Urges Voluntary Food Cut To Relieve Famine
Washington AP report on a famine emergency plea urging the United States to cut food use by 40 percent in wheat and 20 percent in fats for 120 days to aid 500 million starving abroad. Recommendations include lower bread weight and other conservation ideas, with USDA noting near record winter wheat and citrus prospects but ongoing sugar scarcity.
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Washington
Truman
Department of Agriculture
Agricuture Department
New Boston Couple Deny Riot Charges in After Game Incident
Jessie Kiser, a New Boston steelworker, and his wife pled innocent to inciting a riot following a Class B sectional high school basketball game won by Wheelersburg 36-28. They also pled not guilty to assault and battery against Pike County Sheriff J. H. Foster after a melee in Rae where about 600 of 1800 spectators were involved.
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Waverly
Jessie Kiser
New Boston
Wheelersburg
Pike County
J. H. Foster
Rae
Foster
Radar clocks falling speed for safety jumps from aircraft
Radar has a new use to clock the speed of a man falling from an airplane in or near the stratosphere. Experiments at Wright Field Dayton Ohio were reported to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology today. The object is to determine how a person may jump safely from a speeding plane.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
Connally urges big Three meeting to clear friction
Sen. Connally calls for a new Big Three meeting to blunt friction with the Soviet Union. He urges blunt language and plain speaking to keep relations on track, warning Russia’s rights do not extend beyond its boundaries. He stresses an adequate army, superior navy, and a superb air force for the United States.
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Washington
Connally
Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Russia
Soviet Union
Ohio Permits Piling Up Despite Hold on New Apps
Columbus the liquor department permit chief Harlan T Chapman said people do not listen as the agency again warned it would stop accepting new permit applications until a backlog of 5 000 is reduced. He noted about 500 more have arrived and are held, with the pace slowing and all post announcement submissions being returned.
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Columbus
Harlan T. Chapman
State Liquor Department
Joan Crawford Seeks Divorce From Estranged Husband
Actress Joan Crawford, 1945 Oscar winner, prepared to sue her estranged husband Philip Terry for divorce. Attorney Neil S. McCarthy said Terry left their home weeks ago and will be charged with general cruelty. Crawford was married to Terry since 1942 and previously wed Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Franchot Tone.
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Los Angeles
Gpi
Joan Crawford
Neil S. McCarthy
McCarthy
Philip Terry
Miss Crawford
Terry
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Franchot Tone
Akron Match Workers to Vote on Strike Sunday
About 3,000 AFL match workers from Akron will vote Sunday on a strike after wage negotiations with three match companies collapsed. National union president F Gearhart said the firms rejected a 25 cent hourly raise, offering only five cents.
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Akron
AFL Match Workers] Council
National Union
F. Gearhart
Gearhart
Matchworkers Council
Reds Quitting Mukden Area Reported By Soviet Chief
Soviet chief of staff informed Chinese officials that Russian troops are evacuating Mukden with transportation to Soviet territory via Changchun, as China prepares to take over garrison duties. Connally urged new high level meetings to cement postwar cooperation and world peace.
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Chungheing
Mukden
Changchun
Barkley Sees Support for 65 Cent Minimum Wage Bill
Senate Majority Leader Barkley of Kentucky said the administrations 65 cent minimum wage bill has a very good chance of passing. He reported to reporters after a stock taking session with supporters including Democratic National Chairman E. Hannegan and Labor Secretary Schwellenbach. The two hour meeting reviewed prospects and obstacles.
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Washington
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Overt E. Hannegan
Labor
Schwellenbach
Six Firms Charged With Anti-Trust Bond Bearing Fix
Six companies and three individuals face a federal indictment in Cleveland for conspiring to fix ball bearing prices in violation of the Sherman Act. They allegedly produced and sold 95 percent of U.S. ball bearing output. Defendants will be arraigned April 8 before Judge Emerick B. Freed. A spokesman for a company, denying price fixing, issued a statement from Philadelphia last night.
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Cleveland
Emerick B. Freed
Philadelphia
Case Continued in Lindbergh Kidnap Trial Emerges from Huntington
Federal court has continued the trial date to May 2 for three Lawrence County men indicted on charges of violating the Lindbergh Kidnap Law by abducting a Huntington mother and her daughter.
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Huntington
Wva
Lawrence County
Tiny Girl Celebrates the Birthday Which Death Tried to Cancel
Sandra Dildine, a frail four year old from St Clair Shores battling a malignant tumor, amid hopeful gifts from across the nation, marks a birthday as doctors warned of possible fatal spells. Her mother Irene says Sandy’s stubbornness and prayers help her endure. The party, held at the cottage hospital bedside, ends with the girl fading but cherished memories.
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Tiny Girl
Detroit
Sandra Dildine
St. Clair Shores
Irene
Sandy
Mason Yards Struck At Marietta Shipyards By Wildcat Action
About 100 workers walked out at the Marietta Manufacturing Co in Point Pleasant. A union official called a strike while company officials were not reachable for comment. A late spokesman said production slowed as many did not report for work and would resume when they return. Painters and machinists reportedly sought a 17 cent hourly raise, with current inland shipyard rates lower than elsewhere. AFL says no official strike action. a picket line formed as unrest followed weeks of tension despite earlier pact with AFL craft unions.
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Point Pleasant
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Paul D. Wedge
International Boilermakers Union
Messenger
Marietta Manufacturing Company
Wildcat
AFL
Dewey A. Windsor
Aflcraft
Strike Dinner Aids Union Fund For Strikers
In Cleveland a CIO electrical workers fund totaling 900 dollars was raised by a strike kitchen dinner. Ninety two guests dined on beef stew cole slaw and coffee at union headquarters hosted by wives of striking General Electric and Westinghouse workers. Proceeds also came from an auction of Rockwell Kent and local artists paintings, organized by the Cleveland Citizens Committee for fair wages and prices. Proceeds will aid needy strikers families not reached by ordinary relief efforts.
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Cleveland
CIO Electrical Worker
General Electric
Westinghouse
Rockwell Kent
Cleveland Citizens Committee For Fair Wages and
D. R. Sharpe
Cleveland Baptist Federation
Beightler Doubts A Bomb Pact Security
Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler warned that agreements to outlaw atomic bombs could not be kept. He told a Canton audience that future ground forces may yield to air power, conceding this shift in role for soldiers.
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Beightler
Robert S. Beightler
Ohio
37Th Infantry Division
Labor Stage Set With Lewis In Spotlight as Talks Begin
Washington AP report on CIO UAW critic and OPA plans for price increases for Chrysler Ford and Hudson cars. Officials anticipate auto price hikes up to about three percent while debates over wage boosts and production costs continue. Montgomery opposes auto price hikes, citing production prospects and cost trends as key factors.
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Lewis
Ford
Washington
Cio-United Auto Workers
OPA
Donald Montgomery
UAW Consumer Counsel
Chrysler
Hudson
Montgomery
Lewis Ready To Press Demands In Soft Coal Talks
John L. Lewis prepared to reveal wage and other demands to bituminous coal operators as UMW leaders planned one last policy session before formal talks. He is expected to seek shorter hours, higher pay, unionization of supervisory workers, and a participation royalty on each ton mined. In Detroit, CIO Ford negotiations continued with no comment on a rumored UAW leadership drive while strike talks stretched at GM. A three man presidential fact finding board planned hearings on railroad wage disputes in Chicago after Truman named the panel. Strikes loomed at Phelps Dodge properties and in Louisville and Gary as nationwide labor frictions kept about 757,000 idle.
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Associated Press
John L. Lewis
AFL
United Mine Workers
Lewis
UMW
CIO
United Auto Workers
Detroit
General. Motors
Ford Motor Company
Uaw-Cio
R. Thomas
Waller
P. Reuther
Reuther
National Ford Council
Ita
Fond
Ihe Council
Chicago
National
Brotherhoods of Railroad
Truman
Reid Robinson
Phelps Dodge
Arizona
New Mexico
Los Angeles
Louisville
Gary
Ind
New Labor Bill Would Create Independent Mediation Board
A Senate drafting panel unveiled a substitute labor bill shifting strike settlement from the Labor Department to a new Independent Federal Mediation Board. Senator Ellender and others said the aim is industrial peace while acknowledging major Case Bill provisions were dropped. The measure goes to the Senate Labor Committee for possible tweaks before floor action.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ellender
D-La
Labor Department
Federal Mediation Board
Secretary of Labor
Ep. Case
Murray
D-Mont
Labor Committee
Full
Yamashita Underling to Die for Jap Atrocities
Manila reports Col Akira Nagahama former chief of Yamashita’s thought police in the Philippines was sentenced to death by hanging by a U S military commission. He was convicted on 11 charges of atrocities committed by his men.
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Manila
Akira Nagahama
Yamashita
Thought Police
Philippines
U.S
New Bid For U. S. Help In Franco Case
Washington reports France will send fresh evidence on Spain through a renewed push for American support at the UN Security Council. The United States rejected the initial French proposal, widening the split among permanent Security Council members. Russia backs France against the U S Britain stance, while China has not taken a side. The note also denies Russia's claim that the United States seeks a lone influence in Bulgaria's government.
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Washington
France
Spain
Generalissimo Franco
UNO
Security Council
United States
Russia
Britain
China
State Department
Air Base Roll Is Sharply Cut at Lockbourne
Columbus report shows about 300 civilian workers at Lockbourne Army Air Base out of work with 300 remaining and the rest reassigned to Wilmington Ohio. The 477th Composite Group transfers to First Air Force while Wilmington’s Clinton County airport payrolls air tech command. Col. Benjamin O Davis Jr notes Wilmington housing limits prevent expanding staff.
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Columbus
Lockbourne Army Air Base
Wilmington
Army
All Weather
Lockbourne
First Air Force
477Th
Clinton County
Air Technical Service Command
Benjamin ©. Davis, Jr
All Weather Flying Center
Newark Firm Quits Beef Business Over OPA Rules
Scioto Provision Co president H B Huntington said new OPA regulations forced quitting beef operations. Company supplied Newark with 30 000 to 40 000 pounds weekly and shipped to Columbus and Lancaster. Coroner linked deaths of Clarence Long and Mildred Wise to carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty exhaust pipe in a parked car near the Sandusky River.
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Newark
OPA
H. B. Huntington
Scioto Provision, Co
Huntington
Columbus
Lancaster
Tiffin
William H. Benner
Clarence Long
Mildred
Deadline Set For World Bank Signatories
Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson said the World Bank and fund signatories, including Russia and other Bretton Woods members slow to join, may have six months to enter the global financing and currency stabilizing agencies. The membership committee at Wilmington Island near Savannah will likely set the deadline.
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Savannah
Russia
Bretton Woods
World Bank
Fund jTay
the Treasury
Fred M. Vinson
International Monetary Conference
Wilmington Island
Here
Ickes Named Chairman of Independents
Former Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes was named executive chairman of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. Sculptor Jo Davidson, national chairman, said his role would mobilize independent voters for united political action and support the Roosevelt program for world peace and domestic progress.
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James Roosevelt
New Independent Citizens’ Committee of Arts, Sciences and Professions
New Deal
Interior Ickes
New York
Harol Ickes
Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
Jo Davidson
United
Ickes
Iccasp
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Roosevelt
Objects To More Wheat For Nation's Distillers
COLUMBUS- UF -The presidential ban on use of wheat for white bread and grain for beverage alcohol discriminated against the nation's millers in favor of the liquor industry. Miss Mary B. Ervin, president of the Ohio Woman's Christian Temperance Union, told 300 delegates at the annual three day executive meeting that the order restricts how much wheat millers may keep on hand but imposes no such restriction on brewers and distillers.
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Columbus
Mary B. Ervin
Ohio Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Ervin
Rubber Workers Favor New Wage Boost Plans
AKRON One fourth of the Colo United Rubber Workers of America locals have ratified an 18 cent hour wage boost for production and maintenance workers after a wage agreement by the Big Four companies and the union. L S Buckmaster reported 10 of 41 locals approved, including Goodyear at St Marys Ohio. MUST MAIL EARLY WASHINGTON Friends and relatives of soldiers overseas urged by War Department to mail Easter greetings immediately.
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Akron
Colo-United Rubber Workers of America
L. S Buckmaster
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
St. Marys
Washington
War Department
State Nets Large Sum Through Sale of Scrap
Columbus report notes the State Liquor Department aims to boost a sideline from selling pasteboard liquor shipment cartons. Assistant stores supervisor Edward Tharp said $26,000 was earned last year, with over $35,000 already realized in the first two months of this year and a predicted $130,000 total for 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
T?i
Edward MM. Tharp
Surgeon Mourned Who Stitched Man's Heart
Stephen Belanek of Salem Ohio mourns Dr Gustave F Berg a renowned Pittsburgh surgeon who saved his life 27 years ago by stitching nine delicate stitches in his heart after a 1919 stabbing.
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Pittsburgh
Stephen Belanek
Salem
Gustave F. Berg
Belanek
Dr. Berg
Solons juggle housing hot potato rent hike push
Congress faced an election year dilemma as rental-property leaders urged a mandatory 15 percent rise in general residential rent nationwide to extend price controls for another year beyond June 3. The plan, backed by George M. Englar and Arthur D. Loppel, met House Banking Committee skepticism as it would raise costs for renting lawmakers and tenants alike. They sought exemptions for new units, state-controlled rents, and recognition of owners' right to a fair return.
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Washington
Congress
House
Washingon
George M. Englar
Baltimore
Nationl Apartment Owners Association
Arthur D. Loppel
Metropolitan Fair Rent Committee of
New York
OPA
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