President asks power to cut prices and regulate wages
President Truman asked Congress to grant anti inflation powers including price rollbacks to 1947 levels or nearest period, temporary price ceilings, wage controls tied to price rules, and restoration of wartime controls on credit and rents. Porter presented the bill outlining rationing, inventory control, and hearings, with a separate proposal for excess profits taxes.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Paul Porter
OPA
Capitol
Porter
House Banking Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Timken Announces Higher Prices on Alloy Steel Items
Timken Roller Bearing Co. announced price increases on alloy steel bars blooms billets and seamless tubing. The boosts range from three to four percent for bars blooms and billets and four to ten percent for seamless tubing.
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Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co
GOP Launches Air Attack On Truman
GOP leaders unleashed a sharp national critique of President Truman after his call for a special session. Taft Wherry Halleck Dirksen and Keefe criticized inflation measures and housing proposals, arguing Congress would not enact price controls or rationing and would adjourn after two weeks.
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Washington —T
Truman
GOP
Congress
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Wherry
Nebraska
House
Halleck
Indiana
Dirksen
Illinois
Keefe
Wisconsin
Four GSI Grounds Walkaways Reported Missing
Gallipolis State Institute authorities describe two of four walkaways as dangerous after they left at about 6 45 p m Wednesday and were last seen crossing a hill toward Bulaville Road. The absences involve Elmer Palmer 25 of McArthur Roger Deitch 20 and William Meadows 19 all of Cleveland and Charles Taylor 27 of Columbus.
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Gallipolis
Gallipolis State Institute
GSI
Bulaville Road
Elmer Palmer
McArthur
Roger Deitch
William Meadows
Cleveland
Charles Taylor
Columbus
White Asks Extra Session For 12 Point Program
William L. White, defeated GOP gubernatorial candidate, urged Gov. Thomas J. Herbert to call a new special session to consider a 12 point program. He proposed adopting a Wisconsin style primary, school consolidation, highway safety, liquor sale overhaul, prison reforms, crime study, tax corrections, public health, recreation expansion, Wilberforce University control return to AME Church, better telephone service, and higher old age pensions.
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Newark
William L. White
Thomas J. Herbert
White
Ohio
Wilberforce University
AME
Erie Railroad trains to gain 315 miles radio links
Erie Railroad announced installation of train radio communications on 315 miles of main line track yesterday. The move aims to improve signaling and safety across major routes in the system.
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Cleveland
Erie Railroad
Grand Jury Indicts Simonton on Assault and Battery
Willard Simonton, suspended superintendent of the Athens County Home, is under arrest after grand jury indictments on nine counts of assault and battery on inmates. A special report accuses him of cruel treatment and dungében punishment. Bond set at 1500 dollars. arraignment scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m. The jury urges removal and a broader investigation of county institution leadership.
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Simonton
Willard Simonton
Athens County
George Bateman
Alberta C. Grones
Gordon B. Gray
Filibuster on Civil Rights Seen End Of Truman Anti-Inflation Lawmaking
Senate poised for a long debate over an anti poll tax bill as 21 Dixie Democrats led by Senator Russell vow to fight any move to limit discussion. Republican Wherry plans to bring up the bill while Taft says Republicans will exhaust parliamentary efforts to pass anti poll tax legislation.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Wherry
Nebraska
Russell
D-Ga
Dixie
House
Taft
Dixie Democrats
Rep
Bender
Ohio
New Hampshire
Dixie Contingnet
Mr. Truman
Delegate Charged With Falsifying Age
Canton report says Jack Corkran a recent Progressive Party delegate was arrested on charges of falsifying his age to vote in May primaries. Election clerk James Seccombe filed the warrant and claims Corkran is 19, not 21, with penalties including potential penitentiary time in Ohio.
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Canton
Jack R. Corkran
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
James Seccombe
Corkran
Ohio
19 Reported Killed In China Plane Crash
A Civil Air Transport C-46 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tsingtao today. All 19 aboard were killed including pilot Richard E. Tarbet of Logan Utah the only American. The rest were Chinese soldiers and a Chinese co pilot being airlifted to Tsinan.
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Shanghai
Tsingtao
Richard E. Tarbet
Logan
Utah
Tisinan
Germans Erect Memorial for Two American Fliers
Western Berlin residents build a memorial on the crash site honoring Lt. Charles H. King of Britton South Dakota and Lt. Robert W. Stuber of Arlington California who died delivering food to the blockaded city. Each flyer left a widow and child in Wiesbaden.
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Berlin
Charles H. King
Britton
S. D
Robert W. Stuber
Arlington
Calif
Wiesbaden
Guard Begins Search For Missing Family
The Coast Guard started a Lake Erie search for four members of a Cleveland family missing since Tuesday in their 14 foot motorboat. Sheriff Ralph Reidmaier said heavy storms may have swamped the boat or the family may have rented a cottage at a resort.
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Sandusky
Coast Guard
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Ralph Reidmaier
Cigaret Price Raise Is Made To Wholesalers
The American Tobacco Company increased wholesale prices for Lucky Strike Herbert Tareyton and Pall Mall by seven-tenths of a cent per pack effective today. Retailers expect a roughly one cent per pack rise for consumers as major brands sell about 20 cents per pack in New York including tax.
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New York
American Tobacco Company
Lucky Strike
Herbert Tareyton
Pall Mall
Russian prince Toumanoff dies after short illness
Cambridge Massachusetts report states Leo Constantine Toumanoff aged 67, a purported prince of the deposed Russian royal family, died yesterday following a brief illness.
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Cambridge, Mass
Leo Constantine Toumanoff
Ohio youth drowns after boat capsizes on Rice Lake
Croton Ohio resident Harold Lee O'Neal aged 19 drowned when the boat he rode in capsized on Rice Lake in Cobourg Ontario last night.
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Ohio
Cobourg
Ont
Harold Lee O’neal
Croton
Rice Lake
Farben Directors Found Guilty of Looting in Occupied Lands
Nine directors of the I. G. Farben chemical trust were convicted by a U.S. military tribunal of looting industries in Hitler-occupied countries. The court acquitted all 24 leaders on charges of aggressive war, faulting politicians and militarists for wartime blame. The verdict named directors Schemitz, von Schnitzler, Ter Meer, Buergin, Harliger, Ilgner, Jaehne, Oster, and Kugler among those found guilty on looting counts. The trial spanned 11 months. explosions at Ludwigshafen and the destruction of Farb en plants were noted as context.
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Nuernberg
Germany
I. G. Farben Chemical Trust
Hitler
United States Military Tribunal
Farben
Third Reich
Hermann Schmitz
Georg von Schnitzler
Fritz Ter Meer
Ernest Buergin
Paul Harliger
Max Ilgner
Friedrich Jaehne
Heinrich Oster
Hans Kuggler
Curtis G
Krupp
U.S
Ludwigshafen
Hoover Era GOP Leader Dies at 84
James Eli Watson of Indiana longtime Republican Senate leader during Hoover era died at 84 after internal hemorrhages on Oct. 12 He had served in Congress under eight presidents from 1894 in the House to 1933 in the Senate Survivors include his widow Flora Miller son Edwin Watson and James E Watson Jr and daughter Mrs Ernest Gross Also brother Charles Watson of Winchester Indiana.
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Washington
James Eli Watson
Indiana
Senate
Hoover
Congress
Watson
House
Flora Miller
Winchester
Ind
Ernest Gross
Edwin G
Joseph C. Watson
James E. Watson, Jr
Chicago
Charles Watson
Pickets Scorn Non-Strikers at Univis Lens Plant
Dayton pickets massed outside Univis Lens Co. as 700 workers entered the plant under heavy police watch. International UEW organizer Lou Kaplan led three lines despite a court order, while operative injuries marked yesterday’s clashes amid a wage dispute ending with a May contract.
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Dayton
Scah
Univis Lens Co
Eye Glass Company
Husky Lou Kaplan
CIO United Electrical Workers
Kaplan
Montgomery County Cio Industrial Union Council
UEW
Highway Patrolman shoots fleeing youth in Ohio chase
Springfield report says a state highway patrolman wounded a 16 year old Youngstown youth after a chase. The youth allegedly fled after a stolen car report and was armed with a revolver in a shoulder holster when officers attempted to question him at a West Jefferson gas station.
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Springfield
Youngstown
West Jefferson
Ohio
Bevin Signals Talks on Cold War Easing in London
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said diplomatic talks with Russia aim to assess any prospect of ending the cold war. Britain U S and France envoys planned to meet Molotov in Moscow to discuss the Berlin blockade and related issues for peace and security in Europe.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Russia
House of Commons
U. S
W. Bedell Smith
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Kremlin
Britain
France
Molotov
Berlin
Europe
Bevin
Accused Wife Pleads Case in Murder Trial
Marie Conn Abbott, 40, widow of Morris R. Abbott, testified in Hamilton Ohio as a co defendant in a first degree murder case. Cyril Gordon 27 is also on trial for conspiring to kill Abbott during the May 31 struggle. Prosecutor Baden plans rebuttal witnesses and a Friday jury decision.
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Gordon
Abbott
Milk price increase announced by distributors
Milk price climbs two cents a quart to 22 cents as distributors announce the change yesterday.
Ohio Bank Deposits Hit Top Says Federal Reserve
Ohio total bank deposits at opening of business year 1947 reached 6.33 billion dollars, a peak near prior-year levels, per Federal Reserve data. Demand deposits stood 3.64 billion and time deposits 2.69 billion with savings comprising most time deposits. County figures show Cleveland area in Cuyahoga leading with 1.97 billion, Hamilton second, and low in Vinton.
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Ohio Bank
Federal Reserve
Washington
Ohio
Federal Reserve System
Cuyahoga
Cleveland
Hamilton County
Vinton County
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Jackson
Meigs
Ludwigshafen blast toll tops 334 as 6,200 injured
In the Ludwigshafen Farben plant disaster, police report 84 bodies found in the Rhine city with about 250 missing and presumed dead. Estimates of dead vary, while 6,200 were injured across the American zone as rescue workers battle fires and toxic fumes. The plant employed 22,000 workers and caused extensive destruction.
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Ludwigshafen
Germany
Farben
Rhine
Mannheim
U.S. Army
Berlin
I. G. Farbenindustrie Trust
National Zeitung
U. S. Army
William H. McKee
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Change of Mind Seen In Abandonment Case
A Portsmouth case raises the possibility the mother who left a newborn boy at Portsmouth General Hospital ten days ago may want the baby. Mrs. Charlotte Hinkle of Lancaster Ohio told hospital authorities the child might belong to her sister Mrs. Katherine Collens.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth General Hospital
Lancaster
Ohio
Charlotte Hinkle
Katherine Collens
Ralph Wippel Receives Beer Permit in Pomeroy
The Associated Press reports Ralph Wippel of Whip's Whistle Stop on Route 7 in Pomeroy has been issued a new beer permit by the state liquor department.
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Ralph Wippel
Pomeroy Route 7
State Liquor Department
Associated Press
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