Miners and Operators Exchange Blame Over Wage Talks Deadlock
Soft coal operators and John L. Lewis blame each other for no progress in a five day old wage dispute. Federal mediator Fuller urged continued talks as miners prepare for a long recess. Separate Stamford lock factory settlement ends a five month strike affecting 3,000 workers. terms not disclosed. Total idle workers remain about 770,000, including 400,000 soft coal miners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Paul W. Fuller
Lewis
AFL
Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company
Stamford
Conn
Yale and Towne Company
Allied Group Warned of Jap Activity
General MacArthur formed the four power Allied Council for Japan to advise him while he retains command. Soviet delegate Derevyanko urged seven day decree checks and possible new elections, and pressed open meetings and internationalizing the council secretariat.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Fourpower
Allied Council For
Japan
Russia
Kuzma Derevyanko
Derevyanko
MacaArthur
Council Secretariat
U. S
Bonner F. Fellers
Diet
Council
W. McMahon Ball
William F. Marquat
Appoint Superintendent For Fletcher Hospital
State Welfare Director Frazier Reams announced Dr. Arthur T. Hopwood, superintendent of the Apple Creek State School for the Feeble Minded, would head Fletcher Hospital if the facility becomes a state hospital. The entire Fletcher staff except army doctors would be retained, and an organization to run the hospital as a state mental institution would be formed.
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Fletcher Hospital
Columbus
Frazier Reams
Arthur T. Hopwood
Apple Creek State School
Reams
Fletcher
Seizure of New Jersey Gas Works Amid Utilities Strike
New Jersey seized and began immediate operation today of the gas works of Service Electric & Gas Co at the hour set by six unions for a statewide strike. About 1,200 workers remained at their posts to ensure gas for heat and cooking to three-fourths of the state's population. Governor Walter E Edge signed the order under a nine day old utility strike law. The wage dispute began weeks ago with union demands for a 20 percent rise. unions walked out after rejecting a 15 percent offer while the company proposed 12 1/2 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
New Jersey
Public ‘Service Electric & Gas Co
Walter E. Edge
iThe Utility
Donahey Critical Health Reported In Columbus
Former Ohio Governor Donahey, nicknamed Honest Vic, is described by his physician as a very sick man. Diagnosed initially with chronic bronchitis, his case is under study at Grant Hospital after his Wednesday admission following a Florida vacation.
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Columbus
A&a. WV
Donahey
Charles W. McGavran
Grant Hospital
Oil concessions seen for Russia after Iran withdrawal
United States and allied diplomats expect Russia to obtain oil concessions from Iran soon after Iranian troops withdraw. A three point Iran Russia agreement forms a joint oil venture while Tehran pledges troop removal by May and treats Azerbaijan Province autonomy as internal. Security Council prepares new rules while Kurdish independence chatter adds risk.
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New York
Russia
Iran
Tthat
United Nations Security Council
Tehran
Majlis
Ian
Red Army
Azerbaijan
Security Council
Byrnes
Washington
United States
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Council
United Nations
Turkey
Iraq
Kurdistan
Veteran Seeks Home For His Four Babies
A Denver couple asked juvenile court to place Ardith and Marilyn du Mars in adoption for at least a year. The father an ex serviceman and department store clerk said he could not see a future for them. The children include 14 month old triplets Ardith Marilyn and Evalie and a three year old Charlene.
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Denver
Ardith
Marilyn
Evalie du Mars
Charlene
G O P Leaders Rally Across Akron with Bricker and Halleck
Ohio Republicans gathered in Akron as Former Governor John Bricker addressed over 800 at a dinner of the Republican Women’s Organizations. Indiana Congressman Charles Halleck stressed defending liberty and opposing the New Deal while praising new national chairman B. Carroll Reece. Fred H. Johnson of Zanesville also spoke as state party leaders voiced campaign aims.
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Akron
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Indiana
Charles E. Halleck
Bricker
Senate
Ohio Federation “of
Republican Women’s Organizations
B. Carroll Reece
OPA
Worker Death Held Accident on Hollywood Studio Set
Edward R. Gray, 1 year old? no, a 1-year-old? The report states a studio set worker died from head injuries and a fractured pelvis after a party on a Hell-reproducing set. Found by a General Service Studio patrolman during rounds. Paul Muni hosted workers on Angel On My Shoulder, a film about a crook who goes to hell.
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Hollywood
Hell
Baxter
Gray
Hitler allegedly refused return of British airmen
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel told the International Military Tribunal that Hitler attempted to have 50 British aviators returned to their prison camp after their 1944 escape but Hitler blocked the move and ordered Himmler to take custody of them. They were shot.
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Mernberg
Marishal Wilhelm Keitel
International Military Tribunal
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Educational Facilities Inadequate Warns Bevis
Ohio State University President Howard L. Bevis warned Gov. Lausche that Ohio higher education facilities are insufficient to handle all students expected to enroll next fall. OSU currently lists over 16 000 students this semester, about 700 above projections, with larger enrollments anticipated for the new academic year.
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Columbus
Howard L. Bevis
Ohio State University
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Ohio State
Future of OPA Tied Up With Subsidy Slashing
In the House Banking Committee debate over OPA wind down proposals, Rep. Wolcott seeks rapid subsidy cuts and tighter price rules. Chair Spence aims to shape legislation by nightfall. Amendments call for ending subsidies within nine months after June 30 or by January 1, 1947, and include steep 125 percent subsidy reductions on agricultural commodities every 45 days after July 1.
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Washington
OPA
Price Agency
House Banking Committee
Spence
House
Wolcott
Mich
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Albert S. Goss
National Grange
Truman
Food Workers Strike Shuts Quaker Oats Plant in Akron
About 700 workers are affected as the CIQ union strikes the Quaker Oats Co plant in Akron. The dispute centers on the company’s refusal to discharge a night watchman who sued the union, claiming his suspension for nonpayment of a fine could cost him his job under a maintenance of membership clause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
CIQ Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers
Quaker Oats Co
George Fretz
Hoover Warns of Inevitable Famine in Europe
Herbert Hoover told an emergency food conference in London that famine was inevitable in Europe unless the United States and other large wheat producers ship all available food. He said hunger is present in hundreds of millions of homes and urged immediate relief.
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London
Herbert Hoover
Europe
America
Emergency Food Conference
Hoover
Power Rocket and Jet Photographs in Army Tests
Army officials disclosed tests with Lockheed XFP-80 jet aircraft for aerial photography reaching 35 000 feet and vibrationless engines aiding picture quality. The War Department described Tiny Tim as a deadly rocket, claimed to have driven holes through targets, while a parachute plane crash near Brownsville prompted safety assurances.
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Dayton
Army Air Forces Air Materiel Command
America
Dover
Del
War Department
Newark
William
Staunton
Brownsville
Petiot Condemned To Death For Murders In Paris
Dr Marcel Petiot was condemned to death in Paris after a three week trial ending in conviction for more than twenty killings. Prosecutors said he ran a murder for profit scheme from his Rue Le Sueur residence, collecting money from at least 27 victims promised smuggling out of Nazi occupied France.
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Paris
CFI
Marcel Petiot
Labor Secretary Steps In To Halt Ohio Strike
Secretary Lewis B Schwellenbach intervened to prevent a walkout by 1 300 Cincinnati Gas and Electric and Northern Kentucky workers threatening to cut gas and electric service. An afternoon meeting with Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co and AFL Electrical Workers followed a four hour session with the mediator James McNamara. The union sought 20 cents an hour, the company offered 15 cents. Knight said the strike would start Saturday and halt service in Greater Cincinnati and affect subsidiary Union Light Heat and Power Co. Rauch warned service disruption would impact health and daily life. Akron also faced a fifth day of bus and trolley strikes with CIO Transport Workers Union and Akron Transportation Co. negotiations ongoing.
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Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
AFL Electrical Workers
James McNamara
U.S
McNamara
James Knight
Knight
Fred M. Rauch
Greater
Union Light, Heat and Power Co
Akron
CIO Transport Workers Union
Akron ‘Transportation Co
William Wright
Ohio schools barred from buying federal surplus goods
Ohio Attorney General Hugh S. Jenkins ruled that school districts lack authority to purchase surplus war commodities from the federal government. Emergency legislation grants such power to political subdivisions, but Jenkins noted school districts are not political subdivisions. He also ruled counties must cover hospital expenses for indigent residents and that commissioners cannot use dog and kennel funds to pay rabies related stock claims.
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Columbus
UPI
Hugh S. Jenkins
Ohio
Jenkins
Jackson County
Three Die as Auto Plows Into Fast Train Near Toledo
Three persons died when a car collided with the Detroit Washington Red Arrow passenger train five miles north of Toledo. Victims were Earl Disbrow 55 his wife Ann 59 and Margaret Schiereth 45 all residents near Toledo as identified by Michigan State Patrolman Carl Seim.
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Toledo
Michigan
Carl ‘Seim
Earl Disbrow
Ann
Margaret Schiereth
Child Not Expected To Survive Fall From Car
Crown City report states three year old James Jack son of Mr and Mrs Donald Jack suffered a fractured skull after falling from a moving car Monday. Recovery described as doubtful and he is their only child.
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Crown City
James Jack
Donald Jack
Jack
Hope for Wage Act Abandoned By Sen Pepper
The administration’s wage bill is declared dead as the Senate insists on a farm pay raise amendment. Senator Pepper says the bill is finished after a 46 to 38 vote expands the measure to include farm labor costs. Bowles warns of a higher food bill. Truman signals he would veto the amended bill.
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Washington
Ale Ithor
Senate
Pepper
D-Fla
Russell
D-Ga
Chester Bowles
Truman
White House
Threat of Strike Fading For Columbus Utilities
In Columbus the water and light supplies were spared after AFI unions and a three member committee halted work. They plan to submit a proposal to hold the work holiday in abeyance to union members for a Sunday vote. Meanwhile Honolulu reports place the Monday tidal wave death toll at 168 and total Hawaiian damages at 56 million dollars.
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Columbus
CPI
AFI
Honolulu
Pacific
Hawaiian Islands
Eviction Notices Rise in Columbus Area Lands
Eviction notices filed by new landlords seeking to occupy newly purchased property have increased 328 percent over March 1945 in the Columbus area, according to the office of price administration.
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Columbus
Office of Price Administration
Warns of Postwar Land Boom in Rural Districts
Washington report quotes Secretary of Agriculture Anderson warning that rising farm real estate prices threaten a disastrous postwar land boom and potential subsequent collapse in rural areas. The statement signals concern over inflationary trends and agricultural investment.
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Washington
Anderson
Mass Education of Veterans Could Shape Youth Programs
Arthur L. Brandon of the University of Michigan told the Ohio College Association that the GI Bill education effort may set a pattern for free college education for worthy youth. He predicts a million veteran students within a year and says the reconversion of colleges to peacetime work is proceeding faster than other major national shifts.
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Columbus
Arthur L. Brandon
University of Michigan
Ohio College Association
Sis
Brandon
American College Publicity Association
Association
Anyather
Amertanan
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Warsaw
Milo Casas
Brichier Dava Ls
James K. Vardaman, Jr
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Marriner Eccles
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