Homes for Veterans Bill Seeks Subsidies and Priority Access
A two year program backed by Wyatt aims to produce 2.7 million new homes with 600 million dollars in federal subsidies or premium payments to spur construction of scarce materials. The plan includes veteran housing preference and a one year extension of material allocation powers, with party line debate expected on ceilings for existing homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyatt
House Banking Committee
Rep
Patman
D-Tex
Truman
Junk Heaps of Highway Blamed for Traffic Toll
Cleveland traffic chief Martin A. Blecke estimates nearly half of the citys 250000 cars are unsafe junk heaps. He calls for immediate action to remove defective vehicles and urges compulsory vehicle inspections, noting 17 of 21 annual fatalities were pedestrians.
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Cleveland
Martin A. Blecke
Blecke
Blecke Strongl
Cincinnati
Truman Blamed for All Strike Confusion in Speech
Senator Raymond E Willis accuses the Truman administration of failing to resolve strikes, saying prolonged mediation and fact finding without a clear program have worsened dissension. He spoke during the Lincoln Day address before Summit County Republican Club in Akron.
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AKRON
Raymond E Willis
Ind
Summit County
Republican Club
Miners vote to shorten work week to five days
AFL United Mine Workers from 23 Western Pennsylvania locals disclosed today they adopted a recommendation to cut the work week from six to five days while keeping the same pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
Pi —Afl United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Bricker Seeks Faith Over United Nations for Peace
Former Gov John W Bricker told Lancaster Rotary Club everlasting peace rests in hearts and spirits not the United Nations. He argued wartorn nations seek U S aid but not U S leadership to build a lasting peace and spoke as a Republican Senate candidate. Paul B Sears of Bucyrus named to the State Conservation Commission. Wilberforce University marks Founders Day with a birthday Feb 24.
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Bricker
America
Lancaster
John W. Bricker
United Nations Organization
United States
Lancaster Rotary Club
Sears
Columbus
Paul B. Sears
Bucyrus
Oberlin College
State Conservation Commission
Medical educator warns long service harms new doctors
Dr Perrin H Long of Johns Hopkins told the 42nd annual congress of medical education and licensure that high American medical standards could be compromised if young physicians stay in the army and navy too long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Army
Navy
Perrin H. Long
Department of Preventive Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Armory to House 200 ONU Students in Ada
The national guard armory at Ada will quarter 200 Ohio Northern University students to relieve a housing shortage, announced Adjutant General Donald F. Pancoast yesterday.
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Columbus
National Guard
Ada
Ohio Northern University
Donald F. Pancoast
State Orders Vinton County Fund Returns
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson reported recovery of 2520 dollars against multiple Vinton County officials for the period March 16 1943 to March 31. Findings include 1029 dollars against H V Atkinson for his in county contract work and materials while serving as county commissioner 1943 34 and over 1381 dollars against Commissioners Elvey C Fri Charles G Harper and H V Atkinson for over appropriation from the dog kennel fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
Vinton
H. V. Atkinson
Ferguson
Atkinson
Republian Tribune Printing Co
MacArthur
Wellston Telegram Printing Office
Wellston
Elvey C. Fri
Charles G. Harper
Dog-Kennel Fund
Pearl Harbor committee poised for findings despite splits
Senator George of Georgia predicts the Pearl Harbor committee will agree on basic findings but likely split on responsibility for the 1941 disaster. He notes nearly three months of hearings yielded a mass of information with no serious controversy. Rep Keefe says a full report will reveal surprising conclusions. Wallace to speak at CIO convention in Cleveland with 400 delegates attending next Tuesday.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Pearl Harbor
Georgia
Frank IB. Keefe
R-Wis
Pontiac, Mich
Wallace
Cleveland
Costly gadget records telephone conversations says Lovett
Eliot C. Lovett, attorney for Sound Scrib er Corporation, urges FCC regulation of telephone recording devices cost ranging from 471.32 to 960 dollars. About 19 000 recorders are in use, including 3 700 by the Army and Navy. He proposes warnings in phone books or a musical alert to notify callers when recording is active.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eliot C. Lovett
Lovets
Lovett
Sound‘Scriber Corporation
The
Communications Commission
Army
Navy
Wage-Price Policy Talks Resume As Truman Consults Aide
President Truman and his economic team reviewed a draft wage-price policy for reconversion in a lengthy White House session. Key figures included Fred Vinson John Snyder Chester Bowles Lewis Schwellenbach and John Collet with discussions focusing on strikes in stanl alantennal manufacturing and other industries. A cooling-off period for labor legislation appeared possible unless Senate committee membership changes accelerate action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
White House
Tary
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
John C. Collet
Senate
Ellender
D-La
Labor Committee
Senate Committee
Truman Signals No Candidacy Change for 1948
Democratic leaders in Washington express confidence President Truman will run in 1948 despite reports he said he would not seek re election. A Sun dispatch cites a White House exchange during routine legislation talks as the source of the claim. The report notes leaders did not deny the incident and saw it as a reiteration of his long held view since succeeding to the presidency.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Mir. Truman
Chicago Sun
Mr. Truman
Thomas F. Reynolds
the Sun
Dispatch
Reynolds
Robert E. Hannegan
Bigs
Cnn
Nnn
Walter Bedell Smith
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Fruman
U.S
Russia
W. Averell Harriman
New Bible Not Modernized to Atomic Period
Yale official Dr. Luther A. Weigle says the 1946 revised standard New Testament keeps translations for accuracy and clarity not the current fashions. He notes no effort to modernize to atomic era language and cites enduring phrases from Tyndale and the King James Bible. A revised Old Testament is promised within four years.
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Columbus
Luther A. Weigle
Yale University
Weigle
Paul
International Council of Religious Education
Tyndale
William Tyndale
South Expects Flood Waters
Widely scattered precipitation and contrasting temperatures affected the nation with the South awaiting new high flood levels. Fair conditions in the South limited river danger in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina where hundreds were already homeless. Light to moderate snow fell in the Dakotas and Minnesota as a mass of cold air moved into the Northern Plains. The Mississippi Valley warmed after yesterday's cold snap.
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Chicago
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
South Carolina
Dakotas
Minnesota
Mississippi Valley
Dayton Plants Back at Work End of GM Strike
About 20,000 United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers members returned to work at four GM plants in Ohio and Michigan after accepting a 41.8 cent hourly wage increase. The vote followed a wage agreement reached in Detroit last Saturday ending a month-long strike begun January 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
General Motors Corporation
Ohio
CIO
United Electrical, Radio and Maiehine
Detroit
Henry Feiring
International Union
Delco Products
Warren
Rochester
Multiple German Leaders Aided by Hitler in Aggression
At the international tribunal German Field Marshal Friedrich Von Paulus argued that Germany had committed numerous crimes of aggression and that Adolf Hitler could not have conceived them alone. A captured Russian witness from Stalingrad also stated it was impossible for one man to have done everything.
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Nernberg
Friedrich von Paulus
International Military Tribunal
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Stalingrad
Army Asks Women To Remain in Service
War Department urged women soldiers to stay in service to address a shortage of skilled personnel in Army hospitals, personnel centers and headquarters. The department also announced provisions for honorably discharged WACs to seek reentry into service.
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Washington
War Department
Venison Dinner Sparks Local School Feasting After Deer Death
In Chardon near Weirshield School a deer was accidentally killed and the game warden gave the carcass to the Ladies Aid Society for student meals. Nearby Cleveland reports note steel shortages causing layoffs at two plants, totaling about 2375 workers. Ohio State University names Prof. Jacob B. Taylor as new business manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Tutt
Weirshield School
Ladies Aid Society
Cleveland
U.S.A. Columbus
Jacob B. Taylor
Ohio
Liquor Control
Ohio State University
Allied Nations To Obtain U S Wheat Supply
Washington reports UNRRA aid recipients and France will receive about half of 225 million bushels of U S wheat planned for export in early 1946 The rest goes to Belgium the Netherlands Norway Cuba Mexico and occupation zones Germany Japan Agriculture officials warn world demand for 18 million tons versus supply of about 11 million tons US plans to ship 6 million tons and , 1.6 billion pounds of meat plus 375 thousand tons fats and vegetable oils in 1946
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UNRRA
France
United States
Belgium
Netherlands
Norway
Cuba
Mexico
Germany
Japan
Agriculture Department
Return of Flappers Is Forecast by Educator
Professor Goodwin B. Watson of Columbia University Teachers College predicted a return of the flapper age and a rise in divorces. He spoke at a young people’s work session during the quadrennial convention of the International Council of Religious Education in Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
IPI
Goodwin B. Watson
Columbia University Teachers College
Watson
International Council of Religious Education
Lancaster Residents Awarded Damages in Collision Case
Six Lancaster residents were awarded a total of 8250 by Common Pleas Judge Myron B. Gessaman in suits against Mildred Kurehe of Columbus and James Mills of Gulfport Mississippi for a July 24 1944 auto collision on Hamilton Road. The plaintiffs alleged Mills drove on the wrong side striking their car head on.
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Columbus
WF — Common Pleas
Myron B. Gessaman
Lancaster
Mildred Kurehe
James Mills
Gulfport
Miss
David Goodwin
Hamilton Road
Mills
Major Eastern City Strikes Halt Transit And Power
Nationwide disruption hits New York Pittsburgh and Philadelphia as tugboat and transit workers strike over wages and hours. New York imposes a curfew and limits public assembly while Pittsburgh loses electric service and streetcar operation. Philadelphia endures a second day of transit stoppage.
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New York City
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
William O’dwyer
New Jersey
AFL
Transit Walkouts Gripping Nation Amid Wage Standoff
Federal conciliators seek settlement as 1.46 million idle workers reflect strikes in transit steel auto sectors. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh face power and wage disputes with union demands for a union shop and 20 percent raises. Governor Martin and Mayor Lawrence urge federal intervention while violence flares in Lancaster during a 7th day of AFL action.
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Philadelphia
Howard F. Colvin
Labor Department
CIO Transport Workers Union
Duquesne Light Company
Fittsburgh
Ant
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
David S. Lawrence
Pittsburg
Truman
Philadelphia Transportatio Company
Lancaster
AFL
Theonestoga Transportation Company
Labo
General Motors
CIO Eletrical
Detroit
CIO
United Auto
Philip Murray
Senate Lake Committee
Washington
Barkley Takes Lead for Loan
Washington news reports Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky will personally command the drive to win Senate approval for a proposed 3.75 billion dollar loan to Britain. Republicans call for loans to be on a business basis and for full study of all allied lending before large commitments. some Democrats express caution until allied needs and Russia and France demands are clarified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Barkley
Senate
Britain
Moore
R-Okla
England
Russia
France
Flashlights Used To Search for Nylons In Hyattsville
Dozens of Hyattsville residents searched with flashlights after a truck train collision scattered nylon hose for miles along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad right of way. No injuries were reported though merchants face losses from the missing stock. In London Australia was expected to make a last ditch stand to keep the United Nations HQ in San Francisco until the agency opens its permanent home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyattsville. Md
Hyattsville
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Favors Frisco
London
Australia
United Nations
San Francisco
Peace Agency
Bender accuses government of keeping the public in the dark
Rep. George H. Bender condemned federal officials for withholding bad news from the public for years. He said State Department War and Navy findings and White House briefings have been kept secret to shield Americans from harsh facts, including Europe’s starving condition. He seeks renomination as congressman at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George H. Bender
Bender
Europe
Fake Cripples Told To Leave Lancaster
Two 17 year old magazine salesmen posed as cripples and were ordered out of Lancaster after a restaurant owner refused them entry for misrepresentation. The youths had sold subscriptions and returned the next day with crutches, claiming sales increased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Metzenbaum to Deliver Vet Bonus Petition Move
State Representative Howard Metzenbaum of Cleveland says he will deliver a large bundle of petitions to Governor Lausche on Thursday requesting a special session to approve a World War II veteran bonus. The governor indicated a specific statement on the session could come within days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Howard Metzenbaum
Cleveland
Frank J. Lausche
Father thanks child welfare board for help in tough case
A grateful father mailed a $1000 check to the county board of child welfare today as thanks for their work in placing his children with his wife after a difficult situation. The board's staff acknowledged the gesture and said they strive to protect children while supporting families.
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Youngstown
Mooning County
Wsfare
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