Congress Sets January 20 Date for Labor Rulings Hearings
Congressional leaders announced hearings on new labor laws to begin by January 20. The agenda includes bills restricting unions and limiting strikes, with top measures from Rep Case and Sen Ball aimed at outlawing closed shops and strengthening management rights.
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Washington
Senate
House
Capitol
Rep
Case
R-Sc
Hoffman
R-Mich
Labor Committee
Ball
R-Minn
Taft
Ohio
H. Alexander Smith
GOP to Fight Top Selections in Senate Confirmations
A Republican senator said two high ranking nominations sent by President Truman could face confirmation battles. Frances Perkins to civil service commission and Dillon S. Myer to head the United States Housing Authority drew adverse criticism at a Steering Committee meeting.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Frances Perkins
Civil Service Commission
Dillon S. Myer
Licking County
United States Housing Authority
Republican Steering Committee
Icicle Drops From Roof Kills Worker at Steel Plant
In Chicago an icicle 75 feet long broke loose from a Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp building and fatally struck Alva Teskey, 44, who was repairing an exterior door yesterday.
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Chicago
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Alva Teskey
Washington Shakeup and Marshall Appointment
Sam Simmons outlines a government reshuffle with Baruch and the AEC quitting their posts while Byrnes resigns as secretary of state. General Marshall is named as Byrnes' successor amid Republican approval, amid claims of his China policy failures and Communist resistance.
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Baruch
Atomic Energy Commission
United Nations
Byrnes
Marshall
China
Congress
Senate
George C. Marshall
James F. Byrnes
World Group Plans Peace In 21st Meet
The Institute on World Affairs opened its 21st annual three day session in Cleveland focusing on peaceful programs. Ezequiel Padilla, ex Mexican foreign minister, spoke at the luncheon and supported American democratic ideals. A Saturday Byrnes address on foreign affairs will be broadcast nationwide by NBC from 10 to 10:30 p.m. EST. Time Magazine editor Henry Luce opened with a Far Eastern affairs address.
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Cleveland
Institute On World Affairs
Ezequiel Padilla
United States
James F. Byrnes
Institute
Time Magazine
Byrnes
National Broadcasting Company
Henry Luce
World” Forum
Shampoo Shower Fights Baltimore Beauty School Robbery
A black robber invaded the East Baltimore Beauty School where ten Black women practiced hairdressing. Miss Inez Fitzgerald hurled hot shampoo from an oil stove pan into the intruder’s face, knocking him back, police reported last night.
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Baltimore
East Baltimore
Inez Fitzgerald
Licking County Jury Dismisses Murder Count
Newark Ohio a grand jury ignored a first degree murder charge against Jesse Sweeney a 50 year old farm tenant in the Perkins farm killing near Johnstown on November 23 Sweeney claimed Perkins threatened him with a large steel rule after a planting dispute
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Newark
Jesse Sweeney
Licking County
Sweeney
Col
Chell B. Perkins
Johnstown
Perkins
Perry County Woman Succumbs in Columbus
Mrs. Mary Slattery Lennon wife of M J Lennon executive vice president of the Perry County Bank died Tuesday night at Mount Carmel Hospital in Columbus Funeral services will be held Friday morning at New Lexington She is survived by three sons and five daughters
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Columbus
New Lexington
Mary Slattery Lennon
M. J. Lennon
Perry County Bank
Lennon
Mount Carmel Hospital
Beightler Nominated for Major General Rank
President Truman sent to the Senate the nomination of Brig. Gen. Robert S. Beightler of Columbus for promotion to major general. The action comes as Beightler serves in a key Ohio command role.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Robert S. Beightler
Columbus
Indicted Couple Seen Charged With Three Cent Damage
Mr and Mrs Ben Reed face Geauga County Grand Jury indictments for malicious destruction of three cents worth of property. They allegedly damaged an eyelet in a screen door casing at Edward Grants house in Lake Aquilla. Mrs Reed is also charged with unlawfully striking Grant.
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Chardon, O
Ben Reed
Geauga County Grand Jury
Edward Grant
Lake Aquilla
Colorado Pensioners Get Jackpot Payment
Welfare Director Earl M. Kouns announced that Colorado pensioners received a $22.80 jackpot payment in addition to their $45 monthly pensions. He claimed it was the highest such payment ever made to pensioners in a single month in the United States.
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Denver
Colorado
Earl M. Kouns
United States
Price Lowering Forecast By Exchange Economists
Chicago brokers who trade on the commodity exchanges predict lower prices for butter eggs and grains this summer. Butter may dip to 53 cents a pound for June delivery, about 22 cents under current wholesale levels. Futures contracts imply large buyers must purchase vast quantities. for a spread, 19 200 pounds. Wheat cash price around 2.20 a bushel with March at 2.04 and July at 1.79. Coffee cocoa cotton and other food commodities show similar patterns with distant deliveries cheaper. The forecasts reflect market opinions on future price trends rather than current spot prices.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Santos
Rent Control Battle Sparks Senate Move to End Support
President Truman urged extending rent controls past June 30 but the Senate considered a bill to end the program. Senator O'Daniel of Texas sponsored the measure with Wherry Moore and Bushfield backing it. Some senators favored keeping controls with optional landlord increases up to 15 percent. Real estate groups pressed to free rents after the temporary room ceiling repeal set for Feb. 15. Tobey said he would reserve judgment pending hearings.
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Murray
D-Mont
Taft
Hartley
R-Nj
House Labor Committee
Washington
Truman
O’daniel
Texas
Wherry
Neb
Moore
Okla
Bushfield
Office of Temporary Controls
Tobey
Senate Banking Committee
Judges Delay River Project Hearing in Conservancy Court
Columbus judges from 17 counties adjourn a conservancy court meeting until Feb 6 to reassess opposition to financing the Scioto and Sandusky River basin improvements. The 1934 entry blocking financing remains under review as officials weigh next steps.
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Columbus
Scioto
Sandusky
Conservancy Court
Quintuplets Reported in Henan Province China
The Chinese Central News Agency reported that five male quints were born to the wife of an officer in the Self Defense Corps at Yenlinhsien Henan Province but questions arose about the authenticity of the claim.
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Peiping
Yenlinhsien
Henan Province
Logan Man's Condition Is Improved
Logan officials report Earl Ball, hurt in Nevada crash, improving at Eureka hospital. Mrs Irwin Ball 53 and Miss Wilma Frazier killed. their bodies to arrive in Logan Saturday. Evelyn Ball escaped injury. Red Cross seeks fiancee Sir Robert D Allen aboard USS Oberon.
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Logan
Irwin Ball
Wilma Frazier
Nevada
Earl Ball
Eureka
Nev
Evelyn Ball
Wayne
Miss Ball
Wayne Ball
Ball
Hugh Huggins
Robbery Ends in Death In Cleveland Streetcar Incident
A 16 year old youth is dead and another in custody after a $1.25 streetcar robbery. Patrolman Michael Kalnitzky shot and wounded William Wright who fled after warnings. Conductor George Oliver identified a youth as one of four attackers who slashed him after passengers left.
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Cleveland
William Wright
Michael Kalnitzky
Kalnitzky
George Oliver
Mother and Child Die After Farm Home Fire
In EAST LIVERPOOL OHIO a mother Mrs Rose La Neve and a baby perished after she saved her year and a half old child then re entered the burning farm house for a second rescue attempt. The baby survived with severe burns.
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East Liverpool
Rose la Neve
Marshall to Keep Byrnes Policies Amid Bipartisan Support
Marshall enjoys congressional confidence and bi partisan backing to pursue Byrnes style patient but firm foreign policy. He aims to address a joint session before the Moscow ministers meeting and seek Big Four accords on Germany and Austria with Vandenberg and Connally at his side. He faces tasks on Germany's recovery, Argentina policy, a $500 million IMF loan to China, and UN stands on disarmament atomic energy and trade barriers.
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Byrnes
Congress
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Moscow
Germany
Austria
Vandenberg
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
Britain
France
Russia
Argentina
China
United Nations
Hope Wanes to End City Garbage Strike
A nine day strike by Portsmouth city garbage collectors continues with no settlement in sight. The United Public Workers of America CIO rejected a city council offer to raise wages by 15 cents an hour for 100 workers once the state funds are available. The council said further increases would follow if funds are provided.
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Portsmouth
United Public Workers of America
CIO
Scarce Auto Batteries To Be Sold by War Assets
The War Assets Administration announced 1,891 critically scarce automobile batteries placed on sale in a sealed bid sale. Batteries, inspectable at the Lima ordnance depot in Ohio, are mostly 17 or 19-plate types with 135 of 41 plate design excluded.
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Cleveland
War Assets Administration
Lima, Ohio
Former Ohio Chief Justice Named Nazi War Crimes Judge
Carring ton T. Marshall, former Ohio Supreme Court chief justice and Columbus attorney with Zanesville ties, was named chief justice of one of six military tribunals to try Nazi war criminals in Nuernberg. The War Department announced the appointment in Washington.
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Columbus
Carrington T. Marshall
Ohio Supreme Court
Nuernberg
Marshall
Zanesville
War Department
Washington
Nation's Pay Suits Climb in New Claims
New wage suit filings in at least nine cities seek 66.5 million dollars with a 28.5 million claim against Goodyear Aircraft in Akron. Iron ore miners in Birmingham seek 7 million from three steel firms for pre pit time. Cleveland area requests total 11.9 million from five Mahoning Valley employers.
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Portal To Portal
Tony
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Akron
Birmingham
Ala
Chicago
Los Angeles
St. Louis
Omaha
Houston
Tex
Springfield
Danville
Cleveland
Mahoning Valley
Cio-United Steelworkers
First Woman Airmail Pilot Found Dead in New York
Helen Richey 33 the first woman airmail pilot was found dead in her rooming house in New York Tuesday night. Richey from East McKeesport Pa had set a women’s refueling endurance record of 237 hours and 42 minutes in 1933 with partner Frances Harrel Marsalis.
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New York
Helen Richey
Frances Harrel Marsalis
East McKeesport
OSU Coed Muriel Schloss Found Dead in Residence Hall
Miss Milli cent Muriel Schloss, 19, of New York City, a pre law student at Ohio State University, was found hanged in a school residence hall basement. Coroner ruled death by own action. she had left OSU last spring and again during fall quarter due to illness.
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Columbus
Millicent Muriel Schloss
New York City
Ohio State University
John B. Gravis
Franklin County
Canton Toddler Dies From Burns After Starch Spill
Two year old Bernard R. Yant died Wednesday from burns sustained when he pulled a pan of hot starch off a stove at his home Monday.
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Canton
Bernard R. Yant
Taft Seeks Guarded Defense Cuts in Budget Debate
Congressional Republicans clash over defense spending with Rep. Taber pressing for drastic cuts and Sen. Taft urging restraint. Taber says Army Navy needs total about 8 billion for next year while Bridges and Taft favor savings through efficiency and reallocations.
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Washington
Rep
Taber
Taft
Ohio
Couns
New House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Congress
Senate Gop
Senate
Senator Bridges
R-Ny
Senate Appropriations Committee
Bridges
Plumley
R-Vi
Naval Appropriations Subcommittee
Army
Navy
Teacher Strike Closes Sharonville School Doors
In Cincinnati area Sharonville four hundred grade and high school pupils stayed home as eighteen teachers, in a salary dispute with the school board, considered a $20 monthly raise. The board approved the offer for the first six months of 1947 at an emergency meeting.
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Cincinnati
Sharonville
W. C. Grover
Artists Models Union To Set Posing Rates In San Francisco
The new association of professional models will decide Sunday how much to charge for posing both dressed and nude and whether to affiliate with the CIO or AFL. They seek raises from $1 to $1.50 for clothed posing and from $1.50 to $2 for nude posing.
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San Francisco
Association of Professional Models
CIO
AFL
Industrialist E Kay Ford Dies in Detroit
E Kay Ford 57 vice president of Hanna Furnace Co a unit of National Steel Corp died last night in Detroit. Ford led Hanna Furnace during expansion years and was a prominent figure in local industry.
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Detroit
E. Kay Ford
Hanna Furnace Co
Nationsal Steel Corp
Governors first acts include signing pay bill for state workers
Ohio lawmakers approved a six month appropriation of 109 258 621 to run state government and salaries through July 1. The emergency measure becomes operative immediately, allowing payment of payrolls including $250 to each legislator. Lt Governor Paul M. Herbert will be sworn in before the new term.
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Thomas J. Herbert
House
Senate
Herbert
97Th General Assembly
Ately
Paul M. Herbert
George D. Nye
Gov. Herbert
Abate
Tove
Edward J. Hummel
U. S
Robert W. Newton
Anti-Saloon League of
Ohio
S. P. McNaught
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