Legislation Update Reflects Mixed Progress in Congress
A Monday look shows tax revision moving in House Ways and Means, while appropriations bill of $29 billion stalls in House with GOP cuts. Several measures advance or await action in one chamber, including foreign aid with a Marshall Plan cut, welfare department talk, science foundation approval, and social security coverage changes.
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Truman Cross-Country Campaign Tour Amid GOP Attacks
The article details President Truman's cross-country plan with nine speeches and 50 platform appearances starting today at 3 20 PM. He will deliver a Cheyenne Wyoming address on government aid to small business and return after a Chicago rally featuring Democratic leaders. GOP charges call the trip a socialist campaign and accuse Truman of obstructing Taft Hartley amendments and tax cuts.
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Truman Criticizes Senate for Missing Crime Probe
President accuses Senate Democrats of resisting an honest nationwide inquiry into racketeering and crime syndicates tied to politics. He urges action amid criticism of democratic leaders and calls for socialized medicine and a broader socialist program rejected by three Congresses.
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McCarthy attacks Acheson over policy and prisoners
Senator McCarthy bitterly accused Secretary Acheson of dilettante diplomacy and criticized the State Department for aiding Alger Hiss while failing to secure the release of two American service members missing since October 1948 after a training flight near Tsingtao China. He urged forceful action to free the captives.
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McCarthy Renews Threat to Purge State Department Officials
McCarthy says Democrats could expose or resign without war over two men. He names Kerr, Hoey, Byrd, George, and Anderson as preferred Democrats for a probe. Investigators at the Capitol move to cite Earl Browder and Frederick Vanderbilt Field for defying a Senate subcommittee. The panel weighs issuing contempt citations and sending the case to the district attorney for action.
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Congressional Hearing Sizzles Over Communist Ties
The American Communist Party refused to name individuals amid charges of a fishing expedition. Field, a Vanderbilt descendant, invoked constitutional protection on whether he was a Communist. On the House side, lawyer Joseph Rauh attacked Chairman Woods over Remington loyalty probes as Elizabeth Bentley testified behind closed doors about Remington’s alleged Communist ties.
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Parisian Receives Executed Traitor’s Eyes at Dawn
The corneas of Maurice Bey, condemned for collaborating with the Gestapo, were transplanted yesterday to a sightless Parisian. Hospital officials withheld the recipient’s name and operation details, and said results would not be known for two weeks.
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Boston Police Nab Bad Check Suspect
GREENFIELD MASS A 25 year old ex Marine who underwent a dangerous brain operation in hopes of correcting a criminal tendency was turned over to Boston police yesterday. The man’s identity was not disclosed. He was arrested on charges related to bad checks and possible other offenses.
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Fugitive Charles Hinkley Arrested on Check Charge
Police say Charles Hinkley was arrested after prosecution on a charge of passing a worthless 160 dollar check. He is also wanted in New York and Florida on bad check charges. Hinkley was captured in South Deerfield after fleeing the Kansas Veterans Administration Hospital where he was undergoing treatment.
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Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini Arrive Quietly in Switzerland
Swiss Telegraph Agency reports Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini arrived in Lugano in strict incognito. Precise whereabouts unknown and their plans remain unconfirmed. Reports say they may marry in Switzerland but no confirmation yet.
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Pilgrims Packed St Peter's for Canonization of Claret
More than 30 000 pilgrims gathered at the general audience in St Peter's Basilica as Pope Pius XII presided. The crowd included 26 bishops and the first postwar Japanese bishop to visit Rome, Bishop Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi of Osaka, for the canonization of Blessed Anthony Claret, founder of the Claretian Fathers who oversee 220 houses worldwide.
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