Ohio lawmakers hear business push for anti labor curbs
In Columbus the House Industrial Relations Committee heard testimony from business representatives urging an omnibus labor-control bill to ban the closed shop outlaw strikes not voted by a majority of workers limit picketing and restrict union activity. AFL CIO leaders opposed the measures but will testify next week. Other proposals include forcing unions to file annual financial reports and banning check offs for dues with written worker consent.
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House Industrial Relations Committee
General Assembly
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R-Union
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Coshocton
John W. Morrison
Portage
State Department of Mines and Minerals
Water Resources Board
House Highway Committee
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate Labor Committee
AFL Executive Council
Timken CIO Wage Pact Seen as Peace in Ohio Plants
The Timken Roller Bearing Co and CIO United Steelworkers announced a wage increase for about 15 000 workers across five Ohio cities. Seen as a peace pledge after last year’s 55 day strike the settlement extends the contract to July 1.
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Canton — (P
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Cio-United Steelworkers of America
Ohio
Timken
Ohio Feeder Airline Hearing Set Tomorrow
The Civil Aeronautics Board will hold a special hearing tomorrow on Ohio’s request for extensive feeder line air service. Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins leads a committee of congressmen to argue that the state needs this service to connect communities with cross-country airlines at major population centers.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Ohio
Thomas A. Jenkins
Rohio
NBC Spars with Hope and Skelton over Allen case
NBC silenced Red Skelton during a joke about an NBC vice president while Bob Hope mocked the Las Vegas note. The incident follows Fred Allen being cut off on Sunday after referencing an imaginary NBC executive and overtime-saving jokes. NBC called the material objectionable and silent on further comment.
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Hollywood
National Broadcasting Company
Network
Fred Allen
NBC
Bob Hope
Red Skelton
Allen
Red
Hope
Las Vegas
Nev
New York
Swindle Case Arraignment Postponed for Mrs Colvin
Mrs Joan W Colvin 26 charged with swindling parishioners in Southern Ohio cases total over 10000 dollars. Hearing before Justice of the Peace Percy L Peoples postponed due to illness. Warrants allege false pretenses from Jesse Reeves Oct 26 1945 $250 John M Reeves Oct 15 1945 65.92 and C F Dix on Nov 21 1945 150. Sheriff says complainants from Patetown near Albany. Described as minister's wife.
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Joan W. Colvin
Colvin
Toledo
Justice of the Peace
Percy L. Peoples
John M. Reeves
C. F. Dixon
Ralph Welker
Pagetown
Albany
Ohio
Senate panel hears evidence on un American activities in schools
The Senate Education Committee heard evidence about proposed probes of un American activities in Ohio schools and colleges. John E. Wright of a bipartisan league claimed OSU course texts were subversive and that similar materials appeared in Franklin County grade schools. Edward W. Erfurt Jr. cited three OSU students involved in forgery who voiced anti government opinions.
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Senate Education Committee
John E. Wright
Bi-Partisan League
Ohio State University
Franklin County
Edward W. Erfurt, Jr
Ohio State
Boos and stench bombs greet singer Flagstad
In Philadelphia the Kirsten Flagstad concert faced large protests as pickets carried anti Flagstad slogans and stench bombs exploded in the Academy of Music. Despite the disruption more than 1,000 attendees watched as ushers escorted hecklers and the performance continued with a wild ovation for Flagstad.
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Academy of Music
Kirsten Flagstad
Academy
Flagstad
Hitler
Mme. Flagstad
Boeing
Heckler
Ohio To Honor Its War Dead With Memorial
A living tribute to Ohio men and women who died in the last war will be dedicated Sunday at the Ohio Memorial Forest on State Route 97 near Ashland. Admiral Ernest J. King Maj Gen Curtiss LeMay and Gov Thomas J Herbert will speak at 2 PM. Mrs Clarence Goldthorpe will present the memorial to the state. O A Alderman will accept. Forest E Everhart and Edward A Bennett will attend as honored guests.
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Loudonville
Ohio
Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs
Ohio Memorial Forest
Ashland County
Ernest J. King
Curtiss LeMay
Thomas J. Herbert
Clarence Goldthorpe
Youngstown
Ohio Federation
Memorial Forest
O. A. Alderman
Forrest E. Everhart
Bainbridge
Edward A. Bennett
Middleport
Llewlyn Chilson
Georgia
Red Preber Seeks Truman Audience on Communist Prosecution
House Un American Activities Chairman J Parnell Thomas says he will bypass the Attorney General by drafting a letter directly to President Truman. He accuses Clark of failing to produce results after three letters.
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Washington
J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
House Committee of Unamerican Activities
Truman
Thomas
Clark
GM Rejects Three Proposals From CIO Negotiators
DETROIT AP The CIO United Auto Workers council reviews wage talks after GM rejects three union proposals including a flat 15-cent raise. UAW President Reuther denounces GM as arrogant while talks resume at 2 p.m. with 225000 workers awaiting outcome.
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CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
GM Council
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UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Auto Workers
United Electrical Workers
United Rubber Workers
Reuther
Rail Monopoly Trial Opens in Lincoln Federal Case
The Justice Department charges a private government runs the railroad industry to sustain a monopoly in transportation. Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge opened the largest railroad anti trust case to date. Defendants include the Association of American Railroads with 47 named western railroads, the Western Association of Railway Executives, J. P. Morgan and Co. Kuhn, Loeb and Co. of New York, and 89 officers of involved corporations.
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Neb
Justice Department
Wendell Berge
United States
Association of American Railroads
Mississippi River
Western Association of Railway Executives
J. P. Morgan and Co
Kuhn, Leeb and Co
New York
Veterans Say Service Guaranteed Better Jobs
A federal judge weighed whether war veterans were entitled to pay increases they might have received had they not been drafted. With three similar cases pending, Judge Mell G Underwood heard testimony from five Universal Potteries employees in Cambridge, Ohio, who argued selective service laws guaranteed them better jobs due to wartime vacancies.
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Columbus
Mell G. Underwood
Universal Potteries, Inc
Cambridge
London Prison Breaker Returned to State Pen
Edward Daniel Quinlan of Youngstown 27 is to be returned to Ohio Penitentiary for an extra two years of a one to twenty year auto theft term after escaping London Prison Farm with Joseph Sooner 43 of Hillsboro. Sooner is held in Greenfield facing robbery and assault charges in an 80 year old man case.
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Edward Daniel Quinlan
Youngstown
Ohio
Quinlan
Joseph Sooner
Hillsboro
Bainbridge
Sooner
Greenfield
President Truman Plans Canada Visit and Princeton Stop
The White House announced President Truman plans a trip to Canada possibly around June 10. He will also visit Princeton University on June 16 to receive a degree, per Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross. no other travel plans were specified.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Canada
Charles G. Ross
Princeton University
Picketing by Ohio Bell workers gains union support in Toledo
In Toledo the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers enters a 17 day strike with backing from the Toledo Industrial Union Council. Local unions join noon protests at Ohio Bell properties as clashes occur. arrests include Joyce Beckman 18 and Leona Narra 20 in Columbus and four strikers plus a company executive in Toledo.
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Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
Toledo Industrial Union Council
CIC
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Federation
Ohio Bell
Richard Lazette
CIO
Tioup
Columbus
Joyce Beckman
Leona Narra
Miss Narra
Ohio Bell Exchange
Exchange
Patricia McNeal
Rufus Short
Arbitration Rejected as Driver Strike Prolongs
In Columbus four wholesale bakeries refused arbitration proposals from 131 AFL bakery truck drivers, extending a three day strike. Continental Baking Co. spokesman G. H. Heckler said there is nothing to arbitrate.
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Columbus
AFL
Prospect
G. H. Heckler
Continental Baking Co
B and O Grants Overtime Pay on Passenger Trains
Baltimore reports a new contract giving time and a half overtime to engineers enginemen and firemen on passenger trains. Union officials say this marks the first use of overtime for passenger service by the carrier though freight and yard workers have long received it since 1918.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
One-Year-Old Strangled by Clothesline Accident
Larry Allen Thomas a one year old boy died yesterday after becoming entangled in a rope clothesline hanging from a door hinge. Police report the incident occurred in Findlay. No other persons were involved.
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Findlay
Larry Allen Thomas
Recluse Slain in Rural Ohio Farm Home
Authorities sought two Cleveland women who corresponded with Anton Heinemann in a murder probe. The 65 year old farmer was found slain in a water filled basement with a slashed throat and head wounds. Robbery was suspected and investigators hunted for a missing teapot said to hold a large sum of money.
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Painesville
Cleveland
Anton Heinemann
Heinemann
Lake County
Lester W. Donaldson
Donaldson
Chemical Strikers Total 3 500 in New Walkout
About 3 500 workers in Barbert on an industrial city of 35 000 joined a new walkout after a 1 500 unionist strike at the Columbia Chemical division of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co The Columbia chemical workers walked out yesterday over a no strike clause in a company union contract The Seiberling Rubber Co also closed after a CIO United Rubber walkout of about 2 000 workers.
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Barberton
Columbia Chemical Division
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Columbia Chemical
Seiberling Rubber Co
Cio-United Rubber
Woman Told She Was Victim in Keyport Trunk Mystery
Cambridge report says Flora Gracy, 36, was stunned to learn four people identified her as the strangled middle aged woman found in a trunk on a New Jersey highway near Keyport. Gracy had worked in Fort Dix area restaurants while her husband served there.
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Cambridge
Flora Gracy
Keyport
N. J
Former Warden Lawes Succumbs at Home
GARRISON N Y Lewis E Lawes 63 longtime Sing Sing warden and leading prison expert died at his home after retiring in 1941 in Os Sing N Y He served 21 years controlling Sing Sing and was noted as a national authority on prison problems.
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Garrison
N. Y
Lewis E. Lawes
Sing Sing
Ossing
N.Y
Education funding urge calls for up to one billion yearly
George F. Zook, president of the American Council on Education, urged the government to begin spending as much as 1 billion dollars annually for educational purposes.
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Washington
George F. Zook
The
American Council On Education
Officials See All Hope For Austrian Pact Gone
Moscow reports say a Moscow peace treaty for Austria is dead as the final Council of Foreign Ministers session ends. Delegations prepare to depart within days. Marshall plans to return to the United States.
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Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministers
Russian-Born Financier Guilty of Draft Evasion
Serge Rubinstein, a 39 year old Russian born financier who arrived in 1938 on Portuguese papers, and two co-defendants were convicted in federal court last night on draft evasion charges. Rubinstein was indicated on January 30 1946 for falsely claiming non liability for military service, with earlier charges dated February 2 1943.
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New York
Serge Rubinstein
Rubinstein
Pupil Leaving Bus Killed by Automobile
An eight year old Ludlow Falls boy, Richard E. Hicks, died after being struck by a car as he stepped from a school bus in Troy Ohio. Louis F. Filoso of Dayton was arrested by state patrol on a charge of passing a school bus.
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Troy, CO
Richard E. Hicks
Ludlow Falls
Louis F. Filoso
Dayton
Two Policemen Killed In Street Battle With Youth
In Philadelphia a 23 year old youth shot and killed two police officers at a street corner. The officers were Sgt. Samuel Hewitt, 47, and James Quigley, 35. A detective identified the shooter as William Hallowell, reportedly the adopted son of a Northwestern University professor.
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Philadelphia
Samuel Hewitt
James Quigley
William Hallowell
Northwestern University
Teachers Wage Hike OK'd Conditionally in Springfield
The Springfield board of education set $2,000 minimum and $3,500 maximum for teachers with principals earning above max, contingent on the Daniels Cramer School Aid Bill passing the Ohio legislature and voters approving a November real estate tax levy.
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Springfield
Springfield Board of Education
Ohio
Signing of Steel Pact Delayed to Final Phraseology
Pittsburgh dispatch reports U S Steel Corp and the CIO United Steelworkers plan another attempt today to sign a two year contract granting a one dollar daily raise to 140000 workers. The signing was postponed to finalize contract language.
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Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corp
Cio-United Steelworkers
SAM SIMMONS Defends Miner Housing Responsibility in WV
Sam Simmons argues a federal housing survey of miners is blunt but notes West Virginia coal workers earn high wages. He says home occupants bear responsibility for living conditions, recalling Roane County log houses and puncheon floors. He cites Washington privacy and a dirty outside privy as a counterpoint to bias.
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Roane County
Commission
Washington, D. C
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