Britain Ends Palestine Mandate May Fifteenth
Britain plans to surrender its Palestine mandate May 15 and transfer power to Arab and Jewish states by June 1 after a two week transition. Arab and Jewish civic guards to police key areas as British troops withdraw from Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, and Ramat Gan with final evacuation by August 1. Renewed fighting flares as Jews and Arabs mobilize ahead of partition, with casualties reported near Tel Aviv, Jaffa and Jerusalem.
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London
Britain
United Nations
Palestine
Holy Land
Haifa
Tel Aviv
Petah Tiqva
Ramat Gan
Trans-Jordan
Arab Legion
Arab Palestine
United Nations Commission of Five Nations
Jerusalem
Jaffa
Cairo
Arab League
Middle East
Middle Eastern
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Hagana
Petah Tiqvah
Grand Jurors Open White Slavery Hearings in Ohio
In Cincinnati a fed eral grand jury began hearing testimony on an alleged white slave ring centered in Ironton Ohio. The probe followed an FBI raid November 22 that arrested 43 people in Ironton and later arrests in Ohio and other states raised custody to 61. Sixteen faced Mann Act charges. 45 remained as material witnesses.
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Cincinnati
Ironton
Ohio
FBI
Military bans 90 civilians from secret projects in past year
The armed services barred about 90 civilians from secret contracts as bad security risks, joining prior dismissals for disloyalty or dubious loyalty. Since 1942, roughly 55 Army or Air Force civilians have been fired. The policy covers all classified contracts including atomic energy and weapons, with screening expanded to uniformed personnel.
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Washington
Congress
Eniwetok Atoll
Pacific
Army Department
Army
Communist Party
Cold Wave Spreads East Across Midwest
The fast moving cold wave from Canada overspread the midwest with temperatures dropping to 0 to 5 below in northwestern Wisconsin and Iowa and as low as 15 below in northwestern Minnesota. Snow flurries were forecast for the Great Lakes region with near zero to slightly above zero readings tonight.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Chicago Weather Bureau
Canada
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Great Lakes
Friendship Train Food Is Shipped to Europe
Eight million pounds of Food collected on the Friendship Train were en route to France aboard the U S Lines freighter American Leader with Le Havre arrival set about a week before Christmas A pier ceremony marked the voyage the first Friendship Train shipment for the hungry Also in town police identified the body of 67 year old Florence Smith found on the west shore of Meander Lake as the missing woman since Sept 3.
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New York
France
U. S. Lines
le Havre
Youngstown
Meander Lake
Florence Smith
Family Tragedy Follows Plymouth Fire Killing Six
A Christmas bonus story ends in disaster as Warnie Rice and five of his children die in a second story Greenwich apartment fire. Joe and Dewey die later in hospital. Ratliff escapes with minor burns. stove overload and possible coal gas explosion blamed. Coroner classifies deaths as accidental.
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Mansfield
Warnie Rice
Plymouth
Ohio
Rice
Greenwich
Stella
Donald
Martha
Robert
Roy
Joe
Willard
Dewey
Evert Ratliff
Ratliff
Evert
H. S. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Jan D. Bradish
Huron County
Unusual Death Probed Of State Official’s Infant Son
Columbus authorities investigate the unusual death of the 16 day old son of Lawrence Hackenberg vice chairman of the State Pardon and Parole Commission and former secretary to Gov. Herbert. The infant died after reportedly being injured early Sunday as parents slept nearby. Coroner autopsy pending verdict.
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Columbus
Lawrence H. Hackenberg
State Pardon and Parole Commission
Thomas J. Herbert
Ralph J. Paul
Paul
Hackenberg
Lawrence, Jr
University Hospital
Mitchell A. Spyker
Hackenbergs
Overwhelming Passage Seen For Aid Bill
In Washington the emergency foreign aid bill neared votes in the House with a Republican rules chairman predicting fewer than 75 votes against it. The measure would provide 590 million dollars in aid to France, Italy, Austria and China, with amendments to adjust totals or restrictions.
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Washington
House
Leo Allen
R-Ill
Rules Committee
France
Italy
Austria
China
Rail Fare Hike Approved for Western Lines
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized a 6.06 percent rise in first class fares on western railroads and a 15 percent coach fare increase for the New Haven Railroad. The western sleeping and parlor car rates align with the eastern first class level set last June. New Haven coach fare rises to 2.875 cents per mile from 2.5 cents.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York, New Haven
Hartford
Mississippi River
New Haven
Campaign targets GI Bill bartender training in Baltimore
The Anti Saloon League of America challenged the GI educational benefits used to train bartenders. Superintendent George W. Crabbe said at Harlem Park Methodist Church that liquor forces have read into the GI Bill their right to train bartenders at the federal government's expense.
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Baltimore
Anti- Saloon League of America
George W. Crabbe
Crabbe
Harlem Park Methodist Church
UC President to Speak at OSU Graduation Ceremony
The Ohio State University will confer degrees on 770 seniors at the autumn commencement on December 19. Dr. Raymond Walters president of the University of Cincinnati will deliver the principal address.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Raymond Walters
University of Cincinnati
Injured Man Dies After Night in Wrecked Car Near Conesville
Merrell McClain 44 of New Philadelphia lay injured in his wrecked automobile near Conesville most of Friday night and died Saturday in a hospital in Coshocton Ohio.
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Coshocton
Merrell McClain
New Philadelphia
Conesville
U S Medical Care Inadequate Says Ohio DAV
Disabled American Veterans of Ohio accuse the federal government of denying adequate medical care to disabled veterans for economy. The resolution cites VA hospital overcrowding in Dayton and Cincinnati, private hospital refusals, and pending claims halting medical aid without funds for relief.
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Columbus
Disabled American Veterans of
Ohio
Truman
Congress
Ohio Dav
Albert L. Croy
Europe
Veterans Administration
Dayton
Cincinnati
America
Tito and Dennyes Sign Treaty of Friendship
Yugoslav Premier Tito and Hungarian Premier La gos Dennyes signed a treaty of friendship and mutual military assistance in Budapest. Officials applauded as they affixed their names on the red leather-bound copy in the Hungarian parliament council chamber.
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Budapest
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Lagos Dennyes
Hungary
Canton Talks Resume in Bus Strike Effort
Canton officials planned to resume negotiations with a federal labor conciliator to end a 10 day transportation tie up. Mayor Carl F. Klein said city council adjourned after disputants failed to agree on a fare hike proposed by Canton City Lines Inc.
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Canton, CO
Carl F. Klein
Canton City Lines, Inc
Truman Ends Vacation and Heads to Washington
President Truman ends a five day Florida vacation and departs at 10 30 a m for Washington aboard his official plane to deliver a message to Congress outlining plans for long range European recovery.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Florida
Washington
Congress
Four Wounded In Gun Battle In Wooster Ohio
Four men were wounded in a gun battle following an attempted robbery of the William Annat Co department store in Wooster Ohio. Police say Sgt Glenn Aukerman was hit in the groin and Patrolman Herbert Mullen suffered a fractured arm and thigh wound. Gunmen Walter Splitt and his brother Herbert Splitt were wounded. Walter was shot twice in the chest and once in the thigh and Herbert in the chest.
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Herbert
Akron Youths Shaken in Bus Collision
Thirty Akron youths were shaken but unharmed when a Akron YMCA bus was struck by a Rapid Transit street car at Shaker Square. The group had come to Cleveland for a twilight concert by the Cleveland Orchestra.
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Cleveland
Akron
Shaker Square
Akron Ymca
Cleveland Orchestra
Unknown thief strikes same victim third time
In Cleveland, for the third time in two months, a thief took Arthur Freeman’s pants from his bedpost while he slept. The intruder also swiped his wallet containing $64 and left the trousers in a hall outside the apartment door.
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Cleveland
Arthur Freeman
Railway Manager J. R. Hitchcock Dies at 74
Los Angeles reports the death of J. R. Hitchcock aged 74 a former general manager of the Santa Fe railway coast lines He died yesterday leaving a legacy in railway administration and coastal operations.
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Los Angeles
J. R. Hitchcock
Santa Fe Railway
Coast Lines
Paris Strike Fails as CGT Faces Setback in Transit
Paris CGT lead strike collapses as subway and bus workers call off the two day action. Government workers warning strike also falters with offices functioning normally. Police report nearly 1000 arrests in sabotage sweep and a Lyon Paris Express derailment with no injuries. Labor minister says an end to stoppages may be in sight as many return to work.
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PARIS
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Mairie D’ivry
Interior Ministry
Vaise
Daniel Mayer
Connally urges ratification of Inter-American Defense Treaty
Senator Connally argues for Senate ratification of the Rio conference derived treaty. He says it guarantees Western Hemisphere security against external aggression and aligns with Monroe Doctrine principles to protect liberty and constitutional government in American states. He calls it a clear challenge to foreign influence in the region.
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Washington
Connally
D-Tex
Rio de Janeiro
Foreign Relations Committee
Hemisphere
World Rule Is Reds' Aim says Bullitt in Columbus lecture
Former U S ambassador William C Bullitt told a College of St Mary of the Springs audience that the Soviet Union plans to conquer the world for communism The remarks came as Rep Donald L Jackson and Rep Pete Jarman outlined similar anti Soviet views during a town meeting broadcast They urged a hard line to prevent foreign domination and warned against peace negotiations with Russia on Pearl Harbor's sixth anniversary
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Columbus
William C. Bullitt
U. S
Russia
College of St. Mary of the Springs
Donald L. Jackson
Calif
Pete Jarman
Ala
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Jackson
Pearl Harbor
Jarman
Soviet Union
Miss Hush Winner Faces Tax Bill in Fort Worth
Mrs Ruth Annette Subbie of Fort Worth inventories a $20,000 prize harvest from the Miss Hush radio contest and faces a possible $5,000 income tax bill. She won by naming Miss Hush as dancer Martha Graham after a call to Ralph Edwards.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Ruth Annette Subbie
Subbie
Marion Man To Head Schools at Springfield
Springfield appoints E. E. Holt of Marion as new superintendent succeeding Homer S. Stephens who resigned after 11 years. Holt, a Wilmington College graduate with a master’s from Miami University, will start after Marion names a replacement.
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Springfield
E. E. Holt
Marion
Homer S. Stephens
Board of Education
Holt
Wilmington College
Miami University
Pirates land Dixie Walker Gregg and Lombardi in three-player deal
Branch Rickey announced that Dixie Walker, outfielder, and pitchers Hal Gregg and Victor Lombardi were traded from Brooklyn to the Pittsburgh Pirates for shortstop William Cox and two additional players. The deal reshapes the Pirates and Dodgers rosters.
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Brooklyn
Dixie Walker
Victor Lombardi
Hal Gregg
Pittsburgh Pirates
William Cox
Branch Rickey
Federal Duties Go to State
Columbus Ohio and the Ohio State Employment Service prepared to recruit farm labor for Ohio farms as the U S Department of Agriculture expands its labor supply program Directors W F Lunsford said the service is ready to assist farmers and processors throughout the state to meet their labor requirements Staff have conferred with farm leaders producers and processors to determine needs Interstate cooperation is planned with exchange of labor supply information and of surplus farm labor
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Columbus
Ohio State Employment Service
Ohio
U. S. Department of Agriculture
W. F. Lunsford
Lunsford
Body found beneath overturned auto near Somerville
Hamilton reports the body of Frank Rumpler age 55 missing since last Tuesday night while searching for a hunting dog was found beneath his overturned car in a creek at the base of a 20 foot embankment. Deputy Mark Duerr suggests Rumpler removed the keys and climbed onto the running board as the vehicle rolled. Rumpler was superintendent of a machinery manufacturing firm.
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Hamilton
Frank Rumpler
Somerville
Ohio
Mark Duerr
Rumpler
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler Funeral Plans Set
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler died yesterday at St Luke's Hospital after bronchial pneumonia He was 85 and blind in later years Funeral services will be held at 11 am Tuesday in St Pauls Chapel on Columbia University campus where he served as president for 44 years Butler earned 38 honorary degrees and decorations from 15 nations He helped found Americas first graduate school of journalism and shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams He championed the League of Nations and the World Court.
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New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
St. Paul’s Chapel
Columbia University
St. Luke’s Hospital
Butler
Columbia
Jane Addams
League of Nations
World Court
Ex Con Kill Foreman Then Self at Mushroom Plant
In Lebanon Ohio area a former convict shot and killed Ed Bishop 57 foreman Howard Bryant 38 at the Corwin Fred Mushroom Co plant in South Lebanon and then killed himself with a .38 revolver. Coroner ruled murder death by self-inflicted wound. notes suggested intent to kill Bishop’s wife Irene Bishop 55 who also worked at the plant.
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Lebanon, CO
South Lebanon
Gerald W. Couden
Warren County
Ed Bishop
Ohio
Mason
Howard Bryant
Corwin
Fred Mushroom Co
H. M. Williams
Bishop
Irene Bishop
Round-the-World Flight Grounded at Dayton
Los Angeles pilot George Truman and Washington’s Clifford Evans paused in Dayton after bad weather blocked their progress on the final leg of a light monoplane round-the-world flight. They delayed departure to Teterboro New Jersey until 5 a.m. tomorrow after landing Saturday and visiting Orville Wright yesterday.
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Dayton
George Truman
Los Angeles
Clifford Evans
Washington
Teterboro
N.J
Orville Wright
Home building surge in Warren county up 23 percent
Building activity in Warren during the first 11 months of the year rose 23 percent compared with the same period last year. The report highlights stronger housing starts and increased construction momentum in the region.
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Warren
Legion Starts Ohio UNIT Support Drive
Ohio Legionnaires opened a campaign to back Universal Military Training after National Commander James O Neill urged a petition drive. He warned Pearl Harbor showed gaps in defense and urged rapid legislative action for a 1948 UMT bill with emphasis on Taft as a key opponent.
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Legion
Ohio
Columbus
Ohio Legionnaires
James O’neill
Pearl Harbor
United States
O'Neill
Adjutants
Congress
O’neill
UMT
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Dennyes
Canton
Bullitt
Miss Hush
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Lombardi
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