations of bribery government graft and black market activity in the Soviet Union. The statement was broadcast Saturday night by Radio Moscow through Soviet criminal prosecutors.
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London
INS
Soviet Union
Vna
Radio
Moscow
Churchill Sidelined by Cold While In Paris
Reports from Paris say Winston Churchill is ill with a cold and remaining in bed by his doctor’s orders. The wartime British Prime Minister is vacationing in Marrakech, North Africa.
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Paris
INS
Winston Churchill
Marrakech
North Africa
Today’s Feature Pages Highlight Arts and Amusements
The page outline lists features across sections such as Books Cross word and Poets Corner with pages 17 18 and 19 for Amusements and Music City Life Political Classified Periscope and Deaths Weather Society Editorial Sports and more. Today’s Pictures appear on page 20 with additional features on page 16.
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City Life
Maxwell Te
Winchell
Truman to Sign Taft Bill and Attack Congress
The White House says President Truman will sign the Taft voluntary anti inflation bill and sharply rebuke the Republican Congress for not advancing his price curb program. The plan may include a grain allocation to distilling and the Labor Department reports the cost of living index at a new all time high.
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Washington
INS
Truman
Republican Congress
White House
Agriculture
Anderson
Labor Department
Department
Family of Five Die in Gas Leak in Weymouth Home
Police in Weymouth Massachusetts report the bodies of Carl Voight about 48 his wife and their three daughters Ethyl 17 Lorraine 20 and Elva 22 found in a residence. Illum inating gas from a stove pipe is suspected as the cause. Elva was found downstairs after apparently seeking help.
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Weymouth
Mass
Carl Voight
Ethyl
Lorraine
Elva
Voight
Lost B-29 Sighted Over Alaska
A B 29 Superfortress missing since Tuesday after a flight over the North Pole was sighted on the northern Seward Peninsula by rescue planes. The brief message from Ladd Field gave no details on the plane’s condition or whether any of the eight aboard survived.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
North Pole
Seward Peninsula
Ladd Field
Pope Recovers From Cold Walks In Vatican Gardens
Pope Pius leaves a minor cold behind and takes a 45 minute walk in the Vatican Gardens. He plans to resume audiences and begin holiday greetings on Monday.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius
Vatican Gardens
Molar Mystery Stuns Naples Police
Naples police tackle a mystery after 530000 sets of American made false teeth taken as U.S. Army surplus are reported missing and handed to the Italian government for disposition.
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Naples
INS
Neapolitan
New York New Year's Eve costs rise at top spots
The 1940s style article notes a pricey Gotham NYE in clubs and hotels. Prices reach 40 per couple at the Persian Room of the Hotel Plaza and 35 at the Continental. A $20 per couple prix fixe at the Stork Club is mentioned with a no add-ons stance. Tax adds about 20 percent plus gratuities.
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New York
Broadway
Hildegarde
Tippling
el Morocco
Stork
Chile
Two Ships Sail For Palestine With 15000 Jewish Refugees
A Jewish informant says two former American freighters Crescent and York now Panamanian flag left Burgas Bulgaria carrying 15000 Jewish refugees to Palestine. They arrived Constanta in early October after conversion to passenger ships and were organized by Jewish groups with half the passengers displaced persons, land orphans.
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Bucharest
Burgas
Palestine
Pan
Crescent
Pan York
Jerusalem
Constanta
Big Town Fairyland
New York awoke to a transformed city glittering with snow and beauty. The metropolis, long scarred by brick canyons and steel, appears like a fairy tale fairy princess released from ugliness and shrouded in a rare tranquil glow across its grim areas. It feels serene yet visitors would not want to live there, as the city settles into a peaceful, villagelike stillness.
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New York
New’ York
Conwin
New York mobilizes vast forces to clear snow and restore services
After a record northeastern storm that killed 58, New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer returned from vacation to lead an emergency push. City workers mobilized in the hundreds of thousands to clear streets and restore services as an emergency conference was convened and operations went into full swing.
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New York
Black Market Oil Scams Hit Long Island Homes
Police received complaints from Long Island homeowners within hours of New York snowstorm ending about black market operators offering fuel oil at 26 cents per gallon. Normal prices run 9 to 12.1 cents with gray market rates around 15 cents in recent days.
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New York
INS
Long Island
Wartime workers urged to report as blizzard hits city
A massive snowstorm paralyzed the city for over 15 hours dumping 25.8 inches. An appeal went to 350000 wartime defense workers to assist. Casualty counts rose across states with deaths due to exertion in blizzards and heart attacks. Mayor O Dwyer flew into LaGuardia on the first plane since Friday.
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New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Pennsylvanian
Massachusets
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Maine
O'Dwyer
la Guardia
Los Angeles Ends Year in Heat Wave Record
Los Angeles registered 87 degrees on December 27 setting a new warmest Dec 27 record as crowds packed beaches. Lifeguards reported multiple rescues from surf while other regions faced milder conditions amid a prolonged heat wave across the area.
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Los Angeles
JNS
Los Anengeles
Redondo
Ples
Centotorerature
Deen
Ercos
India
Weetrer
Tos
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