Byrnes outlines new course for world peace stance
Secretary of State Byrnes declared the United States will prevent aggression by force if necessary and charted a global conduct for relations among major powers. He expressed conviction that no war is needed among great powers and warned that a grave misstep could trigger conflict with Russia.
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State Byrnes
United States
Russia
Byrnes
Overseas Press Club
United States U.S
United Nations
Iceberg airfield mapped by allies during war plans
The Allies reportedly considered a 2,000,000-ton self propelled iceberg airfield in the North Atlantic to hunt German submarines. It would be powered by electric motors and defended with anti aircraft gaps at an estimated cost of 70 million dollars. Byrnes addressed the Overseas Press Club outlining seven principles for world peace and the limits of major powers in shaping the postwar order.
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Washington
North Atlantic
Something Always Is Happening Here in Cleveland
A four year old boy, Howard Miller of Sheffield Lake, was rescued after breaking through Rockefeller Pond ice in Cleveland. He said he liked Cleveland because there is always something happening there, even while his teeth chattered from the chilly dip. His cousin Olive Mae Kreisberg, 13, aided in the rescue.
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Cleveland
Howard Miller
Rockefeller Pond
Truman Urges Nation to Share Homes for Veterans
President Truman calls on citizens to house homeless veterans to ease acute nationwide shortage. He endorses organizing housing committees in churches and synagogues, urging communities to help veterans returning from service. Religious leaders say congregations could house many veterans, potentially 1,000,000 if each found four homes.
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Truman
Washington
White House
United States
Army tests radar defense against pilotless atomic rockets
The Army marshals top rocket and radar experts for a dress rehearsal to defend against 3000 mph V-2 missiles launched from White Sands. Radar teams will use beam bouncing tech including lunar reflections to track targets. If successful, long-range stratosphere missiles may be intercepted high in the air. Tests planned for next summer, sooner if possible.
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Wnashington
Anoth
White Sands Proving Ground
New Mexico
War Department
Administration Housing Bill Shows Tight Vote Battle
Administration aides rallied for a hard fight in the House to preserve President Truman's emergency housing program. Republicans backed by Southern Democrats threaten to vote against the bill, aiming to let opponents write their own housing plan. Democratic leaders delayed the vote to line up support, while critics say the measure would hamstring builders and block price controls.
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Washington
Truman
House
Pauley Firm Confident Ahead of Navy Undersecretary Fight
Edwin W. Pauley refused to yield in his bid for confirmation as undersecretary of the Navy. He told reporters he is convinced he will win and would only withdraw if frozen out by the Navy Committee. A Democratic strategist doubted vote prospects while Pauley warned an affirmative case would change the situation.
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Washington
Edwin W
Pauley
Navy
Navail Committee
California
Handkerchief Clues Tie Teacher Missing Case
A driver was dragged under a street car for six blocks. Joseph Boyd, 44, is in critical condition at Charity Hospital with both legs likely to be amputated. Police and a crowd of youths examined handkerchiefs found after Lola Celli, 24, vanished from Grandview Heights. Authorities say the hankies are the only possible clues amid the search near Euclid and 24th streets.
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Cleveland
Joseph Boyd
Charity Hospital
Edward Potence
Police Accident Prevention Bureau
Columbus
Euclid
30Th Street
Lola Celli
Robert Livingston
Grandview Heights
Locomotive Damaged by Dynamite in Toronto Plant
A dynamite blast damaged a 12 ton locomotive at the Raul Clay Co in Toronto causing over 1000 dollars in damage. Company manager J J Dyer told police vandals likely placed the explosive in the locomotive.
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Steubenville
Raul Clay Co
Toronto
J. J. Dyer
Dyer
Bradley Pushes Law To Aid Disabled Veterans
General Omar W. Bradley, head of the Veterans Administration, urged a law to aid over 115,000 disabled veterans. About 100,000 World War II veterans and 15,000 veterans from the previous war would get retroactive increases averaging $17.25 per month, effective from the new schedule start, with no application required.
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Washington
Omar W. Bradley
Veterans Administration
Morehan
Bradley
Uncle Sam Helps With Defrosting Call In Neighbors
Washington column by Arthur Edson humorously educates citizens on defrosting a home freezer. It urges chilling the room, keeping the freezer running, moving contents to tables, prying away frost, and using an electric fan to dispel odors. The bulletin stresses enlisting neighbors to speed the job.
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Arthur Edson
Washington
Tate
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Aden’ Mant
U. S. Millers Start Making Darker Flour
Washington reports millers are producing a darker flour under a government order to conserve wheat for international aid. The plan requires 30 percent of wheat to be flour, below the usual 72 percent extraction. President Truman cited saving 25 million bushels by July 1 to aid foreign relief, with 225 million bushels pledged abroad in the first half of the year. It may take weeks before stores stock the new flour.
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Washington
Truman
Warn Germans May Turn Back From War Crimes Branding
A defense attorney urged dismissal of charges against six Nazi groups, warning millions of Germans would backslide into Nazism if branded as war criminals for membership. He noted widespread family ties to the organizations and warned ostracism could have the opposite effect. Columbus report cites a national education conference in progress to shape a broader postwar education program.
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Mernberg
Martin Loeffler
Adolf Hitler
Columbus
Ohio
Clyde V. Hissong
Pen convict ends his life in prison cell
William Gudger aged 23, held on a pocket picking sentence in Ohio Penitentiary, hanged himself with a bed sheet in his cell. He entered the penitentiary December 5, 1944, after a Mansfield Reformatory transfer, and had previously been received March 2, 1943 from Montgomery County. President Truman arranged a preliminary meeting with Herbert Hoover ahead of a food conservation drive.
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William Gudger
Ohio Penitentiary
Frank D. Henderson
Gudger
Penitentiary
Mansfield Reformatory
Montgomery County
Hoover
Washington
Truman
Herbert Hoover
Relations Break as France Closes Border With Spain
In Hendaye France the 300 mile border with Spain was closed as France ends all commercial relations in protest against General Franco's regime. Paris officials vow no boat train automobile or merchandise will go to Franco Spain and declare long live Republican Spain.
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France
Spain
Lissimo Francisco Franco
Paris
French Communist Party
Franco
GM Conference Stalled By Parley Schedule Amid Philadelphia Violence
Philadelphia strikers of the CIO and GE workers paused mass demonstrations after police ban and threats of a 150000-strong sympathy walkout in the metropolitan area. Police dispersed early mass parades and 17 were arrested for incitement as court contempt loomed over leaders. GM and CIO UAW talks adjourned overnight with no comment, resuming today as GM-CIO council meets.
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Philadelphia
CIO
General Electric Company
Line
Delaware County
Guy E. Parsons
James H. Malone
Public Safety
Cio-Electrical Workers Union
Harry Block
CIO Industrial Union Council
CIO Electrical Union
Common Pleas
Thomas Dfinletter
General Motors
United Auto Workers
Hatch
James F. Dewey
Sl A.m
Uaw-Cio
GM Council
Strike Parley Resumes In Canton Controversy
Negotiations between CIO United Steelworkers and Timken Roller Bearing Co. resume as the strike continues. The company with about 14 000 idle workers in five Ohio communities had said it was willing to discuss terms, while the union signals readiness to resume talks.
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Canton
Ipi
Cio-United Steel Workers
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Ohio
Ing
General Motors
Clo-United
U. S
Washington
Truman
Steel Fact-Finding Board
C.E. Wilson
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Federation of Long Lines Telephone Workers
Tuberculosis Group Seeks Ohio Control Bill Passage
The Ohio joint committee on tuberculosis acting as Gov. Lausche’s advisor will lobby the General Assembly for a 9.5 million dollar state control program. The plan, adopted last December, funds five new hospitals, subsidies of 2.50 dollars per day for counties, and a tuberculosis division in the health department. Committee members include Health Commissioner H. G. Southard and J L Webb of Nelsonville.
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Columbus
Joint Committee On
Frank J. Lausche
General Assembly
Ohio
Thestate Health Department
H. G. Southard
Hocking and
Vinton Counties
J.( L. Webb
Nelsonville
Strike action considered by Cleveland carpenters
The Cleveland area faces housing gloom as carpenters refuse a 12 1/2 cent hourly raise approved by the Wage Stabilization Board. AFL Carpenter Union president Carl Schwarzer says a strike vote is planned after a member referendum favored action. Carpenters and Steamfitters are the only AFL building crafts not accepting the 15 percent, about $2 daily, increase. current pay is $1.65 an hour.
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Cleveland
Carpenters
Carl Schwarzer
Afl-Carpenters Union
Wage Stabilization Board
Schwarzer
Carpenters and the
Steamfitters Union
AFL
Building Trades Council
Building Trades Employers Association
Red Troops Leave Iran On Schedule
Tehran AP Under secretary of State Prince Firouz said Russian troops have orders to begin evacuation of Iran. Semnan awaits departure by March 2 with five sick soldiers and two doctors left behind. Britain brings home 600 troops to evacuation ports while American withdrawal completed in December. Lifeline to Russia via Persian Gulf ends as Moscow talks with Iran progress.
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Tehran
Prince Firouz
Iran
Firouz
Semnan
Moscow
Ahmed Qavam Saltaneh
Russia
Persian Gulf
Murmansk
Pay Roll Tax to Finance Toledo
Toledo, Ohio launches a payroll income tax to fund municipal operations, imposing a one percent levy on all workers in the city. CIO petitions seek voter decision at May 7 primary, with 26,500 signers versus the required 10,659. The measure faces a difficult path despite council approval a month earlier.
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Toledo
Ohin
CIO
Brookfield Zoo hippo Bebe's Calf Is a Female
Bebe the Brookfield Zoo hippo gave birth to her sixth calf this Sunday. The calf stands about 20 inches tall and weighs roughly 40 pounds. Director Robert Bean confirms the infant is a female named Lena. Meanwhile state guard reinforcements moved into Columbia after a gun violence surge that left two Black men dead. In Cincinnati, Rev. Charles Burchard of Lima will lead the St. Ursula Academy student retreat March 6-8.
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Bebe
Brookfield
Hippo
Robert Bean
COLUS
Lena
Ut— State Guard
Columbia
Cincinnati
Charles Burchard
Lima
St. Ursula Academy
Waiting lists at VA hospitals rise sharply in January
The Veterans Administration reported a nearly 40 percent jump in January waiting lists from 12 220 to 17 015 while patients in care reached new highs of 80 756 in hospitals and 11 520 in administration homes. About four percent of those hospitalized had service connected ailments. Gardner Cowles Sr. 85 publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune died last night. Peer Nielsen 42 Kaiser Steel Co. vice president and former U S Steel executive died last night.
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Hippo
Washington
Veterans Administration
Des Moines
Gardner Cowles
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Fontana
Calif
Peer Nielsen
Kaiser Steel Co
U. S. Steel Corporation
Labor Strikes Dominate Nation’s Factories and Wages
Reported nationwide labor strife shows 98 percent support for a railroad strike as 90 percent vote in favor. General Motors plant walkouts affect 175,000 workers with wage gains at steel firms and nearly 1 million idle workers overall amid stalled contracts and renewed talks.
Former Naval Aviator Killed in Trainer Plane Crash
Charles L Smeltzer, 25, a former Navy flier from Gallipolis, died during an emergency landing of his new trainer near Black Fork. Witnesses reported a wing tip struck the ground causing the plane to cartwheel. Survived by his mother, Esta Mae Jenkins, a Hamilton teacher.
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Ironton
Charles L Smeltzer
Navy
Gallipolis
Black Fork
Smeltzer
Esta Mae Jenkins
Hamilton
Pro-Axis Peron Leads in Argentine Vote Count
In Buenos Aires Col Juatt D. Peron, labeled pro Axis by the U S State Department, held a two to one lead in electoral votes as returns trickled in from last Sunday's presidential ballot. He led in the popular vote by about 5 000 with roughly four percent counted, 62 614 to 37 890, over Democratic Union challenger Dr Joe Tamborini.
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Buenos Aires
Juatt D. Peron
U. S. State Department
Peron
Democratic Union
Joe Tamborini
Parents Reunite With Four Year Old After Kidnap Plot
ANNAPOLIS Maryland authorities reunited Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Taylor of Charlotte with their four year old daughter Terry after a three day search. A nursemaid, using multiple aliases, is jailed on kidnapping charges. The discovery followed a tip from Mrs. Helene Seay and involved Navy intelligence at the Seay residence.
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Terry Taylor
Andrew Taylor
Charlotte
N. C
Annapolis, Md
Annapolis
N.C
Terry
Basil
Rosemary Johnson
Rosemary McKay
Geraldine Ann Greene
Naval Intelligence
Helene Seay
George Cameron Seay
Naval Academy
Seay
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