Solons Lose Salary Fight in Indiana
Five Republican members of the 1947 Indiana legislature lost their bid to collect extra salaries. Judge Floyd W. Burns ruled constitutional limits prevent legislators from holding state jobs in other departments. The plaintiffs, led by Senator Clyde Black and Representatives Miser Weller and Conrad, face denial of their claims with appeals planned.
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Floyd W. Burns
Marion
Indiana
A. V. Burch
Indiana Supreme Court
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Glenn R. Slenker
Public Service Commission
Slenker
Clyde Black
Logansport
State Flood Control Commission
Charles T. Miser
The
Highway Commission
Elmer C. Weller
Beecher Conrad
Truman Calls rally to battle against the privileged few
President Truman opens 1948 campaign with a Jefferson-Jackson Day speech urging a battle against the privileged few. He frames the year as a test of courage, defends civil rights, and labels opponents as reactionary conservatism while promising a program of social security, justice, production, education and housing.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Party
Weather Summary: Fair and Cooler Feb 20 Records
The Weather Bureau reports fair skies turning cooler. Temperature at 9am 29, noon 32, 2pm 38. Sunrise 6:37, sunset 5:32. River stage 11.8 feet and rising.
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Cold wave sweeps coast as temperatures plunge fast
Gale strength winds push the cold front eastward dropping temperatures by up to 40 degrees in many areas. Floods spread in southern and western states, causing hardship for tens of thousands as fuel shortages bite households and industries. International Falls and Pembina report extreme cold while Minnesota and Canada see double digit below readings.
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Federated Cooperative Power Association
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Iowa
Youth jailed for robbery at Kroger Market
Dorain Hatfield 21 colored of 1446 North 27th street jailed on vagrancy charge after police caught him attempting burglary at the Kroger Market, 2501 Maple Avenue. He smashed a 10 foot square plate glass window, took four cigarette packs and soap, caused about $200 in damage, and previously stole a hammer from Maple Avenue School. He admitted taking 28 keys and has a history including a 1945 burglary conviction and escapes from Muscatuck Colony.
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Maple Avenue
Dorain Hatfield
North Twenty Seventh Street
Hatfield
Kester and
Maple Avenues
Muscatuck Colony
Wolves raid cattle as European cold deepens
London reports the coldest winter air across Southern England Western Europe and Scandinavia. Snow and frost drive marauding wolves from the Sila mountains into southern Italy followed by cold in northern Norway where wolf packs raid cattle herds and force military planes into action.
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England
Europe
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Italy
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Banks Closest Monday for Washington's Birthday Holiday
All banks in the city will remain closed all day Monday February 23 in observance of Washington's birthday Sunday February 22. Important business should be transacted before 12 noon Saturday the usual closing hour for Saturday. City and county offices will close as well as building loans. City schools will not close.
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Washington
Local Conditions At 6 30 A M Report
Local conditions at 6 30 A M show a temperature of 17 degrees. The previous day’s high reached 62 degrees and the overnight low was 13 degrees with no precipitation recorded.
Indiana Illinois Weather Summary Tonight And Saturday
Fair and colder tonight with lows around 10 degrees in Terre Haute and vicinity. Saturday brings fair skies and warmer temperatures across Indiana and Illinois with a cold wave easing and daily highs rising.
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Indiana
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Temperature street thermometer report item
Local thermometer readings list two times 18.2 degrees in the morning and 34 degrees for the afternoon on the street column.
Twelve Jews Escape Jail Through Hidden Tunnel in Jerusalem
United Press reports twelve underground Jewish leaders escaped Central Jail in Jerusalem via a tunnel to an Arab area manhole. Police failed to find the exit for hours as sirens sounded and security zones were tightened. News of the escape coincides with British naval actions against Jewish refugee ships off the Palestine coast amid ongoing violence.
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St. Paul Road
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Holy Land
Italy
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Mustashfa
Nelson pleads insanity in Mishawaka tavern murder
William W. Nelson 31 of South Bend entered an innocent by reason of insanity plea to a first degree murder charge for the fatal Christmas Eve shooting of Joseph Viviano 33 in a Mishawaka tavern. He was arraigned before Judge Dan Pyle in Circuit Court.
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Ind
William W. Nelson
Joseph Viviano
Mishawaka
Nelson
Dan Pyle
Arabian King Three Sons Slain In Yemen Coup Proclaimed
Cairo Feb 20 AP Yemen ruler Yehia Hamid el Din 82 lost three of his 16 sons and a chief adviser in a suspected coup. A new king and constitutional government proclaimed with Sayed Abdulla Bin Ahmed el Wazier elected Imam and Seif el Hak Ibrahim named head of government. An adviser to the Imam reportedly died. Continued on page 5 column 5.
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Muktar Ardel Latiff
Sayed Abdulla bin Ahmed el Wazier
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Seif el Hak Ibrahim
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Kadi Abdulla el Omari
Promotion Interferes With Visit Leroy Wilson Planned With Folks
Garrett A. Wilson of Terre Haute, father of Leroy A. Wilson, president of AT&T, says Leroy will miss his forty seventh birthday visit due to a promotion. Leroy, born in Terre Haute and a Rose Polytechnic graduate, is now leading a major industrial company.
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Trent & Son Company
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Brazil
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Leroy A. Wilson
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
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Bement-Rea
Indiana Avenue
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Wilson
Garfield High School
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Ruling Expected on Parker Confession in Vigo Murder Trial
In Vigo County Circuit Court, attorneys await Judge H DeWitt Owens ruling on the admissibility of Arthur E Parker s alleged confession in the Mrs Lillian Marie Johnson murder case nearly five years old The defense contends the confession was coerced while prosecutors and witnesses testify the questioning was free of force or intimidation
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Vigo County
Lillian Marie Johnson
H. DeWitt Owen
Parker
Robert Vance
Thomas Welch
Clint Seward
Owen
Vigo County Adopts New Harrison Township Advisory Board
The Vigo County board of county commissioners named a new Harrison Township advisory board to replace three members who resigned over a dispute on fire protection arrangements. New members Charles Smith James Churchman and Al Kepler, with party affiliations listed, replace William Otte Charles Purcell and Virgil Ingram.
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Harrison Township
Charles Smith
North Seventh Street
James Churchman
South Fourteenth Street
al Kepler
Cruft Street
Smith
Kepler
Churchman
William W. Otte
Charles A. Purcell
Virgil E. Ingram
Verne Jenkins
Howard Leach
Ralph Smith
Joseph Dreher
Truman Leaves On Vacation Trip
President Truman departs Washington by plane at 10 32 a m for a 15 day tour to Florida Puerto Rico the Virgin Islands and Cuba. First stop Boca Chica near Key West for overnight then San Juan with Puerto Rico governor Jesus T Pinero and with Virgin Islands governor William H Hastie. Three Negro reporters travel with the president marking a first for such a presidential trip. The Sacred Cow is used for the voyage.
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Truman
Florida
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Cuba
Boca Chica
Key West
Fla
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Jesus T. Pinero
William H. Hastie
Woman Dies After Eight Floor Jump In Chicago Hotel
Vera Frances Telford, 25, of Norwalk Ohio, a former waitress, died after leaping or falling from the eighth floor of the Sherman Hotel in Chicago. She was near her room 810 registered to Joseph H. Petrie of Cincinnati, a plywood firm part owner. Petrie, also registered in 809, said they met yesterday in Cincinnati and traveled to Chicago together on the James Whitcomb Riley.
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Cincinnati
Sherman
Chicago Loop
Vera Frances Telford
Norwalk
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Joseph H. Petrie
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Here
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James Whitcomb Riley
Butter Prices Slump Across Midwest Markets
Butter prices fell in Chicago and Milwaukee amid lower wholesale costs and milder weather. Chain stores cut one grade to 82 cents per pound, with other markets reporting reductions of up to five cents. Labor Dept data showed broad declines across basic commodities, led by farm products down 7.5 percent in a week. Patsy D Agostino cited widespread downward pricing from independent grocers surveys.
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Labor Department
Washington
Patsy D’agostino
National Association of Retail Grocers
Senate Rent Control Debate Opens in Washington
Senators Flanders and Bricker forecast a one month stopgap extension of rent control as the Senate debates a bill to extend the law 14 months beyond February 29 with changes. The House Banking Committee has approved a March extension and will vote next week. Bricker favors a shorter extension to reassess economic conditions.
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Woman Identifies Man as Attacker in Local Incident
Police arrest Thomas Adrian McGuff, 51, of 518 Mulberry Street, on intoxication charges after a woman reported molestation at Sixth and Mulberry. Mrs Marjorie Weyrich, Deming Hotel cigar stand clerk, identified him and said he loitered around the hotel Thursday. Arraigned in City Court, McGuff pleaded guilty to intoxication, fined $10 plus costs, and sentenced to 90 days at the Indiana State Penal Farm.
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Mulberry Street
Mulberry Streets
Marjorie Weyrich
Deming Hotel
McGuff
Eagle Street
Urge repeal of partition in Palestine plan
Larry Hauck reports from Lake Success that Arab leaders seek to repeal the Palestine Partition project by the United Nations Assembly. They plan to block Security Council action on a proposed international military force, argue partition is illegal, and claim violence proves unworkable. They may pursue a special session to reconsider the plan. The United States weighs enforcement, while China abstains and Iraq boycotts the trustee council.
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Warren R. Austin
Washington
Austin
Security Council
China
Iraq
Trusteeship Council
Jerusalem
U. S
Mybeck Joins Indiana Governor Race as Second Democrat
Walter R. Mybeck of Crown Point, former Lake County clerk, declared his candidacy for Indiana governor, becoming the second Democrat in the contest. Democratic State Chairman Pleas Greenlee stressed the open race and that no candidate has statewide party backing yet. Mybeck announced through Bartel Sandstra of the First District after resigning as Lake County clerk.
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Indianapolis
Walter R. Mybeck
Crown Point
Lake County
Indiana
Pleas Greenlee
Mybeck
Harry McClain
Shelbyville
Greenlee
Harry
Walter
Bartel Sandstra
Food Dollar Shrinks Since WWII Era Prices Are Higher
Chicago report shows that seven years after price controls, housewives have less buying power than before the war. A survey of 15 basic items notes prices rose since 1941 and 1946, with beefsteak dinners and staples costing much more than a month ago.
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Larry Eldred
Associated Press
Chicago
Holy Land to Test Power
President Truman told Congress that Soviet refusals to follow United Nations decisions create a disturbing problem, yet the UN progress remains a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. The 359 page 1947 annual report notes Greece Korea and the small East West bloc clashes, including veto disputes and Russia’s opposition to UN actions.
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Washington
Truman
Russia
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Soviet Union
Congress
United States
World Agency
Marshall
Security Council
Warman
Fireman Dies In Train Wreck Near Portsmouth
Portsmouth. Feb 20. The Norfolk & Western Powhatan Arrow jumped the track at Gennett's Creek near Franklin Furnace, killing fireman Robert F. Madden 57 and seriously injuring engineer George Raines 58. Most reports say no passengers injured. The east bound train from Cincinnati to Norfolk hit an open switch at high speed causing multiple car overturns or stays upright according to witnesses.
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Powhatan Arrow
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Gennett’s Creek
Franklin Furnace
Here
Robert F. Madden
George Raines
Cincinnati
Norfolk
C.S.T
Roanoke
VA Automobiles for Vets Not Subject to Taxation
Indianapolis Feb 20 The attorney general's office says automobiles purchased by the Veterans Administration for disabled war veterans are not subject to personal property tax An official opinion to the State Tax Board holds that such a vehicle is a GI Bill benefit John H Weiss national service officer for the disabled American veterans says about 500 Indiana ex servicemen have received such cars
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Attorney General’s Office
Veterans Administration
State Tax Board
John H. Weiss
National Service Officer
Disabled American Veterans
Indiana
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