Truman seeks more aid for Greece and Turkey in Congress
President Truman denounced ruthless communist pressure in Greece and said he will ask Congress for additional military assistance for Greece and Turkey. He sent the second quarterly report on aid and noted ERP funds may cover Greece's economic needs if approved, with any extra military needs to be sought separately.
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Washington
Truman
Greece
Congress
Turkey
House
Senate
Mediterranean
ERP
Soviet
Russia
Parker's Trial Begins in 1943 Murder Case
The Arthur Ellsworth Parker murder trial opened in Circuit Court with Judge H DeWitt Owen presiding. Parker, 47, is charged with first degree murder in the death of 55 year old landlady Lilian Marie Johnson on April 7 1943, with allegations that he dismembered and buried parts of her torso in three locations.
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Arthur Ellsworth Parker
Lillian Marie Johnson
H. DeWitt Owen
Johnson
Parker
Long control is seen likely
The House Banking Committee voted 18 to 5 to extend current rent controls one month beyond February 29. Chairman Wolcott stated the move was not to kill rent controls, and that rent controls would continue in some form for at least a year, with the extension chosen to review rents.
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House Banking Committee
Wolcott
Warmer Days Mark Markets Upward Turn
A warm air outbreak from the Gulf lifted temperatures across the Midwest and plains, with Illinois and Indiana seeing 45 to 50 degrees and higher in Missouri Iowa Kansas and Nebraska. Floods receded as residents returned home and weather officials warned of varying regional warmth across the nation.
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United Press
Gulf of Mexico
Midwest
Plains
Weather Bureau
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
New York
New England
Maine
Caribou
Jews Attack Arab Towns In Northern Palestine War
Jewish Haganah bomb squads attacked an Arab village and dynamited five bridges in northern Palestine near Lebanon and Trans-Jordan. Official counts: 13 Arabs and one Jew killed in 24 hours, with 13 Jews, nine British soldiers and an Italian civilian wounded.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Jewish
Haganah Organization
Lebanon
Trans- Jordan
Haifa
Susa
Haganah
Sheikh Hussein
Jordan
Nablus
Trans-Jordan
Metulla
Tel Amal
Final tribute for Mor Decai Brown set for Tuesday
Funeral rites for Mor decai Three-Finger Brown, famed Cubs pitcher, will be held Tuesday at 2 PM at Thomas Funeral Home. Burial moved to Rose Lawn Memorial Park from Rosedale cemetery. Elks Lodge No 86 to oversee services with Rev L O Richmond officiating. Pallbearers listed. Mrs Brown reports many condolences from baseball celebrities after his Saturday death.
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Mordecai
Brown
Chicago Cubs
Thomas Funeral Home
Roselawn Memorial Park
Rosedale
Coxville
B.P.O. Elks Lodge No. 86
Rev. L. O. Richmond
Otto Jensen
Uriah Smith
Horace Fisbeck
C. L. Shideler
Byron Wheeler
Charles Bierbrauer
Mrs. Brown
Wholesale Cashing of Bogus Checks Charged
Kenneth Estal Pratt a 24 year old from Smithfield Texas awaits trial in Indianapolis on charges of cashing about 15000 in fraudulent checks. Pratt was arrested after attempting to trade a stolen car and had been paroled in San Diego California. He claimed he violated parole by using bus fare from the warden and traveling to Portland Oregon where he bought a check stamping device to produce over 100 counterfeit checks nationwide.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Kenneth Estal Pratt
Smithfield
Tex
Pratt
San Diego
Cal
Portland
Ore
Fasting Chicago Wife Protests Cost Of Living
Ruth Berbes, 22, inspired by Gandhi, fasts for two weeks eating only five slices of bread and three glasses of milk daily to protest high prices. Working as a soda fountain clerk, she keeps earning up to $70 a week with rent and food costs highlighted, urging housewives to consider action and a modified buyers strike.
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Chicago
Ruth Berbes
John
Wall Street
Washington
May 31 Declared Legal Liquor Holiday in Indianapolis
The Alcoholic Beverage Commission says Monday May 31 will be a holiday for bars and liquor stores since Memorial Day falls on Sunday that year. Sale of alcoholic beverages will be prohibited that day.
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Indianapolis
Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Press Moves For Widening Social Security Benefits
The Truman administration asked Congress to broaden old age pension eligibility and expand Social Security to cover disability and medical care. Rep. Kean proposed adding 20 million workers, including self employed, farmers, domestic workers, and state and local employees, to the program. The plan aims to cut long term government costs and may be followed by a special presidential message.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Congress
Kean
N. J
Social Security Administration
Presi
Dent Truman
Food prices trend lower in Chicago markets
The Chicago Board of Trade saw the sharpest price break in history appear to have paused, yet grocery store costs continued to slide. Corn held, wheat rose a few cents, and livestock prices were forecast to drop with large shipments reaching major stockyards. Economists note continued shifts as farmers reduced shipments.
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New York
Chicago
New Orleans
Truman
Mayors’ Conference
Commodity Exchange
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Anderson
NCAGO
Chicago Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Safe Crackers Hit Marshall Furniture Store
Burglars smashed a back window and jimmied a safe to steal 318 dollars from Marrs Furniture in Marshall Indiana. Sheriff says pros did the job with gloves. owner found the theft Sunday evening after closing Saturday night.
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Marshall
Marrs
Bentor Marrs
Russel Perisho
Perisho
Well Known Man Taken By Death
William F. Wagner 83 former shaft mine operator near West Terre Haute died at 4 40 Sunday morning at his daughter Eva Demoughin's home. He lived in Terre Haute and West Terre Haute since age 10 and later ran Valley Garden Farms. Survived by three daughters Ruby Kenecht Leola Jones and Flora Herrington three sons Walter Chester Allen two brothers Frank and Louis eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral services at Rogerson Wedel Funeral Home Tuesday at 2 with Rev Martin L Grant officiating burial Bethesda cemetery.
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William F. Wagner
West Terre Haute
Eva L. Demoughin
Ohio
Wagner
Terre Haute
Valley Garden Farms
Ruby Kenecht
Belleville
Ill
Leola Jones
Fleora Herrington
Walter V
Chester F. Wagner
Allen G. Wagner
Kansas City
Kan
Frank
Louis
Rogerson & Wedel Funeral Home
Martin L. Grant
Bethesda Cemetery
Arrests widen probe of Ohio white slave ring in Ironton
Federal agents in Ironton Ohio crack a white slave ring last November adding two suspects. Margaret Eversole and Raymond Reik both face Mann Act counts and hold in Vigo county jail on bond. Confessions tie the pair to operations at multiple addresses and to extensive travel with carnival work, with Eversole acting as a potential witness.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ironton
Ohio
James Evele
Margaret Eversole
Raymond T. Reik
Pat Kelly
Vigo County
Reik
Eversole
Gauer
Roach
Vance
North Fourth Street
James C. “Shorty
Hollywood
Joan Lee
Ardell M. Boyde
North Seventh Street
Floyd Huey
Poplar Street
Terre Haute
J. Beasley
Walls
S. Beasley
Irgnton
FBI
Ashland
Sove
Wabash River Clears Of Ice On Warm Day
Terre Haute sees milder weather with a high near 50 and the Wabash River breaking up ice. Readings rise above freezing cause river level to climb about 2.7 feet while sections from New York Central Railroad bridge to Dresser clear. American Can Co ends heating gas curtailment as warmth ends threat.
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Terre Haute
New York Central
Dresser
American Can Company
Labor leader Harold Christoffel on trial for perjury
Harold Christoffel, honorary president of the CIO United Auto Workers Local 248 at Milwaukee, goes on trial charged with perjury for denying he was or had been a member or supporter of the communist party. The June federal case follows his March testimony before the House Labor Committee about plant strikes at Allis-Chalmers Chicago.
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Washington
Harold Christoffel
Christoffel
C.I.O. United Auto Workers
Allis-Chalmers
Milwaukee
House Labor Committee
Communist Party
House Committee
John S. Pratt
Matthew McGuire
John Rogge
Terre Haute Conspiracies End in 1947 Murder Confession
The long unsolved 1943 disappearance of Mrs. Johnson led to Parker’s 1947 assault arrest. After police revealed accumulating evidence, Parker reportedly confessed the murder and directed officers to a railroad right of way north of Fort Harrison Road, where a woman's skull and upper body were found. A jury panel for the trial began formation.
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Johnson
Parker
Terre Haute
John R. Jett
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fort Harrison
Circuit Court
Weather Record For Feb Sixteenth And Local Conditions
Temperature readings show 39 at 6 00 am and 50 at noon with 44 at 9 00 am. river stage 2.7 feet and rising. Terre Haute area notes partly cloudy mild tonight and Tuesday with lows near 35 while Indiana remains partly cloudy and mild. Illinois generally fair and mild.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Temperature Street Thermometer Reading Noted
Local brief records two daily thermometer readings with times and temperatures. At 9 a.m. the gauge marked 40 degrees and at 2 p.m. it rose to 55 degrees, reflecting a mild progression in afternoon warmth.
Eisenhower Warns Next War Will Be Decided Quickly
In his farewell address former Army Chief Dwight D. Eisenhower warns that the first 60 days would decide victory if war returns to America. He cautions Western Europe must resist totalitarianism to avert dire security dangers and notes the Mediterranean corridor’s fate could trigger instant, catastrophic consequences. He foresees rapid, devastating lightning blows in future conflicts ending early with fragile peace.
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Associated Press
Washington
America
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Army
Marshall
Russia
Mediterranean
Supreme Court upholds federal rent controls
The Supreme Court unanimously sustains federal rent controls with Justice Douglas leading the opinion. He states the war power supports the legislation and that war powers do not end with hostilities. The ruling reverses Judge Paul Jones who had ruled Congress could not curb rents after peace.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Douglas
Paul Jones
Cleveland
Congress
Jones
Truman
Rent controls and recession impact on rents examined
A speaker discussed how stabilizing recession may influence rental costs and noted a Supreme Court case testing the constitutionality of peacetime rent controls. The remarks were part of a broader review of economic conditions and housing policy.
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Supreme Court
Wolcott
The
Supreme
British court frees Hoosier Edwards in infant death case
Billy Burke Edwards, a former Indianapolis GI, is cleared of a murder charge in Britain over his infant daughter Brenda. The magistrate ruled the cause of death could not be determined from bone remains and testimony offered. An inquest was still planned despite the dismissal. Edwards reportedly admitted possible insanity and described harming Brenda during a period of distress.
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Trowbridge
Eng
Billy Burke Edwards
Indianapolis
Brenda
J. M. Webster
England
Webster
Woods
Edwards
C. L. Clayton
James Dawson
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