Congress Sets To Draft Own Europe Plan
Congress moves to draft a distinct Europe recovery program likely smaller than the administration’s 17 billion dollar four year proposal. House Republicans push toward the Herter plan with hearings starting in January and a bi partisan board concept under debate.
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Congress
Europe
Washington
Martin
R-Mass
Herter
Truman
House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eaton
R-Nj
Rep
Nixon
R-Calif
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Bus Drivers in Canton to Present Reduced Wage Demand
AFL Bus Drivers Local in Canton plans a meeting with Canton City Lines to present a cut wage demand to settle the 23 day strike. Max Phillips, union president, will not disclose the new amount though the prior goal was 30 cents per hour. The company remains firm on a 10 cent offer and ratification by members is required. Mayor Klein may end the jitney service after a Saturday night accident injuring three passengers.
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Canton
AFL
Canton City Lines, Inc
Max Phillips
Phillips
Carl F. Klein
Western Union Wage Dispute Heads to Fact-Finding Board
A three-man panel will decide two key wage issues in the ongoing Western Union dispute after AFL unions agreed to submit the 15 cent hourly raise and wage profit study to a fact-finding board. The panel, chosen by Federal Conciliator Cyril C. Ching, will rule on whether the 1947 contract can be opened for October or November wage talks and on the interpretation of the wage profit study clause. The decision will be binding and does not address the basic wage dispute.
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Washington
AFL
Bell Telephone
Cyril C. Ching
Ching
Security Analyst Named Professor at Mount Union College
Golbert R. Stonesifer, former associate security analyst of the New York Banking Department and former head of security research at Brooklyn Trust Co., has been appointed assistant professor of economics and business administration at Mount Union College.
Brig. Gen. M C Eastabrook Dies at 58
Brig Gen M C Eastabrook aged 58 and retired died Sunday. He served in the army and was known for his long career. Local officials reported the death and requested families contact for arrangements.
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Denver
M.C. Eastabrook
First Step in Probing Food-Buying Speculation
Senator Ferguson says publishing traders' names is only the initial move in a broader inquiry into possible links between government food purchases and private speculation. The plan is to examine leaks and follow the trail when Congress reconvenes January 6.
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Washington
Ferguson
Rmich
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
Congress
Michigan
Last of War Dead To Be Returned Home
Thousands of Australians attended memorial services as 1 800 U S soldiers last of America's war dead were loaded aboard the troop ship Groucher Victory for return to the United States.
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Sydney
U. S
America
United States
Taft Plans Western Tour In Race For Nomination
Senator Taft of Ohio heads West on a Republican bid for the nomination with a Minneapolis Lincoln Day address set for February 12 and stops in Omaha and Denver. He aims to build support as Harold Stassen already tours rival grounds while both seek to blunt Dewey’s 1944 momentum and influence.
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Washington
Ohio
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Stassen
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Philadelphia
Congress
Omaha
Denver
Nebraska
Faster Than Sound Flight Reported At Muroc Base
Aviation Week says the Bell XS-1 rocket craft breached the sonic barrier several times over the past month at Muroc Air Base California. Col. S A Gilkie declined to confirm or deny. Secretary Forrestal forbids disclosure of progress in high speed flight. Capt. Charles Yaeger and pilots Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover reportedly achieved the fast flights.
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Washington
Aviation Week
Muroc Air Base
Calif
Charles Yaeger
Yaeger
Howard Lilly
Herbert Hoover
National Association of Aeronautics
Simon Lazarus Dies at 65 in Columbus Store Empire
Simon Lazarus, 65, president of F. and R. Lazarus, died yesterday. He led the Columbus store from 200 to over 3,000 employees after taking over in 1917. He helped expand Federated Stores with holdings in New York, Cincinnati, and Houston. Burial is at Greenlawn Cemetery after services at Temple Israel with Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman officiating.
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Columbus
Simon Lazarus
R. Lazarus
Lazarus
Fred Lazarus
John Shillito
Cincinnati
Federated Stores
Hellinger Dies In Hollywood
Mark Hellinger, famed Broadway chronicler turned film producer, died at 44 of a heart attack in Hollywood. He completed The Naked City just before his death and left a weekly King Syndicate column and war reporting credits. Funeral services set for 11 a.m. Wednesday.
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Hollywood
Mark Hellinger
Broadway
New York
Hellinger
King Syndicate
International News Service
South Pacific
India
Gladys Glad
Mark
Gladys
Arab-Jewish Clashes Break Out at Yazur
Reliable private sources said large scale fighting began this morning at Yazur on the Jer vis Tel Aviv highway. Jewish forces, likely Hagana units, attacked Arab bands in reprisal for recent Arab attacks on Jewish truck convoys as the death toll in the Holy Land nears 300 after UN partition.
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Jerusalem
Yazur
United Nations
Holy Land
Hagana
Tel Aviv
Christmas Tree Search Fatal for 3 Year Old in Frederick
Frederick police report three children wandered from their parents to search for a Christmas tree in the woods. Three year old Jerry Leon Crouse was struck by a car on Route 40 after wandering onto the road during the excursion.
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Frederick
Jerry Leon Crouse
Jerry
Elks Purchase Egan Building in Wilmington
The Wilmington Elks have bought the Egan Building, a brick structure they have rented second and third floor rooms in since 1909, from Mrs. J J Arnold Dayton.
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Wilmington
Wilmington Elks
Egan
Lodge
J. J. Arnold
Dayton
Winter Begins Despite Mild National Weather
The first day of winter felt mild across most of the nation with wintry conditions limited to the Canadian border where temperatures sat between zero and ten above. Rain fell in the Southeast and Pacific Northwest while Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin and Northern Illinois faced forecasts of rain turning to snow and a drop in temperatures tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Canadian
Pacific Northwest
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Illinois
British Labor Launches Campaign Against Communists
Britain’s ruling Labour Party opens a campaign to root out Communist infiltration in the party and unions. Morgan Phillips warns of sabotage from Communists while the Daily Worker accuses US and AFL involvement in a plot to split unions France Italy and Britain.
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Italy
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American Federation of Labor
Phillips
Paris
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Truman
Congress
Marshall
Moscow
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Germany
Goering
Hitler
Hjalmar) Schacht
Europe
Schacht
Chennault Weds Anna Chan in Quiet China Ceremony
General Claire L. Chennault, 57, secretly marries 24 year old Anna Chan a Chinese Central News Agency reporter in a Lutheran ceremony at his Shanghai home. The couple's intimate wedding followed by a duck dinner. Chennault plans to skip a honeymoon.
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Shanghai
Claire L. Chennault
Flying Tigers
Air Transport Service
Anna Chan
Chennault
Holly Heath
Joe
Ralph Mortensen
China Bible House
Chinese Central
Sohngen Announces Run for Ohio Supreme Court Seat
Judge Robert M. Sohngen of Hamilton and current Ohio Supreme Court member announces candidacy for a full term starting January 2 1949 subject to the May 4 Democratic primary. He was appointed January 4 by Governor Lausche and previously led the liquor control department and is endorsed by Butler County Democratic organization and the Butler County Bar Association.
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Hamilton
Robert M. Sohngen
Ohio Supreme Court
Sohngen
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio Department of Liquor Control
Butler County Democratic
Girl Changes Mind In Marriage Replevin Case
Max Sanders, 48, asked Cleveland Common Pleas Court to return his refrigerator and radio from Miss Katherine Kolar, 40, saying she changed her mind about marrying him and he had given the items on condition of marriage.
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Cleveland
Max Sanders
Common Pleas Court Today
Katherine Kolar
Federal Scholarships For Non Veterans Urged
President Truman's Commission on Higher Education urged federal scholarships to cover college expenses for more than 300 000 needy non veterans. The United States and Burma formalized a 3 000 000 fifteen year arrangement to exchange students and specialists.
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Washington
Truman
Commission On Higher Education
The
United States
Burma
Crop Insurance Program Reports First Year of Profit
G F Geissler, head of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, told Rep Stockman that 1947 operations likely show a profit of 15 to 18 million dollars. Premiums are expected to exceed losses in four of five commodities including wheat flax cotton and tobacco, while corn may be in the red due to a poor season. Final estimates pending.
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Washington
Congress
G. F. Geissler
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Rep. Stockman
R-Ore
Geissler
Stockman
Packing Plant Fire Causes $100,000 Loss in Chillicothe
Charles Hunn, owner of the Charles Hunn Packing Co., said the fire that wiped out his Chillicothe plant caused about $100,000 in damage, including $35,000 worth of meat.
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Chillicothe
Charles Hunn
Italian Food Strike Threat Is Averted
The Italian Labor Ministry said 300000 food workers who staged a nationwide strike 48 hours ago agreed to return to work at midnight on promises of wage increases and severance pay. The move eased Christmastide shortages and relieved pressure on Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government amid leftist strikes.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Four Army Vessels Return 6000 GIs and Civilians
The Army transport General John Pope arrives today as the first of four ships bringing over 6000 military and civilian personnel back to the United States before Christmas. The General H. F. Hodges follows tomorrow with 1861 aboard and from Manila and Yokohama. On Christmas Eve the General H. B. Freeman is due from Korea and Okinawa.
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San Francisco
John Pope
United States
Manila
Yokohama
H. F. Hodges
H. B. Freeman
Korea
Okinawa
Oregon Congressman Refutes Flying Saucer Link to Russian Rocket
Rep Ellsworth of Oregon revived claims that last summer’s flying saucer wave stemmed from Soviet rocket tests. He cites reports of a high velocity missile from Russian scientists with explosions at intervals driving speed and range, noting metal discs ejected as cartridges.
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Washington
Ellsworth
R-Ore
Oregon
Nine Killed In Accidents Over Weekend
Over the pre Christmas weekend nine people died in crashes across Ohio and nearby states. Four men in a Cleveland area auto bus collision near Akron were killed or fatally injured. the bus driver and five Cleveland passengers were hospitalized. Other victims include a Tennessee incident and a University of Cincinnati student killed in Oil City Pennsylvania.
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Ohio
Ohio legislature returns for tax bill final action
Presiding officers of the Ohio legislature return to Columbus for a skeleton session to finalize repealing the one cent liquid fuel tax and raising the gasoline tax from three to four cents. The measures await signatures from Gov. Thomas J. Herbert by December 31 to prevent tax collection confusion under a constitutional amendment directing all gasoline and vehicle license revenues to highways.
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Columbus
Ohio
Assembly
Thomas J. Herbert
Burley Belt Tobacco Auctions End Amid Holiday Break
Louisville Kentucky reports Burley tobacco auctions end after three weeks with a state price average of 49.99 per hundredweight on 199.5 million pounds. Growers earned 99.7 million dollars, week ending December 19 saw 61.8 million pounds sold at 50.49 per hundredweight, returning 31.2 million to farmers.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Burley Belt
State Department of Agriculture
Student Patrolmen Injured in Icy Delaware Road
Seven of fourteen student state highway patrolmen were injured when motorcycles skidded on an icy spot half a mile west of Delaware Ohio. Alpha Winnette, 24, Worthington, suffered rib fractures and a leg injury. Other riders Gordon Guilfoyer 30 St Joseph William MelIntire 24 Toledo John Booth Jr 24 Jackson William Lock 22 Johnstown Robert Fisher 24 Youngstown Earnest Collins 26 Willoughby were cut and bruised.
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Here
Alpha Winnette
Worthington
Gordon Guilfoyer
St. Joseph
William MelIntire
Toledo
John Booth, Jr
Jackson
William Lock
Johnstown
Robert Fisher
Youngstown
Earnest Collins
Willoughby
23 German Officers Sentenced to Death
KraKow Poland Supreme National Tribunal sentenced 23 SS officers to death for crimes against humanity tied to Auschwitz. Five others got life, six 15 years, two 10 years, three five years. Dr Jans Munch of Munich acquitted. Arthur Liebhenschel led the death list after Rudolf Hoess’s execution.
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Poland
Supreme National Tribunal Today
S.S
Auschwitz
Oswiecim
Jans Munch
Munich
Arthur Liebhenschel
Rudolf Hoess
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