Truman orders inquiry into steel price rise
President Truman directs the justice department the Council of Economic Advisers and the Commerce Department to probe a $5 a ton steel price increase. FBI agents summon 166 major steel firms while hearings are set for March 2 before a joint congressional panel.
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Truman
Caribbean
Justice Department
Council of Economic Advisors
Commerce Department
Wiliamsburg
Eben Ayers
Secetary
Ayers
Adio
Greenwich Bay
Ark
FBI
Clark
GOP
Joint Congressional Economic Committee
Paul
Congress
Parson Weems Preached Against Infidels at Old Chapel
Local history recalls Parson Weems preaching a 1810s sermon at the Old Chapel in Clarke County denouncing Tom Paine and other infidels. A parishioner challenged him the next day as he faced scrutiny for his views. Weems is remembered for a popular but fictional Washington biography and a peripatetic book trade.
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Parson Weems
Clarke County
Tom Paine
America
Weems
Washington
Marshall
Irving
Ramsey
Bancroft
Meade
Paine
Weem
Llandaff
Steel Faces Excess Profits Tax Revival
Senator O Mahoney proposes reviving the wartime excess profits tax to curb a steel price increase. Senator Milikin says the idea will receive careful study. O Mahoney calls the steel rise indefensible and says it could push Congress to declare the steel industry a public utility.
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Washington
Sen
O’mahoney
D-Wye
Sen. Milikin
R-Cole
Senate Finance Committee
O'Mahoney
Czech Paraders Defy Communists Amid Prague Tension
In Prague, security police with bayonets entered the Social Democratic party headquarters as students and professors from National Socialist groups paraded near the Communist party building. Police kept traffic calm while streetcars halted during the strike. Communist Premier Gottwald predicted swift victory as President Benes faced pressure to reorganize the cabinet with Communist members.
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Prague
Social Democratic Party
Communist Party
Chrif
Social Democrat
Czechoslovakia
Prikopy
National Socialist Party
Klement Gottwald
Eduard Benes
Chiang Kai-Shek Meditates Amid China's Crisis
Chiang Kai-Shek isolates in a mountain retreat as China's crisis deepens. A naval commander says the U.S. fleet must stand by to protect northern ports while a government official cites the generalissimo's belief that he is alone and undisturbed.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
U. S
Chiang
Kiwanis to Meet for Business Session Tomorrow
Kiwanis members will gather at 12 30 p m tomorrow at the Sarah Zane fire hall for a mainly business session. Secretary George Good notes no special speaker has been invited.
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Kiwanis
Sarah Zane Fire Hall
George Good
Civil Rights Program To Stay Says McGrath
Democratic civil rights debate deepens as four Southern governors vow to block Truman's race equality program. McGrath states he will not withdraw the plan nor revert to a two thirds veto rule. He proposes restating the 1944 platform civil rights plank. Lane Jr. presides. Virginia’s Tuck does not attend.
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Jack Bell Washington
Dixie
J. Howard McGrath
Truman
McGrath
South Carolina
Ben T. Laney
Arkansas
Beauford Jester
Texas
R. Gregg Cherry
North Carolina
Congress
FBI
W. Preson Lane Jr
Maryland
William M. Tuck
Virginia
Strike of Minneapolis Teachers Halts 65000 Pupils
AFL affiliated Minneapolis teachers walk out for higher pay and a full school year. About half of 2200 teachers participate as 94 schools remain closed with no classes. Pickets gather near city hall and court house while West High School sees no students.
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Minneapolis
AFL Teachers Federation
West High School
Truman Acquires Sunburn on Caribbean Trip
President Truman, en route to Guantanamo and Florida for a vacation, endured a deep sunburn after diving in the sun near San Juan St Thomas and St Croix. Brig Gen Wallace H Graham treated the burn with a special ointment as he wore a Panama hat and completed a three day goodwill visit to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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President Truman
Caribbean
Truman
Guantanamo
Cuba
Florida
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Wallace H. Graham
San Juan
St. Thomas
St. Croix
Gen. Graham
Palestine
Retail Merchants Set Meeting For Store Hours Debate
The Retail Merchants Assn plans to set store closing hours for next year and decide on Wednesday afternoon summer closings and holiday dates. Officers will be elected with M. B. Clowe Jr. as president at the city hall meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m.
Commodity and Stock Prices Steadier on Quiet Trading
New York reports a narrow trading day with little activity and prices near Saturday's close. The market shows a gradual return to normal after a February price drop while stocks barely move on the New York exchange. Chicago notes a dip in wheat corn and oats with small ranges, and cattle and sheep prices ease on the livestock market. Butter prices unchanged at the New York wholesale market.
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New York
New York Exchange
Chicago
Five Day Virginia Weather Forecast Highlights Local Events
A five day outlook for Virginia shows near normal temperatures with milder midweek and a dip Friday, then warming Sunday. Rain is expected Wednesday and again around Sunday, with total precipitation about half an inch. Tonight at 7:30 the Bible Conference at First Brethren Church on Berryville Ave. Run wash of events includes a Merchants meeting Feb 24 to discuss holiday closings and officer elections. Fountain work applications open at J J Newberry Co office. Herbert W Shutts disclaims personal debts.
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Virginia
First Brethern
Berryville Ave
ITV Hall
New Faces in White House and First Foreign Policy Step
Henry A. Wallace told the House foreign affairs committee that peace needs a new approach toward Russia and first step is new faces in the executive branch. He urged a meeting between the new president and the head of the Russian government and proposed an eight point aid plan for Europe with no political strings. He criticized the Marshall plan as a tool of Wall Street monopolists and warned it could lead to war.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Congress
Russia
White House
Truman
Wall Street
Wallace
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
Bolton
Ohio
Senate
E Capitol
House
United Nations Agency
Adminster
Exci
Greece
China
Indonesia
Indo-China
United Nations
Ruhr
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Russia
Paris
Explosion Levels Three Businesses in Pocahontas
A gas explosion leveled three business buildings and damaged another in Pocahontas Arkansas. One man Henry Taylor a Black store employee is missing feared dead two others injured. Firefighters contained the blaze within an hour as rain drenched the debris and rescue workers searched for others.
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Pocahontas
Ark
Arkansas
Henry Taylor
Red Cross
Little Rock
Taylor
Eunice O’baugh
Pocahontas Star Herald
Dallas Rowden
Labor Import May Not Be Needed This Year Says DA
The United States Employment Service indicated farm labor imports from Mexico and Puerto Rico might be unnecessary in 1948. Director Joseph C. Goodwin cited record crop goals and a need to mobilize domestic workers to fill an estimated 4,000,000 harvesting and processing jobs. He noted the government has halted paying for transportation and housing for imported farm workers.
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Washington
United States Employment Service
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Joseph C. Goodwin
Goodwin
Nine-Year-Old Invades Gotham With Cap Pistols on Train
A nine-year-old traveler wearing jeans and a cap rode a Pennsylvania Railroad train toward New York with two pearl-handled cap pistols. He claimed to be Edward Nance of 16 Ferr Place Washington DC, said a friend joined him last night, planned to invade New York, but changed plans. He was taken off at Asbury Park after a conductor found no ticket. police queried his parents in Washington while the boy proudly displayed his pistols at headquarters.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Washington, D.C
Edward Nance
Ferr
Edward
New York City
Pennsylvania
Washington
Glider Record Set Inglewood Flight by Meyers and Stiglmeier
Henry Meyers and Herman Stiglmeier set a new American glider soaring record covering 12 hours 52 minutes at Inglewood California on February 4.
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Inglewood, Canf
Henry Meyers
Herman Stiglmeier
George Washington White Dies on Washingtons Birthday
George Washington White, 86, a Lit tlestown resident, died on Washingtons Birthday. His birth date marks his birthday on the holiday, adding a poignant note to the elderly mans passing.
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Gettysburg
George Washington White
Washington
White
Littlestown
Prisoner vanishes after admiring escape landscape
In Aberdeen Mississippi a prisoner who daily studied a torn landscape from a magazine on his jail wall has disappeared along with the picture and the section of wall it covered.
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Aberdeen
Miss
Navy Panther fighter uses British Rolls Royce engine
London reports a Grumman Panther jet fighter for the U S Navy powered by a Rolls Royce Nene gas turbine delivering about 12 000 horsepower through a propeller. Britain will license through Pratt and Whitney to manufacture the Nene in the United States.
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London
United States Navy
Grumman Panther
Britain
United States
Pratt and Whitney
Woolen Shop Promotes New All Wool Gabardine and Tweeds
The Woolen Shop at 304 S Braddock St advertises new stock including best quality all wool black gabardine along with tweeds and worsted fabrics. Contact via phone 6741.
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S. Braddock St
Senate Rejects 2 year Limit on Income Tax Rise
Virginia Senate finance committee rejects a two year cap on income tax increases. Gov. Tuck’s tax program moves to the floor with plans for roughly 14 million dollars in annual revenue. Bills raise income, beer, deed recording, and license taxes while Ohio River valley sanitation pact is approved. A proposed alcoholics treatment fund uses ABC profits for clinics and administration shifts to the health department. Debate on the tax program and charter changes resumes Thursday.
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Richmond
Senate Finance Committee
Tuck
Edward L. Breeden Jr
Norfolk City
A. EB
Stephens
Smithfield
General Assembly
Virginia
Ohio River Valley
ABC
James E. Gardner
Assembly
State Health Department
Johns
Battle of
Charlottesville
Delegates Endorse Marshall Plan Over Moore Objection
The House of Delegates in Richmond endorsed the Marshall plan for European recovery after a spirited debate. The proposal by Robert Whitehead of Nelson faced opposition from E Blackburn Moore of Clarke and W Taylor Murphy of Warsaw who argued the plan lacks clear machinery for effectiveness.
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Richmond
House of Delegates
Robert Whitehead
Nelson
E. Blackburn Moore
Clarke
W. Taylor Murphy
Warsaw
Ministers Protest Store Sale of Beer in Local Stores
Shenandoah county ministers sent a letter to Safe Way Stores public relations manager Kirk Miller protesting the beer license for Safeway shops in Strasburg and Woodstock. A copy was mailed to the ABC board in Richmond. Rev. D. N. Calvert was elected president of the association with Rev. G. M. Poole and Rev. A. F. Bowers as officers.
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Woodstock
Shenandoah County
Kirk Miller
Safeway
Safeway Food
Strasburg
ABC Board
Richmond
D. N. Calvert
Mi Assa
G. M. Poole
Toms Brook
A. F. Bowers
Dentist Reports Passing Threat Note in Louisville
Dr. Turner Spillman, a Black dentist in Louisville, says he received a passing threat letter aimed at a dentist planning a new subdivision for Black people. The note followed a cross burning near the proposed development owned by Dr. P. O. Sweeney, warning that "your 29 acres" must be sold to white people.
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Louisville
Turner Spillman
P. O. Sweeney
Spillman
U S Refuses Help In Palestine Split U N Told
New York February 24 Former president Herbert Hoover warned the United States cannot rely on military allies in another war. He said Britain and Western Europe could stay neutral if the United States is attacked, citing weakened European nations facing Soviet forces along the Iron Curtain.
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New York
United States
Herbert Hoover
Britain
U S Urges UN to Hold Korea Elections Despite Boycott
In Lake Success on February 24 the United States pressed the United Nations General Assembly to proceed with nationwide elections in divided Korea. Dr. Philip C. Jessup stated Koreans must elect a National Assembly and rejected Soviet boycott efforts to block the UN program. Russian delegates, along with satellites, did not attend.
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General Assembly
Russia
Korea
Jessup
Soviet Union
Little Assembly
Positive Action By U S Called For by Marshall
Richmond February 24 Secretary of State Marshall urged the United States to avoid a passive attitude in a critical world situation. He outlined Washington as the most powerful nation and called for leadership to stabilize Europe and implement decisive positive action at an American Legion VMI dinner.
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Richmond
Marshall
United States
Nction
American Legion
VMI
Europe
General Meyers Goes on Trial
Washington February 24 The government called Maj. Gen. E Meyers to trial on the first of three criminal charges. The No 2 purchasing agent for the Army Air Forces during the war he is accused of inducing a business associate to lie to Senate investigators about his financial deals.
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Washington
E. Meyers
Army Air Forces
Senate
United States Signals Willingness To Consult On Palestine Force
The United States declared readiness to consult under the UN Charter on creating an international force for Palestine if the UN Security Council votes for such a force. Washington stressed the force must be directed to keeping peace and not partition. Senator Vicente Francisco of the Philippines and other delegates pushed for security and military strength for Jerusalem after Britain ends its mandate.
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Palestine
Austin Sai
United States
Austin
Karel Lisicky
Czechoslovakia
Jerusalem
United Nations
Holy City
Britain
Lisicky
Palestine Partition Commission
Security Pearance Council
Vicente J. Fransico
Philippines
House Approves One Month Rent Control Extension
The House passed a one month stop gap extension of rent controls to prevent expiration this Saturday and keep controls in place through March. The bill moves quickly to the Senate for passage and then to the White House.
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Washington
House
Senate
Arkansas Senator Says Truman Can't Win in November
A Arkansas senator told reporters that Truman cannot win in November even with Southern support. He said he personally favors Senator Byrd of Virginia for the Democratic nomination and is his choice at the moment.
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Arkansas
Truman
Washington
Lan
Senator Byrd
D-Va
Tractor theft case probes trailer ownership
Sheriff reports Mack Daniel Howlett charged with grand larceny of a Shenandoah Transportation Co. tractor trailer now in another farmer’s possession. The missing trailer remains unrecovered while Howlett claims he bought the tractor and cannot prove ownership of the vehicle tied to the Harrisonburg firm. Investigation continues with no hearing date set.
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Robert DeHaven
Mack Daniel Howlett
Shenandoah Transportation Co
Harrisonburg
Howlett
Frederick County
New York
S ‘Transportation
W. Va
Moorefield
DeHaven
D. H. Whitacre
Georgia
Washington
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