Measure on closed shop moves to Senate after House OK
Ohio House approved a constitutional amendment to outlaw the closed shop and passed a public employee strikes ban. The Senate and House actions include a two year limit on portal to portal pay suits, a $30 million local government aid program, and a $118.6 million capital improvement package. The amusement admissions tax allocation faced a Senate defeat.
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Senate
House
Columbus
Ohio
Branch
Charles H. Veach
Putnam
William R. van Aken
Cuyahoga
Inmate Escape Attempt at Ohio Reformatory Foiled
Six Ohio Reformatory inmates remained in solitary awaiting prison court hearings after an escape attempt. Two men seized a ladder, scaled a 30 foot east wall, and jumped to freedom but were recaptured within 150 yards. Everett Welling and George Poppick, both 24 from Lucas County, were in armed robbery terms. Guard W R Neale initially mistook activity for repair work before raising the alarm.
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Mansfield
Ohio Reformatory
W. R. Neale
Everett Welling
George Poppick
Lucas County
Valley Forge crew members scalded by burst steam line
Seven teen workers and crewmen from the 27,000 ton carrier Valley Forge were scalded when a broken steam line flange flooded No. 3 fireroom. Ten men were in Philadelphia Naval Hospital with burns from minor to second degree. others treated onboard.
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Philadelphia
Valley Forge
Navy Public Relations Office
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
Civilian planes registered rise to 84002
The United States and territories reported 84 002 registered civil aircraft at the start of the year according to the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
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Washington
United States and Territories
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Sam Simmons Reveals Tax Investigation Closure and Waiver Payment
Sam Simmons states the income tax probe is closed and he accepted $5 for signing a waiver renouncing refunds. He says the waiver followed a telephonic review with an Oil City accountant and Deputy Collector Goudy of Parkersburg. Simmons notes the tradeoff between the $5 and an estimated $150 for a full records examination.
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Ceesnor
Oil City
Goudy
Parkersburg
Mayor Saves Young Negro From Lynching
In Hartsboro Alabama mayor Hart Vann persuaded a lynch mob to release Jimmy Harris a 19 year old Black man found bound with a rope. He urged using lawful process and argued the town should avoid a black eye by letting the law run its course.
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Hartsboro
Ala
Hart Vann
Jimmy Harris
Harris
Vann
Calf with Two Heads Breaks Eating Record Nearby Farm
In Annville Pennsylvania a Holstein calf born Sunday has two heads fused at the ears and two mouths. Harvey Sweigert reports the animal can feed from both mouths simultaneously, giving it a dramatic eating advantage over other calves.
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Annville
Harvey Sweigert
Sweigert
Agencies Get Authority to Spend Before New Funds
The House Appropriations Committee moved to assure government employees receive pay by authorizing agencies to spend in anticipation of new appropriations. This action aims to prevent any temporary pay disruption while Congress passes the new funding.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Congress
Jacob Shapiro Dies In Prison Hospital
Jacob Gurrah Shapiro once called the FBI's most vicious New York killer and an associate of Louis Lepke Buchalter died Monday in Sing Sing Prison hospital from a heart ailment.
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Ossining
N. Y
Jacob
Gurrah) Shapiro
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New York
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Murder, Inc
Sing Sing Prison Hospital
Bond Issue Approved To Improve Schools In Lima
A $3,000,000 special bond issue to improve 13 elementary schools was approved at a special election in Lima yesterday. Ballots: 5,190 for and 2,624 against, with the favorable total exceeding the 65 percent threshold by 111 votes.
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Lima
Educator Given Five Year Contract in Newark
The Newark Board of Education approved a five year contract for Paul B. Edwards superintendent of schools at a salary of 6500 dollars per year.
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Newark
Newark Board of Education
Paul B. Edwards
Senate Raps Europe States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee members dismissed a plan to declare Congress favors a United States of Europe. Senator Hatch of New Mexico said the initiative should come from Europe, not Congress, even as Marshall and Churchill endorsed the idea. Senator George of Georgia doubted congressional action would influence Europe.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
United States of Europe
Marshall
Winston Churchill
Hatch
D-Nm
Truman
Fulbright
New Mexico
George
D-Ga
Truman urged to sign tax reduction bill
Senator George asks Secretary Snyder to urge President Truman to sign the 4 billion dollar tax reduction bill. He supported it in the Senate but would hesitate to vote to override a veto, warning a veto now would kill any tax cut before July 1, 1948. Truman has until next Monday to act.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Steel Wages Said Block In Auto Price Cut
Ford Motor Co executive vice president Ernest A Breech said autos will be sold at prewar prices once steel costs 1941 levels, capacity and equipment cost 1941 levels, and workers earn 1941 wages. He spoke at the American Marketing Association awards luncheon.
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New York
Ernest A. Breech
Ford Motor Co
American Marketing Association
Hudson Auto Workers Force Plant Shutdown
In Detroit the Hudson Motor Car Co plant shut down after about 600 office workers struck for higher pay and CIO UAW members refused to cross picket lines. Roughly 15,000 production workers joined the stoppage, prompting the company to close operations.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Co
Hudson
CIO
United Auto Workers
Coal Operator Samuel Pursglove Dies in Morgantown
Samuel Pursglove, 72, long-time coal operator in West Virginia Ohio and Pennsylvania, died last night of a heart attack after retiring a few years ago.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Samuel Pursglove
West Virginia
Ohio
Pennsylvania
China charges Reds with Mongol raid across border
Chinese foreign ministry accused Soviet backed Outer Mongolia of invading Sinkiang with a Mongol cavalry unit. Two Chinese soldiers died and others wounded in the initial assault near Peitashan. China claimed Soviet involvement and said it would protest to Moscow and Ulaanbaatar.
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China
Remte Sinkiang
Moscow
Chang Yuan-Chang
Foreign Office
Central
Outer Mongolia
Sinkiang
Peitashan
Chang
Flood Crests Threaten St Louis Amid Midwestern Floods
Flood waves from the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers push toward St. Louis as hundreds of thousands of acres flood across Missouri Illinois and Iowa. Evacuations are under way and levee threats loom with tens of thousands homeless in the region per Red Cross estimates.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Mississippi
Quincy
Ill
W. M. Leaf
Hannibal
Missouri River
Glascow-Boonville
Red Cross
Illinois
Ottumwa
Des Moines River
Iowa
Hopes Bright Over Sugar Ration Ending
United States gains 350000 tons more sugar from the International Emergency Food Council boosting per person allotment by about five pounds. An Agriculture Department official says rationing could end for households by month’s end if the Cuba crop remains strong and France cannot take all its Cuban sugar.
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Washington
United States
International Emergency Food Council Inter-Government Agency
Agriculture Department
France
Worker Tells Of 3 Slayings in Fort Wayne
Detective Captain Alfred Figel said 30 year old Kokomo factory worker Ralph W Lobaugh would be questioned today over three Fort Wayne murders in 1944 and 1945. Lobaugh admitted killing two women at Fort Wayne and later said he killed a third. He implicated himself in the deaths of Anna Kuzeff 20 Wilhelma Haaga 38 and Dorothea Howard 36.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Alfred Figel
Kokomo
Figel
Ralph W. Lobaugh
Lobaugh
Anna Kuzeff
Wilhelma Haaga
Dorothea Howard
Butchers Threaten Strike Over Meat Prices in Newark
Joseph Vian president of the Independent Retail Butchers Association of New Jersey said members warned they would shut shops unless meat packers halted the recent price increases.
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Newark
N.J
Joseph Vian
Independent Retail Butchers Association of
New Jersey
Truman Promises Peaceful Aid Without Force
President Truman told the Canadian Parliament the United States will aid peaceful nations without coercion and will use resources to promote world recovery. He touted the St Lawrence project and reiterated support for those who govern themselves and respect individual rights. He suggested Greek Turkish aid and other relief measures may expand, while confirming the joint defense board will continue under the hemispheric defense program.
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Ottawa
Truman
United States
St. Lawrence
Canada
W. L. Mackenzie King
Children See Something On Night of Baby Deaths
Massillon police say several child patients at Massillon City Hospital reportedly saw something the night two eight to ten week old infants were killed. Dr. Persis Simmons planned to discuss initial observations with colleagues and file a report later.
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Massillon
Stanley W. Switter
Massillon City Hospital
Switter
Persis Simmons
Bureau of Juvenile Research At
Columbus
Chilren
Lon
Maurice Newburg
BJR
Diane Jean Brand
Rosemary Morton
Stark County
E. C. Reno
Churchill Undergoes Hernia Operation in London
Former prime minister Winston Churchill, 72, underwent a hernia operation this morning in London. His condition was reported satisfactory and he is expected to be absent from House of Commons duties for at least a month. The operation was performed by five doctors including Lord Moran and Sir Thomas Dunhill.
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London
Winston Churchill
Churchill
House of Commons
Lord Moran
Royal College of Physicians
Thomas Dunhill
Russia Proposes World Commission for Atomic Mining Control
At Lake Success the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko urged the United Nations to create a world commission to oversee all atomic mining facilities and production. He urged inspection rights and access within the Security Council framework to monitor mining, stockpiling and related activities.
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Russia
United Nations
World Commission
Andrei A. Gromyko
Atomic Energy Commission
Security Council
Briggs Plant UAW Walkout Averted
Briggs Manufacturing Co and the CIO United Auto Workers reached a two year wage and hours pact for 22 500 workers late last night preventing a strike that would have halted Briggs roles supplying Packard and Chrysler. Ford Motor Co meanwhile closed Rouge plant lines due to parts shortages sending 150 workers home for a second day.
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Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Briggs
CIO
United Auto
Packard
Chrysler
Ford Motor Co
Rouge
Ohioan Jumps 49 Stories To His Death
James P. Bailey a 49 year old Wyoming Ohio resident and retired hardware store executive plunged 574 feet from the Carew Tower observation platform in Cincinnati after circling the ledge for about a half hour. Witnesses described his farewell shout and disappearance as police investigated motive.
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Cincinnati
Carew Tower
James P. Bailey
Wyoming
Ohio
Bailey
John Davis
Perintown
Army Plane To Try Pushbutton Flight
A four engine Army transport plane heads from Long Beach California to Wilmington Ohio on a 2000 mile pushbutton flight for 11 crew. Capt T J Wells leads the mission with instruments pre set to take off fly via Denver and Cincinnati and land at the RAF flying center at Wilmington.
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Long Beach
Calif
Wilmington
Ohio
T. J. Wells
Denver
Cincinnati
RAF
Playmate Slayer Awaits Further Mental Tests
LAPEER Mich Oliver Terpening 16, Imlay City farm boy, remains in jail awaiting further mental tests to determine his sanity after admitting to slaying four playmates. Judge George Desjardines adjourned the case until June 24 when results will be reported in court.
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Lapeer
Mich
Oliver Terpening
Imlay City Farm
George Desjardines
New Ohio Park Opens to Public About July 10
Ohioans may use portions of the new East Harbor State Park on Lake Erie around July 10. Fishing, bathing and picnicking will be allowed at areas not interfering with ongoing construction of the 1300 acre park located five miles east of Port Clinton, said State Conservation Commissioner H A Rider.
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Columbus
New East Harbor
Lake Erie
H. A. Rider
Port Clinton
Rider
Springfield native named general superintendent at Wolverhampton Goodyear plan
Howard L. Ginaven of Springfield has been appointed general superintendent of the Wolverhampton plan of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co in England. The selection elevates local talent to a key leadership role overseeing production efforts at the Wolverhampton facility.
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Akron
Howard L. Ginaven
Springfield
Wolverhampton
England
Goodyear Tire& Rubber Co
FHA Rapped By Congress
The House Appropriations Committee condemned the Federal Public Housing Authority as failing to meet its purpose. It reported over 31 percent of public housing is occupied by ineligible or higher income tenants and criticized the agency for inaction to fix the problem. It charged the slum elimination provision has been ignored as slums continue to grow.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Federal Public Housing Authority
FPHA
Speaker Asserts Tolls Won’t Support Seaway
Washington reports L. C. Sabin vice president of the Lake Carriers' Association said tolls to fund the proposed St. Lawrence seaway would fall 20 percent short of the $32,000,000 annual charges, making the project not self-liquidating.
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Washington
St. Lawrence Seaway
L. C. Sabin
Lake Carriers’ Association
Slayer Found Innocent Of Killing Church Man
A circuit court jury in St. Joseph Missouri found 16 year old Stuart B Allen innocent by reason of insanity for the murder of 58 year old John Frank a church sexton whose body was found at the Christ Episcopal Church basement on April 2.
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ST. Joseph
Stuart B. Allen
Allen
John Frank
Christ Episcopal Church
Physician Slater Shriverr Dies in Columbus
Dr. Charles Slater Shriverr a 66 year old physician who practiced in Columbus for 41 years died yesterday shaping end of a long medical career.
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Columbus
Charles ‘Slater Shriverr
Weather Holds Key to'48 Meat Supplies for Nation
The 1948 meat supply risks shortage as dry weather in the Midwest could finish delayed corn planting. The Agriculture Department says 20 25 percent of corn acres remained unplanted by June 1, risking reduced meat, milk and poultry output and higher prices. Wheat is forecast at a near record 1.41 billion bushels, offering some relief if production meets needs.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Harold K. Hill
Corn Belt
Department
Midwest
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Allegheny College
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Maxine Taylor
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