Western Union Walkout Begins Early Over Wage Dispute
A 7000-strong Western Union strike spreads across New York City and other offices, halting most nonessential messages as CIO American Communications Association protests a 12 cent hourly raise. Police report the walkout started before the 11 a.m. strike hour, with life-or-death messages still possible via supervisory staff. Sympathy locals in eight international firms refuse to handle Western Union messages nationwide. AFL union workers outside New York accepted a 12 cent raise and chose not to strike.
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Associated Press
Western Union
Yoan
CIO American Communications Association
War Lab Board
Willis O'Dwyer
CIO
AFL
Gnion
New York
Labor disputes ease as auto oil and steel talks advance
In a wave of promising settlements, the CIO United Auto Workers and Kaiser Frazer reach an unprecedented wage at $1.19 start with a mod offer, while General Motors may match increases. A new $5 per hour pool would be set up for production workers. Knight of CIO says wage demands cut to 18 percent in Washington, signaling possible broader settlements.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Kaiser- Frazer Corporation
Compat
General Moto
Washington
Knight
CIO ¢ Workers Union
Agre
Solons Hint Probe of GI Discharges
Washington AP. amid GI protests over demobilization, lawmakers hint investigations and possible urgent action. 12,000 soldiers petition Manila call for inquiry. House Military Committee may open an inquiry as election year politics loom. Officials defend official channels amid questions on draft and training. Protests spread to Andrews Field and overseas locations.
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Capitol Hill
Pacific
Europe
Andrews Field
Manila
Congress
House
House Military Committee
Short
Edwin C. Johnson
Cole
Clarence Brown
Ohio
War Department
Brown
Army
NESR
Washington Andrews Field
Capitol
Maryland
Curtis D. Sluman
Army Air Force Base
Frank S. Sumner
William F. Hall
Hall
Gunner
le Havre
Guam
Probe Shooting Death Of Aged Storekeeper
IRONTON Ohio aged storekeeper Marcus V. Thompson, 84, was found dead in his Buffalo Creek grocery store home Sunday night. Sheriff Milton B. Rucker said Thompson was shot three times, with evidence indicating the shooting occurred outside the building and the victim dragged back inside before dying.
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Ironton
Milton B. Rucker
Lawrence County
Marcus V. Thompson
Buffalo Creek
Thompson
Auditor seeks audit authority for high school athletic funds
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson said he would urge Gov. Lausche to back legislation at a possible special session to authorize the auditor’s office to audit high school athletic department accounts, noting that no public audits currently exist.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
Frank J. Lausche
Ferguson
General Assembly
Sandusky Civil War Veteran Dies at 100
William W. Woodward, a Civil War veteran and former Indian fighter from Sandusky, died yesterday at age 100. He participated in Sherman's march across the South, a noted survivor of early American military campaigns.
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Sandusky
William W
Billy) Woodward
Woodward
Sherman
South
Chinese See Civil War End Predictions Rise
The Chinese press predicted orders to cease firing would be issued tomorrow by both the government and the Communists. The war-time capital awaited a formal announcement from Gen. George C. Marshall, Truman’s envoy, as negotiators met with a three hour truce committee session chaired by Marshall.
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Chungrhing
China
George C. Marsha
Truman
Marshall
Hamilton Pedestrian Killed and Driver Held
Hamilton report states Marion Pentecost 27 of Liberty Indiana faces manslaughter charges after striking and killing Gene Lewis 21 along Old Oxford Road. Sheriff Walke said Pentecost fled the scene and was arrested in Richmond two hours later. Also noted: James Matash of Niles Ohio fined 3000 and costs for selling C-5 gasoline coupons in December 1944.
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Hamilton
Marion Pentecost
Liberty
Ind
Gene Lewis
Old Oxford Road
Charles Walke
Pentecost
Niles
Cleveland
Emerich B. Freed
James Matash
Niles, C
Hold Cleveland Man As Policeman Slayer
Wendell B. Black, 28, charged with first degree murder in the 1938 robbery related shooting of Patrolman Raymond Griffin, 29. Detective Ralph Kennedy said Black boasted of killing a man after Griffin’s body was found.
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Cleveland
Wendell B. Black
Raymond Griffin
Ralph Kennedy
Black
Griffin
Marines Increase Discharge Eligibility by 28,000
Washington reports the Marine Corps raised its discharge-eligibility quota by 28,000 after February 1 by lowering the discharge score from 50 to 45. In other news, two people died in separate State Route 7 traffic accidents near Steubenville, including Mary O Haver of Toronto and Thomas Napier of Fort Homer.
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Washington
Marine Corps
Corps
Steubenville
Mary O'Haver
Toronto
Thomas Napier
Fort Homer
Priest breaks news of child’s death to grieving parents
In Chicago a parish priest told Suzanne Degnan’s grief stricken parents of the child’s slaying after police found her severed head. Rev George G Kearney of St Gertrude’s Church and Det Edwin C Daly visited the Degnan home guiding the couple through shock and tears with quiet, restrained comfort.
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Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
Degnan
Edgewater Beach
Suzanne
James E
Helen Degnan
Dégnan
Cook County
John C. Prendergast
Edward J. Kelly
John L. Sullivan
George G .Kearney
St. Gertrude’s Church
Edwin C. Daly
James
Father Kearney
Daly
Inspector Daly
State Hospital To Give Short Syphilis Care Near Columbus
A nine day treatment center for syphilis will be set up in surplus buildings at Lockbourne Army Air Base near Columbus to relieve state hospitals. Dr. John D. Porterfield said the center could open by Feb. 1 and would serve patients who cannot afford private care. An Ohio labor leader urged Gov Lausche to call a special session to address four urgent issues, including unemployment disqualification claims.
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Columbus
Lockbourne Army Air Base
Here
State Department of Health
John D. Porterfield
Ohio
Labor Leader Calls Jobless Plan Unsound
Labor Leader Phil Hanna argues against a jobless benefits plan urging fairness for skilled and semi skilled workers who cannot take restaurant or service referrals. Capt Fred C Kluth of the U S Public Health Service will head a Charleston center with 40 to 50 staff including a doctor.
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Fred C. Kluth
Public Health Service
Charleston
W.va
Phil Hanna
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Ohio center adopts proven nine day treatment plan
Dr Porter field states the state opens the first center of its kind in Ohio using a nine day treatment that employs penicillin arsenic and bismuth and reports a 95 percent cure rate.
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Ohio
Porterfield
Geauga Fox Hunters Pilot Plan For Saturday Drive
The Geauga Conservation Association organizes a fox drive in Troy Township Saturday. Will Dietrich, head of the Geauga Farm Bureau, will fly overhead in an airplane to guide the hunters. The county has set a 2.50 dollar bounty on foxes.
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Chardon
Geauga Conservation Association
Troy Township
Will Dietrich
Geauga Farm Bureau
Fat Cat Officers Get Gravy In Overseas Forces
Hal Boyle reports that senior officers in American forces overseas are accused of pampering themselves with luxury compared with enlisted men and junior officers. Tales include lavish homes with staff, private bases for entertaining visitors, and a captain ordering a harbor launch for a laundry run. Some urge better use of Japanese prisoners and criticise demobilization ease as troops wait to return home to vote.
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Hal Boyle
Manila
Blimp
Red Cross
Us.o
Navy
Bird
G. L Feelings
Two Ohioans Guilty Of Induction Evasion
Donald James Myers of Zanesville and Charles Edward Smith of Somerset Perry County were convicted by a U S district court jury of failure to report for induction. Corwin Arthur Robison of Rosville Muskingum County was convicted of failure to report for work at a conscientious objectors camp in Colorado. Sentencing was deferred by Judge Mell G Endervood.
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Columbus
Ohio parks projects stall over few earth-moving items
In Columbus State conservation commissioner HEA Rider said only a small portion of a 1,000,005 dollar lake and park project could proceed due to difficulty in acquiring five crakes two steam shovels one high ditty two sheep-foot rollers and other earth-moving machinery from military surpluses. In Upper Sandusky Dr Elmer Elsworth Burns longtime Kirby mayor and physician died yesterday at age 33.
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Columbus
HE. A. Rider
Rider
Upper
Sandusky
Elmer Elsworth Burns
Kirby
Ice
Byrnes Says Atom Control Plan Feasible
Secretary of State Byrnes told U S delegates in London that the atomic energy safeguards plan would limit the UN commission from demanding nonvoluntary U S scientific data. He warned the security council could be blocked by veto and that final participation decisions would rest with Congress. The plan, a three nation outcome from Moscow, remains an exclusive U S product.
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Byrnes
American Uno
London
U.S
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jPower
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Moscow
Oyion Ministers
Jap Premier To Make Resignation Decision
Tokyo cabinet weighs whether to resign amid pressure on ailing Prime Minister Shidehara 73 as he stays away from cabinet deliberations and receives a report. Flood scene in Pikeville Kentucky shows the Big Sandy River eight feet above flood stage forcing evacuations of 150 families.
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Shidehara
Pikeville
Big Sandy
Complete Stoppage Forecast in Broad Labor Strikes
United Steelworkers plan a nationwide strike starting next Monday involving about 800000 workers. Western Electric plants in New York and New Jersey have 17000 staff on a sixth day of walkout amid two possible nationwide telecommunication walkouts. WEEA seeks a 30 cent wage increase and NETW sympathy action. Government officials weigh concessions to avert industry walkouts affecting 335000 meat and 800000 steel/related workers. A CIO United Electrical strike at General Electric General Motors and Westinghouse is set for January 15.
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CIO United Steelworkers
Western Electric
New York
New Jersey
Communications Equipment Workers
National Federation of Tele
WEEA
Apc
Tomorow
Washington
Goernment
Pric
Tte
CIO United Electrical
General Electric
General Moto
Westinghouse
Logan Matriarch Lucy Bowen Dies at 96 in Logan
Lucy Rochester Bowen, 96, longtime Logan civic pillar and Western College alumna, died at her Logan home she was born in. Funeral plans pending. Survived by daughter Eveline Underwood. sons John R. Bowen and Charles Bowen. daughters Mary Louise Bowen and Grace McNeil. Lucy Techau and Meade Bowen preceded in death.
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LOGAN
Lucy Rochester Bowen
Bowen
Western College
Oxford
John Rochester
Evelyn Tufts
Boston
Hharles E. Bowen
Meade
Re Enlistment Short of Need in Army Records
Washington reports voluntary enlistments are breaking records yet fall short of current needs. Less than six months expected to top 400000, but full figures are not yet compiled. Officials note over 800000 soldiers discharged monthly, with enlistments only a fraction of overseas and domestic manpower requirements.
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Washington
Plan Conference to End Cleveland Press Strike
Federal conciliation commissioner Thomas Robertson planned conferences with union and publishers representatives in Cleveland to end the four day strike at the three daily papers. Robertson entered the dispute yesterday and met with members of the Cleveland Newspaper Publishers Association. Bricker to broadcast housing talk Saturday at 3 30 p m on CBS from Columbus.
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Cleveland
Thomas Robertson
Robertson
Cleveland Newspaper Publishers Association
Bricker
Columbus
John W .Bricker
Ohio
Columbia Broadcasting System
Franklin County Plans Summit Reservoir Proposal Revival
Franklin County Planning Commission seeks to solve water shortage and flood control by reviving a dormant Summit Reservoir plan in Marion County. Commissioner C. P Lauderbaugh says a meeting of city and county planning boards conservationists and industrialists will be called to discuss reopening talks with the federal government on the project.
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Columbus
Franklin County Planning Commission
Summit
Marion County
C. P Lauderbaugh
State Sets 52 Million for Ohio School Repairs
A four man committee in Columbus faces distributing 52 million dollars from the Legislature to repair buildings and equipment in Ohio's poorer school districts. About 200 applications have been received for 33.25 million, with total requests expected to reach 7 to 8 million. Eligibility hinges on district valuations and levy levels, with Clermont and Lawrence counties showing high eligibility.
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WPI
Walter G. Rhoten
Ohio
Rhoten
Clermont County
Ummont
Milford
Lawrence County
Board of Control
de. Clyde Hissong
RN. Ey ™Man
Robert L.roche
E. J. Areokd
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