Taft Bricker Arizona? January Nomination Showdown
Ohio Republican hopefuls Senator Robert Taft and Senator John W. Bricker plan a January decision on who will seek favorite son support. Both moved to avoid undercutting the other, aiming to unite for the 1948 GOP convention while Dewey and Stassen influence potential moves.
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Washington
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
John W. Bricker
Taft
Bricker
Thomas E. Dewey
York
Arold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Bicker
Senate
Columbus
Lect
Senator Hill
Ala
Hill
Ince
Dissolution Fight Over Cliffs Corp Varies Value of Subsidiaries
Management aims to dissolve Cliffs Corp and distribute assets to stockholders as a dispute with Robert R. Young over the valuation of the subsidiary is heard. The case involves 408,296 Cliffs common shares and about 37 million dollars in steel stocks including stakes in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Inland Steel Republic Steel and Wheeling Steel.
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Cleveland
Cliffs Corp
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co
William G. Mather
Edward B. Greene
Robert R. Young
Alleghany Corp
Death of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr in Fifth Avenue hotel
New York report says Mrs Je me Preston 48 a former big game hunter and grandniece to Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr jumped to death from a fifth floor apartment in a Fifth Avenue hotel. Detectives noted ill health in the deceased and a companion Miss Lillian Iner provided details. Her son Ethan Allen served and was killed on D-Day with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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New York
Jeme Preston
Africa
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr
Fifth Ave
Preston
Alice Wynne
Erskine Arwynne
Lillian Iner
Flying Santa Claus Plans Second Trip
Rockland Me Captain ill Wincapaw 61 who pioneered Flying Santa Claus runs to New England lighthouses in 1927 is ready to continue where his son Bill 29 left off yesterday. Bill combined the craft and leg with a flight to Nova Scotia after lobsters yesterday and successfully bombed 14 light cases with Christmas packages despite rough weather. One package went into sea.
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Rockland
Ill Wincapaw
Santa Claus
England
Young Bill
Novatia
Christmas Memory of Simple Stockings on the Farm
SAM SIMMONS recalls childhood Christmas on the farm with hanging stockings for Santa Claus. Simple gifts like firecrackers candy and sugar drops brought joy, while a Christmas dinner remained the big yearly event for a well provisioned family.
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Santa Claus
Santa
No Paper Christmas Edition of the Messenger
The Messenger will not publish on Christmas Day so all employees and carriers may enjoy the holiday.
Japs Push Relief Plans After Quake and Tsunami
Tokyo reports the Japanese government will allocate 1 billion yen for relief and rehabilitation in quake and tsunami hit areas. Governors of the 10 hardest hit prefectures plan to meet in Osaka with ministers from home welfare commerce industry agriculture and communications. The quake altered topography near Muroto Point in Shikoku and Kochi with slight surface changes observed.
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Tokyo
Kyodo
Osaka
Commerce
Muroto Point
Shikoku
Kochi
Muroto
Truman to Fly Home for Christmas Radio Address
President Truman will fly to Missouri tomorrow to greet his mother in person after delivering a Christmas greeting. He is scheduled to speak to the nation over major networks at about 5 17 p.m. EST completing a series of White House yuletide ceremonies.
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Washington
Truman
Missouri
White House
Federal Police Seek Axis Agents Across Argentina
Federal police hunted through sparsely settled regions of Argentina to Tierra Del Fuego for 35 accused Axis agents who evaded deportation to Germany as ordered November 15. Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia disclosed that only 17 of 52 agents slated for deportation had actually been captured.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tierra del Fuego
Germany
Juan Bramuglia
Chapultepec
United Nations
Newark Contractor Offers Quad Cad Job
Baltimore veteran Charles L. Henn Jr and his wife awaiting quadruplets received a job and housing offer from Newark contractor C. W. Matthews. Matthews, president of Matthew Building Corp, proposed renting one of 22 new homes and providing a job with the firm.
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Newark, CO
Charles L. Henn, Jr
Baltimore
Newark
C. W. Matthews
Matthew Building Corp
Henn
Axis Sally Released From Army Prison
Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally is released from a U S Army prison in Frankfurt. The 37 year old former Portland Maine resident and two other Americans who broadcast for Germany during World War II were also freed.
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Frankfurt
Mildred Gillars
Germany
Miss Gillars
Portland
Zionists Reject Conference Bid in Basel Meeting
In Basel the World Zionist Congress rejected participation in the London Palestine conference while keeping a door open if Britain repeals the 1936 White Paper limiting Jewish immigration. The body also urged unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine and affirmed the right of Jews to seek refuge there.
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Basel
Switzerland
World Zionist Congress
Holy Land
General Council of
The
Zionist Organization
Palestine
Bethlehem Nativity Day Draws Big Crowds and Calm Peace
Crowds gathered in Bethlehem and Jerusalem as the eve of Christ’s birth marked by a procession from the historic Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. The city showed festivity but Palestine remained a trouble spot amid a calm political scene.
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Bethlehem
Jesus Christ
Jaffa Gate
Jerusalem
Saul
David
Solomon
Herod
Palestine
Pastor Steals Plane To Preach Sermon
Charles Thackwell a 33 year old preacher was held on grand larceny charges after admitting he stole an airplane in Tacoma Navy to hurry to Spokane for a sermon. Sheriff Lester H. Moss said the theft occurred as he sought to reach his destination.
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Okanogan
Wash
Charles Thackwell
Lester H. Moss
Tacoma
Spokane
Nativity in Bethlehem Told by Shepherds and Angels
The story recalls Joseph and Mary traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be taxed, Mary delivering Jesus in a manger, and angels announcing good news to shepherds who visit the child and spread the tale. Mary ponders these events while shepherds glorify God.
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Joseph
Galilee
Nazareth
Judaea
David
Bethlehem
Mary
Christ the Lord
Portals Pay Suits Mount Across Ohio Federal Court
In northern Ohio federal court suits for portal to portal back pay and damages rose to 246.1 million as Barberton’s Columbia Chemical Division of Pittsburgh Plate Glass began paying 400 000 to workers. Union filings cite Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co Standard Oil Cleveland Pipe Machinery and Elwell Parker Electric among others seeking back pay and damages.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Barberton
Akron
Columbia Chemical Division
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Robert L
Standard Oil Co
CIO Oil Workers Union
CIO
United Auto Workers
Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co
International Association of Machinists
Ind
Chase Brass and Copper Co
Pipe Machinery Co
CIO United Electrical Workers Union
Elwell-Parker Electric Co
Radio Gun Fires Pulses Aboard Mount Olympus
Aboard the U S S Mount Olympus a radio gun on the tanker Ganisteo fires broadside pulses at an invisible sky target. The device tests communications by sending radio waves to the ionosphere and reflecting them back towards Earth as experiments travel toward Antarctica.
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Antarctica
Ganisteo
State Board Approves Cheshire Bond Election
The State Board of Tax Appeals approved Cheshire local school district plans for a Feb 25 1947 special election on a $70 000 bond issue to finance building alterations and additions including an auditorium and gymnasium at Cheshire and Kyger Gallia County.
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Columbus
State Board of Tax Appeals
Cheshire
Gallia County
Kyger
Draft Law Violators May Regain Civil Rights Privileges
A three member presidential amnesty board led by former Justice Owen J. Roberts could restore voting rights to 11,000 draft law violators. The panel will review 9,700 men who have completed sentences and 1,300 still jailed.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Brother's Birthday Ends in Fatal Shooting
Coroner reports seven year old Cecil Seeley directed his brother Chester to pose with a 22 caliber rifle. The weapon discharged and Chester Seeley, age 12, was struck in the heart and killed. Sister Florence, 14, witnessed the tragedy on Cecil's birthday in Oating Washington.
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Paul Mellinger
Cecil Seeley
Chester
Florence
Cecil
Boys Industrial School Choir Sets Radio Records
The Boys Industrial School Choir of 33 voices has recorded Christmas tunes to be broadcast on radio stations in 12 Ohio cities, Superintendent Harold Hays announced yesterday.
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Columbus
Boys Industrial School Choir
Ohio
Harold Hays
Probe Calls For Full Inquiry Into Russians Ultimatum
Senator Stewart of Tennessee urged a thorough probe into Russia's verbal ultimatum that forced a U S Navy ship to leave Dairen after a 20 minute warning. He said the State Department and Navy should explain the incident and criticized U S policy toward the Soviet Union, calling for tougher scrutiny.
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Washington
Stewart
D-Tenn
Russia
United States Navy
Dairen
Scripps-Howard
William H. Newton
Combined World Press
Tennessee
State Department
Navy
H. Merrill Benninghoff
Caireen
U. S
China
Manchuria
Tennesseean
Soviet Union
Japan
Clipper Tries Second Start From London For New York
A Pan American Airways clipper carrying 25 brides one bride to be and 25 children of veterans began a second run to New York after storms forced a London departure and a return over Ireland. Passengers hoped to reach Manhattan in time for Christmas as crew remained confident.
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London
Pan- American Airways
G. I
New York
Manhattan
Ireland
Patricia Lewis
Canton
Diane
Eiane
Woman Passes Fake Check as Male Chauffeur in Detroit
Detroit police detained a 21 year old woman identified as Ar dis Rice for presenting an $85 bogus check under the name Harry A. Becker Jr. while posing as a man and working as a radio store chauffeur hired by James A. Moynes. Hugh Kidd, owner of a radio shop, reported the fraud. Moynes said he was amazed by the incident after Kidd complained.
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Detroit
Karl Braun
Ardis Rice
Hugh Kidd
Harry A. Becker, Jr
Miss Rice
James A. Moynes
Moynes
Kidd
VA Reports Checks Mailed for Christmas
The Veterans Administration predicted checks would arrive by Christmas for most Ohio veterans. Deputy administrator Ralph Stone said 91,000 student veterans and 36,551 on GI subsistence pay for apprenticeship jobs had been mailed, leaving about 600 of 127,551 veterans awaiting checks in Columbus.
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Columbus
Ohio
Veterans’ Administration
Ralph Stone
Police Sweep Car of Slain Watchman for Clues
Police searched the abandoned car of Otto Hoffman in connection with the slaying of the 65 year old watchman at Brown Industries. The vehicle, stolen after he was killed with a blunt instrument, was found yesterday behind the old city water works plant after thieves ransacked the plant office.
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Sandusky
Otto Hoffman
Brown Industries, Inc
Old City
Youngstown Job Openings Attract Incoming Workers
Several large companies arranged special bus service to haul workers daily from New Castle Pennsylvania and nearby towns. The Ohio State Employment Service reports hundreds of jobs are available in Youngstown for local and migrant workers.
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Youngstown
New Castle
Ohio State Employment Service Office
Firm's Leader Is Dead
Robert S. Mc Kay aged 78 chairman of Dean and Barry Paint Co. died yesterday in Columbus.
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Columbus
Robert S. McKay
The
Dean & Barry Paint Co
New French Government Takes Over
Paris reports France's Fourth Republic born amid perilous finances and a threatened colonial empire. The Council of the Republic, led by Dr. Jules Glasser, faces crisis as Viet Nam's bid for independence escalates in Indo China. Interim President Leon Blum ordered Maj. Gen. Jacques Leclerc to Saigon to seek peace.
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Paris
France
Indo China
Council of the Republic
Senate
Jules Glasser
Viet-Nam
Leon Blum
Jacques Leclerc
Saigon
Strifetorn
Cambridge Hospital Sale Initiated in Ohio
The War Assets Administration launched a 10 day campaign to sell Fletcher General Hospital in Cambridge Ohio. The facility has been a state mental hospital since last summer and a third priority under WAA rules applies in Ohio.
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Columbus
War Assets Administration
Fletcher General Hospital
Cambridge
Ohio
WAA
Retail Food Prices Reach Recent Record High
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports mid November retail food prices at 187.7 percent of the 1935-39 average, 1.5 percent above the June 1920 peak and 35 percent higher than a year ago, with a 4.3 percent October to November rise.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Butler County Bar asks Lausche to appoint Sohngen LC director
The Butler County Bar Association yesterday asked Gov. Frank J. Lausche to appoint Robert M. Sohngen as director of the department of liquor control.
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Hamilton
Butler County Bar Association
Frank J. Lausche
Robert M. Sohngen
Department of Liquor Control
Pontiff warns of new wars in Europe after world conflict
Pope Pius XII warned during Christmas eve remarks to the College of Cardinals that Europe faces grave danger of new wars if a just and definitive peace is not soon reached. He urged rulers to remove tensions establish true justice and create clear peace procedures to serve the common good.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Europe
College of Cardinals
Gennaro Cardinal
Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte
Blind boy receives seeing eye dog from local drive
Eight year old Johnny Lowe, blind, finally obtains a guide dog after a community fund raising drive. At a YMCA dinner last night he was presented with a certificate noting the dog was purchased for 450 dollars and a bank book showing more than 1 000 dollars raised for the remaining costs.
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Bellevue
Johnny Lowe
Infant Girl Found Abandoned in Cardboard Box
A newborn baby girl about one week old was found abandoned last night in a cardboard soap box. She was wrapped in a blanket and brought to General Hospital weighing eight pounds eight ounces.
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Cincinnati
General Hospital
Sugar exports from Cuba explained by U S Agriculture Dept
Washington reports sugar moving from American refineries to foreign buyers is Cuban crop sugar allocated to Canada Britain France and other short areas. The plan ensures U S refiners gain work while Cuba’s sugar is refined for foreign use. The war time world sugar sharing aims to prevent hogging of supplies.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Cuba
United States
Canada
Great Britain
France
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