United States Seeks U N Trusteeship for Pacific Islands
The United States asks the United Nations to designate most of the Marshalls Marianas and Carolines as a strategic area under American administration. The plan faces opposition from Russia Britain Australia and others though a U N trusteeship could apply to all former German islands north of the equator.
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Lake Success
N.Y
United States
Pacific
Trygve Lie
U. N. Security Council
U. S
United Nations
Marshalls
Marianas
Carolines
Council
Russia
Great Britain
Australia
Moscow
London
Canberra
U. S. State Department
Japan
Equator
League of Nations
U. N
Convention Opens as 600 Attend American Orthopsychiatric Meeting
About 600 people expected for a three day American Orthopsychiatric Association convention in Cincinnati. Dr Raymond Walters president of the University of Cincinnati to give the opening address. In a Fresno California scene Otho Stockdale 26 confesses to killing a soldier in 1944. Pvt A B Richie of Hickory NC was sentenced to death later commuted to life by President Truman on plea of Mrs Richie via Independence Missouri mayor.
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Cincinnati
American Orthopsychiatric Association
Raymond Walters
University of Cincinnati
Otho Stockdale
Fresno
Calif
Pvt
A. B. Richie
Hickory
N. C
Truman
Richie
Independence
Nea Telephoto
Civil Air Patrol Chief Killed in Plane Crash
Col. Earle L. Johnson national CAP commander dies in a Cleveland area crash of an Army twin engined transport. Sgt. Kenneth Wood and Marine Pvt. Edward Malovic also perish as the aircraft dives near North Royalton after takeoff en route to Washington. An investigation is to follow.
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Cleveland
Earle L. Johnson
Civil Air Patrol
America
North
Royalton
Kenneth Wood
Williamsport
Edward J. Malovic
Army
Washington
Col. Johnson
Great Barrington
Mass
Ohio State Director of Aeronautics
Ohio
Lake County
U. S. Senate
Carl A. Spaatz
Army Air Forces
CAP
Ohio State University
Buckeye
Cleveland Army Air Base
Pvt
Malovic
One Thousand Lathers Walk Out In New York City
About 1,000 metal lathers from Local 46 AFL began a citywide strike that could halt half of New York construction and, if unresolved, shut down all building work within days. They demand 2.50 per hour for a seven hour day, up from 2.10. Mayor O Dwyer plans a five member citizen committee to seek a settlement.
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NEW York—P
New York City
Local 46
Metal Lathers Union
AFL
William O'Dwyer
Goodyear Unveils Smudge Proof Printing Ink
Goodyear announces a new printing ink that dries under type pressure, making it virtually smudge and offset proof. Dr. L B Sebrell says moisture is driven from the ink the moment the type contacts paper, like water squeezed from a sponge.
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Akron
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
L. B. Sebrell
City Airport Reports Business Hike Profit
Youngstown municipal airport posts the first annual profit in its history. Manager Edwin Turner says expenditures rose by 12000 over 1945, but operations earned 1637 more than costs, boosting the city general fund.
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Youngstown
Edwin Turner
Professor Arthur E. Baggs Dies at 60 at OSU
Professor Arthur E. Baggs head of the ceramic art division at Ohio State University died unexpectedly in University Hospital Saturday. The OSU faculty leader was 60 and revered for his work in fine arts.
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Columbus
Arthur E. Baggs
School of Fine and Applied Arts
Ohio State University
University Hospital
Ferguson, City Bank official, dies at 79
George M. Ferguson 79 longtime vice president and director of City Bank in Lorain is dead. He held leadership roles within the bank and the local business community. Funeral arrangements were not announced in the fragment.
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Elyria
George M. Ferguson
City Bank
Lorrain
Akron Rubber Workers Move Toward Strike Vote
About 40,000 workers at Akron’s three major plants prepare for strike votes this week as wage demands rise. In Cincinnati talks two weeks earlier the Big Four refused a 26 cent hourly boost and sought a 90 day recess.
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Akron
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Cincinnati
Thirteen Die As Ohio Traffic Weekends Toll Rises
Thirteen people killed and at least 34 injured in Ohio traffic accidents over the weekend as statewide snow drenched highways. Incidents spanned Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Canton, Piqua, Marion, and other communities with multiple fatal crashes and weatherrelated hazards.
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Ohio
Columbus
Cincinnati
Greyhound
Montgomery
Toledo
New York Central
State Highway Department
Joshua Naus
William Vargo
Swanton
Cleveland
Eileen H. Reynolds
Rocky River Drive-Berea
Piqua
Margaret Bergman
Ludlow Falls
Dayton
Louis J. Bensman, Jr
Waynesville
Delaware
Milo F. Strawser
Marion
Robert Camm
Plane Wreck Hunters Find Three Bodies
Bogota authorities report three bodies recovered from the 53 victims when a four engine Avianca DC-4 crashed into El Tablazo Cliff northwest of Bogota. The disaster Saturday killed 49 passengers and four crew members, including at least seven Americans, with wreckage strewn over a 1000 foot cliff and ravine below.
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Bogota
Colombia
United States
Avianca Airlines
el Tablazo
Here
Barranquilla
Soviet Hears 'Voice of U.S.'
The United States addressed the Soviet people in their language via Voice of America shortwave radio. The first broadcast claimed full harmony between the federal government and the 48 states and included a 2000 word piece on state rights along with world news and tunes like Turkey in the Straw and Get Along Little Dogies.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
State Department
Voice of America
Ohio Man Injured Three Killed in Wreck Near Rocky Mount
Pvt. Normal Shilock of Warren Ohio was injured in an automobile collision that killed three men 11 miles north of Rocky Mount. The dead were George Lee Wilson of Williamsburg Virginia driver of one car Hezekiah Deal of Whatakers North Carolina driver of the other car and Cpl. William F Courtney of Roanoke Rapids a passenger in Wilsons auto
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Rocky Mount
N. C
Normal Shilock
Warren
Ohio
George Lee Wilson
Williamsburg
Hezekiah Deal
Whatakers
N.C
Cpl
William F. Courtney
Roanoke Rapids
Wilson
Ohio lawmakers press bonuses taxes and education changes
Ohio legislators enter the seventh week of the current session focusing on veterans bonuses taxes education and conservation. House and Senate committees plan hearings on bonus proposals ranging from 300 million to 690 million plus 325 million to 500 million. Additional bills cover gasoline taxes liquid fuel taxes and a bed smoking prohibition. The session outlook hints at a longer run past May.
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Columbus
Ohio
House Military Affairs Committee
Senate
House Taxation Committee
House Judiciary Committee
House Education Group
Senate Education Committee
Daniels-Cramer
Conservation Committee
State Department of Natural Resources
Paul M. Herbert
Crowds greet royal visit in Capetown spectacle
In Capetown 200000 people welcomed King George VI Queen Elizabeth and their daughters after a six thousand mile voyage from England aboard the Vanguard. The royal party exited to government house amid flags and cheers with the queen notably animated in blue and ostrich feather hat.
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South Africa
George VI
Elizabeth
Vanguard
England
Government House
George
taxi driver attack ties to unidentified Black man found dead
In Greenville County a taxi driver T. W. Brown was critically injured by a sharp object and left in a ditch near Liberty after an alleged mob removed a suspect from Pickens jail. The coroner reported the unidentified Black man found on a Greenville highway showed recent sharp-force injuries.
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Greenville
S. C
J. O. Turner
Pickens
Turner
T. W. Brown
Brown
Liberty
Pickens Road
Rail Brotherhood Head Upholds Closed Shop
A. F. Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen says the closed shop protects contracts and limits trouble. He spoke at the Cleveland Community Religious Hour stating wildcat strikes are begun by men outside the union and that union management can safeguard agreements.
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Cleveland
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad
Whitney
Reactionary labeled at Taft by welfare official
Clark Foreman of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare praised Truman and said he never called the president a very clever reactionary. He said he applied the term reactionary to Senator Taft of Ohio when interviewed in Cleveland.
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Washington
Clark Foreman
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Truman
Foreman
Taft
Ohio
Cleveland
Retired Railroader Dies in Huntington
Harry Vance Pomeroy, a retired railroader, died this morning at St. Marys Hospital Huntington West Virginia. He is survived by his wife Rose Beckley Vance of Mulberry Avenue. The body was to be brought to Ewing funeral home where services will be arranged.
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Pomeroy
Harry Vance
St. Mary’s Hospital
Huntington
W. Va
Rose Beckley Vance
Mulberry Ave
Ewing Funeral Home
Duck Hunter Fatally Wounded by Companion
Floyd D. Carter a 29 year old man of Manchester Ohio river area was fatally wounded in a duck hunting accident along the Ohio River. He was struck by a shotgun blast accidentally fired by a hunting companion according to Brown County authorities.
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Georgetown
Ohio River
Floyd D. Carter
Manchester
iBrown County
Break Up Coal Unions Urges Congress Official
Coal industry official Rolla D. Campbell urged Congress to break up United Mine Workers and other big unions. Testifying before the House Labor Committee, Campbell called for banning industry wide bargaining and unions from administering health funds. Rep. Nixon reported miners seek labor legislation and neutral, secret vote oversight to reduce leader retaliation fears.
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Washington
Rolla D. Campbell
Congress
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Campbell
Huntington
W. Va
Island Creek Coal Co
Pold Creek Coal Co
House Labor Committee
Rep. Nixon
R-Calif
Scranton
Sitdown strike targeted by Lansford miners ends
End of a sitdown strike by 13 miners 800 feet underground failed to halt a larger work stoppage by 6,000 anthracite diggers in sympathy. The sitdowners claimed victory over docked pay after nearly three days at Lehigh Navigation Coal Co. Lansford colliery. The general shutdown continued with no union meeting requested to discuss a back to work order.
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Lansford
Lehigh Navigation Coal Co
AFL United Mine Workers
Music Festival Planned for Warren County Schools
More than 1000 selected students from Trumbull County schools will take part in the annual spring music festival in April. Dr. Charles H. Lowry, supervisor of music, reported today.
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Warren, O
Trumbull County
Charles H. Lowry
Charleston Mail refuses Daw son bid for fourth mayor term
The Charleston Mail, long a Republican voice in Charleston and Kanawha County, announces it will not support D. Boone Daws on if nominated for a fourth mayoral term. It cites pique over the city manager plan rejected by voters in 1945 and hints at backing the Democratic candidate in a rigged convention.
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Charleston Mail
Charleston
Kanawha County
D. Boone Dawson
West Virginia
Byrd Plants United Nations Flag at South Pole
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd flew over the pole aboard the U S S Mt Olympus and dropped the United Nations flag. A second craft accompanied the flight but confirmation of both planes crossing the pole was not announced. Byrd sent a message to Admiral Nimitz as temperatures dropped to 40 degrees below zero at 12 000 feet.
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U. S. S. MT. Olympus
Antarctic
Richard E. Byrd
South Pole
United Nations
Little America
Byrd
Chester Nimitz
U. 8
Naval Operations
Toledo Releases Couple To Missouri Officials
Police announce full case details will be provided to Newton County Missouri Sheriff H G Cline when he arrives to take custody of a Toledo couple charged with kidnapping 14 month old Donald Robert Waltman. The child’s mother Mrs Virginia Waltman of Neosho Missouri filed the warrant naming Mr and Mrs Robert Humburger who live near Toledo with kidnaping the child eight months ago.
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Robert Humburger
Toledo
Ohio
Neosho
Donald Robert Waltman
Virginia Waltman
Margaret Slater
H. G. Cline
Newton County
Agreement Fails to End Phone Workers Strike
Representatives of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers and Ohio Bell Telephone Co failed to reach an agreement to end the Youngstown area strike after a 10 hour conciliation session in Cleveland. Federal conciliators announced the session adjourned subject to resumption at the parties’ wish.
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Cleveland
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Youngstown
Marietta Man Named Chamber Manager in Chillicothe
Howard E. Teter of Mead Corp was elected president of the Chillicothe Chamber of Commerce. He announced R. Douglas Pinkerton of Marietta has been hired as chamber manager and will assume duties immediately.
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Chillicothe
Howard E. Teter
The
Mead Corp
Chillicothe Chamber of Commerce
Teter
R. Douglas Pinkerton
Marietta
Chamber
Retired Sailor Frederick Kirkholder Dies in Cleveland
Frederick A. Kirkholder, a former city fireman and sailor aboard a Dewey era ship at Manila Bay, died yesterday in Marine Hospital Cleveland. He participated in the May 1, 1898 battle and leave a veteran record.
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Cleveland
Frederick A. Kirkholder
George Dewey
Manila Bay
Marine Hospital
Taft Urges Tax Cuts as House Slashes Truman Budget
President Truman’s request for 1947 funds is cut by the House Appropriations Committee from 318 million to 139 million with large reductions to the Veterans Administration and Civilian Production Administration. Senator Taft argues Congress can cut income taxes by 3.5 billion even without the full six billion budget cut.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
House
Congress
Veterans Administration
Civilian Production Administration
Office of Defense Transportation
Taft
Rohio
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Millikin
R-Cole
Gurney
R-Sd
Ohio
Senate
Unidentified Man Jumps From Cherry Street Bridge
A middle aged man leaped to his death from Toledo’s Cherry Street Bridge yesterday as motorists and bridge tenders watched. No identification was found but a Cleveland Transit Co streetcar transfer suggested he recently arrived from Cleveland.
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Cherry St
Cleveland Transit Co
Cleveland
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