ALP victory jolts New York politics in Bronx race
Leo Isacson, 38, with the Henry A. Wallace backed American Labor Party, wins the 24th district seat over Democrat Karl Propper and two rivals. Isacson becomes the second ALP member in Congress, signaling growing third party influence in New York.
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New York
Henry A. Wallace
Congress
Wallace
ALP
Isacson
Karl Propper
Dean Allange
Liberal Party
Joseph de Nigris
Automobile Tragedy Floods Meigs County as Car Drowns
Seven Jackson residents died when their automobile missed a bridge near Bradbury and plunged into Leading Creek. Meigs County records its worst tragedy in at least 25 years. Victims were identified as local residents of Jackson.
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Jackson
Middleport
Bradbury
Leading Creek
Meigs County
Floods lag as Ohio River holds near crest in Cincinnati
Rain swollen Ohio River stays near 54 foot crest with 18 feet above flood stage at Cincinnati. Reservoirs upstream trimmed upriver crests by up to 3.9 feet, aiding downriver levels. In Jackson Meigs County, a car sped into a flood swollen creek killing Wilbur Keller and four others as rescue teams pulled bodies from the water.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Ohio River Division
Ohio River
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
W. Va
Huntington
Athens Firm Among 61 Low Bidders on 22 Road Projects
Sixty one firms bid on the state highway department’s first contract letting of the year. Low bidders include Gallia County paving on State Route 141. Hocking County steel beam bridge on State Route 56. Muskingum County paving on State Route 75. Jackson County bridge enlargements on Fourmile Creek. The board will consider W H Ringwald and Sons Co. bid for paving U S Route 52 in Portsmouth. engineer estimates and a single bid are noted.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
Gallia County
Walnut
Perry
The
Highway Maintenance Co
Athens
Hocking County
East Branch
Raccoon Creek
Stark
W. J. Elliott
McConnelsville
Muskingum
Salem
Adams
Monroe
W. P. McCarren
Walhending
Jackson County
Fourmile Creek
Jackson-Portsmouth
Hamilton
Jefferson
Franklin and Lick
Colglazier & Chapman
Jackson
Board of Awards
W. H. Ringwald and Sons Co
Chillicothe
Portsmouth
Highway Department
Fire damages linseed oil plant injuring three at Sherwin-Williams
An explosion and fire at the Sherwin-Williams linseed oil plant in Cleveland injured three workers. Fire crews from fifteen companies and the city fireboat fought the blaze until it was controlled. Property losses were estimated at 150000 dollars by Fire Chief James E. Granger.
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Cleveland
Sherwin-Williams Co
James E. Granger
Police chase ends with motorcycle rider freed
Washington police pursued a stolen car and two fleeing men after a chase that began with a speeding motorcycle. One man was captured while the other escaped. the rear seat occupant of the stolen car rode the motorcycle back to the scene and was not held.
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Washington
Garment Workers Plan Continued Picketing
In Los Angeles AFL Ladies Garment Workers continue picketing 128 non union factories to push for contracts. A mass demonstration yesterday claimed by union leaders to have shut down the city’s largest garment manufacturing center with about 12 000 workers participating.
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Los Angeles
AFL
Ladies Garment Workers
Mississippi Senate votes to allow women on juries
Jackson report says the Mississippi Senate passed a bill yesterday permitting women to serve on juries. The measure moves to the House for consideration and could impact jury trials statewide.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi Senate
Anderson weighs wheat buying amid market wobble
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson hints on when to resume wheat purchases for export. His department paused as prices fell and must secure 75 million more bushels by June 30 to reach a 450 million bushel export target, with Truman aiming for 500 million.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Hope
R-Kas
House Agriculture Committee
Oil Shortage Hits Mechanical Incubator Hens
The Agriculture Department reports January chick output fell nine percent from January 1947 as fuel oil shortages hinder mechanical incubators and demand drops strain commercial hatcheries.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
School Heads Favor State Building Aid
Ohio educators favor state help for financing school building construction with safeguards. W L Shuman of Cuyahoga County sent 288 superintendents a questionnaire. responses call for tax law reform, enforceable valuation, and both federal and state aid. Safeguards include limiting costly construction in high periods and reorganizing rural districts for efficiency.
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Cleveland
Ohio
W. L. Shuman
Cuyahoga County
Shuman
Price Raises in Steel to Up Users Costs
The Iron Age reports steel price increases in the past week will cost users about 68 million dollars annually. Structural fabricators face 15 million and forging and rerolling billets and slabs add 10 million in yearly charges.
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New York
The
Iron Age
Trade Weekly
Bonus Group Denies Photostat Proof for Ohio WWII Bonus
The Ohio State Sinking Fund Commission rejects photostatic copies of discharge papers as eligibility proof for the World War Two bonus. Aerial details show safeguards for original papers, with certificates in lieu allowed for lost discharges. Bonus applications are to be available next month as Ferguson and Hummel fail to secure five-signature bonus checks.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Sinking Fund Commission
Joseph T. Ferguson
Armed Forces
Ferguson
Edward J. Hummel
Commission
Haydenville Employees Get 10 Cent Increase
A settlement ending strikes at six National Fire Proofing Co. plants provides a 10 cent per hour raise for about 900 workers. Five Canton area plants and one Haydenville plant in Hocking County are affected. Haydenville strike began January 15 and the others five days later.
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Cleveland
National Fire Proofing Co
U. S. Mediation and Conciliation Service
Canton
Haydenville
Hocking County
Nail removed from head after Bataan capture
Virgil Gomez, who had a nail hammered into his skull by a Japanese soldier during capture on Bataan, has been cured after a delicate operation to remove the nail at the Veterans Administration Hospital, doctors said.
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Denver
Virgil Gomez
Veterans’ Administration Hospital
Gomez
Bataan
Fresh vegetable consumption rises in the United States
Cleveland report notes a 50 percent rise in Americans eating fresh vegetables since World War I. Ohio State University dean L. L. Rummell predicts further gains and backs pre packed goods as the brightest market. He urges processing foods at the point of production.
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Cleveland
United States
L. L. Rummell
Agricultural College
Ohio State University
Rummel
Conservationists to Meet in Cincinnati Conference Opens Tomorrow
A two day statewide conservation conference opens in Cincinnati under the Ohio River Division Engineers. More than 100 authorities on soil and water conservation are expected to attend.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River Division Engineers
Missing Midway Men Still Sought After Launch Tragedy
Hyeres France The aircraft carrier Midway remains in the area for two more days as crews search for eight missing crewmen believed drowned after a launch accident near Hyeres. Fifty three others were rescued after the 50 foot launch capsized upright.
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Hyeres Roads
France
Midway
Hyeres
French Riviera
Port Ponthau
J. E. Murdock
The
Bandits Loot Philadelphia Banker in $40,000 Theft
Four masked bandits forced Caleb F. Fox Jr. and seven others into a bedroom at his Rydal home in suburban Philadelphia. They bound residents with torn bedsheets and looted mink and beaver fur coats diamonds bracelets rings necklaces watches and silverware totaling about $40 000 according to Fox.
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Philadelphia
Caleb F. Fox
Rydal
Fox
New Plane Fire Alarm Overly Sensitive at Newark
Six minutes after takeoff a Eastern Air Lines DC 4 bound for New Orleans triggered a fire alarm. Officials said the new system misread smoke from a nearby lumber yard fire as a blaze.
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Newark
N. J
Eastern Air Lines
Bishop Hoban Dedicates Lake Shore Retreat House
Bishop Ed ward F Hoban dedicated a new Diocesan retreat house on Lake Shore Boulevard yesterday. The ceremony drew church officials and local supporters to celebrate the community facility.
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Cleveland
Edward F. Hoban
Lake Shore Boulevard
Coach Ignores Klan Threats Of Tarring
In Rossville Georgia an ex Marine coach faced Ku Klux Klan threats to tar and feather him. He carried a pistol and watched his Lakeview team lose 75 to 29 to Rossville High with protection from police and friends nearby. He had been warned to leave town two weeks earlier.
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Rossville
Walter Rowland
Lakeview
Rossville High
Bowland
Rowland
Wife Testifies on Parole Bid for Capone Gangster
Mrs Charlotte Campagna wife of Louis Campagna testifies before a congressional subcommittee that she paid $10000 to attorney Paul Dillon of St Louis a former Truman campaign manager to aid her husband s parole from federal prison The Campagna and three other Capone era gangsters were paroled last August after serving one third of their 10 year sentences for extorting over 1 million from the movie industry.
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Chicago
Charlotte Campagna
Capone
Paul Dillon
St. Louis
Truman
Louis
Little
Kentucky burley tobacco market tops 725k pounds sold
Kentucky burley tobacco markets sold 725,496 pounds of leaf for 323,729.40 dollars yesterday, averaging 44.62 dollars per hundredweight, according to the State Department of Agriculture in Louisville.
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Louisville
State Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
Nelsonville Doctor Dies at 77 in Home
Dr. E Welch of Nelsonville, 77, prominent physician and banker, was found dead in his bed at his home. A native of Nelsonville he led the First National Bank, served in the Methodist Church and civic groups, and was a Mason and Elk. Survived by daughter Mrs. Co F Junkerman of Columbus and niece Mrs. Mabel Barnecut. wife had died years earlier.
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Nelsonville
Dc. E. Welch
First National Bank
The
Masons and Elks
Co. F. Junkerman
Columbus
Mabel Barnecut
Welch
Rent Control Law Speeded For Quick Senate Action
Congress moved to rush rent control legislation as the existing law expires in a week. Senate Republicans backed a fast vote to extend it in a modified form for at least a year, but Rep. Wolcott said a long-term renewal by February 29 seems unlikely. A 30-day stopgap extension may come first.
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Congress
Millikan
R-Cole
Senate Finance Committee
House
Senate
Byrd
Finance Committee
Rep
Gore
D-Tenn
House Appropriations Committee
Taft
Ohio
Washington
Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
Methodist Group Plans Hospital Improvements
In Cincinnati the Methodist church outlines a $53 million program to improve hospitals and homes. Dr Karl P Meister, executive secretary of the National Association of Methodist Hospitals and Homes, said Methodist facilities cared for about 1,000,000 patients last year, including 5,300 boys and girls and 3,752 elderly people.
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Cincinnati
Karl P. Meister
National Association of Methodist Hospitals and Homes
Vanderhorst Pleads Innocent in Traffic Death
Richard Vanderhorst 22 of East Liverpool pleads innocent to second degree manslaughter and is bound over to a Mahoning County grand jury in the traffic death of John W. Kyle Jr. 37 of North Lima.
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Youngstown
Richard Vanderhorst
East Liverpool
Mahoning County
John W. Kyle, Jr
North Lima
Buyer resistance stiffens despite price drop
Retailers report stronger customer resistance amid price cuts as Lenten demand remains weak. Grain markets show downward pressure from late selling in wheat pits, while soybeans push higher. Hog and beef prices ease, cotton futures slip, and butter rises in New York and Chicago markets. Senator Tobey cautions on inflation policy pending further data.
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Tobey
R-Nh
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
United States
Chicago
New York
Bus Line Files Papers For New Connections
James Williams attorney for American Buslines Inc Detroit announced filing two ICC applications to authorize new national bus connections serving Michigan Indiana Ohio and Kentucky.
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Washington
James Williams
American Buslines, Inc
Detroit
Interstate Commerce Commission
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Right Man Chosen To Make the Rounds
Los Angeles councilman Kenneth Hahn at age 28 has never tasted liquor and will tour local bars with Health Officer Dr. George M. Uhl and a police officer carrying a light meter to assess lighting as the city considers an ordinance for brighter bar lights.
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Los Angeles
Kenneth Hahn
Theii
George M. Uhl
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Henry Lambert
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Emmett Lightfoot
New York Central Railroad
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