Strong drive to rewrite broad new strike control bill
A Republican and southern Democrat coalition in the House moves to attach amendments to a Labor Committee approved measure, aiming for stringent strike control. Foes hope major labor disputes settle before a vote. A rules committee test is expected Friday. FEPC filibuster in Senate grows, with Senator Hoey taking up the debate. President Truman also creates a four man National Intelligence Authority to coordinate foreign intelligence.
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Washington
House
Truman
House Labor Committee
Rules Committee
FEPC
Clyde R. Hoey
North Carolina
Democrat
Russell
Tydings
Hoey
NEW Authority
State
War and Navy
National Intelligence Authority
Central Intelligence Group
Central Intelligencey
Intelligence
Director of
Central Intelligence
Korea Protest Blamed to Reds in US Command Split
A MacArthur spokesman in Tokyo dismissed Tass claims that the U S military command in southern Korea provoked protests at the Moscow conference as part of a campaign to discredit General MacArthur. He said southern Korea is under Lt Gen John R Hodge while the Russians control north of the 38th parallel. The spokesman urged restraint and reconciliation.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Tass
U. S
Korea
Moscow
John R. Hodge
38Th Parallel
Ohio Power Strike Talks Under Way in Zanesville
Officials of the Ohio Power Company and CIO Utility Workers Union of America met in Zanesville to discuss a wage increase dispute that threatens a strike. Governor Lausche sent J Harry Moore to observe the proceedings.
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Zanesville
Ohio Power Company
CIO Utility Workers Union of America
Frank J. Lausche
J. Harry Moore
Ohio
Direct Subsidy Plan Spurred for Butter Makers
A U S Department of Agriculture spokesman said direct subsidy payments to butter manufacturers may be tried to boost production. Paul Quintus, associate director of the dairy branch, told the Ohio Dairy Products Association that the plan is under discussion and may happen.
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Columbus
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Paul Quintus
Ohio Dairy Products Association
Navy to Release 191000 Personnel in Spring Reductions
Washington reports an additional 191100 navy personnel will be eligible for discharge through further point-score cuts effective March 15 and April 2. Reductions will mostly be one point on each date, with WAVES and nurses following March 2 levels until April 2.
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Washington
Navy
Louis E. Denfeld
Naval Personnel
Mrs Grim 88 Dies After Fall at Daughter’s Home
Margaret Elizabeth Grim 88 died Thursday in Sheltering Arms Hospital four days after aBroken hip from a fall at her daughter Mrs S K Bur son’s home in Shade County Her husband Charles Grim died 18 years ago Survived by daughter Mrs Burson and two sons George and Atwood near Shade Funeral Thursday at 1 a m at Shade Methodist Church Rev Earl Cowan Burial in Burson Cemetery Friends may call at Jagers Funeral Home any time
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Sheltering Arms Hospital
S. K. Burson
W. State Sr
Earl Cowan
Burson Cemetery
Jagers
Godman Shoe Plants Affected by CIO Strike
Production halted today at H. Godman Shoe Company plants in Columbus and Logan as CIO United Shoe Workers union went on strike. Columbus plant employs 150, Logan plants total 300. Union seeks a 10 percent wage increase. company offers 5 percent.
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Columbus
H. ©. Godman Shoe Company
Logan
CIO- United Shoe
Bakers in Cincinnati Enter Fifth Day of Strike
A 4000 strong AFL bakers strike in Cincinnati enters its fifth day with no settlement. Efforts to end the dispute collapsed after company reps refused to negotiate until the workers returned to their jobs, shutting 16 large bakeries.
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Cincinnati
AFL
Bobby Soxers Warned Of Future Sled Runner Feet
Mayo Clinic doctor Dr. Earl C. Elkins warns Kansas City readers that teenage bobby soxers risk flat feet from fashion. He says moccasins and high heels harm arches, predicting long wear could pancake arches into sled runner feet, though overall outlook remains optimistic.
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Kansas City
Earl C. Elkins
Mayo Clinic of
Rochester
Grill Deputy In California Woman Death
San Bernardino California deputy sheriff Arthur L Eggers of Temple City 52 denied guilt in the slaying of Dorothy Eggers 42 whose headless body was found in a mountain canyon near San Bernardino on January 2 Undersheriff Arthur Jewell and Capt Gordon Bowers said the blanket near the body matched the Eggers home and two 380 caliber bullets were recovered Eggers said he and his wife of 18 years argued over finances before she disappeared.
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Calif
Arthur L. Eggers
Temple City
San Francisco
Here
Arthur Jewell
Los Angeles
Dorothy Eggers
Mace Eggers
Gordon Bowers
Los Angeles Sheriffs Bureau Ofvestigation
Eggers
Shay
Lausche Seeks State Buy Fletcher General Hospital
Ohio officials urge purchase of the Army hospital at Cambridge to care for returning veterans with mental illness. Gov Lausche to hold a January 29 conference with Cambridge citizens amid local opposition to the plan. Veterans Administration previously indicated it would not take over Fletcher.
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Ohio Postwar Program Commission
Army
Fletcher General Hospital
Cambridge
Frank J. Lausche
Fletcher
Veterans Administration
Ohio
Omar N. Bradley
Miami
Lewis
Parents Federation
AFL
Wesleyan Prepares Homes for Campus GIs
Fifty five trailer homes from a government project at Shelby, Ohio will be ready for occupancy by married student veterans at Ohio Wesleyan on March 1. The university installed sewage, water and gas facilities to house them.
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Delaware
Shelby
Ohio Wesleyan
Ohio CIO Council seeks overhaul of factory safety codes
The Ohio CIO Council urged the state industrial commission to overhaul safety regulations to prevent avoidable factory accidents. In a second item, the Motion Picture Producers Association said carpenters and painters in two studios refused to trim and complete sets built by a rival AFL union.
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Columbus
Ohio Cio Council
State Industrial Commission
Hollywood
Motion Picture Producers Association
AFL
Flying Fortress Lab Seeks World Storms
An Army Flying Fortress with a 10 man crew set out from Miami on a two month trek to storm regions in Brazil Central Africa India China New Guinea Japan and Pacific islands to measure electrical properties with radio equipment and cameras for weather studies according to Wright Field officials.
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Wright Field
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Fla
Brazil
Central Africa
India
China
New Guinea
Japan
Pacific Islands
Air Technical Service Command
Governor probes Buckeye Club gambling in Lawrence County
Gov. Lausche ordered Lawrence County Sheriff Milton Rucker to report on gambling conditions after liquor inspectors found 16 slot machines at the Buckeye Club near Burlington. He cited a claim that a Procter Township woman lost $1,200 there last December and that minors played slots, suggesting possible legal action by the complainant.
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Frankausche
Lawrence County
Milton B. Rucker
Lausche
Buckeye Club
Burlington
Earnest Lanroe
Proctervile
Buckaye Club
Unroe
Jost
Price controls lifted on games and selected toys
Washington reports price ceilings on all games and many toys will be suspended indefinitely starting January 28. Simultaneously 24 miscellaneous commodities chiefly minor foods will lose ceilings, including canned sweet potatoes parsnips rutabagas turnips sauerkraut juice cabbage and other items such as fresh lettuce imported snuff sugar cuts frozen clams and oysters and ice cream sandwich wafers.
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Washington
GPA
Two Named as French President Aspirants
Paris report notes the Socialist Party proposed Vincent Auriol, minister of state in the De Gaulle government, for president of the Constituent Assembly as it met to name a new interim French president. The Socialists and Communists, with a large majority, already signaled their approval of Felix Gouin for the post.
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Paris
Socialist Party
Vincent Auriol
de Gaulle
Constituent Assembly
France
Felix Gouin
Gouin
Fremont Soldier Seeks Sandusky County Auditor Nomination
Capt. Harold Whitcomb of Fremont, a Fletcher General Hospital patient in Cambridge, O., is a Democratic candidate for Sandusky county auditor. He survived the Bataan death march and the sinking of a Japanese prison ship while being moved from Luzon to the Japanese mainland.
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Fremont
Harold Whitcomb
Fletcher General Hospital
Cambridge, O
Sandusky County
Bataan
Luzon
Col Brannan Receives Legion of Merit for Camp Atterbury Work
Col John E. Brannan former ASTP unit head and military science professor at Ohio University earned the Legion of Merit for service as post executive officer at Camp Atterbury Indiana. He previously led the Atterbury Separation Center and Reception Center before taking a faculty post at Ohio University in March 1943. His daughter Betty Brannan is a junior at Ohio University.
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John E. Brannan
ASTP
Ohio University
Legion of Merit
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Col. Brannan
Atterbury
Ohio Univerversity
Betty Brannan
Murray Flags Strike Tax Relief To Steel Companies
Murray defends reform of federal corporation taxes as the steel strike enters its third day. He says existing laws would grant the industry rebates totaling 349 million dollars if profit slips, while U S Steel president Fairless argues wage increases threaten mills and jobs. Across 29 states 750000 idle workers, with 58000 at work in steel, amid supply cutbacks and related furloughs.
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United Steelworkers 4S
Philip Murray
USW
Treasury
Vinson
Murray
ABC
Truman
U. S. Steel
Fairless
Associated Press
Allied Industries
New York
American Can Company
Linois Central Railroad
Memphis
Tenn
Green Bay
Wis
Drop Forge Co
Union Seizure Moves to Take Over Meat Plants
The White House said the Agriculture Department will seize and operate more than 100 strikebound meat packing plants on Saturday. Labor officials weighed how the 263,000 striking workers would respond as the government prepared to assume control to restore meat flow. Union leaders urged caution, with CIO UPW seeking wage guarantees and retroactive increases, while AFL officials eyed the seizure’s impact on the walkout.
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Washington
White House
Department of Agriculture
Associated Press
AFL
CIO
Labor Department
Chicago
CIO United Packinghouse Workers Union
Herbert March
Cioupw
George A. Eastwood
Armour & Co
Army
Agriculture Department
Wage Stabilization Board
UNO Studies Plans To Control Atomic Bomb
The United Nations Organization meets in London to tackle atom control issues. It proposes a commission to study the problem and report recommendations to the world security council while shelving Iranian Greek and Indonesian matters.
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UNO
London
United Nejtions Organization
General Assembly
World Security Council
Marine Veteran Kills Wife Near Cincinnati
In Norwood Ohio Hazel Dunn 27 mother of two was strangled early today Edward L Dunn 24 a marine veteran admitted the killing Police Chief Charles W Fritz said Dunn is held without charge and expected to face murder charges
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Hazel Dunn
Norswood
Charles W. Fritz
Edward L. Dunn
Marine Corps Air Force
Fritz
Dunn
Strikes at a Glance Across Major Industries
Continuing labor disputes keep 1,622,000 idle as federal seizure of more than 100 strike bound meat plants looms. CIO steelworkers strike reaches day three with no government seizure plans. Chicago railroads face a 1,500 trainmen walkout threatening stockyard shipments. UAW negotiates with Chrysler Ford and General Motors over wages. Eight day strike of 200,000 CIO electrical workers against GE Westinghouse and GM proceeds with two mediators named.
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Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Chicago Junction Railroad
Brotherhood of Railroad
T. L. Green
Roads
Associated Press
CIO
Automotive
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corporation
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Electrical
CIO Electrical
General Electric
Westinghouse
OPA Probes Meat Packers for Over Ceiling Price Sales
The OPA warned 34 eastern and midwestern slaughterers of immediate investigations as part of a drive to curb black market meat sales. Telegraphic notices target those buying cattle near the $18 per hundredweight ceiling, with one telegram sent to an establishment in Canton, Ohio.
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Washington
OPA
Canton
Cleveland City News in Summary Form After Strike
Cleveland’s three daily papers have not published since January 5 due to a strike by AFL pressmen. With crews back at work apart from the strike, the city’s news will be presented in summarized form to brief readers on recent events in the nation’s sixth largest city.
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Cleveland
AFL
Driver of Death Car Sentenced to Prison
Amos Durham, 23, of Williamsdale, was sentenced to an unspecified term in Mansfield Reformatory after pleading guilty to second degree manslaughter in the traffic death of Carlos Hacker of Hamilton. Hacker, a father of seven, was struck on a rural highway December 23. Edward Dunn, 34, of Zanesville, was trapped under a coal truck weighing 19,000 pounds for nearly an hour after the vehicle broke through a platform scale.
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Hamilton
Amos Durham
Williamsdale
Mansfield Reformatory
Carlos Hacker
Hacker
Guway
Columbus
Edward Dunn
Rt 1
Zanesville
Ohio Firms Using Steel Halt in Strike Aftermath
The steel strike disrupts Ohio industry with about 75 000 workers on strike in Youngstown. Local plants including General Fireproofing Commercial's Shearing and Stamping Youngstown Steel Door Powell Pressed Steel Makenzie Muffler and Cold Metal Products face shutdowns. Cincinnati firm Allis-Chalmers could run two to three weeks, but supplier steel shortages threaten earlier closures. Nationwide, about 200 000 Ohio workers affected with multi‑million dollar losses and six figure tonnage decline as plants stay shut.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Youngstown
General Fireproofing Co
Commercial’s Shearing and Stamping Co
Youngstown Steel Door Co
Powell Pressed Steel Co
Makenzie Muffler Co
Youngstown Welding
Reward Offered in Slaying of Fannie C Conrad
Hamilton Butler County offers a 256 dollar reward for the arrest of the slayer of 13 year old Fannie C Conrad whose corpse was found last October in her home.
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Hamilton
Butler County
Mr& Fannie C. Conrad
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