Bomb Plot Aimed at Colonial Office Spurs London Police
Scotland Yard rushes to the War Office after a telephone threat to blow up the building. A bomb found in the Colonial Office, wrapped in brown paper, had 24 sticks of gelignite like explosive with a partially burned fuse. Investigators weigh links to Dov Bela Gruner’s Palestine execution and Zionist retaliation claims.
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London
Scotland Yard
War Office
Colonial Office
Dov Bela Gruner
Palestine
Home Office
British Press Association
Gruner
Irgun Zvai Leumi
No. 10
Downing Street
Pedce
Palestine Underground
Britain
Taft Proposes Price Study To Tackle High Living Costs
Senator Taft of Ohio said he agrees prices are too high but warns against raising wages before reducing living costs. As committee chair he convened the Senate House economic report panel to decide how widely to study the nation's price structure.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Senate House Committee On the Economic Report
Portrait of Cruelty and Deception in Modern Media
The speaker warns of a dreary outlook where honest citizens fade and gadgets aid politicians. He critiques how crime and vice are treated differently from ordinary offenses and laments seductive media voices shaping public judgment. He references Al Capone as a symbolic rebuke of power.
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Ohe
al Capone
Bombshell sets world record for around the world flight
Milton Reynolds, William Odom, and T Carroll Sallee in the converted A 26 bomber Bombshell complete a record round the world in 78 hours 55 minutes landing at LaGuardia at 12 06 30 AM. They averaged 254 mph overall and 318 mph in flight, with stops at Gander Paris Cairo Karachi Calcutta Shanghai Tokyo Adak and Edmonton.
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New York
Milton Reynolds
Chicago
William Odom
T. Carroll Sallee
la Guardia Field
Reynolds
Atlantic
Paris
Gander
Newfoundland
Howard Hughes
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Minneapolis
Detroit
Calcutta
Hughes
Cairo
Karachi
India
Shanghai
Tokyo
Adak
Aleutians
Conciliators Seek New Phone Strike Solution
Washington negotiators search for a new formula to end the cross country telephone strike as Secretary Schwellenbach urges public pressure. AT T proposes amendments and regional boards while NFTW demands nationwide arbitration and retroactive cost of living pay. Beirne says a solution will come and the strike will end.
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Schwellenbach
Washington
Peter J. Manno
William Margolis
Edgar L
Warren
John W
Gibson
AT & T
NFTW
Beirne
Witnesses Report Red Activity in Ohio Schools
Senator Pollock backed an inquiry into alleged communism in Ohio schools after witnesses testified to evidence of communist text and teaching in several districts. Senator Baker said federal aid would follow if the legislature approves the investigation.
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Columbus
Robert A. Pollock
Stark
Senate Education Committee
Ohio
Pollock
I. E. Baker
Montgomery
Baker
Senate Highway Committee
House Education Committee
CIO Local Calls 24 Hour National Protest
Schenectady New York report notes Local 301 United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers CIO with 13 000 members urged a 24 hour nationwide work stoppage to protest the Omnibus Federal Labor Bill restricting strikes and unions.
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Schenectady
N. Y
CLO Electrical Workers
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
CIO
Philip Murray
Bar Owners Question Legality of Youngstown Zoning Ordinance
Bar operators in Youngstown question the legality of an emergency ordinance banning bars within 300 feet of churches and schools. Mayor O'Neill returned the measure to council with visible disapproval but did not veto.
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Youngstown
Ralph W. O'Neill
Estate Totals 911,656 In Youngstown Probate Records
Court records showed Laura Wick, member of an early Youngstown family, left an estate totaling 911,656. The filing reflects a sizable estate for the local lineage with assets to be administered by the court.
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Youngstown
Laura Wick
Iourt
Rudolf Hoess Hanged After War Crimes Conviction
Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of Auschwitz, was executed by hanging in Oswiecim Poland after a Polish Supreme Court trial. He refused clemency and removed a wedding ring to be sent with a farewell letter to his wife and children in Germany.
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Oswiecim
Poland
U.S
Rudolf Hoess
Auschwitz
Germany
Ministry of Justice
Supreme Court
UAW Strike Shuts Elyria Airbrake Plant
A UAW strike closed the Bendix Westinghouse Automotive Airbrake Co in Elyria Ohio idling about 1000 workers. Local president C Franklin Carr says the dispute centers on grievances and contract demands including a union shop paid holidays liberalized vacations pay for bargaining time and a guaranteed weekly wage.
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Elyria
CIO
United Auto Workers
Bendix Westinghouse Automotive
C. Franklin Carr
UAW
Trade Journal predicts steel strike risk on May first
The Iron Age reports a 50-50 chance of a steel industry shutdown by a strike on May 1. Negotiations between U S Steel subsidiaries and unions since mid January have produced no progress.
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New York
the Iron Age
U.S. Steel
Miner Killed Two Injured In Slate Fall At WV Pit
A slate fall at the West Virginia Coal and Transportation Company pit near West Columbia killed Daniel Hysell age 37 and injured Wayne King 51 and O J Jenks 48. The three men were from Pomeroy and Vinton with King and Jenks treated at Holzer Hospital for non life threatening injuries. Funeral services for Hysell are set for 2 pm Thursday at Bradford Church.
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Point Pleasant
Rutland
West Virginia Coal and Transportation Company
New
West Columbia
Daniel Hysell
Wayne King
Pomeroy
O. J. Jenks
Vinton
R. J. Williamson
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
West Virginia
Reese West
Hysell
Hysell Run
Meigs County
Philander Hysell
Bradford Church
Dems Forego Labor Curbs In House Debate
House Democrats dropped any plan for an organized campaign to derail the pending labor bill aimed at curbing strikes and unions. The move clears Republicans for probable passage tomorrow and shifts blame to GOPs for the final measure as debate and amendments move toward a vote.
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Washington
House
Democratic Command
Liquor Board Grants Two Club Licenses in Ohio
The State Board of Liquor Control reversed the permit division and ordered a night club license for Erma Lawson of Lawson's Cafe in New Miami Hamilton. The Harlem Civic and Political Club of Mansfield was granted a private club permit.
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Columbus
State Board of Liquor Control
Erma Lawson
Lawson
New Miami
Hamilton
Harlem
Mansfield
Marshall Stalin talk fails to break deadlocks
Secretary of State Marshall’s 90 minute Kremlin talk with Prime Minister Stalin failed to resolve the Council of Foreign Ministers stalemate. The meeting aimed to present U S policy on Germany and Europe and was kept secret from the American delegation.
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Moscow
Marshall
Stalin
Council of Foreign Ministers
Germany
Europe
United States
Kremlin
Truman
U. S
Walter B. Smith
Turkey
Greece
Moscow Radio
London
V. M. Molotov
N. V. Novikov
Washington
Three Hungarians sentenced to die in plot against Hungary
A peoples court convicted 13 people of plotting to restore Admiral Horthy by armed revolt. Three were sentenced to die by strangulation, while Istvan Szent Biklossy and Balint Arany received life and others faces ranging from one to 14 years. All sentences await review by the supreme council of the peoples court. The case followed claims of a frameup by anti communists amid postwar occupation and political turmoil. Admiral Horthy, once Hungary's regent, was released from Nürnberg jail and later lived near Munich.
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Budapest
Nicholas Horthy
Gyorgy Donath
Iajos Dalniki Veress
Sandor Andras
Istvan Szent Biklossy
Balint Arany
Supreme Council of the Peoples Court
Laszlo Rajk
Admiral Horthy
Hungary
Nuernberg
International Military Tribunal
Munich
Greek Aid Plan Gains As Clark Raps Wallace
Washington reports say the administration gains support for Truman's program to block Communism in Greece and Turkey while Attorney General Tom Clark denounces Henry A Wallace's criticisms as a cheap blundering assault on bipartisan foreign policy. Wallace defends his remarks in Britain and CBS interview, arguing he supports a constructive peace and cites Churchill’s private views as a comparison.
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Clark
Wallace
Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Truman
Greece
Turkey
Tom Clark
London
Britain
CBS
Bob Trout
Fulton Mo
Great Britain
Winston Churchill
United States
America
Trout
Explosions Rock Galveston as Texas City Blasts Reported
Two blasts at Texas City sent a mushrooming smoke column to Galveston at 9 12 am. Witnesses saw a boat blow up and fires grew at Texas City. Sirens and ambulances rushed to the scene while plaster fell and windows shattered across Galveston.
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Galveston
T .x
Texas City
Galveston Tribune
Frank Webb 83 Dies After Brief Illness in Carbon Hill
Frank Webb 83 of Carbon Hill died at home Wednesday after a brief illness. Survived by wife Sarah Blosser Webb a daughter Lukie Krouse Columbus a son Dr J L Webb Nelsonville a sister Mrs Sam Nease Nelsonville two brothers Bavitt Webb Oak Hill Oscar Webb Los Angeles. Funeral conducted Friday at 2 pm in the Christian Church Carbon Hill by Rev L E Evans Nelsonville burial in Carbon Hill Cemetery.
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Nelsonville
Carbon Hill Cemetery
Satira Scene To Be Enacted In Havana Harbor Death
Cuban officials set a reenactment of the yacht Satira incident in Havana Harbor on April 8 in which Chicago attorney and poet John Lester Mee was fatally wounded in his cabin. Patricia Schmidt a 21 year old dancer known as Sa tira will be brought from Gwanabaco Prison to answer how a downwards bullet killed Mee. Schmidt indicted for homicide after a dispute over Mee being married.
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Patricia Schmidt
Toledo
John Lester Mee
Chicago
Havana
Havana Harbor
Satira
Gwanabaco
Santiago Mencia
Mee
Columbus Teachers Seek Pay Hike With Three-Mill Levy
A Columbus teachers union asked the board of education to place a three-mill operating tax levy before voters in a special election to fund salary increases. President Virgil O. Green of the Columbus Classroom Teachers Association said this levy is the minimum to adequately finance the schools.
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Columbus
Board of Education
Virgil O. Green
Columbus Classrooms Teachers Association
Herbert Refuses Clemency For Cincinnati Slayership
Governor Thomas J. Herbert refused executive clemency for Fred Wormack Jr., 22, convicted killer of a Cincinnati taxi driver. His death sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary electric chair was scheduled for tonight after the Pardon and Parole Commission recommended no clemency following a last week hearing.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Fred Wormack, Jr
Cincinnati
Ohio Penitentiary
Herbert
State Pardon and Parole Commission
Out-of-Order Phone Blamed for Fire Loss
Mineral City firemen blamed an out of order telephone for a $100,000 blaze that destroyed the Kelsey Clay Co plant in Canton Ohio. Workers from a nearby coal mine drove miles to sound the alarm as the fire department’s line was inoperable.
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Canton
Mineral City
Ohio
Kelsey Clay Co
Lorder
Four Palestine Jews Hanged By British
Dov Bela Gruner aged 33 and three Irgun Zvai Leumi members were executed at Acre Prison at dawn for anti British violence. Gruner had been jailed for a raid on the Ramat Gan police station in which two policemen died. The hangings came as Britain imposed iron security measures amid fears of retaliation.
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Jerusalem
Dov Bela Gruner
Acre
Gruner
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Palestine
Ramat Gan
Irgun
Arthur Creech Jones
Holy Land
McCowen Sees Approval of Labor Bill in House
Rep. McCowen of Ohio predicts quick House approval of a labor bill aimed at protecting both the public and workers. He says its purpose is not to punish labor but to shield individuals from dictatorial control of leaders.
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Rep
McCowen
Washington
Rep. McCowen
Ohio
Labor Committee
United plane hits 500 mph in air travel record
A United Airlines aircraft was reported yesterday to have reached 500 miles per hour, claimed as the fastest speed ever flown by an air transport.
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Cleveland
United Airlines
City Council Grants Sixteen Pay Increases
Jackson city council approved $15 a month raises for eight policemen and six firemen and higher boosts for two service department workers. Water works duties cited. David Armstrong's pay rose from $150 to $175 and his assistant Mrs. Thomas H. Monger from $125 to $145.
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Jackson
City Water Works
David Armstrong
Thomas H. Monger
29 Cincinnati Teachers Resign Amid Board Row
Twenty nine teachers resigned en masse at North College Hill as police quelled a disturbance that disrupted a board of education meeting. The resignations cited the board’s conduct and cited the NEA and OEA black list labeling the district unprofessional.
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Cincinnati
North College Hill
Board of Education
Henry Segrist
Lawrence Weingartner
William Cook
National Education Association
Ohio Education Association
Dr. Cook
Walter Hughes
Grace Ave.numetary School
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