Railroad President Shot Amid Long Labor Strife in Peoria
George P. McNear Jr., 55, president of the strikebound To ledo Peoria & Western Railroad, was killed by gunfire in Peoria amid a 17 month labor dispute. The 239 mile line linking Effner Indiana to Keokuk Iowa had faced violence, fires, and obstruction since 1944. McNear had repeatedly opposed the Brotherhoods and survived government seizure in 1942.
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Peoria
Ill
George P. McNear, Jr
Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad
Illinois
Effner
Ind
Keokuk
Iowa
Gridley
McNear
Illinois River
Robert Sutton
Sutton
St. Francis Hospital
Elizabeth
Bradley University
Colorado
Roosevelt
Marshall and Molotov Clash Over China At Moscow Talks
U S Secretary of State Marshall rejects a Chinese question on the foreign ministers agenda unless China is summoned to the Moscow conference. Molotov pushes the issue as the Big Four meet, with Marshall insisting China must be consulted on sovereign matters as Moscow strains to shape policy.
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Moscow
U.S
George C. Marshall
China
V. M. Molotov
Foreign Ministers Council
Marshall
Molotov
Marsshall
United Nations
Paris
Italy
New York
Georges Bidault
France
U. S
Mark W. Clark
Austria
Russia
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Mars Shall
Leon Homes And Stores Are Razed In Fire
A morning fire in Leon destroyed two stores and two residences and damaged another store, three more residences, and the town hall. Damage was about 50000 dollars. Firemen from five communities battled the blaze, starting around 8 a.m., with Bert Craig store and E H Burdette building among the losses.
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Point Pleasant
Leon
Bert Craig
E. H. Burdette
George Bates
O. C. Cossins
Arthur Buxton
George A. Rairden
Austrian Aid Scaled Down By Hoover
Former President Hoover urged a $155 million Austrian relief plan over 15 months with aid continuing to July 1 1948. Rep Bloom said lawmakers may defer renewals and seek a supplemental appropriation later if needed. Hoover cited world supplies and taxpayer drains as factors.
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Washington
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Austria
Bloom
House Foreign Relations Committee
Hoover
Youth Killed in Auto Week After Discharge
WOOSTER Ohio four young veterans riding in a car overturned at Creston early today. Howard Freeman 20 died in the crash. Three companions were injured. The victims had just been discharged from the Army a week earlier.
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Wooster
Howard Freeman
Creston
Solons Revive Bills See New School Row
Ohio senators revived measures to fund schools with expiring levies and a two-cent cigarette tax forever. A Hamilton County plan proposes $14.5 million yearly teacher bonuses for two years retroactive to Jan 1. Veterans bonuses would be financed by $200 million in bonds repaid by real estate taxes.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hamilton County
Senate Education Committee
Kyle F. Brooks
Fred G. Reiners
Stanley G. McKie
Cincinnati
James J. Barton
Cuyahoga
Six Men Trapped After Cincinnati Building Collapse
A five story Cincinnati building collapsed in the bottoms area. Fire Chief Barney J. Houston said six men were trapped but alive in the debris. At least six injured were taken to General Hospital. Owner Sam Ostrow was trapped in the basement and later reported another man alive nearby. Fire crews tunneled the elevator shaft and nearby buildings were evacuated as a flooded basement worsened conditions. Howard Benjamin witnessed the collapse from about 30 feet away and escaped with minor injuries.
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Cincinnati
Barney J. Houston
General Hospital
Sam Ostrow
Western Fixture and Bar Supply Co
Houston
Pearl St
Howard Benjamin
Navigator Falls From Airplane Over Atlantic Ocean
George Hart of Sag Harbor New York a navigator aboard a Trans World Airlines plane was tossed from the dome and fell four miles into the Atlantic Ocean about 500 miles from Gander Newfoundland. Coast Guard asked ships in the area to search for him though survival was deemed unlikely.
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New York
Atlantic Ocean
Gander
Newfoundland
TWA
George Hart
Sag Harbor
Long Island
N. Y
Coast Guard
Anti-Lilienthal Drive Targets New Senators
Washington report says a broad push aims to win confirmation of David E Lilienthal as Atomic Energy Commission chairman. Bricker Flanders and Kern oppose. Ives supports. remaining 12 freshmen could determine the vote.
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Washington
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Bricker
Ohio
Flanders
Vermont
Kern
Missouri
Ives
New York
15 Year Old Turner Enters Phi Beta Kappa at Cincinnati
Darwin Turner a 15 year old Negro senior has qualified for membership in the University of Cincinnati Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Chapter president Dr Harry R Muegel announced Turner enrolled at age 13 in Fall 1944 to major in English.
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Cincinnati
Darwin Turner
University of Cincinnati
Phi Beta Kappa
Harry R. Muegel
Turner
University
Mysterious Earth Shake Felt in Barberton
Barberton residents were startled by a mysterious tremor lasting several seconds that rattled glassware and threw people from chairs. No injuries or damage were reported and the quake’s origin remained undetermined.
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Barberton
Vinton Auditor Installed Quits After Oath
County Auditor-Elect Franklin Frazee resigned minutes after taking the oath in Vinton County. Frazee, unopposed on the Republican slate, was to replace John D. Gill Jr. Commissioners appointed Carl R. Smith to fill the vacancy. Smith, former Vinton County treasurer, runs a McArthur department store with relatives. Frazee is active in a hardware business with his brother-in-law.
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McArthur
Franklin Frazee
Hamden
Vinton County
Frazee
John D. Gill, Jr
Carl R. Smith
McArthur Republican
Smith
Bar and Club Permits Eyed in Senate Hearing
Columbus notes a Senate committee resumes its liquor department probe and reviews a partial 1946 47 permit report. Frank J. Collopy said the list of 48 licenses for private clubs night clubs and bars would be completed this week. The licenses include 37 private clubs six night clubs and five bars.
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Columbus
Senate
Liquor Department
Frank J. Collopy
300 Boys Clubbers To Travel in April
More than 300 members of Boys Clubs of America from Ohio Indiana and Kentucky begin an educational tour of Virginia on April 15 aboard a special Chesapeake and Ohio train. Edwin F Van Billiard regional director said travelers hail from Cincinnati Columbus Dayton Ohio Indianapolis Terre Haute Muncie and Richmond Indiana and Louisville Kentucky.
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Cincinnati
Boys’ Clubs of America
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Virginia
Chesapeake and Ohio
Edwin F. van Billiard
Boys’ Clubs
Columbus
Dayton
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Muncie
Richmond
Ind
Louisville
Philippines backs equal trading rights for Americans
Manila reports early plebiscite results show support for equal trading rights for Americans. Voter turnout was light with fewer than half of Manila's 142,000 and the islands' 3,116,000 registered voters casting ballots.
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Manila
Philippines
Islands
Orchardist 54 Dies in Brush Fire After Heart Attack
Dean Clip pinger, a 54 year old orchardist, suffered a heart attack and fell into a brush fire yesterday, dying from burns and exposure. The incident occurred near VAN WERT. Authorities investigate the cause and sequence of events.
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van Wert
Dean Clippinger
Suspect Grilled After Straitsville Theft
New Straitsville authorities and Cleveland detectives questioned a 51 year old man named Joseph L Smith after a Sunday night gun battle and theft of about 30000 from Slatter Collecting Agency. A second suspect fled with the money in a car nearby. fingerprint experts from Columbus were brought in.
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New Straitsville
Cleveland
Perry County
Jerry County
Joseph L. Smith
Slatter Collecting
William Davis
Smith
Clair Butts
Marshal Donley
Indictments Charge Two With Armed Robbery
Columbus report Billy Davis son of Clarksburg West Virginia was indicted on two counts of armed robbery for alleged holdups at the Western Union office and a grill at a bus terminal. Cincinnati report John Joseph Meyers of Bellefonte Pennsylvania was charged with armed robbery after a gun battle with police.
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Columbus
Billy Davisson
Clarksburg
W. Va
Franklin County Grand Jury
Western Union
Cincinnati
John Joseph Meyers
Bellefonte
Common Pleas Grand
Sohio Raises Gasoline Prices by 112 Cents
Sohio increases gasoline prices by one and a half cents a gallon, effective tomorrow at all Sohio service stations. Regular grade will cost 21 cents and premium 23 cents, timing tied to a 25 cent per barrel crude oil rise affecting major producers and Sohio’s Cleveland Chatham crude.
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Cleveland
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
Sohio
Cleveland-Chatham
Gallia Schools to Reopen as Flu Abates in City
Gallia officials report influenza decline with city schools set to reopen at 8 30 a m Wednesday Superintendent Higgins notes a survey to judge virulence and need for further restrictions Dr Foster says calls down about 50 percent since Saturday City Manager Bartlett has no new flu alerts and Eureka schools reportedly closed for absenteeism. Addison and Green Townships affected by bus service stoppage.
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Gallipolis
J. Roy Bartlett
E. E. Higgins
N. H. Foster
Higgins
Foster
Bartlett
Eureka
B. Lewis Jones
Gallia County
Addison
Green
Delinquency Charged In Ohio Girl's Death
In Batavia Ohio two brothers Raymond Fryman 23 and Thomas Fryman 26 of Felicity Ohio were charged with contributing to juvenile delinquency in affidavits signed by Dorothy Boone 17 of Chile Ohio found dead in a car March 2 The coroner ruled death from carbon monoxide gas and Clermont County Prosecutor Raymond Bradford said a murder charge against Raymond Fryman would be withdrawn
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Batavia
Raymond Fryman
Thomas Fryman
Felicity
Dorothy Boone
Chile
Ohio
Clermont County
Raymond Bradford
Officials Named to Railway Federation in Cleveland
Livingstone Goddard was named secretary and J. J. Anzalone treasurer of the newly organized Federation for Railway Progress announced by Chairman Robert R. Young. Goddard formerly served as assistant district attorney for New York County under Thomas E. Dewey.
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Cleveland
Livingstone Goddard
J. J. Anzalone
Federation For Railway Progress
Robert R. Young
Goddard
New York County
Thomas E. Dewey
Widow Appointed Warren County Clerk of Courts
Trumbull County commissioners named Mrs Violet J Campana of Niles as county clerk of courts succeeding her husband Peter C Campana who died last week in Warren County Ohio.
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Warren
Trumbull County
Violet J. Campana
Niles
Peter C. Campana
Atomic control debate returns to start as U.S. and Russia clash
In Lake Success New York the big issue of world atomic control resurfaced with the United States and Russia remaining at odds after nine months of talks.
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Lake Success
Russia
United States
Supreme Court Hints Congress on Foremen Union Status
The Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 decision signaled Congress must craft new law to exclude foremen from unions. Options include amending the Wagner Act to relieve employers of bargaining with supervisor unions, extending protections to supervisor unions not tied to rank and file, or ruling on whether bosses in the same union as workers retain privileges. The case centers on Packard Motor Car and the Foremen's Association of America with potential future review of the Lewis Mine Foremen case.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
John L. Lewis
Packard Motor Car Company of
Detroit
Foremen’s Association of America
High Court
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Lewis
Baby Torture Allegation Faces Cincinnati Father
Cincinnati police report that Jack Slagle, 34, is charged with applying a lighted cigarette to his five month old son Lionel's feet. The charge, based on a state torture or neglect statute, follows an arrest after a disturbance at the Slagle home. Jo Ann, four, named the father in the complaint.
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Cincinnati
Jack Slagle
Lionel
Ann
Jo Ann
Robert Klug
Klug
Baby Lionel
Slagle
VA Asked to Probe Resignation of Doctor
Rep. Huber urged the Veterans Administration to investigate the resignation of Dr. Alan B. Adam as head of Crile Hospital Cleveland neuro psychiatric department. He said he discussed the matter with House veterans subcommittee members but would not seek a formal inquiry.
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Washington
Huber
Ohio
Veteran ® Administration
Alan B. Adam
Crile Hospital
Cleveland
House
Will creates 15000 dollar fund for relatives in Germany
In Cincinnati probate court today the will of Mrs. Clara A. Jacobs sets up a 15000 dollar trust for relatives in Germany in need of financial help. She also leaves 500 dollars to the Jewish Orphan Home in Cleveland.
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Cincinnati
Clara A. Jacobson
Germany
Cleveland
Half of housing for Cincinnati veterans completed
Half of the 620 emergency housing units planned for Cincinnati has been completed, with wary veterans noting progress and remaining needs. The project aims to provide temporary shelter and stability for former service members in the city.
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Cincinnati
City Workers Get Hire Cincinnati Wage Increase
Employees in suburban Mariemont receive a $100 per month cost of living raise under legislation adopted last night.
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Cincinnati
Mariemont
Moral duty and safe driving favor national character
Sam Simmons argues that owning vast wealth and vehicles does not ensure virtue. He warns that reckless driving harms others and that wealth should elevate morals, not excuse careless behavior on highways and in society.
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United States of America
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