Landlords Plan Mass Washington Protest Rally
Clergyman Rev. Wallace J. Murphy says landlords from across the nation will ride train cars to Washington to press Congress against rent controls. He notes organized groups in several cities aim to evict tenants in a mass protest while court actions in Kansas City urge injunctions against 60 day eviction notices.
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Tulsa
Okla
Washington
Congress
Wallace J. Murphy
Frisco Line
Baltimore and Ohio
Murphy
Sandlord
Kansas City
Carol Berry
Wis
LaCrosse
Milwaukee
Des Moines
Disbarred Attorney Fleeing After Bethlehem Scrap Conspiracy
In Los Angeles a disbarred attorney, Charles P. Temple, 69, is sought on charges he aided a secretary and two others in a $300,000 Bethlehem Steel scrap metal fraud. Temple acted as weighmaster approving short weights. co-defendants Rogers, Sandroff and Cohen face 25 counts of conspiracy and grand theft in Las Vegas gambling and Nevada club spending. Brandler says Temple may be in the eastern U.S.
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LOS Angeles
LLP
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Charles P. Temple
Bethelhem
Malora Rogers
Ted Sandroff
Joseph Cohen
California
Nevada
Mark Brandler
East
Soap Prices Cut by Colgate Palmolive Peet Co
Colgate Palmolive Peet Co cut wholesale prices on household soaps by about six percent adding to the continuing decline in living costs. Hog prices eased at midwest markets for the fourth straight day while cash corn on the Chicago Board of Trade reached a two year low. Two large Chicago grocers advertised standing rib roast at 59 cents a pound amid lower top quality beef prices.
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Chicago
Colgate, Palmolive Peet Co
Midwest
Chicago Board of Trade
Colgate
Washington
Charles Brannan
Memorials and Mirth in Missouri and the White House
The Rhyming Reporter riffs on a proposed Truman memorial still debated in Missouri and the White House comeback news. He skewers church mergers and doctrinal splits as sects argue over salvation pathways, noting money and prestige fuel division rather than unity.
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Mr. Truman
Missouri
Dewey
White House
Russians Tour Virginia Inspire Converts and Curiosity
Two former Russian air force lieutenants Anatol Barsov and Peter Pirogov visited Virginia as guests of the Dominion State Chamber of Commerce. Governor William Tuck welcomed them as they tour stores homes and factories and see their first American basketball game.
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Richmond
Virginia
Voice of America
Anatol Barsov
Peter Pirogov
Dominion State Chamber of Commerce
Red Air Force
Austria
Ralph Turner
Murmansk
University of Richmond
Turner
Pirogory
William Tuck
Batsov
United States
Moscow
Pirogov
Russia
U. S
Papen Freed by Denazification Court Ruling
Franz von Papen, who aided Hitler’s rise, was cleared by a denazification appeal court and ordered released. The court said time already served in jail was sufficient punishment and cancelled the remaining eight year sentence.
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Franz von Papen
Adolph Hitler
Denazification
Two Churches to Merge Form United Church of Christ
The General Council of Congregational Christian Churches of America voted 757 to 172 to merge with the Evangelical and Reformed Church, forming the United Church of Christ with about 2 million members and 9000 congregations in 48 states. Opposition claimed delegates were manipulated and many churches would not join.
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Cleveland
General Council of the
Congregational Christian Churches of America
Evangelical and Reformed Church
United Church of Christ
Congregational Churches
Christian Churches United
Evangelical and Reformed Churches
General Council
Oberlin
Evangelical and Reformed
Huge Wheat Crop Seen In Northwest
Portland Oregon wheat expert Robert O Fletcher of the Pacific Northwest Crop Improvement association estimates the Northwest crop of 80 to 90 million bushels will overflow storage with 40 to 50 million bushels going to elevators and warehouses. He urges farmers to add on the ground storage as potential cold weather damage could occur if a Chinook wind removes snow along with soil loss.
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Portland
Ore
Northwest
Robert O. Fletcher
Pacific Northwest Crop Improvement Association
Fletcher
Lar
Designer gets tip on drunk driving in Detroit
Traffic referee John M Wise fined Leonard G West an automobile designing engineer and lectured him for drunken driving. Wise warned mixing driving and drinking risks lives. the case cited unsafe operation due to liquor during the era.
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Detroit
John M. Wise
Leonard G. West
Wise
Eit
Woman Sky Victim Loses Legs After Bear Mountain Crash
Mrs. Bea Defreitas 24 of Burbank Calif. survived a plane crash on Jan 8 and had both legs amputated below the calf at Kern County General Hospital after five days in a wrecked plane on Bear mountain. Her husband Robert Glee and sister Eve Williams were killed.
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Bakersfield
Cal
Bea Defreitas
Burbank
Kern County General Hospital
Defreitas
Bear Mountain
Tehachapi
Inflation Hits Brown Amber Tobacco Prices
Louisville report says chewing twist rises from 12 to 15 cents while plug type prices move accordingly as inflation bites tobacco producers.
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Louisville
Idaho rapeseed crop valued at 571000 in 1948
The Idaho rapeseed crop in 1948 was worth 571000 to its producers despite harvesting difficulties. About 6800000 pounds were produced mainly in Idaho Lewis Nez Perce and Latah counties, marking the second largest harvested acreage since 1942 and the second largest value to growers.
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Boise
Idaho
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Lewis
Nez Perce
Latah
Department
30 Witnesses In Liquor Trial Plans Revealed
Salt Lake City report says more than 30 state witnesses will be called when the long delayed embezzlement trial of Cyrus Lack opens February 14. Lack former operator of the Brigham Street pharmacy faces charges of embezzling state liquor worth over 50 thousand dollars after a purported robbery revealed liquor shortages of about 37 thousand dollars triggering a grand jury probe of Utahs liquor control system.
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Salt Lake City
Cyrus Lack
Lack
Brigham Street
Utah
Street railway mail cars replaced by trucks as vehicles advanced
Street railway mail cars served in several cities for years but were superseded by motor trucks once automotive transport proved practical, ending a era of rail based mail service.
Sudden West Thaw Could Trigger Flood Danger
Willliam E Wrather director of the geological survey warns a rapid warm up in the west may unleash disastrous floods, citing the sand hills of Nebraska where two to four inches of water are locked in snow. Geologic survey staff monitor the risk and stand ready to mobilize engineers if crisis looms.
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Washington
Willliam E. Wrather
Geological Survey
Senate Interior Committee
Sand Hills
Neraska
Idaho Onion Crop In Storage Huge
Boise reports the U S department of agriculture estimates 500000 bags of onions in storage in Idaho at year start. Each bag holds 50 pounds. Idaho’s 1948 onion production is about 1688000 bags. Storage stocks are two and a half times last year.
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Boise
U. S&s. Department of Agriculture
Idaho
Department
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