Ohio Legislature Opens Amid State and National Debates
Ohio lawmakers prepare to hear Gov Lausche outline three term goals as Republicans hold a strong majority. In Washington, a Senate vote looms on deploying U S troops to Europe amid Korea setback debates, while Taft pledges to challenge presidential authority on foreign commitments. House criticism surfaces over committee appointments as a 16 member panel crafts a Republican policy statement.
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Frank J. Lausche
Senate House
Foreign Relations Committee
Taft
Ohio
Congress
National Press Club
HOUSE
Gordon Renner
Hamilton
Lowell Fess
Greene
A. G. Lancione
Belmont
William Saxbe
Champaign
Fess
Esther R. Hardy
Sandusky
Fremont
Virgil Perrill
Fayette
Agriculture
Newton B. Chapman
Geauga
Commerce
Transportation
Cedric A. Stanley
Warren
Harold L. Short
Miami
Kenneth F. Berry
Coshocton
Elton Kile
Madison
Finance Committee
Floyd B. Griffin
Allen
GI Insurance Dividend To Be Revealed Soon
The Veterans Administration plans to announce the size of the National Service Life Insurance dividend for World War I veterans covering 1948 50. The payout will be much smaller than last year 2.8 billion dollars paid for eight years of policy earnings.
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Washington
National Service
Veterans Administration
Price Cutting OK Says Supreme Court in Good Faith
The Supreme Court ruled 53 to 3 that price cutting is legal if done in good faith to retain a customer and match a competitor’s price. The decision states such price cutting does not violate anti trust laws.
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Washington
Supreme Court
SLED RIDER KILLED BY BUS CAMBRIDGE
A seven year old boy, Jimmy Jackson of Quaker City, was crushed under a school bus while sledding yesterday near Cambridge. Police reported no witnesses who could identify the driver and the tragedy prompted school officials to review safety procedures.
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Cambridge
Jimmy Jackson
Quaker City
Tax Until It Hurts President Urges Higher Taxes
President Truman argued the nation must be taxed until it hurts to fund armament against communism. Treasury Secretary Snyder warned against deficits, suggesting tax levels high enough to cover rearmament may strain the economy. Congress eyes roughly 75 billion for the next year, up 25 billion from this year’s receipts, with talk of a national sales tax. Byrd released Truman’s conciliatory letter, noting no exact figures but hinting at increased taxes possibly near ten billion.
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Truman
Congress
Treasury
Snyder
Byrd
D-Va
MR. Truman
Price support hike eyed by two senators after State of the Union
Senators Ellender and Thye said Truman’s address pointed to new and higher farm price supports to spur production. They anticipate legislation akin to wartime measures to guarantee high prices. Wilson weighs a 30 day general price freeze as wage price plans move forward. The Wage Stabilization Board set to meet with labor and industry chiefs to craft a policy. Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association president Batson warned of potential meat shortages under price control.
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D-La
Thye
Truman
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Agriculture Committee
Charles E. Wilson
Wage Stabilization Board
Cyrus S. Ching
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
C. B. Batson
Dekalb, Ill
The
Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association
Britannia’s sword stolen from Waterloo Place statue
London detectives investigate the theft of a four foot bronze sword attached to Britannia by a girdle around the Lord Clyde statue in Waterloo Place. The loss, reported by the ministry of works, follows the earlier disappearance of the coronation stone from Westminster Abbey. Police note a busy weekend of football matches as the city swarmed with fans.
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Gads
Chumley
Scone
Britannia
Lord Clyde
Ministry of Works
Waterloo Place
Pall Mall
Scotland Yard
Westminster Abbey
Ohio Women Expected To Hold Defense Jobs
Representatives of Ohio women’s organizations will meet in Columbus on Friday to learn how they can serve in the state civil defense program. Maj. Gen. Leo M. Kreber, state civil defense director, says women are expected to handle more than half of all civil defense activities.
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Columbus
Ohio
Leo M. Kreber
Five day extended forecast for Columbus Ohio
Five day forecast notes colder conditions Thursday with gradual warming by the weekend. Temperature averages will be 3 to 6 degrees below normal with normal highs around 32 and lows near 15. Precipitation expected at fractions of an inch with frequent light snow or snow flurries periods.
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Columbus
Ohio
Agents Seek Nine Witnesses in Cleveland Crime Probe
Law enforcement searched Cleveland for nine residents still wanted as witnesses at a Senate crime investigation. In Washington Senator Kefauver criticized their absence from home and usual haunts as the committee schedules a three day Cleveland hearing beginning January 17.
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Cleveland
Senate
Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Break Policy Deadlock Vandenberg Urges Prompt U S Action
Grand Rapids reports Sen. Vandenberg cautions against foreign policy deadlock, urges a meeting of loyal minds as swiftly as possible. He states the nation cannot endure policy paralysis amid aggression, and that earnest debate must scrutinize the ways and means.
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Grand Rapids
Sen
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Shipbuilding First on List For Congress
Washington AP The Navy's $2 billion shipbuilding schedule tops Congress's early rearmament push outlined by President Truman. The plan authorizes 133 new vessels including a 60,000 ton carrier, modernizes 257 ships, and aims for three and a half years to finish the carrier with the rest in two years.
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Washington
Navy
Congress
America
Vinson
John A. McCone
Air Force
Teen Ager Is Injured In Sledding Accident
Rowina Hayman, teen-age daughter of Mrs. John Hayman of Leon, was injured when a sled struck a post on Burdett's Hill in Leon on Monday night. She suffered broken front teeth and facial bruises while her companion Curtis Burdett escaped injury.
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Point Pleasant
Rowina Hayman
John Hayman
Leon
Burdett
Celina Father and Son Killed in Train Collision Near Fort Recovery
A Celina man Russell Jenkins 52 and his son Grant Jenkins 18 were killed yesterday in a collision between a train and an automobile near Fort Recovery. The incident occurred as the vehicle was struck by the train at a crossing. Authorities are investigating the crash and releases of further details are expected.
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Celina
Russell Jenkins
Grant Jenkins
Fort Recovery
FBI reports lead on Badman Cook in nationwide manhunt
The FBI broadcast a suspect description for a man believed to be Badman Bill Cook, driving a green 1950 Ford, and possibly heading toward San Francisco. Reports place similar sightings in Texas, Oregon, Kansas, New Mexico, and nearby states as officers link him to a desert killing in California and the suspected murder of Carl Mosser and family in Oklahoma.
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Calif
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Bill) Cook
Chula Vista
Here
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FBI
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San Francisco
Texas
Oregon
Kansas
New Mexico
Vaughn
N. M
Clovis
California
Cherryvale
Pittsburgh
Joplin
Oklahoma
Desert
Robert H. Dewey
Carl Mosser
Sub-zero Ohio cold snap with rising afternoon warmth forecast
Columbus and nine Ohio towns reported sub-zero readings last night with Athens the coldest at seven below. Temperatures were expected to climb this afternoon as the Mercury likely would not drop below 20 tonight. Florida also felt the chill with Jacksonville at 31 and Miami at 42 as weather spread southward.
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Ohio
Weather Bureau
Athens
Associated Press
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Marion
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Akron
Cleveland
Toledo
Florida
Jacksonville
Miami
Auto Pinch Is Predicted By Dealers At NADA Meet
Miami Beach report says defense mobilization will cut new car production spare parts and mechanics. Fred L Haller president of NADA cites average vehicle age of 8.5 years vs 5.5 at Pearl Harbor and 42 percent of cars are 10 years old or older, up from 17 percent in 1941.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Pearl Harbor
National Automobile Dealers Association
Fred L. Haller
Washington, D. C
NADA
America
M. R. Darlington, Jr
Washington
Reds Protest Ike Arrival at European Headquarters
General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in Europe to inspect the Brussels Pact defense alliance HQ after meeting French President. About 200 communists protested outside the Hotel Astoria in Paris while 1,000 police kept order and blocked access to the hotel area.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vincent Aurio
Paris
Eisenhower
Versailles
Medal of Honor Awarded Heroes For Courage in Korean Conflict
Five soldiers received the Medal of Honor posthumously or in absentia from President Truman for actions in Korea. Pfc Melvin L Brown is missing after heroic stand near Kasan on Sept 4. Maj Gen William F Dean led a Taejon defense and did not return. Sgt Travis E Watkins directed a doomed defense near Yongsan and died after heroic grenades and fire. 1st Lt Frederick F Henry sacrificed to cover a platoon withdrawal near Am-Dong. Sgt 1st Class Charles W Turner commanded a tank fire and was killed atop a tank near Yongsan.
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Mahaffey
William F. Dean
Berkeley
Calif
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Gladewater
Tex
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Clinton
Okla
Charles W. Turner
Boston
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Korea
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24Th Infantry Division
Taejon
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9Th Infantry Regiment
Yongsan
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Henry
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Am-Dong
Turner
2Nd Infantry Division
Massive Chinese force menaces Osan retreat in Korea
Allied troops fought to slow a large Chinese offensive pushing toward the Pusan beachhead. Two UN battalions attacked near Wonju as a regimental counterattack southwest of Wonju aimed to reclaim ground. Reports say up to eight Chinese armies, possibly over 80,000 troops, massed in the Osan area as the Eighth Army retreated southeast.
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Associated Press
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MacArthur
UN to Make Last Appeal to Chinese in Korea Crisis
The United Nations planned one final appeal to the Chinese Communists for peace in Korea before pursuing a U.S. bid to label Peiping as an aggressor. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb urged delaying action for 10 to 14 days, acknowledging slim chances of success but insisting nations aim to show aggression does not pay. He told the 60 nation political committee that Peiping’s government is flouting UN authority and cannot endure the situation much longer.
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United Nations
Korea
Peiping
Britain
Gladwyn Jebb
Jebb
China
Stassen Sees Bright Peace Outlook After World Trip
Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, returned from a five week world tour to say that despite real dangers of war the prospects for peace are brighter than in three years. He cited awakening against communism, a potential counter revolution in the Iron Curtain, and rearming by peace loving nations as key reasons. He arrived by plane from London.
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New York
Harold Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Russian Kremlin
Red Army
America
Stassen
London
Doomsday Thinkers Await End in B C Cottage
In Keremeos British Columbia 35 members of the Children of Light remain in a darkened stone farm cottage after a 15 day vigil. Their leader Grace Agnes Carlson forecasts earth’s imminent end January 9 but offers no specifics. Followers sold possessions burned documents jewelry and chard lands to escape debt.
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Keremeos
B. C
Children of Light
Grace Agnes Carlson
Limit on Volunteers Is Set by Air Force
The Air Force will ration enlistments through a quota system. About 1000 volunteer recruits will be received daily for indoctrination training at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio Texas. The first area quota, including the Athens region, was set at 170.
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Washington
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Texas
Athens
ATR Squadron Activated at Wright-Patterson AFB
The 97th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron has been activated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to help defend the Dayton area backed by industrial significance and military readiness.
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ATR
Dayton
Ohio
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
McCarthy Questions Pace Over Secret Messages Leak
Senator McCarthy pressed Secretary Pace to explain how secret military messages reached columnist Drew Pearson. He released a letter warning that if Pentagon decoded messages were being stolen and given to Pearson, national security and the lives of many young men were in grave danger.
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Senator McCarthy
Pace
Drew Pearson
Wisconsin
Pearson
Pentagon
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