UAW Seeks 23 1 2 Cent Hourly Wage Boost From GM
The United Auto Workers formally asks General Motors for a 23.5 cent raise for about 225 000 GM production workers to reach $1.56 per hour. The union cites current averages as $1.31 to $1.33 and seeks swift talks on broader demands including equal pay, a retirement and social security package, a 40 hour week, enhanced vacation for veterans, and early start for negotiations. Walter Reuther presented the proposal in Detroit.
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Louisville
CIO
United Auto Workers Today
General Motors Corporation
UAW
UAWGM
Walter P. Reuther
GM Department
Detroit
General Motors
Reuther
Edmund Davis of Hemlock Dies at 92
Edmund H. Davis 92 died Thursday evening at the home of his son in Hemlock after a three month illness. Born in Athens County, he lived much of his life near Hemlock and worked on the Shawnee to Athens railroad project. Survived by daughter Mrs. Tharp, daughter Mrs. Clara Biddison of Mansfield, son Charles H. Davis of Hemlock, sister Mrs. Lillian Trimmer, Buckeye Lake, and brothers Charles L. Davis of Nelsonville and Elmer Davis of Mansfield. Friends may call at the Tharp home Saturday afternoon. Funeral Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Main St. Church of Christ, Hemlock, Rev. John Goddard officiating. Burial in New Lexington.
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Edmund H. Davis
Chester Tharp
Tharp
Clara Biddison
Mansfield
Charles H. Davis
Lillian Trimmer
Buckeye Lake
Ohio
Charles L. Davis
Nelsonville
Elmer Davis
Main St. Church of Christ, Hemlock
John Goddard
Somerset
New Lexington
Ohio Chamber of Commerce to study state education crisis
Columbus report notes a call for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce to examine the education crisis before criticizing Gov. Herbert’s 1947-48 budget. Walter G. O’Donnell for the Ohio Friends of Public Schools praised the governor’s request for higher appropriations, despite prior chamber criticism as excessive.
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Columbus
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Walter G. O'Donnell
Ohio Friends of Public Schools
Thomas J. Herbert
Chamber
Men Held for Murder After Sunday Dice Game
In Cleveland two men are charged with first degree murder after confessing to Detective Inspector Charles O Nevel that they shot Otto Lombardo 27 during a Sunday dice game. Lombardo died from his injuries in the incident.
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Cleveland
Charles O. Nevel
Otto Lombardo
Two Day UMW Strike Ends at Diamond Alkali Fairport
A two day strike by several hundred members of District 50 United Mine Workers of America ended at Diamond Alkali Co in Fairport. The walkout affected 3,000 employees across the plant and surrounding operations.
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UMW
Fairport
Painesville
District 50
United Mine Workers of America
UFL
Diamond Alkali Co
Botanist A Stephen Vavra Dies in Los Angeles
A Stephen Vavra 79 botanist died last night in Los Angeles. He was known for his work in plant science and served at local research institutions. The obituary notes his long career, surviving family, and contributions to botany.
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Los Angeles
A. Stephen Vavra
House Group Denies Conciliation Officials Pay
The House Appropriations Committee voted to deny pay for Director Edgar L. Warren and top aides at the United States Conciliation Service amid a feud with Rep. Keefe. The panel cut the Labor Department and Federal Security Agency bill by over a million, reducing the NLRB request sharply and trimming public employment grants and conciliation funding.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
United States Conciliation Service
Edgar L. Warren
Warren
Rep
Keefe
R-Wis
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
Conciliation Service
Truman
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Mrs Hamm Dies at 86 in Pomeroy After Illness
Anna Marie Mora Hamm of Pomeroy died Friday at 6 30 am at her home. She was 86 and had been ill a short time. Survived by children Carrie Smith Elmer Hamm Walter Hamm Helen Sauer Clarence Hamm and Robert Hamm a grandson who lived with her. Also surviving 17 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are being completed at Ewing funeral home.
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Pomeroy
Anna Marie Mora Hamm
Father Is Sentenced to Torture Baby in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati United Press report Jack Slagle aged 34 was convicted of burning his five month old son Lionel's feet with a cigarette. He received a six month term in the city workhouse. Slagle's wife Anna did not participate in the trial and Jo Ann the four-year-old daughter testified she saw the abuse.
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Cincinnati
Lionel
Jack Slagle
Slagle
Anna
Jo Ann
Oldest Masonic Lodge Member in U.S. Dies
Captain Alben G. Howell aged 106 died in Waynesville North Carolina. He was described as the oldest surviving commissioned Confederate Army officer and the oldest Masonic Lodge member in the United States, and he had served as a bank president.
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Masonic Lodge
U. S
Raleigh
N. C
Alben G. Howell
United States
Waynesville
Cow Bears Four Sets Of Twins In Five Years
PAINESVILLE. A Durham cow on the Leroy farm owned by Clarence Pomeroy has produced four sets of twins in the last five years, with the latest pair born last week.
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Painesville
Durham
Leroy
Clarence Pomeroy
Miami University to inaugurate fifteenth president on April 19
Dr. Ernest H. Nairne will be inaugurated as the fifteenth president of Miami University in Oxford on Saturday April 19. The ceremony will be attended by representatives from most Midwestern colleges and universities.
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Oxford
Ernest H. Nairne
Miami University
City approves 10 percent wage hike for Hillsboro workers
City council voted last night to grant a ten percent raise to utility and street employees, boosting pay for city workers in Hillsboro.
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Hillsboro
Woman 84 Burned in Canton Gas Explosion
Mrs. Julia Blane, 84, suffered severe burns in Canton when attempting to light a stove oven. Authorities reported the gas explosion occurred yesterday and caused the injuries to the elderly resident.
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Canton
Julia Blane
Ohio Piston Co Walkout Grows in Cleveland
The number of striking workers in Cleveland rose to about 1500 today as about 110 employees of Ohio Piston Co joined the walkout.
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Ohio Piston CO
Cleveland
Red Zone Iron and Steel Shipments Cut by Allies
A joint British American announcement said shipments of German iron and steel to the Soviet zone were sharply reduced and a total embargo could be considered because the Russian zone has failed to meet terms of a trade agreement.
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Berlin
Boy Dies After Neck Caught in Harness
Lemmi Day a 14 year old boy died in an accidental hanging when his neck became caught in a pony harness. Doctor E T Gibboney Adams County coroner reported the incident occurred yesterday as Day stood on corn.
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Lemmi Day
E. T. Gibboney
Adams County
Gibboney
Lemmi
Commercials Not for Him Timed Out by Engineer
Cleveland based 29 year old Myron O Schilling has invented a time delay relay that stops radio commercials for 60 seconds. The clock device uses a motor driven switch to interrupt the announcer after he begins the sponsor line.
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Cleveland
Myron O. Schilling
Lilienthal Commands Senate Support for AEC Chair Post
An Associated Press check shows Lilienthal backed by a majority of the Senate. Of 74 senators disclosed, 49 favor his confirmation, with 43 publicly supporting and six more privately leaning yes. Taft expects debate to begin Monday.
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Washington
David E. Lilienthal
Senate
Associated Press
Atomic Control Commission
Taft
Ohio
Capper
R-Kan
Lilienthal
Democrats to oppose tax cuts in current push
Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee decided to oppose any tax reduction plans for now. They met with Sam Rayburn after the Republican led panel began sessions to approve a 30 percent cut for small taxpayers and a 20 percent cut for most others.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Holdup Men Are Nabbed Near New Holland Bank
Three youths about 18 were nabbed by London police half an hour after attempting to rob the First National Bank at New Holland. Two entered the bank and threatened staff. a third stayed in a car. They were turned over to the Pickaway County sheriff for Circleville custody. New Holland lies nine miles east of London.
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London, O
London
First National Bank
New Holland
Pickaway County
Circleville
Here
Senate Votes for Single License Plates in 1948 49
The Ohio Senate passed unanimously and sent to the House a bill authorizing the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles to issue single automobile license plates for 1948 and 1949 if a steel shortage prevents two plates. The Bureau issued double tags this year for the first time since the war.
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Columbus
Senate
House
Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Kent State to Host Sixth Annual Photo Short Course Banquet
Officials at Kent State University anticipate Governor Thomas J. Herbert will attend tonight’s banquet of news photographers concluding the sixth annual photographic short course.
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Kent
Kent State University
Thomas J. Herbert
Ohio Rural Flyboys Seek Farm Use From OSU
Ohio's Flying Farmers, 138 strong, sought more farm plane uses and a study by Ohio State University College of Agriculture. C S Hutchison urged limited dusting roles for planes and safer, heavier payload aircraft, while North Central farms tested aerial seed, fertilizer, and mulch methods.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
College of Agriculture
C. S. Hutchison
Hutchison
Entomology Department
Newark
Agronomy Department
10 New Schools Close but Flu Is Decreasing
Ohio's influenza epidemic was on the wane with some schools still closed and cases dropping in large cities. State Health Director Dr. Roger Heer ing urged semi isolated habits, saying fewer contacts protect susceptibles and keep children from public gatherings.
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Roger Heering
Akron Peace Hopes Voiced Amid Rubber Labor Talks
Union and company officials of the Big Four rubber producers voiced hope of averting a strike set for Sunday midnight. CNO-United Rubber Workers leaders planned a Cleveland meeting to seek a peaceful wage settlement, with attorney L. M. Buckingham stating he is hopeful the union and companies will settle it.
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Akron— (P
Cno-United Rubber Workers
Cleveland
L. M. Buckingham
Training School Nurse Is Beaten to Death
Mrs Ida Swanson Isaacson a 63 year old nurse at the Illinois State Training School for girls in Geneva was beaten to death in the school infirmary last night Kane County and state police sought a Negro inmate for questioning in connection with the slaying
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Geneva
Ida Swanson Isaacson
Illinois State Training School For Girls
State
Kane County
Low Salaries Blamed In Personnel Turnover
The state advisory council of the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation cites a 90 percent turnover in 1946 and warns that the current low salary scale threatens the unemployment compensation program in Ohio with disastrous possibilities.
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Columbus
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Ohio
Worker Shot Wounded As He Alights From Car
Police seek shooter after James W. Algea 28 Firestone employee is seriously wounded as he steps from his car in his driveway in Akron. Investigators describe attack as random and are reviewing nearby surveillance footage and witnesses for clues.
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Akron
James W. Algea
Firestone Tire & Rubber
Faculty Backs Student Strike Over Supt Cook Ouster
In Cincinnati 500 striking students join teachers in protest of the North College Hill Board of Education decision to terminate Superintendent William A. Cook. Board president Leo J. Harrison says the 3-2 vote to remove Cook stands. Cook claims broad discontent among teachers and cites widespread threats of a walkout.
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Cincinnati
North College Hill
John Kauff Rites Sunday
John Kauff died this morning at 9 30 at Middleport. Funeral services will be held at his home Sunday at 3 p m. He is survived by his wife Lillie five sons John Harry Cecil Fred and Clifford all of Middleport a daughter Mrs Valee Bell Columbus two brothers George and Will of Pomeroy two sisters Katherine and Elizabeth Columbus 15 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. The body is at the Ewing funeral home with calling hours until Saturday noon then at the home. Burial will be in Middleport Hill Cemetery.
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John Kauff
Middleport
Kauff
Lillie
John
Harry
Cecil
Fred
Clifford
Valee Bell
Columbus
George
Will
Katherine
Elizabeth
Ewing Funeral Home
Middleport Hill Cemetery
Youngstown Boys Sentenced to Death and Life in Ohio Penitentiary
Two Youngstown youths, Don Frohner aged 16 and Arthur Chapman aged 16, were received at the Ohio Penitentiary after being convicted in the slaying of Ashtabula salesman William C. Spieth. Frohner is sentenced to death in the electric chair for the murder, while Chapman received a life term.
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Columbus
Youngstown
Ohio Penitentiary
Don Frohner
William C. Spieth
Arthur Chapman
Slayer Sought In Bludgeoning Of Ohioan 74
Leroy Woodland 74 of Higginsville Ohio was found bludgeoned to death under a mattress in his suburban home. The motive and assailant remained unknown as coroner Dr Hoyt listed skull fracture as the cause. Prosecutor Hahne and Sheriff Gustin pursued new leads after questioning relatives and two roomers Cecil and Jane Yan kee showed no progress.
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Greenfield
Leroy Woodland
Higginsville
Ohio
Eugene A. Hahne
F. F. Gustin
Woodland
Cecil Yankee
W. M. Hoyt
Hillsboro
Herbert Sees Layoffs in State Highway Dept
Gov. Thomas J. Herbert announced continued layoffs of highway department workers involved in political activity or deemed surplus for economy reasons. He said the department would proceed under civil service and would not lay off workers due to union activity.
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Columbus
Highway Department
Thomas J. Herbert
Civil Service
Tuition Raise Is Protested
Columbus brief notes Governor Herbert’s tuition hike proposal draws student protest. He says over 200 form cards were received and that increases are not expected before the 1947 fall term begins.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Herbert
Committee Chief States No Probe for Crile
The House Veterans Committee will make no official investigation of Crile Veterans Hospital at Cleveland. Chairman Rogers said VA findings showed management disputes did not involve inadequate patient service.
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Washington
House Veterans Committee
Crile Veterans Hospital
Cleveland
Rogers
R-Mass
Veterans Administration
Escaped Inmate Named In Assault Charge
Steubenville report identifies John J. Bucho 30 of Mingo as the escaped Massillon State Hospital inmate charged with assault and attempted criminal assault of a Tiltonsville teen on Sept 19. Heidelberg plans a 1 million dollar development campaign for new buildings and endowment reserve.
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Steubenville
John J. Bucho
Mingo
R. D. Bates
Tiltonsville
Bucho
Bates
Massillon State Hospital
Heidelberg
Heidelberg ‘College
Ohio Physician Dies in Cleveland At 86
Dr. James Richey Horner 86 died yesterday after a long career as a leading Cleveland physician. He served 50 years in the city and was a director at Huron Road Hospital.
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Ohio
Cleveland
James Richey Horner
Huron Road Hospital
Butter Drops Two Cents In Cincinnati
The wholesale price of butter in Cincinnati fell to 71 cents a pound today, down two cents from the previous level.
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Cincinnati
Acheson opens Greece Turkey background documents
Washington AP Acheson agrees to public inspection of secret background papers on Greece and Turkey at House Foreign Affairs Committee, as Congress considers Truman’s request for 400 million dollars plus military aid to bolster the two nations against communism. He testifies two hours, then faces questions over secrecy and press access. Bevin outlines a six step plan to federalize postwar Germany, with documents to be released later. Austin to discuss UN implications amid debate over bypassing the world body.
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Washington
Acheson
Greece
Turkey
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Truman
House
Eaton
R-Nj
State Department
Warren Austin
United Nations
Austin
World Organization
Capitol Hill
Trygve
Achelson
Tunnel Accident Fatal to Railroad Foreman
Cambridge report states Brice Moore a 54 year old track foreman for the Pennsylvania Railroad died yesterday from injuries suffered when struck by a motor car Monday in the Glenwood Tunnel. Moore worked for the railroad for many years and his death is ruled work related.
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Cambridge
Brice Moore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Glenwood
Man with a Big Idea in Sam Simmons Magazine
The piece argues that schools should focus on cultivating the mind through history literature philosophy and religion rather than engineering or business subjects. Frank H. Sparks of Wabash College champions clear transmission of ideas as the measure of education and urges early literacy as a foundation for cultural growth.
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Frank H. Sparks
Wabash College
Indiana
Sparks
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