Coal Mine Talks Near Showdown
Pittsburgh AP reports United Mine Workers nearing a contract showdown as a week long stabilization walkout ends. About 480000 miners resume production with wages and a 10 day paid vacation looming, while contract terms remain unsettled ahead of June 30 expirations. Rail workers face furloughs but industry officials say coal above ground sustains production for 60 to 80 days. Miners earn about 14.05 dollars daily and uncertainty grows over return after vacations.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine
UMW
Lewis
Long
Five Ohio Colleges Refuse or Delay Textbook Lists
A Cleveland Plain Dealer survey shows Ohio University Athens University of Cincinnati Bowling Green State University Oberlin College plan to supply lists of textbooks and reading materials for the House Un American Activities Committee. Ohio State Dayton Wilberforce Antioch Wooster and Ohio Northern hold up action pending legal clarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Cleveland
House UN- American Activities Committee
Ohio Northern
Cleveland Plain Dealer
University of Cincinnati
Ohio University At
Athens
Bowling Green State University
University of Toledo
Oberlin College
Ohio State
University of Dayton
Antioch College
Wilberforce University
Wooster College
Fenn College
House Committee
Ohio University
House Un-American Activities Committee
B. T. Grover
W. S. Gamertsfelder
Graduate College
College of Arts and Sciences
F. Bringle McIntosh
Dayton
Wilberforce
Antioch
Wooster
Washington
Wood
Rep
McSweeney
Lake Firm and Valley Lines Trade Rights Across Ohio
Newark report says Lake Shore Coach Co. and Valley Greyhound Lines signed a noncash agreement to trade operating rights including buses equipment and real estate. Transfer depends on Ohio Public Utilities Commission approval. The deal aims to consolidate Ohio Rapid Transit Co. networks serving Sandusky Mansfield and Newark with routes from Cleveland to Toledo and Columbus area to Chillicothe Lancaster Logan Nelsonville Athens Pomeroy Lancaster Circleville Wellston Jackson Portsmouth and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Harry W. Arnold
Lake Shore Coach Co
Valley Greyhound Lines
Columbus
Arnold
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Lake Shore
Stephen
Ohio Rapid Transit Co
Sandusky
Mansfield
Lake Shore Electric Co
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Toledo
Chillicothe
Lancaster
Logan
Nelsonville
Athens
Pomeroy
Marietta
Circleville
Wellston
Jackson
Portsmouth
Left in His Underwear and Odd TV Reception Tale
A 19 year old Euclid man hitchhiked, was robbed of his suit and $6, and left in the street in his underwear. In London Ontario a Houston Texas broadcast appeared on a home TV set due to odd reception, featuring a wrestling match between a man and a muzzled bear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Germain G. Grisez
Euclid
Grisez
London
Holley
Brief Shutdowns for 900 Ohio Plants
Ohio state employment service predicts about 900 plants will shut briefly for mass vacations and inventories in July and August affecting 368,000 workers. The agency also notes 76,368 newly unemployed Ohioans filed for unemployment compensation in May.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Employment Service
Masked thieves rob cafe and bowling alley in Cleveland
Three masked men held up the Recreation Cafe and Bowling Alley on Cleveland's East Side today taking 2148 dollars in cash and 800 dollars in checks. They tied the porter John Benedictus, 21, and covered him with newspapers to hide him from passersby.
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Cleveland
Recreation
John Benedictus
Husband Held After Celina Woman Shot Dead
Coroner reports 19 year old Mrs. Thomas Patrick Reedy died at Gibbons Hospital after a single pistol shot fired by her estranged husband Coroner George S. McIlroy said Reedy borrowed an antique pistol from Al Slusser and surrendered to investigators at the scene Sheriff Dwight Raudenbush said Reedy told Slusser I have just shot my wife and returned the gun Russell Hainline a friend of the victim was questioned and released Counselors bystanders at the Woods home provided details of the incident in Celina Ohio.
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Celina
Thomas Patrick Reedy
George S. McIlroy
McIlroy
Reedy
Gibbons
Conover
al Slusser
Arthur Woods
Russell Hainline
Woods
Father and Twin Daughters Die in House Fire
Norman Long 39 and his twin three year old daughters Adella Mae and Festalla Marie perished in a house fire in Hooverson Heights near Fellowsbee West Virginia. The blaze started on the second floor around 1 30 a m as Long and his wife Helen Long 34 listened to the radio downstairs.
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Steubenville
Hooverson Heights
Follansbee
W. Va
Norman Long
Adella Mae
Festalla Marie
Long
Mrs. Long
VA Approves $2.8 Billion National Service Life Insurance Dividends
Veterans Administration head Carl R. Gray Jr. authorized next year’s $2.8 billion NSLI dividend. About 16 million WWII veterans will receive roughly $175 each, with payments starting in January 1950 and finishing in early 1950. Eligible holders include those active at least three months, with beneficiaries for deceased policyholders.
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Washington, UM
Carl R. Gray, Jr
National Service
Gray
River water analysis to determine fish kill cause near Route 23
Tests on Scioto River water taken Saturday and Sunday were to be released today. Officials narrowed the poisoning area to a one mile stretch upstream from the Route 23 bridge as investigators cited high water and fast current for hindering the probe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chillicothe
Scioto River
State Division of Conservation
Thomas G. Gallagher
Route 23
Gallagher
Senatorial Courtesy Holds Key to Ohio Adjournment
In Columbus the practice of senatorial courtesy governs the early adjournment. Senate leaders clash as Jackson seeks a two month appropriation bill while Mahoney blocks unanimous consent. The fight centers on whether the two month budget can be introduced without consent and whether funds run out by July 1.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
House
Margaret Mahoney
Finance Committee
Clingan Jackson
D-Mahoning
Miss Mahoney
Finance
Jackson
Miss Mahdhey
Floods kill nine as rivers linger after storms
In the wake of heavy rains, nine bodies were recovered while a dozen people remained missing as the Potomac and Shenandoah receded. Petersburg West Virginia was isolated for 36 hours before communications returned. Damages topped millions with 60 homes wrecked and 285 other structures affected.
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Chicago
Shenandoah
Petersburg
W. Va
U. S. Weather Bureau
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
Portland
New Engand
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Berlin Accord Announcement Is Awaited
Paris reports the Big Four foreign ministers are to announce a Berlin peace plan with a live and let live pact and an Austria independence treaty. Agreement on East West trade and guarantees on free access to Berlin are hoped to ease tensions, though drafting points remain.
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Paris
Berlin
Europe
Austria
Germany
Russia
Timken Could Cut 25 Percent Jobs if Strike Persists
Timken Roller Bearing Co. may lay off 25 percent of its workforce if a strike lasts. President William E. Umstattd warned in a radio address that many customers might redesign products to shift bearing orders elsewhere due to delays.
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Canton
2 —Timken Roller Bearing Co
William E. Umstattd
Police Arrest 146 In Drive on Drunks
Cleveland police conducted a two day drive against public drunkenness arresting 146 persons Friday and Saturday. Local bars and patrols increased surveillance during the crackdown in the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods.
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Cleveland
Talks Resumed in Pittsburgh Over Steel Pension Talks
U S Steel Corp and the CIO United Steelworkers convened another contract negotiating session in Pittsburgh to determine if pensions will be part of the talks and to resolve their differences.
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Pittsburgh
U. S&s. Steel Corp
Cio-United Steelworkers
Ohio weekend deaths total at least 13 in crashes and violence
Weekend disasters in Ohio claim at least 13 lives including two out‑of‑state deaths. A private plane crash near Lancaster killed Justice of the Peace House B. Jones and Joseph L. Blauser. Cincinnati traffic accidents kill several, among them Paul Fletcher and Irene Lomasney. A speedway crash injures four.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lancaster
Jones
Samuel H. Hutsier
Everett Brown
Cincinnati
Paul M. Fletcher
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Irene C. Lomasney
W. G. Applegate
Harrison County
Bloomfield
William Cotterman
Bryan
London
Francis I. Toops
Madison County
W. E. Lukens
Harry Elliott
Ohio River
Powell, Ohio
Five Million Jobs Forecast Sparked by Surveys
Washington reports two national surveys predicting five million or more unemployed soon. The Public Affairs Institute warns unemployment will rise unless government acts, projecting up to eight million jobless next year and six million by year end. It calls tax cuts, public works, and Civilian Conservation Corps revival. The AFL outlines wages rising with productivity and urges union management cooperation to cut costs.
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Washington
Public Affairs Institute
American Federation of Labor
O'Mahoney
Wyo
Congress
Civilian Conservation Corps
AFL
Labor
Ohioans Sign Appeal To Liberalize DP Laws
Four Ohioans are among 250 signers urging Congress to liberalize displaced persons migration laws. The appeal protests Senate delay in passing legislation to raise the number of displaced persons admitted to the United States. Signers include Louis Bromfield of Lucas, Ohio, noted author and farmer.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Louis Bromfield
Lucas
Ohio
Church Takes Stand Against Non Red Oath
NORWALK UP The Universalist Church of Ohio denounces a state Senate bill that would require non Communist oaths of teachers calling the measure a threat to religious freedom and freedom of conscience in its concluding convention session.
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Norwalk
Universalist Church of
Ohio
Senate
Hiss Defense Calls Hawkins As First Witness In Perjury Trial
Harry O. Hawkins, former State Department official and head of the trade agreements division 1936 to 1943, testifies for Alger Hiss. Hawkins, then superior to Henry Julian Wadleigh, corroborates that Wadleigh passed secret documents to Whittaker Chambers. Chambers had accused Hiss of giving him government papers. Hawkins is now a Tufts College law professor.
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New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Harry O. Hawkins
Henry Julian Wadleigh
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Hiss
Hawkins
School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts College
Medford
Mass
Player's Father Dies After Game
George Weisgarber 43 of Massillon died of a heart attack in Good Samaritan Hospital. He was stricken yesterday while watching a Zanesville Newark baseball game. His son George Jr. is a second baseman on the Zangsville team.
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Zanesville
George Weisgarber
Massillon
Good Samaritan Hospital
George, Jr
Zangsville
Archishop Beran heckled during Corpus Christi sermon in Prague
In Prague crowds jeered Archbishop Josef Beran as security police tightened around church services. The heckling forced him to abandon his sermon at St Vitus Cathedral amid government pressure on the church and Vatican authority over Czechoslovak Catholics. Demonstrators near the altar jeered as Beran denounced government moves against the church.
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Josef Beran
Cyrechoslovakia
Westeran
St. Vitus
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Blungary
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Anti gambling Raids Hit Portsmouth Clubs
Portsmouth police raided two downtown clubs under a new anti gambling ordinance. They seized 18 slot machines and arrested William Payne and Leslie Sommers for exhibiting gambling devices. Bonds set at 59 dollars each for municipal court appearance.
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Portsmouth
Hugh Rudity
John Smith
Rudity
William Payne
Leslie Sommers
1114
Payne
Sommers
Two Hang Themselves In Cleveland Jails
Cleveland police report two inmates hanged themselves with belts in city jails on Saturday. David L. Minord, 19, had just been sentenced to six months in jail and fined $500 for auto tampering. George M. Haley, 56, arrested on an intoxication charge, also hanged himself.
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Cleveland
David L. Minord
George M. Haley
Iemoke
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