Dirty Work in Drive For Conservation Unity in Ohio
Lt. Gov. Paul M. Herbert calls for a special legislative session to focus solely on conservation reform. He cites erosion, timber loss, water shortages and coal strip mining as reasons while urging consolidation of agencies into a single department and noting potential new industries from brine, salt, shale oil, and coal by products.
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Columbus
Ohio
Paul M. Herbert
Herbert
Senate
Assembly
TVA Nominee Gordon Clapp Wins Senate Confirmation
Senate confirms Gordon R. Clapp as new chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Clapp tells Swarthmore College he aims for management that yields material results while preserving individual freedom. Senators Taft and Bricker vote against the confirmation.
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Swarthmore
Tennessee Valley Authority
Gordon R. Clapp
Senate
Swarthmore College
David E. Lilienthal
Clapp
Tennessee Valley
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
John W. Bricker
Ohio Bell and Union Stalemate in Talks Over Reopening
After two meetings to resume Ohio telephone talks, Ohio Bell Telephone Co. and the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers Ind. remain at a stalemate. About 6,000 Bell employees in Pennsylvania joined the nationwide strike.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
Ind
Bell Telephone Company of
Pennsylvania
Union and GM Agree on 11 Cent Raise for Workers
The United Auto Workers reached a contract with General Motors offering an 11 cent hourly wage rise for 220,000 GM production workers plus six paid holidays and enhanced vacation and call in pay benefits. Ratification by the union, including its 200 member GM council, was anticipated.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Motors
Reuther
Louis G. Seaton
GM _ council
More Labor Curbs Seen By Sen Ball
Senator Ball predicts the Senate will strengthen its labor bill with four amendments to curb unions including private employer injunctions, outlawing union welfare funds, barring coercion of locals on contracts, and making coercion of workers a unfair labor practice. Senator Aiken agrees a veto is likely. The Hartley Bill in the House already includes similar curbs.
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Washington
Ball
R-Minn
Senate
Aiken
Senate Labor Committee
House
Bethlehem Steel workers win wage hike under CIO pact
Bethlehem Steel Co. announces an increase of at least 15 cents an hour for 70,000 workers, with Eugene G. Grace and Joseph P. Moloney confirming the contract. The raise includes a 12 1/2 cent base rise and follows protracted negotiations on remaining items.
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NEW York— (P
Bethlehem Steel Co
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem
Grace
Joseph P. Moloney
Buffalo
CIO
United Steelworkers
Moloney
Stockholders oppose merger at Cleveland Cliffs board shakeup
About 2.1 percent of Cliffs Corp stockholders protested the merger with Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co under the then current plan. The proxy statement also announced Edward B. Greene’s appointment to succeed 89 year old William G. Mather as Cleveland Cliffs board chairman.
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Cleveland— (P
Cliffs Corp
Steel
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co
Edward B. Greene
William G. Mather
Cleveland Cliffs
Hollywood Bowl Denies Wallace Speech at Event
Hollywood Bowl directors denied a request by the Progressive Citizens of America to use the county owned 20 000 seat amphitheater for a May speaking engagement by former Vice President Henry A Wallace. The Bowl Association operates the venue under a non profit lease of 99 years.
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Hollywood
Henry A. Wallace
The
Bowl Association
Progressive Citizens of America
Vet Parolee Sentences Commuted by Governor
Gov Thomas J Herbert commuted the paroles of 113 honorably discharged World War II veterans who were on parole before their service. The commutations allow final release and restoration of civil rights for men who had served 10 to 25 year burglary terms.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Celebration Opens Otterbein Centenary Observance
Otterbein College marks its centennial start with the theme Education for World Citizenship. The 100th anniversary is celebrated tomorrow, tracing back to 1847 when United Brethren officials founded a church school in Westerville. Enrique S. de Lozada of the UN will speak tomorrow on The World Organization Taking Form, and R H Edwin Espy will discuss Students Look at the World Today at a chapel program featuring Yale Divinity School’s Dean Luther W. Weigle among other college leaders.
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Westerville
Otterbein College
United Brethren Church
Circleville
Enrique S. de Lozada
United Nations Secretariat
World Organization
R. H. Edwin Espy
National Student Council
YMCA
Luther W. Weigle
Yale Divinity School
Fire Claims Mother and Two Children at Portsmouth Home
Mrs. Gwendolyn Spratlin aged 37 and her two children Judy Ann 2 and Gerald 1 died in a house fire that destroyed their Portsmouth home. Attendants at Mercy Hospital said the mother was in serious condition. Donald 15, another son, escaped by leaping from a second story window.
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Portsmouth
Gwendolyn Spratlin
Judy Ann
Gerald
Mercy Hospital
Donald
Union at Westinghouse Gains Hourly Increase
The Westinghouse Air Brake Co. and Union Switch amp Signal Co. awarded a 1 1/2 cent hourly raise in talks announced by CIO United Electrical Workers. The pact adds three and a half cents for six paid holidays and three weeks vacation for 20 year veterans, covering about 8 000 production workers.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Air Brake Co
Union Switch & Signal Co
CIO
United Electrical Workers
Novelist Willa Cather Dies in New York
Willa Cather, 70, renowned American writer, died in New York last night. Born near Winchester, Virginia, she authored more than 50 books including My Ántonia Death Comes for the Archbishop and O Pioneers.
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Willa Cather
New York
Winchester
Ex-Convict Denied Parole With Governor Support
George Mason, once a state prison farm fugitive who became Melvin Shane, had his parole application denied. Supported by Michigan Governor Kim Sigler, Shane, 37, faced a continued case until March 1949 after his 1935 escape from London Prison Farm and assault on a guard with an iron pipe.
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Columbus
George Mason
Melvin Shane
Detroit
Michigan
Kim Sigler
Shane
London
Former OPA Chairman Henry A. Schrantz Dies
Canton Ohio obituary reports Henry A. Schrantz aged 68 former Canton mayor and former Stark County OPA chairman dies. Funeral services are planned for tomorrow in Canton with services and burial to follow.
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OPA
Canton
O.—P
Henry A. Schrantz
Stark County
Logan Man Pleads Guilty to Delinquency Case
Logan Glenn O. Strawn, 21, pleaded guilty to contributing to delinquency of six minors linked to a teen gang. He received a 1,000 dollar fine with 900 suspended and 11 months jailed suspended, 30 days in county jail, five year probation, weekly reports, and restitution. Prosecution and defense noted first offense. other gang members faced varied outcomes.
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Logan
Glenn O. Strawn
FT. Fwine
Nrobate Cnurt
Strawn
Ewing
Phil Henderson
L. E. Strawn
Henderson
Fred Murray
Main St
Lancaster Boys’ Industrial School
Capital University paper decries autocratic control
The Chimes at Capital University protested President Harold L. Yochum after he banned a special edition about student grievances following a 500-student demonstration over housing rules. An accompanying mimeographed sheet defended student voice while noting planned leadership changes at the campus weekly.
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Columbus
The
Chimes
Capital University
Luther M. Schliesser, Jr
Youngstown
Harold L. Yochum
Lutheran
Trautman Hall
Schliesser
Yochum
Reichstag
Dents
Cap
William F. Schmidt
Schmidt
Unemployment Funds Reach Five Hundred Million in Ohio
Dale Dunifon administrator of the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation announced the unemployment benefits fund in Ohio totaled 500,903,006 after the first quarter receipts. He noted that benefits paid to unemployed workers in Ohio over eight years and three months amounted to about 157,000,000.
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Columbus
Dale Duniton
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Ohio
Dunifon
Dr. F. G. Smith Dies in Gos pel Trumpet Co President
Anderson Indiana obituary notes the death of 67 year old Dr. F. G. Smith, chief executive of the Gos pel Trumpet Company, reported last night.
Moscow Parley Ends In Deadlock On Peace Treaty Issues
Washington reports say George C Marshall returns to brief on Moscow talks that ended in deadlock over Austrian and German peace treaties after 45 days of bickering. Dulles calls Moscow talks a step toward long term policies despite no final agreements.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Moscow
Capitol Hill
Dean Acheson
State Department
Marshall
Acheson
Robert Lovett
Air
Truman
Austria
Germany
Stalin
Kremlin
Aireport
John Foster Dulles
Col
Marshall Carter
Charles E. Bohlen
H. Freeman Matthews
Dulles
United States
Ernest Bevin
V. M. Molotov
Nikolai M. Shvernik
U.S.S.R
Molotov
Trieste
London
New York
United Nations Assembly
Police Billet Bombed in Tel Aviv. 2 Die
Bombs hit a police billet in a Tel Aviv suburb leaving at least two dead and seven missing. British troops surrounded Tel Aviv as rescue workers cleared debris at Sarona and traffic between Tel Aviv and Jaffa was halted. In Jerusalem, traffic was blocked while authorities investigated a possible hoax claiming three officers were kidnapped.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Sarona
Jaffa
Young and Taft Attack Truman Price Policies
Robert R. Young chairman of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and Senator Robert A. Taft spoke against President Truman price policies at a New York dinner hosted by the Bureau of Advertising of the ANPA. The event also announced Richard W. Slocum as chairman of the bureau's governing board.
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New York
Truman
Robert R. Young
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Robert A. Taft
R-Ohio
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
ANPA
Richard W. Slocum
The
Philadelphia Bulletin
Bureau
Dues Checkoff Seen As Rubber Strike Cause
More than 1000 workers at the Ohio Rubber Co. plant in Willoughby went on strike over a dues checkoff dispute. Union leaders said the fight centered on whether dues should be automatically deducted from wages.
Strontium Products to Pay 6 Percent Interest on War Profit Judgment
Federal Judge Ben Moore orders Strontium Products Co of Chauncey to pay six percent interest on a 735000 government judgment under the Renegotiation Act of 1943 for alleged wartime excess profits in chemical manufacture. Interest runs from August 7, 1945, to full payment after partial settlement of 535660.61, with a tax court redetermination sought by the firm.
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Charleston
W.va
Ben Moore
Strontium Products Co
Chauncey, C
War Price Adjustment Board
U. S. Tax Court
Adjustment Board
Moore
May Trial Calls Bankers
The government called a new group of bank officials as witnesses in the war fraud trial of Andrew J. May and three co-defendants. John Alden and Edgar Ewall of the National Bank of Washington testified, as did J. E. Stanley and Russell Haguewood, clerks of the First National Bank of Prestonsburg Kentucky, May’s home town.
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Washington
Andrew J. May
House Military Committee
John Alden
Edgar Ewall
National Bank of Washington
May
J. E. Stanley
Russell Haguewood
First National Bank
Prestonsburg
Rooming House Affray Kills Landlady at 83
An 83 year old landlady was shot through the heart and killed in an East Side rooming house last night. One roomer was wounded as another man brandished a revolver then killed himself by firing at the roof of his mouth. Police say the attacker wounded himself critically.
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Cleveland
David E. Kerr
Kerr
Mrs. Mary Oiler Dies At Gallipolis Hospital
Mrs. Mary Oiler, 74, died this morning at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis after an operation on Thursday. Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Silver Run Baptist Church with burial at Gravel Hill Cemetery Cheshire. Friends may call at the home of her son Rev. George Oiler Gravel Hill until services.
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Middleport
Mary Oiler
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Silver Run Baptist Church
Gravel Hill
Cheshire
George Oiler
Ohio Labor Planning Protest Against Bill
The CIO and AFL announced a mass demonstration at the State House at 7 30 p m next Wednesday to oppose six anti labor bills that had hearings last week. The Van Aken bill is claimed to threaten to destroy labor unions from roof to foundation.
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Columbus
CIO
AFL
Organized Labor
State House
van Aken
Ohioan Sentenced for Manslaughter in Islaying Case
Eugene Brown, 27, received a one to twenty year sentence at Mansfield Reformatory after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the killing of Sam Carter, 38. The case stemmed from the Islaying incident and resulted in Brown's conviction and incarceration.
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Columbus
Eugene Brown
Mansfield Reformatory
Sam Carter
Sam Simmons Reflects On Politics And Communism
Sam Simmons voices concern about global communism, praises Senators Bricker and Revercomb for taking unpopular stands on Greece aid, and warns the republic may be slipping toward one man rule after 1946 signals of recovery. He stresses reading sources and observing current events as his guide.
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Chapman Revercomb
John Bricker
Ohio
Greece
Turkey
Europe
Siberia
Bricker
Revercomb
Republic
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