Soviet Press Attacks Truman and Warns of Atomic Progress
Moscow publications denounce Truman as hysterical and accuse the United States of exaggerating germ warfare. The Literary Gazette, Izvestia and Red Star claim American imperialism seeks to repeat Hitler’s tactics while questioning Russia’s atomic capabilities.
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Moscow
Truman
United States
Congress
Literary Gazette
Union of Soviet Writers
Izvestia
Red Star
Ministry of the Armed Forces
Truman and Co
Hitler
Goerings
Adolf Hitler
John R. Deane
Russia
Deane
Japanese Spy Kawashima Executed at Dawn in Shanghai
Yoshiko Kawashima the Banchu princess turned spy and Mata Hari of China was executed at dawn in Shanghai. Convicted of espionage for Japan she faced a bullet in the back of the head as punishment for her actions during the invasion of China.
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Shanghai
Yoshiko Kawashima
Mata Hari
China
Rent Control Extended by Congress Conferees
Congress conferees after a two and a half hour wrangle agreed on compromise rent control legislation. The bill extends controls to March 31, 1949 and sets a federal court as final arbiter on decontrol decisions. It allows voluntary 15 percent increases with leases to end in 1949 and permits a one month security deposit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Court of Appeals
New Sky Weapon Claimed More Deadly Than Atomic Bomb
Glenn L. Martin unveiled a radioactive cloud weapon said to be more deadly than the Hiroshima bomb. He claimed such clouds could be manufactured or induced in natural clouds and deployed with wind toward enemies, though security limits details.
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New York
United States
Glenn L. Martin
Martin
Wings Club
Glenn L. Martin Co
Hiroshima
U S States Action To Bulk Soviet Arms Export
A Commerce Department official, Herbert Parisius, blamed for selling subscriptions to a so called Communist paper faces Republican charges as the United States moves to broaden export controls on aircraft engines and parts to curb Soviet access. He denies any wrongdoing, noting only the shopping news is circulated by his son. Harriman defends Parisius saying he has full confidence.
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William Dallas Anthony
St. Anthony's
William Dallas
Elsie Katsilometes
Dallas Anthony
South
Harrison
Bill
Hera
Washington
Commerce Department
Russia
Henry Wallace
United States
E. K. Peterson
State Department
Peterson
Karl E. Mundt
Alvin E. O’konski
Wis
Herbert W. Parisius
O’konski
Parisius
Southern Patriot
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Patriot
Commerce
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
Pocatello Postings and a Lone Easter Egg Tale
A faded thirty two year old Easter surprise from Aunt Marie Swenson surfaces in Pocatello. Three twenty year old candy eggs bear names and dates and a nibble marks one end. J L Ledge Craig notes chamber duties and a light military metaphor as Abe Goff visits with Idaho literature posted. Goff seeks state materials but only literature praising Pocatello is offered.
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LaMar Warnick
Jessie R. Warnick
South Twelfth Ave
Young Warnick
Howard
Darrell
Marie Swenson
Spokane
Wash
Gate City
Abe Goff
Idaho
Goff
Ledge
Pocatello
Crisis Deepens as Austria Sees Food Aid Shortfall
A US summary warned Austria faces a critical six weeks with a bleak food outlook and potential political crisis if American aid is not sufficient and timely. It cited exhausted interim aid, slow aid arrival from France and Italy, and risk of spontaneous strikes, amid jittery public mood after eastern Europe events.
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Austria
U. S
France
Italy
United States
Europe
Japs Warned Aid Must End
Tokyo reports U S Under Secretary of the Army William Draper told Japanese Premier Hitoshi Ashida that American aid cannot continue indefinitely. He urged budget balance and higher production, while noting some grants or credits might be considered by Congress soon.
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Tokyo
U. S
William Draper
Hitoshi Ashida
Japan
Draper
Congress
Blustery March Winds Forecast Drop in Temperatures
The weatherman says strong March winds will ease tonight and temperatures will fall. Rain or snow is possible today with highs 40 to 45 and overnight lows 25 to 30.
Tax cut bill heads to White House for veto override
Congress passes a 4.8 billion income tax cut, sending it to President Truman who is expected to veto. House vote 289 to 67 and Senate 78 to 11 meet two thirds to override. The measure expands personal exemptions, allows combined state income splits, and trims rates across brackets.
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Congress
Truman
Washington
White House
House
Senate
House Republicans
New York
Vito Marcantonio
Leo Isacson
House Democrats
Albert Gore
Tenn
Gore
Freight reductions ripple through steel and rail sectors
Chicago dispatch reports a 25 percent cut in coal-fired freight traffic from Tuesday midnight to conserve coal stocks, with passenger traffic also trimmed. CIO pickets clash at two meat packing centers amid nationwide strikes that have idled over 514,000 workers. A Packinghouse workers settlement in St Paul stands out as a bright spot. President Truman appoints a three member board to probe the United Mine Workers walkout, naming George W. Taylor Sherman Minton and Mark Ethridge.
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Chicago
CIO
CIO Packinghouse
St. Paul
Omaha
Paters
Truman
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
George W. Taylor
War Labor Board
University of Pennsylvania
Sherman Minton
7Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Indiana
Mark F. Ethridge
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Idahoans on Lookout for Slay Suspect Across State
Law enforcement in southern Idaho and northern Utah areas issued a lookout for a stocky pockmarked man with a heavy foreign accent linked to the Wells Nevada brutal slaying of Mrs. Richard Morning 22. Twin Falls Burley Ashton routes were alerted and Bus surveillance shared among agencies.
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Idaho
Wells
Nev
Don Young
Idaho Falls
Bonneville County
Twin Falls
Ashton
Burley
Nevada-Idaho
Richard Morning
Marshall outlines Palestine policy shift to avoid world war
Secretary of State George C. Marshall told Senate Foreign Relations Committee officials that the United States abandoned the Palestine partition plan to prevent a possible Arab Jewish clash from triggering a world war. He indicated a full public statement would follow and cited fears of a UN peacekeeping force and a potential incident amid troop involvement in Palestine. He also discussed U.S. occupation policy in Germany and warned that transferring administration to the State Department could be read by Russia as signaling weakness.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Senatee
Marshall
Palestine
Thy
Holy Land
United States
United Nations
Britain
U. S
Germany
State Department
Russia
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Ponctello
Draft Board
John
Deanes
Sam Hanson
Coeyond
Clarence Booth
Lakewood
N. J
U.S. States
Office of International Trade
Wallace
J. L
Ledge) Craig
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
Vienna
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