Congress presses economy drive amid peacetime budget clash
Washington April 11 A full fledged economy drive was forming in Congress with both chambers attacking Truman administration budget requests. Armed services panel called for drastic cuts and waste notional, citing former President Hoover's testimony on budget chaos. Lawmakers pursued 15 month spending cuts for European recovery while criticizing the farm program as costly and fantastical, with dollar estimates reaching into the tens of billions. continued on page 2 column 2.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Truman
Armed Services Committee
Herbert Hoover
Army
Navy
Air Force
Hoover
Alaska
Armed Services
Forrestal In Satisfactory Condition At Bethesda Hospital
Former Defense Secretary James Forrestal, 57, listed in satisfactory condition at Naval Medical Center Bethesda after a week as patient. He rests comfortably during routine checkups amid reports of nervous exhaustion and a wish for privacy.
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Washington
James Forrestal
Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Forrestal
Louis Johnson
Florida
Defense Office
Bethesda Hospital
Cancer death rate soars in Indiana
Indianapolis April 11. The Indiana State Board of Health reports rising cancer deaths in Hoosierland and notes the tumor registry contains about 1,000 newly diagnosed patients from slides, with 1,300 slides registered since October. Dr W C Anderson says the registry aims to shed light on cancer types and frequency to aid control. The first two months of 1949 saw 886 deaths, up from 833 in 1948 and 747 in 1947, with 1948 total at 4,183 versus 4,932 in 1947.
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Indianapolis
Indiana State Board of Health
Hoosierland
W. C. Anderson
Anderson
Indiana
Avoca Church Burns on Palm Sunday in Fire
Palm Sunday fire at the Avoca Baptist Church left a charred ruin with losses estimated under 10,000 dollars. About 50 people fled Sunday school as sparks from the chimney set wooden shingles ablaze.
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Preston
D-Ga
Lawrence H. Smith
R-Wis
August H. Andresen
R-Minn
Avoca
Ind
U.P
Avoca Baptist Church
Cow Rescues Farmer From Burning Barn
In Pitman New Jersey on April 11 a farmer Clarence Fisher collapsed from smoke while fleeing a barn fire. His cow butted him to safety and then guided the owner to fresh air as the flames consumed the barn.
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Pitman
N. J
U.P
Clarence Fisher
Fisher
Hearing set on highway relocation near Terre Haute
The Indiana State Highway Commission schedules a 2 p.m. hearing on April 19 at the Terre Haute House to decide on relocating U S 41 south of Terre Haute. Citizens and business leaders will express views on routing U S 41 through or around the city, with past debates over routing via Hulman Field airport and a four-lane widening plan discussed.
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Thompson Ditch
U. S. 41
Indiana State Highway Commission
S. C. Hadden
State Highway Commission
Guv Schricker
Commission
Terre Haute
Hulman Field
Fred R. Waldron
Banks of the Wabash Association
Seventh Street
Margaret Avenue
Margaret
Fatal Highway 41 crash claims Hartford woman
Mrs Irene Orssen aged 52 of Hartford Wisconsin died at St Anthony's Hospital after injuries from a head on crash on US Highway 41 near Terre Haute Sunday night. Passengers included Henry Lepien and Shirley Lepien. driver Miss Lorene Miller escaped with minor injuries. Truck driver Eugene J Lunger faces investigation by Sheriff Trierweiler and Deputy Carpenter.
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Irene Orssen
North Main Street
Hartford
Wis
St. Anthony's Hospital
Thompson Ditch Bridge
United States Highway 41
Terre Haute
Lepien
Henry Lepien
Shirley Lepien
Lorene Miller
Milwaukee
Miss Miller
Mr. Lepien
Camp Breckenridge
Eugene J. Lunger
Chrisman
Ill
Dealers’ Grain Co
Champaign
John Trierweiler
Fred Carpenter
Magazine PatchMarriage Fails in Turners Divorce Case
In Indianapolis on April 11 a magazine described Ballard D. Turner and wife Gladys as the subject of a case history on broken homes. Turner is jailed while Mrs. Turner lies in a hospital after a fire Turner allegedly set at their home. The blaze struck on the eve of a divorce hearing amid cruelty and infidelity claims.
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Indianapolis
Ballard D. Turner
Gladys
Turner
Capital Papers Quit Strike Halts Washington Newspapers
Washington April 11 strike of pressmen and stereo typers stopped publication of city papers. The News and Star and Times-Herald were affected while the Post, a morning paper, was not expected to print tonight.
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Washington
News and Star
Times-Herald
Post
Hero Who Died in Australia Will Be Buried Here Wednesday
Lt. Robert Q. Cordell 22 of 1343 Grand Ave died Feb 25 1944 on an operational flight mission over Townsville Queensland Australia. He will be flown to Terre Haute arriving Tuesday at 4 PM and taken to Thomas Funeral Home. He leaves mother Mrs. Mattie Cordell, four brothers Ernest Ralph Guy Warren and a Chicago sister. He enlisted March 27 1942 as a student at Indiana State Teachers College. He trained at East St Louis and Enid and Victoria Texas and joined the Southwest Pacific area Aug 13 1942. He earned the Air Medal and two oak leaf clusters in VF 8th Fighter Group 36th Fighter Squadron. Funeral at Thomas Funeral Home Wednesday April 13 at 1:30 PM officiated by Rev L E Peyton. Burial Roselawn Memorial Park with VFW honor guard.
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Robert Q. Cordell
Grand Avenue
Townsville
Queensland
Australia
Terre‘Haute
Thomas Funeral Home
Mattie Cordell
Ernest
Ralph
Terre Haute
Guy
Dayton
Warren
Chicago
Bernice Murana
Indiana State Teachers College
East St. Louis
Enid
Oklo
Aloe Army Air Field
Victoria
Tex
Southwest Pacific
Fifth Air Force
V.F.C. 8Th
Census Enumeration Staff Organizes For Local Work
Robert F. Wallace announces the start of actual enumeration of all retail, wholesale and service establishments in the district. The city hall office is staffed by Wallace, Ernest C. Cordell, and Juanita Louise Smith with enumerators Herschel Robert Long, ward Stitt, Adeline Geri, Howard Caton and Gordon Brown undergoing two weeks of training. The census, required by law every five years, aims to gather 1948 business statistics while keeping firm data confidential and inaccessible to competitors or tax authorities.
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Adeline Geri
Robert Wallace
Herschell Lowe
Robert Long
Gordon Brown
Edward Stitt
Howard Caton
Ernest Cordell
Juanita Smith
Robert F. Wallace
United States Census Bureau
Mr. Wallace
Ernest C. Cordell
Juanita Louise Smith
Herschel Robert Long
Ward Stitt
Wallace
Cordell
Department
Census Bureau
Noonday Holy Week services held at Terre Haute House
Noonday Holy Week services opened at the Terre Haute House with Dr. Luther P. Powell as guest preacher on the theme Man's Quest for God. Luncheon remarks followed for the Terre Haute Ministerial Association and additional public services were announced for Central Presbyterian church and other venues through the week.
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Terre Haute House
God
Luther P. Powell
McCormick Theological Seminary
Mayflower
Powell
Terre Haute Ministerial Association
Central Presbyterian Church
Union
Ministerial Association
Centenary Methodist Church
Maple Avenue Methodist Church
R. L. Alderton
Washington Avenue Presbyterian Church
E. J. Peters
Fourth Avenue Methodist Church
Paul Ausherman
Resolve at Terre Haute Brewery After Weekend Work Resumes
A bottlers walkout at the Terre Haute Brewing Company Friday night disrupted operations but was reportedly settled over the weekend. By Monday morning all workers including bottlers had returned to work and the plant was operating normally. Union business agent George Hage declined to comment on the dispute.
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Terre Haute Brewing Company
The
Brewing Company
George Hage
C.10. Brewery Workers Union
Five Hitler Aides Convicted by U S War Crimes Court
Five senior Nazi officials were found guilty of planning aggressive war by a U S War Crimes Court in Nuremberg. Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, Wilhelm Kepplar, Ernest Woermann, Henrich Lammers, and Paul Koerner were named as key figures in Hitler's inner circle and four year plan.
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Muernberg
Germany
Hitler
U.S
International Military Tribunal
Hermann Goering
Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker
Foreign Office
Vatican
Czechoslovakia
Wilhelm Kepplar
Circle of Friends
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Ernest Woermann
Henrich Lammers
Hitler Reich
Paul Koerner
Goering
Germans Win New Statute After Allied Return to Self Government
Bonn Germany April 11 western allies present Germany with a treaty called the occupation statute granting self government in domestic affairs under Allied oversight. Adenauer and German leaders will withhold comment 48 hours while the act keeps Allied control of science and foreign trade and arms the three powers to enforce constitutional respect and review in a year.
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Bonn
Germany
R. Konrad Adenauer
German Parliamentary Council
United States
Great Britain
France
Adenauer
Chinese Reds Halt Attack In Yangtze Crisis
A cease-fire was reportedly agreed by Chinese communists as three field armies moved toward the Yangtze. Mao Tze-tung ordered a more lenient approach to the Nationalists, while negotiations near Peiping advanced and frontline reports indicated the Red offensive was slowing near Nanking and the river crossing attempt was dropped.
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Yangtze
Li Tsung-Jen
Nanking
Peiping
Mao Tze-tung
Mao
Weather notes show cool, fair conditions across day
The report records a morning temperature at 6 am and noon at 9 am, a 606th mm reading, sunrise at 5 20, sunset at 6 23, river stage at 5.2 ft and falling. Local conditions note yesterday's high 55 and low 41 with .16 inches precipitation.
Forecast for Terre Haute and region with frosts expected
Forecaster notes fair conditions in Terre Haute and vicinity with a low around 35 and light frost. Tuesday looks fair and warmer. In Indiana and Illinois, clear and cooler areas face frost or near freezing, central portions frost, with scattered frost further south and partly cloudy skies. Street thermometer readings at 6 am show 44 degrees, by 2 pm 76.
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Terre Haute
Gindiana
Illinois
Federal court fines Perry in bank shortage case
Judgment of 159106.88 was entered in the Terre Haute division against Sterling W. Perry, a former Evansville bank official now in federal prison, with Aetna Casualty, St Paul Mercury, and Royal Indemnity listed as the plaintiffs. Perry had repaid 5744.16 in cash and turned over two oil leases totaling 3335.50, leaving a net due of 134855.71 plus accrued interest. Perry did not object to the civil judgment as he was brought in from prison.
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Federal District Court
Sterling W. Perry
Evansville, Ind
Terre Haute
Robert O. Baltzell
Aetna Casualty & Surety Co
St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co
Royal Indemity Co
Evansville
Perry
VA Funds Cut Half Billion in Budget Review
Washington April 11 The House appropriations committee cut veterans budget estimates by 508 million dollars, mainly from military pensions and GI readjustment benefits, while approving continued funding for veterans hospital construction. The panel recommended 7.58 billion dollars to run 28 independent agencies for fiscal 1950, about 10 percent less than requested.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
G.I
Budget Bureau
Truman at Four-Year Mark Faces War Peace and Prices
President Truman marked four years in office as the United States moved from wartime to peacetime. He confronted inflation, strikes, and political tensions as Congress reduced wartime controls and the OPA collapsed. The era saw rising prices, economic strain, and shifting international expectations.
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United States
Congress
Truman
Democrats
OPA
Tragic Well Rescue Ends With Kathy Fiscus Death
Kathy Fiscus three years old died from drowning after 52 hours of rescue attempts in an abandoned 14 inch well near San Marino California. More than 15000 people watched the final effort as the body was recovered at 1058 p.m. CST on Palm Sunday. Dr. Robert McCullock said she had been dead since Friday afternoon.
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David
Alice Fiscus
C.S.T
Sunny
Kathy
Robert McCullock
O. A. Kelly
Traffic Toll Rises to Nine in Indiana Wrecks
The Indiana weekend accident death toll rose to nine as five more fatalities were reported on state highways. Bruce Grobett, 67, of Austin, died one mile west of Lebanon. Dorothy Luck, 21, of Logansport, perished in a collision near Onward in Cass county. Alvin Lawson, 44, of East Chicago, was killed at Gary when his car struck two trees. George S. Beach, 24, of Evansville, died after his vehicle left the road and overturned near Evansville.
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Associated Press
Indiana
Bruce Grobett
Austin
Lebanon
Dorothy Luck
Logansport
Onward
Cass County
Alvin Lawson
Chicago
Gary
George S. Beach
Evansville
Attlee Attacks Kremlin Dividing World in Glasgow
Prime Minister Clement Attlee denounced Russia in Glasgow blaming the Kremlin rulers for world division. He spoke at a Labour rally in the shipbuilding city where communists are strong, saying Eastern Europe could have joined the European Recovery Program but Russia vetoed satellite participation.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Clement Attlee
Russia
Kremlin
Britain
Attlee
Europe
U S waits training of Korean Army
Washington reports American forces will depart Korea once the Korean republic trains its army adequately. No confirmation of weekend rumors about a late summer withdrawal. About 4,000 U S troops to be transferred to Hawaii if timing aligns.
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Seoul
Korea
Korean Republic
Awaii
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