GOP Plans Cut In Foreign Aid To Slice Budget
Congress maps a $5.0 billion cut from President Truman's 39.669 billion dollar budget for the new fiscal year with foreign aid as the likely target. Taber urges at least $4.5 billion in reductions while Republicans push for tax cuts that could trim over $5 billion from estimated 44.477 billion in revenues.
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Washington
Truman
Taber
Senate House Budget Committee
Congress
New Yorker
Right of Way Shortage Halts Point Pleasant Flood Wall
Army engineers budget lists 1.1 million for Point Pleasant flood wall but right-of-way is missing. City planned 300 thousand in bonds to buy the land, but no buyer found and construction paused. Burr Oak reservoir near Glouster also listed in the budget.
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Point Pleasant
Army Engineers
Truman
Burr Oak Reservoir
Glouster
New York Times Artist Ignacio Perez Ortega Dies at 62
Ignacio Perez Ortega, a New York Times artist since 1926, died Sunday night after a long illness at age 62. He contributed illustrations and drawings to the paper for decades and was widely respected in his field.
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New York
Ignacio Perez Ortega
New York Times
Gas Station Man Admits Killing Girl
Harold Beach Jr a 23 year old filling station attendant confessed to murdering eight year old Sheila Ann Tuley with a kitchen knife on New Year’s Day in Cleveland. He led police through his sequence of actions and said he would sign waivers to allow extradition.
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Baltimore
Sheila Ann Tuley
Cleveland
Harold Beach, Jr
Edward J. Tuley
Henry J. Kriss
Beach
Ohio
Kriss
Tuley
New York State
Sheila Ann
Sheila
James Ellis, Jr
Gas Company Curtails Supplies to 159 Firms
The Manufacturers Light & Heat Co curtails 85 percent of gas supplies to about 159 industrial firms across Pennsylvania Ohio West Virginia and New York. The curtailment depends on the severity of an upcoming cold wave and affected firms include some in Eastern Ohio.
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Pittsburgh
Manufacturers Light & Heat Co
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
New York
Machine maker dies in Muscatine patriarch of button industry
Nicholas Barry, 92, a pioneer of automatic button making machinery developed with his father and two brothers, died in Muscatine Iowa. The family business created equipment now used worldwide.
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Muscatine
Nicholas Barry
Train Kills Man in Lima Collision
D. C. amber was killed yesterday when his car was struck by a freight train near Lima Ohio. Police reported the crash occurred as the car attempted to cross tracks, with no immediate witnesses noted.
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Manlima
D. C
Amber
Survivors rescued from blazing Army transport Connolly
All 46 aboard the flaming Army transport Connolly were saved after 11 hours in icy Atlantic seas. The 46 include 45 crewmen and one passenger who were picked up by Gen. R. E. Callan and Union Victory, with air rescue from Bermuda support. The ship burned from engine-room fire, cause undetermined.
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New York
Army
Joseph V. Connolly
North Atlantic
Connolly
R. E. Callan
Black Diamond Line
Union
Kindley Field
Bermuda
Court Orders Retrial After Confession Ruled Unreliable
Stark County prosecutors move to retry 17 year old John Harvey Haley without using his claimed confession to a 1945 hold up slaying. Haley, in Ohio Penitentiary, would be brought back for trial once the Supreme Court decision is official, overturning his life sentence. The case centers on a confession said to have been coerced from a minor, leading to earlier life terms for Haley and two co defendants.
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Canton
O.—P
Stark County
John Harvey Haley
U. S. Supreme Court
Haley
Ohio Penitentiary
High Tribunal
D. Deane McLaughlin
William Karam
Karam
Willie Lowder
Alfred Parks
Common Pleas
Frank N. Schweitzer
Fifth Appellate Court
Supreme Court
Douglas
Man's Death in River Reopened for Probe
Columbus sheriff reopens inquiry into the death of Walter Ray Middlemas 25 found in Alum Creek near Columbus. The body had been unidentified for months and showed head fractures from an earlier incident.
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Columbus
Ralph J. Paul
Walter Ray Middlemas
Here
One Killed Five Injured In Indiana Train Crash
A woman was killed and five others were injured when a Pennsylvania railroad passenger train struck an automobile in Middletown Indiana. The locomotive and six cars derailed but remained upright after leaving the rails, according to Henry County Sheriff R L Padgett.
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Indiana
Middletown
Ind
Pennsylvania Railroad
R. L. Padgett
Henry County
Coma Keeps Wilson Cabinet's Last Survivor in Bed
Josephus Daniels aged 85, the final living member of Woodrow Wilson's World War I cabinet, remained in a coma today due to pneumonia and related complications in Raleigh North Carolina.
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Wilson
Raleigh
N. C
Josephus Daniels
Woodrow Wilson
Railroad Pioneer Dies in New York
James Fullerton Shaw aged 74 a railroad builder of the early century died last night. He served as president and general manager of 13 separate electric lines reflecting a notable career in early rail transport.
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New York
James Fullerton Shaw
Rescue ships rush to burning Army transport in Atlantic
Five rescue ships chased the Army transport Joseph V. Connolly, 900 miles east of New York, reporting an engine room fire out of control. The Connolly, bound from New York to Antwerp with a cargo of war dead, abandoned ship with 46 men aboard.
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Joseph V. Connolly
Cross
New York
Antwerp
Belgium
NEA
Washington
Eastern Airlines
Houston
Tex
Boston
Maryland
Potomac River
National
EAL
Casualty Hospital
S. M. Warner
Clinton, S. C
W. A. Moorhead
Clinton
L. A
Honeymoon Put On Ice for 10 Years in Ohio
Walter Splitt, 27, of Akron, a convict under a 10 to 23 year sentence for armed holdup, wed Paule Belko, 31, of Akron, in the sheriff's office. After the ceremony Splitt kissed his bride and was returned to his cell with plans to transfer to the Ohio State Penitentiary later in the week.
Taft Opposes Meat Rationing Citing Black Market Risks
Senator Taft of Ohio argued against meat rationing predicting it would revive black markets and raise prices. He said a selective program would require as large an organization as rationing all goods and doubted the plan would work. Secretary Anderson urged rationing and price ceilings before the Senate Banking Committee.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Ohioan
Flanders
Truman
Anderson
Senate Banking Committee
Bought Cotton No Wheat Graham Tells Senate
Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee that he bought cotton but did not buy wheat following President Truman’s October 6, 1947 criticism of commodity market speculators. The president’s personal physician said he had made a profit.
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Washington
Wallace H. Graham
Truman
Senate Appropriations Committee
Graham
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
White House
Sleds Outspeed Sound in Secret Aircraft Tests
Northrop engineers report unmanned rocket powered sleds surpassing 1000 mph to smash a sonic barrier on 2000 feet of track in under two seconds at MAROC base. Tests began 15 months ago with $6165.25 in commodity trades cited in testimony.
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Maroc Air Base
Calif
Northrop Aircraft
Broadcasters Leader Labels Petrillo an Economic Pirate
Justin Miller president of the National Association of Broadcasters called James C Petrillo an economic pirate and said he has become the American public s symbol for bad union leadership Miller testified Petrillo aims to destroy the record making industry by uninventing the phonograph during a House Labor Committee hearing.
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Washington
Justin Miller
National Association of Broadcasters
House Labor Committee
James C. Petrillo
Miller
Petrillo
Robber Claims $350 From Cincinnati Dry Cleaner
A single robber, holding his hand in his pocket as if a gun, obtained 350 dollars yesterday from Irving Rosen, owner of a Cincinnati dry cleaning business.
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Cincinnati
Irving Rosen
Verdict to be returned in Wauseon train crash deaths
Coroner Milton Warner said a verdict would be returned tomorrow in the deaths of 10 children killed January 4 when a tractor drawn bobsled was struck by a speeding passenger train near Wauseon Ohio.
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Wauseon
Milton Warner
Pomeroy lax Decision Is Left To City Council After Public Airs Views
After a public meeting in Pomeroy the push for a one percent municipal income tax is dropped by Mayor D A Canaday who will leave final action to the village council. He cited a turnout of about 300 with 175 against and 125 for in June as the basis for suspending advocacy. The council is slated to meet January 19 to decide. The measure would have funded debt payoff and projects including a swimming pool, football field, municipal building, sewer work and streetlights. People spoke for and against the tax.
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Pomeroy
D. A.canaday
Canaday
Lincoln Heights
Pat Will
Kelly Grueser
Henry Koehler
Bert House
Glenroy Ewing
Opera House
Alvin Norris
Harmon
James O'Brian
Eight Escapees Face Added Prison Terms
Eight youths captured after climbing the Chillicothe Federal Reformatory fence on January 5 receive additional sentences from two to five years. Dillard Collins and James Lovell, who escaped December 7, also sentenced. leaders Haugh Futch Rash get five years. others Bastin Blevins Clance Hatten Roper receive two or three year terms.
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Columbus
Chillicothe Federal Reformatory
Dillard Collins
Bethel
Ohio
James W. Lovell
Bybee
Tenn
Collins
Lovell
Theodore Haugh
Amarillo
Edward R. Futch
Marion Rash
Cheyenne
Wyo
Mell G. Underwood
Billy Lee Bastin
Linden
Gladys Blevins
Cookeville
William Clance, Jr
Two Sentenced In Ironton Ring
Fourteen individuals are under federal prison sentences from the FBI raid on a white slave ring in Ironton. William J. Eversole and William Ellis Griffith each received two-year terms after pleading guilty to transporting women from Ashland Kentucky to Ironton for immoral purposes. Amida Veazey faces trial tomorrow as the first of four who pled not guilty.
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FBI
Ironton
William J. Eversole
William Ellis Griffith
John H. Druffel
Ashland
Amida Veazey
Columbus
Nicholas
Joyce Dinora
Beald
Ill
Wilford Zogelsong
Judge orders council to adopt merger bill
Common Pleas Judge Frank L. Johnson ordered the Fairfield village council to adopt an ordinance toward a merger with Osborn after 106 residents petitioned for action. He said the council's refusal effectively disfranchised voters and violated civic rights.
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Judge Orders Council
Xenia—(P
Fairfield
Osborn
Common Pleas
Frank L. Johnson
Ten Electrical Firms Indicted for Price Fixing on West Coast
In Los Angeles a federal indictment charges ten major electrical manufacturers with illegal price fixing that allegedly cost west coast utilities millions by stifling bidding. Defendants include Hi-Voltage Equipment Co. and Cleveland.
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Los Angeles
Hi - Voltage Equipment Co
Cleveland
Inter American Labor Conference backs new Confederation
In Lima Peru the Inter American Labor Conference approved unanimously a resolution creating an Inter American Labor Confederation.
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Confederation
Lima
Peru
The
Inter- American Labor Conference
Inter- American Labor Confederation
Accident claims life of Newark truck driver Willard James
Willard James a 53 year old truck driver from Newark died yesterday from injuries sustained in a traffic accident authorities report the crash occurred in the city and James succumbed to his wounds at a local hospital.
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Newark
Willard James
Aid Chief Limitations Are Planned
GOP House members pressed to define clear orders and power limits for the European recovery program administrator. Hearing on the Marshall Plan continued with Ambassador Lewis Douglas and questions for Secretary of Agriculture Wayne Morse Anderson, amid debate over the $6.8 billion first 15 months funding.
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Washington
House
Vorys
Ohio
Chiperfield
GOP
Foreign Affairs Committee
Lewis H. Douglas
Britain
Arizona
Agriculture Anderson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Capitol
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Hickenlooper
R-Ia
Rep
Jarman
D-Ala
Truman
State Department
Stassen Campaign Opens Ohio City Tour Ahead of Primary
Earl E. Hart campaign manager for Harold Stassen announced a tour of Ohio cities to gauge sentiment in Taft’s home state. Stassen will run in the Ohio primary this May unless events alter the plan, with stops including Columbus Thursday and possibly Cincinnati Saturday.
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Cleveland
Earl E. Hart
Harold Stassen
Ohio
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Hart
Stassen
Columbus
Cincinnati
Taft
State to Complete Deal on Hospital Purchase
Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood said the state would complete the purchase of Longview State Hospital in Cincinnati tomorrow morning with a check for 623,999 presented to Hamilton County officials.
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Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Longview State Hospital
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Boy Dies From Model Plane Wire Fire
In Port Clinton Ohio a 14 year old boy, James Roda, was fatally burned when a model airplane he held became tangled in a high tension wire and current ignited his clothing. Authorities investigated the accident as a tragic to engine related incident.
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Port Clinton, CO
James Roda
County Coroner Accused After Columbus Autopsy
Franklin County Coroner Mitchell A. Spyker faces a civil suit alleging he dissected human bodies to aggrandize himself. Margaret Wilson claims he autopsied her husband without permission after his death on November 26. Spyker also serves as a pathology instructor at Ohio State University amid a police investigation into the Elmo C. Rice case.
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Columbus
Franklin County
Mitchell A. Spyker
Common Pleas
Margaret Wilson
Anderson Sees Marshall Plan Food Exports Shrinking
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said food exports under the Marshall Plan would be smaller than in recent years. As Europe’s recovery advances, shipments of scarce foods would decline while emphasis shifts to more abundant staples.
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Washington
Secreary of Agriculture
Anderson
Discs in Albany Area Weather Instruments Mystery
A grounded weather instrument resembling a flying saucer landed by parachute near Pearl Chapel Church between Athens and Meigs County. Borne aloft by balloon from Cincinnati or Columbus, the unit relayed upper air data and carries a finder notice. Reeves of Albany suggests similar objects may explain pilots chasing targets in the Middle West.
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James E. Reeves
Albany
Pearl Chapel
Athens
Meigs County
Cincinnati
Columbus
Reeves
Middle West
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