Winds Slow Greenland Mercy Ship In Rescue Effort
The carrier Saipan trudges toward Greenland to rescue 13 stranded U S Air Force men as winds surge to 100 mph. Captain Kane repeatedly slow s the ship from 27 to 10 knots while five helicopters and two torpedo bombers ride out the storm. Detained radio antennas and life rafts destabilize communications and safety gear but crews press on with hope of relief before Cape Race.
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U. . Saipan
Greenland
Saipan
Norfolk
Winnipeg
U. S
Bernt Balchen
United States Air Force
Stevenson Field
Joseph L. Kane
Kane
Cape Race
Fire Marshal Is Selected for Lausche Administration
COLUMBUS Harry J Callan of Youngstown will be state fire marshal under Gov elect Frank J Lausche. Callan, 62, served 29 years with the Youngstown fire department eight as chief and led the Ohio Fire Chiefs Association in 1933 and 1934.
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Columbus
Harry J. Callan
Youngstown
Frank J. Lausche
Callan
Lausche
Robert L. Mounton
Commerce
Ohio teachers pay under $2400 sparks convention talk
Ohio public school teachers show 28 percent earn less than 2400 dollars a year in an Ohio Education Association survey released as the union opened its annual convention. The report also says half the state’s teachers earn under 2774 dollars, while the typical salary rose about 3.3 percent to 90 dollars more than last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Education Association
OEA
T. G. O'Keefe
Producer Frederic Ullman Jr. Dies at 45
Beverly Hills report states Frederic Ullman Jr. a 45 year old motion picture producer and former head of Pathe News died Sunday.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Frederic Ullman, Jr
Pathe News
Ohioans Face Prospective Winter Gas Shortage
The Associated Press reports a 25 percent industrial gas curtailment by East Ohio Gas Co to shield homes in Northeastern Ohio including Cleveland Canton Youngstown Akron and Massillon amid record cold. Ohio Fuel Gas Co pledged no immediate cuts. temperatures ranged from six to 16 degrees. The Arctic chill may ease later today per the weather bureau.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Columbus
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Cincinnati
Millport
Columbiana County
Toledo
Weather Bureau
China Peace Hopes Fade Amid War Criminal Broadcast
Communist radio lists war criminals to be punished by a people’s court led by Chiang Kai-Shek Madame Chiang Sun Fo and other top leaders. The piece notes possible gains in the Nanking Shanghai area with troop movements along the Wuhu River and ongoing fighting near Kaoyu.
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Nanking
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Madame Chiang
Sun Fo
Nanking- Shanghai
Wuhu River
Wuhu-Hweichow
Kaoyu
Indonesian Leaders Moved to Mountains
The Dutch government announced the Indonesian republic leaders captured December 19 are being moved to mountain hotels in Java. This action signals Dutch defiance of the UN Security Council which had ordered their release last Friday.
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Hague
United Nations Security Council
Thieves Pierce Vault of Columbus Drug Firm
Thieves bored through a concrete vault at Mutual Drug Co in Columbus and stole drugs worth several hundred dollars. Police reported the value at about 45 a grain on illicit markets. Four doors were breached to reach the vault.
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Columbus
Mutual Drug Co
Council Urges Truman Call Labor Session
The Council of Economic Advisers urged President Truman to convene a new labor management conference. It endorsed collective bargaining with a fair wage standard tied to price structures as a potential path to labor peace and stability, noting the first postwar conference yielded few results.
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Washington
Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
Hungary Arrests Catholic Primate Mindszenty
Budapest reports Cardinal Mindszenty, Catholic primate, was arrested this morning on charges of espionage treason and black market currency dealings. Vatican sources say they had not heard of the arrest but noted it would not be surprising amid Hungary’s crackdown on the church.
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Budapest
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Ministry of Interior
Vatican City
Scott Seen Remaining GOP National Chairman
Washington report says Rep. Hugh D. Scott Jr may keep his post as Republican national chairman as efforts to unseat him stall amid multiple prospective opponents and the GOP’s election loss. The push to replace him appears bogged down in internal infighting and uncertainty.
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Washington
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
GOP
Scott
Carbon Monoxide Believed Cause Of Yule Deaths in Mountain Cabin
In Big Bear California a family of five died during Christmas in a rented mountain cabin. Dr Jerome G Schnedorf 35 his son Tommy 3 daughter Judy 8 and his mother 64 were found dead among decorations while the wife and surviving child were hospitalized. Authorities consider carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas heater a leading theory though official cause pending chemical analysis.
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Big Bear
Calif
Santa Claus
Jerome G. Schnedorf
Dr. Schnedorf
Santa Barabara
Tommy
Judy
Josephine Schnedorf
River Forest
Ill
Mary Margaret Schnedorf
Jerry
Tom
Big Bear Lake
C. S. Small
Kendall Stone
San Bernardino County
Anti-German Arms Plan Accord Seen
Berlin reports state the United States France and Britain reached substantial agreement on a military security board to ensure Germany remains disarmed after Western occupation powers wind down. Gen. Lucius D. Clay said the board would take over duties and may include military inspection police to enforce disarmament.
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Berlin
United States
France
Britain
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Clay
Military Security Board
Truman Back at Work On State of the Union Message
President Truman resumed work on his state of the union message to Congress. Secretaries Ross and Connelly reopened temporary White House headquarters in the Hotel Muelebach at Kansas City after the Christmas weekend. The message will be finalized after his return to Washington on Wednesday.
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Independence
Truman
Congress
Charles G. Ross
Matthew J. Connelly
White House
Muelebach
Kansas City
Mr. Truman
Washington
Plane Circles Airport as Nose Wheel Jams
Instructor pilot Mervyn G. Wenzel circled near Cleveland airport for two hours and 20 minutes to shake loose a jammed nose wheel of the tricycle landing gear. His student and a passenger crowded toward the tail to keep the nose up while the main wheels touched the runway.
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Cleveland
Mervyn G. Wenzel
Arraignment Scheduled In Portsmouth Shooting
Abram Wesley Hall, 41, will be arraigned in municipal court today for the fatal shooting of William Ellis, 25, in Portsmouth. Ellis' brother Jackson, 23, was shot in the arm during the argument.
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Portsmouth
Abram Wesley Hall
William Ellis
Ellis
Jackson
Fatal Burns Claim Life of Miss Vanda Burns in Zanesville
Fire from an open grate ignited the night gown of 72 year old Miss Vanda Burns Saturday night. She died of burns in a local hospital.
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Zanesville
Vanda Burns
Ohio Fatal Christmas Weekend Toll Tops National Loss
Ohio reported 23 traffic deaths during the Christmas weekend with a Port Clinton crash killing six family members from Sandusky. National totals reached 377, with 267 traffic fatalities and 110 other deaths from fires and accidents across multiple states.
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Ohio
California
Port Clinton
Curtis
Lydia Armitage
Larry Thompson
Sciotoville
Porstmouth
National Safety Council
New Brunswick
N. J
Barre
Mass
Terre Haute
Ind
Kansas City
Bessemer
Ala
Philadelphia
Falmouth
Maryland
Tennessee
Report on Waste in Government Medical Services
A Hoover task force report criticizes waste and duplication in federal medical services. It cites 44 agencies spending about 1.25 billion dollars this year and 24 million people aided, warning that 1949 VA medical costs will equal all 1948 federal medical outlays.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Herbert Hoover
Veterans Administration
Arrest of six Americans by Soviet forces on German border
German police in Wiesbaden reported six Americans, members of the U S constabulary, were seized by Russian troops on the U S Soviet border near Frankfurt after an exchange of gunfire. No returns had been made.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Wiesbaden
U. S
Red Couriers Sought by Spy Hunters
Congressional spy investigators seek at least two more couriers for Communist espionage rings. The hunt remains unfinished business of the House Un American Activities Committee with Miss Elizabeth Bentley cited as a potential hub.
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Washington
Congressional
Congress
House Un-American Activities Committee
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Israel Egypt Forces Clash in Desert Area
Reported battle in the Negev Desert intensifies as Arab planes drop bombs east of Tel Aviv during Israel’s second night of blackout. Israeli and Egyptian forces clash both in the air and on the ground with no damage reported yet.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Oak Ridge Memphis win 26th annual fire prevention contest
Oak Ridge and Memphis, Tennessee finished first and second in the 26th annual fire prevention week contest. Oak Ridge led by strong safety practices and community participation, with Memphis close behind in a solid performance reflecting regional efforts.
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Oak Ridge
New York
Tennessee
Memphis
Food shipments directed to controlled market by Tokyo orders
Gen Douglas MacArthur ordered all Japanese produced staple foods delivered to the controlled market with exceptions for farmer use. The move aims to regulate supply and prevent shortages during the occupation.
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Food Delivery
Tokyo
Douglas McArthur
Welles Found Unconscious in Maryland Field
Sumner Welles former Under secretary of State was found in a snow flecked Maryland field with fingers and toes frozen in about 15 degrees. He remained in serious condition with possible amputation needed. doctors cited a heart attack probable and linked to recent Duggan death.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Maryland
Welles
Wells
George R. Huffman
Oxon Hill
Arnold Welles
New York
Laurence Duggan
Duggan
State Department
Cordell Hull
Clark
Robert Kerby
Robert
Huffman
Ohio Public Construction Spending Rises Sharply in 1948
Ohio's public construction expenditures jumped 50 percent in the first nine months of 1948 from 1947, led by school and highway work. Federal Works Agency data show contracts totaling 103.961 million, with highways at 47.421 million and schools at 25.384 million, ranking Ohio seventh nationwide overall but fifth in the school and highway sectors.
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Washington
Ohio
Federal Works Agency
Two Million Germans Held by Soviet Royall
Berlin dispatch reports U S. Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall charging that Soviet Russia confines 2,000,000 Germans including women and children in forced labor camps. He says POWs are excluded and intelligence places 13,000,000 people in camps. he cited a New York speech earlier this month.
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Berlin
U. S. Army
Kenneth C. Royall
Russia
New York
Meigs Residents in Athens Wreck Listed
Local residents injured in a Christmas Eve crash between a NYC southbound passenger train and a C and O freight train in Athens were E. A. Asbury the engineer Mrs R L Flynn daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Roush Seventh St Tom Davidson removed to Holzer Hospital Christmas Day and Marvin Williamson son of Mr and Mrs Charles Williamson Pearl St spending the weekend with his parents.
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Middleport
Athens
Nyc
E. A. Asbury
R. L. Flynn
Earl Roush
Seventh St
Tom Davidson
Holzer Hospital
Marvin Williamson
Charles Williamson
Pearl] St
Gas Station Pioneer Dies at 85 in Columbus
Harvey W. Wickliff, 85, hailed by Standard Oil of Ohio as the nation’s first gasoline station operator, died in Columbus on Christmas. He opened his station there in 1913.
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Columbus
Harvey W. Wickliff
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
Wickliff
Strike Begins at Warner & Swasey Tool Plant
The International Association of Machinists began a strike today at Warner & Swasey Co. plant in Cleveland over wage increases.
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Cleveland
The
Veterans Aid Grants 91 776 Loans Totals 532 303 887
Ohio World War II veterans obtained 91 776 home farm and business loans totaling 532 303 887 dollars according to the Veterans Administration.
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Columbus
Ohio
Veterans Administration
Odd Sense of Humor Causes False Alarms in Hamilton
An anonymous caller on South 12th Street triggered a string of false alerts: a non existent car crash, a non existent blaze, and a fall from a window reported to an undertaker. Police, who traced the calls to a man, found no trace of him.
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Hamilton
South 12Th St
Solons Urge New Penalty For Ilse Koch
Seven senators led by Sen. Ferguson urge reproof for Ilse Koch for Buchenwald crimes. The Senate Investigating Committee censured Army officials for reducing her life sentence to four years and urged trial in a U S military court if possible. If not, German courts should hear the case for crimes against German nationals.
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Washington
Tse Koch
Buchenwald
Senate
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
Lie Koch
United States
Germany
Ferguson
Sens
Bricker
R-Ohio
Hoey
D-Nc
Ives
RNY
McClellan
D-Ark
O’connor
D-Md
Thye
R-Minn
Army
Lucius D. Clay
Chillicothe Air Crash Injures 3 Occupants
A plane crashed at Sky Park airport north of Chillicothe injuring three people. Pilot Kenneth Lynn 24 suffered head cuts and possible rib injuries while Ralph Wingo 24 and Russell Biney 19 sustained lesser hurts. Lynn was hospitalized after the crash that sent the aircraft into trees and nosed over during approach.
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Chillicothe
Sky Park
Here
Kenneth Lynn
Ralph Wingo
Russell Biney
Lynn
Chillicothe Hospital
Men Sought In Slaying In Bristol Conn
Bristol police search for two men in the assault slaying of Mrs. Lillian Rich Brackett 42 of Plainville. Chief Crowley says warrants are out for Joseph Therrien 22 and George St James 18 both boarders at Mrs Lombardi's home.
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Bristol
Conn
Lillian Rich Brackett
Plainville
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Sheltering Arms Hospital
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