House Leaders Pledge Action On Draft Law
The House GOP pressed to pass a peacetime draft bill after the Senate approved its version 78 to 10. Speaker Martin said floor action could come Tuesday or Wednesday with minimal debate, while Rules Committee chair Leo Allen planned a Monday vote to advance or defeat the measure.
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Washington
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Martin
R-Mass
Leo FE. Allen
R-Iii
Rules Committee
Auto Output Curtailed As Plants Cut Shifts
Detroit factory news reports a one day Ford shutdown while General Motors announces a week long layoff for many plants. About 230 000 production workers are affected with 200 000 at GM and 30 000 at Ford. Packard Motor Car Co raises wages and prices. GM cites steel shortages from a coal strike as causing next week layoffs.
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Ford Motor Co
General Motors Corp
Ford
Packard Motor Car Co
Pickets Plan Measures Against Office Workers
Canton CIO United Electrical Workers pickets plan measures to keep 800 office workers from Hoover Co North Canton plant. The action follows a month of sporadic stoppages and a late yesterday walkout to back a new contract.
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Cio-United Electrical Workers
Hoover Co
North Canton
Springfield Favored In Income Tax Decision
Springfield's one per cent payroll income tax clears another step toward collection starting July 1. Common Pleas Judge Leland H. Rutherford refused to issue a temporary order blocking city officials from collecting the levy. The case proceeds to a merits hearing.
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Common Pleas
Leland H. Rutherford
Owen A. Miller
Osborn
Barn Falls Kills Man on Buell Road Farm
George W. Grunde former Gratis Ohio school teacher buried under barn wreckage on Buell Road farm. Coroner Herbert P. Lyle withheld verdict. New York to celebrate its golden anniversary with a parade up Fifth Avenue. Ohio hosts first twins convention at Buckeye Lake park with Licking County Twins Club as host.
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Vandenberg Policy Plan Up for Action
Senator Vandenberg seeks Senate approval of a broad foreign policy resolution to back regional defense pacts, a UN armed force, arms reduction with guarantees, and removal of the Security Council veto on peaceful settlements, though the measure would carry no binding effect.
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R-Mich
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United States
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Foreign Relations Committee
Uneasy Truce in Palestine Takes Effect
Washington reports an uneasy peace as the four week armistice and arms embargo begin at 1 a m EST. Count Folke Bernadotte seeks partition progress while scattered fighting, including a Damascus bombing and Latrun clashes, marks a tense start to the pause.
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Taft Sees Long Delay On OKs for Postmasters
Senator Taft of Ohio says no Ohio postmasters will be confirmed. The Senate Post Office Committee stalled over 1,000 nominations until this week amid hopes a Republican president elected in November could fill the posts.
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Taft
Ohio
Senate Post Office Committee
Murder Charges Faced By Woman And Farmhand
Mrs. Marie Conn Abbott 40 and Cyril Gordon 26 faced first court action on charges of first degree murder in the slaying of Morris Abbott. They appeared for arraignment in Judge Fred B. Cramer’s Common Pleas Court. Abbott was a prominent Reily Township farmer found on rail tracks near his farm.
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Marie Conn Abbott
Cyril Gordon
Former Coolville Woman Dies at 96
Graveside services will be held Saturday at 3 p m for Mrs. Florence Tilton 96 a former Coolville resident who died Wednesday in Greenfield at the home of her daughter Mrs Gertrude Hochenger Also surviving are daughters Mrs Ella Jordan Greenfield and Mrs Addie Blinn Ostendorff two sons George Cleveland and Sidney Coolville 12 grandchildren seven great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren
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Greenfield
Gertrude Hochenberger
Ella Jordan
Addie Blinn
Ostander
George
Cleveland
Sidney
Army Ground Forces Band Launches 20 City Tour
The 100 member Army Ground Forces Band begins a concert tour starting Saturday, covering 20 cities in 10 states. The schedule includes a June 16 show in Columbus and other stops across the nation.
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Army Ground Forces
iJune
Columbus
Judge rules striptease not obscene in Cincinnati
Judge Stanley Struble acquits Oscar Lerner of obscene literature charges, overturning a 1943 obscenity amendment. He calls the strip act natural and compares sex to life, stating there is no obscenity in a strip-tease and that actions reflect the mind.
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Jacqueline Downey
Stanley Struble
Common Pleas
Struble
Oscar Lerner
Cincinnati News
Hummel Lists Wallace Reds in Ohio Campaign
Secretary of State Edward J. Hummel told the Ohio Supreme Court that three Wallace campaigners in Ohio were Communists. He cited Nathan R. Zahm Elsie Zazrivy and David I. Lindell of Cleveland, based on FBI and Cleveland police files. The Wallace group pressed the court to force ballot inclusion, with the court ordering Hummel to comply or show cause by June 26.
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Edward J. Hummel
Ohio Supreme Court Today
Henry A. Wallace
Ohio
Nathan R. Zahm
Elsie Zazrivy
David I. Lindell
Cleveland
Hummel
George S. Houston
Secretary of State
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Supreme Court
Girl Dies and Boy Injured In Bike Car Crash
In Bucyrus a bike ride ended fatally for 13 year old Carol Kiesy from Greenville while visiting her grandmother. Her companion 16 year old William Hawk from Bucyrus sustained serious injuries after the motorcycle collided with two cars. Hawk had borrowed the bike.
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Ohio
William Hawk
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Operators offer contract plan to keep miners working
Washington reports soft coal operators urged John L. Lewis to extend the current contract beyond June 30 with no changes except five days notice to cancel. Lewis proposed immediate $100 monthly pension and retroactive wage gains if new terms start July 1, but operators offered no reply on that.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
O'Neill
Fifteen Police Officers Graduated In Ohio Training
Fifteen Ohio law enforcement officers earned graduation certificates after completing a five week course. Col. Ozni Cornwell noted Capt. Charles D. Lauer of the Galion Police Department achieved a perfect score, the first in the course history.
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Columbus
Ohio
Charles L. Sherwood
Ozni Cornwell
Charles D. Lauer
Galion
Envoy Taylor Sued for 2 Million by Woman Claiming Illegitimate Daughter
A Chicago woman filed suit yesterday seeking 2 million dollars, alleging Myron C. Taylor, the presidential envoy to the Vatican, is her father. The case names Taylor and a companion as defendants.
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Myron C. Taylor
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Indictments Charge State Liquor Officials in Bribe Case
A. E. Oppenheimer chief permit examiner and Scioto County GOP chairman Hugh Ruel along with Tracy Pack of Portsmouth face indictments for soliciting and taking bribes in a state liquor permit case. The Franklin County grand jury also heard testimony from several liquor department officials as the probe continues with further trials pending.
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Springfield
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London
Ohio
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Deshler-Wallick
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Bartlett
Dunifon
West Virginia
Portsmouth
Daniel Dilcreto
Ravenna
State Liquor Board
Dilcreto
Common Pleas Court
Hoffman Urges Restoration of ERP Aid Funds
Paul G. Hoffman, head of the European Recovery Program, urged the restoration of the full 5.3 billion dollars in ERP funds to Europe. He warned House cuts would eliminate plans to rebuild Europe’s industry and drop machinery shipments from 1.1 billion to 0.1 billion dollars. The Senate committee heard his plea as debate over spending timelines continued. The U S also opened talks with Marshall Plan nations on recovery operations.
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House
Europe
Paul G. Hoffman
Senate Appropriations Committee
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Congress
Vandenberg
Rmich
Naturalization Hearing Held Outside Court in Cleveland
For the first time the district federal court moved a naturalization hearing outside the courtroom. Federal Judge Emerich B. Freed and officials visited the home of Miss Erma Noll, 42, an invalid since 1919, who came to the U S at age five after being born in Germany.
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District Federal Court
Emerich B. Freed
Erma Noll
U.S
Cincinnati Child Killed by Car in Street Crash
A Cincinnati five year old, Ernest Van Hoosin, was killed last night after a car struck him on a city street. Police reported the fatal accident as a tragic urban incident with no immediate suspects.
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Cincinnati
Ernest van Hoosin
Dike Breach Near Portland Threatens Aluminum Plant
The Columbia River flood breached a side dike near Portland, flooding a ten mile floodplain and endangering the Reynolds aluminum plant. Evacuations were ordered days ago, but some residents may have returned as Army engineers rushed troops and dike workers to reinforce the area.
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Danish Ship Strikes Mine Off Aalborg Sinks With 150 Missing
A Danish passenger steamer named Kjoebenhavn carrying about 400 people struck a mine and sank within ten minutes off Aalborg, Kattegat. About 250 rescued by 10 am, 150 unaccounted for, 13 severely wounded from the Dangulf Lube crew arriving first. The vessel operated between Copenhagen and Aalborg.
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Non Stop Negotiations Bridge City Bus Strike
A nonstop session of negotiation was under way as Springfield bus strike entered its fifth day. City Manager Oscar L. Fleckner brought together Springfield City Lines Inc and the drivers union to settle differences that prompted workers to walk out last Monday morning.
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Oscar L. Fleckner
Springfield City Lines, Inc
Armbruster Brothers to be Buried Side by Side in Kentucky
World War II casualties First Lt. Harry M. Armbruster and First Lt. Charles J. Armbruster will be buried side by side at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery near Louisville on June 25. Their parents, Grover C. and wife of Athens, will attend along with surviving kin. Harry died February 14, 1943 after his tank destroyer unit faced tanks near Sidi Bouzid Tunisia. Charles died March 1, 1945 over Belgium in a mid air collision aboard a B 17 named Mr Lucky. Both sons attended The Plains High School and Ohio University on ROTC and scholarship awards. both received posthumous Purple Hearts. Dan Armbruster, missing then liberated from a German camp in 1945, lives in Kent with his wife in state conservation work. Mary and Ruth Armbruster are married sisters living in Athens. Norman and Bobby Armbruster reside in Athens. Selby Cox, the grandfather, also lives on First Street.
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Truman Plans Pour It On Campaign Swing
President Truman paused his flood relief tour to resume campaigning across the nation calling for passage of price housing and labor welfare laws. He warned voters that if Congress fails to approve them he would press the case to November and beyond.
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Two Convicts Taken Partners Still at Large
Mansfield Ohio reports two of four escapees from the Ohio Reformatory were recaptured after more than 24 hours eluding capture. Rudolph Limauro and Louis Stanley were taken in Ashland late yesterday afternoon. Charles Fetzer and Albert Connors remain at large.
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Ohio Reformatory
Ashland
Rudolph Limauro
Lynn
Mass
Louis Stanley
New Orleans
Charles Fetzer
Toledo
Albert Connors
Cleveland
Legislators Agree on Flood Control Funding
Senate and House conferees reached a pact for 12.63 million dollars for flood control and navigation projects in the new fiscal year starting July 1. The Army civil functions bill also allocates 239 thousand dollars for the Burr Oak reservoir near Glouster.
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Associated Press
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Judge Candidate Kohnen Recommended for Cincinnati Post
The policy committee of the Hamilton County Republican organization recommended Ralph B. Kohnen for the Cincinnati municipal judge position yesterday.
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Columbus
Hamilton County Republican Organization
Ralph B. Kohnen
Cincinnati
Wage boost ends Cincinnati strike
A 21 cent per hour wage increase ended a four day strike of 2 100 hod carters and building laborers in Cincinnati.
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Boy Drowns in Cleveland Pond
Four youths pulled from Horseshoe Pond in Cleveland yesterday after Neil Broa, 11, disappeared under the water. Lifesavers recovered the boy but he died at the scene. authorities investigated the incident and warned of unsafe conditions around the pond.
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Cleveland
Neil Broa
Horseshoe Pond
Extended Forecast for Columbus Temperatures
Temperature will average near normal with 78 at west and 74 at east for highs and 58 west to 54 east for lows. Cooler tonight then warmer Tuesday and Wednesday. Showers expected late Sunday and early Monday around a quarter inch.
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Columbus
Truste e Appointment at Wooster College Board
Benjamin F. Fairless president of U S Steel Corp was named to the Wooster college board of trustees replacing a member and expanding the board with his appointment announced today.
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Wooster
Benjamin F. Fairless
U.S. Steel Corp
Wooster College Board of Trustees
Died in Court Former Preble Judge Joseph B. Markey
Attorney Joseph B. Markey, a former Preble County probate judge, died in common pleas court yesterday from a heart attack while waiting to speak for a client.
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Joseph B. Markey
Preble County
Common Pleas Court
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