Draft Bill Heads for House Vote on Draft Extension
The House leadership signaled quick action on a nine month extension of the draft to allow continued inductions through July 1 1947 with ceilings set Army 1 070 000 Navy 558 000 Marine 108 000 while banning inductions under 18 or over 30. The plan faces a likely partisan floor fight in an election year.
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Washington
House
Army
Administration
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Navy
Marine Corps
Armed Services
Marine
Additional Subsidies to Meat Packer Authorized
Washington officials approve about 20 million dollars in extra subsidies for meat packers to bridge a six week gap where wage increases could not be funded by future price rises. Stabilization Director Chester Bowles announced the payments.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Chevrolet Plans New Light Car Plant Near Cleveland
Chevrolet Division of General Motors disclosed it applied to the Civilian Production Administration for authority to build facilities to produce a new light car. The plant would be in Brook Park and Parma, near Cleveland. A separate item reports Mona Moore, 50, killed by a cow at her farm seven miles west of Lancaster after being kicked while milking.
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Detroit
Chevrolet
General Motors Corporation
Civilian Production Administration
M. E. Coyle
Chevrolet General
Brook Park
Parma
Cleveland
Lancaster
Mona Moore
Here
Capital Prison Life Really Attractive
Washington lawmakers stared in disbelief as DC Jail inmates ran cell side businesses imported liquor for gambling nights and hosted out of town models. The revelations surfaced as investigators probe an escape by two Death Row inmates, part of a surge to 573 fugitives from district penal institutions.
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Washington
Big House
Capitol
District of Columbia
Proposes New Ohio School to Relieve Strain
Reed Winegardner, Democrat candidate for lieutenant governor, urged Gov. Lausche to create a new state supported college at Washington Court House to hold 5,000 students. He asked for $5 million for buildings and suggested agricultural programs for the campus to leverage nearby farm land.
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Columbus
Reed Winegardner
Washington Court House
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Winegardner
Ohio Southern University
Arrears Claims by Veterans Dropping in Ohio Michigan and Kentucky
Deputy Administrator Ralph Stone said nationwide arrears for disability pensions fell 53 percent last month in Ohio Michigan and Kentucky due to the decentralization program. Pending cases declined from 43,722 at February end to 35,014 by March end.
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Columbus
Ohio
Michigan
Kentucky
Ralph Stone
Flour Ration Plan Faces Slow Rollout Amid Shortage
Washington AP reports the 25 percent cut in flour sales to bakers and retailers may be ordered today as a consumer rationing system cannot be ready in time. Secretary Anderson weighs farm stock reports and UNRRA pressure for more wheat while officials project shortages past June.
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Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
Anderson
Department
Crop Reporting Board
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
LaGuardia
Combined Food Board
United States
Great Britain
Canada
Agriculture Department
Truman
C. C. Farrington
Shorter Liquor Supply Seen Indicted for Murder
In Columbus State Liquor Director Robert M Sohngen warned whisky supply may be tighter than 1945 with mature whiskies and bottled in bond to be scarcer. Franklin City County grand jury indicted H Evers 54 for the murder of Harvey Leffler 73, a church janitor, shot through a door as he prepared for Sunday School. Evers claimed he mistook the janitor for a prowler.
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Columbus
Robert M. Sohngen
National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association
Atlantic
Franklin City
Nu. I
Thayer Scotch
H. Evers
Harvey E. Leffler
jEvers
Railroads Demand Freight Increase From Industry Leaders
Philadelphia report quotes Pennsylvania Railroad President Martin W. Clement warning that railroads must receive a 25 to 30 percent freight rate hike or risk financial trouble. In Cleveland an air sampler device the size of a shoe box is unveiled to aid engineers checking health hazards of bacteria, announced at the 99th annual stockholders meeting.
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Philadelphia
Martin W. Clement
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cleveland
Clement
Pennhealth
Housing bill faces ceiling price vote in Senate
Administration seeks to set a ceiling on old houses as part of an emergency housing bill aiming to spur 2.7 million new homes. Key provisions include a $600 million subsidy for materials and a government guarantee to buy up to 200,000 pre fabricated homes. Senate approved subsidies 53 to 20 and kept the pre fabricated guarantee 8 to 5, with the old house ceiling to be decided as the bill moves to conference.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson W. Wyatt
House
Packers Claim Price Systems Broken Down
Washington hearers heard Wesley Hardenbergh of the American Meat Institute and other packers from Illinois Montana and California say the black market in meat is out of control and price controls must go. He warned that slaughterers discard hides bones tallow greases and other byproducts and that farmers receive little of the vast black market profit cited as a $1.25 million overcharge to consumers.
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Washington
Wesley Hardenbergh
American Meat Institute
OPA
Senate Agriculture Committee
Illinois
Montana
California
Hardenbergh
Army Ground Forces speed up discharges
The Army Ground Forces announced a faster discharge program that would release enlisted men up to two and a half months earlier. General Jacob L. Devers said men eligible for discharge by June 30 would be moved to separation centers immediately and discharged as quickly as centers could process them.
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Washington
Army
Jacob L. Devers
Ohio Flour Shortage To Become Worse by Summer
Ohio bakers and housewives faced an increasingly scarce flour supply with mill officials statewide warning shortages may persist through mid summer. Top mill executives blamed government relief purchases, farmers withholding wheat, and wartime use by civilians and service personnel for the drop in wheat production.
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Ohio
Iated Press
Early
Daniels
Oscar L. Spencer
Montana Flour Mills Company
Cleveland
Washington
America
New York
Salisbury
N. C
Evelyn Caroline Poston
John Leffler
Cricklewood
England
Leffler
Poston
Eighth Air Force
Russian Naval Officer Indicted by Federal Jury
An appearance by Soviet Lt. Nicolai Redin leads to five U.S. federal counts accusing him of obtaining and transmitting national defense information. The indictment marks the first peacetime prosecution of a foreign officer by the United States government.
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Seattle
America
Nicolai Gregorovich Redin
State Department
Washington
Redin
United States
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Justice Department
OPA Fine Paid By Ohio Firm
Harvey Gracely doing business as Spring Brook Farms Marion paid 17640.23 to the U S Treasury in settlement of OPA claims announced by Milton J. Rappoport Cincinnati OPA district enforcement attorney. The payment, among the largest in the Columbus area, relates to alleged overcharges on wholesale pork sales last year and reflects recovery of amounts not collectible with proper advice.
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Columbus
OPA
Harvey Gracely
Springbrook Farms
Marion
U.S. Treasury
Milton J. Rappoport
Cincinnati
Soviet Bid to Dismiss Iran Case Faces UN Debate
United Nations officials expect a near defeat for Russia's motion to throw out the Iranian case as the United States and Britain clash with the Soviet Union in a planned open debate. Iran publicly opposes the Soviet proposal, with a closed session set to discuss headquarters location and the date of the next meeting. Delegates voice dissatisfaction with Hunter College as the current meeting site and consider moving to Lake Success on Long Island.
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New York
United Nation
Russia
Security Council
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Iran
U. N
Plane's Fate Revealed as Body Washed Ashore
A two month mystery ended as the uniformed body of Army Lt. Charles R. Twomley was found washed ashore on Lake Michigan at Gary Indiana. Twomley from Woodstock Illinois was one of three aboard a Lockbourne Air Base plane that departed near Columbus Ohio last February bound for Chicago and never arrived.
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Gary
Ind
Lake Michigan
Charles R. Twomley
Woodstock
Lockbourne Army Air Base
Columbus
Chicago
Aged Woman Burned to Death as Clothes Ignite
In Dayton an 87 year old sister and Mrs Salome Hetzler, 93, died as her clothes caught fire while she tried to light coal oil. Deputies report the incident occurred yesterday and note rescue attempts by her sister failed to save her. In New York Cuba and Mexico nylons and white shirts are offered at six dollars each, according to Walter Dougan of Sylvania Electric.
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St. Mary's Catholic Church
Washington, D. C
Johnnie Doe
Gallinger Hospital
Dayton
Salome Hetzler
New York
Cuba
Mexico
Walter Dougan
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc
Japan Women’s Party
Brown
International Harvester Ends Plant Strike After Prolonged Walkout
A major labor dispute involving 30,000 CIO farm implement workers at International Harvester plants, the largest U S farm equipment maker, was settled today ending an extended stoppage.
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CIO
International Harvester Company
Wage settlement nears as miners walk out talks in Washington
John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers negotiating committee walked out today on wage conferences aimed at ending the 10 day old soft coal strike. Officials in Washington reported settlement terms reached but not disclosed, with an 18 cent hourly raise previously agreed and a 10 percent general hike retroactive to Oct. 1. The deal could allow workers to return in 15 plants and restart farm machinery production.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Worksers
Labor Department
Plantas
John W. Gibson
Chicago
Rock Island
East Moline
Rock Falls
Auburn
N. Y
Richmond
Ind
Bettendorf
Harvester
American Brass Company
Waterbury
AFL
Pontiac
Mich
AFL Amalgamated Bus Drivers Union
Ralph Mapley
Mapley
Camden
N. J
John J. Grogan
CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
General Executive Board
CIO
OPA
Farr
Rep
Pace
D-Ga
Pearl Harbor
United States
Britain
Pacific
Hull
Japan
Frosts Hit Ohio Orchards In Northeastern Counties
Clouds shielded much of Ohio from frost last night, but Ma honing and Columbiana counties in the northeast saw temperatures fall to 24 degrees. Growers fear heavy damage to peaches apples and cherries while other regions appeared spared despite a statewide frost forecast.
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Associated Press
Mahoning
Columbiana
Ohio
Youngstown
Mahoning County
Weather Bureau
Americans Losing Self-Governing Ability Says Herbert
Akron speaker Thomas J. Herbert, Republican gubernatorial candidate, told the Akron Rotary Club that Americans have focused on material things and neglected government, losing their capacity to govern. In Cleveland W J Hedde reported the district OPA enforcement appeal toward strong government, noting an $8,000 settlement for alleged violations of OPA ceiling price rules in radio repairs and parts charges.
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Akkron
Thomas J. Herbert
Akron
Settlement in OPA Case Highlights Cleveland Concern
Takeo Kawai, a former Japanese army corporal, was executed by hanging in Laguna Province for the 1945 killings of two American POWs and two Filipino civilians. Separate item reports that James Laycock, 27, from Warren, escaped from the London Prison Farm's honor dormitory.
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Cleveland Concern
OPA
Manila
Takeo Kawai
Laguna Province
London
James Laycock
Warren
Japanese Women Vote in First Postwar Election
Confounding forecasts, Japanese women flock to polling places in Tokyo and rural districts for the first postwar election. Many bring babies to nurseries, with mothers declaring independence from husbands' choices and some voting for women candidates.
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Tokyo
Japan
Shinagaya
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