Hopes for End to Ohio Strike Turmoil in War Effort
The Associated Press reports progress toward settling strikes in Toledo Akron and the Eastern Ohio Valley asURW plans to present a back to work order to 16 500 Firestone employees by Friday amid gas supply negotiations and a six day CIO UAW work stoppage. The Army sees 100 million cubic feet of gas daily restored to Tennessee Gas and Transmission lines.
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Associated Press
Toledo
Akron
Ohio Valley
CIO
United Rubber Workers
National War Labor Board
Washington
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
United Fuel Gas Co
Spicer Manufacturing Corporation
WLB
Cio-United Automobile
UAW
E. 4
Gallup
Army Ordnance
Tennessee Gas and Transmission Co
United
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
Ohio River
Portsmouth
East Liverpool
Ote
Firestone
URW
Max W. Johnstone
George W. Taylor
Corsair Fighters Are Giving Japs Headache
STRATFORD Conn Those man made comets streaking across Japanese skies are the new Corsair fighter bombers capable of speeds faster than seven miles a minute and carrying 2000 pounds of bombs rockets and six 50 caliber machine guns. The Chance Vought F4U 4 design has been described by the Navy in Washington. SUB SURRENDERS MAR DEL PLATA Argentina A German U Boat of 700 tons with 34 men surrendered to Argentine Naval authorities at this submarine base yesterday. DEPOT IS BURNED FINDLAY Fire destroyed the Nickel Plate Railroad depot at Mortimer last night.
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Stratford
Conn
Chance Vought
United Aircraft Corporation
Washington
Navy
Mar del Plata
Otto Wer
Findlay
Nickel Plate Railread
Mortimer
Veteran Goes Back to Khaki In South Today
Atlanta native former First Lt. William K. Dobson returns to active duty as a private at Camp Blanding Florida after rejoining the Army. He is an 84-point veteran with Purple Heart Oak Leaf Bronze Star, wounded on D-Day in Normandy and in 1944 at Aachen.
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Atlanta
William K. Dobson
U. S. Forest Service
Camp Blanding
Fla
Army
Normandy
Aachen
Dobson
Early End for Controls Seen
Washington reports a possible October 1 scrapping of the CMP. If adopted, the change would shift to a simple priority system within three months, preserving war production focus. Officials say the steel division favors an early end to the Controlled Materials Plan which allocates steel, copper and aluminum to war and essential civilian users.
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Washington
WPBI
WFB
Steel Division
Jap Peace Feelers Reported by Allies
Acting Secretary Grew charged that Japan is sending purported peace feelers to sow dissension in the United States and among the Allies. He said the aim is to win a peace short of unconditional surrender, despite Japan's clear defeat.
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Washington
Grew
United States
Hamilton Youth Admits Theft of 17 Automobiles
A 14 year old Hamilton boy admitted yesterday stealing 17 automobiles and burglarizing 110 others in six months. William Atchinson pled guilty when arraigned before U S Commissioner Paul Geoghegan on a Decatur Indiana car theft driving the vehicle to Middletown.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton
L. A. Ovenshain
Obenshain
William Atchinson
U. S
Paul Geoghegan
Decatur
Ind
Middletown
Revised Bill of Rights offered by House Group
The House Veterans Committee prepared a revised Bill of Rights to refine veterans benefits. It retains loan, education, and job provisions of the GI measure while removing a proposed universal $1,040 veteran bonus and aiming to ease access to government guaranteed loans and broaden vocational education.
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House Group
Washington
House Veterans Committee
Rankin
Mississippi Democrat
ST Il
European business in postwar recovery warned by Standard Oil chief
New York report quotes Eugene Holtsman, president of Standard Oil Co. (NJ), saying Americans must treat European businessmen as shell‑shocked and in long recovery. He notes vast physical war damage is overshadowed by moral harm, with many nationals nearing nervous breakdowns and seeking trustworthy conversations about the past four to five years. In Toledo a gunman with a false nose robbed Fred Mills of 9400 in cash and checks from Ohio Fuel Gas Co.
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New York
Eugene_ Hol- Man
Standard Oil, Co
Europe
Toledo
Fred Mills
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Nimitz Warns of More Amphibious Attacks After Tokyo Raids
U S Third Fleet withdrew from Japanese waters after a 12 hour carrier air assault on Tokyo area. Nimitz vowed continued air power based on captured islands and prepared for further amphibious actions. MacArthur assumes command of Army air forces on Okinawa to boost Western Pacific operations. Japanese reports claim fighter and interceptor aerial activity over Kyushu, with significant damage tallies from the initial hours of the attack.
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Nimitz
Third Fleet
Tokyo
U. S. Third Fleet
United States
Japan
MacArthur
Okinawa
Pacific
Kyushu
Mikado
U. 14Th Air Force
Linjcheng
14Th Usaaf
Canton
Kanhsien
Childless Marion Wife Confesses Kidnapping Infant
Jean Eileen Creviston, eight days old, was found unharmed and returned to her parents after Mrs. Phyllis Lanman, 29, admitted taking the baby from City Hospital nursery Sunday night. Lanman claimed she yielded to impulse and tried to pose as the mother, pausing to destroy the diaper and face a police confession. Her husband works for a caldy vending company and she was detained at City Hospital under guard.
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Tech
John L. Creviston
Marion
Roscoe D. Mezger
Marks
Lanman
Jean Hileen
Ohio Expands Benefits for Baby Program
The Ohio State Health Department announced an expansion of the emergency maternity and infant care program. Applications now open to army wives pregnant during any husband status, including discharged, promoted, missing in action, or dead, effective July 1. The change extends eligibility to infants of discharged servicemen for a full year of care.
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Columbus
Army
Armed Services
State Health Department
Roger E. Herring
Herring
Yank Soldiers Condemned to Death in China
Ohio Army private James Cooper from Norwood and Private John V Brennan of West Hartford were condemned to execution in China over the death of a Chinese woman. Senator McMahon disclosed that Brennan’s letter described the incident with a water buffalo and a ride that led to the woman’s death after a fall. Peasants testified the soldiers beat people on the ground. Brennan and Cooper denied the accusations.
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Washington
Ohio
China
Sen
Brien MecMahon
James, Cooper
Norwood
John V. Brennan
West Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
Robert Patterson
Patterson
McMahon
Brennan
Cooper
Playmate Blamed in Fire Attempt on Boy in Newark
Newark police probe claims by five year old Frank Tate Jr that a playmate tied him and set him afire last March 25. The boy has undergone 11 blood transfusions and six skin graft operations, with parents informed of the accusation after his earlier incoherent condition.
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Newark
Frank O'Neil
Frank Tate, Jr
American Girls Marry Italian War Prisoners
Three American girls in San Francisco secretly married Italian prisoners of war and denounce the War Department for a sudden separation from their husbands. Norma Scorza, 23, protests that the Army lets the men attend dances and parties yet forbids marriage moves.
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San Francisco
War Department
Norma Scorza
San Franccisco
Schools of Air Have Chance to Return in Ohio
FCC member Paul A. Walker told Ohio State University attendees that non-commercial educational stations can return. He noted many stations were forced off air by commercial competition and said 20 new channels were opened on the FM band for educational use. Walker reported more than 900 stations exist, only 22 are non-commercial educational, and urged sustained educator enthusiasm as over 30 states plan state wide FM educational networks.
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Columbus
Paul A. Walker
Federal Communications Commission
Delvery
Ohio State University
FCC
Walker
Deaf mute confesses murder of wife and child in Peabody
A deaf mute former boxer named David Herblit, 26, went to Peabody police and wrote that he had killed his wife and baby. Police rushed to his home and found the bodies, beaten to death, of the young wife and infant.
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Peabody
Mass
William J. Callanan
David Herblit
Soldier Slapped POWs, Then Faces Six Minutes Hard Labor
Pvt. Joe McGee, 25, of Fort Devens Massachusetts, released once for slapping German prisoners of war, was court martialed and sentenced to six minutes of hard labor for absence without leave drunkenness in uniform and false swearing in an affidavit.
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Hin
Fort Devens
Mass
Joe McGee
July Cold Snap Stuns Ohio With Record Lows
Overnight temperatures plunged across Ohio as the July chill lowered readings by 18 degrees from the usual. Assistant meteorologist JC Walters cited data from 18 weather stations showing an average near 47 degrees while normal is 65. Columbus matched its July 11 low record at 52, Canton logged 41, and Youngstown and Cleveland stayed at 53 for the day’s highest minimums.
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Columbus
Ohin
Jc Walters
Monte
Walters
Canton
Youngstown
Cleveland
Heiress Files Petition To Divorce Cary Grant
Wealthy heiress Barbara Hulton Grant filed for divorce from Cary Grant alleging mental cruelty and great mental anguish affecting her health. The action marks a high profile chapter in their troubled marriage, with details outlined in court filings.
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Cary Grant
Los Angeles
Barbara
Babs) Hulton Grant
Japs Admit Air Inferiority In World War II Headlines
Reports describe Allied air superiority after a sweeping Pacific air action. Japanese forces suffered losses over Tokyo and Iwo Jima while Allied raids struck four cities and damaged 19 planes and 25 vessels. Australian troops pressed toward Manggar and Mt Batochampar, with conclusive air supremacy noted in several theater areas.
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Yamashita
Tokyo
Arthur
Iwo Jima
Kobe
Balikpapan Bay
Werram
Thelthe Harbor
Pandans Aritory
New Issue Is Raised by Pole
London reports that Gen Klemens Rudnicki head of the First Polish Armored Division issued an order of the day reaffirming loyalty to the Polish Exile government. The division serving with British forces in China was attacked by four Japanese fighters, one enemy plane damaged, as U S 14th Air Force P 38s supported operations with about 25 000 Polish troops involved. The incident raises questions on Allied support for an armed force led by officers opposed to the Warsaw government and its effect on relations with Warsaw and Moscow.
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Tokyo
Japan
Java
Invercoaf
London
Klemens Rudnicki
Alljevang Gourneast Asia Air Force
Ameriregime
Albert C
Wedemeyer
China
Germany
U. S
14Th Air Force
Mane
Warsaw
Moscow
Urges U.S. To Inspect Soviet Occupied Areas
At Antioch College, Bertram Wolfe urged Americans to press for political missions and reporters in areas the Red army occupies. He argued some regions are theoretically UN held but effectively under Soviet control, saying wars stem from unresolved issues.
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U.S
Yellow Springs
Red Army
Bertram Wolfe
Russia
Antioch College Institute
Wolfe
United Nations
Record Set by Seventh War Loan Drive
Washington report notes the Seventh War Loan raised 26,314,900,000 the largest financing operation of any war. A further bond sale may occur in November, but future drives are unlikely to match this effort. Despite F bonds trailing the target, Americans reached 99.4 percent of the $34,000,000,000 quota.
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Washington
Cattle Rustlers Reported in Northeastern Ohio Counties
Northeastern Ohio sheriffs report rising cattle rustling, with Geauga County largely untouched. Officers describe a common method: approach at night, cut a calf or sheep from the herd, strike the animal, bind it, and remove it by truck to the slaughterhouse. Some counties report arrests and heightened farmer vigilance.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Geauga County
M. Harland
Anyxone
Carl R Finnegan
Lorain County
Massillon
Canton
George Shields
Portage
Sheee
Truman Party Aboard Ship Ahead of Big Three Talks
President Truman travels aboard the cruiser Augusta with a small mission staff en route to Potsdam for the Big Three meeting. The convoy includes James Byrnes, William Leahy, Harry Vaughan, and James Vardaman. A C-54 plane will fly from debarkation to Potsdam.
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Augusta
Truman
Berlin
Iwoveruiser
Atlantic
James F. Byrnes
William 0. Leahy
Harry H Vaughan
James K. Vardaman
Debarkation
Potsdam
Convictions of Negro Soldiers Confirmed at Guam
Court martial convictions of 43 Negro servicemen attached to naval supply base companies on Guam are final, announced by Maj. Gen. Henry Larsen. Sentences range from four months to four years. another Black soldier faces additional charges including leaving an area without permission, misuse of government property, and unlawful assembly.
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Guam
Henry Larsen
Wife Offers Cure for Army Eating Champion
In Oxforn Massachusetts Mrs Rita Salvatori proposes a three step plan to curb Pfr Chester J. Salvator, famed for eating 40 eggs at breakfast with coffee. She suggests a rationed diet of home cooking, a stricter meal plan, and finally discussion on the rising cost of living to shift his eating habits.
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Oxforn
Mass
Chester J. Salvator
Rita Salvatori
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Anderson
House Food Investigation Committee
Chicago
Stephen Pace
House Food Committee
Clinton P. Anderson
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Waterloo
Playmate
Springfield
In Common Pleas
Golden C. Davis
Jerome A. Nevins
Clark County
Nevins
Dees
Robert Hasih
Philippines
Gen
Tomoyuki
Mt. Batochampar
Manggar Airfield
Pole
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