Senate votes on liquor near fairs and veterans funding
In Columbus the Senate considers exempting liquor permit holders from a two mile proximity ban near agricultural expos in a measure by Sen. Corlett. House leaders look to a attorney general ruling on a proposed 386 585 allotment to veterans groups. Other actions include school aid cuts, welfare for the blind, street lighting, flood control cooperation with the feds, and single license plates in 1948 49. A resolution memorializing Gov. Davey passes both houses.
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Allen N. Corlett
Cuyahoga
Women's Christian Temperance Union
House
Kenneth A. Thornton
Rcuyahoga
Daniels-Cramer
Thomas J. Herbert
Orth Industry
Canton
Robert A. Pollock
Stark
Superintendent of Public Works
Reno Beach
Toledo
Department of Industrial Relations
Division of Mines
L. P. Mooney
Hocking
William J. Rogers
Rogers
House Finance Committee
Paul H. Ballard
Jackson
Martin L. Davey
Ministers at Stalemate Over Austrian Treaty
MOSCOW and WASHINGTON reports show stalemate on the Austrian peace treaty. In Washington the Senate votes loom on Truman aid to Greece and Turkey while Moscow notes no conclusive results after a second secret session of the Council of Foreign Ministers.
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Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministers
Trieste
Krug Sees Budget Cut As Start of Economic Downturn
In Washington Rep. Taber calls protests against a 47 percent cut in the interior department budget the squeal of a stuck pig. Secretary Krug warns the slash could cause a tremendous setback in the nation’s economy and possibly a major business depression if Congress upholds it.
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Rep
Taber
N-Ny
Interior Department
Krug
Congress
Youth Conclave Planned in Cleveland May 19 21
More than 1,000 delegates from all sections of the country are expected to attend the first national Youth Conference in Cleveland May 19 20 and 21 under the sponsorship of the Bishop's Youth Committee of the National Catholic Welfare Conference.
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Cleveland
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Company Official Held On Embezzling Charge
Albert W. Wilson 51 secretary and assistant treasurer of John Harsch Bronze & Foundry Co. was jailed pending arraignment Friday on a charge of embezzling 26935 dollars of company funds.
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Cleveland
Albert W. Wilson
John Harsch Bronze & Foundry Co
Influenza Confines 107th Birthday of Mrs Sarah Stewart
In Findlay Ohio influenza kept Mrs Sarah Stewart in bed on her 107th birthday interrupting her usual task of quilting. The long lived resident marked the milestone despite illness.
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Findlay
Sarah Stewart
You Have Troubles Listen To These
Los Angeles dispatch notes Raymond Hoffman a Southern Pacific machinist and his wife face eviction from their home with 15 month old triplets Dennis Donna and Diane. Mrs Hoffman expects motherhood again in June and the doctor foresees twins.
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Los Angeles
Raymond Hoffman
Southern Pacific Railroad
Dennis
Donna
Diane
Taft Defends Steel CIO Wage Boost and Price Impact
Senator Taft argued the $1 a day wage rise in the U S Steel CIO deal likely ruins any chance of price reductions. The committee chair foresees the pattern limiting price cuts in manufactured goods, while Senator Lucas contends profits allow both higher wages and lower prices.
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Washington
Taft
CIO
Lucas
Illinois
U. S. Steel
Ex Official Sues Union for Overtime in Cleveland Suit
Finas Reynolds of Canton former international union field representative sues United Steelworkers of America charging unpaid overtime from June 1942 to July 1946. He seeks 32048.99 dollars and equivalent liquidating damages claiming time and a half for overtime. Court attaches note numerous similar suits against employers but this is first against an international union alleging Fair Labor Standards Act violations.
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Cleveland
Portal
Ohio Honors Mother of 11 in Cambridge
Mrs. John L. Miller of Cambridge named State Mother of the Year by the American Mothers Committee Golden Rule Foundation New York. At 86 she has 23 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She is mother of 11 children all college graduates. five sons served in World War I. four grandsons and two granddaughters served in World War II.
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John L. Miller
Ohio
American Mothers’ Committee
Golden Rule Foundation
New York
Brotherhood Delegates Meet to Discuss Grievances
More than 200 delegates from grievance committees of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen gathered in Cleveland for a four day policy forming meeting. President D B Robertson announced discussions on wages work rules and diesel locomotive substitution issues.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood
D. B. Robertson
Delta Air Lines reports Columbus Ga wreck
Delta Air Lines reported a special plane carrying seven officials crashed near Columbus Georgia. The company could not confirm early reports that everyone aboard had been killed.
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Delta Air Line
Columbus, Ga
Atlanta
Delta Air Lines
Columbus
Funeral services for John J. Clark held here
Funeral services for John J. Clark aged 53, manager of the Cleveland office of International Harvester Co., will be held here tomorrow.
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Toledo
John J. Clark
Cleveland
International Harvester Co
Toledo Fatal Crash Involving Lumber Truck
Carol Johnson, 4, died after colliding with a lumber truck yesterday. The tragedy occurred in Toledo as emergency responders arrived to tend to the child and investigate the accident details.
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Toledo
Carol Johnson
State Asks Road Striker Injunction In Ohio
The state filed for an injunction in Common Pleas Court to stop highway workers from blocking traffic at the Jackson state garage and hindering road work. 25 pickets halted two trucks, as officials seek to end the strike in Chillicothe division and plan talks in Piketon to decide on broader action.
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Common Pleas Court
Highway Department
F. L. Orum
Fred W. Everett, Jr
Elmer Barrett
Chillicothe Division No. 9
Chillicothe
John T. Claar
Ohio Council of Highway
Barrett
Carl Griffith
Claar
Jackson County
Piketon
Phone Unions Seek Offers From Bell System Firms
The National Federation of Telephone Workers sent out a call to its local negotiating committees across the country to obtain money offers from Bell System companies. NFTW spokesman Al Herrington said a New Jersey Bell Telephone wage proposal of 7 1/2 cents per hour was definitively made, though the company claims there is nothing to it. He called it the first cash proposal by a Bell affiliate and a crack in the strike front.
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Washington
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Bell System
NFTW
New Jersey Bell Telephone Company
al Herrington
Bell Affiliated
Meigs Swindle Suspect Faces Hearing Today
A 26 year old woman, Mrs. Joan W. Colvin, arrested under multiple false names, faced a preliminary hearing in Pomeroy on fraud charges involving three church parishioners. She described herself as a minister's wife and was to appear before Justice of the Peace Percy Peoples.
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Joan W. Colvin
Colvin
Court of Justice of the Peace
Percy Peoples
Pastor Dolbeer resigns from Franklin Lutheran Parish
The Rev. A C Dolbeer, pastor of Franklin Lutheran Parish, announced his resignation effective in July.
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Franklin
A C. Dolbeer
Franklin Lutheran Parish
Nelsonville business leader C D Shafer dies in Athens
Nelsonville native C D Shafer aged 65 prominent Southeast Ohio businessman and civic leader died Monday afternoon in Athens after a heart attack. He had arranged a regional meeting on natural resources and recently served as director in a development group. Shafer built a wholesale grocery empire with partners Dowler and Kenney and led The C D Shafer Co with extensive holdings and the Ess Dee Tobacco distributor.
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Clinton Davis
C.D
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Jackson
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George W
Mary Margaret Shafer
Fayette St
Michigan
Q. D. Shafer & Co
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Hocking
Perry
Athens
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Columbus
Ess- Dee Tobacco Co
Hocking Valley
Blue and Gray Trail Association
Norfolk
GOP To Hold Convention In Philadelphia 1948
The Republican National Committee chose Philadelphia for the 1948 nominating convention the week of June 20, marking the party’s fifth convention in the city. The decision over Chicago followed a late sub committee recommendation, amid a two day meeting to set convention finances and select a host city. Herbert Brownell declined to speculate on Dewey’s nomination chances.
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Philadelphia
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Herbert Brownell
New York
Thomas Dewey
New Nitrate Fire Strikes Texas City Again
A warehouse at Southwest Sugar and Molasses Company storing ammonium nitrate erupted in flames seven days after the earlier disaster. Deputy mayor John Hill warned another explosion could occur as thick smoke enveloped the city while life began to return to normal.
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Texas City
Southwest Sugar and Molasses Company
John Hill
Secrest Matriarch Dies of Heart Attack in Cambridge
Mrs. Amelia B. Secrest, 67, of Senecaville, mother of former Congressman Robert T. Secrest, died of a heart attack at her home yesterday in Cambridge Ohio.
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Robert Secrest
Cambridge, O
Amelia B. Secrest
Senecaville
Robert T. Secrest
Radio Quizzer Shoots Prowler in Kitchen Killing One
Chicago reporter Joe Kelly, known as a radio Quiz Kid, fired at two intruders in his apartment kitchen last night, killing one. The dead man, Harold C. Fransen, 25, identified by fingerprints, was an ex convict paroled to the Army and released as a psycho neurotic in 1945.
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Chicago
Joe Kelly
Andrew Aitken
Harold C. Fransen
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Egypt Express
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Meyer Feinstein
Moshe Barazani
Irgun
Funeral services set for Texas City disaster victim Paul Jacobs
Funeral services are scheduled in Columbus for Paul W. Jacobs 32 formerly of Wapakoneta Ohio who was killed in the Texas City Texas disaster. Jacobs death announced by family. He is survived by relatives in Ohio and Texas. Services Thursday at a Columbus church with burial to follow.
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Paul W. Jacobs
Wapakoneta
Ohio
Texas City
Texas
Bread Strike Cuts Columbus Supply After Busier Wash Day
In Columbus a truck driver strike at four large bakeries threatens about 75 percent of bread supplies to groceries and restaurants. AFL Local 131 says 131 drivers are affected and 175 bakers won’t cross picket lines while they push for a 10 percent commission on sales. Company reps defend current pay as adequate with drivers earning up to 150 dollars weekly.
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Columbus
Leonard Newmarket
AFL Truck Drivers Union
Continental Baking
Wonder Bread
General Baking Co
Bond Bread
Taystee Bread Co
Ward Baking Co
Youngstown Honors Marine War Heroes Tonight
Two war heroes will be honored at Youngstown ceremonies linked to a Marines reunion. Charles E. Johnson, 20, a Marine corporal who led his platoon on Okinawa and helped repulse a counterattack, will receive the Silver Star. Mrs. Annabelle Weber of Girard receives a Bronze Star for her son Corp. Edward Rashid killed on Iwo Jima.
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Youngstown District
Charles E. Johnson
Okinawa
Annabelle Weber
Girard
Corp
Edward Rashid
Iwo Jima
Guide Wall Extension At Eureka Dam Studied
A series of tests was scheduled at a roller dam near Gallipolis Ohio to assess extending the guide wall about 1580 feet to the upper side of the Ohio River lock entrance Lt Col John R Sharp executive officer of the Huntington Division said navigational interests urged the extension to ease tow maneuvers into the lock entrance.
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W. Va
Gallipolis
Ohio
Ohio River
John R. Sharp
Huntington Division
Pen Sentence Imposed For Jail Break Aid
Akron Lionel Cavins 22 received a one to 15 year sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary for aiding an accused robber to escape Summit County Jail last week while on probation.
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Akron
Lionel Cavins
Ohio
Summit County
Retired Surgeon Malvern Clapton Dies in Osterville
Dr. Malvern B. Clapton 71 a retired St. Louis surgeon died last night in Osterville Mass His death was reported from the coastal town by local authorities and is expected to be followed by a funeral plan to be announced by family and St Louis hospital officials.
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Osterville
Mass
Malvern B. Clapton
St.Louis
Secretary Snyder Urges Senate Tax Cut Rejection
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder urged the Senate to kill a House passed tax cut plan shrinking rates from 30 percent to 10.5 percent at the top. He defended Truman administration opposition for at least another 14 months and suggested a broader review of the tax system for future reductions.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Senate
House
Truman
Congress
Treasury
C&O Awards Contract For 3 000 Coal Cars
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. awarded a contract for 3,000 70 ton all steel hopper cars to the American Car & Foundry Co. in a competitive bid. The freight cars costing about 10.5 million dollars will be built at Huntington West Virginia with delivery to begin in November. Purchase was authorized to meet anticipated coal traffic increases.
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Cleveland
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co
American Car & Foundry Co
Huntington
W. Va
C&o
Two Rubber Unions Approve Strike Action
Ravensen locals of the United Rubber Workers at Columbia Rubber Co and Pyramid Rubber Co approve strikes if needed to push for an hourly wage increase of 11 12 cents, following the pattern set by the Big Four firms in the industry.
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Ravenna
also-United Rubber Workers
Columbia Rubber Co
Pyramid Rubber Co
College Receives Gift of Canton Real Estate
Mrs Florence Brown widow of Canton florist Charles Brown donates Canton real estate valued at about 60000 to Mount Union College. The gift was announced today by President C B Hetcham.
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Alliance
Canton Real Estate
Mount Union College
Florence Brown
Charles
Canton Florist
C. B. Hetcham
Garsson May Trial Begins In Government Conspiracy Case
Andrew Jackson May, a former Democratic congressman from Kentucky, stands trial with three co defendants on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government. Also named are Henry M. Garsson, ex government clerk turned business president, Murray Garsson, sales manager for multiple firms, and their Washington representative Joseph F. Freeman.
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Washington
Andrew Jackson May
Kentucky
Henry M. Garsson
Murray Garsson
Joseph F. Freeman
Sam Simmons Critical of Old Age Security Law and Social Security
Sam Simmons quotes John T. Flynn accusing the government of diverting about seven and a half of nine billions paid into the treasury under the old age security law. He argues the debt has grown, benefits are devalued, and the law creates insecurity by limiting side earnings while investment incomes remain unrestricted. He calls social security a major flimflam.
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John T. Flynn
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