Truman Orders Fast Taft-Hartley Board for Coal Dispute
President Truman appoints a three man board to probe the soft coal stalemate with John L. Lewis and to report in a week. If findings trigger an 80 day injunction, 400,000 miners may be ordered back to work as coal stocks run dangerously low nationwide. Major railroads report coal reserves lasting about 14.8 days amid service cuts and confiscations to keep trains running.
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Washington
Truman
John L. Lewis
Taft Hartley
Lewis
McGrath
Lewis’ United Mine Workers Union
Association of American Railroads
New York Central
Cincinnati
Interstate Commerce Commission
Government indicts eight battery retailers in anti trust case
Washington reports eight large battery retailers including Goodyear Goodrich and Firestone of Akron Ohio charged under Sherman anti trust laws for sale and distribution of used storage batteries. The indictment also names four battery manufacturers.
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Washington
Goodyear
Goodrich
Firestone Tire
Akron
Ohio
Four Gunmen Rob College of $16,000
Four gunmen staged a swift library robbery at Morgan State College Baltimore taking $16,000 in registration receipts. They entered with pistols drawn, held 16 people at bay, and fled in three minutes, exiting the library and campus area.
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Baltimore
Morgan State College
Republicans Declare Liberty Over Socialism in 1950 Campaign Line
Washington Republicans frame liberty versus socialism as their key 1950 issue in a policy declaration to counter the Truman administration. They call for a balanced budget, tax-cutting aims, welfare tweaks, and foreign-policy checks while warning against a planned economy. Senator Lodge dissenting, calls it a mixed pledge.
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Washington
Yalta
Potsdam
Alger Hiss
Klaus Fuchs
Senate
House
Party
National Committee
Europe
Humphrey
Dminn
GOP
Guy D. Gabrielson
Republican Party
Lodge
R-Mass
Ohio Moves to Ban Stromboli Film After Privacy Concerns
Education Director Dr Clyde Hissong seeks recall of Ohio approval for Ingrid Bergman film Stromboli over private life issues. Columbus Council urges theater to skip showing. ministers in Clark County oppose films starring scandal-linked actors. Bergman recently became a mother in Rome, while director Roberto Rossellini is cited as the father.
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Columbus
Ingrid Bergman
Hissong
Duffy
Department of
Walter R. Snider
Miss Bergman
Rita Hayworth
Springfield
Ohio
Clark County Ministerial Association
Clark County Council of Churches
California
Rome
Roberto Rossellini
Stromboli
Lorain Journal Enters Sixth Strike-Bound Day
The Lorain Journal, Lorain’s only daily, remains on a sixth strike-bound day with thirteen of its eighteen printers on strike. Office staff executives and news staff assist in printing while unions and management dispute control of four automatic typesetting machines now operated under editorial jurisdiction.
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Lorain
Lorain Journal
Court Clears Way For Union Purge
A federal court rejected a bid to stop the CIO purge and allowed hearings to proceed on ousting 10 unions accused of failing to follow CIO policy. Judge Burnita Matthews ruled the CIO could continue its investigations and hearings to remove unions deemed Communist influenced.
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Washington
CIO
Burnita Matthews
United Office and Professional Workers
Widow of Slain Man Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
Columbus coroner Dr. Robert A. Evans ruled Mrs. Theodore B. White, 55, an apparent death by own action. She was found in bed with a bullet through her heart, the widow of the man slain last June. Two men, Cecil B. Martin and Amos Ryall, await trial in White’s death.
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Columbus
Robert A. Evans
Theodore B. White
Cecil B
Red) Martin
Amos Ryall
White
Extended Forecast for Columbus Passages of Cold and Snow
Temperatures run 2 to 4 degrees below normal with highs around 35 and lows near 20. Expect moderately cold Wednesday, a slight warmup Thursday and Friday, then colder again by weekend. Precipitation totals about a quarter to a half inch with rain or snow Thursday and Friday and light snow flurries Saturday.
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Columbus
Ohio Coal Strike Cuts Industrial Activity Statewide
Ohio's coal strike idles most of 904 mines as Republic Steel halts two blast furnaces in Cleveland and the C and O Railroad lays off workers. Union leaders report widespread idleness with about 14 000 miners staying away. A Taft Hartley board will report next week while some mines in Hocking Valley resume under contracts.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cleveland
Republic Steel Corp
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
R. C. Owens
United Mine Workers District 6
Youngstown
C. and O. Railroad
Walter J. Tuohy
C&o
Tuohy
John L. Lewis
Another Big GI Insurance Dividend Seen
The Veterans Administration plans a large dividend next year for World War II veterans life insurance. A 65 percent payout is slated for the first half of 1951 with the remainder by year end. The $2.8 million current dividend comes from 1940 to 1948 policy surpluses for 20 million policies.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Congress
H. W. Breining
National Service Life Insurance Program
Breining
Mickey Cohen bomb attack prompts neighbor fears
In Los Angeles Mickey Cohen, the gambling boss, suffers stomach illness after his home bombing. Neighbors voice fear and call for safety amid past attacks that killed two men linked to Cohen. Deputy Chief Thad Brown condemns the violence and warns civilians may be harmed. Cohen cites $50,000 in losses and Insurance coverage.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Susan Erhardt
Erhardt
Moreno Ave
Cohen
George Cleveland
Thad Brown
Brown
Harry Rothman
Edward Herbert
Coen
Firemen Injured as $200,000 Blaze Ravages Oakland Block
A fire in Oakland destroyed an old wooden business block early today injuring two firefighters and forcing 15 hotel roomers to flee in their pajamas. The blaze caused about 200000 dollars in damage and prompted emergency response crews to battle the flames through the night.
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Oakland
Calif
Worry Clinic Starts Today By Dr George W Crane
Dr. George W Crane nationally known psychologist begins his daily Worry Clinic column in The Messenger. The series will address daily problems of men women children and youth with insights from his medical and philosophical training. The first installment appears on Page 6.
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George W. Crane
the Messenger
Rising Unemployment Seen in Coal Industry
Pittsburgh report notes coal production fell amid a nationwide soft coal strike. About 372,800 miners across 14 states walk out, threatening rising unemployment in coal-using industries. The strike limits daily coal output to 2,220,000 tons while stockpiles dwindle, with 80,000 anthracite and 30,000 soft coal miners under new contracts. State idle counts include West Virginia 120,000 and Pennsylvania 100,000, among others.
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Pittsburgh
UMW
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Kentucky
Illinois
Virginia
Tennessee
Ohio
Alabama
Utah
Wyoming
Colorado
Indiana
New Mexico
Montana
Education Bill Accord Dim
Washington activists report the House Labor Committee, split over federal education funding, opened closed-door sessions without signs of agreement. The Senate passed a 300 million dollar aid measure, while the House debates whether funds should reach private and parochial schools, with Rep. Stetd casting doubt on any bill this year. Rep. Barden rejects any parochial exclusion compromise.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Stetd
D-Okla
Senate
House
Rep
Barden
U S Opposes Gasco Move To Hike Rates At Hearing
The U S power commission challenges Ohio Fuel Gas Co claiming its wholesale gas rate increase is unfounded. Witnesses say the company already earns a fair return and that its bookkeeping overstates the basis for a higher wholesale rate. The case, heard by Examiner Ewing G. Simpson, aims to finish this week.
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Washington
Power Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Ernest P. Blease
Ohio Fuel
Edward L. Dunn
Ewing G. Simpson
The
Ohio
Blease
37 Mine Operators Reclaim Land In Ohio Program
Thirty seven Ohio strip mine operators reclaimed 1018 acres of spoiled land per the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. Forestry Chairman O. D. Diller cited 184 acres planted to trees, 120 to grasses and legumes, with the rest to miscellaneous crops as part of a state spoil bank reclamation program.
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Wooster
Ohio
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Forestry
O. D. Diller
Flooding Ohio River Receding After Crest
The Ohio River flood crested at 59.1 feet Sunday and was receding at about 0.1 foot per hour, down to 57 feet early today. The Weather Bureau said the river would be back in its banks tomorrow, with flood stage at 52 feet.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
U.S. Weather Bureau
Union Board Sets Feb 24 Date for Deadline in Telephone Strike
Washington AP The ClIO-Communications Workers postponed a nationwide strike slated for tomorrow to 6 am Feb 24 to allow intensified bargaining. Mediation Director Cyrus Ching urged more talks while union President Joseph Beirne said the move aims to avoid a Bell System walkout affecting Western Electric Pacific Southwestern and Mountain States Bell lines.
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Joseph A. Beirne
Cio-Communication Workers of America
Washington
Clio-Communications
Cyrus S. Ching
Ching
Beirne
Belle Telephone
Western Electric
Pacific
Southwestern
Mountain States
Bell Telephone
New Jersey
CIO
Tokyo Rose Bail Hinted By Supreme Court Justice
Justice William O Douglas may sign an order to release Iva Toguri D Aquino on $50,000 bail. She was sentenced for treason over wartime broadcasts and appeals from Alderson Federal Reform where she is detained awaiting action in San Francisco.
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Washington
Tokyo
Rose
Iva Toguri D’aquino
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Douglas
D’aquino
Tucson
Ariz
U. S. District Court
San Francisco
Federal Reformee For Women
Alderson
Auners
Dam Completed at Burr Oak on Sunday Creek
The U S Army Corps of Engineers announces completion of Burr Oak Dam in Glouster Ohio a 2 250 000 project protecting a 32 8 square mile area. The 994 foot earth dam rises 84 feet above the stream bed and will create a 6 6 mile minimum pool and a 10 5 mile long lake covering 1192 acres at full elevation.
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Glouster
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Burr Oak
Sunday Creek
Here
British Law Hinders FBI In Spy Chase
Lawmakers blame slow British legal procedure for hampering the FBI’s pursuit of atomic leaks in the Klaus Fuchs case. J Edgar Hoover reportedly cannot obtain full confession details from Britain. Senator Bricker urges disclosure of the 1943 Quebec agreement to assess foreign scientists’ access to A-bomb work.
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Washington
FBI
Klaus Fuchs
Searle
J. Edgar Hoover
Fuchs
Bricker
Ohio
Congressional Atomic Committee
Quebec
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Canada
United States
U.S
Girl's Body Found Along Tracks in Cincinnati
Police found a mangled decapitated body of a young girl about 17 or 18 along Pennsylvania Railroad tracks in Cincinnati's East End. No identification or belongings were found. Investigators believe she was walking toward the airport road when struck by a train.
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Cincinnati
East End
Uut
Airport Road
Republicans Elect Successor to Thomas
Hackensack New Jersey Republicans chose William B. Widnall a 43 year old state assemblyman to fill the congressional seat left by J Parnell Thomas who resigned after a payroll padding and kickback case. The win marked the first vote of 1950 and widened Republican strength in the House to 170 while Democrats stood at 261.
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Hackensack
N. J
William B. Widnall
J. Parnell Thomas
Thomas
House of Representatives
Farmer Charged in Uncle's Death Sent to Lima Hospital
Herbert C. Lemon a 45 year old farmer was ordered to Lima State Hospital to determine sanity after being charged with second degree murder in the December 23 shooting of his uncle Herbert Utman. Lemon pleads innocent and insanity.
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Hillsboro
Herbert C. Lemon
Lima State Hospital
Herbert Utman
Lemon
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