Seven Masked Gunmen Seize Million Dollars in Boston
FBI and state police hunted seven masked gunmen who netted one million dollars in cash from a Brink's vault in Boston. The haul included 500000 in checks and an ensuing manhunt stretched across the city and nearby towns with reports of a black Cadillac getaway.
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Boston
FBI
Federal Reserve Bank
Ellis Hult
Boston Federal Reserve
West Roxbury
Providence
R. I
Fallon
Seaboard
Foxboro
John B. Hynes
John D. Ahern
Special Service Squad
Police track Cadillac in Bronx linked to Boston robbery
Police said a Cadillac tied to a million dollar Boston holdup was seen in the Bronx today heading east on 225th Street. Massachusetts police advised lookout for a Cadillac sedan with registration 156-533 and engine 4861-34359, believed used in the robbery.
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New York
Boston
Bronx
225Th Street
Massachusetts
Federal oleomargarine tax repeal advances near approval
In Washington a long fight to repeal federal oleomargarine taxes dating back to 1886 neared a victory. Senator Wiley left the city as allies claimed the fight was over while Taft and Bricker voted against a House substitute. A tabling of anti-poll tax and anti-lynching amendments looms as the main remaining hurdle.
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Washington
Wiley
Ohio
Taft and
Bricker
Langer
R-Nd
Lawmakers Await Military Views on Hydrogen Bomb
In Washington lawmakers press for military testimony on hydrogen bomb possibilities. Generals Bradley and other officials are expected to brief behind locked doors before the Senate House Atomic Energy Committee. A rift over a decision to pursue or halt a super destructive H bomb unsettles the capital.
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Washington
Omar N. Bradley
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Deliberate Arson Charged in Woodworth Blaze Death
State Deputy Fire Marshal testified that a Woodworth fire was started with gasoline at four points at Stephen G. Bauman's home. Bauman faces arson charges for the Aug. 27 fatal blaze and two earlier fires that killed his 16 year old son Arthur.
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Youngstown
Woodworth
Michael J. Melillo
Stephen G. Bauman
Bauman
Arthur
Balman
Fourth of Ohio Bridges Faulty Says Highway Director
Columbus report quotes Highway Director T. J. Kauer at the County Engineers Association convention. He states one in four Ohio bridges is too weak or narrow for current traffic and that the department will keep setting bridge limits. He seeks $90 million in road improvements under contract by year end.
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Columbus
Ohio
T. J. Kauer
County Engineers Association
Kauer
Lancaster Man Files to Run for Congress in 11th Ohio
Isaac Rowles of Lancaster announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Representative to Congress from Ohio's 11th District. The district includes Fairfield Ross Pickaway Hocking and Perry counties. Rowles aged 58 has served as county clerk of courts since 1937.
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Lancaster
Isaac Rowles
Ohio
Fairfield
Ross
Pickaway
Hocking
Perry
Rowles
Cincinnati Man Dies After New Year’s Eve Beating
Carl B. Jones, 60, who was found beaten and robbed in an alley on New Year’s Eve, died Tuesday night. The police homicide squad was alerted to investigate.
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Cincinnati
Carl B. Jones
Mississippi Valley Flood Threat Grows Amid Rising Rivers
Flood danger sharpens in the Midwest as the Mississippi and Ohio rivers rise to near record levels. Thousands flee homes in Missouri Illinois Indiana and Kentucky while Army Engineers weigh opening the Birds Point New Madrid floodway and consider dynamiting the levee to relieve pressure. A new storm brings blizzards and plummeting temperatures from the Great Plains to the Great Lakes.
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Ohio
Ohio River
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New Madrid
Cairo
Vincennes
Ind
Wabash
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North Central States
Retail Coal Rationing Set In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh orders retail coal rationing as 85 000 striking soft coal miners idle. Retailers give first priority to hospitals and food processors while above ground supplies dwindle. Power companies may ration electricity and 300 large Pittsburgh industries face shutdown. Miners idle include 12 000 in West Virginia and 9 000 in Ohio.
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Pittsburgh
Assn
John L. Lewis
John P. Busarello
United Mine Worker District Five
Lewis
West Virginia
Ohio
Detective Nabs Suspect After Two-Block Chase
Cincinnati reports a city detective pursuing Raymond Ellis, 23, for passing worthless checks. The chase ran two blocks through a busy downtown area ending in an alley where Ellis was captured after a gun was drawn by detective Phillip Brester near a crowded medical office.
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Cincinnati
Raymond Ellis
Phillip Brester
Red Seizure In Peiping Narrowly Justified By Radio
Peiping radio said military necessity drove the Communist seizure of American, French and Dutch barracks and other buildings in Peiping last weekend. It claimed the three governments had consented after their former consuls yielded to demands and criticized delays in handing over properties.
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Peiping
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State Department
Red China
Red Radio
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Government Plans Pork Buying to Support Hog Prices
The Agriculture Department announced a federal pork buying program to stabilize hog prices by purchasing bacon, smoked hams and smoked picnic shoulders. The move could raise consumer pork prices and affect beef and lamb markets while coinciding with potato gifts to lunch programs and relief agencies.
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Agriculture Department
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Department
Government Prepares To Take Over Lustron
Government officials anticipate court action to seize Lustron assets as the RFC says the company is in default on 22 million dollars. High officials warn there remains a chance to avert seizure and stress openness to any workable rescue plan before the final hour.
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Washington
Lustron Corporation
RFC
Lustron
Ford to Build Large Plant in Cleveland
Ford Motor Co announces plans to acquire 200 acres beside Cleveland Municipal Airport for a new production foundry and motor plant. The facility will cover about 1,700,000 square feet and hire nearly 10,000 workers, with construction starting after contracts are awarded.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Cleveland
Harmless pistol kills Cleveland newsboy
A .32 caliber revolver believed harmless by an 18 year old girl killed 14 year old Kenneth Armstrong in Cleveland. The weapon went off as he greeted her while she joked with the gun. He died from a shot to the left eye.
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Cleveland
Kenneth Armstrong
Lillian Derfuhs
Miner Killed in Blockade Road Fatality in Ohio Coal Strike
State Highway Patrol increased presence after Silvio Dalpiaz 56 of Lafferty died when struck by a coal truck at a roadblock near Flushing. Driver Lawrence Frank 20 of Piedmont held for investigation. Governor Lausche ordered highways kept open as troopers question miners and assess conflicting testimony.
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Silvio Calpiaz
Lafferty
Ohio
Flushing
Here
John L. Lewis
Crescent Valley Coal Co
Piedmont
Dalpiaz
Belmont County
Col
George Mingle
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
Highway Patrol
Frank
C. L. Barricklow
William H. Irwin
Barricklow
Denham Hints Anti-Lewis Injunction
The NLRB general counsel Robert N. Denham signals plans to seek a federal injunction within 48 hours to halt John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers three day work week amid Taft Hartley and good faith bargaining charges. President Truman reportedly sees no national emergency.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
John L. Lewis
Robert N. Denham
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Denham
Federal District Court
UMW
NLRB
Truman
Attlee Promises Socialist Policy In UK Election Pact
In London Prime Minister Attlee pledges to keep Britain on a socialist course if Labor wins the February 23 election. The manifesto calls for nationalization, rationing, price controls, and full employment, while criticizing Churchill's Conservatives for opposing the program.
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London
Attlee
Labor Party
Britain
Labor
Winston Churchill
Conservative
Churchill
Electrical Unions Battle for GE Production Workers
A dozen unions press to expand representation of General Electric's 100000 production workers as a National Labor Relations Board hearing continues. The dispute centers on UE versus CIO IUE as the main contenders.
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New York
General Electric Company
National Labor Relations Board
United Electrical Workers
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
IUE
New Reserve Corps Program Planned
The Army announces a planned reserve corps program to increase trained fighters at lower cost. Secretary Gray says a desirable organized reserve of 625,000, with a minimum of 367,000, is needed to meet national defense goals.
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Washington
Army
Gray
Browsers Are Robbers Hold Up Ohio Book Store
Two gunmen browsed shelves at the Ohio Book Store Tuesday night, then held the attendant at gunpoint and escaped with 40 dollars. Local police investigated the robbery and reviewed surveillance for clues.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Fire Sweeps Camp Carson Killing Soldier
A wind driven brush fire at Camp Carson Colorado Springs raged across the base yesterday burning 27 soldiers and destroying 39 buildings. One soldier was killed as flames advanced toward Fountain and 600 plus dependents were evacuated to Pueblo.
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Colo
Camp Carson
Rockies
Here
Fountain
Pueblo
Cheyenne Mountain
Bullet Found By Coroner
Coroner J A McCowan reports finding a lead bullet in the skull of Gordon Roe a slain Newport Ohio farmer whose body was exhumed from Newport Township cemetery. Bobby Herlan a 16 year old Newport student is charged with first degree murder and pleads innocent awaiting trial February 6. The case followed a confession that Roe was shot and $125 taken from the body after an initial ruling that Roe died of a heart attack.
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Marietta
J. A. McCowan
Gordon Roe
Newport
Ohio
Roe
Bobby Herlan
McCowan
E. E. Erb
Young Herlan
Erb
Newport Township
Lausche Names Four As Hospital Trustees
Four Meigs County residents were named by Gov. Lausche to a hospital trustees board to plan location and construction of a new Meigs County hospital. The appointees are Judge Harmon O Brien of Pomeroy Dr Raymond E Boice of Pomeroy A C Bradford of Racine and H E Starkey of Carpenter.
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Columbus
Meigs County
Frank J. Lausche
Harmon O’brien
Pomeroy
Raymond E. Boice
A. C. Bradford
Racine
H. E. Starkey
Carpenter
Marietta Man Named Director Of Ohio County Engineers
Cecil Stacy of Marietta was named one of ten directors at the County Engineers Association of Ohio annual convention in Columbus held Tuesday night.
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Marietta
Columbus
Cecil Stacy
the County Engineers’ Assn. of
Ohio
Pension proposal rejected by UAW at Chrysler talks
The CIO United Auto Workers rejected Chrysler’s offer of 100 dollars monthly pensions for retirees, calling it unsound. The union issued a seven day strike notice as negotiations opened. The plan set 65 as retirement age with 25 years service, funding through trust and union participation disputed.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Chrysler
Norman Matthews
UAW
Matthews
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Chrysler - Uaw
Robert W. Conder
Chrysler Lae Bor
Chrysler Corp
Guaranton Penate
Fight Over Social Security Tax Base Rise in Senate
In Washington a Senate dispute centers on raising the Social Security tax base from 3000 to 4800 dollars. The House approved expanding benefits, but Republicans led by Taft challenge the broader tax rise. Altmeyer, the Social Security administrator, was recalled for more testimony.
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Washington
Senate
Arthur J. Altemeyer
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Altmeyer
Taft
Ohio
GOP
Official Predicts More Phone Rate Increases
A state utilities commission official forecast at least 12 Ohio telephone companies will seek rate increases. The Logan Home Telephone Co. in Hocking County is named among them. Edward E. Knaub, chief accountant for the commission, links the expected filings to a new federal 75 cent hourly minimum wage law.
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Columbus
Ohio
Logan Home Telephone Co
Hocking County
Edward E. Knaub
Autopsy Planned in Death of Mrs Bolender
Coroner Robert Evans ordered an autopsy in the death of Pauline Bolender 54 wife of an Ohio State University professor. Bolender was found in a water filled cistern at her Hillards home by her daughter Shirley Tuesday. Firemen and neighbors assisted in the recovery.
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Columbus
Robert A. Evans
Pauline Bolender
Ohio State University
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