Jerusalem Hotel Blast Leaves Dozens Dead
A Jerusalem bombing at the King David Hotel killed or missing 98, with 48 known dead and 41 bodies recovered. About 20 Jews were detained, and British officers were among the missing as rescue crews searched the rubble.
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Jerusalem
King David Hotel
Palestine Government
Palestine
London
Attlee
House of Commons
King David
Palestine Post
Jewish Agency
Alan Cunningham
National Jewish Council
Irgun Zvat Leumi
Stern Gang
Police Capture Suspect In Wife-Escort Slaying
A 25 year old former serviceman sought for a week in the slaying of his estranged wife and her escort emerged from a woodland hideout and was captured without resistance. Kenneth Hanley stumbled into his home at 7 15 a m, forced by heavy rains from near Six Boys Woods where posses had found his abandoned car.
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Norristown
Kenneth Hanley
Six Boys Woods
Utah Man Is Questioned In Corning Youth Killing
Logan Utah AP Police Chief Eli Drakulich said an Ogden Utah youth held for questioning in the slaying of Jack D Stallings 21 of Corning had a automobile matching the car used by Stallings. The suspect said he bought the car for 425 dollars from an unidentified man at an Ogden bicycle shop. A loaded revolver was found on the front seat and there were red stains on the seat and door. The youth said the car seller spoke of nosebleeds on the way to Ogden.
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Utah
Corning
Logan
Eli Drakulich
Ogden
Jack D. Stallings
Corning, O
Stallings
Stalings
Rema Sing W
Coalville
J. R. Stallings
California
Joan West
San Jose
Drakulich
Mining Town Study Underway In Pittsburgh Area
Washington reports the Coal Mines Administration begins a medical care sanitation housing and living conditions survey in timing communities near Pittsburgh. Rear Adm. Joel T. Boone heads CMMA medical survey group and says similar studies will start in other regions under the government John L. Lewis agreement ending the 59 day coal strike this spring.
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Washington
Pittsburgh
Coal Mines Administration
Joel T. Boone
CMMA
John L. Lewis
Mayor to Seek Municipal Liquor Tax Revenue Boost
Steubenville Mayor George W. Floto told the city council he would propose a municipally levied liquor license tax along with parking meters a payroll tax and skilled trade licenses to raise city revenue.
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Steubenville
George W. Floto
Weather Upshot Boosts Crop Prospects and Bread Quality
Prospects of record corn and wheat yields raise hopes for whiter bread and higher beer output while pressing officials to decide on resuming grain purchases for famine relief. An Agriculture Department official hinted at easing domestic grain restrictions if crops hold. Also notes on a proposed flour extraction rule and a distant atomic test description aboard the USS Mt McKinley.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
MT. Mckinley
U. S
R. A. Sawyer
Son of Alcoholic Beverages
President May Get OPA Bill Tonight
OPA, dead for 23 days, may be born again before midnight as administration leaders push for House and Senate approval. The compromise would restore price controls and rent authority, with a three man board to set levels on foods and manufactured items and a rush to restore controls immediately.
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Washington
OPA
House
Senate
Truman
Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Capitol Hill
Taft
Ohio
Conference Committee
Iiat
Debt Slaying Charge Denied at Maryland Plea
Marysville keeper Robert Mayhugh, 72, jailed on 20,000 bond after pleading innocent to second degree murder in a Sunday shooting over debt. He admitted firing at Dwight T. McElroy, 36, a Richwood painter, claiming the man owed nothing though Mayhugh said he had paid 20 dollars and wanted 10 more.
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Marysville
Robert
Mayhugh
Dwight T. McElroy
Richwood
William L. Coleman
McElroy
Grandma Defends Home Stairs Fights Robber in Pittsburgh
Mrs Anna Witmer a 45 year old grandmother confronted a masked robber in her Pittsburgh home. After striking the intruder he fell, she saw a pistol he dropped with $20 from the kitchen and then she fainted. The incident centers on a bold defense and a drop of evidence.
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Pittsburgh
Anna, Witmer
Clyde 1946 Peach Crop At Least Seventy Five Percent Normal
Clyde growers association forecast a peach crop in 1946 at least 75 percent of normal after fears of frost damage. The Clyde Peach Growers Association led by President George Moore Jr. issued the outlook amid frost concerns. In Paraguay, President Higinio Morínigo denied rumors of his resignation in Asuncion.
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Clyde
George Moore, Jr
Clyde Peach Growers
Association Today
Paraguay
Asuncion
Higinio Morinigo
Itoday
Boys confess planned slaying blamed bullying
Medina County prosecutors say two Cleveland boys aged 11 and 12 confessed to plotting the murder of 11-year-old Michael Sopko Jr. because he bullied them. They initially said the death was accidental during turtle-stoning, then admitted killing him with a 3 foot pick handle in a Wickliffe Township woodchuck hole. They planned the crime for two days and would be sent to juvenile authorities for disposition.
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Columbus
Cleveland
Medina County
Michael Sopko, Jr
State Bureau of Juvenile Research
William G. Batchelder
Cuyahoga County
Michael
Charles Williams
Bathdin
Burgess
Brunswick Township
Mer
Medina
Morrow
Batehelder
Tron Workers Walkout Forces Plant Closure
The Ironton plant of the Deyton Maileable Tron Co. shut down after a walkout by an undetermined number of its 775 employees. Lawrence Gallagher, the general manager, said the stoppage violated a contract with the United Steelworkers of America CIO but declined further comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ironton
Deyton Maileable Tron Co
Ciq-Afl
Lawrence Gallagher
United Steel Workers of America-Cio
Immunization Plan Aims to Vaccinate Weilsville Children
In East Liverpool all children under 15 in Weils ville were to be immunized today against diphtheria after five local deaths from throat infections in the last three months.
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East Liverpool
Weilsville
First Postwar Shrines Conclave Opens in San Francisco
In San Francisco the Shriners opened their first postwar convention with explosions of firecrackers, blaring bands, and a long parade of fezzes. About 25 000 members of the ancient Arabic order participated in the opening ceremony.
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San Francisco
Shriners
Probers Invite May to Choose Hearing Time
The Senate War Investigating Committee offered Rep. May a morning, noon or night session to testify without conflicting with duties as a legislator. May cited legislative obligations as reason to delay, while the panel pursues other witnesses and recalls Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt to explain alleged white washing of War Department ties to a Midwest munitions group.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
May
D-Ky
Mead
D-Ny
Ferguson
Rmich
Congress
al’ den H. Waitt
Chemteak
Waitt
War Department
Department
Atomic Plane Test Progress Reported
Washington reports progress on experiments to power airplanes with atomic energy. Army Air Forces officials say the idea seems practical, with Fairchild Engine and Aircraft Corp. as the primary contractor and other firms also involved. Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay cautioned no final solution exists and timing is uncertain.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Curtis E. LeMay
Air Staff
Faircchild Engine and Aircraft Corp
New York
LeMay
Referendum on Milk Upheld by Federal Judge in Cleveland
Judge Robert N. Wilkin ruled that last Friday's referendum on a federal milk marketing order for the Cleveland milkshed complied with federal statutes. He dismissed a suit filed by four Lorain County farmers who argued the plan imposed hardships on producers wishing to dissent.
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Cleveland
Juge
Robert N. Wilkin
Lorain County
Police Seek Male Visitor in Fatal Shooting Near Glouster
Police search for Delbert Spencer after Mrs Pauline Bailey a 33 year old mother of four was fatally shot as she fled from her mother's house near Glouster. Her 10 year old son Richard witnessed the incident and identified the visitor as Spencer. authorities traced him to Dexter and connected him to a livestock fraud case filed by Mason County authorities. The boy said the visitor who arrived at the Mills home with a gun chased Mrs Bailey around the house before firing a fatal shot and leaving down the lane. A Glouster cab driver Foster Lewis said Spencer rode with him from Athens and later near the Mills home carrying a nickel plated revolver.
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Delbert Spencer
Pauline Bailey
Glouster
Bailey
Monsarat
Richard
George Bateman
Spencer
Dexter
Point Pleasant
Frank Spence
Bateman
Mills
Aoord
Foster Lewis
Wilkesville
Lewis
State Rent Control Move Hinges on Federal Action
Ohio Legislature weighed three rent control bills as Congress debated reviving federal controls. Proposals ranged from 10 percent increases with fines and eviction rules to 15 percent by a board decision and a no-change option. Action postponed to Thursday to await federal outcome.
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Opa
Columbus
Ohio
Congress
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
Maurice W. Lipscher
D-Mahoning
Senate
Evert E. Addison
Franklin
State Directors of Commerce, Welfare and Industrial Relations
H. D. Byrne
Portage
Mayor Works Garbage Truck Defying Strike in Canton
Canton mayor Carl F. Klein, earning $6,500 yearly, joins city crews to collect a week of uncollected garbage after a strike by city workers. He says the board of health ordered emergency collection and notes he has done harder work. He was re-elected last year amid strong labor support.
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Canton
Carl F. Klein
City Hall
Board of Health
Solons Puzzle Over Oil Bill
Washington lawmakers weigh dumping the costly Tidelands Bill as the Senate sends it to the House for final form. The measure grants states title to tidelands extending three miles seaward, amid a long running clash between Edwin W. Pauley and Harold Ickes. Senator Barkley hopes the president will veto the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Truman
White House
Edwin W. Pauley
Interior
Harold Ickes
Senate
House
Barkley
D-Ky
Bolivian Leader Villarroel to be Buried as Christians
At the urging of a woman civic leader, the bodies of President Gualberto Villarroel and three aides were taken from lampposts and moved to a morgue in La Paz to await burial as Christians. The four-day revolution killed about 2,000 people, with Villarroel murdered Sunday near the presidential palace.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Gualberto Villarroel
Villarroel
Zanesville Allows City Utility Tax Refunds
Zanesville city council repealed the utility tax ordinance deemed unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court and permitted public utility customers to request refunds on May and June bills. Mayor William G. J. Watson urged restraint to redirect about $30,000 to improve garbage collection services.
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Zanesville
Ohio Supreme Court
William G.J. Watson
Greer Steel Accused of Megal Patent Use
In Cleveland a federal suit filed by the Union National Bank of Youngstown seeks to stop the Greer Steel Co of Dover from further use of rolling mills covered by Cold Metal Process Co patents. The action also seeks an accounting of profits and damages from alleged mill use.
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Cleveland
Greer Steel Co
Dover
Cold Metal Process Co
Youngstown
Union National Bank of
Greer Steel
Ohio Bride-To-Be Die After Crash Near Bucyrus
Clarabelle Corbin a Crestline beauty operator aged 30 was killed in a truck auto collision two days before her wedding near Bucyrus. Her fiancé William F King 30 a Pennsylvania Railroad brakeman lost an arm in the crash.
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Bucyrus
Clarabelle Corbin
Crestline
Here
William F. King
Pennsylvania Raiload
U S Civilians Ousted For Marrying Frauleins
Three American civilians expelled from occupied Germany for marrying German girls in violation of the Army ban on German-American weddings. All are former soldiers whose marriages were disclosed when they asked to ship their wives to the United States as war brides at government expense. In Toledo, J W Casner, Canton supervisor of state liquor stores, died of a heart attack during a telephone call at the Equor control office.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Occupied
U.S. Army
United States
Toledo
J. W.casner
Canton
Equor Control
Yugoslav Air Ruling Cancels Yank Flights
Belgrade UPI reports Yugoslav authorities cancelled all American military flights into Yugoslavia for at least a month. The ruling requires Vienna to Belgrade routes to traverse Hungarian airspace, needing Russian clearances and prompting the suspension of U S aircraft over Yugoslav airspace.
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Belgrade
UPI
Yugoslavia
Vienna
Diver Drowns After Striking Rock in Creek
Eleven year old Alton Lynam Jr. drowned yesterday in Timber Run after diving from a board and striking a rock. Corsoner S S. Daw indicated the fatal injury occurred when his head hit the rock.
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Zanesville
Alton Lynam, Jr
Timber Run
Corsoner S. S. Daw
Wealthy family under scrutiny amid growing fortunes
The piece notes a prominent family with an estimated fortune near a hundred million dollars facing reform scrutiny. It highlights that despite wealth, the family has funded employment and external enrichment through orthodox means, yet questions linger about maintaining growth and public perception as critics press for change.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Batchelder
Tron
George White
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Anna Santini
Patricia Ann
Pat
Solons
Oil
Simmons
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