Perennial FEP Proposal Dies In Ohio Senate Vote
In Columbus the Ohio Senate Commerce and Labor Committee defeated the fair employment practices bill on a 5-4 vote after a dramatic referral. The bill had passed the House 72-52 but failed to advance, ending an eight year effort to outlaw racial and religious hiring discrimination.
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Ohio
FEP
House
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Ralph L. Humphrey
R-Ashtabula
House Public Affairs Committee
Eisenhower vows four years free of scandal in rally
In Minot North Dakota President Eisenhower pledges a reform era free of tax scandals and racketeering. He cites cabinet figures as examples of integrity and urges North Dakota Republicans to recruit capable leaders. He defends a five billion dollar Air Force budget cut as sending more planes faster with less cost.
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Minot
N.D
Eisenhower
North Dakota
Minneapolis
Riverdale
United Nations
Truman
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Air Force
Doctor Draft Law Extended Shelves Exemption for Veterans
The doctor draft law may extend two years with exemptions for doctors dentists and veterinarians who served 21 months since September 16 1940. Those with 17 months face possible call but unlikely in unforeseen demand. Remaining obligations range from 15 to 24 months based on prior service.
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Washington
Thrill seeker confesses attempt to wreck train near Cleveland
Police said Frank Ballash admitted trying to cause a train wreck for a thrill. Detectives found three steel plates on a rail near his work site three weeks prior. A slow freight moved the plates, a passenger train could have been wrecked if it had come first.
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New York Central
Frank Ballash
FBI Nabs Fugitive In Stolen Vehicle
Gordon Lee Cooper aged 32, one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives, was arrested at dawn in St. Louis while driving a car he admitted was stolen. Cooper faced unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for the 1952 jail escape from Poplar Bluff Nebraska, during which a deputy sheriff was robbed and beaten.
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Washington
Gordon Lee Cooper
FBI
St. Louis
J. Edgar Hoover
Cooper
Butler County
Poplar Bluff
Neb
Crash Kills Four Near Harrington
An automobile and a truck sideswiped near Harrington on Wednesday killing four people a sailor his wife and two children.
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Harrington
Del
Sailor
Convict Sues Over Solitary Confinement Brutality Claim
Richard E. Mauch, 30, an Ohio Penitentiary inmate and alleged ringleader of the Halloween riot, sues State Welfare Director John H. Lamneck and Warden Ralph W. Alvis in Common Pleas Court. He seeks removal from solitary confinement and alleges maltreatment and violation of rights after 24 hours without clothing and a kidney infection from the confinement.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lison
Common Pleas
Richard E. Mauch
Allen County
John H. Lamneck
Ralph W. Alvis
Mauch
Eckle Named Prison Head
R B Eckle, 48, was named superintendent of the London Prison Farm succeeding W F Amrine who retires July 1. Eckle has been assistant superintendent at the farm and the appointment was made to promote career men in filling departmental vacancies.
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R. B. Eckle
London
W. F. Amrine
Eckle
State Welfare
John H. Lamneck
Lamneck
Pet
East German Reforms Show Kremlin Aims for Unification
Berlin reports Soviet backed directives cut back collectivization, restore private business, return confiscated property, grant civil rights to defectors, issue ration cards, and permit amnesty for short prison terms. The pact with Protestant church leader Otto G Dibelius signals easing church-state clashes and hints at possible four power talks.
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East Germany
Kremlin
East Zone
West Germany
Germany
Politburo
Grotewohl
Otto G. Dibelius
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Thefts and Crash Link to Akron Holdups
In Arlington a cash laden car sped 100 mph to crash killing the driver and injuring a passenger. Police found a bank bag from Akron and money stuffed in a camera case with coin wrappers from an Akron cigar store. Wallets bore different names. detectives link the pair to Akron holdups.
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Arlington
Akron
John F. Struzenski
Construction Begun For Marietta Plant
The Bake lite Division of Union Carbide and Carbon Co. began work on a nine unit plastic materials plant at Marietta. James Brannan said the first unit costing more than a million dollars would be completed by mid 1954.
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Marietta
Union Carbide and Carbon Co
New York
James Brannan
Taft Quits Senate Floor Leader Post Over Hip Injury
Senator Robert A. Taft relinquishes front row duties as Republican floor leader due to a serious left hip injury. He will pass day to day leadership to Sen Knowland while retaining the title, as doctors warn weeks or months of treatment and reduced activity. President Eisenhower sent a telegram offering support.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Senate
Bob
Taft
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
iRepublican Policy Committee
Eisenhower
Midwest
Minneapolis
Trade Red Troops Crack Main Allied Line in Korea
Chinese troops in near regimental strength breached a central Korean Allied position and faced counterattacks from South Korean forces. To the west the US 3rd Division repelled multiple Red assaults near Chorwon, with 8000 to 10000 Communists hitting fronts and about 600 Chinese killed or wounded reported by a briefing officer.
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SEOUL
Central
Korea
Eisenhower Nominates Taylor for Promotion to General
Washington reports President Eisenhower nominated Lt. Gen. Maxwell F. Taylor, then commanding the Eighth Army in Korea, for promotion to full general. The nomination was announced Wednesday in Washington.
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Washington
Maxwell F. Taylor
Eighth Army
Korea
Eisenhower
South Koreans hold line as Reds launch heavy assault at Outpost Harry
In the East-Central Front near Outpost Harry, Red forces attacked along a 2000 yard sector, driving South Koreans from hill positions before the U.S. Army reinforced to about regimental strength. The 5th South Korean Division reported 54,000 rounds of artillery and mortar fire overnight and after dawn. Third Division infantrymen repelled six attacks in tense close combat, with Reds firing 20,000 artillery and mortar shells into U S lines during the assaults.
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Texas
Third
Outpost Harry
Chorwon
U. S
Mason Man Shoots Self With Shotgun
A 27 year old Chestnut Ridge man, Early Everett Jordan Jr., died last night at his home from a self inflicted shotgun wound. Coroner Dr Edna Gettles ruled death by own action after police and sheriff investigated at the scene. He was born March 11 1926 and lived on the family farm. Funeral services are set for 2:30 p m Saturday at Baden Ridge Presbyterian Church with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call Crow Funeral Home after 10 a m Friday.
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Chestnut Ridge
Everett Jordan, Jr
Edna Gettles
Mason County
Jordan
John Swisher
Mason
Charles Roberts
Roberts
Traver R. C. Dilley
C. R. Smithers
Gettles
Early Jordan
Phyllis Jordan
Huntington
Vivian Baker
Columbus
Harold Chestnut Ridge
Gene
Belpre
Ohio
John
Baden Ridge Presbyterian Church
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Friay
Roof Plunge Fatal Man Held in Death
Xenia Ohio chief deputy Ramsey holds Howard Ellis 28 Dayton bartender in connection with the death of Mrs. Sarah Chambliss 41 widow of former Xenia mayor. Ellis says she fell from the roof of their summer cottage while they slept there Tuesday. Chambliss died from a fractured skull.
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James C. Ramsey
Howard Ellis
Dayton
Sarah Chambliss
Frank M. Chambliss
Ramsey
Ellis
Radar Network Proposed to Track Tornadoes Nationwide
Baltimore report shows Capt. Howard P. Orville, former head of the Navy Meteorological Division, proposing a nationwide radar network at 35 key weather stations to reduce loss of life and property. Estimated cost about five million dollars annually for ten years.
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Howard P. Orville
Navy
Meterological
UN Reds Race Toward Final Armistice Draft
Allied and Reds staff officers pressed to finish an armistice draft as unrest grows in the South with demonstrations in Seoul and Pusan. Key negotiators travel to Tokyo and front lines as South Korea resists any terms seen as unification or withdrawal from a buffer zone. President Rhee warns of death to any truce under present terms and urges discipline toward UN personnel during the crisis.
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Reds
South
Panmunjom
William K. Harrison Jr
U. S
John C. Daniel
Egbert Glenn
Tokyo
South Korea
Seoul
Pusan
Pyun Yung Tat
Pyun
Syngman Rhee
South Koea
Rhee
U.S
You Chan Yang
CBS
Korea
Switzerland
Bern
Curbs Sought On Oil Imports
Washington report says a House bill would cap oil and product imports at 10 percent of prior year quarter demand. Rep. Secrest argues higher imports caused a 1952 drop in Ohio coal production, costing miners days of work. Rep. Wursell and Rep. Simpson introduced the measure.
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Washington
Ohio
Rep
Secrest
Wursell
Ill
Simpson
R-Pa
Methodists Report Big Ohio Church Membership Rise
The Ohio Conference statistician says 29,822 new members joined in the past year, bringing total Ohio Methodist membership to 304,518. Rev. Robert Weaver notes the gain of 9,251 from the prior year and gifts for local church support and benevolences totaling 9,440,931, up by 30,944.
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Lakeside
Ohio
Ike Names Lyon Government Mines Chief in Interior
President Eisenhower nominated Tom Lyon of Salt Lake City Utah to head the Bureau of Mines in the Interior Department. Lyon succeeds John J Forbes as mining director amid opposition from United Mine Workers president John L Lewis.
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Washington
Tom Lyon
Salt Lake City
Utah
Eisenhower
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
Lyon
John L.is
United Mine Workers
John J. Forbes
FHA Meet Set Columbus
Dr. Clyde Hissong state education director and about 2000 Future Homemakers of America members will meet in Columbus July 3-6.
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FHA
Columbus
Clyde Hissong
Future Homemakers of America
Police Find Boy Chained by Father in Ulinois Home
In Elgin Illinois a 41 year old watch worker Louis Mother Jr was jailed after being charged with endangering the health and life of a child. Police found 12 year old Gary bound to a porch chair with a 12 foot chain and padlock while parents were at work. Gary said he was chained for his performance in a Little League game. The boy was placed in a children s home pending trial.
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Louis Mother
Gary
Sylvia
House Eyes Now Aid Cuts
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee trimmed President Eisenhower’s foreign aid bill by 162 million dollars, leaving the authorization at 5.312 billion. The House committee plans to act today, aiming for further reductions, a move seen as a first-round victory for the administration amid broader cut demands.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Eisenhower
House
Senate
Tornado Leaves Worcester Area With Heavy Losses
New England's worst tornado hits Central Massachusetts. Governor Herter estimates 75 million dollars in damage as 82 dead two unidentfied missing 13 injured about 800 and 7000 left homeless. Rescue workers search 12 communities for more victims while federal and state aid move toward fast payment of policies. President Eisenhower designates the region a major disaster area.
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Worcester
Mass
Seteome Lee
New England
Massachussnd
Christian A. Herter
Eisenhower
Record Wheat Crop Forecast
The Agriculture Department forecast this year’s wheat crop at 1,132,500,000 bushels, up 92,500,000 from last month and signaling a surplus likely to trigger production controls. It compares with last year’s 1,291,447,000 bushels and the 1942-51 average of 1,088,000,000. State figures include Ohio with 2,339,000 acres, 26 bushels per acre, and 60,814,000 bushels produced.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Benson
Ohio
Five Nations Set To Take Truce Tasks
Five nations named for a neutral war prisoners commission appear ready to serve, easing barriers to a Korea armistice. India and Sweden signaled willingness to participate. Switzerland indicated possible involvement to avoid delaying peace. South Korea’s next move remains pivotal to finalizing acceptance of the cease-fire.
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Washington
Korea
Sweden
Erik Boheman
State Department
Nehru
India
U. S
Switzerland
Max Petitpierre
Bern
Blast Kills Two at Baltimore Factory
An explosion and fire in a downtown Baltimore factory killed two women as they packed Christmas tree ornaments. Three other workers were injured and about 70 people fled into the street.
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Baltimore
House Panel Recommends Large Cuts to VA AEC Funds
The House Appropriations Committee recommended cutting 1.17 billion dollars from Truman era requests for the Atomic Energy Commission, the selective service, the Veterans Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. The panel sent a bill to the House floor proposing 5.284 billion for the fiscal year starting July 1, about 18 percent below Truman and 6 percent under Eisenhower revised budgets. The AEC received the largest cut, 535 million, while readjustment benefits and pensions for veterans faced major reductions and no new automobiles were funded.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
Selective Service System
Veterans Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
House
Eisenhower
Veterans
AEC
GE Proposes 3 Percent Pay Increase Across 250000 Workers
General Electric offered a pay rise of slightly over 3 percent to its nationwide workforce of about 250000. The proposal was sent to the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers and the United Electrical Workers unions. IVE president James B. Carey called the plan a potential settlement basis and said the conference board will vote next Tuesday. A GE spokesman in the UK declined to comment.
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New York
General Electric Co
Unons
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
United Electrical Workers
IVE
James B. Carey
Iran and Russia Sign New Trade Treaty
Iran and Russia sign a trade agreement stated by Economic Minister Ali Akbar Akhavi to make the Soviets Iran’s best customer. Iran has not sold nationalized oil to the USSR or other Communist nations. in the year to March 20 Iran traded about 23 million dollars of tobacco rice and cotton for sugar cloth and tableware of similar value.
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Iran
Russia
Ali Akbar Akhavi
Soviet Union
Ussr
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