Steel Industry Feels Effects Of Coal Strike
The coal strike idled about 500 Crucible Steel workers at Midland Pennsylvania with potential rise to 1000 as lack of coal hits plants nationwide. General Motors warned of possible shutdowns, Youngstown Sheet and Tube planned cuts, and miners across six states held to no contract no work stance while West Virginia and nearby states displayed mixed signals on returning to work.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine
Crucible Steel Corp
Midland
Crucible
General Motors
H. R. Boyer
Motors
Giant
Automobile Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Brier Hill
Youngstown
Ohio
UMW
John L. Lewis
Harm Denied In Steel Price Hike
President Benjamin Fairless of U S Steel told a Senate panel that the recent steel price rise would not harm price levels in other industries. He cited higher costs from new insurance and pension programs totaling 67.5 million dollars and increased Social Security tax of 3.4 million, arguing these costs offset the planned increase.
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Washington
Benjamin Fairless
U.S. Steel Corporation
Fairless
Senate House Economics Committee
Operators say 107000 tons coal lost daily in Eastern Ohio
A spokesman for Ohio coal operators estimates about 107000 tons of coal are not produced each day as 9000 to 10000 miners stay idle. Some 33 mines are idle and seven UMW locals voted to return to work but were blocked by pickets. A road blockade incident near Flushing left one man dead and three miners jailed, while no further violence was reported.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
Joe L. Serdich
Grant Town
W. Va
Pocal
Serdich
UMW
Cecil J. Urbaniak
Bellaire
Edward Lewis
Ohio Coal Producers Assn
United Mine Workers
William Kennedy
John L. Lewis
Ohio River
Panhandle
Flushing
Belmont County
C. B. Bradfield
St. Clairsville
Vincent Frollini, Jr
Merle Package
Lafferty
Archie Jeffers
Bannock
Silvio Calpiaz
Moxahala High Placed On One Year Probation
Ohio high school sports chief H W Emschler placed Moxahala High Perry County on probation for one year for alleged coach misconduct after a game with South Zanesville. The same action suspended official Paul Kelcher of Weirton for not reporting to a scheduled game in Amsterdam Ohio.
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Columbus
H. W. Emschler
Ohio High School Athletic Assn
Moxahala High
Perry County
Paul McGreevy
Moxahala
South Zanesville
Emschler
Paul Kelcher
Weirton
W. Va
Amsterdam
Ohio
Strandlund Still Hopeful For Lustron Recovery Plan
Lustron Corp president Carl G. Strandlund proposed an eight and a half million RFC loan mix to expand sales and fund a 1950 production increase while holding a future 250000 housing units contract for military use. He argued the government could avoid foreclosure with a strategic rescue.
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Columbus
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Lustron Corp
Carl G. Strandlund
Strandlund
RFC
Tal
Lustron
Rep. Cole
R-Kas
Grandlund
Right Arm Mangled By Bengal Tigress
Burbank Calif Surgeons believe that diminutive Mabel Stark a famed wild animal trainer for 40 years won t lose her right arm after a Bengal tigress mangled it The 115 pound trainer was bitten Monday while lifting a three month old cub from its mother s cage at the world jungle compound in Thousand Oaks Calif The seven year old tigress Pasha rushed at Miss Stark and gripped her arm
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Burbank
Calif
Mabel Stark
Thousand Oaks
Pasha
Miss Stark
Manslaughter Charge After Hooey Death
Howard J. Gardner 73 of Columbus indicted on second degree manslaughter in the November 28 traffic crash that killed Robert E. Hooey sports editor of the Ohio State Journal. Gardner and Hooey were in separate vehicles when their cars collided.
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Columbus
Howard J. Gardner
Robert E. Hooey
Ohio State Journal
Gardner
Hooey
Extended Forecast for Columbus Temperatures Near Normal
Temperatures will average near normal with a high around 34 and a low near 18. Warmer Wednesday, colder Thursday, then warmer again by the weekend. Expect up to 1 inch of precipitation as rain or snow on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
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Columbus
McCloy Warns of Swift Action if Nationalism Rises
High Commissioner John J. McCloy says the United States Britain and France can intervene to restore Bonn regime and would crack down swiftly if nationalism resurfaces in Western Germany. He warns extremists could ally with the Soviet Union and notes most Germans oppose militarism and war.
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Washington
John J. McCloy
Western
Quemany
Wulinamy
McCloy
Germany
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Bonn
Truman
State Acheson
Grmany
Soviet Union
U. S. Enters Telephone Dispute Over Strike Tactics
Washington reports the government steps into a labor dispute threatening a nationwide Bell system walkout by 300000 operators and technicians. CIO CWA leader Beirne urges public to use phones to jam switchboards. officials say no legal bar to such tactics.
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Washington
Federal Mediation Service
William N. Margolis
Joseph A. Beirne
CIO Communications Workers of America
CWA
Bell System
Betme Ald
Beirne
Brink's Robbery Probe Links To 1947 Sturtevant Heist
Boston detectives press to question Samuel S. Granito, 42, of Brooklyn, in the week old Brink's armored truck robbery. Granito, serving 10 to 15 years for the 1947 B F Sturtevant raid, is suspected to have masterminded the Sturtevant job. Other ex convicts are being questioned as authorities uncover money wraps tied to the heist.
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Boston
Samuel S. Granito
Brooklyn
N. Y
Granito
Brink
Crosser Recovering From Coal Gas Fumes
Rep. Crosser of Ohio is recovering at Bethesda Naval Hospital after a near fatal coal gas incident at a daughter’s Bethesda Maryland home. His wife and granddaughter were mildly affected. Crosser was unconscious when his daughter raised the alarm.
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Washington
Crosser
Ohio
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Barbara A. Sweeney
Bethesda
Sweeney
Isabelle
Court Sets Hearing On Turnpike Law
The Ohio Supreme Court scheduled January 31 for a hearing on a suit challenging the Ohio Turnpike Law. Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy seeks to compel Finance Director H D Defenbacher to earmark $600,000 in highway funds to loan to the Turnpike Commission for surveying a toll super highway route across northern Ohio to connect with the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Herbert S. Duffy
H. D. Defenbacher
Turnpike Commission
Ohio
Tax Suit Attorneys Await High Court Ruling
Columbus attorneys in an income tax legality dispute pause their District Court appeal after deciding to wait for Ohio Supreme Court rulings in Dayton and Toledo cases. Arguments in those cases are scheduled for Feb 14.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
District Court of Appeals
Dayton
Toledo
Lausche Denounces Intimidation in Gambling War
Ohio Governor Frank Lausche stated the state would not yield to intimidation after the Colony Club of Chesapeake filed a 100000 damage suit against Judge James Collier and Anthony Rutkowski. The suit claims willful malice over a Dec raid that seized forty five slot machines and led to nine arrests.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Colony Club
Chesapeake
Ohio
James Collier
Collier
Lawrence County
Ironton
Anthony A. Rutkowski
Wage Strike Delays Funerals In Minneapolis
Minneapolis undertakers rescheduled funerals after 40 drivers of hearses and limousines walked off in a wage dispute, prompting a request for emergency equipment to replace service shutdown.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis Undertakers
Heavy rains halt Ohio River fall at Cincinnati
Over 24 hours 1.72 inches of rain caused the Ohio River to stop at 33.5 feet. Flood stage is 52 feet. The rainfall coincides with the 13th anniversary of the 1937 Black Sunday flood. In 1937 on January 24 the river rose to 173.7 feet and later peaked at 79.9 feet.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Third Motion Is Filed By Spencer Attorneys
Attorneys for Delbert Spencer convict slayer of Mrs. Pauline Bailey filed a third motion in common pleas asking a jury trial on his present sanity. Hal Rowland and Leslie F. Johnson signed the motion. Spencer has been at Lima State Hospital for a mental examination after a 1946 murder conviction and death sentence.
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Delbert Spencer
Pauline Bailey
Common Pleas Court
Spencer
Hal Rowland
Leslie F. Johnson
West Virginia
Common Pleas
Bailey
Glouster
Lima State Hospital
UAW Lowers Demands Offers 10 Cent Wage Boost
The CIO United Auto Workers shifted to a 10 cent an hour flat wage increase for Chrysler, dropping pensions from their fourth round targets. Chrysler signaled rejection calling it a political move. The cut comes 48 hours before a strike deadline as pensions had been the main goal for the union and other CIO unions.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
Auto Workers
Farm Price Supports Discussed by Speaker
In Cincinnati the Ohio Dairy Products Association heard that permanent farm price supports should not be sought for short term political expediency. T. Kline Hamilton of the Milk Industry Foundation urged that if price supports must be permanent they be based on sound long term objectives.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Dairy Products Association
T. Kline Hamilton
The
Milk Industry Foundation
Washington
Diamond Milk Products, Inc
Columbus
Protestants to Study Anti-Prejudice Stand
National Convocation of the City Church in Columbus will vote on a resolution urging Protestant churches, about 30 million members, to take a firm stand against racial discrimination and segregation. More than 400 delegates from 32 churches attended the session, with seminar groups meeting the day before.
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Columbus
Police Seek Missing OU Student in Athens
Athens police launched a search for 22 year old Ohio University junior Earl Merideth Kenvin from Youngstown who disappeared from his rooming house on January 16. Friends described him as a bright student and Phi Beta Kappa candidate with reddish blond hair, 5 9, 135 pounds.
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Athens
Ohio University
Youngstown
Joseph B. Grogan
Earl Merideth Kenvin
Grosvenor St
Grogan
Kenvin
Phi Beta Kappa
Court St
Lucius
Senate Delays Vote On Adm Sherman Nomination
Senate leaders postponed a final decision on Admiral Forrest Sherman to head the Navy. A vote was set for the afternoon, while Senators Kem and McCarthy pressed questions about how Admiral Louis Denfeld was removed from office last November after a prior two year term had been confirmed.
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Washington
Forrest Sherman
Naval Operations
Senate
Sherman
Solons React to Truman Tax Proposals and Excise Cuts
Congress debates the president’s plan to raise revenue by $1 billion through higher taxes on large corporations estates and gifts while trimming wartime excises. Lawmakers weigh big tax loophole crackdowns and possible 750 million to 1.5 billion in excise reductions, with Senate skepticism on approval.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Senate
House
Internal Revenue Bureau
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury Department
Rain and Cold Smash Nation Across the North
Winter battered the northern half of the country with blizzards in Minnesota the Dakotas and Montana. Temperatures plunged as winds created large snow drifts blocking highways. A rain belt stretched through Indiana Illinois with freezing rain across Iowa Wisconsin and Michigan. Glazed roads remained hazardous while Midwest floods eased in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
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Dakotas
Montana
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
Micheigan
Midwest
Mississippi Valley
McConnelsville Man Seeks Secretary of State Post
Kenneth C. Ray of McConnelsville filed petitions for the Republican nomination for secretary of state at the May primary. The petitions list 3700 names from 64 counties. Ray served in the Ohio House from 1929 to 1932 and was state coach of education from 1941 to 19.
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Columbus
Kenneth C. Ray
McConnelsville
Ray
State Ciore of
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