Data on Recall of World War II Vets
Army officials seek legal ruling on recalling about 1.32 million World War II veterans without new Congress action. The survey notes 1.27 million on active duty across services and 226 thousand National Guard ready for presidential call, with over 12 million ex-servicemen in an unorganized reserve pool.
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United Press
Washington
Army
Truman
Navy
Air Force
National Guard
Organized Reserve Corps
Marine Corps
Budget cut downs on agriculture department 1949 funds
The appropriations committee cut the agriculture department's 1949 operating funds by 26.9 million dollars, reducing the department’s total to 543.4 million while trimming the farmers home program and flood control funds. It criticized soil conservation spending and suggested allowing the secretary to hire up to ten people outside existing salary caps.
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Washginton
IUP
Appropriations Committee
Department of Agriculture
House
Congress
General Accounting Office
Washington
Truman
Secretary of Agriculture
Modern art under fire from critic
Hollywood report says artist T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings derides modern art as a vicious plot to erode bourgeois civilization. He cites Futurism and Cubism, warning of a government of experts and surrealist works that blur reality with dream.
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Hollywood
T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Robsjohn Gibbings
New York
Martinitti
Italy
Robsjohn-Gibbings
Marcel Duchamp
Garden plans fade as people draft but do not act
Many folks think about turning a garden over but stop short of taking action. The piece notes a common gap between planning and execution, suggesting hesitation or indecision delays actual gardening work.
Sweden Seeks Large Defense Funds for Four Point Plan
Sweden fears a Russian blitzkrieg and seeks large military appropriations to speed a four point defense program. Chief Gen Helge Jung disclosed the request, which the Swedish military staff approved yesterday.
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Sockholm
Russia
Helge Jung
Swedish Military Staff of Defense
Train Tragedy Behind Charlotte Homeless Father
In Charlotte North Carolina a 54 year old Henry Duncan roams with his three hungry homeless children after the family left South and North Carolina seeking food. While he sought help at a cafe Mamie Lillian 9 slept on the tracks and was killed by a switching locomotive. Hazel 17 and Alvin 11 escaped as the engine bore down.
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Charlotte
N. C
Henry Duncan
Duncan
North
South Carolina
Hazel
Mamie Lillian
25 000 Italian Workers Strike
Rome reports an estimated 25 000 workers in state controlled chambers of commerce walked out amid threats of a national walkout of government employees over political intimidation. A strike is planned for the court of accounts on Thursday and ministry workers may join. Leftist leaders claim the bloc violates political liberties.
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Rome
Chambers of Commerce
Court of Accounts
Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Tax-Cut Bill May Hinge On Presidential Veto Message
Senate leaders said passage of the Republican tax-cut bill could depend on President Truman’s emergency foreign policy message to Congress on Wednesday. Republican leaders delayed the tax debate until Thursday and pledged to push the bill unless the president signals reasons to stall.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Eugene D., Milliken, R
Cole
Finance Committee
Vacation trade in New England boosts regional income
The New England Council reports that 878 of 1 577 communities in six states run vacation properties. These properties, operated by local residents, are assessed at 95 million dollars. The vacation business overall grosses at least 516 million dollars annually.
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Boston
New England
New England Council
Arm found near Airville prompts murder and dismemberment theories
State police say the arm found in a wooded area near Airville may have come from an air plane and the victim likely murdered with a dismembered body scattered. Detectives note a New York newspaper stained with blood near the limb and a farmer's sighting of a low flying plane fuels the theory though it remains only a possibility.
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Clyde F. Bentzel
Airville
Top German Red Expelled from Bizonal Council
Max Reimann, the top communist in western Germany, was expelled from the bizonal economies council for refusing to say if he considered every member a traitor. He was barred from all sessions for two months amid a largely abstaining vote by 104 council members.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Max Reimann
Bizonal Economies Council
Council
Ruhr
Easter Eggs Stir Prices and Family Fine Hats
A playful note describes Easter eggs and a joke about prices for a wife's new hat. The tone hints at small town newspaper humor and domestic concerns without specific people or places.
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Cain
Wifey
Marshall Plan Countries Vote To Include West Germany In ERP
In Paris the 16 Marshall Plan nations voted unanimously to include the three western German occupation zones in the European Recovery Program. Britain and France sought a broader military defense pact among Plan countries, aiming for closer economic and military unity against communism. Spain's possible admission was discussed but expected to be dropped.
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Joseph W. Grigg
United Press
Paris
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
France
Portugese
Jose Maeiro da Mata
Spain
Britain
Western Europe
Claude Bouchinet ‘Sereulles
Truce Arranged After Snowball Battle in Jerusalem
Dozens of Arabs and Jews clashed with snowballs across Princess Mary Avenue after a four inch snowfall. A snowman honoring Gen. Chaim Weizmann was beheaded by gunfire from Arab youths, then a palm of truce followed as shops reopened and elders toured the streets. A French barber won a contest by shaving a man in 18 seconds.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Haganah
Princess Mary Avenue
Chaim Weizmann
Jaffa
Tiberius
Sea of Galilee
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Russ Blitzkrieg
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Houston
Texas
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Portland
Ore
Train
Alvin
Joe Palooka
Hom. FiSher
West Germany
United States
German Ruhr
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
Belgium
Netherlands
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Brussels
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Ut Ugher
Idaho Power Company
Idaho
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