Coal Strike Sparks Rail Cuts Amid White House Tension
The 26 day old mine walkout drives an 25 percent cut in coal burning rail service ordered by ODT and ICC to conserve dwindling coal. Hartley signals tougher Taft Hartley action if Lewis defies court contempt. labor board probes union bargaining with Southern Coal Producers. No end in sight as workers idle across railroads and plants in Point Pleasant and Jackson areas.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Rep
Hartley
R-Nj
Lewis
House Labor Committee
Office of Defense Transportation
Interstate Commerce Commission
ODT
ICC
White House
UMW
Southern Coal Producers Association
National Labor Relations Board
Baltimore
Truman
Welfare Fund
Ezra van Horn
OU Professor Urges Tighter Ties Between High Schools and Colleges
Dr. R L Morton of Ohio University told the 79th Ohio College Association convention in Columbus that closer high school college relations are needed amid rising skepticism about college facilities. He said student focus matters more than institutions. Dr Gordon K Chalmers of Kenyon College criticized Truman's higher education report as unrealistically nonselective. The two day meeting drew about 300 administrators and faculty, with 13 Ohio University officials attending.
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R. L. Morton
Ohio University
Ohio College Association
Columbus
Associated Press
Morton
Gordon K. Chalmers
Kenyon College
Jews Retake Key Village Kastel Amid Fighting
Haganah fighters re occupy the strategic Kastel village at dawn. A separate raid near Dir Yasin is attributed to Irgun Zvai Leumi. Hagana attacked Wad Sarrar where 500 Iraqi troops are concentrated.
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Jerusalem
Haganah
Kastel
Jewish Agency
Dir Yasin
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem
Wad Sarrar
Koussevitzky to End Career with Boston Symphony
Dr Serge Koussevitzky will close his conducting career with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the end of the 1948 49 season marking his silver jubilee. He will be succeeded by Charles Muench the 57 year old Alsatian conductor and current leader of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra and the Paris Philharmonic.
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Boston
Serge Koussevitzky
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Muench
Paris Conservatory
Paris Philharmonic
Pittsburgh Industry Gridlock Deepens as Coal Strike Persists
The 26 day old soft coal walkout leaves 164000 workers idle in allied industries including 27000 anthracite miners. Steel sectors show at least 51000 idle workers, 37 blast furnaces banked and 104 open hearths shut down. Transportation halts hit 70000 railroaders and 1200 to 1500 seamen rivermen.
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Pittsburgh
Allied Industries
Slaying Victim In Columbus Identified As Etta Bowman
Columbus police identified the downtown hotel slaying victim as Etta Bowman 29 of Portland Oregon. Parents Mr and Mrs B L Bowman said they last heard from her two years ago and learned of her death from a brother in law who sent a clipped newspaper photo. The body was found March 31 in the Ohio Hotel room. Her life included a 1935 marriage to Harvey Dr Ferguson in Central City Colorado.
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Columbus
Mona McBride
Etta Bowman
Larry
Portland, Ore
B. L. Bowman
Denver
Colo
Bowmans
Harvey Dr. Ferguson
Central City
Winter Wheat Crop Estimate Due Today
The Agriculture Department releases the first forecast of 1948 winter wheat crop size and the amount of last year’s leftover wheat still on farms. The report, due this afternoon, informs expectations for bread grain supply and U.S. bread sharing abroad.
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Washington
Sam
Agriculture Department
Engineering Fraternity To Honor 59 at OSU
Tau Beta Pi at Ohio State University will honor fifty eight men and one woman at tonight's initiation. Rosella Horine of New Madison Ohio will receive a women's badge as the third woman honored by the fraternity at OSU.
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Columbus
Tau Beta Pi
Ohio State University
Rosella Horine
New Madison
Ohio
OSU
1200 Ohio Musicians In Two Day Festival
One thousand two hundred Ohio high school musicians gathered at Ohio State University for a two day competitive music festival. Contestants in vocal instrumental solo and ensemble groups performed across seven buildings under the watch of eighteen judges.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
Western European bloc to gain US military backing
Washington officials foresee strong American support for a Western European union to deter Soviet expansion. Spaak said nations will seek military aid after consolidating the bloc, with two main paths: arming Western European forces or forming a formal alliance ratifiable by Congress.
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Washington
Paul Henri Spaak
Truman
Lovett
Marshall
Spaak
U.S
Senate
Congress
Nazi SS Leaders Convicted of Plain Murder at Nurnberg
In Nurnberg Germany a three judge panel led by Michael A. Musmanno found twenty SS officers guilty on all counts for mass murder. The verdict labels the crimes as plain murder with sentences to be announced. Convicted include four generals twelve colonels and several majors and a lieutenant.
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Nnernberg
Germany
Hitler
Michael A. Musmanno
Pittsburgh
Nuernberg
Einsatz
Otto Ohlendorf
Heinz Jost
Erich Naumann
Erwin Schultz
Heinz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Perry County Native Frank B Maullar Dies
Perry County native Frank B Maullar 73 and former member of the State Utilities Commission 1922 to 1927 died Thursday. He was a Chillicothe real estate dealer and Ross County Republican chairman. Funeral services set for 2:30 p.m. Monday at his residence.
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Columbus
Frank B. Maullar
State Utilities Commission
Perry County
Chillicothe
Ross County
Henry Wallace Criticizes U S Policy Over Labor Strikes
Chicago report cites Henry A. Wallace accusing U S foreign policy of provoking labor injunctions. He says the government is tough on Russia trade unions and liberals, but not on the steel trust.
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Chicago
Henry A. Wallace
Russia
Steel Trust
Bellefontaine man explains earthquake mystery blast
Farmer Jay Nogle says a large dynamite blast while blasting a rock pile caused the earthquakes felt by Bellefontaine residents Wednesday night. Windows and doors rattled as the ground shook in the town with many people running into the streets.
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Bellefontaine
Jay Nogle
Fogle
Blind Veteran Recovers Stolen Radio After Crime
In Los Angeles a man posing as a room renter stole a table radio from 73 year old Spanish War veteran John R. Sweany. Santa Monica dealer Edward A. Krause then donated a replacement radio as the veteran mourned the cost. His wife rushes to buy another radio. A neighbor aided.
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Los Angeles
John R. Sweany
Sweany
Edward A. Krause
Santa Monica
Youth Faces Lie Test In Lorain Shooting Case
19 year old crane operator Alex Lengyel was to take a lie detector test in Cleveland as part of the investigation into the fatal shooting of 39 year old Frances Leonard. Lengyel claimed the shooting was accidental. Detective Vernon Smith said Lengyel insisted the gun was in Leonard's hand.
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Lorain
Alex Lengyel
Cleveland
Frances Leonard
Lengyel
Stench Bomb Fails To Halt Akron Rally Speech
Upton Close continued his anti Communist address at an Akron rally after a stench bomb forced a choir to flee. He blamed Communism and claimed the New Deal enabled Russia to challenge the world as the meeting proceeded to its conclusion.
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Akron
Upton Close
Close
Russia
Motorcycle Fatality Shocks Salem Community
Thomas Bailey age 20 died when his motorcycle left the road and struck a tree in Salem. He was the son of the Salem City Hospital Superintendent and Mrs. Walter J. Bailey.
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Salem
Thomas Bailey
Salem City Hospital
Walter J. Bailey
Miller Proposes Five Point Ohio Farm Plan
Ray T. Miller a Democratic governor candidate unveiled a five point farm program aimed at helping Ohio farmers with erosion control and aid measures. The plan was announced last night in Cleveland.
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Ray T. Miller
Ohio
Explosion Kills Four in Illinois Restaurant Station
Clay County sheriff said the blast at a Louisville restaurant station killed four people and badly burned three others. Injured men named Lon Barnes Darrell Zink and George Tolliver were treated locally and at Olney hospital. Authorities suspect a cooking gas tank explode in the kitchen.
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Louisville
Ill
Clay County
J. E. Johnson
Lon Barnes
Darrell Zink
George Tolliver
Zink
Olney
Extended Forecast for Columbus Reads Warmer Next Week
The forecast shows temperatures 2-4 degrees above normal with normal highs near 50 and lows around 32. Expect showers Tuesday with total precipitation from one half to one inch, cooler Tuesday night and Wednesday, then warmer Sunday and Monday.
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Columbus
Defense Plans Expand War Readiness Across Agencies
Congress and the White House marshal resources to boost air power and general mobilization. The House drafts a registration bill for ages 18 to 30 with two years’ service for 19 to 25. A $725 million air and fleet expansion moves through committees. The War Assets Office halts disposals to allow 30 day munitions surveys. Navy seeks shipbuilding funds up to 100 million. Exim Bank lending authority to Latin America rises by 500 million.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Defense Forrestal
House Armed Services Committee
Army
Navy
Air Forces
Forrestal
Senate Armed Services Committee
House Appropriations Committee
Air Force
Fleet Aviation
Taber
R-Ny
War Assets Administration
Munitions Board
Sullivan
Truman
Latin America
Blanche Price Dies at Home After Illness
Blanche Eudora Price a longtime Athens resident died at her home 327 East State Street after seven weeks illness. She was a typographer with the Athens Journal Athens Gazette The Messenger and for a time with Nelsonville news She was a charter member of the Athens Typographical Union and belonged to the First Methodist Church The Messenger Chapel of the Union and other relatives survive Funeral services Sunday at 430 p m in the Methodist Church burial in West Union Street Cemetery with calling hours after 7 p m today
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Blanche Eudora Price
Athens
State St
Rose Enola Price
Miss Price
Coolville
John B
Flora Flowers Price
Old
Athens Journal
Athens Gazette
Messenger
Nelsonville
First Methodist Church
Athens Typographical Union
the Messenger Chapel
Union
Jennie L. Price
Lowellville
Ohio
Mattie Starnes
Joliet
Ill
Ralph L. Price
Cincinnati
Ellmore Price
Melvin Murphy
Danville, Til
Charles E. Price
Methodist Church
West Union Street
Woolley Funeral Home
Morris Ave
Weather Dips Into Winter Amid Widespread Cold
The nation faced varied conditions with heavy cold in the Midwest as temperatures near freezing or below across Illinois Indiana Minnesota and North Dakota The Suwanee River floods northern Florida caused crop damage and showers storms affected the South and West Snow flurries appeared in Michigan and near Lake Erie while the Red River Valley logged a 3 degree low in Pemina North Dakota.
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Chicago
Midwest
North Atlantic
Pacific Northwest
Middle Gulf
South Atlantic
South
Florida
Suwanee
Red River Valley
Minnesota-North Dakota
Pembina
N.D
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Lake Erie
Slayer and Husband Barred From Seeing Newborn Son
Mrs. Shirleen Kunin, convicted of manslaughter in her two year old daughter Denise's death, and her husband were ordered barred from ever again seeing their month old son born during her trial. Kunin was sentenced on her 25th birthday to one to ten years in prison.
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Los Angeles
Shirleen Kunin
Snow Aids Bridgeport Fire extinguishing grass blaze
Fire units in Bridgeport responded to a spring grass fire last night. An unexpected light snow fell for about thirty minutes and helped extinguish the blaze.
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Saginaw
Mich
Bridgeport
Italian cabinet orders 32 hour pre election cooling off period
The cabinet ordered a 32 hour political cooling off period before Italians vote April 18. Campaigning ends at midnight April 16 and voting starts at 8 a.m. on Sunday. Premier De Gasperi led the anti Communist cabinet with schools closed April 12 to 22 to serve as election aides.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Drink Spot Applications Face Close Scrutiny
The State Liquor Department reviews tavern permit applications amid concerns over oversaturation in communities. A temporary freeze on new liquor licenses for Cuyahoga County is in effect and could extend. Rumors claim some applicants paid kickbacks for permits.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
Vandenberg May Influence Nebraska GOP Presidential Vote
In Omaha Nebraska Senator Arthur Vandenberg though not campaigning or a formal candidate is seen by local politicians as a potential top four factor in the upcoming Nebraska GOP primary. Dewey Stassen Taft and MacArthur are also on the ballot with Dewey extending his campaign to northern and western parts of the state.
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Vandenberg
Nebraska
Omaha
Arthur Vandenberg
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Harold E. Stassen
Wisconsin
Robert A. Taft
Stassen
Douglas MacArthur
Earl Warren
House
Joseph Martin
Warren
MacArthur
Dewey
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Spaatz
Koussevitzky
Harold Hamilton
Detroit
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Caroline
Hamilton
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