Officials Attack Problem Of Inequities Resulting From Wage-Price Freeze
Wage stabilization officials move to ease inequities from the recent price and wage freeze. The Wage Stabilization Board plans a formula for blanket increases, likely up to 10 percent, with pensions and fringe benefits debated. Key figures include Cyrus S. Ching, John Dunlop, and Clark Kerr. DiSalle to clarify base-period pricing and enforcement leadership named Harold Leventhal after Hoover’s resignation.
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Cyrus S. Ching
Ing
John Dunlop
Harvard University
Clark Kerr
University of California
Ching
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Toledo
John H. Hoover
di Salle
Harold Leventhal
Washington
New York
Hoover
Manpower Talks Highlight Tug for Control of Policy
Washington officials report ongoing meetings between Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson and Secretary of Labor Tobin over who directs manpower policy. With no wartime manpower commission, Tobin has started the Office of Defense Manpower, leaving planning and paperwork largely in his department. The critical staffing pinch is not expected to bite until next summer.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
Tobin
Truman
Office of Defense Manpower
Elks Offer Buildings For Civilian Defense
Ohio Elks lodges will open 91 buildings for civilian defense. District Elks conference attendees learned of the offer. Northwest District plans its spring meeting at Van Wert on May 21.
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Lima
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Elks
Northwest
van Wert
Children Die as Hartford House Burns
Three children Charles Daubenspeck age 3 and his sister Debra 1% perished with Linda Baldwin the 10 year old baby sitter in a one story Hartford home fire. Coroner Michael Cristo identified the victims.
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Warren
Hartford
Michael Cristo
Charles Daubenspeck
Debra
Linda Baldwin
Arab Asian Peace Plan Moves Toward UN Review
Twelve Arab Asian states refined a peace conference plan with Communist China and prepared it for UN delegates. The key addition, at Canada's urging, makes a Korean cease fire the conference’s first item. The United States opposes tying a cease fire to a broad international forum, urging continued focus on Korea and Formosa with correct representation.
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Lake Success
China
United Nations
Canada
India
Sir Benegal N. Rau
United States
U. S
Pleven Arrives for Talks With President Truman in Washington
French Premier Rene Pleven arrived in Washington for Cold War strategy talks as President Truman welcomed him at Union Station. The two planned formal discussions on world problems with assurances sought on immediate U S retaliation with atomic weapons if Russia invades France.
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Washington
Rene Pleven
Truman
United States
France
Union Station
Pleven
Acheson
Defense
Marshall
Mee Leven
Mr. Truman
White House
Five Men Die In Ohio Plane Crash Near Port Clinton
Five servicemen died when an Army Beechcraft C-45 crashed in an apple orchard seven miles west of Port Clinton Ohio. Victims included Maj. W T Mattison pilot Capt H H Manning co pilot Tech Sgt F W Boice engineer Capt L R Taylor all of Washington DC and Charles D Kafader 27 an electrician’s mate first class USN. Kafader’s widow lives in Los Angeles. The officers were on Howard University ROTC staff. Major Mattison had traveled from Detroit for his brother’s funeral. Information came from N B Allen executive secretary of the Columbus Urban League.
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Port Clinton
Here
Selfridge Air Force Base
Detroit
Bolling Air Force Base
Washington
D. C
Selfridge
W. T. Mattison
H. H. Manning
F. W. Boice
L. R. Taylor
N. B. Allen
The
Columbus, O
Urban League
Detroit Man Pleads Innocent in Slaying
Luigi Castelveter, 55, pleads not guilty to a murder charge in the slaying of Rocco Aronne, 48, whose partly burned and hacked body was found in a car near Martins Ferry, Ohio. Castelveter's hearing is set for February 8 in Recorder's Court. his son Joseph, 30, initially confessed, then said he tried to shield his father.
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Detroit
Luigi Castelveter
Recorder's Court
Ohio
Rocco Aronne
Aronne
Martins Ferry
O. Castelveter
Joseph
Rear Admiral Pugh Heads Navy Medicine
Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh today became surgeon general of the Navy and chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, succeeding Rear Admiral C A Swanson. The oath was given by Rear Admiral George L. Russell in a ceremony at the Secretary of the Navy’s office with Secretary Matthews in attendance.
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Washington
Lamont Pugh
the Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Cc. A. Swanson
Navy
George L. Russell
Secretary of the Navy
Matthews
Capt Gentile Air Force Ace Dies in Crash
Capt. Don S. Gentile, 30, a World War II ace with 182 combat missions, died when his jet crashed on a forested farm near Forestville Maryland after departing Andrews Air Force Base. An enlisted passenger was also killed. his identity withheld pending kin notification. Gentile, born in Piqua Ohio, once flew for Britain’s Royal Air Force and racked up 26 enemy planes in Europe before 1944.
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Washington
Don S. Gentile
Forestville
Andrews Air Force Base
Here
Gentile
Piqua
Ohio
Pasquale Gentile
U. S
Europe
Wright Field
Dayton
Atomic blasts rattled Las Vegas as tests continue
Las Vegas awoke to a new nuclear detonation with the 11th atomic blast in a testing range 40 miles north. Thousands witnessed a white then orange flash, and the Civil Aeronautics Administration ordered airspace closed for seven hours. Officials said measurements showed no radioactivity within 150 miles of blast No. 10, while the AEC denied testing an H-bomb.
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Las Vegas
Atomic Energy Commission
Here
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Nevada
AEC
The
Alamogordo, N. M
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Bikini Lagoon
Eniwetok
Russia
Truman
Enlistment Of Europeans Is Proposed
Senator Ed win C Johnson proposes a foreign legion of one million Western Europeans to join the United States Army to relieve drafting pressures on 18 year olds and ease domestic manpower shortages. He would outline the idea before the Armed Services Committee. Meanwhile UMST hearings and drafts on universal military service continue in House and Senate.
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Washington
United States Army
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Foreign Legion
Johnson
House Armed Services Committee
Anna Rosenberg
Pentagon
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Dtex
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Britain to Call Up 235000 Army Reserves for Training
Prime Minister Attlee announced Britain will summon 235000 army reserves for 15 days of summer training. The plan aims to bolster forces in a tense postwar period with training camps and mobilization procedures outlined by the government.
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Britain
London
Attlee
Autopilot To Steer U S Jet Fighters Within Flight
Westinghouse Electric unveils a compact autopilot with unlimited maneuverability for 1940 U S jet fighter planes. Dr Clinton R Hanna says three non-tumbling gyroscopes keep control through steep dives, rolls and loops, even under evasive tactics. Development occurred at Wright-Patterson AFB following years of research and testing.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
U.S. Air Force
Clinton R. Hanna
Westinghouse Research Laboratories
Hanna
Westinghouse
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
22 Persons Die in Ohio Weekend Toll
At least 22 people died in Ohio over the weekend from accidents per an Associated Press tally. Traffic crashes led with 10 fatalities, including five servicemen in a military plane crash on a Port Clinton area farm. Weather caused four deaths, icy roads and freezing rain contributed, and a three year old was struck by a car while coasting.
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Columbus
Ohio
Associated Press
Port Clinton
Reds Die in Foxholes As Allied Push Near Seoul
AP dispatch describes Chinese Communist troops in western Korea refusing to retreat as UN forces advance toward Seoul. Reports say 130 Reds killed on a single hill, eight captured, with air strikes and artillery while Eighth Army eyes miles gained along the 40 mile western front.
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TOKYO
Seoul
Korea
Associated Press
Jim Becker
U.S
Eighth Army
Suwon
Becker
Suwon- Seoul
Stan Swinton
Kumjang River
Wonchon
U. S
Ichon
Woods Seeks Tough Rent Curbs Amid Rising Rents
Rep Wolcott criticizes the Truman administration for using the emergency to gain economic controls. Woods calls for very tough rent ceilings to match the price wage freeze and restore ceilings where needed. Proposals include rollbacks, ending local option, rent limits on new construction, and controls on commercial buildings. About 7 million housing units now under ceilings versus wartime peak of 15 million.
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Washington
Rep
Wolcott
R-Mich
Truman
Congress
House Banking Committee
Tighe Woods
Woods
Hints On Truman Tax Boost Hint At High Rates
Capitol Hill sources say President Truman will propose a 16.5 billion dollar tax package next week aimed at the highest wartime rate levels. The plan reportedly trims personal exemptions, raises rates across brackets, expands luxury taxes, and tightens loopholes especially on dividend and interest income.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Truman
Congress
Stern
Wide Cold Wave Grips West and Midwest
A late January cold wave blankets the West and mid continent with readings near 40 below in Wyoming and down to 30 below in several areas. Four Hocking County schools closed due to road conditions. attendance down up to 50 percent in some districts across the Dakotas Montana Minnesota and Wisconsin while freezing rain sleet and rain disrupt travel and air service.
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Hocking County
Union Furnace
Desboro
Marion
Gibisonville
Dakotas
Montana
Minnesota
Wisconsin
U.S. Weather Bureau
Mississippi Valley
Upper
Ohio Valley
New England
Hamilton Youth Campaigns For Voting At 18
Hamilton youths including Albert R Anness 18 chair a group called The Hamilton Youth Right of Franchise Committee urging the city to grant voting rights at age 18. They seek representation in City Council, city judges, and the Board of Education while noting service in Korea by peers and sweethearts.
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Hamilton
Board of Education
Albert R. Anness
Korea
Borden Warns Cheese May Be Poisonous
The Borden Cheese Company urges households and merchants to destroy jars of Liederkranz cheese spread amid reports a Los Angeles death may be linked to the product. President C A Eckburg said only jarred Liederkranz is affected, not tin foil wrapped Liderkranz or other Borden items.
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New York
Borden Cheese Company
C. A. Eckburg
Los Angeles
Eckburgh
Borden
Fins Plan Funeral For Field Marshal Mannerheim
Finnish authorities planned a state funeral for Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, national hero and former president who died Saturday night in Lausanne Switzerland after an major intestinal operation. The 83 year old Mannerheim led Finland in battle against Russia and may have the funeral in Helsinki on Sunday.
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Helsinki
Finland
Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Lausanne
Switzerland
Mannerheim
Mt Lamington Fires Again After Fatal Eruption
Sydney reports Mt Lamington in New Guinea erupted a second time within 36 hours after a deadly blast that killed about 4000 Papuans and 35 Europeans. No further deaths were reported from the latest explosion.
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Sydney
Australia
New Guinea
Lamington
Ohio Red Secretary Condemns 60 Families
Cleveland reporter Gus Hall, general secretary of the Communist Party, says 60 American families push the country toward fascism and war. Hall, free on bail after conviction of conspiring to overthrow the government, spoke at a rally for the Ohio Bill of Rights Conference naming the Du Ponts Morgans Rockefellers and Gen Douglas MacArthur as contributing to national insecurity.
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Cleveland
Gus Hall
Communist Party
Hall
Ohio Bill of Rights Conference
du Ponts
Morgans
Rockefellers
Douglas MacArthur
Missing divorcee spotted in Miami
Mrs. Minerva Braddock of Washington Court House, a divorcee who vanished on December 17, was sighted at Miami Beach Florida last Thursday. Sheriff Orland Hays said Braddock was recognized by Dayton friends at the dog races and fled when she saw them, according to Miami police.
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Washington, Do. H
Minerva Braddock
Washington Court House
Miami Beach
Fla
Orland Hays
Braddock
Dayton
Miami
Hays
House votes 31 to 18 for one-package appropriation system
In a tightly divided session the House Appropriations Committee advanced a plan favoring a one-package system to handle federal appropriations. The vote tally reflected partisan alignment as members weighed procedural efficiency against potential oversight concerns.
World’s Fastest Human Returns to Air Force
Lt. Robert M. Knapp, once described by the Air Force as the world’s fastest human, is ordered to report Feb 1 to Stout Field. He previously flew in Europe in WWII when an in-flight dive at 28,000 feet left his plane peeling and then recovered from a 5000 foot altitude descent.
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Norwich
N. Y
Robert M. Knapp
Stout Field
Via
Knapp
Europe
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