Senate Moves to Restrict Steel Seizure Funds
The Senate approved 44 to 1 a measure delaying use of funds to enforce the steel seizure and prepared for a tougher amendment aimed at blocking government operations at steel plants. Democratic leaders expect to block further attempts as officials meet in private to discuss the administration’s powers.
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Knowland
Sen. Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate Banking Committee
John R. Steelman
Truman
Defense
Roger L. Putnam
Ellis Arnall
Nathan Feinsinger
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Commerce Sawyer
Heavy Rain Dims Hopes In Missouri
Flood fears rise along the Missouri River as rain falls heavily. Governor Forrest Smith declares a flood emergency and seeks federal funds while dikes hold and Kansas City areas brace for impact. Along the upper Mississippi a separate record flood progresses with La Crosse officials declaring the worst is over. Beardsley orders more National Guard units to flood duty as Iowa forecasts adjust to new crests.
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Kansas City
Missouri River
Missouri
Forrest Smith
Truman
Mississippi
la Crosse
Wis
A. D. Sanial
Iowa
William S. Beardsley
National Guard
Record heat shattered across Ohio with new April highs
A heat wave across Ohio set multiple April records. Springfield hit 92 degrees, surpassing a 53 year April 21 high by eight degrees. Toledo reached 84, Columbus 84, Dayton 81 near Wright Patterson, and Cincinnati neared the all time daily high. Cleveland tied a prior mark and Cleveland readings edged past 85.1 but remained below the 85.5 all time high.
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Ohio
Springfield
Toledo
Columbus
Mercury
Dayton
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
C. Pratt Brown
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Capital Seat Race Crowded
In Ohio, 560 candidates compete for 169 seats in the 100th legislature with 289 Republicans and 271 Democrats. Primary is May 6, winners take seats January 1 next year, with the new chamber at 33 senators and 136 representatives.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
Bits of News from Today's Want Ads 12 2 in
Classified snippets list items for sale and requests including a 12 inch TV set for sale a garden plot wanted theatre chairs for hall live bait for fishing a spinet piano dairy farmer wanted and a whizzer motor bike seeks buyer or seller.
Police Expand Probe of Race Track Deaths
Dayton police broaden the investigation into a Daytona Speedway disaster that killed four and injured fifty. A sprint car driven by Gordon Reid veered into the crowd, decapitating Reid and spectator Ruby Shaffer while guard Robert Thatcher and spectator Gene Lawson also died. An inquest is planned.
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Dayton
Dayton Speedway
Gordon Reid
Burbank
Calif
Reid
Ruby Ellen Shaffer
Springfield
Robert Thatcher
Gene Lawson
Ben Smith
A. P. ‘McDonald
Mister Austerity Dies at 62 in Zurich
Sir Stafford Cripps longtime Socialist leader and former British chancellor died in Zurich at age 62 while being treated for spondylitis. A key architect of postwar austerity policies, he helped Labor rise to power alongside Dr Harold Laski.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Sir Stafford Cripps
Britain
Stafford
Labor Party
Harold Laski
Cripps
Laborites
Dutch Queen Juliana Starts Private Canadian Tour
Dutch Queen Juliana began a private six day visit to Canada with a busy program. After two days of formal events she will travel incognito for the remainder of her stay. A state visit had been cancelled following King George VI's death.
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Ottawa
Juliana
Canada
United States
George VI
Audrey Long to Marry Leslie Charteris This Saturday
UKIAH California reports that film star Audrey Long plans to wed detective writer Leslie Charteris known for The Saint this coming Saturday. Charteris is recognized for his mystery novels and has a public profile alongside Long.
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Ukiah
Calif
Audrey Long
Leslie Charteris
the Saint
Portsmouth Presses Bid for Atomic Plant
Portsmouth Ohio presents to the AEC a formal invitation to build a new atomic energy plant. The delegation cites 300 supporting groups and says Portsmouth could supply 4000 workers, with no opposition and surplus labor status qualifying for special contracts.
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Portsmouth
Atomic Plant
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Ohio
Atomic Energy Plant Development Committee
Commission
Ohio River Valley
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Chester G. Linham
Linham
James B. Pugh
Royal L. Marting
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
White-Clad Red Cavalrymen Puzzle U.S. Army Officers
In Seoul area reports describe white cloaked Chinese cavalry on the Korean front moving toward Kumsong with 200 riders, later supporting bands of 50 and 60. An Eighth Army officer said the uniforms might reflect snow and that intelligence teams are reviewing fragmentary reports.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S. Eighth Army
Kumsong
Eighth Army
Red China
U. S. Navy
Weashertace
Tokyo
U. S
Navy
Taft Calls Stassen Bid Unnecessary in Ohio
Senator Taft said Stassen’s May 6 entry forced a needless contest as he resumed his Ohio campaign for delegates after a one day tour. He spoke to the Ohio Federation of Republican Women’s Organizations and declined to name Stassen, noting he may not win delegates but cannot take chances. Ohio has 56 Republican delegates at stake.
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Canton
Robert A. Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Ohio
Taft
Ohio Federation of Republican Women's Organizations
Stassen
Jury Acquits Ironton Man In Gambling Case
A Lawrence County Common Pleas Court jury acquitted Dustin E. Corn of owning a place where gambling was permitted after seven hours of deliberation. He was linked to a raid on the Hickory Club in North Kenova O on April 6 by state liquor agents. Eight others were fined and seven jailed for 30 days. Corn argued no proof tied him to ownership of the club, only the building.
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Ironton
Lawrence County Common Pleas Court
Dustin E. Corn
Corn
Hickory Club
North Kenova
Gable Wins Freedom as Fourth Wife Divorces Him
Santa Monica reports Clark Gable awarded a divorce by his fourth wife after she testified he said he did not wish to be married to her or anyone else. The custody and property questions were resolved in the filing Monday.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Clark Gable
McCarthy Proposes Senate Inquiry Into Keyserlings
Senator McCarthy urged questioning of Commerce Department loyalty board members over alleged communist activity by Leon Keyserling, head of the Council of Economic Advisers, and his wife Mary Dublin Keyserling, a former Commerce employee. Keyserling denies any communist ties and states neither he nor his wife are or have been communists.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
Commerce Department
Loyalty Board
Leon Keyserling
Keyserling
Idaho Democrats Choose 24 Uninstructed Delegates
In Lewiston on Monday Idaho Democrats elected 24 delegates to the national convention and rejected a bid to instruct the delegation for Kefauver. Each delegate carried half a vote totaling 12 convention votes. A poll showed nine favoring Kefauver, three Kerr, one Harriman, with others undecided.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Democrats
Sen
Kefauver
Dtenn
Kerr
Dokla
W. Averell Harriman
Cat Scratch Disease Reported By Physicians
The American College of Physicians notes a new human illness called cat scratch disease. Doctors say humans often fall ill after house cat scratches while the cats remain healthy. About 60 cases spanned 150 states, Hawaii, and Canada with fever up to 104 degrees lasting days to five weeks.
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Cleveland
American College of Physicians
Worth B. Daniels
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Frank G. MacMurray
Washington, D.C
Hawaii
Canada
Eisenhower Gains In Pennsylvanias Primary Tug Of War
In Pennsylvania voters face a close Republican and Democratic preference test as Eisenhower backers push for a landslide of delegates at the July Chicago convention. Write-ins for Taft may appear. Taft urged backers to skip voting. Meanwhile in Michigan 179 convicts siege ends with one death, several injuries, and ongoing hostage holds in a southern prison.
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Philadelphia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
John S. Fine
Eisenhower
Chicago
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Jackson, Mich
Michigan
Rahway Prison Mutineers Win Parole Board Probe
Rebels at Rahway State Prison win a probe by the state parole board but resist disciplinary action after a five day mutiny. A guard dormitory wing was seized Thursday night with 231 inmates and eight guards held hostage. Tear gas was used to quell the disturbance. Leaders demand no reprisals. officials caution possible discipline.
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Julian N. Frisbie
No. 15
Darwin Millage
Detroit
Frisbie
Rahway
N. J
Rahway State Prison
State Parole Board
Parole Board
General Andrus Visits ROTC Department in Athens
Maj. Gen. Cliff Andrus, commanding general of the Second Army, halted his tour to Athens to visit the ROTC Department over the weekend. He spoke at Armed Forces Day last year and conferred with President John C. Baker before leaving university guest housing Monday.
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Cliff Andrus
Second Army
Athens
Rotc Department
James A. van Fleet
Korea
Ridgway
McArthur
Andrus
John C. Baker
Government reports record 1951 tax take per person
The Internal Revenue Bureau announced that 1951 tax collections totaled 56,093,339,426.69 dollars, about 362 dollars per man, woman and child. The figure is 40 percent above 1950 and 28 percent above the previous wartime record.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Army to witness giant A-bomb blast in Desert Rock test
Fifteen hundred Army troops will observe an air force dropped A-bomb at 30 000 feet during Desert Rock IV. The blast, possibly the largest in U.S. tests, will be described on tape for later broadcast as cameras bring the fireball to homes.
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Nev
United States
Ground Zero
Alvin C. Graves
Harry P. Storke
Desert Rock
Seaway vote expected in Senate committee today
Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets in closed session after a week of hearings on legislation to authorize the St Lawrence seaway and power project. Sen Wiley predicts a two vote margin for the bill, which Truman urged, with US construction costs around 225 million dollars and annual output over 13 billion kilowatt hours shared with Canada.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
St. Lawrence Seaway
Sen
Wiley
R-Wis
S. Lawrence
Senate
Truman
Canada
U. S
Armistice Talks Stalemate as Allied, North Korean Officers Clash
In a 16 minute armistice session Allied spokesman accused North Korean negotiators of not coming to negotiate. Col Darrow and Col Chang Chun clashed over airfield reconstruction and attitudes. No progress reported on supervising a truce while prisoner exchange methods are debated in executive session.
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Munsan
Korea
Don O. Darrow
Chang Chun
Darrow
River Plant Explosion Wrecks Goodyear Facility
An explosion at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber pliofilm plant in St. Marys caused damage estimated in the thousands of dollars. Three workers were injured: Lowell Loffer 47 of St. Marys with back and leg injuries and shock, Francis E. Pekering 20 near Celina with burns and face cuts, Rex Donovan of Celina with bruises.
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ST. Marys
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
A. A. Teisher
Lowell Loffer
Francis E. Pickering
Celina
Rex Donovan
Five Day Forecast Calls for Mild Week with Showers
Temperature will average near or slightly above normal from Wednesday through Sunday. Normal highs range from 59 in the north to 64 in the south, with lows from 39 to 42. Cooler midweek, warming into the weekend with showers and scattered thunderstorms Wednesday and Saturday, bringing a half to an inch of rain locally.
Meigs Freed Of Quarantine
The State Agriculture Department reports 63 Ohio farms still quarantined for anthrax a drop from 52 counties recently. Three new cases appear in Mercer Richland and Madison counties all with prior breaks. The outbreak has killed 338 cattle and hogs with many counties fully cleared.
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Columbus
State Agriculture Department
Ohio
Mercer
Richland
Madison
Brown
Clermont
Greene
Meigs
Morgan
W. Huron
Coshocton
Fayette
Wood
Fairfield
Marion
Delaware
Crash Kills Child in Columbus Intersection
Three year old Daniel Greenslee, son of Mr and Mrs Vernon Greenlee, was fatally injured when struck by an automobile at an intersection near his home in Columbus on Monday.
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Columbus
Daniel Greenslee
Vernon Greenlee
Card Game Ends Marriage as Deck Marks Lead to Annulment
In Syracuse New York the Bookmans ended their marriage after Mrs Genevieve Bookman testified that her husband Charles pressured her to play cards for "house money" and allegedly marked the deck when she began winning heavily. The state supreme court granted an annulment.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Bookmans
Genevieve Bookman
State Supreme Court
Charles
Bookman
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