Washington Inaugural Parade Volunteers Lead Guards
Washington gears for Truman inauguration coverage as the Voice of America plans to beam events worldwide. Veterans from the Meuse Argonne era, including Captain Harry and Captain Barry, prepare for a 7 am breakfast then join as the President's special guard of honor. Tanks jeeps and guns will roll down Pennsylvania Avenue as overhead roar recalls past battles.
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Harry
Atil
Barry
Meuse-Argonne
Pennsylvania Avenue
Presidential Talk Reopens Debate on Electoral College
A noisy broadcast style discussion critiques the Electoral College as undemocratic and prone to thwarting the popular will. Critics urge a constitutional amendment to abolish it, proposing direct state popular votes instead.
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Truman
Vna
Barkley
Iffatr
H. V. Kaltenjborn
Kaltenborn
Congress
1950 Budget Strength Of Armed Forces Released
The budget shows Army 675000 Air Force 411000 Navy 447000 Marines 88000 within ceilings, but 6000 cadets and midshipmen omitted. Draft calls drop and long military enlistments end, with Army suspending draft machinery during Christmas. Recruiting will shrink to meet the President's ceiling.
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Washington
Naval ‘Academilee
Forresta
Army
Air Force
Navy
Defense
Selective Service Boards
Royals
Italian light plane completes 2100 mile South Atlantic hop
An Italian two-man crew in a 120 horsepower plane named The Children’s Angel completed a nonstop 2100 mile flight from Dakar to Paz de Bahía near Natal Brazil in 16 hours 1 minute. Strong winds pushed the craft off course near the Brazilian coast delaying the arrival. The un radioed flight departed Dakar at 11 p.m. EST Tuesday and landed at 3:40 p.m. EST Wednesday.
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Natal
Brazil
Dakar
French West Africa
Nats
Pazpahuba
Natali
Berlin Trial Decisions Upheld by General Ting
General Lucas D Ting affirmed yesterday the major rulings of the Nuremberg war crimes trials. He upheld sentences against three German generals and other leaders connected with executions in the Balkans and the Hitler era peoples court system.
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Clay
Berlin
Nuemmberg
Lucas D. Ting
Balkans
Hitler
People's Courts
Democrats Seek Milk Price Probe in State Capitol
Legislators press a probe into milk price reports from Cornell University and grants to the dairy college by six large metropolitan milk firms. Governor Dewey to sign extension of temporary commission studying price spread through Feb 15, 1950. Separately, leaders push labor bills and education funding debates amid Republican negotiations on state aid.
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Albany
State Agriculture College
Cornell University
Arthur Wachtel
Bronx
Rilk Companies
Ooody A. McConnell
Ithaca
Grange League
Federation Exchange; Inc
Dewey
Enace
Boston Budget Push From Up Governor De Wer
Governor De Wer proposed a series of new taxes to fund what he called a record Boston budget. The plan aims to cover a high level of state spending this year, with emphasis on services and development across major city programs.
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Boston
Paul A Dewer
Pew
Dewey Delighted To Be In Albany
On the eve of President Truman's inauguration in Washington Governor Thomas E. Dewey spoke to a farm group in Albany. He said he was "really delighted" to be in Albany and reflected on last year's defeat, noting Democrats control both houses of Congress while Republicans hold both legislative chambers in New York State.
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Albany
Clifford
R. Hope
Kens
Congress
Hope
G.O.P
House ‘Agriculture Committee
New York State Agricultural Society
Hope and Son
George D. Aiken
Senate
House
Committee On Agriculture
Truman
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Pepper Accuses Taft Of Filibuster On Labor Law
Washington reports Senator Pepper accuses Senator Taft of using filibuster tactics to block repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. The clash began at a Senate Labor Committee meeting with Pepper pledging to move to send a repeal bill to the floor, while Taft derides the plan as delaying tactics.
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Pepper
Taft
Washington
UPI
Senate Labor Committee
Senate
Taft Bartkey
Tait
Tos
Taft Jbas
Tepper
Senaté
Lhannes
Giant Windmills Rival Atomic Power in Energy Race
Percy E. Thomas of the Federal Power Commission argues windmills, as high as the Washington Monument, could outperform atomic energy for cheap electricity. He cites free wind as input, simpler machinery, fewer health risks, and potential use as auxiliaries to existing sources or in remote areas, with large units costing around prewar levels.
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Washington
Washington Monument
Atomic Energy
Federal Power Commission
Percy E. Thomas
Washington Society of Engineers
Mhoreover
Thomas
Deeds Not Words End Cold War Washington Tells M
Washington lashes out at a budding Soviet peace move arguing actions count toward ending the cold war. Lovett urges cooperation on Berlin and Austrian independence, suggesting Moscow may be attempting a peace maneuver while Western officials see propaganda.
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Washington
Washington DP
Lovett
Berlin
Palmiro
State Department
Rede
Minitmist
Russia
Americca
Cachin
Italy
Palmiro Iro
Cotton Broker Leaves Two Maids Big Trust Funds
Morristown N J two maids Annie Dempsey and Julia McCarthy named principal beneficiaries of separate $100,000 trusts in the will of Leonard Hentz a 92 year old retired New York cotton broker who died January seventh. He also left his niece Marian Crossield a $400 000 trust on condition she not contest the will with a $500 000 bequest to charity if she does. The estate totals $783 200 in cash and trust funds. The two maids receive a total of $190 000 in trust funds plus $1.80 in cash each.
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Morristown
J. G
Crossield
Rosy
Morris County
Harry R. Shupe
Hentz
Blind Man Awakes With Headache in New York
A blind New York man awoke with a severe headache and temporary blindness yesterday. He described seeing blurred shapes and circles before his vision returned. Carl Kein, 40, a Brookton Industrial School student, said the episode followed a gunshot incident last month and credited vision returning after the episode ended.
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New York
Carl Kein
Newamen
Brookton Industrial School
Harry J. Spat
Sid Later Klin
World Labor Organization splits over communism
World Labor Organization faces a rift over communism with unions in the United States Britain and the Netherlands weighing new alliance efforts. WFTU leaders criticize American unions as serving bourgeois interests while plans for a broader international labor movement unfold amid European recovery talks.
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World Labor Organization
Inter Oolations
Representa
United States
Thve
Irving Brown
Britain
Netherlands
World Federation’ ‘of ‘Trade
Brown
OWL Key
Propa Ing
International Labor
Ganda
Ganization J
Bern
U. 3
Servnce
Iabor
Rious
Andre, Laffond
the. Afl
World Labor
Chinese Cabinet Seeks Immediate Truce in Civil War
report says Premier Sun Fo threatened resignation if ministers reject negotiations with Communist forces. Official note expresses government desire for peace while Chiang Kai-shek’s approval is still required. U S Joint Advisory Group to end most duties in Nanking. functions shift toward Shanghai and Canton as talks loom. Mao Tse-tung had demanded all power be removed from the Nanking Kuomintang regime in prior terms.
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Sun Fo
Chiang Kalatiek
Peiping
Yangtze
Foreign Office
Canton
U. S
Nanking
Shanghai
Mao Tse-Tung
Chinese Communists
Hel
Nanking Kuomintang
Mao
Indonesia appeals to Asia for arms and aid in exile
An Indonesian memorandum to the Asia conference led by Prime Minister Nehru seeks arms, money, textiles, medicines and supplies to govern and fight the Dutch. It urges nations to seize Dutch military gear, block Dutch airfields, and coordinate from India's exile base with Ai A Maramais heading the coordinating commission.
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New Delhi
India
Atta
Netherlands
Jawal Darlal ‘Nehru
Pakistan
Ceylon
Ai A Maramais
Czech Avenger Dies In Plane Crash
Bristol Eng. A Czech resistance figure linked by the Nazis to the Heydrich killing died from air crash injuries. Lt Josef Horak, a Lidice native blamed by Germany for the attack, reportedly parachuted into Czechoslovakia. The Gestapo executed many Lidice residents in retaliation.
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Bristol
Eng
Josef Horak
Lidice
Reinhard Heydrich
Horak
Czechoslovakia
Heydrich
U N Mediator Sets Palestine Peace Deadline
Dr. Ralph Bunche acting United Nations mediator sets this weekend as the deadline for Egypt Israel armistice talks at the Phase or Break stage. Negotiations progress slowly but steadily with secrecy masking dickerings on Negev control troop withdrawals and army reductions. A first draft of an Israeli Lebanese armistice was drafted at Ras en Nagars as representatives of Lebanon and Israel prepare drafts for home-government approval.
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Rhodes
Ralph Bunche
United Nations
Holy Land
Negev Israel
Tel Aviv
Israsi
Ras En Nagars
reHabie
Elias Sassoon
Fergie Ministry
Luciens
I Formant
Windstorm Wrecks Havoc Across Large Section Of New York
A massive windstorm swept from Lake Huron across western and northern New York. Gusts reached 62 miles an hour in Syracuse with 40s in Binghamton and Rochester. power outages occurred near Wolcott and Townsends Hamburgs. Buffalo harbor saw its water rise to multi year highs as drawbridges opened for high water. City crews struggled with snow removal duties while wind debris cleanup began in Watertown. Pauline Wardelix survived after being trapped by falling debris in Rochester.
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Syracuse
WETE
Tat Weather Bureau
Ontario
Prout
Bullsley
Rochester
Wolcott
Wayne County
Townsands
Hamburg
Buffalo
Buffalo Harbor
Watertown
New York
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Charles HL Haskins
Mort
Ee Dale
Israel
Israed
Irpport Bank
Ieraeil
Tarael
Efiahu Epstein
Ie Taell
U.S
Rael'n Farms
Mulde
Regio
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New York Cotton Exchange
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Yeaterday
Indonesia
Asia
U.N. Mediator
Palestine
Pulse of the People
Whitigig
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