Defeat Seen For Housing Amendment
Senator Flanders predicted defeat of an amendment to a long range housing bill that would require both appropriations committees to approve public housing and slum clearance contracts. The measure caps federal funding at up to 308 million annually for housing and 500 million in grants plus 1 billion in loans for slum clearance over five years, with projected housing units averaging 135000 annually.
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Washington
Flanders
House
Senate
Appropriations
Bricker
Ohio
Cain
Wash
Chief Justice Upholds Connell Contempt Ruling
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Carl V. Weygandt ruled Judge James J. Connell of Common Pleas Court may hear contempt charges against six CIO unionists who picketed the Fenwick Air Flex plant and sent threatening letters. The six labeled themselves non workers in the strike bound dispute.
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Columbus
CIO
Cleveland
Carl V. Weygandt
Ohio Supreme Court
Common Pleas
James J. Connell
Fenwick Airflex Corp
United Electrical Workers Union
Connell
Weygandt
Fawick
Fire Truck Is Hearse At Ex-Mayor's Rites
Ed win D. Shafer 94 died Sunday and will be laid to rest in a fire truck hearse in McConnelsville. He founded the McConnelsville Volunteer Fire Department during his 1930 mayoral term.
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Mcconnelsville
Edwin D. Shafer
Shafer
Stamp collector majors on astronomical values and more
Maj. O. J. Lyle of Gallipolis buys 20 stamps for 50 cents including a Hungarian stamp valued at 500 quadrillion pengees. He explains the pengo would exceed world property value if a pengo were worth a quarter. In Kennedy Addition a new home is rising for Francis and Joe Gura of Richland Avenue, operators of Athens Industries. The Guras are part of a 12 child Polish American family. brother Matthew is returning from service with a German bride. About 30 picnic tables prepare for visitors at Buffington Island State Park near Portland Meigs County, a popular Southeastern Ohio stop with McCook Monument and plantings. Portland merchants plan more tourist facilities.
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Lyle
Kennedy Addition
Morrison-Brown
Wheeling
Buffington Island State Park
Portland
Meigs County
Ohio
Continued Electric Power Deficit Seen
Chicago report from the Midwest Power Conference cites E. Robert de Luccia of the Federal Power Commission warning the national power deficit may persist into 1952 or later. He notes utilities are adding capacity at a rapid pace, aiming for a 6,000,000 kilowatt increase annually for the next three years, with 1960 demand peaking at about 600 billion kilowatt hours and 134,000,000 kilowatts of delivery capacity.
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Chicago
Midwest Power Conference
E. Robert de Luccia
Federal Power Commission
Bureau of Power
de Luccia
FPC
Robbery at Commonwealth Loan Co in Columbus
Two armed men robbed the Commonwealth Loan Co in downtown Columbus. They forced the manager Wayne Horn to open a safe and cash drawers while bookkeeper Eunice Brandon and clerk Natalie Jackson were held at gunpoint. no customers were present. The amount stolen was not disclosed.
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Columbus
Commonwealth Loan Co
Wayne Horn
Eunice Brandon
Natalie Jackson
Probation Granted For Marriage Tours Covington Trio
Three Covington residents were fined 50 dollars and given 10 days in jail for marriage touting. Judge Eugene Benzinger granted Albert Sitz a new trial while Jerry Smith and Harry Bunting were placed on probation pending payment of their fines.
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Covington
Eugene Benzinger
Jerry Smith
Harry Bunting
Albert Sitz
Sitz
Arkansas hit by worst forest fires in 25 years
Arkansas endures its worst forest fire wave in a quarter century with week long blazes in rugged North Arkansas. Missouri reports a similar though milder outbreak as the state compares disaster effects with past events.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Missouri
Anti Communist Torch Parade Mocks in Berlin Nerve
Berlin anti Communists mocked a Russian press claim of a Soviet torchlight parade in the Berlin sector on the eve of Adolf Hitler's birthday. The note aimed to disrupt the opening of the Communist sponsored World Peace Congress in Paris.
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Berlin
Adolph Hitler
Paris
NRA Chief To Testify On FEPC
The Senate Labor Committee in Columbus asked Donald R. Richberg to explain opposition to compulsory anti discrimination laws for industry as hearings proceed on the House approved FEPC. Richberg defended an educational FEPC while warning compulsory statutes could erode management and labor harmony at risk to private enterprise.
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Columbus
Senate Labor Committee
Donald R. Richberg
NRA Fame
FEPC
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Richberg
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
New York
Brain Truster
NRA
Washington
Farm Officials See Conflict In Aiken Law
Washington officials discuss the Aiken long range farm law set to take effect January 1. They say it grants the secretary latitude to set price support levels, inviting pressure from farmers consumers processors and lawmakers. The administration favors a fixed mathematical formula with no room for variation.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Chinese Reds ready to resume civil war
Nanking reports vast Chinese armies across the Yangtze River awaiting a Communist ultimatum to surrender that expires tomorrow. Despair grips the city as officials flee and many believe Nanking’s days as the Nationalist capital are numbered.
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Nanking
Yangtze River
Mother and Sons Admit Lonely Hearts Murders
A 45 year old Dover woman Inez Brennan and her two sons confessed to killing two men lured by lonely hearts ads. Wade Wooldridge of Bedford Virginia and Hugo Schultz of Epson New Hampshire were shot buried burned and reburied on a Dover dump. A bushel of letters linked the family to these crimes as police consider robbery the motive.
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Dover
Del
Herbert E. Barnes
State Police
Inez Gertrude Brennan
Wade N. Wooldridge
Bedford
Hugo Schultz
Epson
N. H
Brennan
Barnes
Brennans
Lonely Hearts Club
Stretch
Boiler Room Fire Causes Damages at Kanawha Maple Plant
A boiler room fire at Kanawha Maple Manufacturing Co heating plant near Camp Conley caused estimated damages of about 800 dollars at 9 30 am. Fire originated inside the boiler room possibly from furnace sparks and was contained by Point Pleasant and U S Naval Storehouse fire crews before spreading to the main building. Production was not interrupted despite the blaze.
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Point Pleasant
Kanawha Maple Manufacturing Co
Camp Conley
L. D. Ileard
Point Pleasant Products Co
Furniture Company
Icard
U. S. Naval
Vernon Miller
Seard
Ohio employment dips 1 percent in February
Columbus report from the Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research finds employment declined by one percent in February versus January, indicating a modest February drop in the state's job market.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research
Japan Miners Set May 3 Strike for Higher Wages
The Japanese coal miners union has ordered a strike for May 3 to press for increased wages. The move seeks improved pay amid rising costs and economic pressures in the industry.
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Tokyo
Japan
The
Miners’ Union
Measure Seen Adding Taxes in Ohio Senate Debate
Ohioans would pay about 60 million dollars more annually under a sales tax bill before the state Senate. Herschel C. Atkinson of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce said the measure would tax electricity, telephone, water, cigarettes, liquor, livestock and farm equipment, and would tax charitable institutions on their purchases for the first time.
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Columbus
State Senate
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Herschel C. Atkinson
Chamber
Ohio
Emmett R. Guthrie
D-Coshocton
Exclusive School Hit By Fire and Explosion
Fire and an oil furnace blast destroyed the half block long Helen Bush school in Seattle today. No injuries were reported. The main building housing classrooms a gymnasium and assembly hall burned. three dormitories with about 50 of 300 students were undamaged. Origin of the fire was not known.
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Seattle
Helen Bush
Two brothers killed in accidental shooting in Scranton
In Scranton, a 10 year old boy Kenneth Kaye accidentally shot his five year old brother Stephen and then shot himself. The Belgian semiautomatic pistol owned by their father was found beside Kenneth. Both boys were sons of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kaye.
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Wilma Ybarbo
Germany
Jimmy
New Bedford
Mass
Scranton
E. Kubasko
Kenneth Kaye
Stephen
Albert Kaye
Kenneth
Runaway Freight Car Destroys Office Building in Springfield
A runaway freight car pushed a one story brick office building into Center Street in Springfield Monday night, wrecking it. No injuries reported. Owner Homer H. Evilsizer, a local contractor, estimated damage at $11,000. Officials said air brakes on the car owned by Springfield Suburban Railroad Co failed.
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Springfield
Center Street
Homer H. Evilsizer
Springfield Suburban Railroad Co
30 Day Freeze Asked On Building Program
The Athena Home Telephone Co. asks the State Utilities Commission for rate increases across its Athens County exchanges. It projects operating revenues of 207 576.08 under proposed rates versus 259 658.08 today, covering Athens Albany Chauncey The Plains Amesville Jerseyville and New Marshfield.
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Columbus
Athena Home Telephone Co
State Utilities Commission
Athena County
Athens
Albany
Chauncey
the Plains
Amesville
Jerseyville
New Narshfield
Athens Exchange
Inmate Population Rises in Ohio Institutions
Ohio Welfare Director John H. Lamneck reported a rapid rise in state wards to 41 233 from 40 141 on Jan 1, a 2 7 percent increase. Mental hospitals held 31 516 on March 31 and prisons 8 592, with juveniles in training schools up to 1 097, highlighting overcrowding in facilities.
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Columbus
John H. Lamneck
Ashng
Ohio Penitentiary
Mansfield Reformatory
Lamneck
Soviet Atom City Report Claims Hidden Research Hub
Mittags Echo reports a "miniature atom city" near Potsdam where Russians run atomic research with German scientists since 1947. The activity is described as research only, with no production, and American intelligence has not confirmed the claim.
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Berlin
Mittags Echo
Murder Charge Faced By 87 Year Old Man
Cincinnati police charged John William Lee, 87, with murder in the death of Samuel Foster, 73. Detectives say Lee admitted striking Foster, who fell down a hotel stairs and died from injuries, making Lee possibly the oldest person charged with murder in the city.
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Cincinnati
John William Lee
Samuel Foster
Lee
Foster
Tallulah Bankhead sues over Prell shampoo jingle
New York reports Tallulah Bankhead sues Procter and Gamble for 1 million dollars over a radio ad calling a tube of shampoo Tallulah The company claims the plaintiff prompted the public association and that the jingle merely uses her name with no offense. The ad features a singing tube promising radiant hair.
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New York
Tallulah Bankhead
Miss Bankhead
Pell
Tallulah
Prell
Procter and Gamble Soap Co
Mundt Urges Visa Ban for Paris World Peace Congress
Senator Mundt urged the State Department to bar U S citizens from attending the World Peace Congress in Paris. The House Committee branded the event a Communist driven gathering to mobilize scientists for a world disobedience plan. A department official said passports will be granted to most applicants unless legal obstacles prevent issuance.
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Washington
Mundt
R-Sd
World Peace Congress
Paris
Paria
House Un-American Activities Committee
Atomic
House
Senate
State Department
Department
Ex-School Teacher Freed on $1000 Bail
Owen Wagner aged 28 a former East Liverpool Ohio school teacher charged with robbing a wine store of 47 dollars was freed on $1000 bail Tuesday Magistrate Ambrose J Haddock had lowered bail from 5000 after parents Mr and Mrs Marshall Wagner of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania promised to provide care Police said Wagner attempted suicide during a chase after the robbery last week.
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New York
Owen Wagner
East Liverpool
Ohio
Ambrose J. Haddock
Wagner
Marshall Wagner
Beaver Falls
54 Cars Derailed In Santa Fe Pileup
SAN BERNARDINO Calif Four crewmen cleared wreckage from a canyon Pass pileup in Santa Fe history after 53 freight cars and a caboose derailed. One crewman injured. the 80 car westbound freight train split at the grade, with 27 cars and the diesel locomotive staying on track while the rest rolled 35 feet into the canyon.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Cajon Pass
Santa Fe
Board Seeks Extension for Hotel Wage Hearings
The State Minimum Wage Board asks for more time past May 15 to decide minimum wages for women and minors in hotels and restaurants. Hearings started last week with supporters of higher wages. Current rates, set in 1934, range from 13 to 21 cents per hour.
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Columbus
State
Ohio Senate weighs 30 day freeze on building program probe
The Ohio Senate considers a 30 day pause on the 50 million building program to allow an inquiry into alleged noncompliance with architectural plans and material substitutions. Four Cleveland and Youngstown lawmakers seek auditor led investigations with hired architects and engineers. The move follows recent complaints and auditor Ferguson's earlier checks.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Joseph T. Ferguson
Ferguson
Frank J. Lausche
Public Works, Welfare, Highways
Highway and Public Works Department
Rotary
Joseph A. Gatozzi
Cleveland Heights
Apple Creek Institution
Arthur Blake
Belmont
United Mine Workers
Blake
State Division of Mines
Truman links U S strength to world peace in DAR talk
President Truman told 5000 delegates at the Daughters of the American Revolution that U S strength is essential to peace. He cited the North Atlantic Defense Pact as a warning to aggressors and warned against alien ideologies while not naming Russia.
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Washington
Truman
Continental Congress
the Daughters of the American Revolution
U. S
North Atlantic
Russia
Guilty Plea Entered In Shoplifting Case
Harold Rusk a 30 year old former Newark resident pleaded guilty to grand larceny charges for stealing merchandise from three local stores. He was arraigned before Mayor Roger W Friend after law enforcement intercepted him on a Groveport bus Saturday. Rusk admitted taking items from Pomeroy Athens and Parkersburg.
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Logan
Harold Rusk
Newark
Roger W. Friend
Rusk
Groveport
Pomeroy
Athens
Parkersburg
Hull Released From Bethesda After Long Hospital Stay
Cordell Hull, former secretary of state, was discharged from Bethesda Naval Hospital after more than two years of treatment. He leaves the facility in good condition and will continue recovery at a private residence.
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Hull
Washington
Cordell Hull
Bethesda Naval Hospital
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