Truman urges leadership to keep peace over war
President Truman told Shriners at a Chicago dinner that the United States must lead democracies to maintain peace with enough force. He cited broken Russian promises, the UN charter, and postwar spending while urging Europe and Asia be revived for peace and warning against another world war.
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Chicago
Truman
United States
Japan
Stevens Hotel
Soldier Field
Big Lake Front
Shriners of North America
United Nations
Europe
Asia
Farm price plan sparks Capitol Hill clash over Brannan plan
Democratic-Republican coalition in Congress opposes the Brannan plan trial run. Rep. Monroney denounces it as dangerous and likely to split the Democratic party. Rep. Rains condemns support for Brannan and urges withdrawal to avoid booby-trap for farmers. Brannan argues subsidies replace market supports with checks to cover price gaps, stabilizing farm income and keeping food affordable.
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Washington
Truman
Capitol Hill
House
Monroney
D-Okla
Congress
OPA
Rains
D-Ala
Mr. Truman
Democratic Party
Senate Agriculture Committee
Brannan
Seattle air crash injures many as five homes destroyed
A Boeing Field takeoff from Seattle ended in a twin engine C 46 crash into Georgetown homes. F R Sheline a 19 year old from Union Furnace Ohio was aboard and survived. Six bodies were found hours later with several injured including Air Transport Association personnel and a fireman.
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Ohio
Seattle
Boeing Field
F. R. Sheline
Jesse Sheline
Union Furnace
Associated Press Cnld
Hocking County
Air Force
Adak
Chicago
Air Transport Associal Inc
Georgetown
South Hind
Alsa
Amos E. Heacock
Heacock
James M. Adams
Merle Edgerton
Tony Gjessing
Oakland
Gjessing
Allen Brunner Okeana
Second Talk On Atomic Relations Sees High Level Bell
A second closed door conference on sharing the nation's secret atomic weapon set opens on Capitol Hill. The Joint Senate House Atomic Committee will meet with state military and atomic leaders to discuss continuing problems of relations with allies and Canada in the atomic field.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Joint
Senate House Atomic Committee
Canada
Old residents recall shore of prophecy and pioneer graves
In Athens County Hooper Ridge area J B Keirns 78 recalls J B Weethee prophecy that Ohioans would orchard and garden. Residents gather at Concord Church area for homecoming and burial grounds details note pioneers buried at the site including Archibald Bryson born 1750 and soldiers of 1812.
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J. B. Keirns
Hooper Ridge
Athens County
J. B. Weethee
Weethee College
College Hill
Ames Township
Clarence Shephard
Middleport
Archibald Bryson
Israel Linscott
Concord Church
George Wolf
Reuben Sayers
Geo. Wolf
Concord Area
John Wolfe
Senators Named For Murp hy Vacancy
President Truman may fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Murphy's death in Detroit. Rumored contenders include Senators O Mahoney Rhode Island McGrath Rhode Island and McMahon Connecticut. Attorney General Tom Clark and other figures also circulate in the speculation.
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Washington
Truman
Frank Murphy
Detroit
Harbor Beach
Michigan
Supreme Court
Murphy
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Skeleton Assembly In Windup
In Columbus the 98th General Assembly completed its final working day with 113 bills and resolutions signed. Lt Gov Nye and House Speaker Cantwell presided as lawmakers wrapped up amid a skeleton session and recessed for ten minutes to catch up. Final adjournment is set for July 29 with Gov Lausche holding veto power for ten workdays.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
Senate
98Th General Assembly
George D. Nye
Waverly
John F. Cantwell
Youngstown
Frank J. Lausche
Shoe Plant Talks Seen Resumed At Selby Plants
Negotiations in the two month old strike at Selby Shoe Co. plants in Portsmouth and Ashland Ky may be resumed in a week after production employees voted to retain the CIO United Shoe Workers Union of America as their bargaining agent. The union led a strike May 16 over a cost of living bonus in the old contract.
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Portsmouth
Selby Shoe Co
Ashland
CIO
United Shoe Workers Union of America
Timken CIO Sign On One Year Contract
Timken Roller Bearing Co. and the CIO United Steelworkers Union signed a new one year contract in Canton. The agreement largely renews the 1948 pact and covers about 12 000 Timken employees across five Ohio plants. It provides raises for about 2900 workers and allows wage pension and insurance talks to be reopened by the union after 90 days.
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Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co
CIO
United Steelworkers Union
Ohio
Hearing Postponed on Abandoning Bus Service
Public Utilities Commission postponed until next Monday a hearing on a Pennsylvania Railroad bid to abandon bus service between Zanesville and Trinway.
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Columbus
Public Utilities Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad
Zanesville
Trinway
Reds Protest Italy's Part In Alliance
London reports Russia accuses Italy of violating her peace treaty by joining the North Atlantic Alliance. Britain and Italian officials call the charge absurd. In Washington Secretary Acheson rejects Moscow's protest as unfounded, noting Italy has signed but not yet ratified the pact and the treaty is defensive.
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London
Russia
Italy
Britain
Washington
Acheson
Moscow
Police Chief Ouster Upheld in Court
Cambridge police chief Harry W. Watkins was ousted by Mayor Russell Bean on March 4, 1948. Guernsey County Common Pleas Court Judge Clifford Belt upheld the action amid thirty seven charges filed by six police department members.
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Cambridge
Harry W. Watkins
Guernsey County Common Pleas Court
Clifford L. Belt
Belmont County
Carl V. Weygandt
State Supreme Court
Watkins
Russell Bean
Police Department
Woman Saves Children From Gasoline Explosion
Lois Fraley a 22 year old carpenter mother credited wartime civilian defense with saving her two children after a gasoline explosion at their Carpenter home. She and her two year old son James Jr were burned with the boy in critical condition and Mrs Fraley in fair condition at Sheltering Arms Hospital. She wrapped herself in a bedspread to smother flames, carried the children to safety, re entered to extinguish remaining fire, and aided their transport to hospital.
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Lois Fraley
Sheltering Arms Hospital
James, Jr
Dakota
W.va
Loly Fraley
Carpenter
Brenda
Railway Union Head Selected
William A. Kennedy, 57, a Canadian born railroader, was chosen by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen directors to lead the 215,000 member union until its 1950 convention. He moved to Cleveland two years ago as general secretary and treasurer and has 35 years of Brotherhood activity. Donald A. Mackenzie, 67, of Cleveland, was selected to fill Kennedy’s place as assistant president.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Railroad
William A. Kennedy
Independent Union
A. F. Whitney
Kennedy
Brotherhood
Donald A. Mackenzie
Mackenzie
New Mexico
Los Angeles
W. L. Reed
East Mauch Chunk
C. J. McClain
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Reed
Confessed Vampire To Die on Gallows
LEWELL, Eng. John George Haigh, self confessed vampire slayer of nine, was condemned to death on the gallows. A jury of 11 men and a woman convicted the 39 year old businessman of killing Mrs Olive Durand Deacon last Feb 18, drinking her blood and destroying her body in a barrel of acid. Haigh pleaded for a special verdict guilty of the acts charged but insane at the time.
Gambling Czar Wounded In Sunset Strip Restaurant Shootout
Las Angeles gambling czar Mickey Cohen and three others were wounded when gunmen sprayed a Sunset Strip cafe with shotgun fire at about 4 a.m. Police say Cohen, his bodyguard Harry Cooper, plus Dee David and Edward Herbert were seriously injured. columnist Florabel Muir was grazed.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Sunset Strip
Harry Cooper
Cohen
California
Dee David
Edward
Neddie) Herbert
Herbert
Grand Jury
Los Angeles Police Department
Fred Howser
Cooper
Barney Ruditsky
Sherry
Florabel Muir
Variety Magazine
The
Los Angeles Mirror
New York Daily News
Two Escapees Sought After Mansfield Inmate Break
State Patrol roadblocks failed to locate two Mansfield Reformatory inmates named Jack Hartford 18 Hebron and Gerald William Greene 25 Columbus. Authorities linked the car theft to the escapees and reported sightings near a Mansfield store missing clothing and a .22 revolver.
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Mansfield
Mansfield Reformatory
Morrow-Richland County
Jack Hartford
Hebron
Gerald William Greene
Columbus
Woman Dies in Path of Onrushing Train
Cleveland reports a 67 year old grandmother, Minnie Dieckhower, walked in her nightgown to an Erie Railroad track and stood in the path of an approaching passenger train. She lived near the tracks and had been troubled by a chronic stomach ailment keeping her awake.
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Cleveland
Erie Railroad
Minnie Dieckhower
Erie
Congo Man Killed in Crooksville Crash
New Lexington, Perry County. James T. Murray, 54, of Congo, was killed last night in a head on collision on Route 75 in Crooksville when his car crashed into a parked vehicle and a tree.
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NEW
Kidnap tale ties Steinbrecher to four state auto ring
William Steinbrecher surrendered to the FBI in Huntington after claims of kidnapping by two gangsters. He said his travels included Point Pleasant Wheeling Steubenville Newark and Upper Sandusky Ohio. He faces auto theft charges and is held on bond while authorities pursue a four state car theft ring spanning Illinois Michigan Ohio and West Virginia. New arrests include Joseph Winters White and William Kahremania with over 30 cars recovered to date.
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Huntington
W. Va
William Steinbrecher
FBI
Steinbrecher
Point Pleasant
Wheeling
Steubenville
Newark
Upper Sandusky
Ohio
Cabell County
Harold Kitchen
James Steinbrecher
Switzer A. Bias
Chicago
Niagara Falls
Illinois
Michigan
West Virginia
Columb
Show Stops as Bug Halts Bloomer Girl
Dallas report says a bug in act two halted the operetta Bloomer Girl causing Nanette Fabray to hysterically react and forcing the show to close early. Management cited Fabray’s insect fear from a childhood locust encounter and note costumes were sprayed with DDT for open air shows. In Marietta a letter to Ohio's future governor was misrouted to Rep. O Neill. In Youngstown Mayor Henderson returned to office after vacation with poison ivy.
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Dallas
Tex
Nanette Fabray
Charles R. Meeker, Jr
State Fair Casino
Marietta
Ohio
William O’neill
Ohio House of Representatives
Frank J. McCauley
O'Neill
Frank A Lausche
Columbus
Youngstown
Charles P. Henderson
Cape Cod
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George Bateman
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Eleanor E. Gifford
Athens
Penitentiary
Sheriff Bateman
Joseph Grogan
Messenger
E. Davis
Associated Press
Ines County
Ateman Sheri
Railway Union
Gambling Czar
Congo
Crooksville
Pt. Pleasant
U. S
Philip A. Baer
Joseph Winters White
William Kahremania
Harold I. Jacobs
Albert Smolish
Baer
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