Hoover to Europe to assess postwar food needs
Former President Herbert Hoover will travel to Europe to survey food requirements across war torn areas. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said the trip may last about 30 days and start next week, with Hoover aiming to verify reported relief needs and contact aid workers from WWI era programs.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Truman
Europe
Mr. Hoover
Agriculture Anderson
Anderson
Hoover
F. R. Fitzgerald
Agriculture Department
France
Secretary of Agriculture
U. S
Ohio to receive Fletcher General Hospital site
Governor Lausche returned from Washington after confirming Ohio will obtain the Fletcher General Hospital at Cambridge. The Veterans Administration could not use the facility due to staff shortages, declaring the property surplus and available to Ohio by March 20. Federal appraisers will set the price, with negotiations to proceed via the War Assets Corporation.
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Ohio
Fletcher General Hospital
Cambridge
Frank J. Lauscher
Washington
White House
Veterans Administration
Fletcher
Lausche
War Department
War Assets Corporation
Buckeye Steel Pickets Stone Plant Employes
Buckeye Steel Cast j Brings Co. vice president Frank m Bennett says pickets threw rocks and bricks at six employees as they left the Buckeye Steel plant in a car. He claims seven or eight policemen watched the missiles. police say no report. Local 2342 head John Morgan denies knowledge of the stoning. No injuries reported.
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Frank m. Bennett
Buckeye Steel Cast
J Brings Co
John Morgan
United Steelworkers of America
CIO
Peron Holds Lead in Argentine Presidential Election
Buenos Aires records show Col. Juan D. Peron, Laborite candidate, with an indicated 198 electoral votes as of Feb 24, nine above the required majority. Dr. Jose Tamborini, Democratic Union rival, trails with about 72 electoral votes in the partial count.
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Buenos Aires
Summerfield Fire Destroys Half Town Business District
A Caldwell County blaze yesterday destroyed about half of Summerfield’s business district, threatening the Noble County town of 350 before firefighters brought the flames under control.
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Caldwell
Summerfield
Noble County
Cleveland Board Grants New Salary Schedule For Teachers
The Cleveland board of education approved a new salary schedule for about 3,150 teachers, raising the minimum pay from 1640 dollars to 1800 dollars. The vote was cast yesterday.
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Board of
Educa
British Loan Pitch Aims To Boost World Prosperity
Secretary Vinson opened the drive to win Senate approval for a 3.75 billion dollar loan to Britain. He called it vital to world peace and prosperity, noting it would be repaid with interest and benefit U S exports, jobs, and business profits. He urged speedy passage to avoid delay.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred M. Vinson
Britain
Senate Banking Committee
Posal
Treasury
Ex-Soldier Held for Fatal Beating of Baby
A 22 year old ex soldier was held without bail in Philadelphia on a homicide charge in the fatal beating of his wife's three month old son. The mother Fern Mary Emmil 25 said her husband John Emmil was not the child’s father. Emmil had been discharged recently after 32 months in the Army following nine months overseas.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Fern Mary Emmil
John Emmil
Emmil
Faye Emerson Gives Up Movie Career for Home
Hollywood actress Faye Emerson ends her film career by canceling her Warner Brothers contract and returning to Hyde Park New York to be with Elliott Roosevelt the late president's son. She relocates east to focus on domestic life after joining Hollywood late last week.
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Hollywood
Faye Emerson
Elliott Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Warner Brothers
Former Woman Marine Awaits War Groom Arrival
Mrs. Bernice Schenk a 22 year old former Marine waits for her war groom Dirk Schenk an ex sergeant in the Dutch Marines who will join an American victory ship crewman to sail to the United States this week amid veterans scanning ship lists for war brides in Cleveland.
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Bernice Schenk
Dirk Schenk
United States
Moon seeks divorce after 35 years of marriage
Mrs Margaret M Moon petitions for divorce from Charles Moon after 55 years of marriage claiming he abandoned her in 1931 and withdrew 4000 of her funds from a local bank.
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Canton
Margaret M. Moon
Charles
Ex-Publisher Harmony Dies at 87 in Canton
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for John C Harmony 87 longtime Democratic Party leader former owner and publisher of the News-Democrat a predecessor of the Canton Daily News whose legacy spans political and publishing circles in Canton.
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Canton—Cp
John C. Harmony
Democratic Party
Old News-Democrat
Canton Daily News
Ohio milk strike urged to force price rise by producers
Central Ohio Co-Operative Milk Producers asks Ohio Federation of Milk Producers to poll members on a state-wide strike to push for higher prices. Secretary treasurer Bridenstine notes parity, rising feed costs, and subsidy changes, with regional milk earning about 3.30 per hundred pounds and potential gains to 4.00.
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Columbus
Ohio
Central Ohio Co-Operative Milk Producers, Inc
J. R. Bridenstine
Ohio Federation of Milk Producers
Bridenstine
GOP Defeats Subsidies in Housing Bill
The GOP led Southern Democrat bloc defeated 161 to 92 the administration bid for $600,000 in subsidies to boost building material output. Republicans would deny price ceilings on new houses and seek to expand mortgage insurance authority while preserving other housing provisions. The vote marks a major split over the heart of Truman’s housing program as the measure moves toward the Senate.
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Washington
House
G.O.P
Deep South Coalition
Truman
Senate
White House
Robert Hannegan
OPA
Wilson Wyatt
Waytt
Congress
Police Scatter Strikers Rushing Supervisor Car
Unionists stage mass protest at General Electric plant on East 152nd Street. Police dispersed the crowd with mounted patrols as a supervisory employee’s car tried to enter the strike-bound facility, allowing the vehicle to pass through the gates.
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Cleveland
General Electric Co
E. 152Nd Street
GM and Telephone Parleys Continue: Labor Disputes Near End
Government talks in Detroit and Washington seek to settle the long GM strike and a threatened nationwide telephone workers walkout. CIO United Auto Workers may break the 105 day GM stoppage by a secret ballot on ending the walkout and wage terms. The National Federation of Telephone Workers plans a 250000 member walkout at 6 am Thursday unless an agreement is reached. James F. Dewey mediates as GM and union debate ballot options and an arbitrator.
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General Motors
Detroit
Washington
CIO
United Auto Workers
Labor Department
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Denazification law may keep U S in Germany a decade
Lt Gen Lucius Clay announced a sweeping new denazification law in the American zone of Germany, giving German courts authority to try cases and outlining sentences up to 10 years for major offenders. He said the United States would stay in Germany for at least ten years as the law subjects up to 4,000,000 Germans to punishment.
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Berlin
Lucius Clay
U. S
Germany
Hitler
Clay
Westminster Prepares for Churchill Talk
Fulton Missouri crowds brace for Winston Churchill as Westminster College readies for his talk on The Sinews of Peace. Gates, guards, and ticketed access mark C day with Missouri officials ensuring crowd control while President Truman slated to introduce the former British prime minister in a gymnasium setting seen as a global appeal for understanding.
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Fulton, Mo
Winston Churchill
Fulton
Westminster College
Missouri
Westminster
London
Truman
Churchill
Westminsters
France L. (Builet) McCluer
America
Iran Premier Returns Facing Difficult Soviet Terms
London report says Ahmed Qavam Es Saltaneh travels from Moscow after talks with Soviet officials. Moscow says six demands include inviting Red Army troops to stay in Iran. Iranian delegation heard proposals on troops in Iran. talks described as friendly but difficult and inconclusive.
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Ahmed Qavam Es Saltaneh
Iran
Moscow
Red Army
Stalin
Iittle
Sovviet
Rustasian
Farm Groups May Announce Walkout Date
EDGAR Neb American Farmers Vigilante Committee announces a March 14 Mansfield Ohio meeting to set a farm strike date. Delegations from Iowa South Dakota Colorado and possibly Kansas will attend the March 11 Edgar gathering as the committee reports 30000 members and growing.
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American Farmers Vigilante Committee
Mansfield
W. Hubert Johnson
Johnson
H. H
Fackler
Ohio Marketing Quota Protest Association
Iowa
South Dakota
Colorado
Kansas
Church Leaders Meet to Build New World Morale
In Columbus a gathering of five hundred religious leaders from 25,000,000 Protestant churchgoers convened to forge a new morale for a confused world. The Federal Council of Churches called the session to address postwar evangelism world order community tensions relief and returning service personnel.
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Columbus
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
War Department reports massive surplus property declared
Washington reports the War Department advised Congress it has declared nearly two billion dollars worth of property surplus in the United States but only about thirty nine million dollars worth has been sold.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
Truman Confusion Deepens as Steel and Telecommunication Strikes Drag On
President Truman’s remarks limited his wage recommendation to basic steel plants, leaving 250,000 CIO workers in fabricating plants without a pattern. Labor officials warned the move could prolong the steel pay dispute while conciliation efforts and fresh strikes ripple nationwide, with 800,000 idle workers amid General Electric and Westinghouse actions and a Philadelphia parade ban.
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CIO
Basic Steel
Labor Department
Federal
Washington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
More Data on Soviet Spy System Expected
Ottawa reports say the royal commission investigating alleged Russian espionage in Canada will release additional material soon. The interim data list cited in yesterday’s report is described as typical of the information Soviet agents sought about atomic bomb secrets radar and troop movements.
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Ottawa
Royal Commission
Canada
Dye Rejects Navy Bid Will Return to State
Columbus report says William H. H. Dye, former Ohio State University athlete and assistant coach, declined an offer to be assistant, football and head basketball monitor at the U S Naval Academy. He plans to return to Ohio State after Navy service and recent discharge.
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Navy
Columbus
William H. H
Tippy) Dye
Pomeroy
Ohio State University
Buckeye School
U.S. Naval Academy
Ohio State
Door Barred to Newsmen After Anti Soviet Stories
Soviet-held Manchuria barred foreign correspondents after first wave of U S and British reporters published anti Soviet stories. Newsmen recount being denied access, trains stopped for searches, and guards firing warning shots as they left Mukden toward Dairen.
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Richard Cushing
Tientsin
Manchuria
Mukden
Cushing
Sixperia
Red Army
Dairen
Cans
Associated Press
Julian Wilson
Doenitz demands Nimitz sworn statement on submarine orders
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz at the International Military Tribunal seeks a sworn U S Navy reply to show US submarines used sink without warning orders and to release British merchant ship combat orders He aims to prove the United States followed the same strategic and legal reasoning as Germany in submarine warfare through attorney Otto Kranzbuehler.
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United States
Falling Plane Bounces, Lands on Wall Over Cliff
In Towanda Pennsylvania student pilot William Dunfee lost control of a training plane after striking a power line. It dived onto a highway and bounced onto a wall teetering near a 1,300 foot cliff drop. Dunfee escaped with a fractured nose as the plane was demolished.
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William Dunfee
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