Truman's Top Proposals Face Widespread Skepticism in Congress
President Truman outlined major 1948 proposals including tax cuts and anti inflation measures but most appear headed to a congressional wastebasket. Some items like rent control extension foreign aid broader social security coverage richer minimum wages and civil rights guarantees may survive in compromised form.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Alaska
Hawaii
TVA
Rail Group President Ordered to Negotiate Vacations
A. F. Whit ley president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen is ordered by the union’s general chairmen to start negotiations for 15 day vacations and time and a half pay for Sunday and holiday work. Current contracts provide a seven day vacation.
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Cleveland
A. F. Whitley
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Union
Burns Prove Fatal For 88-Year-Old Lena Weiman
Mrs Lena Weiman aged 88 died when blankets on her bed caught fire in Cleveland. The invalid woman suffered fatal burns yesterday.
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Cleveland
Lena Weiman
NLRB Decides AFL Steel Entry Attempt in Major Case
The National Labor Relations Board faces a Taft Hartley clash over AFL efforts to enter the steel industry. AFL bricklayers seek separate bargaining units at American Rolling Mill Co in Middletown Ohio and National Tube Co in Lorain Ohio. About 24 of 4,000 workers at Middletown and 80 of 12,000 at Lorain would be represented.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
AFL
NLRB
American Rolling Mill Company
Middletown
Ohio
National Tube Company
Lorain
Save What's Left as GOP Battle Cry in 1948
Washington reports the Republican Party adopts a 1948 victory slogan promising to "Vote Republican in 1948 save what's left" after earlier taglines such as "had enough" in 1946. The line signals a stark appeal to weary voters amid postwar conditions.
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Washington
Republican Party
Burr Oak Reservoir Bid Date Set for Feb 9
The US Army Engineers announced bids for Burr Oak Reservoir outlet works on Sunday Creek will open about February 9 with plans available around January 9. Completion time shortened to 300 days. location near Glouster and Corning on Sunday Creek.
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Burr Oak Reservoir
Sunday Creek
US Army Engineers
Corps of Engineers
Burr Oak
Glouster
Corning
Baby's Vitamin Shot Supplants Cod Liver Oil
Dr Henry J Gerstenberger of Cleveland reports a single yearly vitamin D-3 injection for eight day old babies at the American Medical Association meeting. He notes vitamin D-3 is not present in mothers milk or cow milk and replaces cod liver oil.
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Cleveland
American Medical Association
Henry J. Gerstenberger
Armed Robbery of Pal Leads to Youth Arrest
Clarksbury West Virginia police report the arrest of William A. Michaels 18 of Steubenville Ohio after he robbed a bus station acquaintance of five dollars and returned to town with the victim for a pool game. He boarded a bus and attempted to hide a .38 caliber pistol as officers approached.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
E. F. Amsler
Steubenville
Ohio
Amsler
William A. Michaels
WCTU Objects to Unit Columbus Plan
Mary B. Irvin, president of the Ohio Women's Christian Temperance Union, said the Ohio WCTU is sending hundreds of letters to Ohio congressmen protesting universal military training.
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WCTU
Columbus
Mary B. Ervin
Ohio Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Ohio Wctu
Ohio
Taft favored to win GOP nod as Ohio picks 53 delegates
Brown predicts Taft will secure the Republican nomination on the first or second ballot at Philadelphia. Ohio party leaders announced a slate of 53 Taft pledged delegates, headed by U. S. Sen. John Bricker, with Brown and others on the delegation. Brown doubts Harold Stassen will seek Ohio delegates and notes Taft may target primaries in states not requiring his consent.
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Columbus
Robert A. Taft
Clarence J. Brown
Blanchester
Ohio
Philadelphia
Brown
GOP
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Taft
U. S
John W. Bricker
Don H. Ebright
Bricker
State Committee
Thomas J. Herbert
Fred H. Johnson
Ed D. Schorr
Katharine Kennedy Brown
Dayton
Myers Y. Cooper
Cincin
Second Highest Price Set in Tobacco Sale
Louisville report shows 9,959,142 pounds of burley tobacco sold on Kentucky markets for 4,105,726.71 dollars. The hundredweight average was 51.27 dollars, the season's second highest, surpassing the December 19 statewide average by 1.64 dollars. Top price of the season stood at 51.66 dollars on December 15.
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Louisville
State Department of Agriculure
Kentucky
Police Check Probates In Tuley Slaying Case
Cleveland police homicide squad investigated 21 probated residents from the New Year’s night area where eight year old Sheila Ann Tuley was killed. Ten others remained in custody after releases from county jail in 1947 due to overcrowding.
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Tuley
Cleveland
Sheila Ann Tuley
State welfare director cites rise in physicians in state hospitals
Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood reported 78 full time physicians are now employed in state institutions for mental patients, up from 59, with about 50 vacancies remaining. He cited salary limits and housing bottlenecks as hurdles, noting $700,000 is available for physicians housing and plans shift to 56 prefabricated single houses for occupancy next spring.
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Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Sherwood
Welfare Department
U S Marine Killed on Trip in China
In Tsingtao China the Chinese garrison commander said a Marine died on a Christmas Day hunting trip in North China while four others remained missing and one was AWOL. Navy authorities withheld names. A jeep tied to the party was abandoned and looted beyond government lines.
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Tsingtao
China
U.S
North China
U.S. Navy
Navy
Strike Deadline Reached On Akron Railroad Line
In Akron 24 unionists on the 23 mile Akron and Barberton belt line faced strike deadline. Prospects for an emergency arbitration board • headed by President Truman • to avert the walkout faded last night.
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Akron
Akron and
Barberton Belt Line
Truman
Two Attorneys Seek Democrat Nomination for Attorney General
Columbus attorneys Herbert Lufty and Paul F. Ward filed to seek the Democratic nomination for attorney general. Lufty once held the office and Ward served as secretary of the state industrial commission.
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Columbus
Herbert Lufty
Paul F. Ward
State Industrial Commission
Tragedy Strikes Ohio Village Reopens School After Crash
Archbold Ohio recalls a locomotive wreck that killed ten children as the town resumes daily life. The grade and high school, closed for three days for funerals, reopen as residents return to work and routines.
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Ohio Village of Tragedy
Archbold
Ohio
Former Chief Indicted in Xenia Embezzlement Case
Oscar Day 54, ex Yellow Springs police chief, was indicted by a grand jury in Xenia on embezzlement charges. He faces alleged discrepancies totaling 233 dollars in city traffic ticket funds.
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Xenia
Oscar Day
Yellow Springs
Death Valley Scotty's Benefactor dies at 72
Albert Hussey Johnson longtime president of the National Life Insurance Co of Chicago died last night at age 72 He supported Death Valley Scotty the desert prospector for three decades and was known as his grubstaker
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Hollywood
Albert Hussey Johnson
National Life Insurance Co
Chicago
Death Valley Scotty
Goodyear and Goodrich Confirm 5 Percent Tire Price Rise
Akron report states Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co and B F Goodrich Co confirmed a five per cent price increase to automobile manufacturers and other early purchasers yesterday.
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Akron
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
B. F. Goodrich Co
Georgia Plane Crash Kills Many En Route to Miami
A New York to Miami charter C-47 crashed near Savannah injuring nine with 17 or 18 dead. The army transport carried Puerto Rican passengers. it dived and exploded over marshlands eight miles southeast of Savannah. Victims were removed to the Marine Hospital. 26 total dead and injured were counted with no infant found. The injured included William Schrader, 18.
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Savannah
New York
Miami
Savannah River
Here
Marine Hospital
William Schrader
Dillonville
Historic Turner Hall Destroyed by Early Fire
A major blaze gutted the upper stories of Turner Hall in Cincinnati, a five story brick and frame building once used as an Army drill post and now housing the Turners Athletic Association bowling alleys and gymnasium with a U S postal sub station on the first floor. Fire crews arrived with all aerial equipment and had the fire under control about 90 minutes after 3 a.m.
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Cincinnati
Turner Hall
Army of the Republic
Turners Athletic Association
U. S
Cincinnati Fire Department
Prisoner Returns Fearing Recognition
A 22 year old Kentucky section hand, who escaped September 1 from Moundsville prison, traveled in striped clothing through West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. Fearing recognition he traveled to Toledo, where he surrendered after realizing he was near. He faced a five year term with 16 months remaining for unarmed robbery.
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Toledo
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ohio
Moundsville
W. Va
Ohio Pastors Assembly To Hear Wallace January 28
Henry A. Wallace the third party presidential candidate will address the Ohio Pastors Convention in Columbus twice on January 28. Dr. B F Lamb executive secretary of the Ohio Council of Churches said about 3600 pastors attend the convention each year and Wallace accepted the invitation recently after it was extended a year ago.
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Columbus
Henry A. Wallace
Ohio
B. F. Lamb
Ohio Council of Churches
Stalin Dead Rumor Quashes by Soviet Officials
In Bern the Der Bund ran a question mark headline Stalin dead. Reports cited serious background but Tass and Soviet embassy spokesmen in London called the rumor nonsense. Stalin was 68 last month.
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Bern
Switzerland
der Bund
Stalin
Moscow
London
Tass
Marshall Seeks Speedy Aid Plan for Europe
Secretary of State Marshall urged Congress to approve a four year European recovery program totaling about 6.8 billion dollars for the first 15 months. He warned that delay risks economic collapse in Western Europe and warned against tying funds to unrelated policy strings.
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Washington
Marshall
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Republican Congress
Europe
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Senate Probe To Question Truman Aide
A Senate committee investigating speculation has secret testimony from Harry Brisker the broker who handled Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham and President Truman’s physician account. Graham will be asked to explain trading as Harold Stassen accuses insiders of profiting in commodities. Morgenthau Edwin Pauley and relatives appear on a new corn trader list with long positions.
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Washington
Senate
Harry Brisker
Truman
Brisker
Wallace H. Graham
Graham
Harold E. Stassen
Butter price in Cincinnati falls again
The wholesale butter price dropped two more cents a pound today in Cincinnati, marking the second decline in two days. The current price stands at 88 cents per pound.
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Cincinnati
Only Appointed Officers Are Eligible Ruling Declares Constables Must Be Elected
In Columbus Ohio Atty. Gen. Hugh S. Jenkins ruled that township trustees may appoint constables only if elected. He states appointed constables are not eligible to serve as police constables, a decision prepared for Prosecutor Frank T. Cullitan of Cuyahoga County.
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Columbus
Hugh S. Jenkins
Frank T. Cullitan
Cuyahoga County
Jenkins
Removal of Marshal Sought by Town Council
Chesapeak mayor says formal charges seek removal of Marshal Ron Smith, chief county law enforcement officer. A hearing is set for the town council meeting February 2. Details of the charges were not revealed.
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Chesapeake
John L. Fisher
Marshall Ron Smith
Has kins Named to State Mine Examining Board
Gov. Thomas J. Herbert appointed W. H. Haskins of West Lafayette to succeed the late Charles Matson of Coshocton on the State Mine Examining Board. The change adds a new member to the board overseeing mining standards and safety.
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Haskins
Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
W. H. Haskins
West Lafayette
Charles Matson
Coshocton
State
Child Killed in Cincinnati Traffic Crash
Cincinnati records first new year traffic fatality as 7 year old Lonna May Wright dies after a truck hits her while she roller skated in front of her home. she dies in hospital.
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Cincinnati
Lonna May Wright
Meat controls spark large scale marketing concerns
The Independent Livestock Marketing Association told Senator Taft that meat controls would drive a big market for short-weight animals and valuable breeding stock, in an open letter addressing industry impact and policy.
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ATRS
Columbus
Independent Livestock Marketing Association
Robert A.taft
Alaska deaths remain unsolved in Dillingham case
In Bristol Day settlement, Alaska, two men Harold W Griffin and Martin Ernestus died in a home. FBI autopsy found no knife or gun wounds and left the cause unresolved. Mrs Griffin is in critical condition at Kanakanak after being found with the bodies. Griffin once played for Portsmouth Lions football.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Bristol Day
Dillingham
Harold W. (Tubby) Griffin
Martin Ernestus
FBI
Griffin
Kanakanak
Ernestus
Portsmouth
Ohio
Lions
Used Car Boss Trial Reopened in Cleveland
Investigation of the used car empire once run by Jack Singleton, jailed on six counts of larceny by trick and embezzlement, was to be reported reopened tomorrow by the Cuya hoga County Grand Jury. Claims exceed $700000 from about 400 customers and Bankruptcy Court records show $396.13 owed to creditors.
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Cleveland
Jack Singleton
Cuyahoga County
Singleton
Third Term Promoter Dies in Washington
Charles Michelson aged 79, a newspaperman and former publicity director of the Democratic National Committee, died today in Washington. In 1940 he promoted a Roosevelt third term, the first such bid for a sitting president.
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Washington
Charles Michelson
Democratic National Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Court Halts Taylorcraft Move to Canton
A common pleas court issued an injunction blocking Taylorcraft Inc from transferring the firm from its Alliance site. Officers led by president G. Taylor allege an illegal meeting by opposing directors who voted to fire him and relocate operations to Canton.
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Canton—(P
Taylorcraft, Inc
Taylorcraft Aviation Corp
Common Pleas Court
Alliance
Cc. G. Taylor
Taylor
Ohio Cigaret Tax Total Shows Million Jump
The state cigarette tax yielded $16,425,441 in 1947, an increase of $963,841 over the previous year, the state taxation department reported today.
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Ohio
Columbus
State Taxation Department
Bricker Says Truman Budget Too High and Needs Cuts
Senator Bricker of Ohio urged major federal savings saying the expected 40 billion dollar budget request is far too high and could be trimmed by up to 10 billion. He proposed department reorganizations, a central purchasing agency, and elimination of duplicative federal agencies to cut costs without harming services. Bricker cited past state payroll reductions and warned that high taxes absorb a large share of national income.
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Washington
Bricker
Ohio
Truman
Briekner
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