Ohio Legislature Begins Enactment of 109 Million Dollar Appropriation
The newly organized Ohio Legislature opened with a 109,254,121 dollar six month appropriation to fund state government and salaries. Governor Lausche urged immediate bond financed soldier bonuses and capital improvements from surplus funds. The biennial bill will be enacted later, with specific allocations for aged aid, school finance, salaries, and local government. Senate leadership was organized, party balance in the House remained split, and Tom W. Jones was sworn in ill at home.
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Senate
Albert L. Daniels
Greenfield
Thomas J. Herbert
Herbert
Ohio State
Ohio University
Kent State
Miami
Bowling Green
Wilberforce
Frank E. Whittemore
Akron
Thomas E. Bateman
Senate Democrats
Margaret A. Mahoney
Cleveland
Clingan Jackson
Youngstown
Miss Mahoney
Tom W. Jones
Middleport
Common Pleas
Edgar Erwin
Meigs County
Quads to Stay In Baltimore
Mrs. Charles Henn Jr a British war bride who bore quadruplets 18 days ago planned to go home but the infants stayed in incubators at St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore The babies will remain while their father Charles Henn Jr keeps the family in Baltimore amid offers of homes and jobs from other cities Veterans of Foreign Wars posts in Baltimore launched a drive to raise 50000.
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Baltimore
Charles Henn, Jr
St. Agnes Hospital
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Tight Maritime Audit Proposal by Ohioan Congressman
Rep. Weichel of Ohio proposed an air tight audit of the Maritime Commission to uncover wartime spending totaling 21 billion dollars. He said hearings in the previous Congress failed to disclose details and some expenditures were suppressed.
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Washington
ULP
Maritime Commission
Weichel
Ohio
House Merchant Marine Committee
Commission
OSU Trustees Adopt Impartial Discussion Resolution
The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved a resolution directing faculty to remain impartial in discussions of controversial subjects. President Bevis cited Senator Bricker's claim that the university had been indoctrinated with unamerican philosophy.
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Columbus
Ohio State University Board of Trustees
Howard L. Bevis
John W. Bricker
Publisher Clarence Gaines Dies in Park City
Clarence McElroy Gaines age 65 editor and publisher of the Park City Daily News died unexpectedly at his home in Bowling Green Kentucky on Monday night.
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Bowling Green
Clarence McElroy Gaines
Park City Daily News
Monkey Passenger Flusters Detroit Streetcar Crowd
A stray monkey named Pete rode a Detroit streetcar with his master causing chaos as Pete swung from straps and leapt onto passengers. After a second trip the master left, Pete rode alone until the car yard crew captured him and took him to the dog pound.
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Detroit
Detroit Transportation System
Pete
Dentists Cringe At Drilling Sounds Recorded
Two hundred dentists cringe as drills grind during a patient procedure. Dr Sumter Smith Arnim of Ohio State University recorded the sounds with a microphone attached to the patient.
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St, Louis
Sumter Smith Arnim
Ohio State University
Garbage Cans Overflow During Service Walkout
Portsmouth faces sixth day without waste collection as nearly 100 city workers strike since Jan 1. City Manager Ernest G. Littlejohn fired them on Saturday for not returning to work.
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Portsmouth
Ernest G. Littlejohn
Jury to Hear Handsaw Case in Newark
Laura Bell Devlin, 72, a housewife, faces grand jury review in the handsaw slaying of her husband Thomas Devlin, 75. She confessed dismembering the body and scattering parts in their back yard. officials expect possible commitment to an institution.
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Newark
Laura Bell Devlin
Licking County
Thomas Devlin
Meteor flashes across South California seen from San Diego to Bakersfield
A fiery meteor lit the night sky from San Diego to Bakersfield and out to sea near Southern California. Searches for crashed planes were inconclusive until authorities confirmed it was a meteor. Dr. Clarence H. Cleminshaw of Griffith Observatory called it exceptionally large.
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California
San Diego
Bakersfield
Clarence H. Cleminshaw
Griffith Observatory
Ohio to buy Cambridge hospital facility
State Welfare Director Frazier Reams told federal officials Ohio will purchase the Army run Fletcher General Hospital. The facility, operated as Cambridge State Hospital since last May, is slated for state ownership pending the federal request for confirmation.
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Columbus
Frazier Reams
Ohio
Army
Fletcher General Hospital
Cambridge State Hospital
Reams
Montgomery arrives in Moscow as Allied guest
The Moscow radio announced Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, chief of the British imperial general staff, arrived in Moscow on Monday to visit as a guest of the Soviet Army.
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London
Moscow
Viscount Montgomery
Imperial General Staff
Opening Session Brims With Cooing Praise in House
In Washington the opening House session was marked by light praise across party lines. Rep. Gene Cox lauded Joe Martin as a fine Republican speaker while Rep. Charley Halleck praised Sam Rayburn, the former Democrat speaker, and Rep. Bill Stevenson urged bipartisan cooperation while criticising “power-drunk bureaucrats.”
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Mr. Truman
Gene Cox
D-Ga
Cox
Joe Martin
Joe
Charley Halleck
Raad
Halleck
Sam Rayburn
Sam
Bill Stevenson
Rwis
Truman reception mixed as GOP bets meet push for reform
Republicans in Congress assess President Truman showing solid support for his agenda while voicing doubts on methods. Senators and House leaders foresee housing and labor measures advancing, with veterans benefits and tax plans under debate.
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Truman Record
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R-Mich
House Judiciary Committee
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D-Flo
Murray
D-Mont
Labor Committee
George
D-Ga
Lucas
D-Ill
Stewart
D-Tenn
White House
Girl Vanishes Trigger Kidnapping Charge Against Father
Jerry Payton 26 of Ratcliffsburg Ohio is charged with kidnapping after his 14 year old niece Mabel Maxwell disappeared while the pair were traveling with Payton’s brother Buddy and Elsie Hill. Ohio and Michigan highway patrols search for Payton and Mabel as a Chillicothe hotel guest match is investigated. Sheriff William Brown says Payton claimed he would go to Sturgess Michigan to work and had luggage with him. Maxwell, Mabel’s father, filed the kidnapping charges the sheriff notes.
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Ratcliffsburg
Ohio
Michigan
Payton
Mabel Maxwell
Vinton County
William Brown
Buddy
Elsie Hill
Ray
Chillicothe
Buddy Payton
Sturgess
Mich
Cloyd Maxwell
Sheriff Brown
Federal Budget Tops Estimate
President Truman plans to send Congress a 37 billion budget and opposes tax cuts. Rep Taber argues for about 29.5 billion to meet government needs. Knutson pushes a tax-cutting drive as debt reduction remains a priority.
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Truman
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Rep
Taber
New York
State of the Union
Knutson
R-Minn
House
Ways and Means Committee
Government pipes may gain new gas supplies this week
Federal Power Commission staff said the government owned Big and Little Inch pipeline system, converted to natural gas transmission a month ago, may add new supplies this week to meet capacity. Gas already serves Buffalo New York and eases shortages in Michigan Indiana Illinois and Missouri.
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Big and Little Inch
Federal Power Commission
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N. Y
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Chinese Welcome Note To Open Port of Dairen
Chinese foreign office sources today welcomed the United States diplomatic note urging China and Russia to open the Manchurian port of Dairen to world trade free of Russian military control under Chinese administration. They called the note an added means of returning the gateway of Manchuria to Chinese control.
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United States
China
Russia
Dairen
Manchuria
Steel Workers file portal to portal suits in Cincinnati
The United Steel Workers of America filed two portal to portal pay lawsuits in U S District Court in Cincinnati seeking more than 5 million dollars in total.
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Supreme Court
Columbus
International Executive Board
The
Federation of Glass, Ceramics and Silica Workers of America
CIO
Washington
Wiley
R-Wis
Capehart
R-Ind
Sandusky
Cleveland Federal District Court
International Association of Machinists
Ind
Mechanics Educational Society of America
Addressograph-Multigraph Corp
MESA
Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co
Cio-United Steelworkers
Browning Crane & Shove! Co
Oster Manufacturng Co
Vichek Tool Co
Akron
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Cincinnati
United Steel Workers of America
CSO
U. S. District Court
Quadruplets Born to Welsh Painter Family
Quadruplets two boys and two girls were born today to Mrs Peggy Thomas 29 wife of Idwal Thomas a painter in Bridgend Wales. The birth adds to the local community with the proud parents and children reported by the press.
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Wales
Peggy Thomas
Idwal Thomas
Woolworth Founder Charles Sumner Woolworth Dies
Charles Sumner Woolworth founder of the Woolworth chain of five and dime stores died at his home in Scranton Pa at age 90 after years of ill health He opened his first store there 65 years ago later formed F W Woolworth Co with brother Frank W Woolworth and late Fred M Kirby Woolworth was born August 1 1856 in Rodman New York.
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Charles Sumner Woolworth
Woolworth
F. W. Woolworth Co
Frank W. Woolworth
Fred M. Kirby
Wilkes-Barre
Rodman
N. Y
Mayor weighs police and fire pay hike after council approval
The Cleveland city council passed an annual $240 pay boost for police and firemen. Mayor Thomas A. Burke said he would consider the measure today before deciding to approve or veto it.
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Cleveland
Thomas A. Burke
Supreme Court Ruling Allows Ohio Truck Tax Revenue
Ohio will collect about $250000 in taxes following a Supreme Court ruling that the state may tax International Harvester Co. trucks made in Springfield and sold to out-of-state buyers, the state department of taxation said today.
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Columbus
Ohio
U. S. Supreme Court
International Harvester Co
Springfield
State Department of Taxation
Truman Seen Preferring Curb on Unions in Minor Matters
SAM SIMMONS notes President Truman leans toward limiting labor unions in small issues while warning big unions act as monopolies. He condemns forced dues and the closed shop as threats, urging protection of free speech for both workers and employers and warning against dictatorial leadership.
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Hemming Held For Kidnaping OSU Co Ed
Robert H. Hemming a 42 year old ex convict is arraigned in municipal court on kidnapping charges involving Ohio State University co ed Mary Virginia Kimberly missing since last week. Prosecutor Ralph J. Bartlett questioned Hemming and Miss Kimberly as authorities say she was taken against her will and drugged after meeting him at his parents home.
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Robert H. Hemming
Mary Virginia Kimberly
Ohio State University
Upper Arlington
E. Forrest Tefft
Emerson Kimberly
Hemming
Ohio State
Franklin County
Ralph J. Bartlett
Miss Kimberly
Bartlett
Kimberly
Gallipolis Girl Wins District Prince of Peace Contest
Miss Marjorie White a 15 year old Gallipolis resident from Third Avenue won the district Prince of Peace contest in Marietta. She will compete in the state contest at Columbus January 29 and 30. A junior at Gallia Academy High School she belongs to the Press Club Government Club band Girl Reserves Glee Club and the acapella choir. She attends Grace Methodist Church and sings in the Youth Fellowship group and choir.
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Marjorie White
Merrill White
Third Avenue
Marietta
Gallia County
Columbus
White
Gallia Academy High School
Grace Methodist Church
West Virginia Mine Ceases Coal Output
Beckley West Virginia Willibet No 10 mine of Leckie Fire Creek Coal Co closed after recoverable coal exhausted Officials said about half of its 75 workers will move to the Fireco mine four miles away with full transfer expected within six to twelve months
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Beckley
W. Va
Willibet No
Leckie Fire Creek Coal Co
Fireco
Suit for 25000 damages filed over Hotel Belden fire
Anne M. Cronin, 47, of Cleveland filed in common pleas court a 25000 damage suit for severe body burns from the Hotel Belden fire on November 18. One woman died and ten were injured. Cronin alleges negligence and lack of adequate fire escapes alarms and extinguishers.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas Court
Anne M. Cronin
Belden
Miss Cronin
Meteorite Mystery Linked to Flare Gun Demo
The meteorite sighting at TIFFIN Saturday was explained by Sheriff George R. Steinmers as a flare gun demonstration by a salesman for a flare gun maker. The bright streak was not a meteor but a man made flare.
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George R. Steinmers
Centenarian Emlissa Hall Dies in Kingsville
Mrs. Emlissa Hall aged 100, among Ashtabula County’s few centenarians, died yesterday in Kingsville. The Conneaut, Ohio resident had reached a century of life and was noted for her long life in the community.
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Conneaut
Emlissa Hall
Ashtabula County
Kingsville
Fugitive Dies In Gun Battle In Mountains
Alphonse Rocco was killed by state and New York City police at a snow hilltop hideout in Patchen Hollow near Grand Gorge after a 48 hour sheltering with two pistols. He had fled after the New Year’s Eve shooting of his former wife in Times Square subway, saying it was framed and that they would never capture him. The gun used to injure his wife had been concealed by Christmas wrappings.
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Grand Gorge
N. Y
Alphonse Rocco
Here
New York City
Rocco
Patchen Hollow
Catskill Mountain
Times Square
Revenue Freight Grows 2.6 Percent in 1946
Cleveland report shows Chesapeake and Ohio Railway carloads of revenue freight reaching 1,437,413 in 1946, up from 1,401,325 in 1945. Pere Marquette and Nickel Plate lines in the C and O group also posted gains.
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Cleveland
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co
C.&o
Pere Marquette
Nickel Plate Road
Funeral Services Held For Uncle Tom Actor Charles Small
Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Charles T. Small 94 a Negro actor and minstrel man who played Uncle Tom in Unlcle Tom s Cabin on minstrel circuits in this country Canada Mexico and Europe He died Sunday.
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Cambridge, C
Charles T. Small
Uncle Tom
Canada
Mexico
Europe
Crusader Named to Jefferson County Grand Jury
The Rev. Robert K. Russell, part of a 12 minister crusade against vice in Steubenville, was named to the January term of the Jefferson County Grand Jury.
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Steubenville, C
Robert K. Russell
Jefferson County
Grand Jury
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