Control Law Label Sought By Minority
Washington AP Republicans debate labeling a labor control bill with a cautious plan to vote as a bloc on Truman fact finding proposals. Senate backers seek to shield a fair employment commission by modest amendments while Southern senators push for hearings before Feb 35. Labor wage talks flag inflation concerns as Taft and Ellender clash over a 15 to 25 cent minimum hike.
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Washington
House
Joseph Martin
Massachusetts
Truman
Senate
Fair Employment Practice Commission
Keefer R. Wis
Pearl Harbor
Joint
Senate House Committee
Labor Committee
Ellender
Taft CR
Ohio
Solon Scores on Meat Seizure Over Truman Action
Ohio Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins faults the administration for taking over struck meat packing plants. He warns that continued power over food by the President could end the republic. Jenkins, head of the Republican Food Study Committee, cites OPA resistance as a reason for Congress to seize food control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ohio
Truman
Jenkins
Republic
OPA
Republican Food Study Committee
Congress
Chester Bowles
Wealth Is Lost By Lend-Lease Bromfield Says
Farmer-author Louis Bromfield says America’s real wealth is gone and that lend-lease was the biggest and most disastrous war contribution. He warns Americans will pay for generations as natural resources exhaust, urges farming based economy with 50 cents a bushel corn and argues for a return to agricultural viability. Secrest plans to base his campaign on a ten year congressional record and seeks Democratic nomination after resigning to serve as a naval commander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Louis Bromfield
America
Pennsylvania Abberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Association
Bromfield
Ohio
Secrest
Glass Cutters Accept Contract Pay Raise
The AFL Window Glass Cutters League and Pittsburgh Plate Glass sign a contract boosting piece rates by 7.27 percent for 355 cutters in plants at Clarksburg West Virginia Mount Vernon Ohio and Henryetta Oklahoma. The firm also offers paid vacations retroactive to 1944 and adjustments of inequities. Samuel S. Rosenman to retire February 1 as special counsel to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
AFL Window Glass Cutters League
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Clarksburg
W. Va
Mount Vernon
Henryetta
Oklo
Signal Corps Radar Taps Moon Yanks Contact Moon
The Army reports the world first radar contact with the moon made by Signal Corps technicians at Evans Signal Laboratory Belmar New Jersey. Echo returned in two and a half seconds revealing potential peacetime and wartime uses including mapping distant planets and analyzing their atmospheres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Signal Corps
Evans Signal Laboratory
Belmar
New Jersey
War Department
Seek Central Site for Ohio Wall-less Prison
A three man committee studied locations in Central Ohio for a 5 million dollar wall-less reformatory. Sites included land at Scioto Ordnance Works. The plan calls for a 1,300 inmate minimum to medium security prison and modernization of Mansfield Reformatory. An adjunct for 1,200 to 1,500 men and separate centers for older difficult boys and for psychopathic offenders were proposed along with expanded parole and classification. Judge Jackson urged Negro guards at facilities to address perceived discrimination.
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Columbus
Ohio
Scioto Ordnance Works
Mear Charigi
Penal Committee of the
Chillicothe
Ohio Penitentiary
Mansfield Reformatory
Boys
Lancaster
Perry B. Jackson
Cleveland
Qohio
Mansfield
Mystery of Newport man who claimed to be Marine Langston
ENOCH Mystery of Newport Arkansas centers on a man who appeared and then disappeared claiming to be Marine Pfc William Willard Langston reported killed on Iwo Jima. Former friends say he resembled Langston while his wife, now remarried, suspects Langston is dead. A photo shows the couple before overseas service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Ark
William Willard Langston
Iwo Jima
Langston
Enforce Wage Fight Prompts Union Action
The CIO United Electrical Workers Union representing 200000 workers urged government halt on new and ongoing contracts with Westinghouse and General Electric. Albert Fitzgerald said the War Labor Board ruling requires equalizing wages for women workers by raising pay by four to six cents an hour and ending wage exploitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
CIO
United Electrical Workers Union
War Labor Board
Albert Fitzgerald
Westinghouse
General Electric
GE and Westingtouse
WLB
Bomb injures Hitler's mind and deteriorating nerves linked
Herford Germany July 20 1944 shock at the bomb attempt on Adolf Hitler led to mental deterioration according to Luftwaffe Gen Nicolaus Von Below. He says Hitler showed shock after the blast and later deteriorated mentally. Von Below was with the Führer when the July plot exploded and may be the last surviving witness to Hitler's last will signed April 29 1945 in the Berlin bunker. Reward hero Youngstown early campaign to raise 15000 dollars for Cpl Ralph Brown who lost limbs continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herford
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Luftwaffe
Nicolaus von Below
Hitler
von Below
Fuehrer
Berlin
Saturday Will Be Still Colder Across Regions
Old man winter intensified with blizzards in two sections of the nation. A New England blizzard dumped eight to twenty inches of snow as heavy winds lashed Nantucket. A cold wave swept the Northern Plains with blizzard conditions in the Dakotas and Eastern Montana while the Central States faced colder conditionsSaturday and Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New England
Nantucket
Plains
Dakotas
Montana
Central States
Security Council Hears Three Disputes on World Peace
The United Nations Security Council met to consider disputes involving Greece, Indonesia, and Iran. Lebanon announced it asked the council to demand immediate withdrawal of British and French troops from Lebanon, signaling regional tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Natis Security Council
Republic of Lebanon
United Nations
Council’ Lebanon
Zanesville Veteran Dies in Auto Crash
Donald Lewis a 23 year old veteran from Zanesville was killed in an automobile accident. He was en route to Ohio Northern University with plans to enroll. Local authorities reported the fatal crash occurred as he traveled from Zanesville toward the university area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zanesville
Kenton
Donald Lewis
Lewis
Ohio Northern University
Doolittle Heads Air Force Association
Former Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle informs President Truman he accepted the temporary presidency of the new Air Force Association. The national group unites former World War I and II air force members to perpetuate RAF traditions. A second note reports The Federal Machine & Welder Company granting employees a $2 daily wage increase after a contract with the United Electrical Workers Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James H. Doolittle
Truman
Air Force Association
Warren
Federal Machine & Welder Company
United Electrical Workers Union
Industrial Paralysis Spreads in U. S. Steel Parley at Standstill
Nationwide steel strike widens impact with 750,000 CIO steelworkers idle five days. Coal mines close, thousands idle in four states, and Ford warns of complete shutdown. Talks stall as unions and U S Steel resist compromise while Treasury tax refund claims loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Pittsburgh
Ford Motor Co
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel Corporation
Truman
Fairless
White House
Henry J. Kaiser
West Coast
Kaiser
Fontana
Calif
House of Representatives
Rep
Eberharter
Steel Trust
Treasury
United States
Aliquippa
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Aprocer
Tri-State Industrial Association
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Navy Demobilization Passes Halfway Mark With 1.5 Million Discharged
The Navy reached the halfway point in demobilization, releasing its 1,500,000th naval reservist Eugene Lowell Smith of Watsonville California as discharge proceeds toward two thirds by April 2. George Szell, 48, former child prodigy, will be musical director and conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Eugene Lowell Smith
Watsonville
Calif
Cleveland
George Szell
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Cleveland Orchestra
Strikes at a Glance Shaping Nationwide Labor Turmoil
The Associated Press reports idle workers exceed 1 710 000 as labor disputes surge nationwide. Meat industry taken over at midnight as CIO ponders ending a 10 day walkout. AFL orders 55 000 back to work, truckers seek deal with 364 drayage firms, steel strike widens with coal and railroad workers idled, Ford lays off 15 000 with 25 000 more at risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
CIO
AFL
St. Louis
Ford Motor Company
Chinese rally demands return of Hong Kong and Macao
Thousands of Chinese students in Chungking march on British and French embassies calling for the return of Hong Kong and Macao from British and French control. They demand dismissal of the Shanghai French consul general. No violence reported. Indian protests in Bombay continue with fatalities and injuries as police fire and rail offices burn. Russia France and the Netherlands join an international tribunal to hear allied case against Japan war crime suspects, surprising MacArthur's HQ.
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Associated Press
Hong Kong
Macao
Chungking
Canton River
Shanghai
Bombay
Russia
France
Netherlands
International Tribunal
Japan
MacArthur
Britain Grants Interest Free Loan to Greece and Debt Cut
London says Britain will loan Greece 10 million pounds without interest to stabilize the drachma and boost production, while canceling 45 million pounds of war debt. An additional 500 thousand pounds worth of clothing and farming gear will be sold to Greece at cost. The announcements came from Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin in a letter to Emmanuel Tsouderos after two months of talks.
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London
Great Britain
Greece
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Bevin
Emmanuel Tsouderos
United Kingdom
$35,000 Damage Suit Filed at Sandusky
David Steinen of near Huron sues Trojan Power Co in common pleas court for $25,000 alleging 44 acres of his land were damaged by deposits of nitric acid and other corrosive substances flowing into a stream at the company's plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandusky
David Steinen
Near Huron
Common Pleas
Trojan Power Co
Government to seize 134 meat plants in wage dispute
President Truman orders the Agriculture Department to take over 134 meat packing plants owned by 19 companies as a fix for the strike. CIO UPW chief Lewis says rank and file must decide on returning to work without wage assurances. AFL calls temporary truce while fact finding proceeds. Steel and automotive strikes push layoffs and wage talks across Ford GM Chrysler and GE, with wage rise demands around 30 cents to 82 dollars daily in focus.
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Miami
Fla
John L. Lewis
United Mine
American Federation of Labor
Associated Press
Truman
CIO
AFL
Junion
Agriculture Department
Gayle G. Armstrong
New Mexico
Production and Marketing Administration
Lewis J. Clark
Cio-Upw
Department of Agriculture
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Uaw-Cio
Chrysler
Ford
New York
General Electric
Westinghouse
Arthur S. Myers
Chicago
Power Strike Looms Over Ohio as Parley Ends in Impasse
Gov. Frank Lausche said negotiations with CIO Utilities Workers Union reached an impasse after talks with Ohio Power Co. Ohio Edison Co. and Dayton Power Light Co. The union demands 20 cents an hour wage increases and a Wednesday strike is possible affecting about 2.5 million Ohioans. The Dayton firm rejected a federal fact finding and the steel strike’s impact on industry continues.
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Associated Press
Frank J.lausche
CIO Utilities Workers
Ohio Power Co
Ohio Edison Co
Dayton Power & Light Co
Lausche
Dayton
Joseph A. Fisher
Utilites Workers’ Union
Dayton Power & Light
Fisher
Chicago
SFL Meat Cutters Union
Armour & Co
Cleveland
Ohio State Seeks Barracks for Students
Ohio State University seeks use of Navy barracks at Port Columbus to house 1,000 students. President Howard L. Bevis said the plan is through the Federal Public Housing Authority in Cleveland. Also noted is the unemployment compensation billing alert for Ohio employers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio State University
Navy
Port Columbus
Howard L. Bevis
Federal Public Housing Authority
Cleveland
Ohio
Rebuttals Ready in Strip Mine Probe in Ohio
Ohio strip mining commission heard speakers urging the state to skip tighter controls and fund larger land conservation and related programs. Hanna Coal urged broader agricultural and forestry appropriations while Illinois operators cited a 15 year reforestation effort of 10 million trees on spoil banks. Ohio Reclamation leaders said 1.4 million trees would be planted on 1,200 acres in 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ofhio
Strip Mining Commission
R. L. Ireland
Hanna Coal Company
Agriculture, Forestry
Hanna Coal
James W. Bristow
Chicago
Sinois Coal Strippers Association
Barstow
Illinois
Jay Littlepage
Ohio Reclamation Association
Ohio
World War I Vet Green Freed in Perry County Slaying Case
Martin J. Green, 48, a WWI veteran, is released under SL 590 bond after Perry County grand jury did not indict him for manslaughter in a butcher knife killing of 30 year old Carl Bowers at the American Legion headquarters party. Attorney Emerson C. Wagner says Green will plead innocent on self defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Lexington
Martin J. Green
Perry County
Grand Jury
Carl Bowers
American Legion
Emerson C. Wagner
Green
Government cost up four hundred percent alleges Brown
Rep. Clarence J. Brown of Ohio says in a nationwide radio address that the Truman administration’s proposed budget will raise government costs 400 percent over the last pre war year of 1941. He claims excess spending forces citizens to work four months each year to support the government.
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Washington
Truman
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Brown
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Russell Horton
Gertrude
Samuel S. Rosenman
Roosevelt
Los Angeles
R— W. E. Osborne
Enoch
Youngstown
Cpl
Ralph Brown
Security Council
Doolittle
Hong Hong
Ohio State
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