Taft Edges Closer to GOP Nomination at Convention
At Philadelphia Taft predicts victory in the Republican convention with 548 votes needed, while Dewey holds about 400. Taft managers plan vote trading as Ohio and other delegations rally behind Taft with demonstrations and speeches by John Bricker. Taft watched the session by TV. Mrs. Taft praised the demonstration.
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Philadelphia
Robert A. Taft
Thomas EF. Dewey
Taft
Dewey
John W. Bricker
Florida
Montana
Texas
Kentucky
Arizona
Utah
Alabama
Colorado
North Carolina
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Wyoming
New Mexico
Alaska
Ohio
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Dewey Gains Momentum as Hallanan backs New Yorker
At Philadelphia, Governor Dewey edges closer to the Republican nomination aided by West Virginia committeeman Hallanan who backs him. Stassen and Taft argue over delegates while Saltonstall withdraws to Dewey. Delegates debate strategy, with Warren and Vandenberg still potential coalition anchors.
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Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
West Virginia
Walter S. Hallanan
The
New Yorker
Dewey
Hallanan
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Kentucky
Washington
Utah
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Massachusetts
Lodge
Arthur Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Leverett Saltonstall
New York
Salstonstall
Bay State
Sinclair Weeks
Saltonstall
James Duff
Pennsylvania
Kim Sigler
Michigan
Harold Mitchell
Connecticut
Edward Martin
United States
Health Group Reports Three New Polio Cases
The State Health Department announced three new polio cases in Washington, Marion, and Union counties, bringing total cases to 26 since January. This compares with 17 cases for the same period last year.
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Health Group
Columbus
State Health Department
Washington
Marion
Union
Body of Sgt Stover En Route to U S Burial
The body of Sgt Otis G Stover killed in action in France on June 25 1944 is en route to the United States for burial. Information came to Mrs Myrtle Stover of Shade.
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Otis G. Stover
France
United States
Myrtle Stover
Shade
Ministers face hardships from low pastoral salaries
Methodist Bishop H. Lester Smith of Ohio said today that many ministers and their families at Lakeside are enduring serious hardships due to low pastoral salaries across the region.
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Lakeside
H. Lester Smith
Ohio
Whiteman Fined for Car Crash in New Jersey
Bandleader Paul Whiteman was fined five dollars and costs after his car struck a pole in Mays Landing New Jersey last night.
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Whiteman
Mays Landing
N.J
Paul Whiteman
Timken Co and CIO to Resume Talks Over Wage Demands
The Timken Roller Bearing Co and the CIO United Steelworkers will resume negotiations tomorrow to discuss wage increase demands.
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Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co
CIO United Steelworkers
Program at GOP Convention Philadelphia Session Outline
The convention opens at 1 p.m. EST with House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr as permanent chairman. Balloting for presidential candidate nominations for vice president and committee appointments follow, with adjournment and a possible resume tomorrow if voting is unfinished.
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Philadelphia
House
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
United States
Hospital Plan Outlined By State Grange Leader
Joseph W. Fichter, state grange master, outlined Ohio's new hospital plan approved last February. It envisions county facilities with federal funding covering one third of five year costs. rest raised locally or by private groups. Hospital service areas center on Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus with needs and existing facilities guiding aid. Pomeroy listed among the 12 areas most in need. totals show $2,591,019.66 allocated to 10 projects costing $8,322,787 for 621 beds including Mount St. Marys Hospital in Nelsonville with 74 beds and a $1,176,000 construction price.
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Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbus
Fichter
Pomeroy
Mount St. Marys Hospital
Nelsonville
General
Trial Courses Favored In Religious Content Education
Delegates at the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches favored trial teaching of Religious Content in public schools. The resolution aimed to recoup losses to religious study caused by the Supreme Court’s ruling against such education.
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Oberlin
General Council of Congregational Christian Churches
U. S. Supreme Court
Line Foreman Killed In Vinton County
Marlin Hughes, line foreman for Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative, was electrocuted near Allensville in Vinton County while reaching for a transformer switch. He died after a 35 foot fall and severe burns. He was 42, survived by two daughters, and his body taken to O E Elliott funeral home.
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Gallipolis
Marlin Hughes
Buckeye Rural Electric Co.operative, Inc
Allensville
Vinton County
John Lusher
Co-Operative
Chillicothe
Mr. Hughes
Arnold Kingery
Lower River Rd
Holley Prose
Cadmus
Hughes
Draper and Allen
Princeton
W. Va
Miller Bros
West Virginia
DeKalb Hughes
Patriot
Bertie Hughes
Gallip
O. E. Elliott
Ohio land buying ok’d by forest commission
COLUMBUS officials announced approval by the National Forest Reservation Commission of federal land purchases in Ohio totaling 23,626.43 dollars. The parcels, bought for conservation and public use, include 57 acres in Athens, 108 in Perry, 160 in Perry and Morgan, 87 in Hocking, 332 in Morgan, 1,453 in Lawrence, and 41 in Scioto counties, with lumbering as the primary planned use.
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Columbus
C. Lewis Harrison
Wayne W National Forest
National Forest Reservation Commission
Ohio
Athens County
Perry County
Perry
Morgan Counties
Hocking County
Morgan County
Lawrence County
Scioto County
300 Evacuated as Canadian River Flood Hits Whitefield OK
Highway patrolmen evacuated 300 residents of Whitefield in eastern Oklahoma early today as rushing floodwaters from the Canadian River approached. The crest deadline loomed as the emergency move prepared families for rising waters and possible evacuation to safer areas.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Whitefield
Conservation conference attracts hundreds in Ohio
Dr. Jonathan Forman leads the Friends of the Land event in Athens with more than 300 expected to register Saturday. Activities include a Friday convocation at Ohio University Memorial Auditorium and a Saturday field trip to assess land use projects under Dr. C L Dow.
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Friends of the Land
Jonathan Forman
Ohio State Medical Journal
Athens
Ohio
Lake Hope
Waterloo Forest
Ash Cave
Forman
Ohio University
Memorial Auditorium
Ohio High Court Rules Bingo Act Legal
Ohio's Supreme Court decides six to one that the 1943 Bingo Act is legal for non profit bingo parties. The ruling allows religious charitable and patriotic groups to continue bingo games without prosecution.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Supreme Court
Court orders bar shipping strikes on three coasts
New federal orders issued in New York San Francisco and Cleveland bar threatened shipping strikes on the Atlantic Pacific and Great Lakes regions on the eve of the temporary bans' expiration. The cooling off action covers about 70,000 shipping workers.
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New York
Great Lakes
San Francisco
Cleveland
Woman Doctor Dies in Bucyrus Rest Home
Dr. Lucia Kemp Feighner, a pioneer Ohio woman physician, died today in a Bucyrus rest home. She was 85.
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Lucia Kemp Feighner
Ohio
New Pact Is Considered By Soft Coal Operators
Soft coal operators discuss a new contract with John L. Lewis claiming wage and pension fund increases for the United Mine Workers. Proposals reportedly raise wages 12 to 15 cents an hour and lift the welfare fund levy from 10 to around 15 cents per ton. Southern operators and captive mine interests lead opposition as talks resume after delays. Truman’s fact finding panel gives until 4 p.m. to reach a peace pact or extend the current agreement for July operation.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Southern Operators and Steel Company
Southern Coal Producers Association
Steel Company Group
Truman
Lewis
Plane Crash In Detroit Sparks Fire and Tragedy
The navy opened an inquiry into a collision of two fighter planes over Detroit. The impact caused fires in three homes and a factory after the planes, part of a seven-plane formation, crashed during a football game at Briggs Stadium. Both pilots, Michigan State College students, died. Police and firemen said only a miracle spared many lives.
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Detroit
Navy
Naval Reserve
Michigan State College
Briggs Stadium
Wallace Says GOP Platform Ends Old Party Split
Henry A. Wallace declares in New York that the Republican Party platform signals the formal end of the outdated split between Republicans and Democrats. He says a new era begins with only the New People's Party and the old party of monopolies with its war and low mood program.
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New York
Henry A. Wallace
People’s Party
Kenton Plastics Chief to Obey NLRB Order
Kenton Plastics Corp owner Howard Rome says he will obey an NLRB order to either move the toy factory back to Akron or hire 28 former Akron workers in Kenton. He indicated he would likely rehire Akron employees, arguing he moved for economy reasons after the board found he shifted plants to dodge collective bargaining.
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Kenton, O
Howard Rome
National Labor Relations Board
Akron
Kenton
Rome
Kenton Plastics Corp
Money for Navy and Marine Corps Bill Signed
President Truman signed into law a bill providing 3 749 059 250 dollars to sustain and expand the Navy and Marine Corps for the year beginning July 1.
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NAVY
Washington
Truman
Marine Corps
Magazine banned from New York City public schools
The Nation magazine has been dropped from the approved periodical list used by New York City's public schools, removing it from classroom access.
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New York
the Nation
New York City
Crippled Ship Anchored After Lake Superior Tragedy
The freighter J. P. Morgan Jr. lay at Houghton Harbor after a collision with the S. S. Crete of the Pick and Mather fleet. Two mariners died: Duane Strand, 18, of Wilmar Minnesota, and John Pekkala, 60, a wheelsman from Cassell Michigan.
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Houghton, Mich
J. P. Morgan Jr
Houghton Harbor
Lake Superior
Duane Strand
Wilmar
Minn
John Pekkala
Wheelsman
Cassell
Mich
S. S. Crete
Pick and-Mather
Portage Ship Canal
UAW Tentatively Accepts Wage Raise for 25,000 In Six IH Plants
The CIO United Auto Workers union tentatively accepted last night a wage increase of one cent an hour for about 25,000 members across six International Harvester Company plants.
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Chicago
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
International Harvester Company
Bishop Exacts Excommunication Threat Over Beauty Contests
In Wheeling West Virginia Bishop John J Swint warned Catholic girls in the diocese to refuse beauty pageants or face excommunication He called modern contests pagan and immoral and condemned the exposure of girls bodies before the public The remark followed Gertrude Redways withdrawal from a local contest.
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Wheeling
W.va
John J. Swint
Gertrude Redway
Swint
Newspaperman Louis Brush Dies at 76 in Philadelphia
Louis Brush longtime chairman of Brush Moore newspapers died at Hahnemann Hospital after a cerebral attack. The Salem Ohio executive was in Philadelphia for the Republican National Convention and had attended every GOP national conclave since the century turn. Brush Moore operates seven Ohio papers and one in Maryland.
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Philadelphia
Louis Brush
Brush-Moore Newspapers
Hahnemann Hospital
Salem
Ohio
Brush
Brush-Moore
Maryland
Investigation Begins In Ex Deputy's Fatal Shooting Death
Columbus reports an inquiry into the death of Frank V. Martin, former Franklin County deputy sheriff. Deputies questioned a 29 year old divorcee at her home where the shooting occurred. An autopsy was planned as investigators seek whether the death was accidental self inflicted or the result of a struggle.
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Columbus
Frank V. Martin
Franklin County
Fire Head Elected Cincinnati Leader Re elected
R I Lukens of Middletown was re elected president of the Ohio Fire Fighters Association last night. District vice presidents include Lesley Cooper of Portsmouth.
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Cincinnati
R. I. Lukens
Middletown
Ohio Fire Fighters Association
Lesley Cooper
Portsmouth
Soviet Cuts Power and Rail Shipments to Western Berlin
Soviet forces cut electric power and rail shipments of food and coal to Western Berlin today, affecting the water supply in parts of the French zone. Molotov and seven eastern foreign ministers planned a separate Eastern German government in Warsaw, as Western powers rejected the Soviet currency decree and kept their own money in use. General Clay warned the Soviets cannot drive them out of Berlin by any action short of war.
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Russia
U. S
Britain
France
Warsaw
V. M. Molotov
Germany
Lucius D. Clay
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