Ohio Senate backs 1941 45 veterans bonus proposal
The Senate Military Affairs Committee endorsed a 300 million dollar plan to pay 10 dollars a month for domestic service and 15 for overseas duty to veterans from December 7, 1941, to September 2, 1945, with a maximum of 4100 and a 90 day service requirement. Heirs of those who died receive 400, with bonds retired by state taxes and revenue.
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Senate Military Affairs Committee
Pearl Harbor
V-J Day
General Revenue Fund
House Military Affairs Committee
House Taxation Committee
Thomas J. Herbert
Senate
House
Carl D. Sheppard
R-Summit
Ohio
House Education Committee
Edward C. Ames
Toledo Board of Education
U.S
Phillip le Boutillier
Wood County
Aviation Board
Warren G. Grimes
Champaign County
William R. Roberts
Belmont County
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Board of Review
Cooperation Called Key To Coal Mine Safety
Columbus report says the Powhatan Mine No 1 superintendent Charles E Young told the All Ohio Safety Congress that safety relies on full cooperation between management and miners. He urged operators and workers to contribute their share of effort.
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Columbus
Powhatan Mine No. 1
All-Ohio Safety Congress
Charles E. Young
Powhatan Mining Co
Man Found Drowned at Semet Solvay Terminal
Papers bearing the name Robert Harley Haerland 28 of Page West Virginia were found on the body of a drowning victim at the Semet Solvay Ohio River terminal yesterday confirming the deceased identity.
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Ironton
Robert Harley Haerland
Page
W. Va
Semet Solvay
Ohio River
Jackson Men Dismissed but Strike Still On
Picket lines around state highway garages in Jackson and Oak Hill remain active as 22 more employees are dismissed by the State Highway Department. Union Steward John T. Claar says 7 unclassified and 15 classified workers were discharged with no stated reasons, bringing total dismissals since April 1 to 31.
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Jackson
Oak Hill
John T. Claar
State Highway Department
Claar
Ohio Council of Highway Workers
Highway Department
Char
Herbert
Murray Shaffer
Car Stickers Hint at Potential Steel Strike
In Pittsburgh stickers reading no contract no work appear on steel workers cars and some at United Steelworkers offices signaling a possible major strike after April 30. The contract extension with U S Steel runs through that date after Feb 15 expiry and wage talks continue with Chicago negotiators delivering proposals to the wage and policy committee for ratification.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
CIO Union
United States Steel Corp
Chicago
Steelworkers’ Committee
Big Steel
U. S. Steel
Man Admits Killing Nephew
In Columbus Ohio a 32 year old former army paratrooper Thomas Marion Craft admitted killing his year old nephew Stephen J Killeen by forcing a rubber shower extension hose down the boy s throat and turning on the water. Craft a baker said he killed the child because he had a big load on my head and have worried about expenses. Formal charges were withheld pending further investigation by Columbus detectives.
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Columbus, C. —P
Thomas Marion Craft
Stephen J. Killeen
Glen C. Hoffman
Columbus
Arthur Loudenslager
Craft
Stephen
Woman Fatally Burned in Kerosened Fire Accident
Mrs. Sam H. Johnson died in a Chillicothe hospital after kerosene used to start a fire exploded and set her clothing ablaze.
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Sam H. Johnson
Yugoslav Demand for Austrian Carinthia Slice
At the four power Foreign Ministers conference Yugoslavia pressed for a large slice of Austrian Carinthia in a peace settlement. Edvard Kardelj argued Austria supplied troops and generals to Germany, while Austrian Gruber resisted ceding southern Carinthia. Russia backs Yugoslavia. American support for Austria noted. Two sessions were held with more anticipated on peace prospects.
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Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministers
Carinthia
Yugoslavia
Edvard Kardelj
Belgrade
Karl Gruber
Gruber
Russia
NLRB Budget Cut Threatens Wagner Act Oversight
Chairman Paul M. Herzog warned that a proposed 50 percent funding cut would virtually destroy administration of the Wagner Act in the new fiscal year. The NLRB faced a backlog of 5,307 undecided cases and would likely dismiss about 50 of 738 staff if the House önered cut took effect. Herzog urged the Senate to restore the full budget of about $8 million.
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Washington
Paul M. Herzog
National Labor Relations Board
Senate
House
Truman
Herzog
Danish King Christian X in declining health after heart attack
An official bulletin said King Christian X had a quiet night and his condition remained unchanged after Easter heart attack. Crown Prince Frederik told a cabinet council there was little hope for recovery and physicians noted his strength was waning.
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Copenhagen
Christian X
Frederik
Senator Hawkes condemns Greek Turkish aid and UN role
Senator Hawkes argues the Truman Greek Turkish aid plan violates United Nations membership duties and urges UN reform before further action. He warns that a lone American approach could threaten peace and democracy while suggesting polling the UN and restraining global commitments.
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Washington
Hawkes
Union Strike Curt Bill Moves Toward House Vote
The House advanced the union strike curb bill toward passage though a final vote may be delayed by a technicality. Chairman Hartley predicted approval by afternoon as Senate action on a softer measure looms next week and possible compromise talks.
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Washington
House
Hartley
R-Nj
Labor Committee
Senate
Arends
R-Ni
Rep
Lesinski
R-Mich
Special Commission
Kersten
Rwis
Gallipolis Man Named To State Liquor Post
COLUMBUS Ohio government officials announced C Wayne Booth of Gallipolis was named acting supervisor of state liquor stores in the Cincinnati area. Booth replaces Louis D Bok of Cincinnati who resigned. Both men recently returned from Army service.
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Columbus
C. Wayne Booth
Gallipolis
Cincinnati
Louis D. Bok
Bok
Bendix Employees Heed UAW Strike Call
Nearly 1,000 Bendix Westinghouse Automotive Air Brake workers in Elyria were idle as the UAW CIO issued a strike order. Pickets gathered at the plant after union members authorized the move on March 12. union leader C Franklin Carr said talks since January avoided wage issues.
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Elyria
Bendix-Westinghouse Automotive Air Brake Co
UAW
CIO
C. Franklin Carr
Construction To Start On Farm Radio Station
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation officials announce the start of a new radio station for farmers to be operated by Peoples Broadcasting Co. on a 260 acre tract 15 miles north of Columbus in Delaware County. Area facilities will be in Worthington.
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Columbus
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
The
Peoples Broadcasting Co
Farm Bureau
Delaware County
Sturoe
Worthington
Cincinnati Cabbie Killer Dies in Chair
Fred Wormack Jr., 22, a Cincinnati Negro, was executed in Ohio Penitentiary’s electric chair for the June 21 hold up and killing of taxicab driver James White. The death penalty, Ohio’s 251st, followed appeals to the state’s high court and parole boards.
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Columbus
Fred Wormack, Jr
Cincinnati
Ohio Penitentiary
Wormack
James
Buddy) White
J.B.C. Eckstorm
Fred Wormack
D. E. Smith
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
State Pardons and Paroles Board
Labor Secretary delays end to nationwide telephone strike
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach and top conciliators delay a new move for 24 hours to resolve the nationwide telephone strike. The National Federation of Telephone Workers and AT&T remain aloof from arbitration of local issues and ten basic demands after eleven days of stoppage.
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Washington
Schwellenbach
National Federation of Telephone Workers
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell System
Antioch Denies Charge Of Political Partisanship
Vice President W. B. Alexander stated Antioch College will not hire or retain a Communist, asserting that Communists put their party before their country. He responded to Dies Committee allegations that a staff member was identified as an active Communist.
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Yellow Springs
Antioch College
W. B. Alexander
Columbus
Dies Committee
Alexander
Man Killed as Truck Rams Freight Trailer
In Bay Village a light truck rammed the freight trailer of a disabled truck late last night. Maurice Reinhart 22 and Herman Wilhelm 21, both from Paulding Ohio, were involved. Reinhart was killed and Wilhelm taken to Lakewood Hospital.
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Cleveland
Maurice Reinhart
Herman Wilhelm
Lakewood Hospital
Bay Village
Paulding
Ohio
Officials Move to End Three Wartime Agencies
President Truman plans an executive order to liquidate the Office of Price Administration the Civilian Production Administration and the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. The order would also curb the Office of Temporary Controls and shift rent controls from OPA to the Office of Housing Expeditor Frank R Creedon, ending OPA from rent control debates.
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Washington
Truman
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Civilian Production Administration
Office of War Mobilization
Office of
Budget Bureau
Frank R. Creedon
Liberty Ship Rescue Underway Off New Jersey Coast
A liberty ship named Thomas M. Cooley with four men aboard drifted powerless off the New Jersey coast as the cutter Mohawk races to the scene. The Cooley had been cut adrift after the tug Great Isaac towing it collided with the Norwegian freighter Bandeirante in foggy seas.
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Cape May
N. J
Jersey
Coast Guard
Mohawk
Thomas M. Cooley
Bandeirante
Sam Simmons on Religion in Public Schools Debate
Sam Simmons condemns a suburban Cincinnati school disturbance as disgraceful and urges religion be kept out of public schools. He supports religion studies only in historical context at higher education and questions tax support for Catholic school bus services. He warns that tax funding could foster new denominations.
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Cincinnati
Supreme Court
New Jersey
Ship Explosion Triggers Fires and Debris Death Toll
Texas City endures a grim disaster as new explosions from the High Flyer ignite oil tanks and spread fires. Dr. Clarence Quinn estimates 650 dead with 3,000 injured. rescue operations penetrate the Monsanto plant amid mass evacuations to Beaumont Port Arthur and Orange.
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Texas City
Tex
Clarence Quinn
J. C. Trahan
Texas Coast
Red Cross
Quinn
Herbert Whitmore
Galveston County
High Flyer
Volney J. Shawn
Houston Police Department
Monsanto
Monsan
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Orange
Louisiana State Line
Gale Veston
Palestine
Air View Captures Texas City Fire from the Sky
Aerial observers report a two mile wide blaze in Texas City with flaming oil storage tanks and a ruined waterfront district. Capt. J P Talton pilots a Eastern Air Lines plane skirting the burning industrial area as wind direction shields nearby residential sections. The Monsanto Chemical plant remains destroyed after yesterday’s Grandcamp nitrate explosion.
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Texas City
Tex
Ploesti
J. P. Talton
Atlanta
Eastern Air Lines
Monsanto Chemical
Grandcamp
City of Sorrow and Misery After Ship Explosions
Texas City endures a new wave of blasts as the High Flyer disaster triggers fresh fires and mass casualties. Rescue volunteers from Goose Creek and Houston aid victims while police and firefighters coordinate evacuations and ongoing recovery in the dock district. Ambulances and embalmers operate through a grim, early dawn.
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William C. Barnard
Texas City
Texas
High Flyer
W. H. Boucher
Goose Creek
Red Cross
City Hall
Harold Keith
Keith
William Bankhead
James Nicholson
Houston
Bankhead
Clay Martin
J. E. Kent
Herbert Appoints New Farm Board Members
Gov. Thomas J. Herbert announced two appointees to the State Board of Agriculture. Clay H. Stackhouse of Huron County receives a term ending Oct. 10, 1948, and Edmund Brush Howard of Muskingum County succeeds Walter J. Michael for the term ending Oct. 10.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
State Board of Agriculture
Clay H. Stackhouse
Huron County
Frank Farnsworth
Edmund Brush Howard
Muskingum County
Walter J. Michael
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Texas Chemical
Gulf Coast
Monsanto Chemical Company
NEA Telephoto
Senate Military Group O. K
Ohio Senate
Man
Austria
NLRB
Tions
United Nations
Bendix
Antioch
Liberty Ship Rescue
Sam Simmons
Hal Boyle
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