President Truman Urges Across the Board Price Cuts
Truman told 2000 delegates at the U S Chamber of Commerce convention that a pressing task for all businessmen is to reduce prices wherever possible while steadily increasing production. He urged careful planning and elimination of waste to dispel inflation and bolster national prosperity and freedom.
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Washington
Truman
U. S. Chamber of Commerce Today
John R. Steelman
United States Chamber of Commerce
America
Dillinger's Betrayer Anna Sage Dies at 58 in Romania
Ana Campanas known as the woman in red who fingered Dillinger died in Timisoara Romania. She was 58 and deported by the United States in 1936 after a Gary Indiana conviction for running a bawdy house. She had since lived as a well to do resident.
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Bucharest
Ana Campanas
John Dillinger
FBI
America
Chicago
Timisoara
Vestal
United States
Anna Sage
Romania
Two Firemen Injured In Tenement Blaze
In Cincinnati two firemen were injured as a downtown tenement blaze destroyed three frame residences. The fire left several families homeless with losses estimated around 15000 dollars, according to assistant fire chief Chris Williams.
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Cincinnati
Chris Williams
Submarine Veteran James Cummins Dies in Auto Crash
ASHTABULA OH. Injuries from an automobile accident proved fatal yesterday to James G Cummins 26 a veteran of six years submarine service.
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Ashtabula
James G. Cummins
Two Hunted For Beating Boy to Death
Toledo ex convict Harold Lehaney and his wife Floris are charged with first degree murder in the beating death of James Gleason, a four year old boy. Detectives trace their flight to Northern Michigan and report the couple last seen with the boy’s mother in Toledo. Car tracked by Michigan police near Sturgis heading north.
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Toledo
Michigan
James Gleason
Harold Lehaney
Ralph Murphy
Mansfield Reformatory
Murphy
Lehaney
Floris Lehaney
Virginia Gleason
Sturgis
Mich
Bus service resumes after 24 hour Akron walkout
Akron public transportation returns to normal as 142 striking bus mechanics end a 24 hour walkout that had left 245000 residents walking or hitchhiking. Union leaders approve a seven cent hourly wage increase and concessions on contract fringe issues from the Akron Transportation Co. and empower the negotiating committee to finalize terms.
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Akron
Afl-International Association of Machinists Union
Akron Transportation Co
W. H. Demoss
FBI Report Is Awaited In Mansfield Death
Authorities awaited FBI reports from Washington laboratories before closing the case of Marion Frances Goetz a 17 year old found unconscious in a parked cab. An autopsy indicated pneumonia with exposure and traces of carbon monoxide.
Blast Damages Homes In Pittsburgh Area
A heavy blast at 4 a.m. in Mt. Lebanon Township destroyed one home and damaged several nearby structures. Two persons were injured as gas is blamed for the explosion. The Wunderlich residence was torn apart and later fire was brought under control.
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Pittsburgh
Mt. Lebanon
Lawrence Wunderlich
Picketing Limited at National Carbon Co Plant
Picketing at the strikebound National Carbon Co plant was restricted to four men per entrance after an injunction from Common Pleas Court Judge Ralph Sugrue against the CIO United Electrical Workers.
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Fostoria
National Carbon Co
Common Pleas Court
Ralph Sugrue
Cilio-United Electrical Workers
Phone Union Hails Pay Hike In Nationwide Tieup
Washington reports say Northwestern Bell Co. offers a $2.50 weekly boost as a potential break in the 23 day nationwide strike. NFTW president Joseph Beirne calls the move a break while AT&T official George Dring notes potential action for Long Lines workers if deemed fair.
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Washington
Northwestern Bell Co
Bell
George S. Dring
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Joseph Beirne
NFTW
Increase for Largest Harvester Union Set
The largest of 11 unions at International Harvester plants accepts a wage rise of 15 cents an hour. A federal conciliator said CIO United Farm Equipment Workers Union agreed to the terms for its 30,000 plus members in 10 cities.
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Chicago
International Harvester Co
CIO United Farm Equipment Workers Union
Mother and Baby Drownings Listed as Murder Suicide
In Bellaire Kansas the coroner labeled the deaths of 34 year old Mabel Robinson and her infant daughter as murder and suicide. Sheriff Duntz said the mother tried to kill five other children. four were hospitalized, one in critical condition, after she was found drowned in a creek near her home.
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Bellaire
Kas
Coroner’s Office Today
Clarence Duntz
Mabel Robinson
Judge Declares Army Re-Enlistment Void in Ohio
Andrew Kenst Jr of Salem Ohio claimed he signed re-enlistment papers thinking they were discharge papers. Federal Judge Mell G Underwood issued a writ of habeas corpus and ruled Kenst’s re-enlistment void after his AWOL arrest at Fort Hayes.
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Columbus
Andrew Kenst, Jr
Salem
Ohio
Mell G. Underwood
Kenst
Fort Hayes
Locomotive Derailment Renews Zanesville Traffic Tie Up
A Baltimore and Ohio freight locomotive derailed in Zanesville today after being struck by a yard engine. No injuries were reported. The incident forced rerouting of subsequent trains over Pennsylvania lines and tied up local traffic.
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Zanesville
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania
Vandenberg Opposes Taft On Labor Law
Senator Vandenberg balks at Taft's bid to widen labor law allowing private employers to seek injunctions against jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. He voiced objections within the Republican Policy Committee to one amendment, arguing it could threaten the Norris LaGuardia Act.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Vandenberg
Rmich
Republican Policy Committee
Taftis
Plane Carrying 15 Vanishes Over Canada
A Trans-Canada Air Lines transport with 15 aboard disappeared en route from Lethbridge to Vancouver. Radio contact was lost near Vancouver Island after reporting at 7,000 feet. No Americans were aboard and search by RCAF planes found no trace of the craft.
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B. C
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Lethbridge
Alto
Northwestern Air Command
Vancouver Island
Royal Canadian Air Force
Mexico Chief Due in Capital
President Truman and the cabinet greet Miguel Alemán on his first US visit. Alemán, 43, arrives at National Airport at 4 p.m. aboard The Sacred Cow. Washington eyes a 250000-strong crowd for the reception as a repayable gesture to last month’s Truman welcome in Mexico.
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Washington
Truman
Miguel Aleman
Mexico
United States
Republic
National
Washington Board of Trade
Don Miguel
Canton Called to Try 10-Day 10 Percent Price Cut
Canton councilman B C Sharrock urged a city wide 10 percent price reduction by all retailers for ten days. The proposal follows a Newburyport Mass plan aimed at curbing inflation.
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Canton
B. C. Sharrock
Newburyport
Mass
Editorial on U.S. trade goals and food exports policy
SAM SIMMONS criticizes a magazine stance praising large food export gifts as better than plowing under. He notes U.S. imports and exports totals before the war and questions why aid to other nations was not purchased by Americans. He argues giving away food harms American economic welfare and questions starvation-prevention rhetoric.
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VU. S
U. S
Medicine and economics reshape future medical teaching
Dr. Wilson G. Smillie told the American College of Surgeons that medicine will integrate economics and sociology to prevent illness. He predicted aging and chronic diseases will rise as new health challenges, and doctors will consider home life and work as part of care.
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Chicago
American College of Surgeons
Wilson G. Smillie
Cornell University Medical College
New York City
First Major UN Palestine Clash Awaited
At the United Nations the Arab states pressed for full debate on the Holy Land issue in a special General Assembly session. The 14 nation general committee met at Flushing Meadows to consider the Arab demand, with the United States and Britain expected to oppose and Russia's stance unclear. Mahmoud Hassan Pasha of Egypt was seen as the likely introducer of the Arab proposal.
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New York
Palestine
United Nations
Holy Land
General Assembly
Assembly
General Committee
Flushing Meadows
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Soviet Union
Mahmoud Hassan Pasha
Egypt
Ohio War Veterans Bonus Bill Advances In Senate
Columbus notes the Ohio Senate moves a war veterans bonus plan toward passage. The bill proposes a $300 million payment to about 781,000 Ohio veterans with ranks captain or below, paying $10 per month for domestic service and $15 for foreign duty from 1941 to 1945, up to $400. Heirs of deceased veterans receive $400. Eligibility requires Ohio residency one year before service and at least 90 days of service unless discharged due to injury.
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Columbus
Senate
Ohio
Vintners Cut Wholesale Prices On Quality Wines
Fresno reports a 15 percent drop in wholesale prices for quality wines continuing a trend from last week when vintners cut 25 percent on sweet and dry wines. The move comes despite higher production costs for top aging vintages.
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Fresno
Calif
Rubber Workers Vote Tonight on Strike End
About 2,000 CIO United Rubber Workers strikers at Seibring Rubber Co in Barberton Ohio vote tonight on a proposal from company and union leaders to end an 18 day walkout. A joint statement says proposals aiming at resuming production were worked out between union and company representatives.
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Barberton
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Seibring Rubber Co
Findlay Seeks Burial For Former U P War Correspondent
The body of Christopher R. Cunningham, 36, former Findlay newspaperman and United Press war correspondent, who died of pneumonia in New York City yesterday, will be brought to Findlay for burial. He served in Northern Africa, Italy, France, Germany and the Far East.
Harvard President to speak at Ohio University commencement
Ohio University announced that Harvard President James B. Conant will give the spring commencement address on June 9 at Alumni Memorial Auditorium. About 360 seniors and 20 graduates will attend, with Conant lauded as a leading administrator and scientist. The program includes baccalaureate by Rev. James W. Clarke and a campus reception for graduates and families.
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Harvard University
Ohio University
John C. Baker
Dr. Conant
Ohio U
Baker
Conant
Alumni Memorial Auditorium
James W. Clarke
M.C
D.D
Second Presbyterian Church
St. Louis
Office of Scientific Research and Development
National Defense Research Committee
London
Official Opposes U S Aid to Public Schools
Amos A. Fries, director of the Friends of the Public Schools of America, said federal financial support would create a federal bureaucracy or private education hierarchy. The group advocates local control and local financing as a fixed principle.
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Washington
Amos A. Fries
Friends of the Public Schools of America
Fries
Senate Labor-Public Welfare
Bankruptcy Petition Filed in Bucyrus Court
Sixty eight persons filed in Bucyrus Ohio bankruptcy court alleging Ed Sherk a cattle dealer owed them at least 25965609. They asked federal referee Paul D Roach to stop a 62000 payment to J E Faulkner as a possible preference.
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Canton
Ed Sherk
Bucyrus
Ohio
Paul D. Roach
J. E. Faulkner
Allied Chemical Plans New Plant in Ironton
The Barrett Division of Allied Chemical and Dye Co. announced a $3,000,000 plant expansion in Ironton to become one of the nation’s largest facilities. The site will produce raw materials for plastics oils and various by products, expanding the company’s production lines.
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Ironton
Barrett
Allied Chemical and Dye Co
Weather outlook cooler Friday with warm weekend
The forecast calls for average temperatures about four degrees above normal with mild conditions Wednesday and Thursday. Cooler Friday followed by a warmer Saturday and Sunday. Precipitation around a quarter inch is expected, mainly as scattered showers or thunderstorms Thursday and again Sunday.
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Lower Lakes
WAR Blamed In Sales Halt
Senator Ferguson of Michigan charged the War Assets Administration halted a sale of machine tools valued near 2 billion dollars. He said Curtis Wrights in Cincinnati was halted after lines formed and orders placed just before a Washington call stopped the sale.
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Washington
Senator Ferguson
Mich
War Assets Administration
Senate
Curtis Wrights
Cincinnati
Ferguson
Ex-Paratrooper Charged in Infant's Murder Indictment
Columbus man Thomas Marion Craft, 32, a former paratrooper, was indicted on first degree murder for the death of one year old Stephen M. Killeen. He allegedly forced water from a shower extension hose down the infant's throat.
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Columbus
Thomas Marion Craft
Stephen M. Killeen
Craft
Man and wife hurt in Cincinnati auto crash
Robert Mec Clure, 62, president of Ohio Northern University at Ada, and his wife, 61, were treated at General Hospital after an automobile accident in Cincinnati last night.
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Cincinnati
Robert MecClure
Ohio Northern University
Ada
McClure
General Hospital
State Solons Defer School Action Budget Is Cut Again
Columbus news notes the House Finance Committee trimming the biennial budget by about 18 million in two sessions driving the total toward a half billion. Public schools and state universities await further recommendations while welfare and highway cuts are detailed, with veterans subsidies eliminated. Senate moves to set six year liens statute and House passes juvenile judge bill while upping indigent defense allowances.
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House Finance Committee
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Industrial Relations Department
Department of Public Works
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