Congress Faces Portals Pay Suit Dilemma as Courts Decide
Senators debate delaying action until courts rule on portal to portal pay. Utah Democrat Elbert Thomas urges no legislation until a firm court decision, while Republicans like Flanders and Brewster push for early action. New suits filed today target Ford Motor Co with $222.3 million retroactive claims, lifting Ford totals to $270.3 million and unions’ claimed total to about $1.807 billion.
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Dutah
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Brewster
Maine
Donnell
Missouri
Portal
Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Cold Weather Expands Eastward with Deep Freeze
The nation saw widespread wintry conditions as fresh snow sleet and freezing rain spread east from the Northwest. Bitter cold followed with Minot North Dakota recording 20 below and Minnesota forecasts predicting 15 to 30 below tonight as travel hazards rise.
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Wainwrights Saber Recovered After Bataan Retreat
General Wainwright's saber, long lost on the retreat into Bataan, was found by a Filipino beside the body of a Japanese general. The relic will be sent to General Wainwright.
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Bataan
Manila
West Point
Republicans Push War Contract Probe of RFC
Republican members of the Senate War Investigating Committee discussed a wide inquiry into the Reconstruction Finance Corporation’s war plant contracts. Jesse Jones and ex-director George E. Allen were named as likely witnesses as Republicans weigh limiting RFC authority before its June 30 expiration.
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New War Investigating Committee
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New
Congress
Ohio Counties Share Federal Soil Conservation Funds
Columbus Ohio allocations from a 1947 federal soil conservation fund totaling 7 391 000 were announced by Elmer F Kruse state director of the production and marketing administration Athens County receives 49 798 and Hocking County 34 838 Kruse said the Agricultural Adjustment Administration program had been liberalized so each county could spend up to ten percent of its funds on conservation practices beyond the 18 authorized activities.
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Ohio
Federal Soil Conservation Fund
Elmer F. Kruse
Production
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Hocking County
Kruse
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Japanese defense attorney ejected for nail file attempt
In Yokohama military court, defense attorney Kakuichiro Yoshizawa tried to pass a nail file to his son Kunio Yoshizawa, who with six others faces murder charges for mistreating 18 American and 20 British POWs at Mishima Camp.
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Eighth Army
Kakuichiro Yoshizawa
Spectator
W. E. Peters
Cleveland
Kunio Yoshizawa
Mitsushima
Radio Operator Dies as Toll Reaches 13
The death toll from last Saturday's crash of the TWA constellation Star of Cairo near Shannon Airport rose to 13. Dudley Hill, 34, of Alexandria Virginia, the plane's radio officer, died here yesterday a day after his father William T. Hill arrived to see him.
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Wage Boost Contract Signed by Greyhound
In Youngstown AFL union locals representing about 200 Greyhound bus drivers and terminal employees won a wage increase of roughly 10 percent under a new contract signed by Ohio Greyhound Lines Inc and company president A I Fullerton yesterday.
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Farley Boom Predicted for Vice Presidency
New York Daily News says a movement to boost James A. Farley as Truman's running mate in 1948 will be openly launched at the Jefferson Day dinner in April. Farley declined to comment.
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Shotgun Kills Son in Accidental Farm Incident
Lomond Nimmo fired a shotgun by climbing a fence and fatally shot his son Donald S Nimmo 17 in an accidental incident near Cincinnati. The event outlines a tragic household accident with a firearm discharge resulting in death.
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Lomond Nimmo
Donald S. Nimmo
Police guard Times Square shooting victim at hospital
Police placed 24 hour protection at the bedside of Mrs Olga Rocco at a New York hospital as they broadened the hunt for her ex husband Alphonse Rocco after a shotgun attack was plotted and a prior subway shooting occurred.
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Olga Rocco
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Brooklyn
Alphonse Rocco
Check Reveals Victim Is Not Pastor's Son
Columbus reports a fingerprint match shows the murder victim found in Alum Creek a week ago is not Billie Standley, 16. Deputy Sheriff Joseph Sigrist said the Rev. Leo Standley of Mechanicsburg relinquished his claim to the body. FBI is conducting further fingerprint checks.
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Alum Creek
Billie Standley
Joseph Sigrist
Leo Standley
Mechanicsburg
Federal Bureau of Investigation
La Follette Named U.N. Economic Council Candidate
State Department reports indicate Senator La Follette of Wisconsin will succeed John W. Winant as U S representative on the United Nations Economic and Social Council. La Follette left the Senate after 21 years and ran in Wisconsin's last Republican primary, losing to Joseph R. McCarthy.
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State Department
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John W. Winant
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United Nations Economic and Social Council
Senate
Wisconsin
Joseph R. McCarthy
Paleographer Dr Chalfant Robinson Dies at 75
Dr Chalfant Robinson, 75, renowned paleographer and professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, died yesterday in Princeton New Jersey.
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N.J
Chalfant Robinson
Princeton University
East Bids For Quads East Bids For Quads
Charles Henn Jr father to Baltimore quadruplets faces a decision as offers arrive. He weighs a rent free house and a $4 000 a year job in Newark Ohio against housing options in Baltimore amid editorials protesting losing the quads to Ohio.
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Charles Henn, Jr
C. W. Matthew
Newark
Ohio
Corrupt Acts Linked to Firms and 60 CIO Unions
The Special House Campaign Investigating Committee says 60 CIO unions and 12 corporations violated the corrupt practices act in the recent elections. It urged the Justice Department to take action and also cited the Communist Party for failing to file required receipts and expenditures reports.
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Special House Campaign
Justice Department
CIO
Priest
D., Tenn
Department
New York
Attorney General
Communist Party
NEA Pushes No Contract No Work Policy
The National Education Association urged teachers to adopt a no contract no work stance in negotiations. It called for minimum $2,400 yearly salaries, steps to $4,000 to $6,000 for experienced teachers, opposition to strikes where contracts exist, and increased state and federal education aid. It cited low salaries as a key reason for teacher shortages.
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National Education Association
Coal Loadings Break Record
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. set a weekly record with 31,144 coal cars loaded for the week ended December 21, surpassing 30,112 cars for the week ended November 16. The carrier reported daily highs on December 18 and a 1946 year total of 55,531,440 tons, down from 56,461,160 tons in 1945 despite strikes.
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Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co
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Secretary named Columbus secretary to lieutenant governor elect
Lt. Gov.-elect Paul M. Herbert announced yesterday his secretary would be Miss Dorise Neddermeyer of Columbus. The statement identifies Neddermeyer as the incoming aide to the new statewide official.
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Paul M. Herbert
Dorise Neddermeyer
War Assets Administration probe cites sloppy methods
A House committee report accuses the War Assets Administration of sloppy business methods and favoritism, warns of potential net losses to the government, and urges reforms to end purchase priorities for nonreal estate. It credits some efficiency to Robert Littlejohn but condemns disorganization and chaotic inventories across regions.
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House
War Assets Administration
WAA
Rep. Slaughter
D-Mo
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Thunderbird
Robert M. Littlejohn
New Year's Day traffic toll in Ohio claims 11 lives
At least 11 people are killed in Ohio New Year’s Day crashes as rain on ice coated roads creates hazard statewide. Victims include Regina Smith 23 of near Willoughby and Violet Myers 23 of New Haven Indiana, plus several others across Middletown Toledo Akron Port Clinton Cincinnati Canton Springfield.
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Willoughby
California
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Violet Myers
New Haven
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Toledo
Edward Barach
Cleveland
Miss Smith
New York Central
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Barach
Josephine Petak
Bernhard F. Davis
Westfield
N. J
Angola
Miss Myers
Maumee
Davis
Middletown
William Roof
John P. Ziegler
Clifford J. Bussett
Akron
Michael Pilo
Port Clinton
Arnold Roe
Lacarne
Herbert Brinley
Carroll Township
Roe
Cincinnati
Gilbert van Dyke
Lockland
Canton
George Merryman
Springfield
Harold Stoll
South
Vienna
Air Traffic Sets Records at Cleveland Airport 1946
Cleveland airport traffic reached a record 87,530 intercity planes and 1,286,144 air passengers in 1946. Airport clearance officer J. L. Snell announced the figures, surpassing 1945 highs of 60,300 planes and 762,993 passengers.
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J. L. Snell
C O Chemist Dies in Huntington
Allan S. Perry 48 chief chemist and supervisor of laboratories for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway died of a heart attack yesterday in Huntington West Virginia.
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W.va
Allan S. Perry
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Britain and U S plan joint arms standardization and training
London reports Britain and the United States are working on standardizing arms and officer training. Aurore suggests a March 15 accord for unified defense and army unification. A British official notes readiness to consider Soviet equipment proposals but not arms reduction.
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Labor Laws in Spotlight As Congress Opens
As Congress convenes Republicans push labor legislation with aims to curb strikes in vital public health sectors and push for compulsory arbitration. House leaders designate Halleck as majority leader and Martin as speaker with Arends as whip. Democrats reaffirm Barkley as leader while planning new whip and committee talks.
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Illinois
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Indiana
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
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Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Nicholas Longworth
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Martin Completes Term As Keystone Governor
Harrisburg report states Governor Edward Martin bowing out as Pennsylvania’s chief executive after term completion. Lt. Gov. John C. Bell Jr. will lead a caretaker administration until Governor-Elect James H. Duff takes office.
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Special Stamp Planned For Edison Centennial
Milan marks Thomas A Edison birth centennial with a special stamp sale at the post office in his birthplace on February 11, as announced by the post office department in Washington.
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Milan
Thomas Alva Edison
Post Office Department
Washington
Columbus Passes 35th Day Without Traffic Fatality
Columbus records its 35th consecutive day without a traffic fatality marking progress in road safety.
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Columbus
GOP Preparing Attempt to Bar Senator Bilbo
Senator Theodore Bilbo faces a Republican move to bar him from taking the oath of office. The War Investigating Committee found evidence he improperly used his office for personal gain in dealings with war contractors. Kilgore said the full record will be sent to the Attorney General for review.
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Theodore G. Bilbo
D-Miss
Robert A. Taft
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Bilbo
Senate War Investigating Committee
United States
Kilgore
D-Wva
Court reverses kidnapping conviction in Wheatley case
The Fourth Circuit reversed the Elkins West Virginia district court ruling that sentenced Richard Lawrence Wheatley of East Liverpool Ohio to 24 years for kidnapping. The court found Judge William E Baker did not properly instruct the jury that they were not bound by the judge's expressed view of the facts. The sentence was imposed by Judge H E Watkins after Baker fell ill.
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Richmond
U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
West Virginia
Elkins
W. Va
Richard Lawrence Wheatley
East Liverpool
Ohio
William E. Baker
H. E. Watkins
Baker
Peacetime Record Seen For Business in 1946
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reports peacetime business activity reached historic highs in 1946. President Ray M. Gidney says businessmen and bankers must exercise the highest quality of business and financial statesmanship in the year ahead.
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Cleveland
Ray M. Gidney
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Half of Faculty Named To General Assembly
Half of the Lewisville High School faculty will become Ohio General Assembly members at the session opening Friday. Principal George Philpot will represent Noble County, and Francis Heft, a teacher, will represent Monroe County.
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Woodsfield
Lewisville High School
Ohio General Assembly
George Philpot
Noble County
Francis Heft
Monroe County
Trade Revival Loans For Germany Planned
American and British loans totaling about 100 million dollars are expected to be arranged this month to revive foreign trade in the economically unified U.S. and British zones of Germany, American officials said today.
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Berlin
U. S
Germany
Peace Talks Reported Between Ho Chi Minh and French Minister
Dispatches say French Colonial Minister Marius Moutet flew from Saigon to Hanoi for peace talks with Ho Chi Minh. The Viet Nam republic leader invited Moutet to meet and discuss ending fighting with French troops, with Moutet reportedly traveling north.
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Marius Moutet
Moutet
Saigon
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Viete Namese
Dewey’s 1948 GOP bid faces voter mood and 1944 stances
SAM SIMMONS argues Gov. Dewey must reconcile his 1944 campaign with shifting public opinion. He endorsed many New Deal accomplishments but should clarify his stance on Wagner Act reform and individual liberty. Simmons says free speech and fair bargaining rules are pivotal to any strong nomination bid.
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