Western powers invite Europe to Paris for Marshall plan talks
Britain and France defied Soviet warnings by inviting 22 European nations to Paris on July 12 to draft a European reconstruction program. Russia may join later, but Ukraine and White Russia were not invited, signaling a clear bloc split with Molotov opposing listing national resources.
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Britain
France
V. M. Molotov
Europe
Georges Bidault
Ernest Bevin
Russia
Soviet Union
Spain
Germany
Alexandre Bogomolov
Eco
Ukraine
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Finland
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Yugoslavia
U.S
George C. Marshall
Molotov
Atomic Group Outlines Plutonium Use Plan
The Atomic Energy Commission via General Electric announced a program to improve plutonium production as the main bomb metal at the Richland Washington plant. Plutonium, produced by transmuting uranium, is tied to future atomic power and greater fuel yields. The commission kept details secret but affirmed plutonium’s central role and cost efficiency in bomb production.
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New York
Richland
Wash
Atomic Energy Commission
General Electric Co
United States
British Girl Seeks Marriage to German War Prisoner
Olive Reynolds, 21, requests queen’s help to marry Werner Vetter, 22, a German prisoner of war serving one year, and father of her 11 week old daughter. She says she shares blame if he is sentenced further.
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London
Olive Reynolds
Queen Elizabeth
Werner Vetter
Senate panel approves $600 million Army boost in 1948
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee voted to raise the Army’s operating fund by $599.13 million over the House total for fiscal 1948, mainly for modern aircraft and air force equipment. The outlay would reach about $6.159 billion, with some offset from unspent 1946 and earlier funds, versus Truman’s $6.1 billion request.
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Washington
Senate
House
Gurney
R-Sd
War Department
Truman
Girl Found Chained at Birthday Home in Knoxville
Police in Knoxville Tennessee found 16 year old Geraldine Massengill chained to a bedpost at her home on her birthday. Chief Joe Kimsey says she tearfully accused her father of the act and noted the father and his third wife were jailed on open charges as detectives investigate.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Geraldine Massengill
Joe Kimsey
Kimsey
Massengill
Economic Illiteracy Charged to Average Citizen
The Research Institute of America warns that the public lacks knowledge of business basics fueling labor-management friction. Chairman William J. Casey says profits and dividends are misperceived, with many believing too high profits go to workers. He notes actual margins are small and Taft Hartley law sparks unrest.
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Research Institute of America, Inc
William J. Casey
Institute
Casey
Coal Dealings May Cut Rail, Steel Layoffs
Reports of a coal mine wage agreement buoyed hopes of railroad and steel mill workers in Ohio. Hundreds furloughed looked for early recall as contracts between United Mine Workers and operators were expected to signal resumed production. Erie Railroad furloughed 200 with 500 more to come, and Norfolk and Western in Columbus reported 86 laid off with no coal traffic since Monday.
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Columbus
Ohio
John L. Lewis
United Mine
New Big Inch and Little Inch Compressors Planned
The War Assets Administration announced six new compressor stations will be built on the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines to raise gas flow to 340 million cubic feet daily, up from 140 million, to address expected gas shortages in the Appalachian regions this winter.
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Washington
War Assets Administration
Big Inch
Little Inch
Appalachian
WAA
Two Guards Suspended After Prisoner Escape
In Columbus the City Workhouse suspended two guards for neglect of duty after four Army prisoners pried apart their cell bars with lumber and escaped. Pvt. William Leemaster of Akron was captured at Jackson, Ohio. three others, Clarence Whitacre Pots of Youngstown, Ermen Brookman of Cincinnati, and Floyd McFann of Jackson, remain at large.
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Pvt
William Leemaster
Akron
Jackson, O
Pots
Clarence Whitacre
Youngstown
Ermen Brookman
Cincinnati
Floyd McFann
Jackson
Farming at Hospital Planned for Prisoners
The State Welfare Department will reopen an honor camp at Mount Vernon State Hospital on July 16 for 25 to 30 Mansfield Reformatory prisoners. They will perform maintenance and farm work at the hospital.
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Columbus
State Welfare Department
Mansfield Reformatory
Mount Vernon State Hospital
Fire Sweeps Car Plant in Detroit Suburb Hamtramck
Damage estimated around 100000 dollars followed a blaze that swept the Dodge main plant of Chrysler Corp in Hamtramck Wednesday night. The fire caused major damage and disrupted production at the Detroit area car factory.
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Detroit
Dodge
Chrysler Corp
Hamtramck
Athens Jury Returns 3 Indictments
Three defendants were indicted Thursday by a special Athens County May Grand Jury. Robert Arnold faces involuntary manslaughter in the June 14 Buchtel death. William Mack is charged with driving a car without consent. Leonard Hickman faces breaking and entering and larceny. James Rogaski Jr. was not indicted after being bound over on manslaughter charges.
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O. F. Rowland
Common Pleas
Robert Arnold
Coulson Ave
Buchtel
Frank Hoffman
Arnold
William Mack
Cleveland
Leonard Hickman
Walnut St
Nelsonville
James Rogaski, Jr
Guysville
Paul Leo Mulligan
Rogaski
State Highway Patrol
Grand Jury
Orbiston
Mack
Mary Blackford
Hickman
Hollis Shaner
Carl Evans
State Income For Half Year On Increase
Ohio revenue rose by about 28.5 million dollars in the first half of 1947, led by a surge in sales taxes from 43.98 million to 55.96 million. Liquor taxes fell, but beer and wine levies, gasoline taxes, and liquid fuel income increased, while overall 1947 receipts outpaced 1946 guidance.
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Columbus
Ohio
H. D. Defenbacher
Defenbacher
Don H. Ebright
Civil Budget Hearing Set
Washington report notes Senate scheduling hearings on a House approved bill cutting 43 million from a 383 million War Department civil functions budget. The measure would total 339 million for flood control navigation cemetery maintenance and Panama Canal operations next year with 253 million for flood control and navigation and a 38 million cut, while preserving 60 million for repatriation of fallen soldiers.
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Washington
Senate
House
Panama Canal
Bellemeade and adjacent area urged for Point Pleasant annexation
SAM SIMMONS argues that Bellemeade and Burdette Addition should join Point Pleasant through a circulating petition. He says annexation would fund street lighting repairs garbage disposal and police service while expanding the city as population grows from about 800 to near 1 000 residents, boosting census prospects.
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English Court
Burdette
Route 62
Point Pleasant
House Ways and Means backs $4 billion tax slashing bill
The House Ways and Means Committee approved the Republican backed 4 billion tax cut bill on an 18 to 6 vote. Speaker Martin predicts enough votes from Democrats to override a presidential veto and sets a showdown vote for Tuesday. The measure would raise revenue in the 1948 fiscal year and dates the tax cut to January 1.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Martin
Mass
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Congress
House Ways and Means
Knutson
R-Minn
Undersea Ridge Study Planned By National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society announced a July 15 expedition by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor to survey a section of the mid Atlantic ridge, an undersea mountain range stretching from Iceland toward Antarctica. The two month study will take place in waters about 1,200 miles east of Bermuda.
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Washington
mid-Atlantic
Iceland
Antartica
National Geographic Society
Gilbert Grosvenor
Society
Bermuda
Father and son to represent US at Liberia centennial expo
Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. will accompany his father Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis to the Liberian centennial exposition as U.S. special representatives. They will sail Saturday on the USS Paula for Monrovia, capital of the African Republic.
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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr
Lockbourne Army Air Base
Benjamin O. Davis
United States
Paula
Monrovia
African Republic
UN Magazine Editor To Speak at Antioch
Louis Dolivet editor of the United Nations World spoke at Antioch College’s institute on international relations. He edits the magazine in English French Spanish and Chinese and is a former member of the French Air Corps.
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Yellow Springs, CO
Louis Dolivet
United Nations World
Antioch College
Institute On International Relations
Dolivet
French Air Corps
Coal, Steel Operator Grants to UMW Await Industry Vote
Washington reports a tentative coal industry contract awaiting ratification by the union policy committee and operators. It includes a $1.20 daily pay increase for eight hours, a 10 cent per ton royalty to the union welfare fund, and a federal mine safety code. The deal aims to fulfill John L. Lewis demands to reopen mines with a one year term and protections against Taft-Hartley penalties.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Midwest
Steel
Union Welfare and Retirement Fund
Lewis
Benjamin F. Fairless
U.S. Steel Corp
George M. Humphrey
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Pole Climber Has His Day in Des Moines
Ted Franklin, 39, a longtime steeplejack, spent two hours atop a downtown flag pole during Hawkeye Holidays opening events. He told reporters it was his lifelong dream to perform on a high pole and now awaits psychiatric evaluation in the city jail after the stunt drew thousands.
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Des Moines
Ted Franklin
Franklin
VFW Holds 27th Encampment Aims for Veteran Relief
Ohio veterans of Foreign Wars opened their 27th annual encampment in Columbus seeking four major goals named by national commander Louis E Starr of Portland. The aims include better hospital care and housing for veterans, reducing unemployment among vets, and preventing World War III via universal military training.
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Columbus
Ohio
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Louis E., Starr
Portland
Ore
Senate ICC Moves to Subpoena Jones Affidavits
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee votes to subpoena signers of affidavits linking Rep. Robert F. Jones to the Black Legion and his father to the Ku Klux Klan as it weighs Jones’s FCC nomination. A Monday subcommittee hearing will hear Webb Effinger and Barber whose affidavits are before the panel.
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Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Robert F. Jones
Ohio
Black Legion
Ku Klux Klan
Jones
Federal Communications Commission
Capehart
Rind
Glenn E. Webb
Virgil Herbert Effinger
Frank Barber
Effinger
Portsmouth Man Appointed State Securities Examiner
Spencer Cunningham of Portsmouth was named an examiner in the State Securities Division. He will earn 3000 dollars annually. Cunningham is an Ohio State University and Harvard Law School alumnus and served six years in the Army.
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Columbus
Spencer Cunningham
Portsmouth
State Securities Division
Cunningham
Ohio State University
Harvard Law School
Truman Seeks UN Trusteeship for Pacific Mandates
President Truman asked Congress to approve a plan placing the former Japanese mandate islands in the Pacific under United Nations trusteeship with US administration. The Marianas, Caroline, and Marshall groups, previously German and turned to Japan after World War I, would be governed as a UN trust.
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Truman
Congress
Pacific
United Nations
United States
Marisanas
Caroline
Marshall
Japan
League of Nations
Germany
Senate OKs extension of export import limits to June 30
The Senate approved by voice vote a bill to extend export and import controls over scarce commodities until June 30. The measure now goes to conference with the House as current law would otherwise let controls lapse July 15.
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Washington
Senate
House
Edward J. Moriarty Named Vocational Rehab Supervisor
Edward J. Moriarty of Lakewood was appointed district supervisor of vocational rehabilitation for the State Department of Education in the Akron area, covering 14 counties.
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Columbus
Edward J. Moriarty
Lakewood
State Department of Education
Akron
AAF Inquiry Board Finds Flying Discs Lacking Facts
The Army Air Forces reported insufficient evidence to warrant further study of flying disc sightings over the West. Investigations cited no new experimental weapons and suggested sightings may be misperceptions or weather effects.
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AAF Inquiry Board
Washington
United States
Army Air Forces
Boise
Idaho
Washington State
Cascade Range
Air Forces
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