Government Seizure of Goodyear Plants Seen Imminent
The five strike bound Goodyear Tire and Rubber plants in Akron faced imminent seizure by the government unless 16 700 workers return to work. CIO UAW officials reported on a National War Labor Board hearing in Washington and refused to recommend ending the stoppage. Board chair Dr George W Taylor urged the unions to act responsibly while URW leaders stood by their stance. The leaders were subpoenaed after skipping a Saturday hearing.
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CIO Federation of Glass, Ceramic and Silica
Cartoon stereotype of Japanese soldiers on Guam ridiculed
A hostile image shows a Japanese man with thick glasses buck teeth and a tiny hat, framed as the typical deceptive "superior" enemy the article says cartoonists use to demean Japanese soldiers captured on Guam.
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Guam
Japan
Lend-Lease Goods to Siberia Amid War Strains
Lend-lease supplies shift to Siberia as Germany surrenders, with officials claiming Siberian shipments bolster U S strategic position. House panel hears that strikes slow military tire and hose production, while Navy and War Department note essential military needs. Ohio stoppages persist, affecting Detroit tank arsenal and several Toledo plants as CIO unions push for contract terms.
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Rusia
Germany
Siberian
Lee T. Crowley
House Appropriations Committee
United States
WLB
Mansfield Tire Plant Expands Output To 3000 Pass Tires
Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co unveils a $2,000,000 expansion to raise daily production to 3,000 passenger tires and 1,500 truck tires. President George W. Stephens announced the project, expected to finish by year end.
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Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co
George W. Stephens
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Goodyear Worker Killed In Card Game Dispute
Akron detectives report 35 year old Hillard D. Slo cum, a Goodyear Aircraft Corp. worker, was fatally shot yesterday after he made a kibitzing remark at a card game. A 47 year old Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. employee is held on an open charge.
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Hillard D. Slocum
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Youth Killed in Fall From Indian Lake Ride
Belwood - A 15 year old Elmer R. Reffit, son of Elmer D. Reffit of Columbus, died from a fractured skull after a fall from an amusement park ride at Indian Lake Saturday night, coroner A. McCracken reported.
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Elmer R. Reffit
Elmer D. Reffit
Columbus
A. McCracken
Indian Lake
Hurricane passes 40 miles east of Charleston
The hurricane center swept up the Atlantic Seaboard and moved northeastward parallel to Carolina's coast early today, passing 40 miles east of Charleston. In Cleveland, former fleet owner Captain Arthur H. Hawgood, age 81, who once led a Great Lakes fleet, died.
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Truman Ends Holiday and Heads to Peace Conference
President Truman cuts short Pacific Northwest vacation to fly to San Francisco for the postwar security conference. He plans a Portland visit at 10 a.m., a 2:30 p.m. arrival in San Francisco for a reception, and a 6 p.m. speech to close the meeting. Delegates from 50 nations will present a four formu la for a future world of peace, while the president seeks early Senate approval for an international charter.
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Ore
Portland Veterans Hospital
Totany
OPA Trims Rations Of Industrial Fuel Midwest
The Office of Price Administration cut industrial fuel rations by one third in the Midwest including Ohio, affecting 13 states due to sharply reduced supplies of residues oil for heating factories and large buildings. Akron report notes Dr Maurice D Kidwell, 49, pastor of First United Brethren Church and former instructor at Findlay College, died yesterday.
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First United Brethren Church
Findlay College
Belgian King Facing Fight Against Reds
King Leopold II confronts a rising threat as Belgian Communists threaten a general strike if his proposed premier Ganshof Van Der Meersch forms a new government. Le Drapeau Rouge attacks him as an agent of repression while Moscow reports Warsaw factions near unity. Churchill campaigns for a Conservative landslide as Laval faces trial in absentia.
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Charter Wins Senate Support for UN Ratification
Washington report notes 52 Senators have endorsed ratifying the United Nations Charter. Advocates seek rapid action via the foreign relations committee and Senate floor, aiming to capitalize on San Francisco momentum. Opponents urge full, deliberate consideration, arguing timetables could miss the Big Three meeting.
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Ohioans With Salaries Over $75,000 List
Secretary Morgenthau released a list of Ohioans earning over 75000 in 1943 and fiscal 1944 from corporations. Named are Charles R. Hook 80291 salary 30017 bonus at American Rolling Mill. Calvin Verity 98881 salary 22449 bonus at American Rolling Mill. J G Eaton 600000 salary 40000 bonus at Eaton Manufacturing. Royce G Martin 197500 salary 250 other compensation at Electric Auto-Lite. E J Kulas 99428 salary at Midland Steel. J P Levis 90000 salary and W E Leus 100000 salary at Owens-Illinois Glass. W T Holliday 120000 salary at Standard Oil (Ohio). William S Umstattd 109200 salary 32600 other at Timken Roller Bearing.
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Morgenthau
Purple Heart Convention Set for Cincinnati Host City
The Military Order of the Purple Heart Ohio department votes to hold its 1946 convention in Cincinnati. Delegates urge the veterans administration to add more hospitals in Ohio to treat wounded and disabled veterans of the war.
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Cincinnati
Military Order of the Purple Heart
Department of Ohio
Veterans Administration
Severe cold wave grips Buenos Aires city
Buenos Aires suffers one of history’s coldest spells with fuel shortages for heating. The city logged 24.1 F yesterday, the lowest in 21 years, while inland areas dropped to 14 F.
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Buenos Ares
Army engineers target flood wall completion on Ohio River
Washington SPI Army engineers aim for substantial completion of five high priority flood control projects along the Ohio River before next spring floods. Projects protect Evansville and Jefferson Clarksville Indiana. Paducah Kentucky. Cincinnati area. and Portsmouth and New Boston Ohio.
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War Production Board Orders Sock Output Increase
Washington reports the War Production Board ordered hosiery manufacturers to boost men's cotton work sock production in the July to September quarter to at least match the 1943 level, aiming to alleviate a wartime shortage.
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War Production Board
Strip Mine Aims to Revive Herrick and Boost Rail Trade
Cadiz area report says L. T. Heil of Martins Ferry will open a dipping mine near Herrick to revive the once thriving mining town. Plan includes reestablishing a railroad shipping point by removing fuel from hillside deposits above Short Creek Vall.
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L. T. Heil
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Jap Losses Reach All Time High In Pacific War
Allied dispatches report Japan suffered 30 632 killed in Okinawa and the Philippines with 7 705 sure rendered and about 20 000 more fate sealed by para trooper actions near Apati Cagayan Valley operations by the 11th Airborne and guerrilla forces. Australian plans eyed an amphibious move at Balikpapan as Chinese troops push toward Shanghai.
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Associated Press
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Okinawa
Ith Airborne Division
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Cagayan Val
Argentina Not Checking Nazi Activity
Washington reports before a military subcommittee show State Department evidence that Argentina has not eliminated any suspected German economic spearheads. Clayton testified that 14 spearheads in Argentina have seen no action, four are near elimination, and none fully eliminated. Brazil has liquidated 48, with 70 in process and none untouched. Spearheads are companies linked to espionage or aggressive activity. elimination means liquidation, seizure, or sale to non Nazi interests.
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Recommends Sale of Corn to Ease Food Shortages
Columbus expert Guy Miller of Ohio State University urges farmers to sell the old corn this summer to prevent shortages of milk eggs and meat for military and civilian use. He warns that delaying sales ties up grain and forces poultry and cattle producers to cut feed or stock.
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Guy Miller
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Church Group Backs Anti Gambling Bill
The Northeast Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church favored passage of an anti gambling bill recently introduced in the Ohio Legislature. General Eisenhower arrived in Washington after a week of receptions with little fanfare.
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Arnold Urges Retaining Pacific Bases For U S Security
General H H Arnold urged retention of a wide chain of Pacific bases to ensure U S air power can strike global targets. He named Marshals, Palau, Volcano, Bonin, Ryukyus, Wake, Marcus, Canton, Palmyra, Christmas Islands, and American Samoa as essential, with Iwo Jima staging emergency landings. Okinawa seen as crucial for air offensive against Japan.
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Kennedy Funeral Set for Rutland Resident Edward Kennedy
Edward Kennedy age 77 died at his Rutland home after two strokes. Funeral services will be at the Baptist Church Thursday at 2:30 PM with interment at Miles Cemetery. Survived by wife predeceased, grandchildren and children Walter Pomeroey Charles Dwight Rutland Clyde Wayne Mich Holly and George at home and Lula B. White Columbus.
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Papal Mission to Tour German Prison Camps
London dispatch reports a papal mission has departed Italy to visit German concentration camps to learn the fate of clerical inmates. The Frankfurt radio said the team would inspect sites and report on conditions and numbers of prisoners.
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Twins Slayer to Die In Chair in October
Cleveland report states 28 year old Henry Hagerth, convicted of slaying the Collins twins Charles and James, is scheduled for execution by electric chair on October 13. A prior June 25 date was canceled after a second trial was granted by the Chin Supreme Court following death penalty law being upheld by the appellate court.
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Progress at San Francisco Conference Mixed, End Nears
Flora Lewi reports a tense San Francisco meeting moving toward a world peace system. Early squabbles faded as delegates pressed for compromises, with Argentina gaining adherence and Poland left to await a Warsaw government. The world charter wrestled with trusteeship, independence promises, and regional security accords, ending with a Russia US compromise on a flexible peace council. (Continued on Page 8)
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Okinawa Used as U S Air Base in Pacific War
Report from the Pacific fronts noting Okinawa's role as a U S air base with American planes mounting attacks toward Kyushu, Sakishimas, and other targets. It cites heavy air battles, Japanese losses, and new Allied advances in the Philippines and northern Luzon, including paratrooper operations and guerrilla activity.
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Okinawa
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Sakishimas
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McPper
Gen Clark to Lead U S Troops in Austria
Rome reports General Mark W. Clark will command United States occupation forces in Austria and may move Allied units into Vienna within three weeks. The new structure could dissolve the 15th Army Group, likely ending the Fifth Army as well.
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Spies’ Sentences Commuted by Truman
President Truman commuted the death sentences of two men convicted as Nazi spies to life imprisonment. William Curtiss Cole Paugh and Eric Gimpel, captured after landing from a German submarine at Frenchman Bay, Me, were initially sentenced to hang.
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