House Rules Abort Battle Over Labor Strike Control
The House Rules Committee prepared for a showdown vote on new strike control legislation. Chairman Sabath warned of a hot fight over limiting amendments as party lines draw the debate. The labor bill seeks fact finding boards in major disputes but lacks subpoena power and would not bar strikes during deliberations. Senate and White House aims intersect as labor tensions rise amid industrial stalemate.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Sabath
Labor Committee
Truman
Rules Committee
Cox
D-Ga
Howard Smith
D-Va
Labor
Nationwide fire toll rises with dozens dead
Twenty four persons lost their lives in weekend fires across the nation. Kansas City reported ten dead and four injured in an apartment fire, including six children. St. Louis hotel blaze killed four and injured 14. New York lower East Side tenement fire claimed three lives and injured one. Harlem residential fire killed a four months old infant. Skowhegan cabin fire caused three men to suffocate while sleeping.
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New York
Kansas City
St. Louis
Lower East Side
Harlem
Skowhegan
Building Problems Face Ohio's Lumber Dealers
Problems relating to Ohio housing shortages from lumber procurement to material prices and government rules will be on the agenda at the 65th annual meeting of the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers opening tomorrow.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers
Meat supply of nation renewal as strikers return
In Chicago AP reports slaughtering to resume across 134 plants seized by the Agriculture Department after strikes halted output since January. About 248000 AFL CIO workers expected back. carcasses require 24 to 48 hours before full deliveries. Union leaders call the move a temporary truce as fact finding continues. CIO seeks 174 cents an hour raise, AFL at 15 cents.
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Chicago
America
AFL
CIO
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Lewis J. Clark
Anderson
Tate
AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen
Washington
Edwin E. Witte
CIO Union
Code Phase of Jap Attack Is To Be Probed
The Pearl Harbor investigation enters the Winds code phase with hearings. Former Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts and Navy Captain Ellis M. Zacharias testify on pre war predictions and possible publication deletions by the army or navy.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Owen J. Roberts
Navy
Ellis M. Zacharias
Zacharias
Salt Lake
Curtis Munson
Roosevelt
West Coast
Hawaii
Justice Roberts
Roberts
Army
Ohio Veterans Fight to Take Fletcher General Hospital
Gov Lausche travels to Washington with state leaders and a broad veterans coalition to press for the $10 million Fletcher General Hospital near Cambridge to be acquired by the Veterans Administration. Ohio American Legion chief Eaton says VA takeover is essential to hospitalize thousands of veterans. delegation meets General Hawley with senators and congressmen set to attend.
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Columbus
Fletcher General Hospital
Cambridge
Washington
Frank J. Lausche
Harry A. Eaton
Ohio American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
Disabled American Veterans
Fletcher
Veterans’ Administration
Eaton
Legion
John Thomas Taylor
National Legion
General Hawley
U. S
Robert A. Tait
P. W. Griffiths
Earl Lewis
J. Harry McGregor
Witness for Jap Killer Opens as Hearings Begin
In Manila a defense witness for Lt Gen Masharu Homma testified that surrender negotiations in 1942 were coldly received by the Japanese who distrusted the American commander’s claim he could order troops to capitulate. Homma's chief of staff Gen Takeji Wachi said he advised postponement until Wright decided. In Cincinnati Maj Gen Fred L Anderson will address the Ohio Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars mid winter conference.
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Manila
Masharu Homma
Jonathan Wambytight
Philippines
Takeji Wachi
Homma
Bataan
Corregidor
U. S
Wainwright
Cincinnati
Fred L. Anderson
Army Air Forces
Ohio Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ohio Jobless Benefits Hit All-Time High in 1945
The Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation reports 1945 fourth quarter outlay at 19,041,388 surpassing employer contributions of 15,747,705. December monthly benefits reached 6,774,007 with annual payments totaling 21,498,770, a dramatic rise from 1944. GI bill adjustments paid 2,503,455 to unemployed and self employed in 1945 with multiple payments varying month to month.
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Columbus
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
BUC
Charles H. Jones
Jones
Ohio Bureau
Bloody Hatchet Is Only Clue in Ohio Murder
Springfield report on the murder of 46 year old widow Mrs. Margaret Koons. Her body was found Friday night with the skull crushed while she slept. A bloody hatchet found in a coal bucket provided a promising lead for investigators. No motive yet, according to Coroner Austin Richards and Police Chief Walter L. Sweet.
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Springfield
Margaret Koons
Austin Richards
Walter L. Sweet
Two Arrested In Youngstown Robbery Case
EAST LIVERPOOL Two Youngstown men are slated for arraignment today on armed robbery charges in an attempted holdup of Michael Vero supermarket manager and William Davis head butcher. Police Chief Hugh J. McDermott said the pair were arrested Saturday night after officers found them covering Vero with a gun as he knelt in front of the safe.
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East Liverpool
Youngstown
Michael Vero
William Davis
Hugh J. McDermott
Vero
Ohio Power strike looms as talks in Washington fail
A Washington conference is set to decide whether 3,500 Ohio power workers from Ohio Edison Ohio Power and Dayton Power amp Light strike at 12 01 am Wednesday. CIO Utility Workers for America officials and union leaders press for a 20 cent an hour wage rise while efforts to establish a fact finding process continue. Neighborhood bakery unions in Cincinnati face a second week of strike action involving about 1000 workers across 14 bakeries with regional unions weighing possible sympathy actions.)
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Associated Press
Washington
Ohio Power
Ohio
Ohio Edison Co
Ohio Power Co
Dayton Power & Light Co
CIO Utility Workers For America
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Alfred Yale
Akron
Walter H. Sammis
Youngstown
CIO United
Columbus
AFL
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Kentucky
Peace at Any Cost Bloc Expected to Settle Steel Strike
A high government official predicts the steel strike will end within a week as a peace‑at‑any‑cost bloc in the industry gains the upper hand over those who advocate fighting it out. About 750,000 CIO steelworkers are idle while auto and meat‑packing actions ripple through related sectors and a fact‑finding board moves toward possible wage increases for meat workers.
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Boston
Boston Dock
Associated Press
CIO
Ford
Chrysler
AFL
Chicago
Washington
Anderson
GM Hearing Opens in Detroit Amid Wage Clash
Detroit hosts the opening of a National Labour Relations Board hearing where GM faces CIO United Auto Workers charges of bad faith bargaining. The CIO seeks at least a 17 percent pay rise, while the AFL aligns at 15 cents hourly. Ford and Chrysler settlements range around 18 to 19 cents, with GM only offering up to 13 1/2 cents. a 19 1/2 cent rise backed by a fact finding panel was rejected. Railroad arbitration affects about 1,250,000 workers across 85 percent of rail employes, as major roads and 18 of 20 unions signed. Brotherhoods BYR and BLE left Chicago mediation over scope of rules changes.
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Lewis J. Clark
CIO Packinghouse Workers Union
AFL
CIO
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers
National Labour Relations Board
Detroit
Automotive
UAW
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
Chicago
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
United Auto
Truman
Cold Moderates Over Most of Nation Today
Unusually clear winter skies prevailed nationwide as a cold front moderates in the East and South. Light rainfall fell in the Lakes region and parts of Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota while snow was set to move eastward toward upper New York. Northeast temperatures rose after a night plunge to 10 degrees below zero. Michael J. Kirwan, longtime congressman from the 19th District, filed for renomination on the Democratic ticket. Campaign organizers reported $21,500 raised toward a $15,000 goal for Cpl. Ralph Brown, wounded in the war, with today’s total surpassing the target.
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Chicago
Lakes
Regon
Wisconsin
Minnesota
New York
Youngstown
Cpl
Ralph Brown
Extermination at Auschwitz Described by French Witness
Mme Marie Claude Vaillant-Courtois, 33, a French widow and Communist member, testified at the war crimes court about life in Nazi camps. She recalled guards marching thousands to gas chambers and a night when gas ran out, forcing inmates to watch infants hurled alive into furnaces.
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Mernberg
Oswheim
Auschwitz
International Military Tribunal
Mme
Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier
France
Constituent Assembly
War Crimes Court
Ten Ohioans Die In Weekend Traffic Crashes
A war veteran Wayne Reno 24 of Mt. Sterling died in a head on crash near Washington Court House as Ohio roads saw at least ten fatalities over the weekend. Other victims included 45 year old Mrs William Brandon of Washington Court House 17 year olds David R Young and Richard F Carlile killed when their car left the highway near Columbus and two 17 year olds Carl W Schneider and William T Hancock killed in Springfield crash along with James W Stapher 29 in Cincinnati and John H Wiley 50 a Portsmouth pedestrian.
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Associated Press
Europe
the. Bulge
Ohio
Wayne Reno
Mt. Sterling
Sion
Washington Court House
William Brandon
Columbus
Capital
David R. Young
Iver Young
Richard F. Carlile
Fred W. Carlile
Springfield
Kirling
Carl W. Schneider
William T. Hancock
Cincinnati
James W. Stapher
Portsmouth
John H. Wiley
Northern Ohio Cities May Get Air Service
The Civil Aeronautics Board prepared to hear arguments from 32 airlines seeking charters to operate interstate routes in New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware Maryland and the District of Columbia. Several proposed routes would connect Northern Ohio cities never before on the air map, signaling potential new service.
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Philadelphia
Civil Aeronautics Board
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Ohio
California clerk confesses in wife decapitation slaying
Los Angeles authorities report Arthur Eggers, a sheriff s clerk, has signed a confession to the decapitation murder of his wife. Sheriff Captain Gordon Bowers says days of search for the head and hands yielded no results as Eggers claimed the body parts were hidden and disposed of in a car.
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Los Angeles
Arthur
Eggers
Gordon Bowers
Bowers
Rail unions weigh strike votes amid wage disputes
The BRT conducts a strike vote while engineers will soon vote. Two arbitration boards will decide wage demands for 14 non operating and 3 operating unions. Non operating seeks 30 cents an hour more. operating asks 2.50 dollars daily. A strike affecting 38 000 power customers in Kentucky and Virginia was postponed. Kentucky Utilities walkout of 200 workers delayed at U S Conciliation Service request. RCA Camden wage pact 174 cents an hour for 44 000 Camden workers may shape broader settlement.
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BRT
CIO
Radio Corporation of America
Camden
N. J
RCA Camden
Strike Bound Veterans Lose Unemployment Benefits
Administer Charles H. Jones of the State said Ohio war veterans idle in labor disputes over wages are not entitled to jobless benefits under the GI Bill or Ohio unemployment laws. He stated that state law excludes benefits in labor disputes involving wages, except during a lockout. One GI Bill section disqualifies veterans from readjustment allowances if unemployment stems from a strike benefiting from a settlement.
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Columbus
Charles H. Jones
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Ohio
Jones
Southerners Distrust City Slicker Solo in FEPC Debate
Distrust grows among Southern opponents of a compromise FEPC bill as a filibuster faced by the Senate for 12 days looms. One Southerner voices doubt that principals they fight will hold when the measure reaches the House.
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Solo
Washtington
FEPC
Senate
Capital happy over recent turn of events in labor picture
Washington The labor management picture brightened as a high government official predicted an end to the steel strike within a week or so. He cited a settlement trend from Ford and Chrysler and said a “Settlement Bloc” is gaining, with White House not likely to act for days. The GM tie-up and CIO UAW stance loom large, while railroads to arbitration calm most wage disputes.
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Kelley
Green
Pennsylvania
Hook and Lezinski
Michigan
Powell
New York
Grelan
Connecticut
Patterson
California
Murray
D-Mont
Senate Labor Committee
Steel and
General Motors Corporation
House
White House
Washington
Administration
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
Medal of Ohio Hero Is Presented to Parents
The parents of Phc. Joseph J. Cichetti, a former 37th Buckeye Division infantryman, receive the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for heroism at Masnila. Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler presented the medal yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cichetti.
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Medal of Ohio
Waynesburg, C
Phc
Joseph J. Cichettis
37Th Buckeye
Mas Nila
Robert S. Beightler
37Th
Joseph Cichetti
Bing Crosby Seeks Oscar Glory Anew in 1945 Derby
Bing Crosby earns another Oscar nomination for The Bells of St Mary's as the Motion Picture Academy announces top honors for 1945. His bid to defend his previous win in Going My Way faces stiff competition, with only Spencer Tracy matching two Oscars in a career. Also noted is the death of Mahoning National Bank president William Roberts in Youngstown after his election last year.
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Bing Crosby
St. Mary's
Wim
Academy of Arts and Sciences
Spencer Tracy
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Veterans and State Seeking Army Hospital
Ardoth Hallowell
Sharon Lee
Walter
Baby
Hamilton
Kirwan
Michael J. Kirwan
David Young
Helen Rathburn
Middleport
Bertha Rathburn
Rutland
Charles S. Rathburn
Harvey Young
Columbus Dispatch
Oscar
William _ Roberts
Mahoning National Bank
Youngstows
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