New Veteran Pension Plan To Be Urged
Rep. John A. Carroll argues to sidestep the Rankin pension in favor of expanding Social Security for veterans. He estimates monthly Social Security payments from 64 to 90 dollars at 65 for single WWI and up to 96 with a wife, plus survivor insurance, costing far less than Rankin’s model. He may support Rankin if his plan stalls. Rankin seeks 72 dollars monthly for needy 65 year olds, with House action hoped this week.
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Washington
John A. Carroll
Col
Congress
Rankin
Carroll
John E. Rankin
Miss
Veterans Committee
Milwaukee youth confesses to murder vows fight on charge
Milton Babich 19 admits slaying Patricia Birming ham 16 and dumping her body in the Milwaukee river. Attorneys say he will contest a first degree murder charge, unless the state reduces it, and he has not signed a full transcript of the confession.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Milton Babich
Patricia Birmingham
Milwaukee River
Arthur Richter
Ba‘bich
Richter
Marquette University Law School
Babich
Kathleen
Wisconsin
Patricia
Adolph Kraemer
Kraemer
Fabian’ Babich
Milton
Birmingham
Minneapolis
Truman attends church as urged to back overseas relief
Washington President Truman joined in the nationwide observance by attending First Baptist Church in Washington with pastor Dr Edward Pruden delivering a sermon on John 16 14. He was accompanied by a single secret service agent as about 76 000 churches nationwide held services to support religious groups relief efforts.
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Washington
Truman
Overseas
First Baptist Church
Edward Hest Pruden
Four Alarm Blaze Damages Boise Warehouse
A four alarm fire at the Idaho Food Products Co. warehouse in Boise caused extensive damage. Firemen faced dense smoke and heavy equipment as they battled the blaze for nearly an hour. The quarter block building stored groceries and furniture. Cause of the fire remains undetermined.
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BOISE
Idaho Food Products Co
Terrine
Pravda Credits Soviet Youth With Special Luck
Pravda on Moscow radio says Soviet youth are lucky to be born in Russia and free of capitalist oppression. It portrays youth as protected from exploitation and political rights absence while bearing a mission to create a new Communist society.
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London
Pravda
Russian Communist Party
Soviet Youth
Russia
Moscow Radio
Great-Grandma 174 Marries Love-Driven Groom in Los Angeles
A 174 year old great grandmother wed 71 year old David Charles Hale for love. Hale forgot the license in excitement and a granddaughter fetched it. The couple described a real courtship with dinners and theater, insisting the marriage is not for security.
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Los Angeles
David Charles Hale
Sadie Williams
Hale
UMW Accelerates Wage Policy Fight for 1949
United Mine Workers rushes selection of its 1949 wage policy committee as it presses for new concessions from the soft coal industry. A six hour day and a 50 cent per ton rise to the retirement fund royalty are aims, with operators likely to resist amid falling coal prices.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
UMW
John L. Lewis
Mississippi
James Boyd
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Lewis
Italy approves Atlantic pact after Russia treaty defeat
The Italian Senate approved participation in the Atlantic pact after rejecting communist demands for a friendship and non aggression treaty with Russia and satellites. Premier de Gasperi secured final parliamentary approval in a Sunday session. Foreign Minister Sforza left for Washington to sign the alliance. Communists and leftists failed to gain enough votes for the Russia treaty after backing the Atlantic pact.
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Rome
Italy
Senate
Russia
Alcide de Gasperi
Carlo Sforza
Washington
Great Lakes Ore Shipping Resumes
Two lake steamers arrived from the east to start the Great Lakes ore season ten days earlier than the previous year. About 9,000 tons of iron ore from Minnesota open pit mines were staged on docks awaiting reloading into cargo vessels bound for eastern steel mills.
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Minn
Great Lakes
Minnesota
Head
Rent Control Deadlock Nearing Quick Breakthrough
Washington sources say House conferees will meet to resolve the rent control dispute over a fair return. The Senate backs a fair net operating income or two automatic five percent increases. A spot check cited possible average rent hikes around 12 percent under the House plan.
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Washington
House
Senate
Conference Committee
Brent Spence
Ralph E. Flanders
Flander
Robins Mum On Rent Bill
Boise Idaho Gov C A Robins declined to comment on rent control legislation likely to pass Congress. The governor has followed the action closely and may act if enacted, including the possible creation of an advisory board to assist with rent control decisions.
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Boise
C. A. Robins
Congress
Robins
Soviet Paper Attacks Catholic Church as U S World Domination Tool
Trud the official trade union daily denounces the U S Catholic church as a major instrument of American world domination. It says Catholic emissaries aid local reactionary forces and accuses the Vatican of cooperating with U S intelligence and Wall Street financiers. It claims American Catholics fund anti Communist propaganda in Germany.
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Moscow
Trud
U.S
U. S
Vatican
United States
America
Wall Street
Germany
Boy Held for Strangling Tot to Death
A 12 year old neatly dressed boy admitted strangling his two year old cousin Michael Strobel last Wednesday while putting him to bed. Police said the youth told how he became angry after hitting his head and used a leather belt to end the life. The suspect was jailed pending juvenile court appearance. another man, Urban Strobel, was questioned regarding the infant's death.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
James Cahill
Cahill
Michael John Strobel
Urban Strobel
Michael
Strobel
Spies Hunted In Argentina Amid Smuggling Bust
Argentine police launched a nationwide probe into a suspected communist spy ring after the arrest of Dr Jan Matcheyev 52 on smuggling charges. Authorities reported multiple arrests and house searches with documents tied to clandestine activities. Lighters valued at 6000 pesos and electrical gear were found, alongside maps of the public works ministry and national sanitation department and coded notebooks.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Jan Matcheyev
Public Works Ministry
National Sanitation Department
Johnson Named Defense Secretary In Big Pentagon Ceremony
Louis Johnson of West Virginia will be sworn in as defense secretary in one of the era’s largest ceremonies at the Pentagon. The 58-year-old former assistant secretary of war and longtime Republican ally of Roosevelt aims to unify the armed services and press for stronger air production, following James Forrestal’s resignation.
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Pentagon
Louis Johnson
U. S
Washington
West Virginia
Teddy Roosevelt
Defense
Pearl Harbor
Johnson
James Forrestal
Forrestal
Armed Services
Clarksburg
W. Va
Truman
American Legion
Army Reserve Corps
Fred M. Vinson
3Rd Infantry Division
Marine Corps Band
Army
Navy
Air Force
B 26 crashes into Mount Fuji in Japan
A U S army B 26 bomber with four crew disappeared after ploughing into Mount Fuji late yesterday. A rescue party from the first cavalry division moved toward the scene but a snowstorm hampered efforts. The crash was reported by ground troops at Camp McNair on the mountain’s north slope. The aircraft was en route from Misawa base to Komaki airdrome near Nagoya on a navigation training mission.
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Tokyo
Air Force
Mount Fuji
Far East Air Force
First Cavalry Division
Camp McNair
Misawa
Honshu
Komaki
Nagoya
Russia Claims Most Centenarians in World
A new documentary reports the Soviet Union has 29 000 citizens aged 100 or older, more than any other country. It notes many centenarians live in the Caucasus with Moscow itself housing several dozen.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Soviet
Caucasus
Tornado Toll Rises Across Southwest States
The weekend tornado outbreak killed 29 people and injured about 150 across six states including Mississippi Arkansas Texas Oklahoma and Tennessee. Belden Chesterfield in Mississippi and Delta Plantations near Greenville suffered heavy damage as Red Cross moved to help with an initial $100000 emergency allocation for victims.
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Mississippi
Greenville
Arkansas
Texas
Crowder Okla
Troy
Mounds
Tenn
Oak Grove
Little Rock
Belden
Chesterfield
Washington
The
Red Cross
Press Opposition to Contract City in Arco Plant Plan
The Idaho Statesman urged against creating a contract city near Arco Idaho tied to a proposed atom reactor plant. The editorial argued for a free city model with tight reactor fencing and business activity on normal freeways of American commerce.
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BOISE
The
Idaho Statesman
Arco
Ida
Atomic Energy Commission
Richland
Wash
Oak Ridge
President to Push Wallgren Approval This Week
President Truman to seek Senate confirmation for Wallgren as chairman of the national security resources board. An invitation will go to Sens. Tydings and Magnuson for a White House conference to break the stalemate. The president hopes Tydings can secure support, despite past setbacks.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Mon C. Wallgren
National Security Resources Board
Millard K. Tydings
Warren Magnuson
Wash
White House
Tydings
Senate Armed Services Committee
Wallgren
Tornado Rips through Mississippi Towns
A fierce tornado devastated New Site Marietta and Kirkville in northeastern Mississippi. A Baptist church, a new school and gym were badly damaged while two Belden stores were demolished and about a dozen homes wrecked. Seven people were injured at New Site. Flood danger rose along the Tombigbee River as rains drenched the area. In Louisiana Port Allen residents began returning home after army engineers sealed a levee breach, the first since 1927.
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Belden
Mississippi
New Site
Marietta
Kirkville
Tombigee River
Port Allen
Mr USA 1949 crown goes to John Grimek in Hollywood
John Grimek of York Pennsylvania won the 1949 Mr USA title before about 5000 fans at the Shrine auditorium. Miss Shirlee Tegge of Iron River Michigan earned Miss USA honors while Clancy Ross and Steve Reeves placed second and third in the male contest.
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Hollywood
John Grimek
York
Elyse Knox
Cathy Downs
Shrine Auditorium
Clancy Ross
Alameda
Calif
Steve Reeves
Santa Monica
Shirlee Tegge
Iron River
Mich
Tegge
Superman
Grimek
Strength and Health Magazine
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