Prestige at Stake in Wet Housing Bill
Washington AP. Democratic leaders rush to salvage the veterans housing program as price control battles unfold. National figures Bowles Wyatt Por ter Smal Wirtz rally to rally support against GOP opposition. House vote looms after Friday’s 2 to 1 defeat on price ceilings.
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Capitol Hill
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Truman
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Economic Front
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John D. Smal
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The
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CFA
Lausche Aims to Secure Ohio Hospital for Mentally Ill
Gov Frank J Lausche travels to Washington to pursue acquisition of Fletcher General Hospital at Cambridge for Ohio mental patients. Legislature would appropriate funds after Fletcher, once housing 2200 patients, was offered for sale as surplus government property and now serves about 359 patients.
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Frank J. Lausche
Washington
Ohio
Fietcher General Hospital
Cambridge
Fletcher
Iranian Ambassador urges U S join Britain over Red Army in Iran
Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala urged the United States to join Britain in pressing Russia to explain why Red Army troops remain in Iran contrary to treaty obligations. He spoke after a State Department meeting with Secretary Byrnes.
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Washington
Hussein Ala
United States
Britain
Russia
Iran
Ala
State Department
Byrnes
Nazi Police Boss Claims He Sought U S Peace
MERNBERG Germany Nazi police leader Ernst Kaltenbrunner, head of the security police, says he acted as a covert peace mediator with United States agents since 1943, claiming contact through OSS in Switzerland. In other items, Baron Mannerheim plans to resign as president of Finland, and France and Britain announce troop withdrawal from Syria by April 30.
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Germany
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
United States
Kaltenbrunner
Office of Strategic Services
Switzerland
Stockholm
Baron Mannerheim
Finland
Associated Press
Helsinki
Ohio's Sugar Capital Starts Maple Run in Geauga County
In Geauga County, Ohio's maple sugar country, farmers report a bright first sap run with sunny skies and balmy breezes. After a poor previous season, growers hope 1946 yields a stronger harvest as sap drips into pails signals the season's vernal start. Geauga County proclaims itself Ohio's maple sugar capital.
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OPA Criticism Eases But Skepticism Remains
Washington Congress hears partial relief in OPA criticism as ceilings on grains and potential raw cotton price limits spark farm state concerns. Senate Agricultural Chair Thomas welcomes attention to Congress directives and calls grain increases overdue. Manila Tribune reports 14 bodies and wreckage of a missing C-47 found atop Mt Haleon in Mindoro.
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OPA
Thomas
D-Okla
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Manila
Manila Tribune
Mt. Haleon
Mindoro
Vets Take Majority of Surplus Army Vehicles
War veterans bought almost five thirds of surplus Army motor vehicles sold in Ohio Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia in the two month period ending February 15. Rowland D. Schell associate regional director of the War Assets Corporation announced a plan to streamline purchases for ex servicemen with certificates of need issued by the Smaller War Plants Corporation.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Rowland D. Schell
War Assets Corporation
War Plants Corporation
Schell
WAC
Two Are Dismissed for BRT Magazine Article
Cleveland Ohio A F Whitney head of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen says he fired two members of his headquarters staff for disloyalty in preparing a magazine article Warry I Becker a research clerk and Wellington Roe a writer under contract were dismissed Saturday after Whitney was honored by Brotherhood Associates on the 50th anniversary of his membership in the organization
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Whitney
Brotherhood Associates
25 Bodies Found After San Diego Airline Crash
Rescue teams on Thing Mountain near San Diego recovered 23 adults and two infants from a wrecked American Airlines jet that struck the fog bound mountain en route from New York to Los Angeles. Hail snow hampered crews as bulldozers cleared slopes for the search.
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Calif
Thing Mountain
American Airlines
New York
Los Angeles
Hunters Statements In Bloomington Murders
Two groundhog hunters said they saw each other near an abandoned stone mill where the bodies of Russell E Koontz and Mrs Phyllis Coleman were found. Police compare boot prints, question brothers, and seek a confession from Joseph L Woolridge in the case.
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Indiana State Police
Joseph L Woolridge
Russell Koontz
Phyllis Coleman
Bloomington
Ind
Russell E. Koontz
Authaniuan Tacitar
Albert H. Skirvin
Monroe County
Stone Mill
McCrea
Koontz
Mrs. Coleman
Soldier Escapes Yokohama Stockade Flight From Death Penalty
In Yokohama three U S Army prisoners escaped from a stockade by forcing a door and climbing a wall. Pvt Joseph E Hicswa Jr was later found in a house of prostitution with a Japanese woman. Two other escapees were apprehended: Pvt Kirby Willis and Yoshitaka To. The 20 year old Hickswa faces a death sentence for killing two Japanese civilians and his parents will appeal in Washington.
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Joseph E. Hicswa
D. C
Eighth Army
Hickswa
Washington
Adam Hisewa
Wallington
N. J
Hicswa
Yokohama Army Stockade
San Francisco
Yoshitaka To
Pauley Withdrawal Looms In Navy Nomination Fight
Washington reports a White House struggle over Edwin W. Pauley’s nomination as under secretary of the Navy. Senate aides say withdrawal would mark a major turn, though Pauley vows to continue. Hearings resume Wednesday before the Senate Naval Committee. Columbus notes Ray O’Donnell becomes acting district attorney for Southern Ohio.
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Capitol] Hill
Truman
White House
Palace Guarda
Edwin W. Pauley
Pauley
Senate Naval Committee
Federal
Columbus
Ray O'Donnell
Ohio
Returning Cardinals in Record Flight to Erie
Limerick Erie Cardinals Stritch Mooney and Glennon landed at Shannon Airport today after a record-breaking five hour and eighteen minute flight from Rome. They are en route home to the United States from the Papal Consistory where they were elevated to the Sacred College. Their plane touched Irish soil at 1 30 p m following a snow-pelted European crossing.
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Chicago
Mooney
Detroit
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St. Louis
Shannon
Rome
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Sacred College
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Europe
All Yanks Will Quit Great Britain by July 1
Brig Gen Claude M. Thiele, commanding officer of the London area office of the U S Army, said Sunday night that the last G I on duty in Britain is scheduled to sail for home before July 1.
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London
G. I
Britain
Claude M. Thiele
U. S. Army
Find Body of Woman Missing Since Jan. 31
Coroner John B. Gravis investigated the death of Mrs. Bessie C. Patterson 61 of Republic Seneca County Ohio whose body was found in the Olentangy River yesterday. She had been missing since January 31 after visiting her son George who noted she had been in ill health before leaving.
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Columbus
John B. Gravis
Bessie C. Patterson
Republic Seneca County
Olentangy River
Ironton Plant to Aid Farmers in Ammonia Shortage
The Buckeye Ordnance Works at Ironton Ohio and two other army plants are set to double ammonia output to ease a fertilizer chemical shortage, per War Department. Delegates from Ohio VA posts will meet in Columbus May 31 to June 2. In Cairo, sixteen Egyptians were wounded in a clash with police today.
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Buckjeye Ordnance Works
Ironton, O
Army Ordnance
War Department
Columbus
Ohio
Cairo
Solons urged to study balances before writing checks
The Special Senate House Committee on Organization of Congress urged tighter fiscal controls and led by La Follette proposed a ceiling on appropriations. It also recommended hiring high caliber assistants, boosting member salaries, consolidating committees, and creating majority and minority policy panels to hold parties and individuals accountable.
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Senate-House Committee On Organization of Congress
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Rmass
Vatican leader links Ruthenian church’s fate to Soviet policy
Cardinal Tisserant of France speaking in the Vatican charges Soviet policy targets the Ruthenian Catholic Church in areas east of Poland. He cites deportations of more than 400 priests and nuns from Ruthenia, now Soviet territory, as evidence of deliberate action.
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Tisserant
France
Vatican
Poland
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Ships And Planes To Be UNO Share Indicated
Washington reports that the United States will likely offer ships and planes for UNO's international police force, not ground troops. The decision, expected within two weeks, rests with the joint chiefs of staff ahead of the March 21 Security Council staff meeting in New York. The plan focuses on naval and aerial assets due to U.S. strength and manpower issues.
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UNO
Joint Chiefs of Staff
New York
Security Council
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Great Britain
Russia
France
China
United Nations
Church Leaders To Help Map Readjustment Plan
About 500 church leaders representing 25 Protestant denominations will meet in Columbus to map plans for the church’s role in postwar readjustment issues. The gathering is called by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. President Truman will attend the meeting, first time in office in Columbus since his presidency.
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Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Truman
Jap Pleads Innocent in Prison Atrocity Charge
Yokohama Second Lt. Mayoroku Okada pleaded innocent to charges of atrocities against alleged prisoners during wartime including responsibility for the death of Doyle W. Waggoner of Shreveport Louisiana. He is charged with permitting subordinates to commit atrocities against S Sgt Stanley F Sawicki East Orwell Ohio T Sgt Walter P Day Waynesville Jr M Sgt Macy F Brent Middletown Ohio and Cpl Stanley V Hawryluk Philadelphia. BUY CHURCH HOME YOUNGSTOWN Ohio Presbyterian Homes Inc has purchased the James P Crose home and plans to convert it into a home for 25 aged persons by early fall.
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Mayoroku Okada
Doyle W. Waggoner
Shreveport
Okada
Stanley F. Sawicki
East Orwell
Ohio
T. Set
Walter P. Day
Waynesville
Macy F. Brent
Middletown
Stanley V. Hawryluk
Philadelphia
Youngstown
Ohio Presbyterian Homes, Inc
James P. Crose
GM Arbitration Rejected UAW Scrutinizes Back To Work Vote
The Associated Press reports GM rejects arbitration in the GM UAW dispute as 175000 idle workers face rest, while UAW CIO leaders scorn a GM plan for a secret ballot on whether to prolong the strike. GM proposes a wage increase and a poll on the offer, framing the issue as adherence to industry patterns. The UAW demands a 19 percent raise, arguing GM would still lag behind another automakers totals.
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Uaw-Cio
UAW- Cio
Ers
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Penny offers spark in GM strike mediation
Federal mediator James F. Dewey received a shiny penny from an unnamed woman claiming one cent an hour would settle the wage dispute between General Motors managers and United Auto Workers. Dewey presented the coin to UAW Vice President Walter P. Reuther, who tabled it as deadlock persisted. Dewey called both sides to a new meeting to push toward a settlement.
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General Motors
James F. Dewey
CIO
United Auto Workers
Dewey
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Phone Walkout Thursday Amid Broad Labor Turmoil
The strike plan by Long Lines Workers begins at 6 a.m. Thursday with 16 allied groups as AT and T talks fail. Across the nation 800,000 idle workers and multiple wage disputes unfold including San Francisco machinists, GE Philadelphia, 175,000 GE and Westinghouse workers in wage talks, and a 20 cent raise for Detroit tool and die workers bringing average pay to 1.94 per hour for 8,000 workers.
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Fresno
California
Harry W. Brown
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Westinghouse
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Uaw-Cio
Detroit Tool and Die Manufacturers
Automotive Tool and Die Manufacturs Vers Association
Browns Narrow GOP Chairman Race To Two Colleagues
Washington Republicans narrow the national chairman candidate field to Ohio's Clarence J. Brown and Tennessee's B Carroll Reece. Brown, a four term congressman with roles in publishing and state government, and Reece, a lawyer and veteran in his 13th term, are the two under consideration to succeed Herbert Brownell Jr. with the April 1 selection looming amid 1948 election speculation involving John Bricker as a Republican presidential potential.
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House
Ohio
Tennessee
Herbert Brownell
Clarence J. Brown
B. Carroll Reece
Brown
John W. Bricker
Hungarian Traitors Executed in Budapest War Crimes Hangings
Budapest radio reported Count Fidel Palffy minister of agriculture was hanged as a war criminal during the German occupation. The broadcast said former premier Ferenc Szalasi and six other cabinet ministers convicted Friday would be hanged today.
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London
Budapest
Fidel Palffy
Ferenc Szalasi
College boxer dies from boxing injuries at Maryland match
A coroner's hearing was opened in the death of Dixon Walker, 20, University of Maryland boxer. Walker sustained fatal head injuries during a boxing match Saturday night. His parents, Mr and Mrs Clyde Walker of Canton Ohio, were en route by plane when the death occurred yesterday.
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Washington
Dixon Walker
University of Maryland
Clyde, Walker
Canton
Ohio
Ohio Man in Charge of War Assets for Area
John E. Harper of Columbus, formerly welfare director, finance director and head of the Federal Housing Administration, is named branch manager of the 24 county Columbus district sales office of the War Assets Corp. The district includes Athens, Champaign, Coshocton, Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Guernsey, Hocking, Knox, Licking, Logan, Madison, Marion, Meigs, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pickaway, Ross, Union, Vinton and Washington counties.
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John E. Harper
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Ohio
Federal Housing Administration
War Assets Corp
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Coshocton
Delaware
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Guernsey
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Licking
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Noble
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Vinton
Washington Counties
Ask Reds To Explain Refusal To Withdraw Troops
Authoritative sources say Britain asked Russia to explain why it refused to withdraw troops from Iran under the British Russian Iranian treaty. A British note was dispatched to the British charge d affaires in Moscow for transmission to the Soviet government.
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London
Great Britain
Russia
Iran
Frank Roberts
Moscow
Engineer Dies in Crash Of Three NYC Freights
A wreck near Ashtabula last night killed engineer Clarence L. Meiner of Erie Pennsylvania. His westbound train collided with two other freights after a wheel dropped from a car on his train causing derailment and cars to derail at a crossover near the roundhouse.
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Ashtabula
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